Before "The Jews in Nazi Germany" was published, Dr. Adler had asked Jews to suspend judgment on Herr Hitler and warned them that a boycott of German goods would lead to reprisals. But the American Jewish Committee's investigation led to a strong condemnation of Nazi policy.
"There is no such thing as the Aryan or Semitic race," Dr. Adler declared. "These are terms of lange uage, not facts of blood." But he added that "prejudices must not be fought merely with appeals to passion and resentment, however justified passion and resentment may be."
In 1938, he described developments in central Europe as heralding "the downfall of European civilization and the disintegration of man into brute."
He strongly opposed the proposal to partition Palestine in 1938.
He wrote a number of books, and a selection of his papers, addresses end lectures were published by his friends on his 70th birthday. He was an authority on Semitic philology, Assyriology and comparative religion.—Reuter.
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