My Meeting with Albert Einstein
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- Title (English):
- My Meeting with Albert Einstein
- Title (Yiddish Romanized):
- Vos Rusland maynt far unz
- Title (Yiddish):
- וואָס רוסלאַנד מיינט פאַר אונז
- Collection:
- International Workers’ Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
- Set:
- Conferences, Conventions, Meetings
Einstein
Exhibit and Collection Highlights
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Postwar Reconstruction and Relief - Creator:
- Zaltsman, R. (Reʾuven) (Rubin Saltzman, Reuben Zaltzman)
- Creator:
- זאלצמאן, ר
- Organization:
- Jewish Council for Russian War Relief
- Date:
- 1942
- Coordinates:
- 40.74872,-73.98231
- Latitude:
- 40.74872
- Longitude:
- -73.98231
- Location:
- Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
New York, New York, United States - ID Number:
- 5276b53f10_02
- File Name:
- 5276b53f10_02.pdf
- Address (creator):
- 11 East 35th Street, Room 1001, New York, New York
- Work Type:
- manuscripts (document genre)
handwriting
historical figures
organization files
world wars
meetings
political campaigns
fund raising
leaders (people)
scientists - Subject:
- World War II- War Effort, Red Army
Soviet Union
Intelligentsia
Jewish Left
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the USSR (JAFC)
Communism
Political
Wartime Jewish Unity
Antisemitism
Nazism and Fascism
Fellow Travellers - Description:
- Typed 7 page MS in Yiddish, with notes redacted in pencil from a meeting of the Jewish Council for Soviet Help. Translated Summary: Describes a meeting of the Jewish Council (a subgroup of the Russian War Relief council) at which Abe Goldberg suggests involving Albert Einstein. Rubin Saltzman was among the three delegates chosen to request a meeting with Einstein, go to Princeton, and recruit him for the Jewish Council. After Einstein, via his secretary, agreed to meet with them, they decided 1. to describe the history, goals, and accomplishments of the organization to date, 2. to invite him to give a speech at a mass meeting at Madison Square Garden, 3. to suggest a fundraising banquet with him as an honored guest, and 4. to ask him what his ideas are to better accomplish the Council's goals. When it comes to the meeting itself, the manuscript describes Einstein's preliminary question, regarding the need for a separate Jewish Council. He says he is neither an assimilationist (who denies the need for a distinct Jewish group), nor a nationalist, and assumes a distinct group is better, but wants to know what the practical effect would be on the fundraising and on the disposition of the funds.
- Notes:
- The Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, Inc. is part of Russian War Relief, Inc..
The Jewish People’s Fraternal Order was the largest ‘national’ section of the International Workers Order (IWO) which focused on cultural awareness and celebration, mutual support especially in health insurance coverage, and anti-fascist activities. The IWO also gave particular emphasis to supporting the rights and interests of African Americans. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented. - Cite As:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- Relationships:
- 21072803
19043892
21072652 - Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records, 1915-2002 (KCL05276)
- Box:
- 53
- Folder:
- 10
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the International Workers Order (IWO) Records Collection (Kheel Center #5276) are unknown. This material was digitized from physical holdings by Cornell University Library in 2016, with funding from an Arts and Sciences Grant to Jonathan Boyarin. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented. Cornell is providing access to the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell would like to learn more about items in the collection and to hear from individuals or institutions that have any additional information as to rights holders. Please contact the Kheel Center at kheel_center@cornell.edu