Babette rothschild biography of albert einstein
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Bavaria (Germany)
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Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
Frederick Brunner Collection
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The Frederick Brunner Collection incorporates the research of the banker and LBI board chairman Frederick Brunner. Prominent subjects encompassed in this research include the Rothschild family and the history of Jews in Landau in der Pfalz. Some research on banking history and Jews as bankers may also be found here. The collection contains extensive newspaper clippings, articles, correspondence, notes, genealogical tables and family trees, and a few photographs.
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Found in: Leo Baeck Institute
German Jewish Periodicals Collection
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Single issues of various German Jewish periodicals, published primarily from to Also included are one Yiddish paper () and one German
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Einstein's First Steps Toward General Relativity: Gedanken Experiments and Axiomatics
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Miller, A. I.
AlbertEinstein's Jahrbuch paper is an extraordinary document because it contains his first steps toward generalizing the relativity theory to include gravitation. Ignoring the apparent experimental disconfirmation of the relativity theory and his unsuccessful attempts to generalize the mass-energy equivalence, Einstein boldly raises the mass-energy equivalence to an axiom, invokes equality between gravitational and inertial masses, and then postulates the equivalence between a uniform gravitational field and an oppositely directed constant acceleration, the equivalence principle. How did this come about? What fryst vatten at issue is scientific creativity. This necessitates broadening historical analysis to include aspects of cognitive science such as the role of visual imagery in Einstein's thinking, and the relation between conscious and unconscious m
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Hannah Bachman Einstein
Hannah Bachman Einstein was a leader in helping widowed and deserted mothers and their children and Jewish philanthropies. Being a deeply religious individual, she dedicated her life to these noble causes.
She was born on January 28, , in New York City, to Fanny and Herman S. Bachman, who had recently emigrated from Germany. She married William Einstein, a woolens manufacturer, on June 23, They had two children, William and Marian.
They lived in New York City where she became involved with the Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood, which was engaged in helping the sick, the needy and any other charity that was necessary.
In , Hannah Bachman Einstein became the president of the Sisterhood and two years later, she became the president of the New York Federation of Sisterhoods. She managed to find time to be active in the United Hebrew Charities of New York. Her need for a better understanding of the social problems led her to take courses in sociology and crimin