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The life-changing love of one of the 20th century’s greatest physicists

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One of the great short stories of the 20th century is Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer’sThe Spinoza of Market Street. It tells of an aged scholar who has devoted his life to the study of Spinoza’s great work, Ethics. Protagonist Dr Fischelson has lost his library job and, like his hero,...

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