The establishment of endowed chairs at American universities for Jewish scholars ousted from Germany is urged in an article published in The New Republic, entitled “Jews Out of Germany”:
Mr. McDonald estimates that some 4,500 professional men and women, teachers, technicians and students, have left Germany, but that of this number less than 2,000 have found permanent posts, a number of them, oddly enough, in Turkey, where the government is seeking to establish a modern educational system. Although many of these professional people are distinguished scholars and eminent experts in their fields, it is difficult to fit them into academic and professional circles in other countries. University and research budgets are strictly limited in these days and to give a post to a German scholar usually means that the native scholars have to make up his salary by reductions in their own.
As Professor Norbert Wiener cogently points out in an article in The Jewish Advocate, this is not a method of helping German refugees but of spreading anti-foreignism and anti-Semitism. The remedy is enlarged endowments (though Dr. Alvin Johnson has done a notable piece of work with limited funds at the New School for Social Research, New York City), and those who would like at one stroke to aid the refugees and advance learning could do no better than back The Jewish Advocate’s campaign to establish endowed chairs at American universities for these emigre scholars.
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