1963 Vol. XVIII No. 5 May, 7963
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I pro- rship* r,. 1 affi' '•'"•'• Rosenstoek provided they assimilated themselves to their years environment, preferably—but not necessarily—by iliates. baptism. The phenomenon of Jewish self-hatred is TRUE TO OURSELVES depicted in. a stimulating essay on Maximilian /al i" Harden (by Erich Gottgetreu). Harden's writings ormer were are full of anti-Jewish invectives, e.g., during the jropa- The Heritage of German Jewry Dreyfus affair. Yet towards the end of his life, larters -^^ when he was physically attacked in the Grunewald, he violently professed his awareness of his specific •^<^ ° »rsarv '^t'?t^ ** shaU remember the 90th anni- its inception the L.B.I, has initiated and sponsored position as a Jew. How much more balanced rs /of xnilv wL u'*'''"'*! »f D^- Leo Baeck. The AJR, the publication of no fewer than 24 books and was the personality of another man who no longer onfer- y, ' J""" the Leo Baeok Institute, will mark monographs ; a number of further publications are belonged to the community of his ancestors. In abour .^,^^ ^fu by a lecture to be given by Dr. E. J. under preparation. At the same time, the a charming letter (published and commented on stano ' the Genman-Jewish schc^r, Heinrioh American Branch of the L.B.I, has built up in by Jacob Jacobson) Feljx Mendelssohn Barlholdy ifalgaf 1,^^- New York a unique collection of books, periodicals explains to his father how it had come about ' 'he f!^!l2.*'^'^ associated with the organisations and documents relating to German-Jewish history. that the adopted name of Bartholdy was omitted »riune „1™^ Jews in Ei>gland had the good In Israel, U.S.A., Great Britain and Germany, in the London concert programmes. Though a ***^k duri *"S under the guidance of Leo Societies of Friends of the Leo Baeck Institute Christian since his childhood, the composer did .tional •''•' lustre L'*'^ •'^*' *'«v«n ^^=""5 of his life. have been established. Contacts between the not mind bearing the Jewish name made famous •IM to » 'mpaot\v!^"^""« f^'Om his name also had members are maintained by lectures, and all mem by his grandfather. He was at ease with his to b« '^^l and i^ v?""" achievements, both in the cul- bers regularly receive two sets of publications: environment, whereas his father, one generation Th« *f'-'> more Ml 'charitable sphere, l.t was, there- a Bulletin (edited by Dr. Hans Tramer. Jerusalem) nearer to the pre-emancipated Jews, resented being Union "^i one of .K ."'^ fulfillment of a moral duty und a Year Book (edited by Dr. Robert Wolisch, reminded of the family's Jewish origin. iortiy after V "**"!«« for 'he Aged, completed London). The bulletins, published in German, The gradual integration of the Jews in Ger »cclc y^. ^ •fjs death, was given his name. Leo carry shorter (though by no means less important) many and the handicaps they first had to experi ^ [tvaiis in ,h ***''^ '*f 'be sipecific s;pirit which essays on German-Jewish history and keep mem ence in the professions are reflected in the article llich y(j ' '"^«« Homes. " By the manner in bers informed on the Institute's current activities on "The Philippsons" (by Johanna Philippson). and plans; so far 18 issues have been published. «li With vvh"'*! f^r 'he aged you fulfil a special Henno Jacob, " the militant Rabbi ", is portrayed The Year Books may perhaps be described as en€e "* "manifest ^h *^ "'^•^ "°^ faced: to preserve by Xurt Wilhelm. Jacob fought on many fronts; Ihe most conspicuous manifestation of thc Insti he defended Jewry in the political arena and infor- '/"lan Jewrv" L"^'"'*' ^"^ spiritual" dignity of tute's raison d'etre. They have appeared with )r any ' House 'r • ^"""'^ "'^'*'' h'S visit to Otto Judaism in the theological sphere. His staunch inster. " yeckishe" punctuality and reliabihty, and now rejection of Zionism was not based on shallow ' 'luihoritv 1^ '^ '^^' hut not least due to phone we welcome the publication of Volume No. VII.' " assimilationism " but on a deep conviction of "Triany in J' his personality that Jews from Jewry's specific role in human history ; and he I <^onstruot "^ countries obtained the means Leo Baeck Institute Year Book was. last but not least, a great scholar. Distance IN "S that th. !^u*°'C'^' schemes, and it is also of time and place now also permit a more balanced ' ""spices of .Vharitable Trust established under It has become customary to introduce the •^.anied aft • Council of Jews from Germany assessment of books of this kind with the apolo Continued on page 2, column 1
Continued from page 1 DER JUNGE LEO BAECK Als cin alter Mann stch:ht Leo Bacck dcr Gegen- i-wtutuuZwcifcUos wa>•><.•r ^c^s da».«»s ^..zwcil—c Traktandum dicscr i'PPrcoiation of personalities who were actively wart vor den Augen. Vicllcicht gcht die Erin- '^—"•"-•iiv.^rtnn^mliinpGcncralvcrsammlung. "Die zionislischc Bc^^ - involved in thc ideological and political contro- .... __.! Augen' . "^•''"''-Vicllcicn'' —•••-'-..--1t •. gcn_1-'-, i D...,„ltl—uic I. cuu ...,„„- , EMIGRANTS INVITED TO RETURN Three former Nazi police officers charged wilh NAZI DANGER IN GERMANY? complicity in the murder of about 10,000 Jews in Appeal by Bcriin Senator The Federal Minister of thc Interior. Hcrr bastcrn Europe are to be put on trial in Freiburg Hermann Hoecherl. announcing a Bonn Govern this month, the local Public Prosecutor has ment report on neo-Nazis in Federal Germany announced. Until their arrest two of the accused Dr. Adolf Arndt, the new Senator for Science during the past year, has stated: that extreme were serving as police officers. The Nazi units in and Arts in Berlin, has appealed to all emigrants Right-wing or neo-Nazi tendencies still existing which the accused served were allegedly respon and their descendants to return. Speaking at a in West Germany were no danger to the demo sible for the mass murder of Jews near Bialystok, Social Democratic Memorial Meeting on the cratic order there. Neo-Nazi parties had gained no Minsk and Mohilev. 30th anniversary of thc promulgation of the more than 0.4 per cent of thc vote in any com National Socialist " Erm.acchtigungsgcscfz", Dr. munal. Slate or Federal elections, and thc mem Thc two Russian jurists. Professor Nikolai Arndt declared that March 23rd should remain, a bership of neo-Nazi organisations had dropped Alexeyev and Mr. Yuri Kousminich, who attended day on which all men of good will should unite. thc Coblcnz trial of twelve former Nazi officers As responsible Senator for Science and Arts, he from 35,000 in 1961 to 27.000 last year. Thc as observers, were asked to leave Federal asked thc victims of the Nazi rdgimc for their number of neo-Nazi groups had, however, risen Germany. forgiveness and their return home. Until now, he from 86 to 112 but none had more than 250 mem stated, no such appeal had been made by any bers, proving how fractionalised these groups were. Professor Alexcyev told the press that he had German Government. Neo-Nazi papers and periodicals appearing in planned to meet the head of the Ludwigsburp West Germany numbered 49. and their combined Central Agency for thc Investigation of Nazi circulation had risen from 160,000 to 192,000. Crimes to hand over a number of original docu FAONG THE PAST Compared with thc democratic press, these publica ments on Nazi crimes in Western Russia. He tions were of no importance, thc Minister declared. stated that material handed over already included In a statement issued in Bethel. Genmany, The German Government, said Hcrr Hoecherl, some incriminating the State Secretary of the during a meeting of the Council o«f the German would continue to be extremely watchful against Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation in Evangelical Church, a call was made to the neo-Nazi activities and would continue to educate P^nn, Dr. Friedrich Karl Vialon.—(J.C.) German people lo draw the necessary conclusions its citizens in the democratic spirit. Most Ger iiKim thc Nazi past, to recognise the inhumanity mans were now immune from neo-Nazi influences, of Nazi crimes and lo punish those directly Hcrr Hocchcrl considered. KILLER ACQUITTED responsible. In an interview with an evening paper, however. Richard Hoohrainer, a former Standarten German Christians should not turn their backs Herr Heinz Galinski, Chairman of the West Bcriin fuehrer in thc Nazi S.A. and leader of a Werwolf on Nazi crimes, the statement said. The number Jewish community and a leading member of the group that shot nine Jews at the end of the war, of trials of Nazi war criminals had recently Central Committee of Jews in Germany, stated that has been acquitted by a court in Vienna. increased but they appeared to interest foreign latent antisemitism still exists among thc German na^Uons more than thc Germans themselves. people. Jews were encountering difficulty in Hochraincr escaped detection until 1961 by The Evangelicals asked all Germans of the getting jobs, and social contacts between Jews and using a pseudonym and was sentenced a year older generation to reconsider their attitude non-Jews were almost non-existent. later to seven years' detention. He suxxcssfully towards the Nazi past.—(J.C.) Charging thc authorities with responsibility appealed against this sentence and has been found because of their negligence, Hcrr Galinski stated " not guilty", although thc State Attomey has NATO CHIEF INVESTIGATED that recent events showed that there had not been announced that he will appeal against the ccMint's any profound change in thc attitude of thc verdict.—(J.C.) German public towards these problems since thc . The West German Attorney-General has begun end of thc war. He said that as long as Nazis investigations into the past of General Adolf Ernst were allowed to continue to occupy important NEO-NAZI STUDENTS Heusijvgcr, now the Chairman of the Nato Miliitary public positions the man in the street could not ^mmittec in Washington. According to witnesses be expected to change his attitude.—(J.C.) Professor Flusser, of thc Hebrew University, *ho have appeared at thc German Consulates in recently gave the first lecture by an Israeli at the ^crica and elsewhere, the General played a Vienna University. The Rector of the University ''lajor role in the mass deportations and slaughter BROTHERHOOD WEEK expressed the hope that he would be foUowed by Of East European Jewry during thc war. This year's Brotherhood Week in Germany was many more Israeli lecturers. Dr. Hilicl Scidman, who was in charge of the organised by all thc West German Associations archives of Ihc Warsaw Jewish community from for Christian-Jewish Co-operation, and many West Thc Professor's address was followed with keen '936 to 1942, has stated that General Heusingcr. German politicians sent special rnessagcs to interest by a large audience and without interrup as the commander of the Nazi army occupying Germany's non-Jewish and Jewish citizens on the tion but, when leaving the hall, he noticed written Eastern Poland and parts of Russia, issued an occasion. large on a massive table the words : " Saujuden order to certain army units for the mass liquidation The Federal Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer, sent a hinaus, geht nach Palcstina". There is a con of the Jews.—(J.C.) message saying that he wished to take thc oppor siderable minority of neo-Nazi students at Vienna tunity of renewing his appeal for reconciliation Univcrsilv. ANOTHER EX-NAZI JUDGE and mutual undcrstandinp. Thc Federal Presi dent, Hcrr Heinrich Luebke, said: " Wc have a The CcD'tral Council of Jews in Germany has deep moral debt towards our Jewish brethren, ^"pressed sharp criticism of Federal a,ppointmcnts, who have suffered so much." The Chancellor *^PcciaJly in the West German >udiciary. Thc mentioned Germany's obligations to help thc announcement that Dr. Ludwig Martin has been newlv established States of Africa and Asia as Ackermans approved by thc Bundestag for West Germany's well, and thc President said the idea of brother Q^'ehest legal po*t. President of thc Federal High hood should also permeate Germany's altitude and ^ourt in Karlsruhe, has added point to this policy towards Africa, Asia and South America. *^ri ticism. Chocolates , Dr, Martin served in the Nazi Criminal Court "VICTIMS" CLAIM RESTITUTION P . 'P^'S up to the beginning of thc war. In De Luxe rebruary of this year he was approved by thc Thc "Organisation of Viciims of Post-War "est German Cabinet as Proscculor-Gcncral to Restitution of Jewish Properties" which has its IN BEAUTIFULLY replace Herr Fraenkcl, dismissed by President headquarters in M.iinz. has .i,pain called on Ihe DESIGNED Lucbkc la.st year for having failed to disclose his Federal Parliament in Bonn to introduce legisla wartime Nazi activities. The Lander opposed tion ensuring " adequate indemnification " for all PRESENTATION ^r. Martin's appointment and it was never rali- German citizens who " suffered considerable BOXES "fd He has now been appointed to an even financial losses " as a result of post-war restitution. higher post, Thc organisation claimed that many Germans MARZIPAN .'n their statement thc Council of Jews also had purchased Jewish properties during the Nazi nticised the mild sentences on Nazi war crimi period in good faith and had paid normal prices. SPECIALITIES nals tried by West German courts. It was incom They lost when the property had lo be handed prehensible that high-ranking personal ilics back to its original owners after the war. Restitu DIABETIC neaviiy incriminated in Nazi war crimes trials in tion must be made by the State and not by yenmany should be allowed to remain at their individuals, the organisation declared, slating fhat CHOCOLATES posts as if nothing had happened. private individuals should not be punished for thc A case in point is Dr. Karl Friedrich Via.lon, sins of a riSgime.—(J.C.) 43. KENSINGTON CHURCH ST., „'~te Secretary in thc Federal Ministry of Eco- "ciicr place and a more Jewish place when the imagined that they were far above racial preju intelligentsia is in the majority and the funda dice, far above prejudice against any minority. Jevrish Mayors mentalists in the minority", he declared.— *'''. Yomlov Ludwig Balo SOCIALISTS AND JEWS It might be expected that champions of a ncv and better society would also have understanding CENTENARY OF "ROME AND JERUSALEM" for, and sympathy with, the Jewish underdog. But Edmund Silbcrncr. formerly of Princeton Univer sity, now of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, The Work of Moses Hess shows that this was by no means the case. In "Sozialisten zur Judenfrage" (Colloquium Vcrlag, Berlin, 1962) he tells a bewildering story. It is over one hundred and fifty years since the mode of life, creep ihrough Ihc world incognito birth of Moses Hess and a century since thc puibli- so Ihat nobody knows that you arc a Jew. Yet The founder of French Socialism, Claude-Henri ealion of his " Rome and Jerusalem " which rejects every insult to the Jewish name will wound you Saint-Simon (I760-I825), seems lo have been a rare jissimilalion as a solution of thc Jewish question more than a man of honour who remains loyal exception. He knew that the Jews had always been and presents thc fundamental concepts of what lo his family and defends ils honour." persecuted in Europe and understood their reac Was later lo be Zionism as the ideal of Judaism. tion. " Degraded to the level of beasts, thc Jew He made a determined attack on assimilation Hess was born in 1812 in the city of Bonn, the said to himself with imperturbability: I am the and ils effects in thc field of religion, namely man of God." Followers of Saint-Simon contra son of a Rhincland industrialist who soon after Reform. dicted thc Christian teaching that God had dis wards moved to Cologne. The young lad. however, Hopefully, Hess turned his gaze lo thc great w;is left in his birlliplacc in the care of his grand persed Ihc Jews and said that " God had sent out masses of Jews in Russia and Poland, in whose the Jews as apostles of peace and industry." father who gave him a traditionally Jewish midst a literary revival of the language of the "Pbringing. After his mother's death, which Bible had already begun. Why should not these However, Charles Fourier was of an entirely occurred when he was fourteen, he went to live masses be allowed to create a free national life in different opinion ; he called the Jews parasites, *ith his father in Cologne. The boy, who had Ihc homeland of ihc Bible ? Since a solution of pirates, usurers, spies and his adherents called developed early and thought things out for him- the Oriental question was still in abeyance, and them "cicrnal plunderers, unclean bacilli, J'lf. Could not get on with his father, and one France, which had built thc Suez Canal, would scourges of death." Alphonse Tousscncll described tine day left home with very little money in his have thc final say, every possible means must be them as "a band of usurers and lepers, full of Pocket. First he landed up in England where he adopted of persuading her to come down on the megalomania and hatred against other nations." starved and froze, then he went to Holland and, side of a mass settlement of Jews in Palestine, ll Pierre-Joseph Proudhon called Ihcm tramps, like nnally, in 1832 arrived in Paris. was essential to mobilise diplomatic circles, Jewish gipsies and Poles, and claimed that Jndo-Germans In the French capital Hess joined the Leftist financiers, and also to hasten to the help of thc had been Ihe first to conceive monotheism. group of German emigrants and that is where he Thorn Rabbi Hirsch Kalischer's " Society for the Michael Bakunin, descendant of a noble Russian 'mbibcd the radical ideas then in vogue among the Settlement of the Holy Land ". Thus the idea of family, a revolutionary imprisoned by thc Germans youth of Western Europe. His first stay in Paris colonising Palestine developed simultaneously in in 1849 and extradited to the Russians who sent *as of short duration probably because of his thc radical thinking of a revolutionary Socialist and him to Siberia, called thc Jews '' a sect of Poor financial circumstances, and he returned to in the mind of an Orthodox rabbi. exploiters," "a nation of leeches." "'s father where he began lo work in the lalter's Moses Hess's book appeared in a period of To revert to France : George Sorel asserted that sugar refinery. But as soon as he had scraped Liberalism in Germany and Austria occasioned Ihc Jews had contributed to European barbarism. together a little money, he abandoned his father's by the rising tide of industrialisation. The Jews On the other hand, Jean Jaures, who was murdered "Otnt and factory and look up the pen. of those countries who were deeply engaged in by fascists in 1914, said aintiscmitism was a euch enterprises, rejoiced jn the rapid improvement " capitalist swindle " and praised thc Jews who had Contacts With Man and Engels of their ecanomic circumstances and, as a result produced such great men as Maimonides, Spinoza, of thc political ideology of the limes, they passed Marx and Lassallc. •^s an ardent Socialist he made friends with through an intensive phase of cultural assimilation. Mar x and Engels, but later on they treated him This brings us to Germany. Karl Marx, a The bright colours of thc ancient Jewish national baptised Jew, was against Jewish as well as against j*ry shab'oily mainly because he was a convinced ideals faded and gradually vanished from thc hearts ,**• Marx was baptised as a child and had no of thc Jewish people. Christian religion. He regarded thc Jews as a knowledge of Judaism or of its literature. In an product of capitalist society. Thc Mosaic law, It is. Ihcrefore, not surprising that "Rome and . «ay on " The Jewish Question " which appeared " thou shall not muzzle thc ox when he ireadelh Jerusalem " was badly received by the contempo •" 1844 he attempted to show Ihat Judaism was out Ihc corn," he said, was again and again rary Jewish Press. The father of Jewish religious j^entical with the " middle-man" mentality and violated by Christians and Germans. But why Reform in Germany, Abraham Geiger, said in his nat Jewish emancipation could only be achieved did he tell the Jews to give up not only their essay entitled "An old romantic with new revolu religion but also their nationality ? Like many y emancipating society from that mentality. Hess, tionary plans " that he could not understand how German anliscmitcs, he said : " What is the secular I?" the other hand, had been introduced to Jewish one could preach national separatism and al the cult of thc Jew ? Chaffering. Who is his God ? 'ffature as a child and thc unique mixture of his same time demand civic emancipation in the Money." How could a man who had explained Unri roots gave him an original and deep Diaspora. The Magdeburg rabbi Dr. Ludwig thc economic origin of all human thought and noerstanding of the Jewish question, which was Philippson also attacked Hess and even thc novelist belief, teach such ifallacics ? jTttirely lacking in Marx. Thus in the course of Berthold Auerbach only had adverse criticism of w"^ a breach appeared between the followers of his friend's book. His non-Jewish companion, Friedrich Engels, (Ij'^t and Hess and it is noteworthy that he was was much more objective. Hatred of the Jews, ^n nicknamed the " Communist rabbi ". Thc only person to take Hess's book seriously he said, was " if not specifically Prussian, at any and who actually welcomed it was thc historian rate specifically East-Elbian". Antisemitism was oyi^^idenly he underwent a precipitous change in Gractz. feci ^'* consciously suppressed national " a sign of backward civilisation ", and to be found in Prussia, Austria and Russia. " If you wanted ''ngs emerged and splintered the shell of his Hcrzl's Reaction lo teach antiscmitism in England or in America. osniopoiiianism. He lost his faith in historic you would simply be laughed at." Ferdinand l^j'"^rialism as preached by Marx and in the Thc founder of political Zionism first set eyes Lassalle. a Jew horrified by the persecution of •'"^r's doctrine of the class struggle. on " Rome and Jerusalem " long after the appear Jews by Christians, was, all the same, no friend anH *-'onwqiicnce he withdrew from thc movement ance of his own " Jewish Slate ". Hess's book is to of thc Jews. "The Jewish religion," he said, "is u"" retired first lo Geneva and then lo Paris where be found in Hcrzl's study which has been recon hard slavery to an abstract spirit, God, and there •j.? Rabbi Dr. S. Neufeld LLNGFIELD IN RETROSPECT " Memoirs of a Special Case "* is a collection of loosely connected episodes in the life of a former JEWISH LANDMARKS IN BERLIN REVISITED Oxford don who became a British Government official, but Ihcy arc almost exclusively concerned with the observation of Jewish characters and These days, Jews from abroad who travel to no floor. All that remains is the marble Aron Jewish situations in many parts of the world. Bcriin often do so because they want lo visit hakodesh and tbe chandelier. The building is It is a charming and entertaining book and much their family graves in Weissensee, which lies in completely unusable and in thc course of time more subtle than its lighl-hcarlcd style suggests. what is now the Eastem Sector of that city. I, thc danger from falling debris will become even Some of us who were in the Lingficld intern too. decided to do this two years ago. On the greater. ment camp for transmigrants in that fearful very first day of my stay, I took thc advice of On retracing my way I saw in thc inner court autumn of 1940 will rcmcnuber Mr. Raphael. He my friends and boarded the Stadtbahn for thc yard some steps leading down to a cellar and at roared into the camp one day on his naolor cycle Friedrichstrasse Station, where in thc space of once remembered that thc Mikveh had formerly and introduced himself as the long-awaited a few minutes and unhesitatingly I was is;ucd with been here. But it was not only formerly here, liaison officer between thc War Office, the camp a permit which allowed mc lo remain in thc it still is, as the caretaker declared in his own administration and the Refugees CommJtitcc: a Eastern Sector until the evening. Since I now words : " Die juedischc Taufen finden hicr stall." bustling, affable Jew who set about his task of had time to spare before setting off for Wicsscn- Later Dr. Martin Ricsenburgcr, thc communal dispatcliing as many inlcmccs as possible to their sce, I visited thc familiar Jewish localities in thc preacher, confirmed to me that proselytes arc /ovenscas destinations with tcrriific energy—and centre of Beriin. sent to the Mikveh here. Whether thc Mikveh very little knowledge of thc lodvniicalitics I turned off the Friedrichstrassc towards thc is used for any other purpose I could not deter involved. As a representative of the majesty of Wcidendamm intending to make my way across mine. Then I made my way to Weissensee to the British Government we thought him a little dis the Eberisbruecke to the educational establish Kevcr Aboth, thc Beth Olam. and must say thai appointing and he seemed rather loo willing to ments in the Artilleriestrassc, but the Eberts- il really is a place of peace, admirably tended listen to those who tried to jump the queue by bruccke is no longer there. As is well known and cared for. presenting themselves as " special cases" ; but neariy all the bridges in Germany were destroyed On the return journey I took a quick look in wc liked him. during the last year of the war because the the Altstadt at the still standing building of my supreme military " Fuehrer", who understood school, the Sophien-Gymnasium in thc Wcin- Tbe Liaison Officer nothing of modern warfare, believed that troop meisterstrasse, and then went to the oldest Berlin movements could be halted by wrecking bridges. synagogue in the Heidereutergasse. I knew that His background was something of a mystery to New bridges have been erected at great cost it had been spared by the Nazis and that it had us. A solicitor ? Thc younger son of a stook- throughout Germany as far as necessary, but been used until 1942 as a synagogue by the broking family ? How on earth did he obtain non-essential expenditure has been avoided. remnant of the Berlin community, but unfortu his oflBcial position ? Wc recognised his shrewd Since thc old accustomed route was no longer nately it was destroyed in one of thc many air ness and drive, but not for a moment did we open to me, I had to cross to thc Muscumsinsel raids. Today, a couple of huts stand on the suspect the qualities which he reveals in his and reached the Oranienburger Strassc by a street site and I could find no trace of a memorial memoirs: erudition, ironic humour, and perceptive along the back of the Monbijou Park, that has plaque. apparently been preserved. By making this insight into the finer shadings of human relation oetour I had a chance to see the central buildings This time I did not visit tbe synagogue in the ships. It must be said that these qualities arc least of the Bcriin community. Judging by outside Rykestrasse. I was there seven years ago and conspicuous when he deals, in the chapter from appearances very little has changed here, was delighted to find it intact. It, too, had been which thc book takes its title, with the German gutted internally, but the East Bcriin Govem and Austrian refugees assembled at Lingfield. His ment restored it to its former state and it now description of the camp and its near-hysterical Oranienburgcr Strasse looks exactly as it was when first consecrated crowd is trac enough in a superficial way, and First of all I went into No. 27, next to the in 1904. According to Dr. Riesenburger an amusLrgly told; but in a deeper sense, this property of the community. Today there is hardly organ has since been installed at the cost of the cultured and highly inielligem English Jew under a soul who would know that Jewish memories East German Government. Apart from •'this, stood us as little as wc understood him. are bound up with this unaltered old dwelling services are only held in one other place in East To thc refugee from Central Europe thc most louse. But 50 years ago Professor Jacob Barth Bcriin, in the administrative building ol thc striking feature in these memoirs is surely the taught us Aramaic Bible translations in the wing cemetery at Weisscnsce. almost effortless way in which Mr. Raphael has Of the building that flanks the courtyard. He been able to harmonise in his mental attitude ''elivered these lectures under the auspices of the two different cultural traditions, his Jewishness yeitel Heine Ephraim Foundation. Nothing has BERLIN REMEMBERS JAMES SIMON and his Englishness. There were problems, of ^hanged here, nor in the neighbouring building course; more problems, one feels, than he t^o. 28. the second oflSce block of the Berlin commu- Under the auspices of thc Bcriin " Juedische mentions in so many words. But in thc political f'ty, which formerly housed the communal library Volkshochschule", Hans-Georg Wormit, who climate of this country there was no need to and thc Gesamtarchiv dcr dcut.schcn Juden on ils lakes a leading part in the re-cstablishmcnt of the resolve a desperate inner conflict, no need to ttiird and fourth floprs. Today this house is Bcriin museums, gave a lecture on James Simon. define again and again one's " road as a Jew still the administrative headquarters of the Beriin He paid tribute to the munificence of this German and an Englishman". In thc last resort, Mr. ^ommunity, that is to say thc Eastern Sector Jew to whose generosity the museums are Raphael could maintain towards both his worlds "immunity, but thc first oflSce block, No. 29, indebted more than to anybody else. Thc a slightly sardonic detachment, which, however, jyas flattened by a direct hil. And then No. 30. speaker recalled James Simon's donations to the never descends into cynical indifference. "e magnificent Great Synagogue building, out- Kaiser-Fricdrich Museum and thc support he At one point Mr. Raphael says of the refugees ardly preserved but only a shell; no windows, at Linghcid that they tended to overlook that "'• doors blocked up, its interior apparently rendered to thc excavations in Babylon (exhibited ''"'ted, as is the case in other places. in the Pergamon Museum). James Simon died in there was a war on. He is wrong. It was he r-.it proceeded left down the Artilleriestrassc, now 1932. He was thus spared fhe experience of the who could not see that there was much more J;^a''cd the Kurt Tucholsky Strasse, to thc place subsequent years during which the Nazis elimi " on " than just a war. The German Jew who jj^'^rc I received my training the Hochschulc fucr nated his name from the collections he had made had striven .so hard to find, and sometimes thought ' Wissenschaft des Judentums, Here the available to thc German public. he had found an absolute, valid answer to an un u " entirely different. The house appears unanswerable question, may find Mr. Raphael's o", "ered. just as it was 30 years aco. Prob.ibly "ITDDISH MUSIC IN GERMANY cheerful acceptance of a delicately balanced dam windows were broken and other minor human situation facile and rather shallow; but The Collegium Musicum Judaicuni Amsterdam he, too, would be wrong. fgJPage, and thc building has been properly gave recitals in West Berlin. Minden. Kassel. Mar LEO KAHN. Purn ^' ®"' '' '' ^° longer used for Jewish burg. Frankfort. Aachen. Siegen and Osnabruck ho P°scs and has now become an apartment featuring ancient Jewish liturgical music, Hassidic • Chaim Raphael : Memoirs of a Special Cat. Londoa dance tunes and Yiddish and Israeli songs. Chaiio &. Winduj. 1962. 18s. svna '''^° 'turned right in the direction of thc ^'agogue of thc Adass Yisroel Austrittsgcmeindc. lived •°'" ^""^'^ '" *''''^'' ^*''''' ^^- ^"^^ once in O'.s preserved in its entirety, as is thc wing also fif "'^ administrative oflfices were located, hon,.y"^, huilding in the first courtyard which Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. and Tk n rabbinical seminary, the large library now Bachurim Synagogue. These rooms are Bankers 1 n»- ,^0 as oflBces and dwellings. But when dcstr, • '^'^ to the inner courtyard I saw the BASILDON HOUSE, 7-11, MOORGATE, E.C.2 PanieH^''°"- '^^^ Gentile caretaker who accom- Wam-j"^^' drew my attention to a notice which Telephone: METropolitan 8151 from f Pf^oplc not to enter because of the danger Wed .['"^ debris. Nevertheless. I went in and Representing: Where .K 8'^'=some desolation of the synagogue, becau,^ c Nazis could not bum synaeogues I. L. FEUCHTWANGER BANK LTD. FEUCHTWANGER CORPORATION iog hr^ °' 'he risk of setting fire to neighbour- TEL AVIV I JERUSALEM : HAIFA 60 EAST 42nd ST., NEW YORK, 17, N,Y. <=onsccr . ^' 'J'^y demolished the interiors of the rated buildings : no Almcmor, no seating. **• ISM)* M.M ION Mav. 1963 Page 11 ^^ ttfurnmnntt IN MEMORY OF KARL OTTEN Karl Otten, who has died in Locarno at the age of 73, was one of the last few survivors of THE HERZL BUND German Expressionism. Bom near Aachen he !*'*•'• /-•n.xiu \ijrkd to develop from a business men and craftsmen, whose purpose was studied in Munich, Bonn and Strassburg before r**"«-* KJfa into a political force, its leader- intensive Zionist work with the view to providing the First World War and wrote poetry and prose. ^ » lain facets of Nazism will not reappear, though TWO ASSESSMENTS OF THE PAST perhaps in different forms, among other leaders and in other surroundings and areas. That is the reason why Manvell and Fracnkel FRAGMENT OF A GREAT lion. In the nineteenth century and at the begin concentrated on those aspects which had not been ning of the present century the philosophical ties investigated before, without repealing the details ENCOUNTER between thc two groups were very close. Indeed, of Goering's career as far as this has already the "spirit of rcalisaition," as Martin Bu'ber has been generally covered by historians of Nazism Germans who know something of pre-war intel railed it (represented by Bhinkcrs like Cohen. such as Alan Bullock, William Shircr and Trevor- lectual life in their coiuntry. today seem lo be Roper. This approach makes thc book a Hussorl, Bloch and Bubcr himself) owed ils effect psychological study. aiscontcntcd wilh its level. Those who are sincere to such intimate interaction between the spirit of tjid uivbiascd cannol overlook the fact that the Jewish and German critical idealism that Hugo Goering's character seemed to be riddled with ^'jminaliion of thc Jews has a great deal to do Sinzhcimer could say : " It is thc German way contradictions. That brutality, cruelly, and ruth- *ith Germany's present intellectual im:paverish- of thinking that underlies the Jewish influence." Icssncss do not exclude love of family or animals, "lenl. The book under review,* originally a series This applies also particularly to German litera we already know from Himmlcr and from many of broadcasts, consists of ten monogroipihs about ture, and W. Kiaulehn's reflections on the Berlin of his underlings: this attitude is a kind ot tamous Jewish personalities and the Jewish con Ihealre and its critics in the Press remind us that split personality, with which we have already been tribution to German oullurc in general. made familiar by "Thc Murderers Arc Amongst men like Brahm. Rcinhardl, Jacobsohn. Polgar Us ". It is not so rare among dictators lo com These essays were suggested by Martin Buber, and Kerr regarded their task as a social function, bine hysterical outbursts wilh occasional skill in prefaced by Thilo Koch and summed up in a with Lcssing's ideal of a National Theatre as their negotiations. If Goering sometimes surprised by a Postscript by Max Horkheimer, and, except for guiding star. ceriain moderation, thus managing for a while to 'he well-known writer. H. Boll, and the Another symptom of Jewish integration with make Nazism look " respectable" in the eyes i^yohiatrist A. Mitsc'ncrlich, the authors belong lo environment was the amazing mastery of the Ger of some naive statesmen and concealing its real jyt generation which grew up during World War man language, which Mendelssohn had lo acquire nature, il can be attributed lo the fact that he ''• The authors had little previous knowledge and whicih came so naturally to Heine that it had rather Conservative links too and was opposed "™ their subjects and oach adds a comment on the evoked Nietzsche's admiration. R. W. Lconhardl, to certain radical undercurrents. This explains his Personal experiences gained during the preliminary who terms Heine " the First Jew in German Litera part in the oppression of thc Roehm group and research. These comments could have ibeen ture," is mindful also of the catalytic effect of helped deceive those who misunderstood, or wish<'d ^n^bodied in the essays, but this does not detract the poet's creative power upon his country and to misunderstand, the true es.sence of Nazism. tfofn the general result : the writers' fascination upon Europe. But whereas Heine veiled his That he could even show clemency now and *'th the affinity between Geiimans and Jews and attachment to his origins in irony and changed again was rather a sign of his unpredictability, regret that this meeting of minds has remained his religion, W. Jens, in his essay on Kaifka, shows of his indulgence in caprices and of his show '•^Smenlary. how the writer, who neglcolcd Judaism in his early manship. His intelligence—sometimes over yeans, returned to thc "golden splendour" of rated—was overshadowed by the boisterous ways Even a Jew must sometimes wonder at the tradition. In spile of thc attraction exerted upon of a tycoon (thc late Masaryk, who once wrote an aricty and scope of thc Jewish contribution and Kafka by Chassidism and the atmosphere of essay about German Titanism, could have included "e close union with German thinking and litera- Prague, his native town, he wrote the most precise him in this category as well), coupled with a .^fc- On the oliher hand, it is often difficult to and neatest German : " Jewish mentality wraipped vanity which gave his megalomania a childish jwnaroate where the old tradition ends and assimi- in the cloak of the German tongue." note. His vulgarity conflicted with his taste in ation begins. Is it possible to sf)eak of Jewish Although the editor of this symposium is not art, which he cultivated wilh greed, cunning and 'tJ'Usic, art or science ? Where are thc Jewish jusitified, as he docs in his preface, lo complain ruthlcsslcss. His courage, displayed again al the .*'ts in Schonbcpg's com'posilions, urvless one con- about the lack of German publications dealing Nuremberg Trial, which gave him a last chance 'ders the cormposcr's biography or the subjects with cultural co-operation between the liwo groups, lo strive for brilliant effects and lo play-act like jt his operas and oratorios ? Liobcrmann's and in spite of differences in imiportancc and a modern Nero, conflicted with opportunism and "[tPressionist paintings of the inlinrvaic beauty of authority between the essays this book merits fear of Hitler and also of Himmlcr. His charm t(f H"^^ or tlhe life of a workman have nothing serious attention : it shows a way towards under concealed a relcntncssncss and a lust for power 0 do with race or politics. Nevertheless, as J. standing a complex phenomenon and tihc wilt to which totally corrupted him. Enumerating all *^ai5cr, in his essay on Jewish con>poscrs. points do justice to facts and people. M. Horkhcimor, Ihcse characlcrislics, one becomes aware of the Vat '^^'^P^scrs such as Mendelssohn and the inno- who names thc " priimacy of Ihc .•spirit" as one fact that there arc many Gocrings all over thc ^lor Schdnberg had to be rediscovered by the of thc ideals common to both comimuniiies, is also world. (j""Scr generation after having been declared right in recommending negative criticism as a h\d° ^^ '''^ Nazis, and W. Koeppen makes a Where is the explanation for these incon means of dissolving dangerous taiboos and magical sistencies and excesses ? It is not enough to {r™'*'^ attempt to rescue Liobcrmann's works behaviour. refer lo the fad of Ihc relationship between his iM- °^''^'<"t' although this painter's personality ERNST KAHN. mother and his Jcw.ish godfather, von Bpenstein ; no indigenous Berlin wit once formed an integral to his upbringing in the laltcr's castle of Veldon- ^ of life iti the German metropolis. A SIGN OF THE TIMES slcin ; lo the peculiar triangle the boy observed in I^^i^ud's theories about the fundamentals of thc New Gocring Biography his childhood since the father lived there, too. if**^!! soul and civilisation did not have very at times. Il is not enough to refer to his unreal •uch opposi,tion. especially in English-sipeaking life, imagining this castle to be his father's, or ^oumnes. However, Ihey aroused the enmity of After their Goebbels biography, Manvell and Utilise, Fraenkcl have turned to Goering*, about whom to the contrast between his youfh in luxury and " *'s«mit,ic circles in Germany. Freud's way of short biographies have already been written by the later poverty when they were ejected after ^'hinki -JCin^i , as A. Misoherlich shows, had little to a quarrel. Tea *'•"' '^'^ origins, although his independent Butler and Frischauer. They have done con "•sonir^g led him to important discoveries. siderable research which should throw new light Glandular trouble, too, is not the solution to on the man who actually held second place in Ihis mystery. Gocring, the air ace of thc Richt attj ,'P'^'itical theorist like Marx was rarely the Third Reich for a long time, until ousted by hofen Squadron, had been a diug addict and wa* Wpn '^ personally, but very frequently for the Himmler and Bormann. never really cured. Some symptoms rcma,incd, Bajl"^ practical application of his doctrine. H. Trevor-Roper, who is himself an expert in this described as great excitation of the nervous e ' Writes : " His errors were used in order to field, has raised an interesting question which system, excessive activity of certain glands, out 1,^^631 his truths." Thc author sees Marx's Ger- might occur to many people. He has queried pourings of vital energy and abnormal vanity. ^Ltt'-Icwislh heritage in the urge towards the whether so much research should be wasted on Here we have the clue to his behaviour. J^lute. which made him a thinker but not a those people who have gone down in history as All these things were rumoured for years, but now Poithcian. criminals against mankind. Too much is made of wc have confirmation and exact details. The them, and thc energies expended here could be longing for " grandeur " has been finally exposed. iTte^^*'bcjiaun V "•. b"y) contrastcoiiir , was one of the few Gcr- devoted lo more urgent tasks. The authors, how shishiiD" Jj**^s - who '"*took* ^" active part in the leader' ever, did not think so, and probably they are This, in itself, makes the book an important i-j.?P7,.o of* his countrycounlrv. The confliccot t between harsh right. The objection is not quite rational. Just document. It malkcs us think twice. One of the *on r ''"^ ^'^ philosophical principles and pcr- ;"ty and his philosophical principles and pcr- as justice has to be blind, history cannol be guided doubtful " blessings" of thc twcniiclh century is >. •" Culture led lo the failure of his mission. by sympathy or antipathy in thc choice of its that il seems lo have fostered the mass production j^ j_j^ould have been a great man. aocordima lo objects. Everything has to lie investigated, regard of unstable people to an extent unknown in thc ti,iJ,j^'''Sclsl.ingc, but for his vanity and thc inclina- less of whether it is dirty or distasteful. nineteenth century, which, aipart from Ihe Naipo- Pcrs '° "'*^' ^ ^'^'' originating from a lack of Iconic era and in .sipite of the cffcols of the *en^iil integration. Nevertheless, in this case the investigations even Industrial Revolution, appears rather idyllic com serve a practical purpose. Thc phenomenon of very revealing essay, goes pared wilh Ihe general turmoil of thc la&t 50 Nazism was so unique in its depravity that all years. And another thing : unstable people exert Ge^^ into the participation of many Jews m research has not yet revealed it completely, and by JLJ^ philosophy, in which they were helped this may be thc case for some lime because of 3 big attraction to—unstable masses. This rea'lly ^nd r *P'"tual force of their religious tradition its many aspects. Here the historian needs is the tragedy of our times, although, as an "ie Ik ^^^acity of a minority group, who saw the help of the psychologist and thc psychiatrist extenuating circumstance, there may be a kind of J 'f"t for the first time after a long period lo ascertain the conditions under which indfviduals, of vicious circle between unstable conditions and Ueisj'/^icss. P. Schalluck deals with Moses Men- groups and, finally, masses could behave the way unstable people. From ihis point of view ssoh 1. who. he states, was so dazzled by tihc they did. A close study of thc leaders and of Goering is almost a synvbol. His case and his Uiiav^"**"•"'eht; ^ of tolerance and freedom that he was their mental make-up is. therefore, not only a astronomical success are indicative of a universal ^"•e of the political dangers of thc cmancipa- lask for its own sake but is of considerable disease. It almost appears as if thc psyahologists importance; there js no guarantee at all that ccr- and psychiatrists have to slop in where the poli • ^ 7 ^~^ ticians, the educators and clergymen obviously S^RcbJT^'' de^lscii-iSdlKlier GebtestescMchte. Hcraus- seem to have failed to such an extent. •^oln 10,."°1961 " TTiilo Koch. Verlag M. DuMonit Sdiaubcrg • RoRcr Manvcll and Hciririch Fracnkcl ; Goerinc. Hcinc- DM 11.go. mann. Londpn. 429 pp. 35s. HANS JAEGER. ^« IM OK MAT ION Mav, 1963 Page 13 has always been highly appreciaitcd ; but he has also taken an immediate interest in individual Birthday Tributes cases and given spiritual as well as material help to many who were in distress and need. As far as they are still with us today they will, in their DR. HILDE LION 70 S. D. CRAMER 70 turn, think of him with gratitude. '% V*. 14 Or. Ililde Lion will be celebrating Mr. S. D. Cramer will be celebrating his 70lh We wish Mr. Cramer many more healthy and •^ \'»\ ^.:thdJ>. She is a very young septua- birthday on May 21. successful years to come and hope that he may ^««».-.»- irvkcd. young in her never-flagging He is descended from an old-established Frank be able to continue the good work which is so *">rTi! n homjn beings, especially children, as furt family in which traditional sense of family dear to him. R.S. **•> 4j .- educational, social and political ques- unity was very much cherished and a strictlty KARL LOEWENSTEIN 80 '*"•» t-.cfi'.u.-e and an. Orthodox Jewish way of life was happily blended Mr. Karl Loewenstein (formerly Aachen) '» -Sia vouniry she is besl known as the former with a devotion to general cultural subjects. recently celebrated his SOth birthday in the United ^•O.- ititvs of •• Stojiley Rough School" in Through family bonds he was rela,ted to one Stales. In Germany he took a leading part in the ***««irrxr< which she founded in 1934, after having of the oldes.t antique dealers' firms, and it is, no work of the Jewish Central-Verein and various *'- tM- r»»>: J', pnncipjl of the " Akademie fiir doubt, from this link that his love for, and know other Jewish organisations. He was also Chair ••••J* ».. J (x«dai;oi:isclic Frauenarbeit " in Berlin. ledge of, the arts and his sense of beauty stem. man of the Aachen Jewish community. Karl • V.v,il<» Koiitih School" was started for Gcr- His mother was noted for her leading part in Loewenstein is still active in Jewish affairs, ">»* sr».i \ii»tri.in refugee children. After thc social welfare work and he has inherited the urge especially as a Board Member of the American *'• ^.^•<^cr. nimicroii-s English pupils, many lo work in that sphere as well. Federation of Jews from Central Europe and of *W'n,| ,.( luiiiK life, .ind also inmates from con- Upon finishing school he commenced his the American section of former members of the ""•!au-n camps and Hungarian refugees were apprenticeship in the well-known industrial con K.C. '*»"..a»iic to Iind in " Sioatley Rough " not only a cern of Mr. Harry Fuld in Frankfurt and was, ***•« of tfaininK bul a home where they were after years of energetic and arduous work, PROFESSOR BENTWICH HONOURED '•''J '•' I i^iiidi-d anil lo\cd. 1 here is h.irdh a appointed a member of the Board of Harry Fuld To mark the SOth birthday of Professor Norman ••••'•f. ,n lie wcrld where not an old " Sloallcs .V: Co.. Tclcfon-und Telegraphenwerke A.G., Bentwich, Mr. Justice Olshan, President of Israel's I r.iiikfiirt/M. Supreme Court, presented him with a volume of ^Wn II,Ml- I Kill n-iiiiil in l''Ml. lilt' tiliiiol Iliiwcvfr, his activities in Germany were put .Selected Judgments of the Israeli Supreme Court •*M».| i„ , i,ii III, |iiriMiu'« Win l.iU II mil • II mil III by the th.iMt'od political conditions in (1948-55) in English translation. The presentation ' 1^ llikiliilill \'tMllMr" loi (lillillali (liilli I'" I, iinilci N.i/i piesMire the firm had to be was made at a birthday parly given for Professor ^**~< ) «lll|>< III (| THE ALL-IN-ONE FOUNDATION Such prefty things Q\ Reasonable Prices special X corselet SLIMS FRONT AND BACK BRANCHES IN MAIN TOWNS Unique 'X' panels front and back give all-round control with freedom. Embroidered voile cups have insets of wafer-thin foam. In elastic net wilh 100 denier Bri-Nylon. White or Black. B and C cup 34' to 42*. 99/6. WORLD-WIDE TRAVEL Thfougk mm mm COMPANY 15, EDGWAREBURY GARDENS. EDGWARE, MIDDLESEX Tel.: STOnegrove 5019 - 8626 Cables : TRANSfiARON. EDGV/ARE r.'.-/.--.V S-.. ;. , -•-' .^-s.'r -s'.-^.'.-. ii..' •• ^^j-'.^.trr? ;. c- ;. *ASC-\ u T.A1. ^ALWAYS AT YOUR PERSONAL SERVICEli Page 14 AJR INFORMATION May, 1963 ERASMUS PRIZE FOR MARTIN BUBER Round and About Thc Board of "Premium Erasmianum ", whose President is Prince Bemhard of the Netherlands, FAREWELL TO DR. R. KNICKENBERG. YAD VASHEM HONOURS has awarded this year's prize to Professor Martin Bu'ber. The decision has been taken in recog Many readers will be sorry lo learn that Dr. DR. K. J. BALL-KADURI nition of Buber's translation of the Old Testa Rudolf Kniokenbcrg. the head of ihe Legal ment ^commenced in 1924 together with Franz Deparlment of the German Emibassy, will leave A plaque bearing the inscription " Ball-Kaduri Rosenzweig) and of his works as an author. his post this month because his term of office Collection " was recently unveiled in the house of "Thc values for which Martin Buibcr stands arc has expired. In thc course of thc years which Yad Vashem, the organisalion crcalcd in Israel lo •o be considered as an ialogral part of Europe. have elapsed since he took charge of this Depart preserve the records of Ihc Nazi holocaust. With Therefore, his work is an indirect but essential ment as successor to Hcrr von Hollcbcn, the this plaque, Yad Vashem paid iribute to the work contribution to the spiritual life of Europe." AJR and URO have constantly experienced his According lo the articles of the Erasmus Trust Understanding for our special problems. To help of Dr. K. J. Ball-Kaduri who, 20 years ago. three-quarters of the prize (the monetary equiva in trying to undo the wrongs of the past has started a collection of reports under the heading lent is 100,000 gulden) has lo be used for a always been an issue particularly near to his " What is not lo be found in the Archives ". Thc new scholarly work to be proposed by the heart. His sincere approach lo this task has reports refer to thc general position of the Jews recipient of the Award. Professor Buber has sug created an atmosphere of confidence and also gested that the Leo Bacok Institute should be resulted in personal bonds wilh members of our under the Nazi riSgimc and lo thc efforts 'of thc requested lo use that part of the awiatd for Community. On the occasion of his departure Jewish organisations to alleviate their position research work about Jewry during the crisis of from London we should like to thank Dr. and to prepare their emigration by various devices. the 'thirties and 'forties. Former Awards were Knickenberg for his work and to express to him By interviewing many persons Dr. Ball saved these granted to the Austrian nation (1958). Robert our very best wishes for his further career. happenings from oblivion. Prior to his emigration. Schumann and Kari Jaspers (1959), Marc ChaigaU Dr. Ball, an expert on tax law, was associated wilh and O&kar Kokoschka (1961), and Romano GOETHE MEDAL FOR PROFESSOR Guardmi (1%2). BERENDSOHN the work of the Rcichsvcrtrelung in Berlin. A book by him about the life of the Jews in Ger Professor Walter A. Bcrendsohn (Stockholm) many in 1933 is due lo appear shortly in Germany. YIDDISH POETS COMMEMORATED Was awarded the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Four Yiddish poets, who lost their lives in a Institute in recognition of his services in thc HAIFA-PORTSMOUTH FRIENDSHIP LINK heroic stand against thc Nazi invaders during the Promotion of the German language. Born in last war, have been commemorated in a plaque Hamburg, Professor Berendsohn, who is a Jew, Judge E. Slonim, of the Haifa District Court, affixed to the wall of the building of the White Was forced to emigrate in 1933. He first went tq last September extended an invitation to Ports Russian Union of Writers in Minsk. Thc works Denmark, and later on to Sweden, where he was mouth to form a friendship link between the two of these poets are now being translated into a lecturer of German literature until he retired ports. The Portsmouth City Council has now While Russian and will be published by the 'n 1961. accepted this invitation in principle. Slate Publishing House. FAMILY EVENTS PACKER / WAREHOUSEMAN, Acconunodation Wanted AJR Needlewoman Service experienced, 42, living in W.2 area, Entries in tlte column Family Events seeks full-time position. Box 231. TWO ROOMS with cooking facili WOMEN available for alterations, "re free of charge. Texts shoidd be ties required ; not ground floor, pre mending, handicrafts. 'Phone MAI. ^cnt in by the ISth of the month. CLERK / TYPIST / STOREKEEPER, ferably self-contained and with central 4449. Birthdays experienced in textiles, aged 66, seeks heating. Tel.: SWL 2551. part-time work. Own typewriter. 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Particulars *t>le to take charge of full set of couple. Two furnished rooms, own from Mrs. Williams, 8 Fairfax Man EXPERT & QUALIFIED FITTERS °°°ks, conversant with P.A.Y.E., kitchen available. Near Golders sions, London, N.W.3 (MAIda Vale *«eks part-time position. Box 229. Green. Box 235. 9096). •MR INFORMATION May, 1963 Page 15 delegates of the Council's member organisations on the position of the Jews from Germany in the ORGANISATIONAL NEWS countries they represent. AJR GENERAL MEETING Dr. H. Feld, Dr. H. Fleischhacker, Mr. K. Fried Sunday, October 13 lander, Mr. R. J. Friedmann, Dr. R. Fuchs, Mr. As readers will have seen from the announce- F. Godfrey, Mrs. Elisabeth Goldschmidl. Dr. Ema Morning and Afternoon: National Conference iKnt on the front page, the AJR General Meeting Goldschmidi, Dr. F. Goldschmidt, Dr. E. Gould, of the Irgun Oley Merkaz Europa (the organisalion •ill be held on Thursday, May 23, at 7.30 p.m. Dr. L. Guttmann, C.B.E., Mr. S. F. Hallgarten, of the Jews from Central Europe in Israel) : *! 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.3. After the Mrs. G. Hambourg, Mr. E. Haymann, Mr. A. W. Reports ; Debate (wilh contributions by the guests business of the General Meeting, a lecture, under Heller, Mr. E. K. Heyman, Mr. Herbert M. Hirsch, from abroad); Elections. '^'< joini auspices of the AJR and thc Leo Baeck Mrs. M. Jacoby, Mr. W. Jonas, Dr. A. Kaufmann. Evening: Council Rally in the Wise Audi 'n»liiuie, will be given at 8.30 p.m. as a tribute Mr. H. E. Kiewe, Mrs. F. Kochmann, Rabbi torium of the Hebrew Universily. The list of >•' the memory of Dr. Leo Baeck on the occasion Jakob J. Kokotek, Dr. H. W. Kugelmann, Dr. speakers, which has not yet been finally fixed, "' the 90lh anniversary of his birth. Professor H. H. Kutlner, Dr. H. Lawton, Dr. Julius Loeb, will include Professor Ernst Simon (Jerusalem) and t^f. Ernst J. Cohn will speak on " Hcinrich Graelz Mr. Ludwig Loewenthal, Dr. E. G. Lowenthal, Rabbi Dr. Max Gruenewald (New York). Repre ^* Educalor". It is hoped that many members Mr. Julius Lowenthal, Dr. E. Magnus, Mr. C. T. sentatives of the Israeli Government, the Knesset "id their friend's will attend the function. Marx, Rabbi Dr. I. Maybaum, Mr. H. C. Mayer, and the Jewish Agency will be invited. Ihe Agenda of the General Meeting includes Mr. Perez Mosbacher, Dr. H. Neufeld. Mrs. H. Monday, October 14 'he election of the Hon. Ofticers. The following Philipp, Dr. A. Philipsborn, Mr. E. Plaut, Dr. rioposals are submitted by the E.xeculive : Eva Reichmann, Mr. Z. M. Reid, Dr. E. Reifen Morning: Organised tour to Har Hasikkaron berg (Gabriele Tergit), Mr. A. Reimann, Mr. J. (Hill of Remembrance). Committee of Management (Executive) : All Sachs. Rabbi Dr. G. Salzberger, Mr. F. Samson, Afternoon and Evening: Conference of the ''lembers of the present Executive siand for Mr. F. Schonbeck, Mrs. M. Schurmann, Dr. W. Council of Jews from Germany. "•tlection. However, there will be certain changes Selig, Mr. P. E. Shields, Mr. E. Speyer, Mr. Hugo Tuesday, October IS '" the offices held by them. To 3he greaiesi regret Stern, Mr. Julius Strauss, Mr. G. Streal, Mr. G. L. "f his colleagues. Dr. H. Reichmann has decided Conference of the Leo Baeck Institute. Tietz, Dr. U. Tieiz. Dr. Alfred Wiener. Dr. Vallv The meetings will be concluded by a reception t*> resign as Chairman, but he agreed to remain Wills, Dr. Leon Zeitlin, Rabbi Dr. W. Van der Zyl. * member of the Executive. It is proposed to held by the " Solidaritaetswerk ", the mutual help 'Ifci .IS Chairman Mr. A. Dresel (the present The Board also includes representatives from organisation built up by the Jews from Germany ^icc-Chairman) and as Vice-Chairman, Mr. the provincial groups. in Israel. ^'erner M. Behr. It is also proposed lo elect Mr. It is proposed to elect Mrs. Margot Pottlitzer During the days following the official funclions '•. Bendhem as Trustee in succession lo Dr. F. E. as a new member of the Board. organised tours will be arranged which will lay •ilk. who, after the death of Mr. M. Potiliizer. stress on visits to settlements, industrial enterprises, *as appointed Treasurer. During the past business COUNCIL RALLY IN ISRAEL etc., which have been built up by Jews from Germany. *»ar, the Executive co-opted Mr. F. W. Ury (who Particulars of the Programme 'Ivo succeeded the lale Mr. Polllitzer as member ll is hoped that many of our friends will "' the Management Committee for the Homes) As already announced in the October, 1962, welcome the venture which will be an important »nd Mr. R. Schneider, who, throughout the years, issue, the Council of Jews from Germany will event in the history of thc Jews from Germany had taken part in the deliberations of ihe hold an inlernalional meeting in Israel to which after their dispersion. At the same time it will '•-xecutive The proposals for the new Executive all interested members of the AJR and their make the participants acquainted wilh develop •re therefore as follows : Mr. A. Dresel (Chair- friends are invited. The venture is to mark the ments in Israel and give them the opportunity to ""^n), Mr. W. M. Bchr (Vice-Chairman), Dr. F. E lapse of 30 years since the seizure of power by the esUblish and renew personal contacts with '•"Ik (Treasurer). Dr. W. Rosenstock (General Nazi regime and of 25 years since ihe November German Jews in Israel and other countries of '^cretary), Mr. H. Bendhem (Trustee), Dr. W. pogroms. While due iribuie will be paid to ihe resettlement. 'Berlin, Mr. S. Bischheim (Trustee), Mr. H. historical role played by German Jewry prior It is hoped that a group journey (by aircraft to hlumenau, Mr. H. S. Garfield. Mr. V. E. Hilton to its destruction, stress will be laid on the Cyprus and overnight boat to Haifa) can be 'Iriislee), Dr A. R. Horwell. Dr. K. Krolos, Dr. position of the Jews from Germany in the coun arranged at reduced terms. Interested readers ' •\. Mann. Dr. H. Reichmann. Mr. R. Schneider, lries of resettlement and on the common tasks should write for particulars to the AJR Office, ^'r. F. W. Ury, Mrs. L. Weehsler. which lie ahead. 8 Fairfax Mansions, London, N.W.3. The details of ihe programme have now been Board : It is proposed to re-elect the members preliminarily fixed. The official funclions will take "f the present Board. They are: Dr. P. Abel, DEATH OF DR. GUSTAV GOLDSTAUB ^'rs. R. Abels, Mr. R. Apt, Dr. S. Aucrbach, place in Jerusalem from Saturday night, October ^Irs. R. Berlak. Mrs. R. Beriin, Mr. S. Boehm. 12, lo Tuesday, October 15. The particulars are Dr. Gustav Goldstaub, formerly of Rostock, 'ir. ] Bondi, Dr W. Breslauer, Dr. R. Bright, as follows : President of the Jewish Community there and one Kubbi I. Broch, Dr. P. Chapp, Dr. W. Dux, Dr. Saturday, October 12 of the leading personalities of the Cenlral-Verein. ' • Engel, Dr. R. Engel, Rabbi Dr. M. Eschel- Opening of the meeting : Introductory Address died at 7 Hollybush Close, Wanstead, on March ''^cher Mr L Eschwege, Dr. E. Eyck, Mr. J. Feig, by the President of the Council; Reports by the 23rd in his 85th year. Catering with a difference WELCOME TO OUR ENLARGED AND NEWLY DECORATED "HOUSE ARLET" fooai of all nations for formal or Infor- 'THE HOUSE QN THE HILL' GUEST HOUSE ****' occasions—in your own home or any 77 St. Gabriel'i Rood, N.W.2 •«nue. Ballroom available In Westminster. Tastefully and comfortably furnished •Phone : GLA. 4029 ^W.i. Free consultations—please 'phone Nursery and Kindergarten rooms. Hot and cold water in all rooms. Central heating. Excellent visitors to London are welcomed In mv breakfast. exquisitely turnished and cultured Private Hotel. MR. & MRS. H. SALINGER Central Heating. Garden. TV. 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WOLFF, 3 Hemstal Rood, N.W.6 SMALL CAR HIRE 68 Shoof-up Hill, N.W.2 (MAI. 8521) HAM. 4150 6L 4154 'Phone : GLA. 5838 Page 16 AJR INFORMATION May, 1963 Letter from Jerusalem NO GERMAN FLAG AT INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR THOSE GERMAN SCIENTISTS The German Federal Republic is one of the twenty-two countries partici/patirig in Jerusalem's As early as January. 1963, AJR Information handling this matter, thc stark fact remains first International Book Fair. However, Gorman carried an article by the present writer where it unchallenged that there are German forces at work booJi'S will not be regarded as international was said, inter alia: " However, thc present, bent on the destruction of thc Jewish State. Thc exhibits but merely as entries by private pub too, docs not make it quite easy for the Israeli to Federal Republic claims to have no constitutional lishers, and thc flag of West Germany will not Rnd a natural and unprejudiced approach to rights to interfere with the activities of her citizens be flown. A decision to this effect woiS taken in Germany—for hundreds of West Germany's abroad. One is unpleasantly reminded of thc order to prevent possible anti-Genman demon citizens, technicians, scientists, military advisers Weimar Republic which was liquidated by the strations opposed to the official line of a gradual are in Cairo busily working for the destruction of very people against whom it was powerless to act ^noTmalisation oif irelations between Isnael and Israel. . . . Indeed, just those Israelis who want to for fear of violating the liberal spirit of the Germany. Only the flags of countrics with whom create a link with the new Germany ask them Constitution. It is atrocious that the same Israel inaintains diiplomatic relations will be flown. selves: why docs the German press not strongly generation which saw millions of Jews perish by denounce those German rocket-builders in Cairo ? thc hands of Germans should witness German YOUNG GERMANS IN ISRAEL Where, so they ask themselves, arc thc protest brains preparing again for the mass murder of A group of 34 Germans who recently visited meetings of the trade unions, of the students' Jews, without the official Germany being able to Israel, although not the first to visit the country, Organisations, where arc thc interpellations in the intervene in time. were unique in that all were thc children or grand Bundestag, where are thc warnings and appeals of HERBERT FREEDEN. children of a group of Germans who were 'he churches, of the writers, of the intellectuals ? " GERMAN LEGISLATION AGAINST executed after the plot against Hitler of July 20th, Since then, a large part of German public 1944. opinion has been forced to take sides, though the SCIENTISTS PROPOSED occasion was not very propitious. Thc arrest of Deputies of the three political parties met to Thc German youths, most of them students, two Israeli agents in Switzerland brought a matter discuss legislative measures by which German looked like any other group of young tourists, into the open which ought to have been venti scientists should be forced to., give up their work and their presence in Israel passed almost lated long before, and it is difHcult to understand for the development of nuclear arms in Egypt. unnoticed. But when they came to the Hill of why Israel did not appeal to the conscience of In an interview with a Munich paper. Professor Remembrance they were all silent, without that the new Germanv before the affair in Basle Carlo Schmid. a member of the Presidium of the exchange of comments which usually characterises olemished her case and cause. It is, indeed, German Social Democratic Party, stated that tourists. Pastor Dr. Poelchau, the leader of the Jjjehly unconventional for a Government not to persons who participated in the construction of group, and Professor A. Steinbach kindled a disown its intelligence agents, once they arc rockets in certain countrics increased thc danger memorial candle in the Memorial Tent, where the <^auRht. Thc Israeli press tried to make heroes of war. Their activities were incompatible with groups in stern silence looked down at thc list of of Bengal and his colleague, threatened Switzer Article 26 of thc Bonn " Grundgcsctz ", according major Nazi concentration camps marked in thc land and Germany with further " disclosures" to which actions liable to endanger the peaceful stones that make up the floor of thc tent.—(J.C.) and indulged in an anti-German campaign which relationship between nations arc not permitted. ISRAELI INSULTS FELLOW-JEWS Was, no doubt, officially inspired. The inspira Professor Schmid '.proposed thc early promul tion, as it transpired later, did not come from the gation of a penal law implementing the idea of A court in Jerusalem sentenced an Israeli Government but from the intelligence service and this Article. 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Scltcnhcil gewordene folgcndc VcriilTcnllichiinu ist ilapepcn .scin auf den folgcndcn Tag den '•' CXCIMC^*' !'°"^ ''-''"f'''" *''"'*='"• '^ 'his lask were left ist : " Vcrhandlunpcn und Bcschliis.sc dcr General Juni 1898, fallcndcs Hcrvorlrclcn bcicdl Danlc' imlunp ^luiipcides Rahhin/-r.„,-i und Bc.schliis.si • c dcr Gcncral- S kn"','^ ^"^'r^ "'^^ ^='""°' "P"'' from fi vcrsammlunp des Rabbincrvcrbandcs in Dculsch- den pcdrucklcn Vcrhandlunpcn kanti hicr ciii as the wr^^'^^^^'n*'^,*'"j,^ «. ou'r b.-jckgroundoacKground. . YeYet t importanimportant t land zu Bcriin am I. und 2. Juni 1898; Bcriin. ''^^ the work wilw,il ultimately bee for future historiohislorio- 1898". vcrpcsscncs cipcncs Won I.eo Uaccks ilhcr nichr graphy, it is of even greater importance for our •ds scchs Jalir/chnlc lu.iwep wicder nm l.'rklinpni even greater importance for oiir- Vicriindnciinzip Rabbincr haKcn sich (laiuals in selves. It helpi)sS uss Into hbecomn e aware of Ihc pchtachl wcrdn, Ik.loul.-nd M-inn, ,dl u'| foots from which wc have grown, ll is luulor Bcriin cinpcriindcn, so d.iss sioli ilcr von ilcr d.is prossc iiml klllnic \V„ii - "' ,'"'i""i v.m (i|„,.| "IS aspect thai all our fricmls .shoiikl feci tirgod jiiiii.sclicii Ciciiieiiulc ziir Verfilniiiip (lOsli'IKc Siial lihiM.di'ii (Icisios mid iiiil 'o read iJic Ycnr Ikwk. TIicj will be .iiiiplv (Icr Kcpr.'isciilniilciivci.saininiiiiix in tier Oiiiiiicii- •lu'NON l|oiv..rlir|,.„ ,|. ||,,,..l .i.IM; rewarded. • l"."H''il Iro • biirKor.slrii,s,vo iil.s /ii Mciii crwics iiiiil in die Rliuiiio di-i tics " (icsclliKcii Vcri'iii.t dor I'lrimdc" in (|(llM.\IH)S May, 1963 Page 3 DER JUNGE LEO BAECK Eva G. Reichmann "DENN ER WAR UNSER" Wth ( i>ntinii