Vol. lit. No. 9 SEPTEMBER 1948 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN 8. FAIRFAX MANSIONS, LONDON. N.W.3 Ofyke ami Consmltint Hsmrt: 10 s.ni I p.m., 3—S p.m.. Sunda/ 10 a.m.—I p.i Ultphont: MAIda Vila 9096

A QUESTION OF TACT ^MLeinnolci Nussbauxn : A S a result ot the gradual relaxation of travelling restrictions, an increasing number of formerly German Jews are paying business visits to Germany. RESTITUTION AND CURRENCY Sometimes, such visitors have also the opportunity of calling on members of their former communities, Munich, August 1948 to make full use of their productive capacity with whom they wish to discuss personal affairs, and to bring their produce on to the open such as the fate of their nearest ones, or the care By the recent laws on Monetary Reform in market. Up to now there had not been much of the graves or the state of their previous property. Germany, old currency credit balances are point in exchanging goods for a currency Reports reaching the AJR from the Continent give being converted in such a way that the whose value in the free market had dropped evidence that the local Jewish representatives are owner is credited with one Deutsche Mark only too glad to assist by giving any possible to a minimum. Now, with the introduction information and help. for every ten Reichsmarks. Reichmark of a stable currency and, at the same time, Travellers should, however, always keep in mind claims are, in principle, so converted into the inclusion of Western Germany into the that the few surviving German Jews who went Deutsche Mark claims that the debtor has to scope of the Marshall Plan, German Pro­ through such terrible trials, are now often suffering pay to the creditor one Deutsche Mark for duction will probably increase considerably, from a strong feeling of isolation. They look upon every ten Reichsmarks due. Military Govern­ a visitor from abroad as an emissary, with whom a condition without which Germany would they want to discuss their grievances and their ment may decide, alter hearing the com­ not have been able to honom- her obligations. hopes. Such exchange of views may be for them petent German legislative bodies, to allow It is, therefore, evident from the aspect of still more important than material help, though this, the owner of old currency credit balances or restitution and indemnification that: the too, is badly needed. Jewish visitors to Germany, of Reichsmark claims a further claim of a who get in touch with the Communities should, Monetary Reform must, in principle, be therefore, make a special point of not concerning maximum of one Deutsche Mark for every considered a step forward. Within a shattered themselves solely with their own atiairs, but of ten Reichsmarks of the total debt. economy the value of any claims against the showing, at the same time, understanding for the Special Provisions manifold problems of their hosts. State, other public corporations and private Special provisions have been made for debtors would have been of doubtful value. certain Reichsmark liabilities, especially Furthermore, the Monetary Reform will wages and salaries, payments under leases THE YOUNG GENERATION provide the basis for an increase of German and tenancies, annuities, pensions and other export, without which there would be no TN this issue readers will find announcements recurrent obligations becoming due after hope for an eventual transfer. about Youth activities. It has always been the June 20th, 1948 ; they are being so con­ poUcy of the AJR to refrain from forming own Youth groups. On the other hand, being the trustee verted into Deutsche Marks that the debtor Effects on Claims* of the refugees, the AJR has to keep an open mind has to pay to the creditor one Deutsche Apart from these general aspects the for any question which might come up within the Mark for every Reichsmark due. This does special effects of the Monetary Reform on community. It is an established fact that many not apply to recurrent payments which young people from the Continent, notwithstanding the restitution claims are also favourable, their links with their new surroundings, wish to had become due before June 1, 1948 ; they though, on the other hand, the risk of some remain in touch with people of their own background are converted at the ordinary rate of one drawbacks must not be overlooked either. and past. By doing so, they do not want to segregate Deutsche Mark for every ten Reichsmarks. themselves from their new fellow-citizens, Jews and Special provisions apply also to liabilities The general reduction of obligations at the non-Jews alike, or to perpetuate their refugeedom. rate of eighty or ninety per cent, will afiect But the moulding force of Continental Jewish to United Nations Nationals who had this tradition should not be underestimated either. status already on May 8th, 1945. Such persons entitled to restitution who have claims for the payment of moneys within the That, in spite of the existence of several groups, United Nations creditors can refuse payments many young people still feel isolated, has been maBerlin. claiming the return of real estate, business German attack in 1940, moved hundreds of thousands of Jewish civilians to Russia from Poland enterprises and other identifiable property to prevent their being slaughtered by the Nazis. BRITISH TRADE REPRESENTATIVE have to consider the possibiUty that their Dr. Bienenfeld said he could not agree with the According to the Board of Trade Journal of property might be levied at an as yet objections against the proposed working raised 31st July, an office of the United Kingdom Com­ uncertain rate df its value as a contribution by the French delegate. Professor Cassin, in whose mercial Representative in Germany has been for the proposed equalization of burdens. submission asylum for persecuted people was a opened at 47 Zeppelin Allee, Frankfurt-am-Main collective obligation of the United Nations and (Tel. No. Frankfurt 77403). AU enquiries which could not be borne by neighbouring States alone. would normally be addressed to the Commercial There is, however, hope that the forth­ Department of an Embassy abroad should now be coming Law on the Equalization of Burdens He said that people fleeing for their lives could not wait for an agreement between the United Nations addressed to this office, and United Kingdom bus­ (Lastenausgleichs-Gesetz) will give special and single State members and that they must, at iness visitors to Frankfurt are recommended to consideration to cases of hardship. In any least, have the right for a temporary asylum in call on the Representative during the course of case, it would be desirable that legal pro­ neighbouring States. their visit. visions should be made enabling restitution Concluding his statement, Dr. Bienenfeld said ; claimants to discharge their habilities in " A Bill of Human Rights which did not solemnly BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT grant the right of asylum to those most unhappy The new British Nationality Act (see April German currency by obtaining German human beings who had lost their homeland, their issue of " AJR Information ") has been passed currency from others who have a title to nationality, their rights, their property and and will come into effect on January Ist, 1949. restitution or indemnification in Germany. frequently their health and their relations, would Amongst others, it states that British women do not be worthy of its name. Not only millions of not lose their British nationality by marrying aliens. There appear to be no compelling reasons Jews but millions of other nationals as well were A more detailed survey on the changes arising from against such procedure which would not persecuted during the last war by Nazi and Fascist the promulgation of the new law wiU be given in nvolve a removal of capital from Germany. governments." one of the forthcoming issues.of "AJR Information." AJR INFORMATION September, 1948 Page 3 Herbert Freeoen : EVENTS IN ANGLO JEWRY Before adjourning for the summer recess, the Board of Deputies reiterated the support of British JEWRY IN HOLLAND Jews for the Jewish State. In a debate on Defence, the Chairman of the Defence Committee, Mr. L. J. Dutch Jevn-y, though it had been reduced parties are mainly religious groupings, namely Hydleman, said that there had been an increase during Nazi occupation from a community of Catholic or Calvinist. But the very special social in the tempo of Fascist meetings in the direction 140,000 to 20.000, has made a big leap towards structure of Dutch Jewry at that time has no doubt of rowdyism and disorder. recovery. The small remnants who have survivied contributed to the absence of racial prejudices. * have mostly emerged, after the liberation, from their It remains to be seen if the social transformation The London Board for Jewish Religious Educa­ hiding places and underground Uves ; only 6,000 of the Jewish community will lead to some change tion, faced with a deficit of /^l 2,000 and realising have returned out of the 120,000 who had been in this respect. At the moment there is no dis­ that no increase is Ukely in the amount of com­ deported. crimination and especially in a field such as munal taxation, has begun to cut down expenditure The social stiata of Dutch Jewry has funda­ restitution where prejudices can easily flare up, by dismissing a number of part-time Hebrew mentally changed. Before the war a not insignificant Jews and non-Jews are tieated with impartiality teachers. A strong protest was lodged by the section were industiial workers, especially in the and equality. National Union of Hebrew Teachers, and the Diamond and Textile industries, and in Amsterdam fewish Chronicle has called upon the community there was even a substantial number of Jewish Unity Impaired to prepare themselves for heavier sacrifices. dockers. The recovery of the community is no less greatly * As Dutch famUies who, at the risk of their own felt in the sphere of cultural activities. There are It was reported at the final course of University lives, gave hospitaUty to Jews under the occupation, in Amsterdam, where half of Dutch Jewry live, Extension lectures held at Jews' College, that the had to some extent to be paid for their sometimes three congregations, the Sephardic, the Ashkenazi total expenditure incurred by three courses of heavy expenses, survival was a matter which the and a Liberal. The Sephardic Synagogue, a most lectures held during the session 1947-48 and working classes could not afford, and it is mostly beautiful pearl of architecture, built in the 17th attended by an average of 20 students, was ;^266, for this reason that Dutch Jewry to-day is, on the Century, has, as the only Jewish landmark in of which £14 were covered by fees, with a balance whole, a trading population with some sprinkling -Amsterdam, escaped destruction and even damage. to be met by the guarantors. The new Principal of the free professions. As the whole economy of The library, Etz Hayim, known for. its unique of Jews' College will be Rabbi Dr. Isidore Epstein. the countrj' is geared up for export and textiles manuscripts, had been stolen by the Nazis and « and diamonds are the main export goods, the Jews sent to Germany but miraculously all the boxes who have some standing in just these two trades, with their precious contents, were found untouched Opinions on the Leeds Jewish Community (the naturaUy benefit from the favourable market. in Frankfurt and have now been restored to third largest in Britain) were voiced by Leeds Jews Amsterdam. themselves at a meeting of the Leeds Lodge of There was no anti-Semitism in Holland before B'nai Brith. It was thought that a distinct iron the war. The Dutch people are, like the Scottish, The unity of the community has unfortunately curtain existed between the Jews of Moortown living on the word of the bible, and the political suffered through a conflict which flared up around and Alwoodley and their co-religionists in the less the former members of the " Judenrat," which affluent Chapeltown, with the result that the under the Nazi occupation was the cential Jewish leaders were out of touch with the rank and file. NEWS FROM GERMANY link between the authorities and the individual If cultural pursuits and achievements were taken Jews. Certain circles reproached the two former as a yardstick to measure a community, then, it The Currency Reform has badly affected Jewish Chairmen, Professor Cohen and Mr. A. Ascher was felt, the Leeds Jewish Community did not communities throughout Germany. Though all that they had gone too far in their co-operation reach even a mediocre level. communities wiU have to call upon their members with the Germans. The conflict was, since the * for regular voluntary' contributions—there is no liberation, somehow latent, but a short time ago possibffity of imposing taxes, since the Commun­ had come into the open when a Jewish Committee At a luncheon given by the Union of Maccabi ities have not yet regained a status of Corporations instigated an investigation against some members .Associations to 36 Jewish Olympic contestants of the Pubhc Law—this will, in view of the unfor­ of the former " Judenrat " which concluded with from 15 different countries, the British heavyweight tunate social and economic structure of their a charge of collaboration. In the meantime the wrestling champion, Fred Oberlander, who, like membership, be insufficient for balancing their Public Prosecutor had arrested Professor Cohen most British champions, was defeated, said that budgets. Negotiations for the allotment of grants and Mr. Ascher on charges of collaboration and no Jewish sportsman could be successful without and, if necessary, of well-termed loans are being the Jewish Committee came to a verdict while the having one thing in his mind and heart—that he carried on with the various appropriate German public inquiries were pending. This has led to was a Jew. authorities. The problem of a " Lastenausgleich " indignant protests in wide Jewish circles. The two wiU also have to be tackled, and a reduction in Chairmen have now been set free and it is doubtful expenditure wiU have to be considered. if, after all, a public charge will be made. This case has only aggravated the lack of leadership Berlin.—The 4-5000 Jewish D.P.s, who for a from which the community is suffering. CLAIMS AGENCY considerable time have been housed in the camps at Berlin-Schlachtensee and Berlin-Mariendorf, It is hoped that it will be possible to both situated in the U.S. Sector, were, at the Immigrants from Germany announce in the next issue ot " AJR Informa­ request of the .\merican Military authorities, Before the war there were in Holland 25,000 tion " the coming into operation of the recently tiansferred from blockaded Berlin into Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. The international Claims Agency. This new the American Zone of Occupation. This move, well majority were deported and have perished at the institution will fulfil an important task in prepared and guided by the U.S. Army, the Inter­ hands of the Nazis. A small section succeeded in national Refugee Organisation, the respective Camp emigrating. Only just over 3,000 have survived. the field of restitution. In continuation of Committees and the Jewish ReUef Societies, was Although their economic position is, Uke that of the work of the " United Restitution carried out with great efficiency and remarkable their fellow Jews, stable, their legal position is still Office " and of the other Restitution Offices discipline. 'Four-engined U.S. Army planes, after unsettled. Naturalisation, proceeding very slowly, unloading essential supplies for Berlin, took is in Holland not an administiative act, but each established by the " Council of Jews from groups of approximately 30 people each to Frankfurt- case calls for special legislation. Many of the Germany," it will in the first instance on-Main, whence they were dispersed to over 15 newcomers want to leave the country but this represent the cases of the individual claim­ existing Jewish D.P. camps in Greater Hesse and they have in common not only with the Dutch Jews, ants before the appropriate Courts in Bavaria. Professor Dr. Haber, the Jewish Adviser but with a large section of the Dutch population. to General Lucius D. Clay, the U.S. Supreme Germany or supervise their prosecution. Commander, rushed to BerUn, when this large-scale Holland needs " Lebensraum." With births Other tasks will follow. exceeding deaths by at least 100,000 per year, with and swift move began. There is now in Berlin only The Claims Agency will have its agencies the Wittenau Jewish D.P. Camp (in the French a population that has increased from 6,000,000 in Sector), comprising less than 200 people. 1910 to just over 10.000,000 in 1947, Holland in London (for Great Britain and the British strives to tackle the problem in two ways : either Commonwealth), in Palestine, in the U.S.A., Bochurn.—The Jewish Community, which also by sending some of her people overseas—only and in France (for the Western European includes Hattigen and Wattenscheid, now numbers recently transports of farmers have left for Canada 34—as compared with approximately 1,200 in 1933 and Australia—,or by gaining new soil from the countries). It will have representatives in and approximately 300 at the outbreak of war. .\ sea, through remarkable works of reclamation. The those parts of Germany which are covered Betsaal, offering seating-space for 50 people, was Government is working on a number of projects by the restitution laws. consecrated last year. The three Jewish which in 50 years will have increased the area of the country by 16 per cent. Besides the " Council of Jews from cemeteries are in order. Dutch Jewry lacks, of course, youth. There are Germany," a number of leading Jewish Recklinghausen.—Of 5-600 members in 1933 still a few agricultural tiaining centies in the organisations have taken part in the estab- and approximately 200 members in 1942 (who country but only in the course of the past few Ushment of this institution. aU were deported to Riga) only 17 are now left. months, a few hundred trainees have left for The Jewish cemetery is well cared for. Religious Palestine, and very few young people are left to The headquarters of the Claims Agency services are held at the High Festivals in the make up a Jewish Youth Movement. The Children & will be in London ; its President will be house of one of the members. Youth Aliyah have their own Children's Village at Professor Norman Bentwich. Mr. K. Alex­ Heme.—There are now only 29 people in the Apeldoorn with 500 youngsters from D.P. camps ander has been appointed General Secretary. Jewish Community (1933 : 500 ; 1939 : approxi­ who are waiting for their turn to go to Palestine. mately 200). ReUgious services are attended If one takes into consideration the tendency for As soon as the pending negotiations with jointly with the Jews in Bochum. The Jewish emigration as well as the lack of youth, one has the appropriate authorities have been com­ cemetery is kept in good order. to be sceptical as to the future of Dutch Jewry. pleted, all necessary details will be published. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION September, 1948

unmistakable, the originality and creative force \^illielin XJnger : of Wolfskehl's own personality stand out clearly. He has given us poems of unsurpassed beauty, in which he expresses his yearning for a complete and meaningful life. Wolfskehl also made a name KARL WOLFSKEHL for himself as a translator (De Coster's Till Ulen­ Karl Wolfskehl who died at Auckland, New meaning for Wolfskehl, for already a year before spiegel). In Bild und Gesetz, a collection of essays Zealand, on the 30th June wUl still be remembered, he had found in George's poetic style and images a published in 1930, he proved himself to be a literary both as a man and a poet, when most of our present pattern corresponding to his own creativeness. critic and a philosopher. problems have passed into oblivion. He was a Wolfskehl soon became one of the most prominent He made Munich his home, where, on the famous solitary figure, standing outside the code of values figures in the " George-Kreis " which had its " Wolfskehl'sche Dienstage," many poets and accepted in his day, but in the fullness of time he will influence not only on German Uterature but also artists met each other for the first time. They all be recognised as a universalist and as a man who on the intellectual and even political life of the regarded Wolfskehl as the focal point of their had found and fulfilled himself. German nation. circle. It was he who assembled the different Germany has lost in him a thinker who even in The fact that men like Karl Wolfskehl and Fried­ elements and fused them into a whole. None his exile kept loving her and believing in her as rich Gundolf—another outstanding figure in the could resist the magic power of his personaUty. long as he had breath. George-Kreis—were both Jews later gave the Nazis It can well be understood that many of his friends "The Jews have lost in him one of their greatest reason to call the George-Kreis " verjudet" and regarded his personality and his ability to inspire sons who, in spite of the influence of Greek and to deny that it had ever had any culturally con- and to lead as his greatest achievements. Catholic thought, yet maintained a life-long loyalty stiuctive significance ; but this was only after they There can be Uttle doubt that in his new home to his Jewish heritage and who, by disposition as had tried in vain to claim Stefan George as one of in exile Wolfskehl again found a sphere of activity well as by development, has a place in the unbroken their forerunners and to declare his thoughts to be congenial to his personality, but one can well line of Jewish prophets. akin to their own ideas. George, however, had no imagine that nothing caused him greater suffering Europe, too, mourns the loss of a citizen of the intention of betraying either his own ideas or his than the abrupt end to his activities in Munich. world who never wavered at any time or at any Jewish friends, and so he emigrated to Switzerland The real significance of the loss that we have place in his belief in Western civilisation. where he died in December, 1933. sufiered through the death of Karl Wolfskehl wiU Karl Wolfskehl was born in Darmstadt on Sept­ Karl Wolfskehl was one of the original con­ only be measured when we know mo'e fully every­ ember 17th, 1869. His family had lived on the tributors to George's Blaetter fuer die Kunst and both thing that he wrote in exile. (Recently a new work Rhine since the days of Karl der Grosse. His published jointly three volumes Deutsche Dichtung An die Deutschen appeared in the Origo-Verlag, father, the banker Otto Wolfskehl, was one-time {Goethe, Jean Paul, Das Jahrhundert Goethes). Zurich.) Vice-President of the ParUament of Hesse. Karl Wolfskehl also contributed to the Jahrbuch fuer die That the poet had of late become tired of life studied philologj' at the University of Giessen, geistige Bewegung edited by Friedrich Gundolf. and had waited anxiously for his deliverance (for where he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on Milestones in Wolfskehl's poetical development a long time he had been suffering from failing " Germanische Werbungssagen." are Ulais (1897), Mysterien (1909), Die Stimme health and sight) is but small consolation to those The turning point of his Ufe was, when in 1893, he spricht (1934) and.the lyrical drama Saul (1905). who mourn his loss. But death left unfulfilled the met Stefan George. Life then assumed a new Although George's influence on Wolfskehl's work is last great wish—to see once more his native land. If the intention of one of his Swiss friends—to bury him on Swiss soil—should become reality, fjien Karl Wolfskehl will find his last resting place in Minusio at the side of his great friend Stefan LAW and LIFE George. THE MIDDLE EAST Legal Advice Hours (for persons with limited means only) : Wednesday 5-6.30 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-12.30p.m. The Middle East, for many centuries an economic and political backwater, has moved again into the If the victims have died, only certain near relatives centre of world interest. Since the opening of the FRENCH INDEMNIFICATION LAW are entitled in their place—a provision which is Suez Canal the countries of the Eastern Mediterran­ It is difficult for the layman, and possibly even especially objectionable in so far as it excludes ean have attracted the attention of the great world for lawyers who do not regularly deal with claims any but their near relatives also if appointed by powers. Last Will. of Nazi victims, to distinguish properly between The first World War with its final breakdown of restitution and indemnification. Restitution refers 2. As far as damage and losses are covered by the Ordonnance, they will by no means be indemni­ the Ottoman Empire released new forces, gave an only to such items which are available and therefore uplift to Arab nationalism, created a host of new still identifiable, indemnification to all other claims fied in full, -\rticle 9 of the Ordonnance provides that the proportion to which indemnification wiU states and brought to the fore new social, political for loss and damage suffered, these claims in their and economic tendencies. Whilst in the Western nature being money claims. It has been mentioned be granted shall be fixed by Statutes enacted by each of the " Laender " concerned. world the march towards the secular state took repeatedly that the .-Mlied Powers decided to deal many hundreds of years in the Middle East a with these two types separately, viz. first with The problem of indemnification is already definite renaissance of the state idea as a modern, Restitution and later on with Indemnification. sufficiently obscured by the new currency laws secular conception came about only at the beginning Reports on the development of Restitution legis­ for Germany. Article 9 of the French Indemnifica­ of the present century. Agriculture is only slowly lation have periodicaUy been given in this paper. tion Ordonnance is apt to make it stiU more doubtful freeing itself from the fetters of a feudal system of As to " Indemnification", detailed information is whether any fair and adequate indemnity will be land tenure with its privileged position of the in hand about the preparations for a Law in the given in the end. property of reUgious Foundations and the recog­ American Zone. It was, however, a surprise for all 3. Another Article provides that the bodies nition of tribal collective property. This process of interested parties that, on July 13th, 1948, there which shall deal with indemnification shall pay it economic liberation opens up vistas of the Middle appeared in the Journal Officiel of the French " in the first place " (" insbesondere ") out of the East as an agricultural producer in modern world Military Government the text of an Indemnification unclaimed and heirless properties of victims and economy. Law {" Ordonnance No. 164 ") enacted for the of the profits made on such of the victims' pro­ Alfred Bonne in his latest book " State and French Zone. perties as will be restituted in kind, and furthermore Economics in the Middle East " (The Inter­ out of certain confiscated Nazi properties. One cannot help feeling that the secrecy veiling national Library of Sociology and Social Recon­ the preparation of this Ordonnance and its sudden One can a.s.sume that the last mentioned source struction — PubUsher : Routledge & Kegan Paul pubUcation were intentional and meant to forestall is a small one, and that, as a result, victims will Ltd. Price 30s.) analyses the problems arising the American legislation. It has been mentioned practically be indemnified out of other victims' out of the Middle-Eastern society in a state before, when the French Restitution Ordonnance property. This is no indemnification at all, it is a of transformation. He interprets the impact of was published, likewise unexpectedly, that the naked act of opportunism destined to protect the western civiUsation on the social, economic and German public finances against any serious " losses " French Military Government have so far shown political fabric of the Middle FUist. Against a on account of indemnification—after Nazism historical background he illuminates a stage on peculiar ideas of their own which are hardly com­ managed to gather the greatest part of the pro­ patible with a reaUy thorough and just settlement. which to-day part of the World Drama is played. perties in the hands of the State or other public In a previous book " The Economic Development The salient points of the new French Indemnifica­ funds. tion Ordonnance which attempts to deal with the of the Middle East," first published in 1933, Alfred complex problem very briefly, are the following The best that can be said about the French Bonne outlined in detail a programme for the ones :— Ordonnance with all its shortcomings is that it does future. His latest book is, as he himself mentions, not absolutely bar the way to improvement. retrospective in character. It deals with the human 1. A Right of Indemnification is granted to the There may still be possibilities to implement the material, the political and economic structure and victims of Nazi Oppression for personal injuries Ordonnance in a reasonable way, e.g. to see to it tries to give a reasoned explanation of the problems and damage and loss of property inflicted through that the " proportion " of indemnity is fixed at and changes of the Middle-Eastern scene. His­ discriminating acts and measures. an appropriate level and that " in the second torians and economists have often wondered why It is, however, to be feared that many types of instance " the funds out of which indemnity shall the Middle East has not until now participated in damage will not be covered by that rather narrow be granted, will be supplemented by the Treasuries the social and economic development of Europe in definition ; conspicuous examples for such unsettled of the Laender. spite of its geographical proximity. Because the claims are the Reichsfluchtsteuer and the dis­ Applications for Indemnification wiU go to the answer to this riddle is not obvious it has often been advantages suffered and fines imposed under Landesaemter fuer Kontrollierte Vermoegen, and doubted whether the Middle East is capable of currency laws. Furthermore, all damage suffered there is a possibility of appeal against their decisions. " catching up " with Western development. The by way of loss of business and professional No time limit has been given, and it can safely be static features of Middle Eastern society, particu- earnings, as well as war damage and damage of an assumed that there will not be any actual dealing arly of the Arab countries seem to emphasize this immaterial kind, are expressly e.xcluded from with such cases before the implementing legislation doubt. i ndemnification. referred to above has been enacted. HANS CAPELL. AJR INFORMATION September, 1948 Page S v^. C Aronsfeld : Old Acquaintances The Mann Family.—No one knows why Klaus GERMAN JEWS IN ENGLAND (III) Mann tried to commit suicide a few weeks ago in An e\en greater contribution to England's oriental languages at Cambridge, Wolff soon, on California. The gifted son of a famous father national life was made by Hugo Hirst (Hirsch), behalf of the London Society for the Jews, launched returned from Europe to see his new Tschaikowsky from Southern Germany (since 1934 Lord Hirst himself on extensive and adventurous travels into novel Pathetic Symphony published. By now, of Whitton), who in 1889 founded, and till his the remotest regions of the East. The success Klaus is recovering. His father refused to accept death in 1943 remained in charge of, the General vouchsafed to these devoted labours was negligible, a telephone call from his home-town Luebeck Electric Company, now one of the most formidable because Germans cannot pay for it, and he didn't although, presenting himself as " drunk with the want to pay for it either. Later on he got to Electrical undertakings in the world. It 15 a measure love of God," Wolff certainly was a fierce hot- °f the man's achievement that Mr. J. H. Thomas, know why they rang him—Luebeck wanted some gospeller, made memorable by the antics of an help for the rebuilding of its famous St. Mary's file once famous Labour chief, commended him, indomitable knight-errant. Some measures of the towering industrialist, for having " worked Church, and he gave all his royalties in Germany earthly recompense came when one of his social for that cause. By the way, Sir Alexander like a Trojan to bring Capital and Labour together"; ambitions was granted and Lady Georgiana indeed, Thomas said. Hirst could " feel justly Korda wants to make a picture out of Thomas Walpole, daughter of the second Earl of Oriford, Mann's Magic Mountain soon, and tried to get proud that there is no employer of labour so consented to marry him. esteemed and respected." Klaus for the script. But the services of German Jews in England lie Primrose League What they earn—.America's income tax collector '^y no means only in the economic field. Sometimes is not discreet, he publishes every year what our the same family would produce distinction in more .\n offspring of this marriage was Sir Henry Drummond-Wolff, the noted parliamentarian and friends, the stars earn. Hedy Lamarr tops the than one branch of human activity. One of Sir list with 279,000 dollars a year, and she wiU star Felix Schuster's brothers, for example, Ernest, diplomat who in 1883, after the unveiling of Lord Beaconsfield's statue in Parliament Square, con­ next in Cecil de Mille's " Samson and Delilah " K.C., an authority on International Law, Political picture. Otto Preminger who directed " Forever Science and Economics, was among the Govern- ceived the idea of the Primrose League, an abiding symbol of the Disraelian tradition in the conserva­ Amber " earned 206,000 dollars, W^illiam Dieterle lient's legal advisers in the negotiations leading 204,000, and Fritz Lang 178.000 dollars. The to the Dawes Plan of 1924, and Sir Arthur Schuster, tive British way of life. In a kindred sphere of public affairs, fame was won by Philip Goldschmidt, young director Billy Wilder who started once in ^•R.S., during the first World War. performed, Berlin with "Menschen am Sonntag" could make according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, " invalu­ of Oldenburg, who in 1843, at the age of 31, came to Bradford, afterwards settled in Manchester, 166,000 ; 1 am sure he will earn much more this able work as a scientific adviser for the organisation year because his two new pictures, " The Emperor °f research in various departments."' and in 1883 (and again in 1885) was elected Lord Mayor of that great city. Equally brilliant was the Waltz " with Bing Crosby and " .\ Foreign Affair" career of Sir Otto Jaffe, of Hamburg, who was with Marlene Dietrich are making terrific business Outstanding Scholars twice (1899 and 1904) Lord Mayor of Belfast. in New York just now. Marlene herself earned 100,000 dollars. -^n ornament to learning as weU as to piety *ere the Gollanczes, Sir Hermann and Sir Israel, Naturally German Jews have left their mark also From the Ringstrasse.—Maria Jeritza arrived whose father, the Rev. Samuel Marcus Gollancz, in that profession in which Jews of all nationalities in .Austria from the States, gave a recital in Salzburg <^ame to London about 1855 from his native and in all ages have excelled above all others— and told reporters she bought a new opus by Richard Witkovo, Provinz Posen. Israel who for 25 years medicine. In England one of their finest craftsmen Strauss. .\t the same time, Franz Lehar returned to (until his death in 1930) occupied the chair for was Dr. Felix Semon, of Danzig, who settled in his beloved Bad Ischl after spending the first English Language and Literature at King's College, London, at the age of 25, in 1874. .\s an assistant post-war years in Switzerland. Willy Forst who London, is still considered one of the foremost of the famous Morell Mackenzie, with whom he now edits his own monthly Film in Vienna greets Shakespearean scholars, whereas his elder brother, stiongly disagreed over the illness of Kaiser the old composer, and calls him not only " our for 30 years first Minister at the Bayswater Syna­ Frederick III, he soon rose to become the foremost new Johann Strauss," but also a " voluntary npn- gogue, achieved distinction as an orientalist and specialist for throat and nose diseases. -'Vfter he refugee " whatever that may mean. Forst will ft'ofessor of Hebrew at London University had successfully treated Mr. Gladstone in 1885, he direct the first English picture " Elisabeth of College.' was consulted by the Queen, who knighted him, and .\ustiia" next year in Vienna with Margaret introduced to the future Edward VII who greatly It so happened that when this particular chair Lockwood and Paul Henreid for J. .\rthur Rank, cherished his professional as well as social accom­ and Richard Duschinsky, who once wrote many for Hebrew was created, its first incumbent, in plishments and promptly appointed him Physician '828, also was a Jew from Posen, Hyman Hurwitz, excellent plays in Berlin and \'ienna, writes the Extraordinary to the King. Sir Felix faithfully script for this film. who came to England in 1795 at the age of 25. attended to his royal patient, until in 1908, owing His Hebrew tales and Hebrew grammars, as well to those intrigues which will never forgive the Home N*W8.—Lore Leni, widow of the famous as other learned writings of mainly educational stain of foreign birth, he was forced to tender his Jewish interest, attracted the attentioni of Samuel German director Paul Leni and wife of the British resignation which, however, the king graciously journalist Maurice Cowan formed her own film T- Coleridge, the author and poet, who, upon declined to accept. Semon died, a disappointed conscientious study of the subject, found that company in London, and will produce first a picture man, in 1921. " Renate," the Ufe story of Renate Mueller, who beyond all doubt and comparison, Mr. Hurwitz, committed suicide during the Hitler years, and whom it would be no flattery to name the English On a smaUer scale, a similar fate had befallen, was well-known in this country through " Sunshine Mendelssohn, is the first Hebrew and Rabbinical a generation earlier, another Jewish physician, Susy" ("Die Pri vatsekretaerin ").—Dolly Haas, Scholar in the Kingdom." Dr. F. Freund, of Prague. He worked chiefly whodidn't makeapicture since she played in "Broken By a jesting contiast, about the same time, among the German colony in London whom he Blossoms " here in 1936, is coming to London in England was treated to the appearance of a most untiringly urged to make better provision for their the .\utumn to star in " Lute Song." She is mar­ '^d, romantic as much as eccentric, meshumad poor—then a large number—by building a hospital ried to the .\merican cartoonist Hirschfield who from Germany. Dr. Joseph Wolff was born at of their own. His industiy, devotion and humani­ does every week a drawing for the Sunday edition ^eilersbach, near Bamberg, in 1795, turned Roman tarian zeal at last secured the opening in 1845 of of the New York Times.—Ludwig Biro, who during Catholic in 1812, lived in Rome till he was excom- the German Hospital at Dalston, but Dr. Freund, the first world war wrote the famous novel Hotel niunicated six years later for uttering heretic whom a German chronicler describes as "an Israel­ Stadt Lemberg showed, his new play " The Blue Opinions, and then made for England where he ite filled with a truly Christian spirit," was not Room Mystery " in the little New Lindsay Theatre. promptly joined the Established Church (though long suffered to enjoy the fruits of his labours. The leading lady of his new work was Lucielle ne later set up a denomination of his own, the He was jockeyed out of the Hospital Committee, Gray who is Vicky's wife—and Vicky, the famous Catholic Apostolic Church). Having studied and others, less conspicuous for a Christian spirit cartoonist of the News Chronicle started his career but also less non-Aryan, basked in the abundant in Berlin where he drew for the " 12 Uhr-Blatt. appreciation, moral and material, which this grand Lotte Jessner, the late Leopold's only daughter monument of charity drew then, and has received emigrated from England to the States.—Alfred Letler to Ihe Editor ever since, from very many Londoners, German Kerr, who discloses that he once wrote poems for and native, Jew and Gentile, high and low. Richard Strauss (but they were never heard in •••JUDE- AS OFFICIAL TERM" public) intends to go on a visit to Germany soon. At this point the writer wishes to end his notes He is over eighty. ^ear Sir, on German Jews in 19th Century England. He is I noticed a short item in your August issue under severely conscious that he has by no means dealt People.—Emil Rameau celebrated his 70th '*« heading "'Jude' as Official Term." This adequately with the absorbing subject. Many birthday together with his 50th stage anniversary ^''minology is not, I can assure everybody, used only names are still unmentioned, many achievemente in Hollywood where he lives with his son, author ^^^ely, but it is the accepted wording in the German unappreciated, and nearly all continue to await Hans Rameau. He used to play and direct with r^^il Service even to-day. I can claim to have been the carefully sifting student who one day will do Reinhardt and Jessner in the old days, and just now '" close touch with the " Beamten-Kreis " for some them justice. In the meantime, grateful acknow­ finished work in Republic's " Main Street Kids." 'me after the last war and I found the term used again ledgment is due to Mr. Paul H. Emden's " Series —Ellen Schwannecke, who is an American citizen, "•Hd again. In particular C.I.D. personnel's state- of Biographies," entitled " Jews of Britain " but Uves on German rations in Berlin, is going to '^ents would run something like this : " Ich ging in (London 1943), from which many important data make a picture there ; it's caUed " Morgen ist .\lles "s Haus des Juden . . ." Although I did what I were obtained. besser " after Annemarie Selinko's novel, and Hans '\'>uld to stop it, I must say that it had little effect Deppe will direct it.—Peter Lorre is probably '°'' what had been done for years and years I was noinot 1. The present knighted generation of the Schuster family— coming to Europe to act in Paris in " 'The Man sotfig fg gfase in a matter of weeks. Victor, a son of Felix, Claud and George, a son of Ernest— on the Eiffel Tower." are no longer connected with Judaism. I.M.S. 2. A third brother, a wholesale jeweller, was the father of ?EM Name and address supplied. Mr. Victor Gollancz, the publisher. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION September, 1948

into the field and Syria two. There were States FROM MY DIARY like Pakistan which, for the first time, competed PERSONALIA under their own flag. It was to be expected that Dr. Joachim Prinz, Newark, N.J., U.S..\., the Israel was not represented—the young State is The Olympic Games in Wembley kept reminding former Berlin rabbi, on I'i.s return from the Mont­ me of the 13th Olympiad which took place in 1936 not yet a member of the Olympic Committee and did not exist when the entries for the Games were reux Conference of the' World Jewish Congress in Berlin. What a grandiose spectacle was offered toured the U.S. and Br-cish Zone, spent some time to the world by the Nazis. .\ whole Olympic village made. Unfortunately, however, also the former Mandatory territory of Palestine was not invited. in Bavaria and Franklurt-on-Main and addressed was built near the Stadium ; the streets were meetings in Dusseldorf, Belsen, Hamburg and tiansformed into festive avenues ; day and night The participation of Palestine had first been accepted by the Olympic Committee and then withdrawn Cologne. He took a particular interest in the the official propaganda machine shouted into the affairs and activities of Jewish Communities. world the gigantic preparations for this inter­ because the " State " of Palestine did not exist national rally. For the first time in Nazi Germany, any more (although it had never existed). Dr. Rudolf Geiger, one of the last Vice-Presidents however, the Jews benefited from such an event. Again it was left to the Jews to fight as anonym­ of the Jewish " Centialverein," celebrated his The year 1936 was a kind of vacation from persecu­ ous members of their national teams. The largest 75th birthday in New York on July 25th. tion. The Olympic Games took place in BerUn number of Jewish athletes were in the U.S..\. Dr. G. Schatzky, chairman of the A.J.R. Cam­ under the condition that athletes of all nations, team where 14 Jews participated (with two formerly bridge Branch, celebrated his 70th birthday recently- creeds and colours should be able to participate German Jews, J. H. Slade, from Frankfurt and The A.J.R. wishes to convey to him its most cordial freely in the competitions. It was, therefore, that Claus Gerson, Hamburg) but there were also a congratulations and to thank him for his untiring all Jewish sport organisations in Germany, long Jewish sprinkling in the British, Canadian, French, efforts in the interest of the Local Group. before the Olympiad started, were allowed to Hungarian, Danish and in some of the South The Rev. B. Wreschner, who has been an A. J .R' function unhindered. American teams. Freddy Oberlaender, formerly Board Member for many years, has left this country Hakoa, Vienna, represented the British Heavy- to take up an appointment as a Minister of a Mel­ The anti-Jewish laws were temporarily put into Wrestlers. cold storage. Pogroms and even minor incidents bourne Congregation. The A.J.R. extends to him its A German Jewess, Inge Mello de Preiss, was "best wishes for his future activities. were, for the time being, ruled out. Berlin offered amongst the Argentine representatives at the her gayest and most alluring face to the world's Olympic Games. Mrs. Preiss received her training It is announced with greatest regret that Moritz visitors. The opening was a monumental political in the " Juedische Sportgemeinschaft 33," Berlin. Rosenthal, whose merits for the Jewish community demonstiation. Hitler, followed by Goering, Generally, Jews from Germany in the Argentine were recently recalled on the occasion of his 70th Goebbels and the highest dignitaries of the party are deemed to be " enemy aliens " and cannot birthday, suddenly passed away in New York. and military machine, drove slowly in open cars acquire the Argentine nationality. .\s the author­ Mr. George Stadthagen, a weU-known and most from the centie of the town out to the Stadium ities were, however, anxious to make use of Mrs. in Charlottenburg, through stieets flanked by active member of the National Savings Committee in Preiss's qualifications, they made an exception in Hampstead, died recently. millions, and the Olympic torch, which in Wembley her case and naturalised her, so that she might modestly came through the " back door " of London represent her new homeland at the Olympic Games. the North-Western suburbs—preceded in Berlin the tiiumphal entry of the Fuehrer. POSTAL SERVICE TO PALESTINE The opening of the 14th Olympiad in Wembley, On 8th August, a party of prominent members The Postmaster-General announces that un­ though impressive enough with 58 nations parading of the Jewish Community from Great Britain and registered letters, printed and commercial papers, their colours before the King and an audience of Ireland set out on a Goodwill Flight to visit children's samples, and small packets up to the normal limits 85,000, was no poUtical event. If any political homes run by Children and Youth .\liyah in of weight, and postcards, may now be sent by surface significance should be attached to it, then it is that Florence and Rome. The tour,,which lasted three route to certain places in Palestine, of which the it was still possible in the summer of 1948 to gather days, has produced an enormous impression and following are the more important : Benei Brak, the nations on both sides of the " Iron Curtain " in everyone has returned determined to do the utmost Hadera, Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Kfar Vitk'n, a friendly contest. Of the .\rab States, Egypt to increase their fund-raising activities for Children Nahariya, Nathanya, Petach-Tikva, Raanana, presented the largest team, with over 60 ; Iraq and Youth Aliyah. Ramat Gan, Rishon-le-Zion, Rosh Pina, Tel-Aviv, and" Lebanon led approximately a dozen athletes NARRATOR and Tiberias.

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We specialise in on your feet'' SUB-CONTRACTS for AGENT (on Commiuion baito) WANTED CUTTING, STAMPING and EMSA-WORKS & HERBERT FOOT NEWMAN'S SLIPPERS APPLIANCE LTD. MAKING UP of LTD. BLACKBURN, Lanes. LEATHER, PLASTIC, BLACKBURN TEXTILES and similar materials Plutic — Shaatinf, Baiting, Piping, •OPTICIAN- Balsam's Restaurant Please contact us early to have your Fastanar*, Daarlngt, Rivatt, Linings, pp. in the heart of Mayfair Xmas orders executed in time Cutting! of Silk, Cotton, Hoslary, ate. A. OTTEN, F.B.OJk. (Honours) at the corner of Export tf Getieral Cao<rd339l ALL OPTICAL BENEFITS Open daily from 12 noon to II p.m. for small articles only (including Sundays) 58Gt. Marlborough St., London, W. I COMPLETE SERVICE Luncheon*- Afternoon Teat- Dinners Late Supper! - Snacks ARCY UNIVERSAL FOR THE HIGH FESTIVALS Excellent International Cuisine Machsorim, Taleisim, Caps, Special I Roast Chicken, Rump Steaks Luachs 5709, New Year Cards 118 FINCHLEY ROAD, N.W.3 Escalopes, etc. (Oppofita John Barnes and - he very bast Home-made Cakes and 400, WEST GREEN ROAD FInchlay Road, Mat. Station). French Pastries LONDON, N. 15 M.SULZBACHER The Restaurant is fudy Licensed Jewish & Hebrew Boolcs (also purchase) PHONE : HAM 8336 for Appointment Tel. : BOWes Parli 5605 No House Charge No Cover Charg 4 Snaath Avanua, London, N.W.I I Goods will be collected and delivered CORSETS SPiedwell tC9'4 BRASSIERES Valeetiee & Wolff Made to Measure Mr. R. BEUTHNER Jnsurance asrokerfi LTD. Repairs — Alterations 59 NEW OXFORD STREET Mrs. E. SONNENFELD has opened Apply 24 St. John's Rd.,, Golders Green, LONDON, W.Cl Ptum* for Appointtiunt SPE 6547^ N.W. 11 GLOBETROTTERS' TRAVEL CONTINENTAL Tel.i TEMple Bar 0842/3/4 UPHOLSTERY-REPAIRS SERVICE Carpets fitted and repaired at On request work carried out in customer's All Typet of Insurances with premises. Curtains fitted, etc. 67, WIGMORE STREET, LONDON, W.l Lloyds and all Cooipaaies LESLIE SHIRLEY LTD., 117, Melroaa Ave., N.W.] TeL : GLAdstone 1625 TeL WELbeck 0367/9 Cables : GLOBTRO lianacar L. Scheibe formerly Polstennoebel und Swiss Currency guaranteed U booldng now Matrettentabrik. Berlin Priated by LANGLBY & SONS LTD., Eiuton Buildings London, N.W.I