Weltsch was editor of the
Jüdische Rundschau (Jewish Review), a newspaper published twice a week in
Berlin,
Germany during the years the
Nazis were gaining support. The newspaper had a peak readership of 37,000. He edited and wrote for the
Rundschau from 1919 through its demise under the Nazis in 1938. His best-known contribution was a reaction to the April 1, 1933
Nazi-led boycott of Jewish shops when in his editorial Weltsch used the phrase, "Wear it with pride, the
yellow badge." This was a call for strength and solidarity, and a lone voice in reaction to the Nazi boycott. It was not a reference to the forced-wearing of yellow armbands, which the Nazis didn't force on Jews until 1941, but rather a call for unity to a German-Jewish community that had until then thought of itself as comfortably assimilated into German life. Weltsch worked for many years as a correspondent for
Haaretz, a major Israeli newspaper. In 1945 he moved to London, becoming Haaretz's London correspondent. In this capacity he covered the
Nuremberg Trials. He was a major force in establishing the
Leo Baeck Institute, named for a rabbi and leader of the German-Jewish community during the Nazi years. The Institute is a group dedicated to preserving German-Jewish history and culture and is still active. Weltsch edited the Institute's Yearbook from 1956 to 1978. ==Death==