In the early years of this century, Germany was ablaze with scientific
achievement and personalities, many of them Jewish. A dazzling “German century”
seemed to lie ahead, but what followed was catastrophe. Einstein’s German World
is a collection of elegantly written essays in which Fritz Stern links the lives
and relationships of Germany’s scientists, especially Einstein and Fritz Haber,
with other figures up to the present day. It makes illuminating if tragic
reading. Published by Princeton University Press, £15.95, ISBN
069105939X.
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