CHAPTER 36––Little Man and Fat Boy Settled in a comfortable... (1939)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
He had the good fortune to serve on the Executive Committee of the Joint, which remained in a position to aid European Jewry until American entry into the war. Starting in 1939, Eddie Warburg co-chaired the Joint and secured German government approval to aid Jews in occupied territories.1 Max worried about anti-Semitism in America and submitted blueprints for new strategic directions. He sent a lengthy memo to Eddie stating that “All Jews outside Palestine ought never [to] be politically active, but should rather interest themselves only in cultural and economic things”—advice he had long preached but never practiced.2 At meetings, Max seemed to fumble when he spoke and lacked the easy air of authority he had worn in Germany.
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