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Lot 466: 1929 Albert Einstein Signed Judaica Letter

ITEM DESCRIPTION

 
Reserve: $1,750.00
Winning Bid: $2,712.27
Price Realized: $3,241.16
Auction Date:8/31/2001 9:00 PM EST

Typed letter in German (with translation) is written to the German League for Human Rights. Terse letter asks that his papers be printed "In its entirety or not at all." On his personal stationery. It dates from Berlin in 1929. Likely regards his rights as a Jew because of the addressee and the tone. The world's most brilliant physicist was driven from his homeland because he was a Jew. Signed "A. Einstein." Fold goes through the A o/w signature is NRMT. Letter has some edge tears and binder holes.

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