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Award winning author Professor Steven Gimbel Previous Chair of the Philosophy Department Gettysburg College author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Einstein: His Space and Times as Einstein a Zionist? • Hot & Cold • His Own Version of Zionism • Though...

Award winning author Professor Steven Gimbel Previous Chair of the Philosophy Department Gettysburg College author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Einstein: His Space and Times Was Einstein a Pacifist? • Fundamentally a pacifist • Against Belgium pacifis...

Award winning author Professor Steven Gimbel Previous Chair of the Philosophy Department Gettysburg College author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Einstein: His Space and Times Was Einstein Political? • Used his platform as the most famous scientist • An...

Award winning author Professor Steven Gimbel Previous Chair of the Philosophy Department Gettysburg College author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Einstein: His Space and Times ALBERT EINSTEIN #5 #6 Was Einstein Religious? • Newton studied Solomon’s Temp...

Award winning author Professor Steven Gimbel Previous Chair of the Philosophy Department Gettysburg College author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Einstein: His Space and Times ALBERT EINSTEIN #$ Was Einstein’s Science, Jewish?  Einstein’s theory was rev...

Award winning author Professor Steven Nadler Vilas Research Professor and William H. Hay II Professor (Columbia, Ph. D. 1986) Director of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author: Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam (“Jewish Lives”, Yale, 2018) Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999; second edition, 2018); The Best of All Possi...

Award winning author Professor Steven Nadler Vilas Research Professor and William H. Hay II Professor (Columbia, Ph. D. 1986) Director of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author: Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam (“Jewish Lives”, Yale, 2018) Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999; second edition, 2018); The Best of All Possi...

Award winning author Professor Steven Gimbel Previous Chair of the Philosophy Department Gettysburg College author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Einstein: His Space and Times ALBERT EINSTEIN #3 Was Einstein a Good Student? • Myth: Einstein was a bad st...

Award winning author Professor Steven Gimbel Previous Chair of the Philosophy Department Gettysburg College author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Einstein: His Space and Times ALBERT EINSTEIN #2 Einstein: What were the early influences? • Raised in Sout...

Award winning author Professor Steven Gimbel Previous Chair of the Philosophy Department Gettysburg College author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion Einstein: His Space and Times ALBERT EINSTEIN #1 Albert Einstein – Professor Steven Gimbel - Introduction •...

Award winning author Professor Steven Nadler Vilas Research Professor and William H. Hay II Professor (Columbia, Ph. D. 1986) Director of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author: Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam (“Jewish Lives”, Yale, 2018) Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999; second edition, 2018); The Best of All Possi...

Award winning author Professor Steven Nadler Vilas Research Professor and William H. Hay II Professor (Columbia, Ph. D. 1986) Director of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author: Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam (“Jewish Lives”, Yale, 2018) Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999; second edition, 2018); The Best of All Possi...