Volume XXXIII No. 11 November, 1978 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOOATm Of JEWISH RfflKEES IN GREAT BRHABI
'^' Rosenstock assets. To some extent, the arrests during the November pogroms were based on the par ticulars thus obtained. A few months later, Jews who were on the criminal register (in most cases for traffic and other minor delicts) PRELUDE TO HOLOCAUST were thrown into concentration camps. This The November 1938 Pogroms was followed by the deportation of Polish Jews at the end of October. In these days, our memories go back to the rooted in the country of their birth that they All these actions were the prelude to the ^appenings of 40 years ago, which were a could not envisage a transplantation into a November pogroms which were in no way ?ecisive turning point in the fate of the Jews different environment. Others, like many non- comparable with the acts of persecution and ^ Germany and Austria. It was in November Jews, expected that the regime would only discrimination during the preceding five-and-a- 1938, for the first time since the ascent of the last for a limited time; the discussion on half years. The events are sometimes dubbed Nazi regime, that there was a wholesale physi- this aspect, which was also conducted in some as "Reichskristallnacht". Perhaps, in a futile recent issues of this joumal, will continue attempt at wittiness, the term was originally '^al onslaught on the Jewish population. coined by the Nazis themselves. Yet, unfortu Looking back, we come to realise that the to occupy the minds of research workers, historians and laymen for a very long time to nately, aJfter the war, it has often been used, strangulation of German Jewry was carried with no ill intention, by serious-minded Ger ^i in stages. It began as soon as the Nazis come. A further impediment arose from the fact that, for good or evil, German Jewry was man and non-German historians. We cannot ^^d gained power and put into efiect their plead too strongly for its abrogation, because "octrine that Jews were not part of the Ger- on the average a middle-aged community, many of whose members could not face the it belittles the happenings which were unique lian people. The first measures were the laws in their cruelty. More than 7,500 businesses "f April 1933, by which, with certain excep task of building up their lives anew in an alien country, whose mentality and lan were demolished, 150 synagogues all over tions, "non-Aryan" civil servants were dis- the Reich were bumt, and if very few Jewish "lissed. These laws with their implementary guage they did not know and in which their professional experience would be useless. Last houses of prayers were spared, it was not "Jders as well as the take-over and boycott for reasons of humanity but for the sake ^' numerous Jewish businesses deprived many but not least, many countries which had admitted persecutees during the first years, of closely adjoining buildings which might be "'^ws of their livelihood. Yet beyond these endangered. In the course of the riots about I'laterial effects, the treatment as outcasts closed their frontiers. In so far, they too have their share in the fate of German Jewry. Yet 100 Jews, most of them at smaller places, ''Jflicted deep wounds on all sections of Ger were killed. Yet above all, 30,000 men of all man Jewry. We also remember the arrests of beyond this it is their main guilt that they remained inactive when there was still time ages were arrested and thrown into the con ''^wish and non-Jewish political activists; centration camps of Sachsenhausen, Dachau ^Uite a few of them perished in the concen to avert the catastrophe of the Second World War and all it entailed for mankind. and Buchenwald. Of them, almost 500 lost tration camps, often after several years of their lives in the camps as the result of the 'Offering. Yet while for the Jews the pre-war years cruelties of the guards. The next major step of degradation was the under the Nazi rdgime were a period of ?°actment of the Nuemberg Laws in 1935. extemal humiliation, they were at the same Action not "Spontaneous" phey are notorious not only because of their time a period of intemal Jewish revival. It is uncontroversial that the pogroms were Jiendish contents but also because, differentia- People whose associations with Judaism and not a "spontaneous" reaction to the assassina "og between "Jews" and "Mischlinge", they Jewish affairs had been non-existent or only tion of Legationsrat vom Rath in Paris, but 'evoked certain concessions made only two tenuous until 1933, became anxious to find that some drastic assault on the Jews had al ^^ars before to certain categories of "Jews", a new hold and to get knowledge of their ready been planned before and that the incident ^•S-, participants of the First World War and Jewish heritage. It was not just an enforced in Paris only served as a pretext. There were Pre-war civil servants. While they placed the withdrawal into a ghetto life, but a genuine not only the economic measures based on the '^ischlinge" into a somewhat less under- return to the fold, enhanced by their integra April 1938 law and menacing articles in "Das Privileged position, they laid the foundations tion into the values of European culture. The Schwarze Korps". It is also known that the ^"^r all future actions against the "Jews" in the "retum" found its expression in the organisa prisoners of Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen "leaning of the Law. tion of Jewish adult education and in the were ordered to build new barracks and that creation of the Jewish Kulturbiinde. These in Dachau instructions were given to sew Increasing Degradation were courageous and constructive measures "Stars of David" on the camp uniforms in in a time of distress and decline, described from then onwards, legislative and admini- preparation for a mass influx of Jewish prison by Ernst Simon in "Aufbau im Untergang" ers. Under all these circumstances it is "rative measures, which were considered and by Herbert Freeden in "Juedisches "^conceivable at the beginning of the regime, irrelevant that apparently written documents Theater in Nazideutschland", both published on the planned mass arrests could so far not ^adually became cruel reality. There were by the Leo Baeck Institute. Pinpricks such as the introduction of special be traced. The personal report about a warning Judenbaenke". There was the law of 1938 Among the numerous manifestations of Jewish given at the beginning of 1938 by an official dignity in those dangerous years mention must to a Jewish friend and related in this issue 2905 ^"^•Pulating that Jews had to add to their first ^?nie the names "Israel" and "Sarah"; the be made of the prayer, recommended by the cannot easily be dismissed. There are many ^'scriminatory character of this measure may "Reichsvertretung" after the promulgation of eye-witness reports on the sufferings in the ""t be fully understood in this country, where the Nuernberg Laws; it resulted in the first camps, and quite a few of them are published ^Uite a few Jews bear the name "Israel" and arrest of Otto Hirsch, the Director of the in "Pogrom" by Lionel Kochan (Andre where "Sarah" is a fashionable name also Reichsvertretung, who perished in Maut Deutsch, 1957) and "Crystal Night" by Rita r'^'ong non-.Iews. Yet there were immeasurably hausen in 1941. Thalmann and Emmanuel Feinermann yiore serious actions in the cultural, social During all these years, the living space be (Thames and Hudson, 1974). atid economic field. Looking back at this con- came narrower and narrower. In February Those who were spared incarceration had, "ant deterioration it may, at first sight, appear 1938, Schacht was replaced as Minister of albeit in a less cruel way, also to go ^'ifprising that there was no mass emigration Economics by the committed Nazi Funk. One through difficult times. Some constantly ^Uring the first years of the regime. This was of the first measures instigated by him was changed their abode, others found refuge with ^^rtainly not due to lack of self-respect but the law of April 26, 1938, by which all Jews Christian friends. All of them, though not .fther to the numerous difficulties with which (with the exception of those who possessed exposed to the sadism of the camp guards. th,e Jews were faced. Some felt so deeply less than 5,000 RM) had to register their Continued on page Z, column 1 ion ol
ma^L^-.si. Page 2 AJR INFORMATION November 1978 PRELUDE TO HOLOCAUST GERMAN MOVES AGAINST NAZIS The West German Govemment has invited Continued from page 1 the Danish Govemment to join a common European stand against Nazism. It proposea lived like outcasts in those days. The familiar POGROMS PLANNED WELL IN ADVANCE that all European countries should use their legal powers to stop neo-Nazi activities. Bonn streets through which they aimlessly wan An Indicative Statement stated that West German neo-Nazi groups wer^ dered had become dangerous groimd for them. known to print propaganda material in epi- They were to experience one of the most It is generally accepted that the Grynszpan laboration with a neo-Nazi group in the Danisn incident only served as a pretext and that Jutland region and were especially active.in poignant curses threatened in the Bible with preparations of some drastic and far-reaching areas near the Danish border. The Tiai^ unsurpassable insight: "In the moming thou action against the Jews were already con police subsequently opened inquiries into tw shalt say Would it were evening, and at even sidered many months before. In this context activities of the neo-Nazi headquarters. "\ the following personal report is of special Aarhus, Jutland, and against a publishing ing thou shalt say Would it were moming." house said to serve Nazi groups in the whpi^ GraduaUy, the prisoners retumed from the interest. It was written in January 1945 by a German-Jewish lawyer, Justizrat Dr. Berthold of Northem Europe. The German magazin^ camps, with shaven heads looking like crimi "WUle und Weg" stated its address. THe Loewenstein of Leipzig, at the request of Dr. Danish Nazi movement and the publishers ar? nals, and wdth frostbitten limbs. In most cases K. J. Ball-Kaduri of Tel Aviv, and copies of linked with the World Union of National they had been released on the express imder- it are kept in the Wiener Library (London) Socialists. . taking that they woidd immediately prepare and the Yad Vashem Archives (Jerusalem). One trial to be started in Bochum in tne their emigration. This official order was hardly Dr. Loewenstein relates that soon after the near future concems six men, aged between necessary because by now they had definitely Nazis had come to power, he became acquain 67 and 71 years, who are accused of havins ted with an official in the German Currency taken part in the shooting of 7,000 Jews in come to realise that Germany had ceased to White Ruthenia, Russia. The prosecution n^s be their homeland. But where should they go? Department, a certain Reichsbankoberinspek- asked for 201 witnesses to be called. Soine tor Engelke. Like Dr. Loewenstein, Engelke of those living abroad wUl be interviewed »J Most former countries of refuge had closed had been a Freemason; for the sake of his job, their places of residence by the Court wn'fp their frontiers or made the admission depen he naturally kept this fact secret, as well as his will travel to Los Angeles, Tel Aviv and tne dent on conditions, such as the possession of objections to National Socialism. Despite his of Soviet Union. The trial is expected to last »•• foreign currency, which the applicants could ficial position in the administration, he became least six months. quite friendly with the Loewensteins, whose not fulfil. The United States rigidly stuck to Statute of Limitation their quota system: many lives would have children were already in Palestine, and freely visited their home. On these occasions, when been saved if the U.S. Govemment had lived Dr. Rueckerl, head of the Central Agency the possibility of emigration was discussed, for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, .na° up to the emergency. Palestine certificates Engelke used to say that he did not think announced that investigations and proceeding were hardly available because Britain, then the r6gime would last. against 3,618 people are being conducted i" the mandatory power, wanted to avoid any W. Germany, but there was an increasine However, in spring, 1938 his ideas changed. difficulty in obtaining evidence of crimes cow' complications in her relationship with the He then told Dr. Loewenstein that from what mitted at least 34 years ago. In a number ° Arab population. he had heard at meetings in the Economics cases, however, there was enough docunien tary evidence for a conviction. In such cas^* Nevertheless it still became possible that Ministry, he must earnestly advise him to proceedings will continue even after i" between November 1938 and the outbreak of emigrate. But there was no hurry; late Decem Statute of Limitation has become operati* war about 100,000 Jews were able to leave ber, 1938 would be time enough to go. in 1980. J Accordingly, Dr Loewenstein proceeded with The Federal Govemment has announce Germany. This figure is also remarkable if that, before the end of the year, it will PHJi we consider it in the wider context of the his arrangements for leaving Germany lish a complete survey of documents on t" emigration process from 1933 onwards. During throughout the summer and autumn 1938. But prosecution of Nazi criminals since 1945. * suddenly, all this leisurely and orderly pro will at the same time remind all relev^F^ the first five-and-a-half years, the number of govemment authorities in Germany that v" emigrants amounted to about 150,000; this gress was punctuated by an unexpected event: Statute of Limitation will become operatic means that only under the pressure of the on October 29 Engelke arrived at the house at the end of 1979 and that they should there; in great agitation, saying that he had just fore submit all additional evidence in the' pogroms the number considerably rose. possession to the Federal Govemment befor come from a meeting at the Economics Mini that date. Britain's Rescue Work stry at which it had been made known that Among the countries which took part in the before mid-November "dreadful things" were rescue work, Britain played an outstanding to happen to the Jews, though he could give PROSECUTION OF NEO-NAZIS role. This happened at a time, when the coun no details. The Loewensteins could not delay In Karlsruhe, the Police arrested three m^. try went though a serious economic crisis. their emigration until the end of November; who belonged to the neo-Nazi "Deutschvo' Though the relaxation of the immigration he must, he said, save them, they had to kische Gemeinschaft", a splinter group *1H policy was certainly to some extent meant leave Germany within three days. branches all over the Federal Republic •^ search produced a large assortment of arms'" as a kind of compensation for the severe Nevertheless, not aU the necessary visas ammunition. restriction of Jewish immigration to Palestine, had yet been obtained. On hearing this, In Munich, 23-year-old former sergea^p t it was, in the first place, based on Engelke said: "Well, in that case you have Willibald K. was given a suspended sentenc of ten months' imprisoment for attempting '• humanitarian considerations. On the other till the end of the week, but for your own set up the NSDAP Group Munich and UpP^i hand, about 150,000 Jews did not get out of safety you absolutely must leave Germany Bavaria. He and a 19-year-old apprentice cne Germany and, together with those who had by November 5." He helped them to obtain had distributed Nazi pamphlets which tnw received from the notorious NSDAP/AO GarJ^ fled to countries which were occupied by the the remaining papers, went with Dr Loewen Laucks in the USA. K. had also vsritten a^ Nazis during the war, became part of the six stein to the Swiss Consul whom he knew antisemitic pamphlet calling for the boycott " million victims of the Holocaust. personally, and, to speed matters up, tele Jewish shops. , At Rees on the Lower Rhine, the manage^ There are no films based on the happenings graphed for the grant of a visa. By this means. of a toy wholesale business was fined 12-""j of November 1938 and, apart from photos, Dr. Loewenstein and his wife did in fact cross DM for distributing Nazi emblems. He na there is no visual aid to keep the memory the German-Swiss frontier on November 5. imported plastic fighter planes and military equipment with Nazi emblems from Britain- of those days alive. Yet there is a compre Because he feared that his friend might On the other hand, the firm of Graf Klen.a" hensive literature, and there are eye-witness suffer. Dr. Loewenstein did not reveal the in Munich which sold yeUow stars and J^^J^c reports laid down at Yad Vashem and in name during the war, but only after he knew identity cards (Kennkarten) in its sale-Tool^' vi;as acquitted despite protests from nian.'j other Jewish institutions. We are the last that Engelke had died. His story rests on his citizens, because it said in its catalogue t"^g generation which can speak from first-hand own recollection of what was said to him, but objects hailing from the Third Reich *®5,f experience about those fateful days. It is one in such circumstances it is naturally likely offered for sale to scholars and students "j the period in order to prevent unconstitutioiiT. of our obligations to keep their memory alive. that his memory was clear. The report can activities and to serve research into content Like the Holocaust, the November pogrom has therefore be taken as an indication that the porary history. The public prosecutor acceptf^ to serve as a warning signal at a time like date of the planned "dreadful things against this explanation and said, the offer of YeUao Stars at DM 310 each did not represent ^ ours, when terror from above or by individuals the Jews" was fixed over a week before the insult to the dead, as no one entitled to do.'"' is again to be met in many parts of the world. death of vom Rath. J.L. i.e. no Jewish citizen, had brought a complai'^ • '^ INFORMATION November 1978 Page 3 HOME NEWS ^^^8A ^^^ Anglo-Judatca Wizo's Diamond Jubilee "THANK.YOU BRITAIN" FUND NEW ANTI-FASCIST NEWSPAPER British Wizo which was founded 60 years Lectures by Sir Otto Kahn-Freund A new paper entitled "The Defender" is ago by the late Rebecca Sieff, celebrated its shortly to be published. It will be a bi-monthly, diamond jubilee with a dinner at the n The speaker at the forthcoming "Thank-You aiming to oppose extremists of all factions. Gruildhall, London, in the presence of the ^tain" Fund lectures will be Su- Otto Kahn- Although the newspaper is being launched in Duchess of Gloucester and 400 guests includ fVf.und, Q.C., F.B.A. who has chosen the association with the Board of Deputies and ing Mr. Chaim Herzof, Israel's tormer repre A P.ical subject "Labour Relations—Heritage and Ajex, its scope will extend more widely than sentative at the United Nations who said ^ojustment". Born in Frankfurt/Main, Sir purely Jewish topics. Dr. Jacob Gewirtz, Mr. the situation in countries like Oman, Afghanis ytto Was a judge in the Berlin Labour Court Terence Prittie and Mr. Walter Nelson will be tan, Chad, and the Hom of Africa were far- r?W 1933. He came to this country as a among the editors and it is hoped that the reaching dangers for world peace which would oiif t^^® and soon obtained recognition as an new publication will "give a voice to all persist, even if the Arab-Israeli conflict were jgHtanding jurist. Until his retirement in those who support a democratic, racially and to be resolved. j'l. he was Professor of Comparative Law religious harmonious society". ji the University of Oxford. He has always Golders Green Cemetery "entified himself with his community of Desecrated j"gm and repeatedly expressed his interest r* the AJR, whose member he has been for JE500 MILLION TRADE BOOST Swastikas and a variety of obscenities were r^iy years. The lectures will be held at 5 Mr. John Silkin, the Minister of Ariculture, daubed and scratched on almost 200 head Ijni. on Monday, November 27; Thursday, said at a dinner of the Anglo-Jewish Chamber stones in the Reform and Sephardi cemeteries j,"vember 30 and Monday, December 4, at of Commerce that trade between Israel and in Hoop Lane, Golders Green. The extent of pj* British Academy, Burlington House, the desecration suggests that a large group of in Britain was in a healthy state. In 1977, Britain .'ccadilly, London, W.l. To secure admission had exported to Israel goods valued at some people must have been involved, and in a er;^i"ested readers should ask for invitation £270 million and bougnt from Israel £160 telephone call the "88 group" of British "i^is from the British Academy. million worth of goods. The trade was likely to National Socialists claimed responsibilitjf. It rise to a combined total of £500 million this is very difficult to remove the daubings, year, and this was a success story largely attri because most of the stones are old and worn. ISRAEL'S TWIN CITIES butable to the Chamber of Commerce. The Children of a non-Jewish school have volun Minister stressed that he felt strongly about teered to help in cleaning them. Some 400 representatives of 50 overseas the Arab boycott which was opposed and uj5^ and municipalities twinned with their deplored by the Govemment as a whole. hi^ti counterparts, attended a conference New Youth Centre at Edgware l3 by the Union of Local Authorities in Britain was keen to do further trade with ^el to celebrate the State's 30th annivers- Israel, and his department was willing at all The foundation-stone of the new £700,000 L/- They included representatives of the times to offer advice to all firms about to Brady-Maccabi youth and community centre j^ naon borough of Barnet, twinned with trade with the Jewish State. Israel had increased at Edgware was unveiled in a ceremony attend VoKh ^ Gan, Manchester, twinned with Reho- economic growth in the occupied territories ed by nearly 100 leaders and supporters of tJ"> and Portsmouth and Hackney, both and with her three million inhabitants had the Brady Club, Maccabi, and the Association thp K^ with Haifa. Hackney and Bamet have produced the same gross national product as for Jewish Youth. The centre will open early 9yj, oiggest Jewish populations of any local Egypt with her population of 37 million. next week and provide a major focus for p^'oonty in Britain. Hackney Jews number 14 sporting and cultural activities in the north 2(\ S^^^ of the population, and Bamet Jews west London area and later facilities for adults " per cent. AWARD FOR HERBERT SULZBACH and senior citizens. In recognition of his untiring services for Bushey Cemetery Extended YOUNG LIBERALS' PLO BID FAILS the cause of conciliation and understanding Duri between nations, Herbert Sulzbach, cultural Five acres of the third section of the Bushey PO] ing the Liberal Party Assembly in Stock- officer of the (jierman Embassy, was awarded cemetery extension were consecrated by the eafl' * ^ Young Liberals started to distribute the European Peace Cross, a distinction Chief Rabbi. Mr. Kosky, joint treasurer of the lereleta s published by the British Anti-Zionist created by an organisation which was set up Burial Society, said the cemetery was so full iisation. Unfortunately for them, a in 1962 by former French and German that burials in the new section would have to ^m\vgj-".eb r of them found their way into a Jewish parachutists to promote friendship among start before the end of the year. The first tL "18 reception which was being held at former enemies. The presentation of the burial at Bushey was on September 9, 1947. Com ^?^^ hotel as the conference. After a award took place at the German Embassy. We Since then, there have been nearly 15,000 bji^Piamt to the police by an uncle of the extend our sincerest congratulations to our Ijurials. After the consecration, Mr. Kosky and •lishH'i, *^^ 'i^tel management forbade the friend, Herbert Sulzbach, on this further well- Mr. S. Levin, president of the United Syna pr-^.oution of any further literature on the deserved honour bestowed on him. gogue, lowered a box of holy books into an LiK™'^,es- At a subsequent meeting of the The function at the Embassy was given open grave which was then filled with earth LiK^^al Friends of Israel, Lord Wigoder, the wide publicity in the national press. by the assembled company. aari Chief Whip apologised for the incident A similar burial took place in Sheffield Je^assured the audience that no slight to the me" ^oiin community had been intended. The where the Rev. A. Brysh, minister of the hvol- hj "Hg Liberals also failed in their attempt to United Hebrew Congregation, recited prayers witn adihi+t^ member of the Iraqi Youth League your House for:— as outworn prayerbooks and religious requi ilic. ^, ntjcjjted as a frateraal delegate. A small sites were buried. Ins and the ^^ of Young Liberals protested against lsrap?vebration of the 30th anniversary of CURTAINS, CARPETS, Shofar in Hospital ant ^ert • ^ *^^ Friends, but retreated when they Members of the Chief Rabbi's Torah group chaii_invited to attend. Mr. Bemard Silver, FLOOR COVERINGS and other clubs held short High Holy-day the ^1 of the Friends, announced during Services and blew shofar for Jewish in-patients .^eeting that among the new members at a number of North London hospitals. thg vpd was the immediate past chairman of SPECIAUTY they Ste^.r'ational League of Young Liberals, Mr. New Manchester Communal Rabbi Gary "'^e Atack ENGUSH & CONTINENTAL Mr. Harold Slutzkin, president of the Man chester Shechita Board, has announced that the post of communal rabbi, last held by "GREAT BRITAIN 1938" DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, Rabbi Dr. Alexander Altmann, who was a broadcast of German Language BBC rabbi in Berlin before he came to this country, tn DUVET COVERS & SHEETS is again to be filled. Rabbi Altmann, a great the f?^'"^ the 40th anniversary of its creation, Jewish scholar, left in 1959 to take up an academic post in the United States and has i^jj ^erman language BBC broadcast an ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS e". t, "(jt'^ssive programme under the heading since published a number of scholarly books. •VsrlSP everfi ""tannien 1938" on three consecutive frooins the^'^gs at the end of September. It recalled ESTIMATES FREE Synagogue Theft so(>iaf°titical events and the cultural and
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Mttifgot PotaUzer go to the United States. When their belongings were held up in Holland, they were unable to pay the freight and lost everything they had been allowed to bring with them, including a Torah. When war broke out, Arthur Hubert was A PHILANTHROPIST'S STORY intemed for a while, and after his release he worked as night-watchman in a Blackburn warehouse. It was at that time that he began The life of refugee Arthur Hubert is re- ventive and skilful merchants. "Many an to take an active interest in the life of the ™3rkable for many reasons. It has just been erstwhile pedlar developed into a name of Jewish community, which by then included noliti- ^escribed, modestly and unassumingly, in a intemational repute, and many a gold- or oook by Simon Kalisch, M.A., a Jewish scholar silversmith into a widely known bullion- many evacuees from London. Later on he be i« descendant of the last leader of the Press- broker". He could have added that they brought came foreman at a metal factory, and eventu .^S, orthodox Jewish community, with pre their religious tradition of charity and com ally he was employed by Tom Martin faces by both the present chief rabbi Dr. munity spirit into this new sphere, and many (London) as a metal buyer—at £4 per week. akobovits, and his predecessor Sir Israel Jewish and non-Jewish charities and cultural He was so successful that he eventually went °'odie, and by Lord Fisher of Camden, Presi- foundations of the region relied to a large into business with one of the owners, and this ^^^t of the Board of Deputies*. It is a work extent on their contributions. The Nazis was the beginning of a fantastic rise from rags , ^ love, without any claim to literary eminence, found it less than easy to end this happy to riches, as the Chief Rabbi says in his ut very readable for the sake of the story state of affairs. Foreword. "oas to tell. It does not matter that a few The Huberts had lived in the small town To the degree that his circumstances im roinor errors have crept in due to the fact of Schliichtem, which even now has barely proved, his involvement with community "at the author comes from an equally ortho- 6,000 inhabitants, for generations. They were matters and his contributions to religious and ^^> but otherwise very different background active in many branches of the metal trade. charitable causes increased. To follow his ^r a different political experience, a fact Hubert, educated at Fulda, another centre of meteoric career, it is necesary to read the book it 1?^ does not detract from the fascination Jewish orthodoxy, joined the family firm and in detail. It can only be mentioned in this holds for readers whose own experience married Martha Goldschmidt who came from short review that in 1964 his firm was floated a background similar to his own, and who on the London Stock Exchange and expanded °[ background is again totally different. steadily ever after. Its leading position in the j^*^?r nearly a century before the rise of throughout his life shared his preoccupation with work for the welfare of less fortunate metal reclaiming trade remained unchallenged. Rational Socialism, the Frankfurt orthodox Nowadays its twenty-five operating companies jOOUnunity, was the most important spiritual people. The business at first did not unduly suffer from Nazi interference after 1933, but employ a strike-free labour force of more than cus of religious Judaism. It radiated into 850. The Group includes the largest aluminium ^^ surrounding countr>'side, the old Prussian as many Jews left the small town and either aft«f emigrated or setUed somewhere where they smelter in the U.K. and makes a vital contri fT"ovince of Hesse-Nassau where there were bution to the balance of payments. j^??'^g and active Jewish orthodox commu- were less conspicuous, Arthur and Martha y3®^ in small towns and villages. At the same Hubert strove to keep Jewish life going. When During all this time, a large part of Hubert's {j ^. under the influence of French occupa- he was sent to Buchenwald concentration income has been devoted to further Jewish j^"* under Napoleon, emancipation had come camp after the 1938 November pogroms, the religious education by supporting Yeshivahs With ^ region at an earlier date, and contacts firm was closed down. After his release, the and seminaries for gifted students, by creating family moved to Frankfurt, where their young scholarships for talmudic and rabbinic studies Ith the Gentile neighbours were friendly and and by helping to set up Jewish day-schools. '^^quent. son Walter attended the famous Philanthropin school. Of his 38 fellow-pupils, he was the only In Israel, he is a supporter of the Jemsalem lj.This is the background against which the Kol Torah Yeshivah, founded by the late Rabbi Q^'Ory of the Hubert family must be seen, one to survive. It was due to Martha Hubert's brother who had earlier emigrated to Black- Kunstadt, the former Dayan of Fulda, and the a a family, moreover, which claimed to have Jerusalem Academy established by his old . ^fended from a Huguenot refugee converted bum that they were eventually able to join him—almost at the very last moment. They friend and mentor from Manchester, Rabbi ^Judaism. As the author puts it: in the new Horovitz, the former Rabbi of Mainz. He is a j^^'ant economic order, the Jews quickly arrived penniless and without labour permits ^like so many others to await their visas to founder-member of the Bar-llan University in ^^rged as notable industrialists, and as in Ramat Gan from which he holds an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He received it at the same time as Prime Minister Begin received his. Even in America he is held in high honour because he made vast donations to the Beth-Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey, founded in 1943 as a centre of leaming for gifted refugee students and staffed RENAULT by refugee scholars. His services to this country were recognised by the award of an O.B.E. Arthur Hubert's wife and son are equally inounte^. See the Renault range active in many fields. His son Walter who is d tbei^j a director of the family firm shares in all his father's charitable enterprises and has em at Old Oak braced two causes of his own: cancer research Jahd and football. As an enthusiastic football fan, °°°fall (Wm SPRECHEN DEUTSCH /MUMME CESKy) he was made a director of Blackburn Rovers and it is said that he is probably the only led of Where we believe that changing your car is a very director of any football club who never important business and you deserve to be treated as an watches his team on a Saturday afternoon. individual, not just a sales figure. During the whole of his career, Arthur ^^"S^ Where you can see the whole Renault range of value for Hubert was in contact with and influenced by money cars and light vans. We try to keep most models leaders of Jewish Orthodox leaming in and in stock all the time. If we haven't got it, we'll get it. from Germany, and we meet many well-known circu and weU-remembered names in his life-story. And where we try and make things easy by offering In Lakewood he was invested as a "Distin sensible part exchange prices, helping with finance and guished Laureate of Torah Philanthropy". insurance where necessary and generally looking after The Chief Rabbi sums up his admiration for you. We're a family firm, and to us our customers always him by saying that "his story is one of the come first. great epics of Anglo-Jewry inscribed ... in Ck>me and see for yourself. Old Oak-Service for cars-and people numerous institutions of Jewish leaming now gracing the educational landscape in this country, in Israel, and even in the United MOTOR States". COMPANY * Simon Kalisch, M.A., A Buildar of Judalam, tha Story OLD OAKLMITE D of Arthur Hubert and hia Family. Boaz House Publications. Manchester, 1978. 144 pp. £3-75. 79 WINDMILL HILL. ENFIELD 01-363 2261 Page 6 AJR INFORMATION November 1978
Eva G. Reichmann ginning. It reaches its climax with the "Juden zaehlung", i.e. a census of Jews serving i^ the front-line, which took place on Octo ber 11, 1916. The result was never published. "WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING" Allegedly, its motive was an intention to re fute hostile denigration of Jewish front-lin^ A Study of the "Frontbimd' fighters. However, leaving aside motives ana results: the stigma with which the census The literature on the catastrophe that over eins" (Droste-Verlag, Duesseldorf 1977. DM branded Jewish soldiers and civilians at the took German Jewry has assumed gigantic pro 48.—). same time has never been healed. A league of Jewish ex-servicemen was set up to vindicate portions. This is as it should be. Even if other The "Frontbund" was a marginal pheno historic events threaten to push it into the the honour of Jewish soldiers. What had been menon in the great German-Jewish confronta intended to expose Jewish disgrace, disgraced background of the consciousness of our times: tion of those years. Equally, its history, its nostra res agitur—nostra res not as a historical those who had provoked such self-justification- organisation, its activities and its end The establishment of the Frontbund was one episode slowly dissolving into the past, but were marginal aspects of the fateful rather as an event which perpetually revives of many tragic necessities forced upon the struggle which took place between the Jews by the progressing antisemitism of those itself in and with us with all its riddles await First World War and the final victory ing ultimate elucidation. days. It tried—not always without success—" of Nazism. Every detail of this margin^ to counteract continuing attempts to depriy^ It is therefore to be welcomed that an ever phenomenon has been thoroughly and con increasing number of young historians on the the Jews of their rights by producing statis scientiously researched and described by the tical proof, correcting notorious misrepr^ scene of the events, in Germany, are endea author. Whereas monographs on the leading vouring to face the phenomenon. Even though sentations and at a later date by providing Jewish organisations, such as the Centralver facilities for occupational re-training, by r?" some of their attempts may still cause mis ein and the Zionist Federation, are still either givings because they fight shy of unambig settlement, by physically protecting indi^' missing or incomplete, this study is an ex duals and meetings against attacks, by sub uously condemning the Nazi crimes, it may be tremely accomplished and—as far as possible said—and we hope that it may be said for mitting memoranda and by discussions wxtn in view of the scarcity of source-material— politicians who were still accessible. a long time to come—that the really import complete description of the emergence, the ant efforts to illuminate the dark comers of activities and the end of the Frontbund. Not At first, its efforts proved not entirely u"' these events are clearly intended to show infrequently, the author goes even beyond successful. The most notable success was tbe them up for what they reaUy were: extremes his actual subject. He describes the social and introduction of a clause into the Law for tne of abysmal depravity which defy even the economic development of German Jewry from Restoration of the Professional Civil Service occasional attempt to explain them away as the beginning of the twentieth century, and of April 7, 1933, which established the rigW misguided idealism. provides an instructive survey of the history to continue in their professions not only ^^ In this maze of evil confusion it is encour of antisemitism from the foundation of the Jewish civil servants who had held office pe- aging to find even modest attempts to contri German Reich to the outbreak of the First fore August 1, 1914, but also for Jewisn bute to an understanding of the inconceiv World War. 120 pages of sometimes very ex-servicemen and for the fathers and sons able. Such a modest attempt is the book of a illuminating foot-notes and a detailed biblio of Jews killed in the First World War. This young German historian, Ulrich Dunker "Der graphy complete the well-researched and meant, it is true, a breach in the solidarity o^ Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten, 1919- thorough book. Jewish victims of Nazi legislation by accorduiB 1938. Geschichte eines juedischen Abwehrver- privileges to certain categories, but the desire The history of a marginal phenomenon— to retain the greatest possible number of Je*^ but it is just the limitation of the subject in employment still played such a paramo'*'' matter which movingly stresses the limitless tragedy part of which it describes. The very existence of a defence organisation set up by Jewish ex-servicemen to vindicate their re LEON JESSEL LIMITED putation against the reproach of Jewish cow ardice must be regarded as a lamentable Ger man speciality. The accusation that Jews who, with the compliments of Manufacturers of in their overwhelming majority felt them selves completely German, had shirked their Fancy Leather Goods, duty during the war goes back to its very be- Gift Goods CLUB 1943 which are advertised throughout the Vortraege jeden Montag um 8 p.m. im Hannah Kanninski House worid as 9 Adamson Road, N.W.S 6 Nov. Paul Friedmann: "France— "EMBLEMS OF GOOD CRAFTSMANSHIP BY Selected Beauty Spots" (with colour slides). THE JESSEL ORGANISATION" 13 Nov. John P. Barlow, Civ. Eng.: "London's Guides and Taxi-drivers". 20 Nov. F. C. Fifer, B.Sc, Ph.D.: "Travels Pafra in Brazil" (illustrated with slides). We aiso manufacture Industrial 27 Nov. Dr. Hans Freyhan: "Franz Equipment in Leather and Canvas Schubert—Eine Wuerdigung anlaess synthetic adheshres lich seines 150. Todestages". adhesive applicators 4 Dec. Dr. Alfred Halberstamm: "The Lighter side of the Law". P.O. Box 12. Corporation Street 11 Dec. Dr. Erwin Seligmann: "Gerson von Bleichroeder, der letzte Hofjude Walsall, WSt 4HP —Bismarck und der deutsche Anti Pafra Umited semitismus". Bentalls * Basildon West Midlands 18 Dec. Celebration of 35th Anniversary of the Club. Details will be announced Essex • SSI 4 3BU in the next issue. T*l«phofMt 0922-24649 or 0922-22058 1979 TaWxi Chacom G Walsall 338212 LEJES 8 Jan. Dr. Kurt Pflueger: "Gedanken und Erinnerungen". ?:!rW!5BT--iaiff;iSiRffli^ ii»a?a^aa»»HB ^JIl INFORMATION November 1978 Page 7 representations have also found their way into 'WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING'' (con^d.) Dunker's record. In order to understand what Dunker in- P^rt in the thinking of the majority that this the past. A nadir in this process was reached dulgenUy calls "super-adjustment", it must be partial .success was, on the whole, accepted. in a conversation between Captain Loewen emphasised that this vain attempt was not the Very soon, however, the satisfaction gave stein and the Personal Private Secretary to the only way open to the Jews. We must compare *^ to growing misgivings. Not only did the Secretary of State, Legationsrat von Stutter- it with the attitude of the official Reichsver *rontbund boast unreservedly of its achieve- heim, who noted in the minutes of the con tretung which, in contrast to the Frontbund, F'^ts, it was also realised that the success versation: Loewenstein stated that the aims followed its desperate way in blameless dig lad been obtained at the expense of consider of the Frontbund could be better and more nity, resisting an overwhelming fate whilst ate ideological compromises, which more and purely realised within the Nazi State than burdened by the knowledge of its inevitable niore German Jews regarded as lacking in in the previous "Marxist State dominated by failure. ^''Snity. The partial success, even though it Jews which the Frontbund had always ex- Should it ever be possible to present the ^^onferre^ benefits on a not inconsiderable pliciUy rejected". Jewish catastrophe in Germany in a way which "^ority, had torn the threatened Jewish Ulrich Dunker, the author, is a faithful is equal to the monstrous triumph of evil cele ^inmunity deeply asunder. It became increas- chronicler of this development. Occasionally, brating its infernal victories, the Frontbund, pSly obvious that under its chairman Captain he is also its cautious critic, for instance when playing its part in the tragedy, will have to IjCo Loewenstein, the Frontbund disregarded he implies that the appeal to youth "to con exchange the fool's cap for a black fool's hel •"e needs for a common defence and clearly form unconditionally" and to exercise "the met with an impenetrable visor, for even the awned on the political foe in order to gain soldierly virtues of discipline, readiness to depressing fool's bustie which today makes "Pecial privileges. All too soon, the limit of fight, and loyal comradeship" was more suited such sad and shameful reading had once ?^honour was surpassed. Intoxicated by its to disguise than objectively to describe the started from misjudged truths of vital, if mis nitial success, the Frontbund accepted the situation. In a felicitous phrase, he repeat judged validity. ^cts of life as presented by the Nazis. The edly refers to the attitude of the League as oreak with the rest of the Jewish community, "super-adjustment". And yet, this chary cri Objected to ever increasing harassment, be- ticism, however understandable when prof 50 YEARS WEST CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE <=ame unavoidable. fered by a young German, is, of course, insuf The story which Ulrich Dunker has to relate ficient. The policy of the Frontbund was not The 50th anniversary of the West Central a "fateful error", but rather an unscrupulous Liberal Synagogue, founded by the Hon. Lily M the years after 1933 is deeply shameful. and Marian Montagu was celebrated as a .,"6 Frontbund's declarations of loyalty to attempt to secure dishonourable advantages civil service, attended by the Mayor of "s Nazi regime became steadily more un for a group of Jews that, seen against the Camden and representatives of the Union of conditional. Without hesitation it used Nazi background of real representation of German Liberal and Progressive Synagogues. During j^^inology and eventually did not refrain Jewry, was small and by no means represent the war, after its place of worship was des om solenmly adopting the Fuehrerprinzip. ative. troyed by a landmine, the present building in Whitfield Street was built. Fourteen persons ^ first one still makes a vague reservation At the same time, the legitimate represent attending the service, had been members for nat the principle had in the first place been ation, the Reichsvertrctungr created and sup 50 years and were presented with commem jj?easure introduced by the "national revo- ported by the great Jewish organisations, orative certificates. Two of them are over 90. uiion", furthermore endangering the German fought its brave, conscientious and realistic The present president, Mr. Jeremy Montagu is ®*s, but it was pointed out that this should campaign against the common enemy. In the a great-nephew of the founders. ^ot prevent the "realisation of the great ad- beginning it was fought not without the hope of I'ntages of the principle for the State and for a tolerable solution. Later the hope grew BEVIS MARKS SERVICE FOR MONASH JJ other communities". Henceforth, it would weaker and eventually it faded away. At the BRANCH, ROYAL BRITISH LEGION ..° longer be possible to "paralyse" the end of the day, only the resistance against strength and resolution of the leadership by relentlessly increasing despair dictated the At a rededication service in the Bevis Marks jj^y^^ting opinions". This proclamation estab- measures that could still be taken. The synagogue, members of the Monash Branch ^hed^ the Frontbund's complete break with understanding of even these desperate meas of the Royal British Legion were joined by representatives of the Spanish and Portuguese P democratic republican constitution. It ures necessitates a degree of empathy from community, and of Australia and the City of promised unambiguously "to educate German later generations which is not readily avail London. There followed a reception in the outh in accordance with the doctrine of the able. They have led to not a few misunder church hall of St. Botolph Without, which was ^^esent State", and, resolutely tuming its back standings among the survivors and those who addressed by Mr. Martin Savitt. He wamed .,? all hitherto held ideas, it declared that claim to speak on their behalf, because they against those who wished to belittle the tgl^l'ceforth within German Jewry only those lack both the indispensable knowledge and Legion's war effort and "rewrite history", and appreciation. Only too often, misjudgements pleaded that black, brown and white people „ndencies would prevail which were based on should fight together in peace as in war. 6 national, military and social tenets of the and misrepresentations distort the presenta "'spent State", tion of the terrible reality which the unfor f i^ere was no end to the renunciation of tunate victims had to endure. It is therefore ^er loyalties. 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Northway House, London N20 9BR. 2S Bridg* Road, Wemblify Piric, MiddlMCx, HAS SAB TnlaplMw: 01-804 7603 (aa&t9B8) tiSU-f'U'h'l Page 8 AJR INFORMATION November 1978 BERTHA PAPPENHEIM REMEMBERED NEWS FROM GERMANY At Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt, a bust of Bertha Pappenheim, founder of the German PRESmENT SCHEEL VISITS BERLIN JEWISH SUBJECTS IN SCHOOLBOOKS League of Jewish Women, was placed in the COIOIUNAL CENTRE central library, and a plaque was put on the The fifth German-Israeli schoolbook confer former Home for Unmarried Mothers and their On September 13, Federal President ence has just ended. It was also attended by Walter Scheel paid a visit to the Fasanen children which she ran in the town. Bertha educationalists from Britain, France, Austria, Pappenheim was born in Vienna in 1859 and strasse Communal Centre in Berlin. He was and the Netherlands. The generally agreed welcomed by the Chairman of the Community, died in Neu-Isenburg in 1936. She was also conclusion was that Judaism was usually men the subject of a long study by Sigmund Herr Heinz Galinski. In his address, the tioned in history books in connection with President stated that, as in fonner times, the Freud who analysed her. The original home medieval history and the history of National was bumed down in 1938. Berlin Jewish community was the largest one Socialism, but no mention was made about in Germany. He recalled the names of Jewish what has happened since. Professor Schallen- Berliners wbo had made outstanding contri berger of Duisburg University said there was STREET FIGHTS IN ]»ANNHEIM butions to Germany's political and cultural a difference between discrimination against life. "It is important for us", the President minorities and antisemitism: while there was During a congress of the Baden National said, "that we find a proper relationship with discrimination against Turkish "guest-workers" Democratic Party (NPD), 3,000 Left-wing our Jewish feUow citizens. The few Jews who in Germany, nobody had ever doubted Turkey's demonstrators clashed with party members. live in our midst are not Israelis or foreign right to exist. Auschwitz should not be treated One demonstrator was seriously injured, a^" ers but German fellow citizens. Even today as a "historical chamber of horrors", it should 76 people were arrested. Subsequentiy, the it is not easy for a Jew to live and to remain be examined and researched within the frame mayor banned a Sunday aftemoon demonst^- in (Sermany. Such a decision calls for a great work of the history of its time. It was hoped strength of forgiveness. Let us be thankful to tion of the NPD and a police force of 1^00 that the results of the congress would be re men had to keep order. them. It must never happen again that the flected in new history-books in all countries. fate of a German is determined by the fact that he is of Jewish descent." FURTHER WAR CRIMES TRIALS CHAGALL'S STAINED GLASS FOR MAINZ IN THE GDR PARLIAMENT TO DISCUSS "HOLOCAUST" CHURCH Dr. Przybylski, attorney-general of the East The German Federal Parliament will have Marc Chagall's wife, Valentina, representa German Republic, said in a TV interview, that to discuss the advisability of showing the tives of the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish in the German Democratic Republic further Holocaust film in German, the performance of communities, and many others recently war crime trials might be held for years to which is scheduled for the beginning of next attended a service in St. Stephan's Church, come. In his view, it was impossible to uncover year. Deputy Olaf Schwencke (SPD) has Mainz, at which a stained glass window by the completely crimes by state organisations which submitted a parliamentary question asking 91-year-old artist was consecrated. Chagall had been directed from above. Some w^ whether the Federal Govemment shares his himself could not attend the ceremony for criminals were still abroad with forged identity objection against showing the film, or what it reasons of health. documents, or living under assumed names, or intends to do at least to prepare the broadcast The window is in six parts and depicts changing their abode so often that it Wf* by introducing it with qualified historical and scenes and symbols from the Old Testament. difficult to apprehend them. If such people educational explanations. Deputy Schwencke It was the gift of the Rhineland-Palatinate were caught, they would be brought to justice refers to the superficiality and the factual Govemment and is the first such work which at any time. mistakes of the film and describes it as a Chagall has carried out for a church in Ger commercial horror style production. many. An exhibition in his honour has also been opened in the Mainz museum. JEWISH MUSEUM IN WEST BERLIN 'ROYAL MINT" The Society for a Jewish Museum in Berlin, joinUy with the Berlin Museum, recentiy has been advertised in AJR for many arranged an exhibition at which the works by DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX years. Jewish artists were on show. As the director P of Berlin Museum, Professor Dr. Irmgardt Have you tasted it or the other Royals? Wirth, reported it is intended to re-erect the famous Ephraim Palais next to the Berlin LTD. Museum in the Lindenstrasse and to use it for the permanent exhibition of works pertinent to Jewish art, history and religion. 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TELEX 2-3540 53/79 Higtigate Road, London NWS 1RR should be addressed to: Oberbuergermeister Samtlebe, Suedwall 24, 4600 Dortmund 1, West Germany. 'gggftiiV'-A-^iiy^-Ttf: !, ^.6a;SvmA^^,.iB>.a^«V3«^>«^;«i^l^^ AJR INFORMATION November 1978 Page 9 THE ISRAELI SCENE Walter Schwab A DISPUTATIOUS CROWD ENCOURAGING ECONOMIC REPORT BRITISH TRADE UNIONS AS MEDIATORS Jewish Socialists of Various Outlooks .Although the Israeli inflation rate is run- The Israel Histraduth has asked the British "mg at over 40 per cent, a cheering note is TUC to act as intermediary between the Arab Norah Levin, an American Professor of struck by a recent CBI survey, which states: and Israel trade unions. At the recent TUC Modern History, says on page 420 of her book* • •. Direct exports—^perhaps the ultimate test congress in Brighton, a representative of the that Jewish Socialists from Eastem Europe ^ an economy's viability—are expanding at Histraduth, Mr Aharon Bamea, said that trade were notoriously disputatious. This statement geartwarming rates". Following the August unions in Arab countries operated under is amply proved by her detailed descriptions, Jashion Weelc held in London, it was stated severe constraints, but the Histraduth was as it were a blow-by-blow account of the rise J^at British imports of Israeli clothes have eager to establish links with them. He asked and progress of Jewish Socialist movements wis year already exceeded the total for 1977. TUC leaders who maintain contacts with Arab A similar Fashion Week wiU be held in unions, to tell them about this. in the U.S.A., Russia and Palestine. August, 1979. One of the author's difficulties is to define EGYPT HELPS TO REPAIR MOSQUE who was or was not a Jewish Socialist. Appar- NEW AIR CHARTER POLICY entiy you could be a Jew and a Socialist, but During President Sadat's visit to Jerasalem this did not necessarily make you a Jewish ,, No restrictions on foreign nationals travel- last year, his deputy. Dr. Tohami, promised to Socialist. Karl Marx was a Jew, although he f^S by charter plane to Israel will operate in the Mayor of Jerusalem, Mr. Teddy Kollek, did not regard himself as one, and certainly 'Hture. Previously, only nationals of the that Egypt would help to restore the pulpit was a Socialist. But he was not a Jewish country of departure could make use of such in the El Aksa Mosque which was badly damaged by a fire started by a mentally Socialist since he did great harm to the Jewish deranged Australian tourist in 1969. Egypt is cause by advocating the elimination of Judaism RECORD OF TOURISTS the only Arab country with architects and which in his view had become the embodiment craftsmen specialising in the type of repairs re of Schacherei—huckstering. Even worse, as the During the first seven months of 1978, the quired. Dr. Tohami wrote to Mr. Kollek that author points out, there were Jewish revolu number of British tourists in Israel totalled this was an attempt to break through the tionaries in the Narodnik movement who saw ^^00, a rise of 25 per cent on last year, barriers of darkness by peaceful co-operation. something good in pogroms as being the pearly 50,000 of them went by air, an increase instinctive outpouring of the anger of the "* 31 per cent. BALLET COMPANY IN TROUBLE Russian masses against their oppressors. This inner conflict bedevilled the Jewish NEW ARMY JOBS FOR GIRLS After a successful tour of London, the Socialist Movement. It became even clearer Bathsheva Dance Company had to cancel its Ihiring their army service, girls can now proposed tour of South Africa because the with the emergence of Zionism as a welcome volunteer to work in tank traming stations. Govemment refused further subsidies and altemative to the kind of Socialism which .iJiey have to leam to drive and service tanks there would have been a deficit of £17,200. The might resolve the plight of the Jewish masses Jfl order to be able to train the men who will company receives an annual subsidy of but only at the expense of their Jewishness. ?«e them. They are, however, not to take part £158,000. At the end of the short London The conflict was well stated by the poet ^ 'he actual battie training. season, they had difficulty in settling their Abraham Liessin: "When I learned I was a hotel bills and the Israeli Ministry of Educa convinced Marxist, I also discovered I was NEW USES FOR MANURE tion had to send the money after receiving guarantees from local supporters and the not a Russian, not just a human being (which is merely an abstraction) but a Jew. Marxism , Israeli scientists have discovered a process Israeli Embassy in Britain. Mr. Paul Sanasardo, f^ wMch cattie manure is used for the manu- the Ballet's noted American choreographer, intensified my sense of reality, and the reality ^cture of fibret)oard, and chicken droppings said Israel would have to decide whether it surrounding me was Jewish". He eventually ^''e tumed into protein-rich catUe-feed. wanted a national dance company. gravitated to the Bundist philosophy, but only after the BuTid itself had developed a positive END OF TEACHERS STRIKE POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH EGYPT attitude to Jewish culture. In a sense the con fiict was resolved by the establishment of Only two days after Israel's schools had Telephone and telegraph links between Socialist Zionism, erected on the philosophical {•Pened their doors for the winter term, 60,000 Israel and Egypt have been re-established. They basis expounded by Nachman Syrkin in Zurich jjachers came out on strike for higher pay. were originally set up via the international fj*^ly a million children were affected. The exchange after President Sadat's visit to in 1898 and later published as Die Judenfrage "n^y teachers not taking part were those in Jerusalem, but when the bilateral negotia und der sozialistische Judenstaat. ?chools for the handicapped and for new tions broke down in January, the Egyptians Professor Levin devotes the last part of her ^migrant children, and those working along stopped accepting incoming calls. Joumalists work to the development of this ideology in v^e border with Lebanon. On the following in Cairo and Tel Aviv have now begun again Palestine with special reference to the estab ;*y. 15,000 teachers in State religious schools to send reports to each others' newspapers. lishment of communal settiements and the resumed work after the Sephardi Chief Rabbi, relationships, such as they were, with the J^adia Yossed had ruled tnat depriving chUd- KNESSET MEMBERS MEET PLO f^l of leaming violated rabbinical law. How- indigenous Arab workers. The author has covered a great deal of ^If^r they restricted lessons to religious sub- Israeli Ministers have called for a report on ??/^.'s. Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the Ashkenazi a meeting between two members of the ground in this important book and has y.'aet Rabbi, raled that the strike did not Knesset and a Palestine Liberation Organisa gathered together a lot of material not other •jolate rabbinical law, but that religious studies tion representative which took place at a wise readily available. Not all this material, "Qould be pursued. The remaining teachers reception held by the Mayor of Bonn for 500 interesting though it is in itself, is essential ^sumed work after the Camp David agree delegates to the conference of the Inter- to the main theme of the work. It might have ment, stating that they felt it "their duty" to Parliamentary Union. The meeting between ?* With our children at this historic time. They helped if some drastic editorial pruning had Mr. Avraham Melamed of the National been undertaken before the book was actually *^aed that they would continue to claim 35 Religious party, Mr Mordechai Wirshubski of ™r cent pay rise and other benefits. the Left-wing Shinui Party, and Abdullah al- published. Franji of the PLO was arranged by British * Norah Levin: Jewith Soclalitt Movementt 1871-1917. ROMAN ANCHOR FIND joumalist Edwin Roth. Both men said they While Messiah Tarried. The Littman Library ot Jewish had explained to the PLO representative that Civilisation. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. £9. .Israeli archaeologists excavated a 2,000-year- Israel could not agree to the inclusion of the ffs Roman anchor on a beach south of Haifa, PLO in Middle East peace talks as long as it r is made from wood and lead, is five metres maintained its murderous activities against Israel. Other Knesset members in Bonn LOST SISTER FOUND Sng and weighs IJ tons. Later on it will be refused to talk to PLO men, as it was Israel's "Splayed in the Haifa Maritime Museum. policy that there could be no contacts what soever with the PLO, because they were not Mr. Walter Wynate of Torquay is preparing GRAPES FROM THE PAST prepared to talk to murderers. to go to Israel to meet his sister from whom he had not heard for over 30 years. In 1948, .During excavations near Tel Aviv, archae- when his name was Wolf Weinblum, he saw her JjOgists found undamaged grapes, complete CONSIDERATE MOSLEMS at a Displaced Persons camp in Regensburg. r^tn skin and pips, from the late Canaanite Both came from Poland. He had come to Eng period, shorUy before Moses sent his mes- Moslem religious dignitaries have responded land in 1938 and immediately after the war ^ngers who came back laden with vines. to a request by Mayor Teddy Kollek and traced his sister, the only survivor of his family, scores of Jewish inhabitants to lessen the in the camp. Soon afterwards she left the camp volume of the calls to prayer-broadcast from and he lost all contact with her. Last January, the minarets of mosques all over Jerusalem through the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, With acknowledgement to the news every moming and at other times of the day. he got in touch with somebody who knew her. ^^rvioe of the Jewish Chronicle. The early moming calls were so loud that She had married in Israel and now lives in they disturbed the sleep of residents. Rehovot. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION November 1978 HANS FEIBUSCH EXHIBITION MISCELLANEOUS It is not surprising that a gifted artist can readUy turn with equal success from one UNREQUITED LOVE? HOPE FOR SURVIVAL medium to another. Hans Feibusch, famous as During the Weymouth world sailing champ Mr. Abraham Carmel, a former Catholic a mural artist, with much of his work adorning priest who was received into Judaism by the churches and other buUdings, including the ionships, a 19-year-old art student, Miss London Beth Din in 1953, and who is now a Stacey Rosenberg, gave red roses and a kiss teacher at a New York Yeshiva, said during West London Synagogue, has now turned to to one of the winning Russian crew members a recent visit to London, the young leadership sculpture as a result of eye trouble from whi^ and handed him a letter in Russian, pleading so badly lacking in Britain should come from he has now largely recovered. He was bom in the case of Soviet Jews and dissidents. The Frankfurt-on-Main in 1898 and first studied Russian read the letter and shouted: "Not Carmel CoUege where Mr. Carmel taught from correct". Subsequently, one of the deputation 1951 to 1959, and from Jewish day schools. medicine in Munich before tuming to art. At from Bournemouth's Campaign for Soviet The Jewish community's high divorce and first he worked in Frankfurt, receiving the low birth rate amounted to communal suicide. Prussian State Gold Medal in 1931, but with Jews spoke to him in (Jerman and he replied Mr. Carmel has taught English and compara in German that the reports in the Westem tive reUgion in Brooklyn smce 1963 and said the advent of the Nazis he was forced to Press and on TV were not true, and that the he regretted that lay leaders in communal leave and settled in England. An exhibition, dissidents were "not good". affairs did not use him more, especiaUy for marking his 80th birthday, was recentiy heW fund-raising for Israel, because he was suspect at the Orangery, HoUand Park and comprised MASTER BUTCHER as a proselyte, but he was a fervent reUgious a large number of sculptures, including ^ Zionist. After his return to America, he wUl number of portrait busts, as weU as some The newly elected master of the Worshipful celebrate the sUver jubUee of his conversion Company of Butchers in the City of London by dedicating himself to "converting Jews to large gouaches and studies for murals executeo is Mr. Jack Clarielt, deputy chairman of the Judaism". In three years, when he is due for in London, Chichester, Coventry, Portsmoutn Fatstock Marketing Corporation and director retirement, he wiU go to Israel. His conver and elsewhere throughout the country. S» of National Farmers Union Holdings Ltd. He sion, 25 years ago, was the first of a fuUy three-dimensional work is finely formed a"" is a qualified solicitor who, at 64, has spent ordained Catholic priest since the eleventh boldly executed, but to me his waU paintings half of his life in the meat business. His century. family has been in the meat trade for four wUl always stand out for their strong colours and masterful designs. He hesitantiy des generations. "ROADS TO CONFLICT" cribes himself as "an old worked-out painter A ten-part series on the Arab-Jewish con ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POST flict and its origins is being shown on BBC-1 playing with clay", but the work displayed a' over the next two months. It has been this exhibition is evidence enough of the crea Mr. Basil Feldman, managing director of produced by the BBC's further education tive impulse that he stUl retains. „ Dunbee-Combex-Marx Ltd, the manufacturers department in order to give viewers "a clear ALICE SCHWAB of to^s and do-it-yourself productSj has been grasp of the facts which have created the appointed chairman of the Economic Develop present intractable and volatUe situation." A JEWISH SCHOLAR ment Committee for the Clothing Industry by The programme, called "Roads to Conflict" the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Fel^an was filmed in Israel, Jordan, London, and the Professor Jack Winegreen has retired aft?J is also a member of the GLC arts committee. United States. It wul show the development 41 years as Professor of Hebrew at Trinijy of Palestine since the days of the Ottoman CoUege, Dublin. During this time, he ow CHANGES IN WJC LEADERSHIP Empire and the beginnings of both the Zionist once took leave of absence: in 1946/47 he weni and Arab nationalist movements. to Belsen as director of education, and h^ Lord Fisher, now chairman of the World together with his wife. Bertha, did sterile Jewish CouncU's governing board, has resigned POST OFFICE USERS COUNCIL work in the rehabUitation of survivors W'tpf as chairman of the European branch. He is iVIrs. Barbara Creme, of Sale, chairman of the aegis of the Jewish Committee for Relief succeeded by Mr. Maurice Grynvogel, president the management committee of the Jewish Abroad. Among his many books of schol^f of the French section. A new vice-chairman of Home for the Blind at Southport, has been ship, his "Practical Grammar of Classi^ the European branch is Mr. Greville Janner, appointed a member of the Post Office Users' Hebrew", published in 1939, stUl seUs some Q.C., M.P. national councU. 4,000 copies a year. FAMILY EVENTS Strauss.—Edith Strauss (nee Kom ELDERLY RETIRED MEDICAL COSMOPOLITAN, BRITISH, G^' feld), of 5 Westiy Court, Dartmouth PRACTITIONER, widower, re MAN-BORN WIDOWER, LiVlNy Birthf Road, London, N.W.2 (formerly quires housekeeper. Excellent con IN FRANCE, grateful to find affec Beuthen/Berlin), passed away on ditions and remuneration. Car tionate, mature female companio^ Wiener.—On September 29, to October 8, aged 77, after a severe avaUable. Write or phone: Dr. tolerance, kindness, common sens*' Melanie and Stephen Wiener, a illness, courageously bome. Deeply Henry Moorbath, 37 Southwood essential. Box 753. daughter, Caroline MicheUe, grand mourned and sadly missed by her Gardens, NewcasUe upon Tyne daughter to Hans and Gerda husband, brother, family and NES 3BX. Telephone 0632 853718. Wiener, and NataUe and Jack friends. INFORMATION REQUIRED MisceUaneous Goldwhite. Weisenbeck.—Our beloved mother, Personal Enquiries Clara Weisenbeck (n6e Hess), of REVLON MANICURIST. WUl visit Birthdays 122 Empire Court, Wembley Park, your home. Phone 01-445 2915. Lipschitz — Levenstadt. — Woul^ widow of the late Alfred Weisen anyone who has knowledge oi '^ Suschitzky. — Mrs. Adele Su JURISTISCHE BUECHER gesucht, beck (Munich) passed peacefully deutsch und vor 1933. IVIitteUung, whereabouts of the families ^^ schitzky from Vienna, now at away on September 16 in her 98th schitz of Koewsk (Rachmiel, Hen<^l Ctemond House, wiU be 100 years wenn moegUch mit Listen an year. Deeply moumed by her Box 751. Liba, Yossel) and Levenstadt " old on November 19. Her son, and daughters and sons-m-law, Paris ( Esther and Max) please cow his wife, her three grandchUdren Marianne and Josef Bronner, and ODD JOBS painting, decorating, tact Mrs. Ruth Goldman,^, with their famiUes (seven great- Irene and Emest Baer, nieces, gardening taken on. Phone 01-723 Cheyne Avenue, Snaresbrook, 1*" grandchUdren) wish her many nephews and many friends. She 5400. don, E.18. more happy years. was loved and respected by aU QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED who knew her. SPEECH THERAPIST treats Post- Deatlu stroke language or articulation EXPERIENCED CLASSIFIED problems in adults; stammering or Apt.—Mrs. EUi Apt, of Clara The charge in these columns is delayed language development in PHYSIOTHERAPIST Nehab House, passed away peace 2Sp for five words plus 20p for chUdren in English, German and AND MASSEUR fuUy on September 23 in her 78th advertisements under a Box No. Ivrit. All enquines in strictest con available after working hours year. Deeply moumed by her Situations Wanted fidence. Box 750. cousin. Miss A. Nussbaum and and week-ends. many friends. LADY, CONTINENTAL, seeks post Personal as companion West or North-west LADY, WIDOWED, Uving in own Phone: 01-455 8498 Gruenblatt. — Esther Graenblatt, London. Hours by arrangement. property flat in Leigh-on-Sea area, widow of Joel, mother of Rahel Box 752. young 60 years, thinks to be and Ruth, died suddenly in fuU Situations Vacant attractive, reasonable own income, possession of her faculties on looking for gentieman friend, LUGGAGE September 21 at the age of 87. WE WOULD WELCOME to hear must be cultured, if possible mid- Greatly missed by her famUy and from more ladies who would be HANDBAQS, UMBRELLAS AND European, suitable age, no ties. ALL LEATHER QOODS friends, to whom she was kiiid to wiUing to shop and cook for an Box 749. the last. elderly person in their neighbour hood on a temporary or permanent ATTRACTIVE, intelUgent, cheer TRAVEL GOODS Jacoby.—On September 27, in his basis. Current rate of pay £1-40 ful widow, 50, non-Orthodox, H. FUCHS seth year, Edgar Jacob, husband per hour. Please ring Mrs. Casson Continental-bom, looking for 267 West End Lane, N.W.t of the late Emmi Jacoby and father 01-624 4449, AJR Employment, for gentleman for future happiness. Phone 435 2602 of Marianne and HannL appointment. Box 748. -:^.i.ts»)Br8^j,fa«ist^«««H>?«.|.. •j -jllilJ r'f«r? ^-s^t-^&^a«ftW^'Jjg!t^!g'?«:»»^^5!g-iF.'-^»at^ AJR INFORMATION November 1978 Page 11 MRS. WIJSMULLER-MEIJER Mrs. Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer who has IN MEMORIAM died in Amsterdam, aged 82, rescued an esti mated 9,000 Jews, mainly chUdren, during the 1938/39: TWO MEN WHO RESCUED THE PROFESSOR BERNARD HALPERN Nazi era. A few hours before the Dutch VICTIMS capitulation on May 15, 1940, she spirited some One of France's leading medical scientists. 200 chUdren out of Amsterdam. She spent the „,^bert Auty, professor of Slavonic Philology Professor Bemard Halpem, has died, aged 74. war years throughout occupied Europe, rescu «i Oxford, has died recently, aged 63. Jewish He was bom in a smaU Ula:ainian viUage, and ing thousands of refugees and on one occasion f^iugees have a lot to thank him for. In 1938, emigrated to France at the age of 15. His fearlessly confronted Eichmann. After the lie Was assistant lecturer in German at Cam- parents remained behind, and his mother died war, she was invited by the Jerusalem Yad in ?^.f "^^iversity, where his circle of friends at Bergen-Belsen. He became a world authority Vashem to plant a tree dedicated to her in the "eluded a number of refugees from Nazi on allergies. During the war, he was Avenue of the Righteous GentUes. Her story a^jmany. On November 10, he went to Munich approached in his Paris laboratory by high- is related in the book "Geen Tyd Voor j?^ successfuUy negotiated for the release of ranking Nazis who invited him to Berlin where Tranen" (No Time for Tears). achau prisoners. In addition, with a list of a special laboratory would be buUt for him "ames provided by the Cambridge Refugees to work on his discovery in the sphere of THE LATE MIRIAM WARBURG 3°piiiiittee and in answer to many personal blood categories. He was promised fuU Ppeals on the spot, he set about tracing immunity from persecution and offered a Mrs. Frances Rubens, past President of the Ufflerous Jews nght across Germany and letter of protection signed by Hitler himself. Intemational COUTKH of Jewish Women, j^cured their release and their early departure However, on the day after his meeting with writes: the Nazis, he went into hiding in a small Miriam Warburg, whose death was announ nin? ^^® country. He became known as "the viUage, where he continued his research untU "oaern Pimpemel" amongst the hundreds the end of the war. In 1964, he was elected a ced in the September issue of this joumal, kL°° owed their lives to him. After the out- member of the French Academy of Sciences was one of the most imaginative thinkers I jeak of war, he worked with the Czech and made a Commander of the Legion d' have ever met Ideas poured out of her alert i^^^rnment in Exile in London, and after Honneur. He wrote over 400 scientific books mind and the International CouncU of Jewish of h- ^^*^ t^® Foreign Office. UntU the end and treaties and was a life-long active Zionist. i nis life, he remained in touch with many Women was fortunate in having her as its Geneva representative at the Economic and HPIV he had rescued and who had started HORACE REECE ^W and successful lives in this country. Social CouncU of the United Nations Organisa 3 August 1938, on the initiative of the With the sudden death of Horace Reece, tion when it obtained Consultative Status with ouncii for (Jerman Jewry and" th• e; CentraCentrall aged 64, the smaU Worcester Jewish com that body in 1964. I cannot pay sufficient tri gntish Fund, the Plough Settiementt Associa- munity lost one of its leading members. He bute to her dedication to her work. (-f°a- ^luLtd. . was incorporated to settle refugees was bom Horst Riesenburg in Germany, and She was a weU-known personaUty in U.N. com .Germany on farms in Kenya. A local after a speU at Dachau, obtained a permit to circles as was her husband who represented J. nimittee was set up there and Colonel A. go to Britain. At one time he was head the B'nai B'rith. Together they devised an jJ^stan Adams, a leading Nairobi chartered gardener of the city of Worcester, later, until jj-yountant, who died recenUy, looked after his recent retirement, a teacher at Pershore outstanding booklet for Human Rights Year S® .administration. The Colonel, a non-Jew, High School. He took an active interest in which was highly praised by the U.N. Organ (.rjjjmistered the scheme over a quarter of a community affairs and became hon. secretary isation and widely distributed. For Intemat him"^' ^ ^^ success was largely due to of the Worcester Hebrew Congregation where ional Women's Year Miriam devised a special he conducted the Hebrew classes untU the leaflet which, again, was highly praised. community became too smaU to support its Owing to her husband's appointment as BRUNO EISNER own synagogue. Throughout his life he was active in Zionist causes, and he also worked B'nai B'rith's representative to the European in h^^ pianist Bruno Eisner died in New York for the local Samaritans. Council they moved to Strasbourg. It was his 94th year. Bom in Vienna, he became largely due to Miriam's initiative that ICJW ^atnous by the concerts he gave aU over RABBI DR. LEO ADLER sought and gained Consultative Status with Urope during his earlier years. For some that body also and she served as its repre ji^fi. he also taught at the "Stemsche Rabbi Dr. Leo Adler, for 22 years rabbi of sentative there untU she died. - <*nservatorium" in Berlin and the "Vogtsche Basle, has died aged 62. He was bom in AU her work for the Intemational CouncU Ansbach and studied at the Mir Yeshiva. He ^onservatorium" in Hamburg. In the U.S., he first emigrated to New York where he held of Jewish Women was voluntary. Her devo ^s musical tutor at several universities and the office of youth rabbi. 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Friedrich Torberg, critic, author Israeli compositions. The event was sponsored Seventies meet the Twenties" the London ("Schuler Gerber", "Hier bin ich, mein by the London Music Club. Goethe Institute organises a series of cultirral Vater", "Die Tante Jolesch") and translator Jewish Living Drama Limited is the na"*® events which will link the two cities and (he translated Ephraim Kishon into German) of a recently formed professional drama group comprises many forms of art and entertain is 70; Maria Reining, soprano, member of the which aims at creating a Jewish cultural centre ment. During November and December there Vienna State Opera from 1935 to 1958, best for drama, music and art with a library 3°° will be lectures, exhibitions, concerts and film known as "Meistersinger" Eva, Arabella and workshop classes. It stems from the recent evenings. Among others, Fritz Lang's "IVIetro- Marschallin, was the subject of 75th birthday season of Jewish plays at the Almost Free polis" and "Testament des Dr. Mabuse" as celebrations. Theatre which was advertised and reviewed well as "Maedchen in Uniform" "Im Westem in "AJR Information". One of the founder mem nichts Neues" will be shown. A full pro Obituary. Lirui Carstens, the German stage bers of the new group is Martin Landau, * gramme of the events may be obtained from and film actress about whose career and suc former refugee and one-time director of t^ the Goethe Institute, 50 Princes Gate, London cesses we reported in this column earlier Ben Uri Gallery. M-^' S.W.7.—Under the same auspices, there will this year, has died in Munich, aged 85. The be performances of many German films at the versatile German star actor 0. E. 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