Ludwig Denies He Said He Was Not a Jew

Emil Ludwig, the eminent German biographer and writer, in a letter to the “Jewish Guardian,” explains a recent interview with him by a Greek newspaperman in which Ludwig was alleged to have said that he was not a Jew. Mr. Ludwig says, “I never made any comparison whatever between Christianity and Judaism to any Greek or other journalist. All I said was that I never wrote a line under other than my name; and that I, born as a Jew, and baptized in my youth, left the Church when, after the murder of Rathenau, anti-Semitic propaganda in Germany made me think it right to stand up for my race.”