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September 2021 Viewpointe, Page 9

Book Review from page 8
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Website: www.gateaccess.net Dra. Milagros Gutierrez de Herrera While Karl Marx, the prototype self-hating Jew,
Harriet Rubin Barry J. Haberman stubbornly rejected the religion of his Rabbinical ancestors,
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Kathleen O’Donovan, General Manager his Jewish mother never was swayed, and Lebrecht cites
Lisa Cammaleri, Assistant Manager the gossip that a pragmatic Jewish mother urging her son
Yvonne Rivera, Administrative Assistant to attain capital rather than theorize about Kapital. He
Justin Mocha, Director of Security The views of the writers of the various articles in this newspaper do not references the Jamaican daughter of a Cantor who made
necessarily reflect the views of the Boca Pointe Community Association. Dickens rethink his anti-Semitic posture, and the Jewish
Viewpointe of Boca Pointe is the newspaper The Association nor the individual writers are not responsible for claims or scholar that made a Zionist out of Mary Evans known as
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Please direct all questions, comments or Such claims and promises are the sole responsibility of the individual George Eliot. Then there was Theodore Herzl, the marginal
articles for Viewpointe to lisa.cammaleri@ advertiser. Jew, whose vision of Zionism, some suggest might have
fsresidential.com. been inspired by George Eliot, the revival of the Hebrew
Language, the composition of the National Anthem Hatikvah,
and the determination of his impossible dream, “if you will
it, it will not be legend,” the Creation of a Jewish state in
the twentieth century. A thousand sketches of how the world
changed the Jews and how the Jews changed the world. And
then, the question of identity becomes a major source of
ambivalence, or Anxiety, for Jews of the nineteenth century
continuing till today.
The contribution of Ernest Solvay was to organize a
conference of outstanding individuals in 1911, “for the
betterment of mankind,” in the telling of Jeffrey Orens, a
former Business executive with the Solvay company in New
Jersey. The autodidact Ernest was influenced by the power of
the prize instituted by Alfred Nobel’s will at the close of the
nineteenth century and the revival of the Olympic Games,
which sought to recognize and reward talent and genius.
An amazing group of 24 at the iconic Hotel Metropole in
Brussels including the great French mathematician Henri
Poincare, the German Max Planck, the Dane Niels Bohr,
the Swiss Austrian Einstein and the Polish French Madame
Curie. But Orens is interested in telling the human story,
the running argument between Bohr and Einstein over
probability versus predictability of subatomic behaviors.
At the outset, there was the controversy over retraction of
the invitation to Madame Curie, winner with her husband
Pierre of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and her sole
recognition for the Prize in Chemistry on her own merit on
the eve of the Conference. But the gossip mills tailed her,
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Poland and their refusal to sanction their son’s wish to marry
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relationship with Paul Langevin who had been mentored by
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of a duel between Paul and the French journalist Gustave
Hope everyone is doing okay during these challenging times. I am here to assist any way I can. Tery, who had slandered the couple. (No one was hurt.)
Einstein would intervene on behalf of his senior colleague
also accorded inaccurate anti-Semitic slurs, and their
friendship would continue throughout their lives. Meanwhile
NEW LISTING CLOSED the grandchildren of Paul and Marie, Helene and Michael
Langevin, ultimately would tie the nuptial knot.
Einstein had his own issues, an unhappy marriage to his
first wife Mileva Milic whom he had met while they were
studying Physics together at Zurich Polytechnic. Now eleven
years later, he was involved in another relationship with his
cousin Elsa. Entirely consumed by his work, he set forth
a rigid set of conditions for Mileva to save their marriage,
including that she provide him his meals and laundry on time,
never interfere with his work even for intimacy, and that
she absolutely exit his study or bedroom when he requests-
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to a divorce while holding their two sons’ hostage to her
own rigid claims, including recognition for her contribution
(like that of Madam and Pierre Curie) to her (ex) husband’s
research should he finally be recognized with the Nobel
CLOSED CLOSED award. Meanwhile the Solvay Conference continues, the
28th Conference scheduled for October of this year.
Dr. Ronald J. Meyers is an Emeritus Professor of English.
rmeyers@esu.edu. 

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