Epstein Secrets

Scholars helped bring more than 330 scholars, most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Buber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, g

ciplines of the humanities in which dissidents might be expected to work. The threat of bodily harm was a constant for most of the applicants, and Jarecki ominously remembered that many of the more than 5000 applicants who were turned down by the institute during the 1930s perished a few years later.

cue 1,000 Jewish refugees. The Gruber chair is part of a larger effort to create a 10 million endowment that is being leesefugee-turned-millionaire Henry Jarecki, along with fellow businessmen Soros, Thomas Russo and Jeffrey Epstein. While the roster of scholars who have been helped suggests that the Jewis

d by Edward Murrow, an HE assistant director and later a legendary CBS reporter. Among those it helped were Felix Bloch, the physicist, theologians Martin Buber and Paul Tillich, Thomas Mann, the novelist, and philosopher Herbert Marcuse. The latest effort to rescue scholars bears the imprint of Wall Street

collected Dollars 2m (Pounds 1.2m) to conduct a novel experiment on the extent of global academic freedom. The group, which included George Soros, Henry Jarecki and Jeffrey Epstein, established a fund to help scholars escape threats in their home countries and find teaching work elsewhere. The donors made t

and 100,000 Jews. But by the time the "proper" arrangements were made, a world war was raging and it was too late to do much good. In this case, Dr Jarecki says, the fund will work out how best to achieve its aims as it goes along. But, he adds: "I thought we should start by doing it: LOAD-DATE: August

Edward R. Murrow, an IIE assistant director and later a legendary CBS reporter. Among those it helped were Felix Bloch, the physicist, theologians Martin Buber and Paul Tillich, Thomas Mann. the novelist, and philosopher Herbert Marcuse. The latest effort to rescue scholars bears the imprint of Wall Street

and 100,000 Jews. But by the time the "proper" arrangements were made, a world war was raging and it was too late to do much good. In this case, Dr Jarecki says, the fund will work out how best to achieve its aims as it goes along. But. he adds: "I thought we should start by doing it." LOAD-DATE: Augus

estors collected Dollars 2m (Pounds I.2m) to conduct a novel experiment on the extent of global academic freedom. The group, which included Soros, Henry Jarecki and Jeffrey Epstein established a fund to help scholars escape threats in their ome countries and find teaching work elsewhere. The donors made the

Scholars helped bring more than 330 scholars, most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Buber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, g

ciplines of the humanities in which dissidents might be expected to work. The threat of bodily harm was a constant for most of the applicants, and Jarecki ominously remembered that many of the more than 5000 applicants who were turned down by the institute during the 1930s perished a few years later.