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by Ira Stoll
Prof. Fritz Stern. Photo: Alchetron.
A New York Times obituary of Fritz Stern, a professor at Columbia who was a historian of Germany, reads in part:
Like many German historians of his generation, Professor Stern sought to explain the causes behind the events that upended his own life and that of his family, Jews who lived a prosperous, assimilated life in Breslau until oppressive conditions forced them to emigrate to the United States in 1938.
Later, the Times reports:
Fritz Richard Stern was born on Feb. 2, 1926, in Breslau. His father, Rudolf, was a physician, like nearly all his male relatives. His mother, the former Käthe Brieger, held a doctorate in physics. Both families had converted to Lutheranism.
Was Professor Stern himself a Jew or a Lutheran, a German or an American? Or all four? The Times obituary is disappointingly vague or perhaps even self-contradicting on the point.
More of Ira Stoll’s media critique, a regular Algemeiner feature, can be found here.
