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    Title

  • Albert Einstein with Ethel Yahuda (far left, back to camera), Abraham Yahuda, and Jakob Klatzkin (far right)

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 25 x 20 cm

  • Date

    August 10, 1941

  • Place of Publication

    Saranac Lake, New York

  • Summary

    Albert Einstein with Jakob Klatzkin and Abraham Yahuda. Also present is Ethel Yahuda (far left, back to camera).

  • Depicted

    Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Klatzkin, Jakob, 1882-1948; Yahuda, A. S.

  • Subject

    Portraits, Groups

  • Place

    Saranac Lake (N.Y.)

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Group portraits

  • Part Of

    Albert Einstein Collection, AR 136

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Abraham S. Yahuda was a famous polymath, linguist, writer, teacher, and rare document collector. His research interests included Judeo-Arabic relations, religion, and antiquities. He taught in Berlin from 1905 to 1914, in Madrid from 1915 to 1922. He eventually immagrated to the US to teach at the New School for Social Research in New York.

The philosopher and publicist Jakob Klatzkin was born in Belarus, the son of a rabbi in 1882. He studied philosophy in Germany (a student of Hermann Cohen) and received his doctorate at the University of Berne, Switzerland. He also worked with Jewish publishing firms, the Jewish National Fund in Cologne, and the creation of the German Encyclopedia Judaica, and he was a friend of the composer Arnold Schoenberg. Klatzkin worked at the College of Jewish Studies in Chicago from 1941 to 1947. He died in Switzerland in 1948.

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Albert Einstein with Ethel Yahuda (far left, back to camera), Abraham Yahuda, and Jakob Klatzkin (far right), Leo Baeck Institute, F 5333P.