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ALBERT EINSTEIN: And it would please me very much if he could get to work at the Jews College – letter of recommendation signed by Albert Einstein - ALBERT EINSTEIN: And it would please me very much if he could get to work at the Jews College – letter of recommendation signed by Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (1879-1955), a Jewish physicist, one of the most influential physicists in the 20th century, who developed the General Theory of Relativity and laid the foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Jews were isolated and expelled from German society. The new German government had passed anti-Semitic laws barring Jews from holding any official positions, (including teaching at universities). The Nazis also persecuted Jewish physicists; rejecting and labeling Einstein’s Theory of Relativity as “Jewish Physics”. When Hitler rose to power, Einstein was on a lecture tour abroad. In view of the situation, he decided to give up his German citizenship, and after a short period, settled in the United States where he was offered a position at the Institute for Advanced Studied in Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein lived in Princeton until he passed away on April 18, 1955. Dr. Boris Brutzkus, professor of agrarian economics at the Hebrew University since 1933. Born in Russia, Prof. Brutzkus had to leave in 1922 because of his opposition to the Communist regime. From 1922 until he left for Jerusalem, Prof. Brutzkus was on the faculty of the Russian Scientific Institute at Berlin