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MOSES: “A GUY FOR WHOM ONE MUST SHOW RESPECT”
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Typed Letter Signed, “A.Einstein,” to author Sholem
Asch, in German, thanking him for sending his new book about “our No. 1 Hero”
[Moses?], and remarking that one finds in him a hero worthy of respect, unlike most mus-
cular heroes of legend. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; faint scattered paper-clip stains at
top and bottom edges, folds.
Princeton, 27 October 1951
[4,000/6,000]
“
I thank you for sending your new work about our number one hero. Putting aside whether he
actually existed and whether he is truly portrayed in the Bible, he really was a guy for whom
one must show respect—not like most legendary heroes who are little more than a bundle of
muscles.”
Sholem Asch (1880-1957) was a Jewish-American novelist who wrote in Yiddish. Among his
other novels, plays, and essays, Asch’s novel
Moses
was published in 1951.