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University Makes 80,000 Einstein Documents Publicly Available

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-do-you-think-Einstein? dept.

orgelspieler writes "The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has scanned in some 80,000 of Albert Einstein's documents. According to the university's press release, the documents cover more than just scientific matters. The broad range of subjects include his solution to the Jewish-Arab conflict, a postcard to his mother, and a letter from one of his mistresses asking for assistance getting to America. Some documents have been translated and annotated and are completely searchable."

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  1. Religion vs. Science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would the Hebrew University of Israel, in the center of the Religiocentric Region of the world want to keep documents published by Albert Einstein who discovered Relativity and is an atheist?

    1. Re:Religion vs. Science by EnsilZah · · Score: 4, Insightful

      As an atheist, a resident of Jerusalem and a student of an institution that's part of the Hebrew University campus I find it hard to imagine what kind of misapprehension of Israel and its academic institutions you might have to make that kind of comment.

  2. Re:Truly a great man by Your.Master · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm starting to form an alternative theory about why Einstein gets more tail than you do.