I saw Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer earlier this week. The main character in the film, J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a physicist whose family was Jewish, and who worked for many years at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton. In these respects he was akin to Albert Einstein, who makes several appearances in the movie itself.

Although they had some intellectual disagreements, Oppenheimer nonetheless greatly admired Einstein. Speaking at UNESCO House in Paris in December 1965,...