INFORMATION ISSUED by the ASSOOATHM of Xmsh Rffucces in GREAT BRITAWI

Volume XXVII No. 7 July, 1972 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOOATHM OF XmSH RffUCCES IN GREAT BRITAWI '*^- Rosenstock dent, Gabriel Riesser, the filter for Jewish emancipation. The problems arising from the more or less qualified emancipation of the Jews in Germany DOES fflSTORY REPEAT ITSELF? and Austria, of course, play the same impor tant part in this latest Year Book as they did The question whether history repeats itself 1924 and 1929. When the emergency arose in in previous voliunes. What is new, however, ^nnot be answered with an unqualified " y«s " Germany after the November 1938 pogroms is the fact that some of the articles are records •• ' no ". On the one hand, the circumstances and emigration became a matter of life or of symposia whose participants included many y which events are shaped are in a constant death, the condemnation in the U.S.A. of the scholars of other than German-Jewiish back ^tate of flux. On the other hand, there are crimes perpetrated by the Nazis " did not lead ground. This confirms the essential role which »asic problems which, though in different to a basic change in public opinion on matters is attributed to the research on the German- '^^' represent themselves time and again. of immigration." Jewish symbiosis as a unique and, at the same 'nder this aspect it is no accident that time, instructive phenomenon. Some of the ^search into the history of the Jews in Ger- Acculturation in tlte U.S. transactions, published in the Year Book, are ,j,^Qy and Austria has increased in recent years. based on lectures at a Conference held in th ""^lationship between assimilated Jews an<? As far as the integration policy vis-a-vis the Jerusalem under the auspices of the LBI in _ e majority population of these countnes was newcomers to the United States is concerned, 1970, others on a Convention on " The Cultural jerked by success, shortcomings and final the author distinguishes between three differ and Economic Role of the Jews in Central saster. Yet as Jews have continued to live ent periods. Originally, immigrants were ex Europe", heJd in Washington under the countries of the diaspora, the problems pected to adjust themselves to the prevailing auspices of the American Historical Society in nsing from their minority status have still Anglo-Saxon culture ; later, the " medting-pot " 1969. Naturally, the papers read at the Wash be faced, notwithstanding the different theory developed which aimed at an amalga ington convention on " The Jews in the Habs g^Jjîâl structure of the Western countries mation of the different ethnic strains and cul burg Empire, 1879-1918" (William A. Jenks) ^d the emergence of the State of Israel. Simi- tures ; this, in tum, has heem repilaced by the and " The Economic and Cultural Role of the %. there are paralleJs between the " red idea of " cultural pluralism ", allowing the co Jews in the Weimar Republic" (Donald I. similationists" in Germany and Austria, existence of ethnic and religious groups and Niewyk) in the first place aimed at giving Pîally in the 'twenties and early 'thirties, the development of " sub-cultures " within the American scholars some factual information. net the Jewish adhereats of the New Left in framework of American society. Strauss's inter Yet beyond this they also carry interesting esting analysis at the same time re-affirms the comments, e.g., the gradual shifting of strong our days. far-reaching differences between the position Jewish personalities from communal work to in the U.S.A. and in other countries of resettle wider public activities at the expense of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book ment, e.g., in Britain. level of commojnal leadership. At the same time, some of the knowTi facts are put across . "Oughts of this kind come to mind, when The Jewish immigrants from Germany after in well formulated sentences such as the j°^ reads the latest Year Book wiih which the 1933 were confronted vrilh descendants of two reference to the " emancipated Jews-without . 0 Baeck Institute has presented us.'* Accord- preceding Jewish immigration groups : the Judaism " who " did not achieve perfect inte- g to the sub-heading, the work ds focused on masses from Eastern Europe and the nine g'-ation into German national culture" tio'f^"^'^ Jewry ; in fact, however, it carries teenth-century immigrants from Germany, (Andrew G. Whiteside). J I'.o'ily a number of essays on this important many of whom had attained high positions, especially in the economic sphere. It is sym Dject, but also on other aspects pertinent bolical that the list of benefactors displayed in °ûr past and present. the theatre and opera houses of the new "Red Assimilation" /yi essay belonging to the latter group is the Lincoln Centre in New York carries an j^^?nient of "The Immigration and Accul- extremely high proportion of names which The predicament of Jewish Socialists in Ger glâtion of the German Jew in the United denote the origin from places in Southern Str of America ". The author. Dr. Herbert many and Austria, quite a few of whom, e.g., Germany. The oirctmistances under which the Victor Adler, tried to evade the Jewish issue, rauss^ Professor of History at the City Col- forefathers of these donors left their villages 0^^^' New York, and Executive Vice-President is dealt with not only by Jenks but also by in Franconia and the Palatinate are described George L. Mosse in his Jerusalem lecture on (-1 ê American Federation of Jews from in the article by Jacob Toury : " Jewish Manual Wou* ^ Europe, is also the co-ordinator of the " German Socialists and the Jewish Question Labour and Emigration—Records from some in the Weimar Republic " and in a thought- rid-wi(jg research on the history of the Jews Bavarian Districts (1830-1857) ". The essay is provoking article by Walter B. Simon on " The j^J^ Germany in their countries of resettle substantiated by painstaking statistics of the Jewish Vote in Austria ". Mosse's lecture in lie f ^-^^ ^"^ progress. Details about the imple- occunational and numerical structure of the cludes references to the Jewish Communist Ij^jJ^tion of the scheme in Britain were pub- Jewish population in villages of these d'stricts, author Otto HeUer (miu-dered in Mauthausen ôirr ^'^ **^ front page article by Margot retrieved from Bavarian communal and Govern in 1945) whose book "Der Untergang des 5^ Wzer in our May issue.t Strauss's essay is mental archives. Judentums" (1931) exerted a great influence only an important contribution to the The restrictions which prompted many Jews on young Jews during the last pre-Nazi years. j^sessment of the position in the U.S.A. but, Quite a few of them then joined the Communist ôr^+l!*^ extent, may also serve as a guidance to leave Germany in the nineteenth century are a1«o reflected in the " Jewish Petiitions to movement, be it as members of the Party or It 0 • Ô'"'' undertaken in other countries. of " Red Pupils' Groups " which, more often Of j*^^ a wealth of material on the process the German National Assembly in Frankfurt 1848/49" recorded by Dr. R. Moldenhauer, than not, consisted almost exiclusively of Jew stj,.''V?^'gration from Germany and, based on ish members. LittJe did they know at that time âct'li!*^*^ abstracts, confirms the paradoxical Direc+or of the Bundesarchiv Frankfurt/Main. A striking example is the expulsion, without that, two years later, many dn their midst reg; ^* during the first five years of the Nazi would find fulfilment in hachshara and aliya. far "h^ ^^^ number of annual immigrants was reason, of a Jewish academic. Dr. L. H. Loewen stein. from Frankfurt, despite 21 years' resi Yet theire were others who stuck to their Qg^^low the quota allocated to people of dence in that city. The dichotomy of the situa ân birth under the Immigration Acts of Communist beliefs and became clandestine tion becomes particularly evident if one re- resistance fighters against the Nazi regime, y'eitsr? ^^«ok Institute. Yaar Book XVI. Edited by Robert calte tihat the disabilities to which the petitions exposing themselves not only as political i5 iij^"- East and West Library. London. 1971. 334 pp.. î»h/ ». 2"=- E3.75. Free of change for members of Mie refer persisted at a time when the parliament adversaries of the powers that be, but also as B t A f„„K'^'•'^'^^ °* *» "-.B.!. had a Pres^'dent of Jewish C'^n. Eduard *98 12 afwiouncement is published in this issue on (later von) Simson, and a Jewish Vice-Presi Continued on page 2, column 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMA'nON July, 1972 Does History Repeat Itself ? THE AMERICAN SCENE Continued from page 1 HOUSING PLANS NEGRO SPLIT OVER ISRAEL members of the outcast Jewish minority. As A lower court ruling approving the build The National Association for the Advance an aftermath to the article on Jewish Resis ing of low-income housing in the Forest Hills ment of Co'oured People has withdrawn from tance, published in the preceding Year Book, district of New York City has been unanim the National Black Political Convention, a Arnold Paucker compiled some additional ously reversed by the appeUate division of Negro coalition group. This is due to a material received, partly prompted by last the New York Supreme Court. The New resolution passed at a meeting in Gary, York State Legislature at the same time Indiana, in March, condemning Israel's " eX; year's article. This material, based on personal approved a Bill calling upon the city's board pansionist policy " and " forceful occupation recollections, is particularly valuable because, of estimates to reconsider this scheme to of Arab lands.

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