You’ve raised a point I’ve wondered about. I could ask ChatGPT4, but
I trust you more. 😉
Most of the emigrés I met in mathematics (and there were a lot when I
was young) were Jewish. Was there a significant outflow of non-Jewish
academics, scientists, writers, etc.? The exodus from the US is
potentially greater since the number dependent on a paycheck exceeds the
numbers of any one religion. I now live near several universities and I
know graduate students moving to Canada; the faculty are watching their
grants go and come back from court actions, but none of the younger ones
seem to know where they will be in a few years.
— Barry
On 21 Apr 2025, at 14:22, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Good point. Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Albert Einstein, Erich
Fromm and Hannah Arendt went to the US because they were Jewish.
Enrico Fermi emmigrated to the US because his wife was Jewish. Just
read his biography "Enrico Fermi: The Last Man Who Knew Everything"
which says he stayed in Italy even under Mussolini until Mussolini
started to implement Hitler's antisemitic laws.
Maybe one could say academic freedom is one of the highest freedoms
because it depends on freedom of speech *and* freedom of religion.
-J.
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