A small museum of
an improbable people.
There are fewer than sixteen million Jews alive — around two in every thousand people on earth. This is a room for some of them: the physicists and philosophers, the physicians, painters and pitchers.

Recast our understanding of space, time and gravity with special and general relativity, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for explaining the photoelectric effect. Fled Germany in 1933 and spent his later years at Princeton, campaigning for civil rights and nuclear restraint.
Albert Einstein, 1 of 8
Wander by field
See all 56In the collection
Ordered by birth, from eleventh-century Troyes to twentieth-century Brooklyn.

Rashi (Shlomo Yitzchaki)
c. 1040 – 1105

Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon)
c. 1138 – 1204

Baruch Spinoza
1632 – 1677

Levi Strauss
1829 – 1902

Paul Ehrlich
1854 – 1915

Sigmund Freud
1856 – 1939

Gustav Mahler
1860 – 1911

Theodor Herzl
1860 – 1904

Albert Einstein
1879 – 1955

Emmy Noether
1882 – 1935

Max Born
1882 – 1970

Franz Kafka
1883 – 1924



