Sam Wormley
2015-09-04 18:00:10 UTC
Book Review: Einstein: His Space and Times
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/book-review-einstein-his-space-and-times/
Einstein renounced religion at the age of 12, when he decided his
Jewish beliefs were incompatible with the analytical mind-set of his
truer devotion, science. Yet the world never stopped seeing him as a
Jew, and over time he became a champion for his oppressed people and
a supporter of the Zionist cause. “Einstein had alienated himself
from the larger Jewish community, but the times forced him to realize
that his heritage was an inalienable part of who he was,” writes
philosophy professor Gimbel in this look at Einstein's relationship
to Judaism and his political activism.
Einstein renounced religion at the age of 12, when he decided his
Jewish beliefs were incompatible with the analytical mind-set of his
truer devotion, science. Yet the world never stopped seeing him as a
Jew, and over time he became a champion for his oppressed people and
a supporter of the Zionist cause. “Einstein had alienated himself
from the larger Jewish community, but the times forced him to realize
that his heritage was an inalienable part of who he was,” writes
philosophy professor Gimbel in this look at Einstein's relationship
to Judaism and his political activism.
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