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44. Einstein to Michele Besso, Jan. 5, 1924, AEA 7-346; Einstein to Hans Albert Einstein, Mar. 7, 1924.
45. Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, Mar. 1920; Fölsing, 474; Highfield and Carter, 192; Clark, 243.
46. Paul Johnson, Modern Times (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 1–3. This section is adapted from an essay I wrote when Einstein was
chosen as Time’s Person of the Century: “Who Mattered and Why,”Time , Dec. 31, 1999. For a critique of this idea, which I also draw on
in this section, see David Greenberg, “It Didn’t Start with Einstein,”Slate , Feb. 3, 2000, www.slate.com/id/74164/. Miller 2001 is also an
important resource.
47. Charles Poor, professor of celestial mechanics, Columbia University, in the New York Times, Nov. 16, 1919.
48. New York Times , Dec. 7, 1919.
49. Isaiah Berlin, “Einstein and Israel,” in Holton and Elkana, 282. See also, from his stepson-in-law Reiser, 158: “The word relativity was
confused in lay circles and, today, is still confused with the word relativism. Einstein’s work and personality, however, are far removed
from the ambiguity and the concept of relativism, both in the theory of knowledge and in ethics . . . Ethical relativism, which denies all the
generally obligatory moral norms, totally contradicts the high social idea which Einstein stands for and always follows.”
50. Haldane, 123. For a contemporary book treating, in more sophisticated depth, many of the same topics, and sharing a title, see Ryckman
2005.
51. Frank 1947, 189–190; Clark, 339–340.
52. Gerald Holton, “Einstein’s Influence on the Culture of Our Time,” in Holton 2000, 127, and also Holton and Elkana, xi.
53. Miller 2001, especially 237–241.
54. Damour 34; Marcel Proust to Armand de Guiche, Dec. 1921.
55. Philip Courtenay, “Einstein and Art,” in Goldsmith et al., 145; Richard Davenport-Hines, Proust at the Majestic (New York: Bloomsbury,
2006).
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE WANDERING ZIONIST
1. The Times of London, Nov. 28, 1919.
2. Kurt Blumenfeld, “Einstein and Zionism,” in Seelig 1956b, 74; Kurt Blumenfeld, Erlebte Judenfrage (Stuttgart: Verlags-Anstalt, 1962), 127–
128.
3. Einstein to Paul Epstein, Oct. 5, 1919.
4. Einstein to German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, Apr. 5, 1920, CPAE 7: 37.
5. Einstein, “Anti-Semitism: Defense through Knowledge,” after Apr. 3, 1920, CPAE 7: 35.
6. Einstein, “Assimilation and Anti-Semitism,” Apr. 3, 1920, CPAE 7: 34. See also Einstein, “Immigration from the East,” Dec. 30, 1919, an
article in Berliner Tageblatt, CPAE 7:29.
7. Einstein, “Anti-Semitism: Defense through Knowledge,” after Apr. 3, 1920, CPAE 7: 35; Hubert Goenner, “The Anti-Einstein Campaign in
Germany in 1920,” in Beller et al., 107.
8. Elon, 277.
9. Hubert Goenner, “The Anti-Einstein Campaign in Germany in 1920,” in Beller et al., 121.
10. New York Times , Aug. 29, 1920.
11. Frank 1947, 161; Clark, 318; Fölsing, 462; Brian 1996, 111.
12. “Einstein to Leave Berlin,”New York Times , Aug. 29, 1920; the story, datelined Berlin, begins, “Local newspapers state that Professor
Albert Einstein will leave the German capital on account of the many unfair attacks made against his relativity theory and himself.”
13. Einstein, “My Response,” Aug. 27, 1920, CPAE 7: 45.
14. See, in particular, Philipp Lenard to Einstein, June 5, 1909.
15. Einstein, “My Response,” Aug. 27, 1920, CPAE 7: 45.
16. Seelig 1956a, 173.
17. Hedwig Born to Einstein, Sept. 8, 1920.
18. Paul Ehrenfest to Einstein, Sept. 2, 1920.
19. Einstein to Max and Hedwig Born, Sept. 9, 1920.
20. Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest, before Sept. 9, 1920.
21. Arnold Sommerfeld to Einstein, Sept. 11, 1920.
22. Jerome, 206–208, 256–257.
23. Born 2005, 35; Einstein to Max Born, Oct. 26, 1920.
24. Clark, 326–327; Fölsing, 467; Bolles, 73.
25. Fölsing, 523; Adolf Hitler, Völkischer Beobachter , Jan. 3, 1921.
26. Dearborn (Mich.) Independent, Apr. 30, 1921, on display at the “Chief Engineer of the Universe” exhibit, Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin, May–
Sept. 2005. A headline at the bottom of the page reads, “Jew Admits Bolshevism!”
27. Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest, Nov. 26, 1920, Feb. 12, 1921, AEA 9-545; Fölsing, 484. The Einstein letters after 1920 have not yet been
published in the CPAE series, and I identify these unpublished letters by the Albert Einstein Archives (AEA) call numbers.
28. Clark, 465–466.
29. Einstein to Maurice Solovine, Mar. 8, 1921, AEA 9-555.
30. Einstein statement to Abba Eban, Nov. 18, 1952, AEA 28-943.
31. Fritz Haber to Einstein, Mar. 9, 1921, AEA 12-329.
32. Einstein to Fritz Haber, Mar. 9, 1921, AEA 12-331.
33. Seelig 1956a, 81; Fölsing, 500; Clark, 468.
34. New York Times , Apr. 3, 1921.
35. Illy, 29.
36. Philadelphia Public Ledger , Apr. 3, 1921.
37. These quotes and descriptions are taken from the Apr. 3, 1921, stories in the New York Times, New York Call, Philadelphia Public
Ledger, and New York American.
38. Weizmann, 232.