Pi Day Event: Author Benyamin Cohen

Join author and journalist Benyamin Cohen in the Community Room of the Princeton Public Library. He will discuss his book, The Einstein Effect: How the World’s Favorite Genius Got Into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds, and why Einstein remains popular today. FREE.

About the Speaker: Benyamin Cohen is a senior writer at The Forward, America’s oldest Jewish newspaper. The newspaper began in 1897, and it has covered everything from the sinking of the Titanic to the current war in Israel. Not surprisingly, it also published several interviews with Albert Einstein. Benyamin has a bizarre side job managing the official social media accounts of Albert Einstein, where he posts every day to the 20 million fans who follow the world’s favorite genius across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. His first book was called “My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith,” a memoir about Benyamin spending 52 weeks going to 52 different churches – and how the experience made him a better Jew. For writing it, he received the Georgia Author of the Year award, and it was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Benyamin is based in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he lives with his wife, three dogs, a cat and a flock of chickens known as the Co-Hens.

To learn more about Pi Day Princeton and see the complete schedule of events, visit the Princeton Tour Company website. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Princeton and the Princeton Public Library.