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''^f*n Larsen company of Catholics, Protestants, and Teu­ tonic atheists." So what, one is tempted to ask. But his essay on Freud is fortunately free from MASTERS AND VICTIMS such deviations. Jews and Germans Between Wilhelm and Weimar "It was not easy to be a Jew in imperial Austria", writes Gay, "especially a Jew with I knew Peter Gay from his book "Weimar question had no reality in isolation. It was aspirations. In Vienna, especially at the end Wture", published ten years ago—very good, part of, and clue to, that larger question, the of the century, antisemitism was more than onsidering that he must have been much too German question". the confused broodings of psychopaths; it •jOung to have experienced that period himself. pervaded and poisoned student organisations, " a footnote in his new work, "Freud, Jews The Problem of Assimilation university politics, social relationships, medical ,•"• Other Germans : Masters and Victims in This, I think, needed to be said, even if opinions. To be the destroyer of human illu­ P^^ernist Culture" (Oxford University Press, 50 or more years too late. No less valid are sions, as Freud was by intention and by ^oypp., £5-50) he says that his father ran a Gay's ideas about assimilation. For the Ger­ results, was to make oneself into a special lint- ^ agency for crystal and china in Berlin man Jews, he argues, it was not a theoretical target of the antisemite. 'Be assured,' Freud is tK ^^^^ ^^^ *""^ ^^^ period of his studies but a practical matter. "German Jews", he wrote in the summer of 1908 to his brilliant the 60 years between Wilhelm and Weimar, writes, "thought and acted like Germans. The disciple, Karl Abraham, 'if my name were jfoii the Gmenderjahre to Hitler. Peter Gay defence organisation they founded in 1893. Oberhuber, my innovations would have en­ p novv^ after a distinguished academic career, the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbiirger countered far less resistance. ..." Yet Freud j^roiessor of Histor>- at Yale University and jiidischen Glaubens, proclaims, with its ver>' persisted, both in doing psychoanalytic work „^ present book is a collection of long essays name, a sturdy confidence in the prospects of and in calling himself a Jew. There is, in this Jst published by the Leo Baeck Institute, assimilation : it was an organised body of loyalty, a kind of defiance. Freud was the "^ Times Literary Supplement, and in German citizens of the Jewish faith, brought opposite of religious; his view of religion as "^r places and periodicals. together by outside pressures, but made up un illusion akin to neurosis appUed to the , ^nybody interested in Central European of Jews proud of their citizenship and no faith of his fathers as much as to any other. 'Story from the last third of the nineteenth longer afraid to profess their religious He granted the existence of some mysterious adherence in public". bonds that tied him to Judaism, and he attri­ entury to the first third of the twentieth buted his objectivity and his willingness to be ntury will find these essays riveting and full They were encoiuraged, even before the in a minority at least partly to his Jewish ... lood for thought, to a large extent on the turn of the century, in their attitude to Ger­ origins. But there was another element in j.^f'^ble question", as he calls it: how could many's cultural life : "Indeed, Germany's Jews this equation.'My merit in the Jewish cause', J have happened ? He looks at it from the made themselves into guardians of the German he wrote in 1926, 'is confined to one single Wish point of view, but he also searches cultural tradition . . . they joined Gentile point: that I have never denied my Jewish­ ^. "^ ?lues in the general continuity — or dis- guardians in keeping watch and crying alarm". ness'. To deny it would have been senseless "tinuity—of German history and cultural Gay recalls Theodor Fontane's surprise when and, as he also said, undignified. The Jewish "*Ielopment. his old chosen companions, the Prussian aristo­ bond he felt was the recognition of a common to tk ^^ ^"'"^ *° define, in his introduction crats, forgot his 75th birthday in 1894—but fate in a hostUe world'". the essays, the nature of antisemitism, its his Jewish admirers did not. He wrote a little ant^'^ in the Wilhelminian era: "German poem about it, which was quite famous at the Yet in an interview he gave in tbe same 5j '^^niitism is a cluster of behaviours with a time : year the Moravia-bom, Viennese Jew Freud . 8le name. It ranges from social snobbery Was sollcn mir da noch die Itzenplitze! insisted : "My language is German. My ciUture, som '^'""S'^i^ine for systematic extermination : Jedem bin ich vvas gewesen, my attainments are German. I considered my­ ^^ of its carriers would merely stop short Alle haben sie mich gelesen. self German intellectually until I noticed the fjj^^lcoming a Jew to their families or their Alle kannten mich lange schon, growth of antisemitic prejudice in Germany and German Austria. Since that time, I prefer fro•ro; *' *^^^^ others would exclude all Jews Und das ist die Hauptsache . . . "Kommen Unn'* *^*^ human race. The identity of the Jew Sie, Cohn!" to call myself a Jew". to t'^ attack varied from place to place, time StUl, even Fontane had "reserves of Jew- Germany, says Gay, "has often rejected the Q time, purpose to purpose: in imperial hatred in him" and wrote, not long after that best that is in her". Ironically, her Jews had \, '^''^any, many antisemites concentrated their afTectionate poem, that he could not see any been "woven into the very texture of German Wliii*''^ on immigrant East European Jews, benign solution to the "Jewish question" in culture" in WUhelminian times; the country 'Hel ."^'^^'^ professed to see in every Jew, the German future: "It would have been "dyed its Jews through and through, and they Unn ^"^ the most completely assimilated, better if the attempt at assimilation had not wore its colours—black, white, red—without a^.*!^latable characteristics. . . . Many found been made". Physical assimilation, he thought, apology, in fact with pride. It was not protec­ Qj 'Semitic arguments persuasive only in times might be possible, but "spiritual assimilation" tive colouring, but their own. Or so they h social dislocation or economic miserj'. never. This, says Gay, was an appalling docu­ thought'. This was, says Gay, German-Jewish Qj^.'*^al antisemites saw Jews as a bulwark of ment, and it was just as well for the peace self-perception in that era; one might caU it i^'^'talism; liberal antisemites saw them mired of mind of the German Jews that it remained rather self-deception, and the price to be paid sg tribal exclusiveness; conservative anti- unpublished for decades. was terrible, even among those who escaped tjg^\tes saw them as rootless people bereft of the Holocaust. Gay lists some of the suicides : cg^'tition. ... It follows that nineteenth- Freud, the German and Jew Kurt Tucholsky, Erast ToUer, Erast Weiss, 5 Pal German antisemitism, however un- To my mind. Gay derails his train of thought Walter Hasenclever, Walter Benjamin, Carl ;^j.?'table even at the time, however pregnant occasionally, and unnecessarily, by throwing Einstein, Stefan Zweig, Alfred Wolfenstein. rs frofri ^ terrifying future, was different in kind the obstacle of his favourite philosophical con­ But "were not the roots of the murderous ^ "1 the twentieth-century variety. . . . Ger- cept in its way: "modernism". The modernist. disease that killed them well exposed half a CQ^y's Jews, then, had to navigate among he explains, hates everything modem, from century before "? iiicting, often Ijewildering social signals, machines to mass culture; and he divides, for Peter Gay calls his essays "first attempts at seiv ^^^^J') ^^^ sood reason to feel them- instance, Jewish writers of the 1920s according doing some of the work still required". The jg/^^s, or aspire to feel themselves, to be to this odd scheme : "Wassermann, who was a German cultural historian still has much to l.W» Jewish Germans. They indignantly rejected all good Jew, was not a modernist; Stemheim, do. "That so much should stUl remain undone", pj-Z^9^ 3 'Jewish question' as a survival of who was a modernist, was not a good Jew; and he concludes, "is perfectly understandable: ratof "iitive politics. In retrospect we know that Lasker-Schiiler, who was both modernist and German questions, it would appear, are not irs • they were right: the so-called Jewish Jew, made her mark in expressionism in the German questions alone". Page 2 AJR INFORMATION September 19''B

NEWS FROM GERMANY TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR CERTAIN GERMAN PENSIONS BEER HALL FIGHT WITH NEO-NAZIS GERMANS EXPECT ISRAEL TO WIN AGAIN In our issue of October 1977 (page 9) we More than one hundred members of the In a public opinion poll, a representative National Socialist "Action Front" from the cross-section of the West German and West reported that West German Social Insurance whole of the Federal Republic attended the Berlin public was asked whether it believed benefits paid under Section 99 (replacing the first national Hitler Memorial Meeting in Lent- if "in the long run, Israel wUl maintain its former Section 100/101) of the "Angestellten- fohrden (Schleswig-Holstein) to unveU a Hit­ ground against the Arabs" or whether "the versicherungsgesetz" (AVG) or under Section ler Memorial Plaque. A simUar meeting in Arabs wUl one day be the winners." 40 per 1320 (replacing the former Sections 1321/ Hamburg had been banned. The neo-Nazis, cent declined to eomment, another 40 per 1322) of the "Reichsversicherungsordnung" dressed in black shirts, boots and helmets, cent thought that Israel could hold its ground (RVO) would be regarded as not liable to engaged in a battle with the small group of and 20 per cent said that the Arabs would income tax as from AprU 4, 1977 and this local policemen who were supposed to prevent win eventually. 44 per cent said they were clashes with political opponents and threw more on the side of the Israelis than of the exemption would be applied by the Inland glasses, bottles, chairs and clubs at them. Arabs, 7 per cent supported the Arabs, 33 per Revenue to all tax assessments in respect of After police re-inforcements from Hambiurg cent neither, and 16 per cent declmed to pensions paid under these provisions that arrived on the scene, 20 neo-Nazis were comment. In a simUar poll in 1970, only 29 per were not final and conclusive on AprU 3, 197'- arrested, and dangerous weapons, swastika cent believed that Israel would win in the flags and Nazi literature were confiscated. The end, and after the 1973 war, 34 per cent were We are now advised by the Board of Inland meeting had been arranged under the slogan: sure of the ultimate Arab victory, and only Revenue that the above-mentioned time limit "Justice for Adolf Hitler." 26 per cent expected Israel fo win. wUl not be applied. Application for repayment of tax paid in respect of the pensions pai" under these German provisions may be made EUROPEAN MACCABI CHAMPIONSHIP NO SS RECORDS FOR JUVENILES for all tax years concerned without restriction- GAMES The West German Govemment has banned We would again mention that the tax-exempt Teams from Britain, Belgium, Denmark, the sale of twelve records which glorify Nazi pensions are only those which were granted in Israel and West Germany competed in Duis­ ideology and war, to young people. These respect of contributions paid by Nazi victim^ burg for the European Maccabi Football records can no longer be advertised or dis­ in the German Reich outside the area of the Championship. France, Holland and Switzer­ played in shops. They include titles like "Hell, German Federal Republic and Berlin. The land teams had originaUy intended to take where is thy victory," "Call to arms" and part, but canceUed their attendance at a later "The Waffen-SS." pensions derived from contributions paid date. The Lord Mayor of Ehusburg, Mr Krings, in Danzig or other territories annexed by the German Reich in 1938 and 1939—e.g. Bohemia- acted as host to the games and expressed his BUBER EXHIBITION IN WORMS admiration for IsraeL The Israeli team won Moravia, certain Polish territories—if the the championship and received the cup A comprehensive Martin Buber Exhibition recipient belonged to the German-speakin? donated by the City Corporation. The British has been arranged by the German Council minority in those countries, are in the exempt team came second. During the celebrations of Christian and Jews, the German Friends of category. in which the whole population of the town the Hebrew University, and the government joined, it was acknowledged that this was the of Rhineland-Palatinate. It will be open for The reason for the exemption is, as first event since 1933 in which Jewish teams three months and many visitors from all over previously mentioned, that these particular from several countries had met in Germany. the world have announced their visit, as it is pensions are paid under a discretion given t" a unique collection of exhibits which iUu- the German authority (a "Kaww-Vorschrift")- LIFE SENTENCE FOR CAMP GUARD minate all facets of Buber's life, his trans­ There is no right to them as there is to lation of the Bible together with Franz Rosen­ pensions granted in respect of contributions After a trial which lasted more than a year, zweig, his work for reconciliation with Ger­ paid or credited in the area of the Federal 57-year-old former SS member Friedrich WU­ many and for good relations with the Arabs, Republic and Berlin. The pensions paid under helm Heinen in Saarlouis was sentenced to his studies of Chasidim, and other scholarly work. Section 99 (or the former Section 100) AV(x. life imprisonment for the murder of three or under Section 1320 (or the former Section Jewish inmates of the Lemberg concentration 1321) RVO are therefore deemed, in the camp and for aiding and abetting the murder HISTORY OF A HERFORD FAMILY of another five prisoners. German law, not to be social security payments The latest Herford Year Book (17/18 volume, (" . . . gelten nicht als Leistungen der sozialen NAZI PAST OF A UNIVERSITY 1976/77) carries an essay by Dr. E. A. Marsden Sicherheit"). It is because of this special PROFESSOR about the history of the Herford Elsbach character that the Inland Revenue regards famUy and the development of the shirt factory them as not liable to tax as income. Mr. Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Jewish Josef Elsbach & Co. At the end of 1932, the Documentation Centre in Vienna, has accused firm had about 1,000 employees. It was The German Award ("Bescheid") usually Saai-briicken University of employing a pro­ "aryanised" in 1938 and until 1952 run under mentions in Appendix 6 ("Aniage 6") that the fessor with a Nazi past. Dr. Friedrich Karl tiie name "Herforder Waeschefabriken A.-G.". pension is paid under Section 99 (or Section Vialon, professor of domestic law, was in In 1958, the Elsbach A.G., equipped with new 100) AVG—or Section 1320 (or Section 1321) charge of the confiscated property of inurdered machines, had again a staff of 700. In 1964, RVO—where that is the case. The Inland Jews in Nazi-occupied Latvia. Mr. Wiesenthal one year after the 90th anniversary of the Revenue will regard it as helpful if ^ possesses documents signed by Dr. Vialon, foundation of the firm, the members of the translation of the relevant sentence o^ giving instructions for the disposal of such Elsbach famUy, spread all over the world, sold paragraph of the Award is supplied with the property and for the deportation of Jews to the majority shares in their possession to the concentration camps. At his office in Riga, Dr. Bekleidungswerke Adolf Ahlers G.m.b.H. Yet document or a photocopy of it, on making a Vialon had arranged for the sale of tomb­ the name of Elsbach was retained as a trade claim for tax exemption or repayment by stones from Jewish cemeteries and had obtain­ mark. Several descendants of the Elsbach virtue of these provisions. F.E-F- ed money from the life insurance policies of family live in Britain. Jews murdered in camps. DOCUMENTARY ON PERSECUTION DESECRATOR OF ANNE FRANK'S MEMORY In 1960, Gerhard Schoenberger's document­ DR. MAX HACHENBURG ary work "Der gelbe Stem—Die Judenverfol­ Heinz Roth from Odenhausen in Hesse, gung in Europa 1933-1945" was published by Information Required was fined h million DM (about £125,000) Ruetten & Loening (Hamburg). It consisted for printing and distributing pamphlets in mainly of authentic pictorial evidence, accom­ which he said innocent German schoolchildren panied by quotations from official Nazi orders, The Municipal Archives of Mannheim are to were forced to read Anne Frank's Diary, a and received wide publicity. The work has prepare a biography of the lawyer Dr. Max Ha- spurious document concocted by a New York been out of stock for some time. An amended chenburg (Mannheim 1860-Berkeley,Cal., 1951^' film author and Mr. Otto Frank, the girl's and revised edition has now been made avaU­ Dr. Hachenburg emigrated to England in father who now lives in Basle. able by C. Bertelsmann, publishers. As, un­ 1939 and lived in Oswestry (Salop) until fortunately, anti-Jewish conceptions in Ger­ 1946. The Archives are interested in any docU' DOEBLIN EXHIBITION IN FRANKFURT many are not a matter of the past, and as doubts about certain statistical facts persist, mentary or other particulars about his eta^' To mark the centenary of the birth of Alfred the re-edited work wUl serve an important gration and stay in England as well as about Doeblin, a Memorial Exhibition is to be held in purpose. E.G.L. assistance he might have received in this the Deutsche Bibliothekj Frankfurt/M. The country. Readers who can give information displays comprise first editions, photos, letters or suggest any personalities to be approached and essays and mainly cover his years in exile in France and America (1933-45) and the With acknowledgement to the news should write to: Stadtarchivdirektor Dr. Schadt- period after his retum to Germany (1945/57). service of the Jewish Chronicle Stadtarchiv, P.O.B. 2203, 68 Mannheim 1, West (EGL) Germany. AJR INFORMATION September 1978 Page 3 HOME NEWS A nglo-Judaica Dedication of Memorial Window BOYCOTT BILL SHELVED EXPANDING ISRAELI EXPORTS . Lord Byers, leader of the Liberal Peers who To honour the memory of her four children At a meeting of the Anglo-Israel Chamber of who perished with countless others in the JS in hospital at the moment, has decided not Commerce, the chairman, Mr. Lewis Goodman, to re-introduce his anti-boycott biU when Par­ said he expected the volume of two-way trade Holocaust, Mrs Ilse Joseph, M.B.E., has dona­ hament reassembles in October. The Select between Israel and Britain to increase to some ted a Memorial Window to the Liverpool Committee of the House of Lords which has £500 mUUon during the next six months. Progressive Synagogue. The Dedication Service been considering the biU for several months, Israel's export in the "four 'f's" (food, fmit, will be held on October 8. A professional vio­ has recommended a number of administrative flowers and fashion) had grown remarkably linist, Mrs. Joseph for several decades gave Ji^sures to strengthen the anti-boycott atti­ weU, whereas the two " 'e's" (electronics and recitals and talks to many organisations in tude of the British Goverament and the busi- engineering) were doing well, but could do various countries to serve the cause of under­ J^ess community which do not call for legisla­ better. Mr. Fred Worms, the treasurer, re­ standing between nations and different reUg­ tion. Govemment departments, British embas­ ported a deficit of under £2,000 and said there ious denominations. sies, and trade missions abroad wiU be asked was need to double the membership of the Jiot to authenticate documents associated with Chamber which should be at least 2,500 in­ Search for a German Hero the Arab boycott or to disseminate informa­ stead of just over 500. Mr. Goodman expressed tion on commercial opportunities to which the hope that Israel would be "the techno­ Since the end of the war, 68-year-old Leon restrictive boycott clauses are attached. logical gateway to the Arab world", if peace Belmont, a retired Edgware businessman, negotiations succeeded, and that this would tried to find the German officer who saved present the trade with dramatic opportunities. him and his family in wartime Belgium. They A MYSTERY VISIT had Uved in Belgium since 1929, and Mr. Bel­ mont owned a leather clothing and sportswear .y,Dr. Fathi Arafat, brother of P.L.O. leader factory. In 1941, a German officer. Dr. Hans 'asir Arafat recently visited London, and it NEW OPENINGS FOR STUDENTS Geith, had bought some leather goods from ^as alleged that he was the guest of the The Polyteclinic of North London and him. Six months later, Dr Geith risked his "•itish Red Cross. Dr. Arafat is head of the Jews' CoUege have agreed on a new course Ufe to provide the Belmont family with forged Palestinian Red Crescent which, Uke Israel's for Degrees of B.Ed, and B.Ed. (Hons.), which travel documents which gave them a new name "lagen David Adom, is not recognised by the wUl take three and four years respectively. and nationality and enabled them to drive to *^ed Cross. Representatives of the Red Cross unoccupied France from where they came to ^"iphaticaUy denied that he had been their Recipients will be qualified to teach in any Britain in 1943. To find his benefactor, Mr SUest and said that, Uke many people from aU State school and with special qualifications in Belmont took part in two German language ^yer the world, he had paid them an informal Jewish schools. Students wiU be encouraged broadcasts, but leamed subsequently that Dr. visit trying to get information on various to spend a year in Jemsalem before entering Geith had died in 1970. He is now correspond­ {lUnianitarian issues on which he is working, on on the course which wUl be taught at the ing with Dr. Geith's family, trying to show his fue training of doctors and nurses and similar Polytechnic for educational matters and at gratitude. Items. The CouncU for the Advancement of Jews' CoUege for specific Jewish studies. |>rab-British understanding are equally empha- The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Cul­ y^ that he had indeed been invited by the Red ture has established scholarships for young Israeli War Victims' Visit J^Toss. Dr. Arafat is a member of the Pales­ North African Jews to study at Judith Lady tinian National Council and head of the medi- Montefiore College in London, and for young Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann welcomed as the Israeli team which took part in the Stoke cai services on Malta. French and North African Jewish girls to Mandeville Games for the Paralysed. Arieh study at the Gateshead Teachers' "Training Fink, president of the Israeli Sports Associa­ to College for Girls in order to serve later on in tion for the Disabled, said that the IsraeU CONCESSIONS TO IRISHMEN their home countries as rabbis and teachers, Government regarded sport as an integral part to and in commimity services. The Board of the of the rehabilitation process for war victims. The IsraeU Embassy in London which also Foundation has allocated some £870,000 for a ^vers Eire, has informed the Dublin Govem- variety of Jewish cultural programmes in more The thirty-four competitors between them Pent that holders of Irish passports wUl no won 14 gold medals, 15 sUver, and four than 15 coimtries, including some in Eastem bronze. Per capita, Israel has the largest num­ •°nger have to apply to them for entry visas Eiurope. ^Israel. They wiU receive their visas on ber of disabled persons in the world. ^'^ving in Israel. Israelis visiting Eire must Another thirty war wounded visited Edin­ ^^111 apply for a visa at home before they can burgh and were entertained by Wizo and B'nai DEMONSTRATION AGAINST SOVIET B'rith which gave a pubUc dinner to honour ^"ter the country. INJUSTICE the Dublin City CouncU has decided by 26 them. The meal was followed by the singing j^tes to three not to invite the chainnan of At a meeting held at the London CoUseum of IsraeU folksongs. J^^e Moscow City CouncU to visit Eire. The by Uie National CouncU for Soviet Jewry, dis­ I'sit had been arranged when the previous tinguished actors like Sir John Gielgud, Nurses for Israel Jj'^rd Mayor of DubUn visited the U.S.S.R, but Yvonne Mitchell, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Eliza­ "Ejections were raised in protest against the beth Bergner and many others gave over 20 "Project 67" is the name of a scheme which ^cent sentences on Jewish dissidents. readings in support of the campaign. All of enables British nurses to work at the Jeru­ them were concemed with the agony of the salem Hadassah Hospital for three months. spirit caused by loss of freedom. Negotiations with other hospitals in Tel Aviv, EDUCATIONISTS REJECT RACIALISM Beersheba and Kfar Saba, are under way. The first group of 20 nurses, two of whom are p^everal rabbis and Jewish community work- Jewish, is flying out in August. They must pay fs Were among the one hundred educationists for their El Al flight, but will receive pocket .'tending an annual conference which inclu- money while working at the hospital and wiU tpU members of the Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Your House for:— be given opportunities to tour the country. Of tu ' Buddhist, Bahai and Sikh faiths, and Departure dates for future groups are fixed GV, e Humanists. The chairman. Rabbi Hugo as far ahead as May 1979. ; y n, said that their aim was to foster an CURTAINS, CARPETS, p'tf/-faith dialogue. The theme of this year's pl'Jterence was "Marriage in the World FLOOR COVERINGS Kaliver Rebbe in St. John's Wood miv i"' Rabbi Grj-n distinguished between jjJJed marriages, when parties from two Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub, attired in f-jterent religions each adhered to their own SPECIALTY his gold-decorated long silk coat presided over ajtn, and inter-marriage, where one party a service in the St. John's Wood Synagogue, |:«opted the faith of the other. In its final attended by hundreds of members of the con­ ap plution, the conference "welcomed with joy ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL gregation and by the Chief Rabbi Many of - '^. hope our multi-cultural and multi-racial his followers accompanied him on his walk e to opiety" and affirmed that "the understanding DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, form Golders Green to the synagogue, where t- a person's faith or religion is fundamental he addressed the community in Yiddish saying axHa- '"espect for him or her as a human being". DUVET COVERS & SHEETS that it was necessary to have an affluent com­ 1951)- munity to benefit Jewish youth. The Rebbe is nd ifl ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto and of Ausch­ until TEST-TUBE BABIES ACCEPTABLE witz. docu- nj^oth the Chief Rabbi and Rabbi Dov Mar- ESTIMATES FREE Shop-lifting Footballer eini- thaf' 4? leading Reform rabbi, have declared DAWSON-LANE LIMITED about Uo u^°™ ^ reUgious point of view there is 22-year-old Shuman Mesika, an Israeli foot­ this ij objection to test-tube babies, as long as (Ettablithed 1946) baller, was fined £100 for shoplifting. He had 0j, IS absolutely certain that no parties 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK stolen a paur of sports shorts, worth £2-75 ArHfi *.^^° the husband and wife are involved. Telephone: 904 6671 from Selfridge's. Police told the court that 3j uncial insemination has also been regarded Pereonst atttnllafi ol Mr. W. Slackinan he was a young man of exceUent character (IQ acceptable, as long as the husband is the who had come to England on tour with an IsraeU football team. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION September 1978

NATIONAL FRONT IN SOUTH AFRICA NEWS FROM ABROAD The Afrikaans pro-Government press has caUed for action against the National Fro?t which it described as an "import from Britain UNITED STATES ARGENTINA TO FREE JEWISH EDITOR which we do not need." They had distributed pamphlets aimed at disturbing friendly ties Carter backs Goldberg Argentina's Supreme Court has ruled that between South Africa and Israel. The National the MUitary Govemment has no right to detain Front is in the forefront of the campaign In a recent speech. President Sadat said that Mr. Jacobo Timmermann, the Jewish founder against the opening of the Breytenbacn Mr. Arthur Goldberg, who was American and editor of the influential newspaper "La Theatre, where "Golda," the film about Golda ambassador to the United Nations in 1967, was Opinion" which is now nm by the Govemment. Meir's life, is shown to aU races. Posters aO- a Zionist, and that "if Carter had been in After a year in prison, Mr. Timmermann was vertising the musical have been daubed witn power in 1967, without Goldberg, we Arabs released in April, but remained under house red swastikas. would not have suffered what we suffer today". arrest. He was arrested in 1977 and accused of supporting members of Left-wing terrorist HOLLAND President Carter responded by presenting Mr. groups. A mUitary court decided in October Goldberg with the Presidential Medal for that there was insufficient evidence for these Conference of Progressive Judaism Freedom, stressing that as ambassador, Mr. charges, but that he should be detained for Goldberg had displayed a standard of purpose using iUegal fimds to gain control of the The main theme of the 20th conference ol the World Union of Progressive Judaism, heW Which was an inspiration. He had helped to paper. The Board of Deputies of British Jews and other intemational Jewish organisations in Amsterdam, was the Holocaust. The delS' frame the UN resolution 242, now the acknow­ appealed repeatedly on his behalf. gates, who included Rabbi Dr. Albert Frieo- ledged basis for ultimate agreement in the lander, London, and Dr. Peter Kirchneri Mr. Richard Maas, president of the Ameri­ Middle East. representing the Blast Berlin community, pfO" can Jewish Committee has sent an appeal to claimed their belief in the goodness of mafl' President Videla of Argentina to allow Mr. kind as expressed in the Diary of Anne Fran*: Auschwitz Memorial in Cathedral Timmermann to emigrate to Israel. Dr. Friedlander introduced Utrecht-born RaoDi Edward van Voolen, a graduate of Leo Baec* The Bishop of the Episcopalian Church of CANADA CoUege, London, and a specialist in art historyi New York held a service of remembrance for who has been appointed by the Dutch Govern­ the 6,000,000 victims of the Holocaust in the Jewish Bomber Sentenced ment as curator of the Amsterdam Jewisn Cathedral of St. John The Divine and dedicated museum. In London, he served the Ealine an "Auschwitz Memorial Figure" sctUpted by Twenty-year-old Joseph Schacter, an Ortho­ Liberal Synagogue as a student minister. Dr. Elliot Offner. It is the first such memorial in dox Jew, was sentenced to 90 days' jaU and Kirchner presented to Chief Rabbi Meir Just of Amsterdam some of the 5,000 old Dutcn a Christian Church in the U.S. ordered to do 200 hours of commimity service for exploding a bomb two years ago on the Jewish documents recently found in the Uttie- doorstep of Don Andrews, the former head of used Oranienburgerstrasse Synagogue in Easi Better late than never? the neo-Nazi Westem Guard. The judge said Berlin. The rest of the collection will "e Schacter was sincere, but immature and stupid, retumed to HoUand by the East German Some months ago. Congress set up a special and allowed him to serve his term at weekends authorities. commission for the tracing of Nazi criminals in his home town of Orillia, Ontario. Schacter who had hidden their past and become U.S. complained that after his arrest he was Dutch Nazi Arrested in Germany citizens after the last war. Its chairman is a severely beaten and insulted by other prisoners lawyer, Martin Mendelssohn, bom an American, in Toronto jaU, when he wrapped a towel In April 1949, a Dutchman, Siert Brains, was whose parents immigrated from Austria in round his head as he was not allowed to wear sentenced to death by a Groningen Court foj 1890. He stated that there were about 160 his skull cap. His victim, Don Andrews, is having taken part in the execution of Dutcn suspects, most of whom came from the serving a two-year jaU term in Kingston resistance fighters and for having murderen Ukraine, Romania, amd Yugoslavia. If the case penitentiary. two Jews and two resistance fighters on 25tn against them is proved, they will be deprived AprU, 1945. At that time, Bruins had fled W of their citizenship and deported. Germany where he lived m hiding, taking tne Walter Trier Exhibition name of Siegfried Bruns. With the help oj Simon Wiesenthal, the self-appointed accuser Citizenship Withdrawn from Gestapo Member Forty water-colours by Walter Trier, the of Nazi criminals, he was recently traced m In Chicago, a federal judge deprived 55- unforgotten cartoonist of "Die Dame" and Hagen, Westfalia and extradited to HoUand. year-old Frank Walus, a German-bom Pole, "Uhu" and iUustrator of Erich Kaestner, are of his citizenship for having told lies about exhibited in the Walter Trier wing of the FRANCE his membership of the Gestapo in Poland and Ontario State Gallery. Walter Trier spent the his complicity in the murder of at least ten war years in England and was a frequent Nazi Appeal Rejected Jews. He will appeal in order to delay his contributor to "Lilliput" and the "DaUy The Strasbourg European Commision f^^ deportation. An Orthodox Jew, Mr. Gassel, is Herald". He went to Canada in 1947 to be near Human Rights has rejected an appeal hX suing the US Marshal's Chicago Office because his daughter who had married a new Canadian, 69-year-old Joseph KotaeUa, one of three Na^ he was not allowed to attend the trial, having Nikolaus Fodor. The water-colours are illustra­ criminals serving life sentences in a Dutcn refused to take off his skull-cap to enter the tions to Kaestner's "The CJonference of jail. KotaeUa had been chief of Amersfoo^ courtroom. Animals", the last book on which they worked concentration camp between 1942 and 19'*^ together. Further exhibitions are to foUow. and was convicted of kUling inmates dunn| CIA Employed Leading Nazis a trial after the war. He was partly paralyseo MISUSE OF AUSCHWITZ FILM after a stroke in 1973 and applied for release- The General Accounting Office of Congress because in 1966 another war criminal servins has published results of an investigation which More than 60 German and Jewish radio a similar sentence, was freed on healjn revealed that in the early 'fifties the CLA listeners in Sydney have protested against the grounds and returned to West Germany. fJJ employed a number of leading ex-Nazis as methods of a local footbaU coach who showed accused the Dutch Govemment of inhumanly consultants on the Eastem block. One of them his players a fUm on the murder and burial of for not responding to his pleas for mercy i" was a high official in Hitler's Foreign Office Jews in Auschwitz, to instU in them a "kiUer 1971. The commission pointed out that tne who was subsequently, after his retum to instinct" before the match, as he explained death sentence on KotaeUa had already been Germany in 1953, tried as a war criminal. over the radio. He added that he had told them: commuted and that it was the prerogative o* "Just imagine that was your father, mother, the Dutch Govemment to grant or deny ' Protest against Conversion Attempts son or daughter, and go out to revenge them". pardon. The American Jewish Committee has pro­ Antisemitic Incidents in Nice tested against the activities of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church which has The walls of the Chief Rabbinate in Nic^ published a manual for the conversion of Gorta Radiovision were recently daubed with the words "DeatP Jews and resolved to intensify its missionary to the Jews." Models of soldiers in Nazi uni' efforts. Service form giving the Nazi salute are widely displ^"" (MembCT R.TJLA.) ed in toy shops. 13 Frognal Parade, CAMPS Finchley Road, N.W.3 BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INTERNMENT—P.o.W.— 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.S FORCED LABOUR—KZ SALES REPAIRS We can provide a quick and SYNAGOGUE SERVICES I mdth to iMiy cards, envelopes and folded post­ are held regularly on the Eve of Sabbath marked letters from all camps of both world wart. efiBcient Colour Television Please send, registered mall, stating price, to: and Festivals at 6.30 p.m. and on the day 14 RoMlyii Hm, Loadon. M.WJ Service. at 11 a.m. PETER C. RtCNENBACK (435 8635) ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED AJR INFORMATION September 1978 Page 5 Worgot, Pottlitser her mother had been upset and irritable for a long time, when she was sent alone— obviously in 1944—to watch the Belsen film. Only then did she begin to understand what REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST it meant to be a Jew and what had happened in Germany. Jewish refugees from Germany who came to mistakable style of her ovm. Her previous Eva Figes' story is not easy to accept, even Britain as adults, with a career at some stage books, in particular her Kafkaesque novel taking for granted that the parents for their ^ ruins, vrith a shattered past, and an insecure "Konek Landing", are all affected by the Euro­ own good reasons, acted as they did. Was it 'iture, tended to look with some envy at a pean experience. "Little Eden" is written on really possible for an unusuaUy inteUigent girl younger generation, those who had come as two levels: on the surface, it describes her with a continental background not to have *^nildren and seemed to enjoy the benefits of happy days as a war-time evacuee in a stimu­ heard or read anything about the persecution an English education. It was assumed that they lating, though rather Spartan, school in Ciren- of the Jews before 1944? We have to take her 't least had escaped the emotional and cultural cester, her reactions to a recent visit to that word for it. Shock which their elders had experienced. This town, and discoveries about its history. Below "Little Eden" raises a lot of doubts in people assumption, however, was refuted when, in that surface, the shrapnel moves. She came to who have shared the experiences of those days, ^^66, Karen Gershon published her coUective this country with her parents and young but it is written with the skiU and mastery of ?utobiography, "We came as chUdren", reveal- brother, at the age of seven, from a comfort­ language we have come to expect from this "^g that the trauma persisted even for those able background in Germany where nursemaids writer, even though the two strands of the *ho \vere very young when they arrived and and loving grandparents had shielded her from story do not always fuse, and one could have Who for the greater part had been transplanted any realisation of the happenings in Nazi Ger­ done without some of the second-hand guide­ J'to a homogeneous British environment. The many. She was unaware of the November book information about Cirencester. oook started a discussion which is stUl con­ pogroms in 1938, of her father's stay in a tinuing. One of the recent contributors to it concentration camp, and of the reasons for Eva Jones' traumata are of a different ^.Eva Figes, now in her forties, a gifted the famUy's emigration. Her parents did every­ nature. She belongs to an earlier generation, Writer with a number of weU-received books thing to keep their chUdren in this state of and her transition to the English scene was '0 her credit. ignorance, even after they arrived in this particularly hard and diflBcult. She came to country. England in 1940 after a hazardous flight from The publication of her latest book "Little occupied France to Spain. Her first novel Men"* was preceded by an article of hers In her English primary school, Eva felt "Thirteen" (reviewed in this paper in Decem­ *nich appeared in a prominent place in the persecuted as a foreigner, especially after the ber, 1976), did not appear untU she was 60. Observer", entitled "The long passage to outbreak of war. She felt she would never Uve It was a widely acclaimed success in this Ij-ittle England", and in which she explained: down the image of the foreign chUd with country as well as in the United States and We came in March, 1939. . . . To aU intents scarcely a word of English and with con­ several European countries. Amongst other ^d purposes I was young enough to adapt spicuous clothes unlike anything wom by her things it revealed that she, too, has a way with ^ooipletely to my new country, but I have Kingsbury classmates. By the time she was words. Her second book "Double-Decker"t as «ever become reaUy English". She went on to a boarder in Cirencester, she had lived down is often the case with the second book of f^y that to this day she is moved to anger the disadvantages and begun to discover the promising writers, is more problematical be­ ^y her English friends' lack of any real vision Iteauties of English language and literature, cause more experimental. A third novel is p the continuing horrors of man's inhumanity but she was deeply hurt when one of her about to appear any day now, and a fourth ,° man, that the same friends frovm on her competitors for excellence at that school told is nearing completion. ^n-English" bouts of enthusiasm and her lack her that she was a Jew, and as a Jew she could "Double-Decker", too, is written on at least ' Politeness to celebrities who, in pre-war not believe in God. She had never heard the two levels. The first part largely uses auto­ J™ys, had fascist leanings. Despite the fact word "Jew" before and for years the wound biographical material, unfortunately inter­ IJiat she graduated in English at an English inflicted by that girl rankled in her mind. spersed with rather wUd flights of fancy. H'liversity, as a writer she feels she has more After her father had joined the pioneer corps Unfortunately, because those of us who have ,^ common with post-war European writing and her mother found a job in London, she shared her background, if not lier adventurous inan with anything produced in England. As retumed to live with her. In the meantime, experiences, feel certain that some things can­ g"e puts it: "A piece of shrapnel lodges in my news of the relatives left behind in Germany not have happened the way she says. This "6sh, and when it moves, I write". had reached her parents, but Eva only began would, of course, not matter in a book that was As a writer, Eva Figes has created an un­ to understand what it was all about, and why clearly aU fiction in which historical happen­ ings just provided the scenery, but not in one that accurately describes these happenings on a personal level and then distorts them by psychological improbabUities. To quote but one example: what Jewish famUy, or even what famUy whatsoever, would in 1933 have allowed their headstrong 18-year-old daughter to leave RENAULT home for good and to go to Paris without the means to pay for a single night's stay there, and would subsequently have faUed to send her money? In 1933, this was quite easy, and See the Renault range it is well known that many famUies accumu­ lated some smaU amount of money abroad for their own eventual emigration, by regularly, at Old Oak and with oflBcial permission, transmitting 'the money to sons and daughters studying abroad. (WIR SPRECHEN DEUTSCH/MLUVIME CESIW) There are many more discrepancies of this land which is rather a pity, because the story Where we believe that changing your car is a very itself is unusual enough and very weU told. important business and you deserve to be treated as an The second part of the novel, though equaUy individual, not just a sales figure. readable, is pure fancy : there is a fictitious Where you can see the whole Renault range of value for and not quite believable long-suffering husband money cars and light vans. We try to keep most models of the heroine, there is a lot of experimenta­ in stock all the time. If we haven't got it, we'll get it. tion with more or less fashionable cults, and aU this as weU as the structure of the "Double- And where we try and make things easy by offering Decker", is held together by her search for sensible part exchange prices, helping with finance and the long-lost love for whose sake she left insurance where necessary and generally looking after home in the first place, and who when she you. We're a family firm, and to us our customers always finally meets him again, proves the ultimate come first. disappointment, a disappointment which helps Come and see for yourself. Old Oak-Service for cars-and people her to come to terms with the reaUty of her • life and marriage. Her obstinate, if ineffectual search for him, is the main weakness of the MOTOR story itself. The heroine is not aUowed to COMPANY LIMITED OLD OAK Continued on page 6. 79 WINDMILL HILL. ENFIELD 01-363 2261 Page 6 AJR INFORMA'nON September 1978

Michael Rosenstock (Toronto) Nevertheless, it is disturbing to think that Remembrance of Tilings Past even a more balanced critic of Israeli poUcy Continued from page 5. STRAINED RELATIONS would probably also have been accused of mature so that after an eventful life, a number antisemitism since, with their psychological of casual affairs and marriage to a kind and Assessment of a Canadian Controversy dependence on Israel, far too many Jews caring husband, she stUl expects to be re­ regard any attack on her policies as a threat united with the young revolutionary musician Relations between Jews and Christians have to their rather confused and precarious sense vrith whom she spent a few rapturous hours as often l>een far from fratemal, but their of identity. This, at any rate, is the conclusion disputes rarely lead to legal action. This, to which Rabbi Slonim's analysis of Jewish a teenager in Berlin. attitudes leads the reader. This is virtually Eva Jones' strength is her abUity to describe however, is what happened in Canada in 1972, when a Christian clergyman started libel confirmed later on in the book, when we situations, feelings and adventures. As long as leam that no less than three former modera­ she uses her considerable talent in doing so, proceedings against a B'nai B'rith oflBcial and a B'nai B'rith paper for accusing him of anti­ tors of the United Church have been accused she holds her readers spell-bound. She has of antisemitism at one time or another. While remarkable powers of observation and it is semitism and B'nai B'rith countered with a libel charge against the clergyman, the joumal the charge strikes one as absurd, one can at to be hoped that she wUl display them to least see from statements quoted, why relations better effect in her future books which we he edited and the church to which he belonged. In the event, both charges were between the Jews and the United Church eagerly await. might be a little cool. Rabbi Slonim may well There is little of the past in the poetry of later withdrawn, but they still represent the be right when he sees in them an ethnic Gerda Mayer who came to England from high water mark of a distressing battle which majority's lack of understanding of an ethnic Czechoslovakia as a girl of eleven just before went on for a number of years. It has now minority's fears, a classic liberal mistrust of the war. She has recently published a small become the subject of a book written by a nationalism and an impatience with Jewish volume in the Chatto "Poems for the Young" rabbi who is also an experienced joumalist*. particularism. Significantly, one of the former seriest, and most of them are firmly rooted If the church in question had been an moderators sees nothing qualitatively unique in her English environment. Many of them are insignificant extremist sect the dispute would in the Holocaust but regards it as only differ­ rather beautiful and deserve to be read by not have raised many eyebrows, but it was the ent in degree from other examples of mass people of all ages—in fact they are certainly exact opposite. It was the United Church of cruelty. not meant for the very young. From time to Canada, the country's largest Protestant time there are echoes of the past as in the church and one with a much admired tradition It is sobering to think that, up to a genera­ poem "Fragment" : of social action, known for its outspoken tion ago, a conflict between the Jewish coin- My father lifted support of unpopular minority causes, includ­ munity and a church with the United Church's a mouth-organ up ing the admission of Jewish refugees during social phUosophy would have been inconceiv­ to the wind on the hill the 1930s. Its oflBcial stand on the Israeli-Arab able. No doubt there is a message here for and the wind of Bohemia conflict is scrupulously fair. Nevertheless, both sides, but it is tempting to conclude that sighed a few Jewish spokesmen have repeatedly accused it the message for Jews is both longer and more frail and blue notes.. .. of condoning antisemitism by refusing to complex. In another poem "Bible Stories" she con­ muzzle the maverick editor of The United * Reuben Slonim. Family Quarrel; the United ChiH^h cludes : Church Observer, an undeniably intemperate and the Jewt. Tororrto, Clarke, Irwin & Company, 19"' But Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob man who has made the cause of the Arab and the rest of the biblical crew refugees his own, to the virtual exclusion of and my grandfather, the soUcitor, aU other considerations. Jewish leaders were was everyone a Jew. The swastikas of my childhood, unwilling to accept the argument that The The Hutchinson History of the World chalked upon the waU, Observer was not an oflBcial vehicle for church the rain and the years have washed them policy and that to limit its editorial freedom It is not easy to give even a broad con­ away, would be a violation of democratic principles. spectus of world history in the space of 1,10" and the Bible survives them aU. The dispute reflects little credit on either pages without major omissions and suppres­ the Jewish community or on the editor who sions!. Dr Roberts has, however, done a goO" It seems that the past left its imprint even job within the limitations imposed on him on an eleven-year-old who found a new home was attacked. On the one hand, hysterical Jewish over-reaction almost turned the editor and has not forgotten that the world extends and a new language and became a poet. beyond Europe and the U.S.A. The volume * Eva Figes. Little Eden. A Child at War. Faber and into a martyr and certainly strengthened his Faber. London and Boston. 1978. 140 pp. £4-50. case more than he deserved. On the other, his is weU produced, profusely iUustrated aod t Eva Jones, Double-Oeckar. Bachmann & Turner. 1977. weU worth the money. WALTER SCHWAB 191 pp. £4-50. overheated joumaUsm, his gratuitous use of t Gerda Mayer. The Knockabout Show. Chatto & Wlndua. bibUcal allusions and his surprising ignorance t The Hutchinson History ot the World. J. M. Roberts- London. 1978. 32 pp. £1-78. of the nature of antisemitism gave the case Hutchinson & Co. £9-95. against him a certain spurious plausibUity. CLUB 1943 BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE Vortraege jeden Montag um 8 pjn. 51 Belsize Square, N.W.3 im Hannah Karminski House SELICHOT SERVICE 9 Adamson Road, N.W.S. SELF AID OF REFUGEES at the Synagogue 4. Sept. Dr. Ellen Kessel-Ruhemann: THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONCERT with Choir and Cantor "Malta" (with colour sUdes). Address by the Rabbi Queen Elizabeth Hall 11. Sept. 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Sunday, September 17, at 10 a.m. ^^ INFORMATION September 1978 Page 7 ^na Steiner durch seine spezieUe Gemeinheit charak­ terisiert haette als durch sein Mauscheln, so wie icb ja zoegem wuerde, einen falschen Kerl durch polnischen Akzent oder einen ALBAN BERG'S OPERA LULU Maulhelden durch preussischen auszudruecken. .As recounted in my short article dealing keitsgrad dieser Aufgabe und weiss noch nicht, 'fith Alban Berg's opera Lulu (AJR Informa- ob ich sie ueberhaupt wuerdig, Bergs una Ich glaube, Sie sollten Frau Berg keinen tion, November, 1977) the composer had died meiner selbst wuerdig, loesen kann. Bergs anderen Gnmd angeben, als den ich in dem •* December 24, 1935, without having been Konzeption ist von der meinigen grund- beiUegenden Brief an die U.E. vorschuetze. verschieden. Waehrend ich absolut zu gemein­ Auch halte ich es fuer ueberfluessig, dass 3We to complete the orchestration of the samer Wirkung verbundene Orchesterstimmen die Oeffentlichkeit etwas davon erfaehrt, ^hird act. As a last service of love to his erfinde, ist seine Denkungsart doch ent­ obwohl ich persoenlich das ruhig auf mich lead friend, Schoenberg, who had only re­ schieden pianistisch. Nun aber hat er es naehme. Aber ich wiU Berg in keinem, auch cently emigrated to the United States, had verstanden, das in aeusserst wirkungsvoUer nicht in meinem Kreis schaden und vor suggested to Berg's widow that he would Weise fuer Orchester umzusetzen und hat in AUem: ich wUl die MoegUchkeit haben, ihm Complete the opera, an offer he had to with- aUen Faellen den Charakter und die Stimmung das selbst zu vergessen. Denn es tut mir ausdruecken koennen, die er gemeint hat. leid, dass ich heute nicht mehr imstande bin^ ^"f after he had read the libretto (derived Das vor Allem, weil sie ihm bekannt und weU Judenhass durch Liebesdienst, den ich ihm fom Wedekind's plays "Erdgeist" and er von ihr dominiert war. geme erwiesen haette, zu vergelten. Ich ueber- Buechse der Pandwa") and the short score, lasse es Ihrer . . . (unleserlich), ob Sie Schauen Sie z.B. Seite 20 der Lulu-Stuecke Kalmus oder Winter meine Gruende (im ^he reason given by Schoenberg was that the an. Die Baesse sind die linke Hand eines *ork was more difiBcult and required more Wortlaut) mitteilen woUen oder sie bloss bei Klaviersatzes. Oder Seite 38-40, eine Stelle, dem lassen, was ich der U.E. (Universal J?^e than he had at his disposal. For some die uebrigens sicher sehr schoen und charak­ Edition.—Ed.) schreibe. Verstehen Sie mich ^^, however, it has been known that a letter teristisch klingen wird. recht: ich bin geme bereit. anzunehmen, daas ^«sted, which Schoenberg had written to his 11. Maerz Berg das aus allerdings schwerverstaendlicher farmer pupU and friend, Erwin Stein, dated Als ich hier hielt, kam gerade das Paket Gedankenlosigkeit getan hat, obwohl es in *«^ 9 and 11, 1936, in which the real mit den Materialien. Ich stuerzte mich sofort der Zeit weitgehendster Judenverfolgungen pasons for his refusal were given. Mr. darueber und konstatierte zunaechst, dass kaum glaubwuerdig erscheint, dass einer an noch 3/4 des dritten Aktes uninstrumentiert das gar nicht denkt, was seine Freunde es ^wrence Schoenberg, the composer's son, sind. Dann sah ich, dass die Partitur oder denken macht. Aber Gedankenlosigkeit *oo lives in Los Angeles, has kindly besser der Klavierauszug der frueheren Akte zugegeben: so erscheint mir Mauscheln heute "jithorised me to pubUsh this letter, and since nicht mitgekommen war, so dass ich nicht gewiss eher ehrwuerdig, als Symptom von ^ original German is not likely to pose any herausfinden haette koennen, welche Motive Schufterei, wo ich soviele Ehrwuerdige kenne, P^'oblem to the readers of this journal, I am oder Stellen bereits frueher vorkommen und die mauscheln und von sovielen weiss, die jUoting it as it was written by this great in der Wiederholung genau oder variiert zu durch. nichts anderes als durch ihr Mauscheln verwenden waeren. Ferner sah ich, dass Teile der Ehre des Martertodes wuerdig befunden ewish composer, who had our problems so des ParticeUs fast unentzifiFerbar sind, was worden waren. Soil ich mich nun daran y<^h at heart: mich mindestens sehr aufgehalten haette. inspirieren, zur Instrumentation einer Musik, yHerm Erwin Stein Dann sah ich, dass Berg in der Verwendung die eine besondere Art von Gemeinheit bereits v^yni. Wilbrandtgasse 43 der Reihen wesentlich anders vorgeht als ich: durch den Umstand gekennzeichnet findet, "]«n 9. Maerz 1936 Oktavenverdopplungen etc., so dass die Auf­ dass diese Person em Jude ist, da lie J, L.ieber Stein, ich danke Ihnen sehr fuer klaerung unleserlicher Noten unendlich mauschelt ? j?Jen Brief vom 17.1.36. Ich war solange ohne erschwert wird. Daraufhin wusste ich, dass an ''achricht ueber Bergs Tod und konnte hier eine Einhaltung dieses Termines auch dann Es tut mir sehr leid, dass durch mich eine |»r nichts erfahren. Ich glaube doch, dass nicht zu denken waere, wenn ich meine ganze Verzoegerung der Instmmentation entsteht, g*)^ umgebracht worden ist durch falsche Arbeitszeit dieser Sache widmen koennte. aber ich konnte das nicht vorher sehen. Ich enandlung. Allerdings: wer ist schuld? Fast Aber, wie Sie begreifen werden, wenn ich hoffe trotzdem, dass ein Anderer das noch ^^eint es mir, dass der erste Arzt recht schon bereit bin, auf jede eigene Arbeit rechtzeitig wird fertig machen koennen, c*Pabt hat und die Operationen ihn getoetet wachrend dieser Zeit zu verzichten, so kann insbesondere, wenn er gute technische "*°?n. Es ist furchtbar traurig. ich diese Zeit nicht aussparen, die fuer meinen Informationen von Ihnen oder Reich erhaelt. b ^^.ute erst erhalte ich von Ass. Music Broterwerb erforderlich ist und fuer viele, die fuer mich nicht rechtzeitig erhaeltlich, jUblisliers die Mitteilung, dass sie mir die viele unangenehme, aber unabweisliche wenn ich sage, dass ich beinahe sicher bin, g^teriale zu Bergs Oper senden. Seit Ihrem Abhaltungen. dass ich diesen Termin nicht haette einhalten sSi^ warte icii immer nervoeser auf diese koennen und bei aller Opferbereitschaft nicht jjiiaung, welche ich hoechstens eine Woche Das aber aUes sind nicht die Gruende, sicher bin, ob ich (ein) Jahr verlieren darf, JJr^h Ihrem Brief haette erwarten koennen warum ich die Arbeit nicht machen kann. heute, wo ich bald zweiundsechzig bin und _"o kann nicht verstehen, warum das solange Denn ich war von Anfang an zu jedem Opfer nur eine beschraenkte Anzahl von Jahren ^aauert hat, da ich weiss, dass Photocopien bereit und haette alles moegliche getan, um fuer meine eigene Arbeit uebrig habe. Aber rj Wenigen Tagen fertig sein koennen und zu einem eventuell nur wenig verschobenen j^^^t einsehe- warum man alles auf einmal Termin fertig zu werden. Continaed on page 8, colnmn 1. ^aaen musste und mir nicht wenigstens Teile Sondem, nachdem ich mich zuerst in den kif^er zur Verfuegung stellen konnte. Ich Noten ein bisschen orientiert hatte, begann ^"^ ja gar keine Ahnung von dem Schwierig- ich das Textbuch zu lesen und fand im 3. Akt. Seite 46, ZeUe 13: ... der Saujud, und ZeUe 15: . . . immer mehr ins iuedelnd (sic) verfallend. Im Particell steht, von Bergs Hand, anstatt der zweiten Bemerkung: THE (mauschelnd). Die Musik drueckt durch die kreischend hohen Toene das Ueberschlagen iSfQ^ PERFECT GIFT der Stimme und durch tiefe 16-tel das Gemauschel (symbolisch) aus. Ich verschaffte 'or men from 8 to 80 mir Wedekinds beide Originale, in welchen ET., I ln..M.rr»fftiTi-TlCTi ZiNi der Generaldirektor den Namen Puntschu fuehrt und auch juedische Redewendungen gebraucht. Aber die beiden, das Juedeln 0 respektive Mauscheln verlangenden Anwei­ sungen kommen nicht vor, sondem sind Zutaten Bergs, welche ihm leider bei den Nazis nicht genuetzt haben. Ob er sichs davon ISOPONJ versprochen hatte? Vielleicht haette ich in der Vomazizeit das zwar als unangenehm empfunden, aber, da ja dieser Puntschu bei Wedekind kaum unsympathischer ist als seine Fights Rust anderen Heldenfiguren, keine Konsequenzen Newly developed. Zinc compounds daraus gezogen. Aber heute, gleichviel, ob are some of the finest rust inhibitors.The S^^^ Puntschu sympathisch ist oder nicht: right or synthetic resin base forms a tough skin, m. (guarantee/ wrong, it's my country. Und man kann wirkUch nicht von mir erwarten, dass ich mich fuer which seals the surface from moisture. diese Stelle so begeistere, als noetig istj um From all good hardware and accessory stores. diese Verhoehnung eines 'Schuftes, weil er Free literature from David's ISOPON. FREEPOST Jude ist' durch meine Instrumentation zur Northway House, London N20 9BR. hoechsten Charakteristik zu bringen. Wobei VICTORINOX nicht zu vergessen waere, dass man auch diesen Schuften auf dem Theater, so wie die LJTh e Original Swiss Army Knife anderen Schufte, noch weit charakteristischer SSH'lJ'h'l Page 8 AJR INFORMATION September 1978 ALBAN BERG'S OPERA, LULU LONDON INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE AT THE DAWN OF INTEGRATION CONFERENCE An Important Demography of Continued from page 7. A well attended Folklore Conference with German-Jewish Past nochmals: das hat mich nicht zu dieser the participation of scholars from all over the Ablehnung bewogen. world was held from July 17 to 21 at the Royal The second volume in the series* published Nun danke ich Ihnen noch fuer die lieben Holloway College, University of London, by the Institute for German History at the Briefe, die Sie mir aus diesem Anlass Egham, Surrey, to mark the Centenary of the University of Tel Aviv is by Professor Jacob geschrieben haben und bitte Sie, doch mehr British Folklore Society in which eminent Toury, bom in Beuthen, and now Professor oi und oefter, solange man noch miteinander Jewish folklorists, such as Joseph Jacobs and kommunizieren kann, und von sich selbst zu Moses Gaster, once played a prominent role. Modem History at the University of Tel Aviv. schrieben, was mich immer sehr interessiert. The participants inc uded eight Jewish schol­ In this volume Professor Toury has devoted Viele herzliche Gmesse Ihnen, Ihrer Frau ars from U.S.A., Israel, Yugoslavia and Eng­ himself to a study of the period 1847-1871 and land who dealt with current and traditional his researches are based on much archiv^ und Ihrer Tochter von meiner Frau und mir. topics in the domain of Jewdsh folklore. In Unsere Nuria ist auch schon bald vier Jahre particular, mention should be made of the material, the contemporary press and unpub­ alt und selir, sehr lieb. contribution by Prof. Dov Noy of the Hebrew lished autobiographies. He deals successively Ihr University of Jemsalem on "Jewish Symbols, with the level and distribution of the Jewish Arnold Schoenberg Ancient and New", Issachar Ben-Ami "Mira­ population in the period under review, sociaj culous Wartime Legends", Olga Goldberg "The integration and assimUation, the communaj On April 30, 1936, Erwin Stein repUed, Folk Artists in the Yemenite Jewish Commu­ organisation and the legal framework ot pointing out to Schoenberg that Berg had nity", and Haim Schwarzbaum's interesting emancipation. The text is interspersed witn vmtten Iiis Ubretto in pre-Nazi times, and paper on "International Folklore Motifs in numerous tables from which many of the that he (Stein) was sure that it was "ooly" Ibn Zabara's 'Sefer Shashuim' of the 12th Century"—aU from Israel. Prof. Dan Ben-Amos author's conclusions are derived. thoughtlessness on Berg's part that was (University of PhUadelphia) spoke on "The This is a scholarly work and an essential resposible for the offensive passage in the Concept 'Motif in Folklore" and Dr. J. J. tool for anybody seriously engaged in the third act of the opera. Stein also informed Maitlis of London read a paper on "The Didac­ study of this period. Schoenberg that Zemlinsky (Schoenberg's tic Story in the Old-Yiddish Folk Literature." brother-in-law, who stiU lived in Vienna at The presidential address was given by Prof. * Jacob Toury: Soziale und politische QesehlcMe d" J. R Porter (University of Exeter). Juden In Deutschland 1847-1871. Zwischen Revolution> that time), after initial enthusiasm, had re­ Realrtion und Emanzipation. 2. Schfiftenreihe des Institu'S fused to complete the opera, and that Webem fur Deutsche Geschichte. Universitat Tel Aviv. Drosie was StiU studying the score. This too, as we Verlag, Dusseldorf. 1977. DM 78. know, did not lead to the desired result, A Liberal Congregation in Zurich and Lulu was first performed as a fragment "Sunrise Over Hell" on June 2, 1937, at the Stadttheater in Zuerich. The Zurich Section of the "Vereinigung fuer religioes-liberales Judentum in der Schweiz", Here is another account of the Warsa* The opera, now at last completed by the which for a number of years held special uprising, Auschwitz amd the resf*, told in ^* Viermese composer, Friedrich Cerha, in services on Friday evenings and bolydays, has form of fiction but omitting none of the coUaboration with Pierre Boulez, wiU be per­ constituted itself as an independent Uberal gmesome detaUs and bmtalities perpetrated formed in Paris on February 24, 1979 (Boulez congregation. It now holds regular services in on the Jews, including those perpetrated 0° conducting and Patrice Chereau producing), the Hall of the "Kaufleuten"-Haus and main­ them by other Jews. The style of the EnglfS" and vrith Boulez' forthcoming documentation, tains a reUgious school. The new congregation version is, to put it mUdly, dated. Compulsive is also negotiating about the acquisition of a reading for those who cannot have enough- giving information about the completion of site for a cemetery. E.G.L. Lulu, we should soon know more of what * Sunrise Over Hell. By Ka-Tzetnik 135633, translat^ has been going on lately behind the scenes. from the Hebrew by Nina De-Nur. W. H. Allen. £39»- As I said before; let us hope a tactful solution of Schoenberg's problem has been found. WALTER SCHWAB Used by permission of Belmont Publishers, Los Angeles, Classified 90049. "ROYAL MINT" has been advertised in AJR for many years. Have you tasted it or the other Royals? DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX with the compliments of

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TELEX 2-3540 53/79 Highgate Road, London NWS 1RR AJR INFORMATION September 1978 Page 9 THE ISRAELI SCENE MISCELLANEOUS INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION HILDESHEIM SYNAGOGUE POLAND COMPLAINS During the first six months of 1978, immi- The head of the Polish Commission for the SratioD mto Israel increased by 24 per cent, Original Photograph of Pogrom Night prosecution of Nazi criminals complained in ^ompared to the same period last year. 5,100 the press that the Federal Republic was lax P* tile 11,400 immigrants came from Soviet When during the notorious events of Novem­ in instigating and pursuing trials against •Russia, 55 per cent more than last year. ber, 1938, the synagogue of HUdesheim was Nazi criminals. Since 1965, there had been set on fire, a local photographer by the name 11,000 investigations and 5,000 trials of this of Theo Wetteran, who happened to be present, kind in Poland, and some 150,000 documents CUT IN PHONE CHARGES secretly released the trigger of his camera, had been passed on to the legal authorities and thus secured this umque pictorial docu­ in West Germany, Berlin and Austria, but Half-price direct dialUng between Israel ment of the buming place of worship. Only since 1958, only 134 persons had been tried and Britain between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. IsraeU recently, almost more than 40 years after the for crimes committed m Nazi-occupied Poland. :p»e (one hour earUer than British summer event, the photograph appeared in pubUc, Most of the leading SS men were still at P^e) lias been agreed upon. A direct call will when Wetteran made it available on the occa­ liberty anil unchaUenged. ?,\ about 65p plus VAT instead of £1-30 plus sion of a photographic exhibition in HUdes­ ^T a minute. heim. The picture shows clearly the outlines of the synagogue with the flames licking the A GHETTO EDUCATION windows. MORE FLIGHTS TO THE US Mr. William Frankel, former editor of the The synagogue was buUt in 1849. Collections Jeunsh Chronicle, now a contributor on Jewish ,-After months of haggUng, Israel and the from amongst the Christian population had affairs to "The Times", said at a meeting of Hjiited States have reached an agreement contributed to the cost of buUding; it had the Zionist Federation Educational Tmst that Rowing El Al to fly to Boston, Los Angeles, existed for almost 90 years. The Jewish Jewish education seems to be preparing ynicago, and Miami, and in retum aUowing congregation of HUdesheim and their fonner chUdren to live like their fathers, grandfathers f? unlimited number of charter flights from place of worship can be traced back to the and great-grandfathers in the ghetto life of f?e Us to Israel. As a result, fares between fourteenth century. The relationship between the 19th-century from which even some text­ "e two countries will be considerably reduced. the Christian population of the old bishop's books survived. Jewish rabbis, like the mini­ see and the Jewish inhabitants had always sters of the Christian churches, should make been exemplary, even right into the times of attempts to help their congregations to recon­ "HOLOCAUST" FILM TO BE SHOWN the persecution in the years after 1933.—J.L. cile religion with present-day life. The Chief Rabbi should not have accepted a curtain for ^Despite objections from survivors of the the St. John's Wood Synagogue from the Pj^centration camps, the American Holocaust FOUR RABBIS OF ESSEN Koliver Rebe, because "behind the curtain is J jmi will be shown on Israeli TV in the near no longer the place for Jewish women." ure. The authorities decided that its educa- The Director of the Municipal Archives of ">nal value was too great to be overlooked. Essen, Dr. Hermann Schroeter, has been com­ "HABONIM" COMMEMORATES missioned by the Essen City Coundl to write MARTIN SOBOTKER OBJECTIONS TO AUTOPSIES a history of the former Essen Jewish com­ munity. At its peak time, there lived 5,000 To mark the first "yahrzeit" of its late dir­ j^<>itte 1,000 ultra-Orthodox men and women Jews in Essen, and at the outbreak of war ector, Martin Sobotker, the Congregation Q^nionstrated outside the Prime Minister's their number had been reduced to 2,000. 'Habonim" (New York), founded by refugees J nice in Jerusalem supporting the Agudat from Central Europe, consecrated a Torah g/^l party's demand for a ban on post- WhUst Dr. Schroeter wUl require some time scroU in his memory. The acquisition of the ^"rtem examinations. to trace and peruse the widespread material scroU was made possible by a fund raised for his monograph, he has marked the SOth after Sobotker's death in honour of this "shin­ anniversary of tlie foundation of the State of ing example of a Jewish civU servant," as he AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION WITH Israel by publishing the profiles of four former was once called. Martin Sobotker started liis PORTUGAL Rabbis of Essen in his local historical Quarterly Jewish activities in the German-Jewish youth "Das Muenster am Hellweg". The rabbis des­ movement in Berlin and later beeame a senior ij.^^r^el and Portugal have signed an agree- cribed in the well-Ulustrated article are Dr. official of the Jewish community, where his Utii- • °" agricultural collaboration and the Salomon Samuel (Culm 1867—Theresienstadt experience as a social worker and his admini­ iiising of water and fish resources in both 1942), Dr. Paul Lazarus (Duisburg 1888—Haifa strative ^ts were of great benefit. After his ^•^untries. 1951), Dr EmU Berahard Cohn (Berlin 1881— immigration to the US ne was for a very great Los Angeles 1948) and Dr. Hugo Hahn (Thien- number of years director of the Habonim gen/Baden 1893—New York 1967). WhUst Congregation. E.G.L. ^nVG SOLOMON'S JUDGEMENT NEEDED three of the articles are reprints from previous publications, the article about Dr. Samuel was Jli. e'»n u (^' ^ two voung mothers were recently written at Dr. Schroeter's special request by A NEW THEODOR WOLFF BIOGRAPHY t^harged froni the Haifa Rambam Hospital, the rabbi's son, the music teacher and organist fc^ha Hans Jochanan Samuel (1901-1976) shortly Under the title "Der Chef-Redakteur •yy?y Were by mistake given each other's baby. Ijefore his death in Israel. Theodor Wolff—Ein Leben in Europa 1868- doiiK? hospital doctors established without 1943" Dr. Wolfram Koehler has written a f -Ut't that a mistake had been made, both Previous editions of the Quarterly carried biography of the great publicist (Droste- L H^ed to give up the babies to whom they articles about the Hirschland famUy (1977), a Verlag, Duesseldorf). The work is mainly thp become deeply attached whilst nursing brief history of the former Jewish community based on the literary estate of Theodor Wolff Offi u***" ^^'^ weeks. The Attorney General's Essen-Steele (1975), and, in 1970, some remi­ which is deposited in Paris. Theodor Wolff "^e has been asked for a legal opinion. niscences by AUce Stem de Neumann (Mexico, emigrated to France, when the Nazis came to ACADEMIC HONOURS FOR WAR INVALID formerly Essen) about the "Synagogen­ power. In 1943 he was arrested in Nizza and gemeinde Essen von 1933-1940". E.G.L. taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration jj.35-jrear-old Mr. Yekutiel Gershoni who lost camp. He died in the same year of exhaustion a^^ight, his hearing and both his hands when in the Berlin Jewish Hospital. The fact that exni"!? ^ *^^ defusing in the Jordan Valley Dr. Koehler's book is the third assessment of MiriHi ^'^' ^^^ since taken his BA degree in Theodor Wolff's life and work indicates the Wr' J ^^* ^°*^ African history and his Mas- importance attributed to him. In 1968, Gott­ Tgi^ degree on Italo-Ethiopian relations at Intercom up tO hart Schwarz wrote about "Theodor Wolff imd his Du^^ University. He is now studying for 28 points das Berliner Tageblatt" and, in 1976, Bemd &6K ^'•^^ ^ thesis on Liberia at the versatile Porter Switchboards Soesemamn included an essay about him in LonS^* University and has recently visited up to 280 his work "Das Ende der Weimarer Republik Visit j° *•** coUect material for it. He has also DOORPHONE in der Kritik demokratischer Publizisten". «ed the Ivory Coast and Liberia. UiiJULsiiiJLriJiJlilLyLs E.G.L.

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Im I. G. Blaeschke Verlag, Darmstadt ist aus David Shaltiel is known for his role as Memoirs of the late Hermann Luppe dem NacMass einer bisher imbekannten commander in charge of the defence of Jerusa­ It is one of the tragedies of poUtical lif* Dichterin, Leonie Spitzer, ein Kleiner Gedicht­ lem during Israel's War of Independence, who that the courageous Lord Mayor of Nuern­ band, "Wandlungen der Liebe" (12-50 D.M.) who later held various diplomatic posts in Latin berg, untU 1933, Hermann Luppe, lost his life erschienen. Er wurde mit Unterstiitzung von in an air raid on Kiel at the beginning o* Ruth Davidovits und Ema Hollitscher American and the Westem Europe capitals. April, 1945, when the AlUed victory was veroffentlicht. Aus dem Nachwort von Helene The biographical novel "Die Himmelsleiter" by already imminent. Had he survived, he wouW Adolf erfahrt man, dass die Dichterin schon WUly Prins (Publishers: Christians Verlag, certainly have played an important and con­ structive role in post-Nazi Germany. Posthum­ 1940 in Oxford, wo sie im Exil lebte und als Hamburg, 1977) concentrates, however, on the ously, his memoirs ("Mein Leben") were Lehrerin tatig war, gestorben ist. earlier part of Shaltiel's life and tells a fascin­ published last year by the Municipality o* Der Titel des Gedichtbandes ist gluecklich ating story, legitimately combining facts and Nuernberg in co-operation with Dr. Mell8 Heinsen-Luppe. After having held ofSce m gewaehlt. In den zwischen 1913 und 1940 fiction. David Schaltiel was bom in Hamburg Frankfurt as Deputy Mayor, Luppe was aP" entstandenen Gedichten von Leonie Spitzer into an Orthodox famUy; his father was Se­ pointed Lord Mayor of Nuernberg in 1920- wandelt imd laeutert sich die Glut und phardi, his mother Ashkenazi. Obedience and He held this office untU he was dismissed Leidenschaft einer irdischen Liebe nach dem by the Nazis in 1933. He was an uncomprom­ Tode des Geliebten aUmaehUch zur reinen respectabiUty were not among David's charac­ ising fighter against the Nazis and as early as Gottesliebe: teristics; he was strong-wiUed, independent- 1924 described Streicher as a dangerous psy­ minded and even naughty. After a stay in chopath. Born in Kiel as the son of liberal parents, he had already Jews among hi5 Palestine, he served in the French Foreign Ich war die Gebende, als ich dir Liebe bot. friends in his youth. Later, when he became So trat zur Zeit Legion. He then retumed to Palestine where a public personality, he was in constant pd"' he joined the Haganah. He was sent to Europe sonal contact with leading Jewish and non- der Vaeter wohl ein Bettler an die Schwelle, Jewish politicians. The great number oi mit staubigem Gewand und Haar. to organize rescue work for refugees. Later friends mentioned in the memoirs include, Man gab mitleidig ihm ein Brot. on, he headed an arms smuggling ring and among many others, Hugo Preuss, Ludxvis Und erst als er zum Gehen sich gewandt proved to be a highly able, courageous and Haas, Fritz Elsas and the Nuernberg C»y CouncUlors, Richard Kohn and Max Suessheim- hat man im frommen Schreck erkannt dependable underground worker. As late as 1937, he spoke at the funeral of a an seines Angesichts strahlender Helle— WUly Prins, a truly multUingual and Jewish friend, the brother of the former dass es Gott selber war. cosmopolitan author, with a soUd Jewish back­ Frankfurt lawyer. Dr. Max Hermann Maier, ground, was bom in Antwerp, educated there whose memoirs were reviewed in our Febru­ ary, 1977, issue. E.G.I" Aus diesen Strophen wie aus fast aUen at German schools and has already published amder^m Gedichtem tritt uns das BUd several volumes of fiction in French; he lives einer zart und innig, aber auch leidenschaft­ now, in active retirement, at ChaiUy-sur- LARGEST COLLECTION OF JUDAICA Uch liebenden jungen Frau entgegen, deren Clarence on the Lake of Geneva. As in his Max Berger, a Polish art expert who came schwaermerische Empfindungskraft von den other writings he combines basic factuality to Vienna in 1950, has since that time sue- Ahnungen einer hoeheren, ausserirdischen with a Uvely imagination. The result is a well oecded in assembling the largest coUectioo Liebe durchzogen ist. Ilire Gedichte sind auf told story about one of the devoted fighters of Judaica in the world in his private museum einen oft volksliedhaften oft herben und from the ranks of Diaspora Jewry who essenti­ in Vienna's Schottenring. It contains oyer ally contributed to the establishment of the 3,000 exhibits from many centuries, including strengen Tom gestimmt. Wer dafiir empfanglich anything to do with Snabbat rituals, coins, ist, wird davon vielfach bemehrt, oftmals Jewish State. mainuscripts, paintings and a 12,000 volume gemehrt sein. F.W. F. L. Brassloff library.

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JIMMY NADLER OBITUARY Mr. Jimmy Nadler, deputy head of the BBC's South European Services, has died at the early MRS. MIRIAM WARBURG PHILIPP CROMWELL age of 52. He was bora in Danzig and left , Mrs. Miriam Warburg, nee Goldberg, who with his parents for Palestine at an early age. PhiUpp Cromwell who died last month, In the 1940s he came to England and gradu­ Jjas died in Strasbourg, was a refugee who aged 84, was an unusuaUy gifted lawyer, much Qimng most of her life worked for the rescue ated from Exeter University. He worked loved by the many who benefited from his for the BBC since 1952 and was concemed ^d rehabUitation of Jewish chUdren. For legal advice and human understanding. He •"Me than twenty-five years, she was general with broadcasts to Greece, Italy, Spain, gave up a promising and successful career in Portugal and Turkey. secretary of ChUdren and Youth Aliyah m his native Nuremberg to come to Britain in °ntain. After the war, she joined the Jewish 1933. After brilliant results in the bar exam­ j^elief Unit and worked at the Foehrenwald ination, he became a member of Grays Inn, PERSOISALU 'j'lsplaced Persons Camp to help children to but there was no future for refugee barristers. j.^iigrate from there and contracted severe After his naturalisation he became a solicitor; PROF. RICHARD RADO, F.R.S. Jesses which lasted aU her life, but which his main post-war work, however, was con­ Professor Richard Rado, Emeritus Profes­ ^^}^ did not allow to interfere with her cerned vrith securing restitution and indemni­ sor of Pure Mathematics in the University of work. When she married Dr. Gustav Warburg, fication for many clients. He excelled in achie­ Reading, has been elected a FeUow of the ij6 B'nai B'rith representative at the United ving success in seemingly hopeless cases, due Royal Society. Professor Rado was bom and f"ations in Geneva, she was made the repre- to his tenacity and his unsurpassed knowledge educated in Berlin and came to this country as pWative of the International CouncU of Jew­ of the intricacies of German law. He maintain­ a refugee. isti Women at the Economic and Social Coun- ed offices in London and Nuremberg untU he "f of the UN. Later she moved to Strasbourg became incapacitated after a street accident. REFUGEE SCHOLAR HONOURED with her husband, and both worked for the During the war he was one of the most popu­ J-ouncU of Europe. Mr. Warburg, the author lar and helpful honorary consultants in the Eminent British and German scholars have pt an early textbook on Nazi legislation, died AJR's legal advice scheme and often contin­ contributed to a book "Donum Gentilicium, 'n 1970 ued to advise people in his own time and free New Testament Studies" in honour of David of charge. Daube, published by the Clarendon Press, Ox­ WERNER BIER ford. "The editors warmly praise the leaming Outside the law, he had wide interests, he and personal character of this scholar who Mr. Werner Bier who has died in Leeds, loved classical music and could whistle whole came from Freiburg in the 'thirties and who 3ged 57, was active in many communal Jewish symphonies from memory, he had a strong has made a significant contribution to the causes, particularly so in the Association of appreciation of art and was a dedicated bot­ Icnowledge of the Jewish background of the j'J^.wish Ex-Servicemen and Women. He came to anist, delighting in visits to Kew Gardens New Testament. .-''is country from his native Cologne in the late where he identified and studied rare plants. iiiirties and served with the Armed Forces NUREYEV'S CONTRIBUTION ^Uring the war. He considered it his life's He is survived by his widow Lotte who ^.•^fk to strive for racial harmony and to fight faithfully supported him through the early After a gala perfomance of the baUet "Sleep­ j'scriniination against Jews and coloured lean years and devotedly nursed him during ing Beauty", arranged by World Jewish Relief, iimigrants. He was a leading member of the his difiicult and protracted last illness. He the former Central British Fund, the organisa­ i;*eds Community Relations Council, of the died in the home in Wimbledon where the tion benefited by £10,000. Rudolf Nureyev, the ^ommittee for Soviet and World Jewry, the family had settled in 1934 and where over star of the performance, also signed souvenir ]^°i>ncil of Christians and Jews, and the poUce the years countless friends have enjoyed gen­ brochures, a few of which are .still available "aison councU. erous hospitality. M.P. at the WJR offices.

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ERICH GOTTGETREU 75 THEATRE AND CULTURE Belatedly but not less cordially we extend our sincerest congratulations to our irietiO One of the most brilliant German films, yet is working like a youngster, and sang his most Erich Gottgetreu, who celebrated his 75tn little linown to a whole generation, was famous part, the "Ochs von Lerchenau" for the birthday on July 31. A jouraalist of hig" "Miinchhausen' (1942), written by Erich 500th time this year. He stUl appears regularly standing, he started his career as member o' the editorial staff of the Social Democratic Kaestner who in those days had to use a in Wagnerian and Richard Strauss opera parts, "Luebecker Volksbote". In those days, WiUy pseudonym. The film, lavishly produced for the and denies any intentions of retirement.—Hans Brandt was employed as a messenger of tne 25-year UFA jubilee, has been re-issued and Lang, the Austrian hit-composer ("Mariandl'". paper, and it was Erich Gottgetreu who technically improved. It features Hans AZber.s- "Rose vom Woerthersee", "In Langenlois") trained him as a reporter. Since then, there in the title part, and includes a host of names who has innumerable film songs to his credit, has been a close relationship between the two- from Brigitte Homey and Leo Slezak to Hans also reached the age of 70 this summer. When the Nazis came to power, Erich Gott­ Brausewetter, Ilse Wemer and Hans Junker­ getreu, who had no Zionist leanings before, Obituary. Werner Firu:k, actor, author and decided to emigrate to Palestine. After ini^''^ mann. cabarettist, who has died in Bonn, at the age difiiculties which almost every newcomer haa Hamburg. The original comedy "Alt Heidel­ of 76, was a man who stood true to his con­ to face, he became correspondent of the berg" by Meyer-Foerster (which later pro­ victions, and not surprisingly, spent some time "Associated Press" in 1942. He held this ofBce vided the story for Romberg's musical "The in a concentration camp. When he visited until he retired in 1968. Yet his activities have Student Prince" and the famous song by Fred London after the war, he gave a brilliantly not decreased. His feature articles are pu"' Raymond) had a surprisingly long and success­ humorous account of his experiences under lished in Germany and many other countries- the Nazis at a function of the AJR in the "AJR Information" too may consider him a^ ful run at Hamburg's Ernst Deutsch Theatre. one of its contributors. Only recently, in June, Tit-bits. In view of the very diflBcult and Embassy Theatre and at the old "Blue Danube he reviewed Gerda Luft's book on the inimi; intemationally experienced problems in pro­ Club" in Finchley Road. He belonged to the gration and integration of Jews from Germanv ducing opera, there are nunours of a future elite of German comic actors and was one of in Israel. His articles are never matters oi amalgamation of the Duesseldorf Rhine Opera the great characters of this century's theatre. routine but always based on a wide bacK' and the opera house in Cologne, with two S.B. ground knowledge and excel by their original separate orchestras but only one ensemble of formulations. We wish Erich Gottgetreu health and many more years of undiminisheo singers.—The Vienna "Josefstadt" prepares Donations for Israel creativitv. W-K- Schnitzler's 'Leutnant Gustl" for the new season, an almost classic story which was Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin were the dramatised by Erast Lothar during the last soloists at a gala concert at London's Fish­ mongers' Hall in aid of the Jerusalem Founda­ Letter to the Editor years of his life. tion whose funds are used to advance the Memoirs of an Actor. "Das Leben verspielt" cultural, social, educational, and community GEORG HERMANN RENAISSANCE is the name of an autobiographical book by life of Jerusalem. The concert, where Jerusa­ Ernst Schroder, published by Fischer-Verlag, a lem's mayor Teddy Kollek was the guest of Sir.—With ref ence to your recent notes i^ book which combines serious views of the honour, raised £15,000. This will be used to might be of interest to your readers that tnf joys and troubles of acting with vividly enable every schoolchild in Jerusalem to following novels have now been published w' attend a theatrical performance, a concert and paperback editions by Fischer Taschenbncn humorous anecdotes from the world of stage the Israel Museum at least once a year. and screen. Verlag, Frankfurt/M: "Jettchen Gebert ' £100,000 was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Harr> "Henriette/Jacoby" and "Kubinke". ^c Birthdays. The almost "miraculous" German Abrahams to Wizo to opien a cr6che at the (Miss) E. MANES' bass, Kurt Boehme. celebrated his 70th birth­ Haifa Rambam Museum so that badly needed 7 Tannery Close, day. This verj' active Munich "Kammersanger" nurses can return to work. 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