Volume XXXII No. 11 November, 1977 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE Assoaum OF avmB ROIGBS BI OOAT BRITABI

TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF 39 YEARS AFTER LUXEMBOURG AGREEMENT This month, we remember the happenings which arises from the ignorance of the Hitler To mark the 25th anniversary of the Lux­ of November 1938, which were to become a regime among members of the young German embourg Agreement on Restitution, signed on decisive turning point in the history of the September 10, 1952 several publications ap­ generation. Though the participants in neo- peared in Germany. In a special supplement to German and Austrian Jews. It is an unfor­ Nazi activities also include youngsters, we the "Deutschland-Briefe", its Editor Rolf Vogel tunate habit that, even in scholarly works, must not forget that they are children of describes the antecedents and proceedings they are labelled with the term "Kristall­ parents, who were bom between 1933 and of this historical event by which the German nacht". Though meant in an ironical way, the outbreak of war and who therefore could Federal Republic undertook to try and make possibly originating in Nazi Germany itself, not transmit the horrors of the Nazi regime amends for the horror of the Nazi regime, as this slogan is a grave misnomer. What actually from first-hand knowledge. Thus the blame far as this is possible by material compensa­ happened was an outright pogrom on a scale to a high extent rests with the inadequate tion. The agreement provided global payments never before experienced in the whole of for the State of Israel as well as for the Nazi —to put it mildly—school education. It will victims outside Israel, represented by the Con­ Germany. The average German mainly noticed be one of the paramount tasks of the demo­ ference on Jewish Material Claims against the smashed windows of Jewish shops (that's cratic forces in Germany to see to it that the Germany ("Claims Conference"). These un­ where the catchword is derived from) and Hitler period is not glossed over in the school dertakings were fully honoured in the course the burning of the Synagogues. Less thought books and, above all, that the teachers reach of the subsequent years. Beyond this, the is usually given to the deportation of 25,000 /Agreement also laid down the principles of this chapter of history in the course of the individual compensation for Nazi victims. men to the concentration camps of Sachsen­ term scheduled for it. This, it is leamed, is hausen, Dachau and Buchenwald. The atro­ very often not the case. The anniversary is also recorded in a num­ cities and human degradation they had to ber of articles published by the official Bonn endure in the cold winter of that year have Another phenomenon which we experience 32 years after the end of the war in many periodical "Das Parlament". It carries con­ left their indelible mark on them. We also tributions by Annemarie Renger in her capa­ remember in humility those who were killed parts of the world and which is particularly city as chairman of the German-Israeli Group during the pogroms or perished in the camps. dangerous in Germany, is the feeling of of Parliamentarians, Federal Deputy Erik nostalgia, based more often on a primitive Blumenfeld, president of the Deutsch-Israe- Having said this we must, however, not love of adventure stories than, as far as lische Gesellschaft, Dr. F. E. Shinnar (Tel Gennany is concerned, on an outright iden­ Aviv) who took a leading part in the pre­ k tification with the "glorious" past. Therefore, paration and implementation of the agree­ forget that the pogroms also played an impor­ German publications as well as theatre, film ment, and Rolf Vogel. tant role in our history under a different and television performances which are meant aspect. They sen'ed as a signal for mass to make readers and listeners aware of the COURT PROCEEDINGS emigration. Whilst during the SJ years be­ deeper layers of the catastrophe are often tween the beginning of the Nazi regime and counter-productive, much against the inten­ A trial which is expected to last for 2i the pogroms about 150,000 Jews left Germany, tions of the authors and producers. years has started in a Hanover court. Two the number of emigrants during the few It is not the object of these few remarks to former SS leaders of the Security Police in the months between the pogroms and the out­ present an analysis of the serious problems Cracow district are accused of having been responsible for the mass murder of Jews in break of war amounted to 100,000. As far as with which we are faced and which are so they were not caught up by the Nazis in Southern Poland between 1942 and 1944. A different from the climate during the first third accused will not be prosecuted for the occupied Western Europe during the war, post-war years. There is no reason for undue time being because he is 70 years old and !_ they were thus spared the fate of those who alarm. Nevertheless, whenever the 9th of seriously ill. The prosecution has stressed that P' did not get admission to other countries or November comes along, we cannot help re­ the accused acted on their own initiative, had to stay behind for other reasons. membering that day because for the first time eager to please the NS govemment and dis­ When the Nazi terror regime broke down, It fully revealed the depth of barbarism which played an inhuman life-destroying frame of we all expected an unreserved and permanent was soon to sweep the Continent of Europe. mind against Jews whom they considered condemnation of the crimes committed in their unworthy to live in accordance with NS party To paraphrase the old English adage: "Re­ doctrine. name by the German people. In fact, a member, remember the Ninth of November". spirit of shame and repentance prevailed in In Frankfurt the sixth Auschwitz trial has wide circles of the population during the W.R. started. 54-year-old butcher Horst Czerwinski first post-war years. It found its expression from Bergen near Liineburg and plasterer Joseph Maurer from Hofheim, Taunus, are not only in the material compensation under­ NAZI CHANTS BY DRUNKEN OFFICERS taken on a large scale by virtue of the Luxem­ accused of having shot inmates of the Ausch- Eleven young Army officers were dismissed vidtz annex Lagisha after an abortive attempt bourg Agreement a quarter of a century ago to escape. They are alleged to have throvra but, even more importantly, in the genuine because they sang Nazi songs and engaged in a "symbolic burning of Jews" during a drunken dice to determine who should be allowed to do desire of Germans of all walks of life to the shooting. 118 witnesses have been sub­ come to terms with the past. In a way, this spree at Munich. poenaed to testify against the two men. attempt sometimes went further than it would Several ofiicers intervened at the party and Czerwinski is also accused of having ruthlessly have been desirable: there was often a stopped the outrage, reporting it to the head killed three prisoners during an evacuation reluctance to express criticism of individual of the Academy, Lieutenant-General von march in 1945 because they were unable to Jews, even if it would have been justified, Reichert. A newspaper report was issued but walk any further. and the Jews in Germany were, to use a suppressed by the Academy authorities until The Miinsingen court imposed fines on three phrase coined in those days, put under a it leaked out and was published by the men who took part in a camival pageant in "Kaeseglocke". Frankfurter Rundschau. General von Reichert Nazi costume, representing Hitler and two Yet these times have gone. Almost in every then submitted his report to the Defence officers and carrymg a banner reading: "He issue of this joumal we have to report on Minister, Mr Georg Leber, who was described has never before been as valuable as today". manifestations of neo-Nazism, e.g., rallies of as infuriated by the attempt of the ofiBcers' The three appealed against the sentence former SS members, desecrations of Jewish superiors to suppress the incident. The ofiScers maintaining that it had all been meant as a cemeteries, mock buming of "Jews" in an accused of having participated in the mock joke. officers' training college. We quote these in­ In Diisseldorf three unemployed graduates burning of Jews and symbolically singing the are accused of having been members of a cidents only as examples and do not want to Horst Wessel Lied were suspended. In the generalise. Yet it would be equally wrong "revolutionary cell" and thrown bombs in subsequent disciplinary hearings it was de­ cinemas which showed the American Entebbe to disregard them. cided that they be dismissed from the Army. There is, however, also a special problem film. Page 2 AJR INFORMATION November 1977

JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LUEBECK NEWS FROM GERMANY RE-ESTABLISHED ULLSTEIN CENTENARY GERMAN YOUTH WORK IN MAIDANEK For the past years, the province of Schleswig-Holstein had no independent Jew­ To mark the 100th anniversary of the 15 young students from a Protestant study ish community. Recently, the Jewish residents foundation of the Ullstein publishing house group in the Rhineland spent a week of their of Luebeck, who until now were affiliated to by Leopold Ullstein (Fuerth 1829-Berlin 1899) the Hamburg community, have decided to three weeks' holiday visit working in the re-establish their own previous community. a special ceremony was held in the Springer memorial section of the former Maidanek con­ House (immediately adjoining the Berlin Wall), The Synagogue was erected in 1880 and was centration camp where more than 300,000 spared demolition during the November 1938 which has incorporated the old established people were killed. firm. The function was attended by several pogroms. hundred invited guests, among them leading DACHAU MEMORIAL personalities of Berlin and the Federal Repub­ WORMS JEWISH QUARTER TO BE lic, old former members of the Ullstein staff The former and present directors of the RESTORED Dachau K. Z. Memorial, Mrs. Ruth Jakusch as well as several members of the Ullstein The Jewish quarter of Worms, the only one family, most of whom had left Gennany about and Mrs. Barbara Distel, recently paid a visit to Yad Vashem (Israel) in order to exchange preserved in the Federal Republic, is being 40 years ago. restored. Thc Rashi Lehrhaus which had to In his address. Axel Springer recounted how material and information between their archives. On that occasion it was reported be demolished ten years ago in view of its he, "the boy" of Altona and avid reader of dilapidated condition, will be re-erected to the "Heitere Fridolin", became the heir and that, this year, the Dachau Museum had been visited by half a million people and that the serve as a memorial and as a venue for meet­ successor of the Ullstein concern. He dealt ings of discussion groups. with the steady rise of the firm under its total number of visitors since its opening in founder and his five sons and with the decline, 1965 amounted to 4-3 million persons. into which even this politically experienced GABRIELE TERGTr AT BERLIN FESTIVAL enterprise tumbled, almost without realisation A FILM ABOUT AUSCHWrTZ During this year's Berlin Festival Weeks, of the danger. "When the lights of freedom which had as their main theme "Tendencies went out", said Springer, "the German-Jewish A film "Excursion to Auschwitz" has just been completed by "Aktion Friedensdienste". of the Twenties", Gabriele Tergit, Werner symbiosis was also destroyed". For this sym­ Finck, Kathe Haak, Valeska Gert and many biosis. Springer continued, Germany owed an It shows the reaction of visitors to the horrors of the camp which is visited by thousands of other writers and artists of stage and screen immeasurable debt of gratitude and the Ull­ took part in a programme aiming at explaining stein House was one of the most important tourists from Germany and all over the world every year. The 35-minute film will be shown the impact of those fertile years to a new "Kondenspunkte". At the end Springer generation. On the following day, Mischa stressed the need for being constantly aware to young people to counteract the rising nostalgia for National Socialism. Spoliansky who now lives in London, and of the danger of new developments and for Margo Lion who lives in Paris, had an enthu­ preventing the repetition of events of 1933, siastic audience for a cabaret performance m before it was too late. We have also to realise, VICE PRESIDENT OF GERIVIAN ISRAEL the style of the Twenties. he said—that even now, more than 30 years SOCIETY RESIGNS since the closure of Auschwitz, the German relationship to the Jews in Israel and any­ Professor of Theology, Rolf Rentorfl', one of AWARD FOR HILDE AHEMM where else could not be "normal" but rather the founders and, since 1966, vice-president The authoress, Hilde Ahemm, whose book of a special kind. of the German-Israel Society, has left the "Tates Wahltocliter" was reviewed in our The next speaker was to be Federal Presi­ Society. He stated that he missed a "third September issue, was awarded the Federal dent Scheel who, due to the critical situation position" between the strong anti-Israel con­ German "Verdienstkreuz am Bande". As re­ arisen from the abduction of Dr. Schleyer, ception and the "uncritical enthusiasm" for the vealed in her novel, she has always been closely had to stay in Bonn. His speech, which was country. associated with the destiny of the Jewisn read out, not only recalled the contributions people. During the persecution time, she kept of Jews to German life until 1933 but also ISRAELI MAYORS IN STUTTGART a Jewish former teacher of hers in hiding, stressed that in our days the relationship be­ and it was a particular tragedy for her that, tween Jews and non-Jews was not merely a A group of 15 Israeli mayors paid a visit due to an air raid on the house, she did not problem of the Middle East. There was also a to Baden Wuerttemberg and other German succeed in saving the Nazi persecutee whom special obligation—not to be confused with Laender at the invitation of the "Landeszen­ she had tried to protect. special rights and privileges—vis-a-vis the trale fuer politische Bildung" in order to ob­ Jews now resident in Germany. tain an impression of the municipal adminis­ HITLER WINE After the address bv Berlin's Governing tration methods in the Federal Republic. On Mayor Dietrich Stobbe, Frederick (Friedrich) the occasion of the visit, the Mayor of Shavei A brand of Moselle wine is sold in Bavaria Ullstein (London), in the name of the family, Zion, Hans Bloch, spoke in 21 cities about his in bottles bearing a label remembering Hitler s expressed thanks to all fellow workers, past town, which had been founded by former 87th birthday. The inscription on the label and present, and wished the enterprise "a residents of Rexingen in Wuerttemberg. reads: "Dedicated to the 87th birthday of our strong arm and a warm heart". FiJhrer of the Great German Reich, Adolt The centenary is also marked by a four Hitler. One People, one Reich, one Fiihrer • volume, illustrated Festschrift "Hundert Jahre ISRAELI DIPLOMAT AWARDED BY There is also a picture of Hitler in front of a LHlstein". E.G.L. GERMAN RED CROSS map of Germany, a swastika, and a German eagle. Mrs. Hava Bitan, a member of the Israeli A BERLIN EXUIBrTION Embassy in Bonn, was awarded the Order of "LOGENHAUS KLEISTSTRASSE" Honour of the Red Cross in recognition of UNDAMAGED The current Berlin exhibitions also include her effective work for the co-operation and a display of press cartoons of the Twenties. promotion of understanding between the Ger­ Among the few Jewish landmarks of pr^' Among the exhibits are works by Heinrich man Red Cross and the Magen David Adom. war Berlin, which have survived the Novein- Zille, Fritz Koch-Gotha, and George Grosz as ber 1938 pogroms and the bomb attacks aw; well as by B. F. Dolbin (whose biography was VISITS TO HANOVER ing the war is the headquarters of the B'nai reviewed by Gabriele Tergit in our Sep­ B'rith Grand Lodge in Berlin's Kleiststrasse. tember issue), Walter Trier (who died in Can­ When in April 1937, the B'nai B'rith Lodg^ ada), MOPP (Max Oppenheimer, who died In 1966, the Municipality of Hanover com­ in New York Ln 1954) and by Ludwig Wron­ menced to invite Jewish former residents of were dissolved and their assets confiscateo, kow, formerly associated with the Mosse press their city. Altogether, so far 620 emigrated the house became property of the Prussian and now active in New York. The list of per­ former Hanovarians have visited their place State, which appointed the "Fundamentum sonalities and organisations which loaned of origin. Treuhand A.-G." with its administration- works to the exhibition includes the New York For some time it was used by the Reicn Leo Baeck Institute. Ministry of Education. After the war, it was OBERAMMERGAU PLAY PURIFIED first restituted to the "Jewish Restitution The anti-Jewish version of the Oberam­ Successor Organisation" and afterwards a*^' PHOTO OF A MODEL NAZI RE-HUNG mergau passion play, the 1880 work of Alois quired by the Land Berlin. Since the end oi Daisenberger, will be replaced by the the 'fifties, it has been owned by "Urania Ber­ Some time ago the photo of the NS State baroque version of the Benedictine priest lin e.V.", the institute for the promotion oi Labour Leader Hierl disappeared from the Ferdinand Rosner, written in 1750. The re­ arts, science and cultural films. Joined wito walls of the town hall of Parsberg. Hierl who hearsals have commenced, and the perform­ "Urania's" new building, the former House oi died in 1955 had remained a freeman of the ances have been scheduled for the year 1980. the Lodge is used for meetings, and the greai town until his death, because the administra­ Hall, once the venue of many memorable tion said his outstanding efficiency in doing Jewish functions is now called "KleistsMl • away with juvenile unemployment had earned SWASTIKA FLAG ON SIEGESSAEULE him the honour. The picture was eventually On October 9, a large swastika flag (80 by found and sent to the Nuremberg public 220 cm) was fixed by unknown persons on the prosecutor who retumed it to the municipality. scaffolding of Berlin's "Siegessaeule", about 30 With acknowledgement to the nevre service | It is now back in its place in the town's gallery metres from the ground. It was later removed of the Jewish Chronicle. of honour. by police officers. Jr-l AJR INFORMATION Noven»ber 1977 Page 3 HOME NEWS A nglo-Judaica New Prayer Book ANTISEMTTIC ATTACKS BY MP PROTESTS AGAINST HYDE PARK PLO NATIONAL FRONT A new prayer-book to serve the 32 estab­ Dr. Rhodes Boyson, MJ>. for Brent North, lished and developing Reform congregations in In an issue of "Spearhead", published by has protested in a letter to the Home Secre­ the United Kingdom, has just been published. National Front leader John Tyndall, an article tary against the regular appearance of mem­ Officially it is the seventh edition of "Forms on the Socialist Workers Party includes pic­ bers of the PLO at Speakers' Comer, Hyde of Prayer" first published in 1841 to serve the tures of five of its "key workers". The text Park. In his letter he expressed his concem newly-created West London Synagogue, but is contains remarks such as "the reader vidll "that an out-and-out terrorist organisation with almost completely rewritten to suit modern immediately notice . . . distinctly alien fea­ international connections is aUowed to use concepts. Chairman of the committee respon­ tures". Of one man Steve Jeffreys, it is said Hyde Park to popularise their aims, particu­ sible for the book is Rabbi Hugo Gryn, Senior "real name not known, but a glance at the larly that of the destruction of Israel, a Rabbi of the West London Synagogue and photograph and the fact that he comes from a legally-recognised democratic state". chairman of the European Board of the World comfortable North London home are sufiScient Union for Progressive Judaism. The cover has indications of his alien pedigree". Another been designed by Abram Games. Sixty pages man is described as "the lowest type of SUPPORT FOR ARABS GROWING of the appended Study Anthology contain minority alien". Elsewhere in the joumal quotations from Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Zionists are said to have led the combined During a recent opinion poll by Caabu, the Rosenzweig, Samson Raphael Hirsch and other forces of the Left in an attempt to have the Council for Arab-British Understanding 27 Jewish leaders, but also from Chassidic scrip­ Front march in Lewisham banned. per cent of those interviewed thought Israel ture, from cabbalists, and from secular writers Jewish student leaders said that there was was an Arab country. 29 per cent of the 1,103 like Spinoza, Heine, Freud, Saul Bellow, Herd, growing antisemitism at various universities. people interviewed said their sympathies were Weizmann, Kafka, Norman Mailer and Bud They revealed that a National Front student with Israel, 9 per cent with the Palestinians, Flanagan. Subjects of the prayers include the organisation is collaborating with a group 46 per cent with both, and there were 16 per Holocaust and the State of Israel. The main known as the "Arab Rights Movement". It cent don't knows. The survey established that texts are in English and Hebrew, but there Is Israel remains the most favoured Middle East also some Aramaic and Yiddish. had recently sent an antisemitic poem to Dr. country with the British public, but sympathy Jacob Gewirtz, executive director of the Board with the Arabs has grown considerably in the of Deputies' Jewish defence and group re­ last ten years. lations committee. Award to Mrs. Jakobovits The First Lodge of B'nai B'rith has named THE CAMPUS WAR NO CONFRONTATION FOR AJEX Mrs. Amelie Jakobovits who like her husband At the initiation and installation dinner of came to this country as a refugee, Woman of the B'nai B'rith First Lodge of England, the The Manchester Association of Jewish Ex- the Year. The award is given to any member honorary district president, Mr Fred Worms Servicemen and Women has declared that it oi the Anglo-Jewish community who has made said there was a disastrous state of affairs wiU not participate in any confrontation with an outstanding contribution to the further­ at universities. Of 12,000 Jewish students on the National Front. Mr. Clyne, its life presi­ ance of B'nai B'rith ideals. 45 campuses, only 3,000 belonged to the Jew­ dent said: "The situation is well looked after ish Student Union, and of these 80 per cent between the Manchester Jewish Representative had stopped their Jewish education at the age Council and Ajex. This is more impor^nt Youth Centre for Kenton of 13. They were unequipped to fight the than being fellow travellers with other political A £150,000 purpose-built Jewish youth liattle against Arab and anti-Israel propa­ organisations". centre is to be built opposite Kenton Syna­ ganda on the campus. gogue. The Department of Education and Science, Brent Council and a Jewish charitable ISRAELIS AND ARABS MEET IN LONDON JEWISH GUESTS IN DUBLIN organisation have promised grants totalling nearly £100,000, the remainder will be raisea British pro-Arabs, acting on behalf of the Dr. Ben Epstein, director of the /^erican by the Kenton Youth Aid Trust. The proposed Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Co­ B nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League, Dr. A. two-storey building will house the Kenton operation, held a seminar in London which Rosenberg of New York B'nai B'rith, and Jewish Club and the local Jewish scouts and was attended by representatives of the PLO tiieu- wives were guests of the Irish Airlines guides with a joint membership of 500. and bv a number of Israeli "doves" who had (Aer Lingus) at a reception in their honour been invited in a private capacity. They had at the Dublin Shelboume Hotel. Prominent previously met in secret in other European members of the Dublin B'nai B'rith were also Hebrew at Brent Cross capitals. The Israeli participants included present. The visitors are on a tour of Ireland. former general Matityahu Peled, the chairman At the John Lewis shop at the Brent Cross of the Israeli Council for Peace, Mr Uri Av­ Shopping Centre in London, a little export neri, editor of the weekly magazine "Haolam BELFAST STORE GUTTED guide in French, German, Japanese, Hindi, Hazeh" and Dr Haim Darin, chairman of the Arabic and Hebrew is available for forel^a editorial board of the periodical "New Out­ shoppers. Unfortimately the Hebrew text is look." The most virulent statements at the Jhe Model Furnishing Company in Belfast printed upside-down. meeting were made by Jews: Rabbi Elmer Which has been owned by the Coppel family Berger of the American CouncU for Judaism, since 1920, was completely gutted in incen­ and Dr. Machover, a member of the Israeii diary bomb attacks on Yom Kippur. Jewish Radio Progranune in Leeds left-wing group Matzpen who now lives in Radio Leeds has started a special programme Britain. Mr Peled declared he was satisfied for Jewish listeners "Jacob's Ladder" which is with the results of the meeting: There was broadcast on Friday momings at 10.55 and general agreement that there should be Your House for:— repeated on Sundays. mutual and reciprocal recognition and that a peace settlement should include Israeli CURTAINS, CARPETS, withdrawals to the 1967 borders with mutual Kosher Slanghter EEC Style security guarantees for both nations. FLOOR COVERINGS The Glasgow Board for Shechita is to bring its poultry abattoir up to EEC standards. The THE TRADES ADVISORY COUNCIL new abattoir will provide customers with poul­ SPECIAUTY try cleaned, drawn and "koshered" under the The Trades Advisory Council of the Board most hygienic conditions and cellophane of Guardians has issued a statement saying wrapped. that its connection with the late Sir Eric ENGUSH & CONTINENTAL Miller who had been a charitable man, had been in enlisting his co-operation in their DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, Synagogue wiU not be Mosque main task to strengthen goodwill in the field of industry and commerce and the professions DUVET COVERS & SHEETS The Great and New Synagogue in Cheetham and to eliminate friction between Jewish and Hill Road, Manchester, has been sold to a other traders. For these purposes he had put Pakistani for use as a warehouse. The Moslem a car at their disposal, but they had now re­ ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS community had put in a higher hid, but it was turned it They had paid for all running costs refused because it wanted to tura the syna­ and repairs. ESTIMATES FREE gogue into a mosque. DAWSON-LANE LIMITED JEWISH EDTFOR FOR "PUNCH" (EtUbllched 1946) Hebrew course at comprehendTe school Mr. Alan Coren was appointed the first 17 BRIDGE ROAD. WEMBLEY PARK Modem Hebrew has been introduced into Jewish editor of "Punch" which was founded Teiephone: 904 6671 the curriculum of the Allerton Grange Com­ m 1841. He once visited 10 Downing Street prehensive School in Leeds first at 0-level and disguised as a Sheikh and was saluted by the Personal attontlon of Mr. W. Shackman later at A-level. The subject will be open to constables on duty. both Jewish and non-Jewish pupils. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION November 1977

NORWAY NEWS FROM ABROAD Israeli Orchestra Honoured UNFTED STATES AMIN'S CHANGE OF SIDES The Israeli PhUharmonic Orchestra imder its conductor Zubin Mehta was the first fuU Begin and Dr. Brzezinski Mr. Henry Kyemba, former Ugandan symphony orchestra to play before 1,800 Minister of Health who defected to Britain people in Oslo's new concert hall. All tickets According to "Time" news magazine, the early this year, said in his book "State of were sold within four hours. Crown Princess only member of President Carter's entourage Blood" that in 1971, Amin's seizure of power Sonja welcomed the orchestra which received whom the Israeli Prime Minister Mr. Begin was widely welcomed. At the time, the Israelis a standing ovation and enthusiastic notices had met before his recent visit to the United were closely involved in major building pro­ from press, radio and TV. An anti-Israel States was Dr. Brzezinski, the President's right- jects in Uganda, including Entebbe airport, demonstration near the concert hall, staged by hand man in security matters. Mr. Begin and in the training of Ugandan officers. A the Norwegian Friends of the PLO, received brought him copies of a letter written by photograph in the book shows Amin on a visit little attention. Tadeus Brzezinski, his father, from Leipzig to Tel Aviv, toasting Ugandan-IsraeU friend­ ship with Defence Minister Moshe Dayan in Where he was the Polish Consul in 1933 pro­ Student Demonstrations testing against the Nazi treatment of Jews. 1971. In 1972, however. Colonel Gaddafi of Mr. Tadeus Brzezinski, now 81 years old, lives Libya bribed him with a vast cash offer to Student demonstrators bumt the Israeli flag, in Montreal as a long-standing Canadian resi­ turn into a violent enemy of Israel. He had shouted slogans and chanted battle songs pre­ dent. The letter is now kept at Yad Vashem, fully co-operated with the hi-jackers at venting Professors Eden and Ahanan, Israeli the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Entebbe airport. Mr. Kyemba says that Amin had ordered him long after the murder of guest professors, from delivering lectures in Mrs. Dora Bloch to announce that she had Oslo and Trondheim. They came to Norway Lessons on Holocaust opposed been retumed to the airport before the Israeli under a cultural agreement between the two raid. Mr Kyemba appeals to the Arab States countries but were constantly harassed. The The Jewish community of Philadelphia in to consider whether it is worthwhile "to sus­ Norwegian authorities apologised for the collaboration with the main Protestant and tain a vicious regime that brings the Arab demonstrations in strong terms. Catholic organisations of the city have evolved name and the name of Islam into disrepute". a study programme on the Holocaust which FRANCE is to be introduced in 26 senior and 40 junior high schools. The course has been planned SOUTH AFRICA Russian Envoy in Synagogue by Dr Franklin Littel, the chairman of Temple University's religion department. The Rev. Telephone Threats to Jews The Soviet Ambassador to France attended Hans Hag, chairman of the German-American Leading Jews in Cape Town have received this year's remembrance service in the Great Committee of Greater Philadelphia which anonymous telephone calls saying: "Remem­ Synagogue, which was attended by more than claims to represent 50,000 German-Americans ber what happened to the Jews in Germany". 800 people, including representatives of Presi­ out of a total population of nearly 2 million, Most of the recipients are Jews who signed dent Giscard d'Estaing, Mr. Chirac, mayor of has protested against the plan, saying that a public protest against the manner in which Paris and Mrs. Simone WeU the Minister of "the course gave the impression that the Nazis African squatter camps had been bulldozed Health. Chief Rabbi Dr. Kaplan deplored in were the only ones to commit crimes against by the authorities. his sermon recent neo-Nazi activities including humanity and that the Jews were the only synagogue desecrations in France and else­ ones to suffer." Some of the material of the Voluntary Duty by B'nai B'rith where. Earlier Nazi slogans and swastikas had course should be replaced by material for the been painted on the walls of the Great study of "genocide" committed by Soviet Synagogue. Russia, by Moslems and Hindus in India in The South African B'nai B'rith has made the late 1940s and by Communists in Cam­ arrangements with the State and civic auth­ bodia and other Far Eastem countries. orities to take over duties in hospitals, clinics, JEWISH CENTRE IN BRUSSELS telephone exchanges and other public ser­ vices over Christmas in order to give the Three years ago Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Dyan Conversion of Jewish Editor regular staff the time off. from London settled in Bmssels and founded The rabbis of Philadelphia have received "Simcha" a centre for English-speaking Jews letters from the Jewish Activist Coalition of Black Rabbi jaUed in Bmssels. It has now about 90 members, the city, drawing their attention to the fact British, American and even Belgians, most Fifty-year-old Joshua Msitshana who claims of whom work in the Common Market and that one of the assistant editors of "The Jewish to be a rabbi and spiritual leader of a Jewish Exponent" the community-owned English- other intemational organisations and com­ congregation in Soweto, the African township panies. language Weekly, was converted to Unitarian­ of Johannesburg, has been sent to prison for ism some years ago. Similar letters were re­ five years under the Terrorism Act. He was ITALY ceived by the heads of all Jewish organisations, found guilty of writing and distributing social action committees in synagogues and by pamphlets inciting to violence against the Public support for freed Nazi murderer all members of the Jewish Community Rela­ government. Rabbi Casper, Chief Rabbi of tions Council. It says that the Jewisn com­ South Africa, said he knew of no such congre­ In Milan, a bomb was planted at the Italo- munity should be served by Jews who identify gation, nor had he information about Mr. Israel Bank which in spite of its name has with Judaism. The Unitarian Church has Msitshana's ordination as a rabbi. apparently attracted quite a number of Jew­ had no Jewish or Israeli connections for years. ish converts in recent years. Jews find that its After the explosion, an anonymous telephone refusal to believe in the Trinity and other Jewish Judge in Supreme Court caller told a news agency "This is only the Christian tenets, makes it a spiritual religion beginning. Jews and Communists are warnea with which they can identify. Mr. Gerald Friedman, a 48-year-old Cape not to intimidate West German offices pr town lawyer who is vice-president of the institutions, otherwise harsh reprisals w^ South African Bar General Council, has been strike their dens. Remember the Ardeatme Bingo in the Temple appointed a judge of the countiy's Supreme Caves. Long live Kappler". In order to establish a sense of community Court. in the congregation, the Los Angeles Reform SEX-CHANGE TENNIS-STAR Secret visit to Israel Temple Beth Sholom has introduced a weekly Dr. Renee Richards, the sex-change .tennis bingo night. Other Los Angeles synagogues have swimming pools or hand out colouring Officials in Jerusalem reluctantly confirmed player who was recently beaten by Virginia books during Sabbath services so that the a report that the South African Foreign Wade in the U.S., represented the Uniteo faithful can colour their emotions. There is Minister, Mr. Botha, had paid a secret visit to States at Uie 1973 Maccabiah as Richara also a homosexual congregation. Israel. They have denied a report by the U.S. Raskind. Dr. Richards, 43-year-old father oi a "Newsweek" that Israel helped South Africa five-year-old son, is an eye surgeon ^^ to become a nuclear power. California who played as a man against "^ JEWISH RADIO IN URUGUAY bledon champion Australian Neale Fraser m JEWISH MUSEUM IN AUSTRIA An ofBcial reception, attended by represen­ 1960. tatives of the govemment and the Churches, In Eisenstadt, the capital of the Burgen­ EGYPTIAN PLANES REPAIRED was held in Montevideo to celebrate the twen­ land, an Austnan Jewish Museum will be IN BRTTAIN tieth anniversary of the radio programme opened next year to give a picture of Jewish "Zion's Voice in Umguay" which is presented culture in the Ausfro-Hungarian Monarchy. British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce will over­ by Mr. Jose Jerozolimski. The event was widely It will include a former synagogue in the haul and keep the Soviet-built MiG-21 fign«^ discussed in the national press. renovated Eisenstadt ghetto. aircraft, the mainstay of the Egyptian AJJ Force as part of a contract worth P^^ BRAZIL DIALS ISRAEL ISRAEL'S GIFT TO COSTA RICA millions of pounds. Since Soviet technician* and advisers were expelled from Egypt -[^ Brazil has become the first Latin American The Israeli Ambassador presented the 1972, the country has been short of spare country to introduce direct telephone dialling National Library of Costa Rica in San Jose parts and maintenance facilities. Teams irtK" to Israel. Lebanon, Iran and Saudi Arabia will with the 19 volumes of the Jerusalem Encyclo­ the two companies will go to Egypt to do lae follow in due coin^e. paedia Judaica as a gift from his government. work. AJR INFORMATION November 1977 Page 5

Heidi Heimann ANIMALS OF THE BIBLE Professor Aron Shulov, founder and direc­ tor of the Jerusalem Zoo, said at a lecture in THE BIBLE IN BRITISH ART: 10th-20th Century Britain that thanks to the initiative of the British Friends of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, the Zoo had expanded considerably and now Exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum provided a place of study and recreation for The Victoria and Albert Museum has just rare subject: "Naomi entreating Ruth and Jewish and Christian religious groups. Priests, monks and nuns as well as Orthodox Jews opened a small but most important and en­ Orpah to return to the land of Moab" and were often to be seen together. Professor joyable exhibition: "The Bible in British Art finally an illustration to Psalm 85, 10: "Mercy Shulov brought working sheets, games and 10th to 20th Centuries". It comprises, of and Truth are met together. Righteousness quizzes on animals and plants mentioned in the course. Old and New Testament examples and Peace have kissed each other", figures Bible, for distribution among British school­ and should be of interest to specialists and that by their majestic stature and simplicity children. Once or twice a year, there will be amateurs alike. The deceptively small cata­ of outline draw and hold the attention. No competitions and the winners will be granted logue—presented in this modest format to other artist of the eighteenth or nineteenth free trips to Israel as guests of the Zoo. Various incidents from the Bible are re-en­ keep the price down to 30p—was compiled centuries was able to infuse so much personal acted in the Zoo. Noah's Ark is at the moment by the Keeper, Dr. Michael Kauffmann and feeling and simple grandeur into his designs, imder construction. Israel has now four Zoo­ is full of valuable information and instructive though quite a number came up with personal logical gardens, two Safari parks and over insights in its four lengthy introductions to and unusual compositions. Turner's Deluge, 160 nature reserves. The Bible mentions the the different sections. The wealth and for instance, shows an impressive, wild, storm- names of about 130 animals, some of which diversity of the exhibited works from all tossed seascape and because the Deluge pre­ are now extinct. The Zoo has got specimens periods is astounding and tmly delightful. sented an opportunity to represent unbridled of King Solomon's red deer, pheasants, lions Magnificent codices from the early cen­ nature, it became a popular theme of the and the Syrian bear. turies, the llth and 12th, start the exhibition eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. on a majestic scale. To name only a few: Altogether, authenticity of setting began to the Caedmon Genesis from the Bodleian play an important part and efforts were made PANELS FOR DIASPORA MUSEUM Library in Oxford is open at a large, most to produce authentic environment. One of Peter Parr, a non-Jewish Boumemouth intricate coloured illustration of Noah's Ark; the most memorable attempts in this direc­ artist, is creating three massive panels from the Lambeth Bible a whole page is tion is the famous painting of 1854, "The for the proposed Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv. reproduced on the cover of the catalogue, Scapegoat", by William Holman Hunt, illu­ The largest, a 20-foot by 12-foot canvas, depicts illustrating three episodes: Abraham visited strating a passage from the third Book of the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, by the three Angels, Abraham's sacrifice of Moses 16, 22 "of the scapegoat sent into the the two slightly smaller ones are of the Isaac and Jacob's dream of the heavenly wildemess bearing upon him all the iniquities massacre of the Marranos in 1391 and of a ladder, combined in a dense design. These of the people". The goat stands alone in a street battle between Cossacks and Polish Bibles are joined by a number of important desolate landscape on the shore of a lake. Hunt Jews in 1648. Mr Parr's best-known work is Psalters and supplemented by fragments of studied and painted this picture in Palestine on the canvas on the Battle of Trafalgar at embroidery, the famous "opus Anglicanum", the shore of the Dead Sea with the mountains Madame Tussaud's in London. for which English women were specially re­ of Edom beyond. The rainbow on the right is nowned and by four Alabaster reliefs, which a symbol of forgiveness, as is the glow of are also an English speciality. the setting sun on the far mountains. This SAMSON'S CTTY UNCOVERED In later centures the emphasis shifted from realism is a new venture, never attempted Israeli and American archaeologists have an exclusive preoccupation with religious art. before the nineteenth century. It invests this discovered the city of Timnath where Samson However, illustrated Bibles continued to be picture with special emphasis and meaning. courted Delilah and slew a lion. Five miles made. After the invention of printing they Besides this stark realistic trend there west of Beit Shemesh, they found a Cananite were first illustrated by woodcuts—sometimes exists another lyrical one, which touches by city which had been destroyed by a tremend­ taken over from continental models—later, its intimacy and simplicity and also produces ous fire near the end of the late Bronze Age engravings were used after famous paintings notable images. Millais' "The Return of the (about 1200 BCE). Many signs of Philistine by Tintoretto, Rubens, etc, as in a Bible Dove to the Ark" is one of these. Contrary occupation were discovered. A massive, four- published in 1660 in Cambridge. Later still, yard-wide, city wall and the city gate were to the biblical account, Millais features two uncovered. It had been destroyed about 1100 in 1762, came a complete, fully illustrated young girls welcoming back the bird instead BCE during the period of Saul, but later recon­ family Bible. In the middle of the nineteenth of Noah and thus gives the theme a new structed. century Dalziels' Bible was begun and finally popular appeal. "The Meeting of Jacob and published in 1881. And this trend continues Rachel at the Well", by William Dyce, is right up to the present day; an Oxford unconventional, but Dyce is a lesser artist and GERMAN VOLUNTEERS HELP Illustrated Old Testament in five volumes was he evokes some resistance against his cloy­ recently published (1968-69) with drawings ing sentimentality. As is to be expected, this HANDICAPPED by contemporary artists, including Edward very personal approach to the biblical events Thirty-three young Germans have gone to Ardizzone, Anthony Gross and many others, continues in the twentieth century with pain­ Israel for between 12 and 18 months in order among them David Hockney, who drew illu­ ters like Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash and Eric to work for "Aktion Siihnezeichen", a West strations for the Book of Nehemia: spidery, Gill. It proves the continuing fascination these German organisation set up to help people who wilful, unorthodox drawings, which prove the stories and figures exercise upon the minds were persecuted by the Nazis. They work in a never ending fascination as well as inspira­ and imagination of the artists even in our number of European countries which had suf­ tion of Holy Writ. time, when the Bible has ceased to be THE fered under Nazi rule, but the bulk of their effort is concentrated on Israel where they Apart from these book illustrations during BOOK, on which attention was exclusively look after mentally and physically handi­ the last three centuries artists attempted focused. The contribution British artists of capped adults and children. Volunteers are easel pictures as well as single drawings of every age made in visualising the figures and first trained in Germany, where apart from biblical subjects for new and more personal events in the Bible is displayed in this learning how to deal vrith handicapped people, reasons, commissioned neither by church nor exhibition to best advantage; it impresses by they are thoroughly informed about the fate patron. The artists choose subjects hardly ever its variety and its consistent high quality of iEuropean Jewry' under National Socialism. illustrated before such as: "Samuel's ghost throughout. At the end of their training, they are sent to conjured up by the Witch of Ensor appear­ Auschwitz for a week where they help to ing to Saul" (1 Samuel 28), of which a The Exhibition is hold on the first floor and will go on look after the memorial camp and study in the until January 8, 1978. Hours: Monday to Thursday and archives. "Aktion Siihnezeichen" was set up in magnificent drawing by the Swiss artist Henry Saturday, 10 a.m.-5.50 p.m., Sunday 2,30-5.50 p.m 1956 by the Lutheran Synod, the only large FuseU, who made his home and career in organisation in W. Germany which has England, is exhibited. But by far the most accepted Uie theory of collective guilt. impressive in composition and execution are BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER a number of large water colours by William Blake. They are outstanding in every sense Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS of the word. Four of them show Old Testa­ GROWING POPULATION ment events: "The Finding of Moses in his Always interested in purchasing Israel has now a population of 3,628,000 of basket by the tall, beautiful Egyptian prin­ which 569,000 are non-Jews. The latter figure cess" who bends forward, supported by two well-preserved instruments includes the 100,000 Arabs in Jerusalem, but smaller maidens-in-waiting. Moses, again, tall, not the Arabs of the occupied territories who JAQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. number over a million. Israel's Jewish popu­ standing upright next to a small "buming lation has increased by 1-8 per cent, that of bush" at his feet—an unusual arrangement 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel.: 723 8818/9 the non-Jews by 3-6 per cent during the last of this frequently depicted event; yet another year. StOi miA

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Eiia Sieiner both historically informative and unfailingly accurate to every one of the 293 illustrations. Yet it is the merit of the photographer to have provided the picture material itself. Every ALBAN BERG'S OPERA "LULU" photo, far from being a presentation by mech­ anical means, is an interpretation of the When Arnold Schoenberg left Berlin in she requests that nobody should be given respective item, small or big, with an almost 1933 and, via Paris, went to America, this did access to the manuscript of the third act. visionary understanding of their importance not sever the bonds between him and his After having seen the recent performance and their relationship. Thus the pictures be­ devoted former pupils and friends Alban Berg of "Lulu" at the New York MET, with Carole come images of time, times and spiritual space. and Anton Webem. What could have Farley as Lulu and conducted by James Levine expressed better Berg's love than his poem, (who at the moment is recording all Mahler published in the Festschrift on the occasion Symphonies) I have to admit that the opera Concise Description of Museums of Schoenberg's 60th birthday on September in its present form is suffering from a strong What this unique and concise book attempts 13th, 1934 (his first in the United States), an sense of imbalance, and it is not surprising is an orderly description of all the museums, acrostic, the initial letters of the twenty lines that now, after Frau Berg's death, efforts are which with the exception of eight were begun spelling out the words "Glaube, Hoffnung, being made to over-rule her wishes. As during the flrst 25 years of the new state. Liebe", and prophesying that Schoenberg recently announced by the BBC in their pro­ A short (anonymous) foreword points out would be recognised in his homeland on His gramme "The Arts Worldwide", the opera is that the most different personalities, "Zionist centenary in 1974, which has come frue. now available with the third act complete, pioneers and Catholic monks, British govern­ Moreover, there vras also a birthday present and has been accepted for performance in ors and Moslem sheikhs, kibbutz members and forthcoming: Berg's dedication to his master 1979 by Rolf Liebermann for his Paris Opera, leamed institutions and official and semi-official of his twelve-tone opera "Lulu". "Accept it", with Pierre Boulez conducting. There are private collectors" contributed, as well as many he says in his accompanying letter, "not only rumours, however, that this may not materia­ organisations of all sorts. All the more aston­ as a product of years of work consecrated to lise. But whoever is going to complete the ishing is the fact that the whole wealth of art you, but also as a documentation of my inner­ opera, or may have already done so (one works represents an united image, not a hap­ most conviction: the whole world, jdso the source of information has it that it is the hazard accumulation of "things beautiful", not German, shall recognise in the dedication of Viennese composer Friedrich Cerha), it is to a comprehensive collection only, but a "tangible this German opera, that it has its roots in that be hoped that a tactful solution will be found expression of a young state, a very ancient realm of the most German of music, which will for the problem that had seemed unsurmount­ people and a diversified population". for time etemal bear Your Name.—^Another able to S'?hoenberg. sorrow: that I cannot lay at your feet the Quite apart from historical importance—let score of the complete opera, but only the copy alone material value—a considerable amount F. Thorn of exhibits is illustrated and annotated, which of the beginning." will certainly appeal to anybody, art historian Just over a year later Berg was dead, and THE OTHER ISRAEL and the bus conductor alike, and even those "Lulu" (the opera based on Wedekind's twin who were lucky enough to have seen them "va dramas "Erdgeist" und "Buechse der Pan­ Israel? Begin, Arafat, the Refugee Problem, the flesh" will now have a lasting record of dora", which Berg had first seen in Karl the West Bank, Mr Vance . . . Anything else? their experience. As a record alone the book Kraus' private performance as early as 1905, Yes, Begin, Arafat, Sadat, the setUements, the is valid and valuable. To quote only a few but did not start composing until 1928, and Golan Heights, devaluation, the Gaza Strip ... examples: "Mary and Child" (6th century AD), which would have been the crowning achieve­ What comes inevitably to mind first are news­ one of the oldest interpretations of the Mother ment of liis oeuvre) was left with the third paper headings and trouble spots. But there are and ChUd-theme (No. 59), Emanuel de Witte's act uncompleted. other things as well, for instance 60 (sixty!) Interior of the "Portuguese Synagogue in museums in a country half the size of Switzer­ Amsterdam" (c. 1680, No 83), ChagaU's "Jew An Unfinished Work land. In one of the most beautiful and sober art with Torah" (Plate XXI), the "Portrait Head books* to reach my desk in many years, the of a Woman" from the Jordan Valley (2nd Upon hearing of Berg's death, Schoenberg Chief Curator of the Israel Department of century AD)—and these are selections due to immediately contacted his widow, Helene Berg Antiquities and Museums, Dr. Rahmani. and personal delight, out of many many more. (who, as her friend Alma Mahler recounts in the photographer Peter Larsen bear witness Most astonishing the quality of modem works: her memoirs, is a natural daughter of Kaiser to an almost unbelievable achievement: in less One of the most important Renoir "Nudes" i^ Fninz Joseph), offering to complete the opera, than three decades of statehood Israel bas in the Tel Aviv Museum (Plate XX), an excel­ a gesture which Frau Helene called the flrst amassed, collected, unearthed, arranged and lent Schiele ("Stadtchen", Plate XHI) is in the ray of light in her darkness. After examining "processed" an enonnous treasure of artefacts, Israel Museum of Jerusalem, and a virtually the score and the Ubretto Schoenberg, how­ not only from her own, archaeologically fertile unknown Signac, "St Cloud" (Plate XI) again ever, declared himself unable to carry out the soil, but from all over the world, and in time in Tel Aviv. task. The reason he gave officially was that from the Horvat Minha Venus (second half of the work was more difficult, and required the fifth millennium BC) to Niki de St. Phalle's One would like to keep enumerating all the more time than he had at his disposal, but "Golem" of 1972. marvels for the sake of talking about them, but in a letter to his friend and former pupil It is virtually impossible to give an idea of there is no other way of enjoying them but Erwin Stein (9. and 11.3.36) he gave the real the abundance of works of art on display in reading and looking and reading and looking reason for his decision, namely the caricature the main museums of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and again. of Puntschu, a Jewish banker in Wedekind's Haifa, let alone the various kibbutz museums, drama, which Schoenberg found objectionable. the Ha'aretz (the "Museum of the Land") and Regrettable as Schoenberg's refusal might many others in small towns, and it is the out­ ARCHIVES IN FORMER GERMAN be from the musical point of view, it is, of standing merit of the author to have provided TERRITORIES course, fully understandable that he, a Jewish an explanatory text, both scholarly and clear, composer, who liad just fled Germany, would Readers from former German Eastern terri­ ' The Muaaiima o( laraol, by L. Y. Rahmani and Peter tories may be interested to leam in which not wish to add to the denigration of his Larsen, Seeker & Warburg. 240 pp. £12-50. fellow sufferers—Berg apparently having seen (now) Polish archives relevant files have been fit to include Wedekind's offensive words in preserved. Particulars, based on the Polish his libretto. Webem, the good friend of Berg periodical "Archeion", were published in the and Schoenberg, and Alexander von Zemlins­ Gorta Radiovision July, 1977, issue of "Archivar" (Duesseldorf)- ky, Schoenberg's early mentor and brother- Among other things, it is stated that the in-law (a half-Jew), who were then Service archives of Danzig include the mortgage approached by Helene Berg, also declined to (Mtmbtr R.T.R.A.) records of Elbing, and that the Koeslin complete the opera (probably out of respect 13 Frognal Parade, archives have preserved those of that for Schoenberg). city from 1558 to 1945 as well as files of the Helene Berg, who survived her husband by Finchley Road, N.W.3 Dramburg law court and of the Schlochau "Landratsamt". The Poznan archives possess over forty years, took the refusals by her SALES REPAIRS husband's closest friends as a sign of fate for files of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium. The the work to remain a fragment, and did not We can provide a quick and findings of the Konitz regional committee, approach anybody else. In fact, she laid down efBcient Colour Television which in 1945/6 recorded the local Naz' that "the opera is to be performed as a frag­ Service. victims, are kept in Konitz and the Lissa ment", and in her Will, which after her death Archives have preserved the files of the local in August 1976 has now become accessible, (435 8635) law court (1879-1920). E.G.L.

b~#a4^s AJR INFORMATION November 1977 Page 7 "BLACK HEBREWS" DEPORTED THE ISRAELI SCENE A group of American Blacks calling them­ selves "Black Hebrews" and claiming to be the THE FATE OF EL AL AN ACT OF CLEMENCY real descendants of the ancient Israelites, Mr Hvam Sanderson, El Al's director in Mr. Begin, Israel's Prime Minister and act­ arrived in Israel and tore up their retum Britain, said recently that reports that Israel's ing Minister of Justice has shocked public tickets and passports to prevent deportation. national airline might be closed down because opinion and the legal establishment by recom­ In the past few years, some members of the of labour trouble, had been distorted. Various mending a presidential pardon for Yehoslhua group have defied the Israeli authorities and alternatives had been suggested for the air­ Bension, jailed former general manager of the formed a community in the Negev town of line to take if industrial unrest continued. defunct Israel-British Bank who was sentenced Dimona. The group of 3 men, 6 women and All staff committees had pledged to the gov­ to twelve years' imprisonment and a fine of 16 children were taken from Ben-Gurion air­ erament their full support to stop "wildcat" £1,470,000 in 1975 for stealing £16J million of port to a detention centre, issued with new industrial disputes. El Al had in fact had a Israel-British Bank money and other cur­ travel documents and fiown back to the United record-breaking season, carrying 34 per cent rencies. The fine will still have to be paid. States. The US Embassy in Tel Aviv said the more passengers than last year. Mr. Begin said that two of Israel's top group denied that they were Black Hebrews WOMAN PILOT physicians had recommended an act of and claimed to be Presbyterians who came to clemency because Bension was a very sick visit Christian holy places. Lieutenant-General Mordecai Gur, Chief of man with a short life expectancy. This is con­ Staff of the Israeli Air Force, said that the tradicted by a leaked Health Ministry report A SOVIET SPY IN ISRAEL Air Force would soon have its first woman which said there was no real medical ground pilot who was at the moment taking part in for release. According to the Tel Aviv paper "Jedioth an Air Force pilots' course. She might become Achronoth", the Israeli censorship have fbr a fighter pilot or fly helicopters or fransport MAYOR PROTESTS AGAINST DEMOLITION 13 years banned the publication of the arrest aircraft. All units of the Israeli Defence Forces of a Soviet spy who in 1963 came to Israel via are now employing women in jobs formerly Mr. Teddy Kollek, the Mayor of Jemsalem, Poland. He was sent to prison for five years, reserved for men. has protested to Israel's military authorities but is still living in Israel. He had been over the demolition of a half-built house in trained for his job in Vilna, Lithuania, his FORESTS FIRED BY TERRORISTS an Arab suburb of East Jerusalem, because birth-place, and had been sent to liaise with Hundreds of acres with tens of thousands the owner's son was suspected of terrorist the Russian cultural attache Nibolai Nosakov of trees have been lost in fires on the eastem offences. The authorities apologised explaining who was subsequently sent home as "persona slopes of Mount Carmel. Suspects have been that they had thought the building was outside non grata". The paper adds that the Russians seen running from the fires. Five residents the city boundaries. Three years ago, when sent agents to Israel so that they could estab^ of neighbouring Arab villages were arrested the military demolished a house in the city for lish a new personality and then re-emigrate as suspects of arson. the last time, Mr. Kollek came to an agree­ to the US and act as agents there. ment vrith them that he should be consulted "ROOTS" if tliey ever planned similar action. REFUGEE BABY BORN Alex Haley, the black American author of the international bestseller "Roots" which PASSOVER PLOT FILM BANNED A baby boy was born to a Vietnamese couple traces his ancestry back to an African village, who were among the refugees rescued by an came to Israel to be awarded an honorary The Israeli Film Censorship Board has Israeli cargo ship and flown to Israel last fellowship by the Hebrew University. He said: banned the film "The Passover Plot", made in summer. •The real roots are here in Israel". Havmg Israel last year and based on the book b\- grown up on Bible stories, he said he knew British writer Hugh Schonfield. Its main theme the Sea of Galilee better than his native is that Jesus did not die on the cross. When Mississippi river. the film was released Christian clergy and laymen protested violentiy against an arbitrarv distortion of the New Testament. Christian leaders in Israel threatened to shut down their churches if the film was shown in Israel. Sehonfield's Jesus is a Jew, determined to free his country from the Romans. The "plot" con­ sists in a planned betrayal by Judas ensuring that Jesus should only be on the cross for one DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX day because of the Passover, but it misfires and Jesus later dies of his wounds. LTD. SIR HENRY d'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID REMEMBERED The ICA (Jewish Colonization Association) has endowed a chair of agricultural economics at the Hebrew University in memory of the late Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, who was ICA's prenident for 25 years.

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Michael Rosenslock (Toronto) ists (who, for a short period, produced the only legal Communist organ in the country, allowed because it was vehemently anti- Zionist). At the same time, other young Jews BAGHDADI BILDUNGSROMAN would discreeUy disappear, to re-emerge a few months' later in Palestine. Yet "Zionist and According to the 1971 Census, only 10,000 discovers, is virtually unknown and he memo­ anti-Zionist Jews rarely confronted each other. of Canada's 300,000 Jews use French as their rises the entire Moallakat, an anthology of What was the use? All were looking for a way first language and of these two-thirds are pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, for, as he says, to escape and who could say which way was foreign-bom. Under the circumstances, it is "this pre-Islamic heritage was truly mine." A right?" hardly surprising that nearly all Canadian- few pages on, we share his pride when he Shortly thereafter, perhaps luckier than Jewish writers write in English. is addressed as ustadh (master) by the editor most, he does escape. Armed vrith a French There is, however, one significant exception. of an avant-garde magazine who has just govemment scholarship he goes to Paris. Interestingly enough, his mother tongue and accepted his first poem for publication. "This However, judging by his later career, he the language in which he made his literary scene, however, is immediately followed by a escapes into an existential situation as full of d6but is not French but Arabic. In an auto­ description of his school's annual visit to complexities and paradoxes as the one he left. biographical novel which was translated into Babylon and a memorable speech by his Is this merely a coincidence? Possibly, but English last year*, he describes his adoles­ English teacher who, like his pupils, was probably not. We will not know for sure unless cence in the Baghdad of the 1940s, a setting Jewish: he provides us with a sequel. which, for all its strangeness, is not without " 'Only the Jews can feel the upheaval of its analogies in Jewish experience: a living past under these piles of stones,' "No one expected us to change. No group, he told us. 'Nothing ties the Arabs to Baby­ no government, dreamed of depriving us of lon. When they conquered it, we were NEW GERMAN STUDY ON WEIMAR loyalties or our past. One is bom Shiite, Ar­ already there. We are the true natives. We REPUBLIC menian or Jew and one dies Shiite, Armenian came here as captiveSj the slaves of Nebu­ or Jew. . . . We strolled side by side down the chadnezzar. But we triumphed over defeat. German and foreign scholars still take a On this ground we wrote the Talmud. . .' very active interest in the history of the main street without ever blending into frater­ "And how did he end his speech? By nity or anonymity. exhorting us to work hard, to study English, Weimar Republic, especially during its last "We were Jews. We knew it. Everyone knew the key that would open the doors of the phase. This is re-affirmed by the recent publi­ it. But we were also children of this land, world to us." cation of a study by Bemd Soesemann "Das children of the country. And that was some­ When he and his best friend graduate from Ende der Weimarer Republik in der Kritik thing we had to shout, constanUy cry out, for the Alliance Israelite school, they enrol in a demokratischer Publizisten" (volume 9 of the fear it would be forgotten and that we would Moslem secondary school, the only two Jewish "Abhandlungen und Materialien zur Publizi­ be deprived of our share of the wealth which pupils. Naturally, they excel in the study of stik", Colloquium Verlag, Berlin, 1976). K God had bestowed on this kingdom, his own." the Koran and of pre-Islamic poetry: deals with four leading democratic publicists The dismemberment of the Turkish Empire "We delighted in this endless discovery of those days: Theodor Wolff (1868-1943), the after the First World War had brought vrith it of our cultural past. For it was our past: no long standing chief editor of the "Berliner a new role for the Jews of Iraq. The rudiments reservation, no restriction crossed our Tageblatt", Dr. Erast Feder (1881-1964), the of French and English which they had leamed minds. . . . Nessim and I were usually among paper's Home Affairs editor, Julius Elbau the first to raise our hands, pointing out with (1881-1965), since 1914 associated vrith the in the schools of the Alliance Israelite Univer­ joy that we held the key to the mystery. selle made them indispensable as intermedi­ The teacher never called on us. He persisted Ullstein publishing house, and Leopold aries between the British army and the Arab in ignoring our eagerness to declare our Schwarzschild (1891-1950), until 1933 editor of population. When Iraq became independent a attachment to our common heritage and the periodical "Das Tagebuch" and the weekly few years later, their experience under the unconsciously rejected the tribute we were "Der Montag-Morgen". These four well-known British turned them into "the backbone and buming to pay to his teaching." editors of liberal press publications held im­ sinews of the Iraqi state", although "they Nevertheless, even when the political writ­ portant positions during the decisive years played this role unwillingly in self-defence". ing was clearly on the wall, they stubbomly and, especially in view of their Jewish origin, Soon most branches of the civil service "were persist in their determination to embark on were outcast by the Nazis. They had to leave overflowing with Jews". Gradually, however, literary careers: the country immediately, with the exception of they ceased to be indispensable and were "We had deliberately crossed boundaries to Elbau, who stayed in Germany until 1938. squeezed out of public life. join the opposite camp. As we were not going Dr. Soesemann has thoroughly perused the This development was paralleled less deli­ to be doctors or engineers, did we really have material he found in the press and in archives berately but no less inexorably by develop­ a choice? Our field was literature and our as well as memoirs, correspondence and pre­ ments in the cultural field. "It was not our place had already been designated: among the served personal documents. He comes to the knowledge of English or French of which we Muslims." conclusion that all four publicists considered were most proud," writes the author, "but our This, of course, was a fool's paradise, one the danger of the Nazi movement as extremely skill in Arabic. At the final examinations set which they shared with the Jewish Commun- serious (and greater than the Communist by the Ministry of Education for students in threat to the Republic). Yet for a number of all the schools, the firet prize was invariably reasons, the Reichs Chancellor of those days, won by a Jew." As jouraalists and litterateurs, CLUB 1943 Dr. Heinrich Bruening, was not prepared to the Jews were enthusiastic, even prominent Vortraege jeden Montag um 8 p.m. heed these wamings, let alone to use their participants in the Arabic literary revival. im Hannah Karminski House press as a platform for pronouncements on Gradually, though, they lost this role too as 9 Adamson Road, N.W.S. the subject. Iraqi literary nationalism became an unequi­ 7 Nov. Dr Werner Rosenstock: "Bi­ vocally Moslem phenomenon. Though the proportion of Jewish contribu­ lanz von 40 Jahren. Geschichte tors to these papers was not inconsiderable Naim Rattan's work is a sort of Bildungs- und Einordnung der Refugees and though the Weimar Republic was de­ roman in which the hero attempts to find his in England". 14 Nov. Dr. Hans Freyhan: "Die Eng- nounced by the Right-wing parties as "Juden­ bearings between three reference points— landreisen Joseph Haydns und republik", it would, as Soesemann stresses, be European (predominanUy French) culture, ihre kuenstlerischen Ergeb­ unjustified to speak of a decisive "Jewish" Arabic literature and his Jewish identity. nisse". influence on pubUc opinion. There were only At the age of thirteen, his reaction to the 21 Nov. Mrs. Mally Burger: "Wild Life loose contacts between the four publicists of anti-Jewish riots of 1941 is twofold: he reads at its Truest. My Safari the study, and they differed so widely in their the novels of a French writer who, he later through Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania". (With coloured personalities that they could not be regarded * Nairn Kattsn: Farewell, Babylon. Translated from the as a united group able and vrilling to take French by Sheila Fischman. Toronto, McClelland and slides). Stewart, 1976. $8.95. 28 Nov. Heinz Norden: "Ersteigung des joint action. Turms von Baby'on. Aus einer E.G.L. Uebersetzerkarriere". BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE 5 Dez. Dr. Ellen Kessel-Ruhemann: "Die Deutsche Romantik". CAMPS SI BalaIze Square, London, N.W.3 12 Dez. Dr.HansBach:"Antisemiti.smus in der Kirche. Der Wandel der INTERNMENT—P.O.W.— SYNAGOGUE SERVICES Beziehungen zwischen Christen FORCED LABOUR—KZ are held regularly on the Eve of Sabbath und Juden in den letzten 50 I wish to buy cards, envelopes and lolded |>c»t- marked letters from all oamps of both world wara. and Festivals at 6.30 p.m. and on the day Jahren". 19 Dez. Ein Heiterer Abend mit Mr. Please send, registered mall, stating price, to: at 11 a.m. PETER C. RICKENBACK ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED F. 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DR. MORITZ GOLDSTEIN Dr. Moritz Goldstein, who died in New IN MEMORIAM York at the age of 97, has left his particular mark on German-Jewish historiography by his essay "Deutsch-juedischer Parnass", pub­ PROFESSOR FRANZ BOEHM H. D. LEUNER lished in the "Kunstwart" in March, 1912. In Professor Franz Boehm, who recentiy died The Rev. Heinz David Leuner who has died this article, he courageously dealt vrith the in his 83rd year, will be particularly remem­ in London aged 71, came from a middle-class complicated position of Jewish intellectuals in bered by Jews all over the world as a courag­ Jewish family in Breslau. In 1933 he and his German life, culminating in the sentence "We eous champion for the promotion of Jewish- wife went to Prague as political refugees. He Jews are administering the spiritual property Christian understanding, the normalisation of studied at the German University and became of a nation which denies our right and our German-Israeli relations and, last but not a convert to the Scottish Episcopelian Church ability to do so". There was a heated discus­ least, the material compensation for the vic­ which he regarded as a reconciliation between sion after the appearance of the article. tims of the Nazi regime. He was the head of Jewish and Christian teaching. In 1939 he Moritz Goldstein re-assessed his attitude to the German delegation during the negotiations escaped to Glasgow with his wife and small the problem in the light of the destruction of with representatives of Israel and the Claims child, studied theology for five j'ears at Central European Jewry in the Second Year Conference, held at The Hague and resulting Trinity College and became a minister of the Book of the Leo Baeck Institute (1957). Not­ in the Luxembourg Agreement in 1952. As Church of Scotland. During the war he made withstanding the realisation of the problematic a parliamentarian, he constantly fought for the it his special task to look after fellow-refugees )osition of Jewish authors, for which he just implementation of the Agreement and and at the same time advocated friendly rela­ )lamed the German non-Jews rather than the the fair interpretation of the compensation tions with a post-Hitlerian Germany. Later Jews, he himself continued to work in the laws. His interest in the sphere of moral com­ on he was appointed European Secretary of German literary field, especially as editor of pensation is reflected in his introduction to the International Jewish Christian Alliance the "Goldene Klassiker-Bibliothek". In 1918, the new edition in 1953 of the work by Hugo and travelled widely in its service. In 1966 he johied the staff of the "Vossische Zeitung" Sinzheimer on "Juedische Klassiker in der his book "When compassion was a crime" and, among other things, wrote reports on law deutschen Rechtswissenschaft" (first published was published by Oswald Wolff, London. It court proceedings under the pseudonym in 1938 in Holland) and in his two volume tells the storj- of "Germany's silent heroes "Inquit". He emigrated first to Italy and from work (jointly written vrith W. Dirks) "Juden­ 1933-45", i.e. of those Germans who risked there to England where, together with his late tum — Schicksal, Wesen und Gegenwart" everything in order to assist and save Jews. wife, he opened a boarding house in which (1965). He was awarded the Leo Baeck Prize It was widely acclaimed after its publica­ many refugees spent their holidays. After the in 1970. tion in Germany a year later. Several more war, the family went to the United States. books in German followed: "Religious Think­ There, Moritz Goldstein resumed his joumal­ Before the war, Professor Boehm was Pro­ ing in 20th century Judaism", and a short istic activities by writing for German papers, fessor of Law, first in Freiburg and later in history of the Jewish People for the Berlin especially the "Neue Zeitung" (Munich). Jena, from where he was dismissed for politi­ Church Academy are the best known among cal reasons in 1938. After the war he was from them. 1946 to 1962 professor of civil law at Frank­ DR. MARTHA MOSSE furt University. Franz Boehm's activities for German-Jewish STAATSSEKBETAER a.D. ARNOLD BRECHT Dr. Martha Mosse, who recentiy died at the understanding and his urge to get at the roots age of 93, was Polizeiraetin at the Berlin of Jewish existence resulted in personal bonds Staatssekretaer Arnold Brecht, who died at Police Presidium until 1933; she was the first with many leading Jews in and from Germany. the age of 93, was one of the most loyal mem­ woman to hold a position in this sphere and bers of the high civil service under the particularly excelled by her knowledge and RABBI PROFESSOR DR. C. C. LEHRMANN Weimar Republic. He served first with the experience in the field of criminal law. During Reich Ministry of Interior and, when he en­ the time of persecution, she put herself at Dr. Cuno C. Lehrmann, who died in Luxem­ countered opposition among German National the disposal of the Berlm Jewish community bourg at the age of 72, was the Liberal Rabbi rnembers of the Reichstag, became Secretary and worked in the newly established depart­ of the Berlin Jewish community from 1961 of State in the Prussian Braun-Severing ment for economic help. She was deported to until his retirement in 1971. Bom in Stryzow Government. He was dismissed in 1933 and Theresienstadt in 1943. After the liberation of (Poland), he spent his school and university emigrated to the United States, where he was the Camp she returned to Berlin and resumed years in Wuerzburg where he obtained his appointed Professor of Public Law at the her activities in the service of her city of Ph.D. in 1932. When the Nazis came to power, "New School for Social Research", which pro­ birth. The last position she held before her he found refuge in Switzerland. Later he vided new fields of activities for scholars who retirement in 1953 was that of a "Justitiarin" held the office of a Grand Rabin of Luxem­ had been expelled by the Nazis. He died when at the Criminal Police. In his standard work bourg for ten years and, in recognition of his he was on holiday in Eutin, not far from "Der verwaltete Mensch" (reviewed in our outstanding services, by special order became Luebeck, his city of birth. December, 1975 issue) Dr. H. G. Adler re­ a citizen of that country. He retained his peatedly quotes Martha Mosse's notes and bonds with Luxembourg and published several observations about the compulsory segregation works on the history of the Jews in the Grand of the Jews in Berlin, the cruel methods of Duchy. He also had several works on the their deportation and the terror of the French-Jewish spiritual relationship to his Gestapo. E.G.L. credit and, during the last ten years of his life, was Honorary Professor at Wuerzburg University. Lehrmann was both a rabbi and a DR. ISALAH SHACHAR philologist. One of Israel's outstanding art historians E.6.L. Dr. Isaiah Shachar who was junior research jDor/on fellow at the London Warburg Institute and subsequently curator at the Jerusalem Israel Museum, has died at the age of 41. needs!rfr,;ater. ' Qkocotates Overcome the problem of dry air in SELF AID OF REFUGEES stuffy homes and offic'esi For your health's sake and that of your pats, piano, furniture, antiques, paintings THIRTIETH ANNUAL CONCERT ADD the required moisture with an make Monday, 28 November, at 7.45 p.m. very special gifts Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, S.E.1 EGRO HUMIDIFIER PARK LANE MUSIC PLAYERS (made in Switzerland) Conductor RUDOLF SCHWARZ Simple to use. Models available for all types of heating. Phone or write for froa Caxton Chocolate Co. Ltd. ((planatory leaflet to Soloist IDA HAENDEL THE HUMIDIFIER CO. S Bridna Road. Wembley Park, London N22 6UN Tickets from Box OHice. Royal Festival Hall Middlesex, HAS 9AB (01-928 3191) and from Self Aid of Refugees. lel«|AoM: 01-9047603 (asOSSS) 8 Fairfax Mansions. London, NWS 6JY (01-328 3255/6) Page 10 AJR INFORMATION November 1977 PERSONAUA NEWS FROM THE EAST JEWISH ACTIVISTS FREED NEW POST FOR SIR HERMANN BONDI SIR ISAAC WOLFSON 80 Six Jewish activists were arrested by the Sir Isaac Wolfson who has just celebrated Moscow police when they tried to leave for Professor Sir Hermann Bondi has been his SOth birthday, donated £2 million to Israeli Kiev to honour the Jews slaughtered by tbe appointed chief scientist at the Department of causes to mark the event. About £500,000 has Nazis at Babi Yar. They were released a few Energy. Sir Hermann, who was bom in been allocated for the building of the Great days later. Dr. Coggan, the Archbishop of Vienna in 1919, was scientific adviser to the Synagogue in Jerusalem. An Isaac Wolfson Canterbury, paid a visit to Babi Yar on the Ministry of Defence from 1971 until he took Chair in Talmudic Studies will be established 36th anniversary of the massacre. Jews in up this new appointment at the Hebrew University and a Chair in Leningrad and Minsk had also been prevented Jewish Studies at the Tel Aviv University. The from attending the ceremony at the memorial FORMER BERLINER AT ISRAEL EMBASSY Isaac and Edith Wolfson Charitable Trust is for the dead. responsible for the opening of an Edith The new cultural attache of the Israeli Wolfson Park in Tel Aviv and a 600-bed Edith ONCE MORE THE "PROTOCOLS" Embassy in Bonn, Jochanan Bein, was bom Wolfson hospital at Holon. Altogether Sir The Soviet Academy of Sciences has pub­ in Berlin. The family emigrated to Palestine Isaac is responsible for the building of 50 lished a book entitled "History and Politics (as it then was) in 1933. synagogues. of Intemational Zionism" which has as its central theme the subjects of the "Protocols ARCHBISHOP VISITS SYNAGOGUES NEW IRISH PEACE COMMISSIONER of the Elders of Zion" which have been known During his recent visit to Russia, the Arch­ to be a forgery for 75 years. The book says Mr. Anthony D. Leon was recentiy appointed bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Coggan, made a that World Jewry aspires to world domination point of visiting syna^gues and meeting a Peace Commissioner. He is the first Jewish members of the Jewish community. He by means of controlling the international president of the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers attended the Saturday moming service at a banking system. The Zionists are said to Institute and has just finished his term as Moscow synagogue. strive for the status of a super-government president of the Irish Chapter of the Inter­ with Jews encouraged to become fifth national Real Estate Federation. A WOMAN'S ACHIEVEMENTS columnists all over the world. A well-known Mrs. Vicki Harris, a principal at the Depart­ lecturer, Valery Yemelyanov, repeated the protocol's allegation that Freemasonry could JEWISH MAYOR OF CORK ment of Prices and Consumer Protection, is the first woman to gain first prize in the Certi­ provide the means to achieve world-mastery A new Lord Mayor, 65-year-old Gerald fied Diploma in Accounting and Finance for the 2ionists. Goldberg, has been elected in Cork, the second examination. From 1971 to 1973 she was Assis­ largest city of the Republic of Ireland. It is the tant Professor of Psychology at the Calif­ RUSSIAN SYNAGOGUES FULL first time that Cork has had a Jewish mayor. omia State University. During that time she In contrast to previous years, the police did In his inaugural speech, Mr. Goldberg spoke in spent six months at the Haifa Technion and at not interfere with synagogue visits during this Irish and included a Hebrew prayer. He said the University of the Negev in Beersheba as year's High Holy-days. One Moscow synagogue that as a bom Corlonan, he found no di£9culty a lecturer and an adviser on ergonomics—^the had an overflow of 800 standing outside in the combining being Irish and being Jewish. human factor — to the Israeli Ministry of street, which was closed to traffic during the But he said "I am first and foremost a Jew". Defence. services.

FAMILY EVENTS N.W.6, passed away suddenly but hood on a temporary or permanent WIDOW, YOUNG, eariy fifties, peacefully on September 24, aged basis. Current rate of pay £1-25 good appearance, continental back­ Entries in the column Family nearly 77. He wUl be remembered per hour. Please ring Mrs. Casson ground, vridely travelled, interested Events arc free of charge; any by his relatives and many friends. 01-624 4449, AJR Employment, for in music, theatre, books and travel, voluntary donation would, how­ appointment. would like to meet kind and sym­ ever, be appreciated. Texts should Levy.—Mr. Otto Levy (formerly pathetic gentleman with same be sent in by 15th of the month. Cologne) passed away suddenly Miscellaneous interests. Box 692. and A. G-d without suffering on Birthdays FAMILY WANTS TO BUY large Hoshana Rabba — October 3. Persian carpet. 01458 3010. NETTE maennliche Bekanntschaft The AJR Club extends its heartiest Deeply loved and mourned by his gesucht fuer meine Verwandte; sie congratulations to their very dear wife Hannah, daughters Susan REVLON MANICURIST / PEDI- ist 57, geschieden, benifstaetig, lebt Mrs. Charlotte Salzberger on the (Brager), Ann (Goldberg), Helen CURIST. Will visit your home. in London mit einem (Teenager) occasion of her 85th birthday with and Janet, sons-in-law David and 01-445 2915. Sohn im (eigenen) Haus. Nicht sincerest good wishes. Beraard and grandson Shai. 17 PIANO in reasonably good condi­ religioes, sehr gute Erscheinung, Baslow Road, Leicester. tion wanted by the Theodor Herzl elegant. Kuenstlerisch und sprach- Dawidowitz. — Mrs. Anita Dawido­ Society. Gift most welcome but lich begabt. Interessen: MusiK. witz (nee Wolff), formerly Stettin, Litten. — Miss Olli Litten, of 103 purchase gladly considered. — Theater, Kino, Art Decor, Tuchol- of 19b Clifton Gardens, Maida Gilling Court, Belsize Grove, Lon­ Please phone 01435 7221. siy, Auslandsreisenj Ausfluege auis Vale, London, W.9, will celebrate don, N.W.3, passed away on Octo­ Land. Schreiben Sie mir im Ver- her '75th birthday on November 16. ber 2, shortiy after her SOth birth­ SECOND-HAND standard size trauen an Box No. 690, um day. Deeply mourned by her sister, upright piano required. Please zunaechst eventuell ein Treffen Suschitzky.—Mrs. Adele Suschitzky brother and many friends. write stating make and price to auf neutralem Boden zu verab- from Vienna, will be 99 on Novem­ Box 689. reden. ber 19. She is now at Osmond Mayer. — Else Mayer (nee Kass). House. Best wishes and warmest widow of Ludwig Mayer, passed REFINED LADY in her 60s, of congratulations from her son, away peacefully at Samaritan independent means and with nice INFORMATION REQUIRED daughter-in-law, and her three Hospital on October 1 after serious home, wishes to meet another lady illness. Mourned by daughter, of same age for friendship and Personal Enquiries grandchildren and seven great­ holidays. Box 691. Frank Wolff.—My father, Walter grandchildren. Helen, family and friends. Freeman (formerly Friedlanden Thanks for Congratulations Selby. — Mr. William Selby (for­ Personal who left Berlin for Australia "J merly Wilhelm Silbiger) died 1938 wants to re-establish contact Guttmann.—Mrs. S. Guttmann and peacefully on October 1, aged 72, WIDOW in her 60s, with no chil­ with his first cousin, Frank Woln. Mr. C. H. Guttmann thank the AJR after much suffering. Deeply dren, of independent means, with last known address 7 Elm Grove Club and all their friends most a nice home, wishes to meet sym­ cordially for the kindness shovra mourned and sadly missed by his Rd., London, W.5. Would any wife, Irene, his children, Barbara, pathetic retired widower in the person who can assist, please to them on their special birthdays. Ruth and Colin, and their families. same position. Marriage con­ sidered. When replying, please write to Mr. G. Gerrard, 26 Manor Deaths give telephone number. Box 687. Road, Harrow, Middlesex. Cohn.—Herman Cohn passed away CLASSIFIED peacefully in his 89th year on The charge in these columns is WIDOW, in the 60s, independent, October 3. Deeply mouraed by his 25p for five words plus 20p for no children, own comfortable CHANGE OF ADDRESS wife Irma, sons, daughters-in-law, advertisements under a Box No. house, is looking for a widower sister, nephew, grandchildren, who may perhaps be lonely. Must In order to ensure thai yo" great-grandchildren and many Situations Vacant be a thoughtful and considerate recehre your copy of "AJR Infor­ friends. WE WOULD WELCOME to hear gentleman, who may like to build mation" regularly, please Inlomj from more ladies who would be up a friendly companionship. us Immediately of any change ol Collins. — Manfred (Michael) Col­ willing to shop and cook for an When replying, please give tele­ address. lins, of 46 Tarranbrae, London, elderly person in their neighbour­ phone number. Box 688. AJR INFORMATION November 1977 Page 11

ROMAN ZAMBROWSKI MISCELLANEOUS Mr. Roman Zambrowski who was for 19 years a member of the Polish Politburo, the 25 YEARS SOLIDARITE For us, his studies in the Jewish sphere have longest term of office for any Jew in the always been of particular importance. An out­ The Solidarite which forms the representa­ govemment of an East European country, has tion of Jewish refugees in France—its full standing example was his lecture on Village died in Warsaw, aged 68. Por several years he name is "Solidarite des Refugi^s Israelites" and Small Town Jews in Southern Germany was the target of a vehement smear campaign was founded in 1952 and is therefore celebra­ delivered at the Scholars' Conference at Arden by antisemites in the Polish Communist Party. ting its Silver Jubilee this year. It is a mem­ House near New York under the auspices of He was born into a middle-class Jewish family, ber organisation of the Council of Jews from the Leo Baeck Institute. It testified to his gift Germany. Its most urgent tasks from the very but in the mid-sixties his two sons were bap­ beginning were connected with housing. Many of covering new and so far neglected ground tised in a Warsaw cathedral. In 1963 he was buildings had been destroyed during the war, of Jewish sociological facets. This is added the last Jewish member of the Politburo and and the refugees who survived or who re­ reason for looking forward to his forthcom­ the Polish Party Sekretariat to be forced to turned from hiding or from concentration ing work on the history of the Jews in Munich resign. camps, had mostiy lost their homes. In 1957 (his city of birth) in the pre-Nazi and Nazi a donation of the Federal Bundestag of West Germany enabled it to buy a small castle in period, to be published by the Institut fuer BLACK JEWISH ACTRESS a park south of Paris and convert it into a Zeitgeschichte. home for mainly elderly men and women. At It is also one of his concerns to preserve In the smash-hit musical "Bubbling Brown the time, the German radio had broadcast a or restore the monuments of our German- Sugar" at the London Royalty Theatre there radio play "Die Vergessenen" by Peter Adler Jewish past and under his guidance, the re­ is a 22-year-old black actress, Beverley BuUer which drew the attention of Professor Carlo who says that she was born Jewish and that Schmid, vice-president of the Bundestag to cently founded Rashi Association has already this urgent task. Many organisations and done spadework in Worms and several other her parents and grand-parents were also private German citizens also contributed. places. A former prisoner of Dachau, he is Jewish. When she was asked about the origin founder (1967) and chairman of the American of their Jewishness, she said: "When you are At a later date, the Solidarite was enabled black, it's difficult to say where your an­ by money received from international organ­ Dachau Committee. Before the Nazis came isations to acquire a number of houses in and to power, he was from 1931 onwards, "Syndi­ cestors came from." near Paris and to offer low-price accommoda­ kus" of the Bavarian District of the Central- tion to Jewish refugees. Apart from housing, SELF AID CONCERT the organisation has helped many people with Verein. loans to await their restitution money, and its We wish our friend Werner Cahnman many Monday, November 28 advice has been listened to when in those more years of unimpaired health and acti­ far off days the restitution laws were drawn vities in the service of scholarship and Jewry. As readers will have seen from the up. There remains a great deal of social work announcements in this and last month's issue, to be done for an ageing refugee population, HENRI BRAUN-ADAM, the traditional annual concert of Self Aid of and Solidarity needs all the funds at its dis­ RESISTANCE FIGHTER Refugees will take place on Monday, Novem­ posal from membership fees, donations and ber 28, at 7.45, in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. legacies. Nearly 1,000 people, among them artists, The programme includes two Haydn Symph­ We extend our best wishes to our sister writers, communal and political leaders onies (No. 66 and 76) and the Violin Con­ organisation, hoping that it will be able to attended the Perc Lachaise funeral of Mr. certo No. 3 by Mozart. The Park Lane Music continue its work in the spirit of humanity and Henri Braun-Adam. French Resistance leader, Players will be conducted by Rudolf Schwarz, responsibititv which it has always displayed. joumalist, art critic. Communist leader and and the soloist will be Ida Haendel, both of It will still be needed for many years. social worker who has died, aged 77. He went whom very generously put themselves at the to France in the early 1920s as a political disposal of the function. Many former Ber­ liners will remember Rudolf Schwarz from DR WERNER CAHNMAN, 75 refugee from Poland. Before the Second World War he was a successful professional photo­ the first years of the Nazi rdgime, when he Dr. Werner Cahnman (Forest Hills), until grapher and played a leading part in the was conductor of the Jewish Kulturbund his retirement. Professor of sociology at artistic and cultural life of Paris. With the Orchestra and, by his artistic accomplish­ invasion of France, he quickly took a leading ments, helped to lift the morale of the Ger­ Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.), man Jews during their darkest period. Ida celebrated his 75th birthday on September 30. part in uniting the French resistance and in including the Jewish population. He was twice Haendel is a pupil of Carl Flesch, whose world­ He has many books and articles on sociological decorated for his work in the Resistance and wide renown in pre-war musical life is subjects to his credit, among them (as co­ equally remembered especially by former his post-war work to rehabilitate orphans of Continental Jews. author) a work on "Sociology and History". the Resistance and of deportees.

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Although no longer the German Sir,—I would be grateful for the courtesy capital, Berlin is still very much the centre the Mountains", who is 85 and still mountain­ of your columns in obtaining help from former of German theatre activity; the variety of eering; and for German comedian and writer refugees who came to this country from its cultural presentations is astounding. Dur­ Werner Finck (75). Lil Dagover, discovered Germany in the 1930s. I am engaged in a ing a single week this autumn the Schiller­ by Erich Pommer, once pronounced the most research project at Warwick University con­ theater had works by Schiller, Ibsen, Hebbel, beautiful German film actress, now retired, cerned with the life experience of those Raimund and Gerhart Hauptmaim in its reper­ celebrated her SOth birthday. German-born Jews who have come to live in toire, whereas Schlossparktheater, Komoedie London since their fiight from Nazi Germany. I would like to talk to any of your readers and Renaissancetheater provided more works Obituary. Rosette Anday, Budapest-born about their attitudes towards Britain and Ger­ of modem world literature. At the "Theater contralto of the Vienna Opera from 1921 to many and to discuss with them general am Kurfuerstendamm" familiar faces appeared 1938, and again 1945-1961, has died in Vienna. questions of a more personal kind. Any in­ in a French comedy (Rudolf Platte, Kaethe She was 74. S.B. formation given, ivould, of course, be con­ Haack, Thomas Fritsch, who is Willy's son), fidential. whilst for operetta fans there was a gigantic SCRIPTWRITER FOR CONRAD VEIDT 80 I am a German of the younger generation music-cum-dance presentation of Kalman's (b. 1941) lohose family now lives and works "Grafin Mariza" with Marika Rokk playing Film writer and lecturer John H. Kahan m this country. I hold a degree from Freiburg the (enlarged) part of the duchess, dancing recently celebrated his SOth birthday. He was University and have in recent years been in­ her solos and ensembles with quite unique bom in Vienna, the son of a rabbi and volved in occasional editorial work for the brilliance and unbelievable perfection. (She Leo Baeck Institute. It is through this loork Talmudist, and came to England in 1935 as that I came to feel that a study on this is 64.) scriptwriter for Conrad Veidt for whom he subject would be a valuable undertaking. May had previously written films in Berlin. In I add that my work is not a duplication of 60 years ago. It may not be pure coincid­ Berlin he also published a book on the "Art the one undertaken some years ago by Mrs. ence that bright and melodious operetta music of the Film" which is still considered a clas­ Pottlitzer under the auspices of the AJR. If was created whilst the battles of World War I has a different focus and is exclusively con­ sic. Over here he worked in films and radio cerned with the London community. raged. When audiences were clamouring for and provided many gags for Tommy Handley's gaiety and cheerfulness, composers on both (Dr.) MARION BERGHAHN 'Itma". 24 Binswood Avenue, sides of the channel responded; the British Leamington Spa, success of 1917 "Maid of the Mountains" is FILM PRESIDENT Warwickshire. still much played today, and simultaneously Jessel's "Schwarzwaldmadel" arrived on the Mr. Sidney Shurman of Hendon, a member German scene whilst Kalman presented the of Hendon Synagogue, has been elected presi­ LEGACY FOR AJR Austrians with his waltz-operetta "Die dent of the Cinematograph Exhibitors Associ­ Faschingsfee". Miss Grete Sonnenberg, of Hampstead, who ation of Great Britain and Ireland. died last March left about £25,000, the bulk Professor humoris causa? Within the frame­ NO BEST-SELLER of her estate to be equally divided between work of German Television's "Witzakademie", the Association of Jewish Refugees and the the series starred "Professor" Theo Lingen, David Irving's book "Hitler's war" which minister of New Liberal Jewish Congregation who is still a favourite with the public. was reviewed in our October issue, sold only in Hampstead, for such charitable purposes about 4,000 copies by midsummer. Twice as as he sees fit. As we already mentioned in Birthdays. Celebrations last month for Maria many people bought John Toland's biography the obituary note published in our May issue. Jeritza, unforgotten Vienna "Kammersaen- "Adolf Hitler" which states that Hitler did Miss Sonnenberg was for several years a gerin" 1913-1935, now living in the United know and was responsible. devoted staff member of URO.

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