Footnotes
1 Kurt Martens, Literatur
in Deutschland (Berlin, 1910), p.161.
2 The Vossische
Zeitung, after a career of more than two hundred years, has also recently
been acquired by a Jewish firm, Ullstein & Co., the owners of the popular
Berlin midday paper (Berliner Zeitung am Mittag) and other journals.
3 Henri de Blowitz, the
famous Paris correspondent of the Times, vigorously denied that
he was of Jewish birth (My Memoirs. London: Edward Arnold,
1906).
4 The Work of
Henry Ospovat. With an appreciation by Oliver Onions (London: St.
Catherine Press, 1911).
5 Bergson is the first Jew
to he elected to the French Academy.
6 For a fuller account of
Jewish achievements in scientific invention as well as in medical research,
see Juden als Erfinder und Entdecker, by Ernst Heppner
("Welt" Verlag, Berlin, 1913).
7 The pioneer of flying
in Germany was also a Jew, Otto Lilienthal, to whom a public monument has
just been unveiled (17th June 1914) near Berlin, on the spot on which,
in 1896, he met his death while experimenting.
8 Dr. Max Nordau in the
Jewish Encyclopedia, viii. p.155.
9 In 1911 the Nobel Prize
for the preservation of peace was divided between Alfred Fried and the
late Tobias Asser. In 1907 the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to Professor
Albert Michelson, and in 1908 the prize for physics was awarded to Gabriel
Lippman, and that for medicine to Professor Paul Ehrlich. In 1910 the Nobel
Prize for literature was awarded to Paul Heyse, who had a Jewish mother. |