EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). A one-page typed letter in German, signed, from Glenwood, Saranac Lake N.Y., dated 9 July 1936, to Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, informing him about a vacancy at the University of Jerusalem for a theoretical physicist. Einstein, who had already suggested Nordheim as first and Lanczos as a second choice, asks Herzfeld to name further Jewish scientists who might be suitable for the position ("Wissen Sie einen anderen stellenlosen jüdischen Physiker, der mit diesen auf eine Stufe gestellt werden kann?"), and to report on their personal qualities. | Christie's

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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). A one-page typed letter in German, signed, from Glenwood, Saranac Lake N.Y., dated 9 July 1936, to Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, informing him about a vacancy at the University of Jerusalem for a theoretical physicist. Einstein, who had already suggested Nordheim as first and Lanczos as a second choice, asks Herzfeld to name further Jewish scientists who might be suitable for the position ("Wissen Sie einen anderen stellenlosen jüdischen Physiker, der mit diesen auf eine Stufe gestellt werden kann?"), and to report on their personal qualities.

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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). A one-page typed letter in German, signed, from Glenwood, Saranac Lake N.Y., dated 9 July 1936, to Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, informing him about a vacancy at the University of Jerusalem for a theoretical physicist. Einstein, who had already suggested Nordheim as first and Lanczos as a second choice, asks Herzfeld to name further Jewish scientists who might be suitable for the position ("Wissen Sie einen anderen stellenlosen jüdischen Physiker, der mit diesen auf eine Stufe gestellt werden kann?"), and to report on their personal qualities.

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Karl Herzfeld was professor of physics at the John Hopkins University of Baltimore at the time.