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Don't miss . . . From Galicia to Granada p8 Red white and red all over Berlin 1920-1992 pl2 From postwar to post-Waldheim Austria Part of Ireland's history pl6 aradoxes abound in every society; in April's The greatest postwar paradox was that the British general election, for instance, working Austrian government, which could not bring itself to Pclass Basildon voted Tory and middle class invite former Jewish citizens to return to their country Hampstead Labour. of origin, eventually had the Jew Kreisky at its head. Delay and For all that it would be hard to find another country Nearly as odd was the fact that the country provided haste as productive of paradox as Austria. At a time when the United Nations with a Secretary-General who, Mahler and Schonberg made it the centre of the despite the intense scrutiny customary during the he musical world the Vienna Philharmonic were anti­ Cold War, managed to conceal his unsavoury past. authorities' semites to a man. The fact that Viennese popular By the time Waldheim became the 'prisoner in the Tmaintenance culture owed even more to Jews — from the Fiakerlied Hofburg' (i.e. Austria's housebound President of the 100-years to the White Horse Inn - did little to assuage popular shunned by the international community) Jorg Haider secrecy rule on Jew-hatred. was consolidating his hold on the Austrian Freedom wartime Although, as a country, Austria had a proportion­ Parry. The freedom he has in mind is, in the first documentation ately higher membership of the Nazi Party than instance, the freedom to deny impoverished East about the Channel Germany it was declared Hitler's first victim by the Europeans entry into a country enjoying one of the Islands could well wartime Allies. Postwar it 'endured' a lighter Occupa­ highest living standards on the continent: Freedom help keep Kurt tion regime than Germany, resulting in even less Party spokesmen in Parliament warn of Umvolkung ) the Klebeck, Nazi thorough Denazification. (mongrelisation) of the native population. Such His slave labour boss recourse to Nazi phraseology is all of a piece with ; for on Alderney, out Haider's praise of Hitler's 'orderly employment of jail and thus policy', and his description of an independent Austria R.G. impede a long ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING — i.e. an entity detached from Greater Germany — as overdue process of an abortion. justice. But, Austria being Austria, even the renascent Will be held on Complementing Anschluss ideology is not immune to paradox. ^Tiitehall's Though Austrian xenophobes hate Slavs and Jews Thursday 11 June 1992, 7.30 p.m. excessive delay is they are not enamoured of Germans - dubbed Piefkes the Vatican's — either. They resent German control of sections of at unprecedented industry and the media and complain about the haste in the Schilling being tied to the D-Mark. A Piefke who 15 CLEVE ROAD, LONDON NW6 beatification of arouses special animus is Claus Peymann, director of Jose Escriva. The the Burgtheater; Peymann's offences range from not Opus Dei founder AGENDA wearing Austrian national costume to staging Helden­ looked upon platz, Thomas Bernhard's play about fictitious Jewish General Franco — Annual Report 1991 returnees to Vienna. and by extension Hon. Treasurer's Report One real-live Jewish returnee is the anti-nuclear Hitler - as anti- Discussion campaigner Robert Jungk, author of the 1950s best­ Bolshevik seller Brighter than a Thousand Suns, and leader of crusaders, and not Election of Executive Committee the Austrian Greens. Devising the ultimate paradox, as lethal Followed by a talk by Richard Grunberger the Neo-Nazi Haider has accused the Jew Jungk of opponents of entitled "In My Own Write" pro-Nazi sympathies on the strength of a newspaper democracy. The excerpt quoted out of context. Pope seems blind Refreshments will be served after the meeting. This provocation, characteristic of the chutzpah of to the lessons of Europe's neo-Fascists is on a par with Le Pen's histor\-. D JMttM ^^j^s; ^:s5r ^5...af^^f^5W%^ continued on page 2 col. 3 AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1992

Composer's success - Profile in Germany Matron of honour House, Hampstead, a position she was to n spite of the recognition, albeit sham- hold for the next 24 years. In 1991 residents ingly belated, which refugee composer of Otto Schiff House were moved to the new Berthold Goldschmidt received when Balint House in The Bishops Avenue; Miss I Rieger went too. Simon Rattle and the Birmingham Sym­ phony Orchestra performed his Ciaconna This summer, after 29 years of service, Sinfonica as part of the 1987 Berlin Festival Miss Rieger is retiring. She will be spending (see AJR Information, January 1988), and more time at her Bedfordshire home where, the premiere of his opera Beatrice Cenci at she quips, 'the bit of Yiddish I have picked the Queen Elizabeth Hall nearly forty years up over the years is bound to come in after its composition, and the subsequent handy'. Not content to spend her retirement Channel Four TV broadcast, 'the lost com­ introducing the good people of Beds, to poser' is still relatively unknown in this Mammeloschen, Miss Rieger intends to do country. a great deal of travelling as well. She plans to visit her older sister in Peru, and has long wished to travel to Madagascar. Gesprachskonzert Wherever Miss Loni Rieger goes, she will It is, therefore, the more encouraging to be remembered with gratitude for almost 30 note his recent success when, earlier this years of dedicated service. year he returned to his native Hamburg to D M.N. make an appearance in a 'Gesprdchskon- Loni Rieger. Photo: Newman. zert' (musical conversation piece) at which his Second and Third String Quartets were iss Loni Rieger is, undoubtedly, one continued from front page performed. The earlier work was composed of a kind. Her acerbic wit and dismissal of the Holocaust as a bagatelle. in 1936, soon after Goldschmidt's arrival in M occasionally sharp tongue never But the New Right has not had it all its own England. The Third Quartet is his latest. It fully disguise her warmth — a fact attested way. The Socialist-cum-Catholic majority was commissioned by the provincial by her popularity or, as some would have it, in the Austrian Parliament have recently government of Schleswig-Holstein as a notoriety, within the community which she passed a law making the denial of the result of the composer's presence as guest of has served so well over the last 29 years. Holocaust a punishable offence. Like honour at the opening ceremony of the Miss Rieger was born in Darmstadt to Chancellor Vranitzky's earlier avowal of Jewish Museum in Rendsburg. parents of French extraction. She describes Austrian complicity in the Final Solution her childhood as happy and free. 'I was a bit Subjective statement this law was long overdue — but we should wild, really', she says of herself, 'and I nonetheless welcome its enactment. Berthold Goldschmidt describes this work probably had the biggest mouth in Darm­ as a personal, entirely subjective statement stadt'. In 1944, when Loni was only 12 of his feelings towards the country of his years old, her parents were killed in an air birth. In an interview with the Hamburger raid. Although her sister was old enough to Morgenpost he stresses the difficulty of look after herself, Loni was taken in by an Israel's putting these into words. Instead, he has order of nuns. In the cloistered world of the Very finest Wines given them musical form, reflecting his convent she was 'smothered with love' and 'uncertainty and sadness'. The quartet has treated very much as a daughter of the SHIPPED BY now been released as part of a CD recording house. 'They showed great kindness, gen­ (op Largo 5115), made in Berlin in his tility and understanding'. She was to remain presence. His first opera Der gewaltige in the convent until she was 20 years old. HOUSE OF Hahnrei ('The Mighty Cuckold') will be In 1957 Loni Rieger went to Lugano, recorded next year on the Decca label in a Switzerland, as a fully qualified surgical HALLGARTEN performance by the Leipzig Gewandhaus nurse, learning French and Italian whilst Orchestra under Lothar Zagvosek; and working. further recordings of his chamber music are Miss Rieger spent six and a half years YARDEN and GAMLA in preparation. nursing in Lugano, until she met a sometime AVAILABLE NOW In two years time, Berthold Goldschmidt resident of Otto Schiff House named Schles­ will celebrate his 90th birthday. Perhaps by inger. Mr Schlesinger was so impressed by Please write or phone for then he will have attained that which has so Loni's efficiency that he recommended her full information far eluded him - sustained success and due to the then Head of Home at Otto Schiff appreciation of his outstanding talent and House, Mrs Gravi. In 1963 Miss Rieger DALLOW ROAD remarkable achievement by the country started work in England, at Leo Baeck LUTON BEDS where he has lived and worked for well over House. Two years later she moved to the LUI1UR half-a-century and to whose musical devel­ Otto Hirsch House in Kew to train as a opment he has contributed so much. matron under Mrs Rosenthal. By 1967 she 0582 22538 D David Maier had been appointed matron of Otto Schiff AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1992

my mother became a widow. She and Karl A romantic at heart he was drawn to From Galicia to Weiss married in 1920, making me the Arabia, where King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud Granada stepbrother of the Weiss children. A short befriended him. He criss-crossed the deserts time afterwards Poldi left home and started of the Interior, the Empty Quarter, on camel his amazing career. back, led his horse through the snow over After briefly studying at university he the mountain passes of Afghanistan, and departed for Berlin and journalism. In no settled for a time in India. time he was sending dispatches to the Frankfurter Zeitung irom Palestine. He Anschluss argued with Weizmann and Ussishkin External events brought the family closer against Zionism, and published, in 1924, a again. The Anschluss alerted Asad to the collection of his articles under the title danger we were facing and he exerted Unromantisches Morgenland. He rode with himself to help. He sent us badly needed the Senussi of Cyrenaica during their rising money and set in motion the slow process of against the Italians and sent accounts of obtaining entry visas to British India. Alas, their battles and the Italian repression. only I managed to escape by being sent to Occasional letters England to help with the reception of 'Kindertransporte'. His father, my mother For many years we could never quite catch and Hella were dragged off to Terezin and up with news from him. Occasional letters, Auschwitz and death. reports from family members in Jerusalem, During his stay in India Asad had become and an account of an expedition to Arabia a friend of the Muslim poet Iqbal and of Ali M.N. in the National Geographical Magazine, Jimmah. At the partition of India he moved gave some vague idea of his peripatetic life. to Pakistan, became Minister for Religious We heard that he was the friend of kings Coordination and finally entered the Pakis­ and princes, of Reza Shah, Afghan chief­ tan Diplomatic Service. In 1951, as Pakis­ Leopold WeissIMuhammad Asad. tains and the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was tani Ambassador to the UN in New York he a man of impressive presence, over 6 feet represented the case of the North African uhammad Asad died on 20 Febru­ tall, and able to gain immediate attention by countries struggling against French rule. On ary 1992 in Mijas (Malaga). His his arresting conversation. The profound his official passage through London, he grave lies in the small Muslim turning point in his life came in Berlin in M occupied a suite at Claridge's, where he and cemetery in Granada. The place of his birth, 1926, when he completed his conversion to I met for the first time since 1924. on 1 July 1900, was Lemberg, today Lwow Islam and adopted the name of Muhammad •n the Western Ukraine, then in Austro— Asad. He did not stay a diplomat for very long. The wanderer in the desert was too strong in Hungary. He was born Leopold Weiss - Why did he take this step which estranged him. 3nd he was my stepbrother. He had gone him from his father for years and caused Disillusioned with the turn Islam had from cheder to preparing and publishing the some of the family to turn against him? •^ost up-to-date, scholarly translation into taken in Arab lands and then Iran, he English of the Koran, accompanied by Well-ordered society withdrew from public life and threw himself into his writing again. His health deterior­ erudite commentary. He had become a He explained his motives in his autobiogra­ ated steadily, particularly after a fracture of devout Muslim, a scholar, famous through­ phy and in conversation with my wife and one hip, having been thrown by his horse. out Islam. Apart from the monumental The myself. Of religious temperament, he had He moved again and again, to Portugal, to Message of the Qu'ran (1980), his works found the spiritual indifference of his com­ Spain, he came to London, went to Gibral­ included Principles of State and Govern­ panions during the Berlin days unsatisfying. tar, and finally came to rest in Spain. ment tn Islam (1978), and The Road Though he had a good knowledge of Torah 'o Mecca (1954), an incomplete auto­ and some Talmud he rejected what he biography. considered the narrowness and exclu­ Withdrawal In this space I intend to dwell less on his siveness of Judaism. He found Christianity His increasing withdrawal from direct Public persona, but rather to recall the man obscure and based on myth and faith alone involvement in events had enabled him to ' knew. - but the revelation of God's will transmit­ devote himself to the monumental task of ted in the Koran clear and consistent, and translating the Koran. It has proved to be of •^rnazing career the Shariah law based on it a perfect model historical proportion by any measure. ^sad's father, was the lawyer son of the for a harmonious, well-ordered society. From Leopold Weiss to Muhammad Orthodox Chief Rabbi of Czernowiz, and Also in Islam a person's origins and Asad his life spanned two worlds. When he "is mother the daughter of a wealthy nationalit)' become of secondary concern made his decision, he embraced Islam and °anker. Dr Weiss established a law practice (at least in theory). the life and culture of the Arabs whole­ "1 Lemberg where his children were born. Even so, his translation of the Koran was heartedly and gave his new spiritual home '-eopold-Poldi had an elder brother who attacked by Muslim theologians in Saudi his total allegiance. I think it fitting that his "^came a physician, and a younger sister, Arabia and Egypt for 'excessive' rationalism body rests in Granada, where Jews and Hella. In 1914 the family moved to Vienna, and lack of deference to received authority. Muslims had jointly created a world of ^here their mother died in 1919. In the (I took his thinking to be not unlike that of incomparable spiritual and aesthetic Same year, as I have described in He took the misnagdim, the opponents of mystical splendour. *"e Emperor's Schilling (see January issue) Chassidim in Eastern Europe.) n Martin M. Goldenberg AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1992

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When the Scrolls first came on the scene, Muddying the wells of Qumran was in Jordan; now all the The Jews of Ulm truth locations are in Israel. The Israeli Govern­ Stadtarchiv Ulm (publ.) ZEUGNISSE ZUR ment could deport the Catholic scholars GESCHICHTE DER JUDEN IN ULM: Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, THE DEAD and take over their 'finds', but Israel wished Erinnerungen und Dokumente. 1991, 27lpp, SEA SCROLLS DECEPTION, Jonathan Cape, to remain on terms with the Vatican where illustrated. 1991, £14.99. two Popes have ruled against traditional anti-Jewish anathemas. The authors claim n recent years, a number of German that the consensus scholars are under the cities, whose Jewish inhabitants were, direct orders of the Vatican's Congregation I until the Nazi period, able to lay claim to for the Doctrine of the Faith, also known as a sense of historical 'belonging', have spon­ the Holy Office or the Inquisition. sored research projects on this theme. '^f^K'^ •'V^ax^a ran .HittHiui Jews are concerned with the light the Several of these have now been completed ,nty ivi'Ai i5iAtim'nVj« I'^nfjj documents throw on the factions within and the results published in book form. Judaism in the 1st century AD. The material One of these is the cathedral city of Ulin may even include a letter from Simon Bar whose mayor handed copies of the present V-DTVIT*! Kochba, the Jewish warrior who all but title to members of a group of Jewish defeated the Roman Emperor Hadrian in visitors, staying at his invitation in their •m+a '(til t^anV the 2nd century. native town. And that is what Baigent and Leigh The volume is divided into two sections. believe is making the 'consensus men' so The first consists of recollections and [V •Qi'rt ivtiJ V(Aai unwilling to reveal what they are studying; reminiscences by or about Jews who had the evidence of the utter Jewishness of early lived in Ulm until their emigration or, more Christianity and the involvement of Jesus' tragically, their deportation and death - a S followers in the Zealot cause which led to collection of 54 articles testifying to the fate A portion of a scroll telling of a battle between the the destruction of the second Temple, the of a typical community in a South German leader of the Dead Sea community and two mass suicide of the defenders of Massada, town. opponents: the 'Liar' and the 'Thief. and the ultimate dispersal of the Jewish The accounts vary in length, form and people. style. There are straightforward records of his book is the story of the uncon­ For both Christians and Jews there are facts baldly stated and left to speak for scionably long-delayed publication further unpleasant surprises: Saint Paul themselves. There are also some very Tof archeological finds of the profoun- could have been 'the Liar' depicted in detailed narratives recalling personal dest importance to Judaism and Christia­ Essene writings and a Roman informer experiences - a treasury of autobiographies, nity. It uses the methods of serious scholar­ rather than an apostle, and the High Priest of life stories told briefly or at length. And ship and yet reads like a tale of conspiracy of the Jews, Annas, another collaborator for all their predictable similarities, these and detection which started 40 years ago with the Romans, may well have been the recollections and reports differ, at times in and is still going on. same source's 'Wicked Priest'. The Essenes quite significant respects. Thus, the declara­ The book clearly consists of two parts: themselves, claimed by the Christians as the tion of one returnee to Ulm that he, a the struggle with the 'hidden hands' which first monks and by the Jews as the first committed Socialist, decided to live in the prevent the public from fully learning what kibbutzniks, are revealed as non-celibate, Bundesrepublik in preference to Israel has been discovered, and the authors' con­ non-pacifist Jews, militant fundamentalists stands in sharp contrast to the story of clusions of what CAN be gleaned so far. closely linked to the Massada warriors. another left-wing activist whose Commu­ nist affiliations did not prevent him from The putative villains are a group of n John Rossall Roman Catholic scholars — consensus men playing a full part in the development of the - at the Ecole Biblique and the Rockefeller Jewish state, as did those others who Museum in Jerusalem. They are allegedly sought, found and adopted kibbutz life, or motivated by fear of the impact on the Faith JACKMAN • those who settled happily in Tel-Aviv and by revelations in the Scrolls (the first of J elsewhere. which were discovered by Bedouin in the SILVERMAN One of the most interesting aspects of 3 Qumran caves near the Dead Sea). Since the c:OMMERCl.AL TROPERTY C0.\SL:LT.A\TS number of contributions is the light they book appeared the renowned Oxford Scho­ throw on the reactions, thoughts and feel­ lar, Professor Dr Geza Vermes, has publicly ings of those who accepted one of the three deprecated the mention of conspiracy. official invitations to return as visitors to Nevertheless, several of the Catholic scho­ their hometown. Two brothers, for ex­ lars involved revealed themselves as virulent ample, interviewed on one of these antisemites. One, Father de Vaux, had been occasions, gave distinctly different res­ a member of the fascist Action Frangaise ponses: one did not feel 'at home' in Ulm in and another, John Strugnell - since dis­ any way at all, while for the other hearing 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA pure 'schwabisch' once again was music to missed - made utterances that would have Telephone: 071 409 0771 Fax: 071 493 8017 rejoiced the Nazis. the ears. AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1992

The second part of the book is devoted to Passau during the 19th century. We read Stille's study shows the impact of anti­ an illustrated overview of the history of the how these families pursued their professions semitism in a fivefold mirror, as it were; it Jews of Ulm. First settlement appears to and trades and were integrated into Passau unfolds as a group tragedy interlaced with have been recorded in the 13th century. society until the rise of Nazism. heartening deeds of compassion and Then came the persecutions of the 15th and The life stories are carefully researched bravery. 16th centuries, when German cities banned and much use is made of original records The Italian Jews were so integrated in the the presence, other than by strictly and photographs. ^ ^^^^ ^^^^ host community (some of them for 2,000 controlled daytime business visits, of Jews years and more) that even the advent of within their walls. Emancipation saw a Mussolini made no difference. The Duce return; and there is much interesting mater­ Where no good deed gradually changed from a friend of the Jews ial illustrating the integration of Ulm's Jews into an imitator of Hitler. from the early 1800s onward and their went unpunished Not so the vast majority of Italians. contribution to the cultural and commercial Everywhere Catholic laity as well as clergy Michael Burns DREYFUS A Family Affair 1789- life of the city. The end, as elsewhere, came hid the Jews. (Nevertheless, far too many in 1939 and those who had not emigrated 1945, Chatto & Windus, 1992, £20. Alexander Stille BENEVOLENCE AND BETRAYAL Five were picked up when the Nazis took over when there was still a chance were deported Italian Jewish Families under Fascism, Jonathan Rome and Northern Italy.) to the camps. Few survived. Cape. 1992. £20. The five families on whom Stille focuses In his Preface, the former citizen of Ulm at resided in Turin, Milan, Rome, Genoa and whose initiative the project was undertaken Ferrara. wo new books have their foundations points out that its objective was to 'build a The greatest similarity between the in societies of advanced assimilation bridge into the future across the ruins of the French and Italian subjects of these books and both end in the tragedies of the past'. For the sake of those who, like his T lay in their burning patriotism. Both Alfred Holocaust. mother, perished in Auschwitz, or, like his Dreyfus and Ettore Ovazza of Turin were One is, at its core, an 'old' tale, namely son, made the supreme sacrifice defending pole-axed by their blind faith in what they that of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who, falsely Israel, the volume must, as he concludes, regarded as their native countries. accused of treason, spent nearly five years as achieve its purpose. Ettore was a Great War hero and ardent a prisoner in a tropical hell. Although many D David Maier fascist, who attacked any Jew less loyal to books have been written on I'affaire Drey­ the Duce than himself; his reward was a fus none is as comprehensive and conclusive private execution and cremation in a central as Michael Burns'. It has the power of the heating furnace. More consoling is the story To thine own self be great tragedies of Shakespeare, as though of the Genoese Rabbi Pacifici who would Hamlet, or perhaps King Lear, had been not forsake his community, and was kept true forced into the role of Shvlock. Anno Elisabeth Rosmus EXODUS - IM alive by a local Catholic priest with the help SCHATTEN DER GNADE Aspekte zur of his Archbishop. Geschichte der Juden im Raum Passau. Verlag The Dreyfus clan were descended from ^orfmeister 1988. Rhenish pedlars who, emancipated by the And French Revolution, grew affluent and opted these f the resurgence of antisemitism in for France after the Franco-Prussian War, mes in Germany and Austria alarms us, the Alfred's advancement to staff captain was eclara- I endeavours of Anna Rosmus should go the family's crowning glory. But Alfred's he, a some way towards restoring one's faith in dry manner, pedantry and wealth made him m the the humanin,' of German youth. BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE unpopular with his fellow officers. A docu­ Israel The film The Nasty Girl (reviewed in AJR ment betraying French secrets came to light ory of information February 1991), was based on 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 and who but the outsider, the supercilious, )mmu- Mrs Rosmus' experiences whilst research­ dry Jew could be the culprit? from ing the history of her home town Passau We offer a traditional style of Burns makes the personalities and of the during the Third Reich. Overcoming seem- religious service with Cantor, events come wonderfully alive. He shows who 'ngly insuperable obstacles put in her way Choir and organ Alfred to have been a sensitive soul ife, or "y pillars of Passau society, she managed to incapable of expressing himself; the true IV and ferret out the truth. hero is his brother Mathieu who formed shifting alliances of 'Dreyfusards" and Rosmus's activities earned her retribution Further (details can be obtained from "Om the townsfolk: they killed her pet cat our synagogue secretary finally succeeded in having Alfred ^nd set fire to her family home. Finally her rehabilitated. husband, who could no longer stand the Telephone 071-794-3949 L'affaire let loose a flood of antisemitic •larrassment, left her. None of this made her filth but also gave rise to Emile Zola's abandon her efforts. Exodus - im Schatten Minister: Rabbi Rodney J. Mariner immortal J'Accuse. The real traitor. Ester- "^'' Gnade makes absorbing reading. From Cantor: Rev Lawrence H. Fine hazy, fled to England. Patriotism ^he author's introduction we learn that she undimmed, Alfred, his son and several other gave her daughter the Jewish name Salome Regular services: Friday evenings at 6.30 pm, Dreyfuses fought for France in the First Saturday mornings at 10 am '•o symbolise German-Jewish understanding World War; in the Second they fought in the and atonement. Religion school: Sundays at 10 am to 1 pm Resistance, and some, male and female, The book traces the lives of Jewish Space donated by Pafra Limited suffered the common Jewish fate. rarnilies who largely settled in and around D J.R. AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1992

Busch babies R. S. LenW, RUDI'S TIERBQCHLEIN. published by the author, with illustrations by Barry Charman. Price £8. s the title makes clear, the verses in A LESSTHAN-SPLENDID RECORD 2. Council: Advisory of deliberate this charming little book are written Sir — I cannot let the article in your February assembly, a body of persons chosen as Ain German, and those of us who issue go unchallenged: as one of the Kinder advisers. (There is no question of election.) remember what is, after all, our native placed in December 1938 with a fine 3. Notion: Idea, conception, view, tongue, have a treat in store — if they like Liberal/Non-Conformist family in Bath, I vaguely held or insecurely based. There is that sort of thing. am only too glad to report my experience. no question that what I wrote was a notion. I add the caution advisedly: non- The local Committee — all voluntary — were It is not vaguely, but firmly, based on aficionados of Wilhelm Busch, or of a caring group of people, who regularly English usage. Edward Lear's nonsense rhymes might be kept in touch with my new family, with me, I do not expect you will publish this less than amused. For the 'poetry' offered by and even with my father back in Berlin. rectification. It would be far too embarrass­ Rudi is versification, and I know how They certainly had no 'impure motives that ing for the Editor. annoying Busch can be to non-fans. bring social workers into disrepute . . .' Callestick, Dr D. J. Salfield That said, I would stress that the afore­ Incidentally in spite of happily joining my Truro, Cornwall mentioned similarities are superficial. The new family's Sunday Church/Chapel activi­ author's love of animals comes through in ties, religious (Christian) instruction and STREET THEATRE REPRISED every poem, and the instructive and equally Church Boy Scouts, I had a strong enough charming illustrations clinch the matter. Jewish background to insist on Bar-Mizvah I am mystified by Dr Lukes' comments on Nowhere is this more striking than in Tobi, later. I do not believe that my psyche was Israeli foreign and arms policy as 'immoral'- der Dobi (doberman), the lovable 'wolf on scarred. The Israeli Government is charged with the the author's sofa ... an enemy's fierce As for Bloomsbury House: for us kids at awesome responsibility of preventing the enemy and a friend's true friend. the time, it was a sort of Mecca from which country from being overrun and the entire What also emerges is Mr Lenk's philo­ much wisdom and support flowed. Jewish population massacred. The military sophy of life. He wants humans to respect Oatlands Mere Vernon Saunders balance with the hostile Arab states only is animals, and to remember that we — apes Weybridge (formerly Werner Schwarz) 16:1 population ratio, 9:1 armed forces with less hair - are creatures of the same ratio, 3 :1 combat aircraft and tanks ratio. Israel must therefore adopt defence policies world. (Though, when it comes to the likes HAGADA of mosquitoes and tapeworms, he is less which her experts consider the most Sir - The illustration from a Frankfurt than sympathetic.) efficient, and 'morality' does not come into Hagada on the front page of your Passover it. There is nothing more immoral than Even the realms of Art and Scripture are Edition evoked 'past echos in the present' betraying one's country's defence secrets. drawn upon, namely in Das Pferd (George for me. I write with this very Hagada - Bishops Close G. Schmerling Orwell's Animal Farm), Die Seekuh (believe inscribed 'Ihrem 1. Enkel Max zum ersten Old Coulsdon, Surrey it or not, the possible origin of Lorelei), Die Aufsagen der Mah Nishtanah uon ihren Fledermaus (Johann Strauss) and Die Grosseltern Sulzbacher, Frankfurt, 1936' — Kudus in der Arche Noah (obvious). He in front of me. Battered and soiled, it was TAKE A STAND places crocodiles in the Nile; alas, when I rescued from the house in which my grand­ travelled that great river they had vanished. parents were killed in 1940 in the London Sir — This country, can take pride in the As a final warning to Man, the book's Blitz. This Pesach I evoke their memory, as I centuries-long tradition not only of giving back cover portrays the vanished world of have just returned from Israel, where I was asylum to the persecuted, but also absorb­ the dinosaurs, once the long-lived, trium­ Sandek at my own grandson's B'rith, just as ing waves of immigrant minorities and phant masters of Earth. ^ my late grandfather was Sandek at my making them full and useful citizens. Unlike I—I j.R. B'rith all those many years ago. G. Schmerling, I feel that it is just because oi Available from R. Lenk, 7 Mayfield, Worth, Golders Green Road Max Sulzbacher the 'pioneering role' of our group in the last Crawley, W. Sussex. half century along the road from refugees to London NWl I fully contributing, self-reliant citizens, that PARTNER we should speak out against narrow- IDOL WORDS minded xenophobia and injustice. in long established English Solicitors (bil­ Sir — The issue is not whether you or I are Fitzjohn's Avenue Dr M. Kog^^ ingual-German) would be happy to assist clients with English, German and Austrian 'right wing'. London NW3 problems. Contact The issue is whether the designation Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is 'a lie', Henry Ebner which is, of course, not a statement of fact Sir - We venture to assume that having at but an expression of emotion. To quote the succeeded, with the generous help of the Myers Ebner & Deaner Concise Oxford Dictionary: crew, in clambering aboard the life-raft, to 103 Shepherds Bush Road 1. Union: A whole resulting from combi­ prevent others who are in danger of drown­ London W6 7LP nation of parts or members, e.g. the U.S., ing from following is not an attitude which Telephone 071 602 4631 the U.K., or the Union of Soviet Socialist would commend itself to a majority of out ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN Republics. (There is no question of volun­ members. tary or otherwise.) Alongside the Chief Rabbi, the Arch- AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1992

bishop of Canterbury, the Cardinal Arch­ some of their former school pals. Remark­ bishop of Westminster, the Board of Depu­ World Re-union Berlin ably few people recognised each other, ties and the Labour and Liberal-Democrat March 1992 because they were either too young or too Parties, we state our objection to certain old or were in parallel classes. But there features of the proposed bill. Like them, we were some successes. A teacher was able to do not 'demand' unregulated settlement of he Berlin Senate invited former pupils re-acquaint herself with two or three of her foreign nationals. of Jewish Schools after 1933 to a former pupils. The writer met the mate he Wood Lane Martin and Eva Goldenberg TWorld Re-union in March 1992. shared the schoolbench with; we embraced London N6 Over 240 attended, including spouses or one another, as if we had only parted children and were accommodated in three yesterday. hotels, according ro their former schools. Sir - G. Schmerling who exhorts us to show We also heard an address by Yitzchak Two packs awaited them on arrival. One Schwersenz, who survived in Berlin and intolerance towards genuine asylum contained the detailed programme, printed seekers, has turned his back on his own whose exploits are well documented. A visiting cards of the two guides allocated for brother and sister, who survived Auschwitz past. For AJR members this is both each hotel, as well as concert and opera unseemly and repugnant. recalled the fact that they were arrested in tickets. The other contained an enormous the Staatsoper in 1943 during an identity Many of us put our heads on the line amount of background material, including check. Never could they have imagined that during the last war to fight for 'Freedom the book. Jiidische Schulen in Berlin by they would one day return to the place of from Fear". Some of my best friends, Jews Willy Holzer, himself a former pupil. their arrest. Wednesday saw the highlight, and gentiles, never returned and we would A champagne reception was followed by which began with a reception by the Gov­ betray their sacrifice if we failed to reject an address of welcome by one of the guides, erning Mayor Herr Eberhard Diepgen at his National Front sentiments. mainly for the purpose of orientation after new residence. In his welcoming speech he Mangotsfield Rd John Stanleigh 50 years' absence. Tuesday was highlighted thanked the audience for their difficult Bristol (Ex. Para. Regt.) by a Luncheon at the 'Haus der Kulturen decision to return to the place where they der Welt'. The guests were welcomed by a suffered so much sorrow. After the recep­ Sir — Just because we have been refugees representative of the Mayor and by Herr tion they were taken to their former schools ourselves we should stand up for others Jacov Rabau for the Judische Gemeinde. and through the areas where most of them vvho are in a similarly unfortunate position. The reply on behalf of the guests was given used to live. Filled with emotions and I am sure the founders of the AJR would by Sam Berg of the U.S.A., the instigator of saturated by old/new impressions they have agreed with the Goldenbergs and not the project. The microphone was then made returned to their hotels. available to the floor, and some people came G. Schmerling. In the evening some people availed them­ forward to inquire of the whereabouts of Southwood Lawn Rd Eva Trent selves of the opportunity to hear the Megilla London N6 in one of four Synagogues. Thursday saw an early start with a tour through Berlin which DISADVANTAGED GROUP WHERE DO YOU PUT YOUR CROSS? included Plotzensee prison and the former Levetzow Synagogue, now marked with a Sir - The writer of this article (March issue) Sir - Whilst appreciating the concern shown Memorial recording the dates of all depor­ assumes, in all probability correctly, that in retrospect over the fate of the 'Kinder', I am surprised no mention at all has been tation transports from Berlin. The tour more Jews will vote Tory than Labour. This made about the teenagers who arrived here ended at the Academy of Arts, where an seems to be proof of the truism that most with ten Marks in their pockets. exhibition Der Jiidische Kulturbund 1933- people vote essentially with an eye on their 41 has been mounted. Friday was a rest day pocket. Others may be less lucky, as men­ They found themselves frequently in thoroughly degrading domestic jobs with to absorb and digest the events and impres­ tioned in the article Appeal to drivers (also very little remuneration. What is more, they sions so far experienced. Some took the in March), which informs us that 'There had to fend for themselves entirely under opportunity to visit the cemetery at Weis­ will be less in the way of cheaper travel for the restrictive Alien Regulations then sensee. There was another exhibition the elderly'. prevailing. Jiidische Lebenswelten (Jewish Lifestyles) at Government giveth, and Government the Martin-Gropius-Bau, which again was taketh away! With hardly any impact on the Harrow Mrs G. Kaufman Middlesex very impressive. A Sunday evening visit to economy. the Deutsche Opernhaus for a performance hlolland Park Avenue J. Rotter DAS FR6HLICHE ALTER of Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail con­ London Wl I Sir - I would like to thank Leo Hirtz for the cluded a week of deep emotional Kogut charming poem Das Frohliche Alter, which experiences. ENQUIRY appeared in the February issue, and you for Berlin is not so much a Tale of two Cities Sir - The Wiener library has had enquiries publishing it. as a City of two tales. about Jewish members of the Pioneer Thanks to your tape recorded reading of D Martin Teich-Birken Corps. The only information we could give the paper for the blind I could hear it and Was that a book on this subject was asked for it to be read at my 80th birthday CAR HIRE published by Gollancz. If anyone can supply celebration. My son read it amidst great Comfortable, air conditioned car with we name of this book, or further infor­ laughter. A friend translated it for the helpful driver. mation about this subject could they please younger members of my family - sometimes Airports, stations, coast, etc Fully contact us? it is 'Fun to be 80'. insured. Wiener Library R. Bergman Highgate E.K. Tony Burstein 081-204 0567. Car 0831 461066. Arch­ ^ Devonshire St, Wl London AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1992

PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE 7^ ^"^attVotJk 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL Te I 071 328 0208 Open all hours Open 9.30 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday to Thursday. 2 p.m.- 7 p.m. Sundays.

Morning Activities - Bridge, kalookie. scrabble, chess, <;tc. , keep fit, discussion group, choir (Mondays), art class {Tuesdays and Thursdays).

Afternoon entertainment — JUNE Monday 1 Summertime Serenade - Elizabeth Fletcher and Brian Fletcher (Piano) Tuesday 2 Litrle Bits of Music - Jeremy Henderson Wednesday 3 Light Classical Music - Stuart Mclntyre and Elizabeth Mucha Thursday 4 Flute &C Piano Recital - Vaul Balint AJR Day Centre members can now use the facilities on Sundays and weeliday evenings. Debbie O'Brien & Photo: Neumtan. Gemma Nisbet Sunday 7 CLOSED n Sunday 10 May the Paul Balint evenings organiser Sarah Hannan. The tim­ Monday 8 CLOSED AJR Day Centre opened for busi­ ing of the introduction of the longer hours Tuesday 9 A Mid-Summer Recital Oness on the first day of its extended means that the centre's large garden can be for Cello & Piano - timetable. Whereas previously members fully utilised during warm summer after­ Richard Jenkinson and had been unable to use the facilities on noons and evenings. Paul Lewis (Piano) weekends or on weekday evenings, they can The members present this Sunday Wednesday 10 Solo Piano Recital - now come to meet friends, old and new, and Debbie O'Brien enjoyed each other's company in a very Thursday 11 Recital by Students from enjoy an excellent light supper. relaxed atmosphere, reminiscent of a large the Trinity College of Sunday entertainment and a programme family gathering. The serious bridge and Music 3.30 p.m. of activities are currently being arranged by kaluki players got down to business in the CLOSED unnl AGM at conservatory area, the more garrulous gath­ 7.30 p.m. JUNE ered around the refreshments to chat and Sunday 14 The Sugarianos - Jane banter. The lively piano playing of Gerard Marciano and Roberta Monday 29 London Ladies Choir Tischauer provided music for everyone, and Sugarman Tuesday 30 Popular Classical Music - Monday 15 The Flutelles Entertain - Maurice Isaacs and Isobel song for those who wished to join in. The Siobhan Grealy & Susan Isaacs (Piano) Day Centre Shop, which has extended its Thomas range substantially, provided a mixture of Tuesday 16 Fun With Music - Sue essential daily items and treats for members JULY Parker (Piano) to take home. Wednesday 17 Chopin & Liszt played Wednedsay 1 Solo Piano Recital - by Pauline Palmer Debbie O'Brien If the relaxed, family atmosphere and Thursday 18 The Romantic Selection - Thursday 2 'ZAPATEADO' - Guitar cheerful mood which were so apparent this Richard Moody and & Mandolin - Music Sunday are any indication - the Paul Balint Robert Douglas from Around the World AJR Day Centre's future success in extend­ - Alison Stephens & Sunday 21 Ronnie Goldberg ing its opening hours is assured. It is bound Entertains with Song and Martin Byatt Stmday 5 Gerald Benson Entertains to become a home from home for all its Guitar members. Monday 22 Piano Recital - Short at the Piano Pieces by Liszt &C Strauss Monday 6 Music for a Summer D M.N. & Other Light Classics - Afternoon - Heather Maja Elliot (Piano) Brown (Flute) & Rachel Tuesday 23 Popular songs & arias - Dale (Harp) Judi Merri Frowde & Tuesday 7 Classical &C Evergreens - AJR MEALS June Moore (piano) Gitte Sorensen (Flute) & TAKEAWAY SERVICE Wednesday 24 Magic of the Musicals - Vegard Lund (Guitar) Members can purchase reasonably Leonie Page and Lesley Wednesday 8 (a) 'CAMERATA TRIO' - Maureen Lawton, priced 3 course meals to take home Paul (Piano) from 15 Cleve Road Thursday 25 The Music Makers - Stephen Paisley and Elizabeth Winton & Stan Stephen Salter (Piano) Available from Tuesday June 9th Longmire with Piano (b) Outing to Theatre For further details please contact accompaniment Thursday 9 Duo - Judy Magnus &C Sunday 28 Big Moe's Big Prize Bingo Gillian Sonin LYDIA LASSMAN AJR 071-483 2536 AJR INFORMATION JUNE /992

Putting volunteers in the picture

just some of the small band of volunteers who do so much for members of the AJR. Photos: Newman. t is now over six years since the inception which have taken place over the years. membership secretary) will be organising of the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre. To Many of our visitors are now older and the additional hours whilst working very I mark the advances made during this frailer and we have had to respond to their closely with Sylvia and Renee. time, and to hear about future plans, more particular needs. Far more require transport than 60 members of the AJR's volunteer to and from Cleve Road so there is an Time to spare? force attended an afternoon tea at 15 Cleve increasing demand for volunteer drivers. Road. Recent legislation concerning food prep­ We would be delighted to hear from anyone aration and safety standards has necessi­ who can spare a few hours during the week tated the purchase of various items of or on a Sunday. Changing times catering equipment and the upgrading of The expansion of our services will They were welcomed by AJR Vice-Chair­ the kitchen. engender new tasks for both staff and man and Hon. Treasurer Max Kochmann volunteers. However, judging by the enthu­ ^ho, in a short address after refreshments, Meals on wheels siasm of those attending the tea party, it will thanked the volunteers who have done so all prove to be 'a piece of cake'. D Our social workers have consistently triuch towards making the Day Centre such reported a growing need for a meals on an overwhelming success. AJR Administra­ A report on the first day of extended hours wheels service. The provision of reliable tor Lydia Lassman spoke of the changes at Cleve Road appears on page eight. transport for this service has always pre­ sented a problem. However, we are con­ sidering the purchase of a minibus, which PAUL BALINT AJR could also take some members to and from DAY CENTRE the centre. In the meantime, in response to VOLUNTARY repeated requests, a takeaway meals service The day centre has extended its will be available from the beginning of June. VISITORS & SHOPPERS hours and will remain open until Members will be able to collect three-course NEEDED 7 p.m. Monday to Thursday and meals, suitably packaged and reasonably FOR: on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. priced, from 15 Cleve Road. )und Many members have requested an exten­ Holland Park VOLUNTEERS ARE sion of the opening hours at the centre and, Temple Fortune as from 10 May, Cleve Road will open its Hounslow and M.N. URGENTLY REQUIRED doors until 7 p.m. Monday to Thursday and Finchley Road areas from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays. We are and a German speaker for a delighted that Sarah Hannan (ex AJR To help with a variety of tasks - resident of the Jewish Home for including driving members to and from the Blind, Tottenham the centre, serving refreshments, helping on reception, running the shop ERRATUM NOTICE A few hours a week will help a etc. In the May issue the dates between 21 May and 31 May were omitted from the Paul Balint AJR fellow refugee. Day Centre events calendar. Please ring Laura Howe on 071- Also in the May issue: In the section of the Please ring Laura Howe, 483 2536 betv/een 9.30 a.m. & 5.30 Annual Report headed 'Election of Executive Committee' the name of Mrs Madeleine Brook Volunteers Co-ordinator on: p.m. on Monday to Thursday and was misprinted as Mrs M. Brooks. Apologies for any irritation, annoyance or 071-483 2536 9.30 a.m. & 1.30 p.m. on Friday. confusion caused. D M.N. AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1992

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Alice Schwab From 3 July to 18 October the Royal Academy will be mounting the first major SB's Column retrospective exhibition of works by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899). truly international musician. On visits to this country he painted Argentine-born Daniel Barenboim riverscape scenes of the Thames at Hamp­ A lives in Paris, but is equally at home ton Court, several of which are in the in many other cities. Having given piano exhibition (which has been sponsored by concerts in France, Britain and in the United Fondation Elf). States at a very young age, he is now chief Zadok Ben-David came from the Yemen conductor of the Chicago Symphony orches­ to Israel, which he represented at the Venice tra, and head of the Staatsoper, Berlin. He Biennale in 1988. New works by Ben- has recorded all of Beethoven's piano con­ David, on show at the Benjamin Rhodes cetti. Here in Britain, we fondly remember Gallery (until 13 June), include theatres or the collaboration with his late lamented first landscapes where sorcery occurs and mun­ wife Jacqueline du Pre, the great cellist with dane objects are made absurd. whom he had formed a unique bond based Rediscovering Pompeii at the Accademia on youthful musical idealism. Italiana, 24 Rutland Gate (until 21 June) Robert Stolz deservedly included. Vien­ should not be missed, since there is much na's Volksoper, staging a repertoire of new material including a whole painted operettas of Johann Strauss, Kalman, Lehar room and some fine carved marble furniture and Oscar Straus, has now added a collage to see. of Robert Stolz items under the title Servus The Fine Art and Antiques Fair is at Du to its programme. This will comprise all Olympia (4-14 June), where some 350 the evergreens from the composer's pen: leading dealers will be showing jewels, Salome, Klingelfee, Im Prater bliihn ivieder enamels, furniture, paintings, prints, clocks die Bdume, Zivei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt pottery, silver, glass, carpets, toys, etc. All and Gardeoffjzier. Stolz, the only non- the exhibits are vouched for and for sale. Jewish emigrant among the operetta com­ The rival Grosvenor House Antiques Fair posers, returned to his native country after Bernard Shatv by Augustus John 1915. runs from 10—20 June. the war and died at the age of 95. National Portrait Gallery. Spinks are showing a wide variety of Birthday. Vienna's 'Burg' actress Gusti objects at the Grosvenor House Antiques Wolf, who acted at that theatre as a child he work of Yossi Stem, the Israeli Fair, but are also mounting their own and rejoined it in 1946, is still an active painter and illustrator, who recently exhibition of 20th Century British Paint­ member. Remembered as a lively youngster T died at the age of 69, will be well- ings, Watercolours and Drawings (3-30 in Bekeffy's Unentschuldigte Stunde (with known to many readers from his delightful June). These include the Vorticist water- Gusti Huber), the variety of her parts has illustrations for Youth Aliyah New Year colour Protection by Wyndham Lewis, as ranged from Shakespeare's Puck to the grandmother in Tales from the Vienna Greeting Cards. Born in Hungary, he came well as works by Gaudier-Brzeska, Duncan Woods by Horvath. She has just turned 80 to Israel at 16 and studied at the Bezalel Grant, Ginner, Lucien Pissarro, Piper, Bom­ and does not contemplate retirement. School in Jerusalem. Subsequently he taught berg, Stanley Spencer and Ivon Hitchens. Obituary. The death, at 84, of Paul 3t the Bezalel School, where many of his 25 Years of Carving is the title of an Henreid, who acted at the 'Josefstadt' in former pupils became Israel's leading exhibition of stone and wood carvings by Vienna under Max Reinhardt and later in artists. Suzanne Lackner at Burgh House, Hamp­ London and Hollywood, ends another link The Rembrandt exhibitions at the stead from 4 to 14 June. between continental beginnings and Ameri­ National Gallery finished on 24 May, but Finally, In Close Up: Bernard Shatv (at ca's dream factory. Minor parts in British his drawings can still be seen at the British the National Portrait Gallery until 5 July) films (Goodbye Mr Chips, and opposite Museum (until 4 August). The National includes a bronze of Shaw by Rodin, a Anna Neagle in Victoria the Great), led onto Galler\'s latest exhibition is Brief portrait by Felix Topolski and a delightful a splendid career during the heyday of Encounters: Vermeer to De Hooch (until 31 close-up by Augustus John lent by H.M. American movies in the Forties and Fifties. 'August) and well worth seeing. The Manor Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. D His performance in the classic Casablanca "ouse Societ}' has an exhibition of paint- with Ingrid Bergman brought him lasting "igs and works on paper by Natalia fame. - Molly Picon, the veteran actress who Schneider (until 25 June). Natalia is a was born in New York of immigrant 'Russian artist, whose early work was for the parents, and performed both in English and theatre, but since 1972 she has devoted GERMAN BOOKS Yiddish, has died at the age of 93. She was herself entirely to painting. also known in Europe when, after the war The Royal Academy 224th Summer BOUGHT she sang Jewish songs to an audience of Exhibition, in associaton with Guiness pic, concentration camp survivors; visiting Bri- ^•'11 run from 7 June to 16 August. This is A. W. MYTZE rain in 1960, she played opposire Robert the largest contemporary art exhibition in 1 The Riding, London NWl 1. Morley at the Phoenix Theatre. Molly Picon the World and attracts works from new as remained closely associated with the New ^'ell as from established professional and Tel: 071-586 7546 York Yiddish theatre right up to the end of 'titernationallv acclaimed artists. her career.

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beginnings as an adult in pre-Hitler Ger­ teaching, philosophy, culture and history Berlin 1920/1992 many, with the added poignancy of being from biblical times to the modern world. It accompanied by the next two generations, then describes the 20 main areas of the myself, my wife Ruth, daughters and son- exhibition in detail subdivided by subject in-law. We experienced a city with many and geography. signs of firm intentions and considerable Perhaps the wealth of material in the success in attempting to rediscover its exhibition might prove somewhat daunting history and seeking to achieve a continuum to anyone not already familiar with Jewish of culture after the excision of a period of history and culture, but this is not a real psychosis. criticism. It was a great achievement to have been able to gather all the material from Place names persist many parts of the world, and fitting that this celebration of Judaism was placed at that My mother experienced very few echos time in that City. from the actual places where she spent her early adult life — little save the street and Rewarding life place names persist, while relics from a former age, such as the Prussian palaces at For my mother it was a unique way of Sans Souci and Charlottenburg and early turning the clock back to a period of youth, cultural experiences such as the incompar­ creativity and optimism before the onset of able antiquities in the Pergamon Museum the Nazi years. However, her life in England Lissi Newman. Photo: M. Pope. Reprinted with permission of Hendon Times Group. remain. Only a few buildings remain from has been rewarding and thoroughly ful­ the 1930s, islands in a rapidly changing filled. Throughout their first difficult years modern city. in England, Lissi helped her husband first by n 1920 Lissi Edler graduated from art selling her fashion sketches, and later by school in Berlin and was soon working as The exhibition itself was remarkable for helping him to build up a large general a freelance artist, selling original designs its ambition, its scope and its setting. An I astonishing wealth of priceless artefacts medical practice in North London. After a to the fashion houses and magazines of the few years she took up her first love oi day. She married in 1926 and had two sons. from ancient times, the Middle Ages and painting again, and now spends many hours By 1935 her husband barely escaped the some from more recent years have been Nazis and she followed him to England, her collected from all parts of the world where paintii' in her studio, attends classes and children and some other family members Jewish communities have flourished. There enjoys a full creative life. D Claus Newman managing to follow two years later. was a Dead Sea Scroll, 13th Century Bibles, Maimonides, the Mendelsohn family, Ein­ Lissi Newman is now 90 years old. Six stein and much else. There were models and years ago she answered an advertisement in photographs of synagogues from the past, the AJR from a young German researching paintings and photomontages of history OPEN DAYS the history of Jewish culture in pre-Nazi and costumes through the ages. My Germany, and especially the history of IN THE HOMES mother's work was in good company! haute couture. They met in London, her work was featured in a book that was For once the emphasis was on a cultural Leo Baeck House subsequently published, and Uwe Wesphal experience and achievement rather than on Sunday 21 June is now my son-in-law, having married my suffering and persecution, though these are 3.00 p.m. eldest daughter, Lissi's eldest remembered and recorded in accompanying Entrance £2 granddaughter. texts. The fact that the exhibition coincided with the Wannsee Conference anniversary Osmond House was intentional. It was well attended and Sunday 12 July 2.30 p.m. opening hours had to be extended because Extraordinary exhibition Entrance £2 of demand. Coinciding with the exhibition On 8 April 1992, Lissi returned to Berlin on there were a number of film, theatre and Clara Nehab House the invitation of the Berlin Senate, since she concert performances, as well as symposia had agreed to provide examples of her Sunday 19 July and lectures, all relevant. 2.30 p.m. original work from the 1920s. These had Entrance £2 been selected to form part of an extra­ Welcome counterweight ordinary exhibition on Jiidische Lebensivel- Balint House ten mounted in the Martin-Gropius-Bau by My initial reflex uneasiness at the open, Sunday 2 August Berliner Festspiele, an agency of the Berlin enthusiastic discussion of Jewish achieve­ 3.00 p.m. Municipal Government. An added pleasure ment in a public place with one of the Entrance £2 (Children £ I) for her was to find some more of her Curators who took us around the exhi­ original drawings, that had been published bition, soon dissipated and it became ap­ Heinrich Stahl House and preserved in the archives of the Berlin parent that there is much happening in Sunday 30 August Museum, hung in the exhibition. Germany that is positive and constructive 3.00 p.m. One generation is often too short to as a welcome counterweight to the much Entrance £2 (Children £ I) publicised neo-Nazi demonstrations. witness historical cycles, yet people granted All entrance prices include health and great age may do so. The visit The extensively illustrated catalogue refreshments could be experienced as a return to her starts with a 40 page framework of Jewish

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impressed the authorities that they revived grown and Ludwig Erhard, the successful Counterweight to the dormant Tooke Professorship in Econ­ German finance minister, applied his theor­ Keynes omics, and offered it to him. He held the ies in practice. In Great Britain he came into post until 1950, when he accepted a Chair prominence again under Mrs Thatcher. The t is less than universally known that at the University of Chicago. Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Vienna — Hitler's 'mongrel city' on He first came to public notice with his Smith Institute were founded to propagate I account of its racial admixture - Road to Serfdom which, published during his ideas. Mrs Thatcher recognized the spawned not only largely Jewish schools of the Second World War, became a main intellectual debt she owed Hayek, by psychology, music and philosophy but also plank in the Conservative election making him a Companion of Honour in of economics. The names of the Jewish Neo- campaign during the 1945 election. Road to 1984. Classical economists Gumplowicz, Bohm- Serfdom warned against the potential for Hayek was a non-observant Catholic, Bawerk and von Mises are only known to creeping totalitarianism, which he saw as whose view of Jews was shaped in the specialists nowadays. This is unlikely to the logical result of the reforms advocated antisemitic environment of inter-war Aus­ happen to the recently deceased Friedrich by the Labour Party, and based on the tria. He believed in market forces and not in Von Hayek, the last man to have had the Beveridge Report of 1944. Clement Attlee social justice - a term, he thought, that baton handed on by his illustrious made a withering reference to the work should be banned from the English lan­ predecessors. having been written by the 'Austrian' Fried­ guage. Social justice has been defined as 'the Hayek who was not a Jew, had grown up rich August von Hayek, though Hayek had social sense of justice in the Old Testament'. 'n what he dubbed the philosemitic become a naturalized British subject before The concept which Hayek rejected is 4,000 ambience of the declining Habsburg 1939. years old. Empire. He was brought to London in 1931 Hayek returned to Europe in 1962 D Henry Toch as the only debater of weight available to accepting the Chair in Economics at Frei­ oppose the employment theories of May­ burg, where he stayed until his retirement in nard Keynes. In faltering English he so 1969. His following around the world had 40 Years Ago this Month HILARY'S AGENCY Simon P. Rhodes M.Ch.S. Specialists in Long and Short-Term Live-in AJR GENERAL MEETING Care STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST RESPITE AND EMERGENCY CARE At the AJR General Meeting which took CARE FOR THE ELDERLY place on May 12 under the chairmanship of Surgery hours: HOUSEKEEPERS Mr. H. 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VERSE AND WORSE Cookery Corner Search Notices ELECTION (RE)CALL No. 3 CHICKEN A LA MAURICE Vienna 3. Researcher, assisting the Chicken fillets in garlic and orange sauce. curator of the Bezirksmuseum, SIR NICHOLAS FAIRBAIRN Sechskruegl-gasse, Vienna 3, with the He is good copy, though bad news. INGREDIENTS: compilation of a record of individual Both represents and prompts the Blues residents of the third district in 1938 who 2 chicken breast fillets, skinned suffered persecution during the Holocaust. Models his own designer trews 2 cloves garlic The work is part of history of the district And has a talent to amuse Teaspoonful of oregano (dried or fresh) which is on display in the museum, and is That draws no laughs from Blacks or Jews 1 small cup fresh orange juice (freshly also intended to produce learning materials for schools. Please contact P. Waldman: squeezed, bottled or tinned) 0223-62631. BAGDAD CAFE 4 teaspoonful ground black pepper Mascha Damelin (ca. 82) left Schaulen, The Muslim muezzins of Brent 2—3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil Latvia, ca. 1927 for England. Any Called for a Member of their own information to: Idel Frid, Alterszenter, METHOD But, canvassed by Ken Livingstone, Bornheimer Landstr. Frankfurt/Main Slice the chicken breasts lengthways into Germany. Made him their voice in Parliament strips. John Jackson, formerly Hans Josephy, Finely chop the garlic. son of Richard Josephy. Lived in Glasgow REDSKIN MASSACRE and moved to London about 2-3 years ago. Heat olive oil in frying pan. When hot add Basildon Man who, dubbed C2, Sought by Marion and Nanny Josephy, New the chicken, garlic, pepper and oregano. York. Contact: Katz, Oxford: 0865-59974. Papers with PA YE his loo When the chicken is cooked through pour in Alfred Jendricke, formerly Schillerstrasse And takes The Sun for gospel true the cup of orange juice. 17, Halle/Saale, Germany. Arrived in Has, maddened by the tabloid's shpeel. England ca. 1936, or any member of his Simmer for 1 minute. Buried the heart of wounded Neil family. Information to: Mrs P. L. Beimborn- Serve with steamed broccoli and fresh white Taylor, 17 Hardaker Lane, Nr Pontefract rolls on the side. WF7 FJS. D M.N.

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Birthdays

Dr Ernest M. Foulkes CBE, hoods, he sold it to Fisons Ltd, remaining on Dr Franz Gumpert, 85 Hon. FRCP, Hon. MD the Board of their Scientific Division as Vice-Chairman and Consultant. It was in Dr Franz Gumpert will celebrate his 85th On 24 May 1992, Dr Foulkes celebrated his the same year that he first conceived the idea birthday on June 29, 1992. 90th birthday. Born in Frankfurt, he gained of the Foulkes Foundation. Brought up in Breslau, he joined the FWV his Doctorate in Engineering in Berlin in His wide experience had made him very fraternity during his student days. Shortly 1929. With the rise of the Nazis he left aware of the need for cross-training post­ after passing his legal examinations his Germany and, after a brief period in Spain, graduates in both science and medicine to career was interrupted by the rise of the arrived in Britain with his wife, Senta, in enhance their ability to make significant Nazis. He emigrated first to India, coming 1936. In partnership with a compatriot, he contributions to medical research. With this to Britain after the war. set up a company producing machine tools, aim in mind he established the Foulkes Dr Gumpert is best known amongst AJR which were urgently required by British Foundation as a Charitable Trust in 1974 members for his tireless work with the industry. By the end of the war the firm was and endowed it with substantial funds. United Restitution Office (URO) in Lon­ Well established and beginning to branch In the 1979 New Year's Honours List Dr don, where he was appointed Legal Advisor out into other fields. Following a Ministry Foulkes was awarded a CBE. Other in 1964. For some years he was the only of Health approach in 1946 the factory honours he has received include Fellowships qualified lawyer on the staff. This was a turned to the development and production of the Royal College of Physicians and the heavy burden, but Dr Gumpert dealt with of medical equipment, particularly centri­ Royal Society of Medicine. Newcastle every claim with meticulous care and his fuges, an important piece of hardware University presented him with an Honorary patience and humanity earned him great needed for medical research. Doctorate of Medicine in May 1991. In trust and gratitude. The company prospered and expanded recognition of the Foundation's work in We wish Dr Franz Gumpert a happy 'nto new premises in Crawley New Town, Israel he has also been awarded the Inde­ birthday and thank him for all the work he from which location its reputation con­ pendence Coin of the State of Israel. has done on behalf of his fellow refugees. tinued to grow, becoming a world leader in Dr Ernest Foulkes has led a long and May he enjoy many more years of active life centrifuge production. In 1966 it became distinguished life, and in the 55 years since in vigour and good health! D one of the first ever to receive the Queen's his arrival has made a great contribution to Award to Industry for export achievements. his adopted homeland. We take this oppor­ In 1972, in order to safeguard his com­ tunity to wish him many more active years pany, and protect his employees' liveli­ with his wife Senta by his side. D SHORT OR LONG TERM CARE Are you looking for residential care for Obituaries yourself or for someone close to you? The Otto Schiff Housing Association offers a very attractive option. Maximilian Egon Rosner had to make his own way in his adopted We can offer short or long term care in our five country and was rightly proud of his residential homes and sheltered accommodation Vienna-born Egon Rosner, who died in his for old people with a Jewish refugee background. achievements as a qualified accountant. '1st year, came to this country at 17. He The Homes are situated a stone's throw from In 1974 Peter married Pat who has shared Kenwood and Hampstead Heath. Worked in a machine-tool factory and his on-going interest in the AJR for which It is our aim to enable residents to maintain their studied Engineering in the evenings. After dignity by providing an ambience that makes them she organised a collection at her church 'nternment in Canada he continued his feel part of the community and allows them to after his death. Home was very important to regard their environment with affection. Hobbies studies, and eventually entered Higher Peter and he died there in February after and other interests are actively encouraged. education. He advanced steadily from lec­ losing his fight against cancer. D In addition we can offer the following: turer, via departmental head at Mid-Essex Single rooms, many with en-suite facilities technical College, to Vice-Principal, and Physiotherapy hnally Principal, of Twickenham College of Occupational therapy lechnology. Simultaneously active in the BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE Social activities, including art classes, discussion National Association of Teachers in Further 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.3 groups and outings and Higher Education, he served on its Our communal hall is available Transport to the AJR Day Centre ^'fecutive. After retirement he was Vice- for cultural Visiting Doctor Chairman of the Board of Wandsworth and social functions. Jewish traditions catered for technical College. Despite all these pre- For details apply to: Experienced social workers available for Secretary, Synagogue Office. consultation occupations he was an ever-attentive Paterfamilias. D Tel: 071-794 3949 For further information please contact: Gloria Randall Ruth Finestone Otto Schiff Housing Association of Peter Crawshaw Association Jewish Refugees COUNSELLOR Central Office Hannah Karminski House ^ter was born m Vienna in 1923, the only Marion Shaw Dip. Psy. Cert. Coun. Osmond House 9 Adamson Road *ild of Irene and Alfred Kraushaar. His The Bishops Avenue London NW3 3HX parents used their resources to send their Offers gentle, cahng, empathetic London N2 OBG jg,. 071.433 2536 counselling. Home visits available. Tel: 081-209 0022 son to England in July 1939. They Oke so Phone: 0923-820306 "^any others, died in the Holocaust. Peter

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area around Clanbrassil Street became berg's dentist brother. When his surgery A part of Ireland's popularly known as 'Little Jerusalem'.) was completed Shaw enquired about the history Their numbers peaked in the 1920's bill. He was told that there would not be and 30's when the population was esti­ one since the dentist considered it an mated to be over 5,000. The present figure is honour to be of service to such an eminent in the region of 1,200. This reduction is writer. Some months later Mrs Hesselberg s largely due to the economic situation in brother received a first edition of Back to Ireland. A huge proportion of the younger Methusela, bearing the inscription: 'A generation are being forced to look abroad friend in need is a friend indeed, G.B.S.' The for work. For Irish Jews the main destina­ book, of course, remains in the family. tions have been America and Israel. How­ A striking feature of the Irish Jews is their ever, those who remain continue to make a similarity to British Jews. They have the substantial contribution to the country. same body language, similar speech pat' This is, perhaps, best illustrated by the fact terns and, in general, do not look at all that three members of the Jewish com­ different to their contemporaries in London munity are members of the Irish parliament or Manchester. It is only when they speak (The Dail). that they can be placed. The accents are pure Irish and a delight to listen to. Part of the fabric But what of the wider Irish population. Mrs Esther Hesselberg, now aged 92, a What do they, the vast Roman Catholic resident of the Jewish Home of Ireland, majority, think about the tiny Jewish Dublin, remembers her childhood in Cork community? as being: 'Like belonging to a huge family, Given that there are few Jews, a relatively with 500 members'. She is saddened at the small number of the Irish population have declining number of Jews in Ireland, but not actually come into contact with them. But too downcast. She believes they are too there is some antisemitism. Luckily, how­ Mrs Esther Hesselberg. Photo: Newman. much a part of the country's fabric to ever, it is usually abstractly based on disappear. This fabric extends into Irish ancient, and squalid, received opinions - he Jewish community in Ireland was literature. The best-known Jewish character from which racial stereotypes antisemites established in the late 16th century in modern fiction is probably Leopold have always drawn — and some vague ideas Twhen three Spanish Sephardi families Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses. about the Jews as 'Christ-killers'. entered the country. In the 400 years since Joyce had known no Jews in his native The rest seem more than tolerant. As one then the size of the Jewish population has Dublin; the inspiration behind Bloom was taxi-driver, who had had fleeting contact fluctuated widely. An influx of Lithuanian Italo Svevo whom he met in Trieste. Later with Jews, put it: 'Aaah, the Jewmen, Ashkenasi Jews in the late 19th century his Parisian secretary and legal adviser was they're not the worst in the world y'know- increased the Jewish population substan­ Paul Leon, who rescued valuable manu­ And they let the Irish soccer team practise tially. By the turn of the century thriving scripts before perishing in Auschwitz. up at the Maccabi ground — you can't say Jewish communities were established in Joyce's fellow giant in Irish letters, George fairer than that!' Cork, Dublin and Limerick. (In Dublin the Bernard Shaw, was a patient of Mrs Hessel- D M.N.

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