Einstein on antisemitism: highlights from 1920, 1933, and 1938

Einstein asserted that the Jews are not a religion but a nation. He perceived antisemitism as a social and natural phenomenon. Einstein, who was one of the major targets of the Nazi campaign, and whose declarations and writings were closely monitored by the Nazis, was confronted with a dilemma: he wanted to express his hostility to the new Reich, but he did not want to provide any pretext for reprisals, either individual or collective. The political, sociological and the eschatological systems are integrated into his text