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Fear From Nazis and Unpublished Work: Hebrew University Unveils 110 Albert Einstein Manuscripts

 

'Fifty years of thought have not brought me closer to the question of what light particles are': Collection of letters published on eve of Einstein's 140th birthday

 

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Mar 06, 2019 1:00 PM

 

"You surely won't go to hell, even if you've been baptized," Albert Einstein assured his close friend Michele Besso, who had converted to Christianity.

 

Writing to Besso in German, Einstein remarked that there were also advantages in leaving the Jewish religion. "As a goy, you're not obligated to study the language of our forefathers, while I, as a 'Jewish saint,' should be embarrassed at the fact that I know almost nothing. But I prefer to be embarrassed rather than learning it," Einstein wrote in reference to Hebrew.

 

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