A solemn memorial meeting in honor of Albert Einstein was held here this week-end under the auspices of the Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, with the participation of Buenos Aires University. Dr. Einstein had addressed the S.H.A. as well as the Faculties of Humamties and Sciences here 30 years ago. Speakers at the meeting included the University’s Rector. Dr. Jorge Taiana, the Dean of its Faculty of Philosophy, Dr. Jorge Serrano Redonnet and the Dean of its Faculty of Engineering, Pedro Silbert who also represented the Faculty of Exact Sciences.
Dr. Enrique Gaviola, Professor of Physics and a former pupil of Dr. Einstein in Berlin, spoke of the late scientist’s human qualities. He was joined by Professor Jose Matusevitch and S.H.A. president Guillermo Cracovsky who noted that the Sociedad had lost its most distinguished honorary member with the death of Einstein, since he had accepted honorary membership on his visit here in 1925. He also compared Einstein to the Prophets of Israel, in their struggle for social betterment.
Professor Seranno Redonnet, after reminiscing about the impression created by Dr. Einstein on his visit here, said that his life work could be summarized in three words–“goodness, beauty and truth.” The meeting also heard a dramatic reading by the Argentine actor Miguel Rocha of excerpts from Einstein’s writings on “Jewish ideals, science and civilization and Jewish-Christian cooperation.”
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