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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Max never overcame his sense that Weizmann betrayed the Warburgs and he resented that the Jewish Agency presumed to speak for Jews worldwide. In 1942, he spurned an invitation to see Weizmann, labeling him “a dangerously good orator and a most unreliable partner.”14 Despite the Third Reich, Max still believed Jews could be good assimilated citizens around the world. “The task of the Jews in all lands is to remain true to Judaism and simultaneously to be good citizens of the country in which they live; and adapt their customs to that country.”15 While Max never renounced his romance with Germany, Alice was determined never to set foot in Germany again.
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