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or a birthday. A run out in the car and help in SOLroARITY AND IDENTIFICATION doing shopping is a boon. Person to person relationships were of the utmost importance every­ AJR GENERAL MEETING where, and in the Homes visits from friends and relatives often fell short after an initial period. The atmosphere prevailing at this year's well agreed that, in spite of the substantial costs, our attended AJR General Meeting, held on 1 July at Escorts were also needed for residents' outings paper was indispensable as the backbone of the with the minibus which had recently been acquired Haimah Karminski House, re-affirmed the strong organisation. Apart from giving information on attachment of ihe AJR members to the organ­ for the Homes and Eleanor Rathbone House. An subjects not adequately published in other journals, offer to accompany residents, once a week or isation which deals with all problems of direct or such as compensation, taxation and Personalia, indirect importance to them. In his welcoming once a month, usually from after lunch to about AJR Information carried articles and book re­ 6 p.m., would be a great help. address, Mr. C. T. Marx, Chairman of the AJR, views on subjects to which we had a specific paid tribute to the memory of the friends we had approach due to our antecedents. These were also There was also a need for drivers to deliver lost during the year: the Executive member Mr, of interest to members of the younger generation Meals on Wheels. They were needed once or twice Emst Sonnenberg, who was also Chairman of the who, in accordance with the general trend in our a week, usually for two hours. Expenses could be Osmond House Committee, and the Board mem- days, were anxious to become familiar with the refunded. The driver was also a valuable contact Ws Sir Ludwig Guttmann, widely known for his roots of their community of origin. with housebound people, providing them with a welcome break in a long quiet day. 'padework for the paraplegics, Dr, Hans Neufeld, Mrs. S. R. Taussig, General Secretary of the Chairman of the Revolving Fund Committee op- AJR, reported that as a result of the membership Lastly, some people might be wiUing to help on "^rating for several years to grant advance pay­ drive during the past months, so far 170 new odd occasions only, such as accompanying a ments to needy refugees whose claims were not members were enlisted (of a total 210 this year) nervous person to hospital for an out-patient yet settled, and to Mr. E, Haymann, a member of and nearly £2,000 in extra revenue were obtained. appointment. 'he Board almost since the inception of the AJR, She appealed to members to send in their con­ The Financial Report was delivered by Dr. F. E. Dr, W. Rosenstock, Director of the AJR, re- tributions when they fell due. Regrettably, there Falk, Vice-Chairman of the AJR, because the iiinded the audience that the former refugees were still a number of people who did not pa) Hon. Treasurer, Mr. L. Spiro, was prevented from ''eldom had as much publicity as during Ihc past even after two reminders, thus causing additional attending the Meeting due to a professional com­ Weeks, when the intemment of the "enemy and avoidable labour and expenditure for postage mitment out of town. Dr. Falk stated that in 1979 aliens" 40 years ago was assessed in books, broad- and paper. the income from subscriptions and donations had <^ts and newspapers. To a large extent, it was the risen by about £2,800 from £34,500 to £37,300; experience of the internment which in 1941 led to whilst this was to be appreciated, it was under Where help is needed •he foundation of the AJR as the representative 10 per cent in a year, where inflation had arisen body of the community. After the war, new tasks to 16 per cent and the expenditure correspond­ People continued to call on the Social Services ingly. The allocation from the Jewish Trust arose, and for many years the fight for restitution Department for advice, employment, accommo­ and compensation stood in the foreground. One Corporation (through the CBF) had been reduced dation and support. The speaker also paid tribute and a further reduction in 1980 had become of the decisive members of the team of legal to the work of the AJR Club run by Mrs. 'experts and skilful negotiators was Dr. Walter necessary, because no further restitution monies Margaret Jacoby and her aides de camp. were coming in. The total income in 1979 Breslauer. His 90th birthday on 3 July served as a In our Old Age Homes Department the work Welcome opportunity to put our deepfelt gratitude amounted to £49,400 (as against £48,800 in 1978). involved from the date of the first application to On behalf of the Treasurer Dr. Falk also men­ '0 bim on record. Though, on the whole, legis­ the actual admission to a Home was complicated. lation had come to a conclusion several years ago, tioned that, whilst in previous years members used Quite apart from the physical and medical prob­ to pay within three weeks of the due date, the the AJR still received frequent enquiries, especi­ lems there was a great mental adjustment to be ally with reference to Social Insurance Laws and average period was now six weeks. He strongly made and much help was needed for each indi­ appealed to members for prompt payments. 'he taxability of German payments. As far as vidual. There were now considerable fund raising these questions arc of a general nature, the ofiice activities in the Homes to obtain the means for On the expenditure side, the costs for AJR Bives the required information. Otherwise it sup- the Residents' Amenity Funds. Information had risen from £8,900 to £11,500. Plies the enquirers with the names of lawyers and Sheltered accommodation in bed-sitting rooms Adding to this the overhead expenses, the ex­ accountants experienced in these fields. The was provided in three properties owned by the penditure for the pai>er amounted to £16,590. speaker paid special tribute to our Vice-Chairman, AJR Charitable Trust, Otto Hirsch House Altogether, the accounts for 1979 showed an Dr, F. E. Falk, who has been helpful in many (Finchley), Marie Baneth House (Golders Green) expenditure of £52,950, an excess over income of individual cases but, above all, has throughout the and Haimah Karminski House. £3,550. years effectively worked for the general improve- In Eleanor Rathbone House, jointly owned by To safeguard the work of the AJR for the "lent of the laws and regulations pertaining to the future, an increase of membership was vitally taxability of German payments. the CBF and the AJR Charitable Trust, there were changes in the management due to the important. Each of our members should bring us Another problem now under active consider­ retirement of the resident superintendent. There at least one new member. ation was the enlistment of memt)ers of the com­ would be, in future, a resident handyman care­ Dr. Falk also referred to the reliefs which under paratively younger generation. The Homes for taker and the internal management of the house the new budget were given to payments made People of our background would be required for would be in the hands of a person who had under Covenant. The period had been reduced foany years to come, and the AJR would be nursing and social work training; aided by the from seven to four years and those who pay tax needed for the contacts with the applicants, the voluntary workers who had looked after the at rates higher than the basic rate can deduct gross Care for the residents and the numerous questions residents since the house was opened, she would payments under Covenant from their taxable of general administration. Quite a few somewhat work to increase communal activities and indi­ income up to £3,000 and thus reduce their tax younger people appreciated the work of the AJR vidual welfare for all the residents. liability. '"It were reluctant to join because they could The speaker then gave a detailed account of the After the Financial Report, Dr. Falk briefly lot consider themselves as refugees. Ways and various activities for which voluntary helpers were dealt with the taxability of German and Austrian •Beans of overcoming this obstacle were at present urgently needed. Visitors were required for house­ pensions. The AJR had been active in this field ''eing explored. bound lonely people as well as for residents of since 1956 and many substantial concessions have Lastly the speaker reported that the Executive the Homes. This needs patience and reliability to been obtained since then. This year, the Executive had thoroughly discussed the continued publi­ tum up on the appointed date, remembering cation of .AJR Information. It was unanimously perhaps odd items of shopping that were promised Contintted at column I, page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION August 1980 AJR GENERAL MEETING SCHMIDT HONOURS GOLDMANN powerless. Professor Stern was contradicted by The 85th birthday of Dr. Nahum Goldmann Shalom Ben Chorin, Jerusalem, a protagonist of Continued from page 1 was celebrated at a dinner in Amsterdam given by German-Jewish reconciliation, who said Stern had the World Jewish Congress. As an undogmatic not mentioned the fact that even in the Thirties. had decided that a further attempt should be made thinker and a skilful negotiator, Nahum Gold­ Jews had been aware of their identity and had to obtain complete exemption for those German mann has attained a unique position in Jewish life. gathered in religious or Zionist groups. and Austrian pensions which under the 1974 Born in Lithuania and brought up in Germany, Professor Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich, Basel, director Finance Act are tax exempt to the extent of one his personality has been equally shaped by his of European B'nai B'rith, did not agree either. half. These are the Social Insurance pensions— Eastern Jewish background and the cultural values His subject was "Strangers in their own except certain categories which are already 100 of the West. It testifies to his standing that, in Country?" He said, earlier Jews had never been per cent exempt—and Public Service pensions. A spite of a particularly heavy timetable. Chancellor integrated as citizens, but Jews born after 1945 Memorandum had been submitted to the Treasury Helmut Schmidt made a point of attending the no longer felt as if they were sitting on packed and copies had been sent to certain prominent and dinner to pay tribute to Dr. Goldmann as the suitcases. The number of Jews at present i" sympathetic MPs. architect of reconciliation between Germany and Germany—some 30,0(X)—was too small to scrs'e a* The Financial Report was unanimously adopted. the Jews. The guests also included the Dutch a scapegoat. The problems of Jews and Germans In the ensuing elections, the members of the Prime Minister, Mr, Andries van Agt, the Ger­ were hard to solve, but not hopeless. He said: Executive and of the Board, listed in the June man Foreign Minister, Mr, Hans-Dietrich Gen­ "The tattooed Auschwitz number which tbe issue of AJR Information, were re-elected. scher, and other leading German politicians, grandson sees on his grandparents' arms will pre­ Furthermore, the following members were co- Israel was represented by a senior Foreign Min­ vent him from ever forgetting what had been opted to the Board: Dr. Alice Apt, a retired istry official and a counsellor of the Embassy to done to the Jewish people, but he would have senior mistress at the North London Collegiate, Holland. The guests from Britain included the enough distance from the events to be unbiased who has been associated with the AJR and other Chief Rabbi, Dr. Jakobovits, and Mr. Greville and free within his bounds, to contribute to * organisations of former refugees for many years; Janner. QC, MP, president of thc Board of solution," Mr. Richard Fisher, President of the B'nai B'rith Deputies, Leo Baeck (London) Lodge; and Dr. Hans Freund. Wemer Nachmann, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said that during the Hon. Secretary of the Leo Baeck Lodge and Accepting the Nahum Goldmann Silver Medal teacher at the Yehudi Menuhin School. first 20 years it had been difficult to explain for Services to Peace and Human Rights thc abroad that Jews wanted to and were able to live Chancellor pledged that the lessons of the Nazi again in Germany. These times had passed, and Rabbi Gryn on Religious Dialogue days would never be forgotten, "If we are to live even the yoimg, though belonging to Zionist up to our moral obligations," he stated, "then wc organisations, intended to stay. After the conclusion of the General Meeting, must guard and foster Jewish-German relations, Rabbi Hugo Gryn gave a stimulating lecture on particularly in Germany." Young Germans, hav­ the subject "Religious Communities in Dialogue— ing never experienced war, found the slaughter of Opportunities and Frustrations". He recalled the six million Jews in the holocaust incomprehen­ German-Israel Relations foundation of the Council of Christians and Jews sible. His Govemment would continue to pass on during the war. when, under the impact of the to them the message that it must never happen Asher Ben Natan, first Israeli Ambas.sador to events on the Continent, the idea of tolerance again. the Federal Republic, said diplomatic relations and mutual understanding between Christians and between Israel and Germany depended on the Jews was promoted. At that time, different ap­ Schmidt also told his audience that Palestinian special obligations Gennany had towards the new' proaches to basic questions were hardly under self-determination should be part of an overall State. This had unfortunately changed, nowadays discussion. In our days, however, we are faced Middle East peace settlement, in which Israel each declaration by the Federal Government o" with innumerable problems of religious policy. must be allowed to live behind secure frontiers. thc Middle East question was criticised i" Among them are the Roman Catholic attitude to West Germany advocated "the legitimate rights Jerusalem and applauded in Beirut and Damascus- abortion, the activities of Protestant missions and, of the Palestinian people freely to determine their One day, the Federal Republic would have to po' at a different level, the Sikhs' claim for wearing own afiairs within the framework of an order its cards on the table, and he feared that migb' headgears and the Islamic teaching by which acceptable to all." mean thc end of the dialogue, Klaus SchiitZ' Mohammedan children were not permitted to former Mayor of West Berlin and at present wear gym shoes at school. All these questions, the Germany's Ambassador in Israel, tried to expla'" speaker said, were sensitive points which played that his government aimed at a comprehensive their part in the discussions between the repre­ DISCUSSION AT ASCHAFFENBURG peace solution, guaranteeing both Israel's security sentatives of the various religions. Rabbi Gryn und self-determination for the Palestinians. "But'< For the last three years, thc Aschaffenburg he continued, "wc Germans have not understood dealt in detail with the attitude of the Roman College of Further Education has invited prom­ Catholic Bishops and Archbishops during the war. what the holocaust means for the relationship inent men and women to discuss one particular between Germans and Jews: for the Jews, it is the He recalled that in 1944, when it looked as if the subject. This year's subject was "Germans and deportations might be extended from Jews to central event of their existence," There could no' Jews—Wounds, Realities and Methods". Former be recognition of the PLO as long as it did not Christian "Mischlinge", one archbishop inter­ Aschaffenburg Jews from Israel, America, Britain vened, but solely on behalf of the Christian recognise Israel's right to exist. Latent anti" and other countries had been invited to attend, semitism, he admitted, still existed in Germany. "Mischlinge", thus condoning the deportation of and 80 of them accepted the invitation. TV the Jews, Similarly, another Prince of the Church journalist Guido Knopp organised the talks. He Lenelotte von Bothmer, a member of the Fed­ declined to intervene against the deportation of asked the participants in the discussion: How do eral Parliament and chairman of the German- the Jews on the ground that their fate was a Jews and Germans expect the German-Jewish Palestinian Society, said she was not a" penalty "for killing the saviour". Rabbi Gryn relationship to develop? Most speakers agreed on antisemite because she supported the rights of the quoted from several recent publications, one of one answer: a new generation, both in Germany Palestinians, Ben Natan replied that anybody who which, written by a leader of Naturei Karta, and in Israel, must leam more about the murder called himself anti-Zionist today was pronouncing claimed that the Holocaust had been brought of Jews by fhe Nazis and of its long lasting a belated death sentence on hundreds of thou­ about "by Zionists and Reform Jews", On the effects to the present day, in order to come sands of Jews who were only saved, because Jewish side it had to be realised that partners of together in a meaningful dialogue, J. P. Stern, Palestine existed. Zionism meant the self' the dialogue were not only Christians but also professor of Germanic Studies at London Uni­ followers of other religions. Such dialogues were determination of the Jewish people, and only versity, spoke on "Symbiosis without Hope" and Jews had the right to oppose it. not just public relations exercises or cosmetic explained that after the enlightenment the Ger­ operations. They called for an adequate equip­ A former Aschaffenburg Jew said in the dis­ mans had accepted tolerance and reason for all cussion that just two months ago he and his wif^ ment with a knowledge of the partners' teachings. things intellectual and spiritual, but had not The speaker expressed his doubts whether Jews had been determined never to return to Germany extended it to the field of politics. This created from their present home in America. He had com^ were always fully equipped for discussions at this a relationship between Germans and Jews which because, like Anne Frank, he ultimately believed level. At the end he also dealt with the antagonism was predominantly intellectual, unworldly and between godliness and technological secularism theoretical. In order to obtain consensus, the Jews in the good in man. Another former Aschaffen- which he equated with the choice of mankind were expected to give up their old customs, burger, Fred Freund from New York, held * between life and death, judgments and attitudes. It was a tragical irony Sabbath eve service in the open air on the spot> that at the hour of their greatest need, German where the old synagogue once stood. He and the II Tbe ideas propounded by Rabbi Gryn, of which Jews spoke the language of their torturers, be­ other guests from abroad told members of the only few examples can be mentioned in this cause they had no other. Their social structure present-day population, what Aschaffenburg and report, were echoed in a most apposite Vote of did not differ from that of their non-Jewish its Jews had been like in their day and brought ap Thanks, moved by Mr, Max Kochmann, JP, mem­ neighbours, but they differed from them in being element of realism to an otherwise very acadeim'' ber of the AJR Executive. and theoretical situation. AIR INFORMATION August 1980 Paw 3 HOME NEWS ANGLO'JVDAICA REUNION OF NAZI SURVTVORS PUBLIC ORDER ACT Half-Arab's unfair dismissal Claim Upheld A special re-union of Jewish sur\'ivors of thc Amendments Proposed The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld Nazi concentration camps from all over the In a response to the Government's Green Paper. an earlier industrial tribunal's judgment that the world is to be held next June in Jerusalem. The •Review of the Public Order Act 1936" the Heron Corporation had been guilty of unlawful plan was announced by Mr, Ernest Michel, Chair­ Board of Deputies of British Jews has submitted racial discrimination in its refusal to appoint a man of the organizing committee, on a visit to a memorandum calling for the authority to ban man with an English mother and Arab father as London to enlist the co-operation of the Board of political marches and processions to be trans­ personal chauffeur lo its Jewish managing direc­ Deputies of British Jews, which has agreed to ferred from thc Police lo the Home Secretary. It tor. At thc original presentation of the case, which handle the United Kingdom arrangements for this also recommends that thc activities of organis­ was supported by the Commission for Racial international operation based in New York. Pro­ ations like the National Front be restricted by Equality, it was claimed that the man, Mr, Norman fessor Elie Wiesd and Mme, Simone Veil, presi­ prohibiting marches "whose purpose is, or effect Corrmiis, had been placed on the short-list for the dent of the European Parliament, both of them would be, to intimidate, insult or humiliate any job, bul on being sent for interview at the Chair­ camp siirvi\'ors, will act as Honorary Chairmen ethnic group or to cause racial disharmony." man's home had been unable to see him because of the gathering. Participants are to be asked to The memorandum describes the present law as Mr, Henry Ronson was ill at that time. He was record their own and their families' experiences inadequate and states that it has failed to prevent interviewed instead by Mrs, Ronson, whom he of the Holocaust on tapes to bc deposited at the serious outbreaks of violence. It also draws atten­ claimed told him: "I am sorry. I do not mean to Yad Vashem Museum, It is also proposed to tion to the effect of racist marches on racial and offend you, but I do not employ Arabs because 1 construct a monument of stones engraved with ethnic minorities "both in their attempt to in­ am Jewish." 'he names of the survivors and their relatives. tegrate into sodety and to live in racial harmony Mr, Thayne Forbes, counsel for Heron, said The focal point of the four-day gathering will with their neighbours and, most importani, thc that the original tribunal had been informed of '•>e a "sur\'ivors' village" to be established in the preservation of their dignity as individuals in the police wamings to prominent Jews to be wary of centre of Jerusalem, in which tents named after face of extreme provocation and humiliation," Arabs. Mrs. Ronson had been concerned to pro­ former concentration camps will be erected. Each NATIONAL FRONT'S THREE-WAY SPLFT tect her sick husband and knew that their son, will contain a list of the present survivors (from The National Front, which suffered the defec­ Gerald, was on a list of people likely lo be subject Belsen, Buchenwald. Auschwitz, and so on) with tion of two senior members of its Directorate, to Arab threats. Pronouncing judgment, Mr. the aim of helping those attending making easier Mr. Andrew Founlaine and Mr. Paul Kavanagh, Justice Slynn stated that while this concern was contact with one another. Participants are to be at the end of 1979, faces another breakaway- understandable, the industrial tribunal had been asked to bring wilh them personal relics of their grouping calling itself the New National Front. correct in ruling that the ccwnpany had discrimi­ incarceration—old uniforms, yellow badges, tin This is led by former NF Chairman, John Tyndall nated against Mr, Commis under section 4(1 )(c) eating-plates—to be deposited at Yad Vashem. who has formed it because he feels that the parent of the Race Relations Act, 1976 and that its Among the planned events is a torchlight proces­ party is in ruins. Its main aim is to obtain the award of £271 in compensation was justified, sion of survivors and their families from thc resignation of Martin Webster, aaivities organiser Knesset to the Western Wall, Countering criticism of the original movement. Tyndall's New National Israeli Hospital needs money that the plan is somewhat macabre, Mr, Michel Front claims the support of a number of branches At the annual meeting of the Shaare Zedek "•tates that the convention will be placing much "disgu.sted with the intemal situation in the Party." Medical Centre's British Council, Professor David "f its emphasis on the children and grandchildren while Fountaine and Kavanagh, who were expelled Maeir, its director general, said that thc hospital "I survivors, thus adopting a positive .attitude to from the NF Directorate say they have attracted had moved to its new home, 30 per cent of which 'heir past suffering. more than 2,0(X) members of the Party to their remained unbuilt. Money was urgently needed as ranks. The deputy chairman of the National Front. health and welfare were very low on the list of Richard Vcrral, has admitted to a fall in the Israeli Governmenl priorities. Mr. Martjn Gor­ PRO-ARAB TORIES don, treasurer of the London council, said there number of people renewing their membership this had been an increase of £270,000 over thc pre­ Some -'0 Tory MPs have joined the Conserva- year, bul added that new recruits were still joining vious year's donations, largely due to a single livc Middle £ast Council, a new pro-Arab the organisation. large donation from Eire, Total income was parliamentar\ pressure group under the leadership WAR HEROISM NO EXCLSE FOR CRIMES £752,600, Lord Mishcon, chairman of the council, of Lord Cheiwood, formerly Sir Tuflon Beamish, promised to set up more fund-raising committees. \vho. during his 30 years as an MP has always Henry Oberlander, a wartime Jewish resistance been a critic of Israel and a champion of the worker, now a naturalised American businessman, was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment at thc A modem Mikva Arab cause. The vice-chairman of the Council. The United Syiugogue has opened its first ritual Mr. David Crouch, recently went to Beirut to- Old Bailey in June 1978 for his part in a world­ wide fraud plot, involving the use of false pass­ balh for some decades near the Kingsbury Syna­ «ether with Mr. Andrew Faulds, the most vocifer­ gogue. It has three bathrooms in lilac, green and ous pro-Arab among Labour MPs, to meet Yasir ports and documents. The Court of Appeal rejected his plea that, as he is 54 and in ill-hcallh, lemon, and two blue-tiled mikvot. Hair-dryers Arafat, head ot the Palestine Liberation Organ­ are also available, Il cost £55,000 to build and isation. he should have been given more credit for his heroism in rescuing Nazi victims in Europe, another £6,000 a year to run. At present three to five women a day pay £1 a time to use the LORD FISHER ItEMEMBERED facilities, A telephone will shortly be installed, TECHNION DEGREE FOR At the Silver Jubilee celebration by the British SIR ^nCHAEL SOBELL Friends of Bar-llan University, the honorary Tito Gobbi Sings for CBF At a luncheon at the Savoy, given by the British doctorate which was to be conferred on the late Tito Gobbi. the famous baritone who has Technion Societv to launch the Sir Michael and Lord Fisher of Camden, was given to his widow- officially retired, attended a meeting organised by Lady Sobell Chair in Electronics at the Haifa instead. Rabbi Professor Emanuel Rackman, the the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief Technion. an appeal for which amounts lo .ibout university's president said that "none of Anglo- at the West London Synagogue and delighted his £150,000, an honoran, science doctorate was con­ Jewry's great sons has nearly matched Lord audience wilh reminiscences of his long and ferred on Sir Michael b\ Mr. Amos Horev, Fisher's triumph over personal tragedy and eventful career, illustrated by excerpts from his president of the Technion. It was the first time physical affliction, his total dedication to causes best-known performances. He stressed his support that the Technion had bestowed a degree outside great and small, Jewish and secular, national and for humanitarian causes such as CBF and spoke Israel. The chairman ol the Society, Mr. Edgar international," Mr, James Callaghan, leader of the of his two visits lo Israel, saying that he believed Astaire. announced at the same time that last Opposition, was the guest-speaker who stressed that the Jews "should have their own homeland, >car's appeal target—£300,000—to rebuild the fire- that he considered it a great privilege to join in especially after their recent history of suffering," damaged Churchill Auditorium had been reached. the anniversary of one of Israel's great universi­ His fellow-guest at thc meeting was Miss Ida The auditorium will be rededicated in the ties. The British were fortunate lo have the skill, Cook, well-known for her courageous action, to­ presence of Mr, Winston Churchill, MP, and Mrs. industrv' and appreciation of the arts and sciences gether with her sister, to rescue 29 German Jews Churchill. Mr. Horev said that Sir Michael's that Jews had brought to this country. and assisi many others. Miss Joan Stiebel, con­ legcndar> philanthropy was combined with "an sultant to the Jewish Refugee Committee, said Unerring eye for giving money where it will do Your House for:— that she herself and the Cook sisters could claim the most good". After his meteoric career in FLOOR COVERINGS tn be among the oldest in the refugee business. Britain's electronics industry, it was fitting that CURTAINS, CARPETS, Dame Eva Turner, the singer, thanked Mr, Gobbi the Technion should commemorate Sir Michael's for his appearance which raised £750 for CBF. name. SPECIALITY ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER CAMPS DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, INTERNMENT-P.O.W.- DUVET COVERS & SHEETS Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS FORCED LABOUR-KZ ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS Always interested in purchasing I with to buy cards, envelopes and folded post­ ESTIMATES FREE well-preserved instruments marked letters from all camps of both world wars. 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FRANCE Sephardi Chief Rabbi elected NEWS FROM ABROAD 85-year-old Chief Rabbi Dr. Jacob Kaplan will UNITED STATES .\rab Mayors in Synagogue retire in January 1981. Algerian-bom Rabbi Ren-' "Halt Settlements" says Israel's Friend Mr, Kawasma, former mayor of Hebron and Sirat. professor of Hebrew at the National School The influential Chairman of the US Senate's Mr, Milhel, mayor of Halhoul, who were deported for Oriental Languages, was elected as his succes­ Foreign Relations Sub-Committee on the Middle from Israel after the murder of six Jewish settlers sor. The appointment of a Sephardi Chief Rabbi East, Senator Richard Stone, has urged Israel to in Hebron, addressed a gathering of some 300 was expected, as 60 per cent of Jews in France announce a moratorium on any additional settle­ Jews in Temple Sinai, a major Washington Re­ have a Sephardi background. Rabbi Sirat has ments in the West Bank, A firm friend of the form Synagogue, Their appearance was organised been successful in introducing the leaching of Jewish State, he has called for a review of all by the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, the Hebrew language and literature at most French settlements "on the basis of both social accept­ Palesline Congress of North America and other universities. ability over the long run and military necessity pro-Palestinian organisations as well as several European MPs for Soviet Jews over Ihe medium and short run," Jews active in the "Peace Now" movement, A During a Paris conference on the situation of "I support a military settlement concept," the dozen Jewish Defence League members and other Soviet Jewry, nearly 50 MPs from 14 countries, senator claims, "and I support the right of people right-wing Jewish activists were evicted from the including Brilain and Israel, decided lo set up ^ of the Jewish faith to settle and buy property any­ synagogue when they tried to prevent the two permanent European committee to co-ordinate where in the Middle East, not just in the adminis­ from speaking. The mayors denounced Israel and future efforts on behalf of Soviet Jews. Mr, Ivan tered territories," But this attitude was far removed said that the PLO was the sole representative of Lawrence, Consers'ative MP for Burton, produced from that of the Gush Emunim, whose polic>' was the Palestinians, Mr. Haim Baram of Israel's Left- a petition signed by more than 120 British profes­ counter-productive to the "chance to make a safe wing Shelli Party accompanied the mayors and sors and lecturers, appealing to Unesco to urge and just peace for Israel," spoke at the meeting, the Soviet Union to abide by the Unesco Con­ vention against Discrimination and allow the Holocaust Institute at Brandeis University Jesuits expand Jewisb Studies teaching and study of Jewish culture and Hebrew. Dr. Bernard Wasserstein, 32. senior lecturer in rhe University of San Francisco, a Jesuit A "Friendship with Israel" group recently estab­ modern history at Sheffield University and author institution, has launched a fund-raising campaign lished at the European Parliament in Strasbourg of ""Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945" to expand its already strong Jewish studies pro­ already has 100 members from all parties in the (reviewed in the December 1979 issue of AJR gramme. Founded after the gold rush in 1855, the nine counlries in the E.E.C. Information) has been appointed director of the universily offers seven Jewish study courses, whose permanent institute to examine the causes of thc .300 students include a number of Saudi .Arabians Poll shows pro-Arab Sympathies Holocaust, set up by Brandeis University. Dr. and Iranian Moslems, There is also an annual According to a recent opinion poll, every Laszlo Tauber. a Washington surgeon who sur­ summer programme at the Hebrew University of second French citizen supports President Giscard vived the war in a Hungarian forced labour camp, Jerusalem, d'Estaing's demand for Palestinian self- determii' has provided about £375,000 for the instituie, ation. 20 per cent declared their sympathies for Einstein MS saved by Safe-Tracker Israel, 8 per cent for the Arab countrics. Four which will be named after him, Dr, Marvin In 1934, Albert Einstein presented a manuscript, Bernstein, president of Brandcis, said: "Important years ago. a similar poll showed 40 p>er cen' describing in a single equation the properties of sympathy for Israel and only 4 for the Arabs. as they are, we no longer need collections of gravitation, electro-magnetism and nuclear re­ memoirs by survivors, pictures of concentration actions, to the Brooklyn Jewish Centre in New SPAIN camps or research into the mechanics of Hitler's York which w-as then establishing a library- of End Terrorist Ann-Supply Call final .solution, . , , What is needed now . , , is an books banned by the Nazis, In the Sixties, the Thc Spanish Government has appealed to » attempt to account for what happened." Thc collection was given to the Jewish Theological nimiber of Arab countries to use their influence institute's studies will cover the period from Seminary of America, but the manuscript was with the Palestine Liberation Organisation to stop Napoleon's emancipation of the Jews lo the Holo­ overlooked. It was in an old safe for which the thc supply of arms, explosives and advisory- caust. Dr, Tauber who has amassed a real estate combination had been lost. Before sending il to experts to the Basque separatist movement. fortune of about £130 million, was brought to the the rubbish collectors, thc centre's officials re­ US by Dr, Abram Sacher, the founder and cently asked a professional safe-cracker to open AUSCHWITZ COLLOQUILTM IN STOCKHOLM chancellor of Brandeis, it. This led to the re-discover>- of the manuscript The recent annual meeting of the International Jewish Votes for Nazis which will now- be put on sale and is expected to Council of Christians and Jews took place a' In thc North Ciirolina Republican primary for fetch about £12,000, Sigtuna, .Sweden, within the framework of a the office of Attorney-Gcr>cral, Harold Covington, A Convert's Pride three-day colloquium on "Faith after Auschwitz: ihe American Nazi Party leader, received many Mr, Paul Johnson of Los Angeles, a Baptist, the Imract of the Holocaust on faith and theology votes in predominantly Jewish areas. However, recently converted to Judaism and married a in Judaism and Christianity," Sir Sigmund Stern­ thc successful candidate was Keith Snyder, a Jewish girl. To announce the event, he obtained berg, who is joint-treasurer of the CCJ in Britain, former federal prosecutor. The American Jewish a new licence plate for his car which reveals the was elected Chairman of thc international organ­ Committee stated that many Jews might have fact. isation's Executive Committee, and Mr. Leonard voted for Covington in error, thinking that Snyder Goss, joint Chief Executive of the British JEWISH INTELLECTUALS' PLEA IN IRAN organisiition, was elected ICCJ Ireasurer. Rabbi with his German-sounding name, was the Nazi Jewish intellectuals in Iran have appealed to candidate. Dr, .Albert Friedlander, minister of the WcstmiO' President Bani-Sadr lo halt the persecution and sser Reform Synagogue, was among the col­ ReuKan's Plans discrimination directed against the Jewish com­ loquium participants. The conference pledged Mr. Ronald Reagan, the Republican Presiden­ munity. Despite appeals by leading world states­ support for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation tial candidate, has assured Egyptian officials, that, men, a Jewish merchant, Albert Daniel-Pour, was in Britain, if elected, he will pursue a '"comprehensive" executed for, among other charges, importing peace agreement in the Middle East, encompass­ honey- from Israel: another was put to death ing the Palestinians, because of his association with the Committee of the Teheran Jewish Congregation. Before the revolution 80,000 Jews resided in Iran, now some 50.0

With acknowledgement to the news service of the Jewish Chronicle. aSH'JJ'l.^l AJR INFORMATION .August 1980 Paae 5

Stefan Bukowitz lyrics for him, with Tauber and Josef Schmidt, Gitta Alpar and Paul Abraham, and—after a meeting in Paris—with Luise, named ""Einzi" ROBERT STOLZ CENTENARY. (1880-1975) (l)ecause she seemed the only one with enough Master of popular Music—Friend of the Jews courage to help refugees actively) who, sub- This is a summer of manifold celebrations for Continuing the traditional line did not make sequendy became his wife; Einzi, English-born, the imdisputedly last creator of the typical Vienna him disregard tbe changes that had occurred. his faithful companion for the last 30 years of his operetta and Viennese song: Robert Stolz. He When the so-called "Modem Dances" arrived in life. was born in Graz in 1880 as the youngest son of Europe after World War I. it was Robert Stolz His New York home became a meeting place an unusually musical family, who enriched the who wrote the first great Austrian Foxtrotts: for enugre-artists, and a centre of European cul­ cultural standard of this century throughout his "Hallo, Ehi sUsse Klingelfee" is still remembered ture. In the States he conducted "Fledermaus", long life, and died in 1975 in his 95th year, as much as '"Salome" which, in recent years, was "Merry Widow", "Gipsy Baron" and other works, Robert Stolz was a man of strong character and resurrected under the title "Romeo" and qualified he won Oscars and kept composing. When in with firmness of decision who, at the height of his as a "Top of the Pops" success, an expression 1946, travel restrictions were eased, he and his fame, preferred imcertainty in exile to being wit­ about which Stolz was not altogether enthusiastic. wife were among the first to receive a visa for ness to the humiliation of his friends, and who Several years later, when thc "Talkies" appeared, Austria. Asked why he wanted to exchange all snubbed Hitler and his Govemment, They, in Robert Stolz's name as a film song composer of America's amenities for life in a starving and tum, took their revenge by issuing an official soared to new heights. Every filmgoer soon devastated country, he is imderstood to have given doctunent that declared "Robert Stolz of German hummed "Adieu mein kleiner Gardeoffizier", the—by now—classic answer: 'To see the blood to be deprived of his civic rights", "Frag' nicht warum ich gehe", and, crowning it Minorite Church in snow". Back in Austria, his Stolz was brought up in a home where Bruck­ all "Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt". Stolz con­ saddest tune referred to the horrible destmctions ner and Brahms were frequent visitors, the latter tributed numbers for the world success "White of the war: "'Wohin ist das alles, wohin?" forecasting a great future for the youngster who Horse Inn", his songs were recorded by Jan This report would be incomplete were we not gave his first piano recital at the age of seven, Kiepura, Martha Eggerth and Richard Tauber, to mention the "Stolz Concerts" in Israel. His "Hansel and Gretel" composer Engelbert Humper­ new operettas were launched: two of them "Wenn tours in that country became true triumphs, and dinck became his teacher, and it is reported that die kleinen Veilchen bluehen" and "Venus in on one such occasion Stolz gave all his tour an encounter with the "Waltz King" Johann Seide" saw long series of performances in Paris, income to the State of Israel which he so much Strauss (shortly before Strauss's death in 1899) Ziirich, Bmssels and London, and—filmed in admired. As an appreciation for the country he confirmed young Robert's determination to make several languages—"Fruehjahrsparade" (originally composed the march "Follow the sun". Acknowl­ the magically light music, endowed with the with Franziska Gaal) became a firm American edging this gesture, the Mayor of Jerusalem, lilting Viennese touch, his career, for—in his favourite under the title "Spring Parade." Teddy Kollek, handed Robert Stolz the medal of own words—there was "'no distinction between When the National Socialists took over, Stolz the City of Jerusalem, and he was made honorary serious and light, but only between good and suffered. Most of his friends and libretto writers member of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. bad music." were Jewish, and with deep melancholy he saw^ Thanking him for all the honours, Robert Stolz He became conductor of many opera houses one after the other endure the fate of emigration said he was gratified to be honoured by a people and theatres and worked in Graz, Brno, Maribor or concentration camp. His most touching song that had given the world the greatest number of and Salzburg. The period of his appointment as stems from that time, "Auf der Heide bliihn die Nobel Prize winners, and, modestly, he thought he first conductor at the "Theater an dcr Wien" letzlen Rosen", He decided to leave the country owed his fame to the Jewish Libretto -writers with­ coincided with the great "Silver" era of Viennese he loved. Leaving behind security and possessions, out whom there would have been no operettas. operetta when the works performed were by he made his way to Paris. Before finally departing, Now, a full century after Robert Stolz's birth, Kalman, Lehar, Leo Fall and Oskar Straus. Even he had made 21 trips abroad by car, smuggling many orchestras and organizations arrange Gala if his own operettas of the day are no longer in Jewish friends across the border, thus risking his concerts and remember the "Maestro" in gratitude the foreground, many of the melodies have re­ own life. Goebbels offered him film and radio and with undiminished pleasure. The composer's mained permanent favourites. Moreover, it was engagements, honours and titles if he were to stay, very close connection with the State of Israel was 'he time when some of his most celebrated songs but he had made up his mind. echoed there by the idanting of a Robert Stolz originated, "Im Prater bluehn wieder die Baume", His thoughts were with his friends: with Alfred Forest. "Das ist der Fruhling in Wien", and "Wien wird Grunwald, Rudolf Oesterreicher, Paul Knepler, schon erst bei Nacht". Hugo Wiener and Hans Weigel who had written A VISIT TO GERMANY What does Daniel Lang see when he takes his backward look and moves around in the Germany of the 1970's?* It is very much as one would expect. There are those who remember, those who RENAULT forget, and those who are too young to do either. Now and again the book takes on some life. One of the rare passages where this occurs is Lang's interview in a Berlin old-age home with a number There's a lot happening at Old Oak. of German Jews who fled to America in or after 1933 and then returaed to post-war Germany. Last year, more people than ever before txDught a Some did so for purely economic reasons—medi­ new Renault from Old Oak Motor Company. cal aid was cheaper than in America; or they had This might be because we are a family firm that still a nostalgia for Berlin and missed their former tDelieves the customer should come first. friends. One old lady said: "The memories of Or maybe it was because Renault produce Europe's childhood are stronger than those of Hitler. Be­ sides, time has passed, new generations have been most up-to-date and economy-conscious range of cars, bom. We must go forward, even we whose time is from the thrifty 5, to the super-luxury 30TX. short". It could even have been because our unique Lang writes in a pleasing, elegiac, sensitive tone "Service Preference" scheme guarantees our customers that touches the chords of nostalgia, but only cheaper and faster servicing and after-sales care. superficially and transiently. His publisher calk But whatever the reason, shouldn't you come along the book "an impressionistic odyssey"—impres­ sionistic, yes; and odyssey, no. Homer had far yourself and see what happens at Enfield's Renault Centre. more interesting and exciting things to recount. LIONEL KOCHAN Daniel L,ang: Germans Remember—A Backward Look. McGraw-Hill, $8.95. 1979, JUDAICA LIBRARY IN BREMEN Due to the initiative of Professor Dr. Helga- Come and see for yourself. Old Oak — Service for cars — and people. Ulrike Hyams, who is engaged in writing a history- of the Frankfurt Philanthropin, a special Judaica MOTOR library is being buUt up under the auspices of tbe University of Bremen. It comprises Jewish Hebrew COMPANY and Yiddish works in the possession of the Uni­ OLD OAK LIMITED versity and is to be expanded by the acquisition of furtber relevant material. 79 WINDMILL HILL ENFIELD EN2 7AG 01-363-2261 Page 6 AJR INFORMATION August 1980

SEVEN MONTHS FOR RABBI KAHANE Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the militant THE ISRAELI SCENE right-wing Jewish Defence League was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for breaking down the gates of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem ILO BETRAYS PROMISE TO USA BLACK HEBREWS TO BE ALLOWED TO last December, when the university authorities The United States belief that ils return to SETTLE tried to prevent him from making a sf)eech. Judge membership of the Intemational Labour Organ­ A special sub-committee appointed by the Zvi Cohen said that Kahaiie had not expressed isation after a three-year absence was justified by Ministry of the Interior has recommended that any remorse for his offence, and judging by his a change in the ILO's anti-Israel stance was com­ the controversial negro sect known as the "Black previous record, was likely to repeat it. He had no pletely disabused when its annual meeting, in Hebrews" should be allowed lo settle in Israel in alternative bul to send him lo prison. Rabbi Geneva, condemned Israel of mistreatment of Arab limited numbers. Followers of Ben-.Ami Carter, a Kahane still has to face charges of incitement to workers in the administered territories, despite evi­ black American from Chicago, the cult has some violence by a military court in the occupied Arab dence to the contrary. During the period of the 1,500 members residing in three settlements, but lown of Ramallah. United States' withdrawal the ILO studiously not recognised as being religiously Jewish by the avoided making political declarations. This year. Orthodox community, whose opposition to their CHARGES AGAINST FLATTO-SHARON the world body adopted its condemnatory resolu­ presence has been backed by the National Re­ The controversial Knesset member Mr. Flatlo- tion at the behest of the Afro-Arab caucus, ignoring ligious Party. Sharon, recently sentenced lo five years' jail )1 the testimony of Mr. Israel Goralnik, Director of The Committee recommends that those of the absentia and a huge fine by French courts, will the Israel Ministry of Labour, who reported that cult's members who have been living in Israel for have to stand charges that he and his campaign unemployrnent was less than one per cent in the more than two years should be granted temp)orar\ managers attempted to bribe electors in the cam­ Arab territories compared to four per cent in residential status, at once, and allowed to stay paign which made him a Knesset member. Thev Israel itself. He told the conference that "virtually for a further two years, after which they may- are accused of offering 15,000 flats in development all residents of the administered areas who wished apply for Israeli citizenship but must wait a areas to potential voters at cheap rents and o' lo find work found jobs during 1949." further five years before this can take effect. The offering fees to campaigners in proportion lo the more recent arrivals should be granted visas and number of votes canvassed. ARAFAT SAYS IT .4GAIN work permits and be eligible for citizenship five Yasir Arafat has again called for the destruction OPERATION "HEATWAVE" years later. The proposals have been made as a Several hundred detectives and constables from of Israel in an interview with a Latin American "moral, human and Jewish" solution to the prob­ newspaper. His organisation, Fatah, earlier Tel Aviv's crime squad took part in an operation, lem even though the Black Hebrews had been code-named "Operation Heatwave", cracking claimed that his statement to the Venezuelan openly hostile of Israel. It is expected that the magazine El Mondo had been misquoted after it down on one of the largest drug-rings ever to have group will be permitted to establish a com­ operated in the city. 67 pedlars and dealers were had received adverse criticism in western news munal settlement to the south of Beersheba, media. Now-, in another Venezuelan paper, Nuevo arrested and large quantities of heroin and other Mondo, he has re-emphasised that "peace for us drugs as well as stolen property were seized- ISRAEL REMEMBERS Police waited for one of the suspects, an aciof means the destruction of Israel," Declaring that On the 13th anniversary of the re-unification of the PLO was prepared for a long war, destined to with the Haifa Theatre Company, until the final Jerusalem, tanks bedecked with flowers formed curtain. be prolonged for generations, Arafat stated: "We part of a huge son ci lumiere and action spectacle. will not slop our fight until the day that we may Some 10,000 people crowded the site of an ancient DAYAN ATTENDS SHEIK'S FUNERAL go back to our home after having destroyed reservoir under the Old City walls to watch Mr, Moshe Dayan was among thousands "' Israel, and the unity of the Arab world will make nearly 1,(XX) performers. The British musical im­ mourners who attended the funeral of Sheik A' this possible." presario, Mr. Victor Hochhauser, arranged a Jabari, Mayor of Hebron between 1940 and 1976. series of concerts in the square of the re­ who died aged 80. Senior Military Government GIRL MILITARY D0IK;ER JAILED constructed Yemin Moshe quarter. officials and leading West Bank and Jordanian A 20-year-old clerk has had the dubious dis­ personalities also attended thc funeral. tinction of being the first Israeli woman to be At a reception for several hundred people al convicted of fraudulently obtaining exemption the president's Jerusalem residence, Israel began BRITISH COMMANDOS REMEMBERED from militarv service. In 1978, Miss Gila Daniel to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Operation Last March, a party ol" 56 members of 'ht made thc necessary declaration before a magis­ Magic Carpet", the mass airlift of 50,000 Yemeni British Commando Association and their wives trate that she was religious, did not travel on Jews, There are an estimated 200,000 Jews of visited Israel as guests of the Israel War Veterans Shabbat and observed kashrut. However, a private Yemeni origin in Israel today while there are League. The British organisation has now re­ detective employed by the army, told a Tel Aviv believed to be no more than 200 Jewish families ceived a letter from General Haim Laskov, the Judge that he had seen her enter a car and light left in North and South Yemen. League's president saying that in appreciation ol a cigarette on a Sabbath eve. Judge Haim On the other hand, plans for the 20th annual the heroism of the commandos in the last war. Dvorim gave her an 18-monlh sentence, 12 of Israel Festival have been scrapped because of a 1,706 trees would bc planted in the Volunteers them suspended. On release Miss Daniel will have big cut in its subsidy. Until the fairly recent Forest on the Tcl Aviv-Jerusalem road, one f'""" to carry out two years national service in the introduction of the Jerusalem .Spring Festival, the each commando killed in action. Israel E>efence Forces. Israeli Festival was the only opportunity for Israelis to see and hear top world artists, BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE COMPENS.4TION FOR ARAB FAMILY 51 Belsize Square N.W.3. CLLB 1!M3 The Harbawi family of Hebron, whose shops SELICHOT SERVICE were demolished by the Israeli Military Govern- Vortraege Jeden Montag um 8 p.m. nient after the murder of six Israelis in May, will at the Synagogue im Hannah Kanninski House, bc given compensation of about £84,0

F. Tfiorn EMINENT ORT PRESIDENTS At the centenary congress of the World Ort Union in Jerusalem. Mr. Max Braude, its director WIT AS A WEAPON general since 1957 announced that he was going to retire. His successor, Mr. Joseph Harmalz, a former head of Ori Israel, will inherit an execu­ Most Jews enjoy telling jokes and none can things, with political jokes in 19th century France, tive with an average age under 50. Mr, Braude, resist the temptation to improve on a joke told Brilain and Germany,—then the "Jokes Against born in Harmony, Pennsylvania, was admitted to by somebody else, preferably another Jew. As Hitler and Mussolini", whose victims provided the Pittsburg University at 15, .supported himself by both the author of an admirable new book* and tears and the laughter, then—organically linked teaching Hebrew and Arabic, and won a scholar­ this reviewer belong to the same persuasion, all the to this chapter—the "Jewish Joke", and finally ship in social work which he was too young to objections the latter is going to raise should "Jokes from the East" including the best of the take up. At 19, he joined a yeshiva and became its therefore be interpreted as the compulsory act Sender Eriwan stories, which for once we can registrar. Alter joining thc Army, he saw the need lor Jewish chaplains and became a rabbi. Eventu­ described and not as expression of a patronising enjoy with no other pain than the sorrow of lost ally he became chief chaplain of the US 7lh Army attitude. It so happens that "patronising" is in illusions. and was, as he said, "in charge of about 1,500 fart the main—and virtually the only—reservation It is—hardly astonishingly—the German complex Roman Catholic Priests, 400 Protestant ministers one might have to this thoroughly researched and which provoked most of this reviewer's compulsory and 25 rabbis". At the end of the war, he minis­ attrartively produced slim volume: Egon Larsen objections mentioned in the introduction. Larsen tered to the spiritual needs of thousands of Jews rightly assumes that the average British reader calls Wilhelm Busch a "light-weight comic poet", in displaced persons camps. Afterwards he worked does not know much about, say, the Berlin of the who—^apart from being a rabid anti-Semite—was for the Joint, Hias and Ort. He saw On develop Thirties and their politics, and consequently con­ from an agency sjjending 75 per cent of its the flrst explorer of the satiric power in everyday resources on refugee aid to one devoting 70 per siders it necessary to explain the historical back­ language, and forgets to mention Lichtenberg, who cent on programmes for voung people between 14 ground though most readers know already how the almost visibly forged language into political pro­ and 20. Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 ended aud might test as in Gibt es ein Land ausser Deutschland, wo At the Jerusalem congress, Mr. Chaim Herzog. be offended when told who lost. However, as the man die Nase eher riimpfen lernt denn putten? Israel's former representative to the UN, was uiost important objective of Larsen's book is to The author also deplores the lack of real wit on elected presideni of World On, His predecessor. 4how the political and historical background of the German stage and blames poor Schiller and Professor Haber, sent a telegram of greetings lo what otherwise could become just one more his theory of the theatre "als moralische Anstalt" Queen Elizabeth and received a reply signed in coUection of funny stories, we may forgive the for it, quoting Goetz von Berlichmgen as witty person by the Queen, author his didartic zeal and his prudent distrust— exception. ... In the 19th century the German his intentions are pure. theatre sadly lagged behind the English, the Irish NEWS FROM THE EAST Strangely enough only two of the great philo­ and the French, but had Larsen glanced only once sophers in our time took an earnest interest in south of the border of his own native Bavaria, he NO USSR VISAS FOR ISRAELIS The Joke as a form of intellectual rebellion, might have discovered Rainiund and the unique Some 170 Israeli citizens who wanted to go lo namely Bergson and Freud, although the former genius of dramatic satire, Johann Nestroy, Moscow, many of them in order to visit Jewish was not really a great philosopher and the laiter relatives there, were denied visas after Israel Having followed thus one's Jewish calling, one decided lo boycott the Olympic Games, An Israeli much more than only a philosopher, Bul both were is of course tempted to quote and to quote again, travel agency which had already received payment Jews, and Larsen shows in the last-but-one chapter first those stories, which are new—and Larsen, for the trip and transferred it to the Russian of his book—"Self-Criticism and Defence: The who for decades collected, sifted and classified Intourist Agency, states that the Russians refused Jewish Joke"—that this is not a coincidence. In political jokes, brings quite a few one has never to repay more than 80 per cent of thc amounts the basic-historic introduction ("The People's heard before—and then the bitter and sweet stories paid, Voice") he appropriately quotes from Freud's about the Old Jew, the Rich Jew, the Clever Jew "Jokes and their Relations to the Unconscious" and the etemal Nebbich, which one has heard BRIBES AT VISA OFFICE what applies to the political joke: ". . .Tendentious before and would like to tell again, because they Two Jews, Shmuel Rozemberg, 51, and S. jokes are especially favoured in order to make contain our private heroic defeats and victories Biletzky received prison sentences of five and aggressiveness or criticism possible against persons and our comment on the human condition. The eight years for bribing a senior official at the in exalted positions who claim to exercise author­ temptation has to be resisted if only to preserve Tashkent visa and registration oflice. The oflicial, ity. The joke then represents a rebellion against the reader's right to choose and the delight of who holds the rank of colonel in the Interior that authority, a liberation from its pressure." discovery and re-discovery. Let us just confirm Ministry, received 10 years. He is said to have These persons of exalted posilion exist of that all are skilfully told and where required, used his authority to exart bribes from Jews course in every society, there might have been brilliantly translated—God knows, no mean seeking lo emigrate. some in Stone .Age tribal groupings, there certainly achievement. was one in the Shtetl, where the unassailable Finally an unavoidable correction, albeit of one SOVIET UNION REJECTS BRITISH PROTEST authority of the Rabbi was dented by sly alle­ of the few stories without political under-current. ITie British Foreign Office has expressed dis­ gations about the mildly libidinous disposition of It is the one of a humble Galician Jew who took satisfaction with the official Soviet Union his wife—and there were in a different, in an off his jacket and put his feet on the seat in a response to its complaint of harassment of appallingly different order of magnitude, the var­ railway compartment and immediately pulls himself British Citizens vishing the USSR, particularly ious leaders of totalitarian regimes in the 20th cen­ together when a distinguished looking stranger those who have been in contact wilh Jewisii tury. The occurrence or rather the creation of anti- activists. The official Russian response made by enters. After finding out that he is a fellow Jew, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Zemskov to the authoritarian political jokes, eternally defeated the humble one puts his feet back on the seat and British Ambassador in Moscow dealt specifically and still heroically existent long after their targets is supposed to have said: "Oi so", which is not with only one or two cases out of a much larger fell to pieces, is by virtue of their anonymity (not Yiddish. He said in fact "Asoi"—exactly what this number submitted to it, in spite of it) probably as important a pheno­ reviewer does by pointing out the error. menon in the history of human thought as the more esoteric commentaries of individuals or DEATH PENALTY FEARS Schools. And it is Larsen's great merit to have JEWS FROM RHINA 49-year-old Mr. Rafael Adijashvili, a Georgian conceived and proved just that. The Hessische Rundfunk is preparing the Jew, was sentenced to death in 1978 for economic broadcast about the former Jewish population of crimes. His sentence followed the trial of 50 His chronological order too is convincing. After Rhina (Northern Hesse), one of the very few employees of a Baku textile plant accused of the summary of "prehistoric" wit as it were in places, in which the majority of the inhabitants selling goods worth £382,000 for their own gain. "The People's Voice" follow "From the Charivari consisted of Jews. Any readers who can supply His case is now before the Supreme Court for to the Cabaret"—dealing, among many other material are asked to get in touch with: Herr review. Two of his Jewish colleagues had their Lueders, Hessisches Fernsehen, Kultur, Ber­ death sentences commuted to 15 years' imprison­ ment. *Egon Larsen. Wit as a Weapon, The Political Joke in tram :str.8, 6000 Frankfurt/M, German Federal nutoiy, Frederick Muller, London. 108 pp., £4,95. Republic. JEWS IN EUSKIRCHEN Obersludienrat H.-Dieter Amtz, Hasenhecke 16, BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER Annely ]uda Fine Art 5350 Euskirchen-Rheder, is preparing a book Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS 11 Tottenham Mews, London WIP 9PJ about the history of the Jews in Euskirchen and Always interested in purchasing o'-637 5.')J7/8 surrounding places from 1300 CE up to the years ABSTRACTION 1910-1940 of persecution. He appeals to emigrated readers well-preserved instruments who can give information, including experiences Bauhaas - De Stijl after 1933 as well as personal reminiscences of JACQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. I July — 27 September any kind. Documents, which would be treated con­ Mon-Fri: I0am-6pm Sat: lOam-lpm fidentially, and photos would be returned on 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel: 723 8818/9 request. Page 8 AJR INFORMATION August 1980

Halts Kornberg and convincingly refutes the belief that .scientists progressively lose their creativity after the age of SIR HANS KREBS 80 YEARS YOUNG 40. Perhaps after the age of 90 there may come a slight slowing up? We shall wait to see! In the issue of AJR Information dated August immediate notice throughout the scientific world; Till then, all his many friends, admirers, stu­ 1975, the late Professor Ernst Chain wrote a birth­ indeed, the then President of the Royal Society, dents and colleagues join to wish him a happy day tribute to his friend and colleague Sir Hans Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, commented on birthday on 25 August and many more happy Krebs. He began that tribute with an expression it in warm terms in the course of his Presidential and fruitful years. Our warmest good wishes also of surprise, that anyone so obviously youthful address. And this was lo be of direct benefit to go to Lady Krebs and their children. Helen, Paul could possibly have seen seventy-five summers. As Hans Krebs: when, like other Jewish academics, and John. one who also proudly claims Sir Hans Krebs as he was dismissed from his University post in Sir Hans Kornberg is Sir William Dunn Professor friend, I must echo this sentiment even though 1933, Hopkins immediately invited him to join of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. the surprise has long gone. Only a few months his Department in Cambridge. After three fruitful ago I had the privilege of attending an Inter­ and happy years there, Krebs moved to Sheffield, Trusted Friend of the AJR national Symposium, in Dallas, Te.xas, where where he was to remain for the next 18 years and The AJR cordiaUy associates itself with the virtually all those who had created the science of where he made his second major discovery—the good wishes expressed to Sir Hans Krebs by his metabolic biochemistry (including -six Nobel cycle of reactions that will always be known as friend and fellow scientist. Sir Hans Komberg- Laureates) had gathered, for four days of intense The Krebs Cycle, and that explains how all food Like many other outstanding personalities who scientific discussion, to honour their Master. At materials release their stored energy in the course came to this country as refugees, he has always identified himself With his community of origin the end of that stimulating but exhausting meet­ of being "'bumed" to carbon dioxide and water. and been associated with the eSorts of the AJR- ing, the only person still wholly fresh, and able It is this discovery in particular that was recog­ His unforgettable address on the occasion of the to give a lecture that was received with a standing nised by Hans Krebs' election lo the Fellowship handing over ceremony of the "Thank-You ovation, was that Master—Sir Hans. of the Royal Society in 1947 and by the award to Britain" Fund to the British Academy testified to Those who do not know the pace at which he him of the Nobel Prize in 1953. this attitude. The manifold honours bestowed on him in this country as well as in Germany and works might, perhaps, have wondered at seeing In 1954, Professor Krebs was invited to suc­ other countries abroad were only recently ampH" him in that far-off place: however, the demands ceed Sir Rudolph Peters in the Chair at Oxford. fied by the a-ward of the honorary doctorate of made on him for advice, lectures and seminars There he continued to teach, to train generations the Medical Faculty of the University of Goet­ are such that one can be certain of meeting him of students (many of whom now hold Chairs) and tingen. Notwithstanding his widely recognised only if one hangs around Heathrow. . . . to advance knowledge through his research and achievements. Sir Hans has endeared himself to Sir Hans' many contributions to our knowledge through that of the Medical Research Council everjjbody who has the privilege of knowing him of the molecular changes by which living organ­ Unit he directed, until his retirement in 1967. But. by his personal modesty and unassuming bearing- isms convert their food to the cellular building as already apparent from my opening paragraph, This is added reason for us to wish him very many happy returns of the day. W-R- blocks for growth and maintenance, and by which "retirement" is a word totally inappropriate when they obtain the energy they need, began in 1926 applied lo Sir Hans (he had been knighted in when he was appointwl as an assistant to Profes­ 1958). Accompanied by a small but devoted band sor Otto Warburg at the Kaiser-Wilhclm-Institut of colleagues, he merely moved his laboratory CBE AWARD TO REFUGEE in Berlin-Dahlem. He moved to the University of half a mile up the road and continued to work Amongst the recipients of the CBE in thi; Freiburg five years later and made his first major away as if the cessation of University responsibili­ Queen's Birthday Honours was Halle-born Pro­ discovery: thc precise sequence of chemical ties meant merely that a load had been taken off fessor Hermann Lehmann of Cambridge who was changes by which the liver converts potentially his shoulders. The stream of first rate published honoured for his services to clinical biochemistry- Professor Lehmann, who spent his youth in Dres­ toxic nitrogenous wastes into urea, which is work that still continues to flow from his lab­ den, is a member of the AJR. He cimc lo thi' harmless and excreted. This work attracted oratory is obligatory reading for all biochemists country as a refugee research student in 1934.

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CATHOLIC AND JEWS JOIN More than 70,000 Roman Catholics from all NEWS FROM GERMANY over the Federal Republic met in Berlin for the Catholic Conference, One of ils outstanding events VERDICT ON OBERAMMERGAU INSOLENT LAWYER FINED was a meeting in the Fasanenstrasse Jewish centre, On its return from Oberammergau, the A Nuremberg Court imposed a fine ol followed by a joint silent march to the Pesta­ American Jewish Committee reported that thc DM 1,500 on 75-ycar-old lawyer EngelharUt who lozzistrasse Synagogue where an ecumenical ser­ passion play which they had watched in its new, had demanded from a TV jouraalist, Mrs Rcnate vice was held. amended form, remained one of the most anii- Harpprecht, that she should substantiate her At the Jewish centre. Heinz Galinski. chairman semitic presentations shown anywhere in thc claims that relatives of hers had been killed in the of the Jewish community of Berlin, told the World, despite Mayor Zwink's assurance during gas-chambers of a German concentration camp guests, many of them young people, that the one of their previous visits that they would make within a specified period and had threatened to conference was guided by the spirit of together­ a genuine effort lo remove every vestige of anti­ bring a ciise against her for insult and instigation ness between Catholics and Jews and, for that semiiism. Mrs, Banki, assistant director of thc to hatred if she did not comply. He said in court rciison, was an event of long-lasting importance Committee's inter-religious affairs, has written a that German TV had shown many anti-Gemian lor all coiKcrned, He remembered that, under the booklet "What viewers should know about the films which insulted the feelings of former mem­ Nazi regime, there had been courageous Church Oberammergau Passion Play 1980". bers of the SS, culminating in "Holocaust," The leaders who gave voice to their conscience at a Thc United States Defence Department has Court told him that he had tried to exercise time when acting against one's conscience was issued an order to stop all promotions of the unlawful coercion and that he had no claim to considered a patriotic duty. Among them were play and tours to Oberammergau by members of the infonnation he had asked for, Cardinals Graf Galen of Munsler and Preysing 'he Army. of Berlin, but also many foreign priests who were NO MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES FOR martyred for their faith. He remembered that, Ernst Zwink. mayor of Oberammergau, said MURDERER that next year the festival committee would once when he was an inmate of Auschwitz, he had met Some time ago, a Hamburg jury sentenced a Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who was more revise the text on the strength of the Jewish former .SS officer to 12 years imprisonment for reaction. He felt, however, that everything had subsequently killed for his continued opposition murdering 50 Jews in a camp in Ruthenia during to the Nazis, A church in Spandau now bore his been done to remove antisemilic tendencies and the war. He had been 21 at the time, and thc to establish a basis for reconciliation. name. There had, however, been many Christians court said Ihat he had been spared a life sentence who refused to recognise that NS ideology which The German Bishops' Conference published a because he had been implicated in a system of denied all ethical laws, was directed against their lengthy statement, saying that as the Oberam­ lawlessness which transcended his own responsi­ mergau citizens were all good Catholics, they faith as well as againsi Jews. bility. The Federal Constitutional Court revoked Mr. Galinski also spoke al another session of should ask God and their Jewish brethren for the sentence and imposed a life sentence in its forgiveness for past sins. They must not use the the conference under the motto '"To live with the place, stating that no one who had taken part in Sins of the Fathers", and said to-day's Germans, terrible accusation that the Jews were thc people National Socialist crimes of violence should be of deicides. the descendants of those who had become guilty entitled lo mitigating circumsUinces because of under the Nazis, were trying to obliterate the DRIVE .4G.4INST NAZI JUDGES the general system of lawlessness. memory of those days. The few Jews now living During a conference of public prosecutors in DR. MENGELE TRACED in Germany were often accused of trying to keep the Fedenil Republic, it was announced that so far Mr. Simon W'iesenthal announced in Zurich that those memories alive and to transfer guilt from investigations had led to the discovery of 51 the chances to catch Auschwitz doctor Mengele fathers to sons. However, the time had not come surviving members of the notorious Nazi People's were now better than ever before. The German to keep silent about these things, Jews had been Court who had been involved in some 600 sen­ authorities were very co-operative and had issued perturbed by the effect of the showing of the tences, manv of them capital ones. Between 1934 all German Embassies with wairants for his "Holocaust" film on German TV. Nothing it and 1945 the People's Court sentenced 1,455 arrest. He added that they had also traced Walter revealed should have come as news after 40 years People to death. The Chief Public Prosecutor of Rauff who had administered the mobile gas- —it did not show- any new- revelations. Did its East Germany promised to give every help in chambers used in Soviet Russia by the Nazis, effect mean that the sons had now become adult 'racing further judges and lawyers of the Court Rauff who is alleged to have been involved in the and were ready to shoulder the guilt of their ^nd to give access to the German Central Archives murder of 250,(X)() people, lives in Punto Arenas fathers'.' in Potsdam which are presumed to contain many in Chile where he owns a factory producing fish Professor Karl Lehmann, a Catholic theologian of the files of the Court, So far, no judge or preserves. He is said to feel secure, because under from Freiburg, said it was thc duty of Christians prosecutor has faced trial in the Federal Republic, the Chilean Statute of Limitation, murder is not lo do more than come to terms with thc pa.st: they punishable after 15 years. must atone for thc guilt of their fathers and work NAZI PROPAGAND.\ FROM THE US for reconciliation based on biblical teaching. .According to the Hanover Oflice lor the Pro­ A SOURCE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTOR'I' Alfred Grosser, Paris, recipient of the Peace Prize tection of thc Constitution, the militant Neo-Nazi Dr, Eyrich, Minister of Justice of Baden- of the German Book Trade, said Ihe Catholic group membership in Land Lower Saxony grew Wiirttemberg, said that in its 21 years of existence Church had become guilty by keeping silenl, from 1,000 to some 1.400 in 1979, There were the Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi particularh- In the early days of the NS regime. '.483 offences commited by them, more than half Crimes in Ludwigsburg had instigated over I2.0(K) It should collectively recognise that guilt. as much as in the previous year. The Hanover trials and given information to scholars, law There were eight more silent marches, started Office also noted that most of the neo-Nazi courts and individuals in mort than 50,000 in­ at places where Nazi crimes had been committed Propaganda material, including anti-Jewish stances. Its card index contained 1,2 million items and ending at churches, where services were being •stickers, was imported from Canada and from the on individuals and corporations, and it had held. A number of exhibitions, visited by thou­ N'SD.\P leader Gary Laucks of the USA who was collected copies of 550,000 documents, most of sands of people, illustrated thc events. One, expelled from the Federal Republic. them housed abroad. Furthermore it stored rec­ dedicated to the "non-Aryan" Christians, had ords of more than 30,(K)0 investigations and trials been put together by Cecile Lowenthal-Hensel '5,000 DEMONSTRATE AGAINST NEO-NAZIS of Nazi criminals by German courts. In 1979, new who is also the author of a booklet, dealing wiih investigations were started against 700 individuals, the background of those y ears. A demonstration under the motto "Democracy Dr, Eyrich added that despite the fact that new- obliges" was held in Frankfurt under the auspices vrials were becoming less likely in view of thc age OLD AGE INSTITUTIONS IN BERLIN of the Protestant and Catholic Churches, the of ihoss involved, the Central Office should con­ Over 60 resid^its of the Jewish Old Age Home Jewish community, the Trades Unions and the tinue to exist as one of the most importani in Iranische Strasse recently moved to the newly 'ouih organisations. Some I5,(XX) x)eople took sources of contemporary history, where it held a erected Home for Jewish senior citizens in P^n, The Trades Union representative, Mr, Walter unique position. Dernburg Str. near Lietzensee. A Flatlet Home on Hesselbach, warned against the dangers of neo- the same site, witb 60 single and six double Nazisni and said that both old and new^ Nazis AUSTRIANS' ISRAEL SYMPATHIES rooms, will be ready next spring. E.G.L, n^inimised the atrocities committed by the Third .A public opinion poll showed that some 29 Reich and were once more spreading the spiritual per cent of Austrians supported Israel and only "'rt of Nazi barbarism. 9 per cent are pro-Arab. ZIGGY'S HAIRDRESSERS

OSMOND HOUSE, THE BISHOP'S AVENUE, N.Z Special Rates for announces all the fun of its Senior Citizens SUMMER FAIR ON SUNDAY, 17 AUGUST AT 3 P.M. TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY to be opened by and THURSDAY BETTINE LE BEAU, tbe well known radio personality Shampoo and Set £1.15 GARY JONES, ChUdren's Entertainer, 3.30-4.30 p.m. Puppets, Magic, BaUoon Sculptiu-e 47 Fairfax Road, Swiss Cottage, NW6 STALLS, CAKES, HOOPLA, TOMBOLA ... £1.00—DEVONSHIRE CREAM TEA Tel: 3282063 Page 10 AJR INFORMATION August 1980 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IN MEMORIAM DR. ARTHUR BEER AT 80 DR. HANS NEUFELD PROFESSOR ERICA WACHTEL Sir.—Many of your readers may wish to con­ Dr. Hans Neufeld recently died in his 90th year. Professor Erica Wachtel, who came to this gratulate Dr. Arthur Beer, astronomer, meteorolo­ Until 1933, he was a high civil servant in Germany country as a refugee in 1938. has died, aged 68. gist and historian of science who recently cele­ as an expert on financial policy. His outstanding She earned wide recognition for her work in brated his SOth birtliday. His academic achievements role in the field of revalorisation was widely gynaecological cytology, the study of cells, which are probably better known than his single-handed recognised. In 1929 he was transferred from the pioneered the screening and early detection of rescue work for Jewish intellectuals soon after his Reich Ministry of Finances to the Prussian Finance cancer of the cervix and many other cancers. She arrival in this country in 1934. Over the years he Ministry, where he obtained the rank of Minis­ qualified in Vienna and resumed medical work in played an important part in the escape and re^ terialrat: he was also State Commissar al the 1941 at the Belgrave Hospital for Children. Later settlement of some 50 fellow-Jews. Born in Berlin Stock Exchange from 1930 onwards. In she held appointments al the Elizabeth Garrett Reichenberg, Bohemia, on 28 June 1900, he 1933, Dr. Neufeld emigrated to this country and Anderson Hospital, the West London Hospital and itudied physics and astronomy from 1919 and— became a legal and financial adviser. He wrote Hammersmith Hospital, where, in 1949, she was after a crippling attack of polio—received his commentaries to several laws related to banking given charge of the embryo department of cy­ Doctor's degree "summa cum laude" from the and public loaas and also contributed to German tology which she built up to international renown. University of Berlin. Working as a meteorologist and British periodicals. The AJR has special reason She made Hammersmith Hospital a meeting place in an official capacity he was closely associated to conunemorate Dr. Neufeld. He was an inter­ for intemational experts and trainees in cytology with the Warburg Institute in Hamburg until hi^ ested member of its Board, and his services were and ran one of the five national schools of emigration. Only in 1937 could he return to full particularly valuable when he was Chainnan of the cytology. time scientific work at the new University of Revolving Fund Committee, operating during the PROFESSOR GUSTAV STEIN London Observatory. When war broke out, he first years of restitution legislation to make ad­ Professor Gustav Stein who has died, aged 75, sought and found an opportunity to serve his vance payments to needy refugees whose claims will be remembered by many victims of Nazi adopted country in a scientific post with the .Air were not yet setded. He kept contact with the persecution whom he helped during the war. He Ministry. After the war, he rejoined Cambridge AJR up to the end and only a few months before was a lawyer in Cologne before and during the war University as a senior observer at The Observa­ his death attended our latest Board meeting. and in 1945 he became a founder member of the tories. Despite being seriously ill, he intrepidly German Chemical Industry Association and carried on with his manysided scienlific work after helped to rebuild the Federal Organisation of his retirement. Ainong his tnany books is o MRS. M. WATERHOUSE German Industry. From 1961 to 1972, he was a fascinating study on Paracelsus, and he is still busy Many refugees who lived in North West member of the German Bundestag, Since then, he editing the prestigious international review Vistas London during the war, will be sad to learn that worked tirelessly as president of the Organisation in Astronomy which he founded in the 1950s. Hi'' Mrs. Margaret Waterhouse, the bookseller, has for Sponsoring Scientific Cooperation with Tel friends salute him and wish him many more years died. In those days, she ran thc second-hand .Aviv University, and as a member of thc Uni­ of scientific work in singularly unauspicious bookshop in the arcades of the old Swiss Cottage versity's Board of Governors, circumstances in the companionship of his wife, Underground station which have long since disap- son. daughter and three grandchildren. F)cared. It was always possible to browse for MRS. J. L. STEINHARDT (DR.) ERWIN ROSENTHAL. hours among the many books she bought from Mrs, J, L, Steinhardt who came to this country 199 Chesterton Road, people who no longer had room to store them, or from Frankfurt as a refugee in 1939. is remem­ Cambridge, who just needed the money, and occasionally even bered with gratitude by 31 refugees who arrived to buy cheaply books which one had feared never in Brilain aged between eight and 16, and were to see again. She specialised in German classics looked after by Mrs. Steinhardt and her hu.sband, ERAN LAOR and German-Judaica, When thc Yiddisch poet Mr. Hugo Steinhardt who died in 1942, They had Sir.—//( the fine tribute to Eran Laor, published Uzik Manger arrived in Britain as a refugee from arrived in Britain vvith their two daughters and in your June issue, special reference is made to French North Africa, she befriended him and Mrs, Sleinhardt's sister and settled at Waddesdon. his essays on philosophy of religion. May I add looked after him for the rest of his life. After the Buckinghamshire, where they were in charge of a that l.aor's achievements also include the publi­ rebuilding of Swiss Cottage station, she ran a home for refugee boys, provided and maintained cation of his important hook "Die Grosse Einheit second-hand bookshop in Flask Walk, Hampstead, by the late James de Rothschild, MP. and his —Zerfall wid Neugestaltung unseres Weltbildes' for a while, and many of her old friends and wife. She remained in Waddesdon after they grew (Agens-Verlai;. Genf-Wien. 19591. customers followed her there. Her kindness in up and left, bul many of them have been calling (Dr.) FRTTZ FRIEDLAENDER those early days will be remembered by all who on her in recent years, often from as far afield as Melbourne knew her. Israel and America. Australia

FAMILY EVENTS Dezsofl:— Josef Dezsofi of 29 Bamhill Situations Required INFORMATION REQUIRED Entries in the column Family Events Road, Prestwich, Manchester, (formerly WE WOULD WELCOME hearing General Enquiries are free of charge: tmy voluntary Boesing, CSR) passed away after much from more ladies who would be will­ Ehrlich:— Would readers who can donation would, however, be appreci­ suffering on 14 July. Sadly missed by his ing to shop and cook for an elderly give information about Dr. med. ated. Texts should be sent in by ISth wife Stella, son, daughter-in-law, relatives person in their neighbourhood on a and friends. Ernst Ehrlich, formerly Gartenstrasse of the month. temporary or permanent basis. Cur­ 22, Erfurt, please get in touch with rent rate of pay £1,60 per hour. Please Birthdays Frank:— Martha Frank, beloved wife the AJR Office. of Benno, dear mother of Eva S. ring Mrs. Matus 01-624 4449, AJR Schweig:— Dr, Bnmo Schweig of 18 Employment, for Appointment, Nothmann:— Ruth Nothmann, born Bergoffen, died suddenly in Bourne­ 15 September, 1919 in Breslau, Klos­ West Heath Drive, N.W.ll, a long­ mouth on 10 May. Deeply mourned standing and interested member of the terstrasse 20, daughter of Richard and by her family and numerous friends. Kaethe Nothmann,, passed "Abitur" AJR, will celebrate his 90th birthday Miscellaneous on 19 August. He is admired by all Gold:—Announcing with sorrow the in 1937 and afterwards trained as who know him for his youthfulness, passing of Hilda Gold, aged 90, of 47 REVLON MANICURIST. Will visit teacher for Jewish Primary Schools- his lively spirit and helpfulness. In Thetford Road, New Maiden on 12 July. your home. Phone 01-445 2915. Emigrated to Scotland in autumn 1971, when he was already 81, he On behalf of her many relatives in DO YOU WANT SOMEBODY reliable 1938, working as teacher in a board­ wrote a book "Mirrors—A Guide to England and abroad Gerda Gort, niece. lo look after your house/flat while you ing school. Replies to Inge Bonk, geb- the Manufacture of Mirrors and Re­ are on holiday? Please ring 624 1291. Niese, D-8991 Esseratswerier. Ster- flecting Surfaces". His family in Israel Schonfeld:— Mrs. Alice Schonfeld nenbrueckle 5. and all his relations here in London (formerly Hamburg), of 130 Hamilton Osterode:— Historian seeks former and abroad and his many friends wish Terrace, London, N.W.S, passed away Personal residents of Osterode (Harz) in con­ on 23 June. Deeply mouraed by her him the very best—especially good LONELY WIDOWER, continental, nection with his research on the health—for at least a further 30 years, family and friends. early 70s, would like to meet refined history of that town and the fate of Algorc:— Tony Algore of 1 Fairoak lady with view to friendship, holidays, its Jews, 1919-1945. Among the Drive, Eltham. S.E.9 passed away after CLASSIFIED home and abroad. Box 819, people sought are the brothers Gold­ much suffering on 13 July. Sadly missed The charge in these columns is SOp mann (Martin, Wemer or Warren, by his wife Margot, daughter Susan, for five words plus 25p for advertise­ Heinz or Henry). Contact Professor son-in-law Levy, grandchildren Ari and ments under a Box No. TWO FRIENDS, widows, would like Walter Stmve, 2727 Palisade Ave., Gaby, relatives and friends. to meet middle-aged gentlemen for Bronx, NY 10463AJSA. Accommodation Wanted company. Box 820. Spiegel:— Mrs, Elsa Sana Spiegel, Deaths CHIROPODIST would like small born 24.6.1909. Last known address Berger:— Martin Bcrger of Ruislip, room or cubicle to work in for two 11 Schreigasse, Vienna 12, deported Middx., passed away peacefully on or three days per week in NW3 or ATTRACTIVE LADY, late 50, 2 June, 1942 to Minsk. Could readers 11 June, aged 83. Deeply mourned by NW6 district. Tel. 904 1945 after would like to meet gentleman over 60, who can give any information about his wife and relatives. 7 p.m. view friendship or marriage. Box 822. Mrs. Spiegel please write to Box 821- AJR INFORMATION August 1980 Page 11

MEMORIES OF THE 1936 OLYMPICS MISCELLANY In a letter to thc "Daily Telegraph", Mrs, Librowicz of Shipley, Yorkshire, remembers how. HONOURS AND AWARDS The Alfred Kerr Prize for achievements in the living in Berlin in 1936, she had offered to let The publisher Dr. Gottfried Bermann Fischer, field of literaiy criticism was awarded to the literary rooms to visitors, but had been rejected as un­ Who now lives in retirement in Italy, was appointed magazine "Die Horen", published in Bremerhaven, suitable, because she was Jewish, notwithstanding "Ehrensenator" of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe The Prize, which carries a monetary equivalent a public appeal to provide such accommodation. University in Frankfurt. Originally a surgeon, he of DM 5,000, was endowed by the Boersenblatt She writes: joined the leading S. Fischer Verlag, founded by fuer den Deuischen Buchhandel four years ago. "'This was the German way of keeping those his father-in-law Samuel Fischer (1859-1934). EGL who could tell the truth away from the visitors, When the Nazis came to power, he transferred the not unlike the Russians who send some of their firm first to Vienna, later to Stockholm and in FUNCTIONS IN HOMES citizens out of Moscow. In the end, however, the 1940 to New York. After the war, the S. Fischer Whilst members are always informed in this laugh was on our side. We received a request for Verlag was re-established in Frankfurt and Berlin. paper about Homes run for elderly refugees, only help in finding accommodation for a non-Jewish In 1967, Bermann Fischer pubUshed his memoirs comparatively few of them know the Homes from industrialist and his wife from the Rhineland who Under the title "Bedroht, bewahrt—der Weg eines within. It is one of the objects of the Homes' wanted to stay with a strictly non-Nazi family. Wc Veriegers"' (1967). functions to give AJR members and their friends took them in and had a grand time with them, an opportunity of getting an impression of the whilst Aryan accommodation stood empty as Rabbi Dr. .Alexander Altmann was awarded the facilities of the Homes, their residents and staff many potential visitors stayed away rather than first honorary doctorate of the tmiversity of Trier come to Nazi Germany." which was founded 10 years ago. Dr, Altmann and, above all, the atmosphere by which they excel. grew up in Trier as the son of the former rabbi We are pleased to report that the visitors to the recent At Home at Heinrich Stahl House included "BEST BOOK ON THE HOLOCAUST" of that city, Oberrabbiner Dr. Adolf Altmann, quite a few friends, who saw the Home for the who perished in Auschwitz, Until 1938, he was first time. Whilst the function was primarily Benjamin Ferencz's work "Less than Slaves" rabbi in Berlin until he was appointed communal arranged as a social event, it -was also a financitd (reviewed in our May issue) was awarded two rabbi of Manchester in 1938. From 1959 to 1976 success, yielding £1,300 for the Home's Amenity major national prizes in the United States, The he was Professor at Brandeis university. Dr. Alt­ Fund. As readers will notice from the announce­ National Jewish Welfare Board selected it as "The mann's biography of Moses Mendelssohn has be­ ment in this paper, this month a Summer Fair best book on the Holocaust", and '"Present Tense", come a standard work. will be held at Osmond House on Sunday, 17 the Magazine published by the American Jewish Professor Dr. Herbert Weichmann, retired First August, at 3 p.m. The fact that it vrill be opened Committee, decided to include it in its literary Mayor of Hamburg, was awarded the Grand by Bettine Le Beau, the well known radio person­ awards for the best Jewish books of 1979, Golden Medal of the Hamburg "Patriotische ality, should serve as an additional inducement Gesellschaft". Only three or four outstanding and it is hoped that many members will attend Hamburg personalities received the medal during the function. Special arrangements have been made FIRST CANADIAN WOMAN RABBI the past 80 years. for the entertainment of children. 27-year-old Miss Joan Friedman, who has been Dr. Friedrich S. Brodnitz (New York) was app­ ordained in New York, will take up her duties as ointed Corresponding Member of the "Deutsche BEQUEST TO AJR assistant rabbi at Holy Blossom Temple in Tor­ Gesellschaft fuer Hals-Nasen-und Ohrenheil- Miss Margot Rosenbaum who died last l-"eb- onto this month. Rabbi H, J, Fields, senior rabbi kunde". Before he went to the United States in ruary, left £94,000, of which £2,500 and 60 per of the Reform Temple, said that women comprise 1937, he i^yed a leading role in the Reichs­ cent of the residue go to personal legatees, and about 20 per cent of the Hebrew Union College's vertretung, the Central-Verein and other Jewish 40 per cent of the residue to the AJR and the students and 35 per cent of the cantorial school organisations in Germany. Salvation Amiy in equal parts. students.

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"MUSEUM OF THE DIASPORA" "Beth Hatefutsoth", the Nahum Goldmann THEATRE AND CULTURE Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv, Einstein '^latively unsuccessful"? An unusual EXHIBrnONS provides visitors with an integrated and simul­ event at this year's "Ruhrfestspiele" at Reckling­ taneous history of Jewish communities. Its imagi­ Abstractions at Annely Juda native and innovative presentation of 2,5(X) years hausen was the first performance of Kurt Dessau's Boxes, triangles, squares, shapes, forms that opera "Einstein", In 21 scenes the opera demon­ of Jewish history is a permanent link between defy description—colours bright, sombre, clash­ Israel and the Jewish people. To maintain and strates Einstein's life in Germany, his emigration. ing, mute and brash. This is Abstraction 1910- Hitler's war and Einstein's activities in the United expand this unique exhibition and to cover tbe 1940, the exhibition now at Annely Juda Fine Art. costs for its various functions. Societies of Friends States, When the bombs fall on Hiroshima, the 11 Tottenham Mews, Wl, until 27 September. great physicist recognizes the consequences of of the Museum have been founded in many scientific development and the part he played in it. After the recent Abstraction exhibition at the countries. The office of the British Friends, from As a result, he destroys his latest inventions in Tate Gallery, it needed great courage to mount an which details may be obtained, is at 183/9 Fin«*- the interest of humanity. The opera—according exhibition on a similar theme, but Annely and ley Road, London, NW3 6LD. to reviewers—will hardly enrich repertoires of David Juda have succeeded brilliantly. It is a intemational opera houses, great exhibition and great art by masters of their "THANK-YOU BRITAIN" FUND profession. The variety and quality of the work Free Otier of Publications Vienna. "Theater in der Josefstadt" has many displayed is immense. Here are just a few of the plans for 1980/81 under its conservative yet artists, including those who may be of special The British Academy holds a limited number of enterprising director Emst Haeusermann. 50 years interest to readers of this journal: Ella Bergmann- surplus copies of the 1974 three-afternoon lectures after the death of Arthur Schnitzler works of that Michel (1896-1971), Carl Buchheiser (1890-1964), by Lord Blake on "The Office of the Prime by now ahnost classic Austrian author are Erich Buchholz (1891-1972), Walter Dexel (1890- Minister" (74 pp.), which illuminate two and a featured. New productions of "Der einsame Weg" 1973), Adolf Reischmann (1892-1968), Hannah half centuries of constitutional history. The AJR and "Zug der Schatten" are being prepared, as Hoch (1889-1978), Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), which raised the "Thank-You Britain Fund" has well as a reading of "Reigen" which at the time Le Corbusier (1887-1965), Robert Michel (b 1897). been offered complimentary copies for its mem­ of its origin was rigorously baimed. Laszlo Moholy-Nag> (1895-1946), Hans Reichel bers. Any requests, together with 50p for package "The Diary of Anne Frank", the play based on (1892-1958), Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and and postage, should be sent to: The Secretary, the diary of the girl which had its London Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899-1962), Thank-Offering to Britain Fund, The British premiere in 1957 (with Perlita Nielsen and Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Miriam Karlin) is still performed in German As usual a magnificent catalogue has been pro­ WIV ONS, theatres. Recent revivals appeared in Bielefeld duced in coimection with this exhibition. It not only contains many illustrations, with a fine "THE JEW OF MALTA" TOO ANTISEMITIC and Oldenburg. coloured Schwitters on the cover, but also com­ Birthdays. Hans Thimig, "youngest" of the prehensive biographical details about the artists. Marlowe's play "The Jew of Malta", written in celebrated actor family and a permanert broad­ These details reveal how much of this work was 1558/59, has only had five productions in Londoa caster of Radio Austria, is 80 this month. considered degenerate by the Nazis and how many the last one by the Royal Shakespeare Company Ida Ehre, who was an actress at Berlin's Lessing­ of the artists were forcol or chose to emigrate and in 1964, Mr, Timothy West the new director of theater when Hitler took over in 1933, is also continue their artistic careers elsewhere, the Old Vic Theatre, who had played a small part 80 years old. Having lost her family and having in that performance, wanted to include it in his miraculously survived the years of terror, she has A very short-lived exhibition of the work of first season at the Old Vic, but a number of b<«n responsible for the management of Ham­ Doddy Strasser was recently held at the Press directors and sponsors tumed it down on the burger Kanunerspiele for the past 35 years. In a Club. She only took up painting in 1965, but her grounds that it was too antisemitic. The play has dramatic feature "Memoiren" she now portrays pictures, mostly landscapes, show great talent and now been replaced by Shakespeare's "Merchant of the legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt, inner feeling. Venice" in which Mr. West, a member of the S,B, ALICE SCHWAB. Anti-Nazi League, will play Shylock.

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