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Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

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Albert Einstein presented his theory of relativity to the Prussian Academy of Science 100 years ago today. 1 2

The Leo Baeck Institute has an Albert Einstein Archival collection (http://search.cjh.org/beta:CJH_ALEPH00020218)

In honor of the centennial here is a small selection of the digitized material available.

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On November 21, 1861, Judah P. Benjamin became the Confederate Secretary of War. As the History Channel’s website explains, “A Jew who was born in the West Indies in 1811, Judah Benjamin was an exception to the rule in the Protestant South.” The JTA Archive blog points out Benjamin’s nickname as “the Confederate Kissinger.”

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Science of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums)

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In 2011 the Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute, one of its five partners, embarked on a project with Goethe University Frankfurt am Main to digitize nearly 1,000 books that went missing from the university library’s Judaica collection during the devastation of World War II. The goal of the project was to digitally recreate the Freimann Judaica Collection as…

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Purim celebration at the Juedische Schule Soest. circa 1929. Leo Baeck Institute.

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