Re: VMs: new revelations (detail)

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Petr Kazil wrote:

> I spoke about the VMS with some  friends in Prague and upon mentioning the
> names Voynich, Wilfrid and Ethel they said "Oh, they must be Jewish." 

No, they are definitely wrong. Ethel Boole's family was Anglican
of humble stock and Michal Wojnicz's family was Polish/Lithuanian
petty nobility. "Wilfrid" was his conspiracy pseudonym - but
there is nothing Jewish about that name (I thought it indicated
a German mother before I found out it wasn't his birth name at all).
Perhaps they took "Ethel" for "Esther"?

> Would
> this fit with the fact that they left Europe? And would this fit with the
> revolutionary tendencies of Mrs. Voynich? (AFAIK "The Gadfly" was made into
> a bolshevik propaganda film for which Shostakovich wrote a music score.)

As this assumption is wrong, it cannot fit :-)

Best regards,

Rafal
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