Volume XXXV No. I January 1980 INFORMATION iSSUfD By THE ASSOOAim OF JEWBH RBIKECS IN tREAT BRITJUH

Eva G. Reichman extent his own. Intent on recording first the posi­ tive accomplishments, if possible without their darker implications, he chooses to ignore in this context that all these "Achievements and Suc­ THE MEANING OF HITLER cesses" were carried out in the shadow of future Renaissance or Re-Damnation? bloodshed. He enthuses, e.g. about Hitler's "econo­ mic miracle" his "positive achievement" "out­ shining all others". "The term did not then exist," Another Hitler-Book in Germany? Yet another orator of an almost hypnotic potency, his uncanny he writes. "It was coined much later for the product of that ominous Nazi Renaissance in gift to play with the collective unconscious where- astonishingly rapid reconstruction feat of the Germany of which we have heard too much ever he gets hold of it, and his total lack of self- Erhard era after the Second World War, but it already? criticism which is a great help in achieving the applies even better to what was taking place under Don't let us be rash, dear readers: another unthinkable. Hitler during the mid thirties. There was then a Hitler book all right (Sebastian Haffner, The Not surprisingly, decisive importance is given to Meaning of Hitler, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, much deeper and stronger impression that a real Hitler's antisemitism which will have to be men­ miracle was being accomplished, and that the London 1979, £5.95, translated by Ewald Osers tioned in several contexts. Sceptical though Haffner from: .^nmerkungen zu Hitler, Munich 1978). man who accomplished it. Hitler, was a miracle is with regard to his sociaUst leanings, anti­ worker." "Helplessness and hopelessness had "hat is less sure is whether it contributes to a semitism he regards—together with a vague Hhler "re-born" or rather a Hitler "re-destroyed". given way to confidence and self-assurance," nationalism destined to evaporate hopelessly in Haffner rejoices. "Even more miraculous was the What we have come to regard as the Nazi- the hour of crucial national danger—as "the real Renaissance in Germany—for the time being fact that the transition from depression to econo­ Hitlerian bedrock, his primal and lowest layer". mic boom had been accomplished without infla­ almost exclusively in the literary, not the political Less convincing is Haffner's insistence on the "sld, although even there a number of trouble- tion. . . . Not even Erhard succeeded in doing nature of this antisemitism as a typical East Euro­ that later in post-war Western Germany." ^me symptoms are discernible—is a highly pean product. In his opinion antisemitism in Ger­ ambiguous phenomenon. According to the laws many was on the wane during the relevant period, It is true, he has to admit, there existed at the Pertaining to the history of ideas, it had to be its remnants being directed towards assimilation time those concentration camps and there was the ^''Pected that some time or other there would and integration rather than towards the elimina­ fear, cunningly nurtured and dispelled simul­ arise a new questioning about one of the most tion of the Jews—a daring statement in the light taneously, that opposition was likely to land any­ 'Ormidable happenings of recent history: the Nazi of what was to happen. Unlike this—in Haffner's one there if he was careless enough to vent it. But ^atastrophe. A new sceptical generation was opinion—German brand of antisemitism. Eastem in Haffner's opinion "there was even a certain ''ound to emerge anxious to leam more about its European antisemitism was "endemic and mur­ logic on the side of those who, for the sake of the 'Origins, its meaning, its consequences. There is derous", directed towards "liquidation and exter­ economic miracle, were prepared to accept the Nothing unnatural or frightening in the wish to mination". As to how Hitler picked it up, Haffner concentration camps." "A certain logic"? Is it Penetrate, after the passage of some 40 years, the confesses ignorance. "There is," he says, "no not perhaps a rather inappropriate euphemism to 'ayer of oblivion which had darkened and dis- record of any disagreeable personal experience." abuse one of the supreme gifts of the human 'orted the events, still topical and consequential. The statement is, to say the least, surprising. In mind for the sake of tolerating one of the most *nd to find out what really happened. Regrettable "Mein Kampf" Hitler enlarges on flve whole pages notorious Nazi inhumanities? •hough it is that part of that new zeal favours a (372/376 edition, pp. 59-63) on how he became Haffner denies furthermore one of the most '^Semblance of whitewash, most of it is devoted an antisemite ending up (p. 69) with the cate­ generally accepted facts in the field of Nazi '° responsible research resulting in unequivocal gorical declaration: "From a weakly cosmopolitan achievements, namely that Hitler's "economic 'Condemnation. I had grown info a fanatical antisemite." Not only miracle" and his military miracle, the rearmament, Within this perplexity Sebastian Haffner's book on the preceding pages but ad nauseam throughout were basically the same thing. The enormous re­ "^omes as a welcome clarification. The author is the book he makes innumerable points on the sub­ armament on which Hitler started immediately *6ll-known to our circle as the war-time editor of ject. What other explanations or "personal experi­ after the seizure of power removed in his opinion Oie Zeitung", a German weekly published in ences" may Haffner have expected? Specific "a few hundreds of thousands of potential unem­ r^^ndon, of an unambiguously anti-Nazi stance. records may be missing but distinct suspicions ployed from the streets ... but the great bulk of °y an original arrangement of his material HafFner suggest themselves. the six million unemployed whom Hitler had in­ 'Voids the outright damnation straight from the herited found re-employment in entirely normal '^rt of the man of doom. Unlike the usual bio- "Achievements and Successes" civilian industries." Contrary to this view Wolf­ l^aphical progress following the phases of life, From the dismal life of his Viennese youth gang Sauer devotes a whole chapter of the stan­ fiaffner divides his account in seven chapters giv- Hitler happily escaped to Germany where he met dard work "Die Nationalsozialistische Machter­ '!'8 an intriguing picture of Hitler's ascent and with the even greater luck that war broke out. To greifung. Studien zur Errichtung des totalitHren ^^cUne. Their headings—"Life. Achievements. him the war years were happy ones. The revolu­ Herrschaftssystems in Deutschland 1933/34" Recesses. Misconceptions. Mistakes. Crimes, tion of 1918, the "November Crime" as he and (Westdeutscher Veriag, Koln/Opladen 1960, by "etrayal"—provide a startling outline of what to his partisans preferred to call it, was a terrible Karl Dietrich Bracher, Wolfgang Sauer and Ger­ ^^Pect. In the first place he creates a rather im­ thunder-clap, but one he determinedly refused to hard Schulz 1960) to the subject "Rearmament pressive portrayal of a man of unpromising begin- take as a fait accompli. He regarded it as a pre­ and Economic Crisis". He describes in detail that 'ngs as a down-and-out in Vienna, without educa- liminary end to the hostilities, brought about bv as early as on the Sth February 1933 Hitler de­ clared in a Cabinet Meeting that "all public '01, occupation or definable ambition, who pro- treachery, and therefore only as an odious inter­ measures that were to serve the re-employment of ,.^^s in the second and third chapters to notable ruption of Germany's ascent to world power. His Achievements" and "Successes". These seem to the unemployed had as a matter of principle to bumptious decision "to become a politician" be judged from the point of view to what extent ^olve from a vacuum unless we attribute to meant that from now on every step he climbed *J'"er's early political passion—the only positive they promoted the rearmament which had to be on the ladder to personal power would mean a accomplished within five years." ^ntent in his otherwise empty personal make- step to the resumption of war. ^ a driving force endowed with the stupendous Haffner classifies these steps as Hitler's Achieve­ While Hitler was wary of revealing a thing ^^tentialittialitVy ton leaIpaHd him ton prominencer,rnTnin*>nr#> , worldiirnrlH-- ments and Successes. And that is what they were. about his war plans during the first years of his Pow,er—eve n if to lapse eventually in a fathom- But it is here where he sometimes errs on the side rule, Sauer takes it for granted that simul­ jf^s void Haffner has little hesitation in seeing him of unwarranted credulity. It is to some extent the taneously with the conquest of power in the Reich j^.is Way. The other characteristics he ascribes to credulity of the German people which he uncriti­ he was determined to prepare for an as yet un- "" as possibly latent abilities are his power as an cally accepts as signs of Hitler's magic, to some Continued at column 1, page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION January 1980

tance on the home-front prevented him from The Meaning of Hitler declaring it. So greaf was his hesitation that even the unforeseen Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour Contd. from page 1 failed to challenge Roosevelt into the war as long limited further conquest. Was it to be Europe? honour it must be said that there is a limit even as Germany kept quiet. But she did the contrary: Was it to be "the world" as his youngsters were to scrupulous objectivity. As to what Hitler did to by declaring war on America herself Gennany used to rave about in one of their most popular the Jews Haffner's indignation is limitless. His saved Roosevelt fhe trouble to appease a reluctant songs? He probably was not sure about it himself. chapter entitled "Misconceptions", the first of fhe home-front. The motives are incomprehensible. What he was sure about was that it meant war. negative ones, deals with this sordid subject, Was it a cry for help against a triumphant Russia, For the time being it was to be kept a well- although, to his disgust, Haffner confesses he has not exactly liked as an ally by the United States. guarded secret. It would have been exceedingly to deal with it in every chapter. He leaves nothing Was it an act of desperation? Rational explana­ unpopular with the people. Incredible, even repul­ undone. He thoroughly examines roots and essence tions will no longer do, Haffner declares; hypo­ sive, to venture openly on rearmament while six of antisemitism as Hitler conceived of it—accord­ theses have to take over. millions of unemployed—those in fact who had ing to his lights. And in this field, barricaded as Haffner's hypothesis is an appalling one. At the helped him to power—were still lying on the it was by prejudices and diabolic hatred, his lights beginning of war, he sets forth. Hitler had two streets! But Hitler had discovered an ingenious definitely failed him. Haffner evinces meticulously main purposes: world domination and the exter­ trick. He had found out that, in actual fact, the the contradictions and absurdities of Hitler's anti­ mination of the Jews. When he realised fhat ^^"^ fight of the economic crisis and the preparation semitic convictions, ending up with the abysmal domination had irrefutably escaped him, he fumed for war could be combined: by ordering arms one cruelty of the "final solution". A "would-be his mind to the annihilation of Jewry. "He was . could at the same time create the necessary jobs. slayer of dragons was murdering the helpless." in Haffner's words, "among other things, quite simply also a mass murderer". He committed mur­ On the whole, Haffner avoids value judgments. ders on an unimaginable scale even when any Busy as he is to enumerate Hitler's successes and Hitler's Big Mistake "national" advantage was missing. At times, they achievements he does not classify them by good In these pages where all too often the unthink­ even became obstacles to fhe conduct of war. To or bad marks. However, the accumulation in able had to be propounded further details may be no small extent fhey dislocated essential traffic itself is a value judgment. When he quotes a omitted. It deserves, however, to be mentioned and absorbed badly needed manpower. But, if w^ speech Hitler made in April 1939 which abounds that Haffner sees in Hitler's antisemifism not only are further to follow Haffner's convincing argu­ in self-glorification—"I overcame chaos in Ger­ the terrible inhumanity but also a sizeable self- mentation, we are let in to an almost inconceiv­ many, restored order, enormously raised produc­ injury. It deprived Germany of some of her best able disclosure: towards fhe end of the war Hitler tion in all fields, restored the thousand-year-old brains, including possibly the chance to be the first had given up the hope for victory over the Allies- historical unity of German living space ... all possessor of the atom bomb. It also destroyed, he From now on if was his intention that together that without shedding blood . . . "—he, seemingly argues, the chance of a—as we would see it: with his own apparently no longer avoidable end startled himself, exclaims: "sickening self-adula­ calamitous—peace in 1940 after the fall of France. the whole of Germany was fo perish. , tion", yet feels immediately impelled to continue "If Hitler had only wished it, he could have had "but, damn it, it was all true, or nearly all. Any­ peace with France af any fime in the summer of The idea was not a new one. He had expressed one clutching at those few points which were per­ 1940, and if that peace had tumed out to be it already in "Mein Kampf". There he had written haps not quite true . . . was bound to feel just a reasonably generous it would, without any doubt, (op. cif. p. 359) half a century ago that nations petty nit-picking know-all. As for the rest, how have made all the lesser European countries . . . which are destroyed by a power stronger than could anyone challenge that in April 1939?" For equally hungry for peace." There existed in their own do not owe their destructions to any quite some time Haffner goes on extolling the Europe at the time an undeniable though subdued "injustice", but rather to the restoration of ^ stupendous change of conditions, not sparing preparedness for peace and European unification, higher "justice". This moment was apparently some kind of surprised admiration malgre soi. albeit under German hegemony. The Jews had now af hand. The Germans themselves ha Equally surprised, though less against their own been everywhere in the world an element friendly brought about their min, presumably by the free will, were, Haffner points out, the German to Germany. Hitler's anti-Jewish policy had neglect of "their racial purify". people: "A colossal achievement to have united changed this fundamentally. "By his anfisemitism virtually the entire nation behind him—and Hitler not only needlessly created addifional Against his own People accomplished in less than ten years!" If there enemies throughout the world, he also made From now on. Hitler's main effort was no were still professional grumblers trying to cast enemies of friends and thus changed the whole longer directed against his enemies, but agains doubt on this miracle-worker: "What in 1938 or balance of world sympathies in his disfavour.'" his own people. Haffner tells us of remarks, whicn still in the spring of 1939 could one really reply That he thus antagonized world opinion may nof were recorded, to two foreign visitors, the Dan'sn to that?" have been a decisive factor in averting the peace Foreign Minister Scavenius and fhe Croatian For­ eign Minister Lorkovic, which he made on 2 There were, it seems to the less enthusiastic on­ chances at this juncture but an additional one. November 1941 when the German offensive to­ looker, some quite relevant replies. Of the omin­ No greaf stimulus was needed to tip the precarious wards Moscow had been halted: "On this poim- ous "logic" of the concentration camps we have balance anyway. "I was Europe's last chance". too," he had said, "I am icily cold. If one day the spoken. That the price paid for the fight against Hitler dictated to Bormann in February 1945. German nation is no longer suflFiciently strong " unemployment was an enormous rearmament has In a fateful sense he may have been right. But he sufficiently ready for sacrifice to stake its o^wn been mentioned. Was it not equally "logic" or should have added: "And I wrecked it." If is good blood for ifs existence, then let it perish and be rather more to ask what the rearmament was to remember in the light of this vision of an annihilated by some other stronger power. . . • '" meant for? As early as November 1938 Hitler eminent German observer how near in those fate­ fhat case I shall shed no tears for the German admitted in an address to the editors-in-chief of ful days we were to a German victory within a nation." the domestic press that all the promises of peace German-dominated Europe, had it not been for he had made in the preceding years—and they the decisive tum of events brought about by After more years of terrible bloodshed—"over­ had been numerous and axiomatic—had been de­ Churchill. kill" as it would now be specified—the German- were to all appearance fired of a war which hau- ceptive. "Circumstances compelled me to speak of From then on the wheel of Fortune went irre­ as became clearer every day, failed to fulfil thei alinost nothing but peace for years on end. Only versibly downhill. Hitler declared war on Russia expectations. They still wanted to keep th^ by continually emphasizing Germany's wish for while Britain was still unconquered and gaining Russians at bay, but they wanted peace with tn peace . . . was I able to give the German people strength. After the obvious underestimation of Western powers. Unbelievably though it appea'J'' ... the rearmament that was necessary ... as a Russia's power had led to the defeat of fhe winter Hitler set out to destroy even this last desperat prerequisite of the next step". That the next step campaign 1941/42, the log-book of the German hope. Had he not swom that the debacle of 191 was to be war could hardly be doubtful for an General Staff contains the entry: "When the disas­ would never re-occur? He stuck fo his ^"L' observant contemporary. And yet: there had nof ter of the winter 1941/42 broke, the Fiihrer . . . Instead of stopping at a time, comparable to l"' • only been doubt, there was ignorance and down­ realised that from this point ... no victory could when fhere was sfill hope of saving his country right incredulity. The secret may be that the Ger­ any longer be won." The entry was made on 6 fhe worst and saving what could be saved, "''L mans dreaded a new war. The mortal terror of it December 1941. On the 11 December Hitler systematically foiled this hope against hope- W may have blinded them. "Had the Germans known declared war on America. This further step to his started a new offensive in the Western hills of in that Hitler's achievements had always only served ruin Haffner calls "the crowning" and "most in­ Ardennes. "It was," says Haffner, "from a mi the preparation for a war, many of them might explicable of the mistakes with which Hitler dug well have thought differently about them. . . ." tary point of view, an insane enterprise." But tn his own grave." "There is to this day", he goes the Was not the real purpose evident enough? Could on, "no comprehensible rational explanation for was what it was meant to be. It would use up it not have served as an eye-opener? what one is tempted to describe as an act of forces needed for the defence of the Westem terr lunacy." tory of the Reich and at the same time open uP Very correctly Haffner wams not to reject any­ the East for the deadly Russian onslaught. At tn - thing out of hand only because it had been stated For years on end Roosevelt had done every­ and believed by Hitler. He is, we repeat, or at thing to provoke Hitler into war. Roosevelt wanted least tries to be scrupulously objective. But to his this war, he considered it necessary. Only resis­ Contd. on page 3, columnI AJR INFORMATION January 1980 Page 3 The Meaning of Hitler ASPECTS OF IMMIGRATION Contd. from page 2 THE WHTTE PAPER AND REFUGEES A RECORD OF OUR TIME Dr. S. Levenberg, former vice-president of fhe Herbert Freeden's Broadcasts Published point Haffner's responsibility lets him hesitate fo Board of Deputies, warned the Board of fhe dan­ Under the heading "Menetekel im November— express too categorical an opinion. In spite of gers contained in the White Paper on Immigra­ Ein deutscher Jude zwischen 'Reichskrisfallnachf every condemnation pronounced before, even to tion. It said that British women not born in this und englischem Exil" two German broadcasts by '"m the horror of charging Hitler with the un­ country, had no right to bring a husband from Herbert Freeden were published in a well laid out, ambiguous wish to annihilate fhe whole of Ger- abroad, and that only in exceptional circumstances may parents and grandparents over 65 be admitted. 46-page brochure (Deufschlandfunk, Abt. Presse— n»any seems unthinkable. But he cannot help fo This did nof only apply fo coloured immigrants, und Oeffentlichkeifsarbeif, 5.000 Koeln 51, free of suspect that exactly this was the purpose of fhe if could also be applied fo fhe large number of charge). In his autobiographical introduction, the Ardennes offensive. author states that he had fo experience the up­ people who came here as refugees and were heavals of emigration three times in his life: first The last chapter, in which Haffner describes naturalised after the war. after the World War when his city of birth, Hitler's war against his last enemy, Gennany her­ If has always been one of the tasks of the AJR Posen, became Polish, then under fhe Nazis, when self, is duly entitled "Betrayal". "The annihila­ fo safeguard fhe interests of fhe community if he found refuge in England and in 1950, when he tion pf Germany was fhe last goal Hitler set him- represents, whenever measures in the public or private sector threatened to differentiate between left this country fo settle in Israel. During his stay ^If" Even for readers deeply convinced of Hitler's UK born and UK naturalised citizens. Fortun­ in London, where he was associated with the uepravify it makes sinister reading. Had Hitler af ately, throughout the past years, there were onlv work of fhe fundraising organisations for Pales­ •irst been to fhe Germans a "miracle", a "god­ very few incidents of this kind, and fhe AJR tine, he was also the first co-editor of AJR In­ send"—when the monstrous spectacle had come always succeeded in getting matters straight. formation (founded in 1946). In Israel, he became •o an end he stood revealed as an ogre, a scourge press officer of the Jewish National Fund and he When the proposals of the White Paper on now also works as correspondent to German of hell. Immigration became known, the AJR immedi­ newspapers. Under the auspices of the Leo Baeck Was this how fhe Germans saw him? Had not ately associated itself with fhe efforts of fhe Institute, he wrote a history of the Jewish Kultiir- perhaps—contrary to the regenerated majority and Board of Deputies which took up the matter at fhe highest level. Furthermore, on December 3, bund and is af presenf engaged in research of thc explicitly to the successive Govemmenfs of fhe the President of the Board and the Chief Rabbi Jewish press in Germany from 1806 to 1938. Federal Republic—a not quite negligible number issued a statement, expressing "the deep concem His first story, broadcast on the 40th anniversary °r exceptions chosen to look the other way? To of the British Jewish community at the proposed of fhe November pogroms, describes in a partly •"id mitigating circumstances, alleviating com­ discrimination between men and women and autobiographical, partly fictional way the ordeal parisons with war-like deeds of fhe enemy or between those born in this country and other of those who aimlessly wandered through Berlin, even to deny fhe abomination altogether? In fair­ citizens of the United Kingdom—a distinction not constantly changing their abodes, in order fo previously made. While appreciating the wish of escape fhe mass arrests. It also describes thc ness and responsibility it may be said that these destruction of the synagogues and deals with the 'ncorrigihles are an annoying and fo some extent the Government to stop the abuse of the immi­ gration laws (thc statement ends), it is hoped that reaction of the general population to the widely disquieting minority. A little strange though if Parliament will not adopt discriminatory rules visible terror acts of those days. "The majority "lay appear fhat it needed an American Television vthich run counter fo British justice and tradition remained silent and was afraid", he states. Yet "'m "Holocaust", shown 37 years after the events and are bound to affect community relations from a political point of view, the pogrom fumed allegedly to "acquaint" fhe Germans with the adversely". out fo be a failure for the Nazis: fhey lost thc Nazi past, not fo mention other ominous but as As readers know, after the introduction of a few sympathy of those Westem countries with which yet rare signs of a reawakening of the Nazi amendments fhe Government proposals, which in they had come fo an agreement in Munich and certain instances will also affect naturalised pre-war which now could no longer be under any illusions spectre, we should keep our calm and beware of about fhe real face of Nazi Germany. eonjuring up infernal spirits. refugees, were adopted by majority vote in Parliament. Whilst it is hoped that, as long as the White Paper The atrocities resulted in rescue activities, To this end Haffner's book is a great help. His regulations will not be replaced by less restrictive especially in Britain. Their outcome is described l^ethod of starting with a modicum of apprecia- legislation, fhe immigration authorities will use their in Herbert Freeden's second broadcast, entitled .'on in order fo condemn afterwards all the more discretion in special cases, the discrimination is to "Wie ich Brite wurde". The story evokes mem­ 'nexorably, may nof be the worst to be applied to be deeply regretted for reasons of principle, last but ories most of us shared with him. It includes readers still wavering under the burden of revela- not least by those who were compelled to leave their recollections of fhe Transit Camp in Richborough, countries of origin as victims of a racial policy. of the internment, of the English landladies, lons from which, not unnaturally, sound minds "many of whom were no angels", of the mysteries •"ecoil to be associated with. of the fireplace, of the Blitz and of fhe gradual RADIO PLAYS ON PREJUDICE adjustment of fhe newcomers. The AJR and the Rabbi Dr. Albert Friedlander, director of Leo "Thank-'You Britain" Fund are also referred to. Baeck College and minister of Westminster Syna­ Though basically written in a lighter vein, thc gogue, has aimounced that the Michael Goulston essay reflects the difficulties we had to go through. NAZISM AND DOCTORS Foundation of which he is a trustee, has con­ The brochure will give German readers an idea tracted the writer Bernard Kops to write the of fhe fate of fhe Gennan Jews before and after _^*o young German scholars, a jurist and a scripts for five radio plays which have been re­ their emigration. At the same time, it also makes octal scientist, have embarked on a thorough corded and will be sold to schools all over the good reading for us, being dramatis personae. esearch of the progressive movements within the country and in the United States. They all deal W.R. jnedical profession before 1933 and of the treaf- with the problems of prejudice, and antisemitism "lent of these pioneers, many of whom were Jews, in particular, in the twentieth cenfury. They are collectively called "In a strange Land" and based of K '•^^- ^^^'^ ^^^ come to power. On fhe basis on real incidents, featuring families in different THREAT TO AU PAIR GIRLS ' 'heir investigations they have come to the con- countries, their attitudes fo Judaism and their 'usion that the percentage of Parfy members experience of persecution. The plays are designed According to a Home OflRce spokesman, under mong the doctors was very much higher than to enable students of all faiths to become aware the new immigration laws no Israeli au pair girls j5'°ng certain groups of civil servants, e.g. of their own identify and of their attitude to these will be admitted. Last year 74 Israeli au pairs eachers. This is all the more remarkable as mem- problems. One of the plays, called "Boxcar", is came to Britain. In future, apart from girls from ers of the civil service were considerably more the story of a German Jewish family on their way EEC countries, only giris from Malta, Cypms, and dependent on fhe Nazi State than the members of to Auschwitz. Turkey, aged between 17 and 25, will be admitted. 'ne so-called "liberal professions". Equally, the A Society of Au Pair Agencies has been formed /eatment of progressive Jewish and non-Jewish to fight the new legislation and has submitted a j:°'i^gues was particularly harsh and exceeded the petition to the Prime Minister. /Sulations enacted in the Nazi laws. To obtain a Your House for— Uli picture of the position the research workers FLOOR COVERINGS "•e anxious to get material on fhe structure, CURTAINS, CARPETS, irength and activities of progressive associations SPECIALITY I doctors, such as the various Social Democratic FISHER FOREST FOR ISRAEL octors' organisations, the Unions of "Kassen- ENGLISH Iron Curtain countries to conduct years has contributed to the collection of Egypt}*^ BRrnSH SHUN PALESTINE DAY circumcisions and probably train further students. and Babylonian artifacts, Canaanife and Israelite When a "day of solidarity with the Palestinian pottery, and sections of ancient Torah scrolls. Tt°^ people" was observed for the second time af the fessor Weingreen, who with his wife. Bertha, tooK United Nations Offices in New York and Geneva, With acknowledgement to the news an active part in the work of the Jewish Corn- the British Goverimient refrained from participat­ service of the Jewish Chronicle. mittee for Relief Abroad after fhe war, bas ing as the Labour Government had done last year. recently retired. AJR INFORMATION January 1980 Pages

Jordanian Terrorist Deported In Los Angeles Immigration officials arrested a NEWS FROM OVERSEAS 32-year-old Jordanian, Milidos Dergarebedian, who admitted in court that he had thrown a hand- UNITED STATES Courses on Holocaust grenade during an attack on fhe Athens office of New Jewish Ambassador to Middle East The New York Yeshiva University opened its El Al some years ago. He was deported to Jordan. President Carter has appointed Mr. Sol 94th year with about 7,0(X) students of both sexes Linowitz fo succeed Mr. Robert Strauss as US at its four New York campuses and affiliated CANADA special Ambassador fo the Middle East. Like his centres in Los Angeles and Israel. Among its 50 Problem of the Israel Embassy predecessor, he is a rich and powerful lawyer new courses are some on the literature of the When the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. and a former president of the Xerox Corporation Holocaust, and one on "Holocaust and Genocide", Joe Clark, said in June that he would fulfil an in Rochester, New York. Mr. Ghorbal, the given by Professor Goldhagen of Harvard who election promise and move Canada's Embassy in Egyptian Ambassador to fhe US, welcomed the holds the chair in interdisciplinary Holocaust Israel from Tel Aviv to Jemsalem, Canada lost appointment and said he was sure that Mr. studies. Scholarships were awarded to 26 out of £2 million worth of contracts with Arat) coun­ Linowitz was unbiased. He had developed a close fhe 100 Iranian Jews who had applied for them. tries. Mr. Robert Sfanfield, who was subsequently friendship with him over the years. After "Holocaust" "Massada" sent on a fact-finding mission to the Middle East, has now retumed and said, all Arab countries The American company which made the "Holo­ Jewish Secretary of Conmierce in the Middle East would disapprove of such a caust" TV film, has just returned from Israel move, and some might translate this into their President Carter has nominated 72-year-old Mr. where it has started a film on the Massada story. trade policy. The Canadian Govemment has now Philipp M. Klutznik as America's new Secretary As in "Holocaust", the Jews are played by non- dropped its proposal fo move the Embassy to <*i Commerce. The appointment requires Senate Jewish Americans, and their enemies, this time Jerusalem. ratification. Mr. Klufznik, a wealthy Chicago the Romans, by British actors, headed by Peter businessman, is Nahum Goldman's successor as OToole. Windfall for Old Age Home president of the World Jewish Congress and a Mr. Jacob Rosenstadt, who has died in Hamil­ ^teran fund-raiser for the Democratic party. Yiddish Theatre Tour for US ton, Ontario, aged 97, left about £176,000 interest Mr. Harold Brown, the Secretary of Defence, and The Jewish State Theatre of Poland, the most on his £2,400,000 fortune to Toronto's Jewish Mr. Neil Goldschmidt, the Secretary for Trans­ celebrated surviving Yiddish Theatre company, home for the aged and another amount for a port, are ofher Jews in Mr. Carter's Cabinet. The will tour America early next year. A troupe of similar home in Hamilton on condition that it new head of Mr. Carter's re-election campaign, 30 actors will present "The Dybbuk" on Broad­ would be established by the end of 1981. His "r. Robert Strauss, is also Jewish. way for six weeks and then tour other cities. fortune was based on tobacco plantations in Rabbi Condemns Zionism Puerto Rico and cigar manufacturing, but he Kissinger at New Yorli Leo Baeck Lodge The new leader of the Orthodox Satmar sect, retired from business 50 years ago and was after­ wards very successful in his investments. In 1944, German-Jewish immigrants in New the Sigefer Rebbe, said in a sermon, that his sect tfork founded a B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck Lodge. To would remain hostile to Israel. The Holocaust, ANTISEMITIC BOOKS tnark fhe 35th anniversary of the Lodge, a dinner which he deplored, had been brought about by Hitler's "Mein Kampf", translated and printed *as held in fhe New York Hilton Hotel. The Zionists weakening faith among Jews. The Rebbe in Portugal, and the Tsarist forgery "Protocols elimax of the celebration was an address by Dr. also criticised Jews who leave their Jewish en­ of the Elders of Zion", translated and printed in Henry Kissinger, in which he identified himself vironment to spend winters in Florida and escape Brazil, are on sale in Rio de Janeiro and Sao *'th his community of origin and stated: "This New York's harsh winters. Such vacations should Paolo. The Brazilian Parliament had banned both Lodge is the embodiment of our best traditions". in future only be taken if doctors insisted on books in 1950. "t. Kissinger's parents, Louis and Paula, were them. already Lodge members in Fuerth and joined the Retirement of leading "Joint" Official A FRIENDLY MOVE New York Leo Baeck Lodge immediately after After more than four decades of service, Mr. Dr. Israel Klabin, the recently elected Jewish 'ts foundation. As an expression of sympathy and Herbert Katzki (New York) has retired as a senior Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, has announced fhat solidarity, their son Henry signed his own enrol­ official of fhe "Joirt". From 1939 onwards, he Mr. Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jemsalem, had been ment form at the end of the fimction. worked for many years on the European Contin­ invited to a Rio conference of Mayors from ent. In this capacity he has render«i signal ser­ various countries. Dr. Klabin denied having in­ A Boycott "Error" vice fo the Jewish persecufees and Displaced vited the PLO representative in Brazil, Mr. Farid Persons. Mr. Katzki is also a Board member of Sawan, who had described him as a leader of In a Freedom of Information lawsuit, the "racist Zionism in Brazil". American Jewish Congress obtained from the the United Restitution Organisation, where his department of Commerce a number of documents sound and well-founded advice is greatly appreci­ MEXICAN OIL EMBARGO? [pealing 1,659 reports on Arab boycott activities ated by all his colleagues. After a visit by President Jablonski of Poland, "'efore October 7, 1976. They include documen- An Israeli Mafia? a joint Mexican-Polish statement demanded recog­ ^tion of a tender for goods to be delivered to a For fhe last five years, young Israeli toughs have nition of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian Saudi Arabian Army assistance programme by the been preying on small businesses in fhe Jewish people. A number of Mexican Left-wing parties Engineers Corps, which contained a clause that Fairfax area of Los Angeles and extorting pro­ announced that they will bring in a Bill in Par­ tirms applying must not be owned or managed by tection money from businessmen, many of them liament fo suspend Mexican oil sales fo Israel personnel having connections with any country nof Israelis, threatening fire-bombing or retaliation unless she evacuates all occupied territories. recognised by fhe Saudi Arabian Govemment. An against relatives in Israel. Members of the gangs, SOUTH AFRICA AND THE JEWS Engineers Corps spokesman said the corps would estimated to number about 500 by the police, are In an interview, the South African Prime never encourage this sort of thing. Somebody mainly Israelis of North African descent, with a Minister, Mr. P. W. Botha, praised the contribu­ ?eemed to have made an error in an isolated case, sprinkling of Iranians, Arabs and Armenians. tion of South African Jews to the country's jjnree other documents pointed to boycott requests "They recently murdered a 22-year-old Jewish development and their commitment to Israel. He "y the World Health Organisation and stipulated woman and her 24-year-old husband whose body said he would continue to encourage Israeli in­ that the invoices "must show that the goods are has not yet been identified. Two men, who knew vestment in South Africa and allow South African not manufactured in Israel or of Israeli origin." the victims and lived in their neighbourhood, are capital fo be used for Israel's economic and suspected of fhe murders and have disappeared. humanitarian needs. Israel and South Africa had Jane Fonda calls for Peace The Israeli authorities are cooperating in the common problems of soil erosion, limited water .Left-wing actress Jane Fonda stated during a investigations by supplying background inform­ supplies and arid zone farming which could be yisit to New York that she wanted Israel to live ation on the criminals. resolved by joint effort. m peace and security and that she disagreed with Roosevdt's Rescue Mission Vanessa Redgrave, her co-star in the "Julia" film FEZ JEWS TOLD TO LEAVE At a special ceremony at the late President After a Moslem religious conference, Moslem ^ "every issue from the bottom of my toes." Roosevelt's Hyde Park home, Mr. Ira Hirsch­ ^ hey had only stopped fighting on fhe set after religious functionaries told fhe Jews of Fez they mann, 71, a former diplomat, banker, author and should move fo other Moroccan cities, because agreeing not to discuss politics. Miss Fonda is the UN consultant on refugees, deposited a number of they want to make Fez a holy city. Fez and *tte of a Jew, Mr. Tom Hayden, head of the documents connected with the rescue of 50,000 Marakesh are the two Moroccan cities with a long ~^-wing Campaign for Economic Democracy, Rumanian Jews during the last war. In 1943, history of Jewish associations which have pro­ *nd one of the founders of the "Radical Students President Roosevelt had sent Hirschmann to Tur­ duced a number of famous rabbis. Morocco had 'or a Democratic Society" in the eariy 1960s. key as his special envoy to supervise American a Jewish population of more than 300,000 until efforts to save refugees in Southern Europe. He 1949 when many of them emigrated fo the new A New Peace Prize had been given $5 million in gold sovereigns, but , "New Outlook", the Left-wing Israeli English State of Israel and to France. Some 25,000 are now was fold that he would be disavowed if his activi­ left and have so far been unmolested. King Hassan anguage magazine, has established a new "Peace ties were discovered. He secretly met the Rumanian II, like his father. King Mohamed V, has always nze" in Washington to be awarded every year Ambassador to Turkey and told him that as the protected the Jews, a number of whom are mem­ o an Israeli and an Arab for work in achieving Soviet Armies would soon be entering Turkey, it bers of fhe Civil Service. King Hussein also sends sraeli-Arab understanding. It was announced at would be in his inferest to secure the freedom of representatives to Jewish ceremonies to observe J'c end of a four-day symposium on the Middle 50,000 Jews in Transdniestrian camjw, because in the High Holy-days and other festivals. According P*^ attended by some 50 Israelis and several that case, he and his family would be given Ameri­ to some unconfirmed reports, Mr. Moshe Dayan nundred Americans. The moderates among fhe can visas. After two days, the Ambassador said he was one of a number of Israeli functionaries who sraelis opposed a call for unconditional talks with had agreed a deal. Soon afterwards, 5,000 children have visited Morocco. He is said to have secretly a ^O. but declared their readiness to talk to were released and sent to Israel through Turkey. met Egyptian oflScials there for important talks j"y Palestinians renouncing terrorism and accept­ The other iimiates mostly went to the States after before President Sadat's visit to Jerusalem in 1977. ing Israel's right to exist. their liberation. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION January 1980

AUSTRIA Growing Number of Refugees NEWS FROM EUROPE According to a report published by the Inter- Governmenfal Committee for European Migra­ BELGIUM Dutch Leaders' Wartime Record tion, there were almost 50 per cent more refugees Unsung Heroes honoured Professor de Jong, director of the Dutch from Eastern Europe this year as compared to Several Belgian citizens, who during fhe war National Institute for War Documentation, has 1978. In October alone, 4,800 legal emigrants from risked their own lives by sheltering Jews stated that the Dutch Government in Exile in the Soviet Union arrived in transit in Austria. The threatened with deportation, were presented with London during the war failed to help the country's main reception centre of Traiskirchen near Vienna Yad Vashem medals and diplomas by the Israeli persecuted Jews. He said that many ministers of was filled beyond its 2,000 capacity, and three Ambassador during a ceremony at the Brussels the Government made antisemitic statements and more camps had fo be opened. Hilton Hotel. In Namur, a number of survivors refused to employ Jews. Dutch consular and dip­ lomatic representatives in Vichy France and else­ Fear of Antisemitism in Europe ^ , attended the unveiling of a plaque in memory of For fhe first time, the European B'nai B'ritn Abbe Josef Andre who saved many Jewish chil­ where also refused fo help refugees. The Dutch Red Cross in London refused fo send parcels fo convention was held in Vienna. The opening ses­ dren from deportation by placing them in convents sion was attended by President Kirchschlaeger ot and reliable families. imprisoned Dutch Jews or to reimburse the "Joint" for sending such parcels. The only person Austria and Cardinal Koening, the Roman to stand up for the Jews was Queen Wilhelmina (Catholic Primate. During the conference, a state­ Neo-Fascist arrested whom the Germans called "die Judenfreundin". ment was issued according to which antisemitisni under the guise of anti-Zionism was growing m Bert Ericksoo, head of the Belgian neo-Fascist several European countries, particularly in France, organisation, was arrested after a clash between ITALY Spain and Belgium, and to a lesser degree We^ his Vlaamse Militanten Orde and the police, Pope praises Einstein Germany, but hardly in Austria. It was attributed together with 140 members of the organisation During a Vatican celebration to commemorate to intense Arab and Communist propaganda and who were subsequently released. His arrest is the the hundredth anniversary of Einstein's birth. Pope to fading memories of the Holocaust. first strict application of a 1934 law prohibiting John Paul told a distinguished audience of New Kreisky Statement the organisation of private military units. cardinals, ambassadors and scientists of different nationalities and creeds in fhe Royal Hall of fhe Chancellor Bmno Kreisky of Austria called foT direct negotiations between Israel and the PLO Protest against PLO visit Apostolic Palace that fhe Church had greaf ad­ miration for Einstein's genius. Einstein, he said, and simultaneous, mutual recognition of each Hundreds of Belgian Jews protested outside fhe had made a "sublime contribution" to the progress other, when he addressed the UN General residence of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Mr. of science and fo fhe knowledge of truth which Assembly last month. He said the peace treaty Signoref, who had invited Farouk Kaddoumi, "is present in the mystery of fhe universe". The between Israel and Egypt remained a historic head of fhe PLO political department, to a private main address was given by Professor Chagas of achievement of President Sadat's. Asked why he meeting. After a two-hour working session, Mr. Brazil, fhe president of fhe Pontifical Academy of had not included Begin in his praise, he said: 'It Signori stated: "The PLO speaks in the name of Sciences, who stressed Einstein's Jewishness and is known all over the world that Prime Minister the most important of the Palestinian people." Zionist sympathies and extolled him for his zeal Begin and myself are nof great friends." Refer­ Kaddoumi also talked to ofher Belgian ministers and courage in the service of justice, and "since ring to Jews in America, he said their role was and to Mr. Cheysson, a member of the EEC 1914, in the struggle against militarism, abuse of peculiar, because fhey had a certain influence oo commission dealing with developing countries. power and racial discrimination." The meeting American policy, but nof on the US Government- Several leading newspapers took up the protest. also proclaimed the formal rehabilitation of The Israeli Ambassador criticised the Belgian Galileo, who in the seventeenth cenfury was JEWISH THEATRE IN GENEVA , TV network in a speech for its daily propa­ charged with heresy and placed under house arrest The Tsavta (Together) Theatre Company 9^ ganda for the PLO which it describe as an for saying that the Sun and nof the Earth was fhe Geneva, the only major Jewish theatre group ID "honourable group". In one programme of the centre of the solar system. Western Europe, have scored a great success witn French-language TV network Israel was compared a revival of "Anne Frank's Diary" to mark botn •vith fhe Nazis. Anti-Jewish Slogans In Ostia fhe 50fh anniversary of Anne Frank's birth ano Virulent antisemitic slogans have been daubed the International Year of fhe Child. An estimateo on street walls in Ostia, where between 3,000 and 4,000 people watched the play in Geneva, Refugee Chief Rabbi for Antwop Lausanne, and France. Tsavta was formed two Fiffy-three-year-old Rabbi David M. Lieber­ 5,000 Soviet Jews await their papers for the United States, Canada, and Australia. One of years ago by Miss Sandra Stinghe, a former mann was elected the new Chief Rabbi of fhe them reads "I use Camay Soap because it reminds director of the Bucharest National Theatre. Antwerp Shomre Hadass community with an me of my mother, says the little Jew", and overwhelming majority. He first came to Antwerp another "Ten, a hundred, a thousand Holocausts, PROTECTION FOR ISRAELIS AT with his parents as a small child fleeing from the and we still have ovens ready af the right tempera­ OLYMPIC GAMES Nazis. In 1940 the family fled to the US but ture for cremation." The Union of Jewish Com­ After negotiations in the Dutch Embassy '" retumed after fhe war. Rabbi Liebermann is mar­ munities protested against two interviews with Moscow between a delegation from Israel and the ried and has seven children. Professor Faurisson of Lyons University in the Soviet Olympic authorities, the Russians promise^ Magazine "Illustrated History", in which the Pro­ fo provide special security measures for Israel' NETHERLANDS fessor repeats his claim, published in "Le Monde" participants. The Israeli team will be housed on Anti-Boycott Legislation in Paris last year, that Hitler never ordered the the top floor of the most secure building in tne Under pressure from a majority of MPs, the killing of anybody because of race or religion, Olympic village, adjacent fo fhe Soviet security Dutch Government is introducing legislation, and that fhe purpose of fhe gas-chambers was the headquarters. Soviet soldiers will mount a round requiring businesses to report any attempt to delousing of camp inmates. Subsequently, fhe fhe clock guard inside and outside the building- make them comply with discriminatory measures paper's editor resigned. The Soviets also agreed to the Israelis' demano against Israel and banning declarations fo Arab that only representatives of friendly nations should countrics that their employees are not Jewish. Historic Cemetery desecrated be housed in the same 15-storey-high building- However it does not prohibit negative certificates A group calling itself the "New Armed Fascists" the ofher teams come from Holland, Yugoslavia, of origin which stafe that a product has not been has claimed responsibility for fhe desecration of and Surinam. After agreement was reached, the manufactured in Israel. the historic Jewish cemetery at Leghorn when 40 Israelis dropped their request to bring their o*" gravestones were overtumed and slogans daubed security staff. in praise of Nazi concentration camps. The Congregation in Money Trouble Fascists said in their message: "We have des­ NEW RABBI IN ROMANIA In 1974, the Hague Synagogue Commimity ecrated a Jewish cemetery. Soon we shall aim For the first time since he took office in 194°' bought the Good Friday Church for some higher." the Chief Rabbi of Romania, Dr. Rosen, inducted £450,0(X) to convert it into a synagogue and com­ a new Rabbi, Dr. Carol lolesz, a survivor of munity centre. The conversion including the Monza Grand Prix for Jewish Champion Hungarian-German persecution, as minister oi building of a mikvah, cost about £250,000, but Jody Scheckter, South Africa-born, who has Cluj-Napoca, once the capital of Transylvania- the mikvah could not be used because it did not been motor-racing since 1972, is the 1979 world Before 1944, when more than 16,000 Jews were work. The sale of the old synagogue in the former motor racing champion and the first Jew to have deported to Auschwitz, Cluj had a strongly Ortho­ Jewish quarter to the municipal authorities reached such an eminent position in the sport. dox community. Between 1940 and 1944, the area brought in about £400,000, but fhe congregation was occupied by Hungary. Today's congregation was still faced with an annual expense of £150,000 Israeli for Rome Opera Daniel Oren. who in 1975 won fhe International numbers some 340 families. In the whole oi against an income of some £60,000. The old syna­ Romania, there are about 31,000 Jews left. gogue has now been acquired by Turkish workers Conductors' Prize, founded by Herbert von to be used as a mosque. The synagogue board Karajan, has been appointed director of the Rome Opera. PLO IN TURKEY sought drastic expenditure cuts and proposed to Yasir Arafat visited the Turkish capital Ankara seU the new synagogue. Subsequently, Rabbi RHEIMS SYNAGOGUE CENTENARY fo hoist the PLO flag on the newly establisbeo Ansbacher, 28, and the synagogue reader and Leading French military and civic representa­ Palestinian diplomatic mission in a ceremoDX secretary, who all came from Israel last year, are tives joined the Jewish community in the attended by the Turkish Foreign Minister, an" planning to return home rather than take a cut celebration of the centenary of the Rheims ambassadors from Soviet Russia and ofher Com­ in salaries. Rabbi Ansbacher was recently the Synagogue. During fhe service, 29-year-old Rabbi munist and Arab countries. However, fhe P^''"? focus of criticism for his ruling that at com­ Rene Gufman, whose wife is fhe former Miss Sara Minister, Mr. Ecevit—who has since resip^^ munal functions, husbands can only dance with Goldschmidt from London, was inducted as new after an election defeat—said, Turkey had D" their wives and wives with their husbands. rabbi of the community. intention of severing her ties with Israel. AJR INFORMATION January 1980 Page?

F. Hellendall cessfuUy concluded by the Emancipation Decree of November 13, 1791. A German translation THE CHEVALIER VAN GELDERN of a letter from Gr6goire to Simon van Geldem indicating to what extent the Abb6 relied on New Material on Heine's Great-Uncle Heine's great uncle for his knowledge of Jewish laws and traditions has been reprinted in Rosen­ In one of its recent publications the Heinrich from famous rabbis of his days recommending thal's study. Thus Simon van Geldem helped to Heine Institute in Diisseldorf has published a him as a leamed man worthy of material help by bring about the success of the fight for the *>ooklet by Dr. Ludwig Rosenthal, the author of his fellow Jews; on the other hand the "charlatan" emancipation of the Jews in the French revolution, the book "Heinrich Heine als Jude" (reviewed in who granted himself a doctor's degree and the title an emancipation which seven years after his death AJR Information, June, 1974), on Heine's great- of Chevalier de Gueldres and who in oriental dress the victorious French armies brought to DUssel­ uncle Simon van Geldem, containing interesting succeeded in gaining entrance to the Courts of dorf, where the van Geldern family had lived for new material on fhis fascinating man.* Heine several reigning monarchs of his day. In the generations and where Heinrich Heine and his refers in his "Memoiren" at length to Simon van meantime he seems to have lived partly on the mother Betty van Geldem were bom. Geldem's Diary (fhe original of which was prob­ fortunes of the van Geldern family, and partly We cannot but agree with Rosenthal's conclu­ ably destroyed by fhe Nazis in Berlin, but a photo- from charity received from wealthy Jews all over sion that the "black sheep of the van Geldem eopy of if has fortunately been preserved in the the countries where he travelled. family accomplished far more than all the other Schocken Archive in Jemsalem). However, when Heine described his great uncle honourable members of this well reputed family Rosenthal's study is fhe result of painstaking as a "charlatan" he was probably not aware of who lived before him or in his days"; however, and thorough investigations by the author at Simon van Geldem's most important contribufion when Rosenthal politely ascribes the "charla­ niJmerous places, but particularly the State to the history of his period: Towards the end of tanry" of Simon van Geldem to the "sociological Library in Darmstadt where many of the original his life he lived in Buchsweiler (Bouxviller), position of fhe Jews in the eighteenth century" he written relics by and relating to Simon van Alsace, in an outbuilding forming part of Buchs­ might have been more outspoken. In Simon van *^Idem have been preserved. The work contains weiler Castle which belonged to the Hereditary Geldem's lifetime the Jews in Germany were out­ German translations of a second Diary by Simon Prince of Hesse. The Prince had appointed Simon casts and it was impossible for gifted young Jews, van Geldem and of 133 other documents, mainly his "Court Cabbalist" in gratitude for his imagined even m cities like DUsseldorf where under the letters or draft letters by and to Simon giving supernatural force as a cabbalist to which the reign of a comparatively liberal ruler no physical account of the travels of the "Chevaher van Prince ascribed the birth of his male heir in 1777, ghetto existed, to develop in any normal way. Thus Geldem" throughout Europe and to the Holy and he permitted Simon to live at Buchsweiler to a man like Simon van Geldem who wanted to Land. until the end of his life in 1788. grow out of the narrowness of life as a Court Jew ^_ Although Heine describes his great uncle as a According to Rosenthal, in Buchsweiler Simon in a small German principality charlatanry ap­ "charlatan", Rosenthal rightly points out that van Geldem made the acquaintance of the Abb6 peared to be the only way ouf. As we now know Simon's life was conditicmed by the sociological Henri Grfigoire, a Catholic priest in the neighbour­ he helped to put an end fo fhe conditions which position of the German Jews in the eighteenth ing town of Emberm^nil. Gr6goire participated in forced him to become a charlatan. century: The mass of the Jewish population lived a competition organised by the Royal Academy in When the great and tragic history of the eman­ w the Ghetto, and only a small minority of Metz in 1785 on the question of how "fo make the cipation of our ancestors from the fetters of fhe Court Jews"—amongst them the van Geldern Jews in France more useful and happy". In this Ghefto and ifs eggshells is written, the proud name family in DUsseldorf who were Court Jews of the connection Gr6goire frequently consulted Simon of Simon van Geldem, great uncle of the "free Palatinate Electors—were able to live a more van Cieldem on many questions relating to the Rhine's far freer son" Heinrich Heine, will not be eivilised existence as financiers to the innumerable Jewish religion and customs and generously forgotten. Y^tTnan kings and princes. Rosenthal points out acknowledged Simon's help. This co-operation re­ *Ludwig Rosenthal. Heinrich Heines Grossoheim Simon van Geldern, Ein hisiorischer Bericht mit dem bisher meisi that Simon van Geldem's life developed more or sulted in Gr6goire winning the competition and his unveroffentlichten Quellenmaterial. Aloys Henn-Verlag. •ess on two levels which in the author's view were work being printed in 1789, after Simon's death. Kastellaun, 1978. fompletely separated from each other. On the one Abb6 Grfegoire became a Deputy in the revolution­ "*nd Reb Simon leamed in Thora and Tahnud ary French National Assembly and used his work £2,000 LITERARY AWARDS who travelled several times to the Holy Land as a as his basic material in his fight in the Assembly "Oppression and Prejudice" pilgrim and who was able to obtain certificates for the emancipation of the Jews which was sue- The 1979 Jewish Chronicle H. H. Wingate Literary Awards have been presented to Emanuel Litvinoff for his novel The Face of Terror (Michael Joseph, £4.50), which is the final part of his trilogy on the Russian Revolution which details the oppression of Stalin's regime, and to Dr. Nelly Wilson for her study of the French Jewish writer, Bernard-Lazare (Cambridge University Press, £14.50), who first exposed fhe prejudice and RENAULT became a central character in the Dreyfus Affair. The authors each received a cheque for £1,000 af fhe presentation party at Stationers' Hall, London. The Awards, administered by the National See the Renault range Book League, are not confined to Jewish writers, as shown this year, but are aimed at stimulating an interest and awareness in Jewish themes as well at Old Oak as giving a tangible reward to writers and scholars.

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C. C. Aronsfeld small Jewish school and a Chazan. We had a fine Tempel, about 40 years old, quite a stately build­ ing, but no rabbi, at least not in my time, though MEMORIES OF A POSEN CHILDHOOD Exm once had fhe benefit of such talmudic lumin­ I was bom in Exin (Kcynia), near Bromberg, in of Heinrich Heine who of course worshipped the aries as Akiba Eger and Wolf Klausner. There was the then Prussian province of Posen, not far from Emperor as an idol that would have been dis­ in fact little religious life apart from the punctiu- the Russian border, and the time was—incredibly approved of alike by the Second Commandment ously maintained regular services and only at rare —^four years before fhe first world war. The tiny and the Pmssian historians. A portrait of Heine intervals did a wandering minstrel appear on place had Uttle claim to fame except that its hung in her drawing room and she owned a fine behalf of an orthodox society in Posen to treat history went back as far as 1262 and when Jews edition of his works. But then it is also possible those sufficiently interested to a more or less were mentioned in its chronicles for the first time that she cared not so much for Heine's politics as leamed subject. Nor was social life more effect­ in 1594, it was only to affirm the disabilities they for his poetry which, like most of her (Jewish) ively developed; one of the frequently changinB were to suffer together with—the Scots whom one generation, she knew largely by heart. She had Jewish teachers once tried his hand but the feeble would not normally expect to find in these parts been given a sound all-round education; her effort soon petered out though an old established and who have long since retumed to more con­ father, David Badt, went to the unusual trouble Mutual Aid Society was conscientiously supported. genial regions. of advertising in the Allgemeine Zeitung des During fhe war which left Exin largely un­ My parents' families had been living in Exin Judenthums for a governess to teach his three affected, we met two foreign Jews, P.O.W.s who and known each other for several generations. My daughters English, French and music. They also were fo work for local traders. One of them was father had inherited a kind of general store and were taught an unquestioning belief in the ideals "ours", a Russian from Lublin, a most lovable cereal business combined with a spirits and off- of 1848 and in a progress which, having emerged person whom we soon were delighted fo treat as licence trade. I remember being told that "we" from what used to be called the Dark Ages, was one of the family. The other was French, a sullen had supplied Napoleon's army on its advance into sure to be irresistible. Since fhe 19fh century had and defiant fellow, much like the one of Heme s Russia (1812). I was told this as a kind of his­ shown so much promise, what would not the 20th "Two Grenadiers"; when we, having heard that it torical oddity, a little incident fo be recorded in bring by way of fulfilment? was his Jahrzeit, asked him fo the synagogue for the family scrap book. My father shared this belief and in token of if kaddish. Monsieur conveyed as intelligibly as he Old Philip Cohen, father's great-grandfather, he built, in place of his inherited rather run-down could that he refused to join in prayer with who I believe was then in charge cannot have been little cottage, a proud and spacious three-floor Germans. ... very enthusiastic about this particular commission, mansion which, standing prominently on the mar­ Our Jewish interests were particularly fostered for we were all good Pmssians albeit of recent ket square, seemed to proclaim its determination by my (maternal) grandmother who ran a leathef vintage like Prussian mle itself though not the to last at least another hundred years. It did not shop as well as a stationer's and a lending library, family roots which (at least on father's side) occur to him that he might have built on shifting mainly for the benefit of fhe predominantly West stretched back far into the 18th century. As for ground. The society in which we lived seemed German seminarists at the local Royal TeacheB Napoleon, whatever we may have thought of the secure enough. Training College. She was a subscriber to the ideas of the French Revolution, he was a foreign We were relatively well off, as were most of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, and througn conqueror and I am sure we were anxious to be 200 Jews in a total population of 4,000. They her we frequently received Jewish calendars ano rid of him. We were, or fancied ourselves, en­ were assessed, in 1914, at anything between £1,500 almanacs. I remember one in particular whicB lightened liberals, and my father managed to be and £30,000 (at the then exchange of £1 to 20 impressed me with its impassioned manifesto hy at once a partisan of the revolution of 1848 and Marks). Among them were 20 shopkeepers of "an unknown Jew" at Konstanz am Rhein, ISW. an admirer of Bismarck (if only because of a various kinds, four cattle-dealers, three bakers, calling upon his brethren to return to fhe ancient land- shared contempt for the Kaiser). three glaziers, two butchers, two tailors, two We were no Zionists but of course we did not I must suspect a sympathy for Napoleon only in hauUers, one solicitor (though no doctor), one deny ourselves to the claims of charity, and when my mother's mother as she was an ardent devotee stationer, as well as of course a teacher at the Zionist messengers visited the town, offering f

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over two generations. In 1852 there were 1,100 MEMORIES OF A POSEN CHILDHOOD Jews in Exin—H per cent of the total; by 1871 they were down to 470, by 1905 to 220, less than Contd. from page 8 four per cent. In all these years they left to escape sale goods made in Palestine we would buy the The Germans again did not particularly care from the upper German and the nether Polish picturesque souvenirs. I sfill have a magnificent for the Jews except where they needed them, i.e., millstones that were grinding them, and they jittle album bound in solid red leather and covered in those areas where Germans were facing a fondly hoped German bigotry would be less m heavy cedar wood containing "Flowers and strong majority of Poles. There the Jews would marked in Breslau or Berlin; some made a more Views of the Holy Land" (Verlag A. L. Kahane, come in handy as a counterweight in the balance resolute break by going overseas, to the Americas Jerusalem), with explanations in English, German, of power. There the Jews could be allowed a or England. For most of then it was no easy Prench and Russian—colour picture postcards and larger measure of those rights which the Con­ choice, and few could have been more profoundly pressed flowers from Mount Zion, Mount Moriah, stitution granted but which Govemment practice attached fo their ancient, hallowed homesteads Mount of Olives, Mount (Tarmel, also from the frequently withheld. Actually, not until 1869— than my parents. My father never again struck thc Tomb of Rachel, from the Jordan Valley and from four years before my father was bom—were the roofs fhat were now tom up. Jaffa, Hebron, Tiberias and Sfad. Under their veil Jews in Prussian Poland fully (and reluctantly) Many years later he told me he once discussed of yellowing tissue paper, fhey must by now have emancipated, and where the administrafion was fhe decision to leave with fhe Chazan who was a reached the biblical age and I devoutly hope my conducted in fhe spirit of the reactionary Eastem bit of a kabbalist. Cantor Schmul could not under­ daughter will treasure them well into the next Marches Association (Ostmarkenverein) — popu­ stand why we wanted to go to CJermany, even the century. larly known as the H.K.T. lobby after the names fact that father's brother was well established in Living as we did in a kind of ghetto, we did not of its founders Hansemann, Kennemann and Berlin did nof seem to him sufficient reason be­ seem to understand the society into which we Tiedmann—antisemitism did nof always trouble to cause, he said (in 1921), "there are going to be *ere cast. If was a divided society, to some extent be discreet. (Dertainly where German rule was held very black times in Germany". My father made a a colonial society. For this land had been part of to be secure, no need was felt to treat fhe Jews as note of the forecast but of course did not, could Mle Kingdom of Poland as recently as 140 years equals (except on paper), and though Jews had not, believe it. Anymore than he believed the ago, and fhe Poles were still fhere, in spite of once been allowed to hold office in local govem­ further forecast that there was only one country 'atterly determined, often cmde, efforts to Ger­ menf—even the city of Posen once had a Jewish to emigrate to, fhe United States, and that's where manize them. For fhe past 25 years Germans had Lord Mayor—the lately growing frend was to keep the Cantor himself went shortly afterwards, to join °een systematically transplanted here, and I re­ them out. his son, a young doctor, who had gone there in member the innocent delight with which I gazed 1920. at the pretty national costume of the women from Where Germans depended on Jews I left with my mother, some time before father Biickeburg, Westphalia, one of whom was my In Exin we did not notice much of it, but then as he still had some business to attend to, selling nurse. Exin was one of those areas in which the Germans the house that he had built, in the very year I was depended on the Jews who accordingly enjoyed bom, a double token as it were of his trust in the some standing. The balance here was indeed pre­ future. I was thinking of him when I later heard "Like the Whites in Black Africa" carious. The population of 4,000 in 1913 included Liuba's words in "The Cherry Orchard": "I was Little did we think how much like the whites in about 3,000 Roman CathoHcs and 800 Protestants, born here, you know, my father and mother lived black Africa they were. It is only now fhat I apart from the 200 Jews, and the Roman Catholics here, and my grandfather too, and I love this suddenly recall the significance of the poem that were virtually all Poles, the Protestants all Ger­ house—I cannot conceive life without the cherry Brandmofher offen, movingly, read to me. Das mans. The 12-men town council—with its pseudo- orchard, and if it really has to be sold, then sell ^egerweib, by Johann Gottfried Seume, an egalitarian set-up of four Germans, four Poles and me with it". This is how father must have American negro mother's lament over her baby's four Jews—was presided over by the Jewish been tempted to feel, yet he went on his way, even ukely future—I can still hear the pathetic last line Justizrat, and in the "executive" of six, two were as Liuba eventually went, and he at any rate still *bout those far-off days fo come "when the Jews and only one a Pole. In all elections, general had hopes of planting a new orchard. As we took ^risfians will tum human", a line which I am and local, Germans and Jews joined forces against leave, he said to me: "'i'ou will be crossing the sure we applied not merely to the relations the Polish candidate who could always rely on frontier at Schneidemiihl. When you get there, Between black and white. Certainly the Polish support from the (Catholic Church then still very remember, son, put off thy shoes, for the place negroes" were made to feel the manner of a different from fhe one which produced a Polish whereon thou standest is holy ground". ^errenvolk. Pope. The year was 1921. Jakob Wassermann had just Vet they refused to forget the cruel partitions Our German sympathies remained fo the end. written his essay Mein Weg als Deutscher und °/ their country, and though the spirit of re­ In November 1918, when the armed struggle began Jude in which he said, as if paraphrasing Cantor sistance had aroused itself to no avail in the for the possession of the Province, we hoped fhe Schmul, the Jew was an outlaw among Germans rebellions against Russia (1831, 1848, 1863), never- partisans of the German Freikorps would get the and Ukely to find justice there among the dead "leless the hope for a national resurrection was better of the Polish "insurgents"—just as in spirit rather than the living. But we did not know about jl^t cmshed; I early became familiar with the we sided with the Red Army then fighting against this, and, in fairness, had we known we would "vely lilt (as yet subdued) of the Polish national the Tsarist White Russians and the Poles. Exin, hardly have thought or acted other than we did. *nthem Jeszcze Polska nie zgineta ("Poland is not with its great Polish majority, was taken over ^st yet"). There were mmblings in Prussian almost at once, without any trouble, and we only •^oland too, even in Exin, but here fhe issue re­ heard relief-promising gun fire from a distance. mained ix)litical, social and especially economic. Many Germans and Jews, known for their sym­ THE SURVIVOR SYNDROME Germans and Poles (and Jews) lived in strict pathies, were soon intemed in the dreaded 'Partheid. The Govemment was buying up land Szczepiorno concentration camp, and I remember Professor Niederland of the Psychiatric Clinic '<^r the exclusive use of fhe fast increasing settlers, some anxious talks being hurriedly convened both of New York University said during an inter­ and a tight network of sponsored cooperatives was national debate, arranged by the German Docu­ in our house and at the synagogue as fo what mentation Centre for Traumas after Imprison­ "esigned to assure them of substantial advantages action fo take. My father eventually escaped in­ ment and Persecution, in Cologne, that the °*er the Poles who in tum developed their own temment; the reason must have been that as a psychological traumas suffered under the Nazi 'Operative defence. confirmed liberal he never left any doubt of his regime, did great psychological harm to the chil­ In this stmggle of the nationalities, the Jews unqualified opposition to the diehards of the dren of survivors. He had investigated 60 families neld an unenviable middle ground. They felt H.K.T. and always diplomatically managed to and found that there was a symbiotic link between "•rawn towards the Germans whom they regarded keep on good terms with the Poles. survivors and their children. The young generation were either ext)ected to see that such things did ** rather more cultured than the Poles. This was But now the time had come for us to make a not happen again, or the parents had such a low "** particular animosity against the Poles; in decision. All Germans were offered the choice image of themselves that the children felt they •Russian Poland, for example, they felt drawn to- either fo adopt Polish nationality and stay or had to overcompensate. Dr. Herberg, chairman *ards the Poles whom they regarded as more remain Germans and go. Many Germans chose of the Documentation Centre pointed out the ^Itured than the local Russians. In Exin too the first, but my parents and indeed the majority difficulties which faced experts in claims for '^^s could have met Poles who were by no means of the Jews decided otherwise. My father was a restitution for damage to health. It was not enough to deal with the damage done during the "^ir inferiors either in culture or general edu- German patriot, he could not he a Pole, even if he persecution, what hapoened afterwards when they ation—if anything rather the reverse. However, had not heard as we now did of the insolent retumed to normal life was equallv important. ^ It was, they were met with sympathy neither by manifestations of a Polish antisemitism which, all If such people had their claims accepted, it helped "^e Germans nor the Poles. In the circumstances, over Posen, openly called for pogroms against them to resoect themselves. Unfortunately, in his prhaps naturally the Poles were, on the whole, no "the parasites no nation will tolerate". ooinion claims from communists and prisoners- /lends of the Jews whom they suspected of As we thus, in 1920-21, prepared to leave, we of-war received better treatment than those from ndue sub-servience to the ruling power. joined the trek that had been on the move for the racially persecuted. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION January 1980

FAMOUS FRANKFURTERS REMEMBERED Peter (^hn, a Frankfurt musicologist, has pub­ NEWS FROM GERMANY lished a history of the famous musical academy, the Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt, AN IMPORTANT COURT DECISION TV OVERSTEPS THE MARK where many famous Jews taught and were taught. The Wesf German Supreme Court at Karlsruhe A TV show on the Palestinian problem on The teachers included Professor Bernhard Coss­ has ruled that any denial of the Nazi German Bremen TV has led fo angry reactions in wide mann, whose daughter Lulu died in England as a mass murder is an insult fo all German Jewish circles. One of the speakers. Dr. Michael von der refugee whilst his son, fhe philosopher Nikolaus citizens, even those who had not tjeen bom at the Goltz, remarked: "for me Begin is a pig". Cossmarm, perished in Theresiensfadt, Bernhara time. The court dealt with fhe case of a Mann­ Helmut Pohl, a former W. Gennan terrorist, Sekles (Director from 1923-1933), Dr. Lofhar heim citizen who had been banned from spread­ explained fhat he had been released from prison Wallersfein, Matyas Seiber, and many others. The ing allegations that fhe mass murder of Jews by after an agreement between the Federal Govem­ book devotes a special chapter fo banker Em" the Nazis was a "Zionist swindle". An appeal ment and the PLO. Wolfgang Harisch, a writer Sulzbach (1885-1932), who was himself no mean court had quashed the original sentence. The man from East Germany, said he supported fhe just musician and a greaf patron of fhe arts, and who had been repeatedly sentenced for similar trans­ cause of the Palestinians. The publisher Axel was chairman and later honorary president of m^ gressions. He is a friend of the notorious Ameri­ Springer wrote fo Prime Minister Begin to apolo­ "Hoch'sche Stiftung". He was the father of our can neo-Nazi Gerhard M. Lauck who was gise for the insult and added that, going by past friend Herbert Sulzbach. expelled from the Federal Republic. experience, he was afraid that no action would FORMER FRANKFURT CITIZENS INVITED be taken against those responsible for the out­ rage. However, the director of Bremen TV ex­ Following fhe example of West-Beriin ana IN PRAISE OF GAS CHAMBERS pressed his regrets that the insulting remarks had several ofher towns, the Municipality of FranK- A 15-year-old pupil of Berlin's Carl-Zeiss- not been refuted during the show. Jewish furf/Main has launched a scheme by which former Oberschule wrote on the blackboard of a class­ organisations and the major political parties have citizens of Frankfurt will be enabled to visit their room in which a Jewish teacher was to take a called for a review of the situation. home town. An amount of DM 100.000 per year class: "There is nothing more beautiful on earth In Berlin, proceedings were started against two has been allocated and the first 80 visitors are than the gassing of Jews". Another 15-year-old 17-year-old students and a 25-year-old coal mer­ expected in spring. The programme is meant tor had added two swastikas. The juvenile court chant for having given a TV interview in the those former Frankfurters, who cannot afford to decided that fhis was not a political crime, but backroom of a tavem, which was decorated with pay the travel and accommodation expenses. A rather a foolish prank by ignorant youngsters. Nazi posters, during a TV programme called most of the applicants are expected to be of an It reserved judgment and ordered both boys to "Only a few brown sheep?" One of them said advanced age, fhe invitation will also include tn write an essay about their reactions to the court their "Fighting Association Grossdeutschland" spouses, even if fhey were not bom in Frankfurt. ease. had set itself the task to rebuild fhe German E.O.L- In Hamburg, 50-year-old former journalist people and to work for the disappearance of all THE JEWS OF MAINZ E. W. Geiss was sentenced to one year's im­ foreigners, including Jews, from Germany. One After a successful showing in Jemsalem anda prisonment without remission for having of the defendants stated in court that the TV team Haifa fwo years ago, fhe exhibition "The Jews o organised an unauthorised demonstration near had insisted on the Nazi background of the show, Mainz" in fhe historical Mainz Town Hall • Hamburg's main station, where three men, wear­ and on their wearing their black uniforms. The attracting visitors from the whole of fhe .F^^^^' ing donkey masks, carried posters proclaiming: producer of fhe programme said this was abso­ Republic and from abroad. At the same time, tn "I am an ass to have believed in the gas chamber lutely ridiculous. Town Council has arranged for a series of '^"'j^ lie." JUSTICE FOR GIPSY VICTIMS on fhe long history of Jews in Mainz and tn More than 1,500 people assembled before the many famous scholars and martyrs among them. FIVE YEARS MAIDANEK TRIAL Bergen-Belsen memorial during a demonstration The Lord Mayor suggested in his opening speecn, The Maidanek Trial, which deals with the most for fhe rights of gipsies in fhe Federal Republic, fo commemorate these people by naming ^^'^^'j terrible atrocities committed by Nazi henchmen, organised by Gipsy organisations and by the and public squares after them. He regretted tnai has now been going on for five years. Thc Court "Societies for Races in Danger". Madam Simone so far there was only one Ludwig-Bamberger has been sitting on 370 days, and there is no end Veil, president of the European Parliament, once Street. in sight, because defending counsels apply a tech­ herself an inmate of Belsen, who was liberated by EXHIBITION IN MARTIN BUBER HOUSE nique which has proved effective in German ter­ British soldiers in 1945, said in her address fhat The International Council of Christians ana rorist trials: under German law they continuously she had come fo bear witness to her solidarity Jews held an Exhibition under the heading "Burni produce new evidence and ask for new witnesses with the gipsies. She was worried to notice ten­ Books" (Buecherverbrennung) af its headquarte^ to be heard, and even if fhe court does nof agree dencies which made themselves felt and which in Heppenheim in fhe fonner house of Martin fo their suggestions, they manage to delay the were of a kind which had once before led to geno­ Buber. Ifs object was to make visitors, especially proceedings even further. The head of the cide. Society's intolerance against anything that of fhe younger generation, aware of the W^ Ludwigsburg Central Office for the Prosecution was alien to it and claimed its own identify and which were burnt on May 10 1933, because they of Nazi Crimes, Adalbert Ruckerl, said af a meet­ culture, was growing. Equally growing was fhe were considered as incompatible with the Naz ing of leading lawyers, that it was impossible to will of those concemed to fight for their rights. ideology. The Exhibition was supplemented by * shorten such involved proceedings, but that there One gipsy, Alfred Steinbach, also a former inmate, number of lectures pertinent to the Jewish situa­ was no intention of deliberately trying to save the said that Madame Veil's presence was the first tion, given in the school in Heppenheim. whicn Nazi defendants. He was contradicted by Pro­ acknowledgement of the wrong done to the gipsies also bears Martin Buber's name. fessor Friedrich Kaul, the leading East Berlin for 34 years. Until now all governments had kept lawyer, who said that the Nazi crimes had been silent about it. The gipsies are drafting a memor­ AWARDS FOR JEWISH LEADERS known and documented since the Nuremberg andum to be sent fo the Federal Government, The Grand Federal Service Cross with Star was Trials and should not be dealt with as ordinary demanding restitution for gipsies. The Berlin awarded to Mr. Heinz Galinski, chairman °^ *? murder, but as genocide under international law. community had sent a message to fhe gathering Berlin Jewish conamunity. Lord Mayor Stoop expressing their solidarity with the gipsies as with presented him with the insignia of the Order i|j all persecuted races. the Golden Hall of the Schoneberg Town Han A COVER-UP .ATTEMPT? in fhe presence of leading politicians, and ex­ Koblenz's prosecutor-general has opened in­ A MISPLACED JOKE pressed his admiration for the work done ^V quiries info why the Frankenfhal public prose­ The Miinster Administrative Court fined Reck­ Galinski for his community and for a .r^""^, '^1 cutor, Mr. Beisswenger, failed to investigate linghausen Oberkreisdirector Horsf Kann £750 for fion between Jews and their non-Jewish felloe- allegations that a former SS lieutenant Amold having quoted the NS slogan "One Volk—one citizens. . t^ Strippel had been involved in Nazi crimes at the Reich—one Fiihrer" during a tour of Israel with a Dr. Hans Lamm, chairman of fhe M"""^ Dutch concentration camp of Vught in 1944. He delegation from Recklinghausen. He said he had Jewish community, was made an honorary i^ ° . is alleged fo have suppressed Dutch files stating never been a Nazi, but had intended the remark of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in i"^*^" that Strippel had t>een involved in the deaths of as a joke. The court decided that in his position nition "of his unceasing efforts for the promotion at least ten women at Vughf. In 1950, Sfrippel and in fhe circumstances, even a joke was mis­ of Jewish education and culture". was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder­ placed and leading to misunderstanding. After his 79-year-old banker Eric M. Warburg, a partner ing 21 Buchenwald prisoners, but at a re-trial, return, he was suspended from office. of the Hamburg Bank M. M. Warburg, BrincKj in 1%9, the sentence was reduced to six years and NAZI LITERATURE IN BOOK FAIR mann, Wirtz & Co., was awarded the Federal he received about £30,000 compensation for fhe The Berlin Jewish community protested against Grand Service Cross with Star, which was P^* IS years he spent in prison in excess of the final the fact that a number of neo-Nazi publishers senfed fo him by Hamburg's Lord Mayor H. '-'• sentence. At present, he is one of the nine SS took part in the 26th Intemafional Book Exhibi­ Klose. guards on trial in fhe Diisseldorf Maidanek case. tion in Berlin, displaying books glorifying Hitler and Goering, the SS and other Nazi organisations and referring to the "Auschwitz Lie". CAMPS WUERTTEMBERG'S OLDEST S'YNAGOGUE BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INTERNMENT-P.O.W.- THREATENED 51 Betsize Square, London, N.W.3 FORCED LABOUR-KZ Land Baden-WUrttemberg has protested against I wish to buy cards, envelopes and folded post­ the plans of the village of Freudental near Lud­ Our new communal hall Is available for marked letters from all camps of both world wars. wigsburg to demolish the 200-year-old synagogue cultural and social functions. For detain Pleasa send, registered mail, stating price, to: which is under a preservation order. The local apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Office. 14 Roselyn Hill, London, N.WJ church councils and ministers have joined fhe protest. The renovation and conservation as a TeL: 01-794 S94S PETER C. RICKENBACK public monument is estimated at some £500,000. AJR INFORMATION January 1980 Page 11

BRFTISH STAR ARCfflTECT FOR SYNAGOGUE THE ISRAEU SCENE Sir Denys Lasdun, who created London's THE FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION "MURDERERS IN ISRAEL'S ARMY" National TTieatre, has drawn the plans for the Israel's new Finance Minister, Mr. Yigal Under the heading "Murderers in Israel's Army" rebuilding of the Hurva Synagogue in the Old Hunvitz, has announced stringent cuts fo fight the the London "Spectator" recently published details City of Jemsalem which was destroyed by fhe 100 per cent inflation rate. Superfluous manpower of two cases which have been hotly debated in Jordanians when they occupied the Old City. The is to be fired from the Civil Service. Mr. Hurwitz Israel, but were suppressed by censorship. Left- lafe Sir Charles Clore bequeathed a substantial said, thousands of "idling" civil servants would wing Mr. Uri Avneri, a Knesset member, had sum for the rebuilding of the historic synagogue ^>e told to leave their jobs and fake up work in circulated a memorandum in which he revealed the cornerstone of which has just been laid in the 'he labour hungry export industries. Cabinet that Lf.-General Eitan, the Israeli Chief of Staff, presence of the Clore family and Mayor Teddy Ministers' and Knesset Members' salaries will be had reduced the five years' prison sentence, im­ Kollek, cut by 5 per cent. Senior civil servants will no posed after a court-martial on Lt.-Col. Aryeh Sadeh for ordering the death of an Arab captive TRADE WFTH BRITAIN longer have private drivers, and Tel Aviv offices, The first British investment mission has just duplicating those in Jemsalem, will be closed. He in South Lebanon and had promoted Sadeh, who had been demoted to private, back to the rank of visited Israel and retumed with plans for a num­ said he wanted to change fhe climate in which the ber of industrial and commercial joint ventures, povemment "was printing money without think­ major. A month earlier. General Eifan had reduced an eight-years jail sentence to fwo years Mr. Gideon Patt, the Minister for "Trade, Industry ing of the consequences." Sweat and hard work and Tourism, had invited top executives of 14 Would be needed to reduce the foreign balance of on Lt. Daniel Pinto, 22, who had been convicted of killing two Lebanese during the invasion. leading British companies, led by the chairman of payments deficit, which is growing at fhe rate of fhe Anglo-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Mr. around £1,000 million annually and now There has been wide-spread demand for the general's resignation, and the Israeli paper Sumray. Earlier fhis year, the Chamber had approaches £6,000 million. Waste in Israel was arranged an investment seminar in London. So great that if could support another country. "Haaretz" wrote fhat "General Eytan is not the Foreign currency credits for new borrowers will be right man fo head the Israel Defence Forces". "YEKKE" NOT AN INSULT ffozen, and the cost of credits to exporters will Mrs. Yaffa Sadeh, on the other hand, who is A German-born Israeli citizen, Mr. Ralph rise by 40 per cent. Expenditure on schools and fighting for her husband's release, said that before Hellinger, asked the Israeli High Court to have hospitals is to be halted. Measures against "black fhe operation began, senior officers were briefed the title "The Yekkes" changed in a planned TV capital", including tax evasion and undeclared by a high-ranking officer that in revenge for the progranMne about German Jews. He said he did income, will be strict and are expected fo yield Haifa bus murders by terrorists, when 34 civilians not want to be called names in Israel as he had pillions of Israeli pounds. Mr. Hurwifz expects were killed, no prisoners were to be taken. The been in Germany and France, Justice Haim Cohn inflation to rise for some fime. but in the long man shot by her husband had carried weapons ruled against him and said: "I myself belong to term, with pay restraint and jobs harder to find, and documents which proved that he was a ter­ this race and I always thought 'Yekke' was a title consumpton is expected to drop and the Israeli rorist. An Army spokesman categorically denied of respect and affection. If you ask me, it's worse Pound to rise. the report of fhe Army briefing. fo be called German." REBURIAL OF JEWISH SOLDIERS The Histraduth Labour Federation was obliged PROMOTION OF RELATIONS WFTH to cancel a nationwide strike in protest against In a modest military ceremony on the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem, the ashes of Jewish GERMANY the new measures, because the rank and file did On fhe occasion of the congress of the Israeli- not accept it. Workers at several large factories soldiers of fhe Soviet Army's 16th Lithuanian Division have been re-interred. The division was German Society in Israel, the Rudolf Kuestermeier and civil servants announced publicly that they Prize, which carries a monetary value of *ould not participate. founded in 1941, recruiting men from towns and villages on fhe Volga; ifs bulk was made up by IL 50.000, was bestowed on Dr. Felix Shinnar in 5,000 Jews whose unit was acclaimed for its brave recognition of his promotion of economic rela­ EL AL'S TROUBLE resistance to fhe advancing German Army. Most, tions with the Federal Republic, Dr. Katz (Jem­ El Al ground staff at Ben Gurion Airport staged however, were killed in a single battle in Feb­ salem) for the section Youth and Sport, and, in ^ 36-hour strike, forcing fhe cancellation of eight ruary 1943. The soldiers in that unit generally equal parts, to Shalom Ben Chorin and Inge flights and costing El .M about £215,000, to sup- talked fo each ofher in Yiddish and sang Yiddish Deutschkron for Literature and Publicity. The Port their demand for a new pay agreement. They and Hebrew songs. prize was created in memory of Rudolf Kuesfer- meier, the first German correspondent in Israel, <=laimed that their existing agreement kept their SPORTSMANSHIP pay at 1976 level. Two thousand passengers had who stayed in the country also after his refire­ Bowing to Arab pressure. Japan withdrew an ment, to be transferred to other airlines. invitation to Israel's national karate team to take ^The airiine has refused to accept Mr. Egon part in the Tokyo world championship, saying TOURISTS ROBBED Ronay's claim in his 1980 Lucas guide, that El Al that in view of wamings from other competing Mr, Frank Gibson, a Barnet councillor who ^as the worst transatlantic airline for food and nations, they were unable to guarantee the safety loured Israel as member of a study group, was pourtesy. An El Al spokesman said Mr. Ronay's of the Israeli competitors. The disappointed robbed af gunpoint whilst in bed at the Diplomat inspectors, who had taken part in three flights, Israeli team will now travel to the United States Hotel in Jerusalem, His group consisted of 18 had been put off by fhe stringent security meas- fo fake part in competitions arranged by the members of the Friends of Ramat Gan with which "fes and fhis had affected their judgment of the World Jewish Karate Federation. Bamet is twinned, and the Anglo-Israel Friend­ fest of the flight. However, it was generally recog­ In the 1982 World Cup games in Spain, Israel ship League of Finchley, The secretary of the nised that security was El Al's best feature and will form part of fhe Europe Group No. 6 to Friends, Mrs, Rosemary Middleton, was also that people felt safer once they had been searched. which Northern Ireland, Scotland, Portugal and robbed in a room of fhe same hotel which she Sweden belong. Most ofher groups had refused to shared with another member of fhe group. Both BEGIN AND S.4DAT TRUE FRIENDS admit Israel info their ranks. women lost all their money and jewellery, Whilst not attending the transfer of Mount Sinai ETHIOPIAN JEWS WELCOME BLACK PANTHERS' PROTEST *nd the surrounding country to Egypt on the sec­ For many years, fhe black Beta Israel (Falasha) Some 150 Left-wing "Black Panthers" staged a ond anniversary of President Sadat's visif fo Jews of Ethiopia were denied entry info Israel demonstration at fhe Elazar settlement between Jerusalem, Mr. Begin sent a warm message of under fhe Law of Return, because their Jewish­ Jerusalem and Hebron to protest at what they heartfelt congratulations" to him. When the ness was widely disputed. They have lived in called large-scale government investment in West JrOndon "Times" resumed publication, it pub- Ethiopia for 2,000 years and claim to be the Bank settlement instead of slum clearance. After n^hed an interview with President Sadat by one descendants of the Queen of Sheba. Only a few a clash with the settlers, many of whom were "f its contributors in which the Egyptian leader hundred, mainly young people, were allowed fo immigrants from the USA, they were evicted by ?*i

Egon Larsen FRANZ ROSENZWEIG COMMEMORATED To mark the 50th anniversary of fhe death of Franz Rosenzweig, an Exhibition was held in fhe Municipa' TAKING OFF THE YELLOW STAR Library of Frankfurt, fhe city of his main On January 15, 1943, Inge Deutschkron and provide them with new identities, including jobs. activities; if was opened by the theologian Dr. her mother took off the yellow stars from their The story of their existence under these appalling Reinhold Mayer (Tuebingen), a leading Rosenzweig clothes, carefully concealing the stitches, and circumstances reads like a spine-chilling thriller. research worker. In Kassel, where Rosenzweig was moved in with the Gumz family, simple, "Aryan" Eventually, they succeeded in merging with the born in 1886, fhe Mayor of fhe City, Hans Eichel, in anti-Nazis who welcomed them with joy—un­ German refugees fleeing from the approaching the presence of representatives of local cultural daunted by fhe terrible risks to their own liberty Russian army—and were accepted without ques­ organisations, placed a wreath on the Rosenzweig and lives. From now on, mother and daughter tioning by "helping Hitler youths" and social Memorial Stone. (An article in memory of Franz lived underground in Berlin, equipped with false workers. Rosenzweig will be published in fhis journal shortly. identify papers, well aware that the slightest slip After fhe war, Inge went to England to leam The Ed.) E.G.L. could mean discovery, deportation, and death. the language and settled for a few years as a journalist in West Germany before emigrating GERMAN RADIO PLAYS Inge Deutschkron has told her amazing story in Macmillan Education Publishers have just a splendidly written, moving and thrilling book, to Israel, where she is now working as an editor issued a volume "Das Horspiel—Passages from Ich trug den gelben Stern (Verlag Wissenschaft at fhe Maariv newspaper. German radio plays", selected, edited and anno­ und Polifik, Cologne, DM24), which was pub­ Her book ends on a critical note: 'I When tated by our member Marie Burg, former Head lished just before "Holocaust" was screened by returned to Germany (after the years in England) of the German Department of fhe Alice Otley the West German television stations, providing I found what I had not expected. Old Nazis or School, Worcester. Modern language students are more convincing evidence of what large sectors of those who had been responsible for helping Hitler fortunate indeed to have access to such a thought­ ful collection of the very best of present-day Ger­ the population had not known or not believed. were installed—though under democratic premises —in important positions. Had fhere not been man authors, including Heinrich Boll, Siegfried But the book also pays homage to those decent Lenz, Friedrich Diirrenmaft and many others, in and courageous Germans, the unsung heroes of enough anti-Nazis? I did not understand. . . . My her preface, Marie Burg pwints out that "Hor- the Nazi era, who helped 1,200 Berlin Jews to lack of understanding and indignation at seeing spiele" in Germany have been established as a survive. "The book tells us, simply and without old Nazis even in government departments of the new art form and are taken more seriously than emotionalism, about these Germans," writes Klaus Federal Republic, murderers of thousands of Jews elsewhere. The anthology is intended for O-le^^ Schiitz, the former Mayor of West Berlin and walking around free like after some kind of students as well as for those studying at college* or evening classes. now Federal German Ambassador in Israel, in his gentleman's offence, frequently discharged by foreword. "This is exemplary for today's young very lenient judges—these feelings were shared by the people of Israel." PAUL EHRLICH SOCIETY people." The "Society of Friends of Paul Ehriich" aim' The authoress was bom at Finsferwalde in 1922 at keeping the memory of the great scientist ah^e- as the daughter of a Social-Democratic teacher, "TOLERANCE AND EMANaPATION" Among its objects are the preservation of \"P who later worked in Berlin and emigrated to The Moses Mendelssohn Anniversary was Frankfurt house in Wesfendsfrasse, where Ehrlicn England in April, 1939, in the hope of getting marked in the Govemmental Weekly "Das Parla­ lived from 1899 unfil his death (1915) and the ment", published by the "Bundeszentrale fuer erection of an Ehrlich monument in that city- visas for his wife and daughter as well. But one The Society also works for arrangements by whicn month lafer, Britain introduced a new quota politische Bildung", Bonn, Its recent supplement "Aus Polifik und Zeitgeschichfe" carried an Ehrlich's literary estate, which is deposited in the •ystem for immigration to Palestine, where the article by C^cile Lowenthal-Hensel under the New York Rockefeller Institute, could be made family wanted to go; the two women were trapped heading "Moses Mendelssohn—Gedanken zu accessible fo the wider public, ^^^^ in Nazi Germany when the war broke out. Inge Toleranz und Emanzipation". The authoress Deutschkron tells us about one small but signifi­ admits that the history of the "great emancipa­ A PLEA TO AJR MEMBERS cant incident: "A short little man rose from his tion" on German soil has come to an end under It has always been the principle of the AJR to the Nazis. Most of the Jews who now live in cut down its administrative costs to tbe '"^Jff seat in the Berlin Ubahn. 'I ask you to sit down possible level. Our small staff would nof be aoK at once,* he said fo me very loudly and impera­ Germany have no connection with the German past. Yet it would in her view be a false conclu­ fo attend to the manifold practical tasks of tn^ tively, pointing to the seat he was offering me. sion fo assume that such a history could never AJR if it could not rely on its members sending Most of the other passengers pretended to have be started anew. This depends, however, on a in their subscriptions as soon as they hay heard nothing. The train was crowded like every type of tolerance which does nof expect from the received our statements. Unfortunately, there is> morning at this hour; I was only one of many fellow man to give up his own sp)ecific qualifies however, a minority of members who do no who had to stand. Surely this man had not and leanings. The monopoly of one particular con­ respond to the statements and to whom secon ception—in Mendelssohn's time the idea of the reminders have fo be sent. In a number of cases, offered his seat to me, of all people, had I not these second reminders have even fo be followeo been wearing the yellow star—for the first time "Christian State"—must give way to the recogni­ tion that we now have to live in a pluralist society. up by personal letters. All this causes unnecessary that moming." labour and expienditure. We, therefore, urgently After the Gestapo had threatened to deport WR, appeal to our friends fo send in their subscription Inge's mother, the two Jewesses decided to accept JEWISH PUBLISHERS UNDER THE NAZIS whenever they receive their statements from us. the Gumz family's offer to harbour them and Under the title "Das juedische Buch im Driften Reich" the "Archiv fuer Geschichfe des Buch­ wesens", Frankfurt/M. has recently published a study by Volker Dahm, which describes fhe gradual elimination of Jewish authors, publishers and booksellers, which started with fhe "Aryanisa­ tion" of Jewish enterprises and later restricted a few remaining firms to the production of exclu­ sively Jewish works. Dahm bases his study on preserved files of the Nazi authorities such as fhe "Reichskulfurkammer", the "Reichsschrifffums- kammer" and fhe "Reichssicherheitshauptamt". He also refers to fhe activities of the "Reichskul- furwalter" Hans Hinkel who was in charge of supervising the cultural activities of the Jews in Germany, A forthcoming second volume of the study will deal with the largest publishing firm of Jewish works, the Schocken-Verlag (Berlin 1931-38), Fights Rust EG.L. Newly developed. Zinc compounds are some of the finest rust inhibitors.Th^ synthetic resin base forms a tough skin, Annely ]uda Fine Art which seals the surface from moisture. 11 Tottenham Mews, London WIP 9PJ From all good hardware and accessory stores. oiSsj 5517/8 Free literature from David's ISOPON, FREEPOST -Northway House, London N20 9BR. CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE Mon-Fri: 10 am-6 pm Sat: 1 Oam-1 pm tsS/J'Tjifil AJR INFORMATION January 1980 Page 13 Arnold Paucker NEW PROJECTS DEDICATED Mr. Menachem Begin was one of the speakers at the dedication ceremony for the new £5.5 million A REVALUATION OF THE C.-V. Rappapwrf Medical Research Centre in Haifa in which Rabbi Unterman of fhe London Marble The failure of Jewish emancipation in Germany the generally philosemitic German Progressives, Arch Synagogue, Rabbi Shulman of the New initially resulted, particularly amongst younger with Jewish interests cheerfully sacrificed to the York Fifth Avenue Synagogue, and Rabbi Safran, Jewish historians, in a negative attitude towards exigencies of parfy strategy. Not surprisingly fhe Chief Rabbi of Geneva, took part. 300 of the fhe German-Jewish majority group which had school questions loom large in an American his­ guests were brought from Europe in a sp>ecial identified with the German nation and its values. torian's investigation; Jewish religious instruction plane. The funds were donated by the Rappaport From a Jewish-nationalist stance fhey had nothing fared badly in comparison with the two Christian couple from Geneva, but derision for their father-generation, with fhe confessions when it came to stafe support. The The First Secretary at fhe British Embassy, Dr, Harris, attended the dedication of the Segev Centralverein deutscher Staatsbiirger jiidischen Jews as tax payers sought their rightful share of Mountains Development Project for which British Glaubens (fhe major Jewish self-defence organiza­ the educational hand-out and were confronted with JNF has raised £2,500,000, Dr. Harris made part tion founded in 1893). often cast in the role of the an imperial school policy which is here clearly of his speech in Hebrew. Also attending were 40 villain of the "assimilafionist" piece. Moreover revealed as anfisemifically inspired. members of the British JNF who presented Presi­ the changing consciousness of these rebels against Overall the author has disproved that "timidity dent Navon with the Volume of Peace to which a mode of life which to their mind had irrevocably and accommodation" were fhe fraits of German- several thousand of Anglo-Jewry have subscribed. failed also manifested itself in a growing Socialist Jewish behaviour. She has also established that fhe orientation which tinged their assessment with con­ Centralverein was less plagued by fhe rule of MORMON PARK IN JERUSALEM tempt for fhe bourgeois limitations of this Jewish notables than has hitherto been assumed but had Some 2,0(K) members of the American Mormon fight against antisemitism. Recent historiography achieved in Wilhelminian terms a remarkable Church have been on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem has taken a more detached view of an intricate degree of inner democratization. Rightly she hails to dedicate a five-acre pmrk in memory of Orson Jewish situation and more than redressed the bal­ the Jewish defence as a harbinger, in an unfavour­ Hyde, one of the founders of their movement who ance. This has above all resulted in a revaluation able climate, of a Western pluralistic society in prophesied more than a century ago that there °f the Centralvercin. Marjorie Lamberti continues would be a fully-fledged Jewish State with Jerusa­ which an emancipation ideology akin to that of lem as its capital. The i)ark was established with a 'he process of its rehabilitation with gusto.* the Centralverein can be said fo have proved gift of one million dollars from the Mormons to The Centralverein was instituted as a reply fo victorious. the city of Jerusalem. Many Mormon students the mounting wave of anfisemific agitation and the Marjorie Lamberti has so much fallen in love visit Israel every year on special study courses. eontinued state of semi-legal discrimination against with her subject that she somewhat overrates her the Jewish citizens of Imperial Germany. Ifs activi­ Jewish activist heroes. The early leaders of fhe AID FOR MENTALLY SICK ties multiplied over the years and Mrs. Lamberti Centralverein were angry and honourable men. Berlin-bom Mrs. Hanita Rodney (formerly has wisely eschewed treading ground covered by mainly astute lawyers, but with all fhe limitations Annelisse Lowi), a mother of four who has a her predecessors, ignoring Jewish apologetics or of their group and type. No Bamberger or Lasker schizophrenic daughter, founded an organisation 'he battle in the courts. Instead she concentrates here or men of the calibre of those Jewish intel­ "Enosh" (humane), catering for the mentally sick °n the functioning of the Centralverein as a lectuals who threw in their lot with the Socialist in the 20 fo 50 age range. It is one of Israel's Jewish pressure group in Wilhelminian politics, movement in which fhey rose to commanding fastest growing organisations, widely publicised on pushing for full Jewish civic equality. She charts positions. The Jewish defence offered a field of radio and television and has a centre in Tel Aviv and branches in Jerusalem and Raanana. Further "t detail the stormy relations between the repre­ political activity fo Jews of ability who could nof branches are to be opjened in Beersheba, Haifa, sentatives of Jewry and the Left Liberals with find a commensurate occupation in the service of Hadera, Rehovot, Ashkelon and Ashdod. They ^^hom a Jewish middle-class group had willy-nilly the German state or parties; and here they did will provide vocational training, sheltered housing, 'o ally itself (fhe Socialist connection came later), exceedingly well, research, and clubs. Mrs. Rodney said, mental •hat intervention in party affairs was on a lavish A dash of irony would not have been amiss. illness was Israel's skeleton in the cupboard— "cale is well documented but she also demonstrates The work of the Centralverein did not lack ifs there were many people who needed psychiatric 'hat the Jewish problem was a side-issue even for pathetic or comical aspects (such as the inanity of help and could not find if. attempting fo counter the racialist notion that flat feet were a distinctly Jewish characteristic). So while one would wish for a more muted enthusi­ asm these are minor reservations, Mrs, Lamberti in her admirable study has demolished unfounded GOLDERS GREEN MOTOR CO. criticism of fhe Centralverein by marshalling solid evidence and has further corrected a distorted picture of Wilhelminian Jewry. HOOP LANE, N.W.II * Marjorie Lamberti: Jewish Activism in Imperial Germany. The struggle for Civil Equality, 235pp, Yale University Press 1978, £12,60. Dorlon CLUB 1943 FULL SERVICE FACILITIES AT Vortraege jeden Montag mn 8 p.ni. im Hannah Knrminski House, COMPETITIVE PRICES 9 Adamson Road, N.WJ. 7 Januar. Poline Williams: "Die Wand­ Chocolates lungen der deutschen Sprache seif dem Weltkrieg". for 14 Januar. Kurt Stein: "Moses Mendels­ Jaguar, Jensen, Rover, Rolls Royce, sohn und die Zeif der Berliner Salons". 21 Januar. Else Goldschmidt: "Cruises to Mercedes Benz, B.L.M.C., Ford the Greek Islands and fo Istambul and Jugoslavia" (with colour slides). make and .American Cars 28 Januar. 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RABBI CHARLES BERG Rabbi Charies Berg (formeriy Rautenberg), IN MEMORIAM who has died aged 68, was born in Berlin, where he was also active in the German-Jewish youth HANS TRAMER'S LAST WORK Elisheva Cohen, reminiscences and letters of Franz movement. He studied at the "Lehranstalf" under This month, a year has passed since the rep­ Rosenzweig's mother Adele, n6e Alsberg, and an Rabbi Dr. Baeck and at fhe Universities of Berim, resentative organisations of fhe Jews from Ger­ essay by Klaus Emst Hinrichsen about the begin­ Heidelberg and Goetfingen, After his release many lost one of their leading pjersonalities by fhe nings of the "Ebraer-Schule" in Riga, which was from Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he came sudden death of Hans Tramer, If was his express founded in 1835 and whose first director was the fo fhis country in 1939, volunteered for the Britisn desire that no appraisals of his personality and his Munich born scholar Dr. Max (Menachem) Army and was for five years in fhe Pioneer Corps, work should be published, and we respected this Lilienfhal, In 1947, he became minister of the newly-founded wish. Yet now, at the time of his yahrzeit, we feel Among fhe variefy of LBI publicafions, which Bournemoufh New Synagogue. From 1953 unti' entitled to break the silence. He was a man of also include fhe Year Books (in English), "Schrif­ his refirement in 1974 he was minister of the many jjarfs, and his initiative and advice are tenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen" and Wimbledon Reform Synagogue. missed by the Council of Jews from Germany, ifs memoirs, the Bulletin has always fulfilled a special afiiliate in Israel, the Leo Baeck Institute and the function, carrying comparatively shorter, but ROSA LEVINE Board of fhe United Restitution Organisation. He nonetheless equally valuable, contributions to the Mrs. Rosa Levine Meyer, who died at thc age was at home in the fields of welfare work, finances history of Jews from German si)eaking countries. of 89, was the widow of Eugen Levin6, the Presi­ and administration and, by his sound knowledge, Ifs high standard was due to its editor, Hans dent of the short-lived "Raeferepublik" .in also an able spokesman who had gained fhe re- Tramer. We can only hope that a way will be Bavaria, who was executed in 1919. She marneO spxict and confidence of fhe Jewish and non-Jewish found to continue this important part of the LBI's again in 1922 Ernst Meyer, a co-founder oi "Jf bodies with which he negotiated on our behalf. work. German Communist Party who died in I9iy- When fhe Nazis came to power, she left Berlin Yet Hans Tramer was equally outstanding as a W.R. and settled in London. She used her intimate research worker and creative writer on subjects of knowledge of the leading figures of the Russian literature and history, especially as far as they DR. ARTHUR BERGMANN and German revolutions by writing articles ano pertained to the past of German Jewry. One of Dr, Arthur Bergmann, who recently died in books, published in English and German. his duties was fhe editorship of fhe Bulletin of the Tel Aviv at the age of 72, was a highly gifted Leo Baeck Institute. The latest issue, which, alas, jurist from whose untiring work in the field of Dr. HUGO MARX was to be his last work, became available a few restitution and social insurance thousands of Nazi Dr. Hugo Marx who died in Basel, aged o/. months ago. Of fhe five monographs which the victims benefited. The son of the late Berlin vvas buried in his native Heidelberg. Before 193:*. 188-page volume carries, two were written by him. rabbi. Dr. Juda Bergmann, he emigrated fo Pales­ he was Public Prosecutor and Judge in Mann­ One of them deals with "The Jewish Problem in tine in 1933. After fhe creation of the Stafe of heim, He emigrated at first fo Paris and Brussels the Life and Work of Ludwig Meidner", and fhe Israel, he held several responsible posts with the and graduated in law in both countries. In 1941' other with Eduard Strauss and his friendship with Ministry of Finance. Later he became Deputy he managed a last-minute escape fo fhe USA, bu Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber, Both works Head of fhe Israel Purchase Commission in Ger­ returaed fo Europe in 1957 and lived in Switzer­ are the result of patient and thorough research of many and, after his return, special adviser to the land. As an act of restitution, he was promoteo the source material. They re-create the atmosphere Ministry of Finance in questions of restitution "Landgerichtsprasident (ret.)". Before and after which prevailed in the lives of fhe personalities he and compensation. He was also a Board member his emigration, he was deeply interested in Jewisn deals with—a gift not granted fo every scholar. As of fhe representative body of the Jews from affairs. His autobiography "Career of a Jew'^*^ the number of those, who have witnessed fhe last Central Europe and rendered signal services in Public Prosecutor and Judge in Baden, 1°?"' chapter of German-Jewish history is steadily de­ establishing residential homes from funds which 1933", with an introducfion by Minister of Justice creasing, Hans Tramer's numerous contributions had become available by private endowments. Dr. Haussmann, is the piolitical and sociological to the assessment of our spiritual heritage are of Last but not least, he was fhe helpful representa­ mirror of a period of history. He wrote a number particular value. tive of a number of fellow German Jews, whose of ofher books on modem Jewish and legal issue The Bulletin also carries a collection of letters indemnification and social insurance claims would which always met with great inferest, even thougn of fhe Belmont family of Alzey, edited by Rahel hardly have been settled but for his thorough fhey were occasionally controversial. He was als Liebeschuefz, an assessment of fhe life and work knowledge of the subject matter and his legal a gifted Graphologist. . of the piainter Moritz Daniel Opi)enheim by resourcefulness. E.O-i'-

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including works by Kolo Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoshka. THE ART SCENE IN LONDON ALICE SCHWAB "HampKtead Present" was fhe title of fhe ex­ Finally, the terrific Post-Impressionism exhibi­ GERARD HOFFNUNG EXHIBITION hibition organised by the Hampsfead Artists' tion at the Royal Academy, One visit is not Beilin-born Gerard Hoffnung died in London Council af Burgh House. It included a lovely oil enough either to see or describe ifs wealth of treasures, but during a quick walk round I noticed 20 years ago at fhe age of 34 and af fhe height of his hy our old friend Adele Reifenberg "Letterbox, creative career. Since then, his cartoons and paintings rrimrose Gardens", a fine painting by her hus­ two beautiful Liebermanns, three Corinths, three Kirchners, fwo Noldes, fwo von Stocks and have been seen all over the world, Israel included. His hand, Julius Rosenbaum, "New End", and a widow Annette is constantly asked fo give illustrated gouache by Lottie Reizensfein "Nufley Terrace". many others. And that was just a start! Open till 16 March. talks on his life. Unfil fhe end of January, a large At the Institute of Education, Bedford Way, selection of his work is ijeaufifully displayed in Amnesty International held a fine exhibition of Michael Werner came to this country from Germany Hampstead's Burgh House and attracting old and new Sculpture. It included two outstanding works by as a political refugee. Apart from teaching and members of the growing Hoffnung cult. Naomi Blake, two works from the early 1960's by lecturing (he is presently Lecturer in Fine Art af fhe MJ. Siegfried Charoux, "The Prisoner" and "The Watford School of Arf) he has held numerous one- l.etters to the Editor man exhibitions and his work is included in several Survivor", a work entitled "Farewell" by Kafhe THE "ANSCHLUSS" Kollwitz and two delightful works by our old public and private collections. His presenf exhibition Sir,—/ was interested to read the Review of the friend Fred Kormis. A piece entitled "Mouming" at Annely Juda Fine Art, 11 Tottenham Mews, book by Prof. Botz "Wien vom 'Anschluss' zum hy Kenneth Samson is, of course, by the late Dr. London Wl (until 26 January), comprises assemblages Krieg" by F. S. Brassloff (your November 1979 Samson the well-known pediatrician. and sculpture. His sculptures are warm and sensitive issue). Carl Zuckmayer happened to be in Vienna At the Hayward Gallery, the Arts Council and pieces, sometimes displaying a whimsicality of spirit. on the day, the llth March, 1938. I wonder The assemblages, often centred on an utilitarian article, whether Prof. Botz is aware of a horrifying de­ ^e Victoria & Albert Museum have arranged a scription Zuckmayer gives in his autobiography niost interesting exhibition "Thirties", British art e.g. a paintbrush or knife, have, as the artist himself says, a form of inner beauty and, he asserts, can "Als waer's ein Stueck von mir" (S. Fischer Ver­ and design before the war, comprising decorative lag, 1966). I think your readers might like to have "rts, painting and sculpture, graphics and archi­ display their own intrinsic message, it! tecture (not forgetting Tilly Losch's Bathroom), Af Fischer Fine Arf, 30 King Street, Sf James's HERBERT LOEBL The exhibition is open unfil 13 January 1980 and there is an exhibition until fhe end of January of 7 Moor Road South, Gosforth, is an experience not to be missed. Viennese Turn of the Century Art and Design, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 INN.

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PETER HERTZ 85 It does not seem all that long siiKe his 80tn THEATRE AND CULTURE birthday; many of his literary achievements were recorded on that occasion, and a happy retirement Emigration Dreams thwarted. Investigations feature of the city, has had Dame Anna Neagle, anticipated. Facts proved otherwise: Professor into fhe fate of German-Jewish actors are still Peter Wyngarde, Miriam Karlin and Adele Leigh Peter Herz, who this month celebrates his 85th going on and sad discoveries are being made. A among its protagonists. The cast of the latest birthday, still leads a very full and busy life jn Vietmese film director who plans a "History of dramatic production, "The Lion in Winter", in­ Vienna and during the siunmer months in neigh­ fhe German-speaking Film" has come across the cluded the American actress Joan Fontaine as its bouring Baden, gradually returning to his usual tragic story of Kurt Gerron, Berlin, actor and prominent visitor. Camilla Horn (76), the first activities after a minor operation last aufimin. He cabarettisf, who is also remembered for his appear­ Gretchen in the silent "Faust" production of 1926, is Vice-President of the Austrian Authors' Asso­ ance in the great success "Drei von der Tank­ who acted in many films (but never on Television), ciation, honorary member of the Performing stelle". After leaving Germany, he was arrested in is living in quiet retirement along fhe shores of Rights Society, and he contributes to several Holland, taken to Theresiensfadt where he was Ammersee in Bavaria. Jewish papers in Europe ("Die Gemeinde , ordered fo direct a propaganda film "Der Ftihrer Vienna, "Allgemeine jUdische Wochenzeitung . schenkt den Juden eine Sfadt" which, alas, was to DUsseldorf, "JUdisches Gemeindeblatt", Zurich). be his last task; three weeks after completion, he Obituary. The death at 71 of Friedrich Torberg He also appears in cabaret performances af the and his team were brutally murdered by the is a heavy blow to Austria's literary circles. Vienna Jewish conununal centre. The "Peter Herz Nazis. . . . Torberg, who called himself "the last Jewish songs" have retained their fluency and charm- author who writes in German", became famous Hans Lang's new nmnber "Weil ich durcb Wien Emigration Dreams fulfilled. The success story overnight when, af the age of 23, his first book mit verliebten Augen geh", to be heard on the of composer Frederick Lowe, son of the Viennese "Der Schuler Gerber hat absolviert" described the radio and in variety performances, makes a ne* singer Edmuind Loewe, is crowned by his musical severity of Continental schools in the Twenties generation familiar with the ever-young Herz "My Fair Lady", currently revived in London and (he, himself, went to school in Prague). Retuming lyrics. many theatres all over Europe. As a young man from America after the Second World War, he Despite all these preoccupations in Austria, he in the United States, he tried his luck as riding became a theatre critic and editor of the magazine has not forgotten his friends in Britain. He keeps teacher, ship's musician and bar pianist; his even­ "Forum". Many of his books testify to his strong asking about the Swiss Cottage area and its lO' tual meeting with script writer Alan Jay Lemer will power and intelligent argumentation: "Die habitants and remembers with some melancholy resulted in a happy collaboration. In an ascending Mannschaff", "Die zweite Begegnung", "Hier bin the "bad old wartime days", when he and h'*' line, their musicals "Brigadoon" (1947) and ich, mein Vater". His own favourite was "Suess­ audience were "worried but so much younger . "Paint your Wagon" (1950) led to the adaptation kind von Trimberg", the story of the first Jewish as expressed in his popular song "Zwanzig' of Shaw's "Pygmalion" which, with its 28 musical minstrel. Torberg's last two books about "Tante dreissig Jahre juenger muesst' man sein". We all> numbers, has held the stage ever since 1956, Jolcsch" mirrored humour, charm and bitterness; those who worked with him, and those who Frederick Lowe, now 75, has gone a long way they demonstrated almost historically how the old laughed with him, wish Peter Herz the best ol since his lean years as a new arrival and his Ausfro-Hungarian monarchy was doomed and health and many more years of continuing su^ reorientation in the New World. ultimately collapsed. Only a few days before his death he said to his many admirers with thc cesses! STEFAN BUKOWITZ Tit-Bits. Anneliese Rothenberger, the charming sarcasm of an experienced reviewer: "No fear, KLEMPERER BIOGRAPHY soprano, who was first presented to Britain when there won't be a third volume". Sadly, he was The musicologist Peter Heyworth (London) !* the lafe Eric Robinson introduced the pretty Ger­ proved right. Torberg was buried in the old preparing a biography of Otfo Klemperer. He i* man singer in his Television series "Music for Jewish section of the "Zentralfriedhof" in Vienna, looking for letters written by or to the conducfC' You", has a regular German TV show with the next to fhe grave of Arthur Schnitzler and other Any readers, who can contribute material, aff title "Anneliese Rofhenberger gibt sich die Ehre", prominent Jews, The speakers at the funeral in­ asked to send photostats fo Professor Klempcrer s in which she herself takes part and also provides cluded fhe Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno daughter (Lofte Klemperer, Rebwiessfrasse 50> guest appearances of old and new artists. Vienna's Kreiski, an old friend of his, CH 8702, Zollikon, Switzerland). Expenses will be English theatre, a permanent state-subsidised S.B. reimbursed. 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