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Einstein? Mere Nationalist, Voronoff Says Sidetracking Issue of His Jewishness

June 1, 1934
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An emphatic denial of any interest in Jews of Jewish questions was made by Dr. Voronoff, the rejuvenation gland specialist, in an interview published in the Neue Welt.

Although Dr. Voronoff was born of Jewish parentage, when question on the subject, the seemed particularly anxious in insisting he was not a Jew, but “a man of the world, a scholar,” “Einstein, to me, is merely a nationalist,” he declared. when the name of the great Jewish scientist was mentioned.

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