Transforming Tradition: Richard Courant in Göttingen

Rowe, David E.

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“…Additional material on the fate of Jewish mathematicians in the Third Reich is discussed by Pinl and Furtmüller [15], Huckle [16], Rowe [17,18,19], Rowe and Felsch [20], Siegmund-Schultze [21,22], Epple and Bergmann [23], Epple et al [24], Bergmann and Epple [25], Audin [26], Epple [27], Bermann, Epple and Ungar [28], Diner and Metzler [29], and others.…”

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“…Many of those who stayed behind, as well as many who left Russia, moved easily into the ranks of the radical opposition movement. 18 Germany was an important place of refuge for Russian Jews. In the 1880s there began a virtual stampede to German universities and technical high schools, where a curriculum of medicine, engineering, science, and law provided both career opportunities and the possibility of work in the public service.…”

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Was Stephen Timoshenko right about the Jewish scientists in Germany?

Elishakoff

2023

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Stephen Timoshenko was the author of numerous textbooks on various aspects of applied mechanics, and through them contributed to its rapid development in the world. As always, the community is also interested in the personal side of the scientists. This paper is devoted to a single statement made by Stephen Timoshenko in his autobiographical book. Specifically, it concerns Timoshenko's at least partial “explanation” of the Holocaust that took place during WWII. Whereas Timoshenko's statement constituted, to the present writer, open antisemitism, it does not seem to disturb many researchers who continue to honor him in various ways. “Nonsense is nonsense, but the history of nonsense is scholarship,” according to Saul Lieberman. Hence the present article presents an investigation of Timoshenko's nonsensical and overly antisemitic statement. This author corresponded with a number of historians of science all repudiating Timoshenko's assertions. Most importantly, the correspondents shed additional vivid light on the Holocaust as experienced by Jewish scientists.

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