Jewish scientists who suffered from anti-Semitism

A physicist researching quantum theory in Stalin's USSR. "Non-partisan theory." The image was prepared by DALEE in the absence of an original image of Semyon Semkovsky.

The clash between the theory of relativity and materialist dialectics – the story of the life and work of Semyon Semkovsky

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In 1931, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued a decree banning philosophy and science that were not "party." The theory of relativity was among them. Semyon Bronstein-Semkovsky defended the theory of relativity and paid for it with his life.
Prof. Avraham Halevi Frankel in the 1940s. Photo from Wikimedia

Prof. Abraham Frankl: From the Munich Atrocities to the Zionist Revolution

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The father of mathematician Prof. Abraham Frankel foresaw the danger to Bavarian Jewry due to Jewish participation in the leadership of the communist republic – and from there began Frankel's path towards Zionism and the Hebrew University.
Matvey Bronstein. Public domain photo.

Murder of a physicist who destroyed an entire scientific field

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Matvey Bronstein was one of the first scientists to study quantum theory. Being an expert in many fields of physics and knowing many languages ​​did not help him when he was executed in 1939 by the Soviet authorities.
Julius Gamble, 1931. From Wikimedia

Emil Julius Gumbel – Deadly Statistics

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Leopold Infeld in a photograph from 1938. Public domain photo from Wikimedia

In Search of the Homeland: Leopold Infeld

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Leopold Infeld's life journey: from the Krakow ghetto through collaboration with Einstein to protests against anti-Semitism and censorship in Poland
Prof. Paul Ehrlich. Credit: Library of Congress, via Wikimedia

Nobel Prize winner Paul Ehrlich - founder of immunology and chemotherapy

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Paul Ehrlich, Nobel Prize, chemotherapy, syphilis, immunology, magic bullet, Judaism and science, medical history, pharmacology, Hebrew University
Nuclear bomb. Courtesy of Oranim College spokespersons

The Jews, the Nazis and the race for the atomic bomb

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To what extent did refugee Jewish scientists contribute to the creation of the atomic bomb? And how close did the Nazi scientists in Germany come to creating such a bomb? Professor Alex Gordon from the Department of Mathematical Sciences - Physics and Computer Sciences at Oranim College
Prof. Natan Rosen, founder of the Physics Department at the Technion. The photos are courtesy of the Technion's historical archive by Yehoshua Nasiyo

One Handshake to Albert Einstein: The Story of Professor Nathan Rosen and the Jewish Scientists in the Soviet Union

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The author is Professor Alex Gordon, Oranim College tells about the anti-Semitism that accompanied the famous Jewish researchers, about Einstein's recommendation for Rosen to work in Kiev, about Podolsky's double loyalty, about Prof.
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