Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East

Albert Einstein thought and wrote extensively not just on the most difficult problems in physics, but also in politics. For the first time, this book collects his essays, interviews, and letters on the Middle East, Zionism, and Arab-Jewish relations. Many of these have never been published in English, and all of them contradict the popular image of Einstein as pro-Zionist. He was offered and refused the Presidency of Israel, but had he taken it, he may have said things the Zionists didn't want to hear; he favoured a non-religious state that would welcome Jew and Palestinian alike.One person's letters, even Einstein's, cannot resolve the crisis in the Middle East. However, decades later when horrors 'of the conflict in the Middle East are familiar to everyone, the reflections of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers are a signpost, showing his commitment to social justice and understanding and friendship between Jew and Arab.

Praise "for Einstein on Israel and Zionism: " """Reading the newly revealed correspondence in Fred Jerome's book makes it clear that Einstein was a social commentator and humanitarian with a world view worthy of his scientific genius. It's a pity that the Zionist movement as embodied in the State of Israel took a direction so divergent from the path advocated by the Jewish people's greatest intellect."
--Michael Palumbo, author of "The Palestinian Catastrophe" and "Imperial Israel" "Fred Jerome's "Einstein on Israel and Zionism "is a valuable and timely contribution. Einstein's views of Zionism were prescient. His actions regarding the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and his passionate beliefs regarding what that homeland should represent call for reconsideration by all Israelis and Palestinians and by all Jews and Muslims." --Silvan. S. Schweber, author of "Einstein and Oppenheimer" and In the Shadow of the Bomb"Einstein on Israel makes a great contribution to the history of Jewish engagement with Israel. Reading Einstein's letters makes it clear that there has never been a Jewish consensus on the critical questions of Zionism and a Jewish state. While sadly it seems Einstein's fear that Israel would become a "captive of narrow nationalism" has been realized, his humanism and call for equal rights and equal power between Jews and Palestinians in Israel/Palestine remains an inspiration, and model, today." --Adam Horowitz, coeditor, Mondoweiss.net""