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LOT 7:
A rare photograph of Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann during the two's first visit to the United States. New York 1921
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A rare photograph of Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann during the two's first visit to the United States. New York 1921
A group photo of the Zionist delegation to the United States: Albert Einstein on the left, Haim Weizmann in the center, and New York Mayor John Francis Halen (To the right of Weizmann), and other members of the delegation. Photographed during Einstein and Weizmann's first visit to New York in 1921. Signed on the back with an ink stamp of the "Jewish Agency".
Einstein first visited the United States as part of a lecture tour in 1921. The visit was of an official nature and was joined by Chaim Weizmann and several Zionist leaders in order to raise funds for the establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, of which Einstein later served as chairman. Menachem Ushiskin also accompanied the important visit. It was shortly before Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the law of the photoelectric effect. This was also Weitzman's first visit to the United States, and the Jews of New York held an exciting reception in his honor along the streets leading to the Commodore Hotel. A reception was then held in his honor in the City Hall. Weizmann met with US President Warren Harding and conducted an information campaign throughout North America to raise money for the Keren Hayesod fund.
Another photograph is known from the same visit in which Einstein and Weizmann seen as part of a parade in New York alongside the mayor of New York. see here
Size: 18x13 cm. Slight cracks on the right. Very good condition.
