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JERUSALEM — All 80,000 items in Albert Einstein’s archives, including personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers and a poignant postcard to his ailing mother, are going online.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which owns the Einstein collection, is slowly uploading high-resolution photos of scientific papers; letters on social issues, including nuclear disarmament and the Arab-Israeli conflict; and other texts.
Archivists said Monday’s launch of the online repository will give scholars direct access to Einstein’s papers, most of which had been locked in storage. The college also published an inventory of the entire collection. The Associated Press
