<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Gregory Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">he [Godel] escaped the Nazis</span></blockquote><div><br></div>True, but Godel was not Jewish and there is no evidence any of his ancestors were Jewish. But that didn't prevent him from getting beaten up by a teenage mob of Hitler Youth; they knew he was an intellectual and apparently they thought he looked Jewish, and that was good enough for them. Even as liberal a person as Bertrand Russell assumed he was Jewish and said that group had a undue fondness for metaphysics, Goedel responded cooly, "I am not a Jew, even though I don't think this question is of any importance".</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark<br><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>