Einstein Before Israel : Zionist Icon or Iconoclast? /
Ze'ev Rosenkranz.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (368 pages)
Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: "A Vivid Sense of Strangeness" -- Chapter 2: A Different Kind of Nationalism -- Chapter 3: The "Prize-Winning Ox" in "Dollaria" -- Chapter 4: Secular Pilgrim or Zionist Tourist? -- Chapter 5: The "Botched University" -- Chapter 6: "A Genuine Symbiosis" -- Chapter 7: The "Bug-Infested House" -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
"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