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Want to ask Einstein about Zionism? A new AI tool lets users chat with Jewish history

JL;DR SUMMARY A new AI tool, Ask Jewish Lives, offers users the chance to chat with nine historical Jewish figures, including Albert Einstein, Henrietta Szold, and Sigmund Freud, using content based on biographies from the Yale University Press Jewish Lives series. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryZionismAlbert EinsteinSigmund FreudAiJewish LivesLouis BrandeisHenrietta SzoldBiographiesIntellectual Labor

Places mentioned

Israel
"Szold spoke about her support of a single, shared land where Jews and Arabs might live together in harmony, and how she and colleagues like Judah Magnes resisted seeking a political majority purely for the sake of political dominance."
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
"Ask Jewish Lives, a new AI feature based on the biographies published in the Yale University Press Jewish Lives series."
United States
"Jewish Supreme Court justice was also the president of the Zionist Organization of America, the answer I got was closer to describing the shape Israel took at its birth in 1948."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"She shared a statement from Derek Penslar, the Harvard historian and author of Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader."

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