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Great Artists: David
Pinski, Yiddish Playwright
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The
Histadrut Seder |
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David
Pinski is third from the right next to Einstein, a guest of
the Seder. Mrs.
Einstein is to Einstein's right and Joseph Sprinzak is to
her right. Years later, Joseph Sprinzak became Speaker of the
Knesset. Anna Schlossberg is on Sprinzak's right. Joseph
Schlossberg is seated at the far right.
Adele Pinski is standing behind Schlossberg on the far
right.
Morris Feinstone (then the secreatry of the United Hebrew
Trades) is directly behind Einstein and Isaac
Hamlin is to the
right of Finestone. The poet Chaim Greenberg is between
Pinski and Schlossberg.
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In 1933, Einstein, while visiting the United States, learned
that Hitler had been elected Chancellor of Germany and
decided not to return to his homeland. He then accepted a
position as professor of theoretical physics at Princeton
University. In 1935, he began the process that would
eventually give him his United States citizenship.
Throughout the 1930s Einstein received many pleas from his
relatives and others who wanted to escape the conditions
that existed for Jews in Europe. He worked assiduously
against the restrictive immigration quotas that were imposed
against the Jews. Einstein wrote many affidavits and sought
the help of others he knew to aid as many Jewish refugees as
he could.
Also, Einstein raised funds for such groups as the United
Jewish appeal and worked toward establishing a Jewish
homeland in Palestine.
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