What Russia Means to Us: A Speech by Albert Einstein. English Version
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- Title (English):
- What Russia Means to Us: A Speech by Albert Einstein. English Version
- Collection:
- International Workers’ Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
- Set:
- Culture Front
Einstein
Exhibit and Collection Highlights
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Postwar Reconstruction and Relief - Creator:
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
- Organization:
- Jewish Council for Russian War Relief
- Date:
- 1942-10-25
- Location:
- New York, New York, United States
- ID Number:
- 5276b45af09_16
- File Name:
- 5276b45af09_16.pdf
- Address (creator):
- 11 East 35th Street, Room 1001, New York, New York
- Work Type:
- leaflets
printed ephemera
historical figures
organization files
political campaigns
world wars
speeches
fund raising
political ideologies and attitudes
banquets (feasts)
portraits
drawings (visual works) - Subject:
- World War II- War Effort, Fundraising
Soviet Union
Culture Front- Publishing
Intelligentsia
Jewish Left
Communism
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the USSR (JAFC)
Wartime Jewish Unity
Fellow Travellers
Nazism and Fascism
Fellow Travellers
Jewish Lodges - Description:
- Fundraising leaflet with Einstein's address from the October 25, 1942 dinner in his honor at the Hotel Commodore in New York. The Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, Inc. is part of Russian War Relief, Inc. Einstein praises Russia's scientific, technological and economic progress, reviews Russia's pre-war foreign policy, and offers some words of mitigation for the lack of internal political freedom. Implies the U.S.S.R is doing a better job of treating minority nationalities equally, which he calls, "a fact of peculiar and decisive importance for us Jews". Finally he turns to the crux of the argument, that if Russia fell, England and America would be "in a very bad way." Drawing by Morris J. Kallem.
- Notes:
- The Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, Inc. is part of Russian War Relief, Inc..
The Jewish People’s Fraternal Order was the largest ‘national’ section of the International Workers Order (IWO) which focused on cultural awareness and celebration, mutual support especially in health insurance coverage, and anti-fascist activities. The IWO also gave particular emphasis to supporting the rights and interests of African Americans. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented. - Cite As:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- Relationships:
- 19043892
21072652 - Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records, 1915-2002 (KCL05276)
- Box:
- 45a
- Folder:
- 9
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the International Workers Order (IWO) Records Collection (Kheel Center #5276) are unknown. This material was digitized from physical holdings by Cornell University Library in 2016, with funding from an Arts and Sciences Grant to Jonathan Boyarin. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented. Cornell is providing access to the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell would like to learn more about items in the collection and to hear from individuals or institutions that have any additional information as to rights holders. Please contact the Kheel Center at kheel_center@cornell.edu