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Translated by Leon J. Weinberger with Dena Ordan ""This slender anonymous work, spanning 1389 to 1611, presents the priorities and concerns of a Jewish community straddling the late medieval and early modern periods. Ample footnotes and explanations provide the lay reader with sufficient background to understand the references to historical events and figures, to ideologies and to institutions. A comprehensive introduction presents the realities of Prague and Bohemia, as well as offering a helpful discussion of the chronicle and other contemporary Jewish accounts.""-Con

Jews -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 16th century -- Sources. --- Jews -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 17th century -- Sources. --- Prague (Czech Republic) -- Ethnic relations -- Sources. --- Prague (Czech Republic) --- Ethnic relations --- Sources. --- Prag (Czech Republic) --- Praha (Czech Republic) --- Velká Praha (Czech Republic) --- Praga (Czech Republic) --- Prague (Czechoslovakia)

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A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential episode. Einstein in Bohemia is a spellbinding portrait of the city that touched Einstein's life in unexpected ways—and of the gifted young scientist who left his mark on the science, literature, and politics of Prague.Michael Gordin's narrative is a masterfully crafted account of a person encountering a particular place at a specific moment in time. Einstein's Prague was a relatively marginal city within the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire, heir to almost a millennium of history of which the physicist—still several years away from becoming the most famous scientist who ever lived—was largely unaware. Yet Prague, its history, and its multifaceted culture changed the trajectories of Einstein's personal and scientific life. It was here that his marriage unraveled, where he first began thinking seriously about his Jewish identity, and where he embarked on the project of general relativity. Prague was also where he formed lasting friendships with novelist Max Brod, Zionist intellectual Hugo Bergmann, physicist Philipp Frank, and other important figures.Einstein in Bohemia sheds light on this transformative period of Einstein's life and career, and brings vividly to life a beguiling city in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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