(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Successfully undergoing an operation on his bladder, Prof. Alfred A. Michelson, physicist and winner of the Nobel prize, was resting easily last night.
Professor Michelson, although in his seventy-fifth year, is in rugged health generally and an early recovery is expected. As soon as he regains sufficient strength he intends to proceed to California to further his experiments in studying the speed of light which made him famous and led to Einstein’s theory of relativity.
The professor is head of the Physics Department of the University of Chicago.
COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR
Sir:
In the passing of Rabbi Solomon Poly-acheck, the Jewish world has lost not only one of its outstanding scholars, but also one of its most saintly characters. He was one of those men, who by their beauty of soul; make intellectual power meaningful and inspiring. It always seemed to me that his rare and sensitive spirit found something wanting in our American life, which even in its intellectual expression tends to be course and gross. It may not be generally known that he looked forward to an old age, when he might retire to a small, quiet, rural locality, to spend his last years in communion with God. Nature and the Torah. This hope was not destined to be fufilled, and here he died among us little knowing how widespread was the affection and reverence in which he was held.
There is of course nothing that we can do that will in any way add to the sacredness in which his memory will be held by all those who came under his influence. It is my hope, however, that the Jewish community will rise to the occasion and provide, in accordance with its own wealth and ability, for the family whom he has left behind. I trust that something has already been toward undertaking such a projec, and if so I wish to offer those who are in charge of it, whatever aid I am capable of giving.
Very sincerely yours, Louis Finkelstein, Rabbi, Congregation Kehilath Israel, Bronx. New York, July 15, 1928.
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