Professor Simon Askenazi, 68, noted Jewish historian and diplomat, is seriously ill in a hospital here. Professor Herman Strauss, well-known German Jewish physician and head of the Jewish Hospital of Berlin, was hurriedly summoned to Warsaw to care for Professor Askenazi.
The Polish Jewish scholar, an ardent assimilationist, became famous as a historian of the last Polish kingdom. Under the Czarist regime, he was made professor of history. When Poland became independent Professor Askenazi represented his country at the League of Nations. He was recalled in 1923 owing to the campaign carried on against him by Polish anti-Semites.
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