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'^n as a teenager I asked my father if he was once are Boris Chain (penicillin), Jonas Salk Shine. At the same time, the most powerful Pôud to be Jewish, he replied angrily: "Don't be(anti-poli o vaccine) and Carl Djerassi denunciation of McCarthyism was Arthur so bloody ridiculous!" In retrospect, I suppose(birt h pill). Miller's play The Crucible. It is no 'or him my question implied the notion that The benefits of the birth pill are, of exaggeration to say that without the latter - wuie in being Jewish was a bit like being proud course, rather debatable - but in the sphere and his novelist fellow-Jew Josef Roth - "/ being white: these were accidents of birth of sexual ethics and enlightenment, Jews American letters would hardly occupy the and any pride carried with it at least the have also played a key role. Playwrights pre-eminent position they do. Potential for discrimination against the from Schnitzler to Tony Kushner have Twentieth-century music is likewise opposite -in this case, non-Jews. shone a light into dark places - but the unthinkable without the Jewish input Thus writes Charlotte Eilenberg in the obverse also applies, pace Felix Salten's provided by the likes of Mahler, Schonberg, "itroduction to the printed text of her play porn novel Frau Mutzbacher and Richard Weil and Bernstein. (Nor, incidentally, 'he Lucky Ones (Methuen). Reading it sets Desmond's top-of-the-shelf publications. would the Salzburg and Edinburgh °"e thinking. Is pride in being Jewish Festivals have been started but for their Commendable? Or is it to be disavowed on Jewish initiators.) ^^ grounds that it resembles White feelings The visual arts - an area closed to pre- of superiority over Blacks? emancipation Jews by rabbinical edict - are ^y comparison between the two forms of now awash with Jewish names from Epstein P'^de is. in fact, so far-fetched as to be almost to Rothke, Chagall to Modigliani, and Freud Perverse. While feelings of White to Auerbach. Superiority always rested on solid But the last mentioned may be rather oundations of global jxjlitical and economic rarified pursuits. The spheres in which dominance, Jewish pride was, at least in part, Jewish innovators have touched the lives of Compensation for utter powerlessness. That millions of people most closely are industry ''Oes not mean to say that it lacked solid in and commerce. Without Jews there would oundations - but this fact has only become have been no department stores and AEG in Commonly accepted in the last few decades. Germany, no Macys in New York and no ICI, Nowadays it is taken as read that the Marks & Spencer, Lyons, Montague •''ideo-Christian heritage forms the Burtons and Tescos in the UK. ^dament of Western civilisation. However, Not that all Jewish entrepreneurs Caving to one side our over-arching benefited wider society. There were also Achievement in giving mankind monotheism Benjamin Disrael quite a few big-time fraudsters - Barmat, And the Ten Commandments, a useful way of "^êstigating whether we have reasons for A similar ambivalence obtains in the Bosel, Castiglione, Stavisky, Meyer Lansky Pride is to speculate on what the world might sphere of politics. Jews have been and Robert Maxwell - among them. ^ê looked like in our absence. advocates of liberal values and social equity However, when weighed in the balance, the bad guys pale into insignificance compared In a hypothetical Jew-free world, it is in Germany (Rathenau), France (Blum) and to the good ones. oubtful whether such universal ingredients Britain (Disraeli) - but they have also acted modem Hving as Hollywood movies, as illiberal extremists in Soviet Russia and Likewise, when Jews feel squeamish ••oadway musicals and psychoanalysis its satellites. On the credit side, one can list about associating themselves with Israel Ould have come into existence. Something human rights activist Elena Bonner as well under Sharon's leadership, it might be well 'îlar applies to the development of as Boris Pasternak, Isaak Babel and other to remember (a) whom he is confronting, •^clear physics, which, admittedly, also had dissident writers. and (b) that his predecessors included negative spin-off. Even so, the hugely The postwar United States presented a Yitzhak Rabin. bent ^^Proportionate number of Jewish Nobel distorted mirror image of this picture. If the So, all in all, it is hard to share the gut raeli ^2e winners - especially in the sciences - blacklisted Hollywood writers were largely reaction of Charlotte Eilenberg's father that '''^st have helped transform the world into a Jewish, so were Senator McCarthy's legally pride in being Jewish is an expression of ^ better place. Names that come to mind at trained henchmen Roy Cohn and David reprehensible feelings of superiority. AJR JOURNAL JULY 2002

The bitch is CONTINENTAL BRITONS still on heat Memoir of an "out-and-out anti-Nazi" Richard Grunberger Howard Spier

While Britain marks the Queen's Golden 'Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler is a summer holiday is cut short by the Jubilee with fanfares, Germany keeps most brilliant and imaginative book - one outbreak of war, and ends with Hitler's justifiably quiet about a totally of the most important books we have assumption of power in 1933. Haffner different event which also happened to ever published'. Lord Weidenfeld told a shows how difficult it was to oppose take place half a century ago. The packed audience at the London Jewish Hitler, and just how swiftly the Nazis background to it is the indeterminate Cultural Centre. The meeting was held in gained power. In Haffner's view, the position on the German political association with the AJR's Continental Germans, unlike other European nations spectrum which the FDP - the Britons Exhibition at the Jewish Museum such as Britain and France, lacked an counterpart to Britain's Liberals - in London's Camden Tovm. outlet for self-expression, thus leading to occupies. While the Liberals are a tendency towards mass psychosis. The undeviatingly middle-of-the-road, the Lord Weidenfeld was introducing a upheaval of post-World War 1 revolution, FDP (as well as its Austrian equivalent, discussion between Oliver Pretzel, the factionalism and inflation left them the Freedom Party) has been oscillating son of Sebastian Haffner and translator alarmingly between laissez-faire and from the German of Defying Hitler, and addicted to excitement and action: Hitler extreme right-wing positions. As Martin Chalmers, a journaUst and provided this, and more. Europe knows to its cost, Jorg Haider translator of The Klemperer Diaries. took over the Freedom Party and Sebastian Haffner (pen-name of pushed it in a neo-Nazi direction over Raimund Pretzel), a prominent ten years ago. journalist, political commentator and In Germany, a similar manoeuvre historian, was a non-Jewish German who affecting the FDP unfolded in 1952. emigrated to England in 1938. Defying Werner Naumann, Goebbels's ex- Hitler is a memoir about the rise of deputy at the Propaganda Ministry, Nazism in Germany and the lives of and several likeminded plotters had ordinary German citizens between the infiltrated the Free Democrats with the wars. It was written in 1939 but the intention of turning the party into a author put it aside while pursuing a neo-Nazi Trojan Horse. British career as a joiuTialist and polemicist. Intelligence got wind of this and When he died aged 91 in 1999, his son, alerted UK High Commissioner Ivone mathematician Oliver Pretzel, Publisher Lord Weidenfeld Kirkpatrick, who ordered the plotters' discovered the manuscript. He sent it for In 1942, Haffner, aware of the details oi arrest - which kept the party on an even publication and in the summer of 2000 it the Final Solution, wrote in The Observer keel. However, today's FDP is led by became a bestseller in Gennany. Pretzel that at the end of the war the SS should be Jurgen Mollemann, best described as has translated it into English for its rounded up and shot. He later declared he Naumann's spiritual heir. Mollemann British edition. regretted writing these words, though has embarked on an extreme right- not the sentiment behind them. For his wing course, for which Martin Walser's "People knew, but they part. Pretzel is convinced that Danie' call to the Germans to shake off the looked away" burden of Auschwitz has paved the Goldhagen, the author of the highly Haffner's personal history of Hitler's rise way. He has also tapped into the controversial Hitler's WiUii^S to power explores the attributes of prevailing anti-Israel mood created by Executioners, was right: "people kneW> biased news reports (see facing page). German cultiure which provided fertile but they looked away." ground for the Nazis. According to Oliver If Ariel Sharon is Mollemann's chief Pretzel, his father was "an out-and-out *Defying Hitler, by Sebastian Haffoer, target, Michel Friedmann, deputy anti-Nazi from the very start." Haffner's is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson at leader of the Jewish community, memoir begins in 1914, when the family £14.99. follows closely behind. The latter's offence is that he criticised the FDP leader for accepting the Syrian-born, AJR Journal Israel-baiting former Green MP Jamal al Richard Grunberger Editor-ln-Chlef JACKMAN • Ronald Channing Executive Editor Karsli as a party member. "I am afraid", Howard Spier Editorial and Production SILVERMAN Mollemann countered speciously, "that AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS no one has increased the appeal of 1 a Frognal, London NW3 6AL antisemitism in Germany more than Mr Tel: 020 7431 6161 Fax: 020 7431 8454 Sharon abroad and Mr Friedmann at email: [email protected] 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA home." wvwv.ajrorg.uk Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 8017 AJR JOURNAL JULY 2002

Is media bias all in the mind? NEWTONS Leading Hampstead Solicitors The Bishop of St Albans warns that a including two small children. That is 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, nsmg tide of antisemitism is sending a the mindset of the sadists concerning London NW3 5NB frisson of fear through the Anglo- whom the British media blithely write: • All English legal work Jewish community. At the same time, a 'One man's terrorist is another man's undertaken London lawyer has compiled a 43-page freedom fighter.' How many viewers or • Assistance given with German, report alleging BBC bias - mainly readers were made aware of the fact Swiss & Austrian matters through omissions and a failure to place that the dozen or so most notorious • German spoken events in their proper context - in its gunmen released from the besieged • Home visits arranged coverage ofthe Middle East. Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem Tel: 020 7435 5351 Are media bias and the undeniable and ciurently enjoying EU hospitality Fax: 020 7435 8881 increase in British Israelophobia were killers who have literally waded in interconnected? blood - not of soldiers, but of Need we absolve the BBC and the innocent civilians? Pnnt media from the accusation of The blame for such woeful confusion biased reporting? I think not. between freedom fighters and fanatical PARTNER in long established English The bias manifests itself in various sadists, as well as for the apparently Solicitors (bi-lingual German) ^3ys. Ariel Sharon is invariably painted widespread lack of revulsion at the v\/ould be happy to assist clients •n considerably darker shades of black godfathers masterminding the suicide with English, German and "^ Yassir Arafat, although it was the bombers, must be laid at the door of the Austrian problems. "Lo leader's spuming of Barak's offer media. If the American man-in-the- Contact Henry Ebner street has a radically different take oa ^t triggered the current, seemingly Myers Ebner & Deaner Endless slaughter. Likewise, the media the Middle East conflict, this must 103 Shepherds Bush Road tend to suggest that Arafat is too weak surely be due to the way in which the London W6 7LP to curb the Palestinian extremists. The same news are reported - and Telephone 020 7602 4631 "ûth of the matter is that he released interpreted - on either side of the ALL LEGAL WORK ôme of the most notorious of them Atlantic. In this respect, the Atlantic UNDERTAKEN from jail at the start of the current is really immeasurably wider than ^^tifada. Furthermore, of late the PLO- the Channel. '•nked Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade has Of course, Continental Europe's Perpetrated as many suicide bombings readiness to censure Israeli actions is AUSTRIAN and GERMAN *s Hamas or Islamic Jihad. even greater than Britain's - which, PENSIONS The most crucial example of media pace the headlines about the Jenin "'as is probably revealed in the plague- 'massacre', was afready considerable. In PROPERTY ^n-both-your-houses approach to the the case of the Continental countries, RESTITUTION CLAIMS ^king of lives in the current, conflict. there may also be a hugely deplorable EAST GERMANY-BERLIN he action of Israeli soldiers shooting psychological mechanism at work. Put On instructions our office will ^ck at Arab teenagers who subject bluntly, it goes like this: if the Jews can assist to deal with your "em to a hail of stones is different - not be retrospectively perceived as villains, applications and pursue the matter % in degree but also in kind - from it diminishes the guilt of the Germans, with the authorities. ^tonating suicide bombs in cafes and French etc for having treated them so For further information inhumanely throughout the centuries discotheques frequented by Israeli and appointment ^ênagers. (especially the mid-twentieth). please contact: Some weeks ago, Palestinian Unhappily - or should we say happily - ICS CLAIMS ^men cut their way through the this interpretation can only apply to 146-154 Kilburn High Road Britain in the most attenuated form. So ecurity fence round a West Bank London NW6 4JD ^ttlement and entered a house, where let's give three cheers for the British êy went from room to room fleet - and only two for Fleet Street! Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) Fax: 020 7624 5002 Methodically killing all the inhabitants. Richard Grunberger AJR JOURNAL JULY 2002

Dr Bea Lewkowicz An inside view of 'Continental Britons' talking about 'Continental Britons' at ! Dr Bea Lewkowicz, a key member of 25 refugees which Dr Lewkowicz had the AJR ^ Luncheon Club * the team which researched and created directed and produced and was being the AJR-sponsored Continental shown continuously within the Britons exhibition currently showing at exhibition, was proving to be of the Jewish Museum, Camden, revealed great interest. some of the painstaking processes Accompanying the exhibition which went into the exhibition's throughout its six months was a research and authorship, to members stimulating programme of lectures, ofthe AJR Luncheon Club. concerts, symposia and other events, At the conceptual phase, it was of which Bea Lewkowicz and her considered important to tell the story colleague Carol Seigel of the JevWsh of all German-speaking refugees, not Museum had been the main creators. just those who had achieved a degree of The exhibition catalogue, whose fame. The title 'Continental Britons' author, Dr Anthony Grenville, also was chosen after much thought and wrote the exhibition text, grew into an discussion, being both provocative and authoritative history ofthe subject and fresh; its subtitle 'Jewish Refugees is published by the AJR with the from Nazi Europe' avoided Hitler and Jewish Museum. Continental Britons concentration on Germany. It was Exhibition and Arts and decided to present the exhibition No such exhibition could be narrative in seven sections, begirming considered complete without a Events Diary - July reference to the continental cafe with the world that was left behind and Sun 7 'Refugee Stories'. Drama and ending with the refugee community's culture which the refugees brought Storymaking workshop with David ongoing contribution to their country with them, so a reconstruction of the Bash. For children aged 8-14. of adoption. Cosmo Restaurant, a popular place of Jewish Museum. 2 pm congregation on the Finchley Road, An annotated map of the shops and Mon 8 'Gemutliches other services provided by and for helps to evoke memories of good Beisammensein' with music and refugees which long characterised the fare and good company among refreshments. Club 43. 7.45 pm Continental Britons. Finchley Road was designed as a Tues 9 'Memories of Sigmund central feature, and the reproduction of RDC Freud by his grandson Anton a t3T)ical Central European living room The book Continental Britons by Walter Freud'. Jewish Museum. 7 pm together with a well-chosen library are Anthony Grenville is available direct Tues 16 Daniel Snowman, The also revealing features. A unique series from the AJR head office at £7.50 Hitler Emigres: The Cultural Impact of interviews on videotape with (cheques payable to the AJR). on Britain of Refugees from Nazism'. Jewish Museum. 7 pm

Fri 26 to 8 September Ludwig and Else Meidner - An Exhibition on CONTINENTAL BRITONS Two German Refugee Artists. JEWISH REFUGEES FROM NAZI EUROPE Venue: Ben Uri Gallery. Monday- Thursday 10 am to 5.30 pm, Friday AJR Members are invited to visit a nev^ exhibition researched, 10 am to 3 pm, Sunday 12 noon to vi^ritten & sponsored by the Association of Jev»^ish Refugees 4 pm in celebration of the AJR's 60th anniversary at ORGANISATION CONTACTS The Jewish Museum, Raymond Burton House The Jewish Museum, Camden Town, 129-131 Albert Street, London NWI Raymond Burton House, 129-131 5 minutes wall< from Camden Town Underground Station Albert Street, London NWl Until 20 October 2002 tel 020 7284 1997 The Monday-Thursday 10 am-4 pm, Sundays 10 am-5 pm Ben Uri Gallery 108a Boundary Closed on Jewish Festivals & Public Holidays Road, St Johns Wood, London NW8 tel 020 7604 3991 Entry £3.50, AJR Members £2.50, Children and Students £1.50, Family Ticket £8, Museum Friends free Club 43 Belsize Square Synagogue. Hans Seelig 01442 254360 ^e, AJR JOURNAL JULY 2002

AJR Celebration Tea with Light Opera Central Office For booking now open Holocaust Claims This year's special AJR event is to be a Celebration Michael Newman Tea with Light Opera, taking place at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London Wl, Austrian Reconciliation Fund on Sunday 20 October from 2.30 to 5 pm. Following the rejection last July of two law A full tea will be served. suits in a US court against the Federal Highlight of the afternoon is certainly the performance of Republic of Austria, the Austrian The Garden Party', a group of professional singers from the Reconciliation Fund has paid compensation to more than 60,000 company of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Highly victims of Nazi persecution used as slave talented and accomplished soloists, each has sung roles with and forced labourers on the territory of other major international opera companies. Their maxim that present-day Austria. In exchange for opera is enjoyable will be evident from the exuberance of their providing reparations and endowing the performances, a sense of fun combined with thrilling voices, fund with $280 million, the Austrian state providing outstanding entertainment for everyone to enjoy. and industry have secured legal peace. A specially chosen programme to appeal to the tastes of Similar to the Foundation created in Germany, the Austrian Reconciliation ^-ontinental Britons' will be presented by Glenys Groves, Fund makes compensation payments Soprano, Scilla Stewart, mezzo soprano and piano, Adrian for slave labourers - AS 105,000 •Martin, tenor, and Roy Gregory, baritone. A veritable feast (approximately £4,000) - and forced of popular classical song is guaranteed. labourers - AS 35,000 (approximately £1,500). A third category of labourers Please use the enclosed order form and complete it in full to who worked exclusively in agriculture and ^ke quite certain that you and your friends have booked forestry will receive a payment of AS ^''eir places at this year's AJR Celebration Tea with Light 20,000 (approximately £700). ^era, together with the appropriate payment at £18 per The deadline for making applications is 27 place made to the AJR Charitable Trust, and return them to: November 2002. Completed applications 'he AJR Functions Secretary, 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, London NWS GAL. and further enquiries should be addressed Members and supporters of the AJR are once again invited to advertise in, and to PO Box 44, A-1011 Vienna, Austria. 8ive their support to, a souvenir brochure to further the work of Self Aid for French investigative commission *Paris, France. The telephone number is 0033 1 56 52 85 00.

Further help kindertransport memorial sculpture, built as a wooden mock-up, was placed in situ at the Written enquiries should be sent to Central |. *'i entrance piazza of London's Liverpool Street Station to test and evaluate the subtleties of Office for Holocaust Claims (UK), ^..^ ^nd space on its proposed site. The sculpture, which has received the support ofthe AJR, 1 Hampstead Gate, 1A Frognal, London tf^, "^ a permanent reminder of the arrival at the station of the children of the Kindertransport Ig..^ '^ad embarked on specially arranged trains from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in NW3 6AL. For assistance with the Ke *° ^'"^ refuge in Britain, sadly leaving their parents behind. Venezuelan sculptor Flor completion of application forms, please Th, foreground, is creating the actual sculpture in stone, bronze, metal and glass. telephone 020 7431 6161 for an Unveiling is planned to coincide with next year's Holocaust Memorial Day. appointment. AJR JOURNAL JULY 2002

longer support this organisation. But on reflection I feel that like-minded /LETTERS^ The Editor reserves the right people - Dr Peter Foot, W. Suschizky, to shorten correspondence I TO THE •) submitted for publication Jon Rumney, Eric Sanders, Rabbi John Rayner, Peter Zander, Inge Trott and \ EDITOR^ myself - should not let you speak for all Jews or Jewish refugees. So I enclose my subscription. It is obvious to me that terrorism has not been CONTINENTAL BRITONS other way round. No doubt if the stopped by the actions of Bush and Sir - Thank you for sponsoring the Jews were ever kicked out of this New Labour or by Sharon's efforts. It Continental Britons exhibition. It and country (and it would not be the is imperative to find a new and just the accompanying catalogue bring first time), Mr Zander would, despite approach to end the conflict. to life a local history that needs to be his prejudices, be glad to take the H L Vajifdar told. If I may make a criticism, it is next flight to Tel Aviv, where he London SW13 that the map in the exhibition is not knows they would accept him - in the catalogue. May I suggest that warts-and-all. you get After-the-Battle magazine Ernest G Kolman ANTI-FREUD involved? This publication takes Greenford Sir - Articles and letters published in before-and-after photographs and Jewish journals sometimes refer to supplements them with Sir - Many thanks to the Editor, who so-called "Jewish self-hatred" o( contemporary maps to unearth the takes the anti-Israel flak expressed in "denial". These terms are often used history of locations. Anthony the letter columns in his stride. It is, of to suggest that when a Jew makes Grenville's essay is excellent but I course, our duty, as Rabbi Rayner some criticism of Israel or other Jews, would have loved a more detailed maintains (June issue), to follow our this is indicative of some history, and it may be possible to consciences. However, many of us subconscious psychopathology o"" obtain this if research is done now. differ over his interpretation of what identity confusion. These terms are The Belsize Road area appears to he calls "policies [that are] morally largely derived from Freudian have been one of intense activity (therefore Jewishly) ... wrong". The psychology, much of which has long before the Second World War, and rabbi writes that Ben-Gurion advised been rejected by contemporary the occupation of Lawn Road and in 1967 on what we now call the Land psychologists. Indeed, many Parkhill Road by artists and writers for Peace settlement. There is, psychiatrists now believe that Freud's from here and abroad could be however, nothing that supports this theories were one of the greatest covered. Los Angeles County claim, nor the claim that Israel medical blunders of the twentieth Museum of Art has gone down this relentlessly colonised the occupied century. Perhaps the opinion I have path. The city took in a lot of German territories (see Ben-Gurion, Memoirs, expressed in this letter might itself be refugees and its other name is Little p. 792). On the contrary, Israel did interpreted by Freud's remaining Weimar. A rich and valuable not miss a single opportunity to devotees as a sign of "denial" of my contribution to British democracy negotiate. Two years ago, the then Jewish heritage. is there if we are prepared to Prime Minister Ehud Barak even Stephen Schick work for it. conceded all Arafat's claims, London SW3 including that to East Jerusalem, only Glenn A Brown to be rebuffed. Jews should know London NWl 1 APPALLING TOM PAULIN what peace at any price leads to - or Sir - In your article asserting the are our memories so short? ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT inalienable right of Israel to have Shmuel Getter been founded because of "tn^ Sir - So Peter Zander thinks Israel London NW4 greatest tragedy any people ever is a failure and a disaster. What suffered" (June issue), you appear to does he suggest as an alternative: be speaking of 'a' people, rather than another shoa/)?! Sir - I used to enjoy reading the AJR Journal and to feel that the AJR merely of 'people', and I baulk at that' Henry Mortimer represented me. But now I find the I suggest that this mindset arises Leicester views expressed in your editorials either from childhood brainwashing Sir - Peter Zander ought to know that offensive and depressing and they or from acquiescence in tn the most horrific manifestation of leave me with little hope for the definition of who we are made W antisemitism in the last 2,000 years future of humanity. My AJR Hitler and his Nazis, and a willingnes* of Jewish history resulted in the membership is due for renewal and to be pushed into a spiritual ghett creation of the State of Israel - not the my first instinct was that I could no by them. We were citizens " AJR JOURNAL JULY 2002

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bodies themselves are so treated that they bend like the plasticine figures you RGs INTGRFACG made as a child. You can create the NOTES Michaelangelo David out of a well- Cambridge. Hollywood star John formed plasticised body if you so wish. Malkovich told the Cambridge Union Gloria Tessler But this show - arguably a development that he wanted to kill George of Damian Hirst's dissected cow - Galloway MP and The Independent's Would you donate your body for Middle East correspondent Robert worries me because it feels like the plastination? I first considered Prof Fisk - two leading UK advocates of the slippery slope to dehumanisation. Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds Palestinian cause. Afterwards Fisk at the Atlantis Gallery a definite no- Judaism, like other faiths, demands speculated that the actor might be refused further visas to Britain. no. But curiosity won me over. Was I on that the dead be respectfully buried. Jean Anouilh based his existentialist (Strangely, no similar thought the way to a Burke and Hare horror drama Antigone on this very essence of occurred to him when, a month show? Would the Prof prove to be the earlier, Oxford don Tom Paulin called the dignity of burial. Donating your Frankenstein of monstrous art? for the murder of Brooklyn-born body to science is a worthy exception, The show began with the embryonic settlers on occupied Palestinian but that is in the interests of saving life, land.) development of the human skeleton. which this exhibition is not. Mankind's And moved on to the way the bony greatest danger is its own Cannes. The American Jewish plates of the newborn's cranium Congress's call for a boycott of the dehumanisation. In his book Our French film festival - because of the overlap like shingles in order to allow Posthuman Future, Francis Fukuyama passage through the narrow birth canal. alleged current recrudescence of argues that the danger of biotechnology Vichy-style antisemitism {pace I went on to hip and knee replacements, is its tendency to project us into a "post- Ambassador Daniel Bernard's the gleaming steel revealed by the human stage of history". If, as reference to 'sh...y little Israel'), and flesh, parted like an opened pear. consumers of art, we are always the burning down of synagogues - fell But worse followed: fretworks of seeking the latest and most tasteless, on deaf ears. Woody Allen premiered bright red human fibre - nerve systems what's the next road-show? The Hollywood Ending there, but an event with far greater Jewish resonance was under glass like the latest designer see- bloodied body parts of a suicide the first showing of Roman Polanski's through bodice, the cadaver holding his bomber? Holocaust film The Pianist. skin up like a trophy; the swordsman split so he appears three-dimensional; London. Charlotte Eilenberg's 'German refugee play' The Lucky Ones the swimmer, blond and yoimg, hope was staged at the Hampstead Theatre and ambition still engraved on his to great critical acclaim. The critics distorted face; the runner with flesh were less unanimous about the merits flying off him like the buttresses of of Diane Samuel's attempt to follow up some baroque masterpiece; and, worst the success of Kindertransport with a of all, a mother with an eight-month-old play about Mata Hari. baby in her womb. Because sinew, bone Hamburg. Franz Mokiar's classic and the nervous system do not shock as Liliom, on which the musical Carousel much as the sight of blood, this was based, received a drastically new exhibition only gets to you slowly. production at the Thalia Theater. Donor consent forms are prominent. Sections of the audience felt so provoked by it that ex-Burgomaster Did the pregnant mother really Klaus von Dohnany disrupted the consent? Did her unborn child? Von premiere vrith an interjection from Hagens is an anatomist who developed the stalls. his unusual technique because he feels Vienna. The centenary ofthe birth of the general public wants to know what The Corner House by Ludwig Meidner the Polish tenor Jan Kiepura has just lies beyond the terms 'heart attack', been marked by a special 'cancer' and 'diabetes'. Theologians, More happily, the Ben Uri Gallery is performance of his 1937 film Der politicians, art historians have all joined at last in its new home at 108a Zauber der Boheme in the presence of the debate about the moral issues Boundary Road, St John's Wood, his co-star, and widow, the involved in this professor's plastination London, from where it launched its nonagenarian Marta Eggerth. The of the human dead. In Europe six exclusive Ludwig and Else Meidner similarly nonagenarian Marcel Prawy, dubbed 'Vienna's million people have already seen his Exhibition from Jime to September. Opemfiihrer' (he, incidentally, was exhibition. Morality aside, is it art? Yes, There are over 50 works in this first Kiepura's secretary in the USA), has if art in this context is that curious major collection of works by the launched a series of concerts of music twenty-first century configuration of expressionist and his wife since 1949. harmed by the Nazis. maths, science, sound and vision. The More next month.

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Clawing back the loot encountered destroyers of the spirit. UNSER WIEN: ARISIERUNG AUF They are worthy successors of their OSTERREICHISCH predecessors. But it is too late. I regret returning to my place of birth Tina Walzer and Stephan Tempi which rejects me.' Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 2001 REVIEWS But these negative comments are The first part of this book describes in counterbalanced by mere hopeful know, it took until the 1990s before 9reat detail the processes of ones: 'After decades of silence, there was any real movement on this expropriation that followed the remembrance has materialised in front and even then it was - and is - Anschluss - and followed it stone, steel and wood and has painstakingly slow and complicated. "Timediately. There were actions on become visible to everybody in the It is only since Austria's museums 12 March, when the Viennese got shape of monuments and plaques. have been forced to question the busy even before the Germans were One could say that during the source of many of their post- installed, applying the so-called nineties remembering was step by Anschluss acquisitions that there has 'vvilde Arisierung' - plain theft been grudging public recognition of step moved onto the track of culture. without even the dubious cloak of the widespread nature of the theft of The cultural memory can, despite Nazi laws. Those who profited from Jewish property. much resistance, be organised quite these robberies were largely well and spectacularly.' ifiembers of the hitherto illegal An interesting and disturbing And, finally, a touch of hope: 'But Austrian Nazi party; knowledge of book. One can only hope it will make one must also mention the many "OW to run any of the businesses the Austrians realise what was done decent, committed individuals. "ivolved was not considered in their name and to their shame. Although Austria still has a large "ecessary. Paul Samet number of crypto-Nazis, the former According to the 1943 Moscow must be put into the foreground. 'declaration of the Allies, Austria was Danube blues That is why J keep coming back.' the first victim of the Nazis but it DAS KANN EINEM NUR The book has not been translated ôuld not avoid responsibility for its IN WIEN PASSIEREN so far, and I cannot say whether it Actions on the German side during Ruth Wodak ever will be. But if reading it in ^he war. The Austrians gladly Vienna: Czernin Verlag German is no obstacle, I strongly urge accepted the first part of this you to take the trouble to obtain a statement but studiously ignored the To state that the contents of this book copy from Czernin Veriag, 1010 •êst of it. Consequently they were a surprise would be an Vienna, Stallburggasse 2, €23. "êgarded Allied postwar occupation understatement. I read anecdotes Eric Sanders as worse than the period 1938-45. which left a bitter taste in my mind, Interestingly, whereas the (German) and I read of incidents, some familiar oundesrepublik set about rebuilding from my own past, which saddened Opportunities missed 'n modern style, Vienna was largely me. They all were typical of Vienna in THE IRON WALL: ISRAEL •"ebuilt as it had been, with all that they described persisting AND THE ARAB WORLD •êference to any previous Jewish antisemitic and xenophobic Avi Shiaim Presence omitted. attitudes. Perhaps a few quotations Penguin Books 2000 The necessity of restitution was an from the stories will convey their Unwelcome thought, which the timbre: This history of Arab-Israeli relations is Austrian governments - initially 'This is Vienna, where a square extremely detailed (670 pages) and Unwilling to pass any laws, and later and a part of the Ringstrasse are thrilling from beginning to end. The "taking the legal processes long- named after the antisemite Kari author belongs to the school of Winded - sought to delay as long as Lueger, but only a small park after Israeli historians who have rewritten Possible. The Austrian reluctance to Sigmund Freud.' the history of Israel on the basis of ace up to the past came from 'His parents, having returned to documents released by the Israel the very top. Postwar Chancellor Vienna from exile, could not save State Archives. Shiaim, born in "-eopold Figl did not see the need for their young son from exposure to Baghdad, is currently Professor of ^ny restitution. arbitrary treatment by others, from a International Relations at St Antony's The initial announcement about feeling of not belonging and always College, Oxford. He has conducted "^^stitution was published only in being on the defensive.' extended interviews with the major ônie Viennese papers, inviting An academic who came back from players in Middle East events, in Possible claimants to come forward Princeton lamented his decision: 'I am particular King Hussein. Within a very short time-scale. not exaggerating. The methods The pioneers who established the nsurprisingly, very few did. As we today are extremely subtle. I have kibbutzim 100 years ago were eager AJR JOURNAL JULY 2002 to create a bi-national state. To their their frustration, coinciding with a Sebald taught for 30 years at the consternation, the Arabs objected traffic accident, brought about the University of East Anglia in Norwich, violently. The right-wing Zionist first intifada. Meanwhile, the where he also founded the British Jabotinsky proposed building an 'iron Americans urged Shamir to begin Centre for Literary Translation. He wall' based on military strength negotiations with the Palestinians published nothing in English until which, he reasoned, would make and this resulted in the Madrid 1996. Then The Emigrants, a quartet negotiations possible. This book conference. The subsequent election of stories about characters who had shows how in time all Israeli leaders brought Rabin to power and the Oslo escaped from Nazi Europe only to came to believe in the 'iron wall'. agreement followed. Netanyahu, have its evils plague their subsequent who opposed the Oslo principle, In the eariy years of the Jewish lives, was followed by The Rings of froze further talks but, when Barak state there were continual tussles Saturn, Vertigo and then Auster//tz. became prime minister, hopes for over foreign policy. Ben-Gurion In recent weeks, Austerlitz also peace rose again. Barak was, believed in demonstrating Israel's won the US National Book Critics according to Shiaim, nether a dove superior strength while Sharett Award and was a runner-up to Ian nor a hawk but a bitkhonist, a favoured negotiations. This tussle McEwan's Atonement for the W H 'security-ist'. The high expectations continued until Sharett's resignation Smith Literary Award. evaporated even before Arafat in June 1956. According to a report in The rejected the far-reaching proposals Shiaim provides a detailed Israel made at Camp David. Independent, later this year Hamish description of public as well as secret Hamilton is to publish Sebald's Air Unfortunately, this book went to negotiations which went on before War and Literature, an examination press in September 2000, just before the outbreak of the Suez War, the Six of the Allied carpet-bombing oi the outbreak of the second intifada. Day War and the Yom Kippur War. urban areas during the Second World One would very much like to know When Sadat became President of War that provoked huge controversy what Shiaim's thoughts are on these Egypt, he approached Israel for a when it first appeared in Germany. later events, though we can form an final peace deal. Israel agreed to talks HS educated opinion thanks to the but, when it came to drawing the author's detailed information on final borders, the Labour government what transpired before. For anybody Annely Juda Fine Art wanted to retain some territory for who wishes to understand the 23 Dering Street security reasons. The talks broke attitudes of Sharon, Peres and the (off New Bond Street) down when Sadat insisted on the Palestinians, this book is a must. precise June 1967 borders. The Yom Tel: 020 7629 7578 Peter Prager Kippur War followed, and in 1977 Fax: 020 7491 2139 came Sadat's famous visit to Sebald novel 'a work of the CONTEMPORARY PAINTING Jerusalem. Peace negotiations AND SCULPTURE resumed, this time with a Likud first magnitude' government. Begin agreed to the W G Sebald has won the £10,000 precise 1967 borders and a peace Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, agreement was signed. Shiaim states Britain's leading award for books in GERMAN and that of all the Arab-Israeli wars the translation, for his novel Austerlitz. Yom Kippur War was the most The Bavarian-born Sebald was killed EJVGLISH BOOKS senseless. in a road accident near his Norfolk BOUGHT Negotiations continued with home last December at the age of 57. Antiquarian, secondhand and Jordan, while America took a keener The judges praised Austerlitz, modern books of quality interest. In 1987 the coalition published by Hamish Hamilton, as 'a always wanted. government's foreign minister, work of the first magnitude', We're long-standing advertisers Shimon Peres, sought a deal with beautifully served by Anthea Bell, here and leading buyers of King Hussein over the occupied its translator. books from AJR members. territories. They met in secret in The theme of Austerlitz is the We pay good prices and London. Peres was accompanied only Holocaust and its lasting, albeit come to collect. by Yossi Beilin. On 11 April 1987 concealed, impact on European life. agreement was reached. Prime It tells of a Czech Jewish refugee who, Minister Shamir, however, objected. For immediate response, in his old age in London, recovers the please contact: Peres wanted to resign but his memory of his traumatic childhood Robert Homung MA(Oxon) resignation would have caused the flight from Prague, the loss of his 2 Mount View, Ealing, London W5 IPR agreement to be publicised and he family in the camps, and his loveless had promised the King total secrecy. Email: hornungbooks0aol.com upbringing with a Calvinist minister Tel: 020 8998 0546 (Spm to 9pm is best) The Palestinians felt frustrated: in Wales.

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To while away the time spent stuck in on each other and sharing holidays. traffic en route to interview Charlotte PROFILE From school Charlotte went on to Eilenberg, I reflect on the refugee input Richard Grunberger Sussex University to read French and into British playwriting. Working purely History of Ideas. She arrived at Brighton from memory, I come to the conclusion when student radicalism had passed its that it is quite meagre. Many years ago First-time playwright peak, but drug-taking was much in there was Frank Marcus's Killing of vogue. During her time there she Sister George, but its content - a melange became enthusiastically involved in of showbiz intrigue and lesbianism - was student drama productions. The infinitely remote from refugee consequence of this was that she concerns. Several decades later came worked in the theatre - including stints Diane Samuels's Kindertransport, which at the Edinburgh Festival - for about ten signally tapped into our collective years after graduating. experience. The playwright is, however, At this point, Charlotte realised that of East European ancestry, and watching the thespian calling was not for her, her work I found it devoid of the and took up the job of a press officer - sensitive insights of Gerda Mayer and first for the high-profile Almeida Lotte Kramer, the poetic chroniclers of Theatre in Islington, and later for the all our yesterdays. Hampstead Theatre. At around the Charlotte Eilenberg is, by contrast, time of her career change, she married the genuine second-generation article, and started a family. *ith solid Berlin middle-class Charlotte Eilenberg Charlotte submitted the script for The ^tecedents. Her pharmacist grand- Lucky Ones - which has a fictitiousplo t fether owned a block of flats which he already in England, where he studied embroidered with autobiographical ^as forced to sell in 1938. Delighted to engineering. He had a successful career details - under a pseudonym, and it was find a buyer willing to pay a sum not a in industry, married an English woman, accepted for performance. It received iiillion miles away from the asking and together they raised two children. very good notices (pace our June issue) Price, he cracked open a bottle of When she was little, Charlotte lived in a and played to full houses. She has champagne and shared some hearty large detached house in Kew and already adumbrated the outline of a toasts with the purchaser. Two days attended an exclusive private school. second play, but rather balks at the effort ^ter the buyer's solicitor wrote to the She grew up in a tightly knit community involved in turning mental constructs grandfather's solicitor: 'In view of your of refugees who had originally met at a into rounded characters. Meanwhile she client's attempt to get our client dnmk, Berlin Tanzschule as teenagers (and is quietly hopeful that The Lucky Ones ^e have decided to offer substantially whose own parents had been friends). will be performed in Germany - the 'ess than the price previously agreed.' Many of them 'married out', and spent a country that could aptly be described as By this time Charlotte's father was large part of their social lives dropping in the play's birthplace.

Song-and-dance ^he high point of the Bournemouth 90th Birthday Programme was the song-and-dance Evening. Sticks or no sticks, 60 or 90, celebration lôst of us joined in the dancing and Ludwig Spiro, for many years a leader and 'lummed with the singer the tunes we guide of the AJR and now its President, celebrated his 90th Birthday with a party l^new. Good fun, true relaxation and and luncheon given in his honour at the the best medication! A visit to Pine Paul Balint AJR Day Centre in West Lodge Farm, where we enjoyed a Hampstead, which he did more than classic cream tea and the friendly anyone else to establish. Joined by friends atmosphere, was another success. I and AJR colleagues of many years standing, ônt think we appreciate enough before cutting his birthday cake he was ârol, Sylvia and Annie - who are thanked for his outstanding contribution always in the right place at the right to the welfare of the refugee community by time! AJR Chairman Andrew Kaufman. Hana Nermut

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South London: Rabbi Baaden, a population of France had fallen in the last INSIDE 'second-generation' refugee 20 years from 700,000 to 500,000, and Rabbi James Baaden of the South predicted that in 100 years' time the only theAJR London Liberal Synagogue gave an countries with a significant Jewish interesting talk on 'being a second- population would be Israel and the USA. generation refugee'. His grandparents F Goldberg left Germany with his father and went Leeds HSFA-AJR joint celebration via Turkey to America. His father Next meeting: Monday 15 July: 'Israel of AJR's 60th anniversary married a British girl and James spent Update' by Michael Rosen, Israeli his youth partly in America and partly in Embassy England. Here he learned about the concentration camps and the deaths of Pinner and the chutzpa of Sidney British soldiers in the war and civilians Brichto in the Blitz. He went to Cambridge In his disarmingly humorous style. Rabbi University and, after a further three Sidney Brichto spoke of his iimermost years of rabbinical studies, including a feelings as an apparently unloved but (From left) John Chillag, Thea Skyte, Rudi year in Jerusalem, he became a rabbi. Leavor, Trude Silman, Heinz Skyte unusually perceptive child of Orthodox Anne Poloway parents who had emigrated from Sixty-five people - not only from Leeds Jerusalem to the USA. In the USA, as but also from Liverpool, York, Harrogate Next meeting: Thursday 11 July: a described in his autobiography Ritual and Sheffield - attended this highly quiz with Helen Aronson Slaughter: Growing Up Jewish i» successful event. There were three America, he struggled to come to terms speakers: Vice-chair Rudi Leavor on the Wessex puts probing questions on wath the way of life. Following his AJR's history; AJR Northern Co-ordinator restitution claims grandfather's example, Sidney used his Susanne Green on current AJR activities; Michael Newman from the Central and HSFA Chair Trude Silman on the chutzpa not only to survive but ultimately Office for Holocaust Claims addressed to become a respected communal leader. HSFA's aims - including remembrance of the group in the Normandy Hotel in the Holocaust, collecting survivors' life Bournemouth. Members asked many Walter Weg stories and artefacts for research probing questions about the highly purposes, and social activities. Following Next meeting: Thursday 4 July at complex personal restitution process 2 pm: Laurence Till, Director of a splendid lunch, cabaret was provided by now in train in various European the Palace Theatre in Watford, David Apfel, who, most ably accompanied countries. The thorough manner in 'The Palace Theatre's Way Forward' on the keyboard by Stuart Garden, sang a which Michael answered the questions medley of well-known songs in his helped to relieve the administrative magnificent operatic voice and told some anxieties so many of the survivors now Imperial War Museum North excellent jokes. experience. opening in Manchester Guest speaker Rupert Gaze, Education Trude Silman William Bergman and Outreach Officer of Imperial War Next meeting: Wednesday 31 July: Museum North (due to open in July), said Essex hope for peace in the outing to Stapehill. For details, the museum was built on plans prepared Middle East contact Danek Bardach on 01202 by Daniel Liebeskind and that a One member had brought her brother, 822362 significant section of the museum would who was visiting from Israel, to our social be devoted to the Holocaust and the get-together. We welcomed him period leading up to it. Representatives enthusiastically: a visitor from Israel is Brighton and Hove Sarid: the decline of the diaspora of the Manchester group would be everyone's much-loved brother. Another invited to a preview prior to the official David Meyer of the Reform Synagogue member, Larry Lisner, who had taken part opening. Susaime Green reported oti in Hove gave a fascinating talk on in the pro-Israel rally at Trafalgar Square plans for the AJR northern get-togethef differences between French and Belgian on Bank Holiday Monday, had found at Beth Shalom, at which Manchestef Jews (he is a former rabbi of the looking at the sea of blue-and-white flags, would be well represented. all of them giving hope for peace, an Brussels Synagogue) and British Jewry. unforgettable experience. Members also Considering inter alia the Holocaust, Werner Lachs decided we should make a trip in July to perceptions of the role of the rabbi and the Continental Britons exhibition at the the synagogue, and attitudes to the Surrey group converse Jewish Museum in London. Christian religion, he concluded that the accompanied by babbling streams differences outweighed the similarities. Julie Franks The Surrey group meets only a few times Regarding the declining number of Jews a year; members prefer to talk to one Next meeting: Tuesday 9 July in the diaspora, he said that the Jewish another about their past and present

12 AJR JOURNAL JULY 2002 lives rather than be entertained or educated by others. So it was on this Trip to Eastbourne occasion. They met in Ruth Korn's Wednesday 21 August 2002 KT-AJR beautiful flat off Kingston Hill. Leaving Cleve Road at 10 am LUNCHEON returning Cleve Road Conversation flowed accompanied by 11.45 am for 12.15 pm babbling streams as we walked about in at approx. 7.30 pm Monday 1 July the flat's delightful gardens, all under £18 to include transport and Gaby Glassman the ever-discreet guiding eye of Myrna lunch at the Albany Hotel, Eastbourne 'The Experiences of the Glass, the AJR's organiser. Second Generation' Hanno Fry Please apply to Carol Rossen or Reservations required: Joan Altman Next meeting: Wednesday 24 July: please telephone Tel 020 7431 6161 020 7328 0208 Garden Party. For details, contact Edmee Barta

North London: Coming to terms Althorpe House AJR 'Drop in' îth the past Advice Centre at the "sychologist and counsellor Gaby Join us for a visit to the childhood home of Lady Diana Spencer Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Glassman spoke on 'How did you tell 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 Althorpe House your Holocaust story in the family?' A between 10 am and 12 noon on Monday 29 July 2002 iiiunber of people still have difficulty on the following dates: coming to terms with their past - and, with picnic lunch and tour of house. Thursday 4 July "ôre importantly, responding to the Leaving Cleve Road at 10 am. On arrival, a picnic lunch will be Tuesday 9 July Subject when asked by younger supplied, followed by a tour of the Thursday 18 July •êmbers of their families. This house and grounds. Leaving Wednesday 24 July ^'"equently applies to 'second- Althorpe at 3.30 pm, returning to Tuesday 30 July Seneration' survivors who, not Cleve Road at approx. 6 pm. Surprisingly, appear to suffer from an £23 Wednesday 7 August ^niotional void. The speaker explained There taill be some walking involved. No appointment is necessary, but please bring along all relevant how she aims to cope with these Please apply to Carol Rossen or documents, such as Benefit Books, P^'oblems in her capacity as a counsellor Joan Altman Tel: 020 7431 6161 letters, bills, etc. 't Was a most interesting meeting, Sving rise to many questions from *hose present. Paul Balint AJR Day Centre 1 5 Cleve Road, West Hampstead, NW6 | Herbert Haberberg Tel: 020 7328 0208 ^^xt meeting: Thursday 25 July: Monday - Thursday 9.30 am - 3.30 pm, Sunday 2 pm - 5.30 pm '^rael Update' by Michael Rosen, JULY Afternoon Entertainment: '^•"aeli Embassy Mon 1 KT Lunch & Kards & Games Klub Tue 2 Daphne Lewis, David Rose & Vivienne Trenner Wed 3 Jenny Kossew - Accordionist '•'verpool and District celebrates Thur 4 Yakov Paul - Music from Vienna '^R's 60th birthday Sun 7 DAY CENTRE OPEN - No Entertainment '-•verpool and District branch held a Mon 8 Kard & Games Klub Tue 9 Sheila Games and Friend "ôst enjoyable get-together in Wed 10 Stephen Baron, piano and Olga Baron, violin Celebration of the AJR's 60th Thur 11 Opdahl Trio Anniversary. Over 30 people were Sun 14 DAY CENTRE OPEN - No Entertainment e'^tertained to a four-course lunch. Mon 15 Kard & Games Klub •ôfessor Gerry Jason gave a short Tue 16 Amanda Palmer Entertains Wed 17 Katinka Seiner & Klaszio Eston ^Qdress, followed by an introduction by Thur 18 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - TISHA BAV '^sanne Green. She then welcomed Sun 21 DAY CENTRE OPEN - No Entertainment ^'"aeli Embassy spokesman Michael Mon 22 Kard & Games Klub osen, who gave a brief review of the Tue 23 Shelley Weldon 'tuation in Israel and the fight against Wed 24 Anthony Goodmaker - Pianist Thur 25 Ronnie Goldberg - Guitarist e'ôrism. After-lunch entertainment Sun 28 DAY CENTRE OPEN - No Entertainment ^s provided by the excellent Fynettes, Mon 29 Kard & Games Klub *^lose-harmony duo. Tue 30 Melanie Mehta & Martin Sharpe Wed 31 Valerie Hewitt - Piano & Voice Norman Fyne

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Obituaries Search Notices Sir Michael Kerr Palestine. In 1948 he was asked to Richard Wagner. Writer/researcher A native of Berlin, Michael Kerr was prepare the legal system for the new seeks information, especially State of Israel, and subsequently anecdotes/recollections, on the first English High Court judge perceptions of Wagner during Nazi era, served in various roles, including that since the time of Henry U (1154-89) especially explanations of why he is so not to have been bom a British of Minister of Justice. Cohn was associated with Nazis and Holocaust. subject. He came to Britain early in appointed to the first UN Contact Richard Burger at 1933, aged 12, because his father, the Commission on Human Rights and [email protected]. was the first President of the Israeli famous theatre critic Alfred Kerr, was 'Lest We Forget'. Author has written on a Nazi death list. Association of Human Rights. book on Holocaust with graphic They were an extraordinarily gifted His books included Human Rights displays of concentration camps. Seeks family: Michael's mother was an and Jewish Law and The Trial and survivors' opinions on 125-page chapter and, perhaps, help in opera composer, and his sister Judith Death of Jesus. promoting book. Contact Steve HS Wrote the children's classic When Richards tel 0870 7209498 or Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Despite the mirage(5)urqentmail.com. immigrants' parlous financial Chaim Lipshitz Chaim Lipshitz has died at the age of Liftman. Residents of Suedvorstadt, circumstances, Michael attended Dresden until 1934-35. Father's name 96. Although born in London's East Aldenham School and went to Clare Simon or Samuel, a co-owner of College, Cambridge. His studies End and obtaining a degree in French Alsberg department store. Hannelore Were interrupted by wartime and German at University College Kuhn, a schoolfriend of Ursula (Ulla) intemment. Released, he joined the London, he was to blend into the Liftman still living in Dresden, has heard that the Liffmans emigrated to RAF, flew Wellingtons in Coastal refugee community of whose background he had a profound England and would like to get in touch. Command, and advanced to the rank Contact Frederick Taylor at knowledge. of flight lieutenant. [email protected]. Postwar he returned to Cambridge, In the 1920s he was a founder of Max Temkin, 11, was smuggled out of took a double first in law, and was Habonim, the Jewish youth concentration camp by my father movement. He formed and led the called to the Bar in 1948. He took Rocco Foico and brought back to his silk in 1961, becoming in turn a Habonim choir which sang for Zionist camp. He was fed, clothed and cared Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, Chairman leaders Chaim Weitzman and Nahum for. My father and three other men of the Law Commission, and Lord Sokolov on their visits to London. signed papers for Max, who was sent to Justice of Appeal. The Presidency of After the war he taught at Jewish New Jersey. My father, 80, wants to schools, specialising in modern know if Max is OK. Information, the London Court of International [email protected]. Arbitration was the last post he held Hebrew and music. He was well before retiring. versed in Yiddish literature and Lalla-Beatrice Sandalbach Florenz (spelling?). At boarding school during RG known for his readings of Sholem Aleichem in Yiddish and his own war at St Mary's Abbey, Mill Hill, my mother and I made friends with giri, Haim Cohn English translations. apparently refugee from Germany. Justice Haim Cohn, who was bora in Chaim Lipshitz lived for many of Will be about 70 now. Information, Lubeck into a rabbinical family, has his latter years in the OSHA homes, Joan Walters, 18 Coates Road Exeter, died at the age of 91. Cohn was a initially with his late wife, Ella Lader, EX2 5RWtel 01392 660362. fighter for human rights and played a at Heimich Stahl House, where he Irene Herz. Born 1928 Aachen, raised large part in laying the foundations of resided until its closure. He then Duesseldorf. Married name Bergenthal. the State of Israel. moved to Balint House. In both Father's name Walter Herz (did not Liberal decisions he made as a high places, he contributed greatly to the survive war), was engineer at Court judge in Jemsalem between Jewish atmosphere by leading Friday Mannesman Corporation. My father's name (Irene's cousin) Richard Walter i960 and 1981 were firequently night and Havdalah ceremonies. Herz. Address of family with whom Controversial. He was opposed to He was respected by everyone - Irene lived: c/o Gottstein, Flat 2, Capital punishment, both in the case residents, staff and volimteers. He 50 Compayne Gardens, London NW6. '^f Adolf Eichmann and that of will be missed by the countless many Information, Rachel Herz, c/o Richard ^b terrorists. who had the privilege to know him. Walter Herz, 2306 Heritage Drive, He opened his first legal practice in Marianne Hasseck San Jose, CA 95126, USA tel 001 415 203 5125.

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Desperately seeking solidarity (Part 1) Newsround Richard Grunberger Campaign to suspend EU funding of If there is one German word I would the 1848 Revolution at school. When the israel's universities opposed like to see anglicised, it is solidarisieren, History teacher identified the leader of A campaign to suspend European Union best paraphrased as 'displaying the Paris uprising as one Louis Blanc, funding of Israeli universities, launched in a letter to The Guardian, has been solidarity with someone'. The reason my heart swelled with pride because I countered by the mobilisation of for this request is that I have been was convinced that this hero of the academics denouncing the appeasement looking for a focus of solidarity since the barricades had been born Ludwig Weiss. of terrorism and warning against the rise age of ten. In February 1934, the At fourteen, I became a of antisemitism. Sozialdemokratische Partei, in whose Kindertransportee. In May 1939, after Posters of play on Holocaust defaced sheltering shade I had grown up, half a year's nomadic existence, I According to a report in the Jewish disappeared, not so much in a puff of thought I had at last found a snug berth. Chronicle, posters promoting the Hampstead Pentameter Theatre's staging smoke, as in a bloody artillery This was in a servant's outhouse of the Holocaust-related play After and bombardment. This left an aching hole attached to a clap-boarded Before have been defaced with in my family's life: no more daily copies 'stockbroker's residence' in Lingfield, swastikas. of Die Arbeiterzeitung, no more Surrey. My employers were nothing if German reporting on Middle East screenings of Dreigroschenoper at the not 'top drawer'. Mr Eden was a cousin criticised nearby Arbeiterheim and no more May of Sir Anthony's, and his wife the A study by the Berlin office of the Day processions along the Ringstrasse. daughter of a bishop of London. Alas, the American Jewish Committee has found (At the last officially permitted march- Edens also evinced many traits antisemitic themes in German reporting about the current intifada. The study past in May 1933, my father had hoisted advocates of class war ascribe to the concludes that "there is often distortion me on his shoulders and I had 'upper class'. The public school- in the image of Israel, a lack of context actually glimpsed my mother's brother educated husband projected aloofness, and an aggressive tone" in Germany's carrying the banner of the Bank while 'Madam' was a termagant, given to Middle East reportage. Employees' Union.) staging forays into the kitchen lest the Polanski film wins award at Cannes When I was eleven my mother's kindly under-age - and correspondingly The Pianist, the first film Roman Polanski chagrin at the tura of events found underpaid - maid gave me too many has shown at Cannes for 16 years, has expression in a bitter quip on a visit to second helpings. But that was only one won the prestigious Palme d'Or The fil'^ is based on the true story of the Jewist^ her dressmaker. Surveying the side of the story. The other concerned musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who surroundings from the balcony of the my own defects, which - in contrast to escaped from the Warsaw ghetto. latter's council flat,sh e said: "It seems to theirs - were not a character trait. Fate of Hitler paintings decided Having been taken on as a handyman, I me that the red dogs have done you The fate of four watercolour paintings by proud." (Rote Hunde had been the turned out to be spectacularly unhandy. Adolf Hitler has been decided by the US favourite right-wing epithet for Although I subsequently held down Supreme Court. The paintings were members of the Socialist-controlled long-term manual jobs - baisting hand, brought to the USA as war booty and Vienna Municipality.) Aged twelve, centre-lathe operator - without courting have since remained on a storage unit in Virginia. The court has decided the Ll-" dismissal, the daily task of lighting the following in the footsteps of my late, army should be allowed to keep them. more Jewish-oriented father, I became a Edens' basement boiler proved quite David Irving to undertake lecture tour Zionist. I joined the G'dud Zirim youth beyond me. My maladroitness Bankrupt and facing eviction from h'S movement, acquiring their shirt, compelled Mr Eden to take cold baths on home, the 'revisionist' historian Dav'" kerchief and toggle. I attended several momings before disconsolately Irving is to embark on a 15-date lecture meetings, went to summer camp, boarding the 8.57 to the City Within tour of Britain. practised hora dancing and learnt about days, Madam's habitual ill-temper Film on Turkey's role as wartime the Dreyfus trial, the Zionist congress at escalated to near-apoplexy. She notified safe haven Basle and the Kishinev pogrom. My old Bloomsbury House of my dereliction of A film showing how Turkish diploma* pantheon of heroes - Viktor Adler, duty and sent me back to the refugee risked their lives to rescue Jews during tl^ Lassalle, Otto Bauer (all of them, camp post haste. war has been given its UK premiere. Tn one-hour documentary Desperate Ho^r incidentally, Jewish) - was superceded The second and final part of this article tells the story of how Turkey became by the new one of Herzl, Bialik and will appear in the next issue of AJR wartime safe haven while most of Europ Trumpeldor. 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