Date: Wednesday, 22nd May 2024
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Israel Institute of Advanced Studies Feldman Building, Auditorium 130 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram
Event Details:
18:00 - 18:30
Reception
18:30 - 18:35
Greetings by Prof. Yitzhak Hen, Director of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies
18:35 - 19:35
Benyamin Cohen in conversation with Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund
19:35 - 20:00
Book purchase & signing by the Author.
Moderator: Dr. Ben Segenreich, Albert Einstein Archives.
Additional Information:
- This event is free of charge.
- Refreshments will be served during the reception.
For most people, Albert Einstein’s name is synonymous with physics and his theory of relativity, which redefined our understanding of the universe.
For author Benyamin Cohen, however, Einstein is so much more; the world’s most unlikely celebrity, a social media star with 20 million followers, a Nobel Prize winner whose face adorns coffee mugs and T-shirts, whose influence is seen in everything from weather forecasting and GPS technology to the search for aliens and the invention of time machines.
In Cohen’s new book, The Einstein Effect, he interviews people from all walks of life who are inspired by Einstein—including Professor Hanoch Gutfreund, former Rector and Past President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Professor Emeritus of the university’s Racah Institute of Physics.
The News Director of The Forward, an English language US weekly newspaper, Benyamin Cohen is also the author of My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith.
Since retiring from the physics department Hanoch Gutfreund is actively involved in the Albert Einstein Archives—sitting as its Academic Advisor—travelling worldwide lecturing and opening exhibitions about Albert Einstein.
Moderated by Dr. Ben Segenreich. Formerly of Austrian State TV. Author of Fast ganz normal – Unser Leben in Israel (2018).