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important to Jews. He looked forward to a time when the research emanating from the University of Jerusalem would be as important as research emanating from the University of Oxford, Columbia or anywhere else. It would serve to give validity to this deep-seated Jewish desire for intellectual validity and intellectual pattern and intellectual achievement as a contribution which Jewry made to the world.

It was therefore important for him, since he'd been asked to do it, to go and undertake this and so establish it. He would be its first President. He had a wide acouaintance, and so had his wife, in the United States and in England, and among scholars as well as among persons of good will. They could invite to this university people who would come because they were. If he could contribute what could not be contributed by the average Jewish scholar, he would be pleased. He said, “I'm not a great scholar. I've never been a college or university president, but I'm a trained man and I have a degree of learning. So I'm a qualified person. Anyhow, it's my vocation.”

At that time there was no following at all. All the best Jews thought Judah Magnes was a wonderful person and a great missionary. He'd gone out to the heathen. He'd accepted a low standard of living and a dreary,