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Volume XXVII No. 4 April, 1972 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCUim OF XWBH RCFIKCB IN GREAT BRITAHI

Erwin Rosenthal (Cambridge) tachment to the land as a postulate of the religion of Israel. He breaks new ground when he explains the estrangement of Christianity from the land of Israel as the A CHRISTIAN-JEWISH DIALOGUE consequence of the refusal of the early Christians to defend it in the national crises of 66-70 and 132-5. Where Paul saw the "end Christian-Jewish co-operation has been the their place as an encounter of equals. That of the Law" in Jesus, the Christ, Matthew concern of German Catholics and Protestants the initiative should be taken by Christians is and Luke speak of the "end of Israel" as a *^r many years and has found eloquent ex­ natural and proper, as is a certain reluctance punishment for the rejection of Jesus. This pression in a surprisingly large number of on the part of the Jews who actively co-oper­ changed the Christian understanding of the Publications, conferences and study weeks, ate only in sma'l numbers. "Old" Testament; the concrete relationship of ^he impact of Auschwitz and the inadequate The equality and permanent value of the Jew to the land (of the covenant and *^claration by the Second Vatican Council on Judaism are stressed throughout. It finds for­ the prophetic messianic promise) underwent 'he Jews only account to some extent for the ceful expression in Dr. Strolz's important in­ in the Christian a spiritualisation which serious attempt by responsible Christians at troduction which sets the tone for a penetrat­ .''taking good" through seeking a better, ob- resulted in a theological antisemitism. For ing analysis of the debt which Jesus and Marquardt Israel belongs to the land, for, l^ctive and just understanding of Jews and Christianity owe to Judaism, specially to ;^God's ownership (of the land) drove Baal, Biblical Judaism, by F. W. Marquardt, J. but never Israel out of the land". Equally jnoral "restitution"; it is their realisation Blank, Gabriele Dietrich and W. P. Eckert. fj^at the Christian faith must today recognise fruitful and new is his reading of the New Another significant feature of the book is the Testament as showing a positive relationship IJs roots in Judaism, acknowledge its debt to lively interest shown in modern interpreters Its to the "land-theology": he sees in Jesus "the Source and draw the necessary conclusions of Judaism like Hermann Cohen, Franz son of God and a true Jew in one". In him "Om the fact that Jesus was born a Jew and Rosenzwedg, Leo Baeck and especially Martin the unique relationship between God and the *as at home in the Judaism of his time even Buber. Jews has been made manifest before all the '^ough as the Christ (Messiah) of the Chris­ Common Heritage world, yet the promise of the land to the tian dogma—based on the Gospels, Paul and Jews sitands. Emunah as God's fidelity and }^^ Church Fathers—he went beyond Dr. Strolz demands a special declaration on Israel's loyalty must be realised in the State ''udaism. These Christian contemporaries the Jews whom the Vatican Council only of Israel not only religiously, but also strive to bridge the gulf that separated mentioned after Buddhism and Islam and politically. "-hristians far too long from the Jewish regrets that its declaration ignores the rel­ People whose election through divine revela­ igious experience, based on the Bible common After Auschwitz tion must in their view be acknowledged as to Jews and Christians, and does not recognise The Protestant Marquardt is followed by still valid today. This spiritual need also Jewish self-understanding from its own the Catholic Joseph Blank in "Das Mysterium reflects the shame felt over the roots of anti­ history of faith nor explicitly admits Chris­ Israel" who "attempts ... to comprehend the semitism in Christian theology and con­ tian antisemitism. He insists on the " insoluble massacre of the Jews during the Nazi time as sequently over the persecution of the Jews links" between Christian teaching and the a call to a searching new rethinking". Israel *id the misunderstanding of Judaism. Jewish heritage and on account being taken is and remains a reality to which Christ of contemporary Judaism in Israel and in the A Breakthrough brought the Christians near so that "the Diaspora. The Christian must realise that cause of Israel ... is our own cause". He A recent publication* represents a real "the gifts and calling of God" (Romans 11, asks: "Where have we to search for 'the face breakthrough in that Catholic and Protestant 29) still apply to post-Biblical Judaism down of God after Auschwitz' "(deliberately choosing theologians frankly admit Christian guilt and to Auschwitz and the establishment of the Dr. Maybaum's book-title in appreciation of ^eriously endeavour to get to know and un­ State of Israel. He and the contributors "are the questions therein asked)? "Is it the face derstand the independent continuing value of linked in the conviction that the Christians which is revealed unto us in the crucified "i^daism as such in the conviction that as descendants of Abraham (Romans 11, 1) Jesus of Nazareth? Or is it the shapeless face "''idaism is relevant to their own faith today must rediscover the Jewish power of hope if of the uncounted nameless of whom Nelly their faith is to radiate a living historical Sachs speaks?" Although what separates ^^i tomorrow. The Hebraisation of con­ awareness" (p. 12). temporary Christianity has become a burning Oiristian from Jew is still the question of issue. This explains their interest in con­ The first contribution by the present the Messiah, he deems it imperative to talk temporary Judaism and their desire for a reviewer "Vom geschichtlichen Fortleben des to each other, to talk better with one feal encounter and meeting of minds. It also Judentums" starts from the Biblical founda­ another. The question "why did the majority accounts for the topical, practical nature of tion on which the historical continuity and of Jews reject the Messiahship of Jesus"? is The Jewish Power of Hope and Christian for him an open question, a secret which he survival of Judaism and the Jews rest and links with three main concepts of the Bible: *.aith" which pervades the book. The Chris- which furnishes in Messianism the hope of the election of Israel, the covenant, and the ~an contributors write as committed redemption buttressed by the longing for divine kingship of God. believers with commendable, rare scholarly Zion. The close link between Torah, people °ojectivity and integrity enabling them to and land of Israel has always been solace, in­ He "can find nothing in Jesus himself that achieve new insights which they want to see spired hope and has given the Jew the power contradicts in principle Jewish thinking", yet ^PPMed not only in the Christian-Jewish to wait and work for the messianic fulfilment acknowledges that his "but I say unto you" uialogue, but also in the thought and ex­ of the kingdom of God for all mankind on shows a break with Jewish tradition. From perience of a truly Christian faith in our this earth. the persecution of the Jews throughout "iiie. Gone is the time—at least for them and Marquardt's "Gottes Bundestreue und die history, including the Nazi crimes, he con­ those who think like them—when Judaism biblischen Landverheissungen" not only cludes that the Christians were far from a *as considered dead wood supplanted by a shows deep sympathy and understanding for society which could be considered the king­ ^uperior Christianity, when disputations were the connection between covenant and land, dom of God on earth. The Jews wait for forced upon a harassed, persecuted Jewry by but in a positive evaluation of redemption, for them the world is not yet '"e Church triumphant. Today, dialogue takes Buber — interestingly complementing perfect; they "lay bare the sore spots of this u,* JQditchs Hoffnungskraft und ehrlstllchar GlautM. Bd. Rosenthal—stresses the historical con­ aeon" and, therefore, cause disquiet among /atter Strolz. Herder-Freiburg. Barcelona. LofxJon, 1971, '^"- 279. Katorvieit DM30. sciousness of the Jewish people through at­ Continiied on page 2, column 1 and Page 2 AJR INFORMATION April, 1972 A CHRISTIAN-JEWISH DIALOGUE GERMANY AND AUSTRIA LUFTHANSA miACKING Continued from page 1 Emuna Horizonte. A historical survey of the Jewish-Christian "dialogue" brings out well A spokesman of the "Organisa,tion of Vic­ the Christians. He says: "The Jewish criti­ the very gradual change in the Christian at­ tims of Zionist Occupation", the group respon­ cism of the existing world receives its sible for the hijacking of a Lufthansa jumbo titude to Judaism. For him the many misim- jet to Aden recently, in an interview with a strength from the gentle messianic hope derstandings which he fully discusses—among which secretly moves them". West German daily newspaper threatened that them the controversy between Max Arab terrorisits are planning to hijack more Dienemann and Erich Przywara—explain the of the country's aircraft. He declared that the Prophets and Revolutionaries reluctance of present-day Jews to take part hijackings should be understood in the con­ Gabriele Dietrich's chapter "Das jiidisch- in an encounter as equals. But he notes the text of development aid because the West prophetische Erbe in den neueren change brought about not least by National German Govemmenit had paid enormous sums Socialist antisemitism, because "the of money to Israel, but had given nothing to revolutionaren Bewegungen" is, in a sense, the people of Palestine. perhaps the most important contribution to Christians had to experience that they them­ the Jewish-Christian encounter on a non- selves were affected through this hatred of The Aden (Yemen) Govemment is reported the Jews. . . . The National Socialists knew to have stated that while opposed to ihijack- theological level in contrast to Marquardt ing in principle it sympathised with the hi­ and Blank. She considers the ethical and why they attacked in the Jews at the same jackers in this instance because it also social teaching of the prophets as relevant to time the 'Jewish spirit' of Christianity". He condemned both American "support of Zion­ the secu'ar revolutionary movement. She draws this conclusion from this: "It is, ism" and West German "anti-Palestine expects from a confrontation of Judaism and therefore, not too audacious to dare the as­ policy". of modem revolutionary movements a better sumption that in Auschwitz the Jews have According to well-informed sources, the five understanding, especially among the New also borne the burden of the Christians", and hijackers were junior Egyptian intelligence Left with its anti-Israel stance. Her review of he adds to this percipient statement: "This officers who had been seconded to Aden by Jewish participation in the socialist idea cannot contain any consolation", but the section of the general intelligence organi- movement, both of individuals and of the "persecution and suffering still make it saition in Egypt formerly headed by Sami Bwnd whose class situation is clearly related difficult for many Jews to believe in the sin­ Sharaf, now serving a life sentence in Cairo cerity of the preparedness of the Christians for conspiring to overthrow President Sadat. to their Judaism, is a penetrating con­ The officers were ordered by the new chief tribution to this much written about and dis­ for a dialogue". He clearly recognises that of Egyptian intelligence to return to Egypt, cussed question. Of the—more effective—Jew­ Jews cannot acknowledge Jesus as their pro­ which would have meant their dismissal on ish internationalists she says that their loyalty mised Messiah, but insists that both Jews and arrival in Cairo. They prevailed on the Aden to world revolution made them flee from their Christians must testify to the same God Government to request the Egyptian authori­ Judaism and from those who defamed them; before the nations. To indicate the rising ties to allow them to stay on, and arranged yet although throwing their Judaism over readiness for a real partnership between the hijacking to obtain enough money for board they still remained "Jews in exile". Jews and Christians in present-day Gennany their keep in Aden, with plenty over for their Eckert quotes the Bishop of Strassburg hosts. The West German Government paid Her section "Secularisation—Marxist and Pro­ a ransom of £2 million for the airliner and phetic Critique of Religion" is particularly saying in 1964: "Not only the Jews of the its crew. valuable through her telling criticism of Karl Old Covenant, also the Jews of today deserve Marx' mistaken attitude to religion, especially our high esteem because they are stUl today AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT to Judaism. In it she displays a profound the living witnesses of Biblical tradition. . . ." appreciation of the Bible paralleled by a He is convinced that "a Hebraisation of Antisemitic Incident close philosophical argument. For her Karl Christianity is the command of the hour" and Kautsky's statement—"We are not completely pleads for the common reading and study of When the Chancellor in the Austrian Par­ out of the Middle Ages as long as Judaism Scripture since the Jewish testimonies must liament announced the names of people who be understood in their own context and not would build a United Nations documentary exists among us. The sooner it disappears the centre in Vienna, two members of the People's better it is for society and the Jews them­ simply as witnesses for Christ and Party interrupted shouting "all Jevre". The selves"—is an attitude still found today, only Christianity. Christians must discover Chancellor immediately protested and the "clothed in the slogan of anti-Zionism". In authentic Judaism, and Christianity should be party chairman later apologised, dissociating "Jewish Socialism" Gabriele Dietrich bril­ understood from its roots in Judaism, not the party from the outburst and stating that liantly characterises Moses Hess, Ber Judaism from Christian positions. the two M.P.s would face disciplinary pro­ Borochov, the Kibbutz-movement and finally ceedings. Buber's contribution to "Utopian" Socialism. This is a timely, important book. It may For her, the Jewish prophetic structure is well only represent a minority, but from my WAR CRIMINALS relevant for the implementation of Socialism. own experience I would add, a growing Dutch Say "No" to Release Hence she commends to the young Left in minority. An English translation would make Germany with its incomplete knowledge to a valuable contribution to better Jewish- The Dutch Second Chamber approved by study the roots of prophetic revolutionary Christian understanding in this country. The 85 votes to 61 a Socialist motion urging the book is also a challenge to us Jews to think Govemment not to release the last three Nazi impetus, convinced that "to ask for such war criminals stUl serving sentences in Hol­ roots . . . could be a part of the process of afresh what Judaism means to us and what it land. The motion as approved "seriously recom­ restitution necessary in history". demands of us today. I know of no other mends" to the Government that it should not similar publication which takes Judaism so carry out its "provisional decision" to free The last contribution by the Dominican Dr. seriously in itself and so relevant for the three war criminals who have been in gaol Willehad Paul Eckert, "Jiidisch-christlioher Christianity. Perhaps it might help to over­ for 27 years. They are Joseph Kotaella, 63, Dialog heute", is a model of objectivity, clarity come our reluctance to take part in a real former chief of Amersfoort concentration and perception coming, as it does, from a dedi­ encoumter as equals and thus increase our camp in Holland; Ferdinand Aus der Fuenten, and our Christian partners' knowledge and 72; and Franz Fischer, whose death sentences cated worker for mutual understanding, well after the Second World War were commuted known by his writings and his editorship of understanding of each other. to life imprisonment. Hundreds of young Jews and former con­ centration camp inmates and Resistance fighters demonstrated outside Parliament against the Govemment's plans to free the war criminals. Holland's Orthodox, Sephardi and Liberal Jewish communities sent a joint Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. telegram to Parliament opposing the release. A moimting tide of protest by Jewish, Resistance and other organisations culminated Bankers with a march in Amsterdam joined by 46,000 demonstrators. Influenced by the mass protests, most of the Dutch newspapers came out BASILDON HOUSE, 7^11 MOORGATE, E.C.2 strongly against release, the "Nieuw Israeli­ tisch Weekblad" commenting that the war criminals were detained as symbols of justice Telephone: 01-600 8151 and not for reasons of revenge. Under the impact of the vigorous protest Telex: London 885822 campaign the Dutch Cabinet has abandoned its "provisional" plans to release the tliree war crinumals. fS(^i-Tt'i:-'.-,::rwt(vaT"'^'t.^-' •u';'?aBBTaaaP'a"ig!.a"'-i ••.^^.Kts^wa^iBnBig' '•K-.Be^P^^

AJR INFORMA'nON April, 1972 Page 3 HOME NEWS ANGLOJIJDAICA " MEIN KAMPF " DANGER REMEMBRANCE OF THE MARTYRS Hebrew Teachers In a sermon at the Marble Arch Synagogue Meeting on April 9 The National Union of Hebrew Teachers Jae minister. Rabbi Maurice Unterman. at­ As readers will have seen from the March held its 28th annual meeting at the Luba­ tacked the Board of Deputies on the forth- issue, this year's meeting in commemoration vitch school in Stamford Hill. Its hon. life wming paperback edition of Hitler's "Mein of the six million martyrs of Nazism will take president, Miss Beatrice Barwell, in her ^^ampf". He castigated the lay leaders whose place on Sunday, Apnl 9, at 3 p.m., at the speech criticised the union for not being force­ representation to Hutchinson, the publishers, Cambridge Theatre, Earlham Street, London, ful enough in its attempts to gain greater lad resulted merely in upgrading the cost W.C.2. The guest speakers will be Lord May- recognition in the community as a profes­ « the book from £1.25 to £2. bray-King (formerly Speaker of the House sional body. The retiring life president, Rabbi Also attacking the publishers. Rabbi Unter- of Commons) and H.E. The Israeli Ambassa­ Israel Cohen, in his annual report also said {iian said that the publication of "this obscene dor. Among the other speakers will, for the that, at practically all levels of communal DOok is a callous betrayal of all those who first time, be a member of the younger discussion, the union had continued to be jought and died so that Hitlerism may perisih generation, Miss Naomi Freedman, prize- ignored and had taken this "lying down." ^or all time". wirmer of the Ajex Lionel Rose Speaking Competition, 1971. There will also be readings UK ATTmmE ON SYRIA Classes in Israel Replying to Lord Hoy, who called for a from literature and recitals of ghetto songs. ^tement about the position of Jews in Syria, The AJR is one of the sponsoring organisa­ Following discussions between Chief Rabbi *«rl Ferrers in a carefully worded statement tions of the fimction, and it is earnestly hoped Jakobovits and educationists in Israel, pupils ^d: "The results of the inquiries which have that many of our members will attend. Ad­ from Jewish day schools in this country may peen set in motion are not such as would mission is free. Reserved seats may be move to Israel for up to a year. Entire classes justify specific and authoritative comment on ordered from the World Jewish Congress are envisaged as going for a year to a kib­ •^e position of Jews in Syria." Earl Ferrers (British Section), 55 New Cavendish Street, butz, and there are schemes for a two-month ^.id that investigations had been carried out London, WIM 8BT (Tel.: 01-935 0335/9). Hebrew course and a four-month period with With regard to the treatment of Jews in Israeli families. The cost per child is ex­ S'ia, but the Govemment considered that LOTTIE REIZENSTEIN EXHIBITION pected to be about £650 for one year, £440 It would be inappropriate for them to inter­ The studio of Lottie Reizenstein at 13 Col­ for six months and £200 for two months. A vene, at least at present, over the matter", lege Court, College Crescent, Swiss Cottage, proportion of the cost will probably be met ^ntain had no diplomatic relations with the will be open to visitors on Sunday, April 16. by the Chief Rabbi's educational develop­ ^yrian Govemment; none of the Jews in from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and on Monday, April ment trust and from other sources. ^yria was a British subject and "our informa­ 17, from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be some Other proposals include a scheme whereby tion does not indicate any policy of sustained 60 paintings and watercolours of hers on view. Israeli trainee teachers would spend their S^ .consistent violent persecution by the As readers know, Lottie Reizenstein. who was fourth year of study at British schools and ?ynan authorities of the Jewish community bom in Nueraberg, has exhibited extensively non-Jewish teachers at Jewish schools here * Syria". in the West End. The "Open Studio" is spon­ would spend some time at the Hebrew sored by the Ben Uri Art Society. . Lord Janner urged the Govemment to make University. J^her inquiries and to intervene if they AJR CLUB BRING AND BUY SALE Rabbi Apple Leaving i^ere provided with material which would The power cuts did not stop 252 guests Justify an intervention. MPs are understood from coming to the Bring and Buy Sale on the Melbourne-born Rabbi Raymond Apple, who J^ be examining the Govemment's position occasion of the 16th birthdav of the AJR Club. has been minister at the Hampstead Synagogue ?? explained in the Lords and it is possible The stalls looked most attractive, thanks to since 1965, is leaving in October to become inat further questions will be put down in an the generosity of the many donors. The 20 chief minister of the Great Synagogue in ^"ort to provoke an intervention by Britain. salesladies were kept busy w.'th brisk buying, Sydney, Australia. Rabbi Apple said that he AWiVRD TO DR. F. H. KROCH even by candlelight. is not happy about the future of the United jj.The scientist and industrialist, Dr. F. H. Our thanks are not only extended to the Synagogue ministry if present conditions re­ ^Toch (Manchester), has been awarded the donors and all the helping hands, but es­ main imchanged and is dissatisfied with the jioaorarj' degree of Master of Science by the pecially to the organiser, Mrs. Hertha Gelhar, present scope and status of US ministers. He uiuversity of Manchester. who, since the beginning of the winter, accepted his new post because it offered more ^Dr. Kroch has been associated with the work managed to sort out the contn'nuous influx of attractions than any higher jjost he could J* the AJR almost since its inception. It was gifts with untiring vigour and efficiency. The have obtained in Britain. I? a high extent due to his vision and energy proceeds amounted to £343 and vidll be put at tjat the first home for elderly refugees in the disposal of the Gertrud Schachne Fund Carmel College wianchester, Morris Feinmann Home, was and of the Ahawa Children's Home in Israel, iounded at a time when the funds arising M. JACOBY Lt.-Col. Peter Davis, a former marine officer 5^oni the heirless Jewish property in Germany retired from active service in December after *ere not yet available. Since then, notwith- CANDLES FROM ISRAEL over 29 years in the Navy, has been ap­ jlranding his heavy professional commitments, During the miners' strike and the power pointed senior bursar at Carmel College, vrith oi". Kroch has devoted a great amount of his crisis in the country, tons of Israeli candles overall responsibility for non-educational Pme to the administration of the Home, keep­ were sent from Israel to London in response matters. ing an eye both on questions of building and to urgent requests from British wholesalers. finances and on the personal well-being of the ''Menorah," a candle company founded by Manchester Youth Closure j^uividual residents. As representative of the British settlers, sent the candles originally Jjianchester AJR members, he is also a member intended for use by Israelis on Sabbath. The Manchester commimal council re­ ^ the AJR Board, and only recently, on the quested a grant towards the maintenance of Manchester's youth officer from the Chief r*asion of our latest Board Meeting, he gave With acknowledgement to the news a Comprehensive and vivid report on the work, Rabbi's £10 million education scheme. Dr. j^ admirably performed by him and his col- service of the Jewish Chronicle. Jakobovits in refusing this pointed out that 'eagues in Manchester. We extend our heartiest the scheme was limited to aiding the congratulations to our friend. Dr. Kroch. development of Jewish education, specifically Jewish day schools. The Manchester Com­ SECOND GENERATION Your House for:— Appointment of J.P. munal Coimcil has stated that they cannot -^ Wr. John (Joldsmith (Hitchin) was ap- carry on their youth department unless they POuited a J.P. He has been active in local CURTAINS, CARPETS, receive £2,500. rJiplic affairs for a long time and is, among jjljher things, a Borough Coimcillor and Chair- FLOORCOVERINGS Duke of Edinburgh at Function ?^.n of the Hitchin Labour Party. Mr. Gold- SPECIALITY On June 28 the Duke of Edinburgh will ^th, who is 42 and holds a senior position attend a fund-raising function in Manchester b'th the Overseas Department of Midland CONTINENTAL DOWN in aid of the local Jewish Homes for the 5?iik, is the son of Dr. Ema Goldschmidt and Aged. He will spend a little time at the ^e late Dr. F. Goldschmidt, Chief Legal QUILTS Home, where he wiU have an opportunity '^uviser of U.R.O. of meeting some of the residents. ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS FAMINE RELIEF Grants by C.B.F. ESTIMATES FREE No Votes for Women ^ Grants from the Central British Fund wall The annual meeting of the Bournemouth 'eip the American "Joint" to provide relief DAWSON-LANE LIMITED Hebrew Congregation opposed a second at­ zM feeding programmes for 11,(X)0 school- (Estabirshcd 1946) tempt to get votes for women members and JJildren and nearlv 6.000 aged and handi- their right to speak at general meetings. ?PPed adults in the Moslem countries, 17,000 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK Mr. Herbert Newman's resolution to that "^tute aged in Rumania and nearly 7,000 Telephone: 904 6671 effect was strenuously opposed by the con­ b'uerly people, children and new refugees in Personal attention of Mr, W, Shackman. gregation's retiring president, Mr, Harry Ellis, fance. and Councillor Michael Filer. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION April, 1972 FASCIST SPREAD NEWS FROM ABROAD The American Jewisih Committee has stated in a report that continued political unrest in UNITED STATES Arrests of J.D.L. Italy could foster neo-fascism or neo-Nazism The "Jewish Vote" Two leading members of the Jewish Defence in Western Europe in spite of ultra-right-wing The Presidential elections are on Novem­ League were in New York each sentenced to defeats in West (Jermany, Austria, Britain and ber 7 this year. The Jews of the U.S.A. make three months' imprisonment for trespassing France. The A.J.C. says that "the impressive up only about 2.9 per cent of the total in the offices of the New York Board of Rabbis voting and psychological gains of the Italian population. However, the Jewish vote where in April last year. Fourteen J.D.L. members Social Movement (M.S.I.) . . . could adversely it is most ntmierous in the industrialised and were fined a total of about £850 on the same affect the democratic trend in Westem Europe urbanised States, can be important because charges. Members of the staff of the New by encouraging other Bight-wing groups". of the American system of electing a Presi­ York Board of Rabbis complained that they In South Africa, a branch of the M.S.I, has dent by an electoral college which gives rela­ were "terrorised" and that furniture was been opened, and several hundred members tive weight in the 50 States according to their wrecked when the J.D.L. membere entered have already been recruited, most of them populations. their offices. former Italian prisoners-of-war who remained The primaries, through which candidates in South Africa after the Second World War. are selected, is already under way. In Florida, Low-Income Housing Controversy Their leader, Roberto Ascani, said ithat the which has 14 votes in the electoral college, aim of the party was to recruit support for Miami with its large Jewish population makes The controversy among residents of Forest the parent party in Italy, to undertake wel­ tbe Jewish vote sought after. In New York HLUs in New York about the construction fare work among Italian immigrants, to help City with its racial tensions Jews would with­ of 840 low-income flats in the area continues. counter Commimist influence in Africa and hold their vote from a candidate regarded as The New York State has before it BiUs call­ to explain apartheid to Italians settling in having acted prejudicially to Jewish interests. ing on the city board of estimates to reassess South Africa. Declaring that the party was In 1968 a total of 43.4 per cent votes were the Forest Hills housing project and provide certainly not against Jews as long as they cast for Mr. Nixon and 42.7 per cent for Mr. for a referendum on it as well as for future are anti-Communists, he said that fascists did Hubert Humphreys, with the remaining 13.9 projects of a similar kind. not bully people "we try to persuade per cent for Mr. George C. Wallace, the Inde­ them. . . . Mind you, if we had another Hitler pendent. With such a narrow majority, the Woman Head of A.J.C. today, I think, the world would be a better small Jewish vote coidd be decisive. place". According to retums made available Mrs. Naomi Levine. a lawyer, has been ap­ to the South African Jewish Board of Another Defence Organisation pointed director of the American Jewish Con­ Deputies, there are 117,990 Jews living in A newly formed National Jewish CJom- gress in succession to Mr. WUl Maslow. She South Africa today—an increase of 3,489 in munity Security Council has been joined by is the first woman to become the executive ten years. a hundred rabbis and by middle-class Jewish head of an important American Jewish businessmen, housewives and professional organisation. people. The N.J.C.S.C. came into existence NO EXTRADTTION FOR EX-NAZI after many Forest Hills residents protested "Joint" Work Curtailed at the siting of the low-income housing pro­ It is unlikely that France will be able to ject in the district. The members are con­ Because of the devaluation of the American achieve the extradition from Bolivia of Klaus cemed at pressure exerted by Negroes seek­ dollar, the relief services of the American Altmann, suspected of being Klaus Barbie, ing new housing and jobs, frequently they Joint Distribution Committee may be severely the wartime Gestapo chief in Lyons. feel at the expense of the Jewish community. curtailed. The "Joint's" operational costs in Altmann, a naturalised Bolivian business­ Europe, North Africa and other areas is ex­ man, denies that he is Barbie but admits to The organisation aims at shifting "Jewish pected to increase by about £231,000 over having served as an officer in the German S.S. organisational activities to becoming more the expenditure of nearly £10 million planned He has been living in hiding under police actively engaged and sensitised towards the for 1972. protection in La Paz, Bolivia, since retuming Jewish grassroots". It also aims at the elimi­ from Peru to avoid extradition by France. nation oi quota systems in schools, the civil New Yiddish Journal service and job questionnaires. Jewish pro­ fessors have been threatened by displacement A ten-page Yiddish weekly newspaper, the JUDAISM AND THE POPE by Negro teachers and black studies pro- Algemeiner National Jotmial, nas been g^rammes. As Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, the execu­ launched by Mr. Gershon Jacobson, fonner A copy of the 16-volume Encyclopedia tive head of the Rabbinical Assembly, who editor of the Jewish Day-Morning Joumal Judaica was presented to Pope Paul VI in is a member of the N.J.C.S.C, board, declared: which closed in December after 57 years. Rome in the course of a private audience with "I shall continue to fight for any Black get­ At a luncheon in New York given by the Mr. Chaim Herzog, the chairman of the Jeru­ ting jobs, I'll even go to gaol for them, pro­ American Jevrish Public Relations Soidety, salem company which published the work. A viding such jobs are based on the merit not tributes were paid to the Jewish Chronicle Vatican statement expressing the Pope's the quota system." which, it was sitated, was "the best in the thanks for the gift spoke of the cultural world and read by the leaders of world achievements of the Jewish people and the Committee Against Nazism Jewry". ties uniting the Roman Catholic Church with A student at Hofstra University on Long the Biblical tradition. Xhe Pope also recalled Island displayed a swastika and inserted two CARACAS PLEA the terrible sufferings of the Jews during the advertisements in the university newsp>apers. Second World War. One advertisement solicited membership for Leading Latin American jiuiste attended a the National Socialist White People's Party Forum for the Analysis of the Jewish Minority Mr. Herzog at a press conference stated (tbe successor in Arlington, Virginia, to the in the Soviet Union held in Caracas. Unani­ that the decision to present the Pope with late (Jeorge Lincoln Rockwell's American mous approval was given to a plea to the the encycloi>edia was taken in consideration Nazi Party). The other advertisement was Moscow Govemment to grant its Jewish citi­ of the new atmosphere between the (Catholic headed "Hitler was Right". David Kerr, the zens fuU cultural freedom as well as the Church and the Jewish people. 21-year-old student, in 1969 took part in the right to leave the Soviet Union if they wished. anitisemitic campaign of the National Renais­ The jurists also called on the Soviet Union MADRID DESECRATION sance Party. to apply its own legislation against anti­ In reply to these activities, teaching staff semitism. Right-wing extremists desecrated the Madrid at the universitv joined students, Jewish and AUSTRAUAN NAZIS Synagogue, opened in December 1968 as the non-Jewish, to form "The Ad Hoc Committee first formal Jewish house of worship in Spain Against Nazism and for Humanism". The increased activities of neo-Nazis in since the 1492 Expulsion. The walls were Australia has been spotlighted by spokesmen smeared with antisemitic and other slogans. Mosley in America for Aboriginal rights, who have criticised the This desecration is one of the worst anti­ Sir Oswald Mosley visited the States to reported failure of the Federal Govemment semitic outrages in Spain for many years. promote the publication of hds autobiography to screen white immigrants in order to bar An extremist Right-wing defence organisa­ "My Life" on radio, television and in the racialists. A Nazi group in Melboume has tion, similar to the group which carried out press. The American Immigration Depart­ distributed literature supporting the White the synagogue outrage, was responsible for ment was sharply criticised by B'nai B'rith's Australia policy and apartheid. "The ^oup has the destruction of Picasso drawings at an Aniti-Defamation League for granting a visa also painted swastikas and slogans m promi­ exhibition in a private Madrid gallery to mark to the former British fascist leader. nent places attacking Vietnam moratorimn the artist's 90th birthday. sympathisere. STAMPS INDIA HONOURS GENERAL BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUIE GERMANY AND TERRITORIES SI Balslta Square. London. N.W.3 •ought and sold. Mall only. No callcn olaaM. Major-General J. F. K. Jacobs, the second- SYNAGOGUE SERVICES in-command of the Indian forces which cap­ are held regularly on the Eve of Sabbath PETER C. RFCKENBACK tured East Pakistan (Bangladesh) during the and Festivals at 6.30 p.m. and on the day 14 ItaMlYn Hin. lea^an. I«WS IPT. Tali 0t-4W OMI Pakistan-Indian War in December, was deco­ at 11 a.m. 25 yen of PhUcttlic txptrinc* rated by President Giri of India at a special investiture in the President's palace in Delhi. ALL ARE CORDIALLY IIWITED AJR INFORMATION April, 1972 Page 5 E' G. Loicenthal Old Acquaintances

JEWISH LAWYERS IN GERMANY Milestones: Guiseppe Becce, conductor of the Ufa-Palast Orchestra and composer of the A Centenary Publication music for 2,000 fllms has celebrated his 95th birthday in Berlin.—Willi Domgraf-Fassbender, To mark the centenary of the foundation profession and on fees for advocates; Justiz­ former baritone of Berlin's State Opera, is 75 pf the German Lawyers' Association (DAV), rat Goldschmidt, Breslau, expert on questions years old.—Willi Rose, the actor and member Dr, Fritz Ostler, Munich, wrote a history of relating to simultaneous admission to of the well-known Berlin theatrical family, is ^ne Association, published under the title municipal and regional courts and Hugo 70 yeans of age.—C^l Ebert is 85. Bom in Ber­ 'Die deutschen Rechtsanwaelte 1871-1971" by Neumann, advocate at the Berlin Supreme lin, where he started as an actor and was W. Ellinghaus & Co. (Essen). Court (Kammergericht) and editor of twice director of the oi>era in Charlottenburg, The subject matter of the book is dealt "Juristische Wochenschrift" who died in he went voluntarily into exile and, together with in five chronological sections: Empire, 1915. with Fritz Busch, founded Glyndeboume Opera First World War, Weimar Republic, Nazi Call for Comprehensive Assessment House.—^Austrian actress, Kaethe Gold, who Period and The Last 25 Years. The com- Two really good and informative ex­ first appeared in "Faust" in Berlin, is 65 years ^ratively large number of Jewish jurists in positions of the persecution of Jewish jurists old,—Actress Franziska Kinz, who is 65, is fj^ermany, particularly in Berlin, expressed in Germany by National-Socialism are avail­ now living in semi-retirement in Bavaria. themselves inter alia in their participation in able to date. One by Oberlandesgerichtsrat the professional organisations. In this con­ Dr. Horst Goeppinger, Stuttgart, refers to the Dateline Berlin: West BerMn is still the big­ nection Ostler stated that at the beginning of entire former German Reich and was pub­ gest German city with 2-1 million inliabitants, 1933 eleven Jewish lawyers served on the lished in 1963; the other, shorter one, by though 100,000 citizens have left since 1965.— ^•strong DAV executive board, among them Landesgerichtspraesident (retrd.) Alfred In the Eastem sector, Walter Felsenstein's "achenburg and Heilberg in the capacity of Marx, Stuttgart, examines the fate of the Komische Oper has moved from the former Vice-presidents. This active co-operation in Jewish jurists in Wuerttemberg and was pub­ Metropol-Theater in Behrenstrasse to the Jflis non-profit-making professional organ­ lished in 1965. No noteworthy comprehensive Admiralspalast near Friedrichstrasse station. isation came to an abrupt and violent end in literature on Jewish jurists in Ger­ Its produotions of "Fiddler on the Roof" and 1933. many—without limitation as to time and "Porgy and Bess" are sold out until 1973.— T>T. Max Hachenburg from Mannheim, com- place—exists at the moment. Dr. Robert M. The City of Berlin has already invited 2,500 J'entator of the Handelsgesetzbuch and the W. Kempner, a lawyer and an eager and ver­ ex-Berliners to visit .their birthplace but 14,000 ^•m.b.H.-Gesetz, became early in his life a satile journalist, always full of ideas and sug­ would still like to come and are on the waitr ''lember of the DAV Committee dealing with gestions, made a contribution to this subject, ing list. Problems of the Civil and Commercial Law. which was rich in material and data but not Moreover "Juristische Rundschau" and entirely free of errors, in "Recht und Obituary: Seventy-one-year-old Bella Fromm Juristische Wochenschrift" were looked Politik—Vierteljahreshefte fuer Rechts—und Welles, the Berlin society joumalist of the after by him for 22 years. He emigrated and Verwaltungspolitik", Berlin 1971/73. In his twenties, has died in New York.—Moritz "lied in 1951 at Berkeley, Califomia. introduction he pointed out that he intended Lederer, who ran "Reibaro", a Berlin theatre Justizrat Adolf Heilberg started working as his contribution to be the beginning of a ticket agency for Max Reinhardt, Viktor a lawyer in Breslau in 1883; he became a comprehensive examination of this complex Bamowsky and Eugen Robert before 1933, has l^iember of the local chamber of lawyers in issue. He spanned a period ranging from Ga­ died in Meersburg at the age of 83,—Elsie 1899 and its chairman in 1922. From 1928 briel Riesser to the present and divided the Cohen, founder-owner of London's Academy towards he was honorary chairman of the immense, but only allusively treated, mat­ cinema, has died in Brighton, The Academy "AV where he was given the flattering nick- erial into these parts: Jews as High Court specialised in Continental films until Georg ''anie "Nathan der Weise" when working as Judges and Legal Civil Servants during the Hoellering took over during the war. ^airman of the Civil Procedure committee. Empire Period; Jewish jurists in the time of the Weimar Republic (Judiciary and Admin­ Home News: Lotte Lenya, widow of Kurt *ie died in 1936, aged 78, from the after­ WeiU who, in 1928, was "Jenny" of the "Drei­ effects of an accident. istration; University Professors, Lawyers and Parliamentarians) and the situation since groschenoper", was present at the London pro­ Dr. Martin Drucker, advocate at the Reichs- duction of the "Threepenny Opera".— Sericht in Leipzig and sometime DAV presi­ 1945. The roughly 175 names quoted by Kempner represent only a fraction of the Elisabeth Bergner visited Berlii to star in dent, headed the DAV Penal Law committee. O'Neill's "Alle Reiohtuemer der Welt" at the ^1"; Ernst Wolff, a grandson of the former total circle of persons of interest in the con­ text, Renaissance-Theaiter.—Willi Frischauer's bio­ ''eichsgerichtspraesident, Eduard von Simson, graphy of TV personality David Frost has been I*as chairman of the Berlin chamber of published by Michael Joseph in London.— lawyers as well as of the Association of ORIGIN OF DARMSTADT HAGGADAH Lim Palmer, who is spending the winter in *j^wyers' Chambers Executives of Germany The history of the famous illuminated Malaga, came over to participate in TV's "This ?^om 1929 onwards. As a so-called "non-Aryan" Darmstadt Haggadah (written in 1420) is is Your Life", featuring Ginette Spanier.— he Was forced to emigrate; he retumed from traced back in a brochure by Dr. Ludwig Ken Adam will design the decors for "Sleuth" *'igland to Germany and from 1949 until his Rosenthal (Guatemala, formerly Frankfurt) published with the help of the Hanauer directed by Joe L. Mankiewicz, with Laurence ?eath he was President of the Supreme Court Geschichtsverein (Hanau, 1971). According Olivier and Michael Caine in the cast. 1 the British Occupation Zone at Cologne. to Dr. Rosenthal, the Haggadah was brought Among those who faithfully served their to Darmsitadt in 1805, Before, it had belonged News from Everywhere: Erwin Leaser, of Professional organisations in Berlin in the to the Cologne book and art collector. Baron "Mein Kampf' fame, has begun his new film "lost diverse spheres and in various J. W. Karl Adolph von Huepsch. It is assumed "Alle Kinder dieser Welt" on location in South "Rapacities were: Geheimrat Dr. Eugen Fuchs that Baron Huepsch had acquired it in 1788 out America, Africa and Asia.—^An intemational J1856-1923); Justizraete Dr. Albert Pinner of the estate of Heine's great-uncle, Simon congress from October 15 to 19 will be held (1857-1933) and Dr. Julius Magnus who per­ van Geldren (bom 1720 in Diisseldorf), who this year in Duesseldorf, when the city will ched in Theresienstadt in 1944; and Moritz dealt in valuable books, especially Hebraica. celebrate the 175th anniversary of the birth of ^tranz (1867-1932). Fuchs, who was well- Heinrich Heine.—Peter de Mendelssohn will fiiown as a specialist in property law, was give a lecture on Thomas Mann and Gerhart ^ of the spiritual leaders of the "Central- Hauptmann at the Bavarian Academy of Arts J^erein". Pinner was chairman of the Berlin BOOKS give a lecture on Thomas Mann and Gerhart Mwyers' Society. Magnus, for many years the in Munich.—Ninety-year-old Asta Nielsen frac­ ^^rt and soul of "Juristische Wochen- from the Continent and the USA tured her hip in Copenhagen. ehrift", was a member of the DAV Executive (except American pocket books) Id Stranz, the outstanding commercial and PEM ^''ehange law expert, always advocated the quickly and reliably supplied by 'rengthening of the lawyers' profession at lawyers' congresses. INTERBOOK LTD. REMEMBRANCE MEETING The following are also singled out as re- 52 Manchester Street, P^'esentatives of the considerable number of London, WIM 6DR ON APRIL 9 Jgewis h lawyers who meritoriously worked for thlei, r profession: Max Friedlaender (Munich), Telephone: 01-935 3441 Details on page 3 ^oimentator of the orders on the advocates' Page 6 AJR INFORMA'nON April, 1972

Herbert Strauss (New York) tention to review major areas of this kind of social history has resulted in a panorama of detailed information, from death sentences LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY imposed, health statistics and mortality tables to comment on "Hitler's professors" and the A Recent Assessment meshugaz of Thingspiele, on living standards Richard Grunberger's A Social History of institutional traditions and the new barbar­ literature, and popular culture. There is the Third Reich* aims at painting a com­ ism that need to be placed at the core of the much valuable and diligent compilation in prehensive picture of life and leisure during analysis of Nazi "social history". Mr. Grun­ these areas. Yet, by immersing institutional that most catastrophic period of German berger has no unifying hypothetical behaviour descriptions—and very selectively history. Taking the reader through an ex­ framework, an approach that might be these patterns are described—in an image of hausting, fact-filled 470 pages and 30 chap­ defended from a radically empiricist point of the Third Reich that stresses the coarse and ters, the author peeks behind the facades of view. He does appear to have a barrel-full of the absurd, Mr. Grunberger loses the essence Nazi leaders and followers, shows the accom­ preconceptions, however, derived primarily, of Nazi "social history", to wit the success of modations of such institutions as the army, one surmises, from popularized psychoanalytic a public image that played upon the "respec­ the churches, the civil service, business and lingo, the lore of the culture-personality table" hopes and dreams of innocents on all labour, peasants and cultural or educational schools, and from a penchant for interpreting levels and of the institutions with whose seg­ institutions to the corrupting, less-than-ab- cultura'-political or social situations in terms mental traditions they identified. In this man­ solute, power of Nazism, and passes judg­ of a pathological individual or national ner, the author's very important commitment ments of various kinds on women, youth, the character. to humane revulsion tums into a-historical family, and national health. A final chapter judgments that so permeate the book as to on Jews—surprising'y pale and pedestrian, The resulting mixture of styles produces seriously limit its value as an adequate pre­ without the discussion of the concentration some important positive results. It also has sentation of Nazism in Germany, or of any camps, deportations, and the holocaust one led to serious faults. On the positive side, Mr. other variety of fascism anywhere, anytime. would expect at this point—appears almost Grunberger's technique serves as an ever- Precisely because the evil was so banal, the like an afterthought to the book. timely reminder to those of us who have courts continued to dispense civil justice. been dea'ing professionally with this period The burgher had his Sunday outing and his The amount of detailed information or over the years, or have retained personal Kaffee und Kuchen, precisely because the short-run reflections the author has managed memories over a quarter of a century follow­ rea'ities of death and catastrophic des­ to gather from his sources is impressive, al­ ing the demise of the Third Reich, that the truction were so effectively distorted by though a certain portion of this information danger of "understanding" the totally appeals to past glitter, institutional "honour", borders on the coarse and the trivial, at abominable and absurd lies in the rationaliz­ even (in the beginning) "positive Christian­ times the tasteless, especially when Nazi ing function of "explanations". We need to ity" and self-satisfied Kultur. Precisely for "humour" or the "jokes" made by German recapture the inherent vulgarity and in­ this kind of Nazi "social history" bishops sup­ "public opinion" seem to be selected with an humanity of the period in its immediate ported the war, orchestras played, theatres eye to the undergraduate crowd or the impact, and to pass on our insights to the offered shows and operas, the civil service buying pub'ic. Since Mr. Grunberger has not next generation, but we need to avoid the and army generals—not a bright lot in Ger­ derived his material exclusively from in­ weary familiarity or the "emotional many at the time—accepted Nazism or co-op­ dependent research in the archives—his anesthesia" that sees the trees but loses the erated with it. Professors continued to func­ references list some archives, interviews with contours of the swampy forests in which they tion, even Jewish representatives hoped to Germans, newspaper analysis, in addition to grow. Mr. Grunberger's approach, unencum­ achieve their respective goa's by negotiating the easily recognizable lines of analysis bered by methodological caution, inspired by with the Nazi authorities. Books like Allen's, derived from the secondary literature in the a revulsion and anger that seem almost like Mayer's, Peterson's and a number of popular field—and since he has relied on the con- those of the first "shock of recognition" 30 works have represented this most insiduous ceptua'iza tions found in these secondary years ago, serves this purpose well. Yet, one function of 'totalitarianism" in concrete sources, the book holds no surprises for wonders, why the important area of the "S.S.- action, the conflict of values with mani­ students of this period. In some areas, in state", the concentration camps, the holocaust pulation, the segmentaUzation and Darwinian fact, Mr. Grunberger might have expanded and the history of war-time anti-semitism in playing-off of interests and organisations his use of secondary literature to advantage. Germany and outside of the Grossdeutsche against one another by the 'legal" authorities He has failed to quote important secondary Reich have not rated the separate treatments of the Reich. works in such areas as labour, living stan­ they deserve. Is Mr. Grunberger over-im­ dard, the German army, the NSDAP, the pressed by attempts to displace anti-semitism Roehm Putsch, resistance, the churches, to and its results from the central position they Compared with what appears to be a cite merely those where his notes reveal the need to be placed into (and are being p'aced serious limitation of the author's perception greatest limitation. We presume then that the into by most scholars) for an understanding the rather .'arge number of errors his pub­ book was meant by author and publisher as a of the "social history" of the period? Does he lishers have allowed to pass unnoticed into popular contribution to the still fascinated minimize the attempts made by Turner, print may merely be Schoenheitsfehler. A pub'ic's interest in the Third Reich. Schweitzer and others (only Schweitzer is partial list of such errors would include used to some extent in this area) to shed Weissensee (for Bad Wiessee, Roehm's last Strictly speaking, the book combines not more precise light on the financial links of night); Vienna Library (for Wiener Library); one but two rather opposite Ansaetze com­ "business" with pre-1933 Hitler and the post- Emmy Sommermann (for Sonnemann); monly used in "social" history. On the one 1933 economic pattern? The author's im­ Dobriner Cafe (for Caf 6 Dobrin); hand, Mr. Grunberger deals with significant precision tends to obscure many still un­ Heinrich von Gerlach (for Helmut). aspects of economic and social structure, an resolved problems in areas such as these. It would not have made entrance to the civil approach that has yielded important results service dependent on a doctorate or located for example through the labours of the pio­ Be that as it may: Mr. Grunberger's atten­ the Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt. In addition, neer Marc Bloch-Febvre school centred tion to the cormption, sexual and financial more strenuous analysis might have con­ around the Revue, etc., in France, or by such greed or sexual pathologies of men like nected many of the intermediate judgments of his countrymen as Hobsbawm or Thompson. Koch, Frank, Bormann, Goebbels or Goe­ and facts to arrive at a more balanced in­ (Mr. Grunberger has used the pioneer study ring—well documented and popularly known terpretation of resistance, army-SS links, by Franz Neumann, the neo-Marxist labour by now—serves its purpose, if that was its state-party relationship, political and civil lawyer, on the Third Reich, an impressive purpose to begin with. Yet, the mixture of "justice", or the style of Nazi architecture masterpiece affecting research still today, 30 styles seriously flaws the presentation of in­ ("Hellenic"!). One hopes that a second edi­ years after its first publication.) On the other stitutional behaviour in the Third Reich. The tion of the book will lead the author to cor­ hand, Mr. Grunberger has dealt with the "daily problems are enhanced by the author's fail­ rect what can be corrected, to avoid con­ )ife" variety of social history that has found ure to int'roduce more precise periodizations fusion among generations of undergraduates readers ever since Tacitus retailed la dolce vita into his basically typological constructions who will undoubtedly be assigned readings in of the Roman imperial set of his times. It is and illustrations. Mr. Grunberger's serious in- this book. perhaps an unfortunate result of the fact that For, with all its faults, and its curiously the author chose to "liven up" his material BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER old-fashioned approach and defective throughout with "human interest" stories Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS methodology, Mr. Grunberger's book, while based upon this second style of selection that Always interested in purchasing unimpressive to specialists or students of the in many of his chapters the reader searches well-preserved instruments, period and of fascism, may indicate the in vain for more incisive analysis of a struc­ JAQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. beginning of a synthesis as time erases the tural kind, or of the unifying links between 142 Edgware Road, W.2 memory of the many-headed hydra that was •Weidenfeld and Nicotson, 1971. £5. Tel.: 723 8818/9. the Third Reich. AJR INFORMATION April, 1972 Page 7 C. C. Aronsfeld if of the social variety, they did not have the spirit to challenge. While doing his best to " stamp upon an evil of that kind ", the Home THE ANTISEMITISM OF APPEASEMENT Secretary felt he " had to be careful to avoid A generation after the Nazi era it is perhaps others were more outspoken still, notably anything in the nature of mass immigration no longer the atrocities that excite the greatest F. A. Voigt, the Diplomatic Correspondent of which, in my view, would inevitably lead to attention; there may well be a feeling that the Manchester Guardian, who, the only one the growth of a movement which we all wish We have " supp'd full with horror". The perhaps to take " Mein Kampf" seriously, to see suppressed ". general interest rather centres on the reaction debunked the fraud of a brazen propaganda Chamberlain too told the French Prime that was shown by " the world " not only to which he recognised as " no more than a cover Minister, Edouard Daladier, that " one of the the crimes but to the whole of the Nazi for Germany's expansionist policy ". He named chief difficulties was the serious danger of Phenomenon, particularly in the crucial years as an example " the word ' Communism ' ". arousing antisemitic feeling in Great Britain ". before the crimes were consummated and He might equally have named the word He thus unwittingly bore out Dr. Goebbels's only the idea and the intention were obvious. " Jew ", for it was largely the thrust of their boast (then confided to a secret diary) : " We We now know that although Hitler had antisemitic propaganda that enabled the Nazis are going to step up our antisemitic propa­ revealed his plans in " Mein Kampf", few to create the conditions in which appeasement ganda so that ... no enemy statesman will moulders of public opinion took the trouble could thrive. dare to be seen at the side of a Jew without to read the book and those who did refused This vital aspect of the drift to war has being immediately discredited by his own to believe it. This was perhaps an all too been a little neglected by Dr. Gannon, though people as a stooge of the Jews ". human failing, for what they were asked to not of course entirely. He traces some early believe was, in terms of the nineteenth-century That sort of propaganda (like antisemitic roots when he quotes from the Daily Mail of propaganda anywhere) was not of course tradition which still govemed this country, 1933 where Hitler was given credit for having literally unbelievable. They did not believe it mainly concerned with the Jews. Its signifi­ saved Germany from its " aliens "—" Israelites cance and purpose was well explained in a any more than did many Germans and Jews— of intemational attachments "—and as late as except that they were warned by unimpeach­ despatch of the German Ambassador in Lon­ the Anschluss in 1938, " the Daily Telegraph's don, Herr von Dirksen : " It goes without say­ able evidence. For however incredible the final attempt to see the best in news from Germany consummation must have appeared, the men­ ing (he writes in 1939) that antisemitic circles initially affected its treatment of the progress adopt a more or less positive attitude towards tality which proclaimed and reiterated the ... of German antisemitism ". intention was, directly or indirectly, unmistak­ the new Germany, and an increase of anti­ ably conveyed even by the least incredulous The brutal facts of the unceasing persecu­ semitism goes hand in hand with a growing tion, which often seemed to sound too much appreciation of our cause ". observers. like Foxe's Chronicle of Martyrs, were This much is made sufiBciently plain in an So thoroughly had this propaganda suc­ deprecated as " Jewish propaganda " even by ceeded that a powerful press chief, Lord Cam- American scholar's recent book on " The the Socialist Daily Herald whose Jewish British Press and Germany, 1936-1939" rose, of the Daily Telegraph, sued (success­ foreign editor, realistically assessing the fully, too) a fascist paper which had " libelled " (Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1971. £3-25). It is Munich Agreement, was treated by his chief Perhaps a pity Dr. Gannon has not started him by alleging " Jewish descent" and he to the reproof, " So you have joined the war­ considered it essential to publish a booklet his story with the last months of 1935, after mongers ". the Nuremberg Laws, when The Times pre- rebutting " the frequent allegations of anti­ •''ented the most characteristic feature of Nazi­ It was only after the pogrom of November, semites that many of the London newspapers dom — the persecution of Jewry — in terms 1938, that people generally agreed with The are in the hands of Jewish interests." Times: " The total conception of race and that, in retrospect, show a weird foresight: It was through antisemitism as much as " It is the tormenting of a people in a cage. . . . State has had certain repercussions, such as the wholesale expulsion of Jews, which not througi any other single revolutionary expedi­ After being denied the rights of citizenship, ent that the Nazis advanced, and Dr. Gannon they are coming to be denied the right to only affect the interests of other countries but challenge the general conscience of humanity ". would have done well to extract from the live. ... A society which is prepared to archives of the British press more illustrations tolerate evils of this order will inevitably reap But of course the fact is, as Dr. Gannon of this exciting, if melancholy, phenomenon. What it sows ". also points out, appeasement responded to the For as a problem it clearly ranks among those Even later. The Times correspondent in instincts and outlook of the majority at the which he says were not settled by the war: Berlin, Norman Ebbutt, realised that " the time. Under the impact of a relentless anti­ many of the liberals who were sadly fooled Path to an understanding will be remote semitic propaganda, the national conscience once by the tricks of antisemitism have now indeed while Germany remains under the was decaying. " We hoped", said a British fallen victims to the infatuations of " anti- influence of her present political prejudices ". national paper during the war, " that it would Zionism." cost us nothing to let Hitler wreak his evil will on the weak and the helpless". And nowhere did the decay of conscience reveal itself more tellingly than in the treatment of many of those Jews who hoped to find a refuge HOUSE OF HAILGARTEN DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX in Britain. Many were admitted, but there can now be LTD. no doubt that many more could have been saved. 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Never­ At the time of the Spanish Civil War, 30,000 tions. theless, their lives remained as insecure as Spanish Republicans were granted asylum in When the flower of Spanish Jewry was those of other " heretics", including the Mexico. With them a small Left-wing German hunted and destroyed by the Inquisition, there Protestants. Owing to the influence exercised and Austrian group reached the country. They were some who hoped to escape this fate in by the Maranos some Indian and Mestizos published the journals "Die Demokratische " New-Spain " or " American Spain " as it was communities embraced the Jewish religion. The Post" and " Freies Deutschland " and founded called, or at least to be able to hide there. overthrow of alien rule and above all the the publishing house, " El Libro Libre ". Their Thus, individual Jewish soldiers arrived in the Mexican revolution of 1910, which developed internationally most outstanding author was new colony as early as with Hernando Cortez. so to speak into a state of permanent revolu­ the late Egon Erwin Kisch. Maranos, too, sought shelter there. But the tion, ran parallel with religious tolerance and Although it is true to say that the Mexican long arm of the Inquisition reached across the this also benefited the Jews. Jews prefer to live in certain residential areas, ocean and the horrible autodaf6 law relating to Although a regular Sephardic community, these cannot be described as voluntary ghettos. the burning of so-called heretics and of the oldest in Mexico, existed as early as Many Jews take part in business life and have heretical books was soon to come into force 1907, immigration on a sizeable scale did not met the Govemment's request to co-operate in there too. begin until between 1918 and 1920. It is esti­ the country's very successful industrialisation In his well-informed book, " The Making of mated that today about 90 per cent of all Jews by founding ever new enterprises. The much Modern Mexico", Frank R. Brandenburg des­ live in the capital. Visitors to the Summer respected Banco Mercantile de Mexico has cribes the tragic case of Louis de Carvajal Olympiad in 1968 did not have to search long grown out of a small credit institution founded during the second half of the sixteenth century. for a synagogue. The Ashkenazi majority of and run by Jews. There are prominent Jewish This Portuguese Jew had been baptised and the 18,000 largely Eastem Jews who have re­ university teachers, scientists, most outstand­ emigrated to the Mexican province of Nuevo mained faithful to Yiddish while using Spanish ing among them the nuclear physicist Dr. Leon, of which Monterrey later became the as their daily language, have four synagogues, Marcus Moschinsky, a few senior civil servants capital. He rose to the position of Governor the Sephardic Jews have a particularly impres­ and many more doctors and lawyers with good of the province. Thanks to his colonising sive one, the Arab Jews, whose sermons are practices. The professions of the engineer abilities this near-desert was tiuTied into a delivered in the Judo-Arabic language, have and the architect are becoming increasingly well cultivated and economically sound region. three, and the American Jews one; in fact I attractive as the capital appears to be one However, when it emerged that the roughly counted a total of ten and I do not know single building site. one hundred Portuguese families, which he had whether this list is complete. All these syna­ Radio, TV and the press in Mexico almost allowed to follow him there with the per­ gogues bear evidence of the beauty and bold­ always assume a positive attitude towards mission of King Philip II, were almost all ness of modern Mexican architecture and are Israel. The relations between the two coun­ Sephardic Jews—and unconverted ones at that rivals in dignity, and at times, in the splendour tries, at all times correct, have lately developed —the high Church authorities looked into his of their furnishings. A lot of marble, natural on very friendly lines. A delegation headed case. Despite his great merits and although stone, mosaics and frescos are used. There by the Minister of Hydro-Power and Water he had become a Christian, the progressive is a Hungarian, a Bulgarian, a Rumanian and Conservancy visited Israel in 1965. As Mexico's Governor was banished from the country at also a German community. The Orthodox pre­ permanent revolution is based on the land first for a period of six years. His only crime vail, followed by the Conservatives; there is reform and the village materially still lags was that he had not brought the immigration no Jewish Reform community. far behind the town, Israel might be able to of the Portuguese Jews to the notice of the Even more bewildering than the variety of give much valuable advice. The two States Inquisition. All members of the Carvajal have signed an agreement on technological family, and many others, a total of 120 " here- the communities is the multiplicity of the Jewish organisations. In view of Israel's great co-operati^m. prestige, a trend towards Zionism is making itself felt. Charitable societies are vying with each other and the few Jewish needy do not depend on public assistance. At present the SCHWARZSCHILD Jewish old-age home has 18 inmates. The HERTIE research and cultural centres publish much and organise many events, among them round- OCHS table discussions. LIMITED At least 70 per cent of the Mexican Jewish IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIII LIMITED children attend Jewish schools. Two of them, the Tarbut and the Yavna College, are among the best in the country. Tarbut is strongly nXTILES tiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiii I orientated towards Israel and the Hebrew lan­ guage—the school-leavers speak it fluently— 33 MARGARET STREET, while Yavna with its more Orthodox outlook cultivates Hebrew and Yiddish. LONDON, W.l After 1933, 400 Jewish families from Ger­ many and Austria found refuge in Mexico ; Telephone: 01-580 2189 they founded the German-speaking community, Hatikva Menora. Its chairman is Enrique • Stahl. As the members are accustomed to a certain Nigen and frequently have not NEWADDRESS AS FROM MARCH 20: mastered Spanish completely, the community Walmar House, continues to hold regular German Sabbath iiiii^^ MIDDLESEX HOUSE, 296 Regent Street, • Ankauf Verkauf m M Ankauf zu hohen Preisen H 34 CLEVELAND STREET, ^= Europa und Ucbersee—Sammlungcn, Einzelscuecke, ^= London, W.l === Paare. Streifen. Blocks, Saetze, Einzelmarken. lose =^ ^= und auf Brief, und Altbriefe mit und ohne Matken. = LONOON, WIP 6JJ = Vhit ut In the Edgware Road, If you can and han ^g ^^ your itam^t volaed tm wMU yoa wait or . . . ^g Telephone: 01-580 2189 Telephone: 01-580 4069 g Send, Write or Call:- g m MET. STAMPS Ltd., Tel. 723 3893 m (unchanged) |327 EDGWARE RD., LONDON, W.2 IE AJR INFORMA'nON April, 1972 Page 9

REFUGE IN INDIA NEWS FROM RUSSIA More than a quarter of a century has passed since German Jews were dispersed all EMIGRATION WHY DO THEY LEAVE? over the world. Only very few of them—less Distinguished Jews who recentiy left the than 2,000 at the peak during the war ^ports have reached London that Jewish Soviet Union attended a discussion in Jeru­ years—emigrated to India. Among the first ^'nignation from the Soviet Union to Israel is salem on the question asked many times : what arrivals was E. N. Shaffer, former officer in brings a seemingly assimilated Soviet Jew to iS,^ severely curtailed. feel he musit abandon the Russian way of Ufe the Luftwaffe in the First War and author of The European Committee of Jurists in Rome and identify himself with the Jewish people several books on its exploits and sub­ "enounced the " humiliations and vexations " and emigrate to Israel ? sequently co-editor of the Vossische Zeitung experienced by the applicants for emigration Professor Mikhail Zand, who arrived in and the B. Z. am Mittag. Having arrived in °pd stated that is was impossible to differen- Israel in June, said that Jewish national feel­ Bombay in 1933 he still lived in the sunset of rj^te between the anti-Zionism expressed in ing was stimulated by the holocaust of the the British Raj. He witnessed the years of }^ Soviet press and classical antisemitism. Second World War. The establishment of Israel ^«e jurists appealed to the Soviet authorities had given Soviet Jews a sense of belonging war and the exciting fight for India's in­ ^ facilitate the granting of exit visas and to and the 1967 Six-Day War accelerated this dependence, and saw the birth of the Repub­ «(»cow to allow "Soviet citizens of Jewish revival and strengthened identification with lic of India. He left the sub-continent as late "^tionality to enjoy the rights guaranteed to Israel when the Kremlin allied itself with as 1961 to become the director of the South «1 Soviet nationalities " and to end the " slan­ these who wished to destroy the Jewish State. East Asia transmissions of Cologne Radio. derous anti-Jewish propaganda." Dr. Vladimir Levin, a former teacher of Having first made a modest living by run­ Russian literature and philology at Leningrad ning a photographic studio, Shaffer joined University, who stated that he had been fully the Oxford University Press at the beginning THREATS AND ARRESTS assimilated in the Soviet Union and regarded himself as a citizen of the world, said that of the war. From 1954 onwards he was The KGB searched the homes of Jews in Israel first impinged on his conscience in 1967 Indian correspondent for 14 (Jerman and ?^kov, looking for evidence of "Zionism". during the Six-Day War. In 1968 the invasion Foreign newspapers. In this capacity he had of Czechoslovakia had filled him with shame access to India's leading statesmen, was pre­ j^ Sverdlovsk Jews who applied to go to Israel and a year later the Kremlin stepped up its "*ve been persistently threatened. jxropaganda campaign against Israel and there sent at various important diplomatic events aiV^ two consecutive Saturdays Kiev police were signs of a forthcoming real antisemitic and, with the keen eye of a trained joumal­ ""tested Soviet Jews about to worship in the drive. ist, could observe the fascinating evolution of ^gogue. Sixty young Jews prevented from India as an independent nation. His recent ntering the synagogue for prayers were told CHIEF RABBI OF MOSCOW book* gives a shrewd and often fascinating y the police that " the synagogue is not for Accusations have been made against Rabbi account of the political, economical and young people". Nine were arrested, four of Schwartzblatt, the present Rabbi of Odessa, social events. It should, therefore, be of great *nom were charged with hooliganism and whom the Soviet authorities are planning to install as Chief Rabbi of Moscow in succession interest not only to those who shared the saoled for 15 days. to tiie late Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin. author's sojourn in India, but also to other On the second occasion the police waited At a press conference held in Jerusalem former refugees, both as a testimony to the ? 'he synagogue to detain two Jewish men. Rabbi Israel Bronfman, formerly of Odessa, perseverance of members of our group and ^ protest 30 worshippers marched to the Rabbd Yaaioov Leishevitz, formerly of Moscow, p^es of the Kiev committee of the Communist as an insight account of the most important and Dr. Gedalia Pechersky, formerly the head period in the history of modern India, the f^'y and two members were taken into of the Leningrad community, charged Rabbi rj'^ody. The rest of the group continued their Schwartzblatt with collaborating with the KGB period in the history of India. E.A.L. ?*rch to the Communist Party offices to dis- and made serious allegations against his * Ernest N. Shaffer : Eln EmIgraM entdeckt Indien. Verlag '•^ all the arrests. character. Information und Wissen, Munich. 280 pp. DM 16.80. CHEMICALS...

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THERESIENSTADT MEMORIAL STAMP BIRTHDAY TRIBUTES The Czechoslovak postal authorities have marked the 30th anniversary of the establish­ DR. GIORA LOTAN (GEORG LUBINSKI) 70 LOUIS P. LOCHNER 85 ment of the Ghetto of Theresdenstadt by is­ The recent 70th birthday of Dr. Giora Lotan suing a special stamp on February 16. The (Jerusalem) calls for tributes to him not only The American journalist, Mr. Louis P. 30 h. stamp, inscribed "Thirty Years Since the in Israel, where he has been one of the archi­ Lochner, recenUy celebrated his 85th birth­ Inception of the Ghetto of Terezin", shows the tects in the field of social policy, but also in day in Wiesbaden. Among his American col­ head of a child behind barbed wires against other countries, where he is well remembered leagues he is one of the greatest experts on the brown planks of a barrack wall. The first- under his former name of Georg Lubinski. German questions. Mr. Lochner started his day cover depicts a child standing in a cir­ Originating from the Zionist youth movement, career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin as cular loop of barbed wire, holding a symbolical he was the first General Secretary of the far back as 1921. In 1928 he became head of spool of thin wire in its hand. Under the same "Reichsausschuss der juedischen Jugendver­ the Berlin office of the great American news date, a 60 h. stamp to mark thirty years since baende". Together with the late Ludwig agency, Associated Press (AP). When the the destmction of Lidice was also issued.— Tietz he developed the "Reichsausschuss" Nazis came to power he courageously ren­ (CJC) from a federation of Jewish youth organisa­ dered his assistance to persecuted Jews and tions of various political and religious lean­ helped many of them to emigrate. He was HAMBURG PRIZE FOR PRAGUE ings into a living organism. The youth rallies expelled in 1942 but retumed to Germany JEWISH AUTHOR in Seesen and the co-operation between the after the war. Mr. Lochner speaks German as youth organisations in Berlin and other cities fluently as English. His interesting memoirs, Prague-bom Jewish author and film critic created bonds of friendship across the ideo­ covering the years 1921-1953, were published Gabriel Laub, now on the editorial staff of the logical borders. They also had their stimulat­ in 1956 under the title "Stets das Uner­ Hamburg "Zeit", has been awarded the ing effect on Jewish welfare work. In 1933, wartete". Klabund Prize by the Hamburg Association of Georg Lubinski joined the newly-founded Journalisits for his satirical short story "Reichsvertretung" and became head of the "Vorwaerts in den Leerlauf".—(CJC) department for vocational training and re­ PROFESSOR KURT SCHWERIN 70 training. His aliyah in 1938 opened to him HEILBRONN REMEMBERS JEWISH new and wider opportunities. Under the Man­ Dr. Kurt Schwerin, retired University CITIZEN date, he was the principal of the welfare Librarian and Professor of History of Law at department of the Vaad Leumi, the Jewish the North Western University in Chicago, will Thirty years ago, the Heilbronn Jewish representative body. From 1954 to 1969 he be 70 on April 17. Before the Second World lawyer. Dr. Siegfried Gumbel, perished in was Director-General of the Israel National War he lived in Breslau, where he was a Dachau concentration camp. Dr. Gumlsel was Insurance Office. The creative and construc­ teacher at the Jewish school from 1934-1938 for many years chairman of the Heilbronn tive spadework he performed as holder of this and also a contributor to Jewish periodicals. Lawyers' Association and also took an active high office has left its lasting mark on the At present, Professor Schwerin is engaged in part in the work of the Democratic Party and welfare system of the young State. We join a bibliography of publications in the field of of the Central-Verein. During the last years of his friends in Israel in expressing our sin­ restitution and compensation. He is Chairman his Mfe, he was in charge of the "Israelitische cerest birthday wishes to Georg Lubinski. of the Chicago Chapter of the Leo Baeck Oberrat fuer Wuerttemberg". The municipal­ Institute and also takes an active part in the ity of Heilbronn now honoured his memory by W.R. research work of the L.B.I. naming a street after him.

FAMILY EVENTS Hellendall. — Mrs. Margaret M. Miscellaneous YOUNG JEWISH LADY, pianist, Hellendall, of 5 Endersleigh Gar­ previously married, would welcome Entries in the column Family FOREIGN & ENGLISH COINS Events are free of charge. Texts dens, London, N.W.4, died on friendship in first instance with a March 6, after a long and painful wanted. High prices paid. 'Phone music-loving, unattached, gentle­ should be sent in by the 18th of illness borne with great courage. 01-455 8578 after 6 p.m. man preferably one who is able to the month. Her fight for a better education of play a musical instrument. Age our children and for love and SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL, Jeru­ under 50 please.—Box 275. Birthdays peace between men will be remem­ salem (Director: the late Dr. Cohn.—Mrs. Tmdi Cohn, of 56 bered by all who knew her. Deeply Wallach). Information for writing Missing Persons Greencroft Gardens, London, mourned by her loving husband a history of its early years with de­ Personal Enquiries N.W.6, will celebrate her 75th Fritz, her devoted son Frank and tails from its foundation in 1896 his wife Marian, and her three Herzfeld.—Ruth Herzfeld, bom birthday on April 10. Love and till about 1914 is required. Please 1912 or 1913, formeriy Hanover, good wishes from all her family. grandchildren. reply to: L. Hulbert, 28 FiUebrook Road, London, E.ll. (Any out-of- Hohenzollern-str. Sought by Sabine Reimann.—Mrs. EHy Reimanm, wife Schiff.—^Mrs. Martha Sohiff, Morris pocket expenses will be refunded.) Kanold-Beseler, 3 Hanover, Blumen- of Prof. Albert Reimann, 11 Hill­ Feinmann House, Manchester (for­ hagensitr. 7, for celebration on crest Avenue, London, N.W.ll, wiU meriy Hamburg - Jerusalem), died SMALL ORIENTAL RUGS ex- April 15, 1972, of 40th anniversary ceiebraite her 80th birthday on May peacefully on February 22, after a pertiy repaired. 01-435 9806. of "Abiitur" at Sophienschule. 8. long illness. TREATMENT FOR RHEUMA-nC Hoffmann (Leipziger) .—Miss Hertha PAIN, poor circulation, etc. Keep Hoffmiami (originally Leiimger), The AJR Club extends it heartiest from Glogau. Teacher of gymnas­ congratulations and best wishes to CLASSIFIED fit by regular body massage and exercise. Also facials, skin care, tics. Wanted by Miss Erna Gold­ Mr. Heinrich Goldmann on his 90th The charge in these columns is birthday. Miss Margaret Ziffer on spot reducing, etc., by qualified stein, 5430 Wettingen / Aargau / her 75th birthday. Miss Gisela 15p for five words. beautician. For appointment Schweiz, Zehntenhofstrasse 6. Gerstl on her 75th birthday, and phone evenings, Mrs. Edith Keraer.—Cina and Hanna Kemer, Mrs. Vilma Fuchs on her 70th birth­ Friedmann, 3 Hurstwood Road, from Beriin-Steglitz, emigrated day. Situations Wanted Henlys Comer, Golders Green, from there about 1938 to Bolivia, Men London, N.W.ll. 01-455 6606. La Paz. Sought by Mns. A. Igra, 26 Marriage HiUisdde Giardems, London, N.6. 'Tel. Jackman:OrIander.—Robert, son of THE AJR EMPLOYMENT EXCLUSIVE FUR REPAIRS 01-340 9112. AGENCY (Tel. 01-624 4449) is AND RESTYLING. All kinds of Mrs. W. H. Marshall and the late fur work undertaken by first-class Kleinert.—Gertrud Kleinert, paiinit- Mr. W. Jackman, was married to seeking full-time or part-time em­ renovator and stylist, many years' er in BresJaue/SUesia before the Miriam, younger daughter of Mr. ployment for educated men experience and best references. war, whose paintings were ex­ and Mrs. J. 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Wembley Park, Middlesex. bookkeepers. Please contact AJR companionship. Widower preferred. Employmenit Agency: 01-624 4449. Box 272. Beautiful Oriental WIDOW, young 55, attractive, own LUGGAGE HANDBAGS. UMBRELLAS AND CARPETS AND RUGS For Sale flat, would like to meet gentleman ALL LEATHER GOODS LovelY colours. Highest aualltv. All for companionship.—^Box 273. hand-knotted. Favourable prices. SMALL LEATHER GOODS FAC­ TRAVEL GOODS L. H. FRANKLIN TORY for sale. Modem machinery. PENSIONER, AUSTRIAN-JEWISH, H. FUCHS 29 Barn Way, Wembley Park, Tuition and help available. Owner with modem flat in Wembley, seeks 2S7 West End Lane. N.W.6 MIddx. Tel.: 01-904 6532. retiring. Price £350. S. Blasband, acquaintance of a lady in similar 'Phone 435 2602 793 Harrow Road, Londan, N.W.IO. circumstances.—Box 2'74. AJR INFORMATION April, 1972 Page 11 IN MEMORIAM Letter to the Editor NORMAN BENTWICH MEMORIAL FUND MR. KURT GROSSMANN MRS. MARGARET TIETZ Sir,—Norman Bentwich, who died in April, tiv% author, publicist and communal Execu- Mrs. Margaret Tietz (New York) died on 1971, was a man with a wide range of interests. aVt'i.™"- Kurt Grossmann, died in New York February 26 at the age of 84, when she He had been, amongst other things, Attorney- sLl . ^^^ °^ '^*- Until 1933, he was General was on a visit in London. Mrs. Tietz took a KSK* '^ of the Deutsche Liga fuer Menschen- leading part in the welfare work for former General in Palestine during the Mandate, tnD • When the Nazis came to power, he fled German Jews in the U.S.A., especially as Board Director of the League of Nations Commission <-o I'rague, where he was active on behalf of President aind, for many years, residential direc­ on Refugees, and Chairman of the United ^® refugees as Director of the Democratic tor of Newark House, the Home for the Restitution Organisation. His services to refugee Relief Committee from 1933 to 1939. Elderly. In recognition of her outstanding ser­ Ethiopia will be remembered by his many ?« re-emigrated via Paris to the United vices she was awarded a citation on the occa­ friends there. But the particular interest which c^t^ and was, for the past 29 years, asso- sion of the SOth anniversary of the American occupied his time and thought for aver half Wed with various Jewish organisations, Federation of Jews from (5entral Europe, in a century was the Hebrew IJniversity of Jeru­ T°P«<:ially as Executive Assistant of the World which tribute is paid to her " life-long dedica­ Jewish Congress (1943-1950) and as consultant tion to professional social service ". salem, of which he was a Governor and where n restitution problems. At the same time, he he held the Chair of InternatioiMl Relations Oi^ .a contributor to many periodicals. When IMR. CARL KATZ from 1932 until he retired in 1951. Since then v"® Jewish post-war community in Berlin cele- Mr. Carl Katz (Bremen), who died on he continued to devote a large part of his hfl j-^® 25th anniversary of its foundation February 12, had a decisive share in the re­ time to the progress of the University. He was Sh- ^^*ed, jointly with Professor Herbert organisation of Jewish life in North-West Ger­ particularly interested in adult education and fHauss, the work "Gegenwart und Rueckblick" many after the war. A survivor of Theresien­ in those aspects of the University's work which TM ^' '•^ which a number of former Berlin stimulated friendship and understanding be­ ^^s contributed. In his book "Die unbesun- stadt, he took charge of the Economic Depart­ ment of the Central Committee for Liberated tween Jews and Arabs. senen Helden" (1957 and later) he recorded Jews in the British Zone and also re-estab­ tho ^?^ageous deeds of non-Jews who helped We who sign this letter, though of different Acn »*^ during the period of persecution, lished the Jewish eommunity of his home town of Bremen. As head of a raw produce firm, nationalities and religions, are all proud to be ba H ^^ ^^® history of the Jewish refugees, counted among his friends. We are appealing aro^^ to a high extent on personal experiences founded by his father 70 years ago, he en­ S^ dealt with in his work, "Emigration— joyed a high reputation aniong lus Bremen for funds to enable the Hebrew University to ff||hichte der Hitier-FluechUinge 1933-1945" fellow citizens. set up a Norman Bentwich Memorial Fund, U9b9) His biography of Carl von Ossietzky the purpose of which will be to expand facili­ '^as awarded the Albert Schweitzer Prize. MICHAEL TAUBE ties for adult education in common for Jews The conductor, Michael Taube, died in Tel and Arabs at the University at all levels. MR. HERRMANN M. Z. MEYER Aviv at the age of 82. He was well known in All contributions, which may be in the form Berlin as the founder and conductor of a Mr » bibliophile, publisher and bookseller, chamber orchestra and a chamber choir. From of covenants, should be sent to the Friends k;^- Herrmann Meyer, died in Jerusalem in 1924 to 1929 he was also assistant to Bruno of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 237 Si '}^^ year. He was the founder, in 1924, of Walter at the Charlottenburg Opera House. Baker Street, London, NWI 6XH, and enclosed j.tj.'Soncino-GeseUschaft der Freunde des In 1933 Taube, jointiy with Dr. Kurt Singer in a letter marked : " Contributions to Norman ^edischen Buches" (Berlin), which promoted and the pianist Leonid Kreutzer, founded the Bentwich Memorial, Fund". Cheques should u:^. Publication of tjT)ographically attractive Music Department of the Jewish Kulturbund. be crossed: " Norman Bentwich Memorial Ijsn-standard Hebrew and other Jewish books, He settled in Tel Aviv in 1935 and was the tj,^"^ 1937, when the Society was dissolved by first conductor of the Palestine Orchestra Account". "<5A • ^^ authorities, he also edited the which later became the Israel Philharmonic (Sir) Walter Adams; (Archbishop) George jy^eino-Blaetter, Beitraege zur Kunde des Orchestra. Appleton; (Sir) Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid J"eaischen Buches ". After his emigration, Mr. (Bart., M.P.); David Ben-Gurion ; (Sir) IsaiaJi *yer established himself as a dealer in old MRS. MARGARET HELLENDALL Berlin (O.M., C.B.E., F.B.A.) ; (Lord) Bc^le hiv ^^^. books in Jemsalem. He also resumed 5-?^activities as a publisher, rendering pioneer Mrs. iVIargaret Hellendall, n6e Thilo, who of Handsworth; (Lord) Cohen; (Lord) «rvices in the field of Israeli cartography. died on March 6 at the age of 65, will be Denning; (Prof.) Arthur L. Goodhart (K.B.E.); remembered by many readers from Berlin as (Lord) McNair: (Prof.) Albert Neuberger E.G. an active member of the German-Jewish youth (C.B.E.); Edmund de Rothschild; (Dr.) DR. ANNI SAMUELSDORFF movement "Kameraden". She had been trained Leonard Slotover. i-^^- Anni Samuelsdorff, who recenUy died as a teacher by the late Maria Montessori, whose ideas she aimed at putting into effect The publication of this letter coincides with h, j^l Aviv, was well known as a Jewish social throughout her life, knowing that the education oricer in pre-war Germany. From 1933 until of the child is the basis for the betterment of the first anniversary of Professor Norman jZ emigrated to Palestine in 1936, she was mankind. She worked right up to her last days, Bentwich's death on April 8. Among the jj^u of the Retraining Department of the and even when already stricken with a deadly numerous causes for which he worked in the Q^ichsvertretung. After the war, she stayed in illness, she insisted on carrying on her work course of his long and full Ufe, those nearest ^^lany for some time to organise a Society as a teacher for retarded children under the to his heart were the Hebrew University and * riends of the Hebrew University. auspices of the Inner London Education the rescue and rehabiliation of refugees. Authority. For many years, Mrs. Hellendall Norman Bentwich not only rendered signal PROFESSOR RICEL^D COURANT was also Hon. Secretary of the Hendon Branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. services to our commundfty at large, but was p -The mathematician. Professor Richard also a helpful personal friend to many in our b^urant, died in New York at the age of 83. DR. ELISABETH BLOCHMANN midst. The Memorial sponsored by the dis­ je Was Director of the Department of Mathe- tinguished signatories of the letter will help in rn^ at New York University until he retired Dr. Elisabeth Blochmann, Professor emeritus to implement ideas atoout which he felt par­ ^1958. Before the Nazis came to power, he of Pedagogics at the University of Marburg, nr? Professor in Goettingen, and the City of died in her 80th year. From 1934 to 1951 she ticularly strongly. Former refugees will wel­ ^"ettingen honoured him after the war by Mved in England and taught at Oxford Univer­ come this opportunity of perpetuating the him a Freeman, sity. name of one oSf their greatest friends.

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WILLIAM STERN CENTENARY THE ISRAELI SCENE Academic Session in Jerusalem To mark the centenary of the birth of the IMMIGRATION TROUBLES as possible in the same locality, and it would psychologist William Stem, the Jerusalem The Jerusalem correspondent of the Jewish remove the psychological sense of dislocation Medical Academy held a special session which Chronicle points out that it is becoming clear arising from being snatched from an airport was dedicated to his work. The function was these past few months that, after years of and deposited in surroundings unfamiliar not also sponsored by the Ministry of Education demanding the immigration of Soviet Jews, ordy to Russians but also to the great bulk and Culture, the Municipality of Jerusaleni of Israelis. and the Hebrew University. The proceedings no provision has i>een made for their large- comprised several lectures in which the life scale arrival. No plans have been made for HIGH COSTS OF RESETTLEMENT and work of William Stem were assessed. emergency housing, for special schools to Leading Israelis visited America to impress William Stem, who was bom in Berlin in educate the children and their parents in upon Jewish leaders the need for greater •their new way of life and a new language, 1871, was professor extraordinary in Breslau contributions from America's six million from 1907-1916. In spite of his intemational and for retraining this valuable pool of labour Jews. About £108 million is estimated to be reputation it took a lon| time until he was in slciUs whdch Israel desperately needs. The needed for the 30,000 Soviet Jewish immi­ oiTered a full professorship and even this was result is that the problem is being tackled grants expected to arrive in Israel this year, made subject to his gettmg baptised. Stern piecemeal with occasionally regrettable in addition to the regular 40,000 newcomers declined and accepted a call by the Hamburg results. due from other countries. Colonial Institute Which was converted to 8 For example, in Arad some 50 Russian Of the 13,000 Soviet Jews who arrived in university in 1919. The test methods intro­ families were transported direct from tiie Israel last year, probably half came from the duced in Stern's Psychological Institute airport to the homes earmarlted for them in annexed territories such as Lithuania and opened new vistas in the field of applied the town. About 60 others, mostly profes­ Latvia, 30 per cent from Georgia, 10 per cent psychology. sionals or people with an academic back­ from cities like Moscow and Leningrad, and From 1931-1933, WiUiam Stern was Chair­ ground, were placed in the local absorption the rest from other parts of the country. man of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psycho­ centre. Those in Arad seem to have been sent About half the newcomers are skilled workers logie. In 1933 he was dismissed without notice there for no other reason than that the or iiave professional qualifications. Writers, and forbidden to enter the University and development towns must be populated. They artists and other creative people are regarded Institute. He emigrated to the United States say there was no attempt to establish whether as the most dilficult group of immigrants; and held a professorship of psychology at there were jobs available for their various they were a privileged class in the Soviet Duke University, Durham (North Carolina) trades. A number have taken work as street Union and are now obliged to find their own until his death in 1938. cleaners or helping in small sheiks where, they way in Israeli society, already overcrowded Thanks to the initiative of his son, Guenther complain, they are subject to "capitalist with such people. Anders (Stern), three of his main works have exploitation". been republished after the war: "Die Psycho­ Absorption oflScials point out that the FRENCH LAWYER ACCUSED logie der fruehen Kindheit" ; "Die allgemeine academics can be retrained swiftly and their Mr. Claude Lipsky, the financier fighting ex­ Psychologie" ; and "Die Kindersprache" (with skills quickly applied once they have tradition proceedings by France, applied to be Clara Stem). H.F. acquired a basic knowledge of Hebrew, and allowed to remain in Israel as an immigrant that they can move on to universities, institu­ under the 1952 Law of the Retum. The GERMAN CARS BUT NOT MUSIC tions and enterprises where there is urgent Israeli Supreme Count rejected his applica­ need for their services. For the others, their tion. Mr. Lipsky arrived in Israel in Septem- The music of Richard Strausis and Wagner advice is to be patient during the transition l>er, and French police want to interview him is still banned in Israel, but this attitude period, with an assurance that time will bring in connection with a property scandal. does not preclude the popularity of German a solution to their job problems. In the meantime Ms French lawyer, Mr. cars. A survey for 1970 just published showed This, the correspondent points out, is un­ Joannes Ambres. has been accused of being tliat the proportion of German-manufactured doubtedly true, but there does seem to be a war-^time Nazi collaborator. The Israel Asso­ cars in Israel was greater than in any other a strong case for opening professionally ciation of Victims of Nazism and of Fighters country except Germany. Nearly a quarter of staffed reception centres. These would allow Against Nazism has accused Mr. Ambres of the country's total of cars were German, with the newcomers to find their feet in their new helping to draft the regulations applying the Volliswagens by far the most popular of any. environment and allocate skilled labour to Nuremberg racial laws against French Jews French-made cars were next in order of popu­ where it is most needed. It would also ensure during the war. It has also asked the police larity with British cars thkd. Israel herself that friends and families are settled as far to arrest the lawyer when next he visits Israel. provided 21 per cent of the cars bought.

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