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H" * Grtienetcald to preach the Gospel to the Jews. He added, "If the Church were more Christian, the dis­ pute with the Jewish people would be even JEWISH-CHRISTIAN "DIALOGUE" OF 1933 more outspoken than it can be today". This was the heart of the matter; it determined Reminiscences in the Buber Centenary Year the relationship of the Christian to the Jew, as was already evident in the New Testament. The beginning of the emancipation of movements. Among the people of those parts "If the Jews had accepted Jesus, there would J^rraan Jews and their exit were both marked of Southem Germany was to be found a not have been Golgatha, no sufTering of the y translations of the Bible. In the intervening curious blending of earthiness and spirituality. Corpus Christi; then the God-ordained end eatury and a half, Jews had made eleven There was in Stuttgart a small but influential [sic] would have been here in all its perfec­ ^ennan versions of the full text, to say nothing group of Buber's devoted followers, among tion". It was not the Crucifixion, for which r? partial translations. The same period saw them the noble, martyred Otto Hirsch, later all contemporaries were equally responsible, the rise of historical and exegetical schools. the Executive Director of the Reichsvertre­ but the rejection of the Messiah which had r" seemmg to converge upon the Bible and tung. saddled the Jews with an enormous burden. ^ world. More than in any other countr>% It was not Buber's first meeting with "World history, which, with all its glorious ^^rman Jews were confronted with an believing Christians. A few years earlier, he manifestations, is a story of terror, could only yalanche of new theological ideas and criti- had spKyken at a session of a missionary society take its course because the Jews did not enter ^'^m. affecting both the Old and the New dedicated to the propagation of the Christian into the Church". This astounding verdict was ^^tament. faith among Jews. He had agreed to this, comprehensible only on the basis that there I>espite the inroads upon religion as a whole since he felt that an invitation demands an is one meaningful history, the history of salva­ "jade by historical analysis, the Christian answer. Yet he began by saying, "As a Jew tion—within the Church. The early principle ^iw of superiority to all other faiths waiting for the world to be united under the of extra ecclesiam nulla .salus was not only, "^.iiained upon the whole unquestioned by the Kingdom of God, I see in the missionary appeal Schmidt said, a Roman Catholic doctrine. It ^tics. Yet Church and Synagogue had con- to the Jews a hindrance to the fulfilment of was valid also for those Christian persuasions I'i'^nted each other throughout German-Jewish that expectation". Of course, this was an which did not belong to the ecclesia visibilis. ^story. The disputes, however, were not address, not a dialogue. However, the day of All Christians shared the belief that no tower •^'iched by politics, but remained scholarly the "G^prach" with Karl Ludwig Schmidt was of Babel, no division of tongues, peoples and ^^ literarv and did not lead to personal ooly two and a half weeks away from the races could prevent that ultimate unification ^counters. assumption of power by the Nazis. At that of mankind, for which, in the words of the The personal dialogue began dtning the juncture of history, what did the Protestant Apostle Paul, there exists "neither Jew nor **^imar Republic and was bound up with one and the Jew have to say to one another? Greek... bond nor free". ?*n, Martin Buber. He, therefore, is the key Like other discourses by Buber, this was The Church's vision of Israel, Buber replied, ^?ure when we consider how this meeting of not a one-evening affair. Letters were ex­ was one thing, but against that knowledge Poinds came about. The Hassidic legends, as changed beforehand, and the correspondence stood another knowledge—^that which the Jew •^ and interpreted by him, had found their with Professor Schmidt continued until after had of himself, of his hidden reality. "We, J^ into the westem world; in some universi- the Second World War. The topic agreed Israel, know of Israel from within and in this "^s they w«^ required reading for students between them was "Church, State, People, knowledge that we have of ourselves we do ?i^ Catholic theologj'. Smce the Middle Ages, Judaism". "Judaism" replaced Schmidt's sug­ not recognise the finality of salvation within }^iristians had found it easier to approach gestion of "Synagogue", since Buber felt that the history of man; we know of no incamation ^^ Jewish orbit through the gates of he could not speak for the Synagogue, nor did in any of God's revelations, and we are certain "'ysticism; Johannes Reuchlin was not the he feel that the word described the fullness of that Israel, the Israel of the Covenant, does 2*ly Christian scholar who had leamed Jewish existence. The inclusion of "State not stand rejected—in spite of its lapses, of its pbrew in order to leam about Kabbala. This and People" gave Schmidt the opportunity alienation from God, in spite of the Galut, '^cination persisted, although, with the end of tuming against anti-Semitism and racism, about which both speakers have spoken, each ^ the nineteenth centtiry, more and more which he, strangely enough, regarded as a in his own way. It is this knowledge that we ^•iristian scholars also tumed to Rabbinic law movement bent on economic and social have of ourselves that the Church denies to !"the Holocaust Remembrance Group ^ references to the surrounding contemporary viewers of German origin objected to the film's London has published a booklet with maP' world. This also applied to many Christian efiect in kindling anti-German feelings. and photographs which supply additional ui- publications appearing after the Nazis had After the film had been shown on BBC TV formation. Over 50,000 copies are being distrj' come to power. Shock and euphoria existed on four evenings, the controversy was carried buted to synagogues and some 60 Jewi^" side by side, and many documents of that on in a late-night discussion. A panel, including communal organisations throughout Britain' period give no idea of what was really happen­ Rabbi Hugo Gryn, the jurist Professor Fox, and Northern Ireland. The group has 3.ls^ ing. And even if the threat was seen, it was and the critic Milton Shulman, came to the issued a special lesson plan for schools ajl^ often conceived in rigidly narrow terms. For uneasy conclusion that, whilst the soap opera youth clubs. The Chief Rabbi, the Haham D' instance, the same issue of Theologische treatment was to be deplored, it might have Gaon, and Rabbi Kokotek, chairman of the Blatter, edited by Schmidt, in which the dia­ been difficult to watch a more realistic sequence, Council of Reform and Liberal Rabbis, askeo logue was printed in full (1 September 1933), and that on the whole the educational value all ministers to devote a sermon to Holocaust- carried another article entitled "The German outweighed its shortcomings. Perhaps the feel The same was done by the Council of Christian Union of 1933". by Professor Herman Sasse. ings could not have been better summed up and Jews. This described how, on July 11, 1933, the than by Rabbi Gryn, himself a survivor of Lutheran Churches of the German lands had Auschwitz and several other concentration In South Africa been unified, that is nazified. Henceforth camps, who exclaimed: "We were too polite to teachings and guidelines in matters of faith explain what has happened. The film has The private company, which showed tn« would be subject to the decrees of the newly- thrown the lid off the subject." As in the U.S., controversial "Holocaust" film on SoUi' created office of a "Reichsbishof". Sasse called in this country, too, there had been many African Television, published advertisemen^ this one of the darkest days of the Lutheran young and quite a few not so young viewers to including pictures of concentration camps an, Church since it meant the complete abrogation whom this performance, notwithstanding its the words "With a cast of six million Je^ j of the Augsburg Confession, the loss of inde­ The South African Yad Vashem Memorif' Hollywood approach and numerous factual Foundation and other Jewish institution pendence of the "Lander" Churches and of the mistakes, for the first time gave an idea of caused the company to change the advertise­ freedom of conscience within Lutheranism. A what had happened. A few days later, the ments and demanded an apology to I'j "dying church" had betrayed Luther. It papers reported that an 80-year-old Jewish memory of the six million victims. Mr. HyiJ" apparently did not concem the author that in woman had killed herself after seeing the film, Segal, the Jewish marketing manager o^,.„tf a totalitarian state more could be at stake than because, though she had lost a number of company, said he did not think the wordinB the integrity of the Lutheran Confession. Nor relatives, she had previously been unable to was offensive, but it would be changed. did it occur to him that Luther himself might visualise the harassing details. have had something to do with the forces that "When Compassion was a Crime" had been let loose in Germany. Nor did this Our group of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany had its own misgivings. Some re­ During the Holocaust discussion there nha*s strike his Jewish contemporaries, with the fused to watch. Those of us who did, found been a demand for a re-issue of the lav notable exception of Leo Baeck. many discrepancies apart from the obvious Rev. Leuner's "When Compassion was When the dialogue was published in Autumn ones objected to by most of the reviewers. Just Crime" which, first published in 1966, has low 1933, the Third Reich was already well on its been out of print. Oswald Wolff Publish*^^ because we have witnessed many events which have therefore decided to bring out a rfP'iie vray. The titles of the theological books adver­ led up to the final unspeakable horrors, we with an introduction by Terence Prittie in "'j tised in the same issue are indeed eloquent; were perhaps more upset by the inadequacy near future. It is a timely attempt to do wn. g the journal also contained an appeal to theo­ of the underlying research. It is well known Yad Vashem does in its "Avenue ot.^ie logical students to join the Storm Troopers. by now that not only survivors of the camps, Righteous": to remind the world that tnei^ Shortly afterwards. Professor Schmidt left but also at least two former Nazi officers were Gentiles who risked their own safety a^" Germany for a chair in Switzerland; Buber were consulted as advisers in the making of freedom by helping Jews to survive and escaP ^ remained, to become the leader of Jewish Their heroism and suffering, too, should not o the film, but it would appear as if pre-war forgotten. adult education in Germany until the Gestapo refugees from Germany were not much in­ silenced him. volved in supplying the background material. REWARD FOR PROOF OF GAS- In conclusion, it may be noted that, in the There are many obvious and avoidable errors CHAMBERS? debate, both Schmidt and Buber expressed in the presentation of dates and facts between doubts as to whether a dialogue between the 1933 and the outbreak of war. Furthermore the Erwin Schonbom, the notorious chairm'J two religions was possible at all, whether it Weiss family, which for the sake of the plot, of the Right-extremist Fighting Federation " would not prove an exercise in futility. Their had to comprise a variety of widely different German Soldiers, has for over three ^^ ^f answers to this vexed question give the feeling characters among its members, is hardly distributed leaflets promising a reward . DM 10,000 to anyone who could prove beyong that their doubts were not entirely resolved. typical of an average German-Jewish family, doubt that there had been gassings in 8g Moreover, although, as mentioned before, and the atmosphere in which Jews in Germany, chambers of German concentration can>P„ some of the arguments and responses may not faced with gradually deteriorating and himii- The leaflets stated that no camp surviV' have been new, there was a special tone in liating developments, lived under the Nazi from Poland, Israel, or the USA would ^ Buber's words and approach. A note of urgency regime during the pre-war period, is not ade­ accepted, as such witnesses had been ^^^ imparts itself to the reader after almost half quately caught. to perjure themselves in court. SchbnpoJ has now published a statement, saying that i a century. For Buber, however, this note of Nevertheless, with all its shortcomings, the first witness from Germany who claimed to ".^ urgency was not prompted by a special series has served a useful purpose and will able to prove such gassings, had appeared, ^^^j occasion, its time amd circumstance. It was continue in doing so. One of the effects we was a former member of the Hitler Youth ai^ part of his style and therefore of his character. hope for is that it will stimulate the urge to the SS who also claimed to have proof t^jj Whether he read from one of the Prophets or get to know the actual details of the darkest Adolf Hitler personally gave the order to » interpreted a Biblical narrative, looking for period of German history. Even the Israeli the Jews. Schonbom says that in consequ^V.j,, a key word, whether he addressed a crowd or of this testimony, his Federation had ^},e Government has set aside its reservations and drawn the pamphlets and had informed ^ ^j conversed with a visitor, Buber always had decided to have the film shown on Israeli courts in Frankfurt, FUrth, Nuremberg,^ J. an air of intensity, that note of urgency in screens. Germany, too, will show the film, Hamburg, where cases against him and l^Sjg which his vis-^-vis could become a partner and probably very soon. Yet the question, through ing politicians and scholars are pendin,^;--g the fleeting moment a transcendent event. which channel or channels it will be broad­ adds, that he is only concerned in establisn*^^ cast is still under discussion. The responsible the historic tmth, but that to him the n^j Robbi Dr. Gruenewald is President of the testimony appears incredible and nonsensi'^ Leo Baeck Institute. quarters in the Federal Republic are anxious gim

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ANTISEMITIC REMARKS IN "EVENING DISGUISED ANTISEMITISM OF NATIONAL Dictionary Saccess STANDARD" FRONT Mr. Shloimovitz of Salford, who has fought A report published by the Institute for the for years to have the definition of "Jew" in in/^ an editorial on the anniversary of Russian Study of Conflict states that "behind the ElngUsh dictionaries changed, has recently ^tervention in Czechoslovakia, the "Evening National Front's nationalism, racialism, popu­ achieved success. The Longman Dictionary of uj^dard" said that under Dubcek there had lism and its admitted belief in a conspiracy Contemporary English now defines the word 07 L * "middle-dass, cosmopolitan Jewish- of some kind is a thinly disguised anti­ as "a member of a race or religion living V^ech ruling clique". After protests from Jew- semitism". Richard Verrall, editor of the in the land where Christ was bom about •sin and non-Jewish organisations and individ- Front's "Spearhead" magazine, is quoted as 2,000 years ago, some of whom now live in ~j^. the paper printed a retraction in its letter saying that a small group of immensely power­ Israel, and others in various countries." This "lumn two days later, acknowledging the ful men were using their economic power in definition is followed by a remark that a tljirase as being offensive and withdrawing it. the "pursuit of a totalitarian oljjective of slang use of this word should be avoided as ims was after Sir Keith Joseph had written to which the great mass of ordinary people are likely to give offence to Jewish people. Long­ ar« ?^^tor, Mr. Simon Jenkins, criticising the largely in ignorance. . . . We will have to mans sent a photocopy of the relevant page to ^^e and sa>-ing: "Jews have played their admit that Zionist interests preponderate in Mr. Shloimovitz. ™n m Czech life since the Middle Ages, but the powerful circles of intemational fin­ (^normal person could conceivably argue ance. ... It has probably provided the real S~t Jews dominated either the Masaryk- driving force". Verrall then attempts to Maimonides Exhibition at British Museum 5^?«s Republic or the short-lived Dubcek deny that this was the same as "an exclu­ ^gime. The only period when any prominent sively Jewish conspiracy which accords only "Jt'Uence was played by politicians of Jewish A Maimonides Exhibition is shown at the partially with the facts". The report men­ King's Library of the British Museum to "Jigm was dunng the Stalin period, but these tions that the influence of the NF is at the arM* '^^^^ deliberately destroyed by Stalin commemorate the 800th anniversary of the moment declining, because in the public mind completion of his "Mishna Torah". It contains Hoi-v ^'^ surviving Czech henchmen in the it is associated with street violence, but in "^iberately anti-Jewish Slansky show trials." a number of copies of the book and other the event of renewed social or economic works of Matmonides and several letters and crisis "it may again capture the allegiance of manuscripts. A leaflet with the facts of his disaffected elements to a politically signifi­ life and works and a thorough bibliography •j,}^ a second letter, published in the "Daily cant extent". sfJ^fraph", Sir Keith said the "Evening is obtainable free of charge at the museum. .jandard" had "exploited antisemitism in a Amongst the exhibits are several early printed (inf k°^ and mendacious fashion such as has GOODBYE TO LYONS works and a beautifully illustrated Mishna ^t been seen in a national newspaper in this commentary in Arabic, written in the Yemen country for a generation." Many refugees will treasure fond memories in the fourteenth century. of the time when, on their arrival in England, Lyons tea-shops gave them a chance of a cheap LEYLAND DEALINGS WITH ISRAEL meal or a talk to fellow-refugees over a cup Swan-song for Mentmore of that rare commodity, decent coffee. What ^^nie time ago. Egged, Israel's transport many of them did not know then was that .More than a year after the sale of the /^Perative, negotiated to buy at once 150 this very English institution was founded in Mentmore art treasures, a Festival of Flowers tiiMu ^ buses, costing £3i million, and a 1887 by Bamett Salmon and the four Gluck­ was held at Mentmore Parish Church to bid y^her £55 miUion worth over the next five stein brothers who were the sons of a poor farewell to the Rosebery family. The three- ?o^- However, the Israeli Goverament immigrant from the Rhineland, starting with day festival depicted events from the history sL^"ested that, as part of the deal, Leyland a flourishing cut-price cigar shop in the E^st of the Rothschild-Rosebery occupation of the Isra 1 either establish an assembly plant in End. Now J. Lyons & Co. are being taken over house since it was completed in 1855. Lord Dart ' °'" allow the Israelis to produce spare by the giant Allied Brewery—the end of an Rosebery donated to the Church a hatchment tliat "Oder licence. A Leyland spokesman said epoch. (Wappenschild) found at Mentmore Towers j3t> contrary to statements in the British and during preparations for the sale. Hatchments S fL^^ press, there was no political obstacle were usually placed over the main entrance j" the negotiations, but that there were still of a house when a member of the family died, ,'He commercial difBculties to be overcome. MEMORIAL SERVICE and its heraldry indicated which member it L*yiand has supplied Israel with trucks and was. This particular hatchment is that of ,i"5es since the early 1960s and was for some Sunday, October 22 Hannah n6e Rothschild whose marriage in ""le on the Arab boycott list. 1874 to the Earl of Rosebery brought the The eighth Interdenominational Memorial Rothschild property into the Rosebery family. Service, organised by the Willesden Branch BRITISH YOUTH COUNCIL FOR PLO of AJEX, in memory of those who died in Prisoner of War or concentration camps, will Leo Baeck Lodge Awards what be held on Sunday, October 22, at 3 p.m., at u At the recent World Youth Festival in Cuba, the Prisoners Memorial, Gladstone Park, N.W.2. vf- 4^eter Mandelson, chairman of the British The Leo Baeck B'nai B'rith Lodge has so sM^y Council, said that, while any peace far allocated some £18,000 this year for scholar­ j^^fement should guarantee Israelis the right ships to enable 30 students to continue their o m-e within secure borders, the rights of studies in this countrj-. Twenty-five of them k* Palestinians to a national homeland should Your House for:— are Israelis, one is from Argentina and four jT Recognised, as should the PLO's position live in Britain. Ar« * legitimate voice of the Palestinians. ^Omg organisations affiliated to the Youth CURTAINS, CARPETS, A New Way of Raising Funds .jPioial are the Union of Jewish Students and dii Association for Jewish Youth. Both de- FLOOR COVERINGS wS^^ to send representatives to Cuba and The Birmingham Jewish United Benevolent m^e not represented on the preparatory com- Board decided not to hold its usual fund- t^.^tee. Mr. Mandelson stated that Yasir Arafat raising dinner and ball, and to sell tickets for SPECIAUTY a non-ball instead, promising that purchasers *hj^'^.attendeo d the conferencco e as a gues„_-.t _o f would not be pestered with tombola and raffle resident Dr. Fidel Castro, had wanted a tickets and similar extra expenditure. The no- „jf,eting between Israeli and Palestinian dele- ENGUSH & CONTINENTAL ball realised a profit of about £2,500. Is this to^' ^"^ that Iraq and Libya had objected a shining example for other organisations ? the presence of Israelis. DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, Equality of Oie Sexes ANTISEMITIC BOOK IN LIBRARY DUVET COVERS & SHEETS , be The new executive of the Birmingham Pro­ (J[n a Highgate Library, a book "The Brief ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS gressive Synagogue has shown its progressive­ and D^Ki-^^e Prosecution" by C. H. Douglas ness by having an equal number of men and co^lished in 1945, was found by a reader to women. J. otam antisemitic references such as "the ESTIMATES FREE frj-" powerful body of Zionist Jews", "Jew with' dJl^iicier Rothschild" and others. The author DAWSON-LANE LIMITED The Executive Committee of the jjOims that the "Zionist Jews" work in (EatabllilMd 1948) ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH tirjfstine by the same methods of assassina- jjT" and terrorism as were allegedly financed 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK REFUGEES fQ-.*«^ssia by New York Jews. A spokesman Telephone: 904 6671 wishes all members a staff library said it was not possible for the VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR di~?.to know every one of the million books P«rao«al •ttcnilon ol Ur. W. Shackman and thanks them for their continuous afributed to public libraries, but the book support. °«ld be withdrawn. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION OCTOBER 1978

WEST WALKS OUT AT RACE CONFERENCE NEWS FROM ABROAD In Geneva, 13 Westem delegates walked out UNITED STATES NAZI ACTIVITIES IN BRAZIL at the UN world conference to combat racism and racial discrimination after the vote was Since the arrest of Gaideiter Wagner in taken on a resolution which condemned Israel Election-Year Tactics April, there have been pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish for her co-operation with South Africa in the manifestations in six towns. Swastikas and military, economic, and nuclear field ana Contenders for offices in the New Vork slogans such as "Deutschland iiber alles" and referred to "the practice of racial discrimina­ gubernatorial elections are wooing the Jewish "Death to the Jews", were daubed on the tion by Israel against the Palestinians in the vote. Govemor Hugh Carey, who is mnning walls of municipal buildings, a monastery and occupied territories." 26 countries, including for re-election, is seen at anti-Nazi, anti-Soviet Jewish institutions. The govemor of the Romania, were absent when the vote was and pro-Israel rallies as well as synagogue province of Rio Grande do Sui where most of taken, another 20, including Spain, Portug^ dinners and Jewish old-age homes. Mr. the manifestations took place, has ordered a and Japan, abstained. The United States and Duryea, the Republican State Assembly leader, rigorous inquiry. Israel boycotted the conference because the visited Israel on a "fact-finding mission" and 1975 UN resolution, equating Zionism witn had his photograph taken at the Westem Wall. racism, has never been repealed. W^st He spent an aftemoon with children at a CANADIAN JEWS SAIL FOR ISRAEL Germany was among the 13 nations voting Chassidic settlement and joined in Hebrew against the resolution, because as her spokes­ songs. Fifty-year-old Mr. Peter Kersen, a Quebec man said, they wished to show their opposition mechanical engineer, his wife and their two to the deviation from the initial purpose oi children of 17 and 13, crossed the Atlantic in the conference. Nazi Guard a Victim? a sailing boat in 20 days, landing at Cork. From there they proceeded to London and QUISLING REVIVAL A Federal Court in Fort Lauderdale, flew to Israel, where they met their 15-year-old Florida, has ruled that Feodor Fedorenko may daughter, Kaly, who is touring the country According to the Norwegian press, there ar* retain his American citizenship in sijite of and studying. Two years ago Mr. Kersen won a number of fellowships of the old Quisling concealing his service as a guard in the an appeal m the Ontario Divisional Court party, the Natjional Samling scattered all over Treblinka concentration camp. Judge Roettger vindicating his refusal to attend a civil court Norway. A so-called "Social Individualist Com­ said the 71-year-old former Ukrainian had hearing on the Day of Atonement, for which munity" in Bergen has begun a correspondence himself been a victim of Nazi persecution, he had been fined £4,500. course on Quisling's thoughts and ideas, a^o having been pressed into service when the former Nazis have opened an Institute fo^ Nazis invaded Poland. The judge accepted his the Occupation of Norway in Oslo. denials to have committed atrocities despite SOUTH AFRICA evidence from six Treblinka survivors that they had seen him torture and shoot Jews. At a No rabbi on TV AUSTRIA press conference, Judge Roettger said he felt that the witnesses had been coached and their Dr. Koot Vorster, the Moderator of the Anti-Nazi Move in Vienna memories were faulty. Dutch Reform Church, has opposed a request The Austrian Justice Ministry has taken by Jewish viewers that a rabbi should occas­ legal action against Aktion Neues Recht, the Pro-Jewish Ctanrclunan Dismissed ionally conduct the "Epilogue," a religious most extremist of all the neo-Nazi groups m programme which ends each day's viewing, Vienna, in order to have it banned. The group j The Rev. Isaac A. Rottenberg was dismissed on the grounds that "it would not be right headquarters was searched by the police, aoo from his job as communications director of for Jewish people who had gone against Jesus, numerous documents were confiscated. . ^^ the (Dutch) Reformed Church in America to be involved in the Epilogue. Dr. Vorster large-scale meeting planned by the organisa­ after a series of controversies when he is the brother of the South African Prime tion and the Austrian National Democratic defended Jews and Israel against attacks in the Minister. The South African Jewish Board of Party in Upper Austria has been banned. National Coimcil of Churches. Mr. Rottenberg Deputies has stated that no rabbi had ever appeared on TV, except for the senior Jewish and his wife are both survivors from concen­ Orthodox School in Vienna tration camps, his father was killed in one. army chaplain who was once interviewed. He has stated that whenever concems were The Talmud Totah School in Vienna, Aus­ raised in the Council about antisemitism, the Holocaust or neo-Nazi movements, attempts FRANCE tria's only Orthodox Jewish school, has been were made to trivialise them. He also criticised recognised by the Education Ministry as » the continued presence in the Council of Doctor sentenced for antisemitism pubUc school and will receive govemmeni Archbishop Trifa, head of the Romanian subsidies like other denominational schools- Orthodox Episcopate in America who has been A Strasbourg doctor, who was also leader of Synagogue Protest the subject of a deportation investigation for a right-extremist West German group "New alleged compliance with the Nazis in war-time National Europe" and of an Alsatian autono­ In 1971, the Vienna community sold the Romania. mist movement, was fined over £12,000 for synagogue in Krems, a town to the west o' having called Albert Schweitzer a "pro- Vienna, to a co-operative stores group, "^' Memorials Everywhere semite" with a Jevrish wife and claimed the cause it was in dire financial straits. The syna­ superiority of the Aryan race over the Jews gogue which is about a hundred years oia Mr. Paul Lewis, who came to the United in his monthly "Elsa". He had also insulted and survived the synagogue burnings "^ States in 1922 and who lost almost his entire the French Minister of Health, Miss Simone November, 1938, because it was built in ^ VeD. densely populated district, is now facing family in the Holocaust, has built 14 memorials demolition. There has been strong protest to the six million victims in different parts from the country's Jewish community, of the United States. He paid for them from "Mein Kampf" Publishers Fined the fortune he made in commercial building. Memorials have been built in Brooklyn, MARCEL MARCEAU A GREAT JEWISH Syracuse, Washington, Chicago, Denver, Mem­ A Paris court awarded damages of about MIME phis and Baltimore so far, others are to follow. £10,000 to the Intemational League Against Antisemitism and Racialism agaimst the pub­ Marcel Marceau, the world-famous pa^)^ lishers of Hitler's "Mein Kampf", the mimist who has just concluded a successiu* Barmitzvah Lessons over the Telephone Nouvelles Editions Latines. The coiut ordered season at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre, •* them to withdraw the book or to publish it the son of a kosher butcher and a survivor oi London-bom Orthodox Rabbi Max Newman with the text of the 1972 French law against the Nazi occupation of Paris, He is about <•" in Cincinnati is preparing a pupil who lives in racialism on the front page, together vrith an open an intemational mime centre in Pari* extract of the verdict in the Nuremberg trials. where he said he would like to see Jewish ano Alpena, Michigan, 700 miles avray, for his Arab students working together. He also saio barmitzvah in regular weekly lessons over the that the death of his father in the Holocausi telephone. He will, however, fly to Alpena for NO VISA FOR RABBI MELCHIOR had taught him that there was nothing wors the barmitzvah when the time comes. than ignorance, and to that extent his bein& For the second time, the Chief Rabbi of Jewish had influenced his career. Denmark, Rabbi Melchior, was refused a visa to visit the Soviet Union on the pretext that no hotel accommodation was available. Two CAMPS politicians who were to have travelled with BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE him, received visas. Rabbi Melchior has been INTERNMENT—P.O.W.— prominent in activities on behalf of Soviet 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.S FORCED LABOUR—KZ Jews. Our new communal hall is available lof ! wish to buy cards, envefopes and folded post­ marked tetters from all camps of both world wars. cultural and social functions. For details Please send, registered mall, stating price, to: apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Office. With acknowledgement to the news 14 KoMir* ran. LoMiaii, M.W.I Tel.: 01-794 3049 ram C. mCKENBACK service of the Jewish Chronicle. AJR INFORMATION OCTOBER 1978 Page 5

*" C. Aronsfeld treat the boycott "flexibly' or ignore it alto­ gether if it is in their own economic interest to do so". More recently, the Iraqi Government permitted machinery and spares to be obtained RESISTING BLACKMAIL from blacklisted companies because the Arab Boycott threatens not only Jews Americans they hoped to deal with refused to be manipulated. After the Nazi boycott of Jewry, the Arab Arab oil wealth must be as tempting a sight Similarly, when the Germans told the Arabs boycott of Israel is something of an anticlimax, as Marks & Spencer are to any Middle Eastern that while willing to provide non-mUitary ^omewhat deja vu, up to a point, and it might tourist. industrial assistance, they would continue to oe thought that the original performance was Accordingly the British Government has trade with Israel, not a squeak was heard Dot perhaps such as to invite a repetition, but adopted Oscar Wilde's maxim that the best from the imperious Boycott Office. That policy then history tends to be repetitive. The model way of getting rid of temptation is by yielding proved, literally, good business into the J^ noted in the new, well documented book on to it. A Foreign Boycotts Bill sponsored by bargain: Israel switched orders to Germany *e Arab boycott*, though the parallel is not the Liberal peer. Lord Byers, was shelved, (and Sweden); some firms indeed have found elaborated, which seems a pity since it is and little was done to uphold companies it an advantage to operate in Israel because instructive, not so much because of the basic threatened by the boycott. On the contrary, of its advanced scientific research facUities. design as because of the side-effects—the even a Govemment agency, the Post Office, Other countries also took a definite stand. ^volvement of those not directly affected. recently gave in to Libya (of all coimtries) The USA passed an anti-boycott law, so did IJJ'ecisely as the Nazis hit a great many more because "we have to respect commercial France, though in a peculiar manner, by way tiian Jews, so the Arabs are taking on not only confidence". of an amendment to her Race Relations Act, Iff^aelis, and it is the third parties that merit trying to make the best of both worlds. As tne most searching attention. The book, there- No Legislation France is largely pro-Arab, at least officially, [^••e, is not so much about the economic war a loophole in the law permits the Goverament against the Jews" as about the war against The House of Lords Select Committee to block any legislation which may not be ^U who are faced with blackmail. (which published its report after this book considered "in the interests of the French The Nazi experience offers a classic example. had appeared) handed down a Solomonic community". Russia has voiced no objection; \ne Arab procedure now virtually rehashes decision: on the one hand, it discouraged while resenting as interference any foreign "e brazen attempts to ".^ryanise" foreign anti-boycott legislation because Britain's criticism of her persecution of dissidents, she niTTis by demanding proof of "Nordic" descent. economic interests could be seriously damaged, does not mind her Arab prot6g6s' gross inter­ ''Oine Govemments then had the guts to stand and on the other, realising that the boycott ference in the normal practices of trade and "P to the "impudence" of "applying in another thrives on any failure to resist, it equally dis­ commerce, Jews of course have been active in ^oiuitn,- a German law which is offensive to couraged Govemment cooperation (or collu­ resisting the blackmail, though the idea of a "e general sense of justice". Others did not, sion) especially where British companies Jevrish counter-boycott found no favour with ^"fl so the twycott, in its secondary and wrongly believed that surrender was necessary a conference of Jewish leaders. ertiarj- stage, appeared effective while in fact to keep Arab markets. t rarely matched the ingenuity and determina- It isn't. Leylands effectively fought back lon which managed to spot the inescapable and when Barclays declared that "an inter­ Intemational Action needed '•>opholes. national bank cannot submit to pressure of But whatever individual countries and , Of course the stakes now are bigger. Arab this sort and must work to support tolerance organisations may or may not do, the essential 'J can fuel the screws of extortion imtil the against intolerance", the boycotters tumed thing will be to secure intemational action. hole of the intemational economy is held to tail. This was even more apparent where US Even in USA an anxiety has been noted about ^nsom and (say the authors) "the mad companies were concemed. After President what the effects might be of the anti-boycott f^famble for petrodollars combines with Ford had made it clear that "such discrimi­ law on the security of jobs, on US-Arab trade ^^rice and fear, causing cowardly companies nation is totally contrary to the American in general, and what may happen if Euro­ nd timid govemments to surrender to Arab tradition and repugnant to American prin­ peans were to gain at American expense by Pressure". Especially countries as vulnerable ciples", firms like General Motors, American complying with the boycott. The European ^^nomically as Britain may easily offer a Express, Ford and Hilton demonstrated (says Economic Commimity (EEC) which has sitting target: the bonanza of a share in the this book) that "individual Arab states will "association" agreements with Israel and most Mediterranean states, is virtually committed to combating the boycott, but both the entire community and its nine constituents have yet the to show the courage of their convictions. lest of In USA again, resistance to the boycott may be- conceivably stir up anti-Jewish feeling which could be exploited by Arabs and would of RENAULT course affect not only the future of the Jews. It need not perhaps be assumed (as is done by the authors) that "antisemitism is the See the Renault range ideological concomitant of the Arabs' total war against the Jewish state"; any "historical antisemitism of the Arab world" appears no at Old Oak more relevant than any other variety of "historical antisemitism". Arabs are as likely (WIR SPRECHEN DEUTSCH /MLUVIME CESKYI or liable to be anti- (or pro-) Jewish as other Gentiles; the saga of the Golden Age in Where we believe that changing your car is a very Arabia has merely served to obscure the important business and you deserve to be treated as an realities of the Galut. individual, not just a sales figure. Therefore, such antisemitism as infests the Where you can see the whole Renault range of value for issue now se«ns rather conditioned by the money cars and light vans. We try to keep most models circumstances so far as the Arabs are con­ cemed, and elsewhere, the authors properly in stock all the time. If we haven't got it, well get it. point out, "the lure of 'Arab money'... can And where we try and make things easy by offering commend anti-Jewish policies to businessmen sensible part exchange prices, helping with finance and who ordinarily would never discriminate" insurance where necessary and generally looking after (though would readily blame Jews for wanting you. We're a family firm, and to us our customers always money). come first. But this is an old story in wtiich the Arabs Come and see for yourself. Old Oak-Service for cars-and people now appear as new dramatis personae. It remains to be seen whether the world at large, having all but forgotten the past, is MOTOR prepared to relive it. COMPANY •Terence Prittie and Walter Henry Nelson, The Economic LIMITED War against the Jaws, London. Seeker & Warburg. 1978. 79 WINDMILL HILL. ENFIELD 01-363 2261 26Spp. £5-90. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION OCTOBER 1978

Egon Larsen WHAT HAPPENED TO RAOUL WALLEN­ BERG? The Austrian war-crimes investigator Simon A NEW LOOK AT ST. JOAN Wiesenthal has called on Sweden to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980 unless the A most attractive little book—Joan of Arc: the time England's one reliable ally. France's Russians reveal what happened to the Swedish Legends and Truth (published by Philip horror at the execution of her national heroine diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest uj Goodall, London, at £2-95)—^reveals that we did not concem him much: "From his im­ 1945. He disappeared when the Russians took over the city. Mr. Wiesenthal added that hav© amongst us a writer, classical scholar, perial height he must have looked upon it Wallenberg, a member of a very influential philosopher and historian who so far has as a matter of small significance to condemn Swedish family saved the lives of 25,000 shunned the limelight. Felix Grayeff, bom in a young woman, though she had been the innocent people, mostly Jews. In 1944, he Konigsberg in 1906, left Gennany as a Jewish companion of a prince, a commander of volunteered to help Hungarian Jews and was refugee to settle first in Australia, then in armies, and was still an object of adoration posted as first secretary to the Swedisn New Zealand and eventually, a quarter of a for many thousands of her countrymen." Legation in Budapest. He persuaded the Nazis century ago, in England. "My migration to to allow thousands of Jews to go to Sweden, But what was "the Maid" really like? A set up a network providing Jewish families Ehiglish-speaking countries in my early country girl, steeped in religion, who began with Swedish documents and housed them in oi thirties," he says, "has had a profound impact to hear "voices" in her puberty — nothing buildings flying the Swedish flag. The Russians on my thinking and writing ... I was still extraordinary. Later, they told her exactly claimed he had died in Lubianka prison .m flexible enough to absorb English approaches what to do, urging her "to attempt what she Moscow in 1947, but Mr. Wiesenthal maintains to philosophical problems, and I believe that felt she must—leave her parents and fight that, having studied the case for ten years, he my work has greatly profited in many respects for France." Grayeff believes that many is sure that this is not true, by my ability to synthesize English and Ger­ people in the past and present have heard man cultural influences." This is a positive such voices "of our conscience," commanding "VOGUE IN ISRAEL" attitude to emigration which, I am sure, many us to decide on some actions which we ought The September 15 issue of "Vogue" fashion of us share but few proclaim. to take, though we may be afraid of the magazine contained a special "Vogue in Grayeff began his career as an author at consequences. He quotes Voltaire: "History is Israel" supplement of 32 pages. It iUustrated an early age with a book on the Maccabees' a collection of generally accepted myths", many facets of life in Israel, from the arts to fight for freedom, following it up with a and he points out that all we know about the scientific and technological developments, commentary on Kant's philosophy, translated "saints' voices" is what Joan herself claimed. fashions^ and tourist facilities. There is no advertising. The idea was first promoted by into a number of languages; his biography The legend of the virgin, coming from the Earl of Lichfield, the Queen's photo­ of Henry VIII has just been republished in among the people, made France rally behind grapher cousin who recently visited Israel for Germany, and his other books on Aristotle, her, and her soldier's attire helped her image. the first time. He was enthusiastically Descartes, and Lucien Bonaparte have been One might ponder about the significance of supported by fashion manufacturer Peter widely acclaimed by historians and philoso­ her masculine appearance: was she a crypto- Blond, a govemor of the Haifa Technion. The phers in this country and on the Continent. lesbian, or a distant forenmner of women's supplement can be bought separately. His latest one, however, should also find many lib? readers among the lay public: it is lucid, Grayeff gives a new, detailed account of her A REAL LIFE THRILLER written in simple but elegant language, and capture after the Burgundians had trapped The Israeli authorities have denied that the sheds much new light on one of history's her on a drawbridge, and of her trial, "con­ German terrorist Hans Joachim Klein has most fascinating figures. ducted on the lowest conceivable level", found refuge in Israel. The Right-wing First of all, Grayeff puts Joan of Arc and symptomatic of the "banality of evil", a French paper "L'Aurore" had claimeu her dramatic life firmly in the context of phrase coined by Hannah Arendt. The judges that Klein had collaborated with the Israel European power politics. The world of the tried to prove that she was not at all a Secret Service "Mossad" for a short while, had supplied it with valuable information on early fifteenth century, he explains, was domi­ virgin, but a "lax, dissolute person" to whom intemational terrorist organisations, and had nated by two great empires, the Holy Roman the archangel Michael may have appeared been given Israeli nationality because his one in the West and the Ottoman in the naked. Had she not beea a prostitute? Did mother was Jewish. According to the paper, East, with some hotly disputed territories in she not dream that the women saints touched he was then given a new identity and money between. The struggle for influence in these her? Did she not claim that God told her to and sent to another country where he lived areas prompted the Sultan, for instance, to wear men's clothes? To all these leading securely underground. Klein had recently questions she had quick, effective answers granted an interview to "Der Spiegel" i" support the Bohemian Hussites, whose leader which he described his part in the attack on Hus was promptly burat at the stake in 1415 which showed her ready sense of humour; the Opec conference in Vienna in December, on the order of the Holy Roman Emperor, but this we know already from Bemard 1975. Sigismund. And it was he, argues Grayeff, Shaw's play. who could pressurize the English to do the The book gives a short account of the same to Joan, for the Roman Empire was at Tribunal of 1456, under the Archbishop of BELSfZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE Rheims, which rehabilitated Joan, who had 51 Belsize Square, N,W.3 been bumt alive in 1431, to the full; her condemnation was pronounced null and void, SELF AID OF REFUGEES the charges brought against her had been THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONCERT "slanderous, fraudulent, vicious, and evil". Alas, the "Tribunal could not resurrect her, HIGH HOLY-DAY SERVICES Queen Elizabeth Hall and if it had had the power to do so, it (at the Gaumont State Theatre, on Tuesday, 31 October, 1978, might have decided differently. Grayeff ends High Road, Kilburn, N,W.6) with another rehabilitation—that of the king at 7.45 p.m. she had crowned. Far from being cowardly, effete, and inefficient, Charles VII was "one Roeh Hashanah: Eve 6,30 p.m. of the most successful monarchs in the entire 1st and 2nd Day 9.30 a.m. SYLVIA ROSENBERG VIotJn course of European history", uniting France Kol Nldrel: 6.30 p.m. and bringing the Himdred Years' War with Yom Kippur 10 a.m. PASCAL ROGE Piano England to an end. For tickets of admission apply to: Hon. Sec, 51 Belsize Square. THE GUADAGNINI STRING QUARTET LEADERSHIP COURSE FOR THE YOUNG CHILDREN'S SERVICES The Young Jewish Leadership Institute, Works by Brahms, Schubert, which was recently founded, is based on a (at the Gaumont State Theatre) Schumann and Chausson forty-week study course in London, followed on both days of Rosh Hashanah at by three weeks in Jerusalem in the summer 10 a.m. and on Yom Kippur at 11.30 a.m. of 1979. The courses in London vrill start on October 18 at the Maida Vale Centre of the Tickets: £5-50, E4-50, e3-50, £2 00 and Spanish and Portuguese Synagogues. Partici­ £1-00 (Incl. VAT) are available now from pants vrill have to pay £40 amd are expected SUCCOTH SERVICE6 Self Aid of Refugees, 8 Fairfax Mansions, to come from the ranks of people between the London, NW3 6JY. Telephone: 01-328 ages of 20 and the middle 40s to intensify at the Belsize Square Synagogue 3255/6, and from I October, 1978, from their knowledge of Jewish affairs. Candidates Eve: 6.80 p.m. the Box Office, Royal Festival Hall, will be required to submit a paper on Judaism, Moming: 11 a.m. London, SEI 8XX. Telephone: 01-928 3191. Zionism, and tlie Jevrisb world today and in (Kiddush after each service In the Succah) history. AJR INFORMATION OCTOBER 1978 Page T THE JEWISH PAST IN GERMANY Reviewers of books for AJR Information have always been free to express their views, DISTORTED RECORD even though they may not always be those of the editor. This policy seems to have worked well, as we are often told by readers that they do or do not agree, but that they Sir,—Permit one who does not have the find controversial topics rather stimulating. It is always gratifying to know that reviews— benefit of an academic background to comment °sd other articles as well—are leading to informed discussions and meet with an interest on Mr. F. Hellendall's article. Of course Leo which often goes far beyond the circle of AJR members. Sievers' book is neither a complete history nor F. Hellendall's article "The Jewish Past through German Eyes", a review of Leo an attempt at "white-washing", it is just a Sievers' Juden in Deutschland in our August issue, has provoked a particularly lively collection of articles published in a popular response—a fact which goes to show that it dealt with an issue of major importance illustrated paper. The purpose of these articles to former refugees from Germany. It has touched on a subject with which at one time —especially in 1977—requires no amplification, or another each one of us had to come to terms, because it lies at the very heart of our but alas a vote of thanks. existence: did we go wrong, and if so, where? Was German Jewry misguided all the way It is however sad, that your reviewer finds it since the heady days of the Enlightenment? necessary to re-open old wounds, which have We are printing below extracts from some of the letters that have reached us. taken a long time to heal. I do object strongly The Editor to the words "antics" and "eccentric" when applied to Prof. Dr. Schoeps and the Vortrupp he led. From personal knowledge I can testify REPLY FROM PROF. DR. SCHOEPS dann nur noch den Punkt auf das I. Dass ich, that if nothirig else, the views held and the der Vortrupp oder aehnliche Organisationen attempts made to safeguard the future, were ^^}r geehrter Herr Hellendall! fuer die damalige Zeit repraesentativ gewesen sincere and honest. This small group, having fCh bleibe dabei, dass nur "Hellseher"—es seien, habe ich nie behauptet, im Gegenteil. grown up in the inter-toar years and experi­ t*' denn Propheten—1933 voraussehen Aucfi das koennen Sie in meinem Buch nach­ enced some time in the German Youth Move­ ^onnfen, was 1942-1945 geschehen ist. Sollten lesen. ment, simply could not accept any other answer *'•* ein Prophet sein. dann sagen Sie bitte H. J. SCHOEPS to the problems of their time. ^oraus, wohin die Politik Begins den Staat Ebrardstrasse 11 As far as the R.J.F. is concemed, of which wlf^ ^^ 1988-1990 gefuehrt haben wird! Erlangen. my late father was a founder-member, their ^hrscheinlich kann ich sogar Verbindlicheres fight for the honoured memory of the 12,000 ^rueber aussagen als Sie, da mir die fallen German Jews and their work in the fieldis r^l^'>sionisten in Deutschlarui schon verstaend- LEFT-WING BIAS of Welfare, re-training and Sport, was sup­ Jc/ier gewesen sind als der liberale Einheits- ported by the majority of the community, irrespective of party politics. Perhaps the j^m Ihnen zu erkUieren, vjarum man 1933 Sir,—The AJR is meant to represent all reviewer of the new book on the "Frontbund" Nationalsozialismus auch anders als nur Jewish refugees in Great Britain, whose will show a deeper understanding of this tragic hri;n.'^mell ansehen konnte: Es gab die Brueder political views range from Conservative to period of our history, as befits a publicattbn jT^^ser mit ihrem norddeutschen Anhang, die Marxist. If AJR Information comments on such as AJR Information. German pre-war history, this should be done in jxZ Reichskanzler Schleicher im Dezember HENRY MORLAND y^3 durch Sprengung der NSDAP dktivieren a non-partisan way. The article "The Jeioish Past Through German Eyes" has a pronounced 4 West Close, S°'rte. Das schlug fehl, weil Gregor Strassers Wembley, Middlesex. ^rnpfkraft ueberschaetzt wurde. Es gab Reste Left-wing bias. Expressions like "white-washing UM ^'^rzburger Front, zu der der Stahlhelm Prusso-German militarism" belong into the gV^ die Deutschruitionalen gehoert hatten. "Weltbuehne", or its suxicessors, rather than aU ^rden erst allmaehlich ausgeschaltet. In into an AJR publication. And to denigrate the GHETTO UPRISING REMEMBERED i>' diesen Kreisen hatte ich Freunde und Napoleonic Wars—officially called in German ^^laktleute. Es gab den SA-Fuehrer Emst History "Freiheitskriege"—os "so-calJed" Wars Delegations from factories, organisations and ;j5^'im, der mir auf Befragen erklaerte, er of Liberation is quite outrageous for a paper institutions marked the 35th anniversary of the (j^J^e den Antisemitismus Hitlers fuer edited by former German nationals. To describe Bialystok Ghetto Uprising by laying wreaths g Tnogogischen Qvxitsch, der das Ansehen der the activities of patriotic Jewish leaders like Dr. Naumann and others as "antics of eccen­ and flowers at places commemorating Jewish jilf^^dung nur herabsetzen koenne (Daraeber martyrdom. When the Nazis begun to destroy tri,. ^^ '** meinem Buch "Ja, nein—und trics" is ridiculous. History will remember '^"'zdem", Mainz 1972 berichtet.) them as great men when the "Weltbuehne" the ghetto in August, 1943, using tanks and ^^'^urjum, solange es all diese Kraefte gab. literati have long been forgotten. artillery, 72 Jewish fighters retreated to a Ueh '^^ ^^^^rs "Endloesung der Judenfrage" G. SCHMERLING bunker in order to escape, but were discovered j^°^'"haupt nicht zu denken. Das aenderte sich 20 Bishops Close, and killed. Their comrades in the ghetto held Qjw' °'^ '^ farmtische Kleinbuergertum alle out for a whole month, but eventually the Nazis JcJ) tr^" ^raefte in der Partei ueberrannte. Old Coulsdon. loflW" ^^ *^ meinem Buch "Bereit fuer Deutsch- liquidated the ghetto and deported its 40,000 iett (zitiert bei Sievers) hinsichtlich der inhabitants to the Treblinka and Maidanek ALL GROUPS "REPRESENTATIVE" death camps. Only a few dozen managed to "tscften Juden etnen exakten Zeitpunkt escape to the forests and join the partisans. toeh^"*- Maerz 1935, als die Juden fuer Sir,—If one looks back with sincerity to those gp irunimterdtgi erklaert umrden. Die Nuem- years when it was still impossible to anticipate ^Oer Gesetze vom 15. September 1935 geben the Nazi crimes, I would argue that the Naumann Group and the R.J.F. were as repre­ sentative of the wishes and mentality of German Jewry as other groups and organisa­ tions. They were all overrun by events. The "Tendenz-Paragraph" of the K.C. of 1886 MflVlflS reads: "Der K.C. steht auf dem Boden deutsch- vaterlaendischer Gesinnung. Der K.C. lehnt die Bestrebungen zur Loesung der deutschen Jiidenfrage ausserhalb Deutschlands ab." Forty years ago, I had my trial for alleged "high treason" before the people's court as an anti- BUST Nazi German, not as a Jew. 182 co«r (Dr.) H. D. 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NEWS FROM GERMANY On the anniversary of the setting-up of the NO EXTRADITION OF CRIMINALS crimes. In 1975, West Gennany ratified a Berlin Wall, some 150 members of the Right- treaty with France providing for the retrial extremist N.P.D. Party demonstrated in th^ As the German Constitution forbids the of war criminals convicted by courts outside streets of Frankfurt, They were met by 40u extradition of German nationals, the West Germany, and this treaty is now being imple­ Left-wing demonstrators with posters reading German Govemment has refused to hand over mented. "Nazis out of Frankfurt," who threw bottles three men who have been sentenced in absentia The Dutch Ministry of the Interior has just and colour-bags at them. A strong police force in Holland for joining the German Army dur­ stated that they are looking for two West Ger­ tried to keep the two groups apart with trun­ ing the war, and for arresting large numbers mans who have threatened to kill a joumalist cheons and water-throwers. Twenty-six nieD of people who were later deported and Idlled. and a Dutch family who helped to trace were arrested. In 1943, Hitler granted German nationality to another Dutch war criminal under sentence foreign citizens who joined his Armed Forces, of death. and this law has never been repealed. All three FINE FOR NAZI SALUTE have lived in Germany since the war, and one AMNESTY FOR N.S. CRIMINALS? of them, Siegfried Bruins, was only recently The historian Golo Mann said recently he Edgar Geiss, a 48-year-old photographer and traced because he had lived under a false thought it was time to stop trials of war joumalist, was fined DM9,600 (over £2,000J name as a German citizen. In 1949, he had crimmals with the exception of trials for for giving the Nazi salute at the funeral .Oj been condemned to death in absentia for kill­ murder in concentration camps. Franz Joseph Herbert Kappler, the former S.S. police chiei ing two Jews in hiding. The sentence was later Strauss, leader of the C.S.U. and a prospective of Rome, who was snatched from a prison commuted to life imprisonment. He was Bavarian Prime Minister, said in a newspaper hospital and taken to Germany by his wife arrested in Hagen in July, but has just been article that the time had come to stop earlier this year. Geiss said that he had oiuy set free. The Dutch Govemment has still a collecting incriminating material, investigating attended to greet an old soldier with tne list of 350 war criminals, 15 of whom were people's past, and character assassination. official salute of the German Army. He had sentenced to death, another 30 to life imprison­ These things were Nazi methods now taken up also distributed leaflets with the banner hea?- ment. Their whereabouts are mostly unknown, by Left-wing extremists. There should be a line: "The wind of change has come," ^ and some of them may have died in the mean­ general amnesty for Nazi criminals. The which he said the Federal Republic *3S time. German Statute of Limitation has already once choking in corraption and filth, it was full o* Investigations have been started against been changed to allow the prosecution of Nazi lies and acting against the true interest of the three former Nazi officers wanted by the murderers until 1979, and the Federal Parlia­ people. French for complicity in the murder of thou­ ment will have to decide in the near future sands of French Jews. All three were discussed whether to grant another extension. in the recent controversial B.B.C. programme COMMEMORATION OF 1938 POGROM "Tuming a Blind Eye to Murder," because so PRISON FOR INCITEMENT TO CRIME far they have lived in Germany unmolested Thirty-eight-year-old Wolf-Dieter Eckart, an in spite of the fact that they had been tried engineer, was sentenced to two years' imprison­ The Central Council of Jews in Germany '^ in absentia in France, and France demanded ment for distributing 250 duplicated pamphlets preparing for a public ceremony at either their extradition. Kurt Lischka, 68, wartime referring to Jews as an "uncivilised lot" and Bonn or Cologne to commemorate the 40tn Nazi security chief in Paris, had been sen­ "intemational gang of parasites" whose syna­ anniversary of the Oth November, 19^^- tenced to life imprisonment in absentia in gogues should be burned down. In his sum­ Leading representatives of the main parties, 1950 for complicity in the deportation of ming-up, the judge said, that publications of the Churches, the Trades Unions, and the 100,000 French Jews. Two other former this kind greatly damaged the authority and Employers Federation as well as Federal Gestapo members, Herbert Hagen and Emst reputation of Federal Germany and deserved a President Walter Scheel have declared the" Heinrichsohn, were sentenced for similar heavy sentence. readiness to attend.

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THIRD WOMAN AMBASSADOR THE ISRAELI SCENE Chawa Hareli. born Eva Eliasberg, who spent her childhood in Munich and Vienna, has just been nominated Israel's Ambassador THE SAFEST AIRLINE A BELATED CONFESSION to Norway. She is the country's third woman ambassador. The first was Golda Meir, whom . After the attack on El Al's bus outside the In a recently published book "Conspiracy of Y>ndon Europa Hotel, Mr. Mordechai Ben-Ari, Ben-Gurion sent to Moscow in 1948, the second Silence", Mr, Anthony Pearson states that Esther Herlitz, daughter of one of the German J"€ chairman of Israel's airline, said that Arab when Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats f^rrorism was a danger to all airlines, but Zionist leaders who held the post in Denmark Icnocked out the American telecommunication for several years. Chawa Hareli came to wiat El Al had worked out a safety system ship "Liberty" near El Arish on the fourth *"ich, for the past decade, had made it the Britain in 1936 to study at the London School day of the Six-Day-War, this was a deliberate of Economics. Afterwards she helped to train World's safest Ime. It had been consulted on attack and not, as the Israeli Government had security matters by a numi>er of other airlines. Youth Aliyah Children at Great En^ham Farm said at the time, a tragic mistake of identifica­ and other Hachsharoth, on individual non- tion. According to the book, an unnamed Jewish farms, and eventually in the London Cuts in Fares Pentagon general revealed to the author that, Beth Chaluz which was bombed during a V-1 unbeknown to the Israelis, "Liberty" was attack. Fortunately all the inhabitants were . As reported in last month's issue. El Al has accompanied by an American Polaris sub­ in the air-raid shelter, and nobody was injured. Ajist come to an agreement with the United marine, and that the Americans had promised In 1945 she emigrated to Palestine to live in states. From November 1, it will operate a the Russians to knock out Israeii missile a Kibbutz where she ran a radio station. In J«ree-tier service on transatlantic jumbo jets; sites, bomber bases and even air-borne 1951 she was employed by the Ministry of ^« luxe (on the upper deck); first class (47 bombers, if Israel tried to send missiles Economics which made her a member of its °6ats in front), and holiday class with no food against Arab cities. delegation to the UN. In recent years she was 7,PPlied. During a recent visit to London, El granted leave of absence in order to help new }Ms chairman, Mr. Mordechai Ben-Ari, said immigrants from Soviet Russia to adapt them­ jiat it was considered to run a similar service PRAISE FOR EZER WEIZMAN 'fom Britain and other European countries, selves to life in Israel. ^ne difiBculty was that normally Jumbo jets The Arab papers in East Jerusalem and *ould not be used on such flights, and a new Nablus have lately found words of praise for ISRAELI DOCTOR FOR CAIRO ^s.tem would have to be worked out. Mr Ben- Israel's Defence Minister, Ezer Weizman, who jFi said that El Al which has just celebrated has gradually changed the policy of the mili­ Dr. Yoram Diamant, a gynaecologist of the ^ 30th birthday, was one of Israel's big tary authorities on the West Bank. For many Jerusalem Hadassah Hospital, has been invited "Ijccess stories. It had operated for 15 years months no houses of terrorists have been to read a paper on toxaemia during pregnancy Without a loss, and it had not cost the people destroyed, and no expulsions have taken place. to a conference of gynaecologists in Cairo after "* Israel a single penny. If hotels did not put For humanitarian reasons, several people, the Swiss sponsors of the conference had jP prices, Israel's tourist industry would grow expelled as suspect of terrorism, have been applied to the Egyptian authorities for per­ tjett'endously. He would like to see hotel rates allowed to retum. A prison sentence against mission for him to attend. The reply was that '" drop by 50 per cent. the mayor of Beit Jallah was quashed and he he would be welcome. was allowed to resume office. In spite of this LAKER PULLS OUT relaxed occupation policy, demonstrations and JERUSALEM RABBI FOR acts of insubordination have decreased in MOROCCAN HOTELS Because of poor bookings and the unavail- recent months. CBii 7 oi suitable aircraft. Laker has can- Binyamin Pery, a practising Jerusalem rabbi gjj'ed, with expressions of regret, its who is head of the religious activities at the ^tractive Israel progranmie. The Israel ISRAEL'S CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS Plaza Hotel, has been invited to advise the iourist Office comments that other bookings Moroccan Govemment on the setting up of „^^ Israel from the U.K. are generally very good. In a letter to Mr. Begin, 100 reserve oflicers four kosher hotels. and other ranks declared that they would not defend or guard settlements on the West Bank or the Gaza strip. The letter said that the Govemment's policy was based on "mysticism, leading to the domination of another people and contradicting the security needs of the State", The "Peace Now Movement" which with the compliments of was also founded by reservists and opposes settlements in the occupied territories, con­ demned the letter as coming from known political extremists. The Movement stated that military service transcends political debate, Dor/on even though one disagrees with the policy imderlying it.

YESHFVA PLOT AGAINST GOVERNMENT Qhocolates REVEALED? Eight yeshiva students, a teacher, and an army oflBcer have been charged in Jerusalem's district court with plotting to overthrow the govemment and replace it with one based on rabbinical law. 37-year-old Yoel Lemer, a Jerusalem teacher and former colleague of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the Jewish Defence League leader, is accused of forming a secret movement "Gal" (Redemption of Israel) to Pafra make that effect. The public prosecutor said the group had joined a conspiracy and planned a number of crimes, including assassination Very special gifts and sabotage. They had been supplied with synthetic adhesives explosives and ammunition by Armand Azram, an .\rmy lieutenant. adhesive applicators

TRADE WITH BRITAIN Whereas Britain's trade with Israel has only increased from £237 million to £274 million Pafra Limited during the last three years, trade with Arab Caxton Cbocobte Co. Ltd. countries has more than doubled (from Bentalls * Basildon £1,386 million to £2,702 million) during the same time according to a House of Commons Essex • SS14 3BU statement by Mr. Michael Meacher, Under London N22 6UN Secretary for Trade. He added that the Arab boycott could affect British exports both to the Arab States and to Israel, but there was no way in which this could be expressed in figures. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION OCTOBER 197^

JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE SCHEME A Birmingham property developer, ^: MISCELLANEOUS Samuel Locker, has announced that he W^ PEREZ LESHEM 75 PROF. LEIBHOLZ HONOURED mark his 75th birthday next April by a dona­ To mark the 50th anniversary of the tion which will provide for six prizes, wortn Perez Leshem (formerly Fritz Lichtenstein) beginning of his academic career, the Univer­ £1,000 each, to be awarded annually for suo- celebrated his 75th birthday on September 5. jects such as cancer research, astrononjy' sity of Goettingen arranged a special ceremony Born in Chemnitz, he has been associated with archaeology, and promoting peace in tne in honour of Professor Gerhard Leibholz. Bora the Zionist movement since his early youth Middle East. The awards are to be caueo in Berlin, Professor Leibholz obtained his "Locker Prize" and should be similar to tne and went to Palestine as early as 1925. When doctoral degrees of philosophy at the age of 19 Nobel scheme. They will be financed by, j^' the threat of the Nazi regime became immin­ and of law when he was 23. In 1928, he Locker's charitable trusts and subsidised w ent, the Palestine Labour Organisation the sale of Viceroy Close, a Birmingham bloc* became Lecturer of Constitutional and Inter­ (Histadrut) sent him to Germany and of flats mainly occupied by Jewish fafflui^f national Law in Berlin. One year later, he was entrusted him with the establishment of which were sold, together with two other prj" appointed Professor of Constitutional Law in perties, for £1-5 miUion. In addition, gro"",* training (hachsharah) centres inside and out­ Greifswald, and in 1931 he obtained a Chair rents on hundreds of flats yielding abouj side Germany to prepare young German Jews in Goettingen. He lost his position as a result £22,000 a year, may be given to Birminghani for their emigration to Palestine. In 1933, he of the Nazi persecution in 1935 and emigrated Corporation to provide prize money. J^' moved to Paris and from there, shortly before Locker, who was bom in Manchester, starw^ to England in 1938. the outbreak of war, to Britain. life as a £2-a-week clerk in Birmingham. Hj"^ Married to Sabine Bonhoeffer, the twin- company, Locker Estates Limited, was soio Perez Leshem has put his experience in this sister of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Professor Leib­ several years ago for a seven-figure sum. *J^ field on record in a comprehensive book has already made substantial donations. t" "Strasse zur Rettung, 1933-1939", published by holz became a close friend of the Bishop of Birmingham Jevrish and non-Jewish charities, the Verband der Freunde der Histadrut (Tel Chichester, the late Dr. Bell, and his adviser to Israel and to Jewish theological colleges, Aviv 1973, 227pp). The publication is an on German affairs. He was also a guest and has helped to fund the Miriam Loc''^ important contribution to the historiography lecturer and guest tutor in Oxford. After the School for poor families in Brooklyn, New of the Jews from Germany, dealing not only war, he retumed to Germany and took up York. He now lives in Palma, Majorca. with the facts and the personalities involved again his professorship in Goettingen. From in the work but also with the problems which 1951-1971 he was a judge at the Federal PLAN FOR ADULT EDUCATION had to be tackled under the most difficult German Constitutional Court; in this capacity The Yakar Education Fund which counts circumstances. However, in his modesty, he he made an outstanding contribution to the Sir Isaiah Berlin and Lord Goodman among i" hardly mentions his own decisive share in the many distinguished patrons, has acquired P^' accomplishment of this difficidt and often creation and safeguarding of a free democratic mises in Stanmore which wUl be used as a dangerous task. In 1943, he was sent on a order in present-day Germany. His writings, study centre to provide residential seminars- mission to Lisbon and Madrid, and success­ which include the books "Die Gleichheit vor weekly courses, and special lectures coverUiB fully organised the rescue of the stranded dem Gesetz" and "Der Stmkturwandel der a wide range of Jewish interest. The centre Jewish refugees by enabling them to get to modernen Demokratie", have been translated will be situated in Springbok House, original Palestine. After the war, he was Director of into several languages and become standard a stately home in large private grounds witn a rural outlook. Rabbi Michael Rosen, the son Youth Aliyah in Paris from 1948-1950 and works of Political Science. then joined the Diplomatic Service of the of the founder of Carmel College, said tne centre would be primarily concemed w^jn young State of Israel. Among the offices he ARTIST'S MUNICH EXHIBmON held was that of the General Consul in anyone interested in leaming about thin^ Hanna Weil-Strauss, daughter of a Munich Jewish. The centre will also be available to Cologne from 1963-1967. He now lives in art historian who came to this country as a organisations wishing to hold their ovflj retirement. Together with his friends and refugee in the 'thirties and who is now a seminars, but Rabbi Rosen said anybody vvo"i° former fellow workers in other countries we teacher of art at the St. Martin's School of be able to come full- or part-time "to study extend our sincerest birthday wishes to Perez Art, had a very successful exhibition at the his Jewish heritage for any length of time ne Leshem. Munich BMW Gallery. may choose."

FAMILY EVENTS Klein. — Karl Klein (formerly PFAFF 91 PORTABLE electric INFORMATION REQUIRED Vienna) died on September 14. sewing machine, modem, almost Personal Enquiries Entries in the column Family Deeply moumed and sadly missed new, for sale or exchange for small Events are free of charge; any Prof. Michael (Freiburg).—WouW voluntary donation would, how­ by his wife, Berta, his son, Bnmo, Bemina.—Please phone momings any readers who can give infomia­ ever, be appreciated. Tearts shouid and all relatives. — 70 Granville only 01486 3220. tion about the fate of the faro"/ be sent in by 15th of the month. Road, North Finchley, London, of the—probably deceased—PrOj N.12. Wolfgang Michael, of Freibure Accommodation Vacant University, please contact MMI' Birthdays Helen Woodruff, 157 Denmark V^i Pohl (formerly Heyman). — On LUGANO/SWITZERLAND. Com­ London, SE5 SEJ (phone 01-2^* Seidler. — Mrs. Margaret Seidler September 2, peacefully at The fortable, centraUy heated fumished Retreat, York, in her 91st year, 3578) (n4e Huss), of 5 Yorath Road, flat in modera block, long lets Recha (nie de Taube), widow of preferred from only £40 p.w. AJR Enquiries ^ Whitchurch, Cardiff (formerly of Robert Pohl, D.Eng., D.Sc, F.I.E.E., Abeles.— Mr. P. W. Abeles, 1^*^ Vienna and Brao), celebrated her and dear mother of Horace Heyman Tel.: 01-959 8488. known address 44/99 HaversfC" 80th birthday on September 27. and of John Pohl. A loving and HUl, London, N.W.3. beloved sister, aunt, grandmother Personal Hirsch. — Mr. Paul Hirsch, la?* and great-grandmother. known address 30 Dicey Avenue. Wedding SINGLE MAN, 32, living in nice London, N.W.2. Fisher : Barrie.—On October 14, at CLASSIFIED house in North Wales wishes to Spicer. — Mr. A. S. Spicer, ^^ the Gordon Arms Hotel, Banknock, meet lady. Box 743. knovm address 21 Hatherley Coun- The charge in these columns is London, W.2. Ronnie, younger son of Mr. and LADY, 53, living in N.W. London, Mrs. Kurt Fisher, of 126 West 25p for five words plus 20p for advertisements under a Box No. wishes to meet happy-go-lucky Princes Street, Glasgow, to Hanna, gentleman friend. Box 742. EXPERIENCED eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. PHYSIOTHERAPIST Michael Barrie, of Cumbemauld. Miscellaneous ATTRACTIVE, inteUigent, cheer­ AND MASSEUR Youngest grandson of Mrs. Elisa- ful widow, 50, non-Orthodox, Con­ lieth Fisher, Glasgow. REVLON MANICURIST. Will visit available after working hours tinental-bom, looking for gentle­ and week-ends. your home. Phone 01-445 2915. man for future happiness. Box 744. Deaths Phone: 01-455 8408 QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED HOME-LOVING Continental widow, SPEECH THERAPIST treats Post- Lippmann.—The death occurred in stroke language or articulation 60 plus, seeks male companion to Melboume (Australia) on August problems in adults; stammering or enjoy together interests and LUGGAGE 9, of Mrs. Olga Lippmann (n6e delayed language development in mature years. Box 746. HANDBAGS, UMBRELLAS AND Hahlo) after a long illness. Deeply children in English, German and ALL LEATHER QOODS mourned by her children (Walter, Ivrit. AU enquiries in strictest con­ fidence. Box 745. LIVELY, SLIM widow enjoys TRAVEL GOODS Kurt and Elsbeth), grandchildren swimming, dancing, gardening, and great-grandchildren.—50 Gar- H. FUCHS BRIDGE PLAYERS WANTED for cooking, seeks sincere gentleman 267 Wett End Una, N.W.S denvale Road, South Caulfield, private circle. Average standard, companion, sixtyish, car driver. Phone 435 2602 Melboume, Victoria 3162, Australia. lowest stakes. Box 741. Box 747. AJR INFORMATION OCTOBER 1978 Page 11

LEO PORT. LORD MAYOR OF SYDNEY Alderman Leo Weiser Port, who was serving IN MEMORIAM a second term of office as Lord Mayor of THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST DAME KATHLEEN KENYON Sydney, died suddenly of a heart attack, aged 55. A Polish-bom consulting engineer, he vras Collection of Names Continues Dame Kathleen Kenyon, the archaeologist, educated at the Berlin Adath Yisroel Real- who has died aged 72, was best known for the gynmasium and emigrated to Australia with In these days of the High Festivals we are his parents in 1939. In 1974, he was appointed {"ore than ever reminded of the cruel fate of remarkable series of excavations carried out under her direction at the ancient city of an O.B.E. for services to the community of jnose of our relatives and friends who lost their New South Wales. lyes in the Holocaust. It is our duty to make Jericho between 1952 and 1958, and the Old '^re that their names do not faU into oblivion City of Jerusalem, then in Jordanian hands, *na that they are also preserved for future from 1961 to 1967. Her discoveries cast new Letters to tiie Editor eenerations. Therefore, as a permanent place light on the stories of the Bible and on the ? commemoration, a "Hall of Names" has "v^n erected at "Yad Vashem" (Jerusalem) culture of Palestine. During the Jerusalem MEIR GERTNER MEMORIAL BOOK digs she assured Israel that scrupulous atten­ r^^nich is to contain "Pages of Testimony" for Sir,—The Jewish Book Council, in conjunc­ Jl martyrs whose names can stiU be traced. tion would be paid to the Western Wall whose tion with the Hillel Foundation, is publishing ^P make this sacred Memento as comprehen- safety and security she guaranteed. She did a Memorial Volume of the writings of the late >,^, as possible the co-operation of every not continue her work in Jerusalem after the Dr. Meir Gertner which we hope will appear ^^ivor IS essential. Six-Day War, and she was a staunch supporter towards the end of September 1978. The late o-„ this country, the coUection of names is of Arab causes. Nevertheless she addressed Dr. Meir Gertner was a scholar and teacher ,.i,sanised under the auspices of the British several Jewish leamed societies, who commanded the respect and affection of ^^ affiv^"^^ of Yad Vashem" to which the AJR is all who knew him. He had a remarkably unde ji" lated. As the result of their efforts, which range of interests and his writings appeared in j'yuded repeated announcements in "AJR RABBI DR. ZWI HARRY LEVY several different languages. Unfortunately "lormation", several thou.sand pages of testi- many of his articles appeared in joumals that 'ony have so far been received. However, Dr. Zwi Harry Levy recently died in Tel are today hard to find yet they are of an en­ Ipre are certainly many among our readers Aviv at the age of 85. Before he went to during value that deserves a wider public. This 1^9 have not yet asked for registration Palestine, he was Rabbi of the Ahavath Zion volume will therefore contain a selection of "nns or who need additional forms for those Congregation in North Berlin. After the war, his writings as a tribute to his memory. The J:"^y. have not yet registered. One form is he stayed in Germany from 1952-1954 as book is to be published at £4-00 but is available equired for each perished person and any Landesrabbiner for the Land Hesse and chair­ at a special pre-publication price of £3 • 00 from yjJ,P."cations which might arise if the same man of the newly founded Rabbinerkonferenz. Mr. David Hackner, Jewish Book Council, , ciim is registered by several relatives or Dr. Levy was an adherent of the Mizrachi and, Woburn House, Upper Wobum Place, London p'lends will be eliminated bv the Collection for some time co-editor of the "Juedische WCIH OEP. centre at Yad Vashem. Wochenblatt" (Berlin/Frankfurt 1924/29.) E,G,L. The book will contain a biographical sketch f.rpPl'cation.s for the requisite number of by Mr. Fred Worms; Dr. Gertner at London by 'wms should be sent to: Mrs. Ursula Webster, MILLIE MILLER'S ASHES SCATTERED Prof. Segal; At Oxford by Dr. David Patterson; ^^•stant Secretar>' of the Board of Deputies, His Yiddish Writing by Mr. S. J. Goldsmith; Writ™ House, Upper Wobum Place, London The ashes of Mrs. Millie MUler, MP, were His Writing by Rabbi Dr. Albert Friedlander, oht • ^^P- ^ limited supply of forms is also scattered around a cherry tree she planted with a bibliography of his work, together with ^"^lainable at the AJR Social Services Depart- in Tavistock Square, London, in 1967 to an annotated selection of his writings. commemorate the dropping of the first atom Jewish Book Council DAVID HACKNER PROF. ALEX MEYER bomb on Hiroshima. At the time, she was Joint Hon, Secretarj' Mayor of Camden. The ceremony, on the Dr P authority on aviation law. Professor anniversary of Hiroshima, was performed at PRAISEWORTHY go • Alex Meyer, died in Zurich at the age of an interdominational service. The Israeli and in rP^^ ^^ Berlin, he was Oberregierungsrat Japanese Embassies were officiaUy repre­ Sir,—On her recent 90th birthday my mother Sev ^^esseldorf in the Thirties. He wrote sented, as were a number of synagogues, received a letter of congratulations and a birth­ g/^al books on his special subject both in churches, mosques, and temples. Several day present of DM 100 from the Bundesversi­ ujj^any and, after his emigration, in Switzer-. speakers, including Mr. Maurice Perlzweig, cherungsanstalt fuer Angestellte. She was truly also deal World Jewish Congress representative at the \irit2'.L,^o^6 of his later publications i United Nations, paid tribute to her efforts for delighted. ),,the h the topical problems'of air piracy. In 1950 at n!^^ appointed a lecturer on aviation law justice and compassion in keeping with 24 Farm Avenue, L. DAVID the University of Cologne. E.G.L. Jewish ethics. London, NW2 2DY.

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THREE EXHIBITIONS THEATRE AND CULTURE Eleanore Koch Eleanore Koch was bom in Berlin, emigrated Old season-New season. Theatres in Germany my wish, a good part, but by no means my to Brazil and since 1968 has been living i" still close for the sunmier and, as so often, last one" thus Gustav Knuth, 77, and an actor London. She is an accomplished artist and an successful musicals form the end of the for 60 years, describes his pleasure of playing exhibition of her current work was on display season in many towns. "Gigi" was the the film part of Gustav Hartmann who in 1928 in September at Campbell & Franks gallery acclaimed highlight at Munich's "Staatstheater drove his "Droschlce" from Berlin to Paris. in New Cavendish Street. This is her third am Gartnerplatz", whilst "Anatevlca" ("Fiddler London. Bemard Shaw's comedy "The London exhibition and is solely devoted to on the Roof") was performed at the Stadt- Philanderer", now at the Lyttelton Theatre, works on paper. Her style is elegant, her tlieater Aachen and the Staatstheater Braun­ was a popular success in the Twenties when, ideas original and her colours cleverly chosen schweig.—At the Vienna "Burg" the new in the translation by Siegfried Trebitsch, it to be outspoken but not brash. These are pJC" season opens with Kleist, Ibsen and Nestroy. appeared as "Der Liebhaber" on many German- tures one could happily live with. Of particular In a forthcoming revival of Hofmannsthal's speaJcing stages. interest is Dove intruding on my still life which •Der Schwierige", the cast Ust includes Obituary. Kanunersaengerin Else Blank has depicts a green bird on a white table. Several octogenarian Paul Horbiger. died in Karlsruhe at the age of 79. She had studies for this work are also included in the Meyerl>eer—at last. Meyert)eer's operas, been a most valued member of the Schloss- exhibition. Mention should also he made oi once in the repertoire of nearly every opera platztheater in Karlsruhe from 1925 to 1952. Haynes Harbour with the blue of the sea house in Europe, vanished during the Hitler SB. mingling yet contrasting with the blue of the sky. It is the colours that are so impressive years, and—strangely—have rarely been seen SELF AID CONCERT since. It is therefore welcome news that the in this artist's work, the mauves and the greens and the variations of the blues. Hopefully, *® Royal Opera House Covent Garden will revive Tuesday, October 31 ••L'Africaine" ("Die Afrikanerin") during shall see more of her work. November, especially as a very strong cast This year's traditional Self Aid Concert will Jerusalem Prints is beaded by Grace Bumbry and Placido be held at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday, At the same gallery there is also an exhi­ Domingo. October 31, at 7.45. The artists will be Sylvia Rosenberg (Violin), Pascal Rog6 (Piano) and bition of original screenprints from the JerU' Max Ophuels, one of the great film directors The Guadagnini String Quartet. The salem Print Workshop. This is representative of our time, started his career in Germany, programme will include worlcs by Brahms, of the work of some of the younger IsraeU but emigrated to Paris in 1933, and later went Schubert, Schumann and Chausson. Further artists. The works displayed are technically to the United States. Some of his interesting details may be seen from the advertisement competent and well worth a visit. films, shown recently by the London National published in this issue. The fact that the annual Self Aid Concerts Hayward Annual '78 Film Theatre, brought Ijaclc memories, in now enter their fourth decade testifies to the The Hayward Annual '78 at the Hayward particular "Die veriiebte Firma" (with Lien important role they fulfil in our community. Gallery, open until October 8, is mainly de­ Dyers and Gustav Frohlich) "Sans lendemain" Apart from their high artistic standard and the voted to the work of women artists. Whether (with Edwige Feuill^re), and "Letters from am benefit they provide for the needy ones in our women have a special place in art or a specia' Unlcnown Womam" (with Joan Fontaine). midst they have also, as a side effect, developed into welcome reunions of old friends and message is an open question, but the exhibi­ Ophiils was also the much-discussed director of tion itself is stimulating, showing a wide variety "La Ronde" (based on Schnitder's "Reigen") acquaintances. It is hoped that many readers will attend the Concert thus helping to malce of works, some by artists who do not normally with music by Oscar Straus. it again as successful as it has always been in show in London. A Dream fulfilled. "It is the fulfilment of the past. AUCE SCHWAB

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