Journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees

VOLUME 1 No.5 MAY 2001 j|fta journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees

Poets and purveyors of fiction

^^ 1952 Emanuel Litvinoff wrote a proprietor of the£)flj7y Telegraph and cum-litterateur with an intensely Poem entitled To TS Eliot. It was not The Spectator) of pro-Zionist bias "no religious upbringing: AN Wilson. ^ homage, but a settling of accoimts matter how many unarmed children Rugby-educated Wilson had spent a y a younger practitioner of the craft the Israeli army shoots." year in an Anglican seminary and has "^poetry with an aberrant master. Here, a biographical note might be since dabbled in Christian theology, *ne line 'I share the protozoic slime of called for. Herbert Read had been a on which he adopts a maverick ^hlock/ A page in Der StUrmer' man of strange contradictions. stance: He is also a prolific I'^dicates its thrust. It threw back biographer. Significantly one of his ""^0 the elder poet's face the subjects was Hilaire Belloc, the 'Monstrous antisemitic libels he had Edwardian Anglo-French writer of ''^nned in the 1920s and not seen fit humorous verse who harboured a ^ expunge from the postwar edition Catholic-medieval prejudice against "'his work. Litvinoff was scheduled money-grubbing Jews. Altogether, ^ read the poem at a Sunday Wilson has strange enthusiasms. He "Meeting of the Institute of adores Lady Mosley, whose hem the ontemporary Art. Just before the plebeian purveyors of political ^ of the event, ICA Chairman correctness he deems unfit to touch. Herbert Read informed him that More recently he has scaled the ^ni' Eliot had just arrived with an Mount Everest of mind-boggling

th« •^tourage. Nothing daunted, illogicality by likening the sto 'tvinoff launched into his reading, Americans' postwar treatment ofthe Ith^ ,nd hich at first produced a shocked convicted traitor Ezra Pound to of •ênce, and then pandemonium. TSEliot Stalin's despatch of Osip Ithe ^ês of 'libel' and 'slander' rent the He was the respected guru of 1930s Mandelshtam to the Gulag. '"' and Herbert Read expressed British anarchism, and managed at Such is the provenance, as well as ^self scandalised by Litvinoffs the same time to be intellectually the foreground, of some of the most ^d form'. All that happened almost close to the ultra-Conservative TS vociferous media critics of Israel. a century ago - but plus ga Eliot. (One wonders what their They, and Tom Paulin (cf oiu: April %^nge... Last month the now discussions about the Spanish War issue), are men whose public school '^'ightly octogenarian Litvinoff read were like). Moreover, this eminent and Oxbridge education had spared ^t his anti-Eliot philippic at a libertarian accepted a knighthood them exposure to the grim realities Msh poetry laimch. By strange, and had his son educated at of the Middle East. It might be lary Ampleforth, the country's leading salutary for them to compare notes W ^t fitting, coincidence, that very o\ /•ê week Herbert Read's son, Catholic public school. Piers Paul with the playwright David Hare, who lafi '^rs Paul, published an open letter Read was joined in his assault on has actually breathed in the dust and '^cusing Conrad Black (the Conrad Black by another journalist- cordite of Gaza. News from Germany Painting black on black Election of Committee From God to nnammon of Management 'Don't let the Jewish voice die' was The The site of the main Munich synagogue, Times heading for a recent interview demolished in June 1938 on the orders of The following members will be proposed for election or re-election with Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The the Nazis, is to be redeveloped with the to the Committee at the AGM on doleful tone of the heading was construction of a large department store. Sunday 17 June 2001 replicated in the body of the article. "In For the last 60 years, the site has remained our world" Dr Sacks' interlocutor wrote, empty with just a memorial stone marking Mr AC Kaufman, Chairman "marriage is increasingly viewed as a the spot. The land was sold by Munich's Mr WD Rothenberg, Vice-Chairman time-share arrangement" and "time, Jewish Commimity (IKG) to the City of & Hon. Treasurer and nature itself, are resources to be Munich in the 1960s on condition that the Mrs ES Angel, Secretary continuously exploited." One cannot IKG be consulted about any proposed Mr P Dannenberg, * blame the Chief Rabbi for the note of development. With consultation, it has Mr CW Dunston, Trustee * Mrs J Field* fashionable pessimism sounded by his now been agreed that the proceeds of sale received from the developer will be paid to Mrs D Franklin, Trustee interviewer, but he strikes a similarly the IKG to enable them to build their new, Mrs GR Glassman melancholy chord when he says "The and long awaited, community centre. Ms K Klinger future of the Jewish people is once A memorial stone will continue to remind Mr A Spiro, Trustee again at risk - this time without the passers-by of the original purpose of backdrop of external persecution." * Committee members retiring by the site. We or - more accurately - our children rotation and being proposed for re-election. are the first generation of Jews for New Dresden synagogue untold centuries to live without 'the With completion of the building timed to Retiring Committee Member: backdrop of external persecution.' This coincide with this year's aimiversary of Mr D Jedwab is an historic transformation for which Kristallnacht, East Germany will have its Anyone wishing to propose any we ought to be profoundly grateful, first new synagogue since reunification in other member for election as Hon. and which ought not to be tarnished Dresden. The cost will be met from a Officer, Trustee, or Committee by bracketing it with spine-chilling combination of state, municipal and member must submit to AJR's Head warnings of renewed risks to the future private sources. Some of the stones fiôm of Administration such a proposal of the Jewish people. Dr Sacks also the old synagogue - destroyed on signed by ten members qualified to deprecated "a strain of thought in the Kristallnacht - will be incorporated into vote at the meeting and with the Jewish State, post-Zionism, which sees the new structure located close to the site signed agreement of the person it as necessary to dismantle Israel's of its destroyed predecessor. being proposed no later than Jewishness in order to live in peace with Friday 18 May 2001 other people." If this ideological Palestinian sentence dismantling involves abandoning The perpetrator of the attempted arson biblically founded claims to the attack on Dusseldorfs synagogue has Die Maxwell Mar possession of the entire West Bank it is been sentenced to eighteen months Richard Grunberger surely to be welcomed - rather than probation for 'criminal damage.' The judge Er stand auf seines Daches Zinnen deprecated - as removing an obstacle took the view that the attempt was so Und spahte mit vergniigten Sinnen bungled that the synagogue was never in Uber des Wolkenkratzers Rand to peace. danger of burning down. Contrary to initial The Chief Rabbi might also usefully Bob war ein Medien-Magnat expectations, the man in the dock was not give some attention to the issue of Mit einem Organ das - stets parat - a neo-Nazi but a young Palestinian who Konnt' iiberschwemmen Stadt und LaH chillul Hashem i.e. desecration of the told the judge that as a child he had (holy) name. As an appalled Jonathan Er verstand's viel Pensionisten witnessed the shooting of his father by Unverfroren zu iJberlisten Freedland pointed out in the JC, in Israelis. The family had lived in Germany War selbst im KremI wohlbekannt March BBC2 featured 18-year old for fifteen years as illegal immigrants. 'internet whiz' Benjamin Cohen, who, Doch eines Tages fiel uber Bord The prosecutor's office has appealed Der prapotente Presse-Lord financially backed by his father, set against the sentence on the groimds that it Und lag wie Wrack am Meeresstrand himself up as a purveyor of porn in is too lenient. Heut' ist sein Grab im Heil'gen Land cyberspace. According to the prodigy

"you can't have money and morals. This AJR Joumal Personnel is about money!" Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief Ronald Channing Executive Editor Such pestilent pronouncements Marion Koebner Staff Reporter Andrea Goodmal

"• is said that if the Weimar Republic role that made her the Madame NEWTONS I •^dn't enfranchised women, the Nazis Pompadour of the Nazi Versailles. But Leading Hampstead Solicitors j *ould not have won the majority of the things weren't as simple as all that. In 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Popular vote in 1933. The fact that Hitler's Neanderthal mind, relations London NWS SNB German women supported a party that between the sexes were determined by • All English legal work Categorised them as inferior and the old adage 'to the brave the fafr'. (In undertaken and German, Excluded them from any role in the other words, man was the hero whose Swiss & Austrian claims Political process, tells us a great deal reward consisted of the submission of a Ôout the truly antediluvian character of beautiful woman). Sexually abnormal • German spoken German society. In the 18th and 19th himself, Hitler liked to bask in the • Home visits arranged "Centuries England had its great political ambience of glamour generated by the Tel: 020 7435 5351 ''ostesses like Lady Holland and the presence of film stars like Leni Fax: 020 7435 8881 'Ûchess of Devonshire and outstanding Riefenstahl, Zarah Leander and Lillian ^ters like the Brontes and George Harvey. Those 'divas' were exempt from •iliot; France boasted the Princess de the constraints of the three 'Ks': Kinder, "olignac and George Sand; even in Kirche, Kuche. "îssia, the most feudal coimtry of •Europe, Tolstoy created female - and Fulfilment in motherhood PARTNER ^minist - heroines like Anna Karenina. But Magda's role had to be more than in long established English ^ Wihelminian Gennany her rather merely decorative. As the Reich's First Solicitors (bi-lingual German) Pallid fictional counterpart was Lady she had to demonstrate the would be happy to assist clients ontane's Effie Briest (though the real fulfilment Nazi women were supposed to with English, German and ê Lou-Andreas Salome, confidante of find in motherhood. She did so with a Austrian problems. ^'etzsche and Freud, deserves an vengeance, giving birth to six Goebbels honourable mention). children in short succession and being Contact Henry Ebner almost permanently pregnant. Goebbels, Myers Ebner & Deaner ^^»ird Reich's First Lady meanwhile, pursued his career as the 103 Shepherds Bush Road êre, one asks, were the German most scandal-prone sexual athlete in London W6 7LP ^ûivalents to the Pankhursts, or to the Nazi hierarchy. Although their Telephone 020 7602 4631 fôse heroic Russian revolutionaries marriage was obviously not one of 'true ALL LEGAL WORK ê Vera Zasulich? In fact, one woman minds' they did agree on one thing in the UNDERTAKEN ^^rating on the German political stage end: a world bereft of the Fiihrer was not J^'ould have fitted the bill. She was Rosa fit for their children to grow up in. ^''êmburg, a Polish Jewess murdered Thus in late April 1945 they decided on ^ rightwing officers in 1919. Hereafter, suicide en famille. It could be said that ^ type of woman whom literally Madga, who had a record of bad faith AUSTRIAN and GERMAN throughout her life - towards Jewish ^'llions of her himible sisters would PENSIONS *âm of emulating was Magda Quandt. family friends, towards the brilliant 'nishing-school educated and Zionist luminary Chaim Arlosoroff, J'ântageously married, she burst upon towards her first husband - finallyprove d PROPERTY z*^ national consciousness when she herself most faithful in committing the RESTITUTION CLAIMS J^came the First Lady of the Third most heinous deed a mother is capable EAST GERMANY - BERLIN *ich by taking Josef Goebbels as her of. Even in this she was representative of On instructions our office will ^cond husband. Since Hitler was both her sex, for it is a little contested fact assist to deal with your ^Vchologically and politically averse to that in the wave of suicides that gripped applications and pursue the matter ^riage, Magda acted the part of his the country after Hitler's death women with the authorities. ^telaine at the Berghof - a glamorous outnumbered men. For further information and appointment Annual General Meeting ofthe Association of Jewish Refugees please contact: will be held on Sunday 17 June 2001 3 pm at 15 Cleve Road, London NW6

Guest speaker: Lord Dubs ICS CLAIMS 'From Kindertransport to the House of Lords' 146-154 Kilburn High Road London NW6 4JD I Agenda: - Annual Report 2000, Hon. Treasurer's Report, Discussion, Election of committee of Management Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) All questions for the Chair should be submitted by 28 May to the head of Fax: 020 7624 5002 Administration at: 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, London NW3 GAL ANNUAL Mennbership though the overall numbers The enrolment of 550 new members REPORT attending had declined. in the year 2000 brought an Among its activities were a encouraging increase in AJR's total daily programme of musical membership to 3,801, despite 136 2000 entertainment, a Monday Kard & deaths and some 160 who allowed Games Klub with a buffet lunch, their membership to lapse. The twice-weekly keep fit, an art class and increase was due mainly to were helped to complete the forms in a most enjoyable Kaffee Klatsch. A welcoming members of KT their homes, on the telephone or at welfare rights adviser was available (Kindertransport) for whom the AJR the AJR office. at the Centre once a week. Clothes have formed a special interest and shoe sales and regular chiropody Homecare Services group, and to others who and optical services were well Following the successful completion appreciated the advice, guidance and supported by members. A stafr of a pilot project, the AJR expanded support to which membership would member made regular visits to the offer of Homecare Services to entitle them. members in hospital enable members to remain in their The monthly KT-AJR Luncheon Club Social Services own homes for as long as possible. retained its popularity with a AJR paid for cleaning, caring or The Social Services Department succession of interesting guest gardening up to a maximum of six continued to meet a wide variety of speakers and KT-AJR monthly hours a week, all of which has been needs. Members have become luncheon get-togethers commenced very much appreciated by the 32 increasingly frail, dependant and in November. Jewish religious members already benefiting from the often isolated in their own homes, festivals were observed and the scheme. At a total cost of £18,000 for and mental health problems and Centre was again pleased *" the year 2000, the service represented dementia were often encountered. welcome Rabbi William Wolff to lead excellent value for money and will be Following a referral, the team their Seder service. AJR outing* further developed during 2001. undertakes to visit, assess and offer began with lunch at the Day Centre. appropriate assistance. Welfare Rights Advisory Service Following an accident, the Centra In accordance with an on-going Specialist advice and assistance regretted having to lose severa' programme offering more extensive continued to be given on UK welfare volunteer drivers whose services ha'' and intensive support, the rights, foreign pensions, restitution, been very much appreciated. Department reached out to members grants and a variety of domestic living in all parts of the country, many Catering and Meals-on-Wheels matters by AJR's Welfare Rights of whom received an annual visit. The Catering Department at th^ Officer Weekly 'drop-in' surgeries Often in need of emotional or Day Centre continued to prepare an'' were conducted at the AJR financial support, the contact serve high-quality kosher meals an^ Day Centre. established with a Jewish buffets for members. Special even* There was a considerable increase in organisation was particularly catered for included an afternoo'^ the number of applications made for appreciated. During the year the tea for AJR Volunteers, the KT-AlP'^ Attendance Allowance and two Department recorded 354 new Chanukah Party, Marianne Herz members were represented at DSS referrals (including meals-on-wheels) 80th birthday party, Ruth Finestope'* Tribunal appeals which secured their and at the year's end were serving anniversary lunch, and the Kan^ allowances. The completion of a 386 long-term clients (including Klatsch. variety of claim forms continued thoseon SelfAid). Meals-on-wheels (frozen) we"" throughout the year, including Swiss The Department also offered a prepared and delivered twice week'y Assets Litigation and Insurance and welfare benefits advisory service to members in a wide area of norfn Slave Labour claims. which included pensions and west London, and meals were als compensation issues. In co-operation Paul Balint AJR Day Centre prepared and packed for members t with agents of the US courts, AJR AJR's Day Centre continued to offer a take from the Day Centre. Camde'' advised members on the completion full programme of activities and Council's Environmental Heal* of claims for the Holocaust Victims entertainment, continental-style Officer, impressed by the hiS Assets Litigation Fund. This proved a catering and a meeting place for standards of the kitchens, was agai huge task but, with the assistance of Jewish refugees from a German- pleased to commend the AJ'' trained volunteers, some 600 people speaking cultural background. catering facilities. '^R Information having its own distinctive character. Concerto No 14. As in the previous Cs'nce restyled as 'AJR Journaf) Programmes typically included year, the full afternoon tea served ^^ Information continued to be speakers, discussions, outings and during the interval proved extremely Published monthly and remained garden parties. popular with the members. The Sreatly appreciated by all the Groups are semi-autonomous and generous support of members and •nembership as a unique source of organised by the local members with friends enabled a brochure- 'Ormation, comment and opinion the support of AJR's part-time programme to raise additional funds ri matters of concern to the refugee Regional Co-ordinator. Further for SelfAid. community and their families. The groups are to be established in AJR chose the hottest day of the '9h standards of reportage, reviews Scotland and England. (For more year to take a coach-full of members '^d historical commentary were well information members should to Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre in 'Maintained. contact their nearest group via the Nottinghamshire. Joined by AJR ^6 magazine acted as a prime telephone number given in AJR members from Brighton, the Smith °Urce of updated information on the Journal or the Regional Co-ordinator family's warm welcome added to an Pliability and progress of at Head Office). informative and pleasant visit. ^Pensation and reparation funds The traditions of the Kinder- Sheltered Accommodation ^^ôughout the year transport were maintained by the A site continued to be sought in newly incorporated KT-AJR special Volunteers north-west London for the interest group. It offered a newsletter the year's end 170 volunteers were establishment of a sheltered housing in a new format, increasingly popular 'tabling the AJR to provide a wide complex which would eventually Kinderlunches and participation in ^^'âe of additional services. 52 replace the existing accommodation the Luncheon Club, ali of which ^comers were recruited and 43 of available to AJR members. At the helped to attract additional members ern were each successfully matched year's end no such suitable site had to the Day Centre. KT Publications ° help an AJR member. AJR's been secured, not least due to Vol continued to supply copies of the '^fiteer Services Co-ordinator competition and the high value being 1999 Reunion book and video to 9anised a number of befrienders' placed on land suitable for residential communal organisations, and the Pport group meetings. Throughout or commercial development. film The Children Who Cheated the th^ year volunteers were offered the Nazis' was shown on television and Plans for AJR's 60th Anniversary PPortunity to join training sessions entered into the educational Next year (2001) the Association "> list,enin g skills. Fresher events at curriculum. plans to celebrate its 60th 'Versifies proved successful ^01 Anniversary with a number of special unteer recruiting points. SelfAid events and activities. These already 'â Rosenbaum continued to The Self Aid Fund helped to improve include researching and preparing an "anise the reading and recording of the quality of life for members living exhibition narrating the settlement " Information on to tape cassettes on low incomes by granting regular of German-speaking Jewish refugees the benefit of the poorly sighted. monthly payments without and their subsequent lives in Britain; annual volunteers' 'thank you' prejudicing state benefits. One-off a symposium on AJR Information as t)a„ •' payments are also made in response ,W ^ y was held at the AJR Day Centre an historical resource, led by the Ith to unanticipated needs. Self Aid 6rit a full tea and piano German-Jewish Studies Centre of the grants were made to 185 members in . '^tainment. The AJR is greatly University of Sussex; an AJR ,e(^ 2000 at a total cost of £229,000, an ^bted to all volunteers for their commemorative and celebratory >kiy increase of 16% on the previous year. Shabbat at Belsize Square )rth' tinuing efforts and devotion. •^Groups Events Synagogue; the annual concert comprising cabaret and a special tea rst" yârs have elapsed since the first The annual concert, the 52nd, was at the Grosvenor House Hotel in ide-^ ^R's groups - South London - was held for the second time at Imperial London in September; and iltt^ .. "lished and it has continued to College, Kensington, again featuring • "î^h. There were nine groups in the London Concertino conducted by appropriate gatherings at AJR groups total f ., ' rrom Manchester and Leeds in Richard Dickins, with the throughout the country. the h north, to Brighton and international piano soloist Noriko Andrew Kaufman ^•"lemouth in the south, each Ogawa playing Mozart's Piano Chairman Treasurer's Report Finance Report Merit awards AIR'S expenses in 2000 have remained The Wiener Library has instituted an within the budgets set at the AJR Income and Expenditure Account Year ended 31 December 2000 award to recognise contributions to the beginning of the year The principal rediscovery of Jewish heritage and areas of expenditure remain our Day Income: 2000 1999 memory in Germany. The award is made Centre and its associated meals-on- Membership/Donations and Legacies 131,286 255,710 for voluntary, substantially self- wheels and take-away facilities, the Grant from SelfAid 5.000 5.000 financed, research over a minimum of monthly journal and an ever-growing 136.286 260.710 welfare need, especially in the Less: ten years and will usually be given to Overhead Expenses those whose research has been in provision of Home Care assistance Salary Costs 101,936 103,964 which gives practical help to older AJR Information 44,700 35,879 smaller towns and villages, the Jewish members in their own homes, as well Administration/Depreciation 61.356 54.558 past of larger towns and cities having 207.992 194.401 as continuing SelfAid grants. been researched by academics and As members of a new Umbrella (DeficitySurplus: f 71.706) 66.309 professional historians. The purpose of Group of UK refugee charities which Summary of Balance Sheet the award is fourfold: to acknowledge approached the Claims Conference in at 31 December 2000 the importance of the work, to Lon 2000 1999 New York for financial support, for stimulate continuing interest the first time we have received funds Fixed Assets (less depreciation) 31,291 38,221 particularly of the younger generations specifically to help AJR's welfare Current Assets 197,722 271,887 in continuing the work, to encourage services, especially for our most Less: Current Liabilities (21.522) (30.911) 207.491 279.197 support from towns, communities and needy members. I would like to thank Represented by: local businesses and, finally, t° the Umbrella Group's other members General Fund 279,197 212,888 and the Claims Conference for their Net surplus for year (•71.706) 66.309 contribute to the reconciliation of 207.491 279.197 co-operation and assistance. German Christians and Jews. Through the Umbrella Group, AJR David Rothenberg, Hon. Treasurer Three awards were conferred in 2000, ^Bri agreed to co-sponsor a Central Office April 2001 all in Franconia. Each ceremony was for Holocaust Claims, based at attended by the press, at two of the Hampstead Gate and led by Michael AJR CHARITABLE TRUST ceremonies local Bundestag members bov, Newman. The office already handles PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE were present. All three were featured in several hundred cases, working with Summary figure for the year ended 11 newspapers. sister offices throughout the wodd, 31 December 2000 meeting a long felt need for 2000 1999 Nominations are now invited for 2001 Income: and should be addressed to: Katherine assistance with claims covering Takings Day Centre insurance policies, looted art, Swiss and meals-on-wheels 84,727 89,197 Klinger, Education and Events gold and bank accounts, pensions Donations received 916 375 Co-Ordinator, The Wiener Library. 85.643 89.572 and slave labour issues. Less outgoings: 4 Devonshire Street, London Wl W 5BH- The Day Centre is suffering from a Tel: 020 7636 7247; Fax: 020 7436 6428; Salaries 122,167 121,192 reduction in attendance as age and Catering costs 181,572 185,985 Email: [email protected] frailty take their toll. On a brighter Sundry expenses 73.472 62.531 \ note, our new Kindertransport 377.211 369.708 Deficit funded from membership is beginning to take Charitable Trust 291.568 280.136 lie advantage of AJR's facilities, and our meals-on-wheels service helps more AJR CHARITABLE TRUST We would like to express our <^l members than ever, a service the AJR Summary Income and Expenditure Accounts gratitude and appreciation for is looking to improve further Many (based on final draft figures) the legacies received in 2000 months' behind the scenes work has Year ended 31 December 2000 2000 1999 by the AfR and AJR Charitable Trust \\ gone into AJR's website, Income: www.ajrorg.uk, to be launched Covenants/donations** 96,137 74,838 from the estates of the following: shortly which will enable us to Investment income Id (including portfolio gains) 380,070 407,258 P W Alexander, M Altman, Alice Apt- communicate more effectively with Sheltered housing 32.121 35.556 Edith Benedict, Gerda Berger, members and others. I should like to 508.328 517.652 •\, thank Gordon Greenfield, our Head Ursula Blum, Walter Dahl, Legacies 1.073.033 2.172.487 Jacob Durst, Dola Fischer, •J of Finance, whose quiet work has 1.581.361 2.690.139 made my job as Treasurer so much Gerda Goodall, A Hammerschlag, easier, together with all other staff Less outgoings: Dr Hellendall, Ilse Knopf, L Koenigs. members with whom I have worked K Mainzer, Mrs Pohorille, E M Rees- over the last year. Day Centre 291,568 280,136 SelfAid 245,917 186,557 Hildegarde Reis, Olga Rossdale, %.'H AJR owes a debt of gratitude to Other organisations 38,118 18,900 Miss I Schloss, Dr Schulman, those members who left us Administration/Depreciation 397.360 331.618 Eva Scott, E Sharman, I Singer, money in their wills; without these £972.963 £817.211 Edith Stein, Jenny Valentine, f\l legacies we would not be able to •••Includes contribution from World Jewish run the widening services our relief towards welfare payments. Serafina Wang, JDK Zahler membership enjoys. V][]EW]p(0)][NT Arts and Events Diary May Ronald Channing Thurs 3 - Rabbi Mark Solomon: 'Christ through Jewish Eyes." St John's Wood "1 ^^^'•'^5 Without sparks Synagogue. - CO. 020 7820 0090. r "9ee Jewish immigrant Simon Marks Mon 14 - Charles Dreyfus: '1939 - 1945: Six years, five medals." Club 43. set 7.45pm 188?^'^^^^"'" ^^^^^' Kirkgate Market in *° spark a revolution rivalling that Sun 20: Talk on Erno Goldfinger and the Bauhaus movement, followed by •Hen " namesake. Most working tour of Erno Goldfinger's house. 4.30pm. - UCC. One |°^^^^^^^ J'Jst working clothes and wej,^"'^-made 'Sunday suit' for Mon 21 - Roy W.Clements: James Joyce - A Dublin bloom who influenced ôtn ^^ ^""^ funerals, while their wodd literature. Club 43. 7.45pm. ^"folk stitched theirs and their Thurs 24: Lunchtime concert - Robert Max (cello) and Zoe Solomon (piano): and t,^^^S led the way to well-made j gf^ Ernest Bloch, Saint-Saens, David Popper. - UCC. Lonn, ^'^^^hle mass-produced clothing 5o|(j ^ "^^'°nal institution, in its heyday it 17 - 26 - Hampstead & Highgate Festival. - Music, arts and literary events. Pôud ^^^^^'^ °^ ^^^ clothing in Britain, 020 8864 6816. sever i '*^ ^""ifish suppliers of whom Until 3 June - From Prodigy to Outcast: paintings by pre-Raphaelite Simeon imi^j ^^"^^ owned and managed by Solomon. Jewish Museum, Camden Town. pionr-'^^"* Jewish families. Marks also eered Workers' welfare, supported 1 - 4 July - A Festival of Klezmer Music and Yiddish Culture. Jewish Music ^'Zmann in his quest for a Jewish Institute, SOAS. 020 7898 4308. homeland, and strove to help Until 27 Aug - Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts & the Holocaust. ngfj. .^Pâking refugees find safety The contribution of artist-witnesses and survivors to post-war culture and the arts. Imperial War Museum. faceî ' ^^'es seriously declined in the boyj '^^'y competition from the new Organisation Contacts kext *^^ ^^°'^^ ' George at Asda and Club '43, Belsize Square Synagogue. Hans Seelig. 01442 254360 r'^hsfi?" faster-moving old favourites '«^Ho,Us e of Fraser and Debenhams - '^êin Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Rd., London SEI 6HZ. 020 7416 5320 l>ngg^^J''°m Far Eastern factories. No London Jewish Cultural Centre (UCC), The Old House, c/o Kings College, ^^P and nasty, their ranges were Kidderpore Ave., London NW3 7SZ. 020 7431 0345 ti'C'""l ' competitive and well- P'ice 'ô wonder the M&S share The Jewish Museum, Camden Town, 129-131 Albert Street NWl 7BN. ,'°'lapsed 020 72841997 *^'s a I'âtQ "^'en regime struggled on for a " Voii °' 9°'ng up-market to find new »n customers, while alienating \t "^^'^"^ged, middle-of-the-road Annely Juda Fine Art hj ^. ''0 Went away empty handed. GERMAN and %|K ^^''^dited marketing strategy, E]\GLISH BOOKS 23 Dering Street ^pQrt ^^'^^'"'Jed under the Belgian- (off New Bond Street) \e^, I Chairman and MD Luc BOUGHT Tel: 020 7629 7578 Fax: 020 7491 2139 ^\f ^' has been abandoned in Antiquarian, secondhand and "^^Hp ^ "^^^'âl restructuring. Out go modern books of quality CONTEMPORARY PAINTING ^^chgV"^ Paris and Madrid, much to always wanted. AND SCULPTURE '^'ôJ'^'" of anglophiles and ex-pats. %t too \ ""^ go the US stores. Even the We're long-standing advertisers •^Wi;,. ^^"s of Michael House HQ in here and leading buyers of books from AJR members. "«f, are sacrificed. «Stl Ocu 5h- °" classically stylish clothes We pay good prices and JJ JACKMAN • f^d g^ ^ 't old fashioned') in the right size come to collect. ^*^ SILVERMAN Sof^^9ood price is just what those of COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS "•^n k ^''^ ^9^ always required. Now, For immediate response, %rj ^^^ plain blue socks, dark beige please contact: N ll ^^^'ify shirts with extra-long Robert Hornung MA(Oxon) •"ts. "âths, traditional jackets and % Jî^. 2 Mount View, Ealing, n Israel of course, - along London W5 IPR 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA ^ of others, I'll be back. Email: hornungbooks®aol.com Tel: 020 8998 0546 (Spm to 9pm is best) Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 8017 physical he comes to embrace the spirit. And he hands us a personal message. In RG'S INT6RFACG his view, "the blessedness of love is better expressed through ugliness GBS 'Improved'. One of the than beauty." quirkier traditions of the Yiddish theatre was the staging of Shakespeare plays in versions the Art Notes adaptors described as 'ferkirzt und Gloria Tessler ferbessert. Interestingly enough, many critics have applied the Stanley Spencer has been accused of second epithet to the current NT childishness, of seeing God and production of My Fair Lady, the humanity through his own limited musical version of Shaw's perception, of translating his home town Pygmalion. At the risk of sounding of Cookham into a personal apocalypse ethnocentric, one could be excused of resurrection and revival. Yet it is this for describing My Fair Lady as a clumsy, humdrum celebration of the Jewishly altered version of everyday which reveals some Pygmalion since the lyrics are by outstandingly moving tributes to Alan Jay Lerner and the music is by Friedrich Loewy (alias Frederic intimacy - such as his magnificent line Lowe). A closer look at the Shaw drawings of his firstwife , Hilda. phenomenon reveals the amazing A retrospective exhibition of more debt GBS owed to his Jewish than 100 works, at Tate Britain until Rabbi carrying the scroll ofthe Law. champions and interpreters. Both June 24, taken from international private Simeon Solomon 1871 Pygmalion and St Joan were and public collections, presents Spencer Stanley Spencer's path to God may be premiered in Vienna and Berlin as an English eccentric with a religious under the aegis of Max Reinhardt. convoluted but that of the Jewish 19th mission. His turbulent love life is In all, Shaw's plays achieved more Century pre-Raphaelite Simeon revealed in his nude paintings of his performances in German than Solomon is direct and romantic. From second wife Patricia Preece and himself, English thanks to his translator Prodigy to Outcast at the Jewish which show their lack of intimacy, Siegfried Trebitsch. When it came to Museum until June 3, features, for the awkwardness and distance from each translating his oeuvre to the screen, first time, his very early work from the other. His ruthless honesty is reflected Shaw entrusted the entire project Museum's private collection. Solomon's in several self-portraits, and the to Gabriel Pascal, a Hungarian Jew. paintings combine luminescence and grotesqueness of his rural characters Between 1939 and 1954 Pascal subtlety and the tenderness with which suggests a shadow side. Because there produced a quartet of Shaw films. is also something visionary in Spencer's a young chazan embraces the Torah is The best known was the first, work; his Nativity for instance shows a profound without being sentimental. Pygmalion, starring Leslie Howard profiled Mary, not the conventionally Simeon Solomon was the yoimgest (who shared Pascal's antecedents). spiritualised, bloodless Madonna but child of a noted London Jewish artistic 'Goyzmer* at the Hackesche Hof. one full of dark foreboding gazing down family and was embraced by the Pre- The area known as Hackesche Hof in at the baby in the crib, while Joseph Raphaelite circle from a young age. He BeHin Mitte is emerging as a hub of turns away from her. Here again we see was the only Jew of his centiury to be cultural activity in the new-old his exploration of both the embracing linked to a major art movement and was German capital: although Jews are and the turning away between men and described as "the greatest artist of us all" thin on the ground in women. Spencer's six months in Swiss by leading Pre-Raphaelite Edward contemporary Berlin, there is a Cottage, where he lived in 1939, Burne-Jones. His fascination with pervasive Jewish dimension to the plays and music performed around stimulated his portrayals of Christ as a biblical subjects and Jewish ceremonies the Hackescher Hof. An astonishing vagabond or displaced person, and is revealed in a youthful sketchbook on total of thirty klezmer bands are perhaps these come closest to a political loan from Israel's Ein Harod Museum. operating in the Berlin area. They statement. His personal odyssey Solomon's lifestyle, like that of Oscar have non-Jewish members, and demonstrates how the smallness of our Wilde, incurred the same social sport classical Yiddish titles like Di lives mirrors all our hopes and longings. penalties. Following his arrest for Grine Kuzine (For the delectation of For instance in Women Going for a Walk homosexual soliciting, he was our readers we append the first in Heaven his caricatured women are ostracised by the Pre-Raphaelite circle verse of Di Grine Kuzine: Si hot portrayed as flat, tubular or oblong in which once venerated him. Solomon vangelach vi roite pomerantseni shape, as though they are seeing never recovered from his tragic fall Und fisselach vos hejbn sach themselves in a distorted mirror. from grace and ended his days in a tsum tantsen). Through Spencer's obsession with the workhouse in 1905.

8 Reviews Arab grievances drive me into the y UeooUeoorr d Keview synagogue while after an intense l.lik I. Reputations revie'wed course of Zionist propaganda I am prepared to embrace Islam." It was ONE PALESTINE, COMPLETE: more perhaps a question of getting '"though regarded as a legend in her the job done and running the country '"etime, cellist Jacqueline du Pre JEWS AND ARABS UNDER THE enjoyed a tragically short career as a BRITISH MANDATE. Tom Segev, well. Indeed, the British left Israel in jôncert artist. While her recording Little, Brown and Co., 2000. much better shape than they had sgacy encompasses a significant When General Allenby entered found Ottoman Palestine. Yet they "Umber of standard works, any Jerusalem in December 1917 to claim had not instituted compulsory school "Opportunity for hearing unknown attendance. Only three out of every examples of her work is bound to attract the Holy Land for the Empire, he ten Arabs went to school. The 'Considerable interest. So a new release inaugurated a thirty-year period of lôm Teldec (Teldec 8573-85340-2) political confusion which culminated imperial legacy to the rest was a Maturing du Pre performing Saint-Saens' in the establishment of the State of romanticised illiteracy. This ""St Concerto (with her husband Daniel Israel and the large-scale exodus of manifested a lack of national °3renboim and the Philadelphia one of its national communities. Tom cohesion for which the Palestinian ^rchestra) in 1971 and a 1967 Dvoirak cause paid so dearly in 1948. Concerto (widi Sergiu Celibidache and Segev tells the story of the British "^ Swedish Radio Symphony Mandate and emphasises both Segev's use of diaries portrays the •^chestra) is surely welcome. British benevolence and the human qualities of all sides, the ''mittedly these live performances fundamental irreconcilability of the individual friendships of Arab and ^Pose some technical flaws and an two national movements, the Jewish 'eiTient of roughness in du Pre's playing Jew, while professing their that might not bear repeated listening. and the Palestinian. Several diaries, unremitting belief in the justice of "t these caveats have to be weighed memoirs and letters back to Blighty their causes. It is about idealism, but Sainst the sheer magnetism of du Pre's have been mustered to create a kind also about ordinary, and sometimes "ger-than-life interpretations, in of literary theatre, rather than extraordinary, people expressing Pîcular her ability to mould some history, in which Segev skilfully ""•"ases with a degree of emotional ordinary concerns. Segev has utilised tensity that has rarely been surpassed. moves his actors on and off stage. Israeli archival material to document ^ne present-day cellist who offers Many political figures in this further black spots in Zionist history. Performances of a similarly drama, such as Lloyd-George, based The reputation of Orde Wingate, the *erwhelming character is Mischa their support for Zionism on British commander of the Jewish l^3isky. With the mercurial and Victorian education and Christian 'special night squads', receives a ^Pirational Martha Argerich providing êmplary pianistic support, Maisky's dispensationalist understanding of battering after revelations of the ew recording of Schumann's Adagio & the Jewish return - as well as a killings at the village of Hittin. '^l^gro, Fantasiestiicke and the Funf determination to keep the French out Unfortunately there are no sources ^'"eê ini Volkston (Deutsche of Palestine. Yet some also believed from Arab archives and Segev relies ^"•ammophon 469 524-2) deserves the that the Jews were a mystical all- on the Hebrew translation of Khalil 'oest dissemination. Although there al-Sakakini's memoirs and English ^ a few moments where the cellist powerful group which manipulated "^"Jls the tempo around too much and both Capitalism and Communism - language recollections to allow the "cceeds in fragmenting the melodic and with whom an alliance could and Palestinian members of the cast to "e, Maisky's poetic sensitivity should be struck. Shortly after Louis say their piece. ercomes any lingering doubts, and the John Bol's arrival as an administrative ^rtormance of the same composer's Segev views the Mandate P^"o Concerto with the Orpheus official in 1919, he described the essentially through post-Zionist "amber Orchestra must rank amongst Zionist Commission as "a tyrannical spectacles for an Israeli audience '^ finest achievements. and Bolshevik organisation." Several examining its history. Such selectivity /^mongst unjustly neglected years later. General Sir Evelyn Barker, certainly adds to our knowledge of "eteenth century works for cello and head of the British Forces in Palestine the period but the full history jâ"o, the three Sonatas by Heinrich von after Hitler's war, wrote to his ^rzogenberg, a close friend of Brahms, remains to be stripped of its secrets - "stitute a major discovery. Performed mistress: "Just think of all this life and at least on the Arab side. That history Mth great affection by ceUist Claudius money being wasted for these in all its complexity would not make ^'Tmann and pianist Saiso Sasaki (CPO bloody Jews. Yes I loathe the lot - exciting reading, but Segev's use of 999 625-2), ±ese works hardly break whether they be Zionists or not." eccentric anecdotes, bizarre facts : * ground in terms of stylistic ^'viduality. Yet experiencing their Yet many were indifferent or and fascinating vignettes certainly 'Xture of passion and lyricism for the professed to find a way to satisfy the achieves that end. *' time makes one wonder how they legitimate claims of both Jews and Colin Shindler "Id have gathered dust on some Ubrary Arabs. "I am not for either, but for "Îvesforsolong. both", the Governor of Jerusalem, This review has been abridged from Ronald Storrs, wrote. "Two hours of The Guardian.

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The LUNCHEON CLUB ouble those payable by anybody else plea to help other refugees applies, Sir - My thanks to everyone at the Day '^d you joined them in protesting perhaps, with special force to those who, Centre who make the monthly Luncheon 'Sorously, would you describe yourself like me, became genuine asylum Club event such a rewarding experience. ^^ Poujadist too? (2) what grounds there seekers retrospectively after Kristallnacht In March the very interesting guest ^'•^ for stating that Rupert Murdoch is and particularly after the Wannsee speaker was the designer of the London Appier with right-of-centre Conference. Eye, David Marks. Governments when both The Times and Kurt Sachs Alina Goldschmidt ^^ Sun supported New Labour at the last Stourbridge London NW2 Action and The Sun has done so again °^ the next? (3) Exactly how British ^fiiocracy is supposed to have evolved in HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY UNSUNG HERO ^ênt decades, particularly in response EVENT Sir - My parents and I arrived here from the communication explosion of the Sir - I am prompted by your report of Germany in 1939 primarily thanks to Mrs ^Tie period, given that the public has Holocaust Memorial Day (March 2001) to Beryl Mclntyre with whom my family had °^ gained instant and pretty draw attention to an event in which I tenuous links. She was someone whose OiTiprehensive access to information participated in Kirkby-in-Ashfield on 27 humanitarian instincts led her to help Previously only partially available and January. Taking place at the Council many other continental Jews to Offices, the programme included Wasted ^n only to the so-called leading classes? immigrate when others were either Life, a short film produced by Beth ''ôuld there be more voters at indifferent or disinclined. This 'unsung ^<^tions if differences between parties Shalom, with testimonies of three people hero' who lived in the Sussex village of ^•"e more concerned with the allocation affected by the Holocaust, Rwanda Ditchling and whose husband Bill was a . 0 use of resources and less with value and Kosovo; I spoke about my lawyer in the Postmaster General's ^^9ments, as reflected in their Kindertransport experiences and there Department and had been secretary to Sir , "erent proposals for tax levies on were readings from my book and from Herbert Samuel is not even known about ôme earners, organisations, products the writings of a concentration camp in the local museum. ^'^'^ services? victim. Guests from local churches and schools (head teachers and sixth form HBud I believe that the Mclntyres were music students) signed a book containing a London N2 lovers and that Beryl was responsible for 'Statement of commitment.' Those bringing over a number of musicians. Are attending were invited to complete there any musicians - AJR members - who COMPROMISE ON ISRAEL feedback forms; those of us invited can provide information on this 'musical . " Whatever the Oslo Accords, the are being asked to a 'debriefing' so that 3bs have not kept to their side of the the future format of the event can rescue'; it seems there may be quite a •^Qain of peaceful co-existence. They be discussed. story to tell. j^^^ld have had 100% of the pre-'67 Michael Heppner Inga Joseph ^°^ders. All they had to do was not to Sheffield London NIO "ê down like a wolf on the fold. The P^ctation of pushing Israel into the sea, BANKCHARGES REFORMGEMEINDE ,^ °se on several occasions and to insist Sir - Resulting from the publication of my tne original position, is odd unless Sir -1 was prompted to contact my bank Profile (February 2001), I have received I/I^Promise is a concept blind to the by the success of Eva Wittenberg (January quite a few letters from people with 3'timate needs of the other side. 2001) in getting her pension transfer potentially useful material - including charges waived. My HSBC branch replied '"11920 the Greeks attacked Turkey In photographs - on the Reformgemeinde to my request after a month, agreed to . *2 the Turks drove the Greeks out of which I am researching with a view to , ^ Minor If the Turks are not expected refund the previous 6 months' charges writing a history. If any of your readers „ ''eturn it to the Greeks, why should and to waive future ones. It just shows have such material, I would be very ^ Israelis be expected to return areas that if you don't try, you don't get. Many pleased to hear from them. ^ûered in defeating recurring thanks Eva. Peter Galliner "Agression? MrsFFialla Bregenzerstr. 3 Frank Bright Ipswich, Suffolk Gatley, Cheshire D 10707 Berlin (Wilmersdorf) Germany 11 INSIDE apprenticeship with Leitz were saved by being sent by the company to overseas Central Office For the AJR branches. Elsie Leitz paid the price for Holocaust Claims the attempts by the family to smuggle Michael Newman Jews across the German/Swiss border by being sent to prison. She was Victims of Nazi persecution in the Wessex released only on payment of a Netherlands are eligible to receive monies huge bribe. from a Dutch Government scheme "in George and Mary Vulcan provided an recognition of retrospectively identified excellent photographic record of their F Goldberg shortcomings in the restoration of rights trip to the rather unusual holiday following World War II and the Next meeting: 21 May - Andrea Hammel: The government's conduct in this matter". destination on the other side of the history and future of the Centre for German- world, China. The audience, gathered at Jewish Studies, Sussex University. The Stichting Maror-Gelden Overheid the Normandie Hotel in Bournemouth, was created jointly in Spring 2000 hy Dutch-Jewish organisations and the Dutch showed their appreciation of the Pinner slides, photographs and interesting Government and makes awards to Jewish victinr>s of persecution who lived if' commentary by the discussion A fascinating survey ofthe history ofthe Jews in Britain was given by the Jewish Holland during WWII and/or whose assets which followed. Museum's Education Officer, Susannah were looted during this period. Heirs of Danek G. Bardach Alexander. When Jews first came to victims who died on or after 8 May 1945 are also eligible to claim. Next meeting: 8 May - Discussion on the England with William the Conqueror, From a total of NLG 764 million (appro"- current situation in Israel led by Mark they were well treated but did not fitint o £220m) composed of contributions fro'^' Goldfinger. the feudal system under which they were denied land ownership. They the Dutch government, banks, insurance companies and the stock exchange, eacf^ South London found a niche as moneylenders, unpopular though important for eligible person will receive a first paymen' Alf Keiles illustrated his talk on the financing building projects and even the of NLG 14,000 (approx. £4,000) with the Jewish contribution to jazz and pop possibility of a further grant once a" Crusades. Eventually banned for 300 applications have been received. music with recordings of Benny years, the Jews returned under Goodman, Woody Herman, the Owing to the uncertainty of the potentia' Cromwell. After the more recent number of applicants, a decision as to the Comedian Harmonists, Sophie Tucker immigration of Jews escaping Czarist total amount to be received by eacf (singing My Yiddishe Mama) and many Russia and Nazi Germany, the Jewish claimant has not yet been disclosed. The more. 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Grossmann's powerful \ photographs have survived him and are •Capital/savings up to £6,000 are The Inland Revenue has advised tba*' on display at Yad Vashem, having been disregarded. subject to fulfilling status requirement smuggled out of the ghetto in milk • Where there are capital/savings between prescribed in ESC D50, capital paymen** ?1 chums. £6000 and £12,000, a deduction in received under the Austrian "Jo"^ benefit of £1 for each £250 will be Settlement Statement on HolocaU* êri Through his contact with the last- applied. Property Restitution" will probabi" '"to surviving member of the family. Rabbi qualify for exemption from capital ga"^ Smith is researching the Third Reich • For residential care purposes, capital/savings up to £10,000 are tax. The Inland Revenue will not 9'^ period fromth e perspective ofthe Leitz disregarded. 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14 Science Notebook prof Michael spiro Search Notices Marianne Schaffer, lived in Berlin, Earthquakes worked for Paul Hirsch at 9 Adams Road, Cambridge in 1938. Please contact Already in the first three months of near Seattle, 6.8. Significant damage Margaret Falconer, 21 Mansionhouse Rd., 2001 there have been major occurs only with earthquakes Edinburgh EH91TZ.Tel0131 667 3285. earthquakes in Gujarat in India, in EI exceeding 5.5 on the Richter scale. Canterbury Hall 1942 -1944. Would any Salvador and a minor one near Instruments detect numerous small Austrian or German refugees who lived Seattle. How do we measure and tremors which humans don't feel there and recall life at the hostel contact locate earthquakes in uninhabited, at all. Henry Bass, 30 Porchester Place, London as well as in built-up, regions? To pinpoint the earthquake W2 2PD. Email: [email protected] Earthquakes produce displacements epicentre, its central location on the Adolf Falk, father of Hugo Falk, came to of the ground, and these can be surface, we depend on a discovery accurately measured by instrmnents London from Hochberg in 1939. Would made in 1900 by the British geologist any members of the Falk family please called seismographs {seismos is Richard Oldham. He identified two contact Lena Baum, 1 Green Bank, Greek for earthquake). In 1935 the types of wave which earthquakes London N2 SAS. Tel 020 8445 5070. American seismologist Charles transmit through the earth: primary Richter suggested using the P waves (which are longitudinal) and Heinz Robert Thenen, born Vienna 1926, lived in London in 1960s, and Edith niaximimi displacement observed secondary S waves (transverse during an earthquake to quantify its Thenen, moved to London in 1956. Both shear waves). P waves travel faster thought to be descendants of Josef strength. The scale now known by than S waves, and the difference in Thenen (born 21.8.1866 Galatz, his name was obtained by taking the their times of arrival at a seismic Romania, died 15.1.1949 Braila, logarithm of this maximum observatory station enables one to Romania, lived for many years at displacement. For example, an calculate its distance to the Ferstelgasse 1/8, Vienna 9). Please earthquake measuring 8 on the epicentre. The geographical position contact Heidemarie Blazej, Social attache, '^chter scale will have produced a of the epicentre can then be found Austrian Embassy, 18 Belgrave Mews ground movement ten times bigger from the readings taken at several West, London SWl; Tel: 020 7235 3731. than one measuring 7 and one different seismic stations. During Werner Lax (Lachs?), born Bedin (?) hundred times greater than one of 6. the Cold War, extra stations were set circa 1934. Served in the BAOR. Corporal The large San Francisco earthquake up to detect underground nuclear in 21st Army Group HQ in Herford. Knew °f 1906 had a Richter magnitude of bomb tests by the other side. Lilly Schroder Please contact Gerald °-25. The one in Gujarat this year Warner (formerly Gerhard Wachsner, •Measured 7.9 and the smaller one To be continued then Gerald Walker), 14c Weiti Rd, Orewa, New Zealand. Email: [email protected]

''se Wolff - Ben Barkow, Acting Director of the incalculable influence on the ^n appreciation Wiener Library writes: development of the Library over not just Isle Wolff came to work at the Wiener years but decades. Library - when it was still known as the Ilse made another great contribution to Jewish Central Information Office - in scholarship: she edited the first four January 1940, after a chance meeting volumes of the internationally acclaimed with Alfred Wiener in Hyde Park. He Wiener Library Catalogue series, the mentioned that he needed a stand-in for essential bibliographic tool for scholars his secretary, who was very ill; Ilse took who wrote the classic early accounts of the temporary job - and stayed with the Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Library for over 25 years. Ilse retired from the Library in 1966, Her decision to become a librarian was, owing to a lengthy period of ill health. In for the Wiener Library, a momentous one; recent years she attended a number of she recognised that if Dr Wiener's social events at the Library and remarkable collection was to have a established friendly relations with the future it would have to change from present generation of librarians, who saw being an information bureau, serving in her a pioneering and heroic figure. political and governmental circles, to If western philosophy is a series of become an academic library where footnotes to Plato, I think we can describe scholars, authors and students could the history of the Wiener Library over the research and write history. As the first last 50 years as a series of footnotes to Ilse professionally qualified librarian Wolff. She will be sadly missed at the employed by Dr Wiener, Ilse exerted an institution to which she gave so much.

15 Researching our roots Newsround Slovakian lawsuit Judith Joseph The Slovakian Jewish Community's lawsuit in the German courts, alleging The past twenty years have seen an JGSGB's own library and information the appropriation of Jewish property during WWII to pay for the transport of exponential growth in genealogical services. Special Interest Groups Slovakian Jews to the extermination research, undertaken initially as a (German, Polish and many more) are camps, has failed but may be appealed leisure pursuit. Various national Jewish working on expanding our knowledge of Any compensation award is intended to genealogical societies co-ordinate data how life was, as well as on the current help Slovakia's 1450 Holocaust sun/ivors extrapolated from governments about availability of resources. Archivists with and maintain its Jewish heritage. their peoples. There has also been much particular responsibility for Jewish Haider loses support personal and group research into matters are active in Germany, Poland, In Austrian regional elections in whicn individual families and into the lives of Lithuania and elsewhere. Material the Socialist party gained support in Jewish communities in previously previously thought to have been lost or Vienna and the People's Party closed archives in most European destroyed is now available. Many maintained its share of the vote, JorS countries. Members of the Jewish European government-funded Haider's Freedom Party saw its vote reduced considerably. There i* Genealogical Society of Great Britain archivists do not charge for their work, speculation that the party may noW (JGSGB) are no longer primarily very but international reply-paid postage withdraw from the government senior citizens. As the children of coupons help to secure speedy coalition. refugees - and even those with families responses to requests for information. It Sentenced in absentia long established in Britain, America or is now possible to write direct to a town A Paris court has sentenced Aloi* elsewhere - become parents or or city council, or to a State archive. Brunner, responsible for the deportation grandparents, there is a wish to discover Where they do not hold information, of hundreds of French Jewish children, their roots. they give guidance as to where to life imprisonment. Brunner, now age'' information may be found. It is possible 89, is reputed to be living in Syria. Understanding the Jewish past to write to most countries' resource Austrian lawsuit It is of paramount importance for the centres in English, but replies may be in Journalist Kad Pfeifer has won his lib^' future of Jewry that we understand how the indigenous language. Bear in mind case against the right-wing publicatio'^ Jewish life was, is, and how it may that writing in the country's own Zur Zeit which suggested he had driven develop. Our understanding of our language may prove counter a Catholic academic to suicide. people and its place in the wider productive, especially the further east Last page communities of Europe will be one enquires. One of 'Schindler's Jews' has died "'' enhanced by those with testimonies and The JGSGB is hosting the 21st California. It is said that among ^^ documentation, and by research. No Conference on Jewish genealogy many customers at his shop to whom n^ told his story was Thomas KeneaH)^ detail is too small for our own Jewish from 8-13 July 2001 at London's archive. London is the base of the author of Schindler's Ark which inspire'' Intercontinental Hotel. A full and varied the similarly named Spielberg film. JGSGB with its quarterly journal, programme includes archivists and Shemot (a more academic review of researchers from many countries Belated conviction current research) and a quarterly discussing their work (in English) and Over forty five years after killing seve newsletter with a calendar of national Jews in Theresienstadt, a former 5 provides an opportunity to meet others officer has been sentenced to 12 yea"" and international events, classified from similar background and other advertisements and updates on imprisonment by a court in Ravensbur9j countries. Application forms are After WWII, 83 - year - old Julius Viel information relevant to researchers available from JGSGB Conference 2001, worked as a journalist, receiving generally. There is a close association PO Box No. 27061, London N2 OGT government medal for his writing. with the American journal Avotaynu, Met investigation which has world-wide readership, and 772^ International Jewish Genealogical with the Association of Jewish Resources (UK) will assist with initial Confidential Home Office fi'^' concerning the Ukrainian SS Divisio'^' Genealogical Societies. enquiries, guiding researchers to the most admitted to Great Britain in 1947, have appropriate avenues. Further assistance been passed to police for investigatioi^' Worldwide resources is available subject to modest negotiable It is thought that war crimes may haV A wealth of data is accessible through fees. IJGR(UK) 25 Westboume Road, been committed by some Divisi" the internet on Jewishgen (a Jewish Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3TX. members in eastern Galicia. genealogy website), and through the Fax 0121454 9758.

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