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Don't miss... Fathers and sons Uncivil civil warriors Richard Grunberger p3 Studies of exile Edgar Feuchtwanger p4 country is more than a mere agglomeration even bleaker picture. This was a Mea She'arim street of people speaking the same language and scene at 10am on last month's Yom Hashoah: All Remembering occupying the same space; its inhabitants the traffic stopped dead. Most pedestrians around victims of the Shoah A Chief Rabbi are also bound together by a set of shared values. me also stood still in the sunshine in mute, sad Or Jonathan Sacks pl4 When agreement on what constitutes those core silence. But it was brief, incomplete and interrupted. values breaks down a society begins to drift Dozens of ultra-Orthodox men carried on with towards civil war. their business as usual... One strode through the Projection This happened in Stuart England where the King's halted traffic planting anti-Zionist leaflets on wind­ Jew's sins assertion of divine right clashed with the aspirations screens. Another ran up to a car flying a Star of can be of parliament. In France serial revolutions (1789, David from the roof, ripped it off, flung it to the Aritually 1830, 1848) didn't settle related issues; it was only ground and stamped on it'. (The Independent, 3 transferred to an with de Gaulle's triumph over Petain that the long- May 2000). expendable fowl. smouldering civil war touched off by the Dreyfus Thus did the haredim observe Holocaust Martyrs Even now, more Trial finally came, to an end. In Lincoln's day Ameri­ and Heroes Remembrance Day. They disrupted the paranoid tribes' cans fought a bloody civil war over slavery. A heartrending moment when the entire nation comes project their own century later the issue of Vietnam provoked a to a halt to focus its thoughts on the indescribable shortcomings on to (largely) bloodless civil war within the USA, in the sufferings of all Israel's next-of-kin; not content outgroups. course of which one side dissented so violently with which one also defiled the symbol of the state The 1930s from shared values that it took to burning the which protects them and guarantees their rights. catchphrase 'It's all national flag. What distinguishes those uncivil warriors from the the fault of Jews' - However radicalised those flag burners were, it mad mullahs of Teheran is not their mindset, but with the jokey would not have occurred to them to vandalise the fact that they have little access to the levers of addendum and the Washington's Arlington cemetery, the country's state power. Besides which haredim 'only' want to cyclists' - has lately memorial to its war dead. That type of gut­ impose their way of life on co-religionists, whereas been updated to wrenching desecration was left to our homegrown Islamic fundamentalism dreams of spreading the 'It's all the fault of anarchists, who on May Day defaced the Cenotaph 'true faith' by force across the entire globe D the Jews and gays'. and the statue of Churchill on In the Russian Parliament Square. (Fortunately presidential the bronze of the statue proved elections the as resistant to aerosol spray Liberal candidate damage as Churchill's reputation Yavlinsky was did to the mudslinging of the re­ dubbed a creature visionists Charmley and Alan of the Jews and Clark.) What the anarcho-yobs homosexuals'. in their delusion-fuelled frenzy Louis Farrakhan chose to overlook was that if it targets the same hadn't been for Churchill each two groups. Robert of them would have been born Mugabe sees the with the Nazi jackboot on their Blair cabinet as necks. dominated by an Modern Britain is, alas, not the epicene' - in place only society whose extremists of Old Labour's feel a spiritually justified need for 'niilitant' - desecrating national symbols. If tendency'; his Jews London outdoes Washington in are, of course, the the ignominy heaped on its war Survivors light memorial candles to the six million victims of the Shoah during commemoration ceremonies held in central London. (See page 16) Whites D dead, Jerusalem presents an AJR INFORMATION JUNE 2000

her only surviving relative - an aunt mar­ Profile ried to a Christian - and to "see what it was like." On entering the local super­ Diminutive market in Beuel, she was recognised instantly, but met the defensive attitude action-woman familiar to visiting and returning Jews. argot Barnard, nee Kober, was Living in Germany with her British family born in 1919 in the Rhineland in the late 1950s, Margot became con­ M town of Beuel. Her action-packed vinced that Nazis had not disappeared life can be said to be in inverse overnight. proportion to her size - she is 4'11"! After her husband's untimely death in Margot was a founder member of the 1964, Margot began making contact with Bonn left-wing Zionist Youth Movement German youngsters, travelling to Ger­ Hashomer Hatzair. Faced with her parents' many to talk to them about the Holocaust disapproval of her Zionist activities, she and from 1983 her visits were put on aO ran away from home at the age of 14 to official footing. Now Margot visits Bonn live with an uncle in Hamburg. Her at least three times a year to speak to Margot Barnard parents eventually supported her appli­ schools, universities and inter-faith or­ cation for Jugend Aliyah and, at just three BBC Radio Palestine comedy programme. ganisations. Her work also takes her to days notice, she emigrated to Palestine in Despite having pacifist convictions, in Israel and to France. 1936, knowing she would never see her 1942 she joined the Women's Auxiliary Passionate about the importance of parents again. They were deported in Air Force and was stationed in the Egyp­ what she is doing, Margot, an AJR mem­ 1942 and did not survive. tian desert. ber, feels that those with a life story like Margot arrived in Palestine on the Margot and Ted arrived in England as hers must look forward and use those ex­ notorious Patria and started her new life war ended May 1945. After the birth of periences for the benefit of future working in the fields of Kibbutz Beth their first son they quit military life for a generations. "It is important to tell the Sera, later moving to Haifa in a vain while to entertain theatre audiences, but young people of Germany that they are attempt to obtain immigration certificates he signed on once again and the family not to blame for the Holocaust, but that for her parents. In 1941 she moved to was posted to Gibraltar, Nigeria and - in they must be on their guard to prevent it Jerusalem where she met her husband to 1955 - to northern Germany. In prepara­ recurring", she asserts. be, Ted, a British soldier with his own tion, Margot first returned alone to visit D Marion Koebner

THOSE f^"*"' Holocaust Exhibition ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the opening at Imperial ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES War Museum will be held on ritain's first permanent Holocaust SUNDAY 25 June 2000 Museum opens this month in a 3 pm at 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 specially created wing of the B Agenda:- Imperial War Museum. Video-taped Annual Report 1999 testimony of Holocaust survivors in each Hon.Treasurer's Report section of the exhibition, as well as black Discussion and white newsreel footage, brings to life Gina Tessler, who lived in Prague, recalling how she Election of Committee of Managemenf^ the exhibits and explanatory commen­ obtained refuge in Britain. taries which chart the rise of National Guest speaker: Socialism and the fate of Jews (and other wanting to leave Nazi-occupied coun­ Dr Elisabeth Maxwell victims) in Hitler's Germany. tries). Liberation and the subsequent war * No person other than a committee member retiring by rotation sho// be elected or re-elected " The social and economic exclusion of crimes tribunals end the sequence. committee member at any general meeting Germany's Jews from 1933 onwards, the The exhibition will be a magnet for unless:- Nazi propaganda machine, the difficulties schools; interactive screens referring to {a) he or she is recommended by the Committee of Management, or of emigration/immigration in the late the different sections of the exhibition (b) not less than twenty one clear dap before the 1930s (the Evian conference. Kinder- are available at the end of the Holocaust date appointed for the meeting, notice executed transport), outbreak of war, ghettoisation, journey' for those who wish to deepen by ten members qualified to vote at the meeting has been given to the Association of the intenoon deportations and the camps all form indi­ their knowledge of the events between to propose ^at person for election or re-electjor^ vidual sections in a carefully constructed I933-I945. As well as being a strong edu­ together with notice executed by that person of story. Some space is devoted to aspects cational tool, the exhibition also serves as his or her willingness to be elected or re-elected. of resistance (escape, fighting with the a tribute and memorial to the millions of Management Committee Election partisans) and rescue (hiding Jews, diplo­ victims of National Socialism. mats using their powers to assist Jews D Marion Koebner Nomination received: Katherine Klinger A)R INFORMATION JUNE 2000

at the end of the war (and later became Fathers and sons Secretary of the Second, or Socialist, In­ ternational). NEWTONS ew people, I imagine, remember the Postwar Austria was a small country, Leading Hampstead Solicitors novel Strike the Father Dead by which young men with ambition left for FJohn Wain, sometime Professor of Germany. One such was Arnolt Bronnen 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Poetry at Oxford. It characteristically (alias Arnold Bronner). The author of a London NW3 SNB appeared in the 1960s, the decade of play significantly entided Vatermord (Pat­ youthful rebellion, but the history of ricide), Bronnen was the son of a Jewish ^ All English legal work generational conflict stretches back into father and a gentile mother. Under the undertaken and German, the mists of time. The Bible relates the Nazi regime he made his mother sign an Swiss & Austrian claims story of Absalom's revolt against his affidavit attesting that he was the off­ 'k German spoken father. King David, while the tale of the spring of her adulterous Uaison with an murder of Laius, King of Thebes, by his Aryan. ^ Home visits arranged son Oedipus is one of the most At about the same time the German- Tel:020 7435 5351 powerfully abiding Greek myths. Jewish Communist Horst Brasch escaped Fax: 020 7435 8881 In fact father v son conflict was an oc­ to England where he founded the FDJ or cupational hazard of royalty everywhere. Free German Youth, which under his In Russia Peter the Great had his suspect charismatic leadership recruited 600 rebel son tortured to death. In Prussia the members. Postwar he settled with his future Frederick the Great was made to family in East Germany, whence his play­ PARTNER ^atch the execution of his best friend on wright son Thomas some decades later in long established English Solicitors his father's orders to cure him of youthful defected to the West, (a defection which (bi-lingual German) would be happy •"ebelliousness. In England the Prince Re­ must have struck the father as Vater- to assist clients with English, German gent conspired with the Whig opposition landsmord, to coin a phrase). and Austrian problems. Contact against George III and his Tory ministers, Something similar, but with diametri­ m Austria Crown Prince Rudolf penned cally opposite consequences, occurred in Henry Ebner attacks on Franz Joseph's government's the case of Sichrovsky pere and fils. Myers Ebner & Deaner Conservative policies in the Liberal Qew-, Harry Sichrovsky, a Jewish refugee, ish-owned) Neues Wiener Tagblatt. He joined Young Austria, a parallel organi­ 103 Shepherds Bush Road Compounded this rare positive act of re- sation to the FDJ, served with the British London W6 7LP hellion by a whole series of negative army in the Far East, and returned with Telephone 020 7602 4631 °nes: gambling, drug taking, sexual ex­ his wife to postwar Vienna. At school ALL LEGAL WORK cess and, finally, suicide. their son Peter noticed that whereas all UNDERTAKEN Though Diaspora Jewry, for obvious his classmates had grandparents, uncles reasons, had no royal dynasty of its own, and aunts, he had none. He blamed his 't produced diverse quasi-aristocracies - parents for having reared him in Vienna, •^^ligious, financial, cultural etc - which and started his writing career as a trench­ ^ere no strangers to Oedipal conflict. ant critic of the Nazi legacy in Germany AUSTRIAN and GERMAN One such was the Mendelssohn 'clan', and Austria. Then, some time in the mid- ^hose founder Moses, the foremost nineties, he underwent a mindboggling PENSIONS bridgebuilder between Judaism and West­ conversion and became Haider's chief ern civilisation, had sons all of whom Euro-MP at Brussels. Heaven only knows PROPERTY RESTITUTION Converted to Christianity. Then there how the Jewish ex-Communists Harry ^ere the Rathenaus who belonged to the and Lotte Sichrovsky feel about their son CLAIMS Economic elite of Wilhelminian Germany, who has degraded himself into serving as EAST GERMANY- BERLIN ^ile father Emil focused his energies on a Goebbels-style mouthpiece for the 'building up the country's electrical indus- Hitler admirer Jorg Haider! On Instructions our office will ^T, his son (and successor) Walter found D Richard Grunberger assist to deal with your Additional time for authorship of politico- applications and pursue the Philosophical works. Less than enamoured matter with the authorities. ^f his son's extra-mural activities, Emil fa- For further Information and "^ously quipped 'My son's books are Foley honoured Easier to write than to read.' A road in his home town of Burnham- appointment please Concurrendy in Austria the public-spir- on-Sea in Somerset now bears the name contact: "^^d physician Viktor Adler founded the of Frank Foley who saved 10,000 Jews ICS CLAIMS Social Democratic Party, which scored a by issuing passports from the British 146-154 Kilburn High Road ^'gnal victory for peaceful democratic Embassy in Berlin in the late 1930s. The London NW6 4JD change by achieving universal suffrage in ecumenical ceremony was attended by ^07. His son Friedrich assassinated Lord Janner whose nomination led to Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) Chancellor Count Sturgkh in 1916, re- the diplomat's recognition by Yad Fax: 020 7624 5002 ^^ived a life sentence, but was amnestied Vashem. AJR INFORMATION JUNE 2000

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of the political journalists among the ex­ other must surely be that Russians have Studies of exile iles, who first made his name in Britain not yet faced the facts about their past. Ian Wallace (ed) GERMAN-SPEAKING EXILES and then became influential in Germany. There has been no equivalent of the Nu­ IN GREAT BRITAIN, Rodopi, Amsterdam - The essay on him in this volume, by Jorg remberg trials. When the Russian edition Atlanta, GA, 1999,127.00. Thunecke, argues that some of his writ­ of this book was permitted by Gorbachev ings, Germany: Jekyll and Hyde and to appear in 1989, it shocked and he exodus from German-speaking Anmerkungen zu Hitler in particular, im­ amazed is readers. The Russian version Central Europe brought about by ply a refutation of Goldhagen's thesis of included a contribution by Yevgenia Tthe rise of Hider was arguably the German 'eliminationist' antisemitism. An Ginzburg, omitted from the English edi­ most significant transfer of culture and essay by Axel Goodbody deals with two tion because her great book Into the learning in Europe since the fall of the literary exiles, Erich Fried and Michael Wbirliuind has been available here since Byzantine Empire. Exile studies have Hamburger, and has much to say about 1967. Six other authors have also been therefore become an important branch of the problem of language and bilingual- omitted because parts of their memoirs academic endeavour, not least in the ism, a recurrent theme in this volume. have already appeared in the West. countries from whence the exodus came Hamburger once wrote that linguisti­ But not in Russia. In 1963 an attempt to and where the extent of the bloodletting cally he felt himself to be in a no-man's publish an anthology of this kind led to that occurred made its full impact on land, but both he and Fried, in different its editor, Nikolai Kozlov, being treated in public awareness only in the last two ways, came to see a positive side to be­ a mental home for his 'manic struggle for decades. In relation to its size Great ing positioned between two linguistic justice'. Britain ranks second to none as a cultures. For Hamburger it became a cen­ The crimes of Stalin were on such a recipient country and the German- tral feature of his work. colossal scale, and lasted so long, that it speaking exiles in this country provide a Another group of contributions deals might seem impossible for anyone alive fruitful focus for the work of the with some of the more institutional as­ in the Soviet Union at the time to be ig­ Research Centre for German and Austrian pects of exile, the Warburg Institute, the norant of them. Yet this book shows that, Exile Studies which was set up at the BBC, in whose German Service many ex­ where there is no free press and gossip Institute of Germanic Studies in the iles found a way of fighting the Nazis to may get you shot, people do not know University of London in 1995. This is the great effect, the Thomas Mann Neivsletter, what is happening in the next street. first of their Yearbooks and a second and an excellent source of information on A beautiful young economist, Olga third volume are already in preparation. the German literary exile scene, and last Adamova-Sliozberg, accepted her hus­ Several contributions in the present vol­ but not least, AJR Information. As band's assurances that 'people don't get ume are devoted to the work and Anthony Grenville shows, this journal is sent to camps for nothing'. Shortly after­ personalities of well-known journalists not only an invaluable source for under­ wards he got arrested for nothing. Then it and writers. Among the older generation standing the concerns of the refugee was her turn. Yet she still believed that there is Otto Lehmann-Russbuldt, here community, but, with editors of the intel­ the investigators would see they were represented in an essay by Charmian lectual standing of Freeden, Rosenstock both innocent and let them go. It was Brinson and NA Furness. Lehmann- and Grunberger, became, as a regular only the beginning of the great terror, lO Russbuldt was already sixty when he monthly from 1946, much more than an 1936. managed miraculously to escape from information bulletin. In the present vol­ Vera Shulz, an actress, was not picked Germany, having been included in the ume literature and language hold pride of up until 1938, when the mass arrests had wave of arrests that followed the Reich­ place, while other aspects, Jewishness for been indiscriminate for over a year. Y^^ stag fire on 27 February 1933- Prominent example, figure less prominently, but the she, too, imagined that the authorities in the German peace movement in the breadth and significance of exile studies would soon realise they had made a mis­ First World War, he was during the Weimar are well established. take in her case. period secretary of the Liga fiir Men- n Edgar Feuchtwanger So the people caught up in the terror schenrechte. He figured on the first list of did not know the scale of it, and histori­ prominent personalities deprived of citi­ ans, with documents before them, are zenship by the Nazis on 23 August 1933. Darl< side of tiie moon still arguing about the numbers. They wil He tried valiantly to continue his acdvities never be exactly known. Did anybody in exile, encouraged by well-known Simeon Vilensky (ed) TILL MY TALE IS TOLD count the victims of the typhus epidemic, British campaigners for international Women's Memoirs of die Gulag, Virago. 1999. described in this book by Nadezhda understanding such as Noel-Buxton, hy, in March of this year, did Surovtseva? Did anyone count the babie Wickham Steed and Lord Robert (not over half the Russian voters in born in the camps, who died of hunge David, as the index would have it) Cecil. Wthe presidential election choose or cold? "In giving birth to my only child The ideological diversity of the politically Vladimir Putin, a former KGB spy? Why writes the Ukrainian Hava Volovich, "I active exiles is illustrated by Jonathan did another 29% vote for the Communist committed the worst crime there is." Ross in the contribution on Werner leader Gennady Zyuganov? A handful of these women did kno^ Ilberg, who remained a committed mem­ Discontent with capitalism, or the cari­ why they landed in prison. In 193 ber of the KPD. Then there is Sebastian cature of capitalism now existing in Christina Znamenskaya's arrest warran Haffner, probably the best remembered Russia, is doubtless one reason. But an­ was signed by her uncle, Genrikh AJR INFORMATION JUNE 2000

Chancellor Kohl's call for a further se­ Com. Never-ending debate lection process resulted in a second he tortuous process of choosing an competition held in 1997, the rules of Yagoda, then head of the NKVD. Her first appropriate Holocaust memorial which specified the requirement of a link husband, from whom she had parted ten Tfor Germany's capital city was between the memorial and the city of years earlier, was a Trotskyist. Her sec­ discussed by art historian Professor Curt Berlin. The jury - this time chaired by ond husband, though he loved her, said Germundson in an illustrated lecture Professor Young - chose a design which of the arrest: "They had to do it. They given at the Wiener Library. was approved by Chancellor Kohl (al­ consider it a necessary measure." Then While the concept of public monu­ though not by Gerhard Schroder whilst in he was arrested. ments as confident national statements opposition) and which has since under­ When Yagoda himself was arrested in was not new, in his view the building of gone some revision. The involvement of 1937, his relations were exiled to Astra­ a monument by a perpetrator nation in the German public seemed limited to khan, and then shot, for being his memory of its victims certainly was. Five observing the debate between the politi­ relations. years after Leah Rosch had called for the cians, architects, artists and historians The same logic accounted for the arrest construction of a Holocaust memorial in from the sidelines. of Nadezhda and Yulia Kanel. Stalin's Germany, a site near the Brandenburg Despite the selection of an agreed de­ ^ife shot herself in 1932. Three doctors Gate was allocated for the purpose in sign, commencement of the memorial's refused to sign a certificate that she had 1993. An international commission, ap­ construction seems no nearer. With doubt •^ied of appendicitis. Two of these doc­ pointed the following year to select a arising over the ownership of the site, the tors were afterwards accused of having suitable design, organised a competition earliest projected completion date is tnurdered Maxim Gorky. The third, which produced 528 entries, most of 2004, and yet the whole project could ^exandra Kanel, died in 1936. Naturally, which "generated a sense of hopeless­ still be overturned by a government with her daughters were arrested in 1939- ness and helplessness in conveying the different priorities. Even those who thought they had Holocaust," said Prof Germundson. One The twenty-first century ushered in grasped this logic had surprises to come, major criticism emanated from the distin­ new debates: Should the memorial com­ ^n 1952 the economist Olga Adamova- guished Professor James Young when he memorate other Holocaust victims? Could Sliozberg, exiled to Karaganda, was the suggested that the memorial "could end Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum serve Only Jew in the office of a clothing fac­ up doing the thinking for the viewer." as the memorial instead? Would Professor tory there. When Stalin had the Jewish Another major critic, the Jewish writer Young be vindicated in his view that the doctors arrested, one of the secretaries al- Henryk Broder, believed that such a debate itself was an appropriate memo­ '^ged that a parcel from America, monument should concentrate on the rial? addressed to someone called Rabinovich, perpetrators, not the victims. D Marion Ksiebner had been opened before her very eyes. It Contained cotton wool and thousands of i'^M'.'.sr.' 'yphus-bearing lice. A seamstress then told a meeting that in her childhood Jews Re-issue of '30s records "3d killed a Christian baby and used its etween 1934 and 1937 Berlin's O'ood to make matzos. That speech, at Jiidischer Kulturbund produced '^ast, was greeted with embarrassed si- Brecords under its own record 'ence. But clearly a pogrom was coming labels, one of which - with some 80 titles " averted only by Stalin's death. The re- - was Lukraphon. Today these recor­ '-ent news from Russia raises the question dings, though exceedingly rare, are of °f how dead he really is. considerable historical significance. D Alison Macleod After painstaking research into the re­ cording companies and the artists involved, Dr Rainer Lotz is about to pub­ lish an illustrated book accompanied by ^Hghton Holocaust remastered recordings on CD. Despite an intensive world-wide search, Lukraphon s record label with the Star of David. Memorial dedicated Dr Lotz has been unable to find some of •^hief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks dedicated a the original 78 rpm shellac discs, in par­ To complete the collection, Dr Lotz 'Memorial in Brighton's Meadow View ticular those by the following artists: Sid would welcome contact from anyone Cemetery to the vicdms of the Holocaust, Kay's Fellows, directed by Sigmund who has any of the missing discs. He is "^ the presence of MPs Ivor Caplin and (Shabtai) Petruschka with vocals by Ferris also seeking biographical information on avid Lepper, local Rabbanim, the Gondosch (Gondic) and Dora Gerson; Peter Upcher, a British silent movie actor ^rman Ambassador, Brighton and violinist Andreas Weissgerber, accompa­ who died in London in 1964, and on Move's Mayor, together with many nied by Kurt Sanderling at the piano; Oberkantor Alberto Pincas from Sofia. ^embers of the local congregation and a singer Hanna Kipnis, accompanied by H. Contact details- Dr Rainer E. lotz, Jean timber of survivors. The memorial, Fenster at the piano; Oberkantor Salo­ Paul Str. 6, 53173 Bonn, Germany. Tel: ^signed by Gerald Zebrak, represents a mon Kupfer (Leipzig, later Manchester); 0049 228-36514. E mail: birgit-lotz- ^rne on which is inscribed the Hebrew Oberkantor Josef Bonn (Strasbourg) and verlag@gmx. de ^fd Zacibor (.Remember). DRDC Peter Upcher (singer of Yiddish songs). URDC AJR INFORMATIONJUNE 2000

Livingstone with Haider is an affront to the reader's intelligence. Would he really have us believe that Jorg Haider is noth­ ing more sinister than an Austrian counterpart of our 'Red Ken'? Far from demonising Livingstone such a compari­ son is a whitewash of Haider. WHAT'S THE TEMPERATURE? which took in the Jawne children. It London NWl I Jacob Brauner Sir - The reason why -273° is absolute would also be a wish come true for Irene zero temperature (March issue) is that Corbach. temperature is the result of molecules in Would anyone interested please contact CHICKEN SOUP a substance moving at speed and me on 020 8452 3072. Sir - Whenever Matthew Engel is in colliding. The lower the temperature the London NW2 Rachelle Ellis Dublin - perhaps to report on one of slower the molecules move and at -273° mighty Ireland's cricket 'internationals' they stop moving altogether. As you against some second division county like cannot have negative movement the SKINHEAD IN Middlesex - he should check out the temperature cannot get any lower. SCHOLAR'S ROBES place Israeli Ambassadors to this country Bradford RO Leavor Sir - We must consider the wider aspects flock to for their chicken soup: Chompy's of history. While to us Jews the murder in the Powerscourt Centre. Could this be of six million is paramount it must be the first of the regular chicken soup gastronomic global reports commissioned borne in mind that Hitler was directly THE ARK OF COLOGNE by the AJR from Mr Engel? implicated in the murder of far, far, larger Sir - Dr Klibanski, head of the Jawne Dublin Andrew Sheppord Gymnasium, tried to bring children from numbers; how anybody, let alone a every class of his school to England to 'historian' can make apologies for this is which end he made many trips to the UK beyond human reason. to rally support and raise funds. In fact London NW9 F Gordon CULTURAL BIAS? three groups of Jawne children came to Sir - I have a feeling that the art and England, as a sort of Klibanski Kinder- culture scene has tipped in favour of the transport in 1939. Tragically he and his FOR THE RECORD Austrian scene and that the German family all died in the Holocaust. Sir - I would like to comment on the scene is receiving short shrift. Could yoU Two wonderful people. Dieter and his excellent and moving TV documentary not find someone in our fraternity who wife Irene Corbach, spent many years re­ about the Kindertransport, shown at could watch the German portfolio for us? searching the fate of the Jewish Pesach, which stated that the youngest London N2 Bizabeth Ney population in Cologne during the Nazi child was five years old. For the sake of years. They published a book charting historical accuracy, I would like to record the life of Dr Klibanski and his leadership that I left Frankfurt in the company of my REBRANDING - seven-year-old brother, at the age of two of the Jawne School. ENOUGH ALREADY! The book was launched in Cologne in years and ten months. My brother told Sir - This journal has been published fof 1992, as part of a commemorative Exhibi­ me later that every time the train many years as 'AJR Information'. It is the tion of photographs at the Town Hall. stopped, I cried Mutti, Mutti! content of the journal which counts. Le' During their research the Corbachs found I still have the immigration permit, us not waste any more time with such the script and music of a playlet that had which states leave to land granted subject unimportant matters as a name. To me- been performed by the children of the to the holder not entering into employ­ and I am sure many others of ^^ Jawne, only shortly before the closure of ment! generation, it is a monthly journal whicR London N3 H Lazarus the school. is always well received. To commemorate this very special Wembley Park Mrs Karla Ewanoei school, the play Der Bunte Weg (the Middlesex Multicoloured Path) was performed by WAY BEYOND HIS KEN local children in 1992. Sir - Your observations on Ken Sad to say. Dieter Corbach died in Livingstone's remarks are not the first of 1996, but his wife Irene is continuing his BOUQUET their kind to appear but insensitivity is a research work with the same commit­ Sir - How lucky AJR members are to h subjective allegation; the question of ment. able to read Richard Grunberger's tno^ logic is not apparently relevant and I Irene has sent me the script and music interesting articles every month. They a"" have yet to see a simple assertion that he of Der Bunte Weg, an interesting and full of knowledge, experience and Wi* is wrong in fact. charming play, much of it written in dom, enabling him to write in fascinatii's Chalfont St Giles Alan S. Kaye verse. What it needs is for someone to detail about so many different events. Bucks. look at the play with a view to translating As usual I am looking forward to m it into English. next issue of AJR Information. It would be a great commemoration to Sir - Frank Bright's letter in your May Alwoodley Ernst Kohi^ have a performance in this country. 2000 issue in which he equates Ken Leeds AJR INFORMATION JUNE 2000

ticularly convincing. Filter out the singer Now let us switch from Wagner to the We are honoured to welcome sixteenth century Bavarian painter STEPHEN SMITH, MBE from the song Altdorfer (for the retention of one of Director, Beth Shalom, Nottingham he State of Israel is about to lift its whose pictures in the UK the National age old boycott of Richard Wagner Gallery raised two million pounds in the who will address members and friends of Twith a public performance of the eighties). Having seen the painting, I Belsize Square Synagogue Siegfried Idyll. In a conditioned reflex read up about him and discovered the on Ephraim Zuroff, the self-appointed 'con­ following: Albrecht Altdorfer was master Sunday 10 September 2000 science of the Holocaust', has denounced of the Regensburg painters' guild, town at 8.00pm the move as insensitive thereby stirring architect and member of the town Stephen Smith is an inspiring speaker and the embers of a conflict one would have council. In the 1520s the council issued tonight he will talk to us about why he hoped was over and done with. a decree expelling the Jews from Regens­ and his family were motivated to create It is, alas, a fact that many composers - burg, and a mob ransacked the Beth Shalom among them Chopin, Liszt, Stravinsky, synagogue. Prominent among the looters Tickets: who took valuable objects from the des­ Rachmaninov, Delius and Pfitzner - dis- £2.50 Members of Belsize Square • £4.00 hked Jews either out of bigotry or ecrated prayer house was the respected Non Members professional envy. However, none was as guild master Albrecht Altdorfer. This promises to be an extraordinary extreme an antisemite as Wagner who, What conclusion was I to draw from evening and one that on all accounts had he been alive in the 1940s, might this discovery? Would Ephraim Zuroff ad­ should not be missed!! Conceivably have approved of Auschwitz. vise Jews to avert their gaze from any For further information, please contact painting by the pogromnik Altdorfer they ^In 1870 when the Prussians were trying Henny Levin on 020 7794 3949 to starve besieged Paris into submission, encounter in a gallery? And what is to be he had urged Bismarck to expedite mat­ done about Bach's St Mattheiv Passion ters by bombarding the city with artillery.) with its text implying Jewish deicide? Wagner's special brand of nastiness Ultimately it is the Israeli public who Perforce extended into personal relations; would suffer as the result of a continued he characteristically repaid wealthy Otto ban on Wagner ('suffer' probably over­ j Wesendonck's loan of a house in its own , states the case; what the Jewish state Srounds, to enable him to compose at badly needs is an accord with Beirut, leisure, by having an affair with his rather than Bayreuth.) Even so, living in a BELSIZE t>enefactor's wife. musical environment from which Wag­ But none of these character defects de­ ner's compositions have been excluded SQUARE tracts in any way from his greatness as a must resemble visiting an art gallery where t^ouldbreaking composer. Jews were a particular colour has been airbrushed out SYNAGOGUE among the first to recognise Wagner's of every painting on the walls. U RG 51 Belsize Square, NWS 4HX Senius and two especially, the conductor We offer a traditional style "Hermann Levi and the opera director of religious service with ^tigelo Neumann, spread his fame far for Cantor, Choir and orgem ^nd wide. It is no exaggeration to speak Munich's Jewish Museum the Further details can be obtained ^t a longlasting Jewish love affaire with e-opened in December 1999 after a Let from the synagogue secretary *^agner - from Otto Weininger's father move to new and larger premises, ^uch Telephone 020 7794 3949 ^ho annually took his family to the Bay- Munich's Jewish Museum is now me> R ''euth Festival, to the Times columnist situated close to the Munich Jewish Minister: Rabbi Rodney J Mariner my Bernard Levin. Community's offices in Reichenbach­ Cantor: Rev Lawrence H Fine strasse. Jewish memorabilia form part of hich For what it's worth I - and I strongly Regular Services: Suspect that I, too, owe my forename to the permanent exhibition as does the Friday evenings at 6.45pm uel the Jewish Wagner cult - have long screening of scenes from the past and Saturday momings at 10am thought that the Israeli boycott, though reproduction vocal scores of composi­ Religion School: Simdays at 10am to 1pm Understandable, was ill-conceived. Wagner tions by Emanuel Kirschner, first cantor Nursery School: 9.15am to 12.15pm ^as first and foremost a composer, sec­ of the Munich synagogue. Belsize Under S's: 9.30am to 11.30am ondly a librettist and only thirdly a The Museum also stages special exhibi­ Space donated by Pafra Limited Polemicist. Above all, music cannot con- tions, the most recent being a depiction "^^ivably transmit racist ideas. of Jewish life in Munich from the erection Granted that the crabbed and pedantic of the first synagogue in 1824 to the ^ckmesser in Meistersinger may be a demolition of the main synagogue in Parody of the music critic Hanslick, a 1938, the arson of the Ohel-Jakob syna­ BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE alf-jew - but to magnify this figure into gogue during the November 1938 pogrom 51 Belsize Square, London N.W.3 the '^ antisemitic caricature is sheer hyper- and the deportation of the remaining Our communal hall is available for o'e! Nor is the attribution of Jewish Jews to the extermination camps. The cultural and social functions. ^aracteristics to the treacherous dwarf Museum is open Tuesdays to Thursdays Tel: 020 7794 3949 ^herich in Der Ring des Nibelungen par­ from 2pm to 6pm. D Anthony Goldsmith AJR INFORMATION JUNE 2000

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NEWS FROM THE GROUPS when the Centre had been open for just seven months. Accept our invitation to a Brighton and Hove As anticipated. Centre Director Stephen Smith's address made compulsive listen­ he Sussex feivish Neivs food K^jjm Klatsch ing. The Memorial Gardens, with many columnist, Michael Robson, illus­ with musical entertainment, roses planted in memory of lost families trated his talk on Ashkenazi and tea, coffee and pastries T and friends, proved a most moving expe­ Sephardi cookery by bringing along three rience. The visit was enhanced by a on Sunday 2 July 2000 different types of cakes he had baked wholesome and tasty vegetarian lunch. from 2.30-5pm and which were enjoyed by all. He UHB at the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre mentioned that he was in the middle of 15 Cleve Road. NW6 converting to Judaism which led to a The next Manchester meeting will be on 2 July. lively discussion. For further details contact Werner Lachs (0161 Entrance by ticket only £6 The meeting was overshadowed by the 7736537.) Please book with Sylvia, Renee & Susie sad news of the sudden death of Fausta Tel: 020 7328 0208 Sheldon's husband. D Fronk Goldberg Pinner The next meeting of Sarid will be on Monday 19 ' ^^^ he History of the Jews of England' June at 10.45 am when George Vulkan will was the subject of Ann Ebner's talk speak on 'A visit to China.' T;abou t five waves of Jewish immi­ gration to this country, starting with that Leeds following William the Conqueror and end­ ing with the Jewish refugees from Hitler. hirty five members gathered to Ann expanded brilliandy on the function hear Bernice Shooman talking Season/ and conditions of the Jews throughout about her work with the Shoah T including their dependence on the kings Visual History Foundation: "Next to AJR LUNCHEON CLUB and the Protector in the face of public giving birth... the most important work I hostility. The subsequent lively discussion onWednesday 17 May 2000 have ever done," she said. In addition to dealt largely with group members' own at l5CleveRoad,NW6 3RL seeing a video illustrating the work of the experiences and their interaction with 11.45 for 12.15pm Foundation, we heard how during the those who came before them. filming of Schindler's List Steven Spiel­ Guest speaker: Special mention should be made of the berg was approached by some thirty to Ian Keable tea and scrumptious spread provided by forty Holocaust survivors wanting to tell 'Cabaret Magician' some of the lady members. D Paul Scholl their story. Those in Britain who applied Reservations £7.50 for everyone! The next Pinner meeting will be on I June at as interviewers to the Foundation - from Sylvia, Renee and Susie Bernice Shooman among them - had to 2pm when pianist Annette Saville will travel 'Round the World in 30 Minutes'. On 6 July Dr Tel: 020 7328 0208 attend a three-day training course. Some Stewart Drage will speak on the prophylactic, 50,000 testimonies in 32 languages were holistic and biodegradable qualities of'Chicken gathered worldwide. In Britain, the ori­ Soup and All That'. ginal list of 80 interviewees grew to 900. AJR'Drop in'Advice Centre Many survivors had never spoken about Bournemouth at the their experiences, even to their families,. The next meeting will be on Monday 12 June at Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Detailed cataloguing by subject and by 2.30pm. Susi and Cliff Ellis will talk on 'What 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL individual names was now in progress so can be learnt from the 'Stars' and how it affects between I Oam and 12 noon on the that the material could be made available you.'Contact Robert Grant (Tel: 01202 765040) following dates: for teaching and research in special ar­ for venue details U chives and libraries. D Thea Skyte Wednesday 7 June Thursday 15 June The next Leeds HFSA event will be a joint meet­ Birmingham There will be a garden party at the home of Mr Tuesday 20 June ing with the Leeds branch of the Jewish Wednesday 28 June Leon jessel MBE jP on Sunday 2 July, 12.30 for Historical Society on 5 June. On 11 June there Thursday 6 July will be a private showing of the film 'Comedy Ipm. Anyone wishing to attend should contact E. Harmonists'. Glaser (TeL 0121 777 6537) for a written form and every Thursday from to be returned by 15 June. I Oam to 12 noon at: AJR, I Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, Manchester Surrey London NW3 6AL arry Blake led a group of more The next meeting will be an informal get together No appointment is necessary, but please bring than 50 people on a visit to Beth at the home of Ernest and Louise Simon in along oil relevant documents, such as Benefit H Shalom Holocaust Memorial Centre Merstham on Tuesday 6 June at 10.30am. Please Books, letters, bills, etc. for a first return visit since May 1996 telephone 01737 643900 if you wish to attend. AJR INFORMATION JUNE 2000

Dormant bank • • • Viewpcint • • • accounts Secular belief list of bank accounts opened in or a thousand years, institutionalised gard to the dubious promise of a second Britain by Holocaust victims to religion was found at the heart of chance after enduring rigours of poverty, A safeguard their money and which Fthe governance of society. This year labour, disease and social inferiority, to have lain dormant since the Second Britain celebrated the second great be followed by an early demise. World War has been published by the millennial anniversary with pomp and Among a pantheon of retreating British Bankers' Association. The list, pageantry offering little more than creeds and ideologies, how are Jews which can be obtained by post or on the passing reference to the Christian myth and Judaism faring? Four generations Internet, has been pubhshed in an on which it was predicated. The estab­ after the orthodox Russo-Polish immi­ lished church was cursorily consulted attempt to trace the identity of descen­ grants' arrival, cohabitation is favoured and their high priest's participation at the expense of marriage, procreation dants and relatives entitled to the benefit proved incongruous and embarrassing postponed in deference to career ad­ of the accounts who may not be aware The God-fearing communities of the vancement, and outmarriage acceptable of their existence. Many of the accounts nineteenth century insisted on the build­ to a significant number. From its high are said to have been opened by people ing of magnificent gothic edifices within point of some half a million, Britain's resident in Nazi-occupied countries. every new suburb, echoing the function Jewish population has fallen to 280,000, The list, which contains surnames and and mores of the village church. In the and the decline continues. initials only, adds to the information al­ latter half of the twentieth century church Among the younger generations of ready available about accounts frozen attendance plummeted. There has been Jews a university or professional educa­ under the 1939 Trading with the Enemy not so much a crisis as an abandonment tion is common, business success legislation. of belief in the supernatural and a con­ marked, and women with careers the Further information can be obtained by comitant retreat from faith as a reliable rule. Happily, socialising with co­ telephoning 020 7216 8849 or accessing source of explanation for the natural religionists is popular as is living in ^'^'ww.restoreuk.org.uk order in the face of scientific analysis and areas preferred by other Jews, quite UMK discovery. possibly attracted into synagogue mem­ Social mobility was a relatively rare bership by familiar rituals, melodies and commodity before two world wars Hebrew classes. But in the main most brought the emancipation of women and are rational secularists, who respect Jew­ the development of an educated meritoc­ ish traditions and moral values Life certificates racy that has little use for religious inculcated by their parents, but have no institutions which underpinned the ruling use for an omniscient patriarch manipu­ or Austrian pensioners. A life classes' power. It seeks fulfilment in a lating their lives in accord with some certificate (Lebensbestdtigung) will be much-extended lifespan, paying small re- vast eternal plan. U Ronald Channing Frecognised by the Austrian pension authorities only if signed and stamped by the Austrian Embassy (London), an Aus­ trian Consulate (Birmingham, Edinburgh PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE and Newcastle-upon-Tyne), a police stat­ IS Cleve Road, West Hampstead. NW6 ion, a DSS office, a municipal authority Mon. & Weds. 9.30am-3.30pm.Tues. & Thurs. 9.30am-5.30pm. Suns. 2pm-6.30pm 'councillor) or notary public. Signature JUNE/JULY 2000 Sun 18 DAY CENTRE OPEN NO hy solicitors, banks, doctors or clergy is Afternoon entertainment programme - ENTERTAINMENT riot acceptable. Thur 1 Helen Blake, voice & piano Mon KARD & GAMES KLUB A housebound pensioner may obtain a Sun 4 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO Tue Jenny Kossew entertains on accordion letter signed and stamped by a medical ENTERTAINMENT Mon 5 KARD & GAMES KLUB Wed LUNCHEON CLUB Practitioner stating s/he is alive on that Tue 6 Julie Sterling, soprano, & Michael Thur Ann Kenton-Barker & Basil Taylor •^ate. The letter, together with the life Kujore, bass, with Sylvia & accompanied by Margaret Gibbs, •Certificate (unsigned) should be sent to Margaret Eaves piano ^he Embassy in London for authenti­ Wed 7 Robert Brody accompanied by Sun DAY CENTRE CLOSED - AGM Mon KARD & GAMES KLUB cation and forwarding to the pension Daphne Lewis, piano Thur 8 Nikki van der Zyl accompanied by Tue Tricia Dibb, soprano, & Mike Authority. Sheila Games, piano Frances, baritone, accompanied by For German pensioners. A life certifi- Sun 11 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO Michael Heaton •^ate (Lebensbescheinigung) may be signed ENTERTAINMENT Wed 28 Primrose Powell with piano accompaniment ^nd authenticated only at the German Mon 12 KARD & GAMES KLUB Tue 13 Thur 29 Jill Goldman, Ellen Lanksford & *^nibassy, a police station or by a notary. Armand d Anjour, cello, accompanied by Daphne Lewis, Gordon Mabbett, keyboard "^'Snature by solicitors, banks, doctors or piano Sun 2 KAFFEE KLATSCH - Live music clergy is not acceptable. Wed 14 Guyathrie Peiris accompanied by with Katinka Seiner & Laszio A housebound pensioner may take the William Patrick, piano Easton - BY TICKET ONLY ^ame action as described above for Aus­ Thur 15 Katinka Seiner & Laszio Easton Mon 3 KARD & GAMES KLUB accompanied by Peter Gellhom, Tue 4 Hanna Yaffe entertains trian housebound pensioners. piano Wed 5 THE KENTERTAINERS D AjR Social Services Department AJR INFORMATION JUNE 2000

FAMILY generational dialogue on Sunday 18 June 2000 at 73 Fortune Green TORRINGTON HOMES FORTHCOMING EVENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS Road, NW6, for former Kinder­ Mrs Pringsheim, S.R.N. lUNE 2000 MATRON Birthday transportees and their offspring. For Elderly, Retired and Convalescent Flesch. The AJR wishes Cad Further details from Ruth Barnett Thurs 8 The Jewish Heritage of (Ucensed by Borough of Barnet) Mayfair. Walk led by Flesch a very happy 90th birthday. 020 7431 0836. • Single and Double Rooms. • H/C Basins and CH in all rooms. Alex Rosenzweig. 11am. • Gardens, TV and reading rooms. Telephone Spiro Institute Deaths Miscellaneous Services 020 7431 0345. Manicure & Pedicure in the • Nurse on duty 24 hours. Beer. Lilo Beer my dearest friend • Long and short term, including Sun 11 Kol Simcha - of 60 years passed away on the 24 comfort of your own home. trial period if required. Contemporary April, one day after her 85 Telephone 020 8343 0976. From £300 per week Klezmer. Opening event birthday. May she rest in peace. 020 8445 1171 Office hours of 10'" London Always in our minds, always in Day Centre 020 8455 1335 other times International Jewish Music Festival. Sadler's our hearts. Steffi and Kitty Feher. Shirley Lever at the Paul Balint NORTH FINCHLEY AJR Day Centre. New clothes for Wells, Rosebery Ave., Freund. Elisabeth Charlotte (Lisl) London ECl. 7.30 pm. sale, dresses, underwear, cardi­ born Vienna, 20 February 1923, Tickets: 020 7863 8000. died London, 5 April 2000. gans etc. Thursday 22 June BELSfZE SQUARE Another country? 9.45-11.45am. Austria Past & Present. Lane. Gerry Lane, beloved hus­ APARTMENTS Brunei Gallery, band of Ellen and devoted father 24 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 Thornhaugh St., London of Steven passed away on 23 SHELTERED FLAT Tel: 020 7794 4307 or WCl. 2pm. Tickets: 020 April. Sadly missed by all his 020 7435 2557 7636 7247 Wiener Library. Reflection, Light & family and friends. AVAILABLE Mon 12 Identity in some 19* LoewenthaL Ilse Loewenthal, MODERN SELF-CATERING HOLIDAY at Cleve Road, ROOMS, RESIDENT HOUSEKEEPER Century English Novels: almost 98 years old, died peace­ West Hanripstead, MODERATETERMS Gwen Williams, M.Phil,, NEAR SWISS COTTAGE STATION fully, in London on 2 May. above the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Middlesex University. Pretzfelder. Paul Pretzfelder born Large bright bedsitting room, fully Club 43. 7.30pm. Zemel Choir and Burgkulstadt, Germany, 2 October equipped kitchen, bathroom/WC, lift. Sun 18 1906, died in London on 29 Residential Home Bochmann Quartet: Rent £365 per month inc. c.h./h.w. Clara Nehab House Music of our Time. St. February 2000 in hospital John's, Smith Sq., London following a fall at his home, aged Apply to Carol Rossen, (Lao Bi«ck Houaing Associaton Ltd.) ia-19 Laaslde Crascent NWl 1 SWl. 7.30pm. Tickets: 93- Widower of Margot. Dear AJR Head Office, All rooms with ShowerW.C.and Jewish Music Festival. friend of the Striesow family and I Hampstead Gate, Anthology of Jewish H/C Basins en-suite Sun 25 remembered with affection by all la Frognal, NW3 6AL Spacious Garden - Lounge & poetry and music from his many friends and family in Dining Room - Lift biblical times to the both the UK and the USA. Near Shops and PublicTransport present. Bloomsbury 24 Hour Care - Physiotherapy Theatre. 7.30pm. Tickets: Consecration SWITCH ON ELECTRICS Long & short Term - Respite Care - Jewish Music Festival. The tombstone in memory of Trial Periods The Munich Soviet Rewires and all household Mon 26 Republic (Raterepubllk) Herbert Felix Fisher will be electrical work. Enquiries: Josephine Woolf of 1919: Eugen Levine. consecrated at Bushey Cemetery Otto Schiff Housing Association PHONE PAUL: 020 8200 3518 The Bishops Avenue N2 OBG Club 43. 7.30pm. on Sunday 18 June at 11am. Phone: 020 8209 0022 Lucie Skeaping and the Burning Bush: Music of CLASSIFIED the old Jewish World. Violinist and cellist wanted to Optician Barbican Centre, 7.30pm. ALTERATIONS Tickets: 020 7638 8891- play classical piano trios. Please Dr Howard Solomons BSc FBCO OF ANY KIND TO Celluloid Memories of reply to Mrs T Fey, 97 Colindeep Dental Surgeon LADIES" FASHIONS Tues 27 Stalingrad. Professor Lane, London NW9 6DJ. I also design and make Robert Moeller. 6.30pm European singles male/female, Dr H Alan Shields children's clothes German Historical Inst, 38/48 years for socialising, out­ & West Hampstead area Bloomsbury Sq Wl. 020 7328 6571 Tickets from Wiener ings, holidays etc. Box No. 1258. Chiropodist Library. Proud Parents of son aged 40 Trevor Goldman SRC yrs, 6'2" tall, dark and handsome, Thur 29 Hebrew song & prayer. AJR GROUP CONTACTS successful professionally but at by appointment at Bevis Marks Synagogue. Tickets: Jewish Music expense of social life, seek girl The Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Leeds HSFA: Trude Silman IS Cleve Rood,West Hampstead, NW6 0113 225 1628 Festival. 25-30 with AJR background. Photo Until Dreyfus in a new please. Box No. 1259. Please make appointments with West Midlands: E^ar Glaser IJuly translation by Jack (Birmingham) 0121 777 6537 For Sale. Smart stylish ladies Sylvia Matus.TehOlO 7328 0208 Rosenthal. Tricycle clothes, as new size l6 - very reas­ Nortli: Werner Lachs Theatre, Kilburn NW6. Tickets: 020 7328 1000. onable prices. Tel: 020 7486 5421. (Manchester) 0161 773 4091 ADVERTISEMENT RATES East Midlands Bob Norton Sun Jewish Culture Day at LINK Psychotherapy Centre are FAMILY EVENTS (Nottingham) 01159 212 494 9 July the Dome. 11am - 6pm Hugo Gryn tribute giving a special showing at the First 15 words free of charge, New End theatre of What my eyes Pinner: Vera Gellman concert at West London £2.00 per 5 words thereafter. (HA Postal District) 020 8866 4833 have seen, a play based on the Synagogue. 6.30pm. CLASSIFIED, SEARCH Tickets: 020 8452 1093. story of Magda Eggen's survival. S. London: Ken Ambrose NOTICES - £2.00 per five words. Judaica 2000: exhibition Wednesday 7 June 2000 at 9.30pm 020 8852 0262 Until BOX NUMBERS - £3.00 extra. 3 Sep of contemporary British with Magda Eggen present for a DISPLAY ADVERTS Surrey: Ernest Simon ceremonial art. Jewish discussion afterwards. Further de­ per single column inch 01737 643 900 Museum (Camden Town) tails ring Wendy David 020 8906 65 mm (3 column page) £12.00 Brighton & Hove Fausta Shelton Suns - Thurs 10am-4pm- 9204. 48mm (4 column page) £10.00 (Sussex Region) 01273 688 226 JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL LINK Psychotherapy Centre have COPYDATE 5 weeks prior to Wessex: Ralph Dale publication (Bournemouth) 01202 762 270 arranged a meeting for inter­ 020 7960 4242

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The judaica 2000 exhibition is showing at t/ie Jewish Museum, Raymond Burton House, 129- 131 Albert Street, London NWl until 3 September 2000. U GloriaTessler

pening the Judaica 2000 exhibition of paintings, textiles, SB's Column Opewters, ceramics and stained glass at the Jewish Museum, sculptor ifty years ^o when television was Joseph Caro noted the enormous love in its infancy and had not yet that went into the works and praised Fbecome everyday entertainment, their craftsmanship and inventiveness. British musicians and actors were joined The Jewish proscription on depicting the by many continental immigrants who human face, for fear of capturing some subsequently became well-established: in element of the divine, has never deterred the field of music, Karl Rankl was musical Jewish artists, but simply inspired greater director of the Royal Opera House and creativity. Ya'acov Boussidan's Hag­ Rudolf Schwarz took charge of the gadah, Bereshit - In the Beginning - is a Birmingham Symphony Orchestra whilst niystical work in shades of blue indi­ Vilem Tausky conducted in Manchester cating planetary movements showing the and later at London's Sadler's Wells Word Bereshit with an enhanced capital Opera. In London's West End, where ^et. The only colour is the red of the TreeofLife, by kuib layiorjacooson Anton Walbrook and Vic Oliver had final letter, Tet. achieved star rating, Arnold Marie, Peter The Jewish Museum has a ketubah dat­ rah based on the tree of life. Her golden Illing, Milo Sperber and Martin Miller ing back to 1678 from Verona with crown, symbolising the Giving of the played character parts. vignettes of King David with his harp Law, depicts the lion of Judah and a pair Prague and Brno. The Czech Opera suggesting the name of the bridegroom, of hands, fingers nearly touching, which House has a spring programme whose David Montalcino. Thus it became tradi-. is a recurring Jacobson theme. range dwarfs the repertoire of many other tional for the formal, written Hebrew Similar colours of purple and ochres continental opera houses, stretching from "carriage contract to be decorated, unusu­ appear in Ruth Kersley Greisman's Freischutz and Nabucco to Meyerbeer's ally with floral motifs, family coats of stained glass panels, this one for the Robert le Diable and the Carmina arms or Jewish or biblical stories down Synagogue ark. Other unusual exhibits Burana ballet. Balletic works by Herold, One side. Angela Baum's free style, in- include Desmond Ryan's olivewood Adam and Prokofiev also have pride of etrog box, and a painted silk charity box 'ormal ketubah evokes the natural Israeli place at the Janacek Opera, Brno. by Carol Smollan. Trude Owen's intri­ Colours. To the biblical simplicity of her Evergreens. The melodies of pop cate Torah mantle or Jill Traub's ••efreshing style she added the Shake­ composer Paul Lincke can still be heard painstakingly embroidered blue velvet spearean sonnet, "Let me not to the on the German airwaves, and are being Torah mantle, are also noteworthy, as is •Carriage of true minds admit impedi- played by many a spa orchestra through­ Veronica Sha'w's very modern Torah '^ent. Love is not love which alters when out the country. The man who wrote crown in gilt and silver. Mark Negin's 't alteration finds." A fitting tribute both Frau Luna and Gluhtviirmchen has re­ megilla resembles a gilded sunburst. to her late husband, Dr David Baum, and cently been the subject of special TV to the synchronicity of Shakespeare with Some of the works' contemporary im­ programmes. the psalms. agery can be attributed to the influence Birthday. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, one Vetta Alexis's more graphic ketubah is of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and De­ of the most prominent baritones of the 3 complete contrast with its sentimental sign. Founded in Jerusalem in 1906 by century, had his 75* birthday. Starting Boris Schatz, the school was named after tree, with roots, flowers and two love­ from his home town Berlin, he sang at Bezalel ben Uri, craftsman of the desert. birds encircling the Hebrew script in two Munich, Bayreuth, Vienna and Salzburg, Tabernacle Turkish weaving skills and tablets on either side. Tamara Zloto- visiting Covent Garden from 1965 Damascus metal hammering accompa­ Souras very traditional and ornately onwards. A lieder singer of masterful nied other earthy modes of expression, ^nibroidered matza cover showing the maturity, he impresses by pure diction such as work in wood, ivory and ceram­ ^der plate is in a rich, cardinal red with and his stage presence in the numerous ics. But with the rise of Nazism in the Sold fringes. Vine leaves and grapes form Wagner and Mozart parts he made his 1930's, the school came under the influ­ P^rt of the design. Other artists go for a own D liore symbolistic approach. Yair Mesh- ence of Bauhaus Judaica whose silver ^'Uam's primary coloured succah panel and brass works forged a new tradition, augmented by Eastern European folk depicts Jacobs Ladder reaching to a dark Annely Juda Fine Art themes. Israeli-born artists have rounded ^loud from which a sickle moon can be 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street) off the Bezalel's original concept, nudg­ ^en as an eye illuminating the sleeping Tel: 020 7629 7578 Fax: 020 7491 2139 ing the shtetl's bitter-sweet sentimentality %ure below. Ruth Taylor Jacobson has with the more direct earth-bound flavour CONTEMPORARY PAINTING ^''eated an impressionistic stained glass of modern Israel. AND SCULPTURE synagogue panel celebrating Simchat To-

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KtMDERTRJUNSPORT NEWS ARE YOU ON A LOW iane Samuels, playwright and author of the widely acclaimed play INCOME AND IN NEED Kindertransport, has kindly accepted an invitation, most appropriately, Dto be our first guest speaker at KT-AJR's second monthly 'Luncheon and OF HOMECARE HELP? Get-together' to be held on Monday 19**" June at the AJR Day Centre, 15 Cleve AJR might be able to offer Road, West Hampstead, NW6, at 12 noon. financial assistance. Diane Samuels' play recounts the story of a former Kind who repressed memories of her origins. Her experiences as a child are re-enacted on stage in a retrospective Members who might not recreation resulting in a moving drama. The play has been performed and broadcast otherwise be able to afford in many parts of the world earning a place as a defining classic telling the story of the homecare please contact: Kinder, though some have questioned aspects of its authenticity. Estelle Brookner, Secretary Our first get-together proved a great success with the centre full to capacity with AJR, Social Services Kinder. After a warm welcome from the centre's manager, Sylvia Matus, members Department enjoyed an excellent luncheon amongst good company. KT-AJR host David Jedwab Phone No: 020 7431 6161 invited everyone to feel 'at home' and make full use of the day centre in the months ahead, both in specially arranged events as well as the centre's regular daily programme. Please note that the usual charge of £4.50 will now be made for the excellent three-course lunch. Confirm your booking for the Diane Samuels event on 19* Companions June on 020 7328 0208. D RDC of London Here he discovered the citric acid cycle Incorporating Science Notebook Hampstead Hotne Care (later called the Krebs cycle) whereby Vi: il carbohydrates (sugars, starches) and A long established company Refugee scientists other food constituents are oxidised in providing care in your home nce Hitler became German respiring animal tissues to produce en­ * Assistance with personal care Chancellor in 1933, German ergy. Krebs subsequently held the Chair •k General household duties OJewish scientists began to lose of Biochemistry at Oxford, was knighted * Respite care their jobs and looked for alternative posts in 1958 and died in 1981. * Medical appointment service abroad. They were greatly helped by the Lipmann, who had gone on to do re­ fact that scientific research is a very search at the Carlsberg foundation in OUR CARE IS YOUR CARE' international activity. In any given field of Copenhagen, wisely decided to leave Eu­ 020 7483 0212/0213 research there has always been an rope in 1939 and accepted an offer from "invisible college" of scientists with the Cornell Medical School in New York. similar interests who meet at scientific Then he moved to the prestigious Massa­ conferences in different countries, visit chusetts General Hospital in Boston and SPRING each other's laboratories, correspond and later to the Rockefeller Institute in New GROVE avidly read each other's publications in York; he died in 1986. While in Boston 214 Finchley Road scientific journals. As a result, many he identified a crucial component of the London NW3 German (and later Austrian) scientists Krebs cycle which he called coenzyme A, London's Most Luxurious received offers of help from universities an important factor in body metabolism. RETIREMENT HOME and research institutes in other countries These discoveries by Lipmann and Krebs which were eager to recruit people with clearly complemented each other and * Entertainment-Activities * Stress Free Living established reputations. Many went to the together explained the complex bio­ * 24 Hour Staffing * Excellent Cuisine United States while others came to chemical pathways by which food is * Full En-Suite Facilities Britain, France (!), Sweden and Russia. broken down to give us energy. In 1953 Call for more information This considerably enriched the science the two men fittingly shared the Nobel or a personal tour base in those countries (and impov­ Prize for Physiology. erished that in Nazi-controlled lands) as Hitler's hatred of Jews extended to all 020 8446 2117 shown by the many Nobel Prizes and their work, past or present. A case in or 020 7794 4455 other honours subsequently won by point is the Wassermann test for detect­ these refugee scientists. ing syphilis, developed in Berlin in 1906 Two good examples are Hans Adolf by the Jewish immunologist August von Simon P. Rhodes M.Ch.S. Krebs (born in Hildesheim in 1900) and Wassermann (1866-1925). Syphilis at the STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST Fritz Albert Lipmann (born 1899 in time could be fatal. Hitler refused to let Surgeries at: Konigsberg). Both obtained doctorates in the German army use this test by a Jew­ 67 Kilburn High Road, NW6 (opp M&S) medicine from German universities in the ish scientist and demanded an Aryan test. Telephone 020 7624 1576 1920s. In 1932 Krebs discovered the urea But none could be found, so the Fuhrer 3 Queens Close (off Green Lane) cycle in mammals and so, when he was had to choose between permitting the Edgware, Middx HAS 7PU forced to leave Germany in 1933, he was test or forbidding his soldiers to have sex Telephone 020 8905 3264 readily accepted at Cambridge University - the Wassermann test won! Visiting chiropody service available and later moved to Sheffield University. D Prof Michael Spiro

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tial occupations or that their stay was Prof Saskia Sassen of the University of The refugees' story temporary. Chicago has concluded that "most people s the nineteenth century gave way are quite reluctant to leave their home to the twentieth, Yiddish-speaking Xenophobia villages or towns... the vast mass of Amen and women and their As the twentieth now makes way for people in a poor country are not likely to extended families fled the pogroms and the twenty-first century, the current con­ consider emigration". Exceptionally, while poverty of the Pale of Settlement. The troversy on asylum seekers, again economic migrants are prepared to at­ assassination of a benevolent Czar in fomented by the right-wing press and tempt new lives in new societies, history 1881 and the brutal Kishinev pogrom of evoking political opportunism, the old supports the view that they bring 1903 demarcated a period in which cliches of xenophobia have been re­ innovatory skills and invigorate their 200,000 penniless Jewish immigrants awakened. Under the terms of the 1951 adopted communities. In today's techno­ came to take their chances on the mean Geneva Convention refugees must be re­ logically based world, economies are streets of London's pcxarest quarter close spected and offered shelter. However, in competing internationally for those with by the docks - the East End. They the last six years three immigration Acts the best brains and the highest qualifica­ practised an alien Jewish orthodoxy and have reduced applicants' chances of ac­ tions. Their relative youth reinforces the few had a word of English to offer. ceptance: 1993 tightened the appeal numbers on whom the older and retired At that time Britain maintained an process, 1996 restricted benefits, and the are reliant for maintaining communal open-door policy, but the lack of immi­ Act of 1999, which has just come into wealth and pension payments gration controls came under attack from force, contains new powers to disperse the right wing press and wider agitation asylum-seekers around the country, fine Falling acceptance rate against aliens'. Jewish immigrants found carriers bringing in people without valid This March saw a significant increase themselves despised for their poverty, travel documents, and end entitlement to in the number of asylum cases being derided for "flooding the market with benefits while providing purchase vouch­ 'cleared' to 11,340; at the same time only cheap labour", at the same time being ers of limited value. Britain's immigration 19% had their applications to stay ap­ procedures are among Europe's most Condemned for their supposed concealed proved as refugees or were granted rigorous. health. 'exceptional leave' to remain temporarily, Paradoxically, in recent years immigra­ in contrast to the 56% of applicants being ^TnmigratJon control tion into the UK appears not to have permitted to stay last year. This opposition culminated in the 1905 • represented any significant problem; just Britain clearly cannot accept all-comers ^iens Act aimed specifically at arresting 58,350 applicants were permitted to settle as new residents, but could well benefit the settlement of Russian Jews. Would-be in the UK in the ten years up to 1998. It from a coherent and consistent immigra­ •nimigrants thereafter required a permit is hardly surprising that the plight of peo­ tion policy. While all arrivals should issued by an immigration officer who ple fleeing the recent conflicts and receive humane and sympathetic treat­ •deeded to be convinced that the applicant persecution in Kosovo, Montenegro, Ser­ ment as fellow human beings, those who ^ould not prove to be a burden on the bia, Sri Lanka, China, Afghanistan and abuse the privilege of entry or 'disappear' ^tate. (Criminality and poverty provided Somalia, has since led to a significant rise to be exploited within a black economy, Sfounds for deportation.) It was fortunate in the number of applications for asylum. cannot balk at deportation. Asylum seek­ that the Jewish refugees were expected to The Home Office's tardy response and ers and their families, being motivated to ^ork to support themselves and allowed under-resourcing built up an inexcusable seek refuge from tyrannical regimes, at 'o settle among existing communities of backlog of cases of 100,000 applicants the very least should expect to be treated their fellow countrymen. For many of their waiting for adjudication, each for an with respect and consideration, and their children it was the first and only opportu- average period of 13 months and many applications dealt with fairly, speedily "^'ty to gain even an elementary education, for very much longer. and sympathetically. ^s well as to learn and adopt English as n Ronald Channing 'heir native tongue, prior to going out to Enforced idleness The autiior participated in a debate on asylum ^ork at the age of fourteen. The terminology chosen by tabloid and the treatment of refugees broadcast in the In her recent work on the attempts by newspapers - phrases like 'scroungers', BBCWorld Service. Jewish victims of Nazi persecution to 'bogus refugees' and 'economic migrants' ^^ek asylum in Britain, Whitehall and the as a condemnatory term - succeeds in J^u>s 1933-1948, Dr Louise London went confusing asylum with immigration. Even ^^ far as to suggest that "'of the estimated if asylum applicants fail to meet the strict JACKMAN • ^^0,000 family and individual cases dealt criteria, that does not make them bogus' ^ith by the main Jewish organisations in or explain their having uprooted them­ i;.SILVERMA N Britain during this time only about 80,000 selves from home and culture. COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS ^^re admitted." She concluded that "es- Debarment from remunerative employ­ I^^Pe to Britain was an exception for a ment prevents potentially productive and f cky few; exclusion was the fate of the often highly qualified workers from con­ "Majority." Readers of AJR Information tributing to the economy. It keeps them ^^ed no reminding that prior to World idle, impoverished and reliant on meagre ^r II refugees were admitted to this support from vouchers and grants, no 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA ountry on the understanding that they doubt under the questionable belief that Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 8017 ^d private means or entered into essen­ this acts as a deterrent to others.

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Chief Rabbi Drjonathan Sacks remembers the victims of the Shoah here is a phenomenon, we could what happened once must never happen before you not in bitterness but in simple almost call it a law of history, that again." And it can happen again unless grief, not for the sake of the past only Tas the years pass and time moves we teach our children in every genera­ but for the still unwritten future of on, so events in the past slowly lose their tion the road we must avoid, the road mankind, and not for our sake only but impact upon us. Wounds heal, memory that has small beginnings but which ends for the sake of humanity, so that no peo­ fades and each passing year puts a dis­ in Auschwitz and Maidanek and Bergen- ple should suffer what your people tance between then and now. Not so Belsen and Treblinka - the black hole at suffered. with the Shoah. Though it happened 55 the heart of human history. And so we will never forget the three to 60 years ago, its impact grows with And so we remember, we ask you Al­ commands: thou shalt not be a perpetra­ each passing year. This year alone we mighty G-d to remember the one third of tor, thou shalt not be a victim and thoU have seen the David Irving trial, efforts to our people, the two thirds of the Jews of shalt not be a bystander. Father of Mercy achieve the return of looted works of art Europe - including one and a half million give us the strength to live for what our and compensation for slave labour. We innocent children - murdered, shot, ancestors died for as Jews, sanctify your saw the Stockholm Conference in which gassed and burned for no other reason name and prepare to fight for a world or heads of state from all across Europe than that they were Jews. We remember justice and compassion and peace, and committed themselves to an ongoing all of them. We remember the Jews from may those who died live on in us and programme of Holocaust education, the as far north as Norway, from as far south our children as they live on with Al­ announcement by our Prime Minister of a as Greece, from France in the west to mighty G-d in heaven and may their National Holocaust Remembrance Day Russia in the east. People who were no memories be a blessing D and the opening shortly in London of the threat to anyone. Communities that in Chief Rabbi Sacks delivered Ms address at the National Holocaust Museum. It is as if some cases had lived peacefully with Yom Hashoah and Warsaw Ghetto Upris'mi when we come to the Shoah the normal their neighbours for close to a thousand Commemoration in London organised by the laws of perspective have been reversed; years and yet who found they were still Board of Deputies of British jews. the further away we stand from it, the regarded as strangers, outcasts deprived bigger it seems until it has become, quite of human rights including the right to rightly, not only for us but for others as life. well, one of the defining moments of Today we remember the ordinary Jew­ Slave labour claims human history. The moment when hatred ish men and women who went to their With the conclusion of slave labour turned to murder; when murder turned deaths with "I believe" on their lips. We claims negotiations, proof of eligibility to genocide and when all the great gifts remember individuals, impossible to arises. The archive at the Memorial Con­ that G-d has given mankind - of science, name them, but I remember Janusz centration Camp at Flossenburg has a list technology, organisation - were turned Korczak who because he was a Jew cre­ of names of approximately 80% of priS' to evil and humanity reached its lowest ated an orphanage for Jewish children oners who were held in the camp or ir" point, the point it must never approach and again, because he was a Jew, created any of its 100 sub camps. To obtain 3 again. an orphanage for non-Jewish children certificate confirming this, compensation Now we know how right we were to and who when he was offered the claimants who were held there are i^' remember, against all the siren voices chance to escape refused to be parted vited to apply to: Memorial Concentration that said forget, because hatred does not from those children and walked with Camp Flossenburg, Gedachtnisallee 5-'' die. Religious conflict, ethnic rivalry, rac­ them hand in hand into the fires of 92696 Flossenburg, Germany. Tel: 0049 ism, xenophobia, never disappear - we Treblinka. We remember them all, every 9603/921980; Fax 0049 9603/92199^; still today see their traces across the one of them - religious, not religious, E-mail: [email protected] D world: in Austria, in the Balkans, in righteous, not yet righteous, because if Chechnya. In many different ways, in death did not divide them nor will we. many different countries and even here Lord of the Universe this was your peo­ 50 YEARS AGO in this, one of the world's most tolerant ple and every one of them died because ADMISSION OF REFUGEES nations, we have recently heard a level they were children of your Covenant and "The United Kingdom has already made a very larg^ of rhetoric against asylum seekers which so we say to you Almighty G-d hold contribution to the solution of the refugee probler"' we, as Jews, may not endorse knowing them close in the embrace of eternal life In addition to refugees from Germany and Austn* how asylum so often meant the differ­ because they died because they carried admitted during the late thirties, to the number o 80,000, over 200,000 aliens have during and since ence between life and death and your name. the war been admitted, and we are bound to hav knowing how much those who came We remember the fighters of the Warsaw regard to this in judging what further contributio here gave back in return for the freedom Ghetto who, although surrounded and we can make." and refuge that was given them. weakened by starvation and disease, held It had been decided, the Home Secretary went on. Memory is our strongest defence of hu­ out for longer than the entire nation of to admit up to 2,000 D.Rs and refugees, now in tf'^ care of the IRO in Germany and Austria, for whortj manity and let us therefore pay tribute to France, a people of courage beyond accommodation and maintenance can be provide the survivors. Those who more than any words, and we remember also those by relatives, friends, private persons or voluntary other had every reason to want to forget righteous non-Jews who sheltered and organisations who are prepared to take continui"* responsibility for them. had courage and foresight almost beyond saved Jewish lives showing that even at D [From a Parliamentarf repW belief to say, "No, we must remember times of madness it is possible to stay AJR Information June 1950 and the world must remember because sane and human and humane. We come

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than a place of intellectual growth. Barry Obituary was a private person more concerned with enquiring after your health than with personal grandiosity. Barry Fealdman Yet he was a familiar figure on the art In aid of the Amenities Funds of arry Fealdman, who has died aged circuit with his astute yet slightly bashful BALINT HOUSE, LEO BAECK 86, dedicated his life to the air and quiet, self-deprecating manner. A HOUSE AND OSMOND HOUSE Bdevelopment of Jewish art and keen Zionist fr6m youth, Barry studied at artists. As curator of the Ben Uri Art Liverpool's Hebrew Institute and became on Sunday 23 July 2000 Society for 26 years, he forged a strong a youth leader with the Federation of 3pm-5pm link in the chain between Israeli and Zionist Youth. In common with his con­ at 63-67 The Bishop's Avenue, N2 German Jewish refugee artists at a very temporaries at the time he prepared for Raffle, Stalls and Tea influential moment in Jewish cultural kibbutz life at Habonim's David Eder Entrance £5 (Children free) including tea history. Fealdman was this journal's art farm in Sussex where he met Anne Please join us for this special afternoon. critic until his retirement last year due to Roytman, who was to become his wife. ill health. Although they planned to settle in then It was as the Ben Uri's curator, initially Palestine, tragedy struck with the deaths in its first home in Portman Street, where of both his brother and sister and they he lived literally above the shop, and returned to look after his father. ANNUAL AJR VISIT TO later at its top floor gallery in London's Fealdman's Zionist interests however, BETH SHALOM Dean Street, that he made his mark. Per­ were sustained by his contributions to haps encouraged by his own gift for the Zionist Revieiv. HOLOCAUST caricature, which emerged during his When, in the early 1960's, he super­ MEMORIAL CENTRE time as a Desert Rat' with the Royal Sig­ vised the gallery's move to Dean Street nals, Barry Fealdman was a driving force where it remained until 1977, Fealdman Laxton, Nottinghamshire for the encouragement of Jewish artists. broadened its artistic remit to include cul­ Sunday 18 June 2000 He enhanced the Ben Uri's singular repu­ tural programmes often in conjunction £ 18 per person Including coach fare & tation with works by Jewish artists, with the Israel Embassy. Its successive vegetarian buffet lunch i^ourishing their gifts and consolidating, cultural attaches at the time were the (£8 for those using own transport) 'he gallery's permanent collection with noted Israeli writers, Moshe Shamir and ^orks by Jacob Pins, Abraham Ofek and Aharon Megged, with whom the Ben Uri Coach leaves Finchley Road Underground Station, behind Waitrose, 8.30am prompt Romberg, of whom he became a per­ launched a dynamic series of lectures, lit­ and Stanmore Station, 8.45am prompt gonal friend. Other artists he brought to erary and musical events, often hosted by 'he Anglo Jewish cognoscenti were the actor-director, Robert Rietti. In 1976, Booking essential. Telephone 020 7431 6161 Gertler, Kossoff and the young Frank he succeeded Peter Stone as Jetuish ^uerbach, who is currently exhibited at Chronicle art critic. l^ate Modern. He also initiated the gal­ His friend and colleague, Alice Schwab, lery's annual picture fair. As a cartoonist describes him as a man with an eye for himself, Fealdman established a life-long art and an ability to cultivate artists. He GERMAN and friendship with the late Harry Blacker. particularly encouraged Jewish artists. Apart from his searching eye for art and "He had a personal touch," she says. E]\GL1SH BOOKS ^ Warm heart for its creators, Barry "The artists always knew they had a BOUGHT *"ealdman was hardly a robust or eccen- friend in him. He was a very humane, tric figure in a world which often seems understanding person and a great asset to Antiquarian, secondhand and '^ore a chimera of the cocktail party set the Ben Uri." D GloriaTessler modern books of quality always wanted.

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NEWSROUND COMMEMORATING THE SHOAH Yom Hashoah commemorations were organised by Jewish communities throughout Genocide anniversary Britain, including the Board of Deputies in London, Beth Shalom Holocaust On the SS'*" anniversary of the 1915 Memorial Centre in Nottinghamshire and Pinner Synagogue in Middlesex. massacre of more than a million Ana­ urvivors of the Shoah and refugees the postwar silence which fell on any dis­ tolian Armenians by Ottoman Turkey, it from Nazi persecution, together with cussion of the Holocaust for well nigh was announced that the subjea is to be their children and grandchildren, half a century, Dr Carol Rittner spoke on included in a new curriculum in Israeli S joined other members of Anglo-Jewry the subject of a book she has co-edited schools teaching students about 'national and religious, communal and diplomatic with Stephen, The Holocaust and the genocide'. The anniversary went un­ leaders in the annual commemoration Christian "World. Founding Director of marked in Turkey which denies that the ceremony, held in central London, org­ the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity massacre occurred. anised by the Yad Vashem Committee of and a member of a Catholic order, Dr Second best? the Board of Deputies, the Polish-Jewish Rittner recalled that the perpetrators of The Bishop of Oxford would prefer to Ex-Servicemen's Association and AJEX. the Holocaust were in the main baptised lose Christians to Judaism if the alter­ The tone of the gathering was set by Christians. She sought answers to the native is membership of a New Age Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks who per­ questions, "how could ordinary human religion. While the Chief Rabbi declined ceived that, rather than diminishing with beings participate in a vicious slaughter, to comment. Reform Rabbi Bayfield the passage of time, in recent years inter­ if only indirectly, and why did moral and praised the Bishop's remarks. est in the Shoah and concern for its religious education fail to prevent evil?" victims had increased. With racism and At Pinner Synagogue's annual com­ Art exchange xenophobia still in evidence, memory of memoration, memorial candles were lit Another chapter in the aftermath of war­ the Holocaust provided a strong defence by grandchildren of Holocaust victims, time looting of art opened with the against any recurrence of extremist be­ teenagers gave readings, poems were re­ return to Russia of artefacts plundered haviour to the detriment of a minority. cited by Lotte Kramer and Jacky Dror, from the Tsars' Summer Palace in ex­ Six Holocaust survivors each lit a can­ and partisan and Hebrew songs sung by change for a hundred priceless paintings dle in memory of the victims, and Cantor a choir. stolen from Germany in 1945. In Russia Stephen Robins with the Shabbaton Choir The congregation divided to hear survi­ the return of any art to Germany is intoned memorial prayers which evoked vor testimonies, Bernard Verstandig extremely controversial as many regard it memories of European Jewish synagogue recounting his boyhood struggles in pre­ as a measure of compensation for the communities lost for all time. Others who war Berlin to one of the groups. The human and material losses suffered at the addressed the gathering were Rabbi event's organising committee was chaired hands of Nazism. Stephen Katz of Hendon Reform Syna­ by AJR Management Committee member Roll call gogue, Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy of the Gaby Glassman. It took 30 hours to read out the names of Spanish and Portuguese community, Israel D Ronald Channing Berlin's 55,696 Jewish Holocaust victims Ambassador Dror Zeigermann, Dr Leonard during Holocaust Remembrance Day Kurzer of the Polish-Jewish Ex-Service­ ceremonies, reports the Jetvisb Chronicle. men's Association and Ben Helfgott, On the same day, Israel's President Weiz­ Chairman of the Yad Vashem Committee. man led the 'March of the Living' Actress Ruth Rosen movingly recited between Auschwitz and Birkenau. poems by Holocaust survivor Michael Poland's President Kwasniewski was Etkind, the children of the Jewish Lads amongst the 6,000 marchers. and Girls Brigade and the North-West London Jewish Day School choirs sang in Musical tribute Hebrew and Yiddish, and Eldred Tabach­ Marking the anniversary of the liberation nik QC, President of the Board of of Mauthausen labour camp in Austria, Deputies, thanked the participants. The the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and dignified exit of the standard bearers of Vienna Singverein, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, performed Beethoven's the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen Ninth Symphony on the site of the and Women made a fitting conclusion to former concentration camp. Rattle's a solemn assembly. endorsement of the act as a tribute to The annual Yom Hashoah gathering at those who perished there was not shared the Beth Shalom Holocaust Memorial by all. Centre in Nottinghamshire also featured the lighting of six memorial candles by Looted art panel starts work survivors and refugees and the inaugura­ The Spoliation Advisory Panel's only tion of Naomi Blake's sculptured A sculptured bust of Anne Frank, th^ claim to date relates to a painting in the Menorah which will be lit at the Centre posthumous publication of whose di(^^, Tate Britain. The panel will meet for the during the weeks of Yom Hashoah and captured the imagination of generations oJ first time on June 8 when it will set out National Remembrance Day. young people all over the world, has be^" its timetable for dealing with claims. Following an address by Beth Shalom's unveiled at the Beth Shalom Holocaus' Memorial Centre. ^ UMK Director, Stephen Smith, who alluded to

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