Personal Life

After moving to the United States in 1933 and becoming a U.S. citizen, Einstein confronted American racism.

Einstein’s response to the racism and segregation he found in Princeton was to cultivate relationships in the town’s African-American community. Jerome and Taylor interviewed members of that community who still remember the white-haired, disheveled figure of Einstein strolling through their streets, stopping to chat with the inhabitants, and handing out candy to local children.

Rumor: Albert Einstein once said that segregation was a 'disease of white people.'

Read Albert Einstein's moving, but little-known, 1946 essay on racism in America.

After arriving in the U.S. in the 1930s, Albert Einstein witnessed the inequities and injustices done to black Americans. Read his little-known essay from 1946 about the "deeply entrenched evil" as he saw it then, and that pervades this country today.

In 1946, Albert Einstein, who had come to the US in 1933 and stayed to become a citizen due to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in G

(2017). Albert Einstein’s early Zionist involvement, 1918‒1920. Israel Affairs: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 613-625. doi: 10.1080/13537121.2017.1333727

Albert Einstein - About Zionism - Excerpts from the 1931 book

Einstein felt his relationship to the Jewish people to be his 'strongest human bond,' one that transcended religion as well as the anti-Semitism that Nazis and their sympathizers leveled against him.

Albert Einstein initially opposed the establishment of a Jewish state in Israel, yet the Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s stance on the issue helped define the early debate.

And part of that invisible legacy, part of that complex life, was Albert Einstein's love of music. It may not be important to history, but history has a mercenary standard of importance. It was important to Einstein, and that’s enough.

At the height of Albert Einstein’s popularity, the public knew him not only as the world’s foremost theoretical physicist, but also as an enthusiastic sometime violinist.

Albert Einstein wasn't only a gifted scientist, but an avid music enthusiast. On March 14, his birthday, we delve into his second love.

When you look at the life of Albert Einstein many thoughts enter your head: science genius, physics revolutionary, creator of the theory of relativity, humanist, extrovert… but musician? That would perhaps be far down the list of important characteristics attributable to this legendary scientist.

A flash back of Einstein and his love for music and the intersection of physics and music in his life. Mozart and Bach were his favorite composers, so I chos...

Albert Einstein's religious views have been widely studied and often misunderstood.[1] Einstein stated that he believed in the pantheistic God of Baruch Spinoza

Albert Einstein was widely known during his lifetime for his work with the theory of relativity and physics in general. His political opinions were of public interest through the middle of the 20th century due to his fame and involvement in political, humanitarian and academic projects around the world.

Einstein was raised Jewish, though his real religious views were markedly agnostic/deist. Einstein was a great advocate of democracy, freedom, and equality. He was often at odds with whatever political malaise he found himself in from opposing the Nazis while in Germany to opposing the creation of the Jewish state as a Jew to advocating for socialism in the U.S.

Albert Einstein's political contributions are frequently eclipsed by his scientific achievements. But the physicist was active in political thought, and his insights remain relevant today.

Einstein's comment that

Religious theists who claim Albert Einstein as one of their own might want to take a closer look at his social, political, and economic beliefs and views.

Albert Einstein is often held in esteem by religious theists, yet he had distinct views on God. Explore Einstein's views on religion, science, and politics.

Little-known letter from famous scientist to sell for up to £8,000 and provoke further controversy