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^fnest Hearst It would be unfair to accuse Hans-Helmuth Kniitter's Die Juden und die deutsche Linke in der Weimarer Republik (Droste Verlag, DUsseldorf, 1971) of similarly deliber­ BROTHERLINESS AND ITS ate distortions. He has diligently studied the vast literature on the subject, both Jewish DISCONTENTS and nonJewish. He has also been at pains to achieve "critical detachment" disregarding (Germany's New Left "unjustified susceptibilities of the persecuted Jews". This implied dissatisfaction with cur­ like clothes, have their fashion. rent views has predictably and at times provo­ the as a mere adjunct to and variant of Fascism. to tv,'"°^ °^ '^® '™® proves as irresistible Given these assumptions it seems to follow catively afl^ected his findings. Trying to dis­ ,. the makers of public opinion as do the that the middle-classes were by their very cover the reasons for antisemitism he con­ ^ ctates of the couturiers decreeing what can nature the begetters as well as the bene- structs a sort of psychogram, noting under ^cannot be worn. In the 'thirties, when fiiciaries of the Nazi tyranny, and that even the heading Jeunsh Characteristics : "Jewish National Socialis" m was in the ascendant, the bourgeois Jews, although doomed to be intellectuals have difllculties in attaining the ^'rend^ .y. intellectuals, academics and the destroyed by Hitler, must, nevertheless, be discipline necessary for party-political work ,^«nipulators of popular resentments found held responsible for his rise to power. It or the running of a public oflBce", a disability Wor'lf-^"^ to indulge in nationalism, leader- is perhaps uncharitable—though not irrele­ which, in his opinion, accounted "for the [Up "ip and antisemitism. In those days vant—to note that the young Left-wing mili­ rapidly diminishing Jewish influence in cen­ jp low so self-consciously Left-wing IRA tants, who now cast the Jews of the Weimar tral and local govemment after the November thp u*^' ^^ ™^y ^^ recalled, blue shirts and period into the part of, at best, unwilling revolution". Were these, then, one is bound loL salute. Yet though the termino- supporters of Hitler and, therefore, deserving to wonder, the inadequacies responsible for ein t°* politics changes with the Zeitgeist, the condemnation rather than sympathy, belong the rapidly declining influence of Rosa f^^ons and aggressions it articulates often sociologically to that stratum of middle-class Liixemburg and Walther Rathenau? One is j^m unchanged, and even in politics the intellectuals which has traditionally rational­ also struck by the localised nature of these ^*er cn all too often turns out to be ised and propagated antisemitism in Germany. deficiencies; they signally failed to inhibit a "ghtly refurbished "old hat." Although the new revolutionaries would Disraeli, Trotsky, Blum, Shinwell, Kissinger, tud four or five years ago anti-Jewish atti- strenuously deny the charge of disseminating Slansky, etc., etc. j es or thoughts were taboo in Germany, a refurbished version of the ancient preju­ A little later a quotation taken from Eva ft .t"?rinere was perhaps a shade of cloying arti- dice, it would be difficult to find another Reichmann's "Flucht in den Hass" suggests j^"^*lit aiuy [J^in th (,}je gobligator obligatory ygood-wil good-will lextende extended d interpretation of the perverse misrepresenta­ that "propaganda which by singling out Jews With°^ Jewish fellow-citizens", in the violence tions of which, to give an example. Professor as a special group, made them the object of iixc ^'''^^ the press reacted against any Reinhard Kiihnle delivered himself in his hatred" figured prominently among the factors "y ""^sequential antisemitic utterances by the critique of Nolte's concept of Fascism : creating anti-Jewish feeling. Quotations out e^°^®aehables", the revulsion against the " The Jewish bourgeoisie (he asserts) re­ of context can be misleading, and the reader lev'^l''^^ committed "in our name" was acted as bourgeoisie; it regarded Fascism is again left to wonder how nurses, postmen, *as^f genuine and sincere. Jews, it as an anti-Communist movement which bus conductors or, for that matter, any other Pf^ j^lt, were entitled to some demonstrative might, at worst, attack greengrocers from easily identifiable group managed to elude 5y.°t of collective shame and compassion, Galicia, but would not admit that such the hate producing factor. But the conclu­ eninf- ^"^®' remorse and pity are ephemeral highly respectable personages as doctors, sions Kniitter deduces from this factor are notions; the claims they make on the con- professors, solicitors and writers could be even more amazing. This antisemitic effect, a DR^-^ ^""^ *°o demanding to sustain over exposed to the plebeian terror without pro­ he notes, "can be produced by religious in­ voking Germany's haute bourgeoisie into struction in the classroom, but equally can tion • ^^ ^™^ ^"*^ ^^ ^^y °^ self-justifica- a show of class solidarity and active resist­ ff).»L®^^"^y turn against the objects of their it be generated by philosemitism", a failing ance". (Politische Vierteljahresschrift, to which, in his opinion, Germany's post-1945 by^i?'^^^^'^ younger generation, untainted 1970 H.2-3.) literature was particularly prone. Again one •latu 11 ^^"^i'^s of their elders, was quite Although only a comparatively young wonders about the ethos of a society in which tion i the most vociferous in its denuncia- academic, unaware of the antisemitic brutali­ the effort to deal understandingly with the "j , °f their barbarities and most eager to ties "respectable" Jews had to endure long agonies of a doomed minority is bound to al^^tv *^® ^^^"- ^^^ predictably it is before Hitler came to power, could have prove counter-productive. In fact, unless Sen 1 ^ younger generation, which in its written these lines, it is diflScult to believe Kniitter can provide incontrovertible evidence ^he^'n ^^^ wholesale disenchantment with that he was misled by ignorance alone. To for his assumption, I would be inclined to to n ^'^^ agonies of our age, now begins speak of Fascism when the point at issue believe, he has judged his countrymen too "^em ^*^°° its erstwhile provTewish commit- was Nazi antisemitism, illustrates the uses to harshly. the discovered and eagerly embraced in which semantic imprecision can be put. For The burden of his whole argument is that not "^°"^arxism of Marcuse and his disciples Fascism suggests authoritarian, anti-Socialist, German Jewry's middle-class character ren­ also °° ^ blueprint for total happiness but militantly nationalistic Right-wing extremism; dered its relations with the Left and vice fj.y^*°.all-encompassing explanation for the an option—however repugnant—open to Jews versa somewhat ambivalent and that the dis­ ouj. "^*^ons, tensions and conflicts bedevilling and one of which they admittedly availed agreements within the Jewish camp between tion '^^""®onal, social and intemational rela- themselves in Italy. National Socialism, on the Zionists and the assimilationists as to the ceo* U^ideterred by such sense-defying con- the other hand, was an antisemitic race reli­ nature and solution of their predicament fur­ ing" as "repressive tolerance" and the glar- gion threatening the very survival of Jews. ther aggravated the already existing ambigui­ Hlj failures and malfunctions of applied Both to those who posed and those who faced ties. Consequently, co-operation between the cajj]?"^?i-Leninism, they gaily reinstated the threat, the class struggle was a meaning­ Left and the Jews, the two most exposed Sres? ^^ ^^® arch-enemy of peace, pro- less irrelevancy. It is precisely because the adversaries of the rising Nazi movement, was fifitir ^^^ paradise. In this scenario Fascism tragedy of the "Final Solution" cuts across less wholehearted and effective than it might, ^jjres as the last ditch defence of a mori- and, indeed, invalidates the tenets of any and should, have been. In his view, "the With-t'^P"^^™! and National Socialism, not- class based ideology that those anxious to intellectual mood of the time was, in the trejj^'^ding the specifics of its ideology, is reinstate it are compelled to use this kind final analysis, responsible for the defensive ^d not as a phenomenon sui generis but of terminological camouflage. Continued on page Z, column 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION November, 1972 modate its complexities and to do justice to BROTHERLINESS AND ITS DISCONTENTS Arab viewpoints. To the observer of the changing political Continued from page 1 climate in the Federal Republic, Professor Landmann's arguments throw interesting side­ attitude of the Left and the Jews. The social responsibility. In as much as Knutter is an lights on the anti-Jewish mood animating her cleavages between them account for the exponent of the new German trend of looking Left-wing radicals. "Why (he asks) do they feebleness of their struggle against the com­ at the "Jewish Question", his book marks a never demand active participation in the Viet- mon enemy. . . . Sociologically the Westem departure from the now unfashionable cong's struggle against the USA, but insist Jews belonged to the bourgeoisie and hence attempt to "overcome the past" and progress nowadays on just such a commitment i" to the of^Msite side in the class confronta­ towards a broader human solidarity. support of the Palestine guerrillas? " This tion". From these premises, at best meaning­ Donaild L. Niewyk's Socialist, Anti-Semite, question goes to the heart of the matter- less to the Jewish condition in the last, des­ and Jew (Louisiana Staite University Press, There are no rational grounds for such a perate years of Weimar, Kniitter proceeds Baton Rouge, 1971) is a rewarding and well- preference, but some irrational ones, a^ to the crowning misstatement which con­ documented study of the German social-demo­ equally disreputable. Particularly in Germany cludes his book. "The irreconcilable internal cratic response to antisemitism in the inter- any appeal to fight the Jews in Israel must Jewish dissensions, the socio-ideological ten­ war years. Narrower in scope, but less con­ strike a responsive chord among all those sions in their relations to the Left and the troversial than Kniitter, Niewyk's investiga­ who had previously either actively or paS' strength of German antisemitism resulted in tions confirm that the party's attitude to Jews sively assisted in their extermination! the destruction of the Jewish minority, which was basically helpful and comradely. The Nazi slogan Juda verrecke has been never wanted to be one". up-dated by their Left-wing successors into Radical reappraisals of history tend to re­ The causes deemed to be responsible for Schlagt die Zionisten tot, macht den Mittleren flect a pre

"erfcerl Freeden (Jerusalem) tremists and anarchists see in death their ul­ timate aim, not only for their targets but also for themselves, and some of them aspire the martyr's crown by such a death. If massive DEATH PENALTY IN ISRAEL? retaliation does not stop terrorism, then acts of individual retaliation, namely executions, Hebrew University students were spear­ were promulgated by the British mandatory wiU also be inefificient, and terrorist attacks heading a drive to collect 100,000 signatures authorities primarily against Jewish terror­ have continued after countless retaliation ^D a petition urging the government to in- ism, have the possibiUty of imposing death raids. According to this line of reasoning j'J'tute mandatory death sentences for terror­ sentences. Whenever IsraeU courts did so, neither retaliation nor capital punishment ists convicted of killing civilians. "We feel the death sentences were suspended or com­ wiU prevent disasters such as the Lod and our government leaders are ignoring the muted into life imprisonment. The only Munich massacres. Just as terrorism is a res­ wishes of a great number of people. Since person ever executed in Israel was Adolf ponse to the impotence and frustration of the Munich the vast majority of the pubUc Eichmann, and he was sentenced to death for Palestinians, so they say, is the IsraeU caU javours the death penalty", the chairman of crimes committed outside Israel and before for bloody vengeance. And just as terrorism 'ae student union declared. The students the estabUshment of the State. wiU not succeed in the Uquidation of Israel, *ant to "channel" public opinion and to pre- Simultaneously with the public pressure for capital punishment wiU not succeed in ,^J^t the petition to the govemment in some instituting the death penalty for terrorists, liquidating terrorism. ^?niatic fashion". Capital punishment, the voices are getting louder which demand WhUe sentences, of course, are imposed by P^tioners say, wUl have a greater deterrent capital punishment to stem the rising tide of the courts, public opinion plays an important «ect than life imprisonment. It may also violent crime in Israel's streets. Press and part in shaping judicial thinking, and some ^JKe attempts to capture IsraeU hostages public have become critical of the judges of members of the Israel Govemment have Ith the aim of trading them for the release Israel who, they aUege, do not let the punish­ taken side in the debate. »t terrorists jaUed in Israel, ment fit the crime. Criticism has been par­ The Defence Minister, Moshe Dayan, for ^i^'iilar opinions have been vented in press ticularly bitter of the mild punishment meted one, said recently that the possibiUty of im­ M parliament. "Time and again we witness out for armed robbery and rape, the in­ posing the death penalty on terrorists should ^0 terrorist blackmail for freeing con- cidence of which, the papers claim, has risen be considered in view of their apparent wil- cted criminals in our prisons. Had we put alarmingly in the past few years. Also in Ungness to take greater risks than in the nese murderers to death, there would not such cases, the restoration of the death sen­ past. Deputy Premier Yigal AUon, on the ave been demands for them and mass kil- tence has been advocated. Restored also for other hand, told a group of students that he ^ "Ss of innocent people. . . . We should have vicious criminals of any denomination, the was opposed to capital punishment because it j,?',fl>iscite about introducing the death pen- enforcement of capital punishment for terror­ might promote extremism within Israel Ij^y —literaUy hundreds of open letters like ists would lose any appearance of one-sided­ society. Golda Meir, appearing before a IS one were published in the IsraeU press. ness. women's group, declared while she realised fut"*^ of them went even further: "If any that the threat of life imprisonment seemed ^ ture acts of violence are committed against Apart from those who oppose the death penalty on principle because it cannot be an inadequate deterrent against terrorism, i /^'^ of Israel, an imprisoned Arab terror- she was nevertheless still opposed to the ^' should be kiUed for each life taken. It reconciled with Jewish humanism and its res­ pect for the life of man, it is argued by some death penalty because "she didn't want any ^ouixi then appear that the Arab terrorists Israeli boy to become a professional hang­ ^ uld safeguard Israeli citizens so as to that it also fails as a deterrent, especially in the case of terrorists. Okamoto, e.g., was man". Old the deaths of their captive brothers". greatly shocked when he heard that he would J :* similar proposal was made in the Knes- not be condemned to death. Some of the ex- j. ^y a Labour member who suggested that LAST RABBI OF GLOGAU teast those terrorists sentenced to death Whose Centenary of Dr. Leopold Lucas jw .— sentenceijciivcuces werweie suspeiiuesuspendedu uor comcoiu- so should be threatened with execution Genesis 1948 Rabbi Dr. Leopold Lucas, who was bom HOP^^ to have some guilty hostages, not in- in Marburg (Lahn) on September 17, 1872, The First Arab-Israeli War was one of those rabbis who spent their whole tjj^'?t ones: we should tell the terrorists life in the service of one single community. ten ^^ ^^^^ kiUed IsraeUs, all suspended sen- For more than 40 years he was the spiritual ror^*^ Would be carried out; and the less ter- DAIS KVRZMAN head of the Glogau congregation. When this to t^^ ^° Israel jails, the less the incitement ' Historians wil] be using tliis book for work came to an end in 1940 he went to take hostages for their exchange. many generations to come . . . contains Berlin to teach at the Hochschule fuer die jStrangely enough, this proposal was first information never before made available.' Wissenschaft des Judentums. He succeeded Ki h ^^ '^® weU-known humorist Ephraim —James A. Michener. the historian Professor Eugen Taeubler who, Q^^on, and he did not mean it to be funny, ' better than any thriUer.'—Jewish Echo. together with his wife, Selma Stem-Taeubler, loc ^^^^ °^ '*' ^^'^ is a hideous kind of 768 pages. Illustrated. £3.95 was able to escape to the United States as clo *^ about it, though it does not stand up to one of the last emigrants. With a dwindling of ^rt^ scrutiny. Even had we reached a state Golda number of students the Hochschule carried ltt„ , operation, it is diflficult to imagine a on until 1942. Rabbi Dr. Lucas was deported The Life of Israel's Prime Minister to Theresienstadt, where he died on Septem­ pgat system that would let the fate of a ber 10, 1943. ^ soner be determined by the actions of PEGGY MANN Dr. Lucas took an active part in the work infl^'^ persons over whom he has no ' A fascinating account of a great woman, of the Gesellschaft fuer die Foerderung der ti^^^tice, let alone control. It also assumes fit to be counted with Deborah and Wissenschaft des Judentums and has a num­ rg terrorist organisations have a profound Judith among the noblest of Israel's ber of works on Jewish historical subjects at t^"^*^ for human life and would be deterred to his credit. He was a personal friend of history.' Dr. Leo Baeck. When, with an eye on the , he thought of a prisoner being executed. —Maurice Edelman, Jewish Observer. situation after the war. Dr. Baeck wrote a Hjj .^^el rejects a poUcy of hostages", Prime 288 pages. Illustrated. £2.25 secret memorandum on the development of '•jy,^ster Golda Meir stated unequivocally, the legal position of the Jews in Europe, ten ^^trorists who have been heard and sen- Dr. Lucas, with his expert knowledge, ren­ are*^ V Israel courts must know that they The Champagne Spy dered valuable help. The memorandum, com­ tij '^'Jder our protection. Whatever crime posed for members of the anti-Nazi resistance ^y have committed, they are not to be Israel's Master Spy tells his story movement, with whom Dr. Baeck was in con­ fjjg^ responsible for the crimes of others". tact, was found among Dr. Baeck's papers (^ .^srael criminal code does not Imow WOLFGANG LOTZ after his death, and partly published in Vol­ ume III of the Leo Baeck Institute Year "n th punishment, and only military courts Posing as a wealthy German horse- Book (1958). EGL the basis of emergency regulations which breeder, Lotz infiltrated the highest eclielons of Egyptian society—^uncover­ ing vital military secrets which contri­ BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER buted to the Six-Day War. His story STAMPS '"inest selection reconditioned PIANOS makes compulsive reading. GERMANY AND TERRITORIES Always interested In purchasing 240 pages. Illustrated. £2.25 well-preserved instruments. Bought and sold. Mall only. No callers olcau. ''AQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. VALLENTINE, MITCHELL PETER 0. RICKENBACK 142 Edgware Road, W.2 67 Great RusseU Street, 14 Reulvn Hin. London. NW3 IPT. Tal: 01-4SS OMI 25 ytars of PkUatelic txptritnct — Tel.: 723 8818/9. London. WCIB 3BT Page 6 AJR INFORMATION November, 1972

C. C. Aronsfeld ERLASS VON ZWEITBESCHEIDEN Ueberpruefung rechtskaeftig entschiedener Entscliaedigungsansprueche THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS Wir haben in AJR Information vom Maerz 1972 Seite 6 berichtet, dass nach den RicW- Nothing much happened, really. As I I moved to Golders Green," he concluded, as linien der Laender der Bundesrepublik ^ stroUed along one of the narrow, picturesque if suggesting that N.W.ll (and not neces­ Deutschland nur solche rechtskraeftigen Ent- • back streets I whistled the Uttle tune that sarUy the Crematorium there) must be re­ scheidungen der Ueberpruefung unterliegen, 1 we are told has much of the spirit of " gay garded as the final residence of anyone at die nach dem 18. September 1965 (Datum Paree "—when suddenly I noticed a tiny shop aU possessed of earthly ambition. der Verkuendung des Schlussgesetzes zum actuaUy caUed " The SUk Shop " (in English) Now I thought a certain suspicion was as Bundesentschaedigungsgesetz) ergangen sind. and the words " French scarves" written good as confirmed, and I remarked: " Lots Seit unserem Bericht ist ein Urteil des boldly across the window. There was hardly of Jews Uve in Golders Green." Whereupon Bundesgerichtshofes vom 13. Juli 1972 need for any French translation, for natives his face lit up brightly, and he eagerly re­ ergangen, welches diese Beschraenkung fuer could easily see what was cooking (without plied : " Yes—are you yourself then a Jew ? " nicht gerechtfertigt erklaert. Wir hatten in necessarily being interested), and the obvi­ Now he opened up : " In that case you may like unserem Bericht bereits angedeutet, dass die ously shrewd owner had his eyes on the to know that I am a regular reader of the Beschraenkung einer Nacbpruefung durch die An^o-Saxon tourist, who would delight in ' Jewish Chronicle,'" and from under the coun­ Gerichte moeglicherweise nicht standhalten exploring these parts and almost certainly ter he pulled, Uke a conjurer the rabbit, wird. love the fine patterns dispilayed. a copy of that week's issue. My French Entschaedigungslberechtigte soUten sich also Anyway, I did. I was intrigued, first of vocabulary was barely suflficdent to convey von der Stellung eines Antrages auf Erlass all, by the unexpected sight of an " EngUsh " my amazement. eines Zweitbescheides nicht dadurch abhalten shop, and then I fancied the glorious colours By now we had, of course, forgotten aU lassen, dass die urspruengUche EntscheidunS — what a crimson, what a turquodse ! — and about the scarves, but it seemed to me that vor dem 19. September 1965 ergangen ist. the pretty designs of "' Monuments de Paris." his French was not (shall we say) President Im Prinzip sind nicht nur Bescheide der I thought of the folks back home who would Pompidou's. So I said, casuaUy : " Of course, Entschaedigungsbehoerden, sondern auch perchance fancy them even more, so I made you were born in Paris." " Oh, no," he Urteile der Gerichte und sogar Vergleiche a quick check of my French vocabulary (as replied, " as a matter of fact I am a Spanish- (in gewissem Rahmen) der Ueberpruefun^ weU as my cash) and entered the shop. speaking Jew from Smyrna in Turkey," a unterworfen, wenn die Voraussetzungen vor­ It was, oddly enough (because of the con­ descendant of those who were once driven liegen, ueber die wir im Alaerz 1972 kurz trast with the goods), a somewhat sombre, from Spain, I had probably heard about it. berichtet haben. romantically dingy place. Behind the short, I had, and I cautiously smiled, saying that Wir weisen nochmals auf unsere Aus­ secondhand counter sat an elderiy, not un­ actually I had often read and enjoy^ the fuehrungen in der Maerz-Nummer der AJR dignified gent, who received me with appro­ Ladino paper of Isitanbul, " La Boz de Tur- Information ueber die Frist zur Stellung von priate, almost EngUsh, reserve, at least with­ kiye." Promptly we discovered that we both Antraegen auf Erlass von Zweitbescheiden out visible enthusiasm. With him was a knew (directly or indirectly) the Cohen hin. Nach den Richtlinien der Laender laeuft rather un-Parisian-looking young saleslady, famUy who owned that paper, and as Spanish fuer in Grossbritannden lebende Antragsteller who also seemed accustomed to Bleak Houses happens to be my hobby, I said, glad to die Frist am 31. Januar 1973 ab. rather than Great Expectations. iiave found something in the nature of a I said I would Uke some of the scarves guinea-pig: " Let's have a word in Spanish, LASTENAUSOLEICU iFUER to take home, as I was from abroad. This, then." VERLUSTE IN DKR DDR of course, was hardly necessary to add (if We did, nattering away for a while, but only because of my limguistic imperfection), now the young lady seemed distinctly uneasy. Fristablauf 31. Dezember 1972 but calculated to make the transaction less (Cricklewood and Golders Green had been Wir haben mehrfach (siehe z.B. AJR Infor­ strictly commercial. It did. "From quite enough of a strain.) I turned to her mation vom Oktober 1970 Seite 7 und vorn abroad ?" said the old gent, now rising as and said: " But you, mademoiseUe, are Maerz 1971 Seite 8) auf die Moeglichkeit if in the presence of a VIP. " Where are French." Before she had a chance to utter der SteUung von Lastenausgleichsanspruechen you from, then?", he enquired. I staUed: the refined French equivalent of " Mind your wegen Vermoegensverlusten in der DDR uo" " Would you care to guess ? " He now mus­ own business," Monsieur br^hly butted in: im Sowjet^Sektor Berlins hingewiesen. ^^J tered me criticaUy : " You are—er (in a tone " No, no, she's a refugee from Egypt! " haben hierbei auch erwaehnt, dass die Frist of somewhat deflated estimation)—either a But the fact was we were getting a bit fuer die SteUung dieser Antraege am 31- Spaniard or an Italian." Which, come to on her nerves, and she courteously, though Dezember 1972 ablaeuft. Wir weisen nochmals think of it, was not bad for (quite literaUy) unmistakably, indicated that it was now about auf diesen Fristablauf hin. a shot in the dark. Mme for business. We agreed, and animated When I confessed that I was, in fact, from by the pleasant conversation, I chose what WORLD FASCIST MEETING England, he seemed pleasantly surprised. I bedieved were the most splendid colours Munich was the venue for about 1.900 " From England ? " (he made sure). "Do you of them aU (though, I regret to say, none young people representing fascist groups .'" of ^e talk helped to gain any discount). eleven European countries, including Britain^ know that I once had a shop in London, in Representatives of fascist groups in tne Shaftesbury Avenue? And I used to Uve in The choice proved a resounding success. I United States and South Africa attended as CricklewocKi!" I was duly impressed and wrote back, in suitably flattering terms, observers. managed to observe that perliaps he would ordering some more. Monsieur apparently be interested to leam that I once lived not only signed a letter that was written by very far from Cricklewood. But he was not MademoiseUe in strictly if impeccably busi­ Does your heating cause dry air-affecting a bit interested : ". . . and from Cricklewood nesslike terms that they would be happy to your health or piano, plants, antiques, obUge as soon as I had remitted the neces­ woodwork & paintings- sary cash. 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ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Tel: 01-904 7603 AJR INFORMATION November, 1972 Page 7 originally planned a comprehensive work on Hans Liebeschuetz Jewish ethics in the form of a symposium by many contributors as an answer to the anti­ LAZARUS AND STEINTHAL semitic attacks. But neither the promised financial support nor the collaborators A Recent Publication of the Leo Baeck Institute became available. So he concentrated on a stranger in his environment. In this respect, great individual effort, whUe old age reduced The New York branch of the Leo Baeck his participation in pubUc life. In 1897, the Institute has published, under the editorship the style of his letters shows some similarity in characteristic features to those written by first of the two volumes under preparation °f Ingrid Belke, a volume of letters which il­ was completed. In this work he has shaped a lustrate the personaUties and the work of Leopold Zunz. Lazarus liked to see a crowd of distinguished contemporaries assembled in considerable knowledge of Hebrew literature Moritz Lazarus (1824-1903) and Heymann acquired in his youth by the method of Steinthal (1823-1899).'* They were pioneers of his and his wife's "salon". Steinthal felt out of place in such company. His concept of social psychology appUed to his own people. a new discipline which they developed in the The book raised general interest and was 'Zeitschrift fuer Voelkerkunde und Sprach- social intercourse meant a few people linked by identical interests and a serious exchange very weU received. But the most exciting wissenschaft" since 1859. In the modern reaction came from Hermann Cohen, who in World they were both newcomers who had of ideas. He was quite aware of his dis­ agreement with his friend on this point. 1899 wrote an aggressively severe review. .spent their youth in the traditional surround- This critical essay is sometimes being in­ ^8s of a Jewish community in a smaU town. As a scholar he was a devoted but not un­ terpreted as a crude expression of pro­ I^zarus came from FUehne in the Province critical pupil of Wilhelm v. Humboldt. He fessorial jealousy. However, in the context of °f Posen, Steinthal from Grobzig in Anhalt studied the structure of many different lang­ German Jewish history the ideas in this ar­ (Central Germany). They had been brought uages with the intention to further the un­ gument against a man twenty years older together at the university by a common derstanding of the human mind and its than the writer form a signpost of the final teacher, the BerUn professor of Comparative difTerentiation by geographical and biological and creative period of Jewish thought during f^hUology, c. W. Heyse. This friendship conditions. In this context mythology and the the emancipation period. Lazarus had em­ lasted untU the death of Steinthal, who history of reUgious belief have always phasised the independence of ethics from any always remained thankful for the en- formed important items. During the last 25 doctrine of religious belief. He carefuUy '^uragement and the general support he had years of his life these themes, combined with avoided any identification with the theories J^ceived from Lazarus, by his very nature a ethics, dominated his interest. This shift was of the medieval classics. In this way he ??^ of the world and financially weU estab­ linked with an additional field for his teach- hoped to avoid the controversial field of lished by his first marriage. Lazarus's in­ ii^ activities, which opened for him in 1872. metaphysics. For Cohen such an interpreta­ tellect made him a stimulating companion; The circle of serious students, who foUowed tion of Judaism missed the living centre. In striking formulations of new ideas came his courses at Berlin University, had never the beginning of the new century he became easily to his mind. So he was enabled to been large, but they respected their teacher Lazarus's successor as a leader in the spiri­ ^raft the first programme for the deeply, and in the world of linguistic studies tual life of German Jewry. psychological a^Jroach to ethnology and the his name was very well known in­ rise of civilisation. By this capacity and his ternationally. However, his position as Pro­ The present edition of letters has a re­ fessor Extraordinary never gave him an ap­ markable history. At the request of Lazarus's ocial grace he obtained a recognised place second wife. Rabbi Aaron Tanzer selected mong a group of promising young scholars propriate living. When the "Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums" started he and copied from the family archive the bulk *"o gathered in BerUn during the late fifties of material contained in this volume. But no aid early sixties. A witness of the first ap- was appointed as one of the four lecturers. Lazarus had been a leading member of the publication was achieved, when the Nazis j^^^ance of Lazarus in the world of learning came to power. Two years later, the material .* "ilhelm Ddlthey. It was Lazarus's mental- committee preparing the new foundation and became an influential governor of this in­ was moved to the U.S.A. At the end of the ty which helped him to cross rapidly the dis- fifties, the New York branch of the Leo ^nce fi-Qjjj ^Y\e secluded Jewishness of his stitution. Steinthal had supported the plan at aU stages. He was convinced of the necessity Baeck Institute took over responsibility. Paternal home to the fuU participation in the David Baumgardt, professor of philosophy, was ^p.of an academic eUte. This process of as- for a fresh impulse in order to keep alive the link with the precious past in a Jewry very in charge but died in 1963; a long way ^o •nilation did not produce in him any doubts much occupied with questions of everyday ex­ completion remained. The same fate occurrenl ., reflections on the deeper problems behind istence. His sympathy with the ancient liturgy to Chief Rabbi Kurt Wilhelm who had suc­ ohr ^I'^t^did surface. But he never forgot his of the Synagogue was deeply rooted in ceeded him. Under these circumstances aU °'igation of loyalty towards the inheritance knowledge and in the study of the Bible as the energy of Max Kreutzberger was needed in fk^ ancestors, and he took a leading part a literary document his ideas were sometimes to carry the work to a good end. New mat­ ij,, the fight against antisemitism about 1880. in advance of his time. His eagerness for the erial was traced in Jerusalem, BerUn and ^ne honorary professor at BerUn University, defence of Jewish inheritance against in­ Munich (there a collection of original letters "riliiaut speaker and an affable associate at ternal lethargy and external enemies made by Lazarus to Paul Heyse was found). In 1967 ^^^y meetings, joined without any special him now write popular articles for pleading Frau Ingrid Belke became the new editor. ^^°ft the ranks of the benevolent men of his case in the press. It is a pecuUar feature She completed the edition of the text, wrote ttairs who guided the fate of Jewish com- of his development that at the same period an introduction of 130 pages supplementing Q.^^ities in Imperial Germany. At the cUmax he declared himself against any belief in a the information oiTered by the letters and , his life such activities reduced both his transcendental reality. He saw ethical and added most of the running commentary. Her Pla '^^ and his drive for implementing the emotional values of religion rooted in the work wiU form an indispensable source for jj^^s of his youth by research work onn the nature of Man. Both he and Lazarus had our understanding of the characters and ^^ details of concrete problems, from the beginning been influenced in their thought of the two men, whose list of writ­ .this task was left to Steinthal who in 1862 work by an empiristic current, which came to ings ohronologicaUy arranged together with ^.J^t'^e his brother-in-law by his marriage Germany from Westem Europe; Steinthal the index follow as epilogue. Another thi "^^annette Lazams. He is represented in drew all consequences by assimilating both volume offering the correspondence between j^s volume by some autobiographical frag- Feuerfwch's and Darwin's theories into his Steinthal and his pupU Gustav Glogau in Kiel SM + °^ ^^ youth and by 42 letters addres- work. is in preparation. We may take this edition ^ to Lazarus between 1851 and 1879. These as a promising sign for the possibiUties of co­ Vg^'Sents of friendship nevertheless show a Also with Lazarus Judaistic studies charac­ operation between the Leo Baeck Institute Msh *^^^^^^tit personaUty. Steinthal's strong terised the final period of his life. He had and German scholars. J ,^ to communicate was always impeded by Ijg deling of uncertainty. An opinion, which t^ j^ished to emphasise in one moment bee look different a few hours later, Are you a flatlet-house owner? St1e ause the writer's mood had changed. If you are, why not re-furnish with the help of a ^ inthal did not feel comfortable in a world k: ^'•e he found it so difficult to establish leacJing distributor of contemporary British and Self. He saw very clearly the value of his Igi'^^ibution to scholarship, but this know- 8e rarely conquered a feeling of being a Scandinavian furniture.

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"UNDEKSTANDING AND ROUND AND ABOUT RECONCILIA'nON" A Message by Yehudi Menuhin "•raANK-YOU BRITAIN" FUND PICTURES BY ADELE REIFENBERG On the initiative of Mr. Herbert Sulzbach Ben Uri Gallery who, as captain of the British Army, was Six Fellowships Awarded education officer at the German Prisoners-of- Among the canvasses of a great number of War camp in Featherstone (England), con­ Together with the copies of the sixth and artists those of Adele Reifenberg are unmis­ tacts between the former camp inmates were seventh "Thank-You Britain" Fund lectures by Jonathan MUler (1971) and Roy Jenkins takable. She exhibited three pictures. (The retained after their repatriation by the foun­ (1972) the British Academy sent donors a exhibition closed on October 6.) "The Colon­ dation of "Arbeitskreis Featherstone". Since Report which reveals that, so far, six research nade, Bath" in crayon is a delicate, tender 1960, the "Arbeitskreis" has held annual re­ fellowships have been awarded. The first work in blue, yeUow, green and red. The union meetings in Germany, at which weU- Fellow, Mr. J. A. Patmore, had his book "Land columns provide a strong framework for the known British and German personalities and Leisure in England and Wales" repub­ composition. "View of Safed" is almost a deUver addresses on topical subjects. At the lished in the PeUcan series, which wUl make fantasy. A cypress forms the centre of a 1972 meeting, held in Diisseldorf on October the results of his research available to a much carefully planned composition. The landscape 28, Robert CecU, CGM, Professor of Contem­ wider audience. Dr. Robert Skidelsky's book glows in the sultry sun, corpse-like the town on British Fascism and Oswald Mosley wUl porary German History at Reading University, be published by Macmillan. The third Fellow, seems to sleep. But a subtle luminosity per­ spoke about "Die Haltung des Westens Miss Rita McWilliams, has completed her work vades the colours. "Hampstead Garden" looks gegenueber der OstpoUtik". on the history of the development of univer­ as if it had been infected by the artist's One of the patrons of the "Arbeitskreis" is sity education for women in Oxford and Cam­ memories of and love for the Orient. We look Yehudi Menuhin. On the occasion of this year's bridge. The research of the fourth FeUow, Mr. into a lush green jungle, Ut up by the many- reunion, he sent the following message to Mr. Richard White, on the provision of legal ser­ coloured flowers in the middle. Sulzbach, Hon. President of the "Arbeitskreis": vices in the city of Birmingham has developed into a four-year programme with three research There were also two pictures by Lotti "Dear Mr. Sulzbach, assistants. Reizenstein which have all the quaUties that On the occasion of the 13th annual meet­ Since November 1970, two further FeUows we described here a few months ago. ing in Diisseldorf of your ex-PoW Society, may I again send my heartfelt greetings to have been appointed: Professor Francis A. ROSENBERG. West (Professorial FeUow of the Aus­ one of those supreme examples of under­ traUan National University) and Mr. Ben­ standing and reconcUiation, of which the jamin Pimlott (Lecturer in Politics at the BIRTHDAY OF A COURAGEOUS WOMAN world is more than ever in need today. University of Newcastle). Professor West is "When former enemies embrace, it is working on a biography of Gilbert Murray, a Mrs. Alice Stem then that the sword can be tumed into noted classicist and, at the same time, a lead­ ing figure in the League of Nations and in the Mrs. AUce Stern, who recently celebrated ploughshares. Would that your example United Nations Association; the biography her 70th birthday, is one of the few, all too could apply to Arabs and Jews and to many wiU be pubUshed by the Oxford University few, Jews who survived the Holocaust in others, but this can only happen when pre­ Press. Tlie subject of Mr. Pimlott's research Nazi-occupied Europe. Her story was the sub­ judice, hate, arrogance and vain ambition is The Labour Party 1931-40, and it wiU be ject of a "This is your Life" programme are defeated and conquered. pubUshed by Allan & Unwin. some years ago. A widow from Prague, Mrs. With all good wishes. This year's lecture by Mr. Jenluns on British Stern had brought her son and nephew to Yours sincerely, „ Foreign Policy since 1945 was also broadcast England before the war. She returned, plan­ (signed) Yehudi Menuhin. by the BBC, together with the introductory ning to l>e back vrithin two weeks but was remarks by Sir Isaiah Berlin. In this way, a caught up by subsequent events and, for six JAKOB NUSSBAUM EXHIBI'nON far wider pubUc was made aware of the gene­ years, dragged from one camp to another. By sis and objects of the "Thank-You Britain" her imbreakable spirit, her selflessness and Request to Owners of Paintings Fund, and it is hoped that the practice will be her nursing work she saved many lives and The Staedelsche Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt) continued in future years. gave comfort to many more who could not be plans to hold an exhibition in mfemory of the The report also states that now, after nearly saved. After the war, her son went to the painter Jakob Nussbaum early next year. Any all subscriptions under seven-year covenants Continent to search for her. Miraculously, he readers who have works by the artist in theU" have been received, the capital accumulated found her and brought her to this country, possession are requested to get in touch in the Fund has reached the impressive total where she has been living since. We extend with: Staedelsche Kunstinstitut, Duererstr. 2, of £87,828. our sincerest congratulations to Mrs. Stem. Frankfurt/Main, West Germany. HOUSE OF HALLGARTEN DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX HERTIE ^r?HrrT?r.^^\ LTD. Specialist miif. Shippers LIMITED

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TOURISM NEWS FROM ISRAEL Not as many tourists came to Israel over the High Holy-days this year as had been PREJUDICE AGAINST ORIENTAL SOVIET IMMIGRATION hoped. All over the country there were IMMIGRANTS vacancies in hotels. Travel agents said the Abraham Trachtenberg and Arkady reason was that the Holy-days fell early this Voloshin, gaoled after a trial in Kishinev last year and were too close to the normal A report on " Israel's Oriental Immigrants summer hoUday. »nd Druses " has been issued by the London- year for an abortive aircraft hijacking at­ oased Minority Rights Group. The prestigi- tempt, were released and have arrived in Visiting New York in connection with the •"•^^nd independent information and research Israel. start of celebrations marking Israel's 25th an­ unit makes it clear that while there is in According to reports, the Russians have im­ niversary Mr. Moshe Kol, Israel's Minister of ftt * " a severe" problem of disparity be­ posed a new restriction on prospective Jewish Tourism, said that he was optimistic about emigrants to Israel. They must now produce the prospects for tourism to Israel, despite tween the European-born and descended the "psychology of fear" which seems to have jsraeli Jews and the other half of the popula- evidence that they are leaving Russia with the approval of relatives remaining behind. developed in America in the wake of the «on which is of Asian and African origin, Munich murders and other terrorist ac­ IS not based on colour or ethnic differ- Although a recent large group of Soviet tivities. n u^^' ^"^ ^^ essentiaUy due to educational, Jews arriving in Israel did not include a ""Ural and, above aU, socio-economic factors. single professionally qualified person SWEDISH AID (believed to be due to the operation of the ., "^ere is nothing in Israel, states the report, "education tax"), the flow of other Soviet A committee to raise funds to assist Israel nat remotely resembles the sheer colour Jews had not been interrupted. This suggests with the costs of settling Jewish immigrants prejudice in the West. There is, however, that the number who will come this year will has been formed by a group of Swedes pro­ one miserable paraUel: in Israel, as in about double last year's total. By the end of minent in cultural and political Ufe, in­ pp Anglo-Saxon countries, the effects of the year about 72,000 settlers are expected to cluding MPs. The campaign is supported by eonomic and educational disadvantages be- arrive. Already the 41,000 newcomers, most about 40 Swedish newspapers. oine the causes of further disparity, in a of them from the Soviet Union, exceeds the RESTRICTIONS ON SYRIAN JEWS Jicious circle which it is inordinately difficult total number of last year's immigrants. '0 break ". The French Jewish periodical, "Tribune Hope is expressed that the greater aware- BRITISH ALIYA DROP Juive", recently featured the disclosure by a ^^^ of both government and public opinion tourist who had recently returned to France r~Partly stimulated by the protest movements In the first seven months of this year from Damascus, of restrictions on Jews in thp°"^ the Orientals such as the Black Pan- British emigration to Israel dropped by more Syria. lers—will lead to more social measures dis- than 22 per cent compared to the same period Syrian Jews are forbidden to work for the a?f Dating in favour of the imder-privileged in 1971. State, their movements are severely re­ 'Q hence to greater integration. The general decline has been attributed stricted, and they cannot sell their property by a spokesman for the Jewish Agency's or movable assets or obtain a licence to drive AID TO OLYMPICS FAMILIES immigration department in Britain to "a a car. They must carry a special identity card world-wide subsidence in enthusiasm for stating that they are Jewish. One of the few • As already reported, nearly £400,000 has aliya ", which was at its peak after the Six- freedoms retained by Syria's 4,000 Jews, said Crn '^'•ansferred by the West German Red Day War in 1967. He gave as explanation the tourist, was reUgious liberty. Young Jews to tK ^° Magen David Adom for distribution for the unusually large decline in British could also go to the State universities, but SDntS^ famiUes of the eleven Israeli Olympic immigration the lack of antisemitic pressures only to graduate as doctors or pharmacists. •^"itsmen murdered in Mimich. on to leave their country. Con­ Syrian Jews could not leave the country, and joJPe Japanese Red Cross has also sent tributing, however was the publicity given families lived in constant dread of attack by kill ri ^°^ ^^^ famiUes of the ten Israelis to Israel's internal social problems and to Moslem neighbours. But, a young Syrian Jew tnic ^^^ ^ wounded in the Lod airport Israelis' discontent over the concessions told the tourist, relations between members w'f aere on May 30. All the other casualties granted to newcomers in housing, taxation of the community and their Christian neigh­ "^e Puerto Rican pilgrims. and employment. bours were "friendly." The AJR Meals-on-Wtieels Service is expanding AOeTISEIMENT RATES Additional drivers wtth cera are EDITORIAL COLUMf^ needed tor collection of meals (} width of page) from 9, Adamson Rd., N.W.3, and deliveries in London, W.l, W.2, £2 per Inch, single column. Wembley, Richmond, Kew areas. Regular volunteers for one or two ADVERTISEMENT COLUMNS momings per week preferred, but (} width of page) stand-by drivers for emergencies also welcomed. £1.50 per inch, single column. Mileage allowance if wanted. Only light weights, no messy A discount of 20% is granted for containers. orders of six or more insertions. Please phone: Mrs. S. 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GRATEFUL APPRECIA'HON Retirement of High Civil Servant THE GERMAN SCENE Ministerialdirigent Dr. Carl Gussone, Head of the Cultural Department of the German DEMONSRATION AND AWARD sented to a representative of the Korczak Federal Ministry of the Interior, recently AT BOOK FAIR Committee of Warsaw in St. Paul's Church, reached retirement age. His duties included Twenty-three Israeli pubUshers exhibited at Frankfurt, by President Gustav Heinemann the administration of that part of his Mini­ the 24th international book fair held at of West Germany. Dr. Korczak had chosen to stry's budget which is earmarked for the Frankfurt, Fifty-seven countries, including accompany 200 orphans in his care to the sponsorship of Jewish ventures. In this capacity, the Arab States, took part, and nearly 250,000 Treblinka gas chambers when the Nazis Dr. Gussone has been most helpful and under­ books, including 78,000 new titles, were dis­ "evacuated" them from the Warsaw Ghetto in standing to organisations like the Zentralrat played by 3,683 publishers. Special security August, 1942. of the Jews in Germany, the Societies precautions were adopted by the West To the prize worth DM10,000 the West for Christian-Jewish Co-operation as well as German authorities to protect Israel's German publishers' association also con­ the Leo Baeck Institute. He was also ID' stand. Some 100 Left-wing demonstrators at­ tributed the same sum to the Korczak Com­ strumental in the conclusion of the tempted to confiscate what they said was a mittee in Israel after representations by Is­ agreement between the Federal Government neo-Nazi book praising Hitler's S.S. in defeat­ raeli publishers. The Israelis had pointed out and the Lander and municipalities about the ing the Jewish Warsaw ghetto uprising in that the prize awarded to the Warsaw Com­ maintenance of the closed Jewish cemeteries. 1943. The Book Fair Council resigned in pro­ mittee in Korczak's memory woiUd go to a E.G.L. test against the display of the volume by the Polish orphanage where no Jewish children Right-wing K.W. Schuetz Company, who have were admitted. MUNICH HONOURS JEWISH SCHOLAR published books by Emmy Goering, former In a statement the Central CJouncil of Jews The awards bestowed by Munich Universd<^ Colonel Rudel and Leon Degrelle. in (Jermany said that it could not be ignored on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Such glorification of the Nazi ideology, said that, while the memory of Janusz Korczak its foundation indLude an honorary doctorate the Council, was incompatible with the deci­ was being honoured, living Polish Jews are of law for Dr. David Daube, Professor at we sion of the West German publishers' associa­ still being discredited and are facing dis­ University of California. Professor Daube, tion posthumously to present its 1972 peace crimination. The Central Council had pro­ who was born in Freiburg in 1909, taught m award to Janusz Korczak (original name posed that the money be given to the Korc­ Oxford until two years ago. He is now P™' Henryk Goldszmit), the PolishJewdsh writer zak Committee in Germany, the International fessor at Berkeley and Director of the U""' and educationist murdered in Treblinka con­ Red Cross Committee for Children in Bangla versity's Rabtoinic Hebrew and Roman collec­ centration camp in 1942. The prize was pre­ Desh, or to Unicef. tion.

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DR. ALFRED KALMUS The music publisher Dr. AKred Kalmus IN MEMORIAM died in London at the age of 83. He joined the firm of Universal Edition (Vienna) in EUGEN SPIRO PROFESSOS WOLFGANG FBIKDMANN 1909 and after his emigration established its London branch. Dr. Kalmus was a champion One evening a few years ago, after the per­ "Ludicrous Death" — these words from of new twentieth-century composers such as formance, Tilla Durieux was in her dressing- John Osborne's "West of Suez" come to mind Mahler. Schoenberg, Webern and Berg and '^om when the door opened and an old man when recording the murder in New York of later also encouraged composers of the post­ asked her: "Do you stiU recognise me?" "But, an outstanding scholar and refugee from Nazi war generation, among them Stockhausen and Oi course, I do. We were married in 1905." Germany, Dr. Wolfgang Friedmann, who was Boulez. At the time of this incident Eugen Spiro fatally stabbed in the chest during a struggle RABBI DR. GEORG KANTOROWSKY Was over ninety. Anybody who knew him with three "muggers". The tragedy happened Rabbi Dr. Georg Kantorowsky died in San '"en admired his nimbleness of body at day-time three blocks from Columbia Uni­ versity, where Dr. Friedmann was professor Francisco in his 90th year. From 1917-1940 ?nd mind. I visited him in New York. He had of intemational law and director of in­ he was rabbi and teacher at the Juedische 3ust returned from Switzerland with a batch ternational legal research. Bruedergemeinde Berlin-NeukoeUn. At the "f charming watercolours. Wolfgang Friedmann was born in Berlin in last possible moment, he succeeded in emi­ But his Ufe did not start in the USA. He 1905, the son of the well-known criminal grating to Shanghai, where he acted as rabbi *as bora in Breslau in 1874 where his father lawyer, Leonhard Friedmann. He obtained to the large community of Central European *as a cantor. Before the First World War he refugees during the trying war years. He his law degree from the University of Berlin later re-emigrated to the United States and, "Ved in Paris where he Imew Bonnard, VuU- in 1930 and, after his emigration, also from in 1949, founded the German language Con­ J^rd and other famous painters. He brought the universities of London and Melboume. In gregation B'ne Emuna, whose spiritual head oack to Berlin the joyous bright colours of addition to Columbia, he had been on the law he remained until he had attained the age of ^^'c Impressionists and Fauves which are so faculties of the University of Toronto and 87. Characteristic of his landscapes. Yet his real the University of Melbourne. His best known books were "Law and a Changing Society" MR. WERNER SANDER ame rests on his portraits. Theodor Heuss, (1959) and "Changing Structure of In­ ^crhart Hauptmann, Einstein, Thomas Mann, ternational Law" (1964). He always con­ It is learned only now that Mr. Wemer ^ert Bassermann, Fritz von Uuruh were his demned "unconscionable use of force by Sander, founder and conductor of the "Leip­ Jtters. It is interesting that his male portraits nations". ziger Synagogalchor" passed away at the age how a greater insight into the character of of 70. Before the war, he was conductor of More than 600 persons attended the Memo­ the Breslau Synagogue Choir and rendered .^^ portrayed than his female portraits where rial Ceremony for Dr. Friedmann at which performances under the auspices of the "c decorative element tends to dominate. addresses were delivered by Mayor Lindsay Juedische Musikverein (Breslau). During the °ut Spiro was a great lover of music. He had and Dr. William G. McGill, President of war, he had to do forced labour but, . .''eautiful voice and used it to entertain his Columbia University. "protected" by being married to a Gentile, nends. He produced remarkable pencil survived the Holocaust. From 1950 onwards, Ketches of famous conductors and concert he acted as cantor to the Jewish communities •'lists during their actual performances: DR. FANNY SPITZER of Dresden and Leipzig. Yet his main ^•^gor Piatigorsky, the singer Lily Pons, Fritz achievement was the creation of the "Leip­ ziger Synagogalchor" in 1962, after the con­ ^eisler at one with his violin. It is announced with deep regret that Dr. secration of the new synagogue in Leipzig. ^f^rom 1915 to 1933 he was Praesident der Fanny Spitzer (London) died at the age of He would wield the 24 non-Jewish male and prliner Sezession. After the First Worid War 72. Before she came to this country she was female lay-singers into an organic ensemble, jjp had a number of one-man exhibitions in first a judge and later a practising lawyer in which also mastered Hebrew and Yiddish ^ USA and Germany. Last year I saw a BerUn. She resumed her legal activities after texts. The choir rendered recitals in many i J^yas by Spiro in the Germanische Museum the war when the restitution and com­ cities to an ever-increasing audience and also "> Nuernberg. pensation laws came into being. Many victims on the radio. The recordings have been of persecution owe the settlement of their widely appreciated in many countries. Those who were near to him have lost a claims to the thorough knowledge, energy arm-hearted and generous friend. and human understanding by which her work MB. ALEXANDER SZANTO A. ROSENBERG. excelled. Mr. Alexander Szanto (Manchester) PROF. HANNS W. EPPELSHEIMER At the same time, Fanny Spitzer always recently died at the age of 73. Born in Hung­ took a leading part in the work of organ­ ary, he lived in Berlin before the war, where ^jf^<'.fessor Hanns W. E^pelsheimer, who isations built up by former refugees. Her spe­ he held several positions with Jewish in­ tor l^ Frankfurt at the age of 82, was direc- cial continuous efforts were devoted to the stitutions. He was on the staff of the Jewish starit ^^^ Hessische Landesbibliothek, Darm- Cultural Activities Committee of the Leo (Community and took a responsible part in l^n" L ^^ ^^^ dismissed by the Nazis in Baeck Lodges, of whose Women's Lodge she the work of the "Wirtschaftshilfe", estab­ ^A because he was married to a Jewess. was President for a time. She was also a lished after the Nazis had come to power. He SQJ*,'! the war he was one of the first per- long-standing member of the Board of the was also a contributor to several Jewish eJr?uties who initiated the collection and AJR. When the research on the History of papers in Germany and, after the war, to the t^g'Ration of the Uterature produced by Ger- Immigration was launched she made a Year Book of the Leo Baeck Institute. He e^?"'anguage authors after their enforced number of valuable suggestions. The human survived the persecution period in Hungary hiHilration. As early as 1950 he commenced fates as reflected in the numerous cases she and came to this country as an Hungarian y^dmg up the Section "Exil-Literatur" of had dealt with in her consultative activities refugee. Mr. Szanto was a knowledgeable, vj"® Deutsche Bibliothek" Frankfurt, which and the evaluation of the vocational and devoted and unassuming communal worker l9?fi^ under his directorship from 1946 to social changes caused by the migration from who will gratefuUy be remembered by all br^ki All those who are interested in the Germany to this country attracted her special who knew him. yjp'^lems of "Literature in ExUe", whether interest. Under this aspect, her departure is KURT HILLER hav 1 ® '° Germany or in other countries, a particular loss for the AJR. A warm­ and lost one of the outstanding pioneers hearted, helpful and sociable personality, her The writer and politologist, Kurt HiUer, has eff^ most understanding sponsors of their memory wiU be gratefully cherished by wide died in Hamburg. An obituary will be pub­ sections of our community. lished in our next issue.

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The dent democratic German anti-Nazi periodical, AJR members will contribute to the best of probably the most important of its kind »* their abiUty. number of Jews who died in Theresienstadt amounts to 33,430. Of the deportees to the Europe. Its editors and contributors included There are, however, also the foUowing other former German jourruilists and civil ser­ requirements: East, 3,097 survived. In the Theresienstadt camp itself, 16,837 survived of whom 8,565 vants. " Die Zeitung" was read by nionV Acconunodation: Offers would be gratefully refugees as well as by civil and military received by Mrs. H. Anderson, Uganda Re­ had, however, been brought to the camp only shortly before the end of the war. British Authorities and representatives of the settlement Board, Riverwalk House, MiUbank, various govemments in exile. The pflP**" London, SWIP 4RS; Tel.: 01-828 7848, exten­ The consecration was foUowed by the open­ ing ceremony of an exhibition, "Kunst in not only served as an anti-Nad propaganait sion No. 72. organ but also dealt unth general German Employment: Offers of employment are be­ Theresienstadt 194I-I945". The inauguration address was delivered by the painter Leo Haas, cultural subjects. ing dealt with by Mr. B. J. Carruthers, Uganda "Club 1943" was originally founded io Resettlement Board, Riverwalk House, MiU­ the only survivor among the artists whose works are exhibited. counter the activities of the Free Germain bank, London, SWIP 4RS; Tel.: 01-828 7848, "Kulturbund" which, from its very beginninO, extension No. 63. It is intended to erect a Ghetto Museum and also to aiSx memorial plaques on the wall was infiltrated by Communists. 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This is inost members who can spare some time for volun­ active part in the implementation of the arrangements in memory of the Theresien­ gratifying because it secures the continuity tary help should get in touch with Miss of the Club's activities. Hannah Stanton, Co-ordinating Committee for stadt victims. the Welfare of EJvacuees from Uganda, Bays- GEORG WEIS. (Dr.) W. OSTWAlO- water Students' Centre, Porchester Road, Lon­ The Wiener Komitee fuer Theresienstadt, 58 Hamilton Road, don, W.2; Tel.: 01-727 6056. to whose untiring labours all Jews from Cen­ London, N.W.ll. tral Europe, and especially the relatives of CONSECRATION OF THERESIENSTADT the victims, are indebted, operates under the CEMETERY leadership of Dr. Georg Weis (Vienna) and AFTER MUNICH As already reported last month, the newly includes the following members: Dr. Jellinek Sir,—We live outside a Jewish community- laid-out cemetery of Theresienstadt was con­ (New York), Dr. Kapralik (London), Ing. To a Jewish mind we live in the "unlds". W* secrated on September 3. The ceremony was Kraemer (Tel Aviv), and Hofrat KreU belong to Manchester Jackson Row, but tna^ attended by 700 persons, including as guests (Vienna).—The Ed. is of no interest to our Christian neighbours- of honour representatives of the Federation For them we represent " the Jews " if ^nV'^ STUDY ON DEPORTATION OF GERMAN thing important happens. In everyday 2*'^?^ of Jewish communities of Bohemia and JEWS Moravia, the Prague Jewish community imder we ore just neighbours, calling each other W the leadership of their President, Ing. Fuchs, Appeal for Subscriptions ^rst names, running into each others' houses- During the Munich massacre I was in G^' and of the Wiener Juedische Komitee fuer Dr. H. G. Adler (London), whose publica­ Theresienstadt. tions include a standard work on the Theresien­ many and came home the following day- "3 The cemetery is situated at the end of a stadt Ghetto, has completed a comprehensive next-door neighbour fell round my neck o.n"' newly buUt street. Its entrance is marked by assessment of the political, administrative brought me a hunch of flowers, my oppoSi'" and human aspects of the deportation of the neighbour came with a plant and had teof/ a huge stylised Menorah. Along the wall of the Jews from Germany. The conclusions at which cemetery, a wide aUey, the "Alley of Nations", in her eyes—they all wanted to pay the^^ he arrives are of topical importance to the respects and paid us, "the Jews", visits of co^ has been laid out, with memorials for each evaluation of present-day group behaviour. country from which the Jews were deported The work can, however, only be published if dolence. Telephone calls from teachers—t^^ to Theresienstadt. In the areas in front and subsidies towards the substantial printing all unshed to communicate and we gratefuWI behind the crematorium, the rows of the for­ costs become available. In an appeal, signed accepted their expressions of friendship- ".^ mer mass graves are marked by stones. There by the three chairmen of the German Societies feel that your recKlers should participate "* is a special row with names of individual for Christian-Jewish Co-operation, interested the gesture they wanted to make to you ''* readers are asked to send contributions to: well. n victims inscril>ed at the request of relatives Sonderkonto Adler z.Hd.Eberhard Bethge, after the war. Konto-Nr. 11830, Raiffeisenbank Horhausen- (Mrs.) HILDE GERRABi^' Burials at the cemetery took place only Rengsdorf, 5455 Rengsdorf bei Neuwied, West 6 Edge End Avenue, untU 1942. Later, the bodies were cremated Germany, Brierfield, Nelson, Lanes.

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