Einstein said that - didn't he?

Abstract

[...]his part-joking encapsulation of relativity to the hungry press in 1921, on his first visit to the United States: "It was formerly believed that if all material things disappeared out of the universe, time and space would be left. According to relativity theory, however, time and space disappear together with the things." Yet he had written in a speech in 1938: "My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power."