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Volume XLVIII No. 4 April 1993

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Rothschilds and Royals pi3 nother sequence of sombre anniversaries — authentic date. Hitler looked like winning the war. from Hitler's accession in January to that of Dr Charnley compounds the offence when he says Chiefs and Athe Warsaw Ghetto Rising in March - is the Holocaust which he wrongly places in the years Indians pi6 behind us. Impressive ceremonies in various countries 1943/4 - but which started with the Einsatzgruppen marked these (blood)red letter days. massacres of 1941 and saw its cHmax in 1942/3 -was Nonetheless, the lessons of history have still not Germany's reaction to impending defeat. In other Then and been properly absorbed. Last winter alone saw the words, a tenured teacher at the History Faculty of the now dissemination of several perversions of historic truth University of East Anglia is either woefully ignorant in this country. Two of them were closely linked. The of the facts or manipulates them to sustain a specious srael's Times (stablemate of the Sunday Times which argument. In either case he is unworthy of the deportation of retained David Irving's services) let Alan Clark appellation 'teacher'. I 400 (Arab) present Dr Charnley's already slanted Churchill book And what about the appellation 'Jewish refugee'? Palestinians - through his own distorting prism. The reviewers' Some bear it with pride - others with shame. Among which Douglas reception of the Clark-Charnley thesis that a warmon­ the latter is Herbert Braunsberg who told the German Hurd denounced gering Winston Churchill destroyed any chance of a School at Richmond that he had some understanding as illegal under negotiated peace with Hitler in 1940/1 was so for German interwar antisemitism. For one, there international law comprehensively negative that it need not concern us were foreign Bolshevik Jews in the country, and for - continues to here. another, observant Jews would not visit non-kosher attract What does concern us is Clark's and Charnley's homes. opprobium. subtext that even more than six million Jews were The first assertion is Goebbels-inspired tosh. Most Actually it expendable. Total indifference to other people's German Communist leaders were non-Jews: Lieb­ follows a suffering has always distinguished Alan Clark's knecht, Pieck, Miinzenberg, Thalmann, Torgler. The precedent set by thought processes, but this time the historicising ex- only foreign Jews among them - Luxemburg and HM Government politician (author of Operation Barbarossa) also Levine — were dead by 1920. The point about which, curiously showed a shaky grasp of the facts: he dated the Orthodox exclusiveness sounds strange after Brauns- enough, none of Wannsee Conference a year later than it actually took berg's 50-odd years in Britain, country of Plymouth the censorious place. This is crucial since in January 1942, the Brethren, Jehovah's Witnesses, Rastafarians and commentators suchlike. seem able to But then, after over half a century's U.K. residence, recall: in 1944 Braunsberg has, in his own words, no English or the mandatory WE HAVE MOVED Anglo-Jewish friends. This suggests that his views authorities reflect not so much political insight as psychological deported 250 The AJR offices are now at: feelings of exclusion. (Jewish) Alan Clark is politically 'fascistic' (in the words ofa Palestinian 1 HAMPSTEAD GATE House of Commons motion signed by 30 MPs); terrorist suspects 1A FROGNAL psychologically he is afflicted by the hubris that often from Latrun LONDON NW3 6AL comes with inherited wealth. camp to Eritrea - As to Dr Charnley, he craves notoriety and whence most Our new telephone number is: denigrates Churchill not unlike Herostratus who, for only returned the sake of fame, burnt down the Temple of Diana at four years later. 071-431 6161 Ephesus. Could this be a If, 50 years after Goebbels, we have to endure ease of selective The Fax number is 071-431-8454 renewed perversions of the truth by the likes of Clark, niemory, and not Note: The Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Charnley and Braunsberg, we take comfort from only at the Marx's dictum that when history repeats itself it FO? D remains at 15 Cteve Road. occurs first as tragedy and then farce. D AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1993

Certificate of Appreciation Profile Long-time AJR member Laura Biegler has been awarded a Certificate of Appreciation Back in peacetime London he worked as a by the Women's Royal Army Corps Asso­ Writer of wrongs freelance, got married, and eventually ciation for her work on their behalf. She was became the drama critic of the Daily Mail. invited to the Association's Annual General Tiring of theatre criticism he moved to the meeting, in the Victory Services Club, to Isle of Man and wrote half a dozen novels, receive the award on 3 April. all of them now out of print. One - The Recipients of the Certificate are chosen by World that Summer, which centres on the a vote of the Council of the WRACA, of tragedy of his grandmother - has, however, which the Duchess of Kent is President. D been shown in TV adaptations both here and in Germany. Kindertransporte recalled In the late 1960s, coinciding with the The exhibition The Last Good-Bye (The break-up of his first marriage, he received Rescue of Children from Nazi Europe) offers of film and television work from which has been touring will be on display at Germany. Since then he has pursued a dual the Manchester Jewish Museum until 20 career, and done a fair bit of commuting. In April. the U.K. his work has reached a wide The play Kindertransport by Diane audience in the form of TV adaptations of Samuel, winner of the 1992 Verity Bargate such classics of European literature as Award will be staged at the Cockpit Robert Muller. Photo: private. Zola's Nana, Heinrich Mann's Der Unter- Theatre, Gateforth Street, London NWS tan, and Schnitzler's Frau Beate und ihr oon after the Nazi takeover Goebbels from 13 April. The ticket office can be Sohn. (Robert Muller also has a personal dispatched an emissary to Hollywood phoned on 071-402-5081. D link with modern classics: all the female Sto ask Erich Maria Remarque, of All leads in Samuel Beckett's plays were written Odious comparison Quiet on the Western Front fame, to return for his second wife, Billy Whitelaw.) to Germany. When the author turned down Frequent film work in Hamburg gave him It had to happen! Israel's deportation of 400 the invitation the emissary warned him that the idea of taking root in his birthplace once Hamas activists to its Lebanese 'security he would suffer pangs of Heimweh (home­ again. (Remarque wasn't so wrong, after zone' has been compared to Nazi Ger­ sickness) for ever after. 'Heimiveh' scoffed all!) Today he owns an apartment in his many's deportation of thousands of inno­ Remarque, 'What d'you take me for — a native district of Eppensdorf; Hamburg will cent Polish Jews to no-man's-land before Jew'? also see the premiere of his latest play, Der Crystal Night in the columns of the Salz- This anecdote flashed through my mind Unheimliche, later in the year. In the interim burger Nachrichten. D when I interviewed Robert Muller, but Robert Muller -who never visits Israel, and more of that anon. says he is happiest in New York - continues Nein! Minister Robert was born in Hamburg in the mid- his long-distance commuter's existence 1920s. His father, a stage designer, had the It is a notorious fact that during the anti- between Suffolk and Hamburg which, he good fortune of obtaining work outside foreigner riots in Rostock last August the claims, best suits his split personality. Nazi Germany in 1937. Alas, the work was police stood by. Mecklenburg's Interior D R.G. in Vienna. Driven back to Hamburg by the Minister Lothar Kupfer not only ordered Anschluss the MuUers eventually left for this inactivity in the face of arson at a England. Robert came to foster parents in Vietnamese hostel, but afterwards South London and attended a technical expressed a 'certain understanding' for the school, where he did badly in practical rioters. Almost half a year after the outrage subjects but soon outshone all his class­ PARTNER he was at last dismissed from his post. O mates in English. in long established English Solicitors His mother meanwhile worked as a maid (bi-lingual German) would be happy and the father cleared air raid rubble. In to assist clients with English, German 1942 they received a last Red Cross message and Austrian problems. Contact J. JACKMAN• from the grandmother left behind in Ham­ burg. (Half a century later Robert still calls **" SILVERMAN Henry Ebner COMMERCl.AL TROPERTY t;OSSLLTANTS losing her the key event in his life.) As a 16-year old school leaver he got an at office boy's job in Soho. This humdrum job Myers Ebner & Deaner turned out to be the bottom rung of a 103 Shepherds Bush Road steeply ascending ladder. The office hap­ London W6 7LP pened to be that of the American film company that made The March of Time. Telephone 071 602 4631 Robert's colleagues encouraged his innate acr journalistic flair, and by 1944 he worked for ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN 26 Conduit Street, London \X1R ^TA the U.S. Office of War Information. 1945/6 Telephone: 071 409 0771 Fa.x: 071 493 f<01 saw him in Munich as a U.S.-uniformed contributor to the picture magazine Heute. AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1993

lampshades of Ilse Koch. Of course she Kaddish in Czechoslovakia Encountering the past knew nothing about that. She was beheved. n a fine and sunny morning we She certainly believes it herself. . . . n Kolin, last June, a world meeting of drove through a splendid wood — Some days later, tired after a long drive, former citizens took place. Services were Ocontaining beeches, among other we decided to stay overnight in Neustadt an I held at the old synagogue. Hundreds of rees - and straight into Concentration der Saale, a small Franconian spa town with Jews from Czechoslovakia and abroad, Camp Buchenwald. medieval ramparts where relatives of my including the Israeli ambassador, took part. At both Jewish cemeteries — the older one " was a large and curiously empty- wife's had lived before the deluge. We tried was founded in the 15th century - Kaddish ^eming place with a few buildings of whose at an hotel garni. Run by an old couple it was said, 50 years after the deportations. erstwhile functions one is only too well seemed pleasant enough. We were the only ware. The rest resembles a theme park guests, and something about us was making In Kojetin, in November, a memorial tablet was unveiled at the former syna­ 'tn restaurant and comfort station and the couple a little uneasy. gogue, which today is used by the Hussite tourists nosing about. At breakfast next morning the wife sect. An ecumenical prayer was said, by the While discussing an inscription we were served us amicably, but the decrepit old fool local pastor and by Rabbi Romain of suddenly spoken to by a woman. of a husband hung about evidently keen to talk to us. Maidenhead, where a torah scroll from '"^o sind Sie herr (Where are vou from?). Kojetin is in use. ^England'. How the war started In Hermanuv Mestec, a memorial day i^ .' England'. A moment's hesitation . . . was held in November with a walk through He had been in Russia, and his tales were at '^sen Sie, dass ich in diesem Lager ivar^ the former street of the Jews (who lived here first nothing, run-of-the-mill old sweats' It Was a good opening . . . She told us she since the beginning of the 15th century), the reminiscences. He relived scenes of mowing aa lived in the camp in the household of an synagogue, the former Jewish school and down oncoming Ivans with his machine- ^^ officer called Muller. the ancient Jewish cemetery. At the latter a gun while we drank our coffee and hoped he memorial tablet was unveiled for the 247 n a film or TV drama this person would would go away. Next he told us how the Jews of the town and the vicinity, who oiTiehow bear the stamp of Satan, but war had started - the true gospel according perished in the Holocaust. D tutinise her as I might, she was nothing to Josef Goebbels. . ^^ a pleasant, kind, quietly-spoken elderly Britain and France had envied a resurgent y> who had felt the urge, after all those Latvian memorial service Germany which only wanted to shelter its ^^•"s, to show her husband and son this far-flung countrymen. Then the Jews had A major memorial service will be held in '^^rie of her past life. And she seemed to feel taken a hand in driving us all into war. Riga for Latvian Nazi victims. The event ^ compulsion to tell us as well. has been organised by the Latvian Jewish When we mentioned that we were Jews, Courier, which keeps survivors and their he insisted that he had been a simple descendents in touch. From 10 June to 17 conscript with no evil deeds on his con­ June groups from Israel, America and, had been doing her compulsory year's science; he had merely killed Ivans in self- hopefully, Britain will be attending. Anyone p, . "^^ in the camp and saw herself as a defence during battle. who is interested in being a part of the ^'^.euge (witness of the time). His wife became more and more uneasy, British group should contact Mr Hugh hen I asked if she had been an auxiliary but as a former Sudeten German she Rank via this journal. Box No. 1242. D ^. Woman she denied it firmly. Her descrip- resented the fact that we had travelled in or the job yielded something like a Czechoslovakia. He produced more Nazi '^ture beuveen a skiv\-v and a British ideas: Jews in Germany had all been traders France remembers - at last and dealers; particularly those in Neustadt. France is to have an annual day of mourning hat most exercised her mind was the Told that my wife's father had been a on 16 July to commemorate the round-up of lih ^^^^ Muller, pregnant at the time of plumber, he shrugged: 'All right then, but in 13,000 Parisian Jews in 1942. Coinciden­ pg^^''3f>on. The awful Muller had 'scar- Neustadt they all were. 'And what hap­ tally the Vichy police chief, Rene Bousquet, j. as the Americans approached, and pened to the few Jews of Neustadt?' 83, who was responsible for la grand rafle is ^ e new masters, the Hdftlinge (her descrip- Shoulder-shrugging ignorance. to be prosecuted. These long overdue SD 1° ^^^ prisoners, a jarring bit of SS The macabre thing is that when we left, decisions reflect a growing awareness of , ) had set the dogs on her; the very dogs they wished us Gute Reise and proffered France's not inconsiderable share in the ^pouse used to set on them. rolls for our provisions. D John Rossall guilt for Nazi crimes. In view of official , r story teller was herself interrogated, prevarication — President Mitterrand tiot tortured or even threatened. In fact, recently had a wreath laid at a Petain k°"eofth ' thee ex-prisoners, who (according to memorial - the forthrightness of Marguer­ "^r•")) hah dri u"bee" f""""""' ^"'—'—f '" AJR ite Duras is all the more welcome. The his f " '" ^^^ camp for 'defrauding ther' — uithal an educated young man Our new address is: famous author was fined £1,400 for calling ther' — uithal an educated young man I HAMPSTEAD GATE, Le Pen's National Front 'murderers, pigs offi ^^^^'^ marriage outside Weimar post IA FROGNAL, LONDON NW3 6AL. and the scums of modern times'. D M if ^^^^ Muller died in hospital. SS ^^t.' No idea. Our new phone number Is: the ^ ^^^^d about the Jews. For a moment Permanent witness aco "^.^^"' honest face of our chance 071-431 6161 The Board of Deputies and Leicester aintance was a mask of embarrass- University's Centre for Holocaust Studies 'nerif 'TL Our new Fax number is: all K ^^ weren't around any more', she are to publish survivors' personal recollec­ tio ^ whispered. The Americans ques- 071-431 8454 tions in collaboration with Vallentine her about the notorious human skin Mitchell. D

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terms with the demands of their 'en­ usory symbiosis lightened' times concludes the section. Topical reprint German-Jewish symbiosis - an illusion, Arnold There follows a collection of discussion Wolfgang Koeppen, DEATH IN ROME Paucker (ed), LEO BAECK INSTITUTE YEAR papers which reassess the effects of emanci­ (Michael Hofmann), Hamish Hamilton, 1992, BOOK XXXVII. Seeker & Warburg, 1992, pation on the Jews of Germany from the £9.99 683 pp., £27.00 Congress of Vienna up to the Holocaust. There are four key dates. In 1789 the French his book, written in 1954, was long t a time when historical revisionism Revolution started the process, but Water­ forgotten but has suddenly been receives serious consideration it is loo and the defeat of Napoleon acted as a found to have stood the test of time. reassuring to know that the Leo T A brake until the brief period of democratic The mirror the author holds up to his Baeck Institute continues to research Ger­ uprisings in 1848/50. Thereafter, the liberal fellow countrymen shows two interrelated man-Jewish historiography; its Year Book approach continued, albeit precariously, families at a reunion in the Italian capital. not only 'refutes pseudo-scientific twaddle' until all legal disabilities were removed in What lifts them out of the ordinary is their (to quote the editor) but gives a wide 1870/71. names: one branch is called JUDEJAHN, readership an insight into its uniquely and the other PFAFFRATH. Judejahn is valuable work. The central issue of the volume is addressed in a passionately argued presen­ unambiguous, Pfaffe translates as priest. The present volume leaves no doubt as to tation by Wolfgang Benz who avers that the Now comes the first 'whammy': Gottlieb the Institute's high academic standards, 'German-Jewish symbiosis' was never more Judejahn is a top SS killer on the run; the reflected in each of the contributions. Its than an illusion. This thesis, supported by Pfaffraths were on top during 'Weimar', subtitle 'Enlightenment and Emancipation, reference to certain post-war German atti­ played ball with Hitler and belong to the Anti-Semitism, War and Resistance' indi­ tudes, carries considerable conviction, even new ruling establishment. cates the areas of research. The first four in the light of the somewhat cautionary essays deal with the religious aspects of Thorn in the flesh critique offered by Prof. Herbert Strauss in German-Jewish participation in the process his comments on the four papers in the Whammy No. 2: ex-SS General Judejahn of acculturation. There were, it is suggested, section. never complains about his surname (it must ambiguities in the acceptance of the Jew The Jewish identity and its expression in have goaded him into ever greater excesses), into the new inter-faith relationships and, in but hates his baptismal name. He does not particular, German-Jewish rites of inter­ Zionism, in political activism and in partici­ pation in the armed struggle against Hitler want to be reminded of God. He likewise ment were perceived by the host community hates his son Adolf who is a deacon as running counter to the prevailing spirit of is brought further into focus by a series of essays. Only a few can be cited here. Thus preparing for the Catholic priesthood. His 'modernity'. A review of the efforts made by nephew, Siegfried Pfaffrath, is also a thorn a number of Jewish theologians to come to Robert Wistrich demonstrates that the pre­ sumed ideological immunity to anti-Semi­ in the flesh of his parents, being an atonal tism of the European labour movement in ultra-modern composer, and a paedophile its formative years (and even later) is as homosexual to boot. much of a legend as the claims concerning The priest-to-be escaped from the chaos middle-class symbiosis. Equally spectacular of the collapsing Reich in the company of a is the painstaking analysis of the attempts young Jewish camp survivor. They saved made by a handful of righteous German each other's life. Siegfried, a British PoW, gentiles to rescue Jews from extermination managed to get in touch with a celebrated BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE by taking them into hiding at considerable emigre conductor, Kiirenberg, and his Jew­ personal risk. This well-documented paper ish wife. 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 is a valuable contribution to the study, In the neutral environs of Rome, which initiated by Professor Samuel Oliner, into has its own ballast of history. Fate now We offer a traditional style of the motives which inspired rescuers and spins its web. Gottlieb Judejahn is there to religious service with Cantor, rescued (see 'The Banality of Good and Evil' buy weapons for an Arab country whose Choir and organ AfR Information, February 1990). army he is reorganising. He has diplomatic status and a new identity. But mostly he Some Jews, of course, took part in active wants to complete the Final Solution which Furttter details can be obtained from resistance, as the article on four Jewish he considers to have been insufficiently our synagogue secretary women Communists makes clear. Another final. Above all he lusts after Jewish females article points up the fact that acts of for sex and murder, and attempts to kill Telephone 071-794-3949 reconciliation (as distinct from restitution) Kiirenberg's wife Ilse. He is also saddled were not unknown in Communist East with his own spouse Eva who wishes he had Minister: Rabbi Rodney J. Mariner Germany. perished like a Wagnerian hero. Cantor: Rev Lawrence H. Fine A number of contributions are dedicated Gottlieb has a stroke and is shriven at the to Dr Arnold Paucker, whose term of office Regular services: Friday evenings at 6.30 pm, instigation of his pious son. And Siegfried Saturday mornings at 10 am as editor ends with the present publication. pfaffrath is left agonising over his music, his They pay tribute to his considerable Religion school: Sundays at 10 am to 1 pm sexual orientation and a Germany whose achievements, of which volume XXXVII is past belongs to the evil Judejahn, and whose Ma Space donated by Pairs Limited so outstanding an example. future is problematical. D David Maier D John Rossall AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1993

councillors in the five new German Lander Suss mixed with Platz Angst the right to consign him to oblivion. Another victim of the post-Unification Metternich 'Happy the land that needs no heroes.' purge is Hanns Eisler, a composer once (Brecht) ^o'ter Isoocson, KISSINGER, Faber and Faber, made much of in East Berlin. It is true that '992, £25 Eisler, together with Brecht, Arnold Zweig eading this monumentally thorough ime was when no street map of a and Anna Seghers stretched a threadbare biography encompassing the climax German town was complete without cultural figleaf over the DDR's essential Rof the Cold War one feels at times as Ta Bismarckstrasse; later none lacked nakedness; he, nonetheless, deserves com­ though one were looking at the story of Jud an Adolf Hitler-Platz. Came the 'German memorating both as a modernist composer uss brought up to date - with, happily, a catastrophe' and all those goose-stepped on of opera and film scores, and as an engaged ^ery different ending. squares reverted to their original names. At Anti-Fascist. Henry Kissinger, like the hero/villain of least they did so in the West. In the East the Reversing the DDR-propagated false­ ^euchrwanger and Hauff, hailed from authorities renamed squares, streets, hood that Communists were the only true ^outhern Germany, though from Bavarian schools etc after heroes of the 'Anti-Fascist anti-Nazis a town council in Thuringia has Fiirth instead of Wurttemberg. Like Siiss he struggle' as part of their programme for re­ assumed that all anti-Nazis were Com­ educating the population. Most people are held great power under a ruler who found munists, and have committed the unpar­ his familiar with such excesses of DDR trouble-shooter more than useful, but donable offence of actually renaming a nomenclature as Karl Marx-Stadt and East either liked nor trusted him; the latter at street with the honourable name Geschwis­ •^"nes with good Berlin's Stalin Allee — which latter name ter Scholl Strasse. reason. duly disappeared in consequence of Khrush­ But the most bizarre instance of confused chev's rewrite of Soviet history. thinking, not to say mauvaise foi, in this '^me rejoinders Eventually, of course, East Berlin itself sphere comes from the West Berlin borough ^sident Nixon was an antisemite who disappeared as a separate capital city, and of Wilmersdorf. There the local council •ghted in making derogatory remarks with its demise a whole set of DDR-specific wanted to rename a street after Walter about Jews in the hearing of Henry K, and place names fell into a black memory hole. Benjamin, the Jewish philosopher of culture ^^en used the term 'Jew boy'. And the But this created a new problem best de­ who committed suicide on being turned erstwhile Heinz Alfred made lame scribed by the age-old adage 'throwing out back at the Spanish border in 1940. The J^^loinders and, on the whole, grovelled the baby with the bathwater'. proposal met with opposition from many L ^"^^ '^he Californian petit bourgeois who The drawback of the post-1990 whole­ residents. Some objected to the complica­ ' however, big ideas and ambitions. sale erasure of names of heroes of the 'Anti- tions and costs involved - which, given ese 'exchanges' would occur in the Fascist struggle' is that some of them really Benjamin's importance in modern thought, ^'''"^ °^ Kissinger's rivals and enemies, tvere heroes. Thus the — currently unper- is to say the least, petty-minded; worse still, when Nixon's tape mania was revealed soned — Georgy Dimitrov cut a heroic figure a few nay-sayers argued that the philos­ 1 '^' "^nry was appalled to find his poor in German history by standing up to opher's name sounded too much like that of Showing recorded. Goering in the Reichstag Fire Trial. The fact Hilde Benjamin, Ulbricht's hardline Minis­ ^^et this was the U.S.A.'s 54th Secretary that he also acted as Stalin's henchman in ter of Justice in the 1950s, to be acceptable. ^ !>tate who upheld the global balance by his native Bulgaria does not give town D R.G. Is^ 'i^"'^"^ 'shutde' diplomacy as Egypt and J nearly triggered a nuclear strike AJR ^^"ng the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He COMPENSATION CLAIMS ^ricated the U.S.A. from the Vietnam Our new address is: GERMANY ^orass and made a friend of Chou En-Lai, I HAMPSTEAD GATE, IA FROGNAL, LONDON NW3 6AL. na s great foreign secretary. All this was Under a new Agreement regular hardship L , .^'""•^^ed without a genius for going payments will be made to victims of the Our new phone number is: 'nd people's backs. Nevertheless, he was Holocaust who were hitherto unable to or the few members of the Nixon apply for or received only inadequate compensation payments. 071-431 6161 f nistration to escape with credit, even ^j from the Watergate fiasco. Claims may be filed by persecutees who Our new Fax number is: ithal, Henrv - 'of the thick glasses and were held in concentration camps for at ^n rh' u least six months. Those who were confined 071-431 8454 , ^ nicker accent" and roly-poly-figure, in ghettos or lived in hiding for at least ^d himself the reputation of a ladies' eighteen months are also entitled to claim. esc ' ^^^" ^ 'swinger" - and again he On instructions our Office will assist you to to h ^i'^hout the mud of scandal sticking prepare your Application and pursue the and 1, ^''^ ^as one divorce, and a lasting matter with the authorities. GERMAN BOOKS Y happy second marriage, For further information please contact: exe • •'^rnerican debut of this man, who ICS—Claims BOUGHT 3(, J ^^" almost supreme power, was as an 146-154 Kilburn High Road In f ^'""' ^'^'^orian of the Metternich era. London NW6 4JD A. W. MYTZE spe • °'^nt Metternich could be retro- Tel: 071-328 7251 (Ext. 107) 1 The Riding, London NW11. j^ lyely described as the Kissinger of Fax: 071-624 5002 ^'P^leonic Europe! n John Rossall AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1993

ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION Sir — Mordechai Vaanunu was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment, which Ruth Willers calls 'a comparatively short sentence'. For the past six years he has been in solitary confinement in a cell measuring 6 ft X 10 ft PRECONDITION FOR PEACE with refugees from Germany who used it as with a drain hole that doubles as shower Sir - I wonder when somebody will tell the a sort of halfway house. and lavatory. Once every two weeks he is Arabs that they cannot expect any true Are there other readers who were at this allowed a visit from his family, separated peace negotiations until they make it poss­ school? from them by a metal screen. The excuse ible for minorities to live peacefully in Arab Holders Hill Avenue Ludwig Levy that this cruel and degrading treatment is to countries. This, of course, applies to Jews Lofidon NW4 save him from attack by other prisoners is just as much as to others. sheer hypocrisy. Little statelets based on religion, language GERMANOPHOBIA His 'crime' was to expose the nuclear or ethnic history just are no longer possible Sir - I would like to voice a protest against conspiracy of Israel's authorities accumu­ in the 20th century. the present editorial policy of your journal. lating an arsenal of horrifying weapons Cfieyne Court, Canning Road Ulrich Pick The extreme attitude against everything when the superpowers are trying to dispose Croydon German is really quite unacceptable. of them. This gross misuse of Israel's scant Many of my friends have already inti­ resources was never authorised by the SUD-TYROL TIME WARP mated that they will not allow the paper people of Israel, to whom it represents a Sir - From 1936 to 1938, I stayed at a over their doorstep. RG — call a halt and threat as great as to its neighbours. German Jewish boarding school close to adopt a more constructive attitude in keep­ The people who waste millions of shekels Meran, where most of the pupils had ing with the present vast majority of on such foul weapons and who profit from parents still in Germany. This school was Germans! fat defence contracts under a cloak of then forced to close — not because it was Chalton Drive Dr E. Hornung secrecy have the temerity to question the Jewish, but because the Italians did not wish London N2 motives of a man who followed his to have a German school in this German- conscience. speaking area which they tried to assimilate Dr Hornung should ponder the strong Just back from a visit to Israel I am into their own culture. As it happened they shelving of the Republicans in Hesse after heartened by a groundswell of public dis­ did me a great favour, as this caused my the most intense anti-xenophobia campaign sent from the aggressive militarism which is father to send me to England early in 1939. ever in the German media. Ed. so uncharacteristic of our people. Meran, at that time, had a thriving Jewish Vaanunu's friends will not rest until he is community with one kosher luxury hotel, THE FIRES OF ROSTOCK freed and Israel once again will shine as 'a and two kosher boarding houses, all filled light amongst the nations'. Sir - What is it about some ex-German Potter Street H. S. Griinewald Jewish refugees that they cannot forget the Pinner, Middlesex brain-washing they received, when young, in Prussian school history lessons? QUOTE MISQUOTE You are right in refuting the argument Sir - I have been reading AJR Information Israel's that Frederick was a 'judophile'. You are for longer than I care to remember and have Very finest Wines also right about Maria Theresa, who was, always found it immaculately printed. Alas, Hke all the crowned heads of her time, a no more. Schiller did not write 'Wo dein judophobe. But you fail to make an import­ SHIPPED BY sanfter Fluegel tveihf (p. 13, February ant distinction. Maria Theresa suffered issue) but 'iveilf. from almost religious mania, and certainly HOUSE OF from ruined knee joints (from kneeling in Has everyone in the Editorial office her private prie-dieu). She was Empress von forgotten their German? HALLGARTEN Gottes Gnaden, by divine right, and thus, to Winston Avenue M. Smith her mind, Jews — as long as they were of this London NW9 persuasion — questioned the 'divine' right of YARDEN and GAMLA her throne. This explains why in the ZAHNARZT/DENTAL SURGEON Austrian Empire Jews who embraced the Dr H. 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ERUV OVER OUR HEADS Musical 'diarist' and can't grumble the whole day long'. ^T - The orthodox lobby clamouring for an Tilson-Thomas admits he is less attracted by her literary talent than her 'voracious "uv in Golders Green seem, to me, to have nne Frank wrote her wartime diary intelligence, darting about from subject to made a serious mistake in presenting their in a cramped Amsterdam hiding subject, with this wonderful sense of argument in favour of this 'symbolic' zone, place, amid fear and inter-family ^"d caused a great deal of trouble for A humour, and at the same time observing friction. Michael Tilson-Thomas, in con­ things happening in the world'. He adds: wemselves and everyone else. trast, is a musical jet-setter who divides his Would it not be much easier simply to life between London, as principal conductor Conversational and direct '^^clare the whole British mainland an Eruv, of the London Symphony Orchestra, and With the coast as natural boundaries, and Miami, where he conducts the New World 'There's no question that she was a remar­ °nly tell the people who actually want to Symphony Orchestra. kably talented and perceptive person. I know? Some strange artistic alchemy brought don't think she was unique. You could see Mnell Park M. Weldon these two together, and the result was her literary talent, but a lot of the time you N7 Tilson Thomas's first major composition. feel she is very conversational and direct.' Tilson-Thomas admits to feeling in touch LOCATING THE ROOTS From the Diary of Anne Frank, premiered at the Barbican last year. with Anne, almost it seems, in a psychic "^ "• There is no 'German infection' of The 'trigger' for the work came from way. Whenever he was stuck for inspiration hich Hitlerism is but one manifestation, actress Audrey Hepburn who, herself a he stared at her picture on the piano and o tar German traditionalist, patriotic, survivor of the Nazi occupation of Holland, asked her to help him. '^ngoistic' (if you wish) attitudes with the suggested that UNICEF (of which she was 'Although her words convey a state of ^•^e brush as mass-murdering, corpse- spokesperson) commission the piece. The peace and resolution, somehow there is an robbing Nazism is totally unfounded. composition contains passages from the indication of her fate' he suggests. Con­ Hitlerism came into power in Germany - Diary which she read at its Gala premiere. fronting the Holocaust as a composer and ^^ Bolshevism in Russia — owing to For Tilson-Thomas, writing about Anne his own past as a Jew through the 'Diary', . '^^eptional circumstances; its roots are not represented a return to the emotional, disturbed him. His own grand-parents Germany but in France (Gobineau and melodic composition of his late teens, which founded the Yiddish Theatre in New York, *-nauvin) and England (H. S. Chamberlain), he abandoned at the time for conducting. and through them he inherited a tradition of "^d in the multinational Habsburg empire 'They were not' he told me 'avant-garde Hebrew and Yiddish folk-songs. (The fate (Lue =r). enough. I respected avante-garde music, but of members of his family, who hved in ?^'^''of)s Close G. Schmerling it wasn't what I wanted to say'. Russia at the time of the Second World War °'<^ Cou/sdon, Surrey remains unknown.) 'In the end I decided to try and represent BLACK AND BLUE Eternal tragedy h it through Anna's eyes. I can imagine that ^ar Mrs Lassman -1 wish you would stop On the podium the 46-year old Californian she herself would probably have liked it. If it ^ tditor printing tripe he considers funny, is arresting and mercurial — not unlike Anne does not quite speak with the same voice, it ^m not the only reader who hates him for herself. He agrees that they share mercurial, reflects the exuberance I felt at 18.' asting good space. Black and Blue is quicksilver natures. He relates to the D Gloria Tessler 'Miotic. He should invite brainy AJR orchestra with dynamism, explorative Ambers - we have many scientists and vigour and sheer joyousness. Watching him ctors - to contribute. If he cannot get in rehearsal gives one a sense of the sixth 'itributors let him print fewer pages. form common room, perhaps another link J'°'^ End Gardens Peter W. Johnson with Anne Frank. And of course Anna "•ondon NW8 represents intense youthfulness to him, COMPANIONS darkened by the eternal, overarching tra­ BOUQUETS gedy of the Holocaust. OF LONDON "" I find AJR Information very useful — in 'I wanted to represent her character as a ^'^f excellent. little bird of contradictions, and to suggest A specialist home care service !'^*igton Rood K. Mannaberg the horrors and privations she endured as to assist the elderly, people ^'^otford-on-A von well as her very remarkable spirit.' with disabilities, help during To convey the grief of the Holocaust he and after illness, childcare " Thank you for continuing to provide used tunes and phrases from the Kaddish, and household needs. '" readers with such a really splendid but points out that these are not as mourn­ Sazine which I read from cover to cover For a service tailored to your individual needs ful, as lachrymose, as they appear. by Companions who care - Please call Au ^^^^^ without putting it down once. 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Squaring the circle

/•/ // EW AJR OFFICES The AJR's neic offices in Frognal. Finchley Road tube station is on the Jubilee and Metropolitan Lines. The bus routes; 13, 113 and 82 all serve the Finchley Road. {Photo: Newman.)

ome say Refugia is an actual place — rested on a board placed across a bath tub. autumn 1987 the AJR Office moved from others a state of mind. The former While the office remained in this not exactly Fairfax Mansions to Hannah Karminski Sconsider the Finchley Road the user-friendly building, a more welcoming House. This building is, alas, no longer Champs Elysees of Refugia. And just as environment was found for the AJR Club. adequate to our members' needs; above all Paris' great tree-lined artery of traffic has Number 9 Adamson Road, named in the many stairs made the bed-sits difficult of cafes, places of entertainment, and the honour of the martyred JUdische Frauen­ access. Elysee Palace, so the Finchley Road's envir­ bund leader Hannah Karminski was The current move will take us into our ons feature cafes with continental appeal, officially opened by her cousin, Judge (Sir) fourth address, and first ever new (and sites of (former) refugee entertainment - Seymour Karminski, in late 1965. Its purpose-built) office premises. This is a Blue Danube Club, Das Laterndl - and the spacious ground floor hall routinely accom­ welcome innovation. Innovators know, AJR Office. modated cosy Kafeeklatsch and card games, however, that they lose contact with Back in 1941, when the AJR started, the and also served as venue for meetings, tradition at their peril. It is, therefore, office was a four-room maisonette at 279b Chanukah celebrations and communal reassuring to know that, in a manner of Finchley Road, the back rooms exposed to Sedarim. The AJR Executive, meanwhile, speaking, we are returning to our roots. the noise and smoke of LMS trains. After met regularly in Room 9, on the first floor. Number 1 Frognal, is diagonally opposite two years we moved to more commodious The upper floors provided bed-sitter 279b Finchley Road where 'it all' started premises at 8 Fairfax Mansions, though accommodation for eight people. over 50 years ago. O early on here, too, the floorboards remained Eventually all the afore-mentioned social bare, and the hand-operated roneo machine activities were transferred to the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre in Cleve Road, and in ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Will be held on D n Thursday 10 June 1993, 7.30 p.m. Paul Bolint AJR D PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE D (AJR CLUB) n Day Centre D at D 15 CLEVE ROAD, LONDON NW6 n AFTERNOON HIGHLIGHTS n OPEN DAY D Tuesday 20 April, 4.30-5.30 D All members, volunteers n WILL YOU WALK & TALK? Returning by popular demand: Team D and friends are invited to D General Knowledge Quiz. Steffi Would you take out or visit members D Join us on D D • Steiner has agreed to host another who are frail and/or on their own? brain teasing session to fortify the Please talk to Laura Howe, AJR D Sunday 4th July 1993 D over-forties. D at 2.30 p.m. Volunteers' Co-ordinator if you can give D a a couple of hours a week. Entrance £2 D Thursday 1 April and Thursday 22 D April, 4.30-5.30 Dance classes for to include refreshments D Tuesday-Thursday 9.30-5.00 D those of all abilities. Friday 9.30-1.30. 071-431 6161 nnnnnDnnnnnnnnnnD AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1993

New concert venue Sal Srebnik Library opened

he genial atmosphere and sense of community experienced at the annual TAJR concerts has in no way dimi- JJished over the decades, but ticket sales nave unfortunately declined over the past J^o years. Consequently the Queen Eliza- ^th Hall is no longer financially viable as a Venue for the event. This may actually be good news for those of our members who ound a long autumnal traipse across the outh Bank complex less than appealing. However, regular concert-goers, for Holly, Clare and Ella. Claudia iDidi) Srebnik. nom this annual musical event was a red- lare, Holly and Ella have no concep­ roots of the refugee community, many of •^ter day in the social calendar, need not tion of what it means to be alone. whom had their own childhood brutally ^^Pair. We are delighted to announce that C They are beautiful children, much interrupted. The library is a gift to members *'s year's Annual Charitv" Concert will be loved and secure in the heart of their family. of the first generation from the children's Eld a the Royal Academy of Music in They fear nothing and have nothing to fear. grandmother, Claudia (Didi) Srebnik. ^ar>lebone Road, on Sunday 17 October. For these reasons it was especially fitting Just prior to the ceremony, Mr C. T. . ""ogramme details will appear in the May that they should be chosen to declare the Marx, Chairman of the AJR, thanked Mrs sue. This change of venue will in no way new library at the Paul Balint AJR Day Srebnik for her generosity in funding and •finish the high musical standards consis- Centre officially open. These children repre­ administering the new service. He also ^'^dy achieved over the last half century, sent the newest generation to grow from the praised her foresight in identifying a 'gap' in when we informed the South Bank the many facilities already available at the ^itre that we were ending our 26 year worthwhile cause. We are sorry to lose a Day Centre. In reply, Mrs Srebnik dismissed ^ociation they expressed regrets, adding: valued promoter. gratitude, saying that it was she who had f^veryone at the South Bank ivas very sad The Royal Academy of Music concert received a 'new lease of life' from her 'job'. oear that you have decided to look for a hall has a seating capacity of four hundred, The Sal Srebnik Library will entail a great "der venue for your annual concert. Your so members are advised to return booking deal of work and responsibilitv'. We are ^^ncerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall have forms as early as possible after receipt in grateful to Didi, even though she denies we ^^ enjoyed by a huge number of people - order to ensure tickets. [Please note that should be, for taking on this task and hope only is their artistic quality extremely there are no facilities for wheelchair users at that it gives her, and those who use it, much So but you are also raising funds for a very the Royal Academy.) D pleasure for many years to come. D

PAUL BALINT AJR Thursday 8 Justin Joseph Entertains at Tuesday 27 Musical Gems from the the Piano Past - Bernard Wilcox DAY CENTRE Sunday 11 CLOSED (Tenor) Julia Binneti Monday 12 CLOSED (Soprano) accompanied by 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL Tuesday 13 CLOSED Ron Wilson (Piano) Tel. 071 328 0208 Wednesday 14 Little Pieces of Light Wednesday 28 Tlie Dulcet Tones Classical Music - Jeremy Thursday 29 The Two R's Cabaret - Open Tuesday and Thursday 9.30 a.m.- Henderson (Piano) Richard Moody (Tenor) 3 ?n""' Monday and Wednesday 9.30 a.m.- Thursday 15 The Stanley & Bertha accompanied by Robert ••^0 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.-7 p.m. Lishak Duo — Violin & Douglas (Piano) Piano Simday 18 Take a Quick-Step Back In ^or«i„g Activities - Bridge, kalookie, Time — Geoffrey Strum MAY abble, chess, etc., keep fit, discussion accompanied by Johnny Sunday 2 The Balaton Hungarian °^°up, choir [Mondays], art class (Tuesdays Walton (Piano) Folk Dance Group """^Thursdays). Monday 19 Continental Cocktail - Monday 3 CLOSED Helen Mignano (Soprano) Tuesday 4 A Concert given by Gitte accompanied by Sylvia Sorensen (Flute) &c Vegard Aft, ^toon entertainment - Cohen (Piano) Lund (Guitar) of LIVE Tuesday 20 Songs & Arias - John MUSIC NOW - The APRIL Freeman (Bass) and Helen Scheme which brings Music Tk Ursday 1 Judi Merri's 'Foolish' Pot- Blake (Soprano & Piano) into the Community Pourri - Judi Merri-Frowde Wednesday 21 The Songmakers - Jack Wednesday 5 Light Classical Music - accompanied by June Harris accompanied by Bahiya Callan (Soprano) & Moore (Piano) Happy Branston (Piano) Lianne-Marie Skriniar ^'*nday. Isabel Beyer & Harvey Thursday 22 June Moore & Gerhart (Soprano) with Piano Dagul Entertain at the Hamburger at the Piano accompaniment Piano Sunday 25 The Beaufort Ensemble Thursday 6 Musical Harmony - Jack CLOSED AFTER LUNCH Monday 26 The Valerie Hewitt Show Harris &c Happv Branston ^^esday 6 CLOSED accompanied by Anne Sunday 9 METROPOLITAN "^edne.sday 7 CLOSED Berryman (Piano) POLICE BAND AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1993

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0 years ago. During the dark days of war when news from the Continent 5consisted of tank battles, little was heard in England of actors, singers and the he next exhibition at the Hayward fate of former celebrities. It was 1943 when Gallery Georgia O'Keeffe: American Zarah Leander sang in her last film Damals, Tand Modem (until 27 June) should be leaving Germany soon afterwards for her interesting. O'Keeffe was renowned for her native Sweden. At the same time, vast *3rge flower paintings and haunting land­ entertainment-hungry audiences in Nazi scapes of the American South-west. At the Europe were amused by the Hans Albers s^me time the Hayward Galler)- is showing film Miinchhausen, unaware that the three classic light installations by James officially maligned Erich Kaestner, had * urrell. Turrell has an enormous studio in a written the script under a pseudonym. Carl hangar at Flagstaff Airport, Arizona, and is Orff, at the time a little-known composer the only artist known to have acquired an scored a triumph with Carmina Burana. extinct volcano. In the United States, Franz Werfel's A great treat is in store at the National Jacoboivsky and the Colonel had its Broad­ Gallery with the showing of Tradition and way premiere with Curd Juergens and devolution in French Art 1700 to 1880 Danny Kaye in the main parts. (until 11 July). This exhibition drawn from Profile of ai} actor. A Salzburg exhi­ *orks at the Musee des Beaux Arts in Lille Picasso, The Three Dancers, 1925. bition throws light on Oskar Werner, a very 'deludes such famous paintings as David's Photo: courtesy Tate Gallery. gifted performer who, however, lacks the °elisarius, Delacroix's Medea, Courbet's The Victoria and Albert Museum is discipline for acting in an ensemble. ^Pres-diner a Ornans and superb paintings showing (until 6 June) African Themes, Member of the 'Burg' in the Forties and °y Chardin, Boucher, Greuze, Gericault, newly acquired photographs and prints by Fifties, he failed to make Vienna his artistic '"Orot and Sisley (some of these artists are three artists, David Goldblatt, Maud Suiter home; falling out with his superiors he hardly represented in British public and Faisal Ammar Abdu'allah. Goldblatt is chose an international film career (Jules et 'Collections). very well-known in South Africa as a Jim, The Spy that came in from the Cold). This year the British Museum Society (the reportage and documentary photographer. He was originally married to Elisabeth friends of the British Museum), is celebrat- At the Tate is the fourth annual display of Kallina who showed early talent in ''^g its 25th anniversan,-. An exhibition its collections New Displays. The large Rostand's L'aiglon. Modern Graphic Art in Britain: Gifts from gallery. Room 15, houses a remarkable Recent guests at the Vienna State opera 'he British Museum Society is on show until display Portraits and Allegories in Euro­ were Kiri te Kanawa, much acclaimed as ^^ April. Also at the British Museum (until pean Art, 1910-1950, including works by Richard Strauss' Arabella, and Nicolai ^^ April) is The Art of Watercolour: The Picasso, Beckmann, Chagall, Derain, Ghiaurov who sang in Mussorgsky's ^oyal Watercolour Society Collection. The Stanley Spencer and Lucian Freud. Khovantchina 35 years after his first Society was founded in 1804 by artists Finally the eminently successful Pirates, appearance there. Receding from the Royal Academy. The 100 Fact and Fiction exhibition is coming back Obituary. Marko Rothmueller, a most ^orks on display, dating from the first to the National Maritime Museum, Green­ impressive baritone, has died, aged 84. A decade of the 19th century- to the present wich (until 5 September). Many ofthe most Croatian Jew, he started his career in pre- •^ay, have been selected from the finest popular features of the original exhibition Nazi Germany, going on to Vienna and ^'atercolours in the collection. have returned. D Switzerland. At the Royal Opera House, he sang Rigoletto, Amonasro and Wozzeck accompanied by forceful acting. Roles in Annely Juda Fine Art Glyndebourne included the premiere of CLUB 1943 Stravinsky's Rake's Progress. After 1959 he 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street) Anglo-German Cultural Forum sang for a while at the Met in New York, Tel: 071-629 7578. Fax: 071-491 2139 Meetings on Mondays at 8 p.m. and later taught at Indiana University. D CONTEMPORARY PAINTING at the Communal Hall AND SCULPTURE Belsize Square Synagogue AJR 51 Belsize Square London NW3 Our new address Is: D S W BYE I HAMPSTEAD GATE, Apr. Sth. No Lecture. IA FROGNAL, LONDON NW3 6AL. GENERAL BUILDING, Apr. 12th. No Lecture. REFURBISHMENT Apr. 19th. Ralph Blumenau. Our new phone number is: AND DECORATING How the Jews of Mesopotamia saved All aspects of building & decorating Judaism. (386 BC-1038 AD). 071-431 6161 Apr. 26th. Stella Rosenak, M.A. carried out to the highest standards. Malvida von Meysenburg and Our new Fax number is: References supplied. Johanna Kinkei. Telephone: 081-366 1028 May 3rd. Bank Holiday. No Lecture. 071-431 8454

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A history of the jews in the Germati-speaking lands brothers, Schleiermacher, Brentano, Schlegel and Tieck as well as Mirabeau and Mme de Stael when on visits to Berlin. Part 8: The French Revolution and Napoleon Despite the fact that their Judaism seemed to be no obstacle to these friendships with The French Revolution and the Jews Christians, some of the salon Jewesses eventually accepted baptism: Rahel Levin in 1814 when at the age of 43 she married the he French Revolution inscribed on its usurers and, doubtlessly responding to local diplomat Karl August Varnhagen; Hen­ banner the Rights of Man, and pressure, had declared a year's moratorium rietta Herz in 1817, under the influence of TLiberty, Equality and Fraternity. on debts owing to them. Now he main­ the theologian Schleiermacher. These were soon extended to the Jews. We tained that it would take time till, weaned of By the time of these conversions, the have already seen in Part 7 that civic their 'anti-social' characteristics, they Prussian state had emancipated the Jews. equality for the Jews was enacted in January would merit the full freedoms of French The French had massively defeated Prussia 1790, though the deputies from Alsace at citizens. In 1808, he imposed economic at the Battle of Jena in 1806, as the result of first managed to exclude the Jews of that restrictions of near-Prussian severity on which she temporarily lost her Polish prov­ region. France had acquired largely Ger­ them. By the end of the decade. Napoleon inces, with their concentration of orthodox manic Alsace from the Holy Roman Empire had fallen; and the Bourbon government, Jews, to the Napoleon-created Grand only about 100 years earlier, and anti- though reactionary in many other ways, Duchy of Warsaw. A new generation of Jewish prejudices were still deep-rooted. allowed the restrictions to lapse. That the politicians had drawn the conclusion that The Jews of Alsace, unlike those in the rest local population was still not reconciled to many of Prussia's ancien regime structures of France, were still physically and cultur­ them was shown by the outbreak of anti- put her at a disadvantage against the ally isolated in German-style ghettoes, and Jewish riots in Alsation villages in 1823, dynamism of France. They initiated a whole thus deemed unassimilable. But during 1832, and 1947/8. series of reforms. The loss of the Polish 1791 the Jacobins, committed to the radical provinces probably made it easier for the implementation of revolutionary principles, The Jews of Germany Prussian Chancellor, Karl August von came to exert more influence on the Almost wherever the French armies went Hardenberg, to include the Edict of 1812 National Assembly, and in September that they proclaimed religious freedom and granting the Jews equality of status, year secured the emancipation of the Jews broke down the walls of the ghettoes. The although it still excluded practising ones of Alsace also. exception was Bavaria, which played an from state appointments. There seems to Revolutionary France went to war with important part in Napoleon's diplomacy as have been little racial anti-Semitism the rest of Europe in 1792; and, especially an ally against Austria: consequently he did involved: a Jew who converted to Christi­ after Napoleon came to power in 1799, not compel the Bavarian ruling classes to anity could enter government service. French armies drove all before them and emancipate the Jews. But elsewhere the This presented many Jews with a temp­ overran the Low Countries and much of Jews fared better. Jerome's kingdom of tation. Already steeped in secular studies, Germany. The areas west of the Rhine were Westphalia became in many ways a show they now gained admission to universities annexed to France in 1801; in 1806, the piece for French enlightenment. Christian and were therefore educationally qualified greater part of Germany to the East was Wilhelm von Dohm, the author of On the for state service. Consequently a number of constituted into the Confederation of the Civil Amelioration of the Jews (see Part 7), them, having advanced so far, accepted Rhine under French protection; and in the had left the service of Prussia for that of baptism simply in order to gain entry to following year the kingdom of Westphalia Westphalia, and helped to shape its 1808 public positions. Historians talk about a was carved out for Napoleon's brother constitution which enshrined the complete 'conversion epidemic' among the Jewish Jerome. equality of the Jews. The Grand Duchy of intelligentsia. Sometimes the converts were Baden followed suit in 1809. merely theists (see Part 7) who regarded Napoleon and the Jews Though Prussia lost considerable terri­ orthodox Christianity as lightly as they had In France and the areas annexed to it tory during the wars, it was not occupied by come to regard orthodox Judaism. Why, Napoleon confirmed the emancipation of France, and until nearly the end of the they thought, should they handicap them­ the Jews after being assured, first by an Napoleonic period the legal situation of the selves in their careers for the sake of credal Assembly of Jewish Notables, and then a Jews in Prussia remained as it had been. But confessions which meant so little to them? Sanhedrin of religious leaders, that they the trend started by Moses Mendelssohn Some tried to conceal their origin; others considered themselves citizens of the state, continued, and Berlin's Jewish intelligentsia proudly acknowledged it. All of them iden­ regarded its other citizens as brothers, and became steadily more strongly established. tified themselves with German culture and, were willing to give this state their whole­ A notable feature of the period were the just as their French counterparts had done, hearted allegiance, and to defend it (1807). salons of some remarkable Jewish women proclaimed their patriotic devotion to the By this time the Jews were so enthusiasti­ which provided an intellectual and social state. cally grateful to France that they rejected meeting ground for Jews and Gentiles. D Ralph Blumenau any idea of a divided allegiance: their reply There was Henriette Herz, the wife of the made the point that they viewed Jews of distinguished doctor Marcus Herz; Amalie other countries as strangers whom they had Beer, daughter of a banker and mother of CAR HIRE had no problems in fighting. the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer; Rahel Comfortable, air conditioned car with helpful driver. 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tary title (the family crest first showing four, The occasion was one of considerable Rothschilds and Royals and not the later five, symbolic arrows in the splendour, with illuminations and a concert famous cluster). given by the Paris Opera chorus conducted Continued from March issue It is worth noting that his son Lionel by Rossini. Considering that James de he appointment of Lord Rothschild declined an English baronetcy when it was Rothschild was not one of the Emperor's to the presidency of the London offered in 1849. From then on Queen favourites this visit was indeed a major TInstitute of Jewish Affairs 250 years Victoria refused to grant him a peerage triumph. ^fter the birth of Mayer Amschel, the when his name was put forward again, founder of the dynasty, prompts a brief although she was on visiting terms with Vienna other members of the family. He was the retelling of the much-told Rothschild story. In Vienna, his elder brother Salomon had a first professing Jew to enter Parliament; his rather harder road to tread in order to greatest service to Britain was the acqui­ l-ondon obtain imperial recognition, not to mention sition of Suez Canal Company shares. In England the story begins with Amschel's any kind of closer personal relationship. Lionel's grandson Walter rendered an even 'hird son Nathan. He was a legend in his Although he had a friend at court in the more signal service to the Jewish people as "fetime. Cinema goers of a certain age are person of Prince Metternich, he was himself recipient of a letter from the Foreign 'ikely to remember how he was portrayed as restricted by the slow pace of emancipation Secretary which the world knows as the ^uch in a remarkable performance by in the Hapsburg lands. Only when he had Balfour Declaration. George Arliss - the way he stood on the become one of the largest landowners and Woor of the London Stock Exchange, could no longer be excluded did he obtain tophatted, leaning against 'his' pillar; how, Paris the gracious acknowledgement of His 'hanks to the family's unique courier James was the youngest son of Mayer Imperial Majesty. He sought no more and 'lerwork, he learned of the outcome of the Amschel. Although he never took on French was satisfied that he had thus achieved "attle of Waterloo some 24 hours before nationality, he sought the company of significant progress towards the confirma­ ^nyone else in Britain and how - not simply members of Parisian high society. He came tion of unencumbered civil rights for the °y shrewd exploitation of this knowledge - to be one of the closest friends of Louis Jewish subjects of the Dual Monarchy. But "e became one of the richest men in the Phillippe, the bourgeois King of France, as not until 32 years after his death was a Country. In point of fact, he lived in well as his financial adviser. His house in the Rothschild, his grandson Salomon Albert, relatively modest style and showed disdain rue Laffitte was described by Heinrich actually received by Emperor Franz Joseph. ^^ards publicity and worldly honours, Heine as 'the Versailles of. . . money'. In Perhaps the most bizarre of all the 'nus he was not unduly worried when, in due time he went on to build a flamboyantly Rothschilds' royal encounters involved two °16, his bothers, but not he, were granted extravagant palace, the Chateau de Fer- of Salomon Albert's sons. In September "e Imperial Austrian patent of a heredi- rieres, where he was visited by Napoleon III. 1936, not long after the conclusion of the Hitler-Schuschnigg pact. King Edward VIII and Mrs Wallis Simpson visited the Austrian capital. Though admirers of the STERNBERG CENTRE FOR THOSE YOU CARE MOST ABOUT German leader, the couple visited Baron FOR JUDAISM Eugene von Rothschild and his American- Springdene born wife Kitty at their palatial home, highlights Schloss Enzesfeld. A modern nursing home with Sunday 18 April. 8 00 p.m. 'Loving the 26 yrs of excellence in health In June 1937 the Baron and his wife were Dead' - a film and talk by Mira Hamermesh. care to the community. guests at their friends' wedding in Paris. Licensed by Barnet area health authority and recognised by Much of the couple's honeymoon was spent Tuesday 20 April. 8.00 p.m. Pacifism and BUPA & PPP. in Germany, meeting the Nazi hierarchy. the Jews - Museum Lecture. 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transform it into a giant pilgrimage centre. THIS ISRAEL Foreign Minister Shimon Peres also THIS ENGLAND broached the topic of Catholic tourism Intifada during his recent meeting with Pope John Left-arm bowlers seem likely to die younger Since its inception five years ago Arab-on- Paul II. than right-armers. Arab violence has cost 750 lives. During the Peterborough in Daily Telegraph last year Hamas and Islamic Jihad carried Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Dr Kalim Siddiqui, leader of the self-styled out 30 terrorist attacks, leaving 13 Israelis Founding date: 1936. British Moslem parliament, said: 'I do not dead. Initiator: Bronislaw Huberman. want to kill Rushdie. We will just break Yosuf Alrai, a masked 22-year old Launch conductor: Arturo Toscanini. every bone in his body'. Hebron Palestinian, shot in the groin by IDF First musical director: Wilhelm Steinberg. Dr Siddiqui's grasp of the rule of law members, had his life saved by an IDF Current conductor: Zubin Mehta. must be as tenuous as his grasp of the doctor and the Hadassah-University hospi­ Number of subscribers: 32,000. human physiology; clearly no one could tal's trauma unit. Largest ever audience: 200,000 Israelis at survive the kind of attack Siddiqui Ha-Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv. threatens. Ecology Daily Express leader The United World College, an institution 'Church-State' relations Eton has always produced famous criminals dedicated to world peace under the patron­ Ex-Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yossef: as well as statesmen. The only moral of the age of Prince Charles, is to set up a branch in 'The National Religious Party should be Guppy case is that anyone who has a son the Negev which would concentrate on dumped in the rubbish bin'. NRP Knesset who seems certain to become a criminal desert ecology. Member Shaul Yahalom: 'His words are a should send him to Eton. This will improve Kibbutz Sde Boker has developed an travesty of Judaism. He doesn't deserve to his chances of sinning with style. innovative environmentally friendly be mentioned in the same breath as religious Times leader stationery tape, called Ecotape. Though Zionists who have served the nation as 'green' it comes in several colours. It was remarked after Mr Lilley's ordeal pioneers and in the army'. D that members of the senior common room Telecommunication had stood idly by while he was being pelted with eggs. Let me assure Mr Lilley that he Bezek, Israel's telephone company, have HILARY'S AGENCY Specialists in Long and Short-Term Live-in was fortunate. In the 1960s, the dons were installed a prayer fax machine at the Care throwing eggs as well as the students. Wailing Wall. Now pious Jews from all over RESPITE AND EMERGENCY CARE W. F. Deedes on meetings at the London the world can simply dial the number and CARE FOR THE ELDERLY HOUSEKEEPERS School of Economics, Daily Telegraph their message will be inserted in a crack in RECUPERATION CARE the Wall. MATERNITY NURSES Lilley carried on his speech, pausing only to NANNIES AND MOTHER'S HELPS EMERGENCY MOTHERS deliver another of his memorable one- Tourism Caring and Experienced Staff Available liners: 'Politicians are often accused of Around 2,500 new hotel rooms are soon to We will be happy to discuss your wearing their hearts on their sleeves, but it is be built in Tiberias - almost doubling the requirements not common for one to wear his lunch on PLEASE PHONE his suit'. city's present capacity - in an effort to 081-559-1110 Times Diary It is no more cynical than being in an Retirement by the sea alliance with Stalin to defeat Hitler. 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Austrian Compensation ObituoiTies Birthday We understand that efforts are being made •^ans Jonas at present by the Vienna Jewish Community Dr Werner Rosenstock, 85 to press for a lump sum payment from the ^hineland-born Hans Jonas who died, aged Werner Rosenstock is one of the best Austrian Government for Austrian victims ''" New Jersey was a philosopher whom known names in the British refugee of the Holocaust. The outcome may well personal inclination, no less than external community, and has been for almost half a depend on the number of people registering ^"'cumstances, kept well out of the ivory century. their interest. Prospective claimants should, °wer. He was a member of Blau-Weiss as For 41 years he dedicated himself to the in the first instance, write to: ell as a PhD candidate under Heidegger at work of our Association, becoming its reiburg, a soldier in the British Army, and General Secretary when it was founded in Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien ^ lecturer at Israeli and North American 1941 and editing this journal for almost Seitenstettengasse 4 ersities. Jonas's main work was con- four decades. In that time his sure adminis­ 1010 Wien j'ed with the demythologising of religion trative touch and tenacity in pursuing the giving their name and former name, current the adjusting of ethical codes to goals of the AJR have assured him of a address, date and place of birth, last address j^reakthroughs in modern medicine. While permanent place in the annals of its history. in Austria, date of emigration and dates of 'ncreasingly enjoyed the respect of aca- Dr Rosenstock's elephantine memory, any concentration camp stay. ?^,"" .colleagues Jonas also attracted media combined with his analytical powers, You will then get further information icity when, at a theology- conference at ensure that he remains in constant demand from the Kultusgemeinde. D "•ew Universit%-, U.S.A., ' in 1964, he as writer and commentator on past, and oundly accused his (still living) former present day, issues. "lentor Martin Heidegger of Nazi Last year the Rosenstocks took up resi­ ^ynipathies. Q dence in Heinrich Stahl House. Visitors to Search Notices their apartment soon notice that the phone rings often and the t>-pewriter seldom Ich suche Information ueber die Frances Maybaum Soehne von Max Schlesinger (geb. gathers dust. ^''ances Maybaum, wife of the late Rabbi 1913) Schulfreund meines Vaters, We wish Dr Rosenstock many more busy wohnhaft Reichsbachstrasse, Dresden: j/ gnaz Maybaum, died in Balint House at years together with his wife Susanne in their Rudolf Schlesinger (geb. 1913). Claus j^p of 89. Together with her husband new home. D Schlesinger (geb. 1917). dea h ^^'•'^'•^"' '"^I'chael (whose ultimely Sie besuchten das Kreuzgymnasium. A full profile ofDr Rosenstock appeared in , Was a grievous loss for her) and Alisa Rudolf eriernte bei Bondi & Maron das w Mr5 Jaffa) she came to this country the August 1991 issue of A]R Information. Bankgeschaeft. Dr Voigt of u 1^^8 pogroms under the auspices Friedrich-Hegel (ehemals Daheim) Str. 7 0-8207 Dresden. Tel: 0351/4711695-5 r ^ Chief Rabbi's Emergency Fund. Like BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE many other refugee families, the initial Information wanted from Austrian or 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.3 German nationals who came to England ^ lod Was not easy. Yet things changed, from Italy in 1939. Please contact Fritzi "en her husband was elected Rabbi of the Our communal hall is available for cultural Gould: 071-289 0246. j^ >' founded Edgware and District and social functions. sh ^^"^ Synagogue. Throughout the years, For details apply to: j^ *as an indispensable helpmate to him in Secretary, Synagogue Office. |-, ^^^^"^'^e scholarly work. She also estab- Tel: 071-794 3949 of u ^ 'Cordial relationship with members East-Germany ^, e Synagogue, as well as with students a„ J y^gularly met in the house for lectures '"^discussions. 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Verdi's Falstaff, Shakespeare's Sir Toby lar, has inherited his artistic interest. Chiefs and Indians Belch and the Chinese custom of burping Remember the 'Carbuncle' speech? after meals in token of appreciation. People whose surnames end in -berg are llen (pointing to copy of Jetvish Whoever wrote that must be a real always artistic. Schonberg wrote Moses Chronicle): See this headline here Weltbiirger. and Aaron, Goldberg wrote the Bach Aabout the Chief? Who d'you think G Not cosmopolitan enough, I'm afraid. Variations and Venusberg wrote they're talking about? A: What did he leave out? Tannhduser. Gilbert: Clinton, I s'pose. G The Jewish angle. A: Maybe yes, maybe no. However, you A: Why Clinton? A: In which way? haven't explained the Gotha bit. G: Because whenever an American presi­ G He could have called the Chinese after- G: Well, no one's perfect. But consider this: dent appears in public the band plays dinner custom greps-de-chine. Prince Albert's favourite composer was 'Hail the Chief. A: You're asking for a lot. Mendelssohn, Queen Victoria's favour­ A: Well you're wrong. The J C means Chief G O.K. But why no reference to a classic ite Prime Minister was Disraeli, Edward Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. like Steinbecks Greps of Roth': VIIs favourite banker was Ernst Cassel, G: Trendhogs, eh, if you forgive the treif A; Are you sure you don't mean The Gripes and George VI would only cross the road expression. of Roth. at a Belisha beacon. A: Why trendhogs? G No, no, no. That was Portnoy's Com­ A: Alright, alright, point taken. But G: Because it's trendy to make everything plaint. . . . Anyway we're getting off the seriously, do you think Prince Charles short and snappy. Chief instead of Chief subject. will be the Last of the Mohicans? Rabbi, head instead of headmaster, chair A: Which is? G: To give you an answer with a Jewish instead of chairman. I ask you, where G That British journalists time and again angle: he will if he goes on the warpath will it end? deliberately leave out the Jewish angle. with a milchige tomahawk. A: Exactly. If a less than hands-on head­ Over Charles and the Camilla Gates D R.G. master plays Charles I in a school play affair, for instance. you could call him a detached head. A: Camilla Gates? Don't you mean G: buch! Camillagate? A: Alright, I'll give you something more G Camillagate? (Laughs) So you've also 40 Years Ago wholesome. During a Council meeting fallen for the trick that denies the Israelis this Month the man with the gavel is taken ill and their due. rushed to hospital. Headline: Chair put A (astounded): The Israelis? EINSTEIN REFUSES GERMAN to bed. G Sure! MI5 called it the Camilla Gates HONORARY OFFICE G: Ha, ha. affair in tribute to the head of Mossad. Professor Albert Einstein has declined to A: And with an 18-year old guardsman in A: Who is that? become an honorary member of the local the same ward, because he fainted on G Zvi Gates. Ulm Group of the Internadonal Anti-War parade, you'd get the headline: Chair in A: Never heard of him. Organisation (Internationale der Kriegs- bed alongside tallboy. I should hope not. After all, Mossad is a dienst-Gegner). He stated that whilst he was G in agreement with rhe objects of the organi­ G: Enough already. Let's talk about some­ secret service. sation he could not accept the honorary thing serious. A; So how do you know? membership, because, after the crimes A: For instance? G I noticed that whenever Israeli under­ committed by Hitler Germany, he refused G: For instance (pointing to copy of The cover agents meet they use the password any participation in German public affairs. Guardian) this piece here called 'The Zvi Gates. Wind of Revulsion'. Enough of this tomfoolery. Is there a MOSLEY AGAINST ADMISSION OF A: Pardon. Jewish angle on Prince Charles, or isn't REFUGEES G: That's what Gazza should have said. there? In his paper 'Union', Sir Oswald Mosley raises strong objections against any plans of Listen (reads from newspaper) When I should say there is, but the press won't admitting Jewish refugees from Eastern Paul Gascoigne actively aspirated let on. They keep printing Saxe-Coburg- Europe. 'They will make no better citizens through the muscles of his oesophagus - Gotha instead of Sacks-Cohnberg- of Britain', he says, 'than the flood that grepsed to you - on Italian TV the noise Gotha. Sacks, of course shows that the reached our shores in the 1930s. Let us put reverberated through the whole coun­ Royal are related to the Chief Rabbi. the British people first.' try. . . . The article then goes on to quote From the Cohnbergs Charles, in particu- A/R ^formation April 1953.

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