.953 VoL VIII No. 2 FEBRUARY, 1953 INFORMATION Id ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN s 8. FAIRFAX MANSIONS, FINCHLEY ROAD ( fAiRpAx^'loAo ) LONDON, N.W.3 It Otpee end Cantulting Hourt : 10 a.m.—I p.m.. Ip.m. Sunday 10 a.ni.— I p.m. Te'eehone . MAIda ViU 9396/7 (General OWce) MAIda V.l» «*4° lEmplovm.nt Afency) Q WTien, in 1941, I was in the Soviet Hard Labour Camp, Onega, near Archangel, I met POISON FROM MOSCOW a 70-year-old Jew from the Bukovina who (.'V January 13, Moscow Radio broad- position to murder sick men under their care. had been sentenced to 10 5^ears' hard labour (.„ ^" 24 languages a surprising official And they are said to have committed these by the Soviet Occupation Authorities only ^niunique of the So\-iet TASS agency. shameful deeds on the orders of " the because he had been the chairman of the pL ^^."^ording to the statement, nine Soviet ' Joint ' —• the international bourgeois Zionist Keren Hayesod in pre-war Rumania. kin '^^' ^^ "^^ them professors, have been nationalist organisation," as the Soviet com ih^^ °r trying to poison the highest person- munique put it. In another part of the Soviet The Bolshevik Doctrine ^^s among the Sovdet ruling class. They statement the " Joint " is described as " a In their pre-revolution times the Bol gedly succeeded in killing two mighty terrorist-espionage organisation which gave sheviks, including Lenin and Stalin person Star '^^ ^^^ Kremlin : Andrei Zhdanov, the directive to exterminate the leading ally, had been engaged in a bitter struggle kov''^^ closest collaborator, and A. Scherba- cadres of the U.S.S.R." against any recognition of special organisa 4 ' '•he political Commissar of the Soviet tions of the Jews, even of Jewish socialist Cynical Pretexts workers organisations. It was Lenin who Col ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^° have not forgotten the Readers of AJR Information need not be wrote in 1903 : " The idea of a separate %^^^^ Soviet purges between 1934 and 1938, told what the " Joint "is. To present it, as Jewish people, which is utterly untenable fgJ^ ^niong the innumerable victims of the the Soviet government does, as having been scientificall}', is reactionary in its pohtical gen '^ nearly all Bolshevik leaders of Lenin's " set up by the U.S. Intelligence " is one imphcations." And Stalin wrote in 1913 : tfgj.'^^'^ion were executed as spies, saboteurs. more morbid fantasy of the Soviet Secret " How can it be seriously maintained that ^aitors ossified religious rites and fading psycho QH^e -^\ s and murderers, may now mutter only Police. This only proves again the endless ''.^ord : Again ... cynicism of people who, as late as 1949, were logical residues have a greater influence on Bu these Jews than the living socio-economic *hit! *^^^ *™^ ^^^ purge steirted with a note still accepting millions of dollars donated by " ^^ has a rather wicked originality. As in the same Joint in their satellite countries. and cultural environment which surrounds tal' th, them ? " r^ansky trial, the Communist All those who were victims or witnesses of com- But if the Kremhn wished to attempt a J^W'^K^^ time and time again underlined the Nazi antisemitism cannot help asking the question : Is Communist Russia going to forcible assimilation of its two milUon Jewish sh origin of the majority of the accused. subjects it would not, as in Prague and Pfl^^cow went one step further than satellite unleash the forces of racism ? Will Nazi antisemitism now be followed by Communist Moscow, display the Jewish background of WQ^*^^- It made the arrested men not only antisemitism ? the latest victims of its political purges. Sejj. 'or foreign spjang agencies, but pre- Even more sinister appears the intention of \vij ^ them as common and vile criminals After the Prague trial the present writer was inclined to disagree with people who the Soviet government to make an impartial \' Against the most primitive laws of philanthropic organisation appear as the anit^ityv . nse(j their high professional described it as a kind of a Drej'fus affair. Every student of Bolshevik and Com bogy Synhedrion described in the " Protocols munist theories on nationalities knew per of the Elders of Zion." DAYS OF ANXIETY fectly of the Kremlin's basic approach to Are the two milhon Jews in the Soviet titi t ^^"'^ hardly possible to add to the manifold Zionism. From the beginning of this century, Empire threatened with liquidation as a Prjj '•Pretations which the general and Jewish Zionism was looked upon as nothing but a national group ? Or are the anti-Jewish notes Ciif. ,^'^^ to the developments East of the Iron cunning device of the Jewish bourgeoisie to in Moscow a temporary' measure to woo the Wjf °^' The Prague Trial, some of whose aspects prevent the Jewish Proletariat from taking Middle East .\rabs, just as the support of foil- ^Scribed in our previous issue, has now been part in the Social revolution. Zionism was Zionism in 1947 was another manoeuvre of ^Dfl • ^y victimisation of Tews in Soviet Russia and is considered a crime in Soviet Russia, unprincipled power pohtics ? tieiy ri ^^stern Germany. The background of these punished with all the ruthlessness this State It is impossible to answer these questions amj^ ^^^'opments is dealt with in this issue by two who know it from their personal experience. practises. with any assurance. LUC JAN BLIT *hosp '^'^^ °^ the tragic aspects of the events that *erp • ^^^ °ow " accused " of Zionist sympathies NEWS FROM EASTERN GERMANY activities ' he has meanwhile escaped from East Berlin. thgj ' "* ^ great number of cases, most violent in According to press reports, measures were inter 'Wtf *°*'"Zionist attitude. Following the old alia taken against the following persons of Jewish Jewish Communal Leaders Flee origin who had held positions in Eastern Germany : Hot „ ^.' Jewish Communists ou the Continent were the author Arnold Zweig was temporarily relieved Among the Jews who fled from Eastern Germany tion-^''^*'^d with disbanding their Jewish affilia- of his presidency of the Academy of Arts ; the to West Berlin are the President of the Jewish tit- >>. but composer Hanns Eisler, a brother of Gerhart Eisler, Communities in East Germany, Julius Meyer, and ')Jfi J actively fought against the continuation and Paul Dessau were strongly criticized for their the Chairmen of the Jewish Communities of Leipzig '»r j/ "^ of Jewish group life, be it as a national " formalistic conception of art." The Information (Helmuth Lohser), Dresden (Leo Loewenkopf) and C, religious entity. Many Jews from the Office, headed by Gerhart Eisler, was dissolved. Erfurt (Guenther Singer). Other leading Jewish onti'Qen t ''**ish'^"-' **P^<^'^'ly those who worked with the communal workers who escaped to West Berlin are The organ of the Communist " Socialist Unity Dr. Grunsfeld (Leipzig), Leo Eisenstaedt, Albert Passj *outh Movement, will still remember the Party " " Neues Deutschland " of January 4 Hirsch {Adviser on Jewish .\ffairs to the East *Wgj^.. ^^ discussions which took place in the attacks two Jewish chief editors in the Eastern German Government). ui- It .'^ °" '•^^ question of " Red .\ssimilation." Zone, Alexander Abusch and Erich Jungmann, and 'n^., . ^^ to the tragedy that one of the countries two prominent non-Jewish Communists Paul Merker and Kurt Mueller. Merker, who was Lest we forget 'Si Ij„ Jews are now persecuted or feel endangered •^a-Stern n recently arrested, is inter alia condemned for having AJR REMEMBRANCE MEETING Posjj., ' 'jermany. For the second time, though advocated restitution and compensation to Jewish on the 20th Anniversary of the "ilsaf , different reasons, this soil has become Nazi victims ; he had done so, the paper says, in ^le fo'or JewsT„ . the interest of the " .\merican-Finance-Oligarchy " Boycott Day ,, ^nly a f» and of the " Zionist Monopoly Capitalists." The WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1953 tlleir K- years after the worst catastrophe in Jewish former Chief of President Pieck's Secretariat, Details will be announced in the next issue Leo Zuckermann, is accused by " Die Welt " of ''f a ^ °T. Jews have again become the victims Keep this date free. "°^t cynical policy. January ."i of ha\'ing participated in " Zionist AJR INFORMATION February. 1953
RESTITUTION IN FRENCH ZONE ^ The " Branche Francaise de la Jfwish Tri''^ RESTITUTION NEWS Corporation," which is in charge of the restitut' AUSLANDSBEAMTENGESETZ BUNDESDARLEHEN IN of heirless, unclaimed and communal property^ ^ Fristablauf : 31. Maerz 1953 RUECKERSTATTUNGSSACHEN the French Zone, may submit its claims by •f'*^'„, Wir haben wiederholt ueber das Gesetz zur 19.53. Individual claimants who know of restituti^^ Durch den—noch nicht ratifizierten—Deutsch- claims in the J'rench Zone which so far have " , Kegelung der Wiedergutmachung nationalsoziali landvertrag hat sich die Bundesrepublik verp stischen Unrechts fuer die im Ausland lebenden been submitted, should get in touch immedi*.^' flichtet, die rueckerstattungsrechtlichen Geldver- with the office of the " Branche Francaise," '^ .".(J .Vngehoerigen des oeffentlichen Dienstes vom bindlichkeiten des Reiches (z. B. fuer konfiszierte 18. Maerz 19.52 berichtet. Nach diesem Gesetz Friedrich Schneider Str. 3, in order to enable n , Lifts) zu erfuellen. Die Einzelheiten sind einer submit the claim before May 1. Particulars a koennen diejenigen \'erfolgten .Vnsprueche geltend bundesgesetzlichen Regelung vorbehalten geblieben. machen, die im oeffentlichen Dienst eine pensitms- evidence should be attached. This will be the' Der Bundesminister der F'inanzen hat sich grund opportunity for claimants in the French 2""'^.j\j| berechtigte Stellung innehatten, oder aufgrund saetzlich damit einverstanden erklaert, schon vor ihrer Beschaeftigung eine Pensionsberechtigung have missed the time limit of their in'^j^ .« Erlass dieser Regelung dem Rueckerstattungs- claims. Details about the regulations by which erworben haetten, wenn sie nicht entlassen worden berechtigten ein Darlehen bis zu 10% der rechts- waeren. final arrangements between the Branche F'ranca kraeftig zuerkannten oder vergleichsweise aner- and the individual claimants are governed m^y Die Antreage sind bei dem zustaendigen Kon- kannten Forderung gegen das Deutsche Reich zu obtained from the Mainz Office. sulat zu stellen—in London bei dem Generalkonsulat gewaehren, vorausgesetzt, dass der Rueckerstat- der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 6, Rutland Gate, tungsberechtigte sich in einer wirtschaftlichen IRSO TIME-LIMIT EXPIRED ^g London, S.W.7. Notlage befindet und dies hinreichend nachweist. Die Frist zur Stellung dieser Antraege laeuft am At the end of December, when the January i* Die Entscheidung ueber Einzelantraege erfolgt of " AJR Information " was already printed, ^j :;i. Maerz 19.53 ab. durch das Bundesfinanzministerium. Die .Antreage muessen auch dann gestellt werden, following announcement was received from '•' wenn die .-Vnsprueche bereits ira Entschaodigungs- Headquarters :— • „ verfahren angemeldet worden sind. " The Jewish Restitution Successor Organic**' j has announced that no further petitions of P^'^^jL) REISE-DEVISEN who failed to file claims within the time P^^^?V\^ Das Bundesfinanzministeriura hat neue Bestim by the existing restitution laws will be consid^ PENSIONS FOR FORMER OFFICIALS OF mungen zur Vereinfachung der Devisenregelung by it after January 1, 19.53." I JEWISH COMMUNITIES erlassen. Hiernach duerfen Devisenauslaender bei Regulations about the administration of a fund der .\usreise deutsche Geldsorten bis zuni Betrage GERMAN VOICES FOR COMPENSATI^ for former officials of Jewish Communities in von 200 DM. (bisherige Freigrenze 100 DM.) und In " Das Freie Wort " of January 5 the M?'" ^ly Germany have been drafted by representati\'fs of auslaendische Geldsorten bis zum Gegenwert von of Justice in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Renner, ^''^^ly the German authorities and of the Conference on .'$00 DM. mitfuehren. Bei der Einreise von Devise- complains at the delay in the compensation leg^ Jewish material claims. They will come into force nauslaendcrn brauchen auslaendische Geldsorten lation, especially in the British Zone. In a si"" ^i as soon as their final wording has been agreed upon. nicht mehr angemeldet zu werden, soweit sie nicht way Senatsdirektor Erich Lueth, the initiator ,, Former Jewish officials and their widows and den Gesamtwert von 300 DM. uebersteigen und der the Peace with Israel " movement. children, who have already sent their particulars to Reisende nicht wuenscht, diesen Mehrbetrag bei der criticizes the delay which may make compens* the .\JR or to its corresponding organisations .\usreise wieder auszufuehreu. meaningless for the great number of old Nazi vic*^ ; abroad, are asked to refrain from inquiries at this juncture. They will be notified on any further developments. .\s tar as they come from Baden-Wuerttemberg JEWRY IN EAST AND WEST BERLIN they may obtain compensation according to an The recent political development in Eastern of the " Einheitsgemeinde " still the " Geffl^•iiti^-" Order which has recently been promulgated by that Germany has, in a very deplorable manner, drawn friedhof." M Land. our attention to the biggest post-war Jewish In the same way also cultural functions run u^ ^ Community in Germany, the " Berliner Juedische the auspices of the Jewish Community, ^ue^^ Gemeinde " with its approximate total of 7,000 religious classes, lectures and social gatherings. "^| AUSTRIAN OLD AGE PENSIONS members, of whom roughly 3,000 live in the Eastern organised in a way which made it possible ^"fv)! It is learned here from reliable sources that a Sector. members in East and West to attend, a point W" j,, | representative of the Ministry of National Insurance Organised on the lines of a " Koerperschaft des was always carefully considered with rega''. .js will proceed to Austria in the course of January in oeffentlichen Rechts " the Jewish Community has entrance fees (East and West currency), sub) j^ order to take up and, if possible, to conclude been administered as an undivided unit. Under to be dealt with and personalities to be engaged negotiations with the Austrian Ministry for Social no circumstances did it want to be involved in any those functions. .\dministration on an agreement of reciprocity of the political issues resulting from Berlin's between H.M. Government and Austria as to the Political AfflliaUons ^ character as a Four-Sector City. It was entirely left to the discretion of indi'^"-:yid"e' payment and transfer of old-age pensions and The implementation of this principle became pensions to widows. It is to be hoped that these members as to whether they were politically *ijit increasingly difficult after the currency reform in in that part of the city in which they lived, ^^^es negotiations will lead to the payment and transfer 1948, when there was hardly any other institution of such pensions within the next months. are quite a few members who hold or held ^j^), left which was not split in two separate administra in West and East Berlin respectively, i"^^* ,ij(^ tive bodies, each of them run in accordance with Frau Jeanette Wolff is a member of the ^ ji the respective political tendencies. It stands to Berlin Senate, and Dr. Hirschfeld, a returnee ' jS ENTSCHAEDIGUNGSANTRAEGE IN the credit of the leading personalities of the Berlin the United States, is Director of Public Rela^Lft BREMEN Jewish Community that, in face of great difficulties of the West Berlin " Magistrat." On the "^.^ Die Antraege auf Grund des Landesentschaedi- and sometimes even of danger to their own security hand, the former President of the Eastern J® ' gungsgesetzes in Bremen waren bis zum .30.9.1950 they were unyielding in their determination to Communities and a member of the Executi^^, einzureichen. Auf Grund der damaligen Abma- maintain unity, .\lready four years ago, this the Berlin Jewish Community, Herr Julius ^Vjiit' chungen waren die Formularanmeldungen auf appeared to be almost an anachronism in the annals was prominent in the Socialist Unity Party' Jiii bayerischen Entschaedigungsformularen einzu of modern Berlin, and it was even looked upon as in this capacity, a member of the East ^ reichen. Die Antraege sind von den .\ntragstellern a curiosity when as late as 1951 high officials from Senate. jji' zum Teil in Bremen, zum Teil aber auch beim East and West would represent their Governments The principle of unity was also duly reflect^; Landesentschaedigungsamt in Muenchen einge at functions organised by the Jewish Community. the internal set-up of the democratically a.'^o' reicht worden. Probably this was the only common ground where stered community. The Executive (consisti^».|iii Soweit die Antraege nach Muenchen gesandt they met to bring messages of good will to the same four joint chairmen) lived in East and West y ^ wurden, sind sie auf Grund der Verzoegerungen, cause. It was mainly in the interest of the Jews respectively. The proportion of members "^[jt^ die in der Bearbeitung der Antraege beim I^nde- domiciled in the Eastern sector that the Executive " Repraesentantenversammlung " was in 3'', tj(i' -sentschaedigungsamt Muenchen eingetreten sind, strictly adhered to the principle of maintaining accordance with the total of the Jewish popu' zum Teil noch nicht nach Bremen gelangt. Antrag unity at all cost. This effort was certainly worth in the two sectors. jef steller, deren letzter Wohnsitz in Bremen war und its while, as the preservation of an " Einheitsge The picture of Jews in Berlin would be vacof^Y J^ die Entschaedigungsansprueche nach Bayern ein meinde " was the only means of extending support without reference to those Jews who held proifl' j,ol gereicht haben, sollten sich daher, falls ihre to the dependable members of the community who positions in Eastern Germany, but who wer* •{;'• .Antraege noch nicht bearbeitet worden sind, mit lived in the Eastern sector. registered members ot the Jewish ComrnU ,^,11 dem .\mt fuer Wiedergutmachung i n Bremen in Institutions in all Sectors They include the playwright Dr. Friedrich .^.^ii' Verbindung setzen. As in former times, the Head Office was in the (author of " Paragraph 218 "), a returnee Ji Oranienburgerstrasse, which belongs to the Eastern Moscow, who two years ago became East tiern' ^f ASSETS IN SWITZERLAND sector. In the West, there are three branch offices, Ambassador to Warsaw. There are also It was announced in the November issue of one in the Iranische Str. (French sector) on the returned refugees from Western countries who^^jji^.,^ AJR Information " that an agreement about the premises of the Jewish Hospital, and two in the back to Eastern Germany in order to help '"''.),«'' release of certain assets in Switzerland had been British sector, Joachimsthaler- and Pestalozzistrasse up a Communist State. At the time of , t* concluded between Switzerland and Germany. In respectively, .\nother important efiect of the arrival, a very hearty welcome was extende .J the meantime, the agreement has been ratified by unity was that the Jewish Hospital and the Jewish them and in many cases they were given respo'^je^ the Swiss Government, but not yet by the German Old .\ge Home, both in the Iranische Strasse, were positions in the administration of the newly ^'^ i^^ Government. A further announcement will be open to all members of the community. Vice versa, People's Democracy of Eastern Germany. ^ M^' published as soon as, after ratification by Germany, the cemetery in Weissensee had to remain accessible section of Jews belong men like Eisler, ^^f the agreement has come into force. to all members, and is. in fact, due to this principle Zuckermann and Abusch. , L. SCHACB'^ Page 6 ^i5_iNFORMATION February, 1953
OUR TRUSTED FRIEND TRIBUTE TO NORMAN BENTWICH If you meet a quick-moving gentleman without a 70th Birthday on February 28 hat and with a fur glove on one hand only, whether in winter or in summer, here or in the Mediterranean U Baeck: I James G. McDonald: area, the man is Norman Bentwich. " READY AND FAITHFUL " THE CREATIVE HUMANITARIAN When, back in 1933, Ludwig Tietz asked Gustav I Wo Latin mottoes : " semper paratus " It seems incredible that Norman Bent Hom and myself to meet an English Jewish gentle ^ always ready," and " semper fidelis "— wich is approaching his seventieth year. My man who wanted to get an impression of Jewish always faithful"—could be inscribed to close associations with him, when he was my youth in Germany in those days, I met Professor Norman Bentwich in Professor Mittwoch's house gether on a portrait of Norman Bentwich. chief colleague on the League of Nations for the first time. We talked' about everything othing can be more indicative of the High Commission for German refugees and that was on our minds then and soon lost our •laracter of this man, of his personaUty. during more recent years, made me feel that understandable shyness on meeting a representative , "6 is neither one of those faithful who for Norman is timeless. Always he has been so from a free country, a man so much older than ourselves, but, as we soon realised, a man very /^ their firmness can never make up their indefatigable, so creative and so utterly experienced and conversant with all details con , "^d, nor one of those who are always ready devoted to the interests of others that I was cerning German JewTy and Jewish matters through It who for all their steps never find their amazed that one person could accomplish so out the world. He spoke to us in German and we ^^y- In virtue of a constant faith he much. rapidly unloaded our very burdened minds. "J^'ns ready, and in virtue of a resolute The next time we met was in 1935 on board shij) crossing from Cyprus to Palestine. The boat was aoiness he remains faithful—semper fidelis, forced to wait outside Haifa in very heavy seas and '"^Per paratits. most people had to spend their time below decks. hi7^ yarious fields, as the jurist and the Without regard to these circumstances, walking at considerable speed round the deck. Professor j.^torian, Norman Bentwich has proved Bentwich invited me to a wide and explanatory ^^^ quaUties. It is not mere chance that discussion about the country we were presently to , the one hand he has commented upon enter. Though I knew I would never be able to laws and on the other hand has written on get a better and more interesting introduction to I'hilo the country I was going to see, after two hours I and Josephus or on Solomon Schechter had to apologise and join the others below. J, ^ Judah Magnes. It is the sense of justice When the first plans for Kitchener Camp were th^ ^'^tinguishes the historian as well as made, vi'hat could be more natural than that (,J^ ^\vyer, and the sense of justice grows up Norman Bentwich should have a leading hand in all r»^^. ^^'"ssh from the meeting of faith and the problems which confronted us. I will never forget our first practical meeting in the late Sir iness. Robert Waley Cohen's house at which Otto Hirsch Wh ^^ ^^^° ^^^ basis of the true politician was also present. This meeting could very easily rcav ^^"^ the sake of the idea looks to the have been a very bad beginning to a great under ^'ities, and for the sake of the realities taking had it not been for Norman Bentwich who acted as interpreter and mediator between the ^ '^r loses sight of the idea. In such a heated parties, although it was, in one case, only In ^!l^.^'fk^'^ Norma Norman nBentwic Bentwich hembrace embraced dpohtics politics. . a question of space which was or was not to be (.Q his way he steadily came to be the provided for lockers under the beds. tro '^^^^'°'" and helper of the wronged and the His wisdom and knowledge of the mentality of our people was often required during the days of Wv,? —^^ Jews from Germany are also J.I Uie iiiSLoriaiib conccrneu VVILU aa uju- that C ^^'^''*^' and the champion of any duty our camp life. His boundless energy and mind was mate appraisal of the efforts made during the felt by those of us who came into close contact with \- had to wait for the answer—the Hebrew past and the present generation on behalf of him. He was never too busy to see anyone of us, ),j^^''^'"sity is an especial witness thereof, to advise us, or scribble a note in his little diary refugees and the rebuilding of Israel are not for further enquiries. (How he could ever read the ^P^>' paratiis, semper fidelis. deceived by Norman's innate modesty they gg^'^^teful good wishes go out to the septua- diary I have often wondered.) will record that he has been outstanding in Even during the years in the Services we had the ^^an, to this genuine Jew. these constructive and humanitarian activi pleasure of seeing him occasionally, either during ties. He would be the last to ask that his private visits or when he was giving an official Jew SERVICE TO MANY CAUSES lecture to the " King's Own Enemy Aliens " as we work be given any special recognition, but called ourselves then, explaining English ways of Teas ' refugees from Germany have very good I who owe him so many debts for what he 6e:H„.- *° ^'-'™ ^"^ congratulations to Norman life, administration and the like to us. I recollect for n.^^^ °n his forthcoming 70th birthday, since. did for me am happy to pay this inadequate one of his visits to our Company, then stationed at Part V^**" *^'^"ty years, he has dedicated a great tribute to him as a man and a worker. Weymouth, when, to our greatest surprise, he Jeivs^ his ^'""^ ^"'^ energy to assisting German suggested a swim at 6 o'clock in the morning. We 'he \v~ *h ^ ^ community and as individuals, as For a long time he has also been the Chairman could not do otherwise but accept ! He is a man ^'tiv.,'^"'^'' and many others can say from their own of the English " Friends of the Hebrew University." whose days seem to be completely filled with work Ij^'^ience. From the beginning of Hitlerism, Bentwich made for others and who never seems to give himself ivicij ^^^ Bentwich is the son of Herbert Bent- assistance to German Jews his particular task. enough rest for fear of wasting precious time. We as ati^^j ^^ prominent as an English lawyer and From 1933 to 1936 he acted as Director of the High have every reason to be grateful to him and to OIIQ^ />"glo-Jewish communal worker. The son Commission for German Refugees, going to Berlin wish him many more years to enable him to fulfil '^aregf '" that tradition with a distinguished legal as early as 1933 to see for himself what help could all he has set out to do. ,\{(^ ^'^d by his lifelong activities in Jewish affairs, best be given. From that time on he was active L. KEW bri^gg'^ .having been a \\'hewell Scholar at Cam- in all the relief organisations which under changing
Five years after Israel lost her greatest V^e^^' Lutz Weltmann: Germany lost hers. And just as Else LasKS'' Schueler is to be rediscovered by German readers- it is very rewarding for Jewish readers to S acquainted with Elisabeth Langgaesser, by ^^l'"'; Else Lasker-Schueler- -Elisabeth Langgaesser premature death German Literature was depnv^ The " .\kademie der Wissenschaften und der her genuine sentiment upon them—and remaining of her greatest poetess since Annette von L"'" |^ Literatur " in Mainz publishes a series " Verschol poor throughout her life. Some of her drawings Huelshoff and Ricarda Huch. She died at the eailJ lene und Vergessene " (Franz Steiner Verlag, adorn the book, and there are contributions from age of fifty-one, exhausted by what she had g"" Wiesbaden). One of the first pamphlets is devoted contemporaries documenting both her singular through and by the intensity with which D' to Else Lasker-Schueler. Werner Kraft, a man of greatness and the force emanating from her experience was conjured up by her creative g8''"Vj poetic gifts himself, and a connoisseur of German personality. There can never again be her like, as She mastered the suffering which she had witnesss" literature, who lives in Israel now, wrote a thorough she was the product of a special spiritual situation and experienced through her firm and deep RonJ*^ introduction and made a fine selection of her poetry Catholic belief. Her world is a closed one, confin". in the development of the Jewish soul. The selection first and prose. It is a critical essay which aptly states comprises the essential Else Lasker-Schueler ; in itself, which sets certain limitations to her that the value of her poetry was not perfection, but personally I miss " Der Wunderrabbiner von great novel " Das unausloeschliche Siegel," ^5 its immanent truth. .\ German poet, one of the first Barcelona," perhaps, because the poetess used to can be fully appreciated only by those who subscO" to recognise her genius, Peter Hille, called her the recite the story so well. The re-reading of her drama to her dogma. " Black Swan of Israel, a Sappho whose world had " Die Wupper " recalls impressive theatrical Message of a Novel been broken." It was the world of a child writing performances in Berlin, but this play is even sur with the heart, a rare synthesis of a dreamlike Her posthumous novel, " Maerkische Argonaute passed by the drama " Arthur Aronymus und seine fahrt" (Verlag Eugen Claassen, Hamburg), howeyef' oriental imagination and a German poetical tradi Vaeter," which was awarded the last Kleist-Preis tion, which could be lived only in moments of without giving up the religious source of inspirati'*' distributed, but could not be performed any more sublime exaltation and found a suggestive expression has a wider application. The Orpheus Myth p'^X, in her poetry. in Germany. Inspired by memories of her child an important part in it, with the message, " D?"- hood, the play deals with human relations between This little booklet of 106 pages will, certainly, look back ! " and the idea of death and resurrecti""^ induce many readers to buy the rich collection, Jews and Christians in WestphaUa in the middle of Orpheus was one of the Argonauts, and the Branded " Dichtungen und Dokumente "—not complete, the last century. They become strained at times, burg monastery, the destination of the pilgrimage though, in spite of 631 beautifully printed pages— foreshadowing events happening about one hundred seven persons after the Russians marched io. „ which the eminent Roman Catholic publishing firm years after, but the truly religious stand the test, called Anastasia, which means " ResurrectioO' Koesel (Munich) has entrusted to the well-known and in the last scene the Bishop of Paderborn The motherly Earth-Goddess Demeter, who lo^*? J actor Ernst Ginsberg. This edition contains letters shares the Rabbi's Passover Meal. In this play Else daughter Proserpine to the Underworld, is blend^ as well, full of poetic substance just as her poetry Lasker-Schueler was a visionary showing her with the Orpheus legend, and the modern Argona" was like a collection of confessions in letters to God, dramatic power at its greatest, and leaving a seek the Golden Fleece—to find their own so^' to friends, and to the world, lavishing the gold of message to posterity. Christianity and Antiquity are shown as deep '^y^^j of European consciousness, whilst the storm tss . at the Eastern outpost of Western civilisation. ^ as in Else Lasker-Schueler's prophetic Juda'' LAW and LIFE there is a niche for Jesus, so in Elisabeth La"i gaesser's Roman Catholic world the Jews have tb^^ Legal A.tvice Hours {for persons with limitei means only): Sunday 11 a.m.-12 noon by appointment. place sub specie aeterni. She does not forget over t new horrors those atrocities, through which ^ LAWYERS AND CLIENTS respect to a straightforward claim in the justice of punishment of the sinners was provoked, .\nd *'' I. which both client and advocate firmly believe. in future time historians only will study the do'' The statement about English and German Law P.C. mentary evidence about the gas-chambers, tfj in the article " Lawyers and Clients " (December [An article on similar lines has been received concentration camps and Gestapo prisons, t.^ issue of " -AJR Information ") would, with respect, from Mr. R. Graupner.—The Ed.] history of that time will still be alive in this po* admit of some modification and amplification :— novel. II. et, 1. English Common Law considers illegal any It is a German confession for Europe, and y •' As the author of the note on " Lawyers and agreement to share in the proceeds of litigation in in a way, outside the European tradition. 1 ^ an English Court of Law. Clients," I may be allowed to comment on Mr. C.'s letter. German to the core, homely and hidden at the ^ 2. Professional etiquette would consider as time, with magic words full of meaning and myst^.^| (1) As is well known, two lawyers have always at unprofessional also an agreement of a contingency " labyrinthine " in spite of Ariadne's thread \*'' fee in matters which could possibly become con least two different views. .As a matter of fact, still the reader is offered by the poetess, who kno^vS another view than that expressed by Mr. C. has tentious in an English Court. much of Dionysos as of the Christian God. Neither of these two rules applies to matters been expressed to me meanwhile, viz., that " con Maerkische Argonautenfahrt " is almost tiny^' which are not contentious in England. It is per tingency fees," though not permissible in restitution translatable. But I foresee elaborate comment^^ fectly legal in England for a lawyer and a client to cases are permissible in indemnification cases as not and treatises about it, and some men of letters ^^^ agree on a contingency fee with respect to litigation belonging to " ordinary litigation." I personally even feel compelled to learn German, in order in .America. Whether or not it is etiquette would do not agree with either view, but opinions just read this truly great book in the original. depend on the particular circumstances of the case. differ, and it is not intended to be dogmatic on the legal points involved. 3. With respect to German Law, there are a As to German law Mr. C. goes even further than number of decisions to the effect that an agreement I did in my note by pointing out that contingency RABBI DR. SIR HERMANN GOLLA with a German advocate which makes his fee fees, professional etiquette apart, should in German 1852-1930 • llV dependent on the outcome of litigation is, as a rule, law be considered void, except in special circum against public policy and, therefore, void, unless Rabbi Dr. Hermann Gollancz, although essentia*^ stances, which may apply—and were held to apply an Anglo-Jew, by long association and educatJ exceptional circumstances justify such an agreement. in a case he handled before the German Court—in There is no judgment of the Reichsgericht or any owed much to continental sources. ^, restitution (or indemnification) cases. I have no His command of the English language was B^^J. higher German Court which has found that every objection to that view. promise of a contingency fee is illegal. An excep as was his knowledge of Hebrew written and °^ (2) As to the merits of the whole matter I feel tional situation may justify a contract which under Yet his parentage was continental. He was •'V^f that there is not much difference between Mr. C.'s normal circumstances would not be advisable. It in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen on Novell'^^^ point of view and mine. is open to the Courts to find that deprivation of all 30, 1852, where his father then was a rabbi. j, his assets has made it impossible for a persecutee That the straitened circumstances of many of family came to London when the first-born, l^^js to remunerate his advocate other than out of our co-refugees can, and should, be taken into con mann, was eighteen months old. Samuel ^^'^Jd proceeds of restitution of such assets. sideration, is obvious. We both aim at professional Gollancz, the father, became minister of the ^ fees calculated, as Mr. C. puts it, " with tact, Hambro' synagogue in the City of London. '^. There is in the hands of the present writer a moderation and decency." However the fees are judgment of a German Landgericht and an Order in Witkowo. and his wife from Gorzyskowi, ^".1,^! calculated, it will also have to be considered that both sides of the family had been settled in of Arrestment of an Oberlandesgericht saying in in both, restitution and imdemnification cases, a effect that under the particular circumstances of district for generations. ^ii great deal of preparatory work is to be done by At the request of Lucien Wolf, Rabbi HeriO^(j German refugees abroad the agreement of a con the legal adviser : Wills have to be traced and tingency fee can be valid and they found that it Gollancz collected signatures from the proie^^f proved. Declarations of Death and Certificates of of University College against the blood accusati^ij was valid under the particular circumstances of the Inheritance have to be applied for, heavy disburse case. in Russia. His sympathy with causes in the r>,^ ments for postage, copying and translating are l.and was outstanding for one who had succee^^^ It is in my opinion in order for a person who has necessary. Scale fees charged for all that work not Dr. Hermann Adler at the Bayswater Synaf" been deprived of a large fortune, and cannot belonging to the litigation proper may bring the in 1892, and who was the first of his race to reasonably be expected to spend the remainder of bill in quite a few cases to those 8% or 10% which a doctorate of literature from I^ondon Unive' his means on legal fees, and for his advocate, to others suggest to charge as contingency fees. in 1899. . j: enter into an arrangement securing to the advocate The exceptional circumstances Mr. C. has in His position in the Gentile world was excepti'^j, a reasonable fee, provided that the client will be in mind certainly do not apply in cases of clients who in 1913 he preached a sermon on Moses Mendels^ ' a position to pay the fee without becoming destitute. are in a position to pay normal legal fees without Lessing and Lavater, at Westboume Park CJ" And it may be a reasonable and honest way towards having " to spend the remainder of their means on the text of the discourse being toleration. the solution of our problems to connect such agree them." It is certainly not admissible to allow such It was at 12, Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, ment with the possibilities of restitution, provided people to litigate without risk on the back of their this distinguished rabbi and knight resided- ^ it is done with tact, moderation and dec^ncv \vith lawyer. W.B. OLGA SOMECH PHILLI*^"^ "^j^JNFORMATlON February, 1953 Page 5
Alice Jacob-Loewenson (Tel Aviv) 3W ANGLO-JUDAICA Soviet Antisemitism JEWISH MUSIC AND ISRAELI MUSIC The now barely disguised antisemitism of the We want to inform ourselves about the musical Jewish Music " at the Israeli Ministry of Culture Soviet regime has aroused fierce indignation in lif(^ of this country, we must first take a general and Education, and by Johanna Spektor for British Jewry. The Board of Deputies passed a loo_,^k t the various sources from which it has sprung, America. resolution condemning the " calculated attempt " inose Jews who came to Britain as refugees from There was originally only one kind of Jewish made at the Prague trial of Rudolf Slansky and ten ntral Europe are steeped in the German liturgical music which came from the Orient ; under the other Jews, to " exploit anti-Jewish prejudice "*!<:, those from East Europe in East Jewish influence of Eastern Europe the European character among the people of Czechoslovakia." Two dis usic and in Chassidic and East Jewish folk songs. of .\shkenase music then developed with which we sentients failed to secure a prcv-Communist amend J ^ry ear reacts against the unaccustomed, and are now familiar. The .^shkenase tradition, in its ment. One of them, a Labour borough councillor, ^ this rule the Jews living in Israel are not later form, is distinguished irom the Sephardic by was criticised by his constituent, the Grand Order cepted. There is in this country however a large a slower tempo, dignity and more emphasis on Sons of Jacob, which nevertheless re-elected him. addi *dditiona^'tiona-l influ• - x of- Orienta- - l- music- , especiall- y feeling ; by triad chords, and regular European A Communist Jew, Sam Russell, the Daily Worker r^ecentl"•s^cent'"^'l y in the Maabarot, the transit camps, and form and rhythm. The melancholic minor key, tlie representative at the trial, attacked the Deputies . the body of contemporary' composition known solemn longwindedness, and the piety of Russia, as being linked with " the blackest Catholic re ^JJ as " Israeli Music." all helped to form the character ol this music. actionaries of the Vatican." ^ How is all this music related ? What is the The exact opposite is true of the Oriental The Anglo-J ewish Association expressed its , Oerence between East Jewish and Oriental Sephardic music. This latter is by far the older, " horror at the virulent antisemitic trends which .. j^ish music ? What is the relative position of more primitive, and has the features of middle are becoming daily more pronounced in Iron 1.,^'!*?'' Music," composed for concerts, as against Orient music. It has no triad intervals and no Curtain countries." To Mr. H. A. Goodman, the the other two kinds of music ? harmony, but is characterised by liveliness without Agudist chief, it seemed that protest meetings 'n tK "Characteristic of all Jewish music is its basis sustained notes, simple forms and short phrjises could only do harm ; at all events, he felt, protest We ancient motifs (Taymin or Neginot) which and church scales as a basis ; from the Spanish was not enough : England ought to let in some of Q„7^ Used for the recitation of the Bible. We can Moors it has inherited an additional Oriental the people who might escape from the new \^.y speak of Jewish music at all where some re- tradition, including asymmetrical rhythm and less persecution. jj l^'^hip with these Neginot is evident either in its than half tone intervals ; it is hot-blooded, vital, Mr. Benjamin Frankel, the composer, who re SBP *" '''^^ ^'^ '" ''•^ rh\'thm which is derived from cool, rough, intensive, and beyond feeling. signed from the Communist Party, explained that Wh^tu^' "'^'^ *^^ music produced in this country— he was acting not as a Jew but as a humanitarian Affinity to Oriental Trends who was offended by every aspect of the trial. In Sid accepted or rejected—must only be con- Just as Zionism wants to rid itself in general of IH, ^^'l. from this point of view. The fate of Jewish a reference to the proceedings' " ominous anti- assimilation to the peoples of the Golah, so also Jewish tone," Mr. Eden said he " hoped that we tin "^ '^ conditioned on the one hand by its con- does this country take a more and more negative oth proximity to this liturgical origin and on the are not going to see a revival under Communism attitude towards German Jewish and Eastern of the evil race persecutions of Hitler." hy its distance from it. Jewish music. This corresponds with the rejection Common Origins by Israeli composers of the emphasis on feeling in New Year Honours Lik6 all music, Jewish music also started for the Eastern Jewish music, which also includes German .\mong the New Year Honours was a C.B.E. for th?n y^'*-^- Both in the East of Europe and in Synagogue music of the emancipation period Mr. Norman Samuel Joseph, Director of Messrs. pla ^'^f t the single voice of the Reader retains its (Lewandowsky, Sulzer, etc.) ; and from this J. Lyons & Co. (for services to the Home Office), lio ^ "^^ eminence, and together with the unhar- follows too the affinity of contemporary music to and O.B.E.s for Mr. Nathan Turk, chairman of r^j^ '?^d single part chant of the congregation Oriental and primitive music. Musical preference the Westminster Savings Committee, and Mr. Ijj. "ns the core of Jewish music from which issues is given to all which comes from the Orient, but Edward M. Isaacs, the blind pianist and composer, Y^li music and particularly folk music. this less for Zionist than for artistic reasons. director of the Manchester Tuesday Concerts Society. Sjj.,* have to distinguish, however, between the Current compositions draw their inspiration from t*o and Ashkenase (Galut) music, contemporary European and .\merican music. Another part-time Dayan has been appointed to in strains which have been continued separately Their whole nature aims at overcoming the tonal the Beth Din, Rabbi A. Rapaport, Principal d^j.^'^'^us Jewish centres, in some cases since the sj'stem. This is what makes them related to Rabbinical Supervisor of the Kashrus Commission Ori '^'"''•''^n of the second temple. The Sephardic- Oriental systems, which are also, in a certain sense, in London. .A world-wide search for a full-time (au "^'al centres include Yemen, Babylon, Persia " atonal." The composers of Israeli music, then, member has produced reasonable hopes of securing pg . the Jews of Bagdad, who are Buchars with do not use the East Jewish motifs which are the services of Rabbi David Lifschitz, of the Ty an traditions), SjTia, North Africa (Morocco, connected with classical and romantic themes, Veshiva University, New York. a^j'^'a. Egypt), Italy, Spanish Sephardim, Holland rhythm, forms and orchestration, but the intensive Hebrew Learning g,^ tireece. .\shkenase music includes East pantonal, atonal or polytonal Oriental ones. There Complaints that the community gave insufficient ^'^Pe and Germany. IS however no convincing, genuinely original support to Jews' College, were made by the Chid hay''''°''ds of the remains of these music cultures unifying spirit running through it yet, for we are Rabbi, its ftesident. The College's Centenary his^^ oeen made by A. Z. Idelsohn, the first great still at the beginning of Israeli music. Appeal of £200,000 has so far raised about ^e.'i.OOO. igj^'an of Jewish Oriental music, by Dr. Edith The general radio and concert public has not .\n Israel rabbi, Moshe Yona Zweig, was Son-Kiwi for the " Ethnological InstitutInstiti e for much time for this music. In the synagogue it likes appointed head of the Rabbinical College and to remember the music of Lewandowsky, and it Teachers' Seminary at the Judith Lady Montefioro •/-//^ sticks to the European pre-classical, classical and College, Ramsgate. The new department is a joint romantic composers, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beet venture of the Jewish Agency and the Sefardi hoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. community in Britain. Orchestras serve the public in their tastes rather The number of Hebrew seminars is increasing. than educate them. When the latest was opened at Carmel College. The concert public should indeed be educated for Xewbury, its scope was explained by Mr. Levi modern music, for this is related to the music of Ciertner, head of the Education Department of the the Bach period. There arc, it is true, branches of Zionist Federation, as " a seminary of Jewish the " International Society for Contemporary learning, from Biblical studies, medieval poetry, Music,"and for years the radio has been running a modern Hebrew ami literature, to Jewish history, special record hour for this type of music. But this grammar and practice in Hebrew conversation." seems to have had little success, for the Kibbuzim The Ixjndon Board of Shechita has protested are complaining that they do not understand the against the Israeli Government's decision to lift al! much too brief explanations. That is how it has controls on the sale of pork in Israel. come about that the music heard in this country Mr. Jacob Epstein, the sculptor, accepted an resembles ever more obviously the standard pro invitation to assist in the restoration of Llandafl grammes heard abroad. Cathedral for which he is to make a figure of Christ in Majesty.
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HAND-PICKED ... j A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE Under this heading most newspapers *'' periodicals print short funny stories. Here it is t It is one of the effects of Hitler's wholesale twelve years at school and in the Hitler Youth. He strike a more serious note, which may appeal to o" extermination policy that the total number of the did not know the emancipated Jew who was readers. victims is beyond human imagination. It is there politically, culturally and, to some extent, also Rudolf Pechel, editor of the monthly " DeutscSe fore gratifying that an attempt of lifting this veil of socially integrated into the life of the nation ; and Rundschau," was seventy some time ago, and as anonymity has been made in a recent German he has but scanty chance to meet this type in post thanks for my congratulations he sent me a pr'^*,. publication (" Den Unvergessenen," edited by war Germany. 'The impressive contributions to the publication, printed in .500 copies, as a birthday g'' Kreisdekan Hermann Maas, Lambert Schneider book may give him some idea of the mentality of from his friends. This handsome volume has tn and the late Professor Gustav Radbruch ; Verlag German Jews and of their undeserved fate. apt title " Deutsche Gegenwart " and is a repr'^. Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg). The book is It may be due to the background of the editors of his most important articles written between 1"* presented to the reading public of the country that prominence is given to places and personalities and 1952. It is a pity that it is not available '"* where the destruction of European Jewry was in the South-Western part of Germany. The cheap edition and distributed among as tai^i initiated and where, on the other hand, once a " Musterlaendle " Baden, with its liberal tradition, readers as possible in Germany. This geO'"''^ Jewish community flourished which had given was a particularly fertile soil for a type of Jews who, resistance fighter who used his pen as a migi't; lustre both to the German people and to Jewry at deeply rooted in their and their forefathers' home weapon—his essays " Zwischen den Zeilen " (1^, , large. The average German of the younger genera land, left their mark on the cultural, economic and 1942) make delightful reading, though it is less tion is still bound to be influenced by the distorted civic life of their environment. .\n article atwut delightful that there have not been many more!'"_ conception of the Jew which he had been taught for Mannheim by Friedrich Walter is meant to serve him—upholds the spirit of resistance in an uncoi" as an example. Names which have become familiar promising way, lest it become diluted by those W ANOTHER " BY CHANCE" beyond the boundaries of the town are put on record, whom it is a passing fashion of the day. It may sound phoney, but it is quite true : again the I_.adenburgs, Lenels, Darmstaedters, Hachen- In a lecture " Judaism, Christianity and Wester I tried my luck on the foreign stations. On a rainy burgs, and many others. In another article, we are Civilisation " (1950) he said, amongst other things, day you can get a reasonable reception of Conti reminded that, in 1933, there were 4o professors of " The decisive impulses given to the Western ^^ ^^\, nental broadcasts even without an aerial, only you Jewish origin in Heidelberg ; 20 ot them emi by Judaism spring from the spiritual and hun'* must not mind rhythmical " boooos " or " brrrs " or grated, 1!) survived as partners of mixed marriages, qualities of the Jewish people. Decisive is the fac morse or whistles in the background, .\nyway if two were deported to Gurs and two committed that both the intellectual and the emotional 1'' you have picked up something worth while, you suicide ; the fate of the other two is unknowqi. of the Jews rest fundamentally on their relig''*' will get used to these untamed shrieks of the Special articles are dedicated to outstanding Hence comes the awe for what is above us, tB universe. . . . personalities such as the lung specialist Prof. .Albert quest for truth, even a fanaticism for truth, and ^ This time I knew instantly whom this South- Fraenkel (died 1938 in Heideloerg), the authority outspoken urge for justice. Striving to penetrat German voice was talking about. There was only on Goethe Prof. Georg Witkowski (died 1939 in into the last secrets of God's word, boundless searC* one man who could be referred to as " the little man Holland), the educationalist Ernst Kantorowicz after knowledge has developed, a permanent seek'^'s with the grand voice "—Joseph Schmidt of " Ein (perished 1944 in .\uschwitz), the decea,sed jurist of solutions (somewhat formalistically at times), yj Lied geht um die Welt " fame. Remember him ? and sociologist Prof. Hermann Kantorowicz, and final aim of whicli is redemption from the horn''' You could not turn on the radio in the early 'thirties the democratic politician Bernhard Falk (died 1944 frailty of man. Hand in hand with this goes without having his big brilliant tenor voice thrust in Brussels). A number of other articles record the specific training of the intellect, of special modes " upon you. Grand Opera, Light Opera, Folk Songs fate of unknown Jews and " non-.-Vryan " Christians, thought and of an inten.se emotional life influei"^' and—Schlagers, they all were sung immaculately their sufferings as o\itlaws and their tragic end. by a sense of some sound realism. That is why *'' and with fine feeling, and reached from the hide Nothing can bring them back to life. Yet those who Jew can incline both to outspoken individuals'^ out of a studio right into your ear and heart. How were their neighbours and fellow-citizens have no and to socialism, if we understand the latter a« t" often did we not ask ourselves why this wonderful right to forget what has happened. I^'or them the striving for social justice. ... singer, unlike his colleague Richard Tauber, could book serves an important purpose, and we too have The Jewish component is part and parcel oi t"^ never be heard on the stage, in Opera, for there is to welcome its publication as a document of our past. spirit of the Western World; our Western Civil'S* no doubt that Schmidt was by far the more versatile WERNER ROSENSTOCK tion must preserve it. This is only possible if ^, artiste of the two ; but always one was painfully y rid ourselves of hatred. Without the fundament'; conscious of an inhibition in his performances. and responsible Jewish discovery of the ^'""^ Well, he was a Jew, was that it .' No, much HOSTAGES FOR WAR CRIMINALS essence of a human being, the idea of the West ^ simpler ; like Napoleon and Chaplin, he was tiny, Some time ago a " Letter to the Editor," pub cherish could not have been formed. He who b*" and there is nothing more impossible than a tiny lished in the " Deutsche Sioldaten-Zeitung, " sug suffered most comes nearest to true knowledge' " Heldentenor." No wonder then, that the film in gested that volunteers should come forward to act provided that he wrestles honestly to find out t". which the tale of the tiny singer's great heartache as hostages in order to enable Gross-Admiral meaning of suffering : the history of the Je*" was told and in which Schmidt's manly wonderful Doenitz and other war criminals to spend Clxristmas people is a story of suffering ! " voice for the first time came out without restraint, with their families. In a later edition the " Deutsche Pechel's beautiful words are complemented by became at once an international hit, " F'in Lied Soldaten-Zeitung " announces that day after day pamphlet " Hore, Israel . . ." whose author is J' geht um die Welt. ..." innumerable letters arrived, in which writers put less a person than the foremost French Cath"'. But what became of Joseph Schmidf under themsel\"es at the disposal for the suggested purpose. writer Paul Claudel (Bodensee Verlag, Amriswil a" Hitler .' His story was told the other night in a Friedrichshafen, sfr. 3 65). This great writer li»S sympathetic kindly manner by one of his friends, a ANTI-SEMITIC LEAFLETS always been a zealous missionary. IBut now he d"^ Polz \on Fehnau, in a Remembrance Broadcast of A leaflet distributed during the district election not insist any longer on the conversion of the Je'* the Siidwestfunk. It was a weird experience to me campaign in Lower Saxony—conspicuous by a black though he still thinks it desirable from his posit'" ' hearing the story of the German Jew on the run Swastika—describes the Jew as the " Dictator of He proclaims that the curse which the J^*,^ intermixed with " Joseph Schmidt on Records." Democracy, of Bolshevism and of the Vatican." according to Christian belief, brought upon the"* The fallacy of fame that ran short of immortality— seh'es (" His blood be upon us ! ") has by now bee was that the meaning ? I do not know. Zuck FEDERATION OF JEWISH WOMEN IN atoned by the unheard of sufferings of the J^^^, mayer returned, but Joseph Schmidt pegged out— In the fact that the foundation of Israel was tb« NORTH WEST GERMANV ,cle. there is no other word for his unglamorous end. A " Verband der Juedischen Frauenvereine outcome of the persecutions, he sees a very inir^e F'or he died on November 12, 1942, in Friesenburg, Nordwest-Deutschlands " was founded by eleven the sign of heaven that this alleged curse has tP^j the Refugee Camp near Ziirich, and his death Women's Organisations representing more than 600 Zion has, in his words, l^een restored as the seat . certificate says he died of pneumonia. That may women in the district. At a meeting held in God's teaching, and, being not a poetic rhapsod' have been so, but I wonder, did the Swiss doctor in Dortmund on January 11, Mrs. Lilli Mar.x, Chair only, but a professional diplomatist at the s&'^j charge perhaps hide the fact that this was only one man of the Duesseldorf Group, recalled the out time, he urges that Israel should resume the rig*^ of the symptoms of a broken heart .' Two anec standing services rendered before 1933 by leading of the Firstborn and rebuild the Temple a^ dotes, told in the broadcast, need to be recorded women social workers, such as Lina Morgenstern, message to the United Nations. L. ^' here. Henriette Goldschmidt, Jeannette Schwerin, " He told me," said Polz von F"ehnau, " he had Josefine Levy-Rathenau, Bertha Pappenheim, ORGANISATION OF FORMER NAZIS met Mr. Brunswick (the gramophone magnate I Henriette May, Sidonie \\'erner, Henriette I'uerth, •ns presume) in town, and when he spotted him, he An Organisation of Victims of Denazification '>'', Cora Berliner, Hanna Karminski and Paula founded in Germany recently. .\t a rally atten" stepped into a house entrance and waited until Ollendorff. Brunswick had passed. I asked him why. ' Why ? ' by 300 former holders of posts in the Party, j he said, ' well—I didn't want to embarrass him.' The tasks of Jewish women in post-war Germanv General Secretary of the organisation, Fritz -^"^tj And tears were in his eyes when he said that." included the care for the aged and for the children. stated, inter alia, that the creation of the Tl" The other one is grimmer still. While in Belgium, Women had also a special duty of. taking an active Reich was not the fault of the former party meinbe ' then already under German occupation, Schmidt part in the general work of the local Jewish Com but of the politicians of the Democratic P^ J was having a meal with several people in a munities and in the relief work for Jews who had before 1933, who had not prevented the rise restaurant. There was a Nazi doctor in the company fled to Western Germany from FHastern Germany Nazism. who thought it a fine joke to attack the little Jew. and Eastern Europe. " You know," he said, " we are just now working GOETTINGEN HONOURS JEWISH out a new law that will make it compulsory for folk SYNAGOGUE BECOMES CHURCH SCIENTIST oi over sixty to be exterminated. Not violently, of The former synagogue at Orb in South-West The Social Democratic City CouncillorI. uuncuiL"s- . rf course, but once and for all. Just a little final Germany, which was one of the few synagogues Goettingen have introduced a motion sugges*™. injection." " E.xcellent," said Joseph Schmidt, spared during the November pogroms, has been that " Freedom of the City " be granted to J-^j. " why don't you start with your own parents ? " dedicated as a Protestant church. It had been the James Franck, Nobel Prize Winner and ^^ ..,v .\nd he threw some money on the table and left. wish of the Jewish Community that the synagogue Professor at Goettingen University. He is " .MALA LA.VSEK should b(? maintained as a house of worship. living in the T'nited States. ^£R^FORMATION February, 1953 Paft* 7 Leo KaKn; PROFILE OF AN ARTIST Old Acquaintances Twenty Years Ago :—January 1933 was the eml LUDWIG MEIDNER of an epoch in Germany not only in the political sphere, but also in the artistic life. A look upon "hen 1 met Ludwig Meidner for the first time, portraits, like that of Dr. Leo Baeck, antl one oi" two e-xhibitions which received very favourable the theatre programmes of those days reminds us with '°^"^ in 1935, he was already a mature artist of the upheaval. Grete Mosheim and Ludwig hi '''^ established reputation. I knew some of notices but failed to attract a wider public. Night after night the light burned in the barely furnished, Stoessel, now in the United States, playetl Offen th *?'•!'• and had been particularly impressed with bach's " Liebling von Paris " in the " Lessing . ^ Vividness and insight of his portraits. He had though always neat antl tidy, room where Meiilner lives antl works ; his portfolios filled with hundreds Theater," and Oscar Htmiolkk, now in London, en one of the most brilliant and most ecstatic in produced the show. Max Pallenberg, who died a ba ^™"P "t artists and \\Titers who, under the of drawings and aquarelles known only tti the small circle of his frientls. I'or these a visit to Meidner long time ago, actctl his famous " Schwejk " in the ^ nner of Expressionism, revolted against the " Theater des Westens " and his wife Fritzi Massary \YJl'^'Sm and shallow sensuality of their time. is a very pleasant antl stimulating experience. He has a profound knowledge of the history and theory sang Oscar Strauss' " Eine Frau, die weiss, was sic SD' ^'^ fellow-Expressionists he shared the will " in the " Metropol-Theater." Otto Preminger, P'ntual ardour and the violent emotion which of art. He judges the work of his fellow-artist, sometimes severely, often with generous apprecia now a Hollywood director, produced in " Kammer y had the courage to formulate in a violent spiele " " Essig und Oel " with Karl Stepanek, now ^JWner ; he excelled all but the best of them in tion ; never with any trace of prejutiice or spite. His approach to any human or social problem has in London, and Hans Moser. in the " Grosses tj^Pi^^ss of eye and brain, awareness of basic, Schauspielhaus " .\lfred Rotter tlirected " Ball in J , 'tional values, and impeccable craftsmanship ; the simplicity and directness wliich is typical of the true artist. He likes to show his work and to Savoy " ; he was later murdered by the Nazis in whilst to a large extent the appeal of E.x- Liechtenstein. The star of the show was Gitta j^^^ssionist art faded with the excitement of the make his own tlry, amusingly objective comments ; " Dies ist mir nicht ganz gegliickt," " Ein schones .\lpar, now happily married and not singing any etcp Meidner's earlier paintings, drawings and more. Hans .\lbers playetl " Liliom" in the 'ate "^^ retain their artistic validity. True, in the Blatt, nicht wahr ? " or ' Humt>rvoll, aber nicht sehr wichtig." There are certain themes which " .4dmiralspalast." Karl Heinz Martin, who died Cf"!.twenties Meidner went through a period of five years ago in Berlin, showed Julius Hay's " Gott, jQ 'Ve uncertainty when his work seemed to lose occur again and again in his work with a profuse %'ariety of presentation : Drawings of biblical Kaiser und Bauer " in the " Deutsches Theater," fell "^ °f its vitality. It was then that a deep and Kortner, now back in Germany, the late Paul j„ j^'pns experience which led him back to orthodox subjects which have some affinity to the work of William Blake whom he greatly atlmires. Lively Wegner, and Mathias Wiemann acted in it. *o v'^''* provided the inspiration for his future Instead of Gruendgens Alexander Granach played '^•l , Graduallv his style changed and matured, impressions of street and caftl' scenes in water- colours, many of them with a nice, satirical touch. " Mephisto " in " Faust " in the " Staatstheater," iiitn ^'^^'-^ indi\-idualism of his youth broadened and the late Max .\dalbert starred in " Das Haus spi .^'"nethiiig more subtle and more universal in Macabre fantasies composed of human rabble. Coloured cartoons of rich, earthy, rather savage flazwischen " by Marcellus Schifter and I'elix Ij^ • Technically, his black-and-white work Joachimson with music by Mischa Spolianski in rg-?""^ more painterlv ; the nervous line was humour. But if Meidner's output remained prolific, the lack tif a witler response inevitably the " Komoedienhaus." On the last day of the Prin •*^'^ by balancing planes and masses as the month the " Presseball " took place as usual—the 'pal means of expression. caused some frustration. He ctinsiders himself first and foremost a portraitist, but this side of his last public appearance in Germany of Marlene The Impact of 1933 artistic perstjnality was perff)rce neglected for lack Dietrich, von Sternberg, Roda Roda, Fritz Lang, The of commissions antl motlels. .\gain, he coultl not VoUinoeller, Ellen Richter, Richard Oswald, Dr. Siir ""^ advent of the Third Reich interrupted a Dr. Frey, and Dr. Sahm, to name only a few of the Of ^^^ful career which held every promise of still exploit antl tievelop his mastery of the art of oil- painting for the simple reason that canvas antl oil- thousands. It was under sad auspices although J ter success. Meidner left Berlin and accepted many were not aware of it yet. . P"st as art teacher at the Jewish High School colours are expensive. He began to feel that his Oji.^ne " at Cologne. His teaching there was an work was becoming flat and narrow in range com Be/vind tJve Curtain:—-The first visible conse py ^••ating revelation to the more gifted of his pared with what he knew he could achieve under quence of the Kafka-like Slansky trial in Prague •"til ^'^''st the insensitive rest regarded him with nappier circumstances. was the resignation of Arnold Zweig as chairman i,^, ^^d bewilderment. Meidner was by no means of the East-German Academy ; his place was taken jf ,*PPy during those years at Cologne. The A Visit to Germany by J. R. Becher. Zweig, who returned from exile |,f 'i^ctural beauties of the ancient city appealed in Israel, is as suspect as everybody who survived ..: .t'y to him ; he also appreciated the con- A few months ago Meidner was invited to visit the Hitler years in the West. Like others, artists ^'iviai friends in Germany. He went and there, suddenly Over 'ty of its comfortable taverns. To meet him who returned from Mexico and London to East stj ^ glass of beer : a rotund little man with antl beyontl expectation, he found the response antl Berlin, are in danger now, especially if they are luipt^' ^°^''^^ features ; polite, unassuming, though encouragement he needed. Critics welcomed him Jews, Two prominent actors have already left a J y assured of his abilities ; a good talker with back as one of the outstanding figures of con Eastern BerUn : Curt Bois, who returned from "Itn' ^^'***^ °f humour : one thought him strangely temporary German art. Publications of his earlier Hollywood, and Eduard von \\'interstein whose son, iifQ^'^'^''^d by the atmosphere of decay and danger work were re-issued, lie received more portrait Gustav von Wangenheim, lost his job some time of ^'^ him. Yet at this time he created a series commissions, many from leading public personalities ago. Those who are mainly threatened by the new \v]j: rowings—one of his major achievements—in like President Heuss, than he had time to complete. drive are Alexander Abusch, Bodo Uhse, Ludwig apj, he gave visual shape to his foreboding of the He regained his full creative joy and self-assurance, Renn, .\nna Seghers, Alfred Kantorowicz, Pro apg "^^"^hing cataclysm : drawings of such desperate and we can believe him when he writes that his fessor Meusel, Juergen Kuczyinski, and Heinz b' ; af i^'Ptic power that even now one could hardly work profits accortlingly in liveliness and certainty Schmidt ; Bert Brecht is still the " enfant terrible " "'ast i'°'^'"S ^t them were it not that the very of touch. of the East-German culture. ery of their execution re-asserted the potency it is a strange antl sadly significant situation. Home News:—Charles Goldner and Gerard i,f Q human mind. Here if anywhere the spirit Heinz scored successes in " Dear Charles."—Julius Here is a Jewish refugee living in our midst, a '' darkest hour has found perfect expression. Gellner is going to Israel to produce " Macbeth " Afte considerable artist by any standartl, whose work with " Habimah."—Producer Viktor Skutezky, has to a large extent been inspired by our fate and «iv, s John and other English artist friends, was who showed his successful and first independent iigj^ f^fuge in this country. Refuge—but no more. our religion ; yet he is almost completely ignored film " Yellow Balloon," has bought the screen rights *ith 'tv,'"' *^^° '" ^'^ fifties, was like most of us faced by our community which professes to be proud of of Joan Henry's best-selling book ' Who Lie in ilo|. ne task of starting his career afresh ; he did its cultural interests. At the same time he finds Jail."—Wanda Rotha will play in " Oedipus " is sti'J'''^^^d. As far as art is concerned, England recognition, and is claimed as her own, by the opposite Donald Wolfit in the " King's Theatre."— 'Jf p ^^"y much an island ; with the exception nation that once persecuted him as a Jew and There is a French picture, " Jeux Interdits " at the Ceigi ?nch Impressionists and a few fashionable " degenerate " artist. At the moment Lutlwig " Academy " which you should not miss under any to (.g.^ ^^^' 't is extremely difficult for foreign artists Meidner feels—and who can blame him ?—that his circumstances.—Weidenfeld and Nicolson will pub coQj^'^h the English art lover's eye. The refugee spiritual home is where his art is understood and lish " Das Leben der Tiere " by Morus, whose real iilj(. !^ti'ty, on the other hand, pre-occupied with appreciated. We may hope that on his return to name is Richard Lewinsohn ; he used to write about to tif'*' worries and eagerly trying to adapt itself London this state of things will change. If not, the financial problems in " \'oss " and " Weltbuehne," attgn.^ English wav of life, generally paid little loss will be ours. and returned only a short time ago from South .Viejj '°n to its own artists and writers. And if .\merica to Paris. *<*ulci^K ^^"^ hoped that his religious drawings News from Everywhere:—Max Hansen is play Je\vj , "°'d a special appeal to the members of ing " Nitouche " in Malnioe.—Leo Mittler success Spirit '""''Sregations he overlooked that it was the THE LONDON CENTRE FOR fully produced the " Merry Widow " in Frankfurt. ''Vert • ^^^ prophets and the Jewish mystics that —Rutli Ball, the once famous Jewish ice hockey pra„ '^ his work ; a spirit that is often lost in the PSYCHOTHERAPY player, is living as an agent in Johannesburg.— 'fUe tif^'*' Jndaism of to-day. It is probably also Leopold Lindtberg, ot " Last Chance " fame, is popjj] Meidner has not the makings of a really offers psychological treatment at rates suit directing " The Pestalozzi Village " with John the v,.^'^ artist. He lacks the pictorial elegance antl Justin in the English version.—Lilian Harvey will '^tjov^f* sense of natural beauty that are easily able to the circumstances of the individual. marry her Danish agent in Copenhagen.—Eric lot rt ,• ^'s work excites and inspires : it does Special facilities for German speaking Godal showing his drawings and paintings in a New ^^^^hght or soothe. patients. York gallery.—H. H. Carwin, formerly Karpeles, With h ^^^'^ ^^^ cause, Ludwig Meidner, together became chief lector of Berlin's Felix Bloch Erben ?ttcl ori^ -^^^^ Else—herself an artist of great talent Apply: The Secretary, llB Dryden agency.—Dela Lipinskaya went from London to New- isoia^.jV'S'nality—has been living a life of artistic York to appear on New Year's Eve in New York's Ve^rj l-^nd financial hardship for the last twelve Chambers, 119 Oxford Street, W.l. Town Hall. PEM 1 here were verv occasional commissions for P4ia 8 AJR INFORMATION February. 19S3 Letter from Jerusalem PERSONALIA Chicken Story : For the first time m ye»rS' Mr. Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt recently ft is announced with tleep regret thai Mr. Adolf butchers and poultry shops are full of chickeW' became 80 years old. Between the wars, he was Landecker (formerly Berlin) passeil away in the " dressed " or alive, to be had without rationing'''^ " protectie " by each and everybody—who ca one of the leaders of the " Deutsche Liga fuer L'nited States. In Berlin Mr. Lantlecker took a responsible part in the activities of the " Gemeinde," afford to pay 1/3 for a pound of fowl. It is '"' -Vlenschenrechte," which lie is now trying to re surprising that there are mtjre chickens to*'' activate in Berlin. He has always been a l)old especially as Hon. Chairman of the V\'elfare District Offices " Friedrichshain " and " Osten " and as a customers, for the bare necessities of life have ris^ fighter for I'reedom and Peace and became parti to such an e.xtent that people must scrape togetne' cularly well known by his courageous attacks against Council Member of the Lintlenstrasse Synagogue. Before joining his son in the U.S..\. he stayed for their butlgets for paying electricity (if there is ^^i' secret rearmament during the Weimar period. His some years in London. During that period he and basic footls (of which there is now plenty)' numerous frientls in this country where he livetl as rendered most valuable voluntary services at .\JR Only potatoes make still rare appearances and fete an emigrant wish him many years to come of Headquarters. Throughout his life he felt a genuine high prices on the black market. , unchanged vigour and successful acti\ities. Popular President : The new President " urge to advise and help people in distress, antl , but innumerable persons gratefully remember the Israel, Ben Zvi, has not yet been long in office, he proves to be immensely popular. He reside.jiios t selfless and understanding assistance received from did. this most lovable man. His friends in many countries in the seclusion of Rehovoth, as his predecessor Professor Dr. Salomon Levi (formerly Studien- will join his widow (Mrs. Hertha Landecker, 338 but in Israel's capital which has become the centt* rat in Ludwigshafen, now London) became 70 years Maynard, .\nn .\rbor, Michigan, U.S..A.) in her of state receptions and official ceremonies, as ^^^^ old. Prior to his emigration Professor I^vi took a sorrow. before. Moreover, Dr. Weizmann in his last year* leading part in the work of the Jewish community was forced by his failing health to lead a retir'^o tif Mannheim. The .\JR, whose member he has been life. His successor can fulfill all the functions ot for a great number of years, wishes to extend to him After a long illness Dr. Bruno Huelse passed President, and most of them are public functio" its heartiest congratulations. w FAMILY EVENTS Situations Wanted COOK, exp., wants part-time work. ALTER.JLTIONS, Remodels. 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