Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on April 11, 2012

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j6kyFrGmbM

11-04-2012 01:14 Israel's Hebrew University launched a digitisation project to put their Albert Einstein Archives on the Internet at alberteinstein.info. The German Jewish physicist had bequeathed everything he wrote, over 80000 documents, to the university he helped establish in 1925. JN1's Jordana Miller visited Hebrew University to interview those involved with the project. The university began by making available about 2000 German documents from 1921 and earlier. New documents will be added every few months, and most of them have English translations. The website already contains Dr Einstein's original 46-page manuscript for his General Theory of Relativity from 1915. It's regarded as the most valuable of Einstein's documents. Visitors can also see his Nobel Prize from 1921. The university has also decided to make Einstein's personal documents available, including love letters written to women with whom he had affairs. The university is publishing them because enough time has passed that no one could be offended. In the first group, there are letters written to his mistress, Elsa Löwenthal, while he was still married to his first wife. He later married Elsa, and she retook the surname of Einstein. The archives contain love letters to at least six women. The digitisation project was made possible by a generous donation to Hebrew University from Leonard Polonsky, who had already funded a similar project at Cambridge University. Polonsky explained his goals for the project, "The capacity ...

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