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German Science and Scholarship (Notgemeinschaft) to ward off complete col-
lapse. Einstein joined the honorary committee of the Notgemeinschaft in early
1921, lending his name to an ongoing campaign for American donations. In Doc.
70, he directs his appeal for monies to wealthy private parties whose contributions
might supplement the government’s budgetary appropriations for the Notgemein-
schaft.
Documents in this volume dealing with the “Jewish Question” testify to Ein-
stein’s fierce devotion to the cause of a Jewish university in Palestine. But in his
concern for the dismal state of German science and for the suffering of some mem-
bers of German society, he also demonstrated his hopes, however ambivalent, for a
Germany that might take its place in a reconciled postwar Europe.