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We Jews are most highly proud of the honor and good fortune of being able to
count you, highly esteemed Professor, among our own and hope that in the not dis-
tant future the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will offer Your Eminence the pos-
sibility of educating a student body worthy of this
distinction.–[2]
We can just recall the famous words by Disraeli to Bismarck: “We stood on the
pinnacle of civilization and had people at the height of greatness while you were
still crawling about in bearskins in the
forests.”[3]
We have the honor of undersigning respectfully as Your Eminence’s deeply de-
voted “Histadrut Akademim Zionim,”
Dr. Abraham Schwarz
179. To Elsa Einstein
[Sigmaringen,] Tuesday, 19 October [1920]
Dear Else,
Now I’m back in Sigmaringen, where I’m picking up Brandhuber for
Benzingen. The trip with the boys through the Danube valley was
magnificent.[1]
We then also climbed up the Hohentwil near
Singen.[2]
Finally, we drove to Con-
stance, where I bought Albert a few musical scores and Tete a book by Mark
Twain.[3]
They then traveled to their mother in Donaueschingen, from where they
are continuing
homewards.[4]
Today I saw the resplendent art treasures at the local
castle.[5]
The boys have developed grandly; Albert is purely practical, disregarding
his passion for
music.[6]
He’ll make his own way; he wants to go to South America
after completing his studies. The boy, for all his childishness, is very far advanced.
He read to me Budge & Toddie by Habberton, his favorite
book.[7]
Deeper human
perception seems to be inaccessible to them both—alas. We were very chummy, no
more of the tensions from
earlier;[8]
but I cannot see them as my temporal succes-
sors. They have large chubby hands and for all their intelligence something inde-
finably four-footed about them. Tomorrow or the day after it’s onwards to
Holland[9]
and then—thank heavens—soon back home again. Think of the house
purchase![10]
Fond greetings to all of you. Yours,
Albert.
Console Moszkowski. His book about me must not appear. It would be
catastrophic![11]