Al Torat HaYachasiyut HaPeratit VehaKelalit (Harza’ah Popularit). Translated into Hebrew from the original German by Yaakov Greenberg.

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Lot 98
EINSTEIN, ALBERT.

Al Torat HaYachasiyut HaPeratit VehaKelalit (Harza’ah Popularit). Translated into Hebrew from the original German by Yaakov Greenberg.

<<FIRST HEBREW EDITION.>> Frontispiece portrait of Einstein after Hermann Struck. pp. (2), 102, (4). Few stains. Original printed boards, light wear. 8vo.

Tel Aviv: Dvir 1928

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
First Hebrew translation of Einstein’s revolutionary text: Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (Gemeinverständlich) [”The Special and the General Theory of Relativity.”] This Hebrew edition was particularly dear to Einstein as he noted in the foreword: “The appearance of this, my book, in the language of our forefathers fills my heart with special joy. It is a sign of the transformation that has occurred in this language [of ours]. It is not enough to focus at present on its use in this area alone, namely that of expressing the central issues of our people to our own people, but more appropriately to absorb within it all that humanity finds of value. It [Hebrew] serves as an important factor in our aspiration for an independent cultural existence.”