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Wittgenstein on Jews: Some Counter-examples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Gerhard D. Wassermann
Gerhard D. Wassermann
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Philosophy , Volume 65 , Issue 253 , July 1990 , pp. 355 - 365
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1990

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References

1 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Culture and Value, von Wright, G. H. (ed.) translated by Winch, Peter (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980).Google Scholar

2 Lurie, Y., ‘Jews as a Metaphysical Species’, Philosophy 64 (1989), 323–347.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 von Lenard, P. E. A., Deutsche Physik 4 vols. (München: J. F. Lehmann, 1936–1937).Google Scholar

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6 Op. cit. note 2, 323; and op. cit. note 1, 18 and 19.

7 The names of these Nobel Laureates and brief descriptions of their works can be found in Wasson, T. (ed.), Nobel Prize Winners (New York: W. H. Wilson Company, 1987)Google Scholar; see also under their names in the Encyclopaedia Judaica.

8 This listing of Jewish Mathematicians is partly based on the Encyclopaedia Judaica (under the heading ‘Mathematicians’).

9 Révész, H., Jewish PaintersGoogle Scholar, unpublished but available at the Wiener Library (London); see also Schwarz, Karl, Jewish Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries (New York: Philosophical Library, 1949).Google Scholar

10 Révész, H., Jewish Composers and Musicians, unpublished but available at the Wiener Library (London)Google Scholar: see also Salenski, Gdal, Famous Musicians of Jewish Origin (New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1949)Google Scholar, and The Oxford Companion to Music (under Jewish Musicians).

11 van Amerogen, Martin, Wagner, A Case History (translated by Spencer, Stewart and Cakebread, Dominic) (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1983), 57.Google Scholar

12 Teveth, Shabtai, Ben-Gurion (London: Robert Hale, 1987), 456–457Google Scholar. Dr Rubner pointed out the quotation.

13 Cf. the Independent (newspaper, London) 9 December 1989, 31 for an article on Mandelshtam.

14 Op. cit. note 11, 57.

15 My compilation of Jews of originality is not intended to be exhaustive, but selective and illustrative.