A New View of Einstein

Albert Einstein. By Professor Dr. David Reichinstein. A picture of his life and conception of the world. Stella Publishing House. Praha. 255 pp. $3

This new book on Professor Einstein is a popular English edition of the German book by the same author, published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis. It gives a complete picture of Einstein and his views. It begins with Einstein’s youth and finishes with Einstein’s renouncing his Prussian citizenship in 1933.

A special chapter in this book deals with Einstein’s religious feelings and with his attitude toward Jewish problems. A number of letters by Einstein to Jewish organizations are quoted, including his letter to the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith. Einstein’s Zionist credo is also brought out in this chapter.

Himself an expert on physics, Professor Reichinstein, the creator of the displacement theory and the discoverer of the Electrical Palladium-Zinc Effect, analyzes Einstein as a scientific personality and philosopher and tries to convey Einstein’s theories in an understandable form. Anyone who is interested in a popular representation of Einstein and his theories will find Professor Reichinstein’s book very valuable.

The author has been known to Professor Einstein for a long time, not only personally but through his scientific treatises. It is known that Professor Einstein has followed with great interest the experimental and theoretic works of the author with respect to chemistry and physics and was especially interested in his new theory of physical chemistry of limiting surfaces.

Max Lerner.