(Humanitarian, physicist and Noble Prize winner. 1879-1955). Typed Letter Signed, in German.

EINSTEIN, ALBERT

25th July

Glenwood, Saranac Lake, NY

1936

Written to B.C Vladeck, seeking assistance for Arthur Holitscher. * With: Secretarial copy of response to Einstein.

Sent to Baruch Charney Vladeck (1886-1938), manager of The Jewish Daily Forward, and leader of the Jewish Labor Committee in New York and written on behalf of the German-Jewish author Arthur Holitscher. “He has Socialist tendencies, is an effective speaker, speaks English, and knows the country and people from a long stay in the United States. Through articles and lectures he might not only satisfy his modest claims but might be of use for many good things.” Arthur Holitscher was a travel writer who had worked for the Samuel Fischer Publishing House and was renowned for his work “Amerika Heute und Morgen (1912). After his books had been burned in 1933 he fled to Paris, then to Geneva, where he died in destitute circumstances in 194