7 4 8 D O C U M E N T 4 7 7 F E B R U A R Y 1 9 2 7 TTrL. (IL-JeCZA KH4/9609). [86 626]. Obscured. [1]Meyer (1846–1930) was the leader of the Singapore Jewish community and a prominent philan- thropist. [2]Alexander Goldstein (1884–1949) was a Russian-Jewish writer, orator, and communal leader and emissary for the Palestine Foundation Fund since 1920. Einstein had visited Meyer at his palatial mansion in Singapore on 2 November 1922, following a request by Chaim Weizmann for him to solicit a donation for the Hebrew University (see “Travel Diary Japan, Palestine, Spain,” 6 October 1922–12 March 1923 [Vol. 13, Doc. 379], entry for 2 November 1922).
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