Volume XXXVIII No. 6 June 1983 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE

ASSOamnOH OFJCWISH ROVGOS IN GRUTBimUH

Egon Larsen could not be expected to know that we, the left- behinds in Berlin, sang "Jetzt geht's der Dolly gut,/ sie sitzt in Hollywood..." When Hitler had usurped power and the Reichstag went up in flames, the trickle of immigrants grew to "NEW WEIMAR" IN HOLLYWOOD a flood of prominent refugees: Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bert Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger, Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, Peter Lorre and Albert A Cast of Thousands in the Film Metropolis Bassermann, Alfred DOblin and Hanns Eisler. Some, like Feuchtwanger, had to make their escape during the war, from Nazi-occupied France and through Fascist Italy or Spain. If the majority of Jewish newcomers had hoped to We who were living and working in pre-Hitler Still later, Marlene Dietrich left Berlin straight be helped and welcomed with open arms by their Germany never realised that we were witnessing the after her phenomenal success in the "Blue Angel" in fellow-Jews amongst the old-established film moguls, oinh and rise of a new cultural era, now post­ 1930, together with her director, Josef von Stemberg, they were disappointed. The Mayers and Goldwyns humously called "Weimar". Thus it sounds rather and continued her star career in Hollywood without did not seem to feel any obligation to employ them, absurd when a publisher proclaims, on the flap of a a break. Taylor also mentions Dolly Haas, but he and some went so far as to point out that they were, new book about the emigration of "the cream ofthe first and foremost, Americans, and proud of it. So German intelligentsia", that all they were looking the newcomers found it, more often than not, rather for was "a rallying-point to build a New Weimar hard to keep body and soul together. Taylor speaks ^d preserve German culture from the holocaust". The Association of Jewish Refugees of the great American tradition that if you are some­ in Great Britain Fortunately, the book itself—"Strangers in body you have to live like a bigwig, "in regulation Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933-1950" reminds members and friends that it mansions complete with swimming pool". (Fabcr & Fabcr, £8.25)—never makes such a silly will hold its claim. "Naturally", the author writes, "most of WILDER JUMPS IN POOL 'hose who left aimed first of all at just getting across Erich Pommer (the producer of "The Cabinet of 'he border", and we refugees can confirm that this GENERAL Dr. Caligari") was one of the first to achieve this, *as the harsh truth. That author, the Londoner John MEETING and threw the required extravagant parties. At one Russell Taylor—art critic of "The Times", biographer of them, Billy Wilder—still jobless and poor—got of Hitchcock, Professor of Film History at the Uni­ on Thursday, 30 June, at 7.45 p.m. 80 dollars for jumping into the pool, fully clothed. versity of Southern California—has painted such an at Hannah Karminski House "It was the rough underside of Los Angeles that ^ormous canvas, with so mcuiy well-researched fac­ 9 Adamson Road, Swiss Cottage, N.W.S Wilder first encountered", writes Taylor. "He could tual as well as anecdotal details, of the emigration (Side Entrance) speak almost no English ... He scraped what sort of ffom Hitler-dominated Central Europe to Hollywood I a living he could from doing odd jobs like walking 'hat one gets the impression of a vast transfer of a on the wing of an aeroplane Hying over the coast. whole culture; thus the mistake in the publishers' Report on AJR Activities Treasurer's Report Wilder starved, sharing for a while a room with Peter elaim seems understandable. It was a drama, some- Lorre and living on a can of soup a day". Only after 'imes tuming to tragedy, with a "cast of thousands", Discussion four hard years. Wilder succeeded in getting a con­ as they used to say in Hollywood jargon; and to the Election of Executive and Board tract with Paramount, "and his career really took present generation all those famous or at least familiar The list of candidates submitted by the off. "ames may indeed look like a planned invasion of Executive is published on page 2. 'he movie metropolis. A nurrrber of refugees got their first parts as II "sneering Nazis": Conrad Veidt, Walter Slezak, In fact, records Taylor, a constant trickle of Euro­ Otto Preminger. But on the whole, they had to fight pean Jewish immigrants to Hollywood had already We are very pleased to announce that a good deal of anti-German prejudice, to which they ''egun soon after that place had been established as Mr. PETER FRAENKEL often added by criticizing Americcui life with the '^erica's film centre early in the century: Louis B. Controller of BBC European Services remeuk that "bei uns" everything had been better; Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn (formerly Goldfish) had has kindly agreed to speak on so they were called the "bei-unskis". '^nie from Poland, Adolph Cukor and William Fox FROM THE AFRICAN BUSH TO On the other hand, some prominent Jewish film from Hungary, Carl Laemmle from Laupheim near BBC BUSH HOUSE people tried to stay on under Hitler and see how ^hn, Stroheim (was he really "von"?) from Austria, things would develop. They were banking on their Ghaplin from England and later Emst Lubitsch from Details atx>ut the speaker and the subject are published on page 2. fame, believing themselves irreplaceable in Ger­ ^lin; the latter, who arrived in 1922, "rapidly many's movie industry. Robert Siodmak for instance, hecame the model of the emigre who assimilated renowned since his silent "Menschen am Sonntag" completely into the Hollywood community", says Space donated by an anonymous contributor. Taylor. Continued on page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1983 Continued from page 1 AJR GENERAL MEETING Speaker's Unusual Background WEIMAR IN HOLLYWOOD As readers will have seen from announcements published in our previous and current issues, this which had been shot on a shoestring with a non­ What strikes the reader of Taylor's book is that year's Annual General Meeting will be held on professional cast in 1928, waited until Goebbels none of the refugee writers who had settled around Thursday, 30 June, at 7.45 p.m., at Hannah Karminski himself attacked him in the "VSlkischer Beobachter" Los Angeles contributed anything to the so-called House, 9 Adamson Road, Swiss Cottage, NW3. as a "corrupter of the German family" with a film "exile literature", now such a favourite topic. We are very pleased that Mr. Peter Fraenkel, based on a Stefan Zweig story. Feuchtwanger was the exception, but his "Opper- Controller ofthe European Services ofthe BBC, has manns" had already been written in Europe in 1933. kindly agreed to give a talk, which he calls "From Fritz Lang, even more famous ("Die Nibelungen", In California, Thomas Mann worked on many pro­ the African Bush to BBC Bush House". Mr. Fraenkel "Dr. Mabuse", "Metropolis"), had already been in jects, from "Lotte in Weimar" to "Dr. Faustus" has an unusually interesting background. Born in trouble with a film he had called "Morder Unter and "Felix Krull"; Franz Werfel (converted to Breslau, he emigrated as a boy with his family to Uns", which the Nazis took as referring to them­ Catholicism) on his "Song of Bemadette" and what was then Northern Rhodesia, so he grew up in selves; so the UFA had to re-title it "M". It estab­ "Jacobowsky and the Colonel"; Heinrich Mann, Central Africa and was a great innovator in broad­ lished the reputation of Peter Lorre (as the child Alfred DOblin and others on commissioned film casting to the Africans. As Controller of BBC Euro­ murderer). But with a sequel to "Dr. Mabuse", to scripts which, however, hardly ever reached the pean Services, he knows Central and Eastern Europe be premiered in 1933, Lang's German career was screen. Bert Brecht left his "Schweik in the Second well and can tell us much of recent developments finished when the new Nazi censorship banned it. World War", intended for Peter Lorre, unfinished, there in the Jewish and other contexts. Very little is He took the next train to Paris, where he found his and the long-drawn-out project of staging "Galileo" understood by the general public about BBC broad­ friends Erich Pommer, G. W. Pabst ("Die Freudlose in English, with Charles Laughton in the lead, casts to Central and Eastern Europe, a service of Gasse" with Asta Nielsen and Greta Garbo, "West- niaterialized only after the war; so did his rather un- immense importance to the listeners, and Mr. Fraenkel front 1918", "Kameradschaft") and his fellow- Brechtian adaptation of the "Duchess of Malfi", is uniquely able to take us behind the scenes. Peter Austrian Billy Wilder. Arnold Schoenberg, the creator performed in 1946 with Elisabeth Bergner. When he Fraenkel's unusually varied background will provide of the twelve-tone system, had also emigrated first to eventually returned to East Germany he brought a fascinating insight into several worlds. Vienna and then to Paris when the Nazi bosses pro­ with him the "Caucasian Chalk Circle". Altogether, Mr. Fraenkel's talk will be preceded by reports on claimed that they would wipe out all Jewish influence not much "exile literature", was there? the activities of and finances of the AJR and the elec­ in German music. But France was not too helpful to tion of Executive and Board members. The following the German refugees, most of them penniless, and PROBLEMS OF EXILE election proposals are submitted by the Executive. the final emigration across the Atlantic began. Yet there was a good deal of public speaking and Admittedly, some newcomers were lucky enough lecturing by prominent refugee writers about the 'o find sympathy among immigrants from earlier problems of exile. Taylor points out that during the Executive Candidates generations. Carl Laemmle, boss of Universal, gave war they still ranked as enemy aliens, with curfew, Committee of Management (Executive): The them as many jobs as possible; Schoenberg struck up travel restrictions and other "silly little annoyances", members of the present Executive standing for re­ a fruitful musical friendship with George Gershwin, as Feuchtwanger called them. However, it was he election are: Mr. A. S. Dresel (Life President), Mr. whom he admired; Luise Rainer from Vienna teamed who made his exile the most profitable period of his C. T. Marx (Chairman), Dr. F. E. Falk (Vice-Chair­ up with Paul Muni, formerly an actor in the New life, and he lived in great style in California until his man), Mr. L. Spiro (Treasurer), Mrs. R. Anderman, York Yiddish theatre. death in 1958. Mr. C. F. Flesch, Mr. O. E. Franklyn (Trustee), Dr. A. R. Horwell (Trustee), Mrs. B. Kanter, Mr. M. Max Reinhardt, who may have relied too much on At that time, the refugee colony was already decimated. Reinhardt had died in 1943 soon after his Kochmann, JP (Trustee), Dr. W. Rosenstock. Dr. his European fame, mounted a giant stage produc­ Laura Stein. tion of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", but when 70th birthday celebration attended by Zuckmayer, Molnar and Kurt Weill; Bruno Frank and Franz It is proposed to elect to the Executive Mr. Frank Warner Brothers commissioned him to transfer it to Odell and Mr. Helmut Rothenberg. film, just about everything went wrong, probably Werfel died in 1945, Heinrich Mann and Kurt WeiU due to Reinhardt's inexperience in film production, in 1950. Thomas Mann, "disturbed by the changing and his seven-picture contract was cancelled. Otto American political climate" (Taylor), had moved to Board Members Preminger, too, had his initial failures before he rose Switzerland where he spent his last years. Some, like Board: It is proposed to re-elect the following •o the status of star director. The composers Erich Alfred Doblin, returned to Germany as soon as they members of the present Board: Mrs. O. Albrecht, Wolfgang Komgold, Friedrich HoUaender and Franz could, their departure being speeded up by the threat Dr. Alice Apt, Mrs. A. Berent, Dr. J. Bondi, Rabbi Waxmann, however, soon succeeded with their film of having to appear before the Un-American Activi­ I. Broch, Rabbi C. E. Cassell, Mrs. M. Casson, Mr. scores, perhaps the best Hollywood had ever got. ties Committee of Senator McCarthy. Brecht already F. Dannen, Mr. F. Durst, Dr. W. Dux, Dr. R. Elton, had his ticket to Germany in his pocket when he had Dr.'H. Feld, Mrs. Hannah Finburgh, Mr. R. Fischer, Leslie Howard (parents' surname: Stainer), that his hearing at which he tried to get, rather inglori- Dr. A. Fleiss, Mrs. A. Fleiss, Dr. H. G. Francken, 'niage of the English gentleman (remember his superb ously, around the inevitable question: "Are you, or Dr. H. Frcund, Mr. R. J. Friedmann, Mrs. Elisabeth Professor Higgins in the pre-war "Pygmalion" have you ever been, a member of the Communist Goldschmidt, Mr. R. Graupner, Mr. S. F. Hallgarten, film?), was in fact an orthodox Jew who never worked Party?" Dr. J. J. Halpern, Mrs. G. Hamburg, Mrs. Susanne on Saturdays. He had gone to Hollywood in the late So ended the "New Weimar" that had never existed. Horwell, Mrs. M. Jacoby, Mr. E. C. Kent, Mrs. F. 1930s but returned to Britain to help with the war A few refugee film directors—notably Fritz Lang, Kochmann, Miss J. Lee, Dr. Rita Lehmann, Mrs. H. effort. The aircraft bringing him back from a lecture Billy Wilder and Robert Siodmak—had merged Lieser, Dr. G. Leon, Dr. F. Levy, Mr. A. Lieberman, tour for the British Council in Spain in 1943 was shot completely in the upper echelons of Hollywood Mrs. Ilse Loewenthal, Dr. E. G. Lowenthal, Dr. E. tJown in mid-Channel by a German plane, and he society. The movie metropolis, says Taylor at the Magnus, Mrs. M. Mautner, Mr. H. C. Mayer, Mrs. <^ied, aged only 53. Another Briton, the Hungarian- end ofhis splendid book, "had not radically changed Gabriele Meyer, Mrs. L. Meyer, Dr. L. Nelken, Mrs. born film magnate Alexander Korda, seems to have things for the 'Strangers', or been radically changed M. Pottlitzer, Mr. W. R. Powell, Dr. Eva Reichmann, Worked in Califomia as a secret agent for his personal by them. But it had changed, and they had changed Mrs. M. Richmond, Mr. P. Rosenfeld, MBE, Mr. J. friend Churchill, crossing the Atlantic several times and they had been, for at least a brief moment, an Sachs, Mr. W. Salinger, Mrs. Charlotte Salzberger, during the war at the risk of his life. important part of one another". Mr. F. Samson, Mrs. Ruth Schneider, Mrs. A. Schwab, Mrs. D. Segall, Mr. P. E. Shields, OBE, Mr. Julius Strauss, Mrs. Eva Trent, Mrs. H. Ury, Mr. H. Wetzler, VW TO FINANCE RESEARCH MEDAL FOR RIGHTEOUS GENTILE Dr. Valerie Wills, Dr. Charlotte Wittelshoefer, Mr. Otto Kulka of the Hebrew University has been Righteous Gentile Helene Jacobs, who was sen­ F. S. Worms, Mr. H. Wreschner. ehosen to lead a project whose aim is to document tenced to 30 months' imprisonment for helping Jews 'he position of Jews in the Third Reich. A large sum, in Nazi Germany, has been awarded the Buber- It is proposed to elect as a new member Mr. aniouniing to several hundred thousand Deutschmarks, Rosenzweig medal by the Co-Ordinating Council of Herbert Loebl, OBE (Newcastle). has been donated by the Volkswagen organisation to Associations for Christian-Jewish Co-Operation. The Board also includes representatives ofthe Pro­ help in financing the work. Aged 77, Mrs. Jacobs lives in Beriin. vincial Groups. AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1983 Page 3 Eva G. Reichmann Hampstead. It was affiliated to the Liberal Synagogue in St. John's Wood whose leading representatives. Rabbi Mattuck and especially the Honorary Lily H. Montague had been instrumental in its establish­ RABBI GEORG SALZBERGER ment. But right from its beginning it differed from customary British Liberalism by its outspoken lean­ ing towards the German-Jewish tradition. "German Jewry went into the dark night and no tion, the "Freie JUdische Lehrhaus". TheLehrhaus After various preparations the first German- longer exists". These words we read in the Introduc­ was closely associated with Martin Buber, Rabbi Liberal service took place in March 1939—still in the tion by Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander to a precious Nehemia Nobel, Ernst Simon and other men of mother synagogue of St. John's Wood—with Chazan, gift he has given us, a book on late Rabbi Georg renown and became so much a symbol ofthe renewed choir and organ. Many a worshipper was moved to Salzberger (Leben und Lehre, Waldemer Kramer, zeal for Jewish education that it is important to tears when listening to the traditional Lewandowsky Frankfurt a.M. 1982 DM19.80). It is a precious gift record its proud and humble origin in Salzberger's melodies he had loved since childhood days and to because in it there is survival, survival of a worthy "Gesellschaft". the sermon in his mother tongue. When after these antecedents the independent congregation was even­ remnant of the tragic legacy. Georg Salzberger was A life lived under the threat and later under the one of the most dignified representatives of the tually founded. Dr. Salzberger was elected its pre­ brute force of Naadsm could not remain safe from its ordained rabbi. He served the high office with happy proud circle of German rabbis, distinguished both dire power. Georg Salzberger was not spared its by their scholarship and human care of their con­ devotion for 17 years. Under him the New Liberal horror. With most members of his congregation he Jewish Congregation—later renamed Belsize Square gregations. "He was a blessed man" says Albert was taken to the concentration camp of Dachau Friedlander. One of his blessings was indeed that he Synagogue—grew in membership and reputation. It after the November pogrom in 1938. He had to suffer became a highly esteemed part of British Jewry. survived the Holocaust while so many of his com­ the most terrible tribulations. He describes it truth­ panions became its victims. fully and effectively, so effectively indeed that in the The second task which appealed to Rabbi Salzberger The book is honoured not only by the introductory light of his later efforts towards reconciliation be­ was the collaboration with the Societies for Jewish- , chapter of its editor. Rabbi Friedlander, but also by tween Jews and Germans his moral stature is greatly Christian cooperation in Germany. They had emerged ^ a foreword from Rabbi Salzberger's friend, the Ger- enhanced. there out of the guilt-laden consciousness of the tnan author Albrecht Goes. It is a foreword so full of holocaust. The men and women of good-will who affection that it is apt to make any further preamble gathered in these organisations were most anxious to unnecessary. What could possibly surpass Goes' STRENGTH TO FORGIVE find Jewish helpers. The depleted Jewish com­ characterisation of Salzberger's vocation: "He did munities in Germany could hardly provide them. not proclaim any communication; he lived the com­ Rabbi Salzberger, true to his German-Jewish origin munity. To him it was just as natural as breathing to But that was Georg Salzberger. To pass over his and deeply conscious of the need to help build help reproduce at every moment Israel's contribution ordeal would have betrayed his veracity. However, bridges over the abyss that had opened up between 'o the elucidation of the worid". being a "blessed man" who really loved his fellow- German Christians and Jews, was eager to serve. Six men as his religion demands he found the strength to But let us listen to Georg Salzberger himself. In of his lectures delivered at so-called "Brotherhood forgive. To forgive not the actual perpetrators ofthe Weeks", the main annual programmes ofthe societies, 'he first seven chapters he describes his childhood, hideous crimes he had witnessed, but to forgive the his university studies and the first years of his are reprinted in the memorial volume. It proves Dr. more or less passive bystanders whose weaknesses he Salzberger an artist of eloquence. rabbinate in Frankfurt a.M. We learn from him how regarded with indulgence. Not a little help towards he grew from his academic beginnings into what he the magnanimous faculty of forgiving he may have As subjects of his speeches he chose some of the would not have claimed himself, but what we grate­ found in his gratitude for the exemplary endeavours fundamental, and also most frequently misunder­ fully appreciate as a mature teacher of the old of his brave wife in achieving his rescue. stood, themes of Judaism: love of the neighbour religious wisdom. He became, above all, a master of (mistakenly monopolised by Christianity), the After the horror of Dachau, Salzberger's life in 'he great venture to reconcile authentic Judaism Pharisees, the concept of the Chosen People, mes- the "fatherland" he had loved so much came to an with the essentials of modern times. "1 always tried sianism, and the erroneous reproach that, unlike the end. He and his family found refuge in England. lo apply old religious tmths and the wisdom of biblical Christian God of love, the Jewish God was a God of The difficult time of adjustment to entirely new cir­ scriptures to our own time and its problems". The revenge. Salzberger's arguments are impressive. Out cumstances began. But there again his unique gift of story of his life and his achievements proves beyond of the abundance of his knowledge and the profun­ appreciating what comfort was to be found within doubt how well he succeeded. dity of his wisdom he manages to speak plainly and bitter necessity made itself felt. He mentions with * y Ample details of his way to eminence deserve to be unaffectedly. "Even though Israel's history seems gratitude his encounter with an unknown gentleman set down for special remembrance. They cannot all to evolve like the history of other nations" he while trying to find his way to St. Paul's Cathedral. be specified. Of great significance is his record of his teaches, "it is different. It is the prophets, not the After directing him the gentleman asked: "Are you service as an army chaplain. It is quite enchanting. It military leaders and the kings who are at the centre a Protestant?" On the negative reply he asked: makes its readers comrades-in-arms, sharing all his of J)iblical history". "Catholic?" "No", replied Rabbi Salzberger: "I problems and his happiness at overcoming them. am a Jew". Whereupon the gentleman took off his Even for those not fortunate enough to have This chapter belongs to the history of German Jewry. hat with a gesture of deference: he had met a son of listened to Rabbi Salzberger's lectures and sermons There is another episode which must be singled the Chosen People. personally this book echoes his voice. He was a out for special emphasis. Georg Salzberger was for "blessed man". In handing down the story ofhis life Two great tasks emerged for Dr. Salzberger dur­ all intents and purposes the originator of an institu­ and teachings to posterity the editors have helped his ing his London years. True to his conviction that tion that deserves pride of place in any account of readers share in his blessing. German-Jewish history. By inaugurating in I9l9the man was "both creature and creator", he felt called upon to create. Undeterred by the existing variety of "Gesellschaft fur judische Volksbildung in Frankfurt CARTOONIST WINS FRENCH PRIZE a.M., and by calling Franz Rosenzweig in 1920 to Jewish life in London, he created the New Liberal Congregation in the heart of the London suburb of The cartoonist Louis Mittelberg ("Tim") of the Frankfurt to take up the leadership of this academy, French weekly "L'Express" is the third recipient of he became the founder of what was later known as the French Judaism Foundation Prize, worth nearly the exemplary organisation of Jewish adult educa- piiiiiiiniiwL'iiiiiiHuiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiniiiim £10,000. Previous winners have been the veteran I ALL AIRPORTS AND SEASIDES | writer on antisemitism Leon Poliakov and the poet Edmond Jabes. "Tim" cartoons have also appeared I JACK'S EARLY CAR SERVICE | in the London "Sunday Times". 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LETTER TRICKED NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Another letter in the campaign of indirect denigra­ HOME NEWS tion of Jews has been printed in the "Daily Telegraph". Using the name "Abraham Rosenburg", the unknown correspondent asserted that Jews who fought for the British during the Second World War were fighting "however symbolically ... the evil trying to destroy "TRACK OF TYRANNY" EXHIBrnON NEW STUDY CENTRE AT SELLY OAK Judaism, rather than actually fighting for Britain A meeting of the Council of Christians and Jews herself. Once a Jew, always a Jew''. The writer claimed The Wiener Library Exhibition "On the Track of has heard details from Rabbi Norman Solomon of that he himself had been a British Jewish combatant. Tyranny" was opened on 19 April in the presence of a Hampstead concerning a new centre to be established The letter also quoted Jacob Klatzkin to the effect: distinguished gathering of public figures and at Selly Oak Colleges near Birmingham. The Centre "The boundaries of a country like England or Ger­ academics. Lord Annan spoke of the Jewish contri­ will be devoted to the study of Judaism and Jewish- many are not the concern ofthe Jewish people living bution to Westem civilisation and how it had been Christian relations, including antisemitism. Professor in those countries, for far above those frontiers there threatened by the Nazi phenomenon, the subject of John Ferguson, President ofthe Colleges, said that stands their Jewish unity and their allegiance to the 'he exhibition. Sir Claus Moser stressed the valuable the centre was guaranteed support for the next five Land of Israel". function performed by the Wiener Library in docu­ years. A reply from Dr. Gewirtz, defence director ofthe Board of Deputies, appeared in the "Telegraph" the menting totalitarianism and antisemitism these last FIRE DAMAGE AT AINTREE following day, pointing out that this was one of the fifty years, and the importance of the Library's The prayer house at a Jewish cemetery in Aintree series of "hoax letters" which have been sent to a Endowment Appeal reaching its target so that it could near Liverpool has been seriously damaged by fire, number of publications in recent years. The letters continue its work. The Federal Republic of Ger­ apparently following a break-in. There was no damage are usually signed with a vaguely Jewish-sounding many's Ambassador, Dr. Jurgen Ruhfus, emphasised to tombstones in the cemetery. name, although in one case the name of the notorious the importance of learning from the past, and antisemitic revisionist "A. R. Butz" was used. The alluding to his country's support of the Library's invariable theme is a "reasoned defence" of some allegedly Jewish attitude, designed to create a back­ work, hoped it would continue, since it was needed MUSIC AT AJR CLUB as much as ever in a forgetful world. Professor Walter lash of anti-Jewish feeling among unsophisticated The AJR Club will present a Musical Entertain­ readers. Some editors realise that they are dealing Laqueur spoke of the history of the Wiener Library ment on Sunday, 5 June at 3.30 p.m. at the Hannah with mere propaganda and Dr. Gewirtz expressed and its plans for the future to broaden its services to Karminski House. Paul Blumenfeld will play the surprise that the "Daily Telegraph" had not recog­ 'he public, to scholars and to the media in its various cello, Paul Lichiensiem the piano, and Hans Freund, nised the " Rosenburg'' letter for what it was. A very specialised fields,an d the need for financial resources bass-baritone will lead the participants in well- similar letter, apparently sent by "Mrs. S. Feinstein", 'o fulfill its aims. loved songs. The entrance fee is 35p, which includes had appeared in the "Hackney Gazette" in March tea. The exhibition itself was laid out very effectively 1976, and the quotations had appeared in National and in excellent expository order. It displayed items Front publications, as well as in a number of other of considerable rarity and great interest from its col­ "hoax letters". Another series of letters signed by "Joel Kosminsky" lections covering the last fifty years of totalitarian and "David Rosenberg" have appeared in the "East and antisemitic movements.and their impact on the London Advertiser" and the "Tottenham Herald". world, as well as the past and continuing efforts lo We are now open! These refer to "Jack the Ripper", saying that the combat them. murder victims bore wounds similar to those resulting from Schechita, or alternatively that the murderer Luncheon Club - Wednesdays only was a Jewish immigrant. As from 25th May we shall be serving HITLER DIARIES lunch from 12-2 p.m. at a cost of £1 per "RICHARD HARWOOD": NO MORE DOUBT After a short-lived media sensation that ran round meal at: Hannah Karminski House, After years of denying that he was "Richard 'he world, the so-called "Hitler Diaries" have been 9 Adamson Road, London NW3 (side Harwood", the author of the notorious pamphlet entrance) "Did Six Million Really Die?", Richard Verrall has proved by official West German and private British issued a High Court writ claiming royalties from the forensic scientists to be a crude forgery. Acquired by publishers. Verrall, deputy chairman ofthe National 'he mass weekly "Stern'' of Hamburg for enormous Front, is suing Alan Hancock, trading as the sums, who sold the rights to "The Sunday Times" "Historical Review Press", for royalties on "all and "Paris Match", "Stern" admitted that they copies sold by the defendant between 1974 and 1982 ^ ; had been deceived, and two of its editors resigned. of a work entitled 'Did Six Milhon Really Die?', The "Stern" journalist who had acquired the DENTS,RUSi;SCRiirCH£S later published as 'Sbc Million Lost and Found', of "Diaries", Gerd Heidemann, was dismissed and which the plaintiff is the author and the defendant is Car body repaitWve made your choice easy! the publisher". Facsimiles of the writ have been Was being sued by the magazine. The West German published in the anti-fascist magazine "Searchlight" Sovemment and some of the newspapers involved and show that the pamphlet has been distributed in Were actively trying to discover the original sources Britain, the USA, teland, Germany, France, Holland, of the forgeries, which were not only crudely ex­ Belgium, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and South ecuted with post-war materials, but were of no in­ America. It was also available for a time in South trinsic interest whatever. Heidemann admitted hav- Africa, but was banned there following action by the jng obtained the documents from a Stuttgart dealer SA Board of Deputies. •n Nazi memorabilia called Konrad Kujau (alias Pischer). "PROTOCOLS" TAKEN OFF SALE During Islamic Week at Birmingham University, a vigilant member ofthe Jewish Society noticed that copies of the "Protocols of Zion" were on sale in the SHEFFIELD PAPER FOR ARCHIVES Students' Union. Islamic Society members attempted For 35 years, from February 1945 onward, the to maintain that the "Protocols" were authentic, "Sheffield Jevdsh Journal" served its local com­ but the Guild Council—the governing body of the munity. It began as an 8-page leaflet during the latter Students' Union—unanimously resolved that the part of the Second World War, but with the relaxa- TI1EPR0FESSKMAL*S THE N0N-PIU>FESS10NAL*S book should be barred from campus and that an 'ion of paper restrictions it blossomed into a 32-page BomrnixER BODYFILLER apology should be made to the Jewish Society. magazine carrying profiles of prominent members in Whichever si/e (wck you requirB Mte tact, Iw insrsis on so much that we've product iiisKlu IS it«!!id"w Its ISOPON HiipfOvMl ouf lo«mulatioii i>o less than 14 'he community, news stories, religious debates and P,3a aix) » s niade by the speciatets in the iinies |usi to keep ahead of htm. niaiHilacluiB ot Cat Body Fitters toi over Wttelfwr you iwed a snutl lube ot LEGACIES other material. Its last issue in 1980 was bound in 2b ytMHs. ISOPON P.38 costing tess ihan fl .00 or a sold paper. Now a complete set of the "Sheffield We know Ihal itw prof esstonal rweds a gallon dium you can be sute you've made The AJR Charitable Trust has received legacies of produci ihdi'snwre ihaniusl paddirx). He lite right choice, Jewish Joumal" has been donated by one of its (equtres a product ihai's quick aiwl easy lo £4000 from the estate of the late Mr. Max Sondheimer earliest editors to the Sheffield City Libraries as part use, llkdl uiHls lo a niKfOi siinxjlh tiiush and £1000 from the estate of the late Mrs. E. Reifen­ diK< wiitisidiHls ll»e wo(Sl buni|>s and ISOPONL of the local archives. vibraiioiib to oullasi ttie lite ot itie cai. In MAKING YOU THE SPECIALIST berg (Gabriele Tergit). AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1983 Pages

PROTESTS AT WARSAW COMMEMORATION Despite protests from Lord Beloff and others, an Israeli delegation numbering about 300 attended the NEWS FROM ABROAD official Polish commemoration ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Upris­ UNITED STATES MORE GREEK ANTISEMITISM ing. Lord Beloff, Professors Leopold Labedz, Peter Dossier of US Neo-Nazism Despite support against antisemitism promised by Wiles and Elie Kedourie, together with Melvin In the Rehavia district of Jerusalem is to be found the wife of the Greek Prime Minister, a virulent Lasky, David Pryce-Jones, David Floyd, Peter Red- aunique museum. It is the "Museum ofthe Potential book, "Hellenism—Judeo-Zionism—Jews. Forgers daway and Lionel Bloch, wrote to Mr. Begin point­ Holocaust", devoted to exposure of extreme right- of Greek History", has recently been published in ing out that the presence of an Israeli delegation *'ig and neo-nazi groups in America. Handbills, Athens. The author refers to Jews as "men, or rather might be taken to confer approval on the current pamphlets, newspapers and cartoons take the visitor bloodthirsty and carnivorous creatures, who suffered Polish regime. About 20 members of the Anglo- back to the days of Streicher's "Stuermer". Blood and are still suffering from serious hereditary and in­ Jewish community also went to Warsaw, but the spurts from the body of a naked blonde girl, while curable psychiatric, bodily and neurotic diseases". Polish Jewish Ex-Servicemen's Association declined •"abbis with long knives gloatingly catch her blood in to be represented. Sreat pails. A faceless man is depicted: "Who is this ITALY In Poland itself, Arab ambassadors protested that "lan? He looks like an American, dresses like an Temple Menorah Sought in Rome the ceremonies might be used as pro-Zionist '^erican, speaks like an American. But he is no Legends about the Golden Menorah supposed to propaganda. j^erican, he is a Jew. Beware of him!". Other leaf­ have been taken by the Romans under Titus from The week of commemoration began with a service lets have a more modern slant: "Oil or Israel? We the Temple in Jerusalem have been revived by new conducted by Cardinal Glemp and included readings need Arab oil". Others again are millenary: "Hitler archaeological researches along the banks and bed by Jewish representatives. One Catholic priest taking 's not dead: he will return!". of the River Tiber. The Arch of Titus in the Roman part spoke of "the sin of antisemitism". An interna­ The museum collects material from such parties Forum shows captive Jews carrying the Menorah tional conference on genocide was held, as well as a ^d groups as the American Right Party, the Ku Klux and for centuries many Jews avoided passing under seminar discussing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. A "^an. Christian Defence Lobby, Liberty Lobby and the arch-it was felt that to do so would re-enact the restored synagogue in Warsaw was re-opened at this 'he Nationa] Socialist White People's Party. Most sufferings of their forefathers. A persistent tradi­ time, while visits to the Auschwitz Museum and the °f these organisations play on people's patriotism tion, however, has it that the Golden Menorah was site of Treblinka concentration camp were arranged *"h chauvinist and racist slogans; sometimes they re-possessed by the Jews and thrown into the Tiber for participants in the ceremonies. can even report minor electoral successes. The to prevent it from being housed in a pagan temple. Following the laying of a wreath by the PLO at the JJiuseum seeks to alert Americans and others to the So far, although many medieval relics and classical memorial to Nazi victims, coupled with references dangers inherent in the right-wing lunatic fringe ruins have been brought to light, no trace has been on Polish television to the Beirut massacres, four bodies. found of the legendary Golden Menorah. Israeli govemment representatives left Poland earlier than intended. Subsequently the World Jewish Con­ Kafka Conference in Italy Jewish Sportsmen on Display gress also withdrew its delegation, complaining of The first of many celebrations of the centenary of "a week of provocation and manipulation". 'n conjunction with the forthcoming Olympic Franz Kafka took place recently in the Italian town ^^''les, an important exhibition on "Jews in Olym- of Bari. Among the speakers was Professor Eduard P'cs" is to be mounted by the Southern California Goldstuecker, whose renowned Kafka Conference "WORLD CONSPIRACY" BOOK FOR Jewish Historical Society. Honorary chairman of in Libnice some fifteen years ago marked the first A group of solicitors' articled clerks in Ireland 'he project is Mark Spitz, seven times gold medallist stirrings of the "Prague Spring". Professor Gold­ who are organising a holiday in the USSR were the 'Or his swimming at the 1972 games. stuecker is now at Sussex University. unwilling targets of antisemitic material emanating Another paper was given by Michael Mueller, from the so-called Legal Consultative Council of the putting forward the theory that Kafka's "The Christian Community Centre. One pamphlet sent to HOLLAND Trial" has as one source Casanova's flight over the them was supposed to be the record of an interview KLM Drops "Israel" leaden roofs of Venice. given by a former US senatorial aide. Entitled "The The Dutch airline KLM will drop the words "Israel" Hidden Tyranny", it tells how Jews are seeking to anti "Tel Aviv" from the list of destinations served MORE ECHOES OF FRENCH OCCUPATION dominate the world and speaks of a secret Jewish *hich is printed on the back of their air tickets. This, After his success in bringing Klaus Barbie to face cabal at the heart of the Russian govemment. Extracts ^ys KLM, is to avoid the possibility of passengers' French law. Serge Klarsfeld has been named as the from the "Protocols of Zion" were also enclosed. Papers being confiscated on arrival at Arab airports. complainant against four former SS-men who are to •At the same time, the airline's advertising will no stand trial in West Germany. One of the accused, NEW LIFE FOR RUSSO-YIDDISH PROJECT longer mention Israel and the name will also be omitted Rolf Bilharz, has admitted that he knew that Jews In 1946, the Committee for Yiddish Language from night plans intended for Arab countries. deported from France were going to their deaths. and Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Science in The other men maintain that they believed deportees Kiev began preparations for a Russian-Yiddish dic­ Queen Beatrix Opens Camp Memorial were being sent to labour camps. The trial is exf)ected tionary, with a prospective publishing date of 1949. Westerbork, the transit camp through which so to open in Bonn before the end of this year. But Stalinism could not tolerate such a project: the ''jany Dutch and other Jews passed on their way to Still another ex-Gestapo man, Fritz Merdsche, is Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Moscow, which 'he death camps of the East, now has a memorial living somewhere in the Black Forest district. In an had been closely associated with the dictionary, was Efitfe, officially opened by Queen Beatrix in April. interview on French television, Merdsche denied liquidated in 1948; there followed total suppression The building houses an exhibition based on material that during his time as head ofthe Gestapo in Orleans of Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union; the Kiev displayed at the Auschwitz memorial site by the he had tortured anyone or committed any other crime committee was liquidated; and Eli Spivak, the com­ Putch authorities. The Government has contributed against humanity. However, like Barbie, he was piler of the dictionary, was murdered in 1952 along "50,CXX) towards setting up the new centre. twice tried in absentia by French courts after the war with other leading Yiddishists and Jewish intellectuals. Ironically, Westerbork was first established before and sentenced to death. However, after Stalin's death, some of those who 'he Second World War as a camp for refugees from had worked on the Russian-Yiddish dictionary were ^^^nnany, but under the Nazi occupation of Holland NEW STAMPS FOR ARGENTINA among the returnees from prisons and labour camps ^gular weekly trainloads of doomed Jews left for The daughter of a Jewish refugee has been chosen and work on the project could begin once more. In r^schwitz, Sobibor and other extermination camps. as the artist for a new Argentine postage stamp. 1966, the leading Soviet publishers of reference The new building has been erected on the site of the Tana Sachs has produced a batik design which has works, "Sovetskaya Entsiklopedia", announced a 'ormer railway line. already been approved. contract for completion ofthe work with a projected publication date in 1%7. Silence ensued until a short time ago, when an Wir kaufen official announcement appeared, stating that the Russian-Yiddish dictionary would at last be pub­ DEUTSCHE BUECHER lished at the end of 1984, nearly 40 years and an in­ Antiquariat M. POLl^K, 36 King George Street, Tel Aviv, Israel finity of suffering since the Kiev committee first Telephone (03) 28861 3 contemplated its task. Mitglieder des Verbandes Deutscher Antiquare e.V. ur>d der Antiquarian Booksellers EXILE LITERATURE STUDIES IN US Association The German Language Faculty ofthe University of California has recently held a symposium on WIR ZAHLEN IMMER DIE HOECHSTEN PREISEI "The Aesthetics of Exile Literature". Participants UEBERNAHME AN ORT UND STELLE from Germany, Austria and Holland, as well as from all over the US, were present at the discussions. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1983 HERBERT STRAUSS 65 BIRTHDAYS Professor Dr. Herbert Strauss, who will be 65 on 1 June, is a man of many parts. When he celebrated DR. ERWIN SELIGMANN 90 the United States, where he obtained an M. A. degree. his 60th birthday, we paid tribute to him as Professor From 1942-43 he was research director ofthe Jewish of History at the City College, New York, and as The Chairman of Club 1943, Dr. Erwin Seligmann, Executive Vice-President ofthe American Federation *ill celebrate his 90th birthday on 11 June. Born in Fund and the Jewish Community Council in Kansas City. Later he was appointed Assistant Director of of Jews from Central Europe. Meanwhile, his pro­ Hamburg as the eldest son of Dr. Caesar Seligmann, fessional duties have been considerably extended by Prediger of the Liberal Temple, his ancestors, all the American Zionist Emergency Council. He went to post-war Germany in 1945 as representa­ his appointment as head of the newly established fabbis, can be traced back to the early 14th century. "Zentrum fuer Antisemitismusforschung" of the In 1902 his father was appointed Liberal Rabbi of tive ofthe American Jewish Conference. It was dur­ ing this stay in Germany that he wrote his doctoral Technische Universitaet Berlin. His inaugural lecture 'he congregation at Frankfurt/Main. Here Erwin as well as his contribution to the Colloquium on the *as educated at the Goethe-Reform-Gymnasium thesis on the internal and external development of German Jewry during the Third Reich (1951), the 50th anniversary of the Nazis' ascent to power bear ^d later, breaking with the family tradition, studied witness to his proficiency as a scholar and his power Law at Freiburg, Paris and Marburg. His studies first methodical work on this subject. After some time in the U.S. during subsequent years he finally of expression in German, to which he must have *ere interrupted when, on the outbreak of the First become unaccustomed after many years of lecturing "Orld War, he volunteered immediately for military returned to Germany in 1955 and settled in Munich. He became Department Head of the Munich school in English. He is also co-editor ofthe Intemational service and as early as December 1914 was awarded Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigres, 'he Iron Cross. For two years Erwin served in the for adult education and President of the Jewish community, an office he still holds. the first volume of which appeared in 1981. As head f^ield Artillery until, in 1916, he was seriously ofthe Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration Wounded by a grenade. After prolonged medical Hans Lamm is a prolific writer. In 1958 he edited to the United States, which was founded by the treatment Erwin was able to resume his studies at a symposium "Von Juden in Muenchen", a new American Federation, he has initiated and supervised I'rankfurt, where he rejoined the K.C. student augmented edition of which was published in 1982 the publication of several volumes of source material. Organisation and, passed his final examinations in under the heading "Juedische Kultur in Muenchen". Last, but not least, he has become a member of the 1920. His articles in the Jewish press on historical and Presidium of the Council of Jews from Germany, In the same year he married Lydia Mayer-Alapin. literary subjects are based on profound knowledge with which he had already been associated for many Their happy marriage, during which they had three and excel by their clarity of style. Not long ago, he years. His work for the Council has resulted in close •feughters, lasted until Lydia died in 1980. visited London to arrange a TV interview with Dr. personal relations with his fellow-workers in other For several years Erwin worked as a judge in Eva Reichmann, which was broadcast in Germany countries, including the representatives of the AJR Prankfurt, but due to growing family needs and in­ and met a wide response among the viewers, making on the Council. We wish our friend Herbert Strauss flation, he took over the private practice of a late col- them aware of the destiny of German Jewry. very many years to come of undiminished vigour 'cague. He joined the Hermann Cohen Bnai Brith Conveying our birthday congratulations to Hans and creative activities. W.R. Lodge and was active on its cultural committee. He Lamm, we look forward to his further communal assisted his father in editing the monthly "Liberal and literary activities and the continuation of his happy meetings with his friends in this country. •ludentum" and founded the first branch of the GERDA LUFT AT 85 Jewish Liberal Youth Organisation of which he was The journalist Gerda Luft recently celebrated her President. 85th birthday. As Palestine correspondent of the Under the Nazi regime, Erwin, because ofhis war "Juedische Rundschau", she won the esteem ofthe record, was allowed to work as a Law Consultant; late Dr. Robert Weltsch, who praised her in one of hut he foresaw coming events and trained as a kitchen DR. WALTER ZANDER 85 his last essays. Bom in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, chef so as to be able to earn a living abroad. In Spring On 8 June, Dr. Walter Zander will celebrate his Gerda Luft married Chaim Arlosoroff and emigrated 85th birthday. He was Secretary ofthe Friends ofthe to Palestine in 1924. Her husband was murdered in '939 the family emigrated to England. During the 1933 but she continued and expanded her joumalistic *ar Erwin served for two years in the Pioneer Corps. Hebrew University from 1944 to 1971. Yet he has work, becoming the Israeli correspondent of "Neue ne then worked as a chef in various restaurants, in­ remained active during his years of retirement. One Zuercher Zeitung" and "Rheinischer Merkur", as well cluding one year as manager of the Anglo-Palestinian of the subjects to which he devotes his scholarly as writing for the "Jerusalem Post" and other Israeli Qub in Soho. Later he had his own restaurant at Zion research is the position ofthe Christian Churches in publications. A few years ago Gerda Luft published House and eventually opened a boarding house for Israel and only a short while ago a legal journal in her "Heimkehr ins Unbekannte" {Wuppertal, Israel published a learned article by him on this very Hammer, 1977), a description of German-Jewish students. The "Commission zur Erforschung" of immigration into Palestine. 'he history of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt/ topical question. Though his eyesight is now impaired, Main commissioned Erwin to compile a volume on his vigour is undiminished and he still travels abroad. the religious development of the Frankfurt Com- All those who know Walter Zander are bound to be •^unity since Emancipation. However, the finished impressed by his widespread knowledge and, above Work was never published because the Committee all, by his human kindness. We extend our sincerest DUTCH BOY'S WARTIME DIARY FOUND lacked the funds to have it printed. congratulations to him. W.R. The wartime diary of a Dutch Jewish boy who In the sixties Dr. Seligmann met his old friend hid from the Nazis has just been discovered in from Frankfurt days, Hans Jaeger, then Chairman Amsterdam by a workman renovating the house. of Club 1943, who immediately asked him to join. The boy, Henry Robinski, was 13, the same age as Soon Erwin began to give his many excellent lectures Anne Frank, when he wrote the diary. After the to the Club, of which he now is the Chairman. Club publication of passages from the diary in the Dutch 1943 is grateful to have such an able and active Chair- Conne to paper "Het Parool", the author of the diary, who t^an and extends to him its warmest congratulations. had been believed deported to Sobibor and killed, B.St. OSMOND HOUSE tumed out to have survived the war and to be living The Bishops Avenue, N.2 at the age of 55, at Wassenaar, near the Hague, on having changed his name to Henry Lemij, and is working in a high position for Royal Dutch Shell. DR. HANS LAMM 70 Sunday, 17 July at 2 p.m. Another boy who had also been with him in the attic, Dr. Hans Lamm (Miuuch), who will be 70 on 8 Jime, Join us for afternoon tea, bargains Harry Swaab, had also survived, each believing the 's one of those leading Jewish communal workers in other to have perished. Henry Robinski-Lemij had ^rmany who have always kept contact with the galore, fortune-tellers and hidden in a folding bed when the Nazis raided the '"Migrated German Jews. He was born in Munich other surprises. house, and Harry Swaab had hidden in a cup­ ^nd, after the interruption of his University studies A FAMOUS MYSTERY GUEST board. Robinski's mother also survived, and is "> 1933 for some time became a student of the still alive. Entries in the diary show that the boy Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums. will open this event. knew exactly what fate awaited the Jews deported '^t the same time he did some voluntary social work Entrance £1 including tea. from Holland, and his grandparents had perished for the Jewish community. In 1938 he emigrated to in the Westerbork camp. AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1983 Page? LAW DOCTORATE WITHDRAWN The Council of Goettingen University has with­ drawn the doctorate of laws conferred on Wilhelm NEWS FROM GERMANY Staeglich in 1951. Their action stems from Staeglich's authorship and publication in the Grabert-Verlag of a book entitled "Der Auschwitz-Mythos". The book RECONCILIATION MEETINGS IN GERMANY BELATED PREMIERE FOR TOLLER has been banned by a Stuttgart court and all copies, Numerous reunions and conferences have recently The German premiere of a 47-year-old play took together with printing plates, are to be destroyed by been held throughout Germany on the theme of anti- place in Memmingen when the City Theatre presented official order. Among the contentions Staeglich put racism and reconciliation. Many of them were con­ Emst Toller's satirical allegory "Nie Wieder Friede". forward is a statement that the Holocaust is merely a nected with the annual "Week of Brotherhood" Written during the author's exile in Britain, the piece piece of "Zionist atrocity propaganda". organised by the Christian-Jewish Associations in is variously set in the village of Dunkelstein and the In giving his decision. Professor Kamp, president Germany. Elysian Fields, from the small-time barber's meta­ of the university, declared that by using his title of The Theodor Heuss prize for contributions to the morphosis into a power-crazed dictator to a bet on "doctor" Staeglich had lent the book a veneer of struggle against xenophobia and racialism has been mankind's capacity for peace struck between scholarship, although in truth it was an offence shared this year among three organisations and one Napoleon and St. Francis. against scientific integrity. Earlier this year, the Pro­ private person, a Turkish joiner from Berlin. One of fessor had said, "That incorrigible old Nazi still the three groups honoured was Siegen's Association FRANKFURT REPLANS BOERNEPLATZ existed, that I knew. But what shattered me most for Christian-Jewish Co-operation. The awards Although a memorial stone marks the place of the were the letters from all over the world, sent by people were made public following a seminar on xenophobia. former synagogue in Frankfurt am Main's Boerne- of the same mind as Staeglich, praising him as a West German student bodies sent representatives platz, which was destroyed in the November Pogrom 'valiant champion against the lies put out by Allied to a seminar in Sobemheim, called to discuss "a pro­ of 1938, there have for many years been complaints propaganda'". gramme of German-Israeli encounters—History about its siting. It is so obscurely placed, say the and its Sequel—Jews and Germans Today". The critics, that no one who did not already know about meeting was organised by the Bundesverband it would ever notice the stone or its inscription. Now, "ASSASSINATED PLO-MAN WAS Juedischer Studenten in Deutschland and the papers however, the city intends to redevelop the Boemeplatz MURDERER" given ranged from the political position in Israel to­ and has agreed to a plan created by a former Frankfurt Munich's law department has confirmed that day to the historical roots of Nazi antisemitism. architect now living in Jerusalem. The project includes Issam Sartawi, the PLO representative murdered in In Hamburg, Professor Werner Nachmann spoke a much more prominent place for the setting ofthe Portugal some weeks ago, was on their wanted list memorial stone. for murder and attempted murder. At the time ofhis on the theme of Israel and the Jewish Community in death, Sartawi was generally described as "moderate". Germany, while Aachen's Christian-Jewish Asso­ FORBIDDEN ART ON SHOW However, the Munich authorities say that he had ciation held discussions on "The proper occasion Among the many exhibitions mounted throughout been identified beyond any doubt as the man behind for resistance, yesterday and today". One of the Germany to mark the half-century which has passed an armed attack on an airport bus in 1970. The bus Aachen speakers was Bishop Buchkremer, who had since Hitler's seizure of power is "Verboten—Verfolgt" was transporting El Al passengers to Munich airport himself been sent to Dachau for attempting to warn at the Duisburg Lehmbruck Art Gallery. This incor­ when it was attacked, with the result that one youngsters against joining the SS. Still another con­ porates many of the pictures castigated during the passenger died and thirteen others were injured. ference was called by the Evangelical Academy of Third Reich as entartete, degenerate art, while docu­ Arnoldshain in collaboration with the Christian- ments, letters and newspaper cuttings indicate the Jewish association in Taunus. Professor H. G. Adler fate of numerous other works of art. The catalogue HISTORIC COMMUNITY RECALLED and Dr. Albert Friedlander of London joined dele­ points out that suppression of artists, far from Forchheim has recently seen the unveiling of a gates from Israel and Germany to honour the life beginning with the well-known exhibition "Entartete stone set up as a memorial to its former Jewish com­ and work of Leo Baeck. Kunst" in 1937, was an immediate consequence of the munity. Until the coming of Hitler, Jews had lived in The Week of Brotherhood in Charlottenburg was Machtergreifung. For example, in 1933 Duesseldorf this south-eastem German town since the 13th century. celebrated by a recital of poetry and songs from the Art Academy had to dismiss its artist-lecturers Heinrich Jewish Resistance, much of the material coming Camperdonk and Paul Klee. In 1935 the "Koelner from Poland and Lithuania. Illustrierte Zeitung" reported under the title "Chamber of Horrors" on an exhibition designed to prove the "evil legacy" which "the rulers of the JUDAISM IN GENTILE TEACHING System Govemment" (that is, the Weimar Republic) Remember At a recent conference held by the International had left behind them in the sphere of art. Council of Christians and Jews in the Buber House The "Verboten—Verfolgt" display will be seen Israel at Heppenheim, a close study was made regarding later this year in Hanover from early June to mid- the place of Jewry and Judaism in school and univer­ sity teaching. Discussions took place on the theme of August and then at Wilhelmshaven in September- So Israel may remember you Jews in German history textbooks, the inadequacy October. Another artist who was forbidden to paint by the If you wish Israel and Jewish of teaching about Judaism in theological faculties, Nazis was Otto Pankok. His series of charcoal draw­ and anti-Jewish elements in primary school books Organisations to benefit by your on religion. The majority of delegates, coming from ings on the "Passion of Jesus of Nazareth" was lately a dozen or more countries, were Christians who to be seen in the Old Synagogue of Essen. One reason Will, why not consult us? stressed the need for linking religious teaching with for his disgrace was a "Schwarzes Korps" description historical events. Dr. B. Resnikoff of Jerusalem of his painting as the "worst kind of philo-semitic We have a special knowledge of gave a different point of view when he told of the art". Particular offence was given by the artist's the problems and needs of difficulties involved in telling Israeli students about representation of Jesus as a Jew. Otto Pankok died Christianity, a task in which he is particularly in 1966. Jewish Clients, and can help you interested. The Berlin Hochschule der Kuenste, too, is planning a series of exhibitions on the theme of Nazism and or your Solicitor to carry out your culture. The general title is "Kunst—Hochschule— intentions. DUESSELDORF ENDOWS HEINE HOUSE Faschismus" and the first event in the series is a dis­ Donations to the tune of 1 Million DM were raised play on "The SA attack on the art school". This will For further information and be followed by summer lectures on "Antisemitism in Duesseldorf for the erection in Kiryat Chaim of a advice, without obligation and Community Centre, which is to bear the name of and the Jew within us", film censorship, music and advertising in the Third Reich and other related sub­ free of charge, please apply to: Heinrich Heine, Duesseldorfs illustrious son. The jects. The lectures provide a forerunner to a sym­ opening ceremony took place in the presence ofthe posium to be held in November on the far-reaching Lord Mayor of Duesseldorf, Josef Kuerten, and a effects of National Socialist ideology concerning Mr H. Rothman (DirMtor) number of Duesseldorf residents, including a school art. K.K.L. Extcutor & TnittM Co. Ltd. class. The Lord Mayor also stated that during the past ten years, 15 emigrated former Duesseldorf VISIT BY ANTIPODEAN BERLINERS Harold Potior Houio, A group of former Berliners now living in KIngtbury Cirelo, citizens had visited their city of origin each year as Australia and New Zealand have recently visited Suests ofthe town and that further visitors would be their home city. They were greeted by the Speaker of London, NWS SSP. Welcomed. The firstexhibitio n in the new Centre in­ the Senate of Berlin, Dr. Meinhard Ade, and Heinz Tolophono: 01-1!04 8811, Ext: 36 cludes works by the painter Franz Monjau, who Galinski, the head of West Berlin's Jewish com­ perished in Buchenwald. munity. Page 8 AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1983 DR. OTTO M. ARIE OBITUARIES The death of Dr. Otto M. Arie, a prominent mem­ ber of Reading's Jewish community, was recently DR. WALTER PAGEL HILLEL STORCH announced. The son of a Czechoslovakian rabbi. Acclaimed throughout the world, pathologist and Hillel Storch has died in Stockholm at the age of Dr. Arie becam a lawyer and chairman of the Czech Writer Dr. Walter Pagel died recently. He was 84. 80. Mr. Storch will be remembered for his many Zionist Federation. Forced to go into hiding when Bom in Berlin as the son of a medical historian. Dr. attempts to rescue Jews during the Second World the Germans occupied the country, he and his wife Pagel became a specialist in tuberculosis and emigrated War. In his capacity as head of the World Jewish and son managed to escape to Britain within days of to Britain during the days of the Third Reich. Patho- Congress in Sweden and political representative of the outbreak of war. Although the family had origi­ 'ogy appointments at the Appleworth Village Settle- the Jewish Agency, he was actively involved in the nally planned to go on to Palestine, wartime difficul­ "lent and at Central Middlesex Hospital led to his desperate efforts towards releasing Jews or alleviat­ ties prevented the move and Dr. Arie joined the BBC's election as a Fellow of the Royal College of Patho­ ing their misery. It was to Hillel Storch that Himmler foreign language department. In 1%9 he left the BBC logists. Dr. Pagel's books on the history of medicine, wrote early in 1945, saying that he had "taken steps and went to the Institute of Jewish Affairs. Later he '1 particular on the life of William Harvey, brought to deal with the outbreak of typhus at Bergen-Belsen". became the British correspondent ofthe "Schweiz­ him Fellowship of the British Academy and innumer­ erische politische Korrespondenz". able awards and honorary degrees from universities "1 Germany, Switzerland, America, as well as Britain DOLF RIESER and other countries. DR. ERNEST KLEIN The death ofthe artist Dolf Rieser was announced Rabbi, scholar and lexicographer, with three doc­ recently. He was 84. A South African by birth, but torates to his CTedit before he was 30, Dr. Emest Klein of German-Jewish origin, Dolf Rieser came to Eiu-ope H. H. BEHRENDT died in Toronto at the age of 83. Bom in Transylvania, for his studies. He gained a doctorate in plant genetics The death of Mr. Hans Herman Behrendt, aged he studied at the University of Vienna before his but soon turned to painting, in which he was much appointment in 1931 as the rabbi of Nove Zamky in influenced by his knowledge of Bushman cave art po. should not go unrecorded. Mr. Behrendt was and other elements of African culture. During his known to many and he was especially dear to those Czechoslovakia. Dr. Klein lost his family at the hands of the Nazis and he himself was imprisoned in artistic career, he enjoyed over 20 one-man exhibi­ *ho owed their lives to him. He was originally in- Auschwitz and Dachau. He emigrated to Canada tions and his works have been seen worldwide. ^rumental in setting up the Berlin ORT organisation after the Second Worid War, where he published a Dolf Rieser demonstrated his opposition to Fascism and was its Head until its emigration to England, memorable work, a two-volume "Comprehensive in the Munich ofthe 20s and later in Paris. Managing "^r. Behrendt arrived at Harwich in August 1939 History of the English Language". to board the last boat from Boulogne to England at ^long with over 100 ORT students, members of Staff the time of the French surrender, he offered his ser­ and their families, whom he personally brought out vices to the Special Operations Executive of the British of Nazi Germany. Intelligence Service. In England, he remained in the fieldo f technical RABBI WOLF GOTTLIEB location, eventually becoming Acting Principal The former minister at Queen's Park Synagogue, MRS. LILY PINNER ^

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the destruction in the Nazi period. Here the mind PAMINA LIEBERT-MAHRENHOLZ BERLIN SYNAGOGUES boggles: so much destruction wrought in such a short A retrospective exhibition (including some more Synagogen in Berlin. Zur Geschichte einer zerstdrtentime , or in other words, what takes decades to build recent productions) of the work of Pamina Liebert- Architektur. Published by the Berlin Museum in the can collapse almost instantaneously. Mahrenholz is to be held at the galleries of the series: Stadtgeschichtliche Publikationen, 2 volumes, We now revert again to volimie I, where an enlighten­ Hampstead Arts Council, Arkwright Road, NW3 IVillmuth Arenhdvel, 1983. pp. 224 and 152. ing coda to the study is found, the discussion of the from 3-24 July. Pamina Mahrenholz was born and organ in synagogues. This marginal subject is of studied in Berlin, later winning the Prix de Rome The present two sumptuous volumes are a signifi­ general significance, as it illuminates the contrasts which she was unable to receive because of the poli­ cant reminder of the Berlin Jewish community, its between modernism and tradition, a problem basic tical situation. She emigrated to England in 1939 and pride and its social aspirations. They are also an to Jewish survival. Hans Hirschfeld gives an impar­ has exhibited widely, including the Royal Academy historical document, revealing in an intellectual tial account of the controversy, and concludes con­ and in the London Artists from Germany Exhibition sphere the German interest in history and a desire for vincingly that the organ and organ music never had in October 1978. reconciliation. The work grew out of an exhibition, the same importance in the synagogue as in the and this explains its strength and weaknesses. The church. photos and drawings, some coloured, afford con­ A number of important Christian architects' names vincing evidence of the full extent of synagogue are mentioned, and their influence on synagogue building in Berlin, whilst parallel developments in building is assessed, especially among them Schinkel other parts of Germany are ignored. AJthough a and Semper. The latter was a pioneer of synagogue great deal of material about individual synagogues is architecture, particularly in Dreden and in his plans included, the books read not so much like a narrative for Paris. (See the present reviewer in the Leo Baeck as a gazetteer. One would have wished for a discus­ Yearbook, XXII, 1977, pp. 237fO. No coherent evolu­ sion ofthe place ofthe Jewish architect in the evolu­ tion emerges, except that the preponderance of domed tion of the Berlin synagogue. buildings with cufKjlas expresses self-conscious pride. To sum up: the books under review afford valu­ PLANS AND DRAWINGS able documentation for historians and art lovers. They are also a poignant reminder ofthe past for the Having given some idea of the limitations of the descendants of Berlin Jewry, and illustrate the unpre­ work, let us now concentrate on what it offers. In dictability of Jewish history and perhaps also of volume I is found a moving preliminary statement human history in general. HELEN ROSENAU by Hans Hirschberg, followed by an historical Intro­ duction by the well-known historian of synagogues, Harold Hammer-Schenk. This is followed by perhaps the most important part of the study, the catalogue of visual materials, plans, drawings, photos and written documents, by Rclf Bothe and Hans Hirsch­ 50th ANNIVERSARY OF "FIFTH ALIYAH" berg regarding the Gemeindesynagogen. The plans Reception at President Navon's Residence and designs range from the Moorish and Neo-Classical To mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of to the modem, as well exemplified by the competition the large-scale immigration from Central Eurojje in of 1929 for a synagogue in the Klopstockstrasse. The 1933, 250 representatives of this group of immigrants volume concludes with a survey of ritual objects, were invited by Israeli President Navon to a reception. Dolbin by Dolbin. some of high quality, presented by Veronica Bendt. On behalf of the central organisation ofthe immigrants Drawings of Prominent Personalities, 1926-1933, Volume 11 includesasurvey of the Vereinssynagogenfro m Central Europe, the Irgun Oley Merkaz Europa, including Brecht, Buber, Marlene Dietrich, Thomas by Michael Engel, contrasted with the Gemeinde­ Mr. Heinz Gerling described the special position of Mann, Max Reinhardt and many others, by Fred synagogen discussed in volume I. (This division no the "Fifth Aliyah". The financialassets , the expertise Dolbin (1883 Vienna—1971 New York) were shown doubt makes administrative sense, but seems to have and the sense of enterprise enabled the newcomers to at the Goeihe Institute, London, 50 Princes Gate no particular relevance to architectural form, espe­ settle and, at the same time, to contribute to the SW7 from 6-19 May. cially as all synagogues were united in a central development of the country. More than any other The British Museum has recently acquired the organisation, the Einheitsgemeinde, an admirable group of immigrants they also built up constructive magnificent and most important collection of Islamic arrangement, also found e.g. in Sweden at the present organisations of mutual support. Particularly effec­ Pottery formed by the late Frederic du Cane Goodman. time). The most appalling and disturbing is naturally tive was the creation ofthe "Solidaritaetswerk", the The whole collection will be catalogued and exhibited the last chapter, contributed by Veronica Bendt on Israeli equivalent of Self-Aid. Mr. Gerling also in due course, but an extensive selection is now on referred to the work of the Leo Baeck Institute, view at the museum. ALICE SCHWAB founded to preserve the cultural heritage of Central European Jewry. On the other hand, Mr. Gerling did not deny the initial difficulties arising from the attitude of earlier residents to the newcomers. The specific forms of agricultural work of the Fifth DECORATION FOR HAIFA ACADEMIC Aliyah were described by Emanuel Friedlaender (of Professor of History at Haifa University, Alex Beit Yitzchak), and the poet and author Yehuda Carmel has received the West German Order of Amichai, the leading Israeli poet, who was born in Merit. Professor Carmel, who was born in Berlin, is Wuerzburg, read his Hebrew translation of Else the author of a number of books and the award was With best wishes from Lasker-Schueler's poem "Eli, Eli...". In his reply. given specifically in recognition of his researches President Navon stated that there was no fieldofth e into nineteenth century German activities in country's activities on which the Fifth Aliyah had not Palestine. He has also helped to cement relations left its mark. "However, you were too few: whereas between Haifa University and the West German VICTORINOX only 55,000 Jews from Germany immigrated to Erez academic estabishment. Israel, many more went to the U.S., England and other countries". Jokingly, the President referred to CAMPS Swiss Knives of Quality the sense of order and punctuality ofthe "Yeckes", INTIRNMENT-P.O.W.- qualities which were not characteristic ofthe Orient. 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POLITICAL FOG OVER SONG CONTEST DUESSELDORF GIFT TO HAIFA "We was robbed!" is a common enough phrase In token of intemational friendship, the city of for defeated football teams, but some Israelis have Diisseldorf has presented Haifa with a community apparently adopted the slogan after the Eurovision centre, to be called after the poet Heine. During his ^ng contest. Only vote-rigging, they say, could visit for the official presentation, the Mayor of have prevented Ofra Haza from taking first place, DUsseldorf visted former fellow-citizens now living '^ter coming second to Luxembourg, the singer's in Israel and announced that the city was for the first own verdict was: "If it hadn't been for politics, we'd time proposing to invite exiled Dusseldorfers to visit have won". their old home. The first such group is likely to con­ When the Austrian jury allotted Israel top marks, sist of 30 Israelis. anxious viewers exclaimed, "Even Kreisky gives us J2 points!"; when the West German jury failed to GERMAN CULTURE WELCOMED IN ISRAEL follow suit, it came as a betrayal by a trusted friend. Throughout last year, Israel saw a flowering of MT>rus and Turkey passed over "Am Yisrael hai" books, drama and films stemming from Germany. altogether, a fact interpreted as a sign of "innate Books by Guenter Grass, Heinrich Boell, Siegfried animosity". Israel has won the contest twice in Lenz and others have appeared in translation, as fecent years and gained high voting places at other well as reprints of plays by Georg Buechner and tunes: but the suspicion of tactical anti-Jewish voting Bertolt Brecht. Buechner's "Woyzeck" was could not be dispelled by pointing out the facts. In presented both in its original dramatic form and as *n effort to damp down the conspiracy theory, the Alban Berg's opera, Wozzeck. Other plays seen in director ofthe Israeli broadcasting unit covering the translation were Schiller's "Maria Stuart", Oedoen ^vent gave a detailed account of the mechanics ofthe von Horvath's "Tales from the Vienna Woods" and vote in each country. But this too failed to reassure several Brecht productions. Among German films we many enthusiastic fans who see the song contest on Israel's screens, Werner Rainer Fassbinder's as a measure of their country's pride and international work was particulary successful, and "The Marriage standing. of Maria Braun", "Marlene" and "Lola" enjoyed Perhaps an old story is not quite out of place: two public and critical acclaim. "Nosferatu the Vampire" •ootball fans meet—one has been at the match, the and "Christine F.", the story of a drug addict, were other not. Says the optimistic non-attender, "Did also well received. *e win?". Dejeaed answer: "No". "Did we draw?". Even more dejected: "No". "Are we protesting?" ... BOTANIC TRIP TO ISRAEL The hundred-strong Jerusalem Botanical Gardens Group recently organised a ten-day visit to Israel for Whh acknowledaement to tbe news service Fritz Kortner as Shylock, one of his greatest roles. British members, with special emphasis on the coun­ of tbe Jewish Cbronicle. Drawing by Dolbin. try's wild flowersan d experimental botanic stations. The group is affiliated to the Hebrew University.

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It is of some Jewish concem that Schaerf, who hearings in the case would be postponed until the AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT was born in the small Moravian town of Nikolsburg end ofthe war. This courageous and decent decision There has been almost general agreement among and went to the primary school in its former "Israelite" moved the allegedly unemotional lawyer Schaerf to those interested in Austrian politics about the per­ district, was able in his student days to give private tears. sonality and the merits of Dr. Adolf Schaerf, a rare lessons in Hebrew and the elements of Judaism. His Personal likes and dislikes played little part in phenomenon in a country where polarisation of views acquaintance with Jewish matters, to which he occa­ SchaerPs public activities. This also applied to his is common. No trace of demagogy was noticeable in sionally alluded, caused otherwise unfounded rumours attitude to Jews and to Jewish concems, including the the behaviour of the moderate social democrat who ofhis at least partly Jewish extraction. demand for a measure of indemnification on account already cultivated a rather dry, ironical style as sec­ In the Nazi period Schaerf tried to obtain the release of the sufferings and losses of victims of Nazi per­ retary of the parliamentary faction of his party in the ofthe Socialist politician Robert Danneberg, but the secution. Consequently, but unfairly, he was some­ period of the First Republic. He was a practising authorities were determined to subject this prominent times accused of antisemitic leanings. lawyer and contact man for underground activities opponent to particularly debasing treatment in a Adolf Schaerf deserved an objective and competent during the Austro-fascist and Nazi eras. concentration camp where he perished like so many biography within the context of Austrian contem­ Fmally, in the years ofthe reconstmction of Austria victims of a brutal and vindictive regime. In his porary history. Professor Stadler has performed this after her liberation, he was the party leader and a recollections Adolf Schaerf recounts that he happened task ably and sympathetically, but by no means member of the government. Even when he had risen to deputise for a colleague in divorce proceedings, uncritically. FRITZ L. BRASSLOFF to the position of Federal President, he remained the initiated by an "Aryan", who maintained that he cautious and circumspect bureaucrat. Schaerf died could no longer uphold his marriage because of his in 1965at theageof 75. wife's "racial impurity". The judge, who according It is not easy to depict such an unshowy man. Karl to Schaerf had the reputation of being a fanatical National Socialist, asked the plaintiff whether he KIEL RECALLS BOOK-BURNING A. Stadler, professor at Linz University, who also Some weeks ago, an exhibition "Verboten und heads the Institute of Labour History there, has was aware of the fate in store for his wife in case of Verbrannt" was held at Kiel Library. On display written the biography: "Adolf Schaerf—Mensch, divorce—an unequivocal reference to deportation were books which had been publicly bumt in May Politiker, Staatsmann" (582 pages, 1982, Europa and liquidation. When the husband insisted on a 1933 and others forbidden under the Nazi regime, Verlag, Vienna/Munich). decision in his favour, the judge declared that further together with press reports of the time.

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