Volume XXXIV No. 7 Jul/ 1979 INFORMATION ISSUFO BY THE ASSOaAJION OF JEMSH REFIKEES U OlEAT BRITJUK

Eva G. Reichmann

their foreseeable decisions their contributions make especially meaningful reading, giving experienced THE SUBLIME MYSTERY accounts of both the ways that led them to Zionism and to those further designs that resulted from it. It is probably no mere coincidence that Twenty-one Contemporaries in Search of their "Judaism" they both see one of their most urgent tasks in This is an eminently Impressionist book. Should share a struggle for survival, to belong to a Jewish working for reconciliation and a new dialogue "^yone expect to find in it anything resembling destiny from which—with the help of God or with Germans and Christians. Their new-won "*e "Essence of Judaism"—a topic masterly ex­ without it—there is no escape" is the hardly more Jewish security as Israeli citizetis gave them the pounded by one of the sages of our age. Rabbi explicit statement of Samuel Bak, a painter. Al­ ability and also the desire to stretch out into ^ Baeck—he would be sadly disappointed. The fons Rosenberg (Zurich), a writer who, while spheres of fonner antagonism. Coincidences, by ^tributors to this anthology (Mein Judentum, having found a new spiritual home in Christianity, the way, are according to a saying of Franz ^erausgegeben von Hans Jurgen Schultz. Kreuz continues to feel Judaism as the unalterable Rosenzweig, quoted by Emst Simon, what "the ^W'lag Stuttgart—Berlin 1978. DM 24.-)—writers, foundation of his existence which cannot be cast ancients called Angels". ^ft'sts, scholars, poets, musicians—do not seek to away. He calls it "an uncanny power with its Approach Judaism in its grandiose totality; they root both in the spirit and in the blood". Even the Significance of Israel ''Jerely deal with what this totality has meant to recent recipient of the Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal, Even more important than with actual Israeli 'hem personally: how they met it on the very Man^s Sperber, is unable to be more articulate. residents is the significance of Israel in those cases ^iSerent ways of their lives, the impacts they felt He speaks of the Jewish existence as a "problem where a personal settlement there is decidedly "•Uring these encounters, the values they attached equally inscrutable in its historical as in its rejected, but Israel's existence is considered of '° them, the effects they had on their future. No philosophical aspect". paramount relevance. For Guenther Anders, e.g., ^J^herent picture emerges from their expositions. a publicist more deeply rooted than most in *«ther are we presented with strokes and dots of Elusive feelings Germany, her language, her literature, her music, ? multitude of observations—just as Impression- These are only a few examples for the strenuous everything representing the lost "Heimat", Israel "^ painters combined strokes and dots to what efforts to find a suitable terminology for the is the great divide. He visited the country. He felt ^^enttially resulted in paintings of a higher artistic elusive feeling of Jewish belonging, whether still deeply affected. He felt happy that there was a Veracity than those which contented themselves alive and strong, or freshly unearthed under spot in this world where the hunted could feel at ^tn merely copying reality. difficulties. And yet, from all the vagueness, the home. "I say *Yes' to Israel" is his reaction. But a The majority of the authors are persons of uncertainties and inconsistencies some analogies second answer is to follow: "I could not live ^wish descent for whom Judaism is conspicuously come to light. A remarkable number of the there". Among the reasons for his negative de­ J'etnote from the centres of their lives. Many of authors emphasize the fact that Jews are simply cision is one of crucial gravity. He senses the oem were actually motivated to think about it "different" from the Gentile mankind among danger that those eternally suppressed might, ^'y when the South German Broadcasting Com­ which they live. "We Jews are different" sum­ within the whirlwind of political dilemmas, grow ply, whose initiative we have to thank for the marises the author Wolfgang Hildesheimer in his suppressors themselves. This, he feels, would in­ ^'lection, invited them to take part in a trans- ingenious deliberations. "We are more sensitive, deed be more appalling than every pogrom they jjjis&iojj on the subject. Over and over again these in our self-examination, we react more impressibly had to suffer. Even more moving is the avowal of Virginal Jews emphasize how little they know of to the sensations of our souls. We have to feel as the unfortunate Jean Amery who, from his ."•^ism, how distant they feel from it, how hope- outsiders". The same motif, Jews as the etemal physical and mental sufferings in concentration .^sly unimportant they regard it as an influence "outsiders", recurs in the essay of Professor Hans camps and their aftermath, has since drawn the iJ 'heir lives. Not a few remember the Christmas Mayer who has enlarged on it in a separate book dire consequence to take his own life. He denies J 'ebrations of their youth, but there are pretty of his. His article is probably the most contro­ that Judaism has ever become anything like an ^}^ who recall having observed Jewish holidays, versial. It shows distinct traces of self-hatred, e.g. existential basis of his life. "The only matter yJ:" the endearing exception of Isca Salzberger- when he distinguishes between those who "were which unites me with the majority of the Jews", , j'tenberg who, after all, is the daughter of our allowed" (sic) to "espouse the cause of the Swas­ he says, "is a solidarity, particularly a solidarity tika" and those for whom it was "expressly with the state of Israel". But he, too, continues: eioved Rabbi Salzberger, But then, after the forbidden for reasons of unclean origin". "Dis­ "Not that I would ever wish to live there. To feel inrf-*^' majority has enlarged on their initial turbed disturbers" Professor Robert Jungk calls solidarity with Israel means to me to remain loyal difference, they feel incited to confess to some the Jews. He attaches high value to the disturbance to my dead comrades." range discover\. Even if previously ignored, they are apt to create, to their vigilant non- Israel then—yes and no. Over and over again ^ fgouen, repressed—the question with which they conformism. In it he sees the fruit bome from does it show up as the common denominator in u,^ suddenly confronted makes them remember, their sufferings. Through their sufferings they have the wild variety of confessions. And yet, not as a ^/•ether there have been childhood memories, become more awake to the sufferings of others, contradiction but as some kind of indispensable ^^,, ^'her the ever-present si>ectre of antisemitism, for ever condemned to anticipate and to wam complement, there is just as much—if not even th ^^ ^^^ emergence of the State of Israel— against impending dangers. One of those who had more—ranphasis on the Diaspora as a Jewish way kinH ^^^ without a single exception regain some to depart from the farthest boundaries in order to of life, precarious perhaps, but equally legitimate sci "^ Jewish consciousness. At first dim, ob- find in herself any traces of Judaism is Lily Pincus, and rewarding. "It is the Diaspora to which co/*^' ^^'"'^'y noticeable, then clearer and more a social therapist. Eventually, she professes very Judaism owes its survival until today," suggests ()j|,°"rful—^ great variety of Jewish emotions gets pertinently: "Perhaps, to be a Jew means never to Professor Michael Landmaim; "Greeks and .^of them, demanding recognition. belong anywhere entirely", "except" she continues, Romans, the established settlers, they are extinct <)iffi however, is only the start. The actual "if one is able to be an Israeli". ^a H^''^ arising under the challenge of the awk- The people of the Diaspora, the Jews, kept their *ris l^^tion is that more often than not the "To be an Israeli"! For a great number of those identity." But "yes and no" also regarding the Wif^^"" defies rational definition. "The secret questioned Israel emerges as the haven into which Diaspora. In spite of his praise of its historical (jg^"*.*^' which my life would be poorer" is the their doubts and reasonings finally converge. This role he considers its present function exhausted. auth"*"'"" °^ Judaism by Jurek Becker, the needs no special emphasis where, as with Professor Zionism, he feels, arrived at the crucial time: K ""^ of the deeply moving novel "Jacob the Emst Simon and Schalom Ben-Chorin, their "There will be Israel or there will no longer be a hi^ 1 ^^ ''^ ^^ extermination camp which he Zionist convictions led logically to their settlement Jewish people". Max Fuerst, a returnee from Israel ^If survived. "To be a Jew means to-day to in Palestine/Israel. In spite or rather because of continued on page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION July 1979 The Sublime Mystery NEWS FROM GERMANY continued from page 1 who died in Stuttgart some time ago, is equally GERMAN TV FILMS ON THE NAZI PAST sure that it was the Diaspora that saved the Jews NAZIS IN COURT from extinction. As early as during the period of The Federal Ministry of Justice has published a Two TV fihns, started before the impact of the the Temple in Jerusalem the Jewish settlements survey of 20 senteiKes recently pass^ on neo- American "Holocaust" transmission, by producei^ Nazis. They varied between small fines and two shocked at the ignorance of young GerrM^ outside Palestine were the guarantors of Jewish years' imprisonment for spreading Nazi propa­ students, have recently been shown on German i v survival. "Not the heroism of the defenders of ganda, for incitement to violence and race hatred, screens. "Lagerstrasse Auschwitz" culminated in Jenisalem and Massada delivered the Jews from for wearing swastika badges, selling SS daggers interviews with three camp officials, who ar annihilation; it was the colonies outside Palestine etc. The Public Prosecutor is at present investi­ serving long prison sentences for murder, an that did it." Man6s Sperber, mentioned above, is gating 215 cases. Twenty four out of 87 men and whose lack of emotion in recounting their ^^I. ' even more expressive: "Judaism was saved be­ women accused of right-wing activities, are in "obeying orders", shocked many viewers. T* cause it was (after the destruction of the Temple) prison, awaiting trial. fonner inmates, both Poles, told their experiences, no longer bound to any space, to any institution, An important trial, expected to last well into one had been a medical orderly and tried to sav to anything liable to go astray. Only when God 1980, has just opened at Bochum. Sixty-three-year- as many p)eople as possible in the infirmary, JB other had witnessed the selection of his own fatnfj lost His Temple and became homeless like His old Helmut Krizon is accused of having murdered 24 Jews and been an accessory to another 15,000 for the gas chambers. The film also showed the /• people, He triumphed over the pagan gods, over murders. He is said to have shot Jewish cripples red brick buildings on both sides of the catnp the lure of idolatry to which Jacob's descendants and children during a so-called clearing-up oper­ street, and the pitiful remnants of the victuns had all too often succumbed in Canaan. Only in ation in the Lodz Ghetto. Later on, he is alleged possessions: suitcases from Berlin, Paris, Breslau, the Diaspora the temptation diminished and to have rounded up and gassed some 15,000 Jews pencil sketches, portraits of inmates by artists i" eventually totally disappeared '* in Kulmhof concentration camp. One hundred and the camp, and many others. A film in tbe edu­ cational programme of Berlin RIAS TV gave a Idolatry conquered, the Jewish state reborn, the twenty two witnesses, including 67 from abroad, will testify to these happenings, and the Court will detailed history of Buchenwald concentration Diaspora persistently creative, the never-ceasing probably fly to Israel and the US to meet those camp. It showed the various categories of tn and vitaUy needed Jewish non-conformism, this unable to travel. At the opening of the trial, camp's prisoners, their treatment, and the ^"P'.*]:' ominous benefaction born of centuries of per­ Krizons, a chemistry technician, said that since he tation of forced labour by renowned firms }vt secution,—is then the message of the book one of had been beaten up by Russians in Czechoslovakia BMW, Siemens, Krupp, IG Farben in the vanous confidence and hope? Hopeful may be the truth at the end of the war, he had lost his memory. outstations, as well as the resistance and sabotag pervading all its parts that some Jewish renmant, In Dusseldorf, Erwin Schonborn, 64, faces trial actions by groups of courageous men. It als however shadowy and overclouded, is still alive in mentions that the camp site was originally Goethe for circulating leaflets saying that anyone who Ettersberg with an oak dedicated to the poet, "n everyone of its contributors. That it is still capable believed that Jews had been murdered in Nazi Himmler had insisted on renaming it "Buchen­ of being reawakened either by the threat of anti­ camps, was either a criminal or an idiot and for wald." semitism, by a pertinent question of conscience or offering a reward of £2,500 to anyone able to prove that a single Jew had been gassed. by the prodigious recreation of Israel. Hopeful DACHAU REMEMBERED and creditable is also the total absence of feelings In Stuttgart, Richard Pal, a former SS man, was acquitted of murdering two Jews in Poland in During the Dachau memorial meeting, annually of hatred and revenge. Very appropriately the 1943. In 1974, he had been sentenced to eight held by the Association of former imnates and tn poetess Hilde Domin, a re-emigrant to Germany, years' imprisonment for the attempted murder of a Intemational Dachau Committee, Jewish, "r."' expected that this collection would consist of Jewish boy and a Jewish woman, but the jury had estant, and Catholic services were held, and durins documents of "suffering and love for the fellow- said there was no proof that the two had died of a silent march-past at the crematorium P"'*®^ humans", never of vengeance and retaliation. their wounds. When Pal appealed against his con­ pirotesting against neo-Nazism and the statute o Less hopeful is, on the other hand, the dis­ viction, the West German Supreme Court ordered limitation for Nazi crimes were carried. Outsin a retrial in Stuttgart. The presiding judge said that the camp, unknown hooligans daubed the g'^'"J?g closure of the manifold and often perilously thick since the Mannheim trial, important new material with white swastikas. The same happened at tn layers of indifference, ignorance, unwillingness and had come to light which diminished the credibility Mauthausen camp, where the walls were a'' human failure which the challenge had to pene­ of the main witness for the prosecution who was painted with inscriptions: "Juden raus". trate before a new Jewish self-understanding be­ no longer fit to testify. came articulate. "My Judaism is a loud cry for The Federal Appeal Court in Karlsmhe has SUSPECT QUALIFICATIONS help, but also a call of hope" is the conclusion of decided that it is illegal to sell toy models of Nazi Heinz Galinski, chairman of the Berlin Jewis" the last chapter written by Robert Jungk. "But war-planes with Nazi insignia, even if this is done community, said in a letter to the Standing Con­ who will hear me?" for the sake of historic accuracy. In its judgment, ference of the Ministries of Education of '" the Court said that if toys of this kind were to be various Laender, it was a disgrace that gradual^ Nobody looking around in the contemporary allowed to be sold, it would be impossible to draw Jewish world could have expected a valid elu­ of SS technical schools were entitled to call ^^^ a borderline beyond which such insignia would selves "Ingenieur (grad)," It was impossible t cidation of the sublime mystery of Judaism, not be permissible. Children and youths who understand why the SS schools were regarded^ Thanks be to the editor, Hans Juergen Schultz, collected such models were in danger of growing ordinary army schools. The Nazis themselves na that he has joined the patchy strokes and dots of up with an acceptance of the swastika which might never claimed that the SS was part of the German the variegated answers to form at least an im­ make them vulnerable to later political propa­ Armed Forces. pressive composition, however ambiguous. ganda using the swastika as a symbol. EAST GERMANY DIGGING INTO HITLER'S PAST Prosecution of War Criminals Minutiae of Adolf Hitler's life are of compul­ PROTESTS AGAINST SS RALLIES The East Berlin Public Prosecutor annouiii sive interest to a world which only knows him as About 1,200 people participated in a silent that since the end of the war, 12,861 war criniin'al s a figure in history. James and Suzanne Pool have march to protest against the rally of members of had been sentenced for crimes against humanur just published a book "Who financed Hitler?" the former SS Division "Totenkopf" in Arolsen. The President of East German Lawyers, Heinricn from which it appears that in the early 'twenties. At a subsequent protest meeting, Gerhard Toplitz, said the German Democratic Repub" Hitler received financial support from various Schroeder, national chainnan of the Young had fulfilled its task to continue in the prosecutio quarters, including Russian emigres and the Socialists demanded the ban of all organisations Germany Army, Henry Ford, and the owner of of crimes committed by the Nazis, until the la* of former SS men and stressed the historical share culprit had received his just reward. the Bechstein piano factory. The authors do not of its members, in the Nazi crimes. Four uni­ overlook the contributions made by German in­ formed members of the Federal army participated Buchenwald Memorial dustrialists, but they think, it was "the appeal his in the protest. They declared that in spite of their the movement made to small shopkeepers and busi­ criminal records some former SS men had been In Thuringia, near Gera, a memorial to nessmen which mattered most." accepted in the Army and other public institutions. 1,000 victims of the "Laura" outstation of tn Beryl Bainbridge has recently published a novel Buchenwald concentration camp, was solemn'^ "Young Adolf", revealing that a half-brother of inaugurated. A special exhibition contains doc Adolf Hitler's, Alois, was a waiter at the Adelphi ments, photographs and a model of the canjP' Hotel, Liverpool, before the first world war, and DOCTOR'S WIDOW ACCUSES SS DOCTOR which was an underground armaments factory' that Hitler visited him and his Irish-born wife The 85-year-old widow of Dr. Knipping from manned by slave workers. during 1912/13, the "lost year" of his life. The Morsbach, Westphalia, has started proceedings novel was partially based on a manuscript of against Dutch Dr. Jan Koldijk, 56, who as a mem­ Zwickau Cemetery Renovated memoirs supposed to have been written by that ber of the SS is alleged to have forced her hus­ During the last war, young Nazi boys were sen wife, Bridget, during her years in America. The band known to be anti-Nazi, to drink a bottle of to the Zwickau cemetery to remove all brass aij^ memoirs have now also been published, intro­ Vodka in which 30 tablets of opium had been bronze parts of Jewish graves for the "R?' ;» duced by the Liverpool journalist Michael Unger. dissolved. Dr. Knipping died several hours later. smetallspende". At the initiative of the Leipz>| Alois Hitler left his wife and young son William Under the influence of the showing of the "Holo­ community, all tombstones damaged at the tiin^ Patrick to go back and work in Germany before caust" film, a witness has come forward, saying he have now been replaced, and inscriptions wer the First World War. They lived in London until was ready to testify against Dr. Koldijk. Simon renewed in goldleaf. The city of Zwickau has pai^ 1939, when they emigrated to America. The son Wiesenthal has sent his files on the matter to the for the renovation and for planting new trees an enrolled in the US Navy in 1944. Dutch authorities. flowers. AJR INFORMATION Jul^ 1979 Pa^3 HOME NEWS ANGLOJVDAICA Memorial Prayer for Iranian Jew SYNAGOGUE CENTENARY TRADE WITH ISRAEL HEALTHY At the London Spanish and Portuguese Syna­ gogue, Rabbi Dr. Abraham Levy recited a The Duke of Gloucester, the Lord Mayor of West- At the annual general meeting of the Anglo- memorial prayer for Mr. Elghanian, the Iranian andT*"' ^^^ ^'^'^^ ^'''''' ^°^^ ^""^ L^'*y Fisher, Israel Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Sumray, its Jewish leader, killed recently. The prayer was thc na Lord and Lady Janner attended the centenary newly elected chairman, said it was hoped to one which had been composed for the victims of service of the New West End Synagogue, and a double the present Anglo-Israel trade to £2 the Spanish inquisition. Members of Mr. Elghan- ommemorative plaque was unveiled by the Duke. billion within the next three years. Sir Marcus ian's family attended the service, g^ ,an architect and patron of thc Victorian Sieff, managing director of Marks & Spencer, said ?ociety, the Duke was most impressed with the that after the signing of the peace treaty between Branksome Dene Sold to Freemasons th r>u^ of the beautiful synagogue, described by Israel and Egypt, there was a prospect of increased The Branksome Dene Convalescent Home in ne Chief Rabbi as a "tmly precious jewel". Mr. trade for British exporters with both countries. to tK*' P.''^''^^nt of the United Synagogue, referred During his recent visit to Israel, he had been Boumemouth which has served the Jewish com­ the links royalty had always had with Anglo- impressed by the outstanding performances of munity for nearly 30 years, has been purchased by ,,V^n' and mentioned that the first visit by royalty factories in the north of Israel. Mr. Fred Worms, the Freemasons as a home for the elderly. Brank­ '"!f then Duke of Gloucester,) to an Ashkenazi treasurer of the Chamber, said that its member­ some Dene was once the stately home of Sir ^gogue had been in 1801. In a telegram, the ship had risen to 497, The Israeli Ambassador, Emest Cassel and of his granci-daughter Lady vueen expressed her good wishes to the com­ Mr. Kidron, presented to 29 representatives of Edwina Mountbatten as well as the childhood munity. home of Sir Winston Churchill. The Bournemouth British firms Israeli Govenunent certificates for authorities refused many applications to demolish making a notable contribution to Anglo-Israel the property, listed as of historic and architectural YOUTH ALIYAH'S 45th ANNIVERSARY trade during the past year. interest, and to build luxury flats on the site. the 4Sth anniversary dinner of Children and ANNE FRANK'S SOth BIRTHDAY 'outh Aliyah was held at the Guildhall and at- REMEMBERED Non-Jew's Gift To Iwael \vh u ''y ^^^ '^"^^'t Ambassador, Mr. Kidron To commemorate Aime Frank's 50th birthday, Rabbi Dr. Cooper consecrated an ambulance the British Aime Frank Foundation will hold a for Israel, purchased with money raised by the vin himself lived for two years at a Y.A. gala concert at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. th f^*^' ^"^^t^ pjresent were Mrs. Recha Freier, Hull branch of Magen David Adom, in memory The money will go towards combating racialism of Mr. John Barmby, a practising Christian and Dr p""''^'^ °^ Youth Aliyah, now a nonagenarian, and discrimination, particularly among the young. frr. l?°tt, leader of the first group of children lecturer of economics at Hull University who had The Foundation will also benefit by a contribution left £25,000 to Israel's medical service. j™tn Germany in Palestine in 1934, Sir Robert from the profits of "Canterbury Tales" at the ^ ayer, the founder of London children's con- London Shaftesbury Theatre whose star is Buddy Isr ^'i ^"'^ ^^^ president of the organisation. Dr. Elias, a cousin of Anne Frank. He left Germany Sheffield Jewish Benefactors J, ael Feldmann, another nonagenarian. Mrs. for Switzerland with his family in 1930. In 1939 Mrs. Marie Winstone of Sheffield donated ^ eier who received a warm ovation, recalled how Anne Frank and her family paid a visit to Swit­ £50,000 to the 1979 Joint Jewish Appeal in (L^.young German-Jewish girl she had conceived zerland, and that is when he last saw her. Anne's memory of her husband who died last February. ^^e Idea of a movement of exodus from all coun- They had both been generous contributors to father, who lives in Basel and will be 90 this Israel appeals and to other deserving causes. lh« ^'^^fs Jews were persecuted. Dr. Rinott said month, met him here at the launching of the Recently, Mrs, Winstone provided a physiotherapy g^t one third of the first group he took from anniversary tribute. wing for St. Luke's nursing home at a cost of air 3 *° Palestine were yoimgsters who had In Kensal Green, a dramatised version of Anne £100,000, and initiated a £300,000 project for a .eady been made homeless by the Nazis, Sir Frank's diaries was staged by the Moonshine Com­ lifeboat at Holyhead. that'^'^? Sieff, chairman of Marks & Spencer, said munity Art Workshop. Thc play was followed by in f • ""Other, Mrs, Rebecca Sieff, had helped discussions between the cast and audiences which yj JP'^ing a British committee to raise funds for saw the play as confirmation of the need to meet Ilse Joseph in Islington , tims of Nazi oppression which had later today's "fascist" threat, the National Front, Mrs, Ilse Joseph, the violinist whose concerts in <«ome the Children and Youth Aliyah Com- memory of her children killed by the Nazis have oj, "^e in Britain. Mr, Shapira, world head of the NON-JEWISH CHILDREN AT NURSERY made her known all over the world, unveiled a jjjj°^tisation, reported that there were at present SCHOOL plaque dedicated to them at a Save The Children 1, "^^ 18,C)00 children cared for, including a num- Rabbi Cyril Harris has resigned as minister of Youth Club and Community Centre in Islington. ^ of children rescued from Iran. the Edgware Synagogue, because some matters of After the ceremony she held a party to mark the principle had not been satisfactorily solved for birthday of her eldest daughter Marion, one of the "the well-being of the community". He mentioned four, and sp)oke to children of various nationalities MEMORIAL TO MARTYRS the admission of non-Jewish children to the Rosh on the need for reconciliation, understanding, and ^j^f'- Jakobovifs, the Chief Rabbi, consecrated a Pinah nursery school which holds its classes on love. nued Synagogue memorial for those who the synagogue premises, the fact that some of the bea'^ in the Holocaust, at Bushey Cemetery. It children admitted claimed to be Jewish, but were Milk and Honey the"^^ the inscription: "In everlasting memory of not, and that teachers brought over from Israel In the first three weeks after the Eurovision 'he "?^t^yr'^9ni of the holy communities and of were non-observant. Some of them had been seen song contest in Jerusalem, 250,000 copies of the san f'c '"'llion Jews cruelly slaughtered for the playing teimis on Rosh Hashana. Mr. Kramer, winning song "Hallelujah" were sold in Britain. j^nctiflcation of the Name during the Holocaust," chairman of the Zionist Federation Educational A silver disc was awarded to the singers, the Israeli CQ ' •'acobovits said that no memorial could suitably Trust, which is responsible for the school, said: "Milk and Honey" group who subsequently visited j^«imemorate the loss of six million lives, but the "If a non-Jewish child comes into the school, it Britain to appear on the Val Doonican show. Sp'"Srial would remind Anglo-Jewry of its re- does not contaminate the whole school". As for Unfortunately, there exists another "Milk and g^tisibility for strengthening Jewish life in teachers, their orthodoxy would be investigated if Honey" group in Britain, whose founder Mr. they were to teach Jewish subjects. Frank Bayne, an Equity official and an orthodox VyJ^^'sh ex-Servicemen and women from North Jew, is very upKet about this coincidence. His ]^ st London gathered at the National Jewish War BARNET'S TWIN TOWN own group was set up two years ago. Pav i?""'^' ^' '^^ Willesden Jewish Cemetery to The new Jewish Mayor of Barnet, Councillor *nd 'J'^^S^ to those who died in two world wars Mrs, Rita Levy, started her duties by attending Fonner Berlin Barkochba Members to meet j^ who have no known graves. The Mayor and the annual meeting of the Friends of Ramat Gan, In August, Mr. Fritz Lewinson (Israel) will pay a l^jj^ofess of Brent and the county president of the Barnet's twin town in Israel, The chairman. visit to England. On this occasion, Mr. James Walters duct !i '^f't'sh Legion attended the service con- Councillor Frank Gibson, announced that during (formerly Julius Warschauer) intends to arrange a o «ed by Rabbi Hool, minister of the Kingsbury an adult study tour of Israel in October an electro­ reunion meeting. Any interested former Barkochba ynagogue. cardiograph heart machine, worth £1,500, would members should contact: Mr. James Walters, Collen­ be presented to the Hashomer Hospital in Ramat dean, Links Road, Bramley nr. Guildford, Surrey (Tel.: Guildford 892104 STD Code 0483). CAMP SURVrVORS RAISE FUNDS Gan, but that £500 of that sum was still to come. 8irl" '^^^- a group of young Jewish boys and Old-Age Honies only as Last Resort J who had survived life in concentration Your House for:— Mr, Monty Dobkin, the retiring president of 'o k *' "^tt^ to Britain to start new lives. In order FLOOR COVERINGS Heathlands, the Manchester Jewish Home for the tn k pp tn touch with each other and to bc able Aged, said people should not send their aged Sop-^'PtT heir , others, they founded the "Forty-Five Aid CURTAINS, CARPETS, parents into old age homes if they could help it. )ry. a ri^'y" whose chairman is Mr. Ben Helfgott, At SPECIALITY There should be "domiciliary assistance" for the •^eleh "* *'''"t®f ^t the Regent Centre Hotel, they ENGLISH 6L CONTINENTAL old and frail still able to live at home. Mr. Dob­ M- °^ted the 34th anniversary of their liberation. kin had been president of Heathlands, where 20 Je^ Helfgott said that of the 3,000,000 Polish DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, residents are between 90 and 100 years of age, for 34 years. The treasurer reported a deficit of hetw ^"^'^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^'^' L200,000 had been DUVET COVERS & SHEETS £24,000, as the mnning of the home now costs Sfwfen the ages of one and 16. Altogether, only ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS '^ children survived. ESTIMATES FREE £2,000 per day, and no lowering of standards was Bri,- , Society contributed £3.000 to the Central tolerable. Chiij" ^""d, £1,000 to the Micha School for Deaf DAWSON-LANE LIMITED (established 1946) Paed "•en in Israel, and another £1,000 to an ortho- 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK trib "^ hospital in Israel, Mr, Oscar Joseph paid With acknowledgement to the news Pf.^t^ to the society and its chairman whom he Telephone: 904 6671 service of the Jewish Chronicle. "^sented with a JNF Golden Book Certificate, paraonal aHantlon oi Mr. W. Shacfcman Page 4 AJR INFORMATION July 1979

RESISTANCE MEMORIAL IN BELGIUM A memorial to 242 Jews who died fightmg witn NEWS FROM ABROAD the Belgian Resistance in the last war, was un­ veiled in Brussels on the wall of the national UNITED STATES CANADA monument to Belgian Jews killed in the Holo­ President's Dedication to Israel Amnesty Insult to Israel Stopped caust, The youngest of the Resistance fighters was In a newspap)er interview. President Carter After a complaint by the Canadian Jewish only 14 years old, the oldest 65. About 2,000 Jews stated: "As long as I am President of the United Congress, Amnesty International has stopped took an active part in the Resistance. Before the States—and for the rest of my life after that—I distribution of an educational manual which com­ war, some 100,000 Jews lived in Belgium. About will p)ersonally be dedicated to doing everything in pared Israel's treatment of Arabs to the Nazi 35,000 escaped to Britain and other countries, my power so that Israel can celebrate her future Holocaust. The manual "Human Rights Past and 30,000 were deported, and to-day there are about anniversaries in p)eace, security, and friendship Present", was published for use by teachers and 40,000 Jews left, many of whom survived the war with all her neighboius . . . Israelis are a minority youth leaders in discussions on himian rights. in hiding. in the Middle East. They have a tiny piece of land Row over Mixed Marriages in contrast to the nations around them. Their DUTCH MEMORIAL DESECRATED Rabbi J. Kaufmann, president of the Quebec After the showing of the Holocaust film, Tne history, and the horrors that have befallen Jews region of Canada's Rabbinical Council, protested throughout the world, the threats to their own Hague's monument to Dutch Jewish victims was against the aimouncement of a proposed mixed daubed with swastikas. nation, and the terrorism that has afflicted them marriage at Temple Emanu-El in Montreal, the over the past 31 years—all these make their need only reform synagogue in Canada, where couples MEMORIAL MASS FOR HITLER IN SPAl^ for caution and self-reliance understandable. I of different faiths can be married without the non- Thousands of blue-shirted Spanish neo-Nazis strongly honour their feelings." Jewish partner having to convert to Judaism. In attended the annual memorial mass for "the re­ the United States, more than 450 Reform rabbis pose of the soul of Adolf Hitler" in a church in The Search for Nazi Criminals are said to perform such marriages. the centre of Madrid. Subsequently, they m^'"'^''^ Fifty-year-old Washington lawyer Walter Rock­ through tho old quarters of the town and smasbea ier has been made head of a new dei>artment of ARSON AT TUNISIAN SYNAGOGUE the windows of several Jewish shops. Ten of t"® the Dei>artment of Justice with an annual budget Fire has badly damaged the beautiful old El demonstrators were arrested and will face trial. of about £1 million which was set up to trace Ghriba Synagogue in the village of Hara Kebira More than 100,000 people attended a similar former Nazi criminals in the United States and to on the island of Djerba, where 7,000 of Tunisia's ceremony last November on the anniversary "' deprive them of their citizenship. Some 175 Nazi 14,000 Jews live. Arson is suspected. The fire Franco's death, waving swastika flags and giving criminals are thought to have inunigrated to the started before the annual pilgrimage to the syna­ the Nazi salute. States and acquired US citizenship. After the last gogue in which thousands of Tunisian-born Jews war. Rockier first served as prosecuting counsel at from France, Canada, the United States, and other "HOLOCAUST" FILM IN SWITZERLAPfD the Nuremburg trials and visited many Nazi countries take part. Recently, the headquarters of The showing of the Holocaust film in Switzer­ concentration and labour campjs. the Arab League was transferred to Tunis from land has evoked numerous press comments on tn Cairo. Swiss immigration policy during the Nazi regirn • Senate demands End of Statute of Limitation VATICAN TO RESTRAIN ANTI-ISRAEL In the Neue Zuercher Zeitung a young historian, Both Houses of Parliament in America adopted ARCHBISHOP George Kreis, recalled that Switzerland, alte resolutions to ask the Federal German Govern­ admitting thousands of exiles during the eany ment to abolish the Statute of Limitation for Nazi Vatican officials have promised Mr, Allon, years of the Nazi Reich, tightened its policies in murders. During the preceding debate, Senator Israeli Ambassador to Italy, to restrain Arch­ 1938. The Swiss authorities, he wrote, then pf°] Moynihan (Dem) said it should not be forgotten bishop Capucci from engaging in anti-Israel posed that the Germans stamp passports o^.^ ,' that the US belonged to the countries which had activities. He has recently been appwinted "visitor" man "non-Aryans" with a "J" for Jew to facilita"' refused to admit Jewish refugees and had sent to the Greek Catholic communities of France, Swiss border controls. According to researcher . them back to certain death. Therefore, the reso­ Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg. the Govemment's jjolice issued orders in ^}^^f , lution was based on a share of the moral re­ Earlier this year, the archbishop made some fiercely anti-Israel speeches at meetings of the 1942 that refugees fleeing to Switzerland "only i"' sponsibility for the Holocaust rather than on an racial reasons" were to be turned back. ^ _. . assumed pose of moral superiority. PLO's Palestinian National Council in Damascus and was elected a council member. The Pope has J.T.A- now requested him to send him a "letter of NEO-NAZIS' SWISS ACCOUNTS Jewish Woman Mayor of San Francisco obedience", promising not to retum to the Middle The Swiss Govemment has decided that ne" San Francisco Mayor Mrs. Dianne Feinstein, East without permission, and not to accept his Nazis may maintain numbered accounts in ^*,^ daughter of a Jewish physician and a Roman election to the Council. Only after the archbishop banks, unless it is shown that the origin and/" Catholic mother, was educated at a convent had acceprted these conditions, did the Poj)e grant intended use of the deposits is illegal. The decisi school, but decided to become Jewish by religion, him an audience and confirmed him as "visitor". was published after an enquiry into the holding because, as she said, she was aware of the preju­ of the German Neo-Nazi Manfred Roeder, wn" dice that exists and of the distinct Jewish heritage. NORWAY now sends out his propaganda material tr" She is expjected to run for the governorship of Norwegian Pupils for Kibbutzim .South America. Califomia after her term of office expires. Twenty pupils of a boarding high school of the Norwegian Lutheran Mission will bc the first to YIDDISH DISC IN AUSTRIA , Rabbi's Libel Case Stopped visit Israel and to spend six weeks working in More than 3,000 copies of "Kum aher " In a libel suit, started in 1973, Rabbi Albert Kibbutzim and studying Jewish religion and filosof", the first original Yiddish long-play reco^ Belton sought substantial damages from Professor history. The headmaster has just signed contracts to be produced in Austria, have so far been so • Braham, chairman of the Political Science Depart­ for the visit with Givat Brenner and another Two Austrian p>op singers, Eduard Bartz an ment of New York's City College, Professor Kibbutz, Albert Misak, wrote the text and the music, afie Braham quoted in his "Hungarian Jewish Studies" they had been invited to sing at a local Chasio the recollections of Mr. Samuel Stern, chairman Neo-Nazis in Norway wedding. of the wartime Budapest Jewish Council who Peter Kristian Kyvik, a prominent member of maintained that Rabbi Belton, then called Bela the Norsk Front, a Norwegian neo-Nazi group, KISCH HOUSE IN PRAGUE Berend, had maintained good relations with the has been arrested and charged with throwing two According to a report of the "Prager ^^9'^^ Nazis in his home town and in Budapest where he bombs in Oslo. The chairman of the organisation, zeitung", the house in which Egon Erwin "^'^(j' closely collaborated with Eichmann's deputy Erik Bluecher, has links with the National Front "the roving reporter", was born has been ren Endre. After the war, the rabbi was sentenced to in Britain. Kyrik is a sergeant in the Norwegian vated. Built in 1570 on the comer Melantrit-^ ten years' imprisonment by a Hungarian People's Army. The t)efence Ministry is instituting an und Ledergasse, it was, because of the mon""'^ei Court, but released after the intervention of in­ investigation into neo-Nazi activities in the Armed on its portals, once called "Hause zu den zw fluential Jews, because his trial stirred antisemi­ Forces. Baeren". Yet for a long time the general POPHL'^g tism. He was forced to emigrate to America where tion has already called it "the Kisch House . i'j he changed his name, A Judge of the New York new landlord is the Municipal Museum, which w .^ Supreme Court has now stopped the suit, saying use the building as its headquarters and Pl^^^'°u. that Professor Braham had not acted from malice Gorta Radiovision a library, photo archives and a collection of <'"^j,. when he analysed the behaviour of the entire ments. The upper floor will be used as a perffl Judenrat. Service ent Kisch Exhibition to be organised ]oi°j'y jof, the Museum for National Literature and the um 13 Ffognal Parade, of Czechoslovak Jouraalists, F G L- BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER Fmchley Road, N.W.3 BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS SALES REPAIRS 51 Beltize Square, London, N.WJ Always interested in purchasing Special Offer well-preserved instruments Our new communal hall Is avallat»le tor Grundig Remote Control Colour cultural and social functions. 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Egon Larsen got round to interning refugees in his boarding- house, he "happened" to be—like a good many others—in the Public Library. Maschler tried his hand at all kinds of business. ADVENTURES OF A BOOKMAN Once he represented a manufacturer of microflira cameras and met Richard de la Mare, the chair­ man of Faber & Faber. He told him about his art in 1981, the international community of Stefan English children's books such as Lofting's Dr. books in Vienna; the outcome was an enormous ^weig readers and devotees will commemorate the Doolittle and Milne's Pooh series, and she asked venture to produce such a series with Maschler as one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. In many Kastner, who had just achieved a phenomenal the production manager. Under the imprint of countries, and especially in German-language Cen­ success with his poems, to write a children's book "Fama"—Faber/Maschler— the series at last got tral Europje, there will be a great demand for new for Williams, The result was Emil and the Detec­ going in 1945, and during the following two dec­ tuitions of his writings, from volumes of his tives, illustrated by Walter Trier, until today one ades a hundred volumes, altogether 700,000 copies, collected works to paperbacks of his most popular of the most popular works for young readers all of classical and modem art reproductions were hooks. AH this requires a good deal of preparation over the world. printed and sold. The series still ranks as ex­ jind time, and one man is now busy vvith this Five years later. Hitler came to pK>wer. Edith emplary for its beautiful colour printing. nuge and complicated job: the man who controls Jacobsohn fled to Switzerland, and Maschler trav­ Thanks to Maschler, Erich Kastner, who could ^tefan Zweig's world rights, an ex-Austrian Jew elled to Zurich to meet her there and make her an irom Berlin by the name of Kurt Ma,schler, who write only under cover names in Nazi Germany, offer which must have seemed rather bold, not to was well off after the war with all the royalties ''^es in London. He himself was 80 last year; he say mad, under the circumstances: he bought "^s just spent several months in hospital after a from abroad, to say nothing of the world-wide from her the whole Williams-Verlag, complete popularity of his children's books. Maschler con­ car accident, but his efficiency and organisational with debts and the copyrights of Kastner's alent seems to be hardly less than sixty years ago tinued to promote them. His travels took him children's books, by then already four, plus Trier's frequently to East Germany, where he managed to yhen he started his life-long career as a bookman, illustrations. Then he retumed to Berlin; although in every sense of the word. As soon as he gets rid get on exceptionally well with the new people in a Jew, he felt still safe in Nazi Germany as an charge of publishing, though they knew, of course, nis crutches he will travel again, which is an Austrian citizen. He spoke to Kastner, who re­ <»sential part of his endeavours. that he was anything but a Communist. Maschler's fused to emigrate because he didn't want to leave son Tom, too, was now rising in the world of To the general public, literature is something his mother behind, though his books had been publishing although he had, as a teenager, de­ '^ade of prnper which appears in the shops and on banned and confiscated. Maschler managed to get clared that he didn't want to continue with his 'he shelves as a matter of course like milk bottles 5,000 Kastner volumes out of Germany; he father's book business. Today he is Chairman of °n the doorsteps. How it gets there, seems to be founded his own publishing firm, Atrium-Verlag, the London publishing firm of Jonathan Cape. some uninteresting routine. But in our century mainly for looking after the Kilstner books abroad. They were published in three dozen countries due Stefan Zweig had taken his own life in South *'th its pwlitical and economic upheavals, the America in 1942. His heirs were killed in a car ook business has become a trade full of dramas to Maschler's unceasing efforts. Kastner and Trier, who emigrated to Canada, had entrusted him with crash in Germany, Maschler acquired the rights *nd adventures, and Kurt Maschler's career had a for Stefan Zweig's work, not just as a good busi­ good many of them. disposing of their rights in the whole world. Some­ how, Maschler also got the rights for Adrienne ness deal, but because he felt that this Jewish . V^e was born in Berlin and got his Austrian Thomas and Tucholsky's Rheinsberg. Publishers writer was "einer der lebendigsten Toten" in Ger­ ^fizenship from his father, who had settled there. had to be found, negotiations had to be carried man-speaking Europe, and that it was up to him, oung Kurt was fascinated by books and began to out personally, promotion had to be discussed, the bookman, to exploit this interest by bringing ^' in them in the early years of the Weimar era complicated deals arranged. his works before the eyes of as many readers as hen the demand for international literature grew possible, especially on the occasion of the 100th y leaps and bounds. Soon he had made friends— After a spell in Czechoslovakia, Maschler went anniversary of Zweig's birth. °"eri Duzfreunde—of the most important Berlin to Vienna, where he produced art books for an publishers and a number of authors. At one of the Austrian pubUsher. He was still there when Hitler PRIZE FOR NEW BOOK ON LEO BAECK <^«)cktail parties given by Edith Jacobsohn, the marched in. and Maschler got out—first, fearlessly, After five years of research, Mr. Leonard Baker, *'dow of the Weltbiihne editor, he met Erich to Berlin, and then, with ten marks in his pocket, a former newspaper man, pnibUshed a book "Day* ^stner for the first time. Frau Jacobsohn, an to Amsterdam. On? dry after "Cnst:il Night" he of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin was told to leave the Netherlands. He got a visa Jews" which gained him the 1978 Pulitzer Prize ^nthusiastic Anglophile, had founded the Williams- in letters. The book will be reviewed in this pap>er ^"•'ag, which specialized in German editions of for Britain and settled in London. When the police in due course. ASSOCIATION OF GIESSEN JEWS In Netanya which has a partnership with the West Gennan town of Giessen, an Association of Jews from Giessen was formed with an initial membership of 58. Eighty of the 1,200 Jews who lived in Giessen before 1933, are still alive in RENAULT Israel, and Netanyah's Mayor also hails from that town. The mayor of Giessen told him during a recent visit, that the town council was prepared to contribute substantially to the building of a new See the Renault range synagogue for the px)st-war Giessen Jewish com­ munity. Streets are named after the conductor Hermann Levi and the social politician Henriette at Old Oak Fuerth, who were both bora in Giessen. MARBURG INVITES HER FORMER (WIR SPRECHEN OEUTSCH /MLUVIME CESKYl CITIZENS During Brotherhood Week, 22 former citizens Where we believe that changing your car is a very of Marburg from Israel, USA and France were important business and you deserve to be treated as an the guests of the municipality of Marburg. individual, not just a sales figure. Where you can see the whole Renault range of value for money cars and light vans. We try to keep most models You are cordially invited to attend the in stock all the time. If we haven't got it, we'll get it. 21st BIRTHDAY PARTY And where we try and make things easy by offering of sensible part exchange prices, helping with finance and insurance where necessary and generally looking after LEO BAECK HOUSE, you. We're a family firm, and to us our customers always on come first. Sunday, 5 August, 1979 at 3.00 p.m. Come and see for yourself. Old Oak-Service for cars-and people Refreshmeots & Stalls & Entertainment • Gifts Welcome MOTOR Proceeds towards tbe Residents Amenity Fund, Leo Baeck House, The Bishop's Ave., N.Z »OLrw. 79 WINDMILDL HIU. wm. ENRELO 01-363 226 1 Page 6 AJR INFORMATION July 1979

Michael Rosenstock CToronto) might mention the emergence of a small group of wealthy, influential families who in many respjects foreshadow the court Jews and financiers of a later period. Indeed, they could be regarded as even more "modera" than their successors, since they THE POPE'S BANKERS enjoyed a degree of security, acculturation and social acceptance which the latter might well have Rome is the only European city in which the This rationalization legitimized a practice which envied. Jewish community has enjoyed an unbroken ex­ was already well established north of the Alpjs The story which Poliakov has to tell is of con­ istence since the beginning of the Christian era. and set the stage for an unusual development in siderable interest, but it would probably hold the It was also the last to abolish the ghetto and free Italy. Beginning in the second half of the thir­ reader's attention even more if his approach were the Jews from all mediaeval restrictions. This teenth century, Jews (mainly from Rome) would less discursive. He has a tendency to leave the historical jjaradox is paralleled in the economic conclude formal agreements with individual towns narrative hanging while he discusses what he sees field: on the one hand, it was papal theological which granted them well-defined privileges, in­ as some of its more general implications. Never­ policy to keep the Jews in a state of subjection. cluding exemption from the wearing of the Jewish theless, even this apparent failing has its positive On the other, papal financial policy helped to badge and sometimes even the right to bear arms. side, since it is through his digressions that he create a situation in which Jewish banking In return, they would agree to settle and lend transmits his fascination with Jewish history and flourished in the most economically advanced money at interest. reminds us of the many facets of that history country of Western Europe at a time when de- The remarkably favourable terms of these agree­ which remain to be explored. velop»ments in much of the rest of the continent ments clearly reflect the fact that these Jewish •Leon Poliakov: Jewish bankers and ihe Hoh See. Londo" progressively reduced the Jews to economic in­ bankers fulfilled an important economic function, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977, (Littman Library of significance. This apparent absurdity, with its even a vital one. No doubt the theological and Jewtah CIvilizaUon) £5,50. strange interplay of economic and theological socio-F»sychological factors which the author dis­ factors, is the subject of a book written in French cusses at some length played their part, but it is STATISTICS ON WORLD JEWRY over a decade ago which has now been translated difficult not to come to the conclusion that the According to the American Jewish Year Book into English*. reasons for this developHnent were primarily for 1979 there are now 14,286,000 Jews throughout The Church's preoccupation with "usury" dates economic. After all, the Jews were preceded in the world. The highest pjroprortion (47 pier cent) live this role by Christian money-lenders, whom they in North, South and Central America, 29 p>er cent from the twelfth century, when it became clear in Europe and 22 per cent in Asia. . , that a theologically forbidden activity was also an displaced only gradually. It is also worth remem­ The breakdown in detail is as follows: United economic necessity with which theology had to come bering that this occurred at almost exactly the States: 5,781,000; Israel: 3,706,000; USSR: to terms. "The dilemma was resolved by allowing the same time as "Lombards" and "Tuscans" (that is, 2,678,000; Great Britain: 410,000; France: 650,000; Jews an economic function which corresponded Italian Christians) replaced the Jews as money­ Canada: 305,000; Argentina: 300,000; Brazil: to their theological one: since they were already lenders in much of the rest of Westem Europje, 150,000; South Africa: 118,000. The breakdown condenmed, they could not endanger their souls theology notwithstanding. It seems clear that, also includes a number of countries whose Jewlsn by sinning and could, in fact, contribute to the within the highly developed but extremely local­ population is below 100,000. salvation of the Christian money-lenders they ized political and economic environment of late AJR INFORMATION replaced. They could also be used to enrich the mediaeval Italy, the Jews, as "marginal men" of a In view of a reorganisation in the production "i treasury, provided that the purpjose of taxing them rather special typ>e, must have had real advantages, "AJR Information" and of postal delays, we must ask was not to enable the state to profit from sin but especially in the smaller communes which were our readers to bear with us, if the next issues of our to limit their "natural" covetousness. short of ready cash, offered few attractions to the Monthly reach them a little later than usual. wealthy bankers of the country's main commercial centres and were anxious to retain their economic and pK>litical independence. There is much about these Jewish loan bankers LEON JESSEL UMITED that is far from mediaeval. In particular, one

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LOYAL TO HIS ORIGIN SIR LUDWIG GUTTMANN 80 It is a great pleasure to join in the many tributes which will be paid to Sir Ludwig Guttmann. That Our Board member Sir Ludwig Guttmann will spinal injuries centres and rehabilitation units in the occasion is his SOth birthday can hardly be <:elebrate his SOth birthday on July 3. Below we publishAustralia , Israel, South Africa, and Germany, and believed. His young appjearance and very active 'wo tributes to his life and work. has three spinal injuries centres and two streets life belies his age. named after him in Sprain, Germany, Israel, and It is not my intention to dwell on his outstanding The Netherlands. In the last ten years he has re­ A BUSY RETIREMENT achievements as an eminent surgeon but to honour ceived many honours from universities and cities him as a fellow-Jew and friend of many. As When Sir Ludwig was asked by the British in many p)arts of the world, including the rare Government to set up a spinal injuries centre in a young student in 1919 Ludwig Guttmann joined honour of being made a Fellow of the Royal the "Thuringia" in Breslau, one of the "Verbin­ 1944 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, he pioneered a Society in London. He has not neglected his compjletely new conceprt in the treatment and re- dungen'" of the KC (Kartell Convent of German writings and has published many p)aj>ers and text­ Students of Jewish faith). Ever since he has main­ ^bilitaiion of spinal cord injured. He was books, including the second edition of his book on Founder Director of the National Spinal Injuries tained the contact with those whom he met during "Spinal Cord Injuries—Comprehensive Manage­ his student days and has remained a loyal member Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for 22 years, ment and Research" and a Textbook on Sp)ort for and one of his greatest achievements was the and friend of the KC Fraternity in this country. the Disabled, now published also in German, Those who attended the London Anniversary creation of the Stoke Mandeville Games, which Dutch and Japanese. are framed today as the "Olvmpics of the Para­ Banquet in 1976 in celebration of the foundation lysed". Sir Ludwig's latest project, as Chairman of the of the KC will remember his inspiring address. British Paraplegic Spxjrts Society, is to create at On the 2 August, 1969, Her Majesty The Queen Stoke Mandeville the first Olympic Village for the "Menorah" was the name of the house in which opened Stoke Mandeville Sports Stadium for the Disabled in the world, by the building of perma­ the Guttmanns settled on moving from Oxford to Paralysed and Other Disabled. This was a personal nent accommodation for disabled men, women and High Wycombe where, having become members of triumph for Sir Ludwig, many times honoured in children, to replace the existing tempjorary and the local synagogue, the late Lady Guttmaim took h'S coimtry and abroad for his work. At the age rather dilapidated wooden huts, at a cost of about an active p)art in the afiairs of the Jewish com­ °' 70, one might have expected that he would £700,(XX), There is a sense of great urgency, as the "ave regarded this as the culmination of a life's raunity. One cannot forget the Memorial Service building is wanted by early Summer 1981. and an for his late wife in 1974 in the Hall of the Stoke ^ork and would have settled down to a less strenu­ Appeal has been launched. ous life. Mandeville Sp>orts Stadium with the address of the During the 1960 Olympics for the Paralysed in Rabbi of the Wembley Synagogue, attended by On the contrary, for the last ten >ears he has Rome, all the teams had a private audience in the many dignitaries, staff of the Stoke Mandeville ^n more active than ever, as Director of Stoke Vatican City with the late Pope John XXIII, and Hospital and paralysed pjatients. This also bears ^andeville Sports Stadium and Chairman of the on surveying the paralysed athletes that great man witness to Ludwig Guttmann's pxjsitive Jewish "ntish Paraplegic Spxjrts Society which built and was moved to say "You are the living marvels of attitude. ^"ns the Stadium, as Founder President of thc the virtue of energy". When Sir Ludwig reaches ritish Sp>orts Association for the Disabled and his 80th birthday on the 3rd July this year, there His services to Israel to help in the treatment resident of the International Stoke Mandeville could be no more fitting accolade for a great man and rehabilitation of victims of the wars and the *mes Federation and the International Sports who has devoted his life for the benefit of man­ building of a National Spinal Injiu'ies Centre in j^Jrganisation for the Disabled. He is Editor of kind and has not only saved but enriched the lives the Military Hospital of Tel Hashomer, which '^RAPLEGIA, the journal of the International of thousands of men, women and children who bears his name, must be mentioned. In December edical Society of Paraplegia of which he was hitherto were given up as hopeless. last year the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Institute, com­ ounder President for ten years, world expert in prising a Neurological Rehabilitation Unit was edical legal problems and a member of the JOAN SCRUTON, MBE. opjened and a new Physiotherap>y Depjartment at oard of the Institute of Spx>rt Medicine, as well Secretary General British Paraplegic Sports Society, the Rambam Hospital in Haifa in January. /folding honorary' office in many associations. Co-worker of Sir Ludwig Guttmann for 35 years. . ^'r Ludwig's work brings him daily to Stoke A man who has done so much for suffering ^andeville Sports Stadium, except when he is mankind and for his Jewish brethren deserves of '^ all over the world to officiate at Congresses, the highest esteem. May he be blessed with good Poru Meetings for the Disabled and to advise health for many years to come! Prince Charles will attend a summer ball in honour ^ernments in the setting up of spinal injuries LOTHAR NELKEN ,,^^- During the last ten years, such duties have of Sir Ludwig Guttmaim at which the Disabled Sports Foundation at Stoke Mandeville will be sn him many times to most countries of Europ)e launched with the aim of raising funds for the ^ Well as to Canada, U.S.A., Israel, Malaysia, Olympic Village. Br^- '^^'''<^' Australia, New Zealand, Japan, '^^, Colombia, and U.S.S.R. He has opened CLUB 1943 Vortrage jeden Montag umlS p.m. im Hannah Kanninski House, 9 Adamson Road, N.W.3 2 Juli. Gerald Holm: "Ivar Kreuger. The Swedish Match King". 9 Juli. Hans Freyhan: "A recent Study Tour of Israel" (with colour sUdes). 16 Juli. Grete Sachs: "The Montefiores". 23 Juli. H. Morgan: 'The Work of a Samaritan". 30 Juli. Egon Lehrburger-Larsen: "Der juedische Humor. Versuch eincr Analyse". 6 August. Eduard Kaatz: 'Die Heilige , Fights Rust Johanna". 6wly developed. Zinc compounds 13 August. Dr. Gellert Tausz: "Pirat Lairs" svnt^"^® of the finest aist inhibitors.The (with colour sUdes). y|]inetic resin base forms a tough skin, 20 August. Mitgliederversammlung. Prom ...^®^'s the surface from moisture. Fr^ /«" 9°**** hardware and accessory stores 27 August. Bank HoUday. ^l^'terafure from Davids ISOPON, FFREEPOSF T !;yy House, London N20 9BR. 3 September. Leonard C. Goss (Council of Christians and Jews): "Friendship across Frontiers". Page 8 AJR INFORMATION July 1979

MEMORIAL FOR CHEMNITZ JEWS In the hills of Jerusalem a tree plantation and a THE ISRAEU SCENE memorial stone were inaugurated to commemorate the former Jewish citizens from Chemnitz, kiUea FATAL MUDDLE IN ISRAELI ARMY PROTEST AGAINST RELEASE OF by the Nazis. There is no memorial for them i" In his annual report. Dr. Nebenzahl, Israeli TERRORISTS Karl-Marx-Stadt, as it is now called, whereas tne State Comptroller, said that faulty intelligence There was a general expression of indignation Jewish victims of Dresden and Leipzig are remem­ and indiscipline caused the death of Israeli at the news that among the 76 convicted terrorists bered there. soldiers during last year's attack on terrorists in recently exchanged by Israel for one Israeli re­ Lebanon, which involved 25,000 men. Eighteen serve soldier who had fallen into terrorists' hands, were killed, 60 wounded, and one man was cap>- there were 33 who had taken part in acts of JEWISH BONES REBURIED tured and recently exchanged for 76 terrorists. terrorism in which Israelis were killed. In the Thousands of Right-wing Orthodox Jews at­ Most of the casualties were caused by land mines Knesset, Mr. Yigal Allon, former Labour Foreign tended a funeral service and reburial ceremony or which could not be neutralised, because the troop>s Minister, said, the releases were an invitation to Jewish bones unearthed by archaeologists during had the wrong equipiment. All but six of 27 Israeli more bloodshed, as the terrorists would now deem recent excavations in Jerusalem. They were col­ tanks were knocked out because troopK did not it worth trying to take more hostages, lected in a coffin and carried in procession througn obey orders. Coded maps were not always co­ the narrow streets of the Mea Shearim Orthodox ordinated. Slovenly discipline led to 182 cases of JEWISH LECTURER'S LINK WITH THE PLO quarter to their final resting places. looting and three instances when troops flouted On his arrival from London, Dr. Uri Davis, a orders and crossed into territory not under Israeli university lecturer, was arrested at Ben-Gurion control. Mobilisation procedure was also wanting. airpKJrt. The Israeli police suspect him of having ISRAEL FOOTBALLER FOR One brigade was unable to find 150 soldiers, be­ been in touch with senior representatives of thc LIVERPOOL . , cause their mobilisation pjapjers had not reached PLO during his stay in London and of having After a crowd of 50,000 saw the Israeli nationa3:3j them. The list of names was found to be com­ planned to publish a newspap>er with the PLO's football team hold Liverpool to a surprising pletely out of date. financial support. draw, Liverpool completed the signing of Avi Cohen, Israel's 22-year old international centre- TOURIST BOOM UN SOLDIER SENT TO PRISON back, for £200,000. He played the second halt oi Tn the first quarter of 1979, a record number of The Senegalese warrant officer with the UN the game for his new club. 27,500 Britons visited Israel, the highest number Forces in Lebanon, Papa Koli Saar, 30, was from any Europ>ean country. Only the United sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment for smuggling ISRAEL CRICKETERS IN BRITAIN States send more tourists to Israel than Britain. explosives into Israel and handing them over to a An Israeli cricket team came to Britain, bu The figure for March was up 22 p)er cent on last PLO agent in Acre. He said in his defence, he had failed to qualify for the Prudential World Cup year, whereas the total of tourists to Israel from all only done so, because he and his family had been Finals, although they won four of the first seven countries dropp)ed by six pjer cent. Last year. West threatened by the PLO in Beirut. matches. Their captain said they played differently Germany and France toppjed the list. Next winter, in Israel: They played about once a fortnight w British Airways will again organise charters in a LEBANON GOVERNMENT TO STOP a spirit of commitment they wouldn't know ^"°^ giant Tri Star, There will be weekly departures TERRORISTS in Yorkshire." Most players had to drive 1"" from October 4 to March 27. The first holiday The Lebanese Government has contacted several kilometres to attend, and they therefore had.' which combines a visit to Israel with one to Egypt, Arab Governments requesting them to use their captains. The team were all born in cricketing with direct travel between the two countries, will influence on the Palestinians to make them desist countries: England, South Africa, Pakistan, Indiaj be provided by Cosmos, a major British tour from terrorist attacks on Israel from Lebanon. and Australia. It includes three kibbutzniks, ^ opjerator, from next winter. The 15-day package cowhands, three workers from an electronic pla" ' will be from £337. Participants will spend five days CIVIL SERVANTS STRIKE some El Al clerks, and two joumalists. in Israel, then cross Sinai to Egypt, spend six days Forty thousand Israeli Civil Servants staged a in Egypt, and return to Israel for the flight home. three-day strike for higher p>ay and faster pro­ motion and threatened to strike again if their demands were not met. During the strike, there was no mail delivery or collection, no taxes were collected, and radio and TV only sent out news bulletins. Customs officers at the airpwjrts allowed France & Germanys all incoming pjassengers through without checking their luggage. DUMBEE-COMBEX-MARX MOURNING FOR MURDERED IRANIAN Finest Wines President Navon attended a memorial service for Mr. Habib Elghanian, the honorary head of LTD. SHIPPED BY the Iranian Jewish community who was the first Jew to be "executed" in Iran. The festive dedi­ cation of the new diamond exchange in Ramat Gan has been pKJstpwned because of his death, as his family played a major role in building the HOUSE OF centre. COAL DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA Mr, Modai, Israel's Energy Minister, has com­ HALLGARTEN pleted a deal with Australia for the supply of li million tonnes of coal over the next seven years I am able to offer you a superb at a cost of between £13.50 and £15 p)er tonne. Mr. Modai said this was not exactiy a bargain, but setection of French (incJ. Kosher after the recent nuclear breakdown in Pennsyl­ Alsace) and German wines, vania, Israel was not overkeen to commit herself Dunbee House to nuclear pxjwer. shipped by the famous importers. BEGIN'S WASHINGTON ADDRESS SOLD 117 Great Portland Street, House of Hallgarten, and to advise FOR CHARTFY you personally and help you with The original copy of Mr. Begin's Washington address at the signing of the peace treaty, was London, W.l your wine purchases. The selection auctioned off for nearly £30,0(X) at a charity evening in aid of the Soldiers' Welfare Associ­ ranges from your everyday wines ation, The buyer was an American philanthropist, to the finest for your speoial Mr. Selwyn Kent, who immediately gave his pur­ chase back to the association to be auctioned Simcha. again in the United States. The six-p>age sp>eech in Mr. Begin's handwriting is written on Washington Tel: 01-636 8677 Delivery to all U.K. addressee. Hilton notep»p)er. ISRAEL'S PARTICIPATION IN ASIATIC Gramsi FLEXATEX LONDON, Please write or phone; GAMES The Council of the World Athletics Association JUSTIN GOLDMEIER decided during its meeting at Dakar to pwstprane TELEX Wine Merchant Israel's relegation to the Europiean Branch, be­ cause the forthcoming title contests in Tokyo 22 Pennine Drive, London, N.W.Z would not be intemationally recognised if Israel INT. TELEX 2-3540 were not to be included. Japan has declared that T9l: 01-455 8672 because of a high security risk it would not send invitations to Israeli compjetitors. AJR INFORMATION July 1979 Page 9

Richard Gnmberger ingly straightforward answer to the question. Marx, he said, exhibited the renegade's charac­ teristic dislike of the camp he has abandoned. While there is some truth in Dubnow's con­ PROGENITOR OF LEFT-WING ANTISEMITISM tention it may be a shade too straightforward. A critical attitude to most things Jewish was A New Work on Karl Marx after all common to Marx's Jewish-descended radical confreres like Borne and Heine (pace Post-Hitler antisemitism is a source of sad­ Hegel held that the Jews' historic mission the latter's Mir unll schier bediinken dass der ness and bafflement in equal degrees. It is had ceased with the advent of Christianity, Rabbi und der Monch, dass sie alle beide sad because one expected the world to heed that Judaism was "unachieved Christianity" stinken.) But Heine and Borne had, in Dr. Uie lesson of Auschwitz—and baffling because and Christianity completed Judaism. The Neo- Carlebach's phrase, a love-hate relationship 'ts contemporary instigators stand at the oppo­ Hegelian Feuerbach, a corrosive critic of with Jewry, whereas Marx's relationship was site end of the political spectrum to the Nazis. religion, took a drastically different view. merely one of hate. J^e atavistic Jtidenhass which was assumed to According to him the heathens had accepted Did his feeling arise from what Theodor have perished with its chief practitioner in the nature and identified it with God, the Jews had Lessing has termed Jewish self-hate? The "tinker at Berlin paradoxically still lingers in subjected nature to their will and alienated question is wellnigh impossible to answer. the minds of those who plucked the swastika man from the world, and the Christians, Although Dr. Carlebach lists some possible 5^8 from the Reich Chancellery. Since the attempting to redress the balance, had pro­ components of a "psychogram" of Karl Marx— ^eath of Hitler—and its fitting sequel, the jected man's true essence on to a divine figure a father disliked for weakness (instanced, para­ "irth of the State of Israel—it has been the Left in the heavens. Man, said Feuerbach, knows doxically, by his apostasy from Judaism), a •^ther than the Right that has posed a threat his true essence, but thanks to religion is mother accused of swindling him out of his to Jewish sunival. unable to live it. inheritance^he disdains to pursue the matter. The Left-wing threat to Jewish survival is Bruno Bauer's thoughts on Judaism owed The psychological quirks behind Marx's anti­ Partly physical—revolutionary Arab regimes more to Hegel. He argued that Jewish historj' semitism probably defy analysis, or even endeavouring, with Soviet arms and Third had ended with the completion of the Talmud investigation. It is a sobering thought that most "orld backing, to destroy Israel—and partly around 500 C.E.: since then the Jews had been Jewish leaders of the European Left, such as ^ultural. The Kremlin intimidates and pillories a collection of atoms without national con­ Rosa Luxemburg, Viktor Adler and Otto Bauer the three million Jews behind the Curtain by sciousness or historical function awaiting likewise viewed their own people and its cul­ labelling Judaism "reactionar\" and Zionism absorption by world historic peoples. ture as archaic relics destined for the scrap- racist"; in the West the campus Left subjects When Marx took up his pen to review Bauer heap of history. In other words, some of the fising student generations—many Jews among he refuted him and his predecessors with a greatest humanitarian fighters Jewry has 'hem—to equally pernicious mystifications. fine display of dialectics "Let us not seek the given the world have balked at extending This antisemitism of the Left stems from secret of the Jew in his religion—let us seek their humanitarian principles—for instance the ^pmething deeper than power political con­ the secret of his religion in the real Jew!" right to national selfhood—^to the Jews them­ siderations—for all that it gives the Soviets (This sort of inverted locution was typical of selves. ^sopolitical leverage abroad and readymade its author; if for Kant, remarks Dr. Carlebach, But that may in itself be a very Jewish Scapegoats at home. Its antecedents are the Jew is a trader, then for Marx the trader thing. As Gustav Mayer said of Marx "No 'Geological and stretch back even beyond the is a Jew.) Gentile has ever condemned Judaism in a ^athemas Lenin pronounced on Zionists and Marx continued: "What is the secular basis more unjust and one-sided manner. Neverthe­ "indists around the turn of the century. of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What less, it was the very Urkraft of Judaism in . The ferns et origo of Left antisemitism was, is the worldy cult of the Jew? Bargaining. Marx which assured him his place in history. '^ fact, none other than Karl Marx himself. What is his worldly god? Money, Very welll Where else but in the prophets of Judah and jThose other Jewbaiting Socialist pioneers, Emancipation from bargaining and money, and Israel would one find such rigid conviction? ^^roudhon and Fourier, can be left out of thus from practical, real Judaism would be Marx was first and foremost a believer, a *^count because they dwindle into insignific- the self-emancipation of our era. As soon as believer in the immanent strength of a corrupt *'ice beside Marx.) the basis of bargaining is abolished the Jew society to produce a better one." Marx's antisemitism confronts us with a would cease to exist; his religious conscious­ '*ofold paradox. For one. Socialism spelt out ness would dissolve like a dull mist." * gospel of salvation for all the damned of Little of this would have been out of place "I DID SURVIVE" this earth—a category to which the Jews pre­ in the columns of Der Stiirmer and in fact Short Stories by a Concentration Camp Survivor eminently belonged. For another, Marx was, extracts from the above appeared on Nazi °t eourse, a Jew himself—if only by ancestry. posters, complete with signature "Mordechai The authoress of this small but deeply moving pPtised as a child, he suppressed, or, at any Karl Marx", No less important is the fact that volume has published her stories of a con­ .*te, disavowed all awareness of himself as a in his essay on the Judenfrage Marx had been centration camp survivor under the pseudonym of e*; his self-perception as an outsider owed guUty of the very offence he had charged Eire* The reasons for this are highly personal and ^^rything to his radicalism and nothing to his Hegel with—that of deducing real life from very understandable. For many years after her race. abstract ideas. survival and arrival in this country in 1945 she It Was as a rising luminary of the German The vast majority of Marx's Jewish con­ could not overcome the haunting thoughts of ^dical movement of the 1840s that Marx temporaries did not have the remotest involve­ what she and her co-sufferers had endured. She Rifled the obsenations on the Jewish ment with bills of exchange, share flotation had several nervous breakdowns and had to under­ Question which earned him the unflattering and the like. For every Rothschild or Bleich­ go psychiatric treatment—until "she got the camp Pithet of a Jewish antisemite. Marx's essay roder mid-19th century Jewry comprised— out of her system" by writing down some of her p'' the Judenfrage, according to Dr. Julius particularly in Russia, where most Jews lived dreadful experiences. She was still a young and j^^rtebach's recently published painstakingly —literally thousands of artisans, pedlars, frail girl, the daughter of a highly refined Czech ^Searched study*, was his response to an article farmers, talmudic scholars and Luftmenschen. upper-class Jewish family, when she was dragged " Jewish Emancipation from the pen of the But then Marx indulged in wilful ignorance of through the inhuman misery and cruelty of many •oaverick Christian theologian Bruno Bauer. Jewish life in Eastem Europe right up to his concentration camps. The writing of her stories, , ^t the time, the question of whether Jews death; one scours his later writings in vain for all based on truth and imaginatively evoked, was "Ould be granted equal rights with Christians any mention of the struggle of the emergent an act of "catharsis" for her—a catharsis which -S^asioned much debate throughout Gennany. Jewsh proletariat in the Pale of Settlement. the reader shares with her. "^^ topic exercised not only the Landtage How is one to explain Marx's antisemitism, How did she survive? I could find only one ff the press; members of the academic or as Dr. Carlebach puts it more circumspiectly, answer to this unanswerable question: she never /•aternity, too, joined in and delivered them- his radical critique of Judaism? The great ceased, even in the moments of her greatest des­ j^tyes of philosophical reflections on the Jews, Jewish historian Dubnow returned a refresh- pair, her mental and physical suffering, to care for ^eir religion, historj-, and destiny in the her fellow-sufferers, to try to help and uphold 70rld. This intellectual debate had been them—even when it was in vain as, alas, it most J'tiated by the Neo-Hegelians who—like CAMPS often was. Her stories form one single story of jP'^e of the French encyclopaedists before human fortitude and strength through tenderness. INTERNMENT—P.O.W^ "etn—considered Jewr>' a superannuated FORCED LABOUR—KZ It is this very individual experience of hers which J^ssil devoid of any function in the modern gives her short stories of a concentration camp *orl(i. I with te buy carda, anvslope* and foM«d peat- marked latters Irom all camps of both wortd wara, survivor their universal and documentary signifi­ cance. ulius Carlebach: Karl Marx and the Radical Critique of Pleasa send, registered mail, stating prica, to: 14 Roaahm Hill. Loadom II.W.I F. WALTER i"11^e^ LittLittman n Library of Jewish Civilization. PttCR C. RICKEHIACK "•°Mledge & Kegan Paul 1978. £8. •Regency Press, London and New York £2.30. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION July 1979

DR. EGON SCHWELB The lawyer. Dr. Egon Schelb, died in New York at the age of 80. Before the Nazis invaded Czecho­ IN MEMORIAM slovakia, he practised in Prague, where his clientele included many refugees who had fled DR. EDUARD ROSENBALnVl By those who had the great privilege of know­ from Germany. He was a member of the Prague Dr. Eduard Rosenbaum, who died in London on ing Eduard Rosenbaum personally he will be City Council and a leading Social Democrat. After May 22 in his 92nd year, was one of the outstand­ remembered best by his unique sense of humour. having been imprisoned by the Nazis, he arrived ing representatives of his generation of German His serious contributions to important debates in this country shortly before the outbreak of war Jews, His personality was shaped by a widespread were always spiced with witty apercus. A full and and, in 1942, was appointed a member of the theoretical knowledge blended with proficiency in rich life has come to an end, and we feel com­ Legal Council of the Czechoslovak Government m the field of practical activities. forted in our sense of loss by the thought that he Exile, He later re-emigrated to the United States Eduard Rosenbaimi was bom in Hamburg, and was permitted to attain a great ripe age W. R. and where, from 1947 to 1962, he served as Deputy this meant more than a geographical accident. was spared any undue suffering. Director of the Division of Human Rigbts in tne The spirit of the Hansestadt was of particular W, R. United Nations in New York. From 1962 to 1968, influence on his approach to life; last, but not he was a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Yale least, his origin also made itself noticeable in the University, Dr. Schwelb wrote several books on intonation of his language. He held leading posi­ PROFESSOR ALFRED BLOCH questions of human rights and related subjects tions in Hamburg as Syndikus of the Chamber of Professor Alfred Bloch, a distinguished engineer and was also a regular contributor to leading Commerce and director of its library. In connec­ and inventor, has died, aged 74. He was bom in international law journals all over the world. Until tion with his work he established strong personal Weiden, Franconia, into an orthodox family and his illness set in a few months before his death, bonds with many leading personalities of Ham­ gained a doctorate of engineering at the Munich he continued to carry out special assignments or burg's commercial and industrial life. Several Technical University in 1932. Before the Nazis the Legal and Human Rights Division of the essays of his about Albert Ballin and Max War­ came to power, he held an appointment as re­ United Nations. burg, published in the Year Books of the Leo search engineer for the German State Railways Baeck Institute, testify to his loyalty and his and invented an advanced system of railway REV. E. FELDINGER soundness of judgement. His personal reminis­ signalling. He came to Britain with his parents Czech-born Rev. Emmanuel Feldinger who has cences came to life even more when, in his inimi­ and sister in 1934, and first stayed as a guest with died in Bnei Brak, Israel, came to London as a table way, he would tell his anecdotes in the Professor Ditchbura of Trinity College, Dublin. refugee in 1939 and was a chazan to the Notting circle of his friends. He subsequently invented a surface strain gauge Hill Synagogue for seven years, before being Dr. Rosenbaum had ma«y sociological essays for measuring mechanical force. Between 1936 appointed reader of the St. Annes-on-Sea Hebrew to his credit. He also repeatedly contributed and 1969, he worked as a senior physicist with the Congregation, a post he held for over 30 years. articles to AJR Information whose particular General Electric Company in Wembley. In 1969, To perpetuate his memory, the St, Annes com­ value always arose from the fact that he could the Bavarian Govemment made him a Professor munity is to consecrate a room at a religi?"^ speak from first-hand knowledge. Only a few Emeritus at Munich University. After his retire­ institution in Bnei Brak, where he lived in retire­ years before his death, he published, jointly with ment, Professor Bloch worked with advanced ment. A, J, Sherman, a history of the M. M. Warburg researchers and post-graduates at Brunei Uni­ Banking House. His expertise in the field of versity, where he was given an honorary doctorate NO MORE JEWISH PATRONAGE economics was linked wdth a deep understanding of technology. He was for many years a member The "Friends of the Berlin National Gallery' of art and literature. His friends among writers of the Leo Baeck Lodge and of the AJR and a was founded in 1929. After having been more or and poets included some who were near to the generous supporter of academic charities. less dormant from the late thirties onwards, it was Stefan-George-Kreis. re-established in 1977. Its object is the acquisition When by the events of 1933, the Hamburg period of outstanding works of art. . , was ended. Dr. Rosenbaum came to London in LEONARD KOETZER A comparison between the membership lists o September 1934 on a Cambridge grant. Soon after­ the "old" and "new" "Friends" reflects the lo^fJP wards he was appointed Head of the Acquisition One of the leading art dealers in London, Mr. one important group of supporters after 1933. Tn Department of the London School of Economics Leonard Koetzer, has died, aged 73. He was the old list includes names like Arnhold, Deutscn, Library. He held this post until he reached retirement great-grandson of an Amsterdam rabbi and the Dreyfus, Fuerstenberg, Goldschmidt, Gutmann. age in 1952. son of two gifted Dutch artists. He came to Kaufmann, Loeb, von Mendelssohn, SirnoP' One of the main beneficiaries of his newly Britain from Holland in 1923. At the age of 16, Strauss, and many others, no longer alive, gained leisure was the Leo Baeck Institute, to he and his brother David borrowed a couple of expelled and perished. The same change ''^°J"^g whose London Board he belonged from its incep­ china plates from their mother and pawned them evident on the tablet of the sponsors of the "^^^ tion in 1955, His co-oi)eration was not restricted for £25, the capital with which they started in Nationalgalerie" (Preussischer Kulturbesitz).Her > to the participation in the "official" meetings but business, Leonard Koetzer was in touch with and too, the gap resulting from the disappearance o also included continuous voluntary assistance in gave a helping hand to a number of well-known the public-.spirited Jewish citizens is remarkable. the day to day work. London Jewish refugee art dealers. E.G-i- PROFESSIONAL MAN (Economist) FAMILY EVENTS Ruby Wedding CLASSIFIED late 30s, many cultural interests, wouj" Roberts (formerly Heymann - Rosen- The charge in these columns is like to meet attractive young lady w'' Entries in the column Family stem).—Mr, and Mrs, Roberts (for­ SOp for five words plus 25p for adver­ same interests. Please reply preferaO'y Events are free of charge; any volun­ merly Hamburg) will celebrate their tisements under a Box No. with photograph. Box 778. Ruby Wedding on July 11 at 10 INFORMATION REQUIRED tary donation would, however, be Western Road, Sutton. Surrey. Situations Vacant .iVJR Enquiries appreciated. Texts should be sent in Loepert.—Mrs. H. Loepert: Las' WE WOULD WELCOME hearing Road by the 15th of the month. from more ladies who would be will­ known address 20 Parkfield Deaths ing to shop and cook for an elderly South, Manchester M20 ODH. Ackennann.—Mrs. Rosa Ackermann person in their neighbourhood on a Personal Enquiries Birthdays of 35 Alexandra Court, Wembley temporary or permanent basis. Cur­ Israel.—Bernd Israel (formerly Elber­ HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS Park, passed away peacefully on May rent rate of pay £1,40 per hour. Please feld), born 1931 or 1932, son of lawyer and good wishes to Mrs. Laszlo on her 18, deeply mourned by her family and ring Mrs. Matus 01-624 4449, AJR Hugo Israel and Hedwig, nee BarucB. SOth birthday from the AJR Club. many friends. Employment, for appointment. both deported. Immigrated to England- Replies to Frau Magdalene Kastenbei" Adler.—Dr. Erwin L. Adler, late of Miscellaneous (formerly Noekel of Langenburg^ Thanks for Congratulations 807 Finchley Road, London, N.W.ll, REVLON MANICURIST. Will visit Rheinstr. 61, BRD 4.300 Essen }° THANK YOU, THANK YOU, my died peacefully on May 23 after a your home. Phone 01-445 2915. (Kettwig), who holds small fa"""^ dear friends and dear members of the long illness. Deeply moumed by his souvenirs. family. PICTURES AND PRINTS of Ger­ AJR Club for your hundreds of birthday man Origin bought. Viewing and greetings, and a special Thank-you to estimates free of charge. Box 775. CHIROPODIST Dr. Rosenstock for his touching tribute Gans.—Frederick Ruben Gans, formerly of Swiss Cottage to the 97 year-old "Tante Gretchen".— Hanover, passed away on June 4, aged Charles N. Gilbert, F.B.Ch-A. Margaret Jacoby. 90. Deeply mourned by his wife Chane Personal Now in practice at and family, his sister-in-law Gina LADY, widow, cultured, born mid- ZIGGY'S, 47 FAIRFAX BOAAJ Grinberg (Paris), his brother-in-law European, living in own property N.W.6 328 5024 WHAT CAN ONE SAY if "Don't Shlomo Neumann and family (Kibbutz Leigh-on-Sea area, young 60 years, also at —, ^ take any notice of my birthday" (a wish Lavi, Israel), family Kirschner (Israel), thinks to be attactive, reasonable own 215 Edgware Rd. (Praed St.), W-" respected for so many years) is on the nieces, nephews and friends. income, is looking for gentleman, suit­ 723 5424 & seventy-fifth interpreted by Margaret able age, no ties, friendship. Please 108 Sudbury Court Drive, Harrow Jacoby as giving a surprise party Widf.—Miss Gertrud Wulf of 22a write under 776, 904 1945 attended by 170 guests! I am deeply Bardwell Road, Oxford (formerly Berlin) grateful for the love that prompted it died recently in her 91st year. An out­ EDUCATED BACHELOR, 60, Lon­ Mr. CHARLES and for the warmth and friendship that standing personality and an inspiration don, many interests inclusive Music, CAR SERVICE surrounded me on that day.—Dora to us all. Mourned by her relatives and wishes to meet people of either sex 959 2541 Segan. numerous friends. for friendship. Box 777. AJR INFORMATION July 1979 Page 11

HISTORY OF JEWS FROM UPPER SILESL^ AN OLD AGE HOME COMES OF AGE The "Verein zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden Obei^chlesiens e.V.", about whose foimda­ 21st Birthday Party of Leo Baeck House tion we reported in our May issue, recently held As readers will see from the announcement pub­ fact that he also renders his services to Heinrich its first research meeting in Marburg. Papers per­ lished in this issue, there will be a 21st birthday Stahl House adds to his burden. Deeply rooted in the tinent to the history of the Jews in Upper Silesia party at Leo Baeck House, The Bishop's Avenue, traditions of German Jewry, his work is prompted were read by a number of scholars, among them ?n Sunday, August 5, at 3 p.m. Leo Baeck House by a strong sense of solidarity with our community of Prof, Wemer Mosse (University of East Anglia), jsthe second oldest home, founded four years after origin, and in addition to his care for the individual Dr. Peter Pulzer (Oxford), and Dr. Steffi Jersch- ytto Schiff House, and the first of the three Homes residents he has often made constructive sugges­ Wenzel (Historische Kommission Berlin). •n The Bishop's Avenue. When the property was tions which concern the general policy of running the The level of the lectures and the standing of the acquired, it consisted of a private villa (now the Homes. speakers indicate that the Society did not lose older part of the Home) surrounded by a huge Thus, there is much reason to celebrate a birth­ any time to get dovm to practical work. The new garden and open space. Part of the vacant site day and to express our sincerest wishes for many venture deserves the widest co-operation, and any Was used for the erection of an annexe, and later happy returns of the day. All members and their readers who can supply personal reminiscences or a further part for Osmond House. Yet, the friends are cordially invited to the party. material such as documents, memoirs, letters and atmosphere of a country house has remained pictures should kindly get in touch with the chair­ •Wimpaired, man of the Society: Dr. Emst Lustig, Rossitten- The outstanding feature in the history of Leo weg 10, D-3340 Wolfenbuettel. oaeck House is its continuity. The first chairman SECRET OF VANISHED DIPLOMAT Pf its House Committee, our unforgettable friend, After more than 30 years, Sweden has urged Mr. F. W. Ury, held office for many years and the Soviet Government to make new enquiries 'aid the solid foundations for the human approach into the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish AWARD FOR JEWISH HISTORIAN and administrative strength of the Home. His diplomat, captured and imprisoned by the Rus­ sians at the end of the last war. At the time, In recognition of his scholarly achievements, *ork tt-as continued by Mr. E. K. Heyman, who Akademischer Oberrat i.R. Dr. Berahard Brilling, *as recently succeeded as chairman by Mr, F. Wallenberg was a secretary of the Swedish Legation in Budapest and gave diplomatic pro­ Muenster/W, was awarded the title of Professor. I^rst but remained a member of the Committee, Born 72 years ago in Tremessen (Poznan), BriUing tne continuity of the honorary ofiice is comple- tection to thousands of Jews who would otherwise have been sent to extermination camps. In 1957, was trained as rabbi and archivist in Breslau. He •iiented by the continuity of the senior staff. After later emigrated to Palestine. After the war, he !he first Matron, Mrs, E, Merlander, had retired Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister, said that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack settled in Munster, where he obtained his doctoral jn 1965, she was succeeded by Mrs. G. Dick, who, degree in 1958 on a thesis about the history of the 'o the good fortune of the Home, is still in charge in the Lubyanka prison in 1947, but Sweden never believed that. In the meantime, the Swedish Jews in Breslau from 1454 to 1702. Dr. Brilling and who, with her devotion, e.xperience and sense has many works on the history and genealogy of °f duty carries out the difficult work, loved by her government have heard from several Soviet prisoners who said they had met Mr. Wallenberg the Jews in Silesia, and also in Westphalia to his Residents and serving as an example to those who credit. He was appointed "Kustos" and later "ork under her. at a much later date, and Sweden has now sent to the Soviet authorities a memorandum, claiming to "Oberkustos" (with the tenure of a lectureship) The 21st birthday of the Home also provides us with at the Institutum Judaicum DeUtzschianum of the * Welcome opportunity of paying tribute to Dr. F. L. trace his movements through the Soviet prison system until 1975 when he was believed to have University of Munster. In 1970, he became •yewman, who has been Medical Officer of the Home ".A.kademischer Oberrat". The award of the hono­ Since its inception. Having the wellbeing of the resi­ been seen in a prison hospital near Moscow. Mr. Wallenberg's mother, 88, and his stepfather von rary professorship is the well deserved final dents at his heart, he is at their disposal not only on recognition of a laborious and successful career. 'ne occasion of his regular visits but also at weekends Dardel, 94, who died recently, were always con­ *nd night time, whenever an emergency arises. The vinced that thc Soviets were withholding the truth. E.G.L.

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