Illustrations
Figure 1. einstein’s class photo from the Luitpold Gymnasium, Munich, 1889. He is third from the right in the front row. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 17 Figure 2. German Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld in the early 1920s. From the Collections of the Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem. 47 Figure 3. Hugo Bergmann, 1926. Bergmann Archive, ARC. 4° 1502/59, Archives Department, the National Library of Israel. 62 Figure 4. einstein and members of the Zionist delegation to the United States, Ben-Zion Mossinson, Chaim Weizmann, and Menachem Ussishkin, on board the SS Rotterdam, March 1921. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 103 Figure 5. einstein with Ussishkin, Weizmann, Vera Weizmann, Elsa Einstein, and Mossinson on board the SS Rotterdam, March 1921. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 104 Figure 6. einstein in a motorcade, New York, April 1921. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 108 Figure 7. Louis D. Brandeis, ca. 1921. Schwadron Portrait col- lection, Archives Department, the National Library of Israel. 111 Figure 8. felix Frankfurter, ca. 1921. Schwadron Portrait col- lection, Archives Department, the National Library of Israel. 121
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Figure 9. Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem in the early 1920s. TM8° 851, Picture collection, Archives Department, the National Library of Israel. 147 Figure 10. einstein and Menachem Ussishkin, Jerusalem, February 1923. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 148 Figure 11. albert and Elsa Einstein with Tel Aviv mayor Meir Dizengoff and members of the Tel Aviv City Council, 8 February 1923. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 150 Figure 12. tel Aviv, 1924. From the Collections of the Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem. 152 Figure 13. einstein planting a tree at the Migdal farm in the Galilee, February 1923. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 154 Figure 14. einstein at the Midgal farm with Jewish settlers, Palestine, February 1923. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 155 Figure 15. elsa and Albert Einstein in Midgal, February 1923. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 156 Figure 16. einstein’s travel diary opened to a description of orthodox Jews praying at the Western Wall in Jeru- salem, 3 February 1923. Courtesy of the Albert Ein- stein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 160–61 Figure 17. the Western Wall during the Sukkot festival, Jeru- salem, 1924. From the Collections of the Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem. 162 Figure 18. albert and Elsa Einstein with the British high com- missioner Sir Herbert Samuel, Lady Samuel, Norman Bentwich, Mrs. Bentwich and others, Government House, Jerusalem, February 1923. Courtesy of the
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Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 168 Figure 19. einstein addressing the Conference of Jewish Stu- dents in Germany at the Logenhaus, Berlin, 27 Feb- ruary 1924(?). Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 183 Figure 20. sir Herbert Samuel addressing the festive opening of the Hebrew University, 1 April 1925. TM8° 900, Pic- ture collection, Archives Department, the National Library of Israel. 185 Figure 21. einstein and Weizmann and members of the German Pro Palestine Committee: Graf Bernstorff, Carl von Schubert, Katharina von Oheimb, Oskar Wasser- mann, and Kurt Blumenfeld, 1928. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 211 Figure 22. Letter to Azmi El-Nashashibi that was subsequently published in Falastin, 15 March 1930. Courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 224–25 Figure 23. adolf Abraham Fraenkel, professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University, in the early 1930s. Schwadron Portrait collection, Archives Department, the Nation- al Library of Israel. 231 Figure 24. Judah L. Magnes, chancellor of the Hebrew Univer- sity, in the early 1930s. From the Collections of the Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem. 234
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