When Einstein Met Kafka: Jewish Contributions to the Modern World

Based on When Einstein Met Kafka by Diego Moldes, this event examines the exceptional impact of Jewish thinkers on cultural, scientific, and artistic modernity. Taking as its point of departure the symbolic intersection between Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka, it proposes an interdisciplinary reading of intellectual genealogies, historical‑cultural contexts, and the transfer of knowledge. The English version, translated and adapted by Steven Capsuto, ensures conceptual precision and accessibility without sacrificing methodological rigor.

The discussion addresses the centrality of literacy and critical inquiry, the effects of the Enlightenment on academic and professional integration, and the persistence of intellectual production in the face of Judeophobia. It also documents the statistical disproportion between demographic representation (≈0.2% of the world’s population) and the impact in fields such as physics, philosophy, medicine, economics, literature, the arts, and artificial intelligence—an essential key to understanding the intellectual configuration of modernity.