ii4atek) obj ct 4i tlid 'Uni- `ExL-Prodi
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verse, says a certain philoso-
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pher, is a good man struggling
with adversity; yet there is a
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still greater, which is the good
"I Am a Mathematician," by the autobiographer's earlier
man that comes to relieve it. Prof. Norbert Wiener, published work, "Ex-Prodigy."
—Oliver Goldsmith by Doubleday, is a follow-up to
In the first volume he dealt
with his childhood and ado-
lescence. - In this work, \he
talks about his travels, his
many personal experiences, his
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scientific career.
Some of his inventions and
mathematical formulae are re-
ferred to in his newer work,
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and there are descriptions of his
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associates, the important people
he has met, his activities in be-
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half - of emigre scientists during
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the Nazi regime.
We learn anew that there
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were "some unexplained . Jew-
-ish" elements in his experiences.
We read: "My mother made
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many uncomplimentary remarks
about the Jews, which went far
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to impress on me that she con-
sidered her Jewish origin, and
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consequently our own Jewislt-
ness, a source of shame. When,
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later—at the age • of 15—I
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learned from my father that we
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were unquestionably Jewish, re-
membered remarks of my
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mother forced on me a sense
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of inferiority which contributed
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greatly to xny insecurity so that
it was a matter of many years
before I could acquire a decent
measure of self-confidence."
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Perhaps it is this background
that caused him to write with
what many will be forced to
view as a lack of understanding
of Jewish communal activities
during his efforts to assist the
refugee scholars. He states in
his autobiography that "Jewish
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sources of charity had very fre-
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quently decided that Jewish dis-
placed scholars were in most
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cases too far from Judaism to '3
be their special responsibility,"
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and he is critical of the Zion
ists.
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removed
from
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There is an interesting ac-
count in his book of his inter-
cession in behalf of a former'
student, Norman Levinson, who
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found it difficult to get on the
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faculty of M.I.T. There were
some who felt there were
enough Jews. "The Jewish
colleague believed that the
welcome he hall, received in the
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as a youth by an unwholesome
family approach to his Jewish
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