First edition to appear in America, comprising three opinion essays by Einstein, an introduction by the translator and a selected bibliography.

'Professor Einstein, some of whose scattered speeches and letters on Zionism and kindred questions are collected in this volume, is better known to the world as a physicist than a Zionist. Yet for many years past he has given abundant proof both of a keen interest in Zionism and of a penetrating insight into its underlying ideas. Himself an assimilated Jew, he is impelled to Zionism by his acute consciousness of the excessive price at which the blessing of assimilation are bought by the Jewish communities of the western world...' (Leon Simon, from the introduction).

Sir Leon Simon CB (1881-1965) was a leading British-Jewish scholar, civil servant and a Zionist who took part in the drafting of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and served on the Zionist Commission with Chaim Weizmann (the future first president of the State of Israel). Simon was an advocate of cultural Zionism and the revival of Hebrew language and translated many Zionist works, including those of Ahad Ha'am.

First American edition; 8vo (20.5 x 12.5 cm); publisher's green cloth boards, gilt spine a touch darkened, ownership inscription dated 1948 to front pastedown, a very good copy; 94 pp.