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'Rudolf Hirschfeld (Monlevideo) a few others. Apart from them, a list of the creators of all these important German-Jewish organisations in Latin America would hardly con­ tain a name of repute outside the continent. It GERMAN JEWS IN SOUTH AMERICA it without any doubt a good sign that post-1933 German Jewry has been able to produce an entirely new generation of vigorous and success­ I he history of the German-Jewish organisations abroad '"—to assert this would be false—they ful leaders. =8ins in each locality the moment the first ten consider themselves as the sons of the nation In conclusion two further aspects have to be r^Ple from Germany disembark. In the few which has built up the State of Israel, with the mentioned : the relationship with the Jews around thp "if- ^^^^^ Jewish groups were living before consciousness that now at last they are legitimate us, and the future of the community of Jews from ne Hitler period the immigrants were helped by members of the national families of the land they Central Europe. Jewish life in South America ne earlier arrivals. But it is interesting that this inhabit at present. is of recent date. It really only began in 1903, ^'P was almost always limited to relief institu- This development has not always been a fully after Kischinev, if one does not take into account ons and scarcely ever touched religious life, conscious one. The argument that all, or nearly organisations like the Congregacion Israelita rom which the earlier settlers had already become all, the Jews from Germany became Zionists, is de la Republica Argentina, founded almost 100 estranged. of no help here, for the concept of Zionism has years ago, the Hirsch settlements in Argentina, „. ?''8anisations. mostly of a congregational become problematical since 1948. the Jewish congregation founded in 1870 in Lima naracter, arose everywhere "from the Rio There are, however, few or no Jews in our and a few other organisations. At the time of our rande to Tierra del Fuego ". Societies and asso- group today who would not confess to a belief in immigration we found lively organisations of s fj'ons of all kinds were also formed and either national Judaism. If we Jews from Central Europe Eastern Jews and Sephardim. When we approached the '^'^ to, integrated in, or affiliated with differ in any respect from the rest of the Jewish them in our misfortune both groups proved the Ore '• I'snfivolent societies, lodges, women's mass, it is in that we all, or almost all, are sensible truth of the expression " Jewish solidarity ". But ^ ganisations, sport associations, youth groups, of the close connection between national Judaism beyond this, our Yiddish-speaking friends, in par­ ore •'^"- ^''^'ess-book of these German Jewish and religious Judaism, a feeling largely unrecog­ ticular, found it hard to get on with us. A man ganisations in Latin America would make a nised and unshared by other Jewish circles in coming from Germany with only 10 Marks in his '•It volume. South America. pocket still remained middle-class, although an lo r .'^e^^. "rsanisations developed in the several impoverished member of that class, and it was This leads us to mention another characteristic exceptional for even the poorest to become a caiities without mutual assistance or connections. of the life of our organisations: it is a religious J, 's interesting that their history was practically proletarian. Burdened, troubled and needy, he still life, irresf)ective of the particular religious per­ kept his white collar, and this gave rise here and iq^/^'ne everywhere. During these years from suasion. On the one hand this explains the great '^^6 (or, rather, 1938) to 1956 they began every- there to slight tensions that are completely forgot­ influence of the Rabbis on the lives of these ten today. When the German Jews then recon­ "^f? Irom rock bottom, with " minjanim " in the 60,000 people; on the other, it gives rise to certain structed their personal life and simultaneously their hoi? ^^'i dining-rooms of the so-called boarding- problems concerning co-operation with other sec­ organisations, a period of friendly co-operation setn H • ™'Ti'8tants. All, or nearly all, are now tions of the Jewish mass. with all sections of the Jewish collective set in. lied in their own congregational buildings. We have the following picture today: in Rio de In many towns the organisation of Jewish life on airn ^"°'hs'' important sphere there is also an Janeiro. Sao Paulo. Montevideo. Santiago de a " Landsmannschaft" basis was acepted as a ^nnost identical development in 19 towns and 14 Chile. Lima. Porto Alegre, Cochabamba. Bogota. fact and even regarded as an advantage. For the 35 "''•'es throughout the continent. Each began Guayaquil, Osorio, etc.. we find "comprehensive" most part the Yiddish-sf)eaking and Sephardic faith °'^^^"'S2''on of German emigrants of Jewish congregations which both foster religious life and congregations (often the Hungarian also) united of i' °F ^i^&W we say '" of former German citizens are also concemed with welfare, the organisation with ours to form local federations, which took fo J'^Y,'^*' faith ". Only here and there did they of youth, homes for the aged, cultural activities, over the representation and leadership of the •" local Zionistic groups'". etc. Alongside them there is in almost all these whole Jewish community. Today, after 20 years, towns a large number of societies with multi­ in many of these federations our people are the Jewish National Groups farious aims, which are actually, if not legally, leaders, or at least the most active members. subordinate lo the congregations, or which at tran°^^-' ^^ years later, the picture has been least occupy a lower level in the hierarchy. This furnishes an obvious transition to thc histn '^^'^ ^^ ^^^ development of our Jewish concluding point of our remarks: organisation 'tself ^ A" '^""^e'- the world and South America In Buenos Aires, on the other hand, there exist on a " Landsmannschaft" basis is only possible new f people must be described today by a today in our circle five organisations of a con­ as long as no specific Latin-American Jewry exists, cult , """^tila, which at first sight may seem diffi- gregational type, which serve mainly the religious like North American Jewry. This is. however, Amer tJ"derstand : here and now in South needs of their members without, however, having purely a question of generations, leading to the etnier ,* they are " Jewish nationals who have remained at the stage of the synagogue associa­ question of the future of our work. In the 'efiitim ^''011 Germany and, as such, are tion. Alongside these are large, important, and early years there were present, in the minds Ami-^^^ members of the relevant South financially strong organisations like the benevolent of some, comparisons with the Sephardic congre­ ^er'can national famihes ". " Hilfsverein", the " Juedische Kulturgemein­ gations of, e.g., England or Amsterdam, which count''^'^'9tJsly or unconsciously, according to the schaft " and .the Theodor Herzl Society, which existed for centuries, still speaking Spanish or nation ,. '" question, the European concept of pursue their own specific aims. This complexity Portuguese. To have contemplated a future on norma? c' '^ unrecognised here. Here it is the goes so far that the Buenos Aires congregations such lines is commonly regarded as a mistake tion f ^ ^"^' ^^^t' 't' '^t^ ^^"^^ ^'^^ fourth genera- engage in youth and cultural work and, con­ today. What we today foresee is a peaceful, cou^,f°' * man who plays a leading part in his versely, organisations like the IKG and the friendly rivalry between the " Landsmannschaft" tt'nist *^ ^ member of parliament, as senator, Thef)dor Herzl Society organise services of worship congregations for the honour of being the leading origj. ' Of even president, to acknowledge his on the High Fesitival days. Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking congregation of at a" ^""^ say he is an Italian or a Spaniard or. All these congregations of both types, together the next generation of children immigrants from Spaj,;/j'^^'^' "^^ ^°^ °^ grandson of Italians, with the host of their member societies and every country of origin. Many of our congre­ the Do ^" ^•'^uchmen, Germans, etc. Formerlv organisations, have carried out big building gations have made great strides in this direction, f^semM'li°° °^ ^^^^ •" these " national families " projects in the course of the years, e.g., homes especially in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In States f ^^^^^ unnatural status in the national for the aged and for children, schools, stadiums, others, only the youth organisations are in the ^td no? D^i^'^*'^" There they were not Germans, week-end holiday homes, etc. process of losing their exclusively " Landsmann­ thiIKs r,? Poles ; on the other hand, Jewishness in It is remarkable that the great work done in schaft " character. At any rate, in this sphere 4roun^""?<^tion was not understood by the world South America has been accomplished, with lies a great task before our congregations in term c..'^"i as a national but as a religious easily enumerated exceptions, by a new generation future: to pass on the inheritance of German Hence tv,"'^*^ '^"^^ '^^ position is quite different, of Jewish organisers. Here, of the active Rabbis Jewry to the Latin-American Jewry that is in bindDinjsj li.1,. ^"onstrong internal anda external tie thatnat alone, almost all were only beginning their careers process of formation, as to a part of the Diaspora This t • •'^^^ '" South America with Israel. or finishing their training in 1933. Similarly, very which envelopes Israel with its love and its Israel's^ 'v- '*t''onger even than a mere pride in few of the persons at the head of the congrega­ succour, and receives frotn Israel its spiritual and State l^h'evements. or the mere feeling that the tions and numerous organisations had filled human leadership. should'^f Israel affords cover and reinsurance, leading positions in Jewish life in Germany; becom • ^'tuation in the land of their habitation amongst the exceptions are Dr. Alfred Hirschberg [Translated Extracts from an Article in " Council in Sao Paulo and personalities like the former Correspondence ", ptMished by the Council of Jews Thou 'i"^^*="fe at any time. Breslau President. Georg Less, in Montevideo, and fgh people here are not living as " Israelis from Germany.^ Page AJR INFORMATION October, 1961)

OESTERREICHISCHE HAUSRATS—UND RESTITUTION AND INDEMNIFICATION BERLTFSINVENTAR—ENTSCHAEDIGUNG PROSPERrrv AND SLOWNESS OF Fristablauf 31. Dezember 1960 DEUTSCHE SOZIALVERSICHERUNG COMPENSATION .\m 31 Dezember I960 laeuft die Frist fuer die Fremd- und Auslandsrentengesetz " The unprecedented prosperity," the Roman Anmeldungen von Entschaedigungspruechen auf Catholic weekly RIteinische Merkur writes, Grtmd des Kriegs—und Verfolgungssachschaeden- Die bisherige Regelung der Fremd- und Aus­ " should have induced us to settle our material landsrenten war durch das Fremd- und Auslands- gesetzes ab ; mit einer neuerlichen Verlaengerung debt due to Nazi crimes." " However," the article der Anmeldefrist ist nicht zu rechnen. rentengesetz vom 7.8.1953 erfolgt. Dieses Gesetz goes on, " unfortunately this was not the case and ist crsetzt durch das Fremd- und Auslandsrenten- many individual claims have not yet been investi­ Fuer die Anraeldungen muessen die amtlichen Neuregelungsgesetz (FANG) vom 5.2.1960, veroef­ gated." The 1959 budgetary allocation for com­ Antragsformulare verwendet werden, die von den fentlicht im Bundesgesetzblatt No. 9 vom 3.3.1960. pensation funds could not be fully used and the Oesterreichischen Konsularbehoerden ausgegeben 1. Fuer deutsche Staatsangehoerige und fruehere paper anticipates that this will also happen in werden, das sind fuer Grossbritannien in London deutsche Staatsangehoerige, die ihre Staatsange­ the current financial year. In view of these facts die Konsularabteilimg der Oesterreichischen hoerigkeit durch Verfolgungsmassnahmen verloren it does not see how all claims can be settled by Botschaft (18 Belgrave Mews West, London, S.W.l) haben, ist jetzt folgendes bestimmt: spring 1963 as prescribed by the Federal Indemni­ und in der Provinz die Konsulate : Manches­ fication Law. Deploring the dilatory treatment of ter, 1 (5 Portland Street), und Edinburgh (15 (a) Denjenigen, die ihre Versicherungszeiten im Herriot Road). Mit den Antragsformularen moegen Gebiet der jetzigen Bundesrepublik und this issue, the article concludes: " Economically we have the possibility to keep to this date with­ die erlaeuternden amtlichen Merkblaetter ange­ Gross-Berlin zurueckgelegt haben, wird die fordert werden. Fuer weitere Auskuenfte steht Rente ausgezahlt. Dies ist eine Besserstel­ out curtailing other projects or endangering our prosperity in the slightest, politically it would der Austrian Desk des United Restitution Office lung, da dieser Personenkreis bisher nur eine (183/189 Finchley Road, London, N.W.3) zur Kannleistung erhielt. rebound to our credit and morally it ought to be a matter of course." Verfuegung. (b) Diejenigen, die ihre Versicherungszeiten in Deutscbland ausserhalb des jetzigen Bundes­ Auf Grund des Kriegs—und Verfolgungs­ gebiets Oder Gross-Berlins gezahlt haben, CALL FOR REGISTRATION OF FORMER schaeden—Gesetzes kann Entschaedigung fuer den erhalten ihre Rente als Kannleistimg gezahlt. JEWISH SLAVE LABOURERS in Oesterreich erfolgten Verlust von Hausrats- Dies entspricht dem bisherigen Rechtszu­ gegenstaenden und von Gegenstaenden verlangt Former Jewish inmates of Nazi concentration werden, die zur Berufsausuebung erforderlich stand. camps, who toiled as slave labourers for private 2. Eine erheblicbe Erweiterung des bishengen waren. nicht aber fuer den Verlust der Wohnung German firms, are requested to register by the Com­ und des Geschaeftslokales. Als Verlust, der zui Personenkreises fuer die Sozialrente ist dadurch mittee of Former Jewish Slave Labourers in Ger­ erfolgt, dass jetzt auch Versicherte, die frueher Entschaedigung berechtigt, gilt auch der zwangs­ many, which was set up in co-operation with lead­ weise Verkauf, wenn der Preis so gering war, dass nicht die deutsche Staatsangehoerigkeit besessen ing national and world Jewish organisations. The haben, Versicherungsleistungen als Kann-Leistung er nicht als Entgelt angesehen werden kann. Ein Committee has its principal office in New York Anspruch auf Entschaedigung besteht ferner, wenn erhalten koennen. Es sind naemlich den zu l.b) (P.O. Box 1737, Church St. Station, New York 38). genannten Versicherten diejenigen Auslander und die Gegenstaende wegen der nationalsozialistischen Staatenlose gleichgestellt, die zwischen dem 30. The Committee is seeking to gain compensation Verfolgungsmassnahmen zur.ueckgelassen werden from Gennan firms for the benefit of their sur­ mussten. Januar 1933 und dem 8. Mai 1945 das Gebiet des viving Jewish slave labourers, along the same lines deutschen Reichs verlassen haben. um sich einer as are provided by the agreements reached with Zur Antragstellung sind der Geschaedigte und von ihnen nicht zu vertretenen und durch die the I. G. Farben and the Friedrich Krupp com­ seine Hinterbliebenen (Witwe, Kinder) nach Mass­ politischen Verhaeltnisse bedingten besonderen panies. The Committee desires to register the sur­ gabe ihres Erbrechtes berechtigt, wenn sie mit dem Zwangslage zu entziehen, oder aus dem gleichen viving slave labourers, so that they might not be Geschaedigten vor dem Schadenseintritt oder vor Grunde nicht in das Gebiet des deutschen Reichs excluded from the benefits of any future settle­ ihrer Emigration im gemeinsamen Haushalt lebten. zurueckkehren konnten. ments which may be reached. It is in the Das Gesetz bestimmt, dass Personen, deren Es sind also in den Bereich der Versicherten, claimants' own interest, the Committee empha­ famiV/e/ieinkommen im Jahre 1955 72.000—oester­ die eine Kannleistung erhalten, folgende Personen­ sised, to give the matter their immediate attention, reichische Schilling (d.i. £1.000) ueberstieg, nicht gruppen eingeschlossen : and to register by December 31, I960. The Com­ anspruchsberechtigt sind. (a) Diejenigen, die nie die deutsche Staatsange­ mittee makes no charge for its services, nor does Die Hoehe der Entschaedigungssiunme wird hoerigkeit besessen haben, it act as a legal representative of individual nach einem Punktesystem errechnet. Die Hoechst­ (b) Diejenigen, die die deutsche Staatsangehoe­ claimants. betraege sind : rigkeit aus anderen als Verfolgtingsgruenden Communications should be addressed to the (a) fuer den Verlust von Hausraf 12.(X)0— verloren haben; das sind diejenigen Ver­ Compensation Treuhand GmbH, Staufenstrasse oest. S (=£160.—) sicherten, die vor Entziehung der deutschen 29a Frankfurt a/Main, Germany, and should con­ (b) fuer den Verlust von Berufsinventar Staatssangehoerigkeit geheiratet haben und tain the following information: full name, 25.000.—oest. S (=£350.—) diejenigen, die eine fremde Staatsangehoe­ address, date, and place of birth, name of German rigkeit erworben haben, bevor ihnen die firm, and the place and dates where the slave Im Falle von Not kann fuer den Verlust von deutsche Staatsangehoerigkeit entzogen labour was performed. The Compensation Treu­ Berufsinventargegenstaenden, Vorraeten, Fertig­ worden ist. hand GmbH is a special trust set up to administer waren und Halbfabrikaten ein Haerteausgleich im Vertriebenen im Sinne des § 1 Abs. 2 No. 1 the funds to be paid out under the I. G. Farben Hoechstbetrag von 50,000.—oe. S. =(ca £700.—) des Bundesvertriebenengesetzes kann eine Leistung and the Krupp agreements. gewaehrt werden. Das Ansuchen hiefuer muss gewaehrt werden, wenn die Deckungsmittel der Former slave labourers at the I. G. Farben and auf einem besonderen Antragsformular ebenfalls verpflichteten Versicherungstraeger auf die Renten- the Friedrich Krupp companies, who have already bis spaetestens 31. Dezember I960 gestellt werden. versicherungstraeger im Reichsgebiet uebertragen registered with the Compensation Treuhand, are F.L.B. worden waren. requested not to register again, as their claims are already on file. Slave labourers at other com­ Die im Gesetz vorgesehenen Verbesserungen U.S.A. HEIRLESS PROPERTY BILL sind mit Wirkung vom 1.1.1959 in Kraft getreten. panies, who were in previous correspondence with the Committee of Former Jewish Slave Labourers Fuer die Stellung von Antraegen auf Grund des at its New York office, need not register again, at The Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington neuen Fremd- und Auslandsrentengesetzes ist this time. has approved the Heirless Property Bill, providing keine Frist vorgesehen. 5500,000 for settlement of claims by Nazi victims. Soweit eine Ablehnung eines Anspruchs auf CLAIMS CONFERENCE AWARDS The Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation will Grund der bisherigen Bestimmungen erfolgt ist, receive the money, which will be taken from nach den neuen Bestimmungen aber eine Rente The Claims Conference has granted scholar­ enemy alien properties confiscated by the U.S.A. gewaehrt wird, muesste bei dem zustaendigen ships and fellowships valued at $110,0(X) for the during the Second World War. Some $3 million Versicherungstraeger der Antrag gestellt werden, academic year 1960-61 to 167 scholars and was originally suggested, but it was ultimately die erlassene Entscheidung zu ueberpruefen und students throughout the world who are victims of agreed that $500,000 represented a fair estimate of die Rente zu bewilligen. Nazi persecution. Jewish assets which remained unclaimed. Gorta Radiovision Service Feuehtwanger (London) Ltd. (Member R.T.R.A.) 13, Frognal Parade, Bankers FincUey Road, N.WJ SALES REPAIRS BASILDON HOUSE, 7^11, MOORGATE, E.C.2 All Leading Makes Supplied Telephone: METropolitan 8151 Electrical Appliances Stocked Representing : Mr. Gorl will always be pleased to I. L. FEUCHTWANGER BANK LTD. FEUCHTWANGER CORPORATION advise you. TEI^AVTV : JERUSALEM : HAIFA 52 BROADWAY. NEW YORK. 4. N.Y. (HAM. 8635) •"^JR INKORMATION October. I960 Page 3 HOME NEWS ANGLO-JUDAICA Retirement of Jews' CoUege Principal LABOUR PARTY EXECUTIVE LORD READING The Principal of Jews' College, Rabbi Isidore Mr. Sydney S. Silverman. M.P., and Mr. Ian Thc Marquess of Reading, who died on Sep­ Epstein, will retire from office in September, 1961. Mikardo have been nominated for the National tember 19th at the age of 71, had a distinguished The Council of the College is anxious to appoint executive Committee of the Labour Party, career as a lawyer, politician and holder of high a new Principal who will maintain the great tradi­ together with 18 others. Seven candidates are to Government offices. At the same time, he always tions of the College, and hopes that scholars he elected to the Committee at the Party's annual identified himself with the Anglo-Jewish com­ possessing the requisite qualifications, whether conference this month. munity and, owing to his exalted position, was resident in this country or abroad, will evince able to render signal service as its spokesman. interest in this high office. When Anglo-Jewry celebrated its Tercentenary in MR. BUTLER PRAISES JEWS 1956, he was a Vice-President of the Council con­ Synagogue Appointment in an article. '" Morality and the Criminal cerned with the celebrations. Jews from Central Europe have added reason to remember him with t^aw", written by Mr. R. A. Butler in the feelings of gratitude and respect. During the most The Rev. F. Broza, who is 23 and was born in t^hurch of England Newspaper, the Home Secre­ crucial period of their history, from 1938 to 1939. London, has been appwinted Minister of the South tary draws attention to the excellent record of he was, as successor to Lord Samuel, Chairman of Hampstead District Synagogue, Eton Villas, Anglo-Jewry with regard to juvenile delinquency. the Council for German Jewry, the central relief N.W.3, which is now in the course of being agency for the rescue of Nazi victims. After the rebuilt. The post was taken up by him at the MOSLEYITES SENTENCED outbreak of war he was appointed Commandant High Festivals. of the Pioneer Corps Training Centre. His close Three members of Mosley's Union Movement association with the " enemy aliens " who served *ere found guilty at Bow Street on charges arising with the British Forces was retained throughout From Birmingham to London °ut of a disturbance outside the Ritz Hotel on the years and is also reflected in the foreword he •Jtily 23rd, during which the High Commissioner wrote to Professor Norman Bentwich's book about The Rev. Dr. Chaim Pearl, formerly Chief tor Ghana was assaulted. When the magistrate the refugees' war services, " I Understand the Minister of the Birmingham Hebrew Congrega­ pronounced sentence of imprisonment on one of Risks ". At the same time. Lord Reading always tion, was appointed Minister of the London New trie accused, a fascist sympathiser shouted displayed great understanding for the specific post­ West End Synagogue. The induction ceremony Jewish justice!". war problems concerning our community, and was performed by the Chief Rabbi. Dr. Pearl whenever the AJR approached him it could rely will be succeeded in Birmingham by the Rev. on his sympathy, advice and assistance. Sidney Gold, until now Minister of Bayswater "MEIN K.\MPF" IN ENGLISH Synagogue, London. Extracts from Hitler's " Mein Kampf " may be RENT CRISIS FOR REFUGEES Published some time next year by Hutchinson, Three New Synagogues V^ publishers, depending on present negotiations Petween the company and Hitler's heirs. A As a result of the expiry of dwelling leases The new synagogues of three congregations spokesman stated that the publication of the negotiated three years ago, a number of Jewish were, for the first time, in use for the High ^"'time was intended as a " debunking operation ", refugees from Hungary and Egypt are involved in Festival services this year. They are the Edgware «nd commentaries by Professor Desmond Williams the rent crisis now developing in London. Adath Yisroel (Hale Lane) Synagogue, the Enfield ^'"uld be included. Of the 4,000 Jewish refugees who arrived in and Winchmore Hill District Synagogue, and the this country towards the end of 1956—about 2,000 Boreham Wood, Elstree and District Synagogue. each from Egypt and Hungary—none was after a SIMON DUBNOW YEAR time left in camps or hostels. Some emigrated and others established themselves with the help of rela­ Removal of Aldersbot Army Synagogue The year 5721 has been proclaimed as " Simon tives. The Central British Fund, however, was th u°* Year" by the Cultural Department of instrumental in helping a considerable number to alf °^^^ Jewish Congress. Jewish communities The Aldershot Army Garrison Synagogue is to find accommodation. Those refugees who were be removed from its present site, where it has tt over the world have been called upon to com- placed in flats with three-year leases are now faced been for the past sixty years. The land is required j""porate the centenary of the birth of the great with an increase in rent or the need to find new ewish historian who died at the hands of the for residential purposes. It is hoped to find a new Naz, homes. site and erect a building within eighteen months. 's in the Riga Ghetto in 1941. Two plaques in memory of the 127 Jewish officers and men who died in the Boer War have been 1960 ORT YEAR BOOK permanently transferred to the Willesden Jewish Cemetery. According to the 1960 Ort Year Book which has just been issued, more than $50 million has ^ckermans been spent by Ort since 1945 to provide training Home for Aged Jews and related facilities to about 300,000 people in Chocolates 19 countries. In 1959 Ort trade schools and The 1959 annual report of the Home for Aged related vocational services enrolled 38,731 people, Jews shows that during the year there was a total De Luxe and this year the enrolment figures are expected to income of neariy £25,000, of which £20,000 was exceed 40,000. subscribed by the community. An amount of £15,000 was paid towards the cost of building and IN BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED DEATH OF MARK HAMBOURG equipping the Home's new hospital wing. PRESENTATION BOXES The well-known concert pianist and composer. Gift to Jerusalem Dental School Mark Hambourg, has died at Cambridge at the age of 81. He was born in a small town in South The Leeds Jewish Dental Association, through MARZIPAN Russia and came to England with his family when the Friends of the Hebrew University, is to present SPECIAUmS he was 11 years old. In England he was heard by a complete dental surgery unit to the Dental Paderewski, on whose advice he was sent to School in Jerusalem. The Association has collected Vienna to study under Professor Leschetizky. At several hundred pounds since its inception in 1947 an early age he became a world-famous pianist for dental equipment and general aid to the Dental and, apart from his compositions, he wrote several School of the Hebrew University. books. BAUMKUCHBN CONFERENCE ON RACE RELATIONS Swiss A conference on race relations is to be $ a it it #4, Humidifiers organised in Leeds, probably during October, by (Verdunster) the Leeds Trades Coimcil. The Leeds Jewish for your ^3, KENSINGTON CHURCH ST., Representative Council will not take part. They CENTRAL are of the opinion that such a conference would HEATING LONDON, W.8 be harmful and would tend to exaggerate con­ Small unit ditions which in themselves were insignificant (the 34/6 WES. 4359 and recent anti-Semitic incidents), and to add impor­ tance to irresponsible elements which it were best Large unit to ignore. 63/10 9' GOLDHURST TERRACE, No running costs. Fill witii water only. Members of the Council of Christians and Jews For healthier breathing in your home. FINCHLEY ROAD, N.W.6 feel that such a conference would serve a much better purpose if individuals representing the THE HUMIDIFIER COMPANY MAI. 2742 various communities in Leeds had been asked to 25, Bridge Road, Wembley Pork, Middlesex participate and discuss any problems confronting ARNold 7603 them. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION October, I960 FROM THE GERMAIV SCEXE JEWISH EDUCATION SUBSIDISED The Berlin Senate has decided to pay DM. 15,000 (about £1,250) annually to the West NO PROCEEDINGS AGAINST EUTHANASIA EAST GERMAN ALLEGATIONS AGAINST Berlin Jewish community, to help finance the reli­ DOCTORS GLOBKE gious education and instruction of Jewish children in West Berlin. The Hamburg district court, although it found The East German authorities have brought out that at least 56 children had been murdered under a booklet entitled " Globke and the Extermination A SEQUEL TO "MEIN KAMPF" the Nazi euthanasia programme, has refused to of the Jews ", alleging that Dr. Globke, present reopen proceedings against 18 physicians who took Under-Secretary of State in the Bonn Government, Under the title " Hitlers zweites Buch ", a so far part in the programme. Important posts at West was not only associated with the infamous Nurem­ unpublished and unknown manuscript will be German hospitals and other institutions are berg laws but had direct connection with the published which Hitler had written in 1928. It presently held by some of the doctors, and most extermination of Jews, especially the thousands mainly deals with questions of foreign policy. of them are still in practice. Under the Nazis deported for liquidation in Rumania. The book, comprising about 2(X) pages, has been they worked at the Rothenburgsort children's Since his appointment to Dr. Adenauer's edited by the " Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte" hospital in Hamburg. In 1949 they were charged Cabinet, Dr. Globke has been the subject of (Muenchen). with responsibility in the killing of mentally denunciations by Jews in Germany and outside, defective and sick children there. as well as by leaders of the German Socialist Party and liberal German opinion generally. The SHIPS FOR ISRAEL Chancellor himself has, however, strongly MEMORY OF DACHAU PRISONERS defended him, maintaining that Dr. Globke's A motor freighter, to be called " Gedera ", was INSULTED quasi-scientific commentary on the Nuremberg handed over by the Vulkan-Werft, Bremen, to the laws was written to save Jewish lives. Israeli Navigation Company Zim. She is the On the occasion of a visit to the site of the fourth freighter completed under the reparations former Dachau Concentration Camp Martin programme. BAN ON RIGHT-WING STUDENTS' The director of the Zim Navigation Company Fiedler, a 24-year-old electrician, had a conversa­ ASSOCIATION tion with one of the guides in the course of which stated in Hamburg that Israel would in future be he claimed that the crematoria had been erected By order of the Lower Saxony authorities the interested in ordering ships from West Germany after the war by the Americans. When the guide branches of the " Bund Nationaler Studenten" only if the shipyards could compete with foreign said that he himself had been a prisoner of the at Goettingen University and at the Technical firms. During the past months, foreign firms camp for almost ten years, Fiedler said: " Then College of Braunschweig were dissolved. They were making better offers than West German ship­ you are probably one of those whom they had were considered as organisations whose activities yards. German firms have so far built 37 ships forgotten to burn." He also said: " Why don't were directed against the constitution of the for Israel under the reparations pact, and 12 more you tell the visitors that all the prisoners who Federal Republic and against mutual understand­ are on order. were burned had been criminals ? " Both Fiedler's ing between the nations. father and his uncle had been guards in Dachau, ISRAELI WOMEN IN W. GERMANY and the uncle had been sentenced to death as a MASSACRE AT SLUZK INVESTIGATED war criminal. Fiedler was sentenced to seven In Bonn a delegation of women members of months' imprisonment. The local public prosecutor at Kassel has Mapai met Socialist women delegations from West announced that two former Nazi police officers, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, India, Indonesia, Franz Lechthaler and Willy Papenkort, who were Finland, Denmark and Luxembourg. They dis­ REQUEST FOR ZIND'S EXTRADITION arrested some time ago, have now admitted their cussed problems concerning co-operation with and participation in the mass murder of several hun­ among under-developed countries. The Israeli The German Foreign Office has submitted a dred Jews near Sluzk in Western Russia in delegation was on a week's tour of the Federal formal request to the Italian authorities for the October, 1941. The claimed they had acted under Republic. extradition of Ludwig Zind. As reported in the duress. previous issue of AJR Information, Zind, the anti- Lechthaler had commanded a German police ISRAELI TEACHERS TO ADVISE ON Semitic schoolteacher, had been arrested in Italy. battalion which, together with a unit of Lithuanian GERMAN TEXT-BOOKS auxiliary troops, had carried out the massacre. ANTI-SE.MITE SENTENCED This was done against the protest of the local The International Schoolbook Institute has Nazi Party chief, Kube. invited the Israeli teachers' organisations to The World Jewish Congress has announced that co-operate in the development of teaching The West Bcriin Criminal Court sentenced the West Germany is seeking former residents of materials for German schools. chimney sweep Erich Paech to six months' Sluzk who could give evidence regarding the imprisonment. In the course of a quarrel with a massacre. Witnesses are also sought from sur­ SKORZENY TALKS IN DUBLIN lewish merchant Paech had exclaimed: " Once a vivors of the Bialystok ghetto, liquidated by the Jew, always a Jew ". Nazis in 1943. Otto Skorzeny, the S.S. leader who rescued .Mussolini during the war, and who has purchased POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED EISELE DEPRIVED OF MEDICAL LICENCE an estate in Eire, spoke to members of a Dublin The State authorities of Baden-Wuerttemberg debating society on his wartime exploits. He Kriminalkommissar Heinrich Lacks, of Kem­ have deprived Dr. Hans Eisele, the former Nazi pointed out that he had been cleared of any war pen, has been arrested. He is accused of having concentration camp doctor who fled to Egypt, of crimes by a Tribunal at Dachau in 1947. He participated in the shooting of political prisoners his medical licence, on the grounds that he was asserted that it was not Germany but Britain and between 1933 and 1945. His whereabouts could France who had started the war. be traced only recently because in the list of guilty of serious criminal offences and violations wanted Nazi criminals his name had been entered of the rules governing the medical profession. as Lachs. He was on active police service after Eisele was, after the war, convicted by an the war for more than ten years. Allied military court of crimes against humanity. He was, however, set free in 1952 and fled to Cairo in 1958 when he was to be arrested by the Your House For;- RITUAL MURDER ALLEGATION German authorities. ACQUITTAL PENSION FOR SCHLEGELBERGER CURTAINS, CARPETS, LINO In December, 1958, two journalists, Heinrich Dr. Franz Schlegelberger, Secretary of State in UPHOLSTERY Koerner and Winfred Boehm, were held respon­ the Ministry of Justice under the Nazi regime, is sible for the publication of a report in a Nurem­ still receiving a monthly pension of over DM. berg paper, alleging that a ritual murder had been 1,240. Previously he received a pension of DM. SPECIALITY "^^^ committed by Jews in Lower Franconia in 1929, 2,800 which was reduced pending investigations and that there was a Jewish law prescribing that into his war-time career. matzot must be eaten with Christian blood. Earlier this year, Koerner was sentenced to two BAVARIAN TEACHERS MEET CONTINENTAL DOWN months' imprisonment and fined DM. 300, whilst Under the auspices of the Bavarian Ministry of QUILTS ! Boehm was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment Culture, a meeting of history teachers took place and fined DM. 100. in Hohenschwangau. The syllabus included lec­ Recently, the Nuremberg court decided that tures by Professor Michael Freund about the ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS neither of the accused could be held responsible approach to German history and by Dr. Hans ESTIMATES FREE for the publication of the report, and they were Buchheim, of the " Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte" accordingly acquitted. (Muenchen), about the impact of the Nazi period DAWSON-LANE LIMITED on the attitude to contemporary history. ARREST OF FORMER Sil. MAN JEWS IN MECKLENBURG 17, BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK Telephone : ARN. 6671 Peter Blum, a former member of an S.S. unit According to Press reports from Rostock, there which carried out mass executions in Poland, has are only 34 Jews now living in the East German Personal attention of Mr. w. Schachmann been arrested in Schweinfurt on a charge of province of Mecklenburg. In 1933 the Jewish murdering Jews during the war. community there totalled 1,003. AJR INFORMATION October. I960 Page 5 ]¥EW$ FROM ABROAD HONOUR FOR BELGIAN HERO The Rabbi of Liege has dedicated a plaque in memory of a non-Jewish lawyer, Mr. Albert UNITED STATES CENTENARY OF JEWISH SETTLEMENT Von den Berg, a Belgian Resistance leader who, IN ARGENTINA with the aid of the Bishop of Liege, Mgr. Kerk- The Forthcoming Elections shof, hid about fifty Jewish children from thc The Congress of the Vaad Hakehilot recently Gestapo during the war. The plaque is in a The drive for the important and possibly held a special session in Buenos Aires to mark the Catholic children's home at Banneux-Notre Dame, Critical Jewish vote by the Republicans and Demo­ centenary of Jewish settlement in Argentina. The near Li^ge, and the ceremony was attended by crats began at the first national Jewish forum 246 delegates passed a resolution condemning the Belgian Minister of Public Works and by the Provided for them since the selection of the dictatorial regimes which prevent the development Counsellor at the Israeli Embassy. Mr. Max presidential candidates. This was the 63rd annual of Jewish life, and requested the Argentine Gottschalk, President of the Central Jewish Con­ convention of America's Zionist Organisation. Government to take stern measures to eradicate sistory, addressed the gathering. Senator Kennedv in his address laid stress on the •' anti-Semitic calamity ". They vigorously Middle Eastern and Israeli affairs. Regarding free condemned the Nazi-fascist movement in the B'NAI B'RITH CONTINENTAL MEETING fransit through the Suez Canal, he alleged that country and expressed deep concern over the fate ""our policy in Washington and the United of Soviet Jewry. A meeting of over 200 delegates of the B'nai B"rith Continental European District took place Nations has permitted defiance of our pledge with Congress also expressed concern at assimilation 'mpunity—indeed, with economic reward ". The in Amsterdam recently. Dr. E. Guggenheim and the increasing numbers of mixed marriages in (Zurich) was in the chair. tJ.S.A.. he said, must use its influence to remove the Argentine Jewish community. It was decided all discriminations at the Suez Canal for all time. to convene a congress of Jewish university He proposed a restatement of the Tripartite students in October. AMSTERDAM SYNAGOGUE Declaration, saying it must be made definite that The disused synagogue in Linnaeus Street, prompt and decisive action would be taken against POLAND Amsterdam East, is soon to be demolished to ^ny nation in the Middle East attacking its neigh­ make way for a block of flats. The synagogue bour. He urged the U.S.A. to invite like-minded Days of Remembrance was built in 1928 and the exterior is still intact •jations to join in signing, registering and although the interior is damaged. It is too large depositing such a clear pledge with the United The ISth anniversary of the destruction of the for the needs of the remaining Jewish population Nations. He proposed that the authority and in the neighbourhood, for whom a new synagogue prestige of the White House be used to call into Otwock ghetto, near Warsaw, by the Nazis, and the mass shootings of all its inhabitants, was has been opened on the lower floor of adjacent conference the leaders of Israel and the Arab flats. States to consider privately their common commemorated by the small Jewish community. All Jews in the locality and in several neighbour­ problems. '" assuring them that we support in full Rabbis Against Bishop's Deportation their aspirations for peace ". ing villages were shot on August ISth. 1942, with the exception of a few who managed to escape. Rabbi L. I. Rabinowitz. Chief Rabbi of the Mr. Cabot Lodge. Republican candidate for the Some of the survivors whose families died at the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg, Vice-Presidency, has also addressed a meeting cf time are planning to put up a monument to the and Rabbi Israel Abrahams, Chief Rabbi of the Jevvish leaders. victims. United Council of Hebrew Congregations of the A special meeting attended by representatives of Cape, have protested against the deportation of Nazi Leader Found Guilty the small Jewish community of Bialystok, mem­ the Bishop of Johannesburg, the Rt. Rev. Dr. bers of the City Council, the municipal authorities Ambrose Reeves. Rabbi Rabinowitz appealed to and local Polish cultural and political organisa­ the Government to reconsider their " hasty The Municipal Court in Washington has found tions, commemorated the seventeenth anniversary action ". and Rabbi Abrahams said that " trial by ^eorge Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American of the Bialystok Ghetto revolt. A delegation deportation"' was a unilateral act that could only Nazi Party, together with seven other Party mem­ arrived from Warsaw, and a number of representa­ play into the hands of South Africa's enemies. bers, guilty of disorderly conduct. tives of other Polish-Jewish communities also Rockwell, during the trial, tried to blame Jewish attended. Address by Mr. Moshe Sharett hecklers for causing the disturbances at two "teetings held in Washington in July, but wit­ Visit by Israeli Students Mr. Moshe Sharett, the former Israeli Premier, nesses testified that it was he who had used abusive told a mass rally of Israeli United Appeal workers language and incited the riots. He was fined $100 Seventeen students from the Hebrew University, in Johannesburg that South African Jewry were "I" 30 davs' imprisonment and his henchmen were Haifa Techniq/i and the Weizmann Institute second to none among Western Jewries in their ^'so fined. recently visited Poland, where they were the guests spiritual and emotional identification with Israel. .The New York State Supreme Court has dis- of the Union of Students in Poland and were Mr. Sharett was visiting South Africa to launch l^'ssed a petition on Rockwell's behalf to compel entertained by leading members of the Jewish this year's I.U.A. campaign. the isjev\ York City authorities to grant hjm a communitv in Warsaw. They stated that, wherever Permit to speak in Union Square. they went, there was great interest in Israel and in Synagogue Arson Attempt Jewish life there. The group left Poland for Moscow, and is to spend several weeks touring A bottle containing inflammable liquid was MAKARIOS RECOGNISES ISRAEL the Soviet Union. thrown into a window of the synagogue at Pieter- maritzburg. Natal. The fire, however, only caused slight damage, estimated at £25. ri- ^^P'te considerable Arab pressure, the Presi­ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF dent of Cyprus. Archbishop Makarios, has ^cognised the Israeli State and has agreed to the POLISH JEWS TUNISIAN APPOINTMENTS "iPPpintment of Mr. Zeev Levin as Israeli A delegation from Poland is to attend the inter­ The Tunisian authorities have appointed twelve -^nibassador. national conference of Jews originating from Jews as administrators and senior officials. They Poland, to be held in Tel Aviv next January. A all studied Arabic after graduating from French SWASTIKAS IIS PARIS member of the Israel-Poland Friendship Com­ universities. The study of the Arabic language mittee who recently visited Poland stated that among Jews is being encouraged by the Tunisian Par ^alls of the Jewish Martyrs' Memorial in Jewish cultural life was dying in Poland. The Jewish community, since Arabic is becoming bv ^ere smeared with swastikas, after a visit regime was. however, very liberal towards Jews increasingly important. bnv^ sroup of 42 West German schoolboys. The and showed friendliness towards Israel. ,u;-^_,°enied that thev had had anything to do with ""s desecration. CAIRO JEWISH CEMETERY RUSSIAN SYNAGOGUE CLOSES The United Arab Republic is to demolish the AUSTRALIAN VISIT BY CHIEF RABBI A synagogue in Orgeev, Bessarabia, has becii Cairo Jewish cemetery, known as the Basatine closed down, on a decision by members of the Cemetery. It is understood that houses and BrS?^ ^ 'Sit to Australia of Chief Rabbi and Mrs. Jewish community. In a statement they said that schools for the Moslem population living in the ye^'1; ^'tich was to have taken place later this they considered the existence of the synagogue area are to be built on the site. The Cemetery is • r. has been postponed. It will probably take inexpedient. " The time has come to tell all more than I.(XX) years old and is the only one P'^ce next year. Jewish believers: the synagogue brings thc people belonging to the Cairo Jewish community. The nothing but harm ... we do not wish to cheat Cairo Chief Rabbinate has, as yet, made no ourselves or the toiling masses any more. . . ." comment. TURKEY'S PREMIER AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE MOROCCAN JEWS ARRESTED RESOLUTION Gur^^i u^*' Turkish Premier. General Cemal Sixty Moroccan Jews were arrested and later JewkK 'Ddicated that he will not tolerate anti- The International Council of Women, at its released, on suspicion of trying to emigrate to niade P'"°Paganda in Turkey. In a statement triennial meeting in Istanbul, unanimously passed Israel. Among them were survivors of the Agadir Jewish'^^ 3 club near Instanbul which has many a resolution calling on all Governments to eradi­ earthquake. Reliable sources state that investiga­ of ' ". tnembers. he declared : " For the creation cate racial and religious discrimination. The tions are now being conducted into a " Zionist shoulH*""^' unity, differences of race or religion resolution asked Governments to pass legislation network" allegedly having its headquarters in relipin ^? longer be a problem. Differences of to prevent violence for racial and religious reasons. Gibraltar and agents in the principal Moroccan tooMh^ °° not count for us. We must all work It also appealed to women throughout the world cities. An unconfirmed report states that the police Turu , '• ^°t- instance, am a man first, then a to bring up the new generation to be free of racial are inquiring into an alleged arms traffic between "•^K, and then a Moslem." and religious prejudices. Morocco and Israel. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION October. I960

Alfoiis Rosenberg zum Naturzustand statt. So gaben koerperliche Merkmale den Ausschlag. Dieser Weg wurde in aller Unschuld betreten. Erst jetzt wissen wir. wohin er fuehrte. Werner Helwig sagt: in der WANDERER INS NICHTS? deutschen Jugendbewegung gab es keinen Anti­ Ausgehend von einem kuerzlich in Deulschland erschienenen Buch ueber die deutsche semitismus. Eine solche Behauptung entbehrt Jugendbewegung behandelt der folgende Aufsatz Fragen, die insbesondere diejenigen jeder Ernsthaftigkeit. Er haette einmal lesen— unserer Leser als persoenliches Anliegen empfinden werden, die selbst aus dem Eriebniskreis und zitieren!—sollen, was sich an Diskussionen der Jugendbewegung hervorgegangen sind. Wir wuerden es daher begruessen, wenn sich an ueber die Judenfrage in Zeitschriften der Jugend­ die Ausfuehrungen von Alfons Rosenberg eine rege Diskussion in "AJR Information" bewegung findet. Ganz abgesehen davon, dass der iunge Jude nicht akzeptabel war aus aesthetischen anschliessen wucrde.—Red. Gruenden. Er war nicht des tiefen Erlebens "Wenn wir zur Natur zurueckkehren wollten. niemals war es irgend einer Jugend vergoennt. so faehig ; er war rationalistisch und analysierend, es koennte es nur im Automobil geschehen." dieser sehr ihr eigenes Leben zu fuehren wie dieser. Da sprang nichts spontan ueber von Land und Lied Satz stammt von dem franzoesischen Schriftsteller gab es Tage der voeiligen Abgeschiedenheit von in seine Seele. Und vielleicht sassen hundert Georges Duhamel. Er enthaelt die gange Prob­ den Erwachsenen im Wald. auf Wiesen am .Meter von der Burg, auf der diese Diskussionen lematik der deutschen Jugendbewegung. Der Flussufer; und da gab es Naechte—vor allem gefuehrt wurden, juedische Jungen und Maed­ eigentlichen. Um Missverstaendnisse zu vermei­ Naechte—verbracht unterm Sternenhimmel. im chen, versunken in Landschaft und Gesang, so den, muessen wir definieren, wovon wir sprechen. Dunkel der Hoehlen, auf den Kuppen der Berge. hingegeben, dass uns Heutigen der blosse Gedanke Der " Wandervogel" begann in dem Berliner Feuer wurden angezuendet, um sie herum sprach daran fast unertraeglich wird. Vorort Steglitz am Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts. man, sang man. doeste man, schlief man. Es war Helwig weiss nichts davon. Will er nichts davon Das Ungestuem seiner urspruenglichen Entwick­ ein fast schizophrener Zustand. All dies wird in wissen ? Er hat sein Buch in die Form von lung fand sein Ende etwa mit dem Beginn des dem kuerzlich erschienenen Buch von Werner Gespraechen mit alten Fuehrern der Jugend­ ersten Weltkrieges. Nach dem Krieg begann die Hellwig zum Greifen nahe beschrieben.* Es ist bewegung. mit jungen Menschen, die erst viel Phase des " Buendischen ", jene Phase von eben­ eine faszinierende und fuer die. die einmal dabei spaeter dazu gekommen sind, gekleidet. Es falls extreme: Romantik, die aber durch straffere waren. eine wehmuetige Lektuere. befindet sich kein einziger Jude unter ihnen. Selbst aeussere Zucht und Form kanalisiert war. All " Die einmal dabei waren "... ich gehoere zu das Vorhandensein juedischer Buende wird nicht dies gehoert der Geschichte an. Wenn wir ihnen, und ich werde die Erinnerung an jene Tage erwaehnt. Heutigen zurueckblicken. wollen wir zu verstehen im Herzen bewahren bis ans Ende meiner Tage. Helwig ist ein angesehener Schriftsteller im und zu deuten versuchen. was einstmals geschah. Es geschah das Unerwartete oder das Erwartete, Nachkriegsdeutschland. Er kann schreiben, er ist .Mehr noch: wir wollen feststellen, was sein Sinn wie man will: ein Teil der juedischen Jugend intelligent und sieht die deutsche Jugendbewegung war, wie es eingeordnet werden kann in den Lauf Deutschland wurde von dem namenlosen, dem von innen heraus. All dies verleiht seinem Buch der deutschen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. ziellosen Rausch ergriffen, genau so wie die einen besonderen Wert und macht es so lesbar. Mehrere Fragen erheischen eine Antwort. Was Nichtjuden. Kurz vor dem ersten Weltkrieg wurde Aber er ist blind. . . . Er huetet sich zu verstehen sagt die deutsche Jugendbewegung aus (von jetzt bereits der erste juedische " Bund" der Blau- und seine Leser verstehen zu lehren. Er registriert. ab meine ich damit den " Wandervogel " und das Weiss gegruendet, waehrend des Krieges und nach dass die Reste der alten Buende zu Beginn der •• Buendische'") ueber den inneren Stand des ihm folgten viele andere. Und damit kommen wir dreissiger Jahre die schwarz-weiss-rote Fahne deutschen Volkes zur damaligen Zeit ? Wieweit an eine, von heute aus gesehen, empfindsame aufziehen. Er kommentiert mit keinem Wort. Wo bahnten sich in der ihr Entwicklungen an, die— und bezeichnende Seite der deutschen Jugend­ Deutschland am Rande des Buergerkrieges, am im Guten und im Boesen—zukunftstraechtig bewegung ; die deutsche juedische Jugend konnte Vorabend seiner unheilvoUsten Geschichtswende waren ? Wie schliesslich muessen wir als in keinen Platz in ihr finden. steht. spielen erwachsene Bundesfuehrer Knappen Deutschland geborene Juden die Dinge aus dem und Ritter in ajtem Burggemaeuer. Kein Wort grossen zeitlichen Abstand sehen ? Deutsches Volkstum und Juden des Schreckens ueber solchen Nihilismus. Das Muss ich wiederholen. dass die Jugendbewegung Deutsche, das der Jugend einstmals zum Heiligtum eine rein deutsche Angelegenheit war, dass sie Aha. der alte anstaendige Antisemitismus, geworden war, ist zum Mummenschanz herah- kaum hinausgedrungen ist ueber die Grenzen des werden manche denken. Das war es gerade nicht, gesunken und. grosser Gott, wie sah der Mummen­ alten Reiches und ganz und gar nicht ueber das und gerade deshalb verdient diese Erscheinung die schanz aus. der dann aufgefuehrt wurde! deutsche Sprachgebiet ? Hier bereits liegt eines groesste Beachtung. Die 18-und 19 jaehrigen der der grossen Raetsel, das einer Loesung harrt. Jugendbewegung wurden nicht angefuehrt von Fuehrer und Gefuehrte Besonders, wenn wir erleben, dass die Teddy Boys baertigen und ein wenig " tumben " Oberlehrem. und die Beatniks keine politischen und kulturellen denen das Nibelungenlied zu Kopfe gestiegen war. Grenzen kennen. Sie lebten vielmehr nur. " was aus ihnen heraus Duerfen wir noch anderes beschwoeren aus der wollte". Sie belaechelten oder»sie hassten die alten Jugendbewegung. das vor dem ersten Welt­ krieg seine Schatten vorauswarf ? Da war die Eine " Innere Emigration " baertigen Oberlehrer. Mit ihnen und bei ihnen war etwas ganz anderes geschehen. Da sassen Gruppe, eine so innige Gemeinschaft, dass der Die alte urspruengliche Jugendbewegung stellte sie im Silberlicht des Mondes am Fusse der Burg einzelne nichts war. Sie war in treuer Anhaeng- eine "innere Emigration" dar. Man denke: um auf der Bergeshoehe und sangen die alten Volks­ lichkeit verbunden ihrem Gruppenfuehrer. ja. sie 1900 war Deutschland eines der reichsten Laender, lieder. Die Natur. die alten deutschen Worte und war ein Geschoepf dieses Fuehrers. Veriiess er das der buergerlichen Jugend ungeahnte Moeg­ die alte deutsche Weise verbanden sich mit Herz sie. fiel die Gruppe auseinander oder veraenderte lichkeiten in ihrer Karriere eroeffnete. Denn nun und Sinn dieser " entwurzelten " Jugend. und das voellig ihren Charakter. Und sie ergriff ihre Men­ muss betont werden, dass die Jugendbewegung nur deutsche Land, das Deutsche schlechthin wurde schen vom Scheitel bis zur Sohle. Auf diese die Gymnasiasten, also die Buergerlichen ergriff. als etwas empfunden, was in jede Pore des Weise war die Jugendbewegung " totalitaer". Nicht die ganz Reichen und auch nicht die Aris- Koerpers drang. Das Deutsche wurde zum .Mlerdings mit der wesentlichen Einschraenkung: tokratie. Sie wandten sich ab von der Fuelle des Heiligtum. Das war nicht angelesen, das war die Zugehoerigkeit war voellig freiwillig. Materiellen. Sie konnten nichts anfangen mit erlebt. Es ging deshalb umso tiefer, cs war—so Natuerlich war es nicht notwendig im geschicht­ Schule, Kirche, Militaer, Respektabilitaet, wie sie sagen wir im Rueckblick—umso gefaehrlicher. lichen Sinne (jedenfalls wissen wir das nicht). dass damals waren. Es war der Aufstand der " Seele " Denn ausserdem wurde erlebt jene Gemeinschaft so vieles aus der Jugendbewegung viel spaeter in gegen das Seelenlose. Und da kommen wir zu deutscher junger Menschen. Nur sie konnten so anderem Rahmen wieder als ^euflisches Ver- einem wichtigen Punkt: das deutsche Volk war reagieren, nur mit und unter ihnen konnte man haengnis vorkam. Es kann auch nicht im damals nicht imstande, einen Teil seiner Jugend das Unvergessliche, das Loesende erleben; es entferntesten behauptet werden. dass dem in den selbstverstaendlichen Kreislauf einzu- waren deutsche Menschen. Nation wurde zum • Wandervogel" irgend etwas wie der National­ beziehen, ihn zu absorbieren und zu assimilieren. rein von der Natur gesetzten Zusammenschluss. sozialismus vorschwebte. Wir denken an die So kann man den " Wandervogel" als ein Krank- vielen, fuer die die Zeit ihrer Jugendbewegung ein heitssymptom des Volkskoerpers bezeichnen. Hier nun koennte man sich auf lange Exkurse Gaerungsprozess war, aus der sich spaeter reich darueber einlassen, was eigentlich ein Volk macht. begabte und liebenswerte Persoenlichkeiten ent­ Aber hat es jemals ein schoeneres. ein bewegen- Wir denken an das stolze Wort civis Romanus wickelten. Aber das aendert nichts an der deres Krankheitssymptom gegeben ? Da zogen sum. Die grosse roemische Kultur hatte Men­ unheimlichen Wiederholung. Wir versuchen— sie aus, diese Jungen, um aus ihrem Trieb imd schen aller Rassen und der entferntesten Land- vergebens—den Nationalsozialismus zu "verste­ Instinkt ein eigenes Reich zu gebaeren. Wohl striche in bestimmter Weise gepraegt und damit hen ". In dem geschilderten Phaenomen sind ein befaehigt, Teil des populus Romanus zu sein. paar Hinweise enthalten. Was da sozusagen heilig war, das war das ERNST MUELLER Kulturelle und Religioese, das dem Imperium und seincn Bewohnern Sinn. Richtung und Wuerde DER SOHAR UND SEINE LEHRE gab. Im Wandervogel fand die Rueckkehr In unserem Verlag erschien " DER WEG INS JUDENTUM " Das bedeutende Werk des bekannten * Werner HelJwiK; Die Mane Blome des Wanderroeels. Kabbola - Forschers war jahrelang Vom Aufstieg, Glanz und Sinn einer Jugendbewegung. vergriffen. Es ist nun mit einem 408 S. 14.80 DM. Sigbcrt Mohn Vcrlag, Guctersloh 1960. von Dr. Wilhelm Freyhan Vorwort von Professor Hugo Bergmann, Jerusalem, im ORIGO VERI^G, mit einer Vorrede von Zuerich, in schoener Ausstattung in Andr£ Neher dritter, erweiterter Auflage wieder mEmmsm (Professor an der Universitaet Strassbourg) erschienen. Wir kaufen Einzelwerke, Bibliotheken, Zu beziehen durch alle Buchandlungen sowie durch in Leinen geb. 22s. Autographen und moderr>e Graphik Buchhandlung M. Sulzbacher, 4 Sneath Avenue, London, N.W.ll. LIBRIS (LONDON) LTD., 38a Boundary Road, Direktor : Dr. Joseph Suschitzky London, N.W.S. t Phone : MAI. 3030) 38a, BOUNDARY ROAD, LONDON, N.W.S EUROPAEISCHE VERLAGSANSTALT, FranKfurt a.M. Telephone : MAI 3030 AIR INFORMATION October, 1960 Page 7 L,ulz Weltmaiin Old Acquaintances A COMPOSER AND AN ACTOR Home iS'etcs:—Egon Jameson spoke about " Im HANDEL RE-ASSESSED own in a great century of English civilisation and Ullsteinhaus geboren und nichts dazu gelernt" who was on friendly terms with men of letters w hen the " Heuss-Kreis " met at the Hampstead A great little book! This may sound like a and artists such as Pope and Congreve, Hogarth Town Hall.—Anton Walbrook went to Berlin to ^ntradiction, but jt is not. Indefatigable Richard and Roubillac, and with kings, earls and clergy­ appear in Fry's " Venus Observed " on TV.—Joe Friedenthal has written a standard book for men. Friedenthal does away with the legend of Lederer came on a visit from Munich after having Jhe bicentenary of Handel's death, and it has a poor misunderstood musician sweating in an sold her latest novel, " Die toerichte Jungfrau ", oeen published as a pocket book in the series attic, and he documents his story of Handel and to a film company.—German starlet Elke Sommer of •" Rowohlt's Monographien ".• the Georgian age convincingly. Friedenthal had will co-star in Richard Todd's first production of Goethe, da Vinci. Handel—Friedenthal's choice a decisive life-long friendship with Stefan Zweig. his own, " Don't Bother to Knock ", directed by of heroes, of a poet, a painter (who was a scien­ but his integrity forbids him mentioning his Cyril Frankel.—Renee Goddard and her husband, tific genius as well) and of a composer, reveal the friend's moving story about the " Messiah" in Michael Mellinger, returned for good from Berlin, depth of his mind and. at the same time, all three where they have lived for the past three years ; his text, or even to include it in the bibliography, he was a member of Helene Weigel's " Berliner ^orks excel in their original approach to the because it is fiction and Friedenthal has built his Various themes. Ensemble".—Walter Rilla's son Wolf directed documentary story on facts. • Piccadilly Third Stop " for Sydney Box.—Irene In the "Goethe Chronicle"' the author revealed Prador will be in the new " Maigret" series on his outstanding gift for condensing rich material ERNST DEUTSCH A SEPTUAGENARLVN B.B.C. TV.—Eric Pohlmann will appear in *{thout depriving it of colour. " Leonardo da •• Settled out of Court", with Nigel Patrick in the Vinci '• and " Handel ", for all their objectivity. The Rembrandt Verlag Berlin pubhshes a lead. ?eem to have a more personal touch, such as is series of small books about the theatre, mainly Illustrated jn the author"s emotion when he saw portraits of actors and actresses. One of the latest .4 Second Career:—Frederic Joss was pocket- *la Vinci's original drawings at Windsor Castle additions is one about Ernst Deutsch. some thirty cartoonist of London's Star until 1955. when he and the experience he shared with Handel—that pages and some sixty illustrations*. The text has fell ill. He is now a radio commentator in Seoul °t a foreigner being graduallv accepted by the been written by Hugo Zehder, editor-in-chief of (Korea) and roving correspondent of the B.B.C. nritish. The reader feels through the book that the leading German paper Die Welt. The choice Partner in his new venture is William Church, the author's whole heart was in it. and it reflects was a happy one and not so surprising to this once one of the famous " Dead End Kids" in P'S Satisfaction at a " foreigner" who succeeded reviewer, who remembers the author as a theatre- Hollywood films. Joss's real name is Josefovicz, '•^ a countrv which does not take easily to fan who, in 1920, issued a symposium about the and he comes from Vienna ; his brother is Joseph loreigners as such. expressionist vanguard theatre. He belonged to Carl, who just did the decor for " Filumena", Handel, however, was no refugee. He came the actors' circle of friends which included Hasen­ starring Wanda Rotha, at the " Belgrade" in [rom Italy as a celebrated maestro, but the more clever, Werfel, Kornfeld Ehrenstein and Coventry. During the war an anti-aircraft gunner, he developed his art the more " British" he Kokoschka. he exhibited his paintings at '" Legers" and in oecame. to :he degree that not only the British Zehder masters the art of delineating the the '• Studio Club ". nation honoured him at his death by burial at character of an actor. On the one hand, there are Westminster Abbey, but that the German Pro­ some anecdotes but not too many to become Milestones:—Prague-born actor Ernst Deutsch fessor Gervinus dealt with Handel and Shake­ gossipy ; on the other hand, there is a skilful celebrated his 70th birthday. He made a name for speare together in a treatise as exponents of selection of highlights in the different parts played himself in Hasenclever's " Der Sohn". He English genius. The fact that George 1 was by the actor. returned as one of the first from exile in Jianders sovereign in Germany before succeeding Zehder's book is a lively one and written with Hollywood to Germany, where he is especially VUeen .Anne to the throne of England, gained great charm. Without being unduly weighty, it successful as " Nathan" in Duesseldorf and Valuable patronage for him which, however, must gives the social, sociological and historical back­ Berlin.—Kurt Hiller, the life-long Socialist, paci­ not be overrated. Handel had already composed ground of the career of Ernst Deutsch, who hails fist, and activist, became 75 in Hamburg, where the "^ Utrechter Tedeum" for Queen Anne, the from a Jewish middle-class family. Deutsch he has lived since he returned to Germany from hrst "official"" acknowledgment of his qualifica­ experienced the downfall of an old world and an London.—G. W. Pabst. the Austrian director of tions as a " national " composer. Greta Garbo"s only German film, " Die freudlose optimistic belief in a new one. The basic note of Gasse ", and "' Kameradschaft". to name only a The Nazis tried to interpret Handel's music as his personality as an actor is an awareness of the few of his many pre-war successes, is also 75 years specificallv Germanic, but thev felt somewhat issues of his time and a capacity to face them in old.—Actor Paul Henckels. the comedian and uneasy about his Old Testament Oratorios and a cheerful way. He played many Jewish parts : eternal " Schneider Wibbel ", is 75. Save them over to the Jews. There were memor- from the Jewish boy in Arnold Zweig's " Sendung 3hle renderinas in svnasosues bv the Judischer Semael" to the sexual murderer in Theodor Dreiser's " Ton in des Schopfers Hand". from This and Thai:—Erich Kaestner's "Doppeltes •^"Iturbund. Berlin. Lottchen " will be re-made by Walt Disney with .. Jhe oratorios are. indeed. Handel's most Galsworthy's society Jew. Lewis, in " Gesell­ schaft ". to Paul Komfeld's " Jud Siiss ". After Hayley Mills in the parts of the twins.—Eric English" creations, coming into existence Burger, formerly with " Berliner Tageblatt ", went through a happv coincidence of different circum­ having embarked on a promising American career as " Ernest Dorian ". on his return he appeared as to Berlin to attend the first night of his adapta­ stances: the decline of Italianate Opera, the death- Nathan and Shylock, Professor Bernhardi and the tion of " The Best Man "' by Gore Vidal.—Gerd oiow it received through John Gay's "Beggar's father of Anne Frank. His " Jewishness" is Oswald, son of Richard, directed the Anglo- yPera " and the preceding rivalries, and the reviv- different from that of Schildkraut and Hartau. German film " Three Moves to Freedom " based 'hg spirit of Puritanism which made the English Kortner and Granach. It is a sort of ethical force on Stefan Zweig's '" Schachnovelle", which was people feel as the heirs of Israel, some considering springing up from his Jewish heritage. Therefore, shown in Venice. Vienna and London, with jnemselves as descendants of the lost tribes. The he is at his best in parts with an ethical mission. Kurt Juergens and Claire Bloom in the leads. ""oops celebrated their victorv of the Stuart Pre- 'ender after the battle of Culloden with a chorus Julius Bab once aptly wrote that Deutsch was Obituary:—After a long illness Ilse Bois died rpm " Judas Maccabaeus ". London Jews con­ the legitimate successor to Josef Kainz and an in London. Born in Berlin, she appeared first stituted a larae part of Handel's oratorio audiences, actor to whom verse came naturally, not as a with her brother Curt in Ferdinand Bonn's pro­ ^nt they (jj(f not, to Handel's dismay, attend his necessary evil. When Deutsch played Shylock. duction of '• Richard 111 ". She was discovered oratorio " Theodora ". Handel remarked sarcas­ he interpreted him as one man who had fallen at by Otto Reutter at the old " Palast-Theater am tically that the Jews stayed away because it was the hands of the many. One story told by Zehder Zoo". and became the great star of Kurt ^ Christian storv. and the ladies because it was is typical of the relaxation Deutsch liked at Robitschek's " Kabarett der Komiker ".—Dr. "l^yirtuous one. 'Half a century later Zelter could rehearsals, however concentrated he was at the Fedor Kaul, the former journalist and brother of ^f'te to Goethe from Berlin that the Jews were actual performance. He was on tour with Stefanie Kaul. died in London.—72-year-old Leo singing "horriblv" ("grauenhaft") against them- Bassermann in the '" Merchant of Venice". Stahl. the former French correspondent of Ullstein, '^y'es in a Passion Oratorio bv Graun. "" Which is- the merchant here, and which the died in Paris. , IJnlike Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Richard Frieden- Jew ? "• asked Portia as the judge during one of ."al is not fundamentally a musician turned author, the rehearsals, and Deutsch (who was .Antonio Germany:—W. Dieterle will take over the x^^ his introductions to and his analysis of to Bassermann's Shylock) answered: " You will Theatre Festival in Hersfeld as from next year.— "andel's music are no less competent. Friedenthal laugh. Sir. I am the merchant and he is the H. J. Rehfisch's last play. " Bumerang", was ?^ more concerned with Handel's craft than with Jew!" successfully produced in Leipzig.—Arno Assmann ,1^ experience of life and world that went into The well-produced photos conjure up a great produced the British musical " The Crooked his work. period of theatrical history and make us long to Mile" in Munich, and will now direct a film see Ernst Deutsch in his new parts we miss here. scripted by Gina Falckenberg.—Gustaf Gruend­ Handel was a man of the world who held his gens will appear for the first time on TV in 60* i?**'*'' *'y Richard Friedcnthal. Hamburg. 1959. 172 pp.. • Hugo Zchder : Ernst Deutsch. Rembrandt-Verlag. H. Hoemberg's " Kirschen fuer Rom " in Baden- "luslrations. D.M 2.20. DM. 4.80. Baden.—G. Stapenhorst will produce a re-make of " White Horse Inn".—W. Trenk-Trebitsch. THE IVEW HO]IIES BIJILDIIVG SOCIETY, EAST TWICKENHAM who returned from the States to settle in Germany, will direct " Deutsche Kleinstaedter" POPesgrove 7402 in Frankfurt.—Friedrich Wolfs " Professor Mam­ Chairman : .\ntbony Marlowe. M.P. Directors : I. Cowen. C.B.E., D. Schonfield. F.A.L.P.A.. H. Baron. lock " will be filmed by his son Konrad in East INVEST IN A SOCIETY WITH A PROUD POLICY. Germany.—Lucie Mannheim and her husband. LOANS TO OWNER OCCUPIERS ONLY ! Marius Goring, are appearing in two Noel Coward INTEREST PAID FROM 4i TO 4J% TAX PAID plays in Berlin. DiaHtct Aients tbrouKbODt U.K. PEM Page 8 AJR INFORMATION October. I960

YOUNG GERMANS REPORT ON ISRAEL ISRAELI NEWS A few months ago, a group of 29 pupils and youth leaders from Hanover paid a visit to Israel. The expenses were defrayed by the Land of Lower Herbert Freeden (Jerusalem) ISRAEL AND AFRICA Saxony. The impressions some of them obtained in the course of their journey were published in a Aid to Congo recent issue of the Allgemeine Wochenzeitung STATE AND SCIENCE der Juden in Deutschland. One girl describes a Father Fulbert Youlu, President of the Congo walk through Tel Aviv with a Polish-Jewish boy. When she learned from the boy that he had lost The " Intemational Conference on Science in Republic (formerly French Congo), told the Press in Tel Aviv before his departure from Israel that his parents in a concentration camp, she felt the Advancement of New States " which was held deeply embarrassed. " However, Abraham put last month in Rehovoth, was unique in its kind: many Congolese students expected to come to Israel to study co-operation and agriculture. me at ease. He told me that in spite of all that for the first time statesmen and scientists, presi­ had happened he was trying to be objective to dents, premiers and ministers of the young Asian Father Youlu had been on an official visit to Israel, during which he attended the international the Germans and that he therefore welcomed the and African countries met on the speakers' plat­ scientific conference at Rehovoth. opportunity of talking to me and getting some form with Nobel prize-winners from Europe and first-hand knowledge of post-war Germany. I America—the politicians posing the problems and President Ben-Zvi and the Congolese President admired his attitude. He referred to the swastika the scientists trying to solve them. . . . Repre­ issued a joint communique stressing their daubings at Christmas and I realised again how sentatives from 31 countries mingled, on the countries' determination to develop friendly rela­ much harm these actions had done to our reputa­ invitation of Abba Eban, now Israel's Minister of tions sfill further. tion. I said that the majority of the German Culture, at the Weizmann Institute to exchange youth strongly condemned these occurrences. views, to give and to take. Exclusion by U.A.R. Abraham and I parted as friends, and now I It is no coincidence that Israel was chosen know that the young Israelis are ready to forget as the venue of such a meeting. " We must be The Israeli observer at the Pan-African con­ the terrihle past. . . . However, we ourselves are frank and admit that the pretention to be able ference recently held in Leopoldville was excluded not entitled to forget. . . ." to teach others js still premature", wrote the from the conference, at the instigation of the Another member of the party, a boy, describes daily Herul, " but we can also contribute some­ United Arab Republic. Upon Egypt's Deputy a visit to Herzlia. " A pleasant-looking woman thing from our own experience". It is perhaps Foreign Minister threatening to withdraw the welcomes us. We are surprised, we had thought, from Israel's experience as a young state that the U.A.R. delegation unless the Israeli observer was Jews looked quite different. ' You are our guests ? ' new countries in Asia and Africa can benefit withdrawn, the Congolese organisers decided that she asks us in German in a very friendly way. We no less than from technical and scientific " know- all observers should be excluded. answer in the affirmative, and she takes us into how ". Or, as Davar formulated: " The new Earlier this year the Egyptian Deputy Foreign the house to show us our room. ' Are you from countries need a great deal of economic aid ... . Minister was involved in a similar incident at Germany ?' she goes on. Again we answer in But the ability to make proper use of this aid is Conakry, when the Israeli Ambassador was the affirmative, and suddenly we notice that her no less important than the aid itself ". friendly warm look becomes serious. Without instructed to leave the Afro-Asian Solidarity saying a single word, she leaves the room. ... In The leader-writer of Lamerhav considered 't Conference. the room I notice a picture: ' Goethe's Garden " only natural that Israel should have a modest House in Weimar'. . . . I have a look at the role in finding the connection between science Help for New Republic book-shelf. Goethe's works, Schiller, Heine. and modern national liberation. The young State Kant. . . . Far away from Central Europe one I of Israel has from jts inception sought national Israel has, through her Counsellor at the Israeli reads and loves these books as we do. I get a and individual salvation, and social and economic Embassy in Paris, informed the High Commis­ painful feeling: these people have been deprived liberation with the aid of science and technology ". sioner of the Central African Republic in Paris of of their homeland, however one could not take And Hdaretz reminded its readers that " Western Israel's wish to establish diplomatic relations away from them its culture. We left Herzlia scientists did not consider it beneath their dignity between the two countries. The Central African after three days. We had been treated politely, to appear together with Israel scientists, and the Republic (formerly Ubangi-Shari) recently but with reserve. There was a terrible barrier.... African and Asian statesmen from countries that obtained its independence from France. The The last days of our stay were also spent in are new and anxious for development were not African diplomat was also informed that the Herzlia. We were asked how we had liked the afraid that we would try to exploit our cultural Israeli Government has decided to grant 15 country. And when we spoke about our mani­ level to detract from their independence. . . ." scholarships to young citizens of the C.A.R. who fold, deeply impressing observations, the ban was wish to specialise in agricultural and co-operative broken. . . . Germans and Israelis were sitting Indeed, Israel gives of her experience and aid studies in Israel. " with no political strings attached ". For countries together. We quite frankly spoke about every­ which have just been freed from colonial rule and thing. We did not evade the issues, all barriers are oversensitive of the political designs of the Delegation to Nigeria had come down. . . ." big powers, this " disinterestness" of Israel—if one may speak in political life of such a The Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Moshe PRESIDENTS NEW YEAR MESSAGE phenomenon—makes up for her lack of material Dayan. led the delegation to Nigeria's indepen­ In his New Year message President Ben-Zvi resources. The truly world-wide character of the dence celebration in place of Mrs. Golda Meir. stated that Israel had established friendly relations conference was further emphasized by the presence Mrs. Meir proceeded straight to the United with numerous countries throughout the world, of representatives of Unesco and the other big Nations meeting in New York. including eight new African States. He also initemational organisations, marred only by the referred to the visits by Afro-Asian, European and absence of delegates from the East European bloc. C.«SAREA TO BECOME TOURIST CENTRE American statesmen. Pointing out that several Prime Minister Ben-Gurion called the conference Baron Edmond de Rothschild, head of the international gatherings had taken place in Israel " bound up with the two most momentous revolu­ Cxsarea Development Corporation, has revealed during the past year, the President stated that tions in the annals of the human race ". The first plans for investing I£3 million in the ancient town Israel had become "an international arena and a one was the ending of the rule of one people over of Caesarea, between Tel Aviv and Haifa. He focus of attraction to scholars and scientists ". another. All the nations of the world were intends building a big modern hotel and trans­ JOINT BARMITZVAH CELEBRATION steadily attaining freedom from foreign domina­ forming Caesarea into a tourist centre. The town tion. The second revolution, he went on, was the contains the ruins of the former Roman and At the initiative of an employee of the Tel Aviv intellectual, scientific revolution, whose achieve­ Crusader settlements. Municipality, a joint Barmitzvah celebration for ments could contribute to " man's economic pros­ twelve orphan boys was arranged at the Tel Aviv perity and his spiritual advancement". If these INCREASED IMPORT OF Great Synagogue. The money for the boys' new revolutions which seem to be taking place inde­ BRITISH BOOKS clothing was collected by the employee, Mr. M- pendently in our days, are merged and combined, Peretz. Two Rumanian boys who were also sup­ the entire character of the human race can be An eight-month £40,000 agreement has been posed to join in the celebration were forbidden by transformed. signed between Britain and Israel, under which their parents to take part in a " Sephardi In the declaration which the conference issued British book exports to Israel will increase. Israeli Barmitzvah ". at its closing session the hope was expressed that book importers will pay into a counterpart fund the meeting in Rehovoth may be a stepping stone for British books they order, and the fund will be OILFIELD LOCATED towards this goal. A permanent committee was placed at the disposal of the British Council for A new oilfield was located in the Negba area. set up to prepare the next conference on similar its cultural activities in Israel. According to first estimates it is expected to yield lines. about 120 barrels daily. ISRAELIS AT OLYMPICS NEW JERUSALEM TELEPHONE EXCHANGE EXTRADITION OF WAR CRIMINAL URGED The head of the Israeli Olympic delegation, Mr. Due to the installation of a new telephoiie Shalom Zysman, stated that the majority of the exchange in Jerusalem, all telephone numbers in A member of the Knesset for the National Israeli sportsmen had done an excellent job by the district had to be changed and a new directory Religious Party has urged the Israeli Minister of breaking Israeli national records. The Chairman has been issued. There are now in Jerusalem Justice to request the extradition of Herbert of the Israel sports federation, Haim Wein, said: about 7,900 subscribers out of a total population Cukors from Brazil. " We did not expect to win medals, knowing the of 160,000. Cukors' application for Brazilian citizenship has high standards of other teams and our difficulties. been twice refused by the Brazilian Government. We followed a principle of sending a large repre­ GRANTS FOR WESTERN IMMIGRANTS He recently admitted in a Brazilian newspaper sentation rather than a symbolic one, with the A plan for the obsorption of immigrants with that he had "killed a few Jews", but he denied view of encouraging our participants to raise their limited means from Western countries and South complicity in the mass murders of Latvian Jewry. standards." America is being prepared by the Jewish Agency. AJR INFORMATION October, I960 Page 9 f^gon Larsen took up the cudgels for a revision of the Drc>fus case ; it was now only a matter of time until the mjn on Devil's Island would be allowed to return THE TRIALS OF CAPTAIN DREYFUS to face another court. Jean Jaiures, leader of the Socialist Party in the Chamber, and principal founder of the new New Light on "L'affaire" " League for the Rights of Man ". announced that he was now able to prove that a document Twenty-five \ears ago Alfred Dreyfus. life, loss of civil rights, and degradation. Through­ incriminating Dreyfus had been forged. .Major Lieiitenant-Colonel in retirement. Officer of the out the shameful ceremony, at which the insignia Henry, the man who had presented it to the Legion d'honneur. died peacefully in Paris at the were ripped off his uniform, he protested his court-martial, was cross-examined by the War ^8e of 76. To mark the anniversary and to innocence while the assembled mob shouted: Minister and had to admit that he himself was ^cquaint a new generation with the famous "A niort! Dirty Jew I Traitor!" the forger. He was arrested and cut his throat affair". the publishers of the Allgemeine in the prison cell. Georges Maurice Paleologue. 'jachenzeiiung der Juden in Deutschland, Diissel- " J'accuse !" publicist and diplomat (he was French Ambassa­ ^tf, have brought out a new edition of Bruno While Dreyfus languished on Devil's dor to Russia during the First World War), inter­ ^'eil's almost classic account of the case, " Der Island, off Cayenne, watched by heavily armed vened with Delcasse. the new Foreign Minister, "ozess des Hauptmanns Dreyfus'". It was first guards and for some time in irons, his relatives to press for the earliest possible revision of the published in 1930 and had no less than nine and a few friends tried to arouse France's con­ Dreyfus case. Anatole France. Henri Poincare. editions within a few months ; now. 30 years and science. Another Alsatian officer. Colonel Picquart, Viciorien Sardou and many other outstanding 3 Nazi millennium later, the tenth edition adds a the new Chief of Intelligence, had the German personalities raised their voices in favour of good deal of material whjch has since been Embassy in Paris watched by hjs agents, and one Dreyfus. At last, in June, 1899, the Court of unearthed by the author. Dr. Weil, a well-known day in 1896 they retrieved from its waste-paper Revision annulled his conviction and ordered a Berlin lawyer and historical writer. basket a torn-up letter evidently relating lo some new trial before the court-martial at Rennes. To the modem reader the book may appear espionage activity, and addressed to Major After five years of martyrdom the convict somewhat old-fashioned, beimg written in the Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy. Picquart made a Dreyfus, now returned to the status of prisoner- •ypical reportage style of the 1920's, with the special study of the character of that officer. upon-trial. was brought back to France, to Rennes. story told ir» the dramatising present tense and Esterhazy. 50 years old, scion of a famous The generals presented as firm a front as ever, and otten in a lanauaae now confined to the popular Hungarian family, had been a soldier in Austrian the military judges knew quite well that now the Illustrated weeklies. The book also has the and Papal services before joining the French Army whole French Army was on trial. Even the ^inmon failing of many German publications in 1870; but now he was rather a soldier of categorical declaration of the German Govern­ Which might otherwise rank as standard works of fortune—always in debt, married, but maintaining ment that there had never been any relations f^erence—it has no index. But having said this, a mistress, a gambler and writer of begging letters between Dreyfus and the German authorities was °n^ must congratulate the publishers on laying (Baron Edmund Rothschild paid him 2,000 francs of little help. The verdict was: guilt>. though oeiore Germany's post-Hitler readers this emi­ in 1894). Picquart succeeded in getting samples under extenuating circumstances ; the sentence : nently comprehensive, illuminating, and thought- of Esterhazy's handwriting. It was without doubt ten years' detention and degradation. povoking history of " L'affaire Dreyfus ", whose the same as that of the document said to be in essons for our time are obvious enough. Dreyfus's hand, which had sent him to Devil's " Not a Jewish Victory " France after Defeat Island. Picquart. originally no less anti-Semitic and no The whole world, which had watched the pro­ Rruno Weil begins his account by sketching the ceedings at Rennes with anxious eyes, was taken less convinced of Dreyfus's guilt than most high- aback. England and America were shocked ; ackcloth against which the Drevfus drama ranking officers, was a man of honour. Now that Queen Victoria wrote to the Lord Chief Justice developed: France, a decade and a half after the he believed he had discovered the truth, he was that the sentence appalled her and that she hoped a^r c*"- °^ 1870/71, with reaction, nationalism. prepared to risk his career and reputation to vindi­ the " poor martyr" could appeal against it to nti-Semitism and anti-Germanism rampant in a cate the innocent man. " better judges ". Prosperous economy. There are tendencies towards The strong forces who wanted to keep Dreyfus 'ctatorship, personified in General Boulanger. and where he was, with Major Henry as their leader, Dreyfus did indeed appeal at once, but his th r'° monarchism. The Panama scandal takes tried to cure Colonel Picquart of his " fixed idea ". health had suffered so much that only instant ne lid off the cesspool of corruption ; everybody He was transferred to Africa, and challenged to liberation by pardon could save his life. His Pects only the worst of everybody else. a duel; fake espionage letters were adddressed to friends persuaded him to withdraw his appeal; ..'n 1890 some important defence documents him. Yet he persisted and pressed for action the Minister of Economics, Millerand, later Presi­ p'sappeared from the files of the War Ministry. against Esterhazy, with the result that he himself dent of the Republic, succeeded in obtaining his p •" four years the Deuxieme Bureau of the was arrested and charged. At his suggestion. immediate release. " My liberty means nothing oro"'^^ General Staff—its counter-espionage Mathieu Dreyfus, the Captain's brother, denounced without my honour ". declared Dreyfus. " 1 shall .j^anisation—tried in vain to find the culprit, Esterhazy as the real traitor. continue to fight for my vindication ". attal, ^" unsigned letter to Ihe German military Esterhazy. who had gone to England, sold to matt at the Paris Embassy, relating to defence Esterhazy had to face a court-martial, but it was the Dcttly Chronicle a confession that he had acted bee ' .*"™^ up mysteriously ; it could have —as he himself boasted in later years—a carefully as a counter-espionage agent, and later appeared Gei? *'"'*'*" only by someone on the French prepared farce, which was intended to show that before the French Consulate in London to submit to A^f^' ^'^^" Handwriting tests seemed to point Dreyfus was not the victim of any judicial error. himself to an extensive cross-examination. It Picquart found himself accused of having forged established his guilt clearly, though in a fantastic tan* ^^ Dreyfus. Captain of Artillery and assis- the incriminating letter from the German "' Worker in the General Staff, as its author. mixture of fact and fiction, wjth Esterhazy the Embass\'s waste-paper basket. The "esprit de great adventurer as its hero. Forsaken by his so?*''^Vfus. born at Miilhausen. Alsace, in 1859. corps " of the French army prevailed, and Ester­ ODterf f ^ prosperous Jewish manufacturer who friends, making a living by dubious means and hazy was acquitted. It was a victory for the petty business deals, he spent the rest of his life mi,f? °'' France, was the first Jew who, against p>owers of reaction. much resistance among high-ranking officers, was in England, and died at Harpenden. Herts, in 1923. permit 'ed to work on the General Staff. His On the morning after Es'terhazy's acquittal, a For six years Dreyfus continued to struggle in militagfg ;'" y record was excellent, but he lacked social man whose voice commanded the attention of the vain for his vindication ; but immediately after friemf' *^* ambitious and reticent, and had few world delivered a mighty blow for the cause of the elections of 1906, which brought victorv to the Prior- " •^^ ^ German-speaking Jew he was a justice. Emile Zola, using the front page of a Left, the Court of Appeal began jts sessions. On he V!L^ suspicious character. In October. 1894. newspaper, L'Aiirore, published an open letter to July 12th, 1906, the Dreyfus Affair ended with a Chief * arrested and charged with treason ; the the President of the Republic under the heading. solemn declaration that an innocent man had been Ug of the Intelligence Department, Major " J'accuse . . . !" made the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice. " in ^^' ^"^'^ '° '^^^^ Dreyfus take his own life. Zola accused the generals who had plotted the IjQji^'^^prdance with the traditions of soldierly destruction of the Jew Dreyfus, the court-martial, Bruno Weil adds to hjs dramatic story an enter"'^ ' ''"* Dreyfus refused and declared on the War Ministry and their subservient newspapers, epilogue jn which he brings it up to date with a born'"^ his cell. "Mv sole crime is that I was and the handwriting experts. His charges were: wealth of recent revelations. The conclusion he " a Jew " intentional miscarriage of justice, forgery, conceal­ draws concems us all; it seems esf)ecially ment of the truth, cheating, petty-fogging, perjury, addressed to those of us whom the tragedies of Sem^t"^t> ^^^ '^ °^* scandal. To the anti- partiality and other crimes against humanity and the recent past have led to believe that it is the coj]„i . ""^^ss. the guilt of Dre\fus was a foregone civilisation. fate of the Jews to live in a world without friends: to th^'*'"' '^^^ nationalist mob was in full cry ; " It was not Jewry that succeeded in liberating The c™ ^^^O Jew was a German and an enemy, The Retum of Dreyfus Dreyfus; the final victory was won by those non- ainin^y""martial began in December. 1894, in an Jewish, upright, steadfast Christian French men Pfessu ^"^^ of hysteria and tremendous public The impact of Zola's indictment was tremen­ who, because or although he was a Jew. did not his iuri*' Dreyfus lacked the ability to convince dous. Like a stroke of lightning it cut through hesitate to fight with all their strength for he \va u ''^- ^'* demeanour and personality that the mesh of lies and intrigues which had obscured justice. . . . This account of the Dreyfus Affair ''^ajo u ^ victim of error, malice, and prejudice, the essential facts of the Dreyfus case. His plea is dedicated to all whose hearts bum in just reveal ^^''''^' pleading that he was not allowed to to be brought before a court was accepted; he indignation when injustice is done anywhere ; who the n' sources of his information, swore on was tried for libel and sentenced to one year's are filled with pity towards the innocent: who Drev?''^^"'"* of Christ in the court room that imprisonment and the maximum fine. He fled to regard the reparation of injustice as their greatest f^yfus was a traitor. England. But his conviction was tantamount to moral duty ; to those who wjsh that the world fouj^'^^ .flimsiest of evidence Captain Dreyfus was victory for the " Dreyfusards". After Zola's may become a place where love and humanity, guilty and sentenced to transportation for flight his defending counsel, Georges Clemenceau. justice and goodness, reign supreme." Page 10 AJR INFORMATION October. I960

" Reports about the persecution of Jews during JEWISH SCHOLARS REMEMBERED the Crusades" ; " History of the Jewish Theo­ logical Seminary " (Festschrift on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Institute's foundation); MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER The " Oppenheimer Catalogue" established '" History and Annals of the Dyhernfurth Printing Steinschneider's fame as a scholar. From 1859 to Plant " ; " Old Jewish Tombstones in Silesia " ; Centenary of his Catalogue 1893 he catalogued the Hebrew Collections of " A Collection of Tombstone Inscriptions in Leyden. Munich. Hamburg and Berlin, thus Fuerth". Together with the Frankfurt scholar becoming the creator of Hebrew bibliography. Aaron Freimann he edited the first volume of In 1736 Rabbi David Oppenheimer. whose birth­ In 1859 he was elected to a lectureship of the place was Worms, died in Prague. He was a the " Germania Judaica", a venture which has Veilel Heine Ephraim Lehranstalt in Berlin, where now been resumed. Finally, his work as the well-known Talmudist and his studies led him to his lectures were attended by many Christian editor of the "" Monatsschrift fuer Geschichte und collect old Hebrew manuscripts and prints, on students. From 1859 to 1882 he was editor of Wissenschaft des Judentums" deserves to be which he spent all his money. Apprehensive lest the "Hebrew Bibliographia ", from I860 to 1869 mentioned. Founded by Zacharias Frankel, later a representative of Berlin's Jewish Community. on taken over by Brann. the " Monatsschrift" was, these old writings, many of which dealt with From 1869 to 1883 he was headmaster of the Cabbalistic subjects, might arouse the suspicion after Brann's death, edited by the late Professor Jewish Girls' School in Berlin and from 1859 to Dr. I. Heinemann. until its publication had to be of the Austrian censor, he kept the collection in 1882 Assistant Librarian at the State Librarv in discontinued in 1938. Hanover, where the King of England had ruled Beriin. On his 80th birthday the title of Pro­ fessor was bestowed on him. and even on his Marcus Brann was a scholar, but he did not as Elector since 1714. 90th. the Rote Adierorden. Third Class! He live in an ivory tower. He had an open mind After Rabbi Oppenheimer's death his heirs tried declined invitations from the Hochschule fur die for the happenings in the world, a clear under­ to sell the collection, but for nearly a hundred Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin and the standing of the requirements of our people, and years it was impossible to find a buyer. At last, Landesrabbinerschule in Budapest, since, as he he was in constant touch with the leaders of the in 1829. the Bodleian (since 1602 the Ubrary of said, Jewish studies should be pursued only at once-flourishing Jewish communities in Germany, the Universitv of Oxford) bought the 780 manu­ Universities, independent of theological influences. which asked him for his advice and in most cases scripts and 5,421 books, most of them priceless, followed up his suggestions and recommendations for 30.000 thalers. a price which seems ridiculous When Moritz Steinschneider died on January when they were faced with the task of electing a today. This acquisition made it necessary to find 24th, 1907, he left a vast corpus of scientific works. new spiritual leader. an expert, not then available in Oxford, to cata­ Apart from the catalogues mentioned above his The memory of Marcus Brann will live on in logue the collection. For many years nobody wider studies include, among others: The article the hearts of all his pupils. on " Juedische Literatur" in Ersch and Gruber's could be found equal to the task, until in 1849 Enzyklopaedie der Wissenschaften (1850), trans­ P.H. an unknown freelance scholar from Berlin, Moritz lated into many languages: " Zur pseudo- Steinschneider, was chosen. He immediately set epigraphischen Literatur insbesondere der GUARDIANS OF OUR HERITAGE about compiling what was to be a standard work geheimen Wissenschaften, aus hebraeischen und of bibliography, finishing it in Oxford in four arabischen Quellen" (1862): Arabische Ueber- A veritable " hall of fame " has been built by years. The catalogue was published from 1852 to setzungen aus dem Griechischen (1889-1896): Leo Jung, himself a religious leader, to our Jewish I860 in Berlin. It comprised three volumes, " Bibliographisches Handbuch ueber die theo- religious leaders of the last two centuries.* In a totalling 3.100 pages. Each book and manuscript retische und praktische Literatur fuer hebraeische conscientious and painstaking work he has is exhaustively described, with year and place of Sprachkunde" (1896); and studies on the Italian collected and edited 29 biographies of scholars, composition or publication, name of author and and the Arabic literature of the Jews. saints and martyrs during the time from 1719-1953. any details known about him. and a critical The book starts with a charming prelude by bibliography of the relevant literature, mentioning In 1,400 shorter articles, written for 120 giving us the little-known childhood memories of any errors found therein. The hundred years different periodicals, in German, Hebrew, a Jerusalem woman of the third generation who since the publication of the third and concluding Arabic. French. Latin, and Italian, he dealt with depicts for us an almost forgotten section of the a very wide range of subjects in their relationship Holy City, the centre of the Chassidim in " Sara- volume of Steinschneider's monumental work to Judaism: Science. Medicine. Mathematics, and deserve not to go unmentioned. Toxology. His friends had planned an edition of Beilas-Court", where all the Jewish customs were these articles in five volumes for his 90th birth­ strictly observed and where even the plucking of a Who was Moritz Steinschneider ? day. However, only one volume was published flower on the Sabbath brought severe punishment Born on March 30th. 1816. in the little Mora­ in 1925. His versatility is illustrated by his to the sinner . . . and also blessed relief from all vian township of Prossnitz, the boy Moritz was German version of old Hebrew poetry, dedicated sense of guilt. taught Hebrew by his father. Jakob Steinschneider. to his wife. and went to the local primary school. As he was Religious Giants destined for the rabbinical career, he started a Though Moritz Steinschneider wrote on Jewish theological education under the Rabbi of Pross- subjects, he was. as a universal scholar, inde­ The religious giants of the nineteenth century in nitz, Nahum Trebitsch. and went with him to pendent of religious and national bias. It is this Germany are commemorated: S. R. Hirsch, the Nikolsburg, where David Oppenheimer had been fact which gives his work the stamp of true author of the " Nineteen Letters on Judaism " and Rabbi before going to Prague. From 1833 to greatness. the creator of German orthodoxy in Frankfurt/ 1836 he continued his studies in Prague and then PAUL WOHLFARTH. Main ; and Esriel Hildesheimer, the founder of the settled in Vienna, where he began to study Arabic famous Rabbiner Seminar in Berlin. The author and Hebrew literature, not at the Oriental does not forget the unusual life of Rabbi N. A- .Academy, to which as a Jew he was not admitted, A GREAT HISTORIAN Nobel, the philosopher, who was a student and but, thanks to Professor Kaerle's kindness, in the friend of Hermann Cohen and became the teacher library of the Catholic Theological Faculty. He 40th Anniversary of the Death of Marcus Brann of Franz Rosenzweig. In our own lifetime we earned his living by giving lessons in foreign have the heroic and tragic life of Joseph Carlebach. languages, himself acquiring a knowledge of many the scion of a famous rabbinical family. Carlebach of them which was to prove most useful to him On the eve of Succoth. 40 years will have passed since the death of the historian and rejected the numerous opportunities for emigra­ in years to come. But for political reasons— tion because he did not want to leave his congre­ which have not been ascertained—he was ordered bibliographer Professor Dr. Marcus Brann. lecturer at the Jewish-Theological Seminary in gation. . . . He perished, together with his young by the .Austrian police to leave Vienna. On his wife and two children, in a concentration camp- way to Berlin to continue his studies at the Breslau. A descendant of an old rabbinical familv —his father was Rabbi in Schneidemuehl—Marcus His name is remembered in Hamburg to this day- Humboldt University, he had to stay in Leipzig, Leo Jung reaches out over the borders of as his passport was not in order. Here he attended Brann studied at the Breslau Seminary : among his teachers were the Seminary's outstanding Rabbi. Germany when he portrays the brilliant Rabbino Professor Fleischer's Arabic lectures at the Uni­ Maggiore of Florence, Rabbi Samuel Zwi Margu­ versity, started translating the Koran into Hebrew, Zacharias Frankel. the famous historian Heinrich Graetz. and the classical philologist Professor Dr. lies, who planned to unite Occidental and Oriental wrote for Pierer's " Universal Encyclopaedia on Judaism and officiated half the year in Florence Hebrew and Arabic Literature" and edited, Jacob Bernays, the son of Chacham Isaak together with Franz Delitzsch. the medieval " Ez Bernays of Hamburg. Brann first held appoint­ and the other half in Algiers and Morocco. He Hajim " by the Caraite Aron Elijah. In 1839 he ments as a Rabbi in Breslau and Pless (Upper died in the prime of his life. His impressive was finally allowed to settle in Berlin, where he Silesia), but from the very beginning he was also portrait is today familiar to every Jew in Florence, studied Oriental Literature and Comparative devoted to scholarly research. When Heinrich more than fifty years after his death. Philology at the University and became a friend Graetz passed away in 1891, Brann. in recogni­ tion of his early achievements, was elected as his Above all, we have at long last depicted for us of the great Jewish scholars, Leopold Zunz and the life of the First Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Abraham Geiger. successor. He thus became one of the three widely respected teachers of the Seminary of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the man who became those days, the other two being Seminar-Rabbiner a legend in his lifetime. This Rabbi dared eat on In 1842 Steinschneider returned to Prague ; he Professor Dr. Israel Lewy. the initiator of the Yom Kippur in a time of plague, in order to had, apparently, not given up his theological historical-critical study of the Talmud, and Dr. demonstrate to his congregation that sometimes it ambitions. Nevertheless, in 1845 we find him Saul Horovitz, the talmudist, philosopher of is better to discard a commandment than to back in Berlin, absorbed once more in research. religion and homilist. obey it. Together with David Cassel he planned a Jewish Encyclopaedia, but before he had a chance to " The people of Israel are alive!" This is the Brann. following the footsteps of his teacher unwritten message of the book. And Israel wiU begin it, the Nalionalzeitung and the Prager and master Graetz. embarked on an immensely Zeilung sent him to Frankfurt to write on the stay alive ... as long as she has guardians of her prolific career as a scholar. Of his numerous heritage, such as Leo Jung has portrayed for us. debates of the Nationalversammlung there. In publications the following ones are mentioned 1848 he married Augusta Auerbach ; in 1849 he as examples : "History of the Jews and their BERTHA BADT-STRAUSS. became a Prussian subject, and in 1851 a Ph.D. Literature" (a Book for School and Family); of Leipzig University. • Goardians of our Heritage. Ed. by Leo Jung. Bloch " History of the Jews in Silesia " (five vols.); Publ. Co.. New York. AJR INFORM.VriON October. 1960 Pace II

NOCH EINE ERINNERUNG AN HAMBURG'S NEW SYNAGOGUE LUDWIG HAAS Unter dieser Ueberschrift veroeflentlichen die The 73-year-old Mayor of Hamburg, Max by a large number of people, amongst them city " Badischen Neuesten Nachrichten "' die folgende Brauer. himself a former Nazi persecutee, will officials, rabbis, and representatives of many West Leserzuschrift. die sie zu einem Gedenkartikel soon go into retirement. One of the last official German Jewish communities. They were anlaesslich des 30. Todestages von Ludwig Haas uuties performed by him was the address he gave welcomed by the Chairman of the Hamburg (s. auch August-Ausgabe von "AJR Information") on the occasion of the unveiling ceremony of the Community, Mr. Siegfried Gottschalk ; he stressed erhielten : new Hamburg synagogue on September 4th. He the assistance generously rendered by the Town said that this dedication was an event welcomed Council. In their addresses Rabbi Dr. Paul " Es war im Mai 1934 bei eineni der grossen ny the public because, after the total destruction Holzer, London, who had formerly officiated in I09er Treffen. Wir vom Res.-lnf.-Regt. 238 (Rgt. ^f its many synagogues during the Nazi regime, Hamburg both before and after the last War, ' Karlsruhe ") beteiligten uns als Kriegsformation Hamburg now has again a synagogue. More­ and Rabbi Dr. I. E. Lichtigfeld, Frankfurt-on- der Bad. Leibgrenadiere an diesen Wiedersehens- over, the erection of the building was a proof of Main, outlined the importance of the synagogue in feiern. Sonntagmorgens stand fuer uns jeweils die confidence. In the past, Hamburg Jews had Jewish life. In his dedication sermon. Mr. H. I. Kranzniederlegung auf dem Grabe unseres gutcn played an essential part in the life of the city, Gruenewald, the Hamburg rabbi. recently Regts.-Komniandeurs Brunnquell auf dem Pro­ 'n their honour Mayor Brauer recalled the work appointed after obtaining his diploma at Jews' gramm. Da die 238er ausser auf dem Heidefried- |na tragic fate of Dr. Joseph Carlebach, College, London, referred to the Torah as the hof bei Langemarck keinen eigenen Regts.-Gedenk- Hamburg's last rabbi, who perished at Riga in Eternal Light. The liturgical part was performed stein haben. sollten mit dieser Kranzniedrlegung 1942. He had maintained friendly relations with by Mr. G. Singer, the local chazan, the male choir alle gefallenen und verstorbenen 238er geehrt nim, particularly during the period when both of of the Berlin Jewish Community, and accom­ werden. Auf dem Rueckweg nun sagte ploetzlich ihem held office at Altona. Brauer solemnlv panied by Mr. Arthur Zepke (Berlin). ein Kamerad : ' Lasst uns auch zu " unserem handed over a Scroll of the Law. a gift of the Haas " auf dem benachbarten juedischen Friedhof Senate, the Town Council. gehen !' Alles war sofort einverstanden und Kam. The whole dignified ceremony was transmitted kapferer besorgte schnell einen Blumenstrauss. both by radio and television, thus enabling a large Damals war das Dritte Reich bcreits ueber ein The new synagogue, erected at Hohe Weide 34, public to participate. All the more therefore Jahr auf uns hereingebrochen; einzelne Kameraden near the small emergency svnagogue at Kielort- one could have expected from the rabbis offi­ trugen ihre SA-Uniform. Das stoerte sie aber gar ?uee used ever since the end of World War II. ciating a reference to the former Hamburg Jewish nicht mit zu Haas' Grab su gehen. Und waehrend is the work of Mr. Karl May, a Hamburg archi- Community and its old and honourable tradition, einer mit kurzen ehrenden Worten dieses allseits '^<^l: a pentagonal, modern but by no means to its manifold achievements and some of its out­ beliebten Rameraden gedachte—Leutnant d.R. Haas extravagant building, clear cut and bright ; five standing spokesmen. However, this was entirely hatte bcim Sturm auf Langemarck im November eolourful. high windows add a lot to the atmo­ left to the Mayor and to the Hamburg local 1914 die 3. Komp. gefuehrt—und die Blumen sphere, and the Almemor. in accordance with old press—a regrettable though, perhaps, not deliberate niederlegte. standen diese uniformierten Jewish tradition, stands in the middle of the main omission. The Hamburg Jewish Community now Kameraden mit zum deutschen Gruss erhobenem "p|l. Connected with it are a small synagogue for numbers some 1,400 souls as compared with Arm auf dem juedischen Friedhof vor dem Grab uaily prayers and a Community Centre. 20,000 in 1925 and 8,400 in 1939. ihres Kameraden Ludwig Haas. The ceremony on September 4th was attended E. G. LOWENTHAL (Frankfurt). Werner Heitmann. Darmstadt."

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wilderness for forty years, the space of a genera­ A JEW IN POST-WAR BERLIN tion, until a new, hard people advance upon another land of promise." However, he full well knows that this is only part of the truth. Emanuel Litvinoff's "' The Lost Europeans "* is political meaning because of its East-West divi­ I don't think that any one of us can give the much more than an excellently written novel sion line. Here, every nerve is exposed and the answer, but we are grateful to Litvinoff for having about present day Berlin. It is one of the first sub-conscious of its inhabitants is more alert posed the essential question so admirably on the literary attempts to probe into the " unbewael­ than anywhere in the world. It hardly allows human level. tigte Vergangenheit " of the Germans, and in the for any self-deceit and this is experienced by LUCIE SCHACHNE. event he has exposed the problems in such a way Martin Stone, the English-educated young Jew that they have proved valid for us Jews as well, who returns to Berlin only as a passing visitor KARL OTTEN'S ANTHOLOGY if only for different reasons. for a fortnight's stay. He wants to start proceed­ It is interesting that this serious effort should ing for the restitution of the lost family fortune, Tribute to Jewish Authors have been made by an author who is not German. but he too is caught by the singular atmosphere It would, however, be quite wrong to think that though on a different level. He had come to Karl Otten seems to have dedicated his life and this in any way detracts from the value of the Berlin ready to despise every German, but finds work to the salvage of the literature of the half- book. Litvinoff is concerned with the immediate that he could do this with much greater ease from forgotten, pre-Hitler generation, and we should be past and disturbed by the human attitudes which a safe distance. He discovers that his feelings grateful for it. He follows up his collectipn ot have followed in its wake. He is concerned with for his native town are stronger than he knew, expressionist prose. " Ahnung und Aufbruch ", with them as a Jew. There is nothing doubtful about and that his deliberate resistance to link his fate an anthology of the expressionist drama " Schrei the authenticity of his characters whom he has with that of anyone here is overcome when he und Bekenntnis", both pubUshed by Hermann created with insight and who are substantiated by falls in love with Karin who had her own Luchterhand. containing 36 plays by Unruh, his detailed knowledge of the Jewish tragedy in experience of evil at the hands of the Russians. Toller, Iwan Goll, Sternheim, Wolfenstein, Sorge, Hitler Germany. But Martin's story, like Hugo's, is not more than Brust. and Lautensack, to name only a few. the lever which brings forth the essence of the Still more important is Otten's collection ot Retum of an Intellectual author's concern : where does the new Jewish generation go from here—those who have sur­ Jewish authors, " Das leere Haus ", published by vived the holocaust and are left to witness the Cotta, Stuttgart (DM. 24.80), with complete novels There is Hugo, the familiar type of the success­ spiritual ruins of a generation who thought that by Albert Ehrenstein, Simon Kronberg, Ernst ful German Jewish intellectual of the 'twenties they were safe behind the barricades which Blass, Efraim Frisch, Ernst Weiss, Paul Adler, who, once uprooted, has become one of the " lost Goethe, Bach, and Kant had erected against the Gertrud Kolmar and Paul Kornfeld, some of thern Europeans" of the 'fifties, in spite and because Hitlers and Himmjers ? Litvinoff does not claim published for the flrst time. The editor, by the of his return from his refugee existence in London. to know the answer. He says: " The truth is way not a Jew himself, though he lived and stiU Hugo has gone back to Berlin in search of his that you have been condemned to homelessness. lives in exile, wants his book to be taken as an past glory and also to trace Putzi von Schlesinger Each generation passes on to the next its virus act of spiritual restitution on some Jewish repre­ who. having once been his closest friend, of insecurity. You learn the technique of sur­ sentatives of German literature. And it is no| denounced him as a homosexual to the Gestapo. vival, fearing ostentation as if it were a vice, only a work of piety and love, since these revived Putzi is hiding from the West and has in the censoring the act or gesture that may be pilloried and rescued works are still immensely readable meantime become a high functionary in East as strangeness, observing yourself constantly and topical and modern in theme and style- Berlin. In the climate of Berlin, Hugo's search through the eyes of an enemy. In a fortunate Especially moving is Ernst Blass's " Der Blinde . for Putzi develops into an obsession and this, time a hundred years may pass and you will where the writer's own fate is identical to Karl with all its political and human implications, remain unmolested. You become incautious and Otten's. . , introduces the elements of a thriller without show a coloured feather, a hand with six fingers, The house in which these eight authors lived reducing the quality of the book. It simply adds and another king arises to say: ' Behold, the is really empty today, and German literature to the genuine setting which Litvinoff evokes by people of the children of Israel are more and poorer for it. We cannot thank Karl Otten giving a vivid picture of Berlin, this European mightier than we : Come let us deal wisely with enough for the resurrection of these dead poets, nerve centre where every trivial action assumes them : lest they multiply . . . and join also unto still very much alive in their works. * Emanuel LitvioofT: Tbc Lost Europeans. Heinemann. ISs, our enemies.' You who survive go out into the PEM

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IN MEMORIAM BAPTISTA PEREIRA ARTS AND ARTISTS Ein Brasilianiscber Humanist TUTTNAUER EXHIBITION VICKI BAUM Before going to the opening of the exhibition, Kurz vor Vollendung des 80. Lebensjahres starb had been warned ; You will have to queue. I Vicki Baum. the novelist, play and scenario in einem Sanatorium von Sao Paulo der hervorra­ carne late and I was fortunate enough to get in writer, has died in Hollywood at the age of 72, gende brasihanische Schriftsteller und Soziologe Without any undue delay. But the Alfred Brod after a sudden illness. Antonio Baptista Pereira, Schwiegersohn des j^'lcry was overflowing with visitors, and many She was born in Vienna and, for a time, wrote grossen Juristen und Staatsmannes Ruy Barbosa, °* them were of no mean order. It seemed a dessen Geburtsdafum in Brasilien Jahr fuer Jahr roeeting point of London high society. Gentile and in German and edited two German magazines. In als Dia da Cultura gefeiert wird. Unvergessen Jewish. Looking at the pictures on the walls I 1929 she began to write novels in English and the ist jener Vortrag ueber das Thema " Brasilien und *as wondering why it was that " tutt" has flrst of these, " Grand Hotel", achieved instant der Antisemitisumus", den Baptista Pereira am Required so much popularity in such a short time, success both here and in America. A very suc­ 5 November, 1933 im ueberfuellten Ehrensaal •ne Doctor, now 70, took up painting only five cessful film version of the novel appeared. des " Hauses Ruy Barbosa " zu Rio hielt. Er, ein years ago. gluehender Verehrer des humanistischen Deutsch­ There were these canvases, radiant with colour, Miss Baum, who was married to Richard Lert. lands und Bewunderer Goethes wandte sich schon ''^ty prominent a light blue. Flowers which conductor of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, damals, als das Ausland noch fast ueberall in come to life, smiling at us (or mocking us ?). went to the United States in 1931 to see the play vorsichtiger Zurueckhaltung gegenueber dem •rees become our brothers or sisters as if in a which had been made of her book. She so hked Nationalsozialialismus verharrte, in einer flam­ J*'ty tale. We have only to compare for a the country that she settled there with her family menden Anklagerede gegen die Nazibarbarei. ™?ment how Graham Sutherland tums them into " Wie lange noch, rief der Redner, wird Europa lightening primeval monsters. And how much he and became an American citizen. Since then more mit verschraenkten Armen dieser Schaendung der Jjeiights in painting water, this most elusive, most than a dozen of her novels have appeared, Zivilisation zusehen ? " Dieser Essay " O Brasil "responsible" element. Always connected in although none of the later books achieved quite e o Antisemitismus". das Werk eines feinen pf memories with holidays on distant shores. the same success as " Grand Hotel". She Humanisten und eines tapferen Kaempfers, der ,°°K,,at the little boats on exhibit 24 " Ischia belonged to the best of the frankly cinematic Rudyard Kipling und den Grafen Keyserling zu translations of some flfty works, " get away from bitterness and quarrels in chiefly of Left-wing writers into Yiddish, the politics, from the confusing complications of one of the best-known accompanists and worked "lodcrn life. If the paintings could speak they with the most famous singers of that period. At Polish Council of State has awarded Marek am? *^" "^ • everything could be so pleasant the same time, he was widely recognised as a Rakowski, a Yiddish journalist and translator, the »nd so easy if you were not so naughty, you little soloist. The revival of the harpsichord is also, Knight's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order on ^™Pid children. A. ROSENBERG. to a great extent, due to his efforts. the occasion of Rakowski's 70th birthday.

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The leading GAS LIGHTER, from 14 AJR INFORMATION October. I960 PERSO NALIA ANNOUNCEMENTS FAREWELL TO MRS. MIRIAM WARBURG PROF. ADOLF GRABOWSKY 80 THE AUERBACH FAMILY The scholar, publicist and University teacher. • Work for Youth Aliyah has been, and always Prof. Adolf Grabowsky, recently celebrated his The genealogy of the descendants of Abraham will be, my life," said Mrs. Miriam Warburg at the SOth birthday. Before 1933 he was lecturer of .Auerbach which Mr. Siegfried M. Auerbach com­ farewell reception given in her honour. After Geopolitics at the " Hochschule fuer Politik" (Berlin). As a Jew. he was dismissed by the piled four years ago has met with great success. having been associated with Youth Aliyah since Nazis and went to Switzerland, where he founded A supplement which brings it up to date was 1934, first in Germany and later in England as the " Weltpolitische Archiv". Since 1950 he has published in April, 1960. The author has been General Secretary of the Committee in Great been Professor of Political Science at the univer­ asked by many members of the family to write sities of Marburg and Giessen. Grabowsky was Britain, Mrs. Warburg is going to leave for a proper history of the Auerbachs and is now Geneva, where her husband, Mr. Gustav Warburg, also editor of Das Neue Deutschland (1913-23), a Conservative periodical which, in opposition to engaged on collecting as many data as possible. has taken up an appointment. Dr. Israel Feld­ the party's leading circles, tried to promote a He would be grateful to all bearers of the family man, Joint Chairman of the British Committee, reform of Gennan Conservative thinking on the name Auerbach to inform him (at 457 Finchlev paid tribute to Mrs. Warburg's signal services. As pattern of its English counterpart. Road, London, N.W.3) of an expression of their gratitude and affection, he announced, her numerous friends and co-workers ERNST MUELLER 75 (1) their own date and place of birth, in this country bad established a Miriam Warburg The lawyer Mr. Emst Mueller recently cele­ (2) date and place of birth and name of their Scholarship to assist young persons in Israel, who brated his 75th birthday. Throughout his life, father, had been brought over by Youth Aliyah in pur­ both in Hanover, where he practised prior to his emigration, and in this country, he has been (3) date and place of birth of their grandfather suing studies or training in arts or crafts. The actively associated with Jewish communal work, Auerbach. AJR, in whose efforts Mr. and Mrs. Warburg have especially with the B'nai B'rith Lodge, the Any other information on the history of the taken a great interest throughout the years, joins •' Central-Vereiii " and the K.C. students' fratemity. all their other friends in wishing them happiness On many occasions he has rendered his assistance Auerbachs will also be welcome. and success also in their new sphere of activities. to the AJR Social Services Department, when needy refugees required legal advice. The general ZION HOUSE LECTURES objects of the AJR have also always been near DR. GUSTAV BUCKY 80 to his heart. We gratefully extend our cordial congratulations to Emst Mueller and wish him As in previous years the Theodor Herzl Society many happy retums of the day. (in conjunction with the Extra Mural Department The well-known radiologist. Dr. Gustav Bucky. of the University of London) will hold a series of recently celebrated his SOth birthday in New York. DR. A. BEIN VISITS LONDON lectures, with distinguished and expert speakers. In Berlin, where he practised prior to his emigra­ Israel's State Archivist and Director of the This year the subject of the series is "Centres in tion, he was Head of the " Zentral-Roentgen Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, Dr. Alex Israel". Details may be seen from the advertise­ Institut " of the " Rudolf Virchow Krankenhaus ". Bein, paid a visit to this country in order to ment published in this issue. It is hoped that many By several important inventions. Dr. Bucky has renew his contacts with Jewish and non-Jewish of our readers will be interested in this venture done pioneer work in the field of radiology. libraries in the U.K. and attend the lectures.

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Box 727. Accommodation Wanted Block, 79 Roland House. Roland and safely removed by qualified I Gardens, London, S.W.7. RESPONSIBLE, KINDHEARTED UNFURNISHED OR FURNISHED Physiotherapist and Electrolysist j WOMAN is available afternoons for FLAT/FLATLET for middle-aged, Facials. Body Massage. Remedial! GmndauuiB. — Hedwig Grundroann attending sick or invalid people or quiet lady trying to find a home. Exercises. Visits arranged. Mrs. Dutch, j (n^e Felsenthal), 305 Fulwood Road, caring for children. Box 728. Box 731. D.R.E., 239 Willesden Lane, N.W.2J Sheffield, 10 (formerly Vlotho/West­ (WIL. 1849 or COL. 8277). phalia), piassed away on August 26th, aged 81 years. Deeply moumed by WIRELESS wanted by very lonelyj her two sons and their families. woman. Box 732. Vogel.—Dr. Julius Vogel, of 4 West Such pretty things ot Reasonable Heath Drive, London, N.W.ll, passed Personal away on August 20th, in his 86th Prices year. Deeply moumed by his wife, ANGLO-JEWISH MATRIMONIAL"^ Johanna Vogel, daughter, Lotte SERVICE. 4 Cambridge Court- Edmonds, grandchildren. Dr. Herbert Amhurst Park, N.16. 'Phone: STA. Edmonds and Hannah Lewis (n^e 6721. Suitable introductions through­ Edmonds), grandson-in-law, grand- out United Kingdom on a strictly daughter-in-law and two great-grand­ confidential non-profit basis. Week­ children. days 8-9 p.m., Sunday 6-9 p.m. CLASSIFIED WELL-EDUCATED GENTLEMAN (35), B.Sc, from good Jewish family- Situations Vacant in good position, would like to ge' Women acquainted with young, attractive and HOUSEKEEPER required to look intelligent lady. Please send photo- after three persons for four weeks All answers will, of course, be treated from end October, during absence of strictly confidentially. Box 722. housewife. Modem house, Rochdale, easy conditions, daily help available. MISSING PERSONS Box 730. BRANCHES IN MAIN TOWNS Personal Enquiries Situations Wanted Men Gisela (formerly Anders), born ^^ Germany, emigrated to Englai"' SOUTH AFRICAN recenUj arrived 1938/9. Married in England, name seeks p>o$ition in wholesale business STANDARD SEWING HACHINE SERVICE LTD. unknown. Sought by her cousiO- either inside or as traveller. Excellent David Meyer, Sidney Keith Street 6- knowledge of textiles and ladies' and ELITE TYPEWRITER Co. Ltd. Kiriath Bialik, Israel. gents' clothing. Box 729. WIL. 2SZt COMMERCL\L ARTIST, all- AM MakM iMiaht, Said fr Excliaafl*4 Will any person who formerly l'^^*: rounder, e.g. designs, layouts, car­ Rapain, Maiataaaaaa in or near Greifswald, please contact toons, also copywriting. seeks It CRAWFORD STRUT, RAKIR STRIIT, W.l Miss Gertrud Bemhard, 16 Fawiey employment. Box 724. Road. N.W.6 (HAM. 2564). AJR INFORMATION October. I960 Page 15 OBITUARY MRS. VERA FEUCHTWANGER Mrs. Vera Feuchtwanger, who passed away a RABBI DR. .M. L. BA.MBERGER worldly affairs and, above all, with a golden sense few weeks ago, was the widow of our late friend. of humour, which gave a wonderful balance to Mr. J. L. Feuchtwanger. After the death of her It is leamed with regret that Rabbi Dr. M. L. his character and could spread happiness among husband in 1958 she succeeded him as a member Bamberger, of Gateshead, died at the age of 57. those near him. of the Otto Schiff House Committee. A quiet, He was a descendant of Rabbi S. B. Bamberger, " True to the type of the Jewish sage, he was a modest and helpful personality, she became a Ihe " Wuerzburger Rav", and, prior to his emi- very modest man. Consequently, he was not in trusted friend to her colleagues on the Committee firation, held office with the orthodox congrega- the limelight—unlike so many people of much and to the Home's residents during the short span t'on at Mainz. For many years, he was a member smaller calibre. But there was greatness in him." of the AJR Board, but felt he had to resign when of life still left to her. We express our sincere It turned out to be impossible for him to attend sympathy on her untimely death to her children the Board meetings in London, However, his ERNEST M. JOSEPH and the other members of her family. interest in our efforts remained undiminished, and Mr. Ernest M. Joseph, C.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., who ne will be gratefully remembered by us. passed away recently at the age of 83, was a well- DR. JULIUS VOGEL Mr. H. W. FREYHAN writes: "I met Dr. Bam­ known Anglo-Jewish communal worker. He was berger during our interrunent at Ramsey, I.o.M., particularly closely associated with the Jewish where he was our " House Leader" and, of boys' club movement in East London and the Dr. Julius VogeJ, formerly of Karlsruhe, passed course, acted as Rabbi at our temporary Syna- Jewish Lads' Brigade. He will be gratefully away on August 20th in London, at the age of Sogue. In those trying months, when many remembered by many in our midst for his signal almost 86. In association with his brother-in-law, respectable people reacted unfavoiu'ably to the services as a member of the Kitchener Camp Emst Bernheimer, he developed from small begin­ strain, Moses Bamberger revealed the true great­ Committee, set up under the auspices of the nings the Papier-und Zellstoffwerke A.G., Ettlingen- ness of his personality. He was an adherent of "Council for German Jewry" early in 1939 to Maxau, Baden, which became a leading under­ •ne strictest form of Orthodoxy, and his attitude establish and administer the transmigrants' camp taking in its field. He came to England with his 'n religious matters was absolutely uncompro­ at Richborough (Kent) for refugees from Germany family, in 1938, and until 1949, when he was 75, mising. But this attitude was not merely the and Austria. he made his considerable experience available to fesult of his upbringing, nor did its security rest the Westem Board Mills, Ltd., a company newly on a one-sided cultural background (one could formed by his brother in the Pontypridd area of near him quoting Kierkegaard); it sprang from MAX BLANK South Wales. a iving faith of such strength that it could not •*u to impress even those whose outlook differed Max Blank, of London, formerly Dortmimd, Julius Vogel was a man of high intelligence and itoni his. An hour came when the greatness passed away during his holiday in Switzerland at culture, with manifold interests. Generous, warm­ oi this faith revealed itself to the full extent: the age of 82. He was bom in Witten, and built hearted, always good humoured, and interested in jve were faced with deportation, and we had just up a well-known department store in his home the affairs of his fellow-men. he inspired great neard about the fate of the "Arandora Star". town. During the Nazi period he stood up most respect and affection among Jews and non-Jews i| fell to Dr. Bamberger to preach a sermon, courageously to the continuous boycott of his alike. He was deeply devoted to his family ; to y.n this occasion, he did not give a halachic store and his attitude in adverse and dangerous his two grandchildren, who lived in his house in wscourse: what he did was to prepare his con- circumstances was considered exemplary by his England he became a true father. Dr. Vogel was Stegation for every eventuality, and he did it in business friends in Westphalia. He arrived in this a member of the AJR, in whose work he took a ^"[•d^which I, for one. shall never forget. country with a transport from Dunkirk, saving lively and intelligent interest. Right up to his Ih V^at made him so fascinating as a man was nothing except his life. He bore his plight with death he retained his great intellectual faculties wh- Fj*^''°®ss of his personality: his religiosity— the same dignity, courage and humour which had and remained a remarkable and lovable per­ wnich Was more than what is commonly called always distinguished him. sonality. All who knew him will sadly moum the The AJR. to whose Board he belonged for loss of this fine Jewish patrician. F.E.F. ••ewishncss "—was combined w ith shrewdness in several years, will gratefully remember him.

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become integrated in a new; and the Charybdis EDUCATION OF IMMIGRANTS' CHILDREN of clinging to the comforting protection of your national group, thereby remaining an alien for­ An interesting essay on the problem " Immi­ not make up for this by a knowledge of the ever in the land of your adoption." grant parents versus British-born child" was cultural history of their own original coimtry. Many of our readers will be familiar with the published in The Times on July 25th. The "". . . There is a gap somewhere, and that gap problem touched upon in the article. It would unnamed author, a refugee from Germany who must be filled—can only be filled—by the intel­ be interesting to learn their views on the subject. settled in the Midlands 20 years ago, writes: " We lectual, spiritual and emotional possessions which knew we could never become English, but we one brings along from the land of one's birth ; THE VOM RATH MYSTERY were allowed to become anglicised in record time. and one neglects them or casts them off at one's Our careers, our spare-time activities, an increasing peril. ... In our eagerness to make roots here we A request has been submitted to the Israeli circle of friends—all made us feel that we jettisoned, perhaps too deliberately, all that bound Ministry of Justice to ask Adolf Eichmann about belonged." Things also appeared, at first, to go us to Germany. Our immediate memories were the fate of Herschel Grynspan, who in November well with the education of their daughter, who: clouded by grief and anxiety; our links with it 1938 shot vom Rath, Third Secretary at the ". . . . developed no complexes of either broken; there was the pressure of having to make German Embassy in Paris. This has been done superiority or inferiority. She was not ashamed a living here and there was neither time nor by the French lawyer, M. Franckel, who was to own German-born parents, nor unduly proud inclination—nor even the practical possibility— of Grynspan's counsel for defence. A French news­ of it. It was just a fact." keeping in touch with life and current affairs paper recently alleged that Grynspan was living in However, complications arose at a later stage ' at home.'" Paris under an assumed name, but police authori­ of her school education. Whilst it was not so The author arrives at the following conclusion: ties have been unable to confirm this. The Vichy much of a problem that the parents could not "... It is not easy to steer the tricky and narrow Government delivered Grynspan to the German help the child in subjects connected with English course between the Scylla of cutting yourself off authorities and M. Franckel wishes to know culture, it turned out a drawback that they could from your own culture in an aU-out attempt to whether he was executed by the Nazis.

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