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    Title

  • Albert Einstein with Moses Maldwin Fertig and Franz Oppenheimer at the New York Zionist League dinner

  • Physical Description

    1 Photograph : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 cm

  • Date

    1935

  • Place of Publication

    [New York]

  • Notes

    Note on verso reads: "Professor Albert Einstein, M. Maldwin Fertig and Professor Franz Oppenheimer at dinner in honor of Professor Oppenheimer under auspices of New York Zionist League of New York, in the eary nineteen thirties."

  • Depicted

    Fertig, Moses Maldwin, 1887-1972; Oppenheimer, Franz, 1864-1943; Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

  • Subject

    Portraits, Group, Men

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Albert Einstein Collection, AR 136

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The sociologist and political economist Franz Oppenheimer was born in Berlin in 1864. He had first studied medicine and worked as a physician, before concentrating on sociology and teaching at Berlin and Frankfurt universities. In 1911 he designed a plan for agricultural cooperation, used by Jewish emigrants for the co-operative farm "Merhavia" in Palestine. Franz Oppenheimer escaped Nazi Germany to Tokyo, Shanghai, and Los Angeles, where he died in 1943.

M. Maldwin Fertig was a New York lawyer and public official who worked for the unification of the city's subway system.

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Citation

Albert Einstein with Moses Maldwin Fertig and Franz Oppenheimer at the New York Zionist League dinner, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5343B.