C A L E N D A R O F A B S T R A C T S 1 9 2 5 8 8 9 metric and structural quantities that result from the general vector fields. He is twenty- two years old, and apologizes for any brashness. ALS. [24 163]. 164. From Paul Oppenheim Frankfurt a. M., 27 October 1925 In reply to AE’s (nonextant) letter of 28 September , believes that there are no chances of finding an academic position in Frankfurt for Reichenbach, who has just visited him. Is dismayed to hear of the political reasons that prevent Reichenbach from obtaining a position in Berlin. Reichenbach has helped him complete his manuscript. He hopes that AE would be willing to write an endorsement for a publisher. TLS. [44 635]. 165. From Sociedad Matemática Española Madrid, 27 October 1925 Requests permission to translate Einstein 1925g (Vol. 14, Doc. 220) for publication in Revista Matemática Hispano-Americana. TLSX. [5 045]. 166. To Carl H. Becker [Berlin,] 28 October 1925 Sends Abs. 159, where he has marked paragraphs 2 through 6 to the attention of the min- ister of culture. ALS. [95 733]. 167. From Edwin B. Frost Williams Bay (Wisconsin), 29 October 1925 Has learned from Van Maanen and Ehrenfest that AE might be willing to write a bio- graphical sketch of W. H. Julius. Would like to publish it in the Astrophysical Journal. He himself will write one on Gustav Müller (who died on 7 July 1925, see Abs. 34). Re- calls with pleasure AE’s visit to the Yerkes Observatory in 1921. TLS. [14 222]. 168. From Jüdischer Handwerker-Kongress (Ch. Rasner) Warsaw, 29 October 1925 Invites AE as the “greatest contemporary Jew” to the First Jewish Workmen’s Congress in Poland, 5–7 November 1925, to be attended by 800 delegates. TLS. [44 044]. 169. From Leo Kohn London, 29 October 1925 Attaches the document addressed to Herbert Samuel, to be signed by AE and Ch. Weizmann. Summarizes the meeting that took place on 24 October between Weizmann and the members of the Verband zur Förderung der Universität in Jerusalem mentioned in Abs. 146. Weizmann urged that more European academics be involved in furthering the Hebrew University. Citron spoke of a planned public inaugural meeting at which they desire AE’s brief attendance as a speaker. Esther Polianowsky Salaman has visited him. She has been in Cambridge already, and hopes for a scholarship. She has misplaced her letter of introduction from AE to Weizmann. Kohn requests further information. TLS. [36 901]. 170. From Victor M. Goldschmidt Oslo, 30 October 1925 Has received an appointment at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. Is tempted to leave his position at the Oslo University Mineralogical Institute, where he has few ad- vanced students, but he and his father are concerned about the anti-Semitism and nation- alism in Berlin, and asks for AE’s advice. TLS. [43 774]. 171. From Count Harry Kessler Berlin, 2 November 1925 S. Jacoby arrived with an introduction from AE, and requested Kessler’s opinion regard- ing the founding of a Jewish League of Nations in Germany. TLS. [44 123]. (See also [92 411], letter of Jacoby to Oprescu in September 1924, and [84 571], published article of December 1924 on the same topic: Jewish University in Europe). Is attaching a copy of his reply letter to Jacoby, in which he states that he is in favor of such a league insofar as it leads to greater understanding for the League of Nations among German Jews and to a greater appreciation for the protection and promotion of the economic and cultural welfare of world Jewry at the League of Nations itself. Is opposed, however, to making
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