Information Issued by The

Volume XXVIII No. 3 March, 1973 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE

ASSOaAnON OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN CREAT BRITAIN

question of the future of the AJR as such. Would the organisation be required for only LOOKING AHEAD a limited period, or would it be necessary to embark on a long-term policy? Whilst thc AJR Board Meetini' process of integration should not be slowed down, experience had shown tihat it would take more time than a limited number of 2e at If^'^^^'s Board Meeting, held on January ordinary homes who !had become senile dn the years. Some may think that even thc children Wit), *h ""^h Karminski House, not only dealt course of time presented a special problem of refugees who were born in this country Ajjj r** widespread present activities of the for which, so far, no adequate solution has (age group 25-35) are still in a special position !*olic'v ^^ raised thc questions of long-term been foumd. because their home background differs from ing I ^'^^ of the second generation. The meet- The two welfare workers of the AJR in that of their environment. Others may take of ^J^l opened by Mr. A. S. Dresel (Chairman charge of the homes (Mrs. M. Williams and the view that, as the book by Karen Gershon !ile^? ^JR) who first paid tribute to the Board Mrs. R. Seidman) were constantly faced with reaffirmed, those who came here as children Paw ^'^ who had passed away during the complicated problems, especially if there was (age group now about 45) are still within the Df ^<^.ar:^Mr. Z. M. Reid, Dr. Fanny Spitzer, a need for urgent admission of an applicant fold, especially if their emigration also up He J^'^ Gould and Mr. Ludwig Loewenthal. who was to be discharged from hospital and rooted them from itheir families. In any case, Who )f° *^lcomed the new Boaird Members could not return to his home, but for whom however, it could not be denied that people ^tinal,'^ctieiî ^^^^'êen elected at the la/teslatest Annual no immediate vacancy was available. In tlie who were 20 years old when they came over Lehma Meeting: Dr. F. Gumpert, Dr. Rita course of tiheir work both welfare workers in 1938 (age group now about 55) have re ^'epn *' ^s- M. Mautner and Miss Renate had established contacts with the hospitals, mained aware of the impact of their origin. 'he ATW'"^ conveyed the congratulations of the authorities and other organisations. These age classifications showed that, wherever "le r^J-^ Dr. F. H. Kroch on the award of Turning to A.JR Information the speaker one draws the line, the AJR will have to em In • first paid tribute to the memory of PEM, a bark on la long-term policy. (Gene^? 2^°cral report Dr. W. Rosenstock good friend of many in our midst and a fine As far as the tasks were concerned, the • "ê.E Secretary) stated that the flatlet craftsman in his profession; his death was an care for the aged would certainly keep the "1 exiat ^^"""^ Rathbone House, had now been irreplaceable loss because nobody else would AJR active for a very lomg time to come. ^^cre J;^"*^6 for three years; special thanks be able to continue his "Old Acquaintances" Beyond this, however, people who consider "littee ^^^^^ the members of the House Com- colunm. As the AJR comprised members of themselves as members of a community which Jld lii'pJ^- R- Anderman, Mrs. M. Mautner all shades of Jewish opinion the contents of went through the same fate would retain the 'Joijig ^- E. Trent, who regularly visiited the the paper were usually concentrated on articles desire to stand togetlior. In the course of the I'Oside^p'J looked after the welfare of the and news, wlhereas views on controversial 31 years of existence the AJR had always 111 îtich'i ^"***^r R3.ilet home, Norman Court matters could be expressed in the name of the been faced with new tasks, and this would I Ajp ^^' ^^'^^ indirectly connected with AJR only in exceptional cases. certainly have to be expected in the future. f- A. T ^^^ to the preparatory work of Mr. In the field of Restitution and Compensation ""= AT^!""^'Z (Deputy General Secretary of a new problem had arisen in connection with Organisational Strength frea..^^) and the members of a specially the recognition of the German Democratic As far as the organisational strength was 7ciet. Rousing society (Eventide Housing Republic by Western countries and its forth concerned, the AJR was in a very fortunate ^^ EY ^'^ under the Chairmanship of the coming admission to the United Nations. Thc position. It had a membership of about 4,000 r 'he t ^"îve Member, Mr. 0. E. Franklyn; situation was at present being explored by thc and thc paper was published in 4,500 copies. "êi- ? ,^ of 53 flats, 21 were occupied by AJR and the Council of Jews from Gennany The decrease in membership, mainly by Tur^.êfugccs, in conjunction with the other major organisa death, could be made up by new enrolments. ''5«aker f ^^ '^he residential homes, the tions concerned. Thc fact that at this stage many people decided "'the ^"^st paid tribute to the splendid work As an integral part of Anglo-Jewry the AJR to associate themselves with the AJR testified il foiin!i '^^^rnmittec members in Manchester had also appealed to its members to contribute thc standing the organisation liad achieved c Gern! Morris Feinmann Home before to thc Royal Silver Wedding Forest in Israel. among the former refugees. ^•^le a^?,'^ funds from heirless property bc- The fact that the Royal Family had expressed Due ito their devotion and the experienced '"liver^^^'^Jc; on the occasion of the 25th its bonds with Israel by accepting thc offer gathered through many years of service, a 5utnjjîy celebration of the Home last of the Forest was an additional reason for small number of staff members had been able •sîân » ^"^R '^^^s represented by its Vice- helping to make the scheme a success. to cope with a great volume of work. At the êtary'^^- ^' ^^- ^'^^^- ^^^ ^^ General Change of Name? same time the AJR could enlist from its ranks the co-operation of a great number of active h Lotifi^^ '^^ four ordinary residential homes The speaker also reported that the Executive voluntary workers. gouse R^ (Otto Schiff House, Leo Baeck would like to know the views of the Board In view of the importance of the activities, j'OUse') ^^"irich Stahl House and Otto Hirsch about the advisability of a clianoe of name of the organisational strength and the manpower R^ stfy .^''c concerned, a decisive change in the AJR. The following arguments would have available there was reason to look to the future i^L^^rs ^^ ^"^^ developed in the course of to be weighed against each other: Some felt with confidence. the term "Refugee" had become a misnomer 5v""le, r ^jj, "^cause new residents were already In her report about the AJR Employment li'aEp ? ^*- 'he time of their admission. The 26 years after oiu- naturalisation; others said Agency, Mrs. M. Oasson pointed out that it had li'^W!®^ ^^^s now 85. that nevertheless the term had retained its been possible to place applicants and to fill C(V V required mormo e care and atten- meaning because it indicated our origin. Some vaoancies where other agencies would not be fd*^^ tran'^f'"^^ ^'^ given in the ordinary homes said that comparatively younger people might able to help. The offers and demands included ^ the ?5c^'"'"'^^ to 0.-;mond House, thc home be reluctant to join an organisation of "Refu part-time jobs, also temporary ones. Enquiries h•w, . ajiinainn,, '"".""• Thihe cost for Osmond House gees"; against this others stated that those came from both households and from business a^">lr lly bh'^ê d to £36 peoerr resiresidend t per week, who considered the work as vital would join firms. Most of the applicants were women. b^'^^nyn d ?^^^^scti^'^^^se nursing staff was required the organisation whatever dts name was, and Tuming to tlie work of the Social Services an Id th ^ <^lock. As this was considerably that those who did not want to join would Department, Mrs. Casson reported that it Stp "'ûaf '^^'^fis of most residents, there was always find reasons. There was also the diffi covered all kinds of enquiries; some of them l>hv^?^(l th ^^^^^^ of £35,000. The speaker culty of finding another appropriate name, recently arose from the new rent rebate laii ''Ûv • ^^'"ond House was meant for especially as the initials "AJR" had become scheme. Thc enquirers were either given SenV"'''''" residents, but not for men- a household word. ê persons. Those residents in the Yet, more important than the name was the Continued on page 2, column 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION March, 1973 LOOKING AHEAD NEUES AUS DER OESTERREICHISCHEN Continued from page 1 SOZIALVERSICHERUNG ^dvice or directed to the quarters concemed. Endc Januar ist die 29. Novelle zum Oester neugefasster Paragraph 229, Abs. 1, Z.4) die There was also a number of calls connected reichischen Allgemeinen Sozialversicherungs- im Betrieb ihrer Eltern, (jrosseltern, Wahl- *ith financial difficulties; these cases were Gesetz erschienen. Wir werden iiber diese und Stiefeltern tatig gewesenen Personen so lealt with in co-operation with Self Aid. Quite Novelle in nachster Zeit ausfiihrlich berichten, behandelt werden, als ob fUr sie schon seiner a few regular visitors came for psychological wollen aber schon jetzt unsere Leser auf zwei zeit (also vor Einfiihrung der jetzt geltenden reasons, to discuss their personal problems. In bedeutsame Neuerungen hinweisen. Sozialversicherungsgesetze) eine Pflichtver "îie respect it had hardly been possible to I. sicherung bestanden hatte. Auch hier hat render adequate help, namely in providing Bekanntlich galten nach bisherigem Recht iedoch das Gesetz—wieder im Unterschied zur 'Urnished rooms. als Ersatzzeiten in der Sozialversicherung die Regierungsvorlage—verfUgt, dass die Neurege Mrs. R. Anderman (Member of the AJR Zeiten, in denen rnach Vollendung des 15. lung nur auf Falle anzuwenden ist, in denen Executive) reported on the Mea!s-on-WheeIs Lebensjahres eine osterreichische Berufs- der Stichtag nach dem 31.12.1972 liegt. Wiedcr Seruice. At present 450 meals per month were (fach)schule, Mittelschule bzw. Hochschule mUssen wir bemerken. dass die Auswirkungen provided. The scheme operated from Hannah besucht wurde, sowie Zeiten der weiteren dieser Beschrankung dzt. noch nicht klar sind. J^minski House, and those in charge tried Betufsausbildung, sofem spatestens innerhalb Wir werden dariiber nach Klarstellung der iheir very best to secure variety of the dreier Jahre nach dem Verlassen der Schule, Rechtslage unseren Lesem berichten. "nenus and also to take into account the special bzw. Beendigung des Studiums oder der Jedenfalls empfehlen wir aber denjenigen, ''equiremenls and wishes of the recipients. The Berufsausbildung, eine sonstige Versicherungs die bei ihren Eltem, Grosseltern etc. ange charges amounted to 30p per meal. A panel of zeit, z.B. die Emigrationszeit, vorgelegen ist. stellt waren und die erst nach dem 31.12.1972 Voluntary helpers had been established to Die 29. Novelle hat nunmehr verfiigt, dass das Alter von 65, bzw. 60 bei Frauen, erreicht deliver the meals. This was not a merely das Kriterium einer nachfolgenden Versiche haben, unverzuglich bei der Pensionsanstalt technical function, but had also resulted in rungszeit innerhalb dreier Jahre wegfdllt. In unter genauer Darstellung des Sachverhaltes Personal contacts with the recipients, most der Zeit nach 1933 war es bekanntlich nicht um Anrechnung der Zeiten, wahrend derer sie °f whom were lonely and very much appre leicht, nach Beendigung des Studiums eine im Familienbetriebe tagit waren, sowie der ciated these visits to their homes. Stellung zu finden. Es werden daher auf Grund Emigrationszeit zu ersuchen und um Mitteilung Mrs. M. Jacoby (Chairman of the AJR Club) der neuen Bestimmungen (cf. neugefasster zu bitten, welche Nachza;hlungen erforderlich Reported that the Club had now 436 members, Paragraph 227,Z.l., bzw. 228(1)Z.3) auch die- sind, um eine Pension zu erlangen. ^t was run by a panel of voluntary helpers. jenigen, die beispielsweise im Jahre 1935 ihr Die Erbringung von Nachweisen iiber die A.part from the informal meetings in the Club Studium beendigt haben und im Jahre 1939, Mitarbeit im Familienbetrieb (Dokumente, "•oom from Sundays to Thursdays, there were also nach vier Jahren, ausgewandert sind— eidesstattliche Zeugenaussagen und ahnliches) also regular functions. Visits to members in bei Erfiillung der sonstigen, insbes. Deckungs- wird erforderlich scin. C.I.K. hospital had been organised. The appreciation zeit-Voraussetzungen — fiir eine Pension Anfragen iiber Fragen der dst err eichis chen ^^ the work of the Club recently found its qualifizieren. Wiedergutmachung sind zu richten an: United ^xprossion by a legacy left by a deceased mem- Allerdings vcrfugt das Gesetz, (entgegen der Restitution Office (Austrian Desk), 1S3/9 °C5". The forthcoming Bring-and-Buy Sale urspriinglichen Regierungsvorlage) dass Finchley Road, London, N.W.S (Tel: 328 0021). *ould use its proceeds for the Gertrud diese Erleichterung nur auf Fiillc anzuwenden Es ist zur Zeit aber noch nicht moglich, iiber Schachne Fund, the Margaret Jacoby-Orgler ist, in denen der Stichtag nach dem 31.12.1972 die rechtliche Ausivirkung der in dem Artikel fund and the Ahavah Children's Home in liegt (cf. Uebergamgsbestimmungen Art. VI angefiihrten Uebergangsbestimmungen Aus- Israel. (24)). Die Auswirkung dieser Einschrankung kiinft zu geben. ist im Zeitpunkte, in dem diese Notiz geschrie ben wird, nodh nicht klar, und wir werden History of Immigration Research dariiber unseren Lesern baldmoglichst berich AWARDS TO AUSTRIANS ten. The Golden Medal of the Federation of Mrs. M. Pottlitzer reported that the research Wir empfehlen aber dringend, dass diejeni Jewish Congregations in Austria was awarded °'i the History of Immigration had been to former Landeshauptmann Dr. Heinrich launched under the auspices of the Council gen, denen diese Erleichterung zu Gute Gleissner, former Deputy Rosa Jochmann and °' Jews from Germany. It was at present kommen kann und die erst aach dem 31.12.72 ex-Vice-Chancellor Dr. Bruno Pittermann. The operating in Israel, U.S.A., France and the das Alter von 65 (bei Frauer 60) erreicht medal is annually bestowed on non-Jewish United Kingdom; further countries of resettle- haben, unverzUglich bei der Pensionsanstalt personalities who, in the course of their public fUr Angestellte, Blechturmgasse 11, Wien, activities, have taken a leading part in the Ifjspt might follow. As far as the work in the fight against antisemitic and neo-Nazi tenden United Kingdom was concemed, she had ad- unter Darstellung des Sachverhaltes um Anrechnung der Studien (Ausbildungs-) zeit, cies and for the cause of right and justice. visedly started with oral history. This aspect At the ceremony, held in the Vienna Hof- ^vas particularly urgent, because the memory sowie der Emigrationszeit bis 31.3.1959 ein burg, the laudatio was rendered by the presi °t People faded and the number of those who kommen und die Pensionsanstalt um Mittci- dent of the Federation, Dr. Anton Pick. He ôuld record their own experiences was bound lung bitten, welche Nachzahlungen erforder paid tribute to Dr. Gleissner's resistance to decrease. So far she had collected 100 life lich sind, um den Bezug der Pension zu against the Nazi regime under which he was stories, partly by personal interviews, partly sichern. thrown into a concentration camp, and also "y Written memoirs received. In perusing this IL thanked him for his help to the re-established Vor 1938/39 waren Sohne und Tochter, die Linz community after the war. Frau Rosa "Material the risk of a lopsided evaluation had Jocihmann, the president stated, was an inmate '0 be realised and the scrutinisation of the im Familienbetrieb mitarbeiteten, nicht of the Ravensbrueck concentration camp on IJjaterial was, therefore, a very important task, sozialversicihort. Dieser Personenkreis, der account of her anti-Nazi activities and her ^•"s. Pottlitzer appealed for the co-operation auch Enkel, Wahl- und Stiefkiindcr umfasst, ist assistance to Jewish persecutees. Dr. Pitter- °i those who had not yet contributed to the dzt. vollversichert. Auf Grund der Bestim mann, also a persecutee, had always been an pheme. The next phase would be the collec- mungen der 29. Novelle wcrden nunmehr (cf. upright fighter for freedom and justice. 'on of source material from various written ^cords available. It would be premature at his stage to decide in which way the material Collected and still to be obtained would be PiJblished. The ensuing discussion followed up many Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. ubjects touched upon in the reports, especi- J.'y the policy of AJR Information and the B a n c r s history of Immigration Scheme. Whilst tho General feeling was against a change of name, ^ Was also agreed that the AJR would be BASILDON HOUSE, 741 MOORGATE, E.C.2 squired for a very long time to come. The Pirit of confidence, solidarity and identifica- Telephone: 01-600 8151 'î emanating from this year's meeting of "ôre than 70 Board Members will serve as an Telex: London 885822 icouragement to those in charge of the day- "ây v;ork. hi Page 3 INFORMATION March, 1973 HOME NEWS ANGLOJUDAICA Women's Rights COMMUNITIES' CONFERENCE JEWISH BOOK WEEK, 1973 A petition on the status of women- in Jewish '?aSw^ ^y the World Jewish Congress, Opening Lecture on March 5 law, submitted by the International Council 'iiirr^tion with the Board of Deputies, a of Jewish Women, will not be discussed by \%[d ^-wopean conference of Jewish com- This year's Jewish Book Week will be held thc Anglo-Jewish Association. h With ?^ recently held in London, coincid- at Jack Morrison Hall, Hillcl House, 1/2 Ends The A.J.A.'s president, Mr. Victor Lucas, WketTu "'tain's entry into thc Common leigh Street, W.C.l, from Monday, March 5, stated that after consulting "a wide variety % del he conference was attended by some to Thursday, March 8. The AJR is one of of interested parties ", including British repre- ("niniMn^Sates representing over 50 Jewish thc sponsoring organisations of the first func- 'Htsidp if'cs '1 20 countrics—eleven of tliem tion,-a lecture by Chaim Raphael, Fellow of S^j-fhe"' ilî'^rôr'Mlf sf^S'ScE LVJF^ EEC and including Yugoslavia. Susse^. x Univer.s.ty., , , on "Esther -, the First ™Ysation was the appropriate vehicle to Vi;'>.rchioness of Reading, who welcomed Diaspora Novel to be held on March 5 at provide a coUective opinion on so complex I'tan.'f'pants, said that with the formation » li™- a religious subject. 'Hij^'arged EEC it was important to have Thc programme also includes lectures on Mrs. Vera Braynis, British vice-president of *«iicef," platform to "formulate our common Eliezer ben Yehuda (on Tuesday), " Herzl's I.C.J.W., stated that their major concern was Sus „ and problems and to devise the Judenstaat and the State of Israel" (on Wed thc continuance of the work outlined in the '%w? dealing with them". Describing nesday), and a symposium bn "Jews and the petition. This plea to the rabbinical authorities %n'.? entry into the EEC as "a day of Left" (on Thursday). In addition to these evening lectures, which commence at 8 p.m., had been heard, and there had been some Of'•^"'^'•'"an Michael Fidler, M.P.. presi- there will be some afternoon functions, details response. It was hoped that rabbis would find • , 'he Board of Deputies, said it corn- about which may be obtained from the Jewish ways of dealing with those few laws in our f 'opcitf '"opresentativc communal bodies of Book Council, Woburn House, Upper Woburn heritage which, even if only infrequently in . ted =? Jewry to develop a united and con- Place, W.C.l (Tel.: 387 3081). The Exhibi their application, cause suffering and hardship. "iliciK P?''oach that would match "the united tion of Books will be open on Monday from f Mr,5 the Nine". 7 p.m. and on Tuesday and Thursday from Russian Immigrant Aid Fund •='En r^c^ Amery, Minister of State at the 12 noon to 10 p.m. yhaif'.Yi'nce, addressed the conference on The British section of the Russian Immi k^fon^ , tli-c BritisBritish GovernmenGovernmentt. In a united grant Aid Fund, set up under the patronage DEPUTIES' POLITICS ne said, the Jewish communities "will of the Emeritus Chief Rabbi, Sir Israel Brodie, 1 "'akp^'i. °^'' distinct and vital contribution has so far raised £85,000 to help Israel finance Alderman Michael Fidlcr, the president of the absorption of newly arrived immigrants. pd 3,*-> hoth through their individual genius the Board of Deputies and a Consei-vative M to„^. cement helping to build and to M.P., at a meeting of the board defended the ™odofM,!lsr the European peoples for the British Government's vote in support of a Scphardic Home for Aged J'J.C '^.ahuni Goldmann, president of the strongly anti-Israeli resolution at the United The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Nations last December. The present inter Hy' u"n.'''^ keynote address, dealt prin- plans to build a home for the aged on a site national situation, said Mr. Fidler, demanded in Forty Avenue, Wembley. The decision to lew \^'th the role of Jewish leadership in a "low profile" policy by the board. Attacks 3ist Kl '^ situation dominated by the Com- build a home instead of a synagogue was on the British Government would not be use favoured mainly because of an offer from a fCliini'foc and the U.S.A., with the advent ful until the next initiative towards a solution ?nge Of ,\nto the United Nations and the chal- charitable foundation in Switzerland of of the Middle East problem was in sight. £100,000 spread over four years towards the ^'P, hi "^ "have-not" nations. Jewish leader- Lord Janner, a Labour peer, described Mr. » X ^^''^' had failed to adapt itself to cost of a home. Fidlcr's stand as a "painful" departure from The new project is planned to replace thc h' tnnin'^•°*^^ and had no long-term policy. the board's traditional attitude of remaining -iWat J^^vish problems, he argued, were existing Home for the Aged in Mile End Road, "apolitical". Mr. Victor Mishcon. a vice-presi Stepney. "'^11 <;* i'^ ^'^^ nûst be approached on a dent of the board and a former Labour chair k Ilan • ^•ho session on antisemitism and man of the London County Council, declared J.W.B. Flatlets J^5w ...rights. Dr. Goldmann referred to a that it was important that no party political ,«fe loîsh isolationism" and said that Jews views should be expressed at the board, which The Jewish Welfare Board's £195,000 block i^lds t'l'JS manv liberal-minded non-Jewish had to as.sess the Middle East situation purely of flatlets in Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, ,i, loiia ' ^ver the world because they were and simply in the interests of Israel. This has been consecrated by Chief Rabbi Jakobo V l?"" at the forefront of the fight for was not the (irst time, said Mr. Mishcon, that vits and Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs. ^Thg ^'norities in the way they once were, he had expressed the opinion that statements Ellis Franklin Court, named after the late ence demanded that East Ger- made by Mr. Fidler should not be interpreted Mr. Ellis Franklin, one-time chairman of the Sec^Puld indemnifindei y Jewish \'ictims of Nazi as the views of the board. J.W.B., is designed to accommodate 33 elderly »y Ur "«on in line with the example shown LorLordd JannerJanner, , remindinremindingg deputiedeputies s thathat t inin residentsresidents, , anandd comprises 21 single and six h*fm= ' Germany The recognition of East the 1940s there had been M.P.s who dared to double flatlets. ,,._,. . .•^f, . si^ "yT âs the second German StateState , said stand up against their own Government's deci- In his address the. Chief Rabbi discussed ' tli^'Y^\Roth, European executive director '^fthp','^- Roth European executive director sions, warned that the board was facing a thstressee importancd the ethre of e servicepinnacles tso thof e Judaismaged^n—d t'resh^-^C-.. raised the question of her share similar situation. learning, worship and service. (''f ththee "iJlîhiii'tyT "^^?^ cause' i" makind bv gth emateria Gemial n amendpeoples NEW YEAR HONOURS &Urin7^îsh victims of Nazism. Loans to Needy r fia«t 1,? session on the oossiblt ^..»;,.,.o ^L Further honours in the New Year list in tf^ry•" IV"A, i'Wes? sessiot detentn oen othne thoossible fatee effectof Sovies oft clude a C.B.E. for the physicist Professor Following a meeting in London a new l^'chj'""jcncd bv an address by Professor Dr. Nicholas Kurti. who came to this country as a society, Ahavath Hesed, has been established refugee. Dr. Wallace Fox, London director for the purpose of making interest-free loans ,"' dM Loewenthal, of Free University, Ber- , „- ^ , , . •,..,• * to needy people. Present at the meeting were Wegates clashed over the attitude which of the tuberculosis and chest diseases unit. 15 founder-members, who each contributed >C'^?*ry should adopt towards Jews who MedicaCompaniol Researcn of thhc CouncilOrder ,o f waSts. Michaeappointel dan da £200. pt th remain in Russia. One view was St. George. The late Samuel Fox, his father, *aei ,?se who did not want to emigrate to was for many years president of the Bristol " Intermarriage Anonymous " ^lis, 3"st be left to solve their own prob- Chevra Kadisha. ^^ n v another view was that world Jewry In an effort to combat the growing rate of '^t forget Russia's Jews. BARNET TWINNING marrying-out, the Chief Rabbi's Office has set up a bureau called " Intermarriage Anonym ^ÂDEMiCS' DUTIES TO JEWRY The Israeli Government has, for budgetary ous", to be operated in the initial stages by di^h, reasons, turned down a tentative request by seven or eight London rabbis. The scheme Scus role °^ Anglo-Jewish institutions was Barnet Council for the twinning of the Lon is aimed at parents or young people who are tr^ d u.bv^ at the^ 78t" h Hebrei-ieorew seminar organ- don borough vvith a municipality in Israel. reluctant to discuss intermarriage problems ih^^t ann \'?^ Zionist Federation educational Withivviimn mcitheir limiteiimueda budgetouageis Israelisraeii munici- with their own minister and who may be more "otit " ttie Jewish Agency education depart- palities must give priority to the provision of ready to contact a rabbi whom they do not ,I)r, V, . social welfare and housing requirement and, at know personally. An appointment can be s, fed' .PT'^ Gertner, of Oxford University, de- present, the expenses involved in twinning made by telephoning 01-387 1069. dsti ,•deii t ^^^'ish university teachers and Jewish cannot be afforded. The rate of intermarriage, according to re h'^t oiS~^^^'^ yeshiva students—seem to cent reports, has reached one in four, and n Com •i''^^ the Jewish community and make possibly one in three among Jewish students. sooiir'°ition to its educational, intellectual BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE ,, The i ^^tivities". SI Baltlie Sauarc. London. N.W.3 Manchester Home and Yeshiva S{ y "urnalist, Mr. S. J. Goldsmith, asserted SYNAGOGUE SERVICES '1 ..rîtish Jows have not vet learned the are held regularly on the Eve of Sabbath The new Home for the Jewish Aged at J( " anj^"S ^" two levels intellectually—as Hcathlands and thc new £120,000 building of .•*.nd as citizens. The reading habit was and Festivals at 6.30 p.m. and on the day the Manchester Yeshiva have been conse at 11 a.m. crated and officially opened by the Chief Rabbi, îd jr large not known among Anglo-Jews ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED ^- Chaim Bermant, the writer. Dr. Immanuel Jakobovits. V HrWS ^ÔMv i^BTtOM)

SOCra AFElCiLS C0>rVE£510S by 5,ish .\gency chairman, Dutch F>e:crtned Ch-cirches in South Airic;i. told correspondents later that this nsure con tioi s.::d he hsd freai reiOec'L for Jcv.-i=h The Church, it was pointed out. makes contact tradicted statements by the So\iet Deputy in;eV.ec:ual ability. K.ii relations -Adth the v.ith Jfe'.vs in South .\irica all the time. ^V.niner of the Interior, iir. Boris Sh-umiiin cosamusjty v,ere, however, taarred by The Johinneiburg .-Vtrikaans daily, Die has alleged that 95 per cent of the Jews who Americas" part in the Vietnam war, since Vaderland, in an editorial commented on the wanted to leave the Soviet Union last year there was some reluctance to invite him to reaction of the South African Board of Depu had been allowed to do so. Jewish public events because of the contro ties to Die Vaderland's "disclosure" that most versy. white South Africans who crossed the border It'was of utmost importance to Israel that, to Swaziland for sex with Black women were MOSCOW PROTEST in 1964 during the Johnson Administration, Jews and Germans. Accusing the board of being hypersensitive, the paper said it was Ten Moscow Jews protested against the fact the U.S.A. arms embargo against the Jewish that the recent Soviet amnesty was not extend State was first broken. surprising that if the Jews had nothing to liide they should react so violently. ed to Jews imprisoned on diflerent charges, President Johnson was given many honours but because they had applied to emigrate to by Jewish organisations. B'nei Zion planted Israel. In one of Moscow's main squares the 20,000 trees in his honour in tlic .'Vmerican MEXICAN INDIAN JEWS demonstrators stood for an hour before dis Freedom Forest in Israel, and tlie B'nai B'rith persing when the security police arrived. The gave Jiim tlic 19G3 Human Rights award of Dr. Naluim Magar, of thc Hebrew Univer demonstrators sent a protest telegram to its Anti-Defamation League. At the funeral sity's Latin American studies department, has Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party daily, of the ex-President, Israel was represented reported the discovery of a tribe of Mexican before going to Trubnaya Square. by President Shazar. Indians who claim to be Jews and keep all the Commandments. The 90 members of the A letter by 38 Soviet Jews, including Pro tribe, near tho town of Pachuca, claim that fessor Benjamin Levich, was sent to the con Movie Mogul's Centenary some of their ancestors were Marranos who ference of Jewish leaders in Geneva dis were burnt at the stake in Ale.xico during the pelling "the illusion that there has been an Adolph Zukor, the Jewish immigrant from 16th century. improvement in the situation of Soviet Jews Hungary who was a founding-father of the wishing to leave for Israel". American film industry, was honoured by Dr. Magar, who spent some time with the tribe, said that they maintain a synagogue Hollywood on attaining the centenary of his DISSATISFIED EMIGRES birth. The cinema patriarch, who entered the and a Hebrew teacher and use Torah scrolls, new film industry in 1913 at the age of 40, tefilim and prayer books given to them by the Mexican Jewish community. During a press conference in Vienna re was one of the first to establish the film as cently Israel's Minister of Immigrant Absorp a narrative art form. tion, Mr. Natan Pelcd, was interrupted by dis More than 4,000 of the great stars, pro DENMARK'S CHIEF RABBI satisfied Soviet emigres. About 20 Soviet Jews ducers and directors of the past gathered to who had returned to Austria from Israel after pay tribute to Mr. Zukor at one of the most Rabbi Bent Melchior's contract as Chief deciding not to settle there, alleged that they memorable parties in Hollywood histors'. On Rabbi of Denmark expires in June. A section had been badly treated in Israel. Handwritten the occasion, a certificate for distinguished of thc Danisli-Jewish leadership in the board leaflets blaming Zionist propaganda for hav achievement was presented to Mr. Zukor on of delegates have rejected an agreement ing lured them to Israel were distributed. behalf of President Nixon. whcicby Rabbi Mclcliior would continue in In reply to Soviet journalists Mr. Peled em odicc under the same conditions when his phasised that every immigrant was free to Synagogue for Homosexuals present contract expires. He maintains that leave Israel. In television and radio inter he must have freedom to express his opinions views he talked of the settlement in Israel • The Metropolitan Community in Los freely, so long as he was not speaking on of the many thousands of Soviet Jewish immi Angeles, which generally follows the Liberal behalf of the community, but eleven of the grants. ritual, was founded about a year ago for homo 20-strong board insist that he must submit It is alleged that press reports from Vienna sexual men and women. Believed to bo the his statements to the board. of about 93 Soviet Jews who emigrated to first of its kind, it has about 60 full-time Rabbi Melchior told the "Jewish Chronicle" Israel then left and now want to return to members, conducts regular study sessions and that attempts were being made at mediation. thc Soviet Union, arc part of an anti-Israel Shabbat services and welcomed more than Members of the community are still making propaganda campaign. 175 homosexual men and women to its High strenuous efforts to enable Rabbi Melchior Holy-Day services last autumn. to remain, since it is felt that it would be a SOVIET SCIENTIST AT REHOVOT The establishment of the synagogue was catastrophe for the community if he left. encouraged by Rabbi Erwin Herman, the Professor Lev A. Tumcrman, a top Soviet- Regional director of the Union of American Jewish scientist, has joined the Weizmann Hebrew Congregations. He states that the DEATH OF DR. MAX BRAUER Institute of Science at Rehovot. For the past congregation came about " because of a yearn Dr. Max Brauer died at the age of 85. Before twelve years he was head of the bio-energy ing by these people to form an organised the Nazis came to power he was Mayor of laboratory at the molecular biology institute Jewish worship group". Altona. A leading Social Democrat, he had to of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and he leave Germany in 1933. In 1948 he returned to will continue his research at Rehovot. DI.\LOGUE IN ARGENTINA Gennany from the United States. He was During the Stalin regime Professor Turner- twice elected Mayor of Hamburg and held this man spent seven years in prison for seeking Dr. Sion Cohen Imach. the president of to emigrate to Israel. Daia, the central representative organisation office tmtil 1960. of .\rgentine Jews, explained to a plenary RAIZA P.\LATNIK meeting of the oreanisation his contacts with General Juan Peron. Details of a secret Gorta Radîovision .\fter her release from a Soviet labour camp meeting between General Peron (the former where she was imprisoned for seeking to President, who returned to his country from Service emigrate to Israel, Miss Raiza Palatnik. the Odessa librarian, visited Britain to thank Jew Madrid in November after 17 years' exile) (Member R.T.R.A.) and Dr. Cohen Imach in Madrid a few days ish organisations and individuals for their help. before General Peron arrived in Argentina had been disclosed in the Argentine Jewish 13 Frognal Parade, RUXL\NIAN CHIEF RABBI tortni^htlv newspaper. La Luz. Finchley Road, N.W.3 To mark the 25th anniversary of the Ruma Dr. "Cohen Imach reported to Daia that an nian Socialist Republic, the State silver medal attempt was being made to establish a dialogue SALES REPAIRS was awarded to Dr. Moses Rosen. Chief Rabbi with all political trends in Argentina in of Rumania and president of the Federation order to rectifv some of their wrong opinions of Rumanian Jewish Communities. Mr. Emil about Jews arid Zionism. He declared that Agents for Bush, Pye, Philips, Ferranti, Schechter, the Federation's general secretary, he was aware that the country's "most danger Grundig, etc. and Mr. Daniel Segal, the president of the ous" manifestations of antisemitism were Bucharest community, were also similarly Percolating through the Peronista ranks, the Television Rentals from 40p. Per Week honoured. elements responsible forming "a ring" round General Peron. Mr. Gcrt will always be pkaicd to YUGOSLAV AUTHOR advise ycu Dr. Zak Konfino, the Yugoslav-Jewish With acknowledgement to the news (435 8635) humorous author, has celebrated his SOth service of the Jewish Chronicle. birthday. He is still writing and practising as a doctor of medicine. " INFORMATION Maa-ch, 1973 Page 5 ''•'Js F ''iedlaender (Melbourne) Maurizius, suspects his father of a miscarriage of justice and he traces the case till he forces Waremme to admit his perjury. Here, Wassermann proves his objectivity: FACING THE CONFLICT after having portrayed ideal Jewish types like Agathon Geyer and Benda he presented their Jakob Wassermann Centcnaiy anti-climax in Waremme. The central charac ter, however, is Etzel Andergast, who, like Wh "Trotz des frcundlichcn Drangcns hattc er in the author, stands for the principle that life •leard^"; °" "^""^ ^'*' •^^^^' Jakob Wassermann is not worth living unless justice prevails. 'sit, J. , ^'âlther Rathenau's assassination he dem Wesen des Mannes jene riitselhafte, un ^gfj , "^ said, "an icy shock". In his auto- terirdische FeindscligkeLt verspiirt, dcr er When he achieved success, Jakob Wasser- 'ude'' ^' ."Mcin Weg als Deutscher und immcr begegnetc, wenn er mit Personen des mann settled down in Altaussee (Steiermark), 'ctcff-P""lished in the previous year, he wrote andern Glaubens und der andern Rasse nicht where he lived in material comfort. Yet he '''f sip '° "''^ Germans: "Es ist vergeblich, nur in geschaftlicher, sondern auch in einfach never forgot the hardship of his youth and "^Seti- „^_".leben und fiir sie zu stcrben. Sie menschlicher Art zu verkehren hatte. Das his early struggle for recognition. His pro "' %ul '^t ein Jude". Did not the murder Geringstc, was er zu fiirchten hatte, war eine ductivity was immense, but kept in check by V"b-".^âlther Rathenau confirm the truth of vorurteilsvolle Fremdheit, als ob der Betref his craving for perfection. For instance, he S% nf"oÔf ff^r wordswords? "Mein Weg" is not only wrote and re-wrote the beginning of "Der fende ihm zuriefe:ich hiiben, du driiben, auf Fall Maurizius" twenty-two times. Besides, ijon/ej.; ^ great autobiographies but also a die Bruck geh nicht". he interested himself keenly in the problems 'ssernf •'^'^^'ca of thc first order. Here This passage, I think, strikingly reveals the of his time, read widely and enjoyed his I^Sum " stated his basic problem: "Ich tension that may occur in a relationship be friendship with Thomas Mann, Hugo von '''"'(ieiit "J'^'rie eigene Seele und um die Seele tween Germans and Jews. But, inside the Hofmannsthal and Rudolf Borchardt. His iiorn^fhen Welt". realm of Wasscrmann's fiction, Benda is cer private life was not exempt from a crisis: ,\ in a son of Adolf and Henriette Wasser- tainly too pessimistic, for he at least estab his marriage with Julie Speyer broke up and K e)to„"..^^^rch 10, 1873, in Furth (Bavaria), lishes a link with the German world by his he married Marta Karlwcis, the Austrian , ; still "'^'^'l ^^'^ hardship of life when he friendship vvith Daniel Nothaflt, thc hero of writer. When he unexpectedly died, on Janu s'Sk(\ young. He grew up in a family of tlie novel. Wassermann's conception of this ary 1st, 1934, many literary plans died with "Heio'"âns and, only nine years old, lost German genius of music is equal to E. T. A. him. if'-Oioth '"Other. He was iU-treated by his HofTmann's Kapellmeister Krcislcr and to ^'Hioug]!'"; and this embittered his soul. Leverkiihn, the hero of Thomas Mann's " Dok Of course, thc Nazis did everything to sup tfîsh nt parental home was void of any tor Faustus". Wc may understand Nothadt press his work but Wassermann volumes Jtly ^.!?osphere he nevertheless felt dis- best if we compare him with the main figures went clandestinely from hand to hand. After Haiis IJ J^r-nt from the surrounding Ger- of two other novels by Wasscrmann. While Hitler's downfall, his star rose again. A seven- . -îs OJJWh. :o n he was grown up one of his volume edition of his work was published in Alexander the Great, the hero of the colour Zurich from 1944 to 1948. The "Institut fur h'^îiia h^'"'^'^ '''™ ^ ^°^ ^" ^^^ factory in ful novel "Alexander in Babylon", is haunted Frankische Literatur" (Niirnberg) founded a th "s'h ^-^^ loathed this type of work. by his insatiable hunger for world domina Jakob Wassermann Collection and received the ibf *^'l of "^'litary service he encountered tion, and while Erwin Reiner, the question donation of two Wassermann manuscripts from ak iTiari; ^"tisemitism, which left an indel- able hero of "Die Masken Erwin Reiners", one of his sons. Above all, the Albert Langen- U '"te H°" ^^^ ''""d. Yet, he would say, is haunted by his greed for material pleasure, Georg Miiller Verlag (Munich) publishes a f "se vi'hn P^^'" Js alien to thc mind of Nothafit is haunted by his excessive ambition complete edition of his work on the occasion of 3se his ^'"^ young. Thus he set about to to express himself as an artist. He sacrifices liis centenary of birth this month. This will J^\. jj"ream of conquering the world by his life's happiness for this purpose in order be a lasting monument to his memory. "ov ' but H ^^"^ "°' ^^^"* *° work as a jour- to realise in the end that human perfection Wji^ls. T,. decided to concentrate on writing is more important than even creative work. I IcveV^K^ther had no faith in him. "You Wassermann, the author of "Das Gansemann C^êvpH "'iconic a Gutzkow", he said. chen ", was not only acknowledged as one JEWS IN SOUTH AMERICA C^^l's f '^'^ Juden von Zirndorf" (1897), of the great masters of German prose but also A Recent Publication first novel, was an instantaneoi as a writer of international stature. This Rolf Italiaander's " Juden in Lateinamerika " 0( f"ista)falt„ h °"§h it was not free of the tyjDi- reputation was confirmed by his novel "Dcr (Olamenu, Tel Aviv, 1971. 79 pp. DM15) is l)(,'<:taiis ^ 0^ the beginner: an ovcr-cmphasis Fall Maurizius" (1928) and its sequel "Etzel an informative study of the past and present tlijWte J, .nd an exaggeration of expression. Andcrgast" (1931), which he considered the of Jewish communities in South and Central 1^1, "orso^'?'. ^^^ reader was fascinated by summit of his life's work. This monumental American countries. V "1 th '"ôlvcment of thc young author saga, resounding the moral pathos of the Thc total number of Jews is estimated at % "^f SIK/"^^ l^=>rt of the novel, told thc Hebrew prophets, raised the question of thc 790,000 (about 4 per cent of all inhabitants). 0( Scco^^Doatai Zevi, the false Messiah. In relativity of human justice and jurisdiction. Most of them live in thc Argentine (480,000), Hj^Satho^ Part he introduces the character Leonhart Maurizius was convicted after being Brazil (145,000), Uruguay (45,000), Chile •^'ii/.fron, ,|p'^y*^r, a young Jew who broke framed for murder by his close friend, Gregor (35,000) and Mexico (30,000). The original Of ^.i^s Ja jthc Jewish religious tradition, but Waremme. While Maurizius is a German of settlers of thc sixteenth and seventeenth cen cw all the same, by his nobility average type, Waremme, born Gcorg War turies were Marranos who had fled from the schauer, is a Jew, highly intelligent, but Spanish Inquisition. They were land owners H " Di '^'^"^PPears in Wassennann's next moraUy coiTupt, uprooted by a morbid Jewish and successful entrepreneurs, e.g., in the sugar Of ^" (Ig^ Geschichte der jungen Renate self-hatred. However, Etzel Andergast, the industry. The author reports about traces of »3(j.°f a J;^' where he unfolds the charac- son of the public prosecutor who indicted early Jewish and Marrano settlers in Lima 'S °1al T ^<=rn Jewish girl who gave up (Peru) ; until a few decades ago, one street ''I's""' •Judaism for the alluring ideal of t%> in that city was named " Matajudios " (" Kill ' .•'"' the A^'^'Pation. With this book Wasser- Your House for:— the Jews "). In 1870, a congregation of Jews <:sy. -s 3^ '"Pion for social reform, made from German-speaking countries was founded W-.'' Of h» ^^1 to all those who were in CURTAINS, CARPETS, in Lima ; it was revitalised by the immigration Jtth ..Progress. of Nazi victims, some of whom came direct • êa^"^'^'" Hauscr oder die Tragheit FLOORCOVERINGS from Germany, whereas others were re-emi '^fc'i'etit ^^^^^) Wassermann claimed to SPECIALITY grants from Bolivia. sch'^^'^tcd a^ .._nove. l where there was Sy\ 'esta\t^}^^^-, dcutsch der Weg, deutsch CONTINENTAL DOWN The publication does not claim to represent ?.e"tsch der Baum, deutsch die Luft a systematic history or sociology of the Jews r>issi WQj. -- • But, after its publication, QUILTS on the South American sub-continent. It is \ p"âte il^^'rd indicating that the author's rather an enumeration of incidents and obser .l{o!I:'''Jian ,.:^"?Pt to identify himself with ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS vations, mainly based on information which the author obtained from rabbis and other com .!«;>;;'^yorld had failed. ' ESTIMATES FREE ,,ôn^ti'ioe^^'^ctico •' "assermann was wounded by munal workers on the spot. Within the limita ti^ h IOVBI ^"0*S in a passage of his mag- DAWSON-LANE LIMITED tions unavoidably arising from this set-up, the "1(1 J'Uhlj,^. ei, "Dnc nor,c^»T,onr,».V>«n " ...KlnV, book helps the reader to understand the back 'Das Gansemiinnchen," which (Eitabllshctf 194fi) ',\IN-\VQ" .'n 1915, amidst the turmoil of ground and present position of Jews on a '^Msi!' nar^p f âr- Here we meet a Jewish 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK Continent which, if only for geographical and f^sp <ÔHP3 Benda. who refuses a non- Telephone: 904 6671 linguistic reasons, is stUl a kind of backwater ^fch p^V^'s invitation to take part in Personal attentloa ol Mr. W. ShackmaB. in the Jewisih diaspoora. ''roject and meditates afterwards: W.R. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION March, 1973

Kenneth Ambrose institutes of further education: a polytechnic, a medical school, a maritime college, and a teacher training college. The Poles' genius for adapting to cir STETTIN RE-VISITED cumstances was nicely illustrated by their When I found that I had a professional en how unchanged the plan of the town was, treatment of pre-war monuments: the "Kaiser gagement in West Berlin last December, I and how many familiar buildings and other Wilhelm Denkmal" in the centre of the town thought I should take the opportunity to landmarks remained. Of course there were had of course disappeared, and been replaced cross into Poland and have a look at Stettin, gaps, and of course there were many new con by an East European type monument in which I last left in 1937. I contacted some crete apartment blocks and a few other new honour of fallen soldiers or some similar professional colleagues in Warsaw and they buildings, such as hotels, shops, and offices; cause. On the other hand an old fountain in arranged for me to be met and looked after but the overall impression was of the old the "Rossmarkt", with an eagle at the top in Stettin, and to deliver a talk or lead a dis Stettin, looking very much more dilapidated, had been left intact, because, so my guide ex cussion in my subject of Management Train with much of the war damage merely patched plained, the Prussian eagle looked sufficiently ing. So, after two days in West Berlin, which up, and even the new buildings, two to five like the Polish eagle to make its removal un included the usual tourist visit to East years old, already looking slightly slummy. necessary. A third kind of solution was Berlin, I set out on what I remembered as It seemed as if the road surfaces hadn't had adopted for a large fountain in front of thc the 2-hour train journey from Berlin to Stet any attention since the Germans left. There old town hall at the bottom of "Gruene tin. It isn't quite so simple any more. The were still the old cobblestones, only now they Schanze": here the whole superstructure had trains now leave from diflerent stations in were very uneven and full of potholes. I learnt been removed and was replaced by a giant East Berlin—some from Liehtenberg, and later that there was a good reason for this anchor, looking somewhat ill at ease on top some from Schoeneweide; the Stettiner Bahn apparent slowness in "making good": it seems of its baroque base. "Why an anchor?" I hof no longer exists. Moreover you now that straight after the war all resources had to asked. "Because the old Town Hall now con travel to Pasewalk and change there for the go into rebuilding Warsaw, and work in Stet tains, among others, the Maritime Dept." my Polish frontier and Stettin. The timetable tin did not really start in earnest until a few guide said. Very reasonable, and typical of says that this takes just over 4 hours; in fact years ago. people who opened up the "Harbour Gate" I found myself on a train from Pasewalk (formerly "Koenigstor") and put a Yacht By that time the Poles had, it seems, taken Club inside. which stopped three miles short of the fron full advantage of the facilities that were left, tier (although the timetable said it went and managed to make do and mend. As a Among other changes dictated by events through to Stettin), and instead of arriving result, a surprising number of buildings have were the removal of the main shopping at 10.30 p.m., I eventually made my hotel retained their earlier function. The two Post centre from thc "Breite Strasse", which was (Arcona) at 4 a.m., after an interesting com Offices, for instance, are still, or again, post badly bombed and rebuilt as a dual car bination of walking, waiting, negotiating, and offices, the station is almost unchanged, "Ge riageway, to the town end of what used to be going by taxi. However, that is another story. brueder Horst" is still a department store, the "Falkenwalder Strasse". All surviving the "Regierungsgebaude" still houses local churches—and they seemed numerous—were People had said to me, "You'll be dis government, the police station still serves its of course Roman Catholic now; we have appointed", and I knew all about the text somewhat sinister function, even the former tended to forget that Poland is a Roman book reactions of people who visit the haunts Stoewer car factory is unchanged (and un- Catholic country in spite of its politics. The of their youth. I had studied in advance a bombed, it seems), although it now produces ancient Johanniskirche and the unbombed Polish map of Szczecin, and "Szczecin 1945 car accessories, and not cars. part of the Jakobikirchc have been most im and Today", published by Interpress Pub pressively and tastefully renovated. lishers. Warsaw, in 1968. I had also visited Later in the day, I svas introduced to another East European country on a number another gentleman, who, I was told, had Thc Jewish religion has sadly not fared so of occasions, and was, I hoped, adequately specialised local knowledge, since he had well: There is no trace left of the synagogue, prepared for what I was going to find. I had been in the government department dealing which was burnt down by the Nazis, and the made up my mind that most of Stettin, and vir with the reconstruction of the town during site is occupied by a new, pleasant housing the critical years after the war. He had no estate. The Jewish cemetery is a level open tually all its inhabitants had disappeared from English but quite good German; he showed the map between 1945 and 1946, and that I had space with trees for the most part. It contains me round the centre of town on foot, and in a fenced enclosure of about 50 yards by 50 come to visit a Polish town. And so it turned the process proved to be a mine of in out to be. yards, in which have been assembled a few formation. hundred old gravestones, standing five or six The lady receptionist at 4 a.m. was sur One notices a lot more on foot. Most of the deep around part of the perimeter. The centre prisingly sympathetic, and my room had been trees—and there are still plenty—seemed of this enclosure is taken up by graves belong kept for me. The night porter who took my much younger than I remembered them. ing to thc 50's and 60's, when there was a bag up immediately proceeded to explain in Little wonder, for many of the old ones were small Polish Jewish community at Stettin. I Pidgin English what a poor rate of exchange destroyed with the buildings during the war. was told that its members had since gone to I would get at the banks for my sterling, and You see remarkably few old people; again, Israel, and that there were probably no Jews how he could give me a much better rate. little wonder, for Stettin was almost com in the town now. However, the enclosure There was no doubt about it, then: I was in pletely evacuated by its original inhabitants, looked reasonably tidy, even though a few of Eastern Europe all right. Naturally, I did not and the present population are new settlers the stones had tumbled over. Again, there intend to risk turning my short voluntary who arrived from the rest of Poland, about was no trace of the cemetery chapel, which stay at Stettin into an enforced longer one by half of them from the Eastern Polish ter the Nazis had also burnt down, but the house breaking the law, and I firmly saw the porter ritories now occupied by the Russians. This, which had been the cemetery keeper's was out of my room. incidentally explains also the strikingly large still there and now served as a carpentry I caught up with my sleep as best I could, number of schools, most of them in pre-war workshop. and at 10 a.m. my Polish contact presented school buildings. The Poles have added four Many of the apartment houses in which himself. He was the Secretary of an organ Jewish families lived alongside their German isation which provided some rudimentary neighbours before the war are still intact and nianagement training in and around Stettin, inhabited, but look just like slums by now, and one of his "client" managers had put his Elka Couture with only an occasional one standing out firm's car at our disposal for the morning so under a new coat of paint. I asked who in that we could go sightseeing in the town. habited these very dilapidated buildings. My Since my contact had visited London guide did not at first seem to understand my numerous times as a merchant seaman in E. HORNIK LTD. question. "Workers?" I elaborated, "or poor earlier years, we were quite comfortably able people, or clerks? What sort of people?" "Ab to communicate in English. solutely anybody", he answered. "We are not Driving round the town, there was no snobbish like you are in England; if there is mistaking where we were. 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On March 18, 1940, lown f ^<^hoolmasters. Stettin was a Slav Berlin-Grunewald 1971. DM29), Klaus Schutz, she reports: "The Russians wage war in Fin Ulan if°'^ probably more centuries in total Senior Mayor of West Berlin, expresses the land, the Germans are threatening France. toursg -.Was '^^^'' "^ German town, and of hope that it will show young people of today They have been stopped at the Maginot Line, By tjj '. âs Swedish too for good measure. what it meant to be a young Jewish girl in but their real assault is still to come. What has Stettj^ :""o Hitler rewrote our school books, Berlin in 1939. I am not so sure whether the all this to do with me?" She is far more con lor Jk. '' only been continuously Prussian book succeeds in this purpose, but it certainly cerned about personal relations with young JreJrit two centuries. Naturally the Poles shows to those who outwardly shared the men, and the absence of parental blessing I Q'îng the best of this—and why not? author's experiences how difl'erently people worries her for a long time. sccoijj ^ '^H'^ time left for shopping on my react to the same set of circumstances. In When the war ends, she seizes an early lie IQ "corning, and my host proudly took January, 1939, aged 16, she left her comfort opportunity to return to Germany, first as a here" ?f^ ^ .'^cry up-to-date bookshop. "And able middle-class Jewish home in Berlin and member of a U.S. censorship team, then as a ""•ler <.^, ^'^' pointing to a shelf in one after a short and fairly unhappy stay in a student and later a social worker sharing the 'or (L' they have books in English, mostly Dutch transit camp came to England, where miseries and privations of post-war Germany. PressJ ^^^y schools". I tried to look im- she remained until the end of the Second On her first visit to Berlin she realises that s«ein„,', .when suddenly I thought I was World War. Her parents managed to escape she has never ceased to belong there. How she *as .t["'"gs; surely it couldn't be. . . . Yes, it to America at the last moment. She experi prefers echfe Schrippen to that boring toasted [had d^*^ ^^"'^ °^ P'^ter Cronheim", in which enced a great deal of kindness, and, of course, bread! At the house of an aunt who was spared the occasional unkindness, too, from friends •'' o/^^^'*'^^ '^°^^ ^^^'^ *^*^" years ago the because she was married to a non-Jew she and strangers, Jews and non-Jews, worked in meets a doctor and is shocked by his pro-Nazi "I'ght k., '^ a German Jewish schoolboy a number of congenial jobs and describes it attitude. She readily forgives him, however, ?'2C(j j^ _^^ led under the Nazis in a medium- all vividly in the pages of her diary. when she learns that he nurses a grievance ", as a n ^^'•'ân town. Although I wrote against a faithless Jewish wife whom he had ••aete *^^ and I used fictitious names and ;•" som "^^ model for it was Stettin A Personal Story saved from the Nazis, and married as soon as Sti't °^ the people I had met. One opportunity offered. After an interlude with •"oksh^^se it in English and American a young German who once belonged to the Sag PS any more, so why here? Did the Her story is certainly a remarkable one, and Hitler Youth but who has since seen the error ?^ storv, "°w that Stettin was the model for a great deal of what she has to tell sounds of his ways, she joins her parents in America, ""dks'vi'' "No", said my host, "he gets his familiar to those who shared the hopes and but just as in England she remains highly WL.'^y? "No' fears of those years. Her reactions to these •''st h„ ica*^^te d to him from Warsaw, so it critical of an environment that seems foreign experiences, however, are far from typical. In to her. She feels that now that the Nazis are >al ne'L* ooincidcnce." When I bought a different circumstances she might have pro " lie thr^n'^^'' ^"<='" that, I half expected it gone, she should be in Germany—she has duced one of those books that became best never put down roots anywhere else. Eventu v} "ndpr .^°fnmersche Zeitung", but I could sellers in the 'twenties and 'thirties and of M t^stand a word of it. I asked my host ally she falls in love and marries a fellow- which perhaps "Das Madchen George", "Die refugee who shares her opinions and agrees 'tics I Were writing about. "Most"Mostlly Katrin wird Soldat", "Schicksale hinter wRk 'loi-^ri T^?r ,^ , afraid"— ,'• he said apologetically. to retum with her to Berlin. In 1957 the couple tiP'her I '^^^ .^^ter 36 hours, I wondered Schreibmaschincn" are best remembered. They and their two children settle in Berlin, and ^, "ly f-j Was in fact disappointed, as some were written and read by women and dealt the diary comes to an end. th that! °^ had predicted. The plain fact with young women in "a modern world in which ,^^'ine Jâsn't. I had spent some time in a romantic notions clashed with the hard facts L.'Utits ^^t Europeamn town, whose in- of a bewildering and often hostile environment. Adaptation to Changed Circumstances 'bi Ruth Eisner, too, came up against these facts. ^%>/'::^ll, -^vQuj— wer e>. ticini.clearlvy proud" of their i-o3sina ^° far, and who with a rapidly It is interesting to see that the author re to ,1 th ^°^"^ population did not intend to mains immune to problems which are so often 'cti I hZ '^"'•'^^s, as there was still plenty encountered by emigrants, not only by refu •^1"~" anH ''^^*^ revived some long-foreot- gees, when they return to their native coun H'^"ôriec. ^^"orally completely useless HOUSE OF HALLGARTEN tries for shorter or longer visits or even for t|,'"^h stm' ^^^ funny old green pumps good. She does not miss old friends, because lij found ^^^ ^t street comers, and when she was young she had none outside I 'Ib^^^lts fu *^°ûmns covered with adver- thc Jewish circle—and the Jews have all gone. >ti/^s Used t ^^^'^^ ^P"' where my mother Specialist Shippers She was too young and pre-occupied to know i(„, the i^^ ° huy her bananas from a barrow. enough about language and customs that have ''ttl ^horo ^^''"'"'ng hath (still stand changed. She had only known the compara IV âkp }^^ went from school, with the tively sheltered life of what, at the time of 'hii^^fed) ,!".L ^hop opposite (now dis- Fine Wines Unique Liqueurs her departure, had become a ghetto commu %^ caltg^^^'o we bought some rubbishy nity and therefore, on her retum, never ran to Of trivi ^ °"'" swim. These are the into old friends who had once ceased to be lHai- 's pv? °^^ remembers in dreams, and // you en/oy wines friends. She had, however, met new friends K^y ahn ?"* ^^^^^ was a dream-like among German contemporaries after the war, \il ^ Wa!?" ^°"^^ aspects of this visit. write for our latest hee list and quite a few of these new friendships seem ^\h ^y a ^^ ^^^ Jewish Cemetery, I was to have endured. %^. iDorp ^^ther more basic thought: how '%cMy ). tortunate were those who died which is full of fascinating When the book closes Ruth Eisner has at ""•^bf!^' tho

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TWO COLLECTIONS OF POEMS GERSHOM SCHOLEM AT 75 "This Naked I" is the title of a collection of poems by Carl Frankenstein (Oriel Press, To celebrate Gershom Scholem's 75th birth nected with Jewish mysticism. It is one of Newcaste upon "Tyne, 1972, 24pp.). The author, day, his German publisher announced the pub the rare advantages of Scholem's art of lucid who has lived in Israel since 1935 and is a lication of the third volume of Scholem's al presentation that even such themes are Professor of Social Science at the Hebrew ready famous collections of essays. It has treated in a manner accessible also to thc University, will be remembered by many now duly reached the reading public only a non-initiated who otherwise would feel lost in readers in this country for his work in Jewish few weeks after the personal event.* the jungle of esoteric and highly so youth and adult education in Berlin. These Scholem, born in Berlin, and from 1923 phisticated and even obscure concepts. activities included courses at the "Schule der onward resident in Jerusalem, had one of the Scholem does not confine himself to the ex juedischen Jugend". The poems, the author niost spectacular careers among the Jewish pounding of theological riddles and super writes in the introduction, were conceived in angry young men whose formative years fell stitions, but shows the historical phenomena the tension days preceding the Six-Day War within the first two decades of the 20th cen as stages in the staggering struggle of the and are "an attempt to express what man tury in Germany. Originating from a very as steadily searching and puzzled mind digging could be without masks". From a linguistic similated middle-class milieu and retaining into the secrets of a mysterious Tradition; point of view, it is an achievement that a man for ever some of the more charming traits of and also against the background of general whose mother tongue is German and who now this Berlin flavour, he became in early life social and intellectual tensions and ferments teaches in Hebrew is able to use a third one of the very few who uncompromisingly in a disrupted and disorientated European language, English, as a vehicle for expressing world. So don't be afraid, the little volume and completely integrated into the world of his thoughts and feelings in an artistically Jewish learning and modern Jewish action. formidably entitled Studien zur jiidischen He found his place within the developing Mystik tums out to be almost a thriller. The accomplished way. The extent of this integra lew Hebrew culture, not as a recipient, not reader comes to understand the often under tion is symbolised by the fact that he chose a as a mere object of this astonishing process, ground effect of speculations, abstrusities, pun as the title of the collection. but as a creative contributor to the scientific aberrations and heresies on Jewish mentality and spiritual shape of the society and of the and on the ensuing evolution of Jewish Compassion and guilt Country of Israel. Tied up with the Hebrew thought and life. One feels that in evaluating Another volume of poems (Helga Rotenberg: University from its very beginning, he ac Jewish religious development one cannot rely "Gedichte". Olamenu, Tel Aviv £1) expresses solely on official historiography. Not only tually was the architect of a new department in beautiful and imaginative language the com of Jewish knowledge, reversing the En students, but also adults may learn from lightenment's obsolete deprecating attitude to Scholem's inexhaustible wisdom. plexity of our situation as survivors of the Jewish mysticism, to the Kabbalah and its Holocaust. The authoress was born in Vienna, widely ramified literature of which many pro The Jewish world honours a man who has where she was a student of medicine when she ducts had to be newly discovered. Today achieved an outstanding position as a scholar, teacher and writer, and it is our desire to had to leave the country in 1939. She now Scholem has become the undisputed authority lives in England. The book is fittingly dedi in this field. He is also president of the add our gratitude and our good wishes for Israel Academy of Science. continued creative life in full freshness. cated to the memory of her parents who ROBERT WELTSCH. perished. Based on the feelings of compassion It would be futile to try, even in short out and guilt, by which we are all haunted to a iine, to gi%'e the reader an idea of the many- HEINE EVENING IN LONDON higher or lesser degree, she gets across the sidedness of Scholem's .studies and pro Under the auspices of the Goethe Institute, nouncements. This is not the purpose of a in conjunction with Wostfield College and impact of deportation and death. Other poems hirthday tribute. It may suffice to point to International P.E.N., a function in memory reflect her impressions on the occasion of a the Jiidaica collections, of which the most of Heinrich Heine on the occasion of the 175th return visit to the places of the past, the recent contains only subjects directly con- anniversary of his birth, was held on February 2 at Westfield College. The artists participat alienation from her country of birth com bined with the indelible attachment to her * Gershom Scholem : Judaica III. Sludien zur IQdischen ing were Lilly Kann, WaUer Hertner and Ilse Mystilc. Band 333 der Bibliothek Suhrkamp. Frankfurt 1973. Wolf. The programme, which comprised mother tongue. Free from any cliches and y2 s.—The preceding hwo volumes, Judaica (1963) and Lieder recitals and readings of extracts from false sentimentalities, the volume makes Judaica II (1970). B.S.106 and 263. had no all-embracing Heine's prose and poetry, was particularly ^•tle but contained essays also on political and literary rewarding reading. ^"bjects such as Jewish-German relations. Martin Bubcr. well chosen and brought home anew the topi ^9non, etc. cality of Heine's message. W.R.

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"er6, en Frccden (Jerusalem) AN EIFEL TOWN REMEMBERS ITS JEWS ?9 Memorial Stone Erected at Zuelpich To commemorate its Jewish fellow citizens, THE "LION OF SAFED the small industrial town of Zuelpich (Eifel) lOf Saêd"*^ ."°^'*^^ °" Yitzhak Luria, the "Lion to fictionalise that giant of the Kabbalah, and recently erected a Memorial Stone. In an by Shalom Ben-Chorin, has been the common reader has to thank him for open article published on the occasion, the Kocl- idHa'rsJj'^f!?]"ished' under the title "Hear, 0 Israel" ing a window into a world of mysticism and nischc Rundschau reports that the events of to j^j^'Publications Jerusalem), just in time thought, which, as a rule, is approachable the November 1938 pogroms were entered in I schoijj,, t"c ^tory of the man to the many only to a few initiated scholars. the parish chronicle by Oberpfarrer Karl von I"" the ^ P^P^^'s and learned treatises written The author tells the story as if written Lutzenberger. A letter in which von Lutzen- from the inside by a 16th-century witness, berger expressed his solidarity with the perse I-Uria'^ °^<âsion of the 400th anniversary of cuted Jews is preserved in the local museum. I "Viu^^^'^- the atmosphere of thc times being rendered The priest lost his life during an air raid on ^th» i ,^ Luria (known as Ha'ari Hakadosh authentically. Judaism is shown at one of December 24, 1944. »CCU, 1) is so central, so revered, and its most tragic crossroads—the era of Spanish 'Plel"?lyLiond i ) The former Jewish community can be traced "1 Je\viV° extraordinary a position of sanctity Jewry had closed in blood and torture, leav back to the 13th century. In 1932, it comprLscd '''atttip , thought and ethics, that no literary ing its survivors in a trauma of despair. about 100 members, i.e. three per cent of the ^'"etit of spiritujl"- °^ '^'^ ^^^^ '^^^ possibly reflect this Luria's genius lies in his determination to town's total population of 3,500. As late as *fites iw ^*^"t's personality and influence ' link the remnant of Jewish heritage to the May 1939, the number was still 87, some of When fê Albert in his introduction. future, by an intense messianic belief in the whom could save their lives by emigration, old, Luria moved in 1570 ultimate victory of faith over scepticism. whereas the others were deported. Family the then world centre of Jewish Shalom Ben-Chorin, who has lived in Jeru names like Juhl, Liffmann, Schwarz, Sommer t>g. he salem since 1935 and is well-known as a writer, and Voss frequently appear among the Zuel i" year "'^ ^^''^ unknown. When he died pich Jews. E.G.L. 'Sh nhi^^'''^^ ^^^ ^^"^ "^^^^ ^^^ imprint on lecturer and journalist and has many Bibli dN j^'losophy for centuries to come. Yet cal studies to his credit, wrote this novel as COMPENSATION FOR SS MAN thrce poems, he left no texts. a young man while still living in his native 'scipi^''"°^vn through the pen of his closest Munich. The manuscript was left in his Arnold Strippel, a former SS non-commis I ^ W "^ Vital, who wrote the volumin- drawer for 38 years—the same number of sioned officer and chief guard at Buchenwald concentration camp, was, in 1949, sentenced in %, as h^ °^ ^'^ " ^^^ "^^"^ "—The Tree of years that encompassed the life-span of the "Lion of Safed". Frankfurt to hard labour for life (allowing h^'Mes f^ "taster's spiritual testament. Other for release after 20 years) on charges of co- if'yST' Wa vfoli ~^1°^^'*^ô > though in a more fragmen- responsibility for the murder of 21 Jewi.sh '"" aftpi-~'^^'^ writings have inspired gencra- PLEA FOR SYRIAN JEWS prisoners in Buchenwald quarry in 1939. In J^'vcs p^. ecncration of Kabbalists who them- Thc Action Committee for Jews in Arab 1969 he was freed by a Frankfurt court, which ?•''ons ' "^^^^ commentaries and inter- confirmed that thc evidence of a former wit Lands organified a prayer meeting outside thc ness was unreliable. At his re-trial in 1970 "Êiiial 'i-^ ^''^^''t variety of reprints of thc offices of the Syrian Arab Airlines in Lon he was convicted on a lesser charge of com don's Piccadilly. Hundreds present were told plicity in the deaths of the 21 Jews and :j%n ^^ attempt to combine biography with that thc aim of thc demonstration was to sentenced to six years imprisonment. li!? the u""^ Ben-Chorin gives an insight protest again.st thc brutal treatment and im prisonment of Syrian and Iraqi Jews, as well Strippcl has now been paid 150,000 marks ll <:onve !^ and dramatic life of Luria as to mark the fourth anniversary of thc hang (about £16,500) compensation for 14 years' (|.^ ,'nher^^ ^^'^ great man's struggle to master ings of nine Jews in Baghdad. An appeal to "unjustified imprisonment". This award is ''"y. tf' weaknesses and to realise his the President of Syria was handed over to an insult to the victims of Nazism, the Buchcn- ' "e is the first writer who has dared the manager of the Syrian airline. wald Survivors' Committee states.

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DR. S. E. VELDEN 80 ROUND AND ABOUT Dr. S. E. Velden, the well-known G.P., will celebrate his SOth birthday on April 1. He Ihails from Strobnitz in Southem Bohemia, BRANDTS PROGRAMME ADELE REIFENBERG EXHIBITION where his father was also a doctor. He quali fied in 1921 and after working in hospitals in Outlining the programme of his new Gov On March 3, the painter Adele Reifenberg will celebrate her SOth birthday. To mark the Dresden and Vienna, practised in Marienbad. ernment to the 'West German Federal Parlia Shortly before the Second World War he came ment in Bonn, Mr. Willy Brandt, the West occasion, a Retrospective Exhibition of her German ChanceUor, referred to the Middle work will be held at 2 Lambolle Road, Lon to England and in 1948 started his own prac B^st conflict. Underlining that Israel's right don, NW3, from March 2 to March 24. The tice in Hampstead. His personal charm and to live was particularly incontestable to the Exhibition will be open Monday to Friday outstamding ability contributed largely to his West Germans, he said that understanding 2 to 6 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to I p.m. success. With him there existed that special for this attitude was growing in the Arab doctor-patient relationship so regretfully rare these days, and often enough he went out of countries. Germany, he said, wished to con SHYLOCK PRESENTATION CRITICISED tinue her friendship with all Arab peoples. his way for his patients, wtho in many cases regarded him as a friend in whom they could Although stating that the recent elections The Bochum stage production of the "Mer confide. He helped them readily with advice had proved that political extremism had no chant of Venice" has been sharply criticised by the West German press. drawn from long e.xperience. real chance in the country, Mr. Brandt warned On this occasion our thoughts are with him the enemies of the constitution to expect a Der Spiegel compared the presentation of in sincere gratitude for all he has done and determined defence. Now acts of crime and Shylock with the Nazi "Stuermer" picture of achieved. We convey to him our fondest greet terror not least piracy in the air, he said, the Jew, declaring that this was the first ings and wish him many more years of health required international co-operation, for which openly antisemitic performance of the play •and happiness. E.G. West Germany was striving hard. since Hitler's day. The play was directed by Peter Zadek, the PROFESSOR DR. ALBERT SALOMON 90 C.B.F. MAKES GRANTS OF £30,000 son of German Jews who emigrated to this The surgeon. Professor Dr. Albert Salomon country during the Nazi regime (Peter Zadek (Amsterdam), recently celebrated his 90th Grants totalling £30,000 were made at the was at one time a contributor to this journal). birthday. He was Professor at the University last meeting of the Central British Fund for Der Spiegel quoted him as saying that he of Berlin and later director of the out-patient Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. £20,000 was had "never suflered from the fact that I am department of the Berlin Jewisih Hospital. for Jews in, and coming out ot, Eastern a Jew" and t!hat he hoped that the perform Together with his wife, the singer Paula Lind Europe and included £5,000 towards emigra ance would make German audiences turn "thc berg, he emigraited to Holland in 1939. There, tion and £5,000 for winter relief. £10,000 was Jewish problem over in their minds". the couple were arrested in 1943 but managed to help Jews in and from North African to escape from Westerbork Camp. Thoy sur countries. It included £3,500 for bedding and AWARD FOR "UNSUNG HERO" vived the Second World War in hiding. Pro equipment for refugees in France; £4,000 to fessor Salomon's works include a book on wards the erection of new buildings at the Thirty-four years ago, Mr. Friedridh ICaiser "Aerztliche Ethik und Umgangspsychologie" Yabne School in Marseilles, where vast educa saved the life of the Jewish merchant. Max and a collection of lectures on outstanding tional problems have been created by the Rothschild of Wuppertal, who was wanted by personalities in Jewish history. He also pub increase in the Jewish population from some the Gestapo, by hiding him in his house. In lished a new edition of the late Kurt Singer's 15,000 to 75,000 owing to the influx of refu recognition of his courageous deed, he has been book about "Die Berufskrankheiten der gees from North Africa, awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit. Musiker".

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MRS. ERNA FEDER Mrs. Erna Feder died in Berlin in her 80th IN MEMORIAM year. She was the widow of the publicist and editor Dr. Erast Feder, whose diaries ("Heute DR. MAX FREYIIAN MR. LUDWIG LOEWENTHAL sprach ioh mit. . . ."), published in 1971, were based on the notes dictated to her every even it the ^'^^ Frcyhan, who died on February 3 It is announced with deep rcgrot that Mr. ing. A personality in her own right, she shared [iila^^Se of 91, was one of ,the most colour- Ludwig Loewenthal passed away in his 75th her husband's experiences during the eventful '" Brptf^''"^^^ personalities in our midst. Born year. His personaUty embodied thc best quali Weimar years and laiter, after the emigration, "^"fessi ^'^ Srew up and lived in Berlin. By ties of Glerman Jewry. Born as thc son of a in Brazil. The Fedcrs returned to Berlin after '•^f^st, ^ he was a lawyer, but his main in- rabbi. Dr. Abraham Loewenthal (Hamburg/ the Second World War at the personal invita '"clude ^^ in the field of literature. His works Berlin) and married to thc daughter of Rabbi tion of the late President Heuss, a close friend ^ he left his mark on our com- in Berlin. He came to this country in 1937 his fellow refugees dates back to the first year and lent his support to the Ben Uri Art Society îspiep °y ^'^ numerous lectures under the of thc Second World War, when the Jewish l^tigatin the New Liberal Jewish Con- and thc Friends of thc Art Museums of Israel refugees Who then lived in Golders Green as well as to many educational and charitable \\% 1 oil (now Belsize Park Synagogue), the organised a club with regular functions. At ? exn»t^ '^"d the Leo Baeck Lodge. He was Jewish causes. He was also an acknowledged that time, he had already re-established him expert on Goethe. Scs and °^ both the Greek and Latin clas- self in his profession as an insurance broker %[Q "on, works by authors and poets like and lived in a house of his own, \Vhereas most pfhart ??'^cspeare. Goethe, T. S. Eliot and of us were not yet permitted to work and PROFESSOR ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL I rSe Kp^^Ptmann. His inexhaustible know- were accommodated in furnished rooms. Yet i n' also ^"^^ evident not only in his lectures Dr. Abraham J. Heschel, Professor of Ethics unlike many others in his position, he gladly and Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Scmi- i^cf "1 the personal discussions with his lent his co-operation and support to our |i'%p"^ friends. His enthusiasm and mental efforts. nai-y of America, died in New York at the age ' rt'^'th m ""f'nained unimpaired also after his of 65. Bom in Warsaw, he studied at the V i's bef ^^"^ housebound, and only five It was only natural that Ludwig Loewenthal Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Juden ^fsation ^^ bis death he enjoyed a vivid con- became a member of the AJR immediately tums in Berlin where he later became a lec Jfiou."' sparked with quotations from after its foundaition. Soon afterwards, he was turer. For some time he was also associated r". I'ilr u'^'^^s of literature, with a visitor elected a member of the Board. He always with thc "Mittclstelle fuer juedische Erwach- .sonchbildung". Dr. Heschel emigraited to the «.•'•' Haf ,"^' h^'' personal bonds with Ger- took a particularly great interest in our deliber ations. U.S. after short sojourns in Warsaw and Lon ith "uptmann. His erudition was coupled don. An expert scholar in Jewish subjects, he ^^fi'bis"Uld".youthfu •*','Proachl currenflexibilityt issue wits ho n whictheihr owihe i Ludwig Loewenthal will be sadly missed by also participated in general movements, e.g., !'^libu>'as'liblf -^'^Stt but not least, his was an in- our community and especially by the great in connection with the Negro problem and the ^,ênse of humour. number of those who had become his personal Vietnam wâr. |Ii^^lthos friends. We feel united in our sense of loss lil' Ma*^ 1^^^^° had the privilege of knowing with his wife, his children and the other mem vMion ^.'•eyhan will remember him with bers of his family. MRS. DOROTHY HARDISTY J'ôw V, ê express our svmpathy to his W.R. Mrs. Dorothy Hardisty, M.B.E., who was sec th^âl'wlf^- *?^3ra Freyhan, still active i' n com- retary of the Refugee Children's Movement otho,. "^ 'n spite of her great age, and to for ten years, has died at the age of 92. In her •nembers of his family. MR. HAROLD KURTZ work as secretary of thc "Children's Move- menit", she was responsd'ble for obtaining ad The historian, Mr. Harold Kurtz, who mission of children from the Continent to this KLAUS PRINGSHEIM passed away recently, was a specialist on country and for finding them homes. Mrs. .^h, Bonapartism. His work "The Trial of Marshal ?'*Us p°.'^Poscr, conductor and musicologist. Hardisty then became chief administrator of Ney" (1957) was suggested to him by his the Violet Mclchctit Infant Welfare Centre in 0 •'^fte P*^^™' ^^'^^ ^" '^°^^^ ^* ^^^ ^^^ °^ own experiences as a translator at the Nur Chelsea until her retirement in 1967 at the }^fi ho^ naving held positions with several emberg trials. His other main work "Thc age of 86. Empress Eugenic" (1964) refuted thc image j"''ectoi. "^^^ ^^ Germany, he became musical of the Empress as a bigot and interfering 1 I9l8 °tr ^''° Reinhardt theatres in Berlin political fanatic. Kurtz was born in Stuttgart DR. EDWIN REDSLOB 1 'tbuek "^ was also a contributor to the and came to this country shortly after Dr. Edwin Redslob died in Berlin at the age %rts ""c and musical criUc of the Vor- Hitler's assumption of power. During the war, of 88. Under the Weimar Republic he held the ^'^fe'h ^^^^' ^° ^^^^ invited to Tokyo, he worked in the German section of thc oflicc of "Rcichskunstwart" but he was dis ^fial T ^'^s appointed Director of the Im- European service of the BBC. Later he con missed by the Nazis. He took a leading part in trived some interesting programmes for the j Acrf^^'îny of Music. He later built up building up a new cultural life in post-war BBC Third Programme. "As a historian, Bcriin and was one of the founders of the stay^êmy of Music in Bangkok and, after within his own large but limited field, Harold "Tagesspiegel" and of the Free University. (%ii3 Los Angeles from 1947 to 1951, Kurtz is likely to be remembered when some He was also a co-founder, and for many years " brn»u '^^^y°- Klaus Pringsheim was the others more famous today, may be forgotten", a Board member, of the Bcriin Society for °ther of Katja Mann. writes Mr. Christopher Sykes in The Times. Christian-Jewish Co-operation.

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HIGH DISTINCTION FOR THE MIDDLE EAST SIR HANS A. KREBS The Nobel Prize laureate. Professor Sir Hans "BLACK ISRAELITES" BRrriSH TOURISM Adolf Krebs (O.xford), was elected a foreign Topping those who came to Israel as tourists member of the chapter for science and arts .The Supreme Court in Jerusalem has ruled during 1972 were Britons, numbering 66,000. of the German Order pour le merite. Professor inat the American Negro sect calling them The total number of tourists last year was Krebs, whose awards also include the honor selves "Black Israelites" cannot be considered 727,400—22,600 short of the 750,000 target ary membership of the Weizmann Institute Jews, and their claim to Jewish ancestry is figure. and the freedom of Hildesheim, the city of his 'egaliy untenable. Mr. Hanoch Givton, the director-general of birth, has been associated with tlhe AJR for The court rejected the application of a tho Tourist Ministry, has said that the Lod many years and is particularly well remem group of "Black Israelites" wishing to make massacre in May, international hijackings, bered by many in our midst as the spokesman ineir homes in Israel, who had applied to the threats to airlines and passenger searches, had of the former refugees, when the proceeds of ûpreme Court for an Interior Ministry ex their eilect on tourism. Despite this, there the "Thank-You Britain" Fund were handed pulsion order against them to be set aside. was a general upward trend. over to the British Academy. We sincerely Nevertheless, the court recommended that congratulate Sir Hans Krebs on this new dis ^lack Israelites" who had already settled in HENRY MOORE MONUMENT tinction, "rael should be allowed to remain. IN JERUSALEM The sculptor, Henry Moore, has donated GOLDEN DOCTOR DIPLOMA FOR one of his latest works, called "Vertebrae" to EVA REICHMANN WORLD LIBERALS MEET IN JERUSALEM the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The monument, which is 7J metres long, three On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of 1 -The meeting of the Liberal International's metres wide and two metres high and has a the award of her doctor's degree. Dr. Eva | pj^^ûtive Committee held in Jerusalem re weight of twelve tons, has been placed in the Reichmann received a renewed diploma from cently was attended by politicians from 40 Billy Rose Sculpture Garden of the Museum. the Philosophic-Historical Faculty of Heidel-1 eo.untries, including a number of Cabinet The exhibits of the Museum did already in berg University. In the accompanying letter, Mmistors! clude three other large and three smaller the Dean of the Faculty wrote: .The committee approved resolutions recog sculptures by the artist. Another work, " Re nising the right of Soviet Jews and Jews in clining Figure " stands in the Campus of the "Ich bedaure ausserordentlicfli, dass viele I ^rab countries to emigrate to Israel. A Middle Hebrew Umversity. widrige Umstaende zur Folge hatten, dassj fâst settlement by means of direct negotia- INTENSIFIED IRAQI PERSECUTION 'ons between Israel and the Arabs and inter- dieses Diplom nicht rechtzeitig in Ihre| stional action to curb terrorism were urged. The American Jewish Committee has re Haende kam. Gerade Ihnen haetten wir be Jie latter resolution proposed the imposition vealed that two, or perhaps three, unidentified sonders gerne diese Ehrung am Tag Ihres I J. ^jnctions against countries harbouring air- Iraqi Jews arrested last September may have J^tt hijackers and the release of Jewish died in Baghdad. Mr. Abraham Karlikow, the Jubilaeums uebcrreicht, wenn es schon un J'nsoners held in Arab countries. A.J.C.'s director in Paris, also stated that there moeglich ist, dies durch den Dekan selberl were "grave apprehensions'' about the fate of geschehen zu lassen. Wir wissen von Ihrer| other Jews now known to be in Iraqi gaols. vielfaeltigen, wichtigen Taetigkeit in derj THE EMBARRASSING RABBI KAIIANE The total of arrested Iraqi Jews is believed to be 14. About 500 Jews in all remain in Iraq. Bewahrung und Entwicklung juedisch-F deutscher Ti-aditionen. Zusammen mit un-| JJ Rabbi Meir Kahane. the head of the Jewish RELATIONS WITH AFRICAN STATES Isra^?^*? League, who has made his home in seren Glucckwuenschen spreche ich Ihnenj to th '^ " source of constant embarrassment Mali is the fifth African State to break ofT jgf.'"e authorities. He continues to send diplomatic relations with Israel during the im Namen der Fakultaet unser aller Dank| jjp ^'•s.to Ar?bs in Israel olTering them "com- past year. The other four are: Uganda, Congo fuer Ihr Wirken aus." anJl^^'ion" if they will sell up their homes (Brazzaville), Chad and Niger. We cordially congratulate our friend Evul "fl leave the country. No major African State has so far ruptured Reichmann on this new recognition of hcr[ I^^bbi Kahane claims that about 450 relations with Israel, while a number of them (H-^*^" Arabs, mostly Galilee farmers aged have stated publicly how much they value work as a courageous and undogmatic thinker, Israel's assistance and friendship. However, author and speaker, who has made invaluable Pos-it " ^^ years, have accepted his pro- the Jewish State does not rule out that more £4oc ''"d estimates that it will cost about African countries may fall prey to Libyan contributions to the assessment cf thci to g 'V^'" ^'•"b '0 "buy" them out. He hopes Jewish-German relationship both befori' and] is Jl°.'° the United States when his passport and Saudi Arabian pressure. tigJ^^ô^'ed by the police, to raise an "emigra- SYRIA AND WHITEHALL after the catastrophe. airp f""d" and believes that, once the first Diplomatic relations between Syria and AWARD FOR DR. VAN DAM folio °^ Arabs has left, large numbers will Britain, broken od by Damascus during the Six-Day War in 1967, are to be renewed. As Dr. H. G. van Dam, General Secretary oil has I '"^''^'s emigration call to Israeli Arabs a first step the two countrics will exchange the "Zentralrat" of the Jews in Gcrmany.f "lent •" sharply attacked by Israeli Govern- diplomatic officials to represent their respec has been awarded the Federal German Grand! ma^'.î!"cles, and it has been hinted that he tive interests, while operating from other Cross of Merit with Star. He received thel -^ •> lace prosecution for sedition. embassies. insignia from President Dr Gustav Heinemann.!

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