Jonathan Schwab and Yael Steiner tackle one of Jewish history’s most debated questions: was Albert Einstein a Zionist? From Nazi Germany naming him public enemy number one to eventually being offered the presidency of Israel, Schwab and Steiner trace Einstein’s complicated, lifelong relationship with Zionism. And they explore a question the Nazis first raised as an attack: was Einstein’s science somehow Jewish?
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Sources on Einstein and Zionism:
Einstein, His Space and Times, by Steven Gimbel
Einstein on Israel and Zionism by Fred Jerome
Einstein Before Israel: Zionist Icon or Iconoclast? By Ze’ev Rosenkranz
Link to learn more about the history of Einstein and Yeshiva University
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