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Author Rosenkranz, Ze'ev.

Title Einstein before Israel : Zionist icon or iconoclast? / Ze'ev Rosenkranz
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description xviii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents "A vivid sense of strangeness": Einstein's path to the Zionist movement -- A different kind of nationalism: Einstein's induction and mobilization into the Zionist movement -- The "prize-winning ox" in "Dollaria": Einstein's fundraising trip to the United States in 1921 -- Secular pilgrim or Zionist tourist?: Einstein's tour of Palestine in 1923 -- The "botched university": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1924-1929 -- "A genuine symbiosis": Einstein on the 1929 clashes in Palestine -- The "bug-infested house": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1930-1933
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Political and social views.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Zionism.
LC no. 2010036902
ISBN 0691144125 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691144122 (hardcover : alk. paper)