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

t of Jewish philanthropist Patti Kenner to raise money to help revive the rescue program. After cocktails, the crowd of about 100 guests retired to Kenner's warm living room to sit on plush couches among pastoral landscape paintings. Four recently rescued scholars had been brought in for the evening,

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

t of Jewish philanthropist Patti Kenner to raise money to help revive the rescue program. After cocktails, the crowd of about 100 guests retired to Kenner's warm living room to sit on plush couches among pastoral landscape paintings. Four recently rescued scholars had been brought in for the evening,

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

of persecution in Iran and Pakistan, which seemed much more than a world away from the safety of the Upper East Side. "I've had such an easy life," Kenner said after hearing the scholars speak, with a tone of gratitude that was representative of her guests. "I've never experienced anything difficult.