Essays in Humanism (18 page)

Einstein with Elsa in Migdal, Israel, on February 12, 1923.

Einstein smoking a pipe on the porch of his home in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1938. He was a very ardent pipe smoker and treasured the ritual of selecting different tobaccos and preparing them to be smoked.

Einstein with his friends poet Itzik Feffer and actor Solomon Mikhoels, in 1943.

Einstein in his Princeton study on the day that he received his honorary degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in 1949.

Einstein receiving the honorary degree from Israel S. Wechsler while at his Princeton home in 1949.

A portrait of Einstein at the Yeshiva University inauguration dinner for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, at Princeton Inn on March 15, 1953.

Acknowledgments

1. From
Monthly Review;
New York, May, 1949.

2. From
Pageant;
New York, January, 1946.

3. From
Science;
Washington, D.C., Winter issue, 1935-36. (Translation prepared by Heinz and Ruth Norden.)

4. From a broadcast over ABC to the Rally of Students for Federal World Government; Chicago, May 24, 1946. Hitherto unpublished.

5. From
One World or None
, edited by Katherine Way and Dexter Masters; Whittlesey House, New York, 1946.

6. From the address delivered at Carnegie Hall, New York, upon receiving the One World Award, April, 1948. Hitherto unpublished.

7. From a speech delivered in Albert Hall, London, October, 1933. Hitherto unpublished.

8. From the message to the Peace Congress of Intellectuals in Wroclav. (This message was never delivered, but was released to the press on August 29, 1948.)

9. From
United Nations World;
New York, October, 1947.

10. From Moscow
New Times
, November 26, 1947; and from
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;
Chicago, February, 1948.

11. From a statement to the National Wartime Conference, 1945. Hitherto unpublished.

12. From
The Nation;
New York, October 3, 1934.

13. Written in 1936 for a gathering of university teachers which never took place. Hitherto unpublished.

14. From
Atlantic Monthly;
Boston, November, 1945 and November, 1947. As told to Raymond Swing.

15. From an address at the Fifth Nobel Anniversary Dinner at the Hotel Astor, New York, December 10, 1945. Hitherto unpublished.

16. From an address at the second annual dinner given by the Foreign Press Association to the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, November 11, 1947. Hitherto unpublished.

17. From an address delivered at the Conference of the Progressive Education Association, November 23, 1934. Hitherto unpublished.

18. From
Policy;
Chicago, November 27, 1934.

19. From
The American Scholar;
New York, Summer, 1947.

20. From an address to the students of the California Institute of Technology, January 22, 1933. Hitherto unpublished.

21. From
The Manchester Guardian;
Manchester, England, Christmas, 1942.

22. Preface to
Johannes Kepler’s Letters
edited by Mrs. David Baumgardt and as yet unpublished.

23. Statement on the occasion of the Curie Memorial Celebration at the Roerich Museum, New York, November 23, 1935.

24. Statement read at the Memorial Services for Max Planck, April, 1948.

25. From
La Pensee;
Paris, February–March, 1947.

26. From
The Scientific Monthly;
Washington, D.C., Vol. LIV, February, 1942.

27. From
Almanak van het Leidsche Studentencorps
published by S. C. Doesburg Verlag, Leiden, Holland; 1934.

28. Statement on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 70th birthday, 1939. Hitherto unpublished.

29. Statement read at the Nobel Foundation Dinner, December 10, 1946. Hitherto unpublished.

30. From
Collier’s;
New York, November 26, 1938.

31. From an address over the Columbia Broadcasting System for the United Jewish Appeal, March 22, 1939.

32. Written in 1934. Hitherto unpublished.

33. Unpublished preface to a Black Book. Written in 1945.

34. From a broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal, April 11, 1943. Hitherto unpublished.

35. From an address delivered at the “Third Seder” celebration of the National Labor Committee for Palestine, at the Commodore Hotel, New York, April 17, 1938, and published in
New Palestine;
Washington, D.C., April 29, 1938.

36. From
Bulletin of the Society of Polish Jews;
New York, 1944.

37. From a statement read at the unveiling of the Memorial for the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw, April 19, 1948. Hitherto unpublished.

38. From an address to the Jewish Academy of Sciences and Arts; March 22, 1936. Hitherto unpublished.

39. From a statement read at the Maimonides Jubilee Celebration, New York, April, 1935. Hitherto unpublished. (Translation prepared by Heinz and Ruth Norden.)

40. From
Opinion;
New York, March, 1949.

41. Statement to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, on March 15, 1949. Hitherto unpublished.

42. From a letter to the Committee on Unity for Palestine, New York, 1945.

43. From a broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal, over the National Broadcasting Company, November 27, 1949.

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