Exiled Scholar Asks Jews to Join in Fight for Future

Professor Albert Einstein has written a preface for a pamphlet entitled “Whither Israel,” published yesterday by Professor Alfons Goldschmidt, exiled German Jewish political scientist. The pamphlet written by Dr. Goldschmidt deals with the history of Jewish persecution in Germany and particularly with the Hitlerite persecution.

In his foreword, Professor Einstein says: “This little book by a Jew who has put his whole life as a scientist at the service of social justice deserves the attention and interest of all those who are still ready to listen to the voice of reason in spite of all the wild outcry of political passion today.

“In years of study Professor Goldschmidt has logically and historically with rare devotion and objectivity investigated the social and economic problems of humanity. His sympathy with the sufferings of the distressed majority has not affected this objectivity in the field of social and economic problems. His attitude toward the Jewish problem is just as objective and restrained weighing the facts in the light of carefully examined points of view.

“The author sees no remedy for the periodic recurrence of these persecutions and hostility, which are not due to the attitude of the Jews themselves, but to economic and political conditions. Himself a fighter for a better future for humanity, he believes the right attitude to be the self-sacrificing participation of the Jews in this fight alongside all those striving for justice and progress.”

WRITER ON ECONOMICS

Professor Goldschmidt, who is 55, studied at the Universities of Muenchen, Berlin, Kiel and Freiburg. For a time he was the editor of the Economic Section of the Berliner Tageblatt and editor-in-chief of the department of economics of the UIIstein Publishing Company in Berlin.

Dr. Goldschmidt was a lecturer at the Institute of Journalism in the University of Leipzig, and later taught at the University of Cordoba in the Argentine and at the National University in Mexico City. In 1929, he founded the Economic Institute, which was located in Berlin, was well on its way to scientific progress when the advent of the Hitler regime brought about its complete suspension.

Dr. Goldschmidt is the author of a number of volumes on political, social and economic problems in various countries which he has visited and studied.