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Volume XLVIII No. 3 March 1993

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Don't miss . .. Analysing the antecedents of 1933

Smokescreen over the silver screen p3 Is the past 'another country'? Braunau-born and christened n 30 January 1933 President Hindenburg man does not live by bread alone. Economic factors Adolf p5 had offered Hitler the Chancellorship, pend­ simply cannot account for the near-tenfold increase of Oing fresh Reichstag elections. In March Nazi strength in the 1930 election — i.e. before the Monarchy of exactly sixty years ago the election, terror-shadowed calling in of US loans due to the Wall Street Crash money pi3 in the aftermath of the Reichstag Fire, duly affirmed tipped the fitfully resurgent German economy into Nazi rule. ever-deepening recession. This sombre anniversary yet again prompts the Hitler's propulsion from the margins to the centre question of why Hitlerism happened (as well as the of politics owed a lot to the voters' alienation from a newly urgent rider of whether it can possibly happen weak-looking middle-of-the-road government, and to Bloomsbury again). a new generation of radicalised youth reaching voting It is popularly believed that the Nazis rode to power age. on the back of all-encompassing economic misery, In addition the War — pace the runaway success of o many it with hyper-inflation first pauperising the middle All Quiet on the Western Front — and the subsequent meant a classes, and the slump later throwing millions out of Treaty of Versailles still preoccupied the German Tliterar y work. There is some validity in the 'wiped-out- public. Remarque's novel has a pacifist undertone, but coterie - to us it savings-and-empty-stomachs' theory, which, how­ the majority of popular war books and films dissemi­ was a House ever, leaves out the tangle of issues summed up in the nated by Hugenberg's media empire (Scherl Verlag offering shelter. trigger words Weimar and Versailles. and Ufa) purveyed martial nostalgia and revanchism. Now Bloomsbury Though it sounds a cliche, it still holds true that 'War' runs an old adage popular with German are the publishers philosophers 'is the father of all things'. This certainly of D. M. Thomas, held good in the case of the galloping inflation that who, on receiving deprived the middle classes of their cash - and with it, royalties for his mental - balance. From 1914 to 1918, rather than Babi Yar novel WE ARE MOVING finance the war out of unpopular heavy taxes, Berlin had printed money against the 'collateral' of booty The White Hotel The full story will follow in a later issue and future conquests. When the Reich garnered defeat sobbed 'People (and the obligation to pay reparations) in place of the died for this!' confidently expected victory, inflation and the de­ 'This' is still As from March 29, 1993 the AJR offices will be located at: struction of the currency necessarily followed. Thomas's subject So much for the antecedents of the Nazi triumph matter 12 years sixty years ago. What about the possible repetition of on. Pictttres at an 1 HAMPSTEAD GATE 1933 in the Nineteen-Nineties? Many — though by no Exhibition is a 1A FROGNAL means all — indicators speak against it. Unlike its sickening LONDON NWS Weimar predecessor the Bundesrepublik has provided voyeuristic long-term stabilit)' through the successful operation exploitation of of the democratic process, and the underlying strength Holocaust horrors. Our new telephone number will be: of the economy. There are, of course, tendencies Thomas has harking back to yesteryear. Burghers cheering arson­ stooped even 071-431 6161 ist mobs in the East was one such; another is the jus sanguinis which states that ethnic German descent, lower than Martin The Fax number will be 071-431-8454 and not birth in the country, confers citizenship. Amis, whose For all that, looking back from March 1993 to Time's Arroiv was where we stood sixty years ago we can say with a show-off part)- Note: The Paul Balint AJR Day Centre will reasonable confidence that the past is another trick with remain at 15 Cleve Road. country. (This has, anyway, always been true for us in skulls, n the most literal sense of the word.) AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1993

Order of Merit Profile The founder of ROK (Reunion of Kinder- transport), Bertha Leverton, has been ment - at other North London venues. awarded the German Federal Order of Tour guide to Later that decade he switched from the Merit for her historical research. She Thespisland declining fur business to totally different received the award at a special reception employment, namely tourism. After an held in the German Embassy in January. D intensive course in English history, art and architecture, he passed a stiff examination Berlin school reopened f devised by the London Tourist Board. Ever In late 1992 the building that once accom­ since then he, and his wife, have been modated the Knabenschule der Jiidischen working as tour guides in London, the Gemeinde in Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Home Counties and Scotland. Berlin-Mitte, was returned to its original Meanwhile in 1974, on the death of 'Pern' purpose after fifty years. Closed as a school (our previous arts correspondent, and in 1942 it served first as a Wehrmacht depot renowned chronicler of the golden Weimar and then as a vocational centre. years) Stefan joined AJR Information and Thanks to the efforts of the late Heinz commenced his regular column. Nearly 20 Galinski the building was returned to the years on he pursues both his bread-and- Jewish community after the Wall fell. butter occupation and his hobby with It was completely renovated, and has undiminished vigour, pleased that the now become a Jewish school with a pri­ monthly SB feature continues to engage the mary- and pre-school class, but will even­ Stefan Bukowitz. Photo: Newman. interest of many of our subscribers. tually lead up to matriculation. j journal like ours whose readers Readers with a keen memory may recall At present the children are being bussed have known more traumatic up­ the bon mot about Dean Inge of St Paul's, to the school from West-Berhn, as there are j Aheavals than they would wish on who wrote for the Beaverbrook press, being few Jews living in the East, but this may their worst enemies, understandably puts a 'a pillar of the Church and two columns in change with the influx of Russian Jews. The high premium on continuity. The paper has the Evening Standard'. Stefan Bukowitz re-opening was performed by the current , one section which provides more continuity could be aptly described as a pillar of the community leader, Jerzy Kanal, in the j than most, namely SB's Column. For one, refugee community and one column in AJR presence of several 'old boys'. D the contents recall the theatre, music and Information. cinema of the Twenties and Thirties; for n R. G. Culinary ecumenism another, Stefan Bukowitz has been our At Yuletide, pointed out a letter to the regular columnist for close on two decades. Times, a famous London department store Born in Vienna during the Habsburg was selling Christmas pudding certified sunset, Stefan followed his father into the europaische ideen kosher by rabbinical authorities. Now, with fur trade, but even as a teenager fixed on Easter coming up, can we look forward to 'showbiz' as his overriding hobby. Conse­ I The Riding, London NWl I Hot Cross buns bearing the same seal of quently, ever since the 1920s he has been approval? D noting down details of all his theatre and Heft 81 StasiSachen 3 opera visits in notebooks - a record he keeps up to date, and to which he refers in Beitraege von Karl Corino, CLUB 1943 compiling monthly copy for the journal. Hermann Kant, Wolf Biermann, Anglo-German Cultural Forum Escaping to England after the Anschluss, Walter Janka, Gabriele Eckart, Meetings on Mondays at 8 p.m. he continued to work, in the fur trade, but Lutz Rathenow, Joachim Seyppel, at the Communal Hall in 1940 this 'career' suffered a long inter­ Gerhard Zwerenz, Juergen Fuchs, Belsize Square Synagogue mission. Firstly he was taken to an Austra­ Guenter Wallraff, Alfred 51 Belsize Square Kantorowicz, Werner Heiduczek, London NW3 lian internment camp aboard the notorious Dunera; then, upon release, he went into Karl-Heinz Jakobs, Chaim Noll, Sieghard Pohl, Baerbel Bohley, Mar. 1st. D. L. Maier LL.B. the British army for four-and-a-half years, The Life and Work of Arthur Koesrler. Guenter de Bruyn, J. B. Bilke, Tilo Mar. Sth. C. Krysler. serving both in this country and NW Medek, Fritz Beer, Jan Koplowitz, Members' Annual General Meeting, Europe. Herbert Freeden, Stephan followed by Zitate aus aller Welt und Postwar his interest in matters artistic Hermlin. eigene. and musical was enhanced by marriage to Mar. 15 th. Roland Stent. the light opera singer Hilde Lergens, who Edward VII and his Jewish court. Dealing Guenter Grass zum Tode von with the King's personal friends, had survived the Nazi period in Vienna as a Willy Brandt highlighting in particular Sir Ernest Cassel. Mischling. Hilde joined Peter Herz's Blue Jifi Pelikan zum Tode von Mar. 22nd. Dr. Andree Singer. Danube Club, where Stefan also worked for Alexander Dubcek The Place of Documentaries in Art. one season as a piano accompanist. The (Supported by films). Blue Danube Club closed in 1954, but in the 81 S., DM 5, - mit ausfuehrlicher Mar. 29th. Dr. Sara Sviri. Stasi-Blbliographie Cultural Links between Muslims and Jews early Sixties he organised several repeat 1 in the Middle Ages. performances of cabaret programmes — for Ji which he also made the musical arrange­

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film. In the meantime British film makers Smokescreen over the silver screen had expressed their distaste for Hitlerism in a series of movies such as Hatter's Castle and The Stars Look Down which showed tyrannical paterfamiUas or bosses coming to a bad end.

Ostrich posture Paradoxically, the same British film indus­ try that adopted an ostrich posture vis-a-vis Nazism provided employment opportuni­ ties to a score of German-Jewish immi­ grants or refugees. Julius Hagen, Karl Grune and Paul Czinner respectively di­ rected Conrad Veidt in The Wandering Jew, Fritz Kortner in Abdul the Damned and Elizabeth Bergner in Dreaming Lips. Equally important were the producer Max Schach, the designer Hein Heckroth and the ex-theatre director Rudolph Bernauer (who co-scripted Hatter's Castle and The Stars •Conner plays the eponymous lead in Die Affaire Dreyfus, one ofthe first 'talkies' Look Down). The most successful, and integrated, of these continental newcomers, fortable with films 'extolling Jews at f's an established, if deplorable, fact that though, was Emeric Pressburger of Forty- unbearable length. There has been quite throughout the Thirties the world res­ Ninth Parallel and the Life and Death of I ponded to Hitler with myopic appease- enough of these Wandering Jews, Roth­ Colonel Blimp fame. ^nt. This held largely true both of govern- schilds and Susses'. (Hollywood had just Lest this sounds too idyllic it should be ents and media in the Western countries. made The House of Rothschild with George remembered that some of the aforemen­ ^ for Russia, it switched abruptly from Arliss.) Conrad Veidt, star of both The tioned drifted into obscurity or left to seek ^nti-Fascism to Soviet-Nazi Friendship in Wandering Jeti/ and Jetv Suss, explained the greener pastures in America. (Elizabeth 39, when Professor Mamlock, the first latter's lack of audience appeal by saying: Bergner did so - under a cloud - in 1940.) ^r major anti-Nazi film disappeared over- 'English Jews are too deeply concerned with In 1940, too, the English documentary "'ght from Moscow cinemas, persecution to patronise movies about the film director Paul Rotha put the half- ^n Hollywood it took six years till the first problem'. forgotten, and terminally ill, Carl Mayer, merican counterpart - Confessions of a screen writer of The Cabinet ofDr Caligari, '^zt Spy - appeared. The French cinema City without Jews on his payroll to keep him out of wever, did even worse when it made LcLa Ke, The relative failure oijetv Suss helped abort internment. ffnesse Heroique in 1935. A 'costume several related projects, such as a film •^^lip' about the Spanish occupation of 16th version of Feuchtwanger's Geschtvister British film? ^ntury Flanders Kermesse showed the Oppenheim (a TV adaptation of which, However, not all men with influence over niish men making themselves scarce, called The Oppermans, had a Europe-wide the British cinema empathised with the "'le their womenfolk 'conquered' the audience in 1983, fiftieth anniversary of the refugees' lot. In 1936 Grahame Greene, °^cupiers by going to bed with them. Thus Machtergreifung), and an English sound reviewing The Marriage of Corbal wrote ere the seeds of Vichy sown before the version of the silent Austrian film City 'Directed by Karl Grune, photographed by event. ivithout Jetvs (the only remaining copy of Otto Kanturek and edited by Walter Stok- which was recently unearthed in J^W Suss vis, and with a cast including Nils Asther Amstcdam). and Ernst Deutsch — should it be considered I" Britain 1933, the year of the Nazi On the other hand Jeiv Suss revived a British film at all?' In December 1939 eover, by contrast, saw the screening of interest in John Galsworthy's 10-year old Kenneth Clark, the newly appointed Direc­ ^eral films with Jewish themes. The first, 'Jewish problem' play Loyalties. Another tor of the Films Division of the Ministry of ^ Wandering Jeiv, served up the cliched stage run was followed by a film which Information said 'If we lose the war ... let ^ of Ahasverus cursed with the inability featured Basil Rathbone as the Jewish the essential non-British and Jewish element die. The second, Jeiv Suss (based on parvenu de Levis. Sad to relate, Basil Dean's in the industry realise what would happen ^chtwanger's novel) was, on the other film adaptation undercut the anti-semitic to them.' (Kenneth, later Lord Clark, was . '^d, a well-intentioned effort. 'An interest- thrust of Galsworthy's original by making the father of ex-Arms Minister Alan Clark. 8) heavy-handed historical satire on the de Levis appear less deserving of audience Der Apfel fdllt nicht weit vom Stamm.) sympathy than his thoroughbred English • '""essness of race distinction made partly Misnamed 'Civilization', Clark received adversary. 3nswer to Nazi oppression in Germany' this rejoinder from John Archibald, Manag­ ^^s how Halliwell's Film Guide described By and large, though, the interlocking ing Director of United Artists 'In the Film topics of antisemitism and Nazism were Industry we do not think of a man as non- J^w Suss did not do well at the box office. kept off the British screen till after the Th British because he is a Jew!' And who could e critic James Agate, a self-proclaimed outbreak of war, when Ernst Toller's Nie­ say fairer than that?! f^'-antisemite', confessed himself uncom­ moller play Pastor Hall was turned into a

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become Governor of the 'Land'. So if he discussions of events and personalities, with Reconciliation via the considers the preservation of these historic contemplation of old photographs and the stones resting places a duty for non-Jews, it is more faces of aunts and uncles, parents, grand­ likely to happen than if we here asked for parents. These scenes are interspersed with 'MAHNMALE' - Judische Friedhofe in Wien, this. A chapter on the general history of the extracts from the writings of the great man Niederosterreich und Burgenland-Steines, Burgenland by Shalom Fried, a Jerusalem- himself, both published material and Lohrmann, et al. Wien 1992, 'Club born Israeli of Burgenland descent, struck private correspondence. Copies of his Niederosterreich' me as interesting on two counts. There is a works are shown, including his translation parallel with the CAJR in that he is the of the Pentateuch, with commentary, in he range, standing and convictions of founder of a world wide association of German written in Hebrew characters. the contributors to this book endow 'Jews from the Burgenland and descen­ dants'; myself descended from ancestors in it with considerable interest. It com­ The good and the great T Kittses, I find it touching that its historic bines statements of policy by some leaders The viewer is reminded that, in 1763, cemetery is the only one in all Austria to of contemporary Austria with an evocation Mendelssohn, self-taught in secular sub­ enjoy 'in its entirety' the protection of of the past enhanced by copious illus­ jects, beat Immanuel Kant to the first prize Denkmalschutz. The book as a whole leads trations, while Vice-Chancellor Busek's in a competition organised by the Berlin one once again in the direction of frank admission that Austro-Jewish history Royal Academy. But, as the film seems to reconciliation. is a catalogue of persecution, oppression establish, Mendelssohn's reputed friend­ and humiliation, could have been written at n Francis Steiner ships with the good and the great, particu­ any time since 1945, much of the rest of the larly at Potsdam, were more tenuous than is book could not. So much has been popularly supposed, his relationship with unearthed, cleaned up and restored in the poet Lessing being the outstanding recent years that some very recent develop­ exception. Similarly, modern Berlin hardly ments are listed. Contributors range from Auf der Suche nach provides one of the actors in the film, a Cardinal Koenig with his essay on the German-naturalised Turk, with the kind of Jewish roots of Christianity to Chief Rabbi Herrn Moses unconditional welcome one might expect Eisenberg on Jewish graves and cemetery from a homeland of adoption. The film Eson Film Berlin. 1990. In German, or English culture, from Patricia Steines on death and reaches its climax with the dedication of the with subtitles and dubbed voices. £45 plus new tombstone in memory of 'Rabbenu mourning customs as expressed in the art £1.50 pSip (or hire at £6 plus £1.50 p&p) from Moshe ben Menachem Mendel' and the architecture and archaeology of Jewish OFVM, The Stables, North Place, Headington, burial places, to straight history and reports Oxford 0X3 9HY Kaddish prayer said for him by a small on recent travels through the two provinces. group of Jews, members of the once great community which he had helped to create. Restoration work hree men of genius dominate the n David Maier history of Jewish theological thought. For more on Moses Mendelssohn turn to page 12. Who would have known that traces of All three bore the name of Moses. Jewish graves or burial grounds exist in over T The one nearest to us in time and place was 90 villages and towns in Lower Austria? Moses Mendelssohn, the philosophei who, And that much restoration work had been 200 years ago, reshaped German Jewry in COMPENSATION CLAIMS undertaken, not only by the authorities, but his image. Ill-favoured by nature and by also by private citizens? pre-Emancipation anti-Jewish laws and GERMANY Jewish cemeteries are 'books' of cultural ordinances, he nonetheless succeeded in history. Some recent events deduced from Under a new Agreement regular hardship obtaining recognition for his immense con­ payments will be made to victims of the them are staggering: in 1942/43 weakened tribution to the intellectual treasures of his Holocaust who were hitherto unable to by hunger and cold, and short of lorries and age and country. apply for or received only inadequate petrol, Vienna's surviving Jews transferred One of his remote descendants is Tamara compensation payments. most of the tombstones from the historic Wyss, who in May 1990, when Berlin was Claims may be filed by persecutees who Seegasse cemetery to the Jewish sections of still a divided city, took her camera there as were held in concentration camps for at least six months. Those who were confined the Zentralfriedhof, to save them from part of her highly personal search for 'Mr desecration. in ghettos or lived in hiding for at least Moses'. Now available as a video, the eighteen months are also entitled to claim. The publisher 'Club Niederosterreich' is a resulting hour-long film (originally made sort of National Heritage for Lower Aus­ On Instructions our Office will assist you to for German television) starts and finishes at prepare your Application and pursue the tria. One of the club founders and contribu­ the site of a memorial for her great ancestor matter with the authorities. tor to the book, Erwin Proell, has just — not his actual burial place, since that is For further information please contact: now no longer known, but in the middle of a pleasant inner city park, where, in the ICS—Claims WEMBLEY PARK MUSIC Nazi years, Jews were assembled on their 146-154 Kilburn High Road ACADEMY way to Auschwitz and the other camps. London NW6 4JD Violin/Piano tuition, Singing Coaching. All Scenes of the city as it was two years ago — Tel: 071-328 7251 (Ext. 107) ages and abilities. 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hand, there was the 'hearty' response: 'Ah, When Austrian universities began to plan Braunau-born and Adolf, sehr gut, ja; what a very German activities for the 50th anniversary of the christened Adolf name.' (The 'hearties' would often be total Anschluss, I decided to start a research strangers who asked me the way to what project on those forgotten exiles. I felt it ne of the hardest poblems to face in they called Hitlerhaus, birthplace of der necessary to recall their memories into our our adult lives is that of parental Fuhrer. My classmates and I would often be collective knowledge. The first surprise was Omistakes. How do we come to asked that favour since the house was how many, particularly in Britain, res­ etms with parents who, you have come to unmarked, and Nazi tourists did not dare ponded. I did what in Social Science should •^^alize, are considerably less than perfect? ask for directions from anyone but children. never happen: I (and my wife) made friends '^ worse, were involved in morally dubious Once, I guided a man to the house and was with them. activities? Peter Sichrovsky's collection of fascinated to observe that he scraped some interviews entitled Schuldtg Geboren (Born mortar off the facade into a plastic bag as a Special relationship souvenir.) The other response was a suspi­ Guilty)^ each involving an offspring of Nazi One couple in particular entered our cious glance, a pause, a quiet smile. Later I ^rimmals, contains compelling examples of lives: Edi and Edith Arie. It is really because understood that the smirk connoted pity for such conflicts. of Edi that I am writing this piece. There is my — obvious — Nazi parentage. My own case, though not altogether not quite enough space to describe the "lerent, is considerably less awful. There special relationship which evolved. 3re no blood-dripping Nazis in my family, Glorious exploits Edi died quite suddenly last August and I ^nly the usual collection of antisemites and My Braunau school never taught me any­ mourned him more than I have ever away-lookers'. It is just that when I was thing about Nazism, the Anschluss or the mourned a person in my entire life. During DOrn in 1949, no other forename would 63,000 Austrian Jews who were murdered. the last week we had together, I admitted to enter my father's head than Adolf. To make But I do remember how a history teacher myself that Edi was the kind of father whom niatters worse, I share my place of birth once began dreamily to speculate on what I never had. He represented so much that I ^'th Adolf Hitler. Yes, I was born at fantastic development the town could have missed in my own ancestry and in my own •^aunau am Inn and went to school there. taken 'if only Hitler hadn't attacked the culture. Goddammit, I know from first­ But no, my father was not a die-hard Nazi. Russkies. If he hadn't, we (sic) would have hand experience now what Austria lost He Was, and still is, a devout Catholic who won the war'. I began to observe that my through the expulsion of thousands of Edis. P'ayed the church organ for 55 years of his father too would say 'because we lost the The heart just aches thinking how our ' e. But his own name being Adolf, he war'. Like many of my classmates, I avidly present political culture would be different Allowed a regional custom and passed it on read Der Landser pulp series about the if only Austria had invited the likes of Edi ^ his only son. Less than four years after glorious exploits of the Wehrmacht. Some­ back in 1945! e end of the Nazi era he had no second how, the end of the war was never men­ D Adi Wimmer thoughts about that terrible name! Like tioned in those Schundhefte, as they were "lions of his Austrian compatriots, he called by our elders. (And 'betters'?) The Adi Wimmer teaches English and American ought Nazism a closed chapter. He was cumulative effect of these stories was to Uterature at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. "ot able to see that the name Adolf was create the impression that 'we' had in fact His collection of Oral Histories Die Heimat politically and morally charged and would won the war. And of course there was no wurde ihnen fremd. Aber die Fremde nicht zur •"ce me to shoulder a heavy burden - in mention ever of the political context of the Heimat: Erinnerungen osterreichischer Juden "'ore sense than one. war, still less of the Holocaust. As regards aus dem Exil will be published by the Vienna ^tom a very early age on I encountered Jewish refugees, even my history teachers 'Verlag fur Gesellschaftskritik' to coincide with the rong reactions to mv name. 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previous help with my application and later forms), I at once paid the required voluntary contribution, the maximum in my case of U^^SomS^jd^^ <^. DM 1216. With considerable effort, I learnt what, alas, I had not previously dug deep enough for, and which may interest your MELLORDRAMA OVERCHARGED readers. The DM 1216 would lead to something like DM 10 per month for me (or Sir - You allege that Herzl had V.D. Big Sir - I want to draw attention to the fact for that matter someone half my age) which Deal, if true. What has that to do with the that Lloyds' bank charge on my present for an octagenarian is patently absurd. I fact that he was the father - possibly the German pension of £275 via the BGC applied for refund which the Berlin Office inventor — of Politcal Zionism? Goodness system works out at £6, and is about to go granted by a letter stating: me, if this issue should find its way to Israel, up to £7. The latter is the equivalent of two there wiO be mourning all round. RG's idol and a half per cent, more than stockbrokers 'Incomplete and unclear publication in had fallen! A Fast Day will be declared, charge for transactions up to £10,000. The the British media led to erroneous expec­ pictures will be burned, and in every town Midland and NatWest also charge less. If tations of the pension amount but the and village street names will have to other readers who are Lloyds Bank cus­ German Pensions Office has no re­ changed. Herzlia will become Grunbergia tomers wrote to them we might get sponsibility for that.' overnight. Jabotinsky's name wiU also have somewhere. What a shame that so many of us did not to disappear! Never mind. After all he was Anson Road Martin Hichberger learn months earlier that the faulty publica­ only the mentor of Begin, Shamir and London NW2 tion (not from AJR) should have made clear millions of other Jews, within as well as that a minor new rule demanded by Brussels outside the State of Israel; that great RG A BALLOT - PROOF FUTURE was involved, and nothing whatever like a disapproves! compensation for Nazi persecution. How Sir — Inge Trott's need to criticise Israel to Grow up. Young Man, before you start many thousands of letters could have been show that Israel does not have general on Bailik and Weizmann, just for the sake of saved if, for instance, the Embassy and the Jewish support, is misunderstood by non- a cheap joke in poor taste. King's Cross office, had cleared up the Jews and taken as a justification to criticise London NW2 Walter Lewis misunderstanding of which they should Jews generally. The world community really have been aware long ago. regards Israel as a Jewish State, and does not BIG BANG BUMERANG Dove Park, Hatch End, Frank Selby recognise the distinction between Zionists Sir - Thank you very much for publishing and non-Zionists. Pinner Mr Brainin's Midrash on Genesis. (What North Mymms Margaret Toch would Gershon Scholem have said?) I had FAREWELL NOTE Hatfield less difficulty in understanding the theory Sir - It is with great regret that, due to ill than the Viennese vernacular in the penulti­ GENUINE 'JEWS FOR JESUS' health, I have to give up my work at the Paul mate stanza. Or is it Bavarian? Balint AJR Day Centre. It has been my One doubt remains: If Kneidlech are from Sir — I was surprised both by the title and the pleasure and privilege to serve the members God tone of the article. The title implies that Are Farfel there for the last six years. these particular 'Jews for Jesus' who had Vom Tarfel? I will continue to tape AJR Information risen to ecclesiastical heights were somehow for the benefit of the visually impaired as Aberdare Gardens Ezra Jurmann more genuine - and by implication more this can be done from home. admirable — than the recently constituted NWS I would like to take this opportunity to 'Jews for Jesus', who tend to be viewed with say goodbye to all my friends at the Day considerable hostility by the community. Centre and wish them a happy and healthy FOR THOSE YOU CARE MOST ABOUT The fact is that all 'Jews for Jesus', from New Year in 1993. the humblest to the most exalted, have one D Irene White thing in common: they have abandoned the Springdene worship of the one God of Israel, and

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^ybbuks galore Heim Suchung Award for excellence

igel William's TV film Witchcraft ime was when the East Prussian r Ludwig Spiro, Hon. President, suggested that a 17th century char­ capital city Konigsberg boasted and one-time Treasurer, of the N acter could return to earth in the T Immanuel Kant as its leading citizen. M AJR, has received official recogni­ guise of a 20th century person. In support of During Michael Wieck's youth it boasted tion of his many years of voluntary work in •^his the author threw in Marx's observation Gauleiter Koch. Post-Koch it appropriately the form of an Award for Excellence from about history repeating itself, and ceased to be a German city; Soviet since the Chief Rabbinate. 'Nietzsche's idea of 'eternal recurrence'. 1945, it became Kaliningrad. The citation, published in the Jeivish As the Dybbuk theme practically falls Due to the collapse of Soviet power it is Chronicle (22 January 1992) reads: under Jewish copyright we cannot gainsay now a geographically cut-off Russian out­ Nigel WiUiams. I have, accordingly, com­ post in a state of suspended animation. As Outstanding Volunteer Worker - piled a list of contemporary (or 20th such it is increasingly visited by nostalgic Since retiring 17 years ago, Ludivig Spiro century) celebrities and linked each with the ex-East Prussians. Among their number - if has devoted his considerable energy almost person he or she thinks (thought) they only superficially — was the former Geltungs entirely to the care of refugees from Nazi reincarnate(d): jude Michael Wieck, whose harrowing Germany, through the Association for autobiography we reviewed in September Jeivish Refugees, the Otto Schiff Housing Malcolm 1989. Association and the Heinrich Stahl House Muggeridge Jonathan Swift Wieck's visit, commissioned by a West Committee. He has worked with great Michael Foot William Hazlitt German newspaper, yielded impressions of enthusiasm to meet the needs of this ageing tennis Skinner Savonarola mixed Ught and shade. The positive aspects group and, in particular, conceived and Jack Straw Jack Straw he reported were the rediscovery of the still developed the AJR Day Centre, which Michael Howard Benjamin Disraeli intact building of the Jewish orphanage- provides shelter, food and entertainment for Gorman Lamont Hjalmar Schacht cum-school, the local Russians' loving pres­ 200-300 people iveekly. Edward Heath Arturo Toscanini ervation of Kant's tomb and monument, ^avid Mellor Rudolf Valentino and the hospitality he received from the Our warmest congratulations to Ludwig Jeffrey Archer Charles Dickens present occupants of his family home. Spiro on this well-earned distinction! D ^lan Clark Rudolf Hess Negative impressions, alas, outweighed [^enry Kissinger Prince Metternich the positive ones. The city's housing stock is Harold Pinter Lord Byron run down, if not positively derelict, streets Bruno Kreisky Josephus Flavius are potholed, and child beggars and prosti­ Search Notices ^r Charmley Oswald Mosley tutes much in evidence. Wieck's worst Suche fiJr eine Dissertation Informationen zu Dr. Norbert Hoffmann, 1891 in Wien geboren, ^0"s Yeltsin Houdini experience, though, was the reaction to all Rechtsanwalt, 1938 nach England emigriert; Stefan Zweig Erasmus of this by the wife of a former East Prussian Hoffman war der Herausgeber der W/iener judischen Zeitschrift tJIENORAH (1923-1932). Rotterdam estate owner: 'Only a Hitler could create Isabella Gartner, Universitat Innsbruck, Institut fur Th,oma s Mann Johann Wolfgang order out of such chaos'. The realisation Germanistik, Zeitungsarchiv, Innrain 52, A-6020 Goethe that Hitler had been the arch-begetter of Innsbruck. ^rank Sinati„ Al Capone chaos has still not, after the lapse of half a Goldschmidt/Goldsmith. Do any of your tra relatives come from Hessen, Germany, Sinead O'Connor Rosa Luxemburg century, penetrated the benighted woman's particularly Frankenburg, Raboldshausen, Elizabeth II Emperor Franz Josef D skull. D Hausen, Oberaula? If so please contact Philip Goldsmith, 3 The Crescent, Guildford, Surrey. Gerhard Heckelmann, Bergstr. 3, 6257 Hunfelden-Dauborn, BRD, bittet um Informationen uber das Schicksal von Mitgliedern der GERMAN BOOKS Simon P. Rhodes M.Ch.S. ehemaligen judischen Kultusgemeinde Dauborn (mit Mensfelden, Heringen, Kirberg) in Hessen. We are always buying: STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST I am presently writing a book on physicians who Books, Autographs, Judaica Surgery hours: suffered persecution in Frankfurt/M during Nazi- Please contact 8.30 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday times, I am interested in obtaining biographical information on these Frankfurt physicians by them 8.30 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday Antiquariat Metropolis and/or their descendants, who emigrated to Great Leerbachstr. 85 Visiting chiropody service available Britain. Readers who would be interested in supporting W-6000 Frankfurt a/M 67 Kilburn High Road, NW6 (opp. M&S) my research project are kindly requested to Tel: 0104969559451 contact; Ute Daub, Dipl. Soz., BriJckenstraBe 34, Telephone 071-624 1576 6000 Frankfurt/M 70, Germany. REGULAR VISITS TO LONDON Naturally, I would be willing to reimburse any costs incurred by them for their services. Greta Freudenstein (Married name unknown), BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE born Frankfurt, attended SHHS for girls until CAMPS 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.S 1939. Last known address, West Heath Drive, INTERNMENT-P.O.W.- Golders Green. Please contact old school friend Our communal hall is available Ursula Stevnes (nee Jakobowski), 1/23 FORCED LABOUR-KZ Northwood Hall, Highgate, N6 SPG. for cultural Wish to buy cards, envelopes and folded post- and social functions. I am wori(ing on an MA thesis about the Sfked letters from all camps of botti world wars. deportation of refugees to the dominions, lease send, registered mail, stating price, to: For details apply to: especially the experiences of those deported 14 Rosslyn Hill, London NWS Secretary, Synagogue Office. alongside German and Italian prisoners of war. If PETER C. RICKENBACK you are willing to be interviewed, please contact Tel: 071-794 3949 Susanna Tenwey. Box No. 1241. AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1993

AJR's starring role Not left on the shelf new hbrary has been installed at the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre. The Alending service has been funded, and is being administered, by Claudia (Didi) Srebnik. It will be known as the Sal Srebnik Library, in memory of her late husband. A wide range of books is available, from Isaac Bashevis Singer to Jilly Cooper. There are some German language titles and some specially produced large print editions. Although the library has been busily operating since 1 February, the official opening ceremony will take place on Sun­ day 7 March. A full report of this occasion will appear in the April issue of AJR Information. D AJR Information Editor Richard Grunberger faces the i era. Photo: Newman. n 15 February an audience of up to about the work ofthe AJR. The programme, 50 million people across Europe, part of the monthly series Indigo which is ORussia and Israel could watch, via transmitted on Super Channel, consisted of SEDER AT satellite and cable TV, a mini-documentary four short films on the topic of European CLEVE ROAD refugees. The other sections dealt with contemporary situations, such as refugees in The AJR will be holding a Second wartorn former Yugoslavia and Albanians Night Seder on Tuesday 6 April at Making a will? in Italy. The feature about the AJR was 15 Cleve Road NW6 3RL. Remember the AJR included to place the others into a historical Cantor Marshall Stone will officiate. context and to show that the term 'refugee' Something that none of us should refers to real people and not abstractions. Seating will be limited to 100 members. If you wish to attend avoid is making a will and keeping it The film was shot at Hannah Karminski up to date. please complete the booking form House, the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre and which was enclosed in the February We know we cannot take our Richard Grunberger's house. The Editor of issue and return it before 26 March to worldly possessions with us but we AJR Information was interviewed in depth Lydia Lassman at Hannah Karminski can - at least — see that whatever is about his personal experiences and the House, 9 Adamson Road, Swiss left behind goes: evolution of the refugee community in Cottage NWS 3HX with your payment (a) where it will be appreciated, Britain, with particular reference to the of £15 Per Person. (b) where it will do some good, AJR. D (c) where it is needed. Many of our former refugees have found their association with the AJR TIME TO HELP? a rewarding one. This is an PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE AJR members need visitors, help with opportunity to support the AJR (AJR CLUB) shopping, drivers to take them to/from our Charitable Trust. Your solicitor will Day Centre in Cleve Road, NW6. A few be able to help you; alternatively AFTERNOON HIGHLIGHTS hours a week would make so much difference . you can consult with our welfare rights advisor, Agi March 11, Thursday, 4.30-5.30: Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Alexander, on 071-483 2536 (Tues, Gems and Jewels - Talk with slides, Sunday opening 2 p.m.-7 p.m. Weds, Thurs) or the social workers given by Mr C. Krysler. A reliable, energetic volunteer is wanted at at the Day Centre 071-328 0208. the Day Centre on Sundays, to serve teas If you have already made a will, it is and suppers and help out generally. Must be March 25, Thursday, 4.30-5.30: quite easy to add a codicil. willing to work as part of a team. in tune with rhyme and reason, songs Whatever amount you are able to and anecdotes with a Yiddish flavour, Please talk to Laura Howe, AJR leave to the AJR, it will be well Volunteers' Co-ordinator, 071 483 with Sidney Seide. received, carefully applied and 2536 Tues-Thurs. 9.30-5 p.m. remembered with gratitude. Fri. 9.30-1.30 p.m. I AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1993

Brain Teasing challenge: Anyone who can answer the 1. Who is the presenter of Weekend following questions without checking the Worlds hich Hungarian Rabbi's son answers below will be allowed to spend the 2. Which French writer was exiled to the famously escaped? In which city next month telling everyone they know how Channel Islands? Wdoes Leonardo's 'Last Supper' extremely 'well-balanced' thev are. 3. Who wrote How Green is My Valley? "3ng? Carl Frahm changed his name to 4. Who said 'Apres moi le deluge'} «cape arrest by the Gestapo. Who is he? 5. Who was the first woman MP? These are a few of the questions which MEALS ON WHEELS 6. Between which cities does the Trans- teased trivia fans at the Paul Balint AJR Day Siberian Express operate? WE ARE NOW ABLE TO OFFER A Centre during the first Afternoon Prize Quiz 7. What was the real name of Nazi LIMITED DELIVERY OF MEALS "^ January. Anyone who has attended a propagandist Lord Haw Haw? What was competitive quiz, or watched one on TV, ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS TO MEMBERS UVING IN THE his nationaht)'? l^nows how addictive they can be. The most FOLLOWING AREAS: 8. In which year was Margaret Thatcher placid people cannot prevent themselves elected MP for East Finchley? forn shouting 'Franz Hals' at the merest Cricklewood, West Hampstead/ 9. Who was born in Rochdale and died in Finchley Road, Hampstead, Golders •jiention of Laughing Cavaliers. Poised Capri? uowagers have been known to shock res- Green, Finchley, Edgware, Stanmore and Harrow 10. Which famous English writer's first P^ctful dinner guests by screaming 'One language was Polish, and second French? 'lUndred and Two' over the entree as they The cost for a kosher 3 course meal Is D M.N. ••emember the answer to the all important £2.00. Delivery charge SOp. Payment for MUestion — how many floors in the Empire meals to be made to the Driver. ^tate Building? •diuvu jvutSuo sjpuvxq /////^\ st uicjvuj juv^ Meals can still be collected from 15 'uvpy^ ut sSuvq J3ddn5 jsc] s^opuvuoa'j Excitement at the Day Centre quiz Cleve Road on weekdays (Mondays •iuipno]-i svm uos sjqqvx uvuvSunyi dcfj^ reached fever pitch. Even those who were - Thursdays) for £2.00 per meal. °t officially engaged in the competition Members who feel they may qualify •pvjuoj cjd3So[-Qi 'spjdij dpv.iQ '5 ould not be restrained from calling '6S6l'S 'I^I-iI '3^'^o[ uivi}]i^-i -poison Charles de Gaulle' or 'Tokyo Rose', for delivery because of mobility problems, or other reasons, should -ipv]j\ puv moDsoy\i -9 -uofsy lipvj -y -mop "^^gardless of whether these might be the contact Mrs Ruth Finestone for -vdiuoj luvpvy^ -f, •u/ijj3m3]'] pxvqji'^ £ "ght answers. further details and an assessment •oSnyi uo}Dij\-z •uapjv/^ uvuqi ror those sceptics who feel that this may interview on: 071 328 0208 ^ overstating the case here is a small SU3MSNV zinb

PAUL BALINT AJR Sunday 7 Hans Freund: PURIM IS Wednesday 24 A Little Bit of This Sc A HERE Little Bit of That - Simon DAY CENTRE Ayling (Violin) Monday 8 Songs With Memories - accompanied by Stephen 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL Jack &c Rita Davis Baron (Piano) Tel. 071 328 0208 Tuesday 9 Light Classical Music - Thursday 25 A Recital in March for Trinit>' College of Voice 8c Piano - Noa ^Pen Tuesday and Thursday 9.30 a.m.- Music Lachman 8c Amon Pm., Monday and Wednesday 9.30 a.m.- Wednesday 10 Rosa Bunvick & Nikki van Erez •^••^0 p.m., Sunday 2 der Zyl Entertain Sunday 28 A Spectrum of Melodies - p.m.—/ p.m. Thursday 11 Musical Ensemble — Jennie Robert Brody (Tenor) Sandler & Alan Starr accompanied by Daphne ^Al ,onii,, ^ Activities - Bridge, kalookie, Sunday 14 Ex-Directory Variety Group Lewis (Piano) brabble, chess, etc., keep fit, discussion Monday 15 Highs & Lows in Opera & Monday 29 Spring-In-The-Air — Jack group^ choir [Mondays), art class [Tuesdays Song - John Freeman Harris accompanied by ""^ Thursdays). (Bass) & Yolanda Vidal Happy Branston (Soprano Sc Piano) (Piano) Tuesday 16 An Hour of Music in Tuesday 30 A Spring Recital for Cello fternoon entertainment - March with Doris & Piano - Richard Samuels &C Marian Jenkinson & Paul Lewis ^ARCH Hartman (Piano) Wednesday 31 Take A Quick-Step Back Wednesday 17 a) Outing to Theatre In Time - Geoffrey Strum >''rn entertaintnent b) Light Classics - Flute & & Johnny Walton Monday J PURIM SONGTIME - Piano - Ian Bradford & (Piano) Solos & Duets - Lola Rand Carol Alyranati & Francoise Geller Thursday 18 Sue Parker at the Piano accompanied by Irene Sunday 21 Join Debbie O'Brien at the Wallis (Piano) Piano T^sday. PURIM With Geoffrey Monday 22 The Music Makers - APRIL Strum & Johnnv Walton Elizabeth Winton 8c Stan Thursday 1 Judi Merri's 'Foolish' Pot- "^edn,sday 3 PURLVI With The AJR Longmire with Piano Pourri - Judi Merri-Frowde Tk Singers Accompaniment acccompanied by June urisday 4 We Celebrate PURIM -Joe Tuesday 23 Highs and Lows in Opera Moore (Piano) Gordon (Tenor) & Song - John Feeman & Sunday 4 Isabel Beyer & Harvey accompanied by Rosa Yolanda Vidal (Soprano & Dagul Entertain At The But\\'ick (Piano) Piano) Piano AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1993

FAMILY EVENTS CLASSIFIED their home by private purchase. No ADVERTISEMENT Birth Seeking Friendship dealers please. Tel: 081-458 3010. Schuman Gillian and Martin Lady, Central London, seeks Paying guest wanted, elegant flat RATES Schuman (nee Davies) are delighted friends, not too far, many interests. near Hyde Park. Suit elderly gentle­ FAMILY EVENTS to announce the arrival of Lawrence Box No. 1238. man. References. Full board, First 15 words free of charge, £2.00 per 5 words thereafter. David, on 28 January 1993, brother Viennese cooking. Box No. 1240. for Jonathan. Second grandson for Retired gentleman wishes to teach CLASSIFIED Lottie Davies. Miscellaneous conversational French (Fees moder­ £2.00 per five words. Electrician City and Guilds quali­ ate). Please phone 081-340 4233. BOX NUMBERS Deaths fied. All domestic work undertaken £3.00 extra. Havkin Ruth Havkin (nee Kahn), Y. Steinreich. Tel: 081-455 5262. PART TIME JOB DISPLAY, INCLUDING SEARCH born Aachen, died on 23 January. NOTICES Manicure and pedicure in the com­ Vacancy for fluent German per single column inch Much missed by her son Michael, fort of your own home. Telephone: speaker. 16 ems (3 columns per page) £8.00 daughter Judith and many friends in 3—4 hours per week 081-455 7582. 12 ems (4 columns per page) £7.00 the Jewish Senior Rambling Group Wembley area Jewish family seeks to add paint­ and 4 Seasons Ramblers. Phone Mr Connor: 081-904 9006 ings, Persian rugs, furniture etc to Samuel, Ilse, widow of Herbert, SHELTERED FLATS died peacefully at their home in TO LET Lower Darwen, 30 November IRENE FASHIONS 1992. Mourned and lovingly A few flats still available remembered by her many friends. formerly of Swiss Cottage. at Wolff Fnedel Wolff, wife of the REOPENING ON MONDAY Sth MARCH Otto Schiff House late Dr Walther Wolff, died in Sizes 10 to 50 hips Netherall Gardens NWS Edinburgh aged 94. Much loved by Spring is just around the corner! her daughter Sula and son-in-law and at Every day we are receiving new spring and summer clothes, e.g. Henry Walton. Coats, Suits, Two-Pieces, Trousers, Shirts and Co-ordinates. Eleanor Rathbone House 'For that special occasion something unusual as always.' Highgate N6 For an early appointment kindly ring before I I a.m. Painting, Decorating, or after 7 p.m. 081-346 9057. Details from: Mrs K. Gould, Gardening, Maintenance, AJR, on 071-483 2536 General Repairs, Fencing, Tuesday and Thursday Tree Cutting, Tiling, (Window ^ mornings. Cleaning). ANTHONY J. NEWTON Viewing by appointment only. Please Phone: Ezra on: 081-458-3182 &C0 Not on Saturdays Please SOLICITORS JEWISH BOOKS 22 Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead, NW3 5NB BOUGHT & SOLD ALTERATIONS ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN Best Prices Paid OPEN MON-FRI & SUNDAY A.M. OF ANY KIND TO Telephone: 071 435 5351/071 794 9696 LADIES' FASHIONS J. T. BOOKS I also design and make children's clothes 13 SENTINEL SQ, BRENT ST NW4 Tel 081-203-6350 West Hampstead area SHELTERED FLAT BELSIZE SQUARE 071-328 6571 Leo Baeck Housing Association APARTMENTS at 11 Fitzjohns Avenue NW3, near SWITCH ON 24 BELSIZE SQUARE, N.W.S Swiss Cottage. Tel: 071-794 4307 or 071-435 2557 ELECTRICS FOR FAST EFFICIENT FRIDGE Bed-sitting room, kitchenette, Rewires and all household & FREEZER REPAIRS bathroom, entrance hall, resident electrical work. 7-day service MODERN SELF-CATERING HOLIDAY warden. All parts guaranteed ROOMS. RESIDENT HOUSEKEEPER PHONE PAUL: 081-200 3518 MODERATE TERMS. Contact Mr A. Flynn: 081-958 J. B. Services NEAR SWISS COTTAGE STATION 5678 (Hon. Administrator/Treasurer) ^SATELLITE INSTALLATION^ Tel. 081-202 4248 SALES & REPAIRS until 9 pm Television - Videos - Aerials - Radios - Stereos - Electrical Appliances TORRINGTON HOMES NEW & SECONDHAND TV's/VIDEOS AUDLEY FOR SALE DAWSON HOUSE HOTEL MRS. PRINGSHEIM, S.R.N., REST HOME MATRON Tel: 081 -909 3169 Answerphone (Hendon) > Free Street Parking in front of the Hotel For Elderly, Retired and Convalescent AVIS TV SERVICE > Full Central Heating • Free Laundry (Licensed by Borough of Barnet) for Elderly Retired Gentlefolk A. EISENBERG ' Single and Double Rooms. > Free Dutch-Style Continental Breakfast Single and Double Rooms with wash • H/C Basins and CH in all rooms. basins and central heating. TV lounge " Gardens, TV and reading rooms. C. H. WILSON 72 CANFIELD GARDENS • Nurse on duty 24 hours. and dining-room overlooking lovely • Long and short term, including trial garden. Carpenter Near Underground Sta. Finchley Rd. period if required. 24-hour care—long and short term. Painter and Decorator From £250 per week French Polisher Licensed by the Borough of Barnet 081-445 1244 Office hours Antique Furniture Repaired LONDON, N.W.6 Enquiries 081-202 2773/8967 Tel: 071-624 0079 081-455 1335 Other times Tei: 081-452 8324 39 Torrington Parl<, N.12 Car: 0831 103707

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^/'ce Schwab and the Jewish Emigration office. Oleg still lives at St Petersburg where he studied at the SB's Column Academy of Art, and belongs to the official Union of Russian Artists. rom Hamburg to Munich. A touring There are always interesting things to be ensemble performing in Germany's seen at the Brandler Galleries, Brentwood. Fmajor cities aroused interest with a he recent death in Jerusalem of David At present they have five lithographs by literary and musical revue entitled Lost in (Heinz) Gumbel, master silversmith, Dame Elizabeth Frink priced at £240-£300, the Stars and Stripes (subtitled 'Exiles in Tfurther reduces the important body of as well as a fine oil of a pot of flowers by America'), which contained episodes of the Jewish artists from Germany who brought a David Tindle (price £2,800). fate of German refugee artistes in the States. Sreat European tradition to Israel. Gumbel Nature's Way: Romantic Landscapes An old operetta was reprised at Munich's ^s born near Heidelberg, where he from Norway, featuring oils, watercolours, Gaertnerplatztheater (the city's second orked at Bruckmann's well-known silver- drawings and prints by Johan Christian opera house): Wie einst im Mai. Written by )^are factory, before emigrating to Palestine Dahl (1788-1857) and Thomas Fearnley Walter Kollo whose musical shows were !" 1936. Invited to join the staff of the (1802-1842), Norway's most outstanding triumphs in Berlin during the Twenties and ezalel school, he taught several gener- landscape painters, is at the Whitworth Art Thirties, it has Kollo's grandson Rene (the tions of Israeli silver-smiths while specia- Gallery, Manchester (until 27 March). The Wagner tenor) in the main part. '^•ng in ceremonial objects, jewellery and exhibition then moves to the Fitzwilliam 60 years ago. 1933 arrived with many presentation pieces. Among the latter was Museum, Cambridge (20 April to 20 June). artistic highlights: Richard Strauss saw his s casket containing Israel's Declaration of The Sixties: Art Scene in London at the Arabella performed on stage for the first "dependence and an elaborate silver book- Barbican (until 13 June) brings together time, Ralph Benatzky's musical comedy bolder presented to the President of Chad, some 200 objects demonstrating the styles Bezauberndes Frdulein reached record per­ he Commonwealth Institute is showing and techniques that exploded on the Lon­ formance figures at the Vienna Volkstheater '"ntil 9 May) JetveU of the Pacific, tapes- don scene between 1957 and the late 1960s. with Max Hansen in the lead; films of the nes by Anita Berman, a New Zealand artist Highlights include Sir Antony Caro's sculp­ year included The Private Lives of Henry no specialises in miniature handwoven ture Hopscotch and the dramatic black and VIII, King Kong and Three Little Pigs. Pastries evoking environmental and white 'pop-art' paintings of Bridget Riley. Tenor Joseph Schmidt stood at the zenith of pohtical issues. An illustrated catalogue is published by his popularity with Ein Lied geht um die 'he Ben Uri Art Society's exhibition Phaidon. Welt just before his enforced emigration. J^nisalem - A Burst of Light, features From 24 March to 27 June George Birthday- Not many opera composers of paintings by Khazakstan-born Hava Intra- Braque Prints will be shown in the Lower the last 50 years have achieved international 'or-Barak (until 7 March). Her work, Ground Floor Galleries of the Tate. The reputation, and even Benjamin Britten's aely appreciated in Israel, has also been Hayward Gallery stages the first public works are rarely performed on the conti­ own in Frankfurt, Brussels and London. exhibition in Britain of the 'lightworks' of nent. Hans Werner Henze and Gottfried ^^ present exhibition comprised some 40 James Turrell, one of the most innovative von Einem are probably the best known 's and watercolours (prices £250- US artists (8 April to 27 June). Simulta­ representatives within the German opera -^i^OO). The j^gxt Ben Uri exhibition (15 neously they will be holding the first scene. The latter, whose Prozess and Dan- M arch-4 April) comprises work by two retrospective of the work of Georgia tons Tod belong to the current German Uk: rainian-born artists, Sima Vassilieva and O'Keeffe, the American painter. opera repertoire, has just had his 75th 01, ^8 Yanushesky. London-based Sima In Fusion, Netv European art at the Ikon birthday. With a style based on late Mahler ates brightly coloured, good-humoured Gallery, Birmingham, is an important exhi­ he has considerable following in Germany. ^res of Russian bath-houses, crowded bition of works by contemporary artists Obituary. The Austrian actress Hilde ^alators on the the Moscow Underground who live and practise in Europe but whose Wagener, widow of Otto Tressler, has died cultural roots are elsewhere in the world. at the age of 88. A respected member of the This is part of the BT National Touring Vienna Burgtheater, she was famous as Exhibitions and will be at the Ikon Gallery Ibsen's Nora, and highly praised as a unique until 3 April. It will be shown in Brighton Hedda Gabler. Elfie Mayerhofer, colora­ I The Wiener Library (24 April to 30 May) and at the Oriel/ tura famous for many Strauss and Offen­ ^ looking for part-tinne daytime volunteers, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (26 June to 31 bach parts in Vienna, Diisseldorf and bilingual in English and German for its July). Cologne, has died aged 75. D press-cutting section. Susan Solano (born 1946) is widely If interested write to considered to be the most important HILARY'S AGENCY Administrative Secretary Spanish sculptor of her generation. Seven of Specialists in Long and Short-Term Live-in Wiener Library Ltd Care 4 Devonshire Street her pieces will be on show at the White­ RESPITE AND EMERGENCY CARE LONDON W1N2BH chapel Art Gallery (until 2 May). CARE FOR THE ELDERLY Finally, the Great Age of British Water- HOUSEKEEPERS RECUPERATION CARE colours 1750-1880 exhibition, at the Royal MATERNITY NURSES Academy until 12 April, should not be NANNIES AND MOTHER'S HELPS EMERGENCY MOTHERS missed. It includes some 300 works by some '*URIM AND PESACH Caring and Experienced Staff Available p^'s year Purim falls on Sunday 7 March. of the greatest watercolourists there ever We will be happy to discuss your I ^^^^h begins on 6 April and ends on were, J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, requirements ' ^ April. WilUam Blake, Samuel Palmer, John Sell PLEASE PHONE Cotman and David Cox. D 081-559-1110

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A history of the Jews /n the German-speal<.ing /ands also had to be in the German form) must be drawn from the Bible. These regulations were unpleasant; but on balance the maski­ Part 7: Moses Mendelssohn and the Haskalah lim regarded Joseph as great benefactor. In 1782, in an eloquent epistle, the maskil (II) Naphtali Wessely called on his co-religio­ Mendelssohn and Lavater nists to respond to the Emperor's Edict: they should add secular to their religious studies, should learn the language of the endelssohn was forced to defend would be, in Mendelssohn's famous phrase, Gentiles among whom they lived, and his own adherence to the Jewish 'a Jew at home and a man outside'. should thus prepare themselves to play a full religion against attacks from Gen­ Mendelssohn was in correspondence M role in the wider society. tiles. In 1769 Mendelssohn's respect for with two statesmen who advocated similar The other statesman with whom Men­ what all religions had in common and the policies. One was Frederick the Great's delssohn was in correspondence was the secondary position he had ascribed to the archivist. Christian Wilhelm von Dohm. In French aristocrat, the Comte de Mirabeau. differences between religions led a Swiss 1781 Dohm published a book On the Civil In his book On Moses Mendelssohn and the Protestant pastor, Johann Caspar Lavater, Amelioration of the Jews. Anti-Jewish laws, Political Reform of the Jews (1787), he put to publish a pamphlet in which he invited he wrote, were unworthy of the Age of forward the same arguments that von Mendelssohn to accept Christianity if he Reason, and if Jews went in for sharp Dohm had advanced six years earlier. could not prove that Judaism was superior practices or had characteristics which the Mirabeau wrote to King Frederick William to Christianity. Mendelssohn wrote down Gentile world found unlovely, these were II of Prussia, urging a number of reforms on some reasons why he believed Judaism mainly the result of centuries of Christian him, including the emancipation of the superior (he thought it more rational than a oppression. An enlightened society should Jews. The King paid no attention to this; but belief in the Trinity or in the Immaculate therefore cease persecution, allow Jews to Mirabeau would soon play an important Conception), but these thoughts were not participate in society, and thereby encour­ role in the early stages of the French published until the middle of the 19th age them to set out on the path of Verbesser­ Revolution; and his advocacy would contri­ century: at the time he thought such a line ung (self-improvement), which would even­ bute to the emancipation of the Jews of was still too dangerous - even Kant would tually - after about three or four France in January 1790. (The deputies from feel it prudent to withdraw some criticisms generations! — make it possible for them to Alsace managed to prevent that decree from of Christianity under the threat of royal be given full civic rights. applying in their province; but the Alsation displeasure - and Mendelssohn's published Jews secured their emancipation in Sep­ reply to Lavater confined itself to declining Edict of Toleration tember 1791.) a polemic on religious questions, and to stating that, while all men were bound by The book had no effect on Frederick the The place of Mendelssohn in Jewish the same rational ethical principles, each Great, but it was appreciated by the Habs­ burg Emperor Joseph II, who included the History religion had its own codes of strengthening Jews in his Edict of Toleration in 1782, by adherence to these principles. For observant The life and times of Moses Mendelssohn which no group in the Empire was hence­ Jews like himself these codes were em­ therefore open a new chapter in the history forth to suffer any disabilities on account of bodied in the Torah in which he had been of the Jews. For the first time since the its religion. In return, however, Joseph brought up and which study had not led him decreed that the Jews must surrender vari­ to discard. ous concessions that the state had hitherto made to them: in future they would, like all The call for Emancipation the other citizens of the Empire, be subject The correspondence between Mendelssohn to military service; rabbinical courts lost COMPANIONS and Lavater stirred up a great deal of their jurisdiction over Jews; and Yiddish debate, in which, because the state still and Hebrew were no longer accepted in stood firmly behind the established church, business documents or in public records. OF LONDON Mendelssohn and his supporters perforce The tidy-minded Emperor was also felt somewhat inhibited by the precarious offended by the fact that many Jewish A specialist home care service position in which the Jews still found families still had no fixed surnames; and in to assist the elderly, people with disabilities, help during themselves. Mendelssohn therefore turned 1787 he decreed that they must henceforth and after illness, childcare his attention to the relationship between adopt German surnames which government and household needs. Church and State; and in 1783 he published officials would have to approve. So, many Jerusalem, in which he advocated that Jews acquired surnames which were related For a service tailored to your individual needs religious communities should be totally either to their places of origin or to their by Companions who care - Please call voluntary associations and that church and occupation; others, unable to pay the 071-483 0212 officials to allow them a pleasant or a state should be separated. This would mean 071-483 0213 not only the disestablishment of all neutral name, were given names that churches but also the disappearance of the amused the officials, which might relate to 110 Gloucester Avenue, corporate status of the Jewish communities their appearance or might be downright Primrose HIII, in Germany, which, among other things, insulting. That Joseph, despite his Enlight­ London NWl 8JA gave Jewish courts their own jurisdiction in enment, still wanted to keep tabs on Jews as (Emp Agy) cases involving only Jews. The Jews would such can be seen in the further requirement be full citizens of the state: each one of them of the decree that their first names (which

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Golden Age of Spanish Jewry, there were 148 Judengasse. And when, in 1794, as a circles which made toleration a point of Monarchy of Money result of the turmoil of the times, many prmciple and there were nations which Celebrating a two hundred and fiftieth estabHshed banking houses saw themselves removed the civic disabilities under which anniversary in serious financial difficulties and unable to Jews had laboured for so many centuries. meet the demands of their powerful clients, f, as Herzl contemplated at one time, the Mayer Amschel's opportunity had arrived. Divided community modern Jewish state had been constituted He was only too eager to use his capital At the same time, however, the Enlighten- I as a monarchy, the choice of ruler might resources to participate in substantial loans •^ent divided the Jewish community, par­ well have fallen on a Rothschild. For it is to certain European princes willing to pay ticularly in the German-speaking countries, not too fanciful to suggest that the Roth­ interest on advances of much-needed cash. ine orthodox, we have already seen, con­ schilds are possessed of all the major As Mayer Amschel's banking operations demned the maskilim. For them, the attributes associated with royalty: noble grew in volume and in profitability he was religious practices which set Jews apart lineage, grandeur, power, charisma, occa­ able to take his sons into the business and irom Gentiles were not secondary but sional minor eccentricities and, above all, together they laid the foundation for the absolutely essential. The cohesion and sur­ wealth — spectacular, proverbial, legendary fabulous family fortune. By the end of the vival of the Jews as a people during all the wealth. century the House of Rothschild had centuries of persecution were based on total become one of the most important firms of adherence to the Talmud. The Haskalah The house with the red shield international merchant bankers. As a result, seemed to threaten this coherence. Contact It all began with Mayer Amschel, born 250 his sons were able to take advantage of the between the Jewish and Gentile world years ago in February 1743, at Frankfurt. new spirit of Jewish emancipation. They threatened the contamination of Jewish He was the eldest son of Amschel Moses, found that doors which had been closed for culture by influences from outside. The who had married into the family which centuries were now open, and they became hostility of the maskilim to Yiddish would since the 16th century had owned the house part of the rising wealth-based haute •divide not only the Jews of Germany from with the red shield in Frankfurt's Juden­ bourgeoisie. each other but, to the extent to which it gasse - and hence used the name 'Roth­ succeeded, would erect a fence between schild'. Amschel Moses was a trader and a The Rothschild network German and Polish Jews. money changer, as - excluded from other His third son Nathan Mayer left for Eng­ occupations - most Jews were. Young land, became a British subject and dealt for Conflict of loyalties Mayer Amschel must have been a bright a time in the textile trade centred on and studious little boy, for his father sent Manchester before reverting to the money it Was feared that the duties of the Jews as him to the Fiirth yeshivah to be educated markets. Through hard work and skilful citizens might conflict with their obligations and become a rabbi. There he learned management, and helped by the Rothschild and loyalty towards their co-religionists. If Hebrew and High German (to complement family network of cross-Channel and trans­ the barriers between the Jews and the the 'Judendeutsch' spoken by his family and continental couriers, he established himself ^entiles were lowered, some Jews would be friends). Orphaned at eleven he was as a financier of note and wealth. In 1806 he emp ted to move across that barrier and brought to Hanover by the Oppenheimer married into the Anglo-Jewish 'aristocracy' eave Judaism altogether; and this indeed family (whose best-known member, Joseph at the highest level. And by the time his "appened. Although Moses Mendelssohn Siiss, was immortalised as Lion Feucht­ father died, in September 1812, he was remained an observant Jew, six of his eight wanger's famous Jud Siiss). It was at this effectively the head of Rothschild's world­ children (one was the father of the com­ time that young Mayer Amschel started to wide enterprises. It was to him that his poser Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn) collect old coins, partly because it gave him brothers, James in Paris, later Salomon in actually converted to Christianity. One of pleasure, but mainly with a view to trading Vienna, Carl in Naples and Amschel still in ^oses Mendelssohn's disciples, David in them. Frankfurt, turned for guidance in their l^riedlander, who in 1781 had founded the increasingly complex multi-national When he was 18 he returned to Frankfurt Jewish Free School in Berlin to teach in operations. accordance with the ideas of the Haskalah, and started business in earnest. He bought The house that Mayer Amschel had built actually sent an open letter to Pastor Teller, and sold a variety of merchandise as well as indeed became, as Heine put it, 'a monarchy ^he head of the Protestant Church in Berlin, doing money-changing deals. He invested of money'. uggesting that a significant number of his spare capital in coins and curios. In 1783 Mayer Amschel himself never left his crlin Jews might go over to his church if he had reached the point when he could native town. He died were he had lived for •^ly Enlightened Christians would, like circulate potential clients with a catalogue most of his life - the Frankfurt Judengasse. •^hghtened Jews, be ready to drop super- of items on offer and this led to some One of his last endeavours was to ensure 'tious dogma and not insist on the neces- promising contacts in high places, includ­ that his fellow-Jews in that city were 'ty of believing in the Trinity. The pastor ing, via the court of Thurn und Taxis, the granted full civil rights. ^rned the offer down and Friedlander Imperial Court itself. And he began to To be continued prosper modestly. etiiained a Jew; but he continued to work D David Maier "" the assimilationist programme which In 1770 he married Gutle Schnapper. Of oulcJ become known as Reform Judaism, their 19 children, ten survived: five sons and The town Bad Segeberg, Schleswig Holstein. near evered, therefore, as Mendelssohn is in the five daughters. As the Enlightenment Hamburg invites those who were inmates during the 'Story of Judaism, the result of his work period 1910-36 in the Jewish Children's Home 'Sidonie dawned and eased some of the mediaeval Werner-Heim', for a reunion from 12th to 15th August ^s an unavoidable tension within the burdens which his people had borne for so 1993. Also domestic learners and nursery helpers are welcome. Free accommodation. Applications incl. community as the Jews moved into the long, Mayer Amschel's business expanded. personal data to Pastor Friedrich Gleiss, In 1785 he moved his family into a larger Lindenstr. 22, 2360 Segeberg. Tel. 04SS1/2621. "modern world. Fax c/o E. Philipp, No. 0455184879. D Ralph Blumenau house and put up the sign of the red shield at

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Poisonpenmanship lously close to Nazism at times, but Magyardom to guard against cosmopoli­ remained aloof in the end. tans at home, and Romanians and Slovaks The situation among artists was rather abroad. In wartorn Bosnia the Serb leader he epidemic of xenophobic outrages similar. The only genuine Nazis were pasti- Radovan Karadzic, a psychiatrist, doubles in Germany has once again raised cheurs and purveyors of muscular kitsch. as a poet producing verse epics — with a Tquestions about possible parallels Paradoxically the famous Emil Nolde, a single-string lute in one hand and a machine between Bonn and Weimar, and between genuine Nazi sympathizer, had his work gun in the other. today's fire-bombers and the Nazis of included in the Munich exhibition of On TV recently he was shown inviting a yesteryear. A contributor to one newspaper Degenerate Art. Russian visitor to 'have a go' on his machine denied the latter possibility, arguing that gun. The Russian, a writer by the name of while Hitler enjoyed support among writers Irremediably mediocre Edward Limonov, gleefully obliged. Some and artists today's Neonazis were totally However, the fact that German literary or years earlier, at a literary conference in philistine. artistic devotees of Nazism were irremedi­ Budapest, the same Limonov had done two This line of reasoning in turn prompts ably mediocre cannot be turned into a extraordinary things: praise the Russian two questions. For one, can the bohemian generalisation. In Petain's France a genuine soldiers who put down the '56 uprising of Nazi fringe be dignified with the epithet talent like the novelist Celine collaborated the ungrateful Hungarians, and demand the 'writers and artists'? For another, is it to the hilt, even escaping to Germany with public execution of Salman Rushdie for conceivable that a real writer or artist could the rump of the Vichy government. Musso- 'insulting the Muslim people'. What, one be a Fascist? Uni's Italy elicited the fervent wartime wonders, does he think Karadzic is doing support of the renowned poet Ezra Pound with his machine gun? Second-rate artists who railed against his American homeland, D R.G. As to the former, while it is true that a few and the Jews, over the airwaves. In Occu­ eminent academics — the philosopher pied Norway Knut Hamsun, Nobel Prize Martin Heidegger, the physicist Philipp winner for Literature was one of the few 40 Years Ago Lenard - espoused Hitlerian sentiments, who supported the Quisling regime. this Month Nazi writers and artists were distinctly (One needs to bear in mind, though, that second-rate. Brownshirt literati included Celine had sustained a head wound in the Board of Guardians Social Work the drug-induced visionary Dietrich Eckart Great War, that Hamsun was 80 by 1940, The Loan Department of the Board of who coined the slogan Deutschland and that Pound ended up, for medical, as Guardians, whose purpose is to assist small Erwache, and Hans Grimm, author of the well as judicial reasons, in an asylum.) Jewish traders, in 1952 granted 123 loans, amounting to £7,877, i.e., an average of 'living space' novel Volk ohne Raum. Far What of today's poisonous penmen? The better writers, like Gottfried Benn, Ernst £64. In 1950 the total amount lent was involvement of writers in fascistic £4,500, with an average of £57; in 1949 the Junger and Ernst von Salomon came peri- nationalism has not abated one iota. In figures were £5,782 and £61. Hungary Istvan Csurka dubs Jews 'termites A Jewish landmark of the East End is to who gnaw at the foundations', and warns disappear. The Workers Circle Friendly Society, Socialists Left to Labour, will sell their headquarters for over 25 years. Circle House, which has been a centre of commu­ nal activity. The reason is said to be dwindling membership and especially that Israel's lack of new young members which is felt in Very finest Wines most friendly societies. The Jewish Lads Brigade will also leave Aldgate as their headquarters since 1913, Camperdown BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE SHIPPED BY House, is closing down this month. The next Lord Mayor of Manchester will 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 be Alderman Abraham Moss, J.P., a Vice- President of the Board of Deputies. Another We offer a traditional style of HOUSE OF Jew, Councillor Shlosberg, will be Mayor of religious service with Cantor, HALLGARTEN Saiford. Choir and organ AJR Information March 1953.

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Obituaries

Milo Sperber The dropping of the A-bomb catapulted 'B'nai Israel' in Millburn, N.J. for more Gunter Anders into the public arena. He than 25 years. 1 knew Milo for almost 60 years since we exchanged (subsequently published) corre­ ^ere near-contemporaries at Max Rein­ Dr Gruenewald was President of the spondence with the Hiroshima bomber hardt's drama school in Vienna. Coming American Federation of Jews from Central pilot Claude Eatherly, who suffered a series straight from the Seminar Reinhardt di- Europe for 10 years, as well as being active of nervous breakdowns. In the late 1960s he ••ected him in Pirandello's Six Persons in on the Council of Jews from Germany. He Search of an Author at his Theater in der again attracted attention by participating in was among the founders of the Leo Baeck Josefstadt in Vienna, and on a European the (Bertrand) Russell Tribunal on U.S. War Institute and, on the death of Dr Siegfried tour. Soon afterwards Reinhardt cast him as Crimes in Vietnam, but his lasting legacy is Moses in 1974, became its International ^uck in A Midsummernight's Dream at the philosophical work The Antiquatedness President. Salzburg. of Man, which argued that humanity must In addition, Dr Gruenewald was a reverse history and go back to the junction . In England he toured the country in scholar with numerous learned studies to where it took the wrong turning. D innumerable parts during the war playing in his credit — witness his contributions to the austere, makeshift conditions, and later Leo Baeck Institute Year Book and, in Worked for the BBC's German section both Dr Max Gruenewald particular, his account of the early years of 3s a speaker and scriptwriter. the Reichsvertretung in volume I. This Dr Max Gruenewald, honorary Inter­ remains perhaps his most quoted article. He His most satisf)ing period after the war national President of the Leo Baeck Institute Was a 10-year stint as a director at RADA was also an impressive speaker, never more and former Vice-President of the Council of so than at the age of 86, when he addressed where he counted Glenda Jackson, Diana Jews from Germany, died in New Jersey at ^igg, Peter O'Toole and John Thaw among the LBI's first international historical con­ the age of 93. ference in Germany. For many of those nis students. Yet he declined to contact Born in Konigshiitte and ordained at the /•em in later years, and also turned down present, to hear him respond so eloquently Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary, he to the opening address by the Chancellor of V work when he disapproved of the script, served as Rabbi of Mannheim for 12 years. Or standards of production. a democratic Germany was a particularly From 1933 to 1938, when he left Germany moving occasion. No wonder that a man of such potential for Palestine, he played a significant role in Under Max Gruenewald's guidance the Was restless and unfulfilled. Even in his the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden. Leo Baeck Institute enjoyed a most flourish­ ^^venties conversation with Milo was fre- In 1939 he went to the U.S.A. at the ing phase of its existence. His friends and ^ently punctuated by the word Karriere. invitation of the Jewish Theological Semin­ colleagues will remember him with respect Y^ nonetheless derived much satisfaction ary in New York. From 1944 he served as and affection. ,_, . ,. . om public readings, mainly from the Rabbi of the Conservative Congregation orks of his celebrated brother, the writer D Arnold Paucker ^anes Sperber. His last West End appear­ ance was in the Clandestine Marriage in Birthdays ^5; in 1991 he gave a bravura presen- J^tion of Karl Kraus' Die letzten Tage der ^enschhett, introduced by Martin Esslin, Hans Capell 85 panionship with his wife Hilde, who has ^rore a capacity audience at the Austrian been bravely fighting illness for many institute. Dr Hans Capell, 85 in March is still years, and his daughter Esther and her remembered by his London friends of 40 to Towards the end of his life he called me family. D 50 years ago, when he was Chairman of the IS 'only friend', yet only his death revealed Theodor Herzl Society and Director of the o me how little I knew that impenetrable recluse Jewish National Fund. A life-long Zionist, n Hugh Rank-Rosenthal he joined Blauweiss at an early age and soon Use Wolff 85 made his mark in the movement. Appointed On March 25 Ilse Wolff will celebrate her ^iJnter Anders Landesverbands-Sekretaer for the West 85th birthday. She is a remarkable lady, reslau-born Gunter Anders who died in German area in the 1930s, he gained a whose mental and physical agility belie her 'enna aged 90, was the son of the child reputation as a competent speaker and chronological age. Psychologist Wilhelm Stern, the inventor of inspiring leader. Ilse worked mainly in the spheres of X nieasurements. Precociously gifted, he He emigrated to England in 1939 and librarianship, bibliography, and publishing, udied philosophy (under Husserl and served in the British Army. In 1951, Hans becoming known to writers and scholars in ^idegger), later switching to journalism Capell and family went on Aliyah. In Israel many countries. Although no longer y art criticism. While reporting for the he did important work as a senior official of involved in publishing, and long retired ^^en-Courier from Paris he was advised RASSCO, an organisation which enabled from the chief librarianship of the Wiener y rhe editor, who had several Sterns on the German currency to be transferred to Israel. Library, she continues to lead an active life ^", to change his name. [Nennen Sie sich Active in the Irgun Merkas Oley Europa - as a board member of the PEN Centre, and ^as anders). He took the advice literally the Landsmannschaft of the German Olim active participant in both the Council for ^"a became Gunter Anders. whose Mitteilungsblatt he edited for several Christians and Jews and the Anglo-German After 1933 he and his wife Hannah years, he also represented them for a while Association. ^ndt sought refuge in France, and subse­ as Joint Chairman of The Council of Jews We would like to wish Ilse Wolff many quently in America. In the United States he from Germany until failing eyesight, leading more years of useful activity, and a very sr did labouring in a warehouse, and later to blindness, forced his retirement. happy birthday. D cturing for the emigre-dominared New Our warmest wishes go out to Hans A fuirprofile of Ilse Wolff appeared in the School of Social Research in New York. Capell for his further retirement, in com­ May 1991 issue of AJK Information.

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durch den Minister Haman - zutage tritt, bestimmt, dass der 14. und 15. d.Mts. Adar Purim - the pure wie ferner der Monarch, der in der Bibel zum gesetzlichen Feiertag gemacht wird und Aryan version Ahasveros genannt wird und Xerxes war, Jahr fiir Jahr als grosser Festtag der Juden, durch unerhort klug gesponnene Intrigen als Purimfest, bis zum heutigen Tag gefeiert (Passage from an undated speech by Himmler seiner Hofjuden sich von seiner persischen wird. obtained by AJR member Kenneth Ambrose Frau Vashti trennt, wie der Jude in vielerlei Es ist selbstverstandlich, dass das alte during service with RAF Intelligence) Gestalt, in diesem Fall wieder durch persische Volk sich von diesem Schlag nie jiidische Madchen und hier wieder mehr erholen konnte. Und die ganze Tragik ehr verehrte Gaste, liebe Bauern, besonders durch die jiidische Dime Esther, dieses vom jiidischen Bolschewismus im Volksgenossen und Volksgenossinnen! den Konig umgarnt. Kern getroffenen und vernichteten Volkes S Man spricht heute viel vom Bol- mogen Sie daraus ersehen, dass diesem schewismus, und die Meisten sind der Judische Rafinesse arischen Volk nicht nur seine hohe reine Meinung, als ware dieser Bolschewismus Wir vernehmen dann, wie nun entgegen Gotteslehre, Zarathustras, sondern auch eine Erscheinung, die nur in unserer heuti­ dem Willen des volksverbundenen und ras- seine Muttersprache durch Vergessenheit gen modernen Zeit zutage trete . . . Es ist sebewussten Ministers Haman mit aller nur genommen ward. Nach 2 Jahrtausenden daher notwendig, die Methoden dieses moglichen jiidischen Rafinesse das Intri- erst haben deutsche Gelehrte die Biicher Kampfes in der Vergangenheit bis in unsere genspiel getrieben wird, das so endet, dass Zarathustras in miihseligster wissenschaft­ heutige Zeit an ein paar deutlich sichtbaren der seinem Volk und Konig treue Minister licher Arbeit aus der alten persischen Beispielen zu studieren, um uns iiber die Haman von seinem besinnungslosen und Sprache ins Deutsche iibersetzen Taktik des jiidisch bolschewistischen mit Blindheit geschlagenen Monarchen dem konnen . . . D Gegners klarzuwerden. Juden Mordechai an den Galgen geliefert wird, — ein schmahlicher Vorgang, den wir Die Judenfrage in Persien hier nicht zum letzten Mal in der Geschichte Eines dieser geschichtlichen Beispiele der der Volker feststellen konnen — und wie Paintings wanted radikalen Vernichtung eines arischen dieser Jude Mordechai zum Vizekonig Hitler forbade many artists to paint. Volkes durch bolschewistisch jiidische gemacht wird und nun mit der jedem Refugees took paintings with them, but Methoden bringt uns die Bibel. Lesen Sie Bolschewismus eigenen kaltbliitigen, niich- could not sell all of them. If you have any einmal mit sehenden Augen diesen Teil ternen und erbarmungslosen Berechnung paintings for my small private collection, seine Befehle gibt, auf Grund deren in alien preferably of the Expressionist school jiidischer Geschichte, in dem erzahlt wird, (originals only) competitive prices are wie die Juden unter dem persischen Volk Stadten und Dorfern die Edelsten der being offered. Please write to; verteilt sitzen, in alien Stadten und in alien Perser, alle Judenfeinde, an einem vorher Dorfern und in der Hauptstadt Susa, wie in schriftlich festgelegten Tag von dem mit Mr H. Merrow, 13 Hermitage Gardens, diesem persischen arischen Volk die koniglichem Dekret geschiitzten Juden London SEI9 3QP. Tel: 081-453 2427. Erkenntnis von der Gefahr dieser Juden ermordet werden. Die Bibel gibt an, dass vorhanden ist und wie der Wille, diese 75,000 Perser damals abgeschlachtet wur­ Judenfrage in Persien zu losen - verkorpert den. Um dem ganzen die Krone aufzusetzen, wird durch ein Dekret des arischen Konigs PHYSIOTHERAPY

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