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tiobert TTeUsch Lazar Schon, Wiirzburg, 1905), a kind of sym posium of various, often conflicting views, a mirror of the intemal unrest and confusion in JEWISH LIFE IN A CHANGED WORLD the Jewish camp. Adolf Bohm, the foremost historian and ideological analyst of the early Reflections on the Eve of the Holy Days Zionist movement, considered this book so important that he devoted to it a whole chap As the New Year of the Jewish calendar to go into details because we were all witnesses ter of his great work.* Surveying with strict starts at the end of this month, there is an to this deplorable process. True, at the objectivity the opinions expounded here, Bbhm unusual time lag between the Holy Days and beginning of July the almost unbelievable calls this epoch "a time of criticism and intro ^ meditation occasioned by them. In the masterstroke of rescuing the hostages of the spection as none before". The book itself, pub I'apidly changing conditions of life and the hijacked plane at Entebbe has restored to lished more than 70 years ago, is now obsolete, feeling of imcertainty about the near future, Israel some of the former sympathies in the of course, and has become a rarity on the ^most every day makes us conscious of the West and admiration for her courage and market. But when I was invited by the Editor Permanent revolution which affects the whole military skill. It has, at the same time, to review a contemporary collection of essays *orld. Many things which seemed accepted and enormously boosted the morale at home though on the Jewish position, it occurred to me that êcure in the 19th century and after have it has also given rise to some exaggerated this may be an attempt to look at the situation êeome questionable; science foreshadows a self-confidence. in a similar way as did that legendary Stimme different structure of existence, traditional Fundamentally, the main problems remain der Wahrheit. Regrettably, it was nothing of ^'alues are challenged. No limit seems to be unsolved. Many things have developed differ the sort. The book, of enormous dimensions êt to the miracles of technology if missiles ently from what the original Zioniste dreamed and weight, with many plates and photographs, ^hot from the earth can hit Mars, millions of of, and also differently from what post-second- some of them brilliant, under the misleading Jjlîles away, and send back photographs which world-war-Jewry had expected, especially after and totally inappropriate title "Next Year in êny the surmise of life on that planet, there thc victory of 1967 which according to popular Jerusalem"** appears to be a piece of showing- by confirming the singularity of the human view established Israel as the leading power off rather than of contemplation. In its whole condition. It seems that the brave new world of the Middle East. The Yom Kippur War of make-up it is certainly not to everyone's taste. Sannot be measured by conventional concepts, 1973 and its political consequences again It is dominated by articles about American ''olitical relations, moral views, economic, brought a reversal. During the last year, the show-biz and success stories of Jews who came 5ôcial, ecological facts are in the melting pot. whole Middle East constellation has been in to the New World from the East European *^ven the climate seems to undergo funda- turmoil owing to the civil war in the Lebanon Shtetl penniless and achieved prominence in '•jental changes with the heatwave in Europe and the splits in the Arab camp, not to speak commerce (with astronomical incomes) and ^liaost surpassing the proverbial tropics, and of the obscure factors of Russia's sinister in such areas as movies and musicals. There autark populated colonies in space have intentions which can only be guessed at. The are also some mistakes. Yet, as the reader "•ecently been predicted by the BBC. No Jews, on the other hand, were disappointed is informed that the persons invited to con •Wonder that Jewish speculations on the advent by the decline of immigration and the increase tribute articles were not told about the rest ^ a new year do not stop at heresy either, in emigration, and by the economic and moral of the contents, it so happens that a number ônfronted with shattering experiences and crises within Israel herself. Large newly-built of serious contributions found their way into the erosion of time-honoured assumptions some quarters in the so-called development towns the book. To some of these I am going to jl^wish creed became problematical, and we remain vacant, and even in these towns—as confine my comments. They are pondering the f^ve not yet got over the shock of doubt some elsewhere in Jewish settlements—the Labour question: where does the average non-religious, times expressed in the formula "Judaism after force consists primarily of Arabs. This demon or in any case non-orthodox, Jew stand today? •'Auschwitz." strates the interdependence of the two In which respect are his relations to being ., ^n the 30 years which have passed since peoples, but it is inconsistent with the original Jewish relevant at a time when the confidence J'le second world war, after the gruesome Zionist idea theoretically proclaimed until that Zionism would definitely "solve" the Jfuth about the Holocaust had become known, this day. Jewish problem, is cmmbling away? ôe establishment of the State of Israel A critical analysis of the situation after the appeared to many Jews and non-Jews as a sort All this provides stuff for thought in Israel, experiences of the past decades, when the bulk * compensation for the unspeakable evil. but also for Zionists in the Diaspora and of Eastem European Jewry for whose sake p\'er a short hesitation, Israel was now accep- beyond the Zionist camp. Three times the and in whose spirit Zionism was conceived hope for mass immigration was foiled: in 1920, almost a hundred years ago.t has tragically i?.** by the formerly anti-Zionist majority of in 1948, and in 1967. Something must be j^spora Jewry as the central fact of all- disappeared, was recently given by professor wrong in the calculations. For the first time, J. L. Talmon of the Hebrew University, ewish existence towards which the endeavours official leaders of Zionist organisations, for ^ the next period would have to be directed. Jerusalem, in an enlightening essay called merly unconditional yes-men, have bûn to "Reflections of an Historian in Israel".J He ^ enormous, unprecedented effort was made think for themselves and are demanding a y Diaspora Jewry to help the emerging state comes to the conclusion that on prevailing say in Israel's political decisions and a re evidence "the most history-ridden and history- ûtically and financially. Yet, while Ben- examination of ideology. urion's proclamation of "retum home" and obsessed people finds itself torn between J "Kibbutz Galuyoth" (In-gathering of the A Time for Re-appraisal * "The Internal Problems of the Movement" in : Adolf Xiles) was not vocally challenged, it remained Bohm, Ole Zionistische Bewegung bis zum Ende des ersten êad letter. Mass immigration did not take When facts which have been overlooked or Weltkrieges, Zweite Auflage, Berlin 1935. pp. 291-306. ** Jews in the Twentieth Century, edited by Douglas lâce, although the obstacles erected by the ignored become evident, or old assumptions are Villiers. Harrap, London, 1976, 352 pp. and many pictures. ntish Mandatory regime were removed shattered, there come a moment for moral £12-50. t On these beginnings see the recent instructive book gether with the regime itself. At the same and intellectual stock-taking. In the Zionist by David Vital, "The Origins of Zionism", London 1975, J^^> Palestine became a region of war or movement, such a moment of perplexity arose Oxford University Press. It shows convincingly that the fathers of Zionist ideology were motivated solely by the gêntial war and of terror and, as has often after Herzls death in 1904, when his political conditions In the Russian Pale and orientated on the J en pointed out, the only country where attempts had been frustrated. At that time elements of Jewish civilisation developed there. Neither other Jewish groups, such as the Jews in Arab and African *s were in physical peril. Moreover, the a collection of essays wi-itten by the most countries who today form the majority of Israel's Jewish '"adoxical situation arose that Israel in prominent Zionist and non-Zionist Jevdsh population, nor the conditions of Palestine with Its Arab thinkers was published in German, then still inhabitants, played a role In this thinking. ^Z^^ forfeited the sympathies of a large t Encounter, London, May, 1976, pp. 82-90. l94fi °^ *^^ world, enjoyed after her birth in the lingua franca of world Jewry. It was ^8, and still more in 1967. It is unnecessary entitled Die Stimme der Wahrheit (edited by Continued on page 2, coluinn 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION September 1976

with its racial (volkisch) ideology increasingly in his contribution. He concludes his great On the Eve of the Holy Days stigmatised the Jew as an alien, different from essay on the "Meta-Rabbis" [of the Diaspora! Continued from page 1 the bulk of citizens. This attitude was sus —one of the most impressive in this book solipsistic self-apotheosis, which comes from tained by the development in the 19th and by stating (p. 76): an idolisation of history, and self-rejection 20th centuries of the idea of an exclusively "Of that of which one cannot speak one which is the result of a denial of the past". monolithic nation-state, unfortunately later must be silent, urged Wittgenstein. There The crisis of identity, Talmon says, "is pro encouraged unintentionally by Woodrow has always been a Jewish alternative: of thai ducing a far-reaching polarisation of the two Wilson's principle of self-determination, mis of which one cannot speak one must sinS. extremes of the ideological spectrum". used like so many other originally sound ideas. Perhaps something similar was in the minfl Talmon's thesis is illustrated by some The United States themselves, however, as we of Amold Schonberg when he put in the moutn articles in "Next Year in Jerusalem". As the may remember in their jubilee year, remained of his Moses the desperate outcry "Wort, most radical advocate of "denial of the past" faithful to the superior idea of pluralism. Wort, das mir fehlt". To say in music what appears on p.98 Arthur Koestler, the Budapest- Anyhow, the impact of hostile comment its creator wanted to be communicated was born writer once a fierce supporter of the most against aliens had its effect in Germany on the purpose of the opera Moses und Aaron. extreme Zionist Revisionist faction with its Jewish intellectuals too, a fact to which many The towering and enigmatical flgure of Schon terrorist wing, who recently made the literary documents bear witness. As an berg, by the way, is appreciated (p. 308) in an "sensational discovery" that the existence of example I should like to mention an exchange essay "The Composer" by his disciple Peter a Jewish people is a myth, because those of letters between Fritz Mauthner (1849-1923), Stadien, a born Viennese, now the Daily Tele today called Jews are descendants of the the philosopher of language and historian of graph's outstanding music critic. This author, Chazars, the Caucasian race which adopted Atheism, and his close friend Gustav Landauer too, is led to consider Jewish religion in the 8th century and after (1870-1919). Mauthner was a radical assimila "whether, quite apart from the immense in the collapse of their empire spread westwards, tionist with teutonic leanings. In a letter to fluence wielded in their respective fields by so that all European Jewry, East and West, Landauer he wrote on October 10, 1913: "I Schonberg, Marx, Freud and Einstein . • • stems from this source. feel myself to be a German and nothing else; there might not be a common denominator There is nothing new in the idea that at the same time I know that my brain has in their mode of thinking, a certain intre Diaspora Jewry should disappear in order to somehow a du.ctus which is called Jewish. . . ." pidity, perhaps, in the face of paradox, escape persecution or discrimination, and, at To which Landauer replied: "Whether you call seeming or real ..." , worst, extermination. Many suggested mass the Jewish character a 'duct of the brain' and —in other words, the impenetrable secret o^ baptism in the 19th century. But experience add the word 'only', is not relevant. Relevant the working of the "ductus in the brain has shown that there is nowhere to go, even is that by calling this 'duct' Jewish you are acquired in the course of many generation if they wanted to, because gentile society referring not to an individual trait of yours but through centuries of mental training and com would perhaps admit individuals but not alien to something which you share with other mon destiny. . masses. A programme of this kind would only people. ... A community recognisable, as you As to the receptivity of the Jewish mu^" ,. evoke resistance, and the Jews would become say, by a 'duct of the brain' is, after all, reality and the Jewish soul—to music, Yehuai more separated and unwanted than before. In enough".* Menuhin, who certainly has to know it, make a letter to the editor of this book (p. 106), This old theme recurs several times in "Next some pertinent points in a study on the Jewis Sir Isaiah Berlin refutes Koestler's argument. Year in Jerusalem". Many years ago, Sigmund violinist (p. 330). As a violinist, Menuhin says, Sir Isaiah's plea for pluralism and respect for Freud said that he regarded himself as Jewish the Jew, and specifically the Russian JfW, J otherness in a civilised world is more convinc although as an agnostic, an anti-racialist and almost unparalleled in the modern world; tms ing and more humane. His own career demon anti-nationalist, he would be at a loss to define phenomenon "stems from the fusion of tn strates that loyalty to the Jewish community the meaning of the word in precise terms. Yet, cultivated and the wild, of the studied wim does not prevent social and intellectual integ certain answers, if not solutions, have been the improvised, of the urban with the nomaa, ration and is respected by the gentile world. offered on various occasions. Some say that the of the rooted with the exile. . . ." Menuhin But one cannot deny the difficulty to define average Jew is the most radical "nationalist", wonders whether the cherished tradition Jewishness if the old religious bonds and the an after-effect of the allegedly most national playing the violin will continue in Israel, H°"^j ceremonial way of life have been abandoned istic religion. Others regard the Jew as the the pressures and requirements of nation as is the case with the majority of non- very prototype of universalist, not only in the survival. And then, suddenly, he concludes Orthodox Jews. What remains has been wake of the teaching of the Prophets but also with a quotation. . , i described as family bonds, nostalgic senti because emancipated Jews had to accentuate "Blessed is the people that know the joyi«' mentality, social cohesion, adherence to folk what is common to all human beings beyond sound; .^^ lore, etc. national or racial particularities. This, in fact, They shall walk, 0 Lord, in the light of my became suspect in the era of the nation-state countenance". What being Jewish means and of totalitarianism, culminating in Stalin's The author does not give the source; it IS But there is more to that than hits the eye. ine aumor uoes iioi give uie ouuiv^, - j persecution — and extermination — of what he taken from the liturgy for Rosh Hashana anu Men like the famous American sociologist called "cosmopolitan" elements. Thorstein Veblen or the English scientist and thus particularly appropriate to a ^^^^}^}^ge author C. P. Snow have been puzzled by the Beyond the Power of Words occasioned by the forthcoming festival. Tnf explosion of Jewish intelligence in so many Something seems to be hidden in the soul of are the lines recited in the Synagogue ane fields of life: they explained it by the peculiar the Jew, which predestines him to a special the first blowing of the Shofar. In theu ity of the Jewish mind—a view not always kind of irrational, perhaps mystical, reaction original Hebrew: acceptable to radical assimilationists who and communication; it is beyond rational abhorred any emphasis laid on what could be language because it transcends the power of The translation varies; in the Prayer ^''''K jj interpreted as admitting a factor separating words. George Steiner, the master in the study the New Liberal Congregation in Lona the Jews from other citizens. The inner-Jewish and interpretation of the mystery of language (edited by Rabbi Jakob Kokotek) the text controversy about the special character of the and its limits, and of the role played by mathe rendered as follows: .^^ Jew even in the post-assimilation era continued matics and by music, retums to this problem Happy is the people that understand in sound of the Shofar, for decades, particidarly in German-speaking * Gustav Landauer, Sein Lebensgang In Briefen, hg. von Central Europe. It was exacerbated by the Martin Buber, Frankfurt 1929, Vol. I, pp. 450/51.—Of. also In Thy Light, 0 Lord, shall they walk. fact that the growing antisemitic movement Year Book Vlll of the Leo Baeck Institute, London 1963, In Central Europe the usual Machzorim ca pp. XXIV ff. ried a German translation which reads: ^ Heil dem Volk, das den Posaunenscna^ VGrstcht 'a Herr, ini Lichte Deines Antlitzes werden si wandeln. „* to a Greyhound Guaranty Limited This has always been a cry of eomfort "^"^jj Bankers tormented Jewish community assembled this Holy Day and tensely looking forward lo New Year. For me it is linked with a P^^gpu- 5 GRAFTON STREET; MAYFAIR, reminiscence which, with apologies t° . -yp hin, may serve as an appropriate binding- j^ LONDON, WIX 3 LB of these observations. At the first « .^ Hashanah under the Hitler regime I chose i^^^ Telephone: 01-629 1208 famous verse as the banner headline on front page of the New Year edition ?: jjn Telex: 22465 Cables: Greyty, London, W.l Judische Rundschau which appeared in Ber Continued on page 3, colonm 1 AJR INFORMATION September 1976 Page 3

Erich Gottgetreu (Jerusalem) race. Provided that a suitable place for settlement could be found, Lansdowne was ready to make favourable proposals for the foundation of a Jewish colony which would HERZL'S UGANDA PLAN enable the settlers to piuiBue their own In 1903, exactly seventy-three years ago, means to talk to a Turk. If you want to buy a national interests ... in a large area, in Theodor Herzl, acting through his British carpet, you have to drink half a dozen cups of security and with provisions for a Jewish- representative Leopold Jacob Greenberg, later coffee flrst and to smoke a hundred cigarettes; directed self-administration of all communal Editor of the "Jewish Chronicle", requested then you have to make small talk about the and religious matters, while the British the London law firm of Lloyd George, Roberts family and only from time to time you men Government would maintain general over-all & Co. to draw up a charter for Jewish settle tion the carpet". Chamberlain was amused. control. ment in British controlled Uganda. His And Herzl continued: "Now, I personally may This Statement of Intent by the British Majesty's Government had offered an area in have time to negotiate that way — but my Govemment, headed by Arthur James Balfour, the Interior, not yet definitely delineated, for people have not. They are dying of hunger. I already contains some elements of the Balfour this purpose. Greenberg had, no doubt, thought must help them". Declaration of 1917, though Herzl never met that the influence of Lloyd George, Liberal Herzl explained his ideas about preliminary Balfour whom Weizmann convinced of the member of Parliament and expert on East Jewish colonisation attempts envisaged in seriousness and morality of the Zionist con Africa, might come in useful. Cyprus and in the El Arish area on the Eastem cept two years later. Thus Joseph Chamberlain One of the proposed names for the territory fringe of the Sinai Peninsula. Chamberlain re showed his sympathy for Jewish national which Herzl hoped might be a forerunner of a plied that as Colonial Secretary he could only aspirations even before Balfour. Jewish State in Palestine, was "New Pales speak about Cyprus, but chances for Jewish In fact, he received a vote of thanks from tine". The charter was to be made out to the colonisation there did not seem promising as the Sixth Zionist Congress in August 1903, newly established Jewish Colonial Trust — a the local Greeks and Turks might be afraid but Herzl's efforts were not recognised by British foundation for which Herzl, a foreigner, of competition. It would probably be different most of the delegates. His suggestion of a was not in a position to sign. The draft stated, with underdeveloped Egypt which was under possible detour on the Zionist road to Palestine that this Jewish colony was "to promote the the jurisdiction of the Foreign Secretary, the engendered a storm of protest. Many of the Well-being of the Jewish People" and "to en Marquis of Lansdowne. Here, Herzl quipped: delegates, particularly those from Russia, courage the Jewish-national idea". "We don't want to go to Egypt proper, we've denounced him as a "traitor" to the ideal of Greenberg—who had done most of the talk already been there". the retum to Zion. It did not help him much ing with the British officials—said that it was Egypt and El-Arish were seriously discussed that he only asked for an investigation of the no small matter that the British Govemment and it was agreed to continuue the talks project, which was merely intended as a "night had offered the Jewish people a home—and through Lansdowne and Greenberg, and also shelter (Nachtasyl)" (Max Nordau) for the besides the place might be a suitable "drilling- to consult Lord Cromer, Britain's man in Cairo, homeless Jewish masses in Eastem Europe to ground for our national forces". and to send Jewish experts to investigate. In whom the Turks still denied immigration to The Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, the end, largely due to Egyptian conditions Palestine while the Western countries and received Herzl—who spoke English fairly well and Lord Cromer's resistance, nothing came of USA became more restrictive in their immi —twice in October, 1902. He was visibly im all this, so that finally Herzl accepted Chamber gration policy. Herzl succeeded in getting pressed by Herzl's description of the misery of lain's Uganda offer which was expressed in a approval for sending a delegation of experts to the Jewish masses in Eastern Europe, poverty- Statement of Intent, dated August 14, 1903, East Africa but—no funds were budgeted to rtdden and haunted by fears of pogroms. Herzl from the Colonial OfiSce to L. J. Greenberg pay for its expenses. told him that he was looking for some interim and provided for negotiations between the In November 1903 a conference at Kharkov, territory because he had made no progress in British Government and the Jewish Colonial organised by Menachem Ussishkin (later his attempts to get a Palestine Charter from Tmst on proposals regarding Jewish settle President of the Jewish National Fund) Sultan Abdul Hamid: "You know what it ment in East Africa. The boundaries between decided to put an end to the Uganda scheme Uganda and British East Africa were being which they denounced as the "dezionisation of delineated at about this time and the area Zionism". It was decided to send a delegation ON THE EVE OF THE HOLY DAYS foreseen for Jewish settlement was actually in to Dr Herzl who was very Ul in Vienna at what is now Kenya—though the scheme was that time, to demand: (a) that he should (CONCLUDED) referred to as "the Uganda scheme". forget about Uganda once and for all; (b) that on September 20, 1933. This caused a sensa The letter said that the Marquis of Lans he should never again submit to the Congress tional resonance because it implied a defiance downe was studying the whole problem with any project for settlement elsewhere than in *hich a later generation may fail to under- that interest which HMG always showed for Palestine; (c) that he should devote all his ftand. Among Jews, the Wagnerian word any well-considered plan aiming at the efforts to practical work in Palestine. If he JHeil", usually translated in Hebrew as improvement of the situation of the Jewish did not accept these demands, the Kharkov Ashrej", had acquired an odious flavour be- group threatened to walk out and found a eause of its topical connotation: after Hitler separate Zionist organisation. had been appointed Reichskanzler it was de- With acknowledgement to the news service Herzl was deeply offended and refused to ereed that the only salutation in Germany had of the Jewish Chronicle. see the Kharkov delegates. However, in April •? be Heil Hitler (not among Jews, of course). 1904, there was a meeting of the Zionist The simple Guten Tag, or (in Alpine regions) Actions Committee in Vienna where he man ^^riiss Gott, etc., were abolished; anybody aged to tonvince the anti-Ugandists that he îQg them became suspect. Thus, there was Your House for:— had always remained faithful to the Zionist ^hidden challenge—however innocent— in the programme. He died on July 3, 1904, at the "êrent meaning of the word "HeU", a age of 44, in Edlach near Vienna—^wom out ûtzpdh in the eyes of the Nazis, to use a CURTAINS, CARPETS, by these bitter disputes. In the meantime the *ord recently included in the new Concise British Govemment had withdrawn its offer, ^«ord Dictionary. It was, perhaps, a childish FLOOR COVERINGS and the Seventh Zionist Congress of 1905 ^tisfaction, but under the circumstances of ruled that the Zionist Organisation should eptember, 1933, the impact was unmistak SPECIAUTY aim exclusively at settlement in the Land of able. Israel. ^ Jews, at that time in Germany, felt a sort CONTINENTAL DOWN "O^f moral superiority whenever the gap be- QUILTS u j^° themselves and National Socialism was It is announced with deep regret that ./^'ierlined; in this case in the application of ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS jje little but solemn word Heil. Thus, Yehudi MR. WERNER M. BEHR, O.B.E., ^'ûhin's quotation (in his context without ESTIMATES FREE utspoken relation to the "Day of Remem Past Chairman of the A.J.R. and Joint brance", as the New Year is called in the DAWSON-LANE LIMITED Chairman of the Council of Jews from gjj""gy) tums back our memory to those (Eitabllthml 1946) Germany, suddenly died on August 22,1976. oth "^ days 43 years ago, and indeed to many 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK Jp -^ past events. Whenever considering the Telephone: 904 6671 A full appreciation of his signal services j(j^^h situation, we are admonished not to to the Jewish community will be published n« our memories, neither as individuals Pcrtonal attenUon ol Hr. W. Shaekmui. in our next issue. ''°r as a people. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION September 1976

FRANCE NEWS FROM ABROAD 18 Yad Vashem Awards USA MEXICO In Paris 17 men and one woman were honoured by being awarded the Certificate Jimmy Carter and the Jews Strip cartoons on "Protocols" in Mexico of the Yad Vashem and having a forest of When the Democratic candidate for the 30,000 trees planted in their honour for saving Presidency, Mr. Jimmy Carter, accepted his Mexican Jews are deeply shocked by the Jews from the Nazis, very often at the risk nomination, he said: "Ours is the party that publication of rabidly antisemitic strip car of their own lives. The one woman among welcomed generations of immigrants—the toons in the popular press and in particular at them is Beate Klarsfeld, better known for her Jews, the Irish, the Italians, the Poles—en the reproduction of quotations from the in endeavours to have German vrar criminals listed them in its ranks and fought the politi famous Tsarist antisemite forgery "The Proto brought to justice. Among the 17 men are cal battles that helped bring them into the cols of the Elders of Zion" in coloured car Alain Poher, the president of the French American main stream—and they have shaped toons in the bi-weekly magazine "Los Senate, Gaston Deferre, mayor of Marseille, the character of oiu- party. This is the heri Penitentes", a relatively new publication. It the dramatist Eugene lonesco and several tage. . . . Ours is a tradition of leadership, is distributed not only in Mexico, but also leaders of the Church. compassion and progress". among Mexican emigrants in the United States to whom it is exported at low prices. His vice-presidential team-mate. Senator The Mexican Govemment does not share the Bombs in Paris Mondale has supported Israel on all issues fears of its 38,000 Jews and maintains that during his service in Congress. In 1974 he "free expression" even of obnoxious views, is A bomb explosion caused extensive damage took the initiative in sponsoring a proposal guaranteed by the constitution. to the ofifices of the Intemational League by the American-Israel Public Affairs Com against Antisemitism and Racialism in Paris. mittee to increase US assistance to Israel by On an outside wall, the words "Peiper will be about £110 million and military grants by SOUTH AFRICA revenged" were written in black paint. A about £55 million. He was also a sponsor of former SS Colonel Joachim Peiper who went the amendment making US trade concessions Extradition of Financier demanded to live in Traves, eastem France, six years to the Soviet Union dependent on the libera ago, was apparently killed by former resis tion of Russian emigration policies. Israel has been asked by the South African Government for the immediate extradition of tance workers when his house was burned Mr. Savell, wanted by the police in connection down. His remains have not been positively What is an antisemite? with a £6 million fraud charge. He fled to identified. The highest commanding officer of the Israel after the collapse of the Sidarel Fin United States, General George Brown, has ance Company of which he was chairman. It NEWS FROM THE EAST been attacked for stating in public that Jews had left hvmdreds of investors, many of them and other ethnical groups exercised too much pensioners, penniless. If the extradition is Israeli Scientists barred power in Congress. However, his appointment granted, it will be the first after the recent as head of the Pentagon Chiefs of Staff was signing of an amended extradition treaty. Only one of 16 Israeli geographers who extended by the Senate against the votes of applied for visas to attend the Intemational the three Jewish senators Javits, Ribicoff and Geographers' Conference in Moscow, will be Stone. They were reminded that it had been Jewish Cricketer starts Newspaper admitted by the Russian authorities. General Brown who organised the air-lift to Mr Wilfred Isaacs, the sponsor of the Jewish Israel during the Yom Kippur War. John cricket eleven which bears his name and has No emigration for village Jews Tower, Senator for Texas, defended him say toured Holland, Britain and Denmark, has ing: "He is no antisemite, he only lacks judge joined the board of publishers of a projected The Soviet govemment has refused to let ment and sensitivity". new moming paper "The Citizen" which is 80 Jewish peasant families from the village financed by the fertiliser millionaire Mr. Louis of Ilyinka, 400 miles from Moscow, emigrate Films on Entebbe planned to Israel. They are the descendants of Russians Luyt and aims at countering "the ultra-liberal, who converted to Judaism several centuries About a dozen intemational film companies, anti-South African policies of the Rand Daily ago. One member of the families had called including the Hollywood studios of Warner Mail". His own takeover bid for that paper the attention of the Jewish activist Vladimir Brothers, Paramount and Universal are seek was rejected. Slepak to their plight. He was 81-year-old ing Israeli Govemment help to make films of Mr. Vamavsky who though illiterate could the Entebbe rescue operation. The Israeli Gov THE JEWS OF JAPAN recite Hebrew prayers. The villagers worship emment has declared that it will actively co on Saturdays, observe the festivals and bake operate in the production of Wamer Brothers' The Jewish community in Tokyo, number matzot. Every boy bom is taken 650 miles film, but will not prevent independent pro ing about 120 families, has elected the Japan to the Caspian Sea for circumcision by ducers from making their own films. Wamer ese diplomat Mitsugi Shibata an honorary life mohelim of the "Mountain Jews" living there. Brothers says it has already signed Steve member. The former Rabbi of the community, When in 1937 their shochet was arrested dur McQueen, the US fllm star to play General Rabbi Tokayer who emigrated to Israel wiUi ing one of the Stalin purges, they refrained Dan Shomron, the Israeli commander of his wife and two Japan-bom children, found from eating meat for four years. Now they eat the raid. Mr. Shibata after a five-year search. In 1941, only meat from their ovm herds. as a young diplomat in Shanghai, Mr. Shibata Sliofar blown in the White House had been horrified to leam of a plot by the A sombre anniversary As part of bis election campaign, President Japanese secret police, the Kempetai, to put Ford invited some 30 Jewish leaders to a several thousand Jewish refugees aboard a Representatives of the Rumanian Federa 90-minute session at the White House to out ship and sink it in deep waters. He immedi tion of Jewish Communities and of the line his long record of support for Israel. Six ately alerted the heads of the Ashkenazi and Communist Party paid homage to the many rabbis who head congregations established 100 Sephardi commimities, and the Kempetai, thousands of Jews murdered by the Nazis years before the American Revolution of 1776, realising that their plan had been revealed, and their agents in the Moldavian town of presented him with a letter attesting the con called off the action. Mr. Shibata had pre Jassy in June 1941. The tributes which marked gregations' 200-year span of loyalty to the viously served in Shanghai. At that time there the 35th anniversary of the massacres, were country. Repeating George Washington's were about 20,000 Jewish refugees from Ger vadely reported by the press, radio and tele words to these congregations, Mr. Ford pro many and Poland, including 500 rabbis and vision. The mayor, Mr. Manciuc, unveiled the mised "to bigotry no sanction, to persecution religious students, in Shanghai and Man memorial built by the town council in the no assistance". The rabbis also presented a churia. They were generously treated by the square of the 300-year-old Great Synagogue shofar to the president, who tried but failed to Japanese authorities until, after the outbreak and said it was to remind people that such blow it. Rabbi Musleah of Philadelphia's of war, members of the German SS arrived atrocities must never again be aUowed to hap Mikveh Israel synagogue, did it for him. in Tokyo and informed the secret police that pen. Nearly every member of the Jassy Jewisb these refugees were a subversive threat. The community and 800 representatives from the Synagogue at West Point Kempetai leaders planned their pogrom for other Moldavian communities attended a mem the night of Rosh Hashana 1942. Several people Five million dollars will be needed to orial service conducted by Chief Rabbi Dr. who were at a Jewish meeting to discuss Mr Rosen in the Jewish cemetery where a great erect the synagogue which it has just been Shibata's disclosures, were arrested and tor decided to build at the American Military number of the victims are buried in common tured. Mr. Shibata was placed in solitary con graves. He also paid homage to the 1,200 Academy of West Point. It will be used by finement for 40 days, sent back to Japan and Jewish tutors and students. men and women who died in the "Deatb banned from China for 50 years. Train" on which the Nazis deported Jews GREECE after the pogrom of June 29, 1941. Child Martyrs remembered CAMPS Yiddish Theatre Centenary A memorial to the 12,000 Jewish children INTERNMENT—P.O.W.— of Salonika, murdered by the Nazis during FORCED LABOUR—KZ The world-famous Yiddish Theatre, founded the Second World War, was unveiled in Israel's I wish to buy cards, envelop»s and folded pott- in Jassy, Rumania, in 1876, celebrates its 100th new diplomatic oflBces which were opened in marked letters from all camps of t>oth world war*. anniversary by giving performances of Isaak Athens. The oflBces have been built at a cost Please send, registered mail, stating price, to: Babel's tragedy "Sunset" in Warsaw, Breslau, of some £250,000 provided by the Salonika PETER C. RICKENBACK Liegnitz and Waldenburg. The play deals with Jewish community. 14 Roatlyn HIII, Landon, N.W.9 the tragic life of the Odessa Jew Mendel Krik. AJR INFORMATION September 1976 Page 5 HOME NEWS ANGLOJUDAICA An ambitious programme UNITED FRONT TO FIGHT RACIALISM? PROTEST AGAINST OMISSION OF JEWS Mr. Benjamin M. Kuras, a 32-year-old former The Board of Deputies' defence and group FROM MEMORIAL Prague journalist and convert to Judaism, has, relations committee participated in an anti- after a period with the BBC and the Young racialist rally in Hyde Park and a march to Mr. GrevUle Janner QC, MP, protested in a Vic, become an independent theatrical mana Downing Street which had been arranged by letter to the Soviet Ambassador against the ger. At the moment he is in charge of an West Indian Organisations. The organisers had fact that the Babi Yar monument to the ambitious 3-month season of Ballet and Dance given an undertaking that the Arab-Israeli con massacred victims of Nazism did not mention at the Collegiate Theatre, Gordon Street, flict would be kept out of the rally, but in that almost the entire Jewish population of London. One of the most interesting pro his speech, the Pakistani Left-winger Tariq Kiev was among them and that Jews were not grammes was that of Cary Rick with dances Ali made offensive anti-Israeli remarks. Sub mentioned at all. An embassy oflScial said in on biblical themes. Mr. Kuras stated that he sequently the Board of Deputies and the Asso an official reply, that a special mention of had become a Jew three years ago in London ciation of Jevnsh Ex-Servicemen who had Jews would have meant setting them apart because he no longer shared the agnosticism loined the rally were severely criticised, in artificially. "The people of Jewish nationality of his Catholic famUy. Judaism seemed to particular by the Right-wing Herut section. The in our country are on a completely equal him to be the only answer to the meaning of chairman of Hemt, Mr. M. Benjamin, said at footing with all other nationalities . . . We life. the Board Meeting of the Board of Deputies should show respect for the fact . . . that the after the rally that they would have to decide Soviet Union and its army have done for whether they were prepared to combat racial Jews more than any other country in the Cliief Rabbi's gratitude to CBF ism in the company of bed-fellows who wished world". Mr Janner wrote back to say there Dr. Jakobovits, the Chief Rabbi, recently to see the destruction of Israel. Mr R. Kalman was not a single monument to Jewish victims paid a short visit to Dublin to launch an appeal defended the Board saying that the rally in Russia even in places where the whole by the Central British Fund's local committee. organisers had lost control to such groups as Jewish community had been murdered. "This He said that coming to Ireland felt to him like the International Socialists, the Maoists and silence over the fate of those condemned by coming home because he had been Chief Rabbi the Trotskyites all of whom were anti-Zionist. Hitler Germany to the Final solution is inex of Ireland from 1949 to 1957 and five of his Nevertheless, the Board should ignore the plicable to civilised opinion and particularly children had been born there. He said he owed lunatic fringe of the Left" and co-operate wounding to Soviet Jews". a great debt to the CBF which had rescued with the constructive elements of the coloured him and his family from Germany when he community. In a letter to Mr Joshi, chairman STUDY IN ISRAEL FOR BRITISH STUDENTS was 15, and he was honoured to be now a of the West Indian National Demonstration vice-president of the organisation. Committee, the Board stated that it was glad The Hebrew University is providing a to have had the opportunity to stand with special pre-university course for students A new kind of queue the coloured population "in the forefront of accepted by a British university where the combating racialism and all forms of discrim emphasis will be on the understanding of When he opened a new mikvah at Bourne ination" and to have conveyed to them the Judaism as a religion and culture and on an mouth, the Chief Rabbi Dr. Jakobovits said Chief Rabbi's support in their flght. "Having introduction to the history of the Jewish people that in the past few months three new mikvahs been the first victims of racial discrimination", in modem times and of the State of Israel. had been opened—an unprecedented event in the statement continued, "we want to use our The students will live in new domitories on the 300-year history of the Anglo-Jewish experience to promote closer ties between us Mount Scopus and will have the benefit of a community. He added that young wives were jn order to help with the problems of integra university group leader. forming long queues at the mitvah in sharp tion without loss of religious or cultural Dr. Conway, former headmaster of the JFS contrast to their mothers who had largely Identity . . . We extend the hand of friendship in Camden, has been appointed by the Zionist ignored this ancient Jewish tradition. The to the Asian and African communities ana Federation Educational Trust to expand the Boumemouth mikvah however had to open *e certainly hope that you will reciprocate scheme he operated at the JFS under which "dry"—because of the drought there was no this idea". school-children spent six months in Israel to water available. study and live as members of a community of LABOUR FRIENDS OF ISRAEL contemporaries. The staff of the JFS have First Prison Govemor planted an avenue of trees in the Ben-Gurion Mr Arthur Bottomley, MP, a former Com Forest to express their gratitude to Dr. Mr Jack Shulman has been appointed monwealth Secretary and Minister for Over- Conway, and pupils of the school have presen govemor of Highpoint Prison near Newmarket Seas Aid, has been elected chairman of the ted him with a cheque to be used to purchase which will be opened next Febmary and will Parliamentary branch of the Labour Friends a gift for the Givat Washington High School have 300 inmates by the end of 1977. Mr. of Israel. Throughout his political career, he where they stayed during their visit to Israel. Shulman was deputy govemor at two Ayles nas been a staunch supporter of Israel and bury prisons for two years, and previously Sreatly concemed with the fate of racially assistant governor at Maidstone and Worm oppressed people, including Jews in Arab CHARTER FLIGHTS TO ELATH wood Scrubs. He is the only Jewish govemor ^nds. Mr Bottomley succeeds Mr Leslie At last, the Israeli civil aviation authorities in the prison service, and a fonner organiser ûckfield, MP, who had to relinquish the chair have agreed to charter flights from Britain of Maccabi. manship when he became Under-Secretary of to Elath this winter. After November 4, Dan- ''tate for Industry. Air will have one flight leaving every second School row at Prestwich Thursday. Cost for a two-week holiday: be At the garden party of the Prestwich Jewish SIR HAROLD WILSON'S JEWISH tween £136 and £196. Day School, a parent Mr. Leslie Feuer had a ENGAGEMENTS microphone taken away from him by a senior .. Sir Harold Wilson has accepted an invita govemor when he was singing the Hatikvah, tion to be guest of honour at a reception to the Jewish national anthem. Angry parents, gark the golden jubilee of British B'nai B'rith. B'NAI B'RITH protesting against the alleged anti-Zionism of ê has also been awarded the Henrietta Szold the school, are threatening to take their child ^ward for Services to Israel and the Jewish LEO BAECK (London] LODGE ren away. people by Hadassah, the American women's *'ionist organisation. Invites gentlemen who have not yet Jemsalem Fashion Week in London Identified themselves with B'nai MEMORIAL SERVICE AT GLADSTONE Mr. Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem, PARK B'rith to a visited London recently en route to New York to meet some of the prospective buyers at the The sixth annual interdenominational mem- SHERRY RECEPTION first ever Jerusalem Fashion Week in Lon "rtal service, organised by the Willesden don. Sir Marcus Sieff, chairman of Marks & oranch of Ajex, in memory of those who died on TUESDAY, 28th SEPTEMBER at Spencer, gave a reception in his honour and n prisoner of war camps and in concentration 8.15 p.m. at 17 Daleham Gardens, said there was no better way to support Israel âmps, will be held on Sunday aftemoon, 19th N.W.3 than to do business as business. He said he êptember, at the Prisoners Memorial, Glad was doing so because Israel was a first-class stone Park, N.W.2. Officers of the Lodge will be happy source of supply. 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C. C. Aronsfeld tion, if only to make up for the schooling he had been denied. If the sums he spent on his cause are a reliable yardstick, he may well be FOUNDING FATHER OF RHODESIA regarded, on that score alone, as one of the most generous benefactors of his time. The Remarkable Career of Alfred Beit Nor were the gifts confined to Rhodesian or As Rhodesia prepares to keep her "date pany struck north into what is now Rhodesia. South Africa's high schools (including the uni mth destiny", the memory inevitably strays If Beit readily acknowledged the daring versities of Johannesburg and Cape Town). A Dack to her origins, the days when the country master-mind of Rhodes who could force the Chair of Colonial History was established at first came into political life. She was the astute (Jewish) rivals, "Barney" Bamato and Oxford; £160,000 was bequeathed to London creation of Cecil Rhodes, the greatest of the Wolf Joel, to accept "amalgamation", never University's College of Technology and Medical latter-day Empire-builders, and his story of theless it was he, "little Alfred" (as Rhodes Science Funds, and a grateful thought ^yas course is amply recorded. But Rhodesia is was fond of calling him) who, by his tenacity spared for his native city of Hamburg which just as much indebted to a less well-known of purpose, ensured a successful issue. And received £100,000 to build a university. man who happened to be a German-born Jew, this was true throughout their association. The Germans appreciated his "warm inter Alfred Beit, who was in fact Rhodes' right The huge schemes mapped out by Rhodes est" while at the same time wondering why arm, and it seems certain that without him were shaped by Beit to practical proportions. it was that "(Jermans outside Germany have the country might never have been built. He Well has it been said that without Beit, Rhodes managed, within a relatively short time, to died 70 years ago, aged 53, and though the would have been "helpless and muddled in secure great economic and political power". press of the world then duly noted the event, details of business, yawning over balance- In its memoir of Beit in 1906, one of Berlin's the name has since settled in that obscurity sheets and puzzled by costs of production", liberal papers found that this was "by no which the modest man eagerly courted and without Rhodes "whispering sonorous means an accident", because it was "precisely throughout his formidable career. words of conquest", Beit would have the ablest men" who "soon realise that Beit, who left such millions as Rothschild "dwindled to a successful share-dealer". Germany puts so many obstacles in their and Wolfson might envy, was, as a financier, But while the making and managing of path that they follow the most elementary a visionary genius and he holds a sure title money was in Beit's blood, it did not all fill common sense when they prefer to apply to fame. But he was fated, and perhaps fortu his mind. He seemed to be embarrassed by it, their talents abroad. Our bigotry in political, nately so. to meet a greater, more dramatic and being by nature an introvert (who never social and religious affairs has always driven genius who cast a spell over him and some married), he had an almost nervous dread of away the very best people", and it was "G«r' times, however unjustly, a powerful shadow publicity. He was however intensely aware of many's misfortune" that in this way "our too. No two men could have been, at first the social obligation that money carries. most dangerous rivals on the world markets— sight, more strikingly unlike. Rhodes was the "Remember (he used to say) you cannot expect the United States and Britain—reap immeasur son of an Anglican clergyman, Beit of a Jew to make money unless others make it with able benefits from the services rendered by ish businessman; the one was a British you. To do anything big you must also be Germans". imperialist, the other a German merchant. Beit careful that others will prosper with you." Normally Beit was at pains to keep clear (says his biographer, G. Seymour Fort) was One of the many stories told about him has of politics which, on the whole wisely, he left "an intemationalist both in outlook and pur it that Rhodes once wondered what had to Rhodes, but such was his devotion to the pose", while Rhodes "thought and acted in brought him from the Fatherland to Africa. friend that, much against his better judge terms of the Anglo-Saxon race". Beit blushed (as he often did) and said; "Hm, ment, he got himself involved in the notorious Yet they were "so essentially alike in if you want to know — only one reason, to Jameson Raid which eventually sparked off spirit, character and mental qualities that make money, to make enough money to give the Boer War. He assisted, no doubt at they inevitably arrived at complete unity". my mother in Hamburg a thousand pounds a Rhodes' bidding, the Outlanders' rebellion Neither of them intellectuals or scholars, both year and keep her a carriage and pair with against Krueger. possessed "great powers of organisation which a liveried coachman". Inevitably, having settled in London, he they used as much for the productive expen No single need seemed to him greater for was assailed by a great deal of hostility, diture of wealth as for its acquisition, and the immediate purposes of civilisation as he much of it unscrupulous and often directed above all for the maintenance of a practical (and Rhodes) could best conceive them, than against his German origin and/or Jewish birth. form of Imperial policy". Each had the same the opening up of what then still was the dark It little availed him that, under Rhodes sweep of constructive vision and each also continent by way of all kinds of communica inspiration, he had become an ardent absolute confidence in the other. If Rhodes' tion. He believed that (in his own words) "by imperialist, and the detractors were not inter belief in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon construction of railways, telegraphs (including ested in the fact (noted by the biographer) race was romantic, so was Beit's "supreme wireless telegraphy) and telephones, and that "England would have been a definitely faith in the reality of Rhodes' ideas". kindred or other methods of transmission of poorer country if these German-British sub Beit came from Hamburg, the son of a persons, goods and messages, civilisation will jects had elected to domicile themselves struggling businessman who could offer at best be best advanced and expedited in Africa for elsewhere". a meagre existence. Beit's education was the benefit of the inhabitants, whether native There was a strong anti-German feeling in irregular owing to delicate health and he later or immigrant". Accordingly, he left £1,200,000 the country, and the Anglo-Germans of Beits often declared himself unable to write a for the building of the Cape-Cairo Railway, generation, including the Court Jews of grammatical letter. But then of course he and particularly Southern Africa benefited Edward VII, were almost bound to be mis could do different things. In 1875, aged 22, he much from his generosity. understood as they worked for good relations went out to South Africa as the representa In the South African press Beit was in between the two powers. However sound the tive of a shipper's oflBce doing business with cluded among those "Jews in our midst who intention of the Rhodes scholarships, an the then new mining settlement at Kimberley. have shown great interest and devotion to Anglo-German entente simply did not then He was fortunate in that he arrived in the our land and by their spirit of enterprise go well with the Rhodes-Beit concept of a early days of the world's richest diamond field, have brought benefit not only to themselves United British Empire as the embodiment of but he was eflBcient as he boldly seized the but also to the State". "By the common man an idea embracing and superseding all opportunity. Diamonds were found in such national differences. quantities that wealth could be had almost (General Smuts testified) Beit will be remem for the asking, and having served first with bered mainly because of his services to trans Nor was Beit always the most inspired pr/'' two relatively small firms, Beit began to co port in South Africa. Who has not travelled tagonist of Anglo-German peace. When in ordinate production on a commercial basis. over the wide expanse of Southem and 1905 he visited the Kaiser who complained, Northem Rhodesia and has not blessed the much like Hitler, of "a certain anti-German He was probably the first to realise that memory of Beit at sight of a bridge or a section in London", Beit promised to talk unless some control was established, restrain causeway over a hopelessly deep and rough his English friends into virtual isolationisni; ing the urge to get rich quickly and ensuring river-bed, even when there was no water they were to keep out of Continental affau^- ^'the orderly evolution of the diamond fields flowing in it ? These useful memorials of Beit leaving the French to the Germans' tender out of the welter of unbridled production and are scattered all over that young country". mercies, and as for South Africa, he fancied, competition", the diamond industry would be The most memorable perhaps is the Alfred the interests of Germany—"only commercial ruined by its own expansion, and he lost no Beit Bridge spanning the Limpopo river towards interests" — were identical vrith those oi time in taking action after he had met Rhodes the Transvaal, one of Rhodesia's most vital England. who possessed the same ambition. Between links with her neighbours, and it seems an Beit was not the first hard-headed business them they brought off the great take-over by appropriate monument too, for shy though he man to reveal remarkable naivete in politic • which they formed the towering De Beers was, almost to the point of self-effacement, Out of his chosen field, the undoubted g"*'"! Consolidated Mines Company. When soon Beit would have loved nothing better than to was reduced to commonplace. He was i""^,?i, afterwards rumours of gold filtered through, be remembered as a builder of bridges—in unlikely to carry conviction, even if his h^^" they immediately staked claims on the Rand, every respect, and therefore, like so many had not by then declined. A few months late and by 1888 their British South Africa Com Jews, he took a particular interest in educa he died, four years after Rhodes. AJR INFORMATION September 1976 Page 7

spent his last years full of interest for every thing that happened in the world in general THE CURTAIN COMES DOWN and in the world of art. The great days of the German Stage and worked for the German and Austrian Services Heinrich Wiedemann Screen in the Twenties and early Thirties of the BBC, and right up to his last days, for Lucie Mannheim produced an unprecedented crop of Jewish film and television. His deatb came much too 1920 spielte einc blutjunge Schauspielerin talent. Many of our friends whose formative soon for all his friends who can only say: an der Berliner Volksbuhne einen sterbenden theatrical experiences go Iwick to those days, "Thanks for the memory!" indischen Knaben in Rabindranath Tagores feel that these standards have never again Dr. Rudolf Spitz "Das Postamt". Der Regisseur war Juergen been reached anywhere. After the Nazis came Hugo Schuster Fehling, die Schauspielerin Lucie Mannheim. to power, many of those highly gifted actors, Im Parkett sass ergriffen ein Schuljunge, das actresses and producers went to Hollywood Hugo Schuster died after a long illness shortly before his 90th birthday. With him an war ich. Nie hatte ich mir damals traumen where there was the hope, often disappointed, lassen dass ich einmal im Londoner Rundfunk of finding congenial work. Others came to era of German-Jewish theatre history has come to an end. Bom at Aachen as the son of a ihr Partner, manches Mal ihr Regisseur sein this country, and, sometimes with the help of diirfte, und am wenigsten, dass sie mich einen the BBC, often started on a successful second doctor, he started his career at Otto Brahm's Berlin Lessing Theatre, the cradle of natural ihrer Freunde nennen konnte. Dazwischen lag career. Sadly, during the last few weeks, ihre phantastiche Karriere. Sie spielte in Berlin several of them, beloved by us all, have died. ism on the stage. During the First World War, he acted in soldiers' theatres in the front-line. an Kaysslers Volksbiihne und an Jessners In Hollywood Fritz Lang, the master of film Staatlichem Schauspielhaus, dem das Schiller suspense who had succeeded where many In the Twenties he played in most of the leading German theatres, but always retumed theater angegliedert war. An der Volksbiihne others failed, died at the age of 86. His films, hatte sie Jiirgen Fehling kennen gelernt—es starting with "Metropolis" and the spine- to Berlin. He was attriacted, like all great actors of the time, by Max Reinhardt, the entwickelte sich eine kiinstlerische Zusam- chilling "M" with Peter Lorre, have become menarbeit und eine schicksalshafte Liebes- classics of the screen. Lucie Mannheim died in magician ol the theatre. Reinhardt said of him that his great gifts were most of all dis beziehung, die auch wenn sie sich wandelte, Gennany. Frederick Schrecker, aged 83, and bei beiden lebenslanglich blieb. Hugo Schuster, nearly 90, died in London. played in his own productions of Klabund's Schrecker will be sadly missed in our old-age "Kreidekreis" and Shaw's "St. Joan" where Soil ich ihre Rollen aufzahlen? Es gab keine homes where he generously entertained the Elizabeth Bergner played the lead. After 1933 Grenzen fiir sie. Halbe Kinder und halbe inmates on several occasions. Hugo Schuster he went to Vienna and to the German Theatre Greisinnen, Proletariermadchen und elegante Was for several years a member of the Berlin in Prague from where he escaped on foot to Damen, Dirnen und Heilige, Komische und "Kulturbund" theatre—prior to his emigra Poland when the Nazis moved in. From there Tragische, all diese erfiillte sie mit ihrer tion to this country. he came to London. After the outbreak of war Kunst, der nie mit sich selbst zufriedenen he was interned and sent to Australia. After Kunst der Perfektionistin. Deshalb war es so Lack of space, unfortunately prevents us his retum to London he was to be seen at the wunderbar mit ihr zu arbeiten. Sie wurde from printing in full the many tributes to the "Kulturbund" and at the "Lateradl". When the geliebt vom Publikum, und als sie nach dem life and work of these artists we have received, war ended, he found employment on the Krieg zu ihren Berlinern zuriickkam, wurde sie and a few extracts must suffice. English stage. He appeared in a number of mit Blumen Uberschijttet. Sie spielte einen Fritz Sclirecker plays, in fllms and on television where Reisser von Vemeuil "Her Lamberthier", den his last great part as the blind autograph sie einst mit Albert Bassermann gespielt hatte. "You never stop to learn!" These were hunter in the dramatised versiom of Stefan Diesmal war ihr Partner ihr Gatte, der eng Fritz Schrecker's words from the "Waiter's Zweig's "The Invisible Collection" once more lische Schauspieler Marius Goring. Sie Song" of the London Latemdl war-time revealed his mastery. He also took part in spielten abends auf deutsch, nachmittags auf theatre, broadcast by the BBC shortly after radio transmissions and in the German service englisch fiir die Besatzungstmppen. Sie hatte his death. Schrecker developed his art on of the BBC. Between 1956 and 1963 he lived ja auch auf englischen Biihnen sensationelle tour with the great Jewish actress Gisela in Germany and appeared in many produc Erfolge, vor allem als Nora und als Nina in ^erbezirk, and his formative years must have tions, culminating in Fritz Kortner's Faust. Bruno Franks Drama. In Berlin folgten dann been spent at the "Neue Wiener Volksbiihne", However, he no longer felt at home in post-war noch einige Rollen, man ernannte sie zur where cheap but moneyspinning farces alter Germany and returned to his beautiful home "Berliner Staats-Schauspielerin", aber das nated with unforgettable Strindberg produc in Golders Green where, with his wife, the Staatliche Schillertheater blieb ihr ver tions. Fritz Schrecker's range turned out to be former Reinhardt actress Sybil Rares, he schlossen bis auf ein einziges Mal in "Schau just as comprehensive. How else can it be heimwarts, Engel". Fiir ihre WunschroUe, die explained that he was one of the very few berlinische Frau John in Hauptmanns "Die admitted to the friendship of such a critical Ratten" musste sie nach Wuppertal gehen. judge of character and quality as Karl Kraus. Die schonsten Hymnen auf sie schrieb Alfred In a version of his "The Last Night", he en Kerr "WonnevoU! Ein Augengliick! Was trusted one of the main parts, that of the braucht Lucie Mannheim Gesangseinlagen? "Master of the Hyenas"—symbolizing the Wenn sie berlinisch redet, ist es Musike. . . . Austrian press— to Schrecker. Fritz was most Es gibt keine, die so schon im Klang den Versatile, but his effect was never that of Kern, die Quintessenz . .. dieser Sprachgruppe alienation. On his SOth birthday, he played Dor/on weitermelodeit. Herrlich. Der Extrakt dieser Titus Feuerfuchs in Nestroy's "Talisman" at Sprache. Ihr Herz. Ihr schonstes Herz". the LafemdZ. As the Laterndl's nightwatchman Luschie, es lebt in uns weiter. Dein schonstes ^nd torchbearer he carried a "little light", Herz. Walter Hertner. the light of hope and courage. When he was Qhocolates about to enter an intemment camp in 1940, his (For obvious reasons, this very personal ?irst words were: "This is where the stage tribute had to remain untranslated.—Ed.) ^ going to be". And so it was—there was a successful camp theatre. 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A KIND LAWYER REMEUBERED PERSONALIA We must have been two of countless refu gees whose lives have been dramatically Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky retires Award to young Jewish scientist changed by the late Dr. King. I was sent to Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky, well known and Twenty-seven-year-old Dr. Jeremy Sanders, him in 1963 when our financial affairs seemed beloved as a Berlin rabbi in the 'thirties, is a Cambridge University chemistry demonstra desperate. Nine years before, we had appUed retiring from the post of Rabbi of Wisconsin tor, was awarded the Meldola Medal by the for my husband's teacher's pension. The which he held for many years after his emi Royal Institute of Chemistry. The medal is a Hamburg Authorities tumed it down. We gration to the U.S.A. The University of Wis gift of the Maccabeans, made annually to the appealed to the "Oberlandesgericht" and consin gave a farewell banquet in his honour most promising British chemist under 30 and failed; we were informed this was final. Botli which was attended by more than a thousand was established in 1915 on the death of David of us had good jobs and (foolishly enough) people. In a resolution, the Wisconsin State Meldola who was president of both the Macca thought: Ah well. Things changed. My husband Senate expressed its recognition of his signal beans and the Institute. fell iU, the fees of our youngest daughter, services, and the Roman Catholic Edgewood retarded, in a Rudolf Steiner Home, went up College which three years ago conferred an Jewish Chairman of Industrial Tribunals and up—I got older and retirement loomed. honorary doctorate on him, has now estab It looked grim. lished a chair for Jewish Leaming which vrill A London solicitor. Dr. Donald B. Williams, bear his name. was appointed one of the six chairmen of So, there I was, in Dr. King's OflBce, I stui Industrial Tribunals for North London. At clearly remember him behind the large desk, Honorary Doctorate for Hilde Himmelweit his court in Woburn Place, he will have to small, restless, chain-smoking. "And now lets Hilde T. Himmelweit, professor of social sit with employers and trade union oflBcials open your file". (That file is now as thick as psychology at the London School of Economics, to decide on matters of industrial relations. the family bible, it must have been opened and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Mr. Williams comes from Leeds and at one tied up hundreds of times). This was tbe Open University. She is the granddaughter of time considered becoming a rabbi, but after secret of his successes: He listened and he Robert Remak, the famous neurologist who two years' National Service in the RAF he cared. He said to me: "Of course, you are was the first Jew to become a professor at a decided to become a lawyer. He has practised much too late. But this is injustice, it will German university a hundred years ago after as a solicitor since 1955. take long, but we will get there in the end . the King of Prussia had intervened on his So we did, three years later. We got our behalf. Professor Himmelweit is considered New Dublin Judge pension, with back-pay, and "Kinderzuschlag one of Britain's most brilliant scholars, who for our daughter, by now 20, bom under Ger became widely known when she carried out Mr. Hubert C. Wine, chairman of the Jew man occupation in Holland. Since then, I saw an investigation into the effect of television ish Representative Council of Ireland, has Dr King whenever we had problems. I^J on children some years ago. She had repeat been appointed a District Judge in Dublin. He vidnter he said: "I really should retire but edly visited Israel and showed particular was educated at the Dublin Talmud Torah and how can I, these hundreds of files are lives interest in the use of television m Israeli Trinity College, Dublin and has appeared for to me, and, by now, many of them lives oi schools. the defence in many famous criminal cases. friends. I hate to leave them". . Saccess of condactor In his spare time, he is an international table- I got his last note out of the blue, dated Julius Rudel, the conductor of the New York tennis player with Irish singles and doubles April 25, 1976. "Ich habe mir die Sache nut City Opera was given an ovation after his championships to bis credit. Ihrer jiingsten Tochter durch den Kopf gehen brilliant performance of Mozart's opera "La lassen: man sollte versuchen fiir sie em^ demenzia dl Tito" at the Vienna State opera Top job for German rabbi regelmassige Zahlung auch im Falles Ihres and was asked to conduct the traditional Rabbi Dr. N. Peter Levinson, chief rabbi of Ablebens zu bekommen. Bitte kommen Sie "Fledermaus" performance next New Year's Baden and chairman of the council of West einmal her". Eve. He has also been acclaimed for his sub German Associations for Christian - Jewish I went. Now his last communication seems sequent direction of "Cosi fan tutte" at the Co-operation, was elected president of the to me like a message from another world. Paris opera. Mr. Rudel is a cousin of the International Council of Christians and Jews Thank you, Dr King, for listening and caring. late S. Adler-Rudel. which has member-organisations in 15 countries.

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FREDERICK SCHILLER 75 THEATRE AND CULTURAL NEWS The well-known actor Frederick Schiller, a long-standing member of the AJR celebrated his 75th birthday in August. A pupil of Otto New York. "Jan Kiepura—a great discovery" "Sacher" explain how the hotel played its Preminger, he received his trauung at the - . . these lines are not half a century old, role in influencing the social and cultural life Vienna Max Reinhardt Seminar. He came to but written in 1976! They refer to the son of Vienna during very different periods of this country in 1938 and after a spell in the of the late tenor Jan Kiepura, emphasising the Austrian history. Pioneer Corps resumed his career oy playing tact that a comparison is not valid: Kiepura Books. "Brecht in Augsburg" (published by in the "Laterndl" and in Peter Herz's "Blue junior is a pop star with his own image, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt) is the title of an origin Danube Club". Since then he has frequently entirely independent, and, seemingly, "unique" al documentation, containing descriptions of appeared on the British stage, in films and on in presenting music of his own age. How hitherto unknown details of Brecht's school television together with such stars as Michael ever, there is a link: at a recent concert his days and early youth. The volume refers to Redgrave, Ingrid Bergmann, James Mason and mother, the unforgotten Marta Eggerth, con Brecht's family, his attitude to war and revolu others. At the moment he is to be seen in tributed by singing two numbers from Lehar's tion, and cites examples of his first writings, Stanley Kubrik's film "Barry Lyndon" and •"Merry widow". The unbelievable strength of a period when he was a very bourgeois-like vrill take part in a new BBC-TV serial "The ner voice and the extraordinary beauty of her Berthold Friedrich Brecht. A book which Expert". He has given much pleasure by coloratura which, apparently, she still re readily supplies roots of an interesting entertaining members of the AJR Club, the tains, make her, according to the critics, "the development leading to Brecht as we know various old age homes and other clubs and eighth wonder of the world". him. homes all over London. We wish him many Alfred Doeblin's name was equivalent with more years of creative activities. Oedon von Horvath who lamentably died criticism and letters about the theatre. Some so young, is today considered one of the most 50 years ago, his novel "Berlin Alexander ARNOLD SCHOENBERG REMEMBERED important dramatists by leading European platz" was one of the bestsellers of the day. On the 25th anniversary of the death theatres and many will perform his Walter-Verlag, Olten, re-issues Doeblin's of Amold Schoenberg wreaths were laid on works during this autumn. He would have theatre reports of the twenties imder the title his grave of honour on Vienna's Zentralfried had his 75th birthday this month. His play "Ein Kerl muss seine Meinung haben". The hof by the Austrian Ministry of Education, '"Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald", weU book includes Doeblin's writings of the years the Intemational Schoenberg Society, and the faiown to Continental audiences, is included in 1921-1924 when Berlin's theatre life boasted City of Vienna, whose freeman Schoenberg the London National Theatre's next season's a hundred famous names, when Jessner had been since 1949. Two years ago the programme. Fehling, Bergner, Dorsch, Kortner, Moissi, ashes of Schoenberg and his second wife . Vienna. The world famous Hotel "Sacher" Massary, Heinrich George and Max Reinhardt Gertrude, nee Kolisch, had come from is 100 years old. A special exhibition at the were just some of the period's creative and Los Angeles to be buried in their native soil. Vienna Rathaus (open August/September) versatile figures. Not far away, Franz Werfel, Schoenberg's proudly investigates this very Austrian estab Obituary. The Austrian writer Alexander neighbour in Califomia has his grave in the lishment from every aspect, and provides a Lemet-Holenia has died at the age of 77. He row of honour and next to Werfel is the rest SUmpse behind the scenes, producing a collec was the author of novels and many successful ing place of Egon Wellesz, who died last year tion of culinary specialities, menu cards, plays of which the hilarious comedy "Olla- in Oxford. His widow now lives in Vienna cookery books and lists of the hotel's favourite potrida" (1929) was perhaps best known. His with her younger daughter so as to be near and regular visitors. Newspaper cuttings, unconcealed contempt for the Hitler Regime her husband's grave. official announcements, referring to the is reflected in the short novel "Der 20. Juli". EJS.

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ERICH LUETH'S PEACE WITH ISRAEL NEWS FROM GERMANY In the summer of 1951, the joumalist Erich CARDINAL JULIUS DOEPFNER TRIUMPH FOR JEWISH COMPOSER Lueth, press relation officer of the City of The Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Julius Hamburg, and his friend and collaborator Doepfner, died at the age of 62. At the Ecu During the summer Festival of the Munich Rudolf Kuestermeier started their "Peace with menical Council of Rome in 1964, he was State Opera, the Israeli composer Josef Tal's Israel" Movement which soon snowballed appointed by Pope John as one of the modera opera "Versuchung" which had been com throughout Germany and was supported by tors who helped to create a new relationship missioned by the theatre, was given its first the Federal Authorities and by leading Jevrish between the Vatican and the Jews. In the same performance. The text was vmtten by the organisations and personalities in Germany and year he dedicated a church and convent at Jerusalem poet Israel Eliraz. The theme of abroad. It began the long process of dialogue Dachau and wamed the congregation that had the opera is the inability of a people to between Israel and Germany. Lueth has now, assembled on the site of the old concentration distinguish between fraud and truth, symbo 25 years later, published his own history of camp that the Nazi spirit survived in many lised by a demon and a good king. The author the movement "Die Friedensbitte an Israel forms, both in Germany and elsewhere. He and composer who attended the first night, 1951—Eine Hamburger Initiative" (Hans also advocated a modification of the script of were given an ovation in the heavily guarded Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1976), in which the Oberammergau Passion Play with its many opera house. he describes his negotiations with official and antisemitic overtones, but he nevertheless private quarters and publishes a number of attended the performance in 1970 of the un interesting documents. Lueth's initiative led changed text which was boycotted by Jewish THE JEWS OF BONN to the setting up of the Society for Jewish- and liberal organisations and personalities. In Christian Co-operation in Hamburg, to the 1975 he led a small group of members of the Klaus H. S. Schulte, a young Essen lawyer, publication of a joumal "Friede mit Israel", Catholic Academy in Bavaria on a visit to has just published a book of 700 pages on the Israel where he not only went to biblical sites, to generous donations for Forests in Israel Jews of Bonn and their descendants. It is a and to regular pilgrimages by young Germans but also to the Hebrew University at Jeru scholarly work, published as volume 16 of salem and to other Israeli establishments. the Bonn Municipal Archives publications. The to the mass graves of Bergen-Belsen. Dr Lueth After his retum, the Romano-Guardini-Prize book gives an exhaustive survey of the careers himself travelled to the U.S. and gave 150 of the Academy was for the first time awarded and the social structure of the Bonn Jewish lectures during two months, and twice visited to non-Germans: Jerusalem's Mayor Teddy population in the 19th and the beginning of Israel in the service of German-Jewish recon Kollek and Professor Shemaryahu Talmon the 20th century, of the structure and per ciliation. In Lueth's book there is a facsimile were both given a warm welcome when they sonnel of the religious community and many reproduction of page one of AJR Information travelled to Munich to receive the awards. statistical data. Well-known families include of November, 1951 which contains an English After the 1972 murder of the Israeli athletes the Alsbergs, Cassels, Philippsons, Cahns and translation of his appeal "Peace with Israel!". at the Munich Olympic Games, the Cardinal many other Jewish names of citizens whose It had originally appeared in the "Neue held an impressive service in the Munich Zeitung", Miinchen. cathedral. families had been resident in Bonn and its hinterland for generations. E.G.L. E.G.L.

FAMILY EVENTS Philippson.—Theodor Jacob Her Accommodation Vacant ISRAELI WIDOW, 62 years old, mann Philippson, bom 1S97 in cultured, German speaking, own Entries in the column Family Berlin, passed away peacefully on SCHWARZWALD. 2 Zimmerwoh- lovely home, wishes to meet suit Events are free of charge. Texts July 18. Deeply moumed by his nung — aller Komfort — in Frei able gentleman for the purpose of burg zw. 15. Okt. — 15. Dez. und marriage. Would consider living should be sent in by the 15th of wife Marianne, sister Anne Leonie and daughter Barbara and her 15. Jan.—15. Marz auch wochen- partly in England. A. Simon, lU the month. family. 22 Anglers Reach, Surbiton, weise zu vermieten. Geeignet f. Jabotinsky, Tel Aviv, Israel. Surrey. 2-3 Personen. Anfragen unter Box 602 (AJR). WITWE, unabhangig, 65 Jahre, Birthdays Sulzbacher.—Dr. Paul Sulzbacher sucht einen intelligenten Partner passed away on August 17. Deeply TO LET bed-sitting room Finchley zwecks gemeinsamer Reisen, Vor The AJR Club extends its heartiest mourned by his wife and family. Central. Hot and cold water, cen tragen, Bridge, u.s.w. kennen zu congratulations on the occasion of 50 Barn Rise, Wembley Park, lemen. (Jeteilte Rechnung. Box 607. her SOth birthday on September 11 tral heating, cooking facilities, to Mrs. M. Pickardt and also Middx. breakfast if required. Box 609. WIDOWER, own home, indepen expresses its gratitude to her for Zippert.—^Walter Zippert, beloved dent means, many interests, no husband of Susi, passed away on ELDERLY CONTINENTAL LADY family, wishes to meet lady, also keeping the account books in per offers centrally heated bedsitter, fect order. We wish her good July 31, aged 84, after a short independent, for companionship- health and contentment and the illness. Sadly missed by his wife, rent free to refined middle-aged Age about 65. Please reply with strength to carry on her good work relatives and many friends. 138 lady in retum for 2 hours daily telephone number to Box 606. for many years to come. Lynton Road, Ealing, W.3. companionship and light shopping. Use of bathroom and kitchen. WIDOWER, mid-seventies, healthy, CLASSIFIED Phone 01-458 2755, 8-10 a.m. or interested in nature, in settled Sincerest wishes also to our octo 7-10 p.m. financial situation, wants to meet genarians Mr. P. Geiger and Mrs. The charge in these columns is lady for companionship and friend 15p for five words. E. Manthner and to Mrs. E. Lang TO LET—one room, ground floor. ship, chats, joint walks and don on her 70th birthday. Situations Vacant West Hampstead, central heating, attending his household. S. Nagel, 51 Windsor Road, London, N.7 Women cooking facilities. £10 p.w. Elderly Smith.—Mrs. Hannah Smith n6e lady preferred. Box 608. (Holloway). Weinberg, formerly Dortmund, will THE AJR EMPLOYMENT celebrate her SOth birthday on AGENCY needs ladies for dress Accommodation Wanted AJR Enquiries September 18. alterations and mending who would Loewenthal.—Mrs. H. Loewenthal be prepared to collect and deliver GENTLEMAN wants comfortable last known address, 31 St. Georges work/do fittings at clients' homes. fumished room with central heat Road, London, NWll OLU. Deaths Please contact Mrs. Casson, 01-624 ing. Box 604. Scheidt.—Mrs. F. Scheldt, last 4449. Leser.—Hilde Leser, of 34 Gros known address, 15 Carr Manor Miscellaneous Crescent, Leeds 17. venor Court, Christchurch Avenue, SYMPATHETIC LADY to Uve in London, N.W.6, passed away peace and give help and companionship REVLON MANICURIST / PEDI- Personal Enquiries fully on July 20, after a long ill to semi-invalid lady, North-West ness. Deeply moumed by her hus CURIST. WUl visit your home. Levin.—Would anyone know the London. Phone 01-903 2634. 01-445 2915. whereabouts of Marion, Annelies band and many sincere friends. Mr (bom 8.11.22) and Inge (born Hans Leser expresses his gratitude Situations Wanted to the many fnends for their kind FOR SALE. Singer sewing machine 1923) Levin (or Levy), children of ness on the death of his beloved SURREY AREAS near Richmond/ (power), nearly new, also antique Mr. and Mrs. Levin, formerly wife. Kew/Wimbledon, also Hammer table and other fumiture in very Koenigsberg, later Berlin. Last smith and Putney areas: Lady, car good condition. Phone 01-202 0941. known address Berlin Schoeneberg. owner available for shopping, Eisenacher Strasse. Parents were Mamlock.—The AJR Club deeply Personal deported in 1942. Children pro moums the death of its most cooking, companionship. Would use car for outings, transport, 3-4 bably sent to England between devoted and untiring helpful hos WIDOW, WITH ONE CHILD, tess, Mrs. Kate Mamlock. Her lov hours per day, Mondays to Fridays. 1936-38 (children's transport?) Please contact AJR Employment wishes to meet professional gentle Any replies to Box 601. ing care brought her there daily. man in his fifties. Box 600. She will be sadly missed by all of Agency, 01-624 4449. Kuh or Neuhaus.—Will anyone us. knowing the whereabouts of AJine- NURSING COMPANION. Conti WHICH INTELLIGENT YOUNG liese Kuh or Erika Neuhaus, for nental lady, German-speaking, MAN, possibly professional, seri merly of Magdeburg, please write Meyer-Michael.—Wolfgang, of 11 seeks non-residential position. Also ously interested in marriage, would to Box 605 or phone Lucie Wein Reynolds Close, Hampstead Gar night duty and as travelling com like to meet my friend, a very reb n^e Prinz 01-346 3990 between den Suburb, London, N.W.ll, panion. Please call 01-458 8698 be attractive, educated, 29-year-old 8 and 10 p.m. passed away on August 3, 1976. tween 6 and 9 p.m. secretary? Box 603. AJR INFORMATION September 1976 Page 11 THE ISRAELI SCENE Obituary PRESIDENT OF BUNDESTAG BRITISH TV AT ISRAEL FESTIVAL MRS. TONY BORG VISITS ISRAEL The first World Jevrish Film and Television Mrs. Tony Borg (n6e Wolff) who died in Mrs. Annemarie Renger, president of the Festival will be held in Jerusalem in October. Manchester aged 84, will be gratefully remem Federal Parliament, visited Israel at the invi Several British companies vrill send entries, bered by many who benefited from her care and tation of the Knesset. She attended a meeting 22 countries will take part. The seven-day assistance. Trained as a social worker and of the Israeli Parliament and saw most of festival is organised by Manchester-born Mr. kindergarten mistress at the Berlin Pestalozzi- the leading politicians and trade union mem Melville Mark, the originator of the famous Froebel Haus, she moved to Bingen with its bers. She also visited Theodor Heuss Haus, Golden Rose of Montreux TV festival. Among ten per cent Jewish population after her mar named after the first president of the Federal the contributions will be the BBC's document riage. During the First World War, she ran Republic where unmarried mothers and their ary "To the Promised Land" about Jewish the municipal kindergarten there and was children are cared for. emigrants leaving Russia, Jack Rosenthal's awarded a medal by the German Government ADENAUER REMEMBERED moving film "The Evacuees" and "It's My for her outstanding work. After the war, she Belief" which shows a London boy's prepara established the local Jewish Women's Society The Israel-German Society for Haifa and tion for his barmitzvah. Granada is sending the to which she drew lecturers like Dr. Baeck, Northern Israel and the Cultural Centre of recent World in Action film "A Calculated Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig and many the German Embassv held a combined meeting Risk" about Russian Jewish dissidents. others. The late Dr. Maybaum, at the time to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the rabbi of Bingen, and his wife, became close birth of Germany's first Federal Chancellor, friends. In the 'twenties she set up a girls' Dr. Adenauer. Dr. Per Fischer, the Gemian BRITISH MISSILES FOR ISRAEL group of the Jewish Youth Movement, Ambassador, stressed the close co-operation "Kameraden". She came to Manchester as a between German and Israeli scientists and After having relied for years on American refugee in 1939 and did manual work at scholars which would not have been possible and home-produced missiles, Israel has pur first to support her ailing husband and her without Dr. Adenauer's decisive work for re chased the British-manufactured SLAM young daughter. After her husband's death conciliation and restitution. system which will be installed on the three m 1950, she became a handicraft teacher and submarines now being completed in the worked in the Ancoats University Settlement HEBREW UNIVERSITY HONOURS Barrow-in-Fumess shipyards. The ships and system are produced by Vickers. SLAM and at HoUins Domestic Science College. She .\xel Springer, the German publisher, stands for "Submarine (or Surface) Launched retired to start a course of intensive occupa Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former US Ambas Air Missile" and is destined for effective tional therapy at the Morris Feinmann Home sador with the United Nations and Andrej short-range defence against enemy surface and continued until she was 75. Last year, Sacharov, the Russian scientist, were awarded craft or helicopters. failing health made her move into the Home honorary degrees by the Hebrew University of herself. Jerusalem. In the laudatory speeches it was said that Springer had untiringly worked for "BRIDGE OF THE EAGLES" the reconciliation between Germans and Jews A new road bridge in Tel Aviv will be and supported the rights of the people of named Gesher Hanesherim (Bridge of the Israel, Moynihan had devoted his life to the Eagles) in honour of the liberators of the maintenance of human rights and Sacharov Entebbe hostages. The name was taken from Letter to the Editor Was fighting for the same rights in his scien a sentence in the Book of Samuel: "They tific works. were swifter than eagles, they were stronger "EXCOMMUNICATION" OF KISSINGER than lions". WOLFSON SCHOLARSHIP FOR RAMAT GAN The Isaac and Edith Wolfson Charitable Sir,—I was disgusted to read on page 4 of Trust has donated I£10 million (about SON ET LUMIEBE AT AIASADA your August edition that the so-called Supreme Rabbinic Court of America Inc. has excom £713,000) to the Bar-Dan University of Ramat For the first time, this year tourists will be municated Dr. Henry Kissinger. The Head of Gan for scholarship awards. The money will able to attend iSon et Lumiere performances this organisation. Rabbi Marvin S. Antleman, be paid over ten years. on Masada Hill. The story of the Masada should be ashamed of such action. This organi hero Elazar Ben Yair and of his comrades sation is very much behind the times. BRITAIN EXHIBITS AT FURNITURE will be illustrated and watched from the top FAIR of another hill in the neighbourhood. A mass Dr. Kissinger's effort for peace in the . At an intemational trade fair in Tel Aviv, audience is expected. 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75th BIRTHDAY OF DR. ERNA GOLDSCHMIDT MISCELLANEOUS Five years ago, when she celebrated her 70th birthday on September 30, tribute was MONTREAL AND AFTER EARLY JEWISH CRAFTSMEN paid to the manifold activities of Dr. Erna Goldschmidt. They have if anything, increased Israeli sports fans were disappointed that Goldsmiths and Seal Engravers since then. Eraa Goldschmidt continues her Israel did not win any medals at this year's work in the spirit which imbued her and her Olympic Games, notwithstanding the fact that husband, the late Dr. F. Goldschmidt, whose some of her sportsmen put up good perfor The indefatigable research worker. Rabbi lasting monument is to be found in his pion mances. An early disappointment was the Dr. Bemhard Brilling (formerly Breslau), now eer work in the field of restitution and social Football team which only managed a goalless retired Akademischer Oberrat of the toJstitu- care. She has devoted all her life to draw against Guatemala. At the beginning of tum Delitzschianum, Muenster, has written Jewish causes and is now mainly engaged the games the Israelis had received resounding a monograph on "Juedische Goldschmiede, in personally looking after her most signi cheers and sustained applause from 75,000 Kupfer-und Petschierstecher in Ostpreussen" ficant achievement, Clara Nehab House spectators when they marched into the arena pubUshed in the Jahrbuch fuer die Geschicfate in Golders Green, a Home for the wearing black armbands as an act of remem Mittel—und Ostdeutschlands, Band 23 (Collo Elderly. She concems herself with all tbe day- brance for the victims killed by terrorists at quium Verlag Berlin, 1974). to-day problems of management, keeps up the Munich Games in 1972. The Canadian Before the emancipation Jews were not contact with the residents and sees to their authorities went a long way to ensure their admitted to the goldsmiths' guilds and could, comforts, thus making the home something safety. A memorial service for the Munich therefore, only work as seal engravers ("Pet special among similar institutions. She con- victims wras arranged by the Jewish com schierstecher"). The first Jewish goldsmith tmues to do important work on behalf of the munity of Canada and attended by many B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck Women's Lodge which who settled in Koenigsljerg (1850) was David owes its existence to her and of which she leaders of politics and sports. Prime Minister Aron, bora in Ratzebuhr in 1823. There were Trudeau was there, but the absence of Lord was the first president. She is chairman of also Jewish goldsmiths in other East Prussian the Welfare Committee of the Lodge and Killanin, president of the Intemational Olym places, e.g. Gumbinnen and Tilsit. pic Committee, drew many unfavourable com supervisor of the Home Help scheme. Her ments. The major part of the essay deals with help and assistance is being eagerly sought Jewish seal engravers in Koenigsberg. The on many occasions when her great experience Mrs. Ankie Spitzer, the widow of one of first among them was a refugee from Poland, in welfare and social service matters and her the athletes murdered at Munich and other enthusiasm are of invaluable assistance. Olympic widows were asked to leave chairs Salomon Jacob. Another early engraver was near the flagpole during the flag-raising cere Joseph Wulf (licenced in 1736) whose With her warm expressive face and her mony and were pulled away when they pro descendants are also listed in the essay. The gentle ways, Erna Goldschmidt is a friend to work excels by the comprehensive reference all and an adviser to many. She is a board tested. to the source material. In Israel, Rabbi Yossef, the Sephardi Chief member of the AJR and has always taken an Rabbi ruled that TV transmissions from Mon From the historiographical point of view, active interest in its work, particularly work treal were not to be watched on Saturday the same author's article on the first Jewish concerning the old age homes. Until ill-health goldsmith in Schleswig-Holstein is of equal forced her to give up some of her work, she nights, because when the programmes were was a member of the house committee of sent out in Canada, it was still Shabbat there value. It is an offprint of the catalogue of the Otto Schiff House since it was fii^t opened, and "Jews must not benefit from work carried Exhibition "Juedischer Alltag — Juedischer but she stiU cares for and knows about the out on the Shabbat, even if it is performed Festag", shown in Luebeck, Duisburg and inmates. On her birthday we extend our warm by non-Jews". Hanover. It describes the life of Israel Meyer wishes to her, hoping that she will long con At a meeting of the Asian Games Federa Herz, whose maternal grandfather, Isaak Jacob tinue to care for those who need her and to tion in Montreal, Israel was ejected from the of Altona, received permission to settle in whom she gives much happiness. Asian Games which she helped to establish Schleswig as early as 1738. Herz was bora at 24 years ago, allegedly for reasons of security. the beginning of the nineteenth century and ISRAELI CHOIR IN BRITAIN was accepted as an apprentice by the Christian The 70-strong Israel Kibbutz Choir took part TELEPHONES FOR THE AGED goldsmith (Jottlieb Heinrich Schmieth who in the "Europa Cantat" 100-choir festival trained him from 1821-1824. After initial dif in Leeds as the only non-European choir. The Berlin Jewish Community has decided ficulties he was granited the right of a citizen After the festival they visited West Germany to have telephones installed in the homes of of the town of Schleswig and worked there as at the invitation of German trade unions. old and sick members who live alone and a goldsmith from 1826 onwards. Adla Yadlin, wife of the Israeli Minister for cannot afford to do so themselves. W.R. Education, came over as one of the 70 singers.

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