C A L E N D A R O F A B S T R A C T S 1 9 2 5 1 9 2 6 8 9 7 236. From Deutsche Liga für Menschenrechte Berlin, 28 December 1925 Invites to the members’ annual meeting for 1926 on 10 January. TL. [44 326]. 237. From Leo Baeck [Berlin,] 30 December 1925 On behalf of the Deutscher Verband zur Förderung der Universität Jerusalem, requests AE’s signature on the attached fund-raising appeal [36 903] for the Hebrew University. The group’s goal is to distribute the appeal to several thousand scholars and indus- trialists. TLS. [36 902]. 238. From Jakob Klatzkin [Berlin,] 30 December 1925 Having just returned from Paris, thanks for the letters of introduction to the Grand Rabbi Israel Levi and to Émile Meyerson. They achieved their aim of furthering the matter of the Enzyklopädie des Judentums: the French committee consists of the Grand Rabbi Levi, Professor Sylvain Levi, Rabbi Julien Weill, Rabbi Maurice Liber, Rabbi Louis Germain Levy, E. Meyerson, L. Oungre (director of the I.C.A.), Leon Zadoc-Kahn, I. Asscher, M. M. Haffkine, and M. Vinaver. Salomon Reinach and Theod. Reinach are be- ing considered as well. The Dutch committee formed a few weeks ago consists of S. van den Bergh, Dr. Manheimer (Mendelssohn & Co), David Cohen, I. L. Palache, Chief Rabbi Marsen, and A. Simons. They also succeeded in forming a committee in Switzer- land, consisting of Hermann Guggenheim, Sylvain Guggenheim, Armand Dreyfus, Rabbi Littmann, Felix Pinkus, Dr. Rom, Professor Wreschner, Prof. Bloch, Alfred Stern, Jules Dreyfus-Brodski, Prof. Joel, Eugen Kaufmann, Markus Cohn, and Prof. Land- mann. Dr. Balitzer (Geneva) and Armand Brunschwig are being considered as well. Meyerson sends regards and would be very grateful if AE were to publish a few lines about his book Meyerson 1925 in a professional journal. Given that AE had invited him to a “philosophical promenade” on Sundays, he is at his disposal any day from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M., and can be reached at the Verlag Eshkol in Charlottenburg. TL. [86 588]. 239. From Harimohan Banerjee Calcutta, 31 December 1925 Asks AE’s opinion of his book Pharmacopoea of Life, especially given the difficult topics in physics. TLS. [43 120]. 240. From the Deutsche Studentenschaft, Amerika Werkstudenten-Dienst [1926] Hope to be able to collaborate in future. Text is illegible. TLSf. [43 276.10]. 241. From Friedensbund der Kriegsteilnehmer Berlin, [1926] Georg Davidsohn and Carl Marmulla, on behalf of the organization, express outrage at the treatment of the republican pacifist Heinrich Wandt, who was sentenced to six years imprisonment and a ten-year demotion on charges of “diplomatic national treason” be- cause in 1920 he had exposed the wanton life of some lower-echelon officers in his book Etappe Gent. They send a poster from the art series “Justice,” donated by the artist Willibald Krain for fund-raising purposes, and request a donation of 5 M for a fund des- ignated for the liberation of Wandt. TLX. [43 729]. 242. From E. Grigorieff, Nikolai N. Parfentieff, D. Seiliger Kazan, [1926] On behalf of the Physical-Mathematical Society at the University of Kazan, this circular letter requests reprints or books for its Lobatchevsky library, which consists of works on non-Euclidean geometry, as well as geometry and mechanics. PLS. [14 239].
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