(JTA) — The quirky Jewish physicist would have been proud. A violin once owned by Albert Einstein sold for $516,500 at the New York-based Bonhams auction house on Friday. The instrument ...

Scientist Albert Einstein shut himself up in a room of Adolph Lewisohn’s New York home one afternoon last week and practiced three hours on his violin. That evening Fiddler Einstein was to play ...

When you hear the name Albert Einstein, what do you think of ... Albert liked doing puzzles, reading books about nature, and playing violin. He was fascinated by the invisible magnetic force ...

Albert Einstein was born on March 14 ... up an instrument by his mother (who was a pianist), he started playing the violin when he was six, though he didn’t start to practice seriously until ...