Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin,
New York City.
Dear Sir:
In your issue of Friday, April 11th, you call attention to Rabbi H. G. Enelow’s review of my history of the Jews and quote his criticism of a historian who will not use at least the Jewish Daily Bulletin as a source. The remark was occasioned by the fact that, in the Rabbi’s judgment, there was not sufficient space given to Mr. Louis Marshall, the late president of his congregation.
I have no desire to enter into a controversy with Rabbi Enelow over his review. I merely wish to point out that his criticism was both unjustified and unwarranted. I used all the source material that any trained historian would be expected to use dealing with the post-war period, and the Jewish Daily Bulletin is much too valuable to neglect. I went further. The whole discussion of Mr. Marshall’s negotiations at the Peace Conference came from Mr. Marshall himself. He revised the original manuscript, and the account in my history is almost a literal transcription from his letter. I do not know how one can come closer to the sources “even though one writes engagingly.”
Faithfully yours,
A. L. Sachar.
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