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Menu signed by Albert Einstein at ORT fundraising dinner to be auctioned later this month

Einstein spoke presciently about the plight of European Jewry as guest of honour at Savoy Hotel dinner in October 1930

March 6, 2024 18:27
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A menu from ORT UK's fundraising dinner on 28 October, 1930 features signatures from guest of honour Albert Einstein as well as eminent delegates such as H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Chairman Lord Rothschild. (Photo: Lawrence Auctioneers)

ByEliana Jordan, Eliana Jordan

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A menu signed by Albert Einstein at an ORT fundraising dinner in 1930 is being auctioned off later this month.

The dinner, chaired by Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, hosted a plethora of prominent figures at the Savoy Hotel in London on 28 October, 1930, where Einstein was lauded as the guest of honour and gave a speech whose message of hope for the Jewish people has an uncanny resonance today.

The menu will be auctioned off by Lawrence Auctioneers in Somerset on 21 March.

Victoria Eves, whose maternal grandfather purchased the menu as a historic collectible in the 1980s, made the decision to sell the artifact while clearing out space in her mother’s home and reflecting on what the item could mean to the wider Jewish community.