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Glimpses: A Sundry Life
Glimpses – A Sundry Life
This potpourri of essays covers a wide range of the first essay recounts Hitler’s occupation of Eisinger’s native Vienna, his venturesome youth, and his life in science. It is followed by an account of Albert Einstein’s enduring friendship with Toni Mendel (including unpublished material and photos) and other essays of historical a chronicle of the Jews in Kostel/Podivin in Moravia and nostalgic accounts of life as a seaman and as prospector in the Canadian bush country. More recently written essays offer ruminations about the origin of life on our planet, of extra-terrestrial life, and humanity’s experience with technology – all in non-technical language. A third group covers eclectic subjects, e.g., a mountaineering adventure in the Alps, a little-known encounter of Johannes Brahms, and Eisinger’s complicated relationship with his native city. His watercolors and sketches are interspersed among the essays.
About the Following the Nazi annexation of Austria, Eisinger escaped on a Kindertransport, worked as a farm hand in Yorkshire and as a dishwasher in a Brighton before being interned as an enemy alien and shipped to Canada. Released as a student, he entered the University of Toronto, serves in the Canadian army, and earns his PhD in physics at MIT. His research ranged from the structure of atomic nuclei to molecular biology and history, retiring as professor emeritus from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. He is author of over 150 articles in professional journals, two books about Einstein, and a memoir. Married to the cellist and music historian Styra Avins for 60 years, they have two children and two grandchildren.
This potpourri of essays covers a wide range of the first essay recounts Hitler’s occupation of Eisinger’s native Vienna, his venturesome youth, and his life in science. It is followed by an account of Albert Einstein’s enduring friendship with Toni Mendel (including unpublished material and photos) and other essays of historical a chronicle of the Jews in Kostel/Podivin in Moravia and nostalgic accounts of life as a seaman and as prospector in the Canadian bush country. More recently written essays offer ruminations about the origin of life on our planet, of extra-terrestrial life, and humanity’s experience with technology – all in non-technical language. A third group covers eclectic subjects, e.g., a mountaineering adventure in the Alps, a little-known encounter of Johannes Brahms, and Eisinger’s complicated relationship with his native city. His watercolors and sketches are interspersed among the essays.
About the Following the Nazi annexation of Austria, Eisinger escaped on a Kindertransport, worked as a farm hand in Yorkshire and as a dishwasher in a Brighton before being interned as an enemy alien and shipped to Canada. Released as a student, he entered the University of Toronto, serves in the Canadian army, and earns his PhD in physics at MIT. His research ranged from the structure of atomic nuclei to molecular biology and history, retiring as professor emeritus from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. He is author of over 150 articles in professional journals, two books about Einstein, and a memoir. Married to the cellist and music historian Styra Avins for 60 years, they have two children and two grandchildren.
210 pages, Paperback
Published January 20, 2023
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