George Chapman Seweryn Klosowski

[sushka]

Haven't received the book yet?

Hi Helena,
Based on all the reviews and comments here, have just placed an order for your book.

Can't wait!

Regards

Sushka

Hi
Just checking. I haven't received your book yet?

Regards
Sushka

[HelenaWojtczak]

Pleased to see another 5-star review on Amazon of my book JACK THE RIPPER AT LAST? Eric Bond Hutton wrote:

"Here is a rarity: a monograph on a Jack the Ripper suspect so painstakingly researched, so well written and so attractively presented that it is not only a pleasure to read but also a joy to own. The definitive work on George Chapman (and likely to remain so indefinitely), "Jack the Ripper at Last?" is a model of historical narrative and analysis, of which it is impossible to speak too highly and which puts to shame the general run of books in this field."

[HelenaWojtczak]

Here's one you'll recognise Helena

Regards

Observer

You'd think, wouldn't you? But not the case. Assume White Hart.

Helena

[Observer]

Another

[Observer]

Here's another

[Observer]

Here's one you'll recognise Helena

Regards

Observer

[HelenaWojtczak]

Hi Helena,
Based on all the reviews and comments here, have just placed an order for your book.

Can't wait!

Regards

Sushka

Thanks very much. In the post tomorrow!
Do you want any inscription, dedication etc?

Helena

[sushka]

Just ordered your book

Hi Helena,
Based on all the reviews and comments here, have just placed an order for your book.

Can't wait!

Regards

Sushka

[HelenaWojtczak]

Absolutely correct, Lechmere.

Coincidentally, yesterday I, too, visited one of Chapman's haunts....

I stood outside Praga Hospital. it's been rebuilt since he was there in the 1880s... but the church next door still stands. I went inside and feel that he must have, too. Even if he eschewed Catholicism, social pressure is bound to have propelled him inside.


Helena

[Lechmere]

I was in Bishops Stortford the other day and guessed where Chapman's pub might have been and took a quick picture. I think I was right. I am fairly sure it was where the Vodafone shop is now.

[HelenaWojtczak]

Yes that's the point I was making.
In the translation Rappaport's profession was given as surgeon, making 'Chapman' supposedly a surgeon's assistant.
Whereas the original trade directories make it clear Rappaport was a feldscher, which in turn makes it obvious that 'surgeon' was a mistranslation or at least an inaccurate translation.

Exactly so.

Unfortunately, those who promote Chapman's candidacy as the Ripper have depended quite heavily on his having been a "trained surgeon".

Helena

[Lechmere]

Yes that's the point I was making.
In the translation Rappaport's profession was given as surgeon, making 'Chapman' supposedly a surgeon's assistant.
Whereas the original trade directories make it clear Rappaport was a feldscher, which in turn makes it obvious that 'surgeon' was a mistranslation or at least an inaccurate translation.

[Sam Flynn]

So if I may simplify, we know he worked for Rappaport who was translated as a surgeon, but from trade directories we know he was actually a feldscher?

Rapaport wasn't a surgeon, either. We have records of his son, Keufel Rapaport, who seemingly followed in his father's footsteps, describing him as a "paramedic", a "feldsher" and a "barber". There are other records that show that Zwoleń (the small town where Moskho was a feldsher) only got its first qualified Jewish doctor, never mind surgeon, in the early 20th Century.

Keufel Rapaport, incidentally, perished in the Holocaust like many of Moskho Rapaport's family. He was killed at Garbatka.

(Sources: The Zwoliner Yizkor Buch and Yad Vashem)

[HelenaWojtczak]

So if I may simplify, we know he worked for Rappaport who was translated as a surgeon, but from trade directories we know he was actually a feldscher?

Yeah, that is part of it.

[Lechmere]

So if I may simplify, we know he worked for Rappaport who was translated as a surgeon, but from trade directories we know he was actually a feldscher?