Haupt, Paul. Über die Ansiedlung der russischen Juden im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiete. Ein Vorschlag [“Concerning the Settlement of Russian Jews in the Euphrates and Tigris Region. A Proposal.”]

Paul Haupt (1858-1926) was Professor of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins University from 1883 until his death. Haupt was also Professor Extraordinarius at the University of Göttingen and for many years divided his time between Germany and the U.S. One of Haupt’s very first students at Hopkins was Cyrus Adler, prominent American Jewish leader, who became an Assistant Professor of Semitics at the University in 1890. See EJ, Vol. VII, cols. 1475-6; Vol. II, cols. 272-4. No doubt in a bid to alleviate the enormous suffering of Russian Jewry, the present pamphlet proposes a settlement scheme in present-day Iraq