How Wikipedia warriors made Isaac Bashevis Singer Jewish again.

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Asaf Shalev, June 4, 2021

"Few things rile an online crowd like a mistake in The New York Times. One example is the Twitter account of a contemptuous troll dedicated to pointing out typos and grammar mistakes in the paper of record. But there’s another category of error — the botching of a fraught historical detail — that elicits a special shock and insult."

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