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A personal and political history of Zionism in Einstein's words

 

This is a chronology starting with a summing up of medieval anti-Semitism and finishing in 1955, when Einstein died. The words are his, from letters and speeches. His views changed often, with events, but in the end he bequeathed his estate to the Hebrew University.

He was as much pro-Jew (even though an atheist) as he was anti-war. The collection of historical pix used to illustrate the story is fantastic. The sequence of letters and statements places Einstein’s famous and much-quoted anti-Israel letter to the NYT in context and shows that in general he supported Israel.

 


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