Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle
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Albert Einstein thought and wrote extensively not just on the most difficult problems in physics, but also in politics. For the first time, this book collects his essays, interviews, and letters on the Middle East, Zionism, and Arab-Jewish relations. Many of these have never been published in English, and all of them contradict the popular image of Einstein as pro-Zionist. He was offered and refused the Presidency of Israel, but had he taken it, he may have said things the Zionists didn't want to hear; he favoured a non-religious state that would welcome Jew and Palestinian alike.One person's letters, even Einstein's, cannot resolve the crisis in the Middle East. However, decades later when horrors 'of the conflict in the Middle East are familiar to everyone, the reflections of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers are a signpost, showing his commitment to social justice and understanding and friendship between Jew and Arab.
Author: Fred Jerome
Format: Hardback, 288 pages, 140mm x 210mm
Published: 2009, St Martin's Press, United States
Genre: Regional History
Description
Albert Einstein thought and wrote extensively not just on the most difficult problems in physics, but also in politics. For the first time, this book collects his essays, interviews, and letters on the Middle East, Zionism, and Arab-Jewish relations. Many of these have never been published in English, and all of them contradict the popular image of Einstein as pro-Zionist. He was offered and refused the Presidency of Israel, but had he taken it, he may have said things the Zionists didn't want to hear; he favoured a non-religious state that would welcome Jew and Palestinian alike.One person's letters, even Einstein's, cannot resolve the crisis in the Middle East. However, decades later when horrors 'of the conflict in the Middle East are familiar to everyone, the reflections of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers are a signpost, showing his commitment to social justice and understanding and friendship between Jew and Arab.
Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle
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