Person · 5669–5770 AM · 1909 CE — 2010 CE
Claude Lévi-Strauss
He founded structural anthropology; The Elementary Structures of Kinship
He spent the First World War, from six to ten years old, in the house of his maternal grandfather, the rabbi of Versailles. He was persecuted as a Jew, and that decided his life for the better: in 1940–41 the Vichy racial statutes deprived him of his teaching post, and he got out of Marseille on the Capitaine Paul-Lemerle—Victor Serge and André Breton were aboard—by way of Martinique to New York, where structural anthropology was born.
The current claim that his great-great-grandfather was the violinist and conductor Isaac Strauss could not be confirmed; it must not be printed. No statement by him about Israel has been found.
Sources
Scholarship
- Wikipedia, “Claude Lévi-Strauss”; the Marseille refugee lists, 1941 — the dismissal under the Vichy statutes; the sailing on the Capitaine Paul-Lemerle
Basis: documents and evidence.