The Hour
When Albert Einstein visited Palestine in 1932, over 85,000 Jews lived there, and judging from the newspaper headlines, nearly all of them came out to greet the most famous Jew of his generation. For…
The Hour
When Albert Einstein visited Palestine in 1932, over 85,000 Jews lived there, and judging from the newspaper headlines, nearly all of them came out to greet the most famous Jew of his generation. For the next 12 days, Einstein kept a personal travel diary cataloging his impressions of the emerging Israeli State; he wrote excitedly about a culture of labor, the future of Zionism and, quite amusingly, of the beautiful women he met in this fascinating new land. In 1923, Albert Einstein visited Palestine, travelling to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. It was a visit that would have a profound impact on the legendary scientist, who struggled with an inner conflict: he was a Zionist, but one who intensely disliked nationalism. This documentary, based on Einstein's personal travel diary, presents the world with the first-ever insight into Einstein's thoughts during his trip to the Holy Land. Never before has the story of Israel's formation been told from the perspective of one of history's greatest minds, who turned down the opportunity to be Israel's first president. —JIFF
The Hour
Action,Comedy,Fantasy
Film Details
When Albert Einstein visited Palestine in 1932, over 85,000 Jews lived there, and judging from the newspaper headlines, nearly all of them came out to greet the most famous Jew of his generation. For the next 12 days, Einstein kept a personal travel diary cataloging his impressions of the emerging Israeli State; he wrote excitedly about a culture of labor, the future of Zionism and, quite amusingly, of the beautiful women he met in this fascinating new land. In 1923, Albert Einstein visited Palestine, travelling to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
It was a visit that would have a profound impact on the legendary scientist, who struggled with an inner conflict: he was a Zionist, but one who intensely disliked nationalism. This documentary, based on Einstein's personal travel diary, presents the world with the first-ever insight into Einstein's thoughts during his trip to the Holy Land. Never before has the story of Israel's formation been told from the perspective of one of history's greatest minds, who turned down the opportunity to be Israel's first president.
—JIFF.