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258. To Friedrich Vieweg
Berlin, den 5. X. 21.
Sehr geehrter Herr!
Einliegend sende ich Ihnen eine Anfrage des Interterritorial Verlages „Renais-
sance“ betreffs des Uebersetzungsrechtes des Relativitätsbüchleins in die
hebräische und jüdische Frage
Sprache.[1]
Herrn Prof. Einstein wäre es nun eine
besondere Gefälligkeit, wenn Sie sich entschliessen könnten, für die Uebertragung
in diese beiden Sprachen keine Entschädigung zu verlangen, worauf Herr Prof.
Einstein seinerseits zu verzichten beabsichtigt. Selbstverständlich bekäme der Ver-
lag dann auch nicht das alleinige Recht der Uebersetzung. Sollten Sie sich mit
diesem Arrangement nicht einverstanden erklären, bitte ich Sie, uns benachrichti-
gen zu wollen.
Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung
Die Sekretärin
TLC. [42 108]. The letter is addressed “Verlagsbuchhandlung Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Braunschweig.”
[1]For the letter from the publishing house “Renaissance,” see 26 September 1921 in Calendar.
259. From Chaim Weizmann
Merano, Sanatorium Stefani. 7. X. 21.
Dear Professor,
Many thanks for your letter. I am sorry I cannot yet give you a definite answer
to your question. However, it seems to me there is as yet no great urgency to travel
to
Palestine.[1]
You will perhaps have heard that Samuel has signed the great Jordan
concession.[2]
Thus, if we could make a beginning with that job, it would provide
considerable opportunities for immigration—and one of the most burning ques-
tions would thereby find a partial solution for the time
being.[3]
The same reasoning
could be applied to other points. If we can manage a budget of 1 1/2 millions, we
shall get immigration too.
Samuel will be glad to make things easy for
us.[4]
But if we don’t have the mon-
ey, a discussion with Samuel now would be rather premature. I believe, therefore,
that action in America would perhaps be more important, and that a later journey
to Palestine would be more opportune.
I should think it most important if you could decide to make a tour of two months
in America. I beg you, dear Professor, to write to me in London, saying what you
think of that.