Professor Albert Einstein is sorry he doesn’t know Yiddish better.
Speaking last night at a dinner which opened a campaign to raise $25,000 for the Bicur Cholim Hospital and Home for Incurables in Jerusalem, the noted savant deplored his weak grip on the international Jewish language.
Professor Einstein said the persecution of the Jews in Germany and other countries has greatly strengthened the Jewish feeling of unity.
“These times also have brought back to us a younger generation that had almost entirely lost the feeling of Jewish spiritual unity and common faith,” he said in his address. He was the guest of honor at the dinner.
“An occasion such as this shows that the Jewish people are holding on to their tradition of making sacrifices,” he asserted.
The famous exile from Germany praised the generosity of American Jewry in responding to appeals for assistance from stricken brethren in other parts of the world.
The professor was welcomed by Mayor Moore. Other speakers included Hirsch Manishewitz, Rabbi Levinthal and Judge Charles Klein.
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