7 0 8 D O C . 4 5 5 T R A V E L D I A R Y colonization efforts in Palestine (for the speeches of Raffalovich and Perez and a paraphrase of Ein- stein’s response, see O Jornal, 9 May 1925 Jornal do Brasil, 10 May 1925 O Paiz, 15 May 1925 Dos Idische Vochenblat, 22 May 1925 and Tolmasquim 2003, pp. 147 and 219–221 see also A Noite, 11 May 1925, and Glick 1999, pp. 105 and 110–111). Robert Koch, who lived in Buenos Aires. [96]Originally, a train trip to Itatiaia had been planned (see note 88). However, it was deemed that such a trip would be too long, and instead a tour by car in the environs of Rio de Janeiro was orga- nized. Einstein drove with Rabbi Raffalovich, Isidoro and Irma Kohn, and Poldi Wettl. A second car transported Getúlio das Neves, Pacheco Leão, Ignácio do Amaral, Mário de Souza, and Roberto Marinho de Azevedo. They drove along the coast through Copacabana, down Avenida Niemeyer, and up the Dois Irmãos Hill. After lunch, they drove through the neighborhood of São Conrado, toured Tijuca Forest, and took the funicular up to Corcovado Mountain. In the evening, Einstein visited the Zionist Center and the Scholem Aleichem Library. At the for- mer, he was welcomed by Jacobo Schneider, president of the Zionist Federation, and Mosiés Koslovs- ki, president of the Zionist Center. In his response, Einstein expressed his satisfaction with the intense Zionist activity of the local Jewish community. At the latter, he was greeted by the president of the library, Lewis Feingold, was given a leather-bound edition of Scholem Aleichem’s works, and pre- sented the library with an autographed photograph of himself (see Tolmasquim 2003, pp. 148–150). [97]The National Hospital for the Insane was originally established in 1852 as the first psychiatric hospital in Latin America. Einstein was welcomed by its director, Juliano Moreira (1873–1932), a proponent of more humane psychiatric treatment methods. At the hospital, Einstein requested to see a patient with a case of paranoia. Moreira’s wife was Augusta Moreira-Peick (1876–1950). The lunch, at which vatapá—a shrimp or fish stew—was served, was also attended by Isidoro Kohn and Edgar Roquette-Pinto. In the after- noon, Einstein visited the Brazilian Press Association, where he was presented with a gift of precious gems and a check, the monies for which had been raised in a campaign initiated by O Jornal (Abs. 685). General Cândido Rondon (1865–1958), who led an expedition to install telegraph lines on the frontier with Bolivia and Paraguay, and who was best known for his advocacy of the indigenous tribes he encountered on his expedition. At the end of his visit, Einstein signed the association’s vis- itors’ book (Abs. 682). The dinner hosted by the German ambassador was held at the Hotel Glória. Among the attendees were Juliano Moreira, Aloísio de Castro, Ignácio do Amaral, Mario de Souza, Daniel Henninger, and Isidoro Kohn. The German ambassador wished Einstein a safe voyage back to Germany (see A Noite, 11 May 1925 O Jornal and O Paiz, 12 May 1925: Glick 1999, p. 106: and Tolmasquim 2003, pp. 150– 153).
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