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Martin Stern Well-fed and amply entertained in the beginning, the heterogeneous community, with its flirtations and conflicts and snobberies, is shown as it deteriorates under the pressure of dwindling food and amenities, the author sketching in their growing anxiety and COPING WITH THE PAST disorientation with one subtle brush-stroke after another. The impact is all the greater for the under­ statement : it is 1939, and we know what will happen to Two Outstanding Writers them as they still cling to the illusions and the shibboleths of their former ordinary lives. They are almost relieved when the train arrives to take them away—an engine pulling four filthy goods wagons. Dr. Theodor Adorno's statement that ''after Auschwitz pleasant sights and sounds and scents as the Jewish Pappenheim concludes brightly that "if the wagons are no one can ever again write a poem" is often quoted. holiday-makers and their entertainers turn up one so dirty it must mean that we have not far to go." In a One understands what he meant—that a certain kind of after the other. final, powerful image, "they were all sucked in as easily romantic effusion will always seem superfluous and With light, deft touches of the imagination, he paints as grains of wheat poured into a furmel". superficial after what happened there. But Adorno's in one detail after another: the place itself and the A word about the translation. The translator is an statement is false, since it is the duty of all serious art moods of the weather, the impresario Dr. Pappenheim, American (indeed the British edition is the very well- to come to grips with reality even in its grimmest forms, the musicians and their conductor, the scholar Dr. printed and handsomely-designed imported U.S. book to enable us to understand better and to cope with that Fussholdt, endlessly fussing over the proofs of his latest with the Dent imprint) and she doesn't know too much reality. In fact that is one of the prime functions of true pedantic tome, and his young wife, the pharmacist about German ways, though she has tried. She art, to give form and meaning to our experience, and and his ailing wife with her forebodings about the obviously doesn't know what Apfelwein is and calls it the Holocaust was a central experience of our century. future, the pretentious Frau Zauberblit, and numerous cider. She transliterates the name of the town as Nevertheless, it presents very great difficulties to the others: Reizenbach when Appelfeld has Reisenbach because writer. The current realist style is so explicit about "The light stood still. There was a frozen kind of for her the z is pronounced as in zero. Though she has violence that it dulls the reader's senses, and in fact is attentiveness in the air. An alien orange shadow a Hebrew name, her errors are more serious from the ultimately self-defeating. To deal with the subject in gnawed stealthily at the geranium leaves. The creepers original Hebrew. Because Appelfeld's Hebrew does realistic detail is harrowing and horrifying without absorbed the bitter, furtive damp. Pappenheim spoiled not, of course, have the vowels printed, on page 62 purging pity and terror, as Aristotle rightly thought the musicians and bought them chocolates and cream (page 46 of the original Hebrew) she translates "jumped necessary. Art is never so powerful as when it is in­ cakes. The musicians were submissive, full of gratitude. on the golden bandwagon" (whatever that is!) instead direct in its approach: the original Greek meaning of The quarrels were over. And the strange new light of the obvious Biblical reference to being hitched to obscene was what took place (i.e. the violence) offstage. filtered through the clouds and illuminated the broad "the golden calf" (Exodus 32:4 and 1 Kings 12:28, not That it is possible to deal with this harrowing subject verandah. Dr. Schutz's love was no longer lighthearted to mention Psalm 106:19-20 and Acts 7:41). On the with great depth and insight has been proven by the as in days gone by. The orange shadow now lay on him same page Buber, instead of Fussholdt is made to be remarkable poetry of Paul Celan, born in Czernowitz and his beloved. The schoolgirl huddled into his sum­ uncertain whether Buber is a prophet or a professor. in Bukovina, who was himself a concentration camp mer coat as if afraid of a sudden separation." On page 77 (Hebrew 57) she calls an officers' school a survivor, and who committed suicide in 1970, at 49. military academy, which is something quite different. That the theme can also be exploited meretriciously in Spreading Net On page 81 (Hebrew p. 59) "the treasures of the world a pseudo-serious novel such as William Styron's Then there is the bluff and bureaucratic Sanitation to come" should be "the secrets of the world to come". "Sophie's-Choice", is also evident. Department which has been given the task of register­ The author should also correct his reference (on p. 138— Aharon Appelfeld, also born in Czernowitz (in 1932), ing the Jewish population, and much talk of "resettle­ p. 97 in the original) to the First World War. In 1939 is a concentration camp survivor, as Celan was. His ment" in the east, in Poland, about which the holiday- they would have called it the Great War. But these, and mother was killed as the Nazis swept eastward, and makers speculate and fantasise—for some of them, several other minor slips aside, it is a smooth and Aharon was departed to a camp in Transnistria, from Ostjuden by origin, it is, after all, "going home": readable translation of a very important book, a minor which he escaped at the age of eight to wander the for­ ". . . And in the Sanitation Department the investi­ masterpiece. A German translation will be published ests for three years. Eventually he was picked up by the gations continued quietly. This was now the centre, later this year by Ullstein in Berlin. Russians, served in army field kitchens in the Ukraine, and from the centre the net spread out in all directions. The appearance of the book of Celan "Poems" *is and somehow made his way to Italy in the big migra­ In the Sanitation Department they knew everything. also an important event, much more so since there is tions at the end of the war. He reached Palestine in They had a large collection of maps, journals, a library. nothing more difficult than the translation of poetry, 1946 and has been in Israel ever since, now teaching You could drop in whenever you liked and look things and especially the work of a major poet like Celan. Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University at up. The conductor went to register and came back How strange that two such original talents—in Celan's Beersheba. happy. They showed him a whole cupboard full of case genius—should come from the German-speaking And with all this horror, tumult and adventure be­ contracts, licences, and documents. Strange, his old Jewish community of Czernowitz in Bukovina, so hind him, how does he treat his subject? In a most father had written a book about arithmetic in Hebrew. peripheral a place. On the other hand, talented writers subtle and powerful way, indirectly, seeming almost to They knew everything, and they were glad to show a born in the metropolis often absorb the prevalent con­ circumvent it, but with an impact all the greater because man his past, the conductor said." ventional wisdom, while those born and raised in the of that. He places this short novel* in an Austrian provinces stand at a certain angle to the world and can resort town, an imaginary Kurort called Badenheim in develop originality through the very absence of metro­ 1939. It can only be an imaginary town, since there politan pressures. In Celan's case as a German-speaker' Were no resorts where Jews could congregate in 1939, his community, his parents, his world were destroyed and in fact there could hardly have been any from Make at least one friend— by Germans. As Michael Hamburger observes in his 1933, and generally, Jews could only stay as paying valuable introduction, "His German could not and 8uests with other Jews. One should see Badenheim as enrol as a must not be the German of the destroyers. That is one an allegorical town, symbolising the German-speaking reason why he had to make a new language for him- lands as a staging-post in the long history of the Jews. 'Paul Celan: Poems. Bt-lingual edition selected, translated and But Appelfeld makes it a very real place. He evokes its "FRIEND OF THE AJR" introduced by Michael Hamburger. Carcanet, 307 pp. £7.95. *|ADENHEIM 1939 Aharon Appelfeld. Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bitu. pp. 148. Dent, 14.95. Continued on page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION February 1982

Continued from page 1 COPING WITH THE PAST NEWS FROM GERMANY self, a language at once probing and groping, critical and innovative; and why the richer his verbal and for­ LEO BAECK PRIZE FOR ROBERT WELTSCH TRIAL BOOKS WIN HONOUR mal resources grew, the more strictly he confined them The numerous friends and admirers of Robert The compilers of the monumental series "Justiz und to the orbit of his most urgent concerns." Weltsch will be pleased to learn that he has been NS-Verbrechen", the Dutch jurists C. F. Ruter and Celan's poems are difficult enough in the original, awarded the Leo Baeck Prize 1980/81 of the Zentralrat H. H. Fuchs, have been awarded the Federal Cross of der Juden in Deutschland. The Prize was endowed in Service. The work, now comprising 22 volumes, con­ and Michael Hamburger's success in translating this 1957 and its recipients include Jews and non-Jews tains summaries of all the war crimes trials which have large selection of them seems almost miraculous, who, in one way or another, work in the spirit which taken place in Germany and it forms a unique his­ though it is, as he says, the result of long thought and marked the personality of the man whose name it torical document. Since the compilers could not find a very hard work. Hamburger is himself a very fine poet, bears. German publisher for the books when they began their one of the best writing in England today, and we are Hardly anybody's name is as closely connected with work in 1968, the series is still published in Amsterdam. fortunate that he has given us this Celan, which won Leo Baeck as that of Robert Weltsch. Prior to his return to Israel, he was the head of the London section the Schlegel-Tieck Prize. (Hamburger came to Britain HAMBURG WOMEN SAVED LIVES as a boy, in the mid-1930s.) A good example is the of the Leo Baeck Institute and he is also the Founder famous poem "Psalm": Editor of the L.B.I. Year Books. As the doyen of the Two Hamburg women, Elisabeth Flugge and Kathe publicists from German language countries, he is not Hauschild, aged 86 and 66 respectively, have received only a master of his mother tongue but equally the Service Cross of the West German Order of Merit. Psalm proficient in Hebrew and English. What makes his Both were instrumental in saving the lives of Jews Niemand knetet uns wieder aus Erde und Lehm, activities for almost seven decades particularly remark­ under the Nazi regime. niemand bespricht unsern Staub. able is the fact that he has always had the courage to Despite the danger of denunciation and punishment, Niemand. express his views, even if they were not shared by the Jews were taken into their homes and successfully hid­ majority. In substance they are based on the ideals of a den until the end of the war. Gelobt seist du, Niemand. humanitarian Zionism and are free of dogmatic doc­ Yad Vashem medals have been awarded to Professor Dir zulieb wollen trines. We cordially congratulate 90-year-old Robert Joseph Neyses of Dusseldorf and his late wife. They wir blUhn. Weltsch on this well deserved, indeed overdue award. offered shelter to Erna Etscheit in 1944, when she was Dir The other two recipients of the Prize are the threatened with persecution as a Jew because her entgegen. archivist and historian, Professor Dr. Bernhard Bril- "Aryan" husband had recently died. At first she refused ling, and the Roman-Catholic scholar Dr. Anton their help, since her hosts would be endangered, but Ein Nichts Keim. Professor Brilling started his career in Breslau, when the Gestapo sent her a transportation order, waren wir, sind wir, werden and later emigrated to Palestine, where he became Mrs. Etscheit fled to the Neyses' cellar and remained wir bleiben, bliihend: archivist of the City of Tel Aviv. In 1957, he resumed there for the rest of the war. die Nichts-, die his research work in Germany under the auspices of Niemandsrose. the Institutum Delitzschianum of the University of Munster. He has many publications about the history ON MANNHEIM JEWS Mit of the Jews in Silesia and Westphalia to his credit. In the latest number of the Mannheimer Hefte dem Griffel seelenhell, Dr. Keim obtained his doctoral degree at the Univer­ (1981/82), the former mayor of the city. Dr. Karl dem Staubfaden himmelswust, sity of Mainz with a thesis on "Die Judenfrage vor dem hessischen Landtag in der Zeit von 1820 bis 1849". Otto Watzinger, has written a 24-page study of "The der Krone rot Jewish Community of Marmheim in the Grandducal vom Purpurwort, das wir sangen He also prepared the widely recognised exhibition "Juden in Mainz", which was shown from October Period 1803-1918". The study is divided into two sec­ iiber, o iiber 1978 to November 1979. tions, the first dealing with relations with the surround­ dem Dorn. ing community, nineteenth-century reforms such as civic rights, acquisition of surnames, schools, the Psalm APPOINTMENT OF AMERICAN SCHOLAR Reform Movement and schism in the community, the No one moulds us again out of earth and clay, Prof. Dr. Herbert A. Strauss has been elected a community statute, social work, occupational struc­ no one conjures our dust. corresponding member of the Historische Kommission ture, their place in Maimheim's economic life, cultural No one. zu Berlin. He is Professor at City College, New York, contributions, etc. The second part of the study pre­ and, as Executive Vice President of the American sents 16 representative Jewish personalities. They Praised be your name, no one. Federation of Jews from Germany, closely coimected range from the Social Democratic lawyer and poli­ For your sake with the work of the AJR and other organisations of tician Ludwig Frank, who fell in the First World War, we shall flower former German Jews in their countries of resettlement. to Dr. Simon Wolff (Hechingen 1789 — Mannheim Towards 1860), who was the long-serving Head of the Mannheim you. Jewish Boys' School in the city. E.G.L. A nothing PRIZE FOR JEWISH STUDY we were, are, shall Winners in the Koerber Foundation's compe­ remain, flowering; tition, which this year took the theme "Everyday KOENIGSTEIN JEWS RECALLED the nothing-, the Life under National Socialism", were recently Before 1933, many Jewish families lived in Koenigs- no one's rose. announced. The first prize went to 17-year-old tein (Taunus). Among them were the Rothschilds, the Michael Brenner for his study on the life of Jews Sulzbachs, the Kohnstamms and several co-founders With our pistil soul-bright in the Bavarian town of Weiden. Michael, the son of the dyestuffs industry. Proposals have been made to with our stamen heaven-ravaged of the Weiden Jewish community's head, spent rename the street where the burnt down synagogue our corolla red some 300 hours in research for his study. Unlike stood, from Seilerweg to Synagogenstrasse. A history with the crimson word which we sang some contestants, he did not find local authorities of Koenigstein Jewish citizens has been prepared by unhelpful, but he did discover that Jews who had the municipal archivists and its early publication is over, o over returned to Weiden after emigration or deport­ the thorn. considered an urgent obligation by wide circles of the ation were unwilling to speak of their experiences. population. As he said in an early poem, "Wahr spricht, wer Established in 1973, the Koerber competition calls Schatten spricht" (He speaks truly who speaks the on candidates to submit projects on a set theme relating to German history; this year's subject ROEDELHEIM MEMORIAL DESTROYED shade). And yet Celan came to feel that in his best drew more than 2,000 entries, three times as many known poem, "Todesfuge", he had been too explicit, as in the previous year. Barely two years ago, a memorial stone was set and even refused further requests to anthologise it. up in Roedelheim (Frankfurt) as a gift from the Celan said his poems were "messages in a bottle", and citizens to mark the place where the synagogue "im Inselgasschen" stood until it was burnt down they might or might not be retrieved. If the "message in JULIUS RODENBERG REMEMBERED a bottle" reaches the reader, it will tell him something on 9 November 1938. A Bad Homburg sculptor of which he was not aware before reading it, as Founder of the "Deutsche RiHidschau" had designed the stone, which showed a group of The 150th birthday of the writer and journalist people going to the gas-chamber and bore mem­ Hamburger remarks, continuing: "That is the distinc­ Julius Rodenberg was recently celebrated at the orial inscriptions in Hebrew and German. On tion of poetry like Celan's, poetry always close to the newly-opened local museum at Rodenberg on the 20 July, the anniversary of the Officers' Plot unutterable because it has passed through it and come Deister, a town lying between Hanover and against Hitler, the memorial was found to be out on the other side." Bielefeld. Originally Levy, from 1855 he took his daubed, and two or three weeks later it was The reader should not be misled by Celan's negative birthplace as his name. In 1874 he founded the completely destroyed. The hands and heads of the theology, clearly evident in a poem like 'Psalm'. It is "Deutsche Rundschau", whicB became a famous figures had been knocked off with an axe and the literary and general magazine, and was a model of inscriptions defaced with a pointed instrument. an ancient Jewish tradition to polemicise with God its kind until it ceased publication in 1964. Eva The leader of the evangelical Cyriakus-Gemeinde, (e.g. Job). If the poem is read carefully, the negation— Rademacher of Berlin has written a very inform­ which together with the local SPD branch first wrung from the bitterest experience of despair—will be ative and well illustrated booklet on Rodenberg broached the idea of a memorial, has expressed found to harbour the seeds of transcendence. and his magazine. his disgust and horror in the local press. AJR INFORMATION February 1982 Page 3

FRANKFURT DEGREE FOR ANNA FREUD The University of Frankfurt has bestowed an HOME NEWS Honorary Doctorate on Anna Freud. The handing HERBERT SULZBACH, OBE RABBI DR. SOLOMON SCHONFELD AT 70 over ceremony, shortly before her 86th birthday, took The New Year Honours List carries an O.B.E. for Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld, who will be 70 on place at the German Embassy in London. In his Mr. Herbert Sulzbach in recognition of his services to February 21, has had a unique impact on the com­ laudatio, Hermann Argelander, Professor of Psycho­ Anglo-German relations. A member of an old Frank­ munal scene and has contributed greatly to the strength analysis at Frankfurt University, described Anna furt banking family, he came to this country as a of the Jewish element in Anglo-Jewry. Freud as the founder of child analysis. With the refugee. He joined the Army and became Education As a pioneer in Jewish education he was already a publication of the 10 volume edition of her collected Officer of a German Prisoners of War Camp. It was in dynamic force 50 years ago, which reminds us of how works in German, Professor Argelander stated, she this capacity that he started his work for Anglo- has returned to her linguistic homeland. He described young he was when he first ventured into public life. the clarity and modesty of her style as unsurpassable. German understanding, bringing home to the German His father. Rabbi Avigdor Schonfeld, had just started Notwithstanding her ripe old age, Anna Freud is still officers under his charge the crimes of the Nazi the Jewish Day School when he died at the early age active. In the mornings she works in her Hampstead regime and the values of democracy. He continued his of 49. Solomon, the second son, then stepped into the clinic and the teaching institute for child analysis work as an official of the German Embassy, an breach and nurtured the Jewish Day School against attached to it, and in the afternoons she sees children appointment from which he retired only recently after the opposition of various sections of Jewry. Even for individual treatm.ent in her house. 30 years of service. Whenever, in the course of his work, right-wing Orthodoxy did not welcome what they he addressed groups of German visitors to this country, considered an education in ghetto-like isolation apart he would stress his identity with his Jewish com­ from general English life, unsuited for coping with AWARD FOR RUDOLF GRAUPNER munity of origin. At the same time, he established professional and business life. This early opposition is many contacts with well-known British personalities hard to grasp today, when Jewish day schools are so The Cross of Commander of the German Order of in various walks of life. The AJR has constantly much in demand, with their enrolments steadily in­ Merit has been awarded to the solicitor Rudolf creasing. Graupner. In his professional capacity, he rendered benefited from his helpfulness. Though now nominally valuable assistance to many of his fellow victims of the retired, 87-year-old Herbert Sulzbach is still of un­ The school which he founded and developed was Nazis in their claims for restitution and compensation. diminished vigour and it is our sincerest wish that this permeated by an intense Jewish atmosphere, achieved He also acts as a legal adviser to the German Embassy may remain unchanged for a long time to come. success in state examinations, and thus grew to be in London. Mr. Graupner plays a leading part in the generally accepted and admired. Rabbi Dr. Schonfeld group of former members of the F.W.V. fraternity and RESCUED AND RESCUERS MEET AGAIN was both the authoritative Principal and the financial has been an interested member of the AJR Board for wizard. Despite these considerable achievements, his At a recent reunion in London, National President many years. We express our sincerest congratulations finest hour came in the agonising years following 1938, to him. of B'nai B'rith Werner Lash met the man who rescued in the rescue work with victims of Nazi persecution. him and 21 others from Nazi Germany in the winter of Working with the late Chief Rabbi Hertz, he threw his 1938/39. Wim van Leer, then a young businessman, great energy and powers of persuasion into setting up JOAN STIEBEL volunteered through a Quaker organisation to bring a rescue network which saved many children and When the Central British Fund was founded in 1933 out Jews from Germany. Arriving on the very day of adults who later made outstanding contributions to the 1938 November Pogrom, he nevertheless managed to help Jewish refugees from Germany, Joan Stiebel Britain in industry and commerce, as specialists and actively involved herself in aid for the refugees and to gather a group in Leipzig and to organise their professionals, and as solid citizens. He sought and escape through Holland. Despite some near-disasters, became Executive Director of the CBF. She recently found places, opportunities and livelihoods for them visited New York where she received the Joint Distri­ he made several more rescue trips before the outbreak all. of the Second World War. A man of many talents, bution Committee's certificate of honour in recogni­ pilot, industrialist and journalist, Wim van Leer has He also found time for writing and publishing. His tion of hei devoted service to the ideals of the Joint lived in Israel since he emigrated after the end of the books, "Message to Jewry", "Why Judaism", "On and to the world-wide Jewish community. war. Religious Education", and "Translation of the Another meeting of rescued and rescuer took place Prayerbook", reveal a sparkling mind and a compelling AWAITING PALACE INVITATION in Brussels where Ernest Hirsch of Hendon saw sincerity. Though now retired. Dr. Schonfeld's mind remains Jonathan Leavor, the younger son of Rudi and Madame Germaine Verniers officially honoured as a Marianne, grandson of Mrs. E. Bright and the late "righteous Gentile" for her part in hiding Jewish fami­ as lively as ever. On his seventieth birthday there are thousands of people scattered over the globe who will Dr. R. Bright and of Mrs. L. Librowicz and the late lies in Wavre, near Brussels, during the German occu­ Dr. H. Librowicz, has just won the Duke of Edinburgh pation. Mr. Hirsch, then a small boy, fell seriously ill think of him with gratitude and affection. JUDITH GRUNFELD Gold Award. He received the Gold Badge from the in hiding and Madame Verniers took him to hospital, Lord Mayor of Bradford and hopes to go to Bucking­ pretending he was her nephew and carefully picking ham Palace some time in 1982 to receive the Certificate Out a doctor who would not betray her secret. She CHANUKAH CELEBRATIONS nursed him in her own house until he was wellenough A most enjoyable Chanukah celebration took place from the Duke of Edinburgh personally. Jonathan has to retum to his concealed family. in the AJR Club. After the kindling of the candles, been particularly involved in work for handicapped Arnold and Susanne Horwell presented and introduced people and with residential communal work. a well balanced programme of records, ranging from ACTION AGAINST BRITISH NEO-NAZIS serious songs to Vietmese melodies and humorous SURVIVOR BECAME FASHION EXPERT After long delays, the Director of Public Prosecu­ recitals. Mrs. Margaret Jacoby, Chairman of the Club, The youngest survivor of Bergcn-Belsen con­ tions has decided to begin proceedings against Robert thanked Mr. and Mrs. Horwell for their most enjoyable centration camp, Czechoslovak-born Agnes Sas- Hamilton Edwards, the cartoonist of "The Stormer". performance. soon, has joined a friend in starting a free Publishers of the virulently anti-semitic and anti-Black Chanukah celebrations also took place in all Old magazine, "Today's Woman", circulating in the comic are said to be the National Socialist Irish Age Homes. Edgware district. Mrs. Sassoon introduced the first Workers' Party ana the National Socialist Party of the of Israel's fashion magazines while still in her United Kingdom, both with addresses in Dublin. teens and organised fashion shows before coming Although the notorious racist Robert Relf openly ALL AIRPORTS AND SEASIDES \ to England with her family in 1958. admits to backing "The Stormer", no action is at present being taken against him. JACK'S EARLY CAR SERVICE | Another current neo-Nazi publication, "White IN MEMORY OF DR. G. SCHOENEWALD Warriors", which includes antisemitic cartoons dating 959 6473 After the death of the general practitioner and back to the Fust World War, carries the information HEATHROW —£10 LUTON —£12 cardiologist, Dr. Gert Schoenewald, the Parish Priest "Printed in USA". QATWICK/STANSTED/SOUTHEND —£17 I of St. Barnabas, Northolt Park, wrote: "Dr. Schoene­ The Jewish veterans' association Ajex recently BRIGHTON —£25 wald had been a doctor in this parish for forty years. approached the Home Secretary to ask why "The EASTBOURNE & BOURNEMOUTH — £30 j His widow, Mrs. Schoenewald, tells me that the work Stormer" and those who published it had not been ADVANCE BOOKINQS \ of the AJR was close to his heart, and we hope that prosecuted under the Race Relations Act. The Govern- our donation will be of help to you." He enclosed a nient has also come imder parliamentary pressure EVERYONE FULLY LEGALLY INSURED donation of £40. In addition the AJR received £175, Concerning fascist organisations attending the Remem­ lllllll1>llllllllllll!llin!»l{lil!lllllllllllllllll;IIUIinillll!lllllllllllll!IIIIIHIIIIIIIII donated by patients and friends of Dr. Schoenewald brance Day services at the Cenotaph. Members have Your House ton— in his memory. We are deeply touched by these noble raised this question in the House of Conunons and gestures which are not only of the greatest value for have also called for a ban on the use by neo-Nazis of FLOOR COVERINGS carrying out our vital activities but also testify to the the United Kingdom flag. A legal prohibition is being CURTAINS, CARPETS, affection for and gratitude felt to Dr. Schoenewald by Considered by the Home Office. SPECIALITY so many people. ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL Annely Juda Fine Art DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE DUVET COVERS & SHEETS 51 Belaize Squara, London, N.W4 11 Tottenham Mews, London WIP 9PJ ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS 01-637 55'7/8 ESTIMATES FREE Our new communal hall Is available for CONTEMPORARY PAINTING cultural and social functions. For details AND SCULPTURE DAWSON-LANE LIMITED apply to: Secretary. Synagogue Office. 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OTTO KUESTER 75 Rechtsanwalt Otto Kuester (Stuttgart), who tumed NEWS FROM ABROAD 75 on January 7, is one of the earliest champions of a NO NEONAZISM IN CANADIAN MAILS fair settlement of the damages sustained by the victims UNITED STATES of the Nazi regime. He commenced his activities in Anti-Boycott Action Stepped Up Antisemitic material has been officially banned by this field as early as 1947, when he was appointed the Canadian postal authorities. Their decision affects American companies complying with the Arab boy­ "Staatsbeauftragter" for indemnification in the Land a major supplier of neo-Nazi propaganda to West Wuerttemberg-Baden. He was also one of the German cott are twice as likely as previously to face proceed­ Germany, Ernst Zundel of Toronto. Zundel, also ings. The Office of Anti-Boycott Compliance has b)een delegates at the Conference near The Hague in 1952, known as Christoff Friedrich, appropriated the but in the course of the negotiations tendered his instructed to increase its activities by 100%. In the Russian name of the Soviet underground press year 1980/81, fines approximating to one-third of a "Samizdat" for his own publishing house, which issues resignation, because the proposals of the Federal million pounds sterling weie imposed on 23 companies records of Nazi songs and material denying the Minister of Finance did not go far enough in his view. for infringing US Govermnent directives regarding the Holocaust. His activities have been expressly con­ Since then, he has written innumerable articles and boycott. Some firms have criticized the anti-boycott demned in the West German Bundestag. comments on decisions and, at the same time, acted as regulations as harmful to American interests in the the spokesman of the victims in his capacity as a Middle East. Companies still on the Arab blacklist lawyer. He is still in charge of a number of litigations iiKlude Ford and Coca Cola, but British Leyland have MODEL OLD-AGE HOME IN ARGENTINA pending before the Federal Law Court and the Federal recently been exempted from the boycott. When refugees from Nazi Europe arrived in Argen­ Constitution Court. A deeply religious man. Otto tina, they found help and comfort in the Welfare Kuester's legal activities are motivated by the highest Society founded by German-speaking Jews in the ethical principles. He is also a great friend of Israel, 1930s. The society set up creches for children of work­ which he has visited on many occasions. In gratitude, "Refugee Cover for KGB Spies" ing mothers and in 1940 established an old-age home we extend our sincerest good wishes to Otto Kuester. Reports that Russian secret agents have infiltrated in San Miguel. Extensive development by the Jewish Israel and the USA by posing as Jewish emigrants Philanthropic Association, the successor to the Wel­ DR. OTTO BENTAL 85 from the Soviet Union have been published by the fare Society, has now made this home a model of its Dr. Otto Rental, Head of the Berlin office of the New York Times and Newsweek. In an intei view with kind throughout South America. Although some of United Restitution Organisation (URO) celebrated the New York Times, a counter-intelligence agent of the money needed for its expansion came from the his 85th birthday on January 18. An outstanding jurist the FBI said that even genuine emigrants might be Claims Conference, most of it was contributed by and experienced negotiator, he has established a coerced by threats against relatives left behind into German-speaking Argentinian Jews who still meet relationship of confidence with the Berlin Indemnifica­ passing information to the KGB. The matter is appa­ many of the financial burdens incurred in caring for tion Office, with which he has co-operated for more rently being taken seriously by both governments, the 200 elderly people living in the San Miguel home. than 30 years. In the course of the more recent past, he Israel in particular being very much on the alert has been particularly engaged in the field of Social against any Soviet penetration. Similar allegations, it ITALIAN JEWS DEFY NEO-FASOSM Insurance claims of victims of persecution and has may hie remembered, appeared in the '30s conceming become a widely recognised authority in this com­ Jewish refugees from Germany and played a laige part Visiting London recently, the Chief Rabbi of Rome, plicated sphere. His appearance and clarity of mind in the British decision to intern "enemy aliens". Dr. Elio Toaff, spoke about fascist activity in Italy. belie his years, and we wish Dr. Rental undiminished His own car was recently set on fire in an assassination vigour for a long time to come. attempt. Amongst references to other attacks, Dr. Toaff told of bomb)s thrown on Yom Kippur in a place LUDWIG WRONKOW HONOURED Jewish TV Archive Established where Soviet Jews were known to gather. He said the Plans for a new "Television Library of Judaism" perpetrators were Italian youngsters "probably paid It is not often that a political cartoonist receives an have been revealed by the president of the Union of by intemational organisations having an interest in honorary doctorate, but such was the case with Ludwig American Hebrew Congregations. Programmes and dramatising the political situation". Of the various Wronkow recently in Berlin, his birthplace, at the news reports will be stored on video cassette and the neo-fascist groups in Italy, he said that some were Communications Studies Department of the Free project is so far advanced that three tapes are already purely terrorist, while others were devoted to anti­ University. It was the first honorary doctorate awarded available for distribution. The libiary will eventually semitism. Although they all steituned from the main by the department, and was given to him for "special contain thousands of items relating to Jewish culture fascist party Movimento Sociale Italiano, the different services in portraying and spreading humanist con­ and history, to Judaism and to prominent people. Its subgroups comprised dissidents who believed that the administration is in the hands of a new television and MSI was not right-wing enough. cepts in the fieldo f journalism." Wronkow has lived in film institute and it will be housed at the UAHC head­ The Chief Rabbi's view was that Italian Jews today New York since 1938 and has been particularly active quarters in New York. realised what was happening and would not accept it as staff cartoonist, writer and editor of "Auf bau" there. passively. In this way the situation differed from that There was also an exhibition of Wronkow's work of of 1938 and he believed that Italian Jewry understood the last sixty years at the Haus am Liitzowplatz. the position well enough to take care of themselves. Call for Crime Crackdown E.G.L. Several Jewish organisations have formed an "Emer­ gency Anti-Crime Coalition", whose aims are to lobby VATICAN TRIBUTE TO CARDINAL BEA LEGACIES politicians in favour of tougher measures against The centenary of Cardinal Augustine Bea was cele­ The AJR Charitable Trust received a legacy of criminals. Rabbi Abraham Hecht, president of the brated by Italian and foreign Jewish leaders when they £6,000 from the estate of the late Mr. B. Slazenger. Rabbinical Alliance in America, declares that re- recently attended a meeting in the Vatican. Bom in imposition of the death penalty would act as a deterrent Germany, Cardinal Bea is considered the prime mover to violent crime. He also calls for longer sentences and behind Vatican II's "Declaration on the Jews" in 1965. a general crackdown on criminals. It may be noted This was the statement which condemned antisemitism that in New York alone on one recent week-end, and outlawed the idea of so-called "Jewish deicide" in twenty murders were committed. Catholic teaching. Only three years later. Cardinal Bea died, but not before he had seen some of the early results of his work for Jewish-Catholic relations. LOST CANADIAN LINK WITH ANNE FRANK In all Toronto's history, perhaps no private citizen HEIRS SUE FRENCH POLITiaAN has ever been so honoured at his funeral as Victor A former Mimster faces legal proceedings because Kugler, an aged Dutch emigre, once a spice merchant of his alleged part in the persecution of French Jews. in Amsterdam. Jewish leaders, Anglican and Catholic The heirs of four Jewish families in Bordeaux have clergy, Dutch and Israeli diplomats, with many others, filed complaints against Maurice Papon, stating that met to pay tribute to the man immortalised in Anne he helped to carry out anti-Jewish measures during the Frank's diary as "Mr. Kraler". It was he who arranged Nazi occupation of France. During those years M. for his partner Otto Frank to move with his family Papon was secretary-general of the Gironde prefecture, into a hiding-place within the office premises and it which includes Bordeaux. He held the post of Budget was he who managed to keep them concealed for two Minister under President Giscard d'Estaing's presi­ years before their tietrayal and deportation. dency and in last year's election campaign the satirical Fights Rust Victor Kugler, a Protestant bom in the Sudetenland, paper "Le Canard Enchaine" accused him of applying Newly developed. Zinc compounds moved to Canada in 1955 and died at the age of 81 a anti-Jewish regulations during the Occupation. are some of the finest rust inhibitors.The few weeks ago. He was. Rabbi Jordan Pearlson told the funeral congregation, always surprised at the synthetic resin base forms a tough skin, honour paid him for performing what he regarded as JEWRY IN MOSLEM STATES which seals the surface from moisture. a normal act of friendship. Statistics of Jews in Moslem countries have appeared From all good hardware and accessory stores. in "Present Tense", a magazine published by the Free literature from David's ISOPON, FREEPOST American Jewish Committee. Over 35,000 Jews are Northway House, London N20 9BR. living in Iran, according to the article, while there are only 15 in Libya and 10 in Bahrein. Both Turkey and With acknowledgement to the news service Morocco are homes for some 20,000 Jews and about of tbe Jewish Chronicle. 70 still live in Afghanistan. The Jewish community in Egypt is estimated at 300. AJR INFORMATION February 1982 Page 5

in Germany, his books had been banned and Egon Larsen burnt; in Sweden, the immigration authorities restricted his freedom to travel and refused him "TUCHO" FOR THE ENGLISH a work permit. So he was dependent on his last close friend "Nutuia"—the Swiss physician Dr. Hedwig MiJller, to whom he wrote a spate of letters and who helped him financially. No wonder British and American students of a caricature if one has never seen the original? He was deeply disappointed about mankind in modem German literature are puzzled about the And here we come to a rather sore point about general and the political Left in particular. revival of Kurt Tucholsky's reputation in Ger­ Kurt Tucholsky. Himself a Jew, he developed Between 1928 and 1931 he had contributed three many—West and East—so many decades after his into the nearest thing to an anti-semite. "He was dozen articles and poems to the Communist death. Now the first serious and thorough English- well aware of the implications of the Jewish Arbeiter-Illustrierte in Berlin, and "allied himself language study (Kurt Tucholsky, The Ironic Senti­ Weltanschauung," writes Grenville, "and felt to the KPD", as Grenville puts it. The Tucholsky mentalist, by Bryan P. Grenville) has been pub­ qualified to criticize in no uncertain terms the paperback published by Rowohit in 1959 quotes lished in London by Oswald Wolff Ltd. (£4.25), attitude German Jews had adopted towards their from a letter he wrote five days before his death who rendered the same service to Erich Kastner oppressors, to the extent of claiming in 1935 that to Arnold Zweig: "One has to start again right at some years ago. they got what they deserved. ... He also charged the beginning, one must not listen to that ridicu­ Admittedly, Kastner was easier to treat for that they tried to be more Teutonic than the lous Stalin who betrays his people." And there English-speaking readers than "Tucho" since at Germans themselves, and he was evidently ap­ was one more disappointment which affected him least his children's books had been translated (and palled that Hitler's rise to power had not been profoundly: Knut Hamsun, the writer he had some even filmed) for non-German consumption. swiftly followed by a mass exodus of Jews. . . . admired most throughout his life, had embraced But the verses of Ixjth of them, so important for It was in particular the Jewish businessman's National Socialism. Tucho never realized that understanding the parts they played in Weimar single-minded attempt to preserve his status quo," Hamsun, more than any other author of inter­ and Grenville quotes what Tucho wrote shortly national fame, had been laying the foundations of literature, are well-nigh impossible to render in before his death to Arnold Zweig: another language. Mr. Grenville, a young British that literary abomination beloved by the Nazis, the Germanist of German extraction, has wisely re­ "If you had told the average Jew in 1933 that Blut und Boden style. In November 1935, just frained from attempting to translate much of he should leave Germany ... he would have before the Nobel Peace Prize Committee decided Tucho's rousing, biting, warning poetry which laughed at you. 'But I can't leave!' And then, to bestow the award on Carl von Ossietzky, then made him, as Grenville calls him, "the greatest like a gamble: 'Right now I am losing money: being tortured in a German KZ, Hamsun pub­ satirist" of pre-Hitler Germany. what about the business?' And now they crawl lished, in two Norwegian papers, a vicious letter However, there is much else to be related about out, miserable, beaten up, with mud on their against giving him the Peace Prize. That may have Tucho's work, his intellectual stance, his ail-too faces, bankrupt, robbed of their money—and been the last straw for Tucholsky. short life. Born in 1890 as the son of a Berlin without dignity. . . . You say: true, there are Jewish merchant, he began to write in his teens; the Wendriners, they are loathsome—-but ... I say: there are decent Jews, too, a few, as the at 21, he "left the Jewish faith", but there seems ERICH LUETH AT 80 to be little evidence of the reasons. One year emigration figures show, less than 10 per cent. . . . later, he published his first little book: Rheins- I exclude them, I have the greatest respect for Erich Liith will be 80 on February 1. In the last berg—ein Bilderbuch fiir Verliebte, which was an them, for their quiet suffering—but. . . . But? The decade alone he has launched his "Peace Proposal for enormous success and remained compulsory read­ others are worthless." Israel—a Hamburg Initiative" (1976—recalling his ing for the young, erotically liberated generation 1951 "Peace Campaign for Israel"), his chronicle of the 1920s. In 1913, he began his long associ­ Staying Abroad "Miterlebtes—Report on Five Decades of Hamburg ation with Siegfried Jacobsohn's Schaubiihne, Tucho had one chance, or rather one reason, History", and in 1981 his second autobiographical then Germany's most important theatre magazine, for returning to Berlin for good and sharing the report, "A Son of Hamburg Swims Against the later to be renamed Weltbuhne and tumed into great fight against Hitler on the spot: When Stream", with much information on his Jewish the leading political-cultural journal of the intel­ Jacobsohn died in 1926, he came to Berlin at once contemporaries. lectual Left. He wrote so much for it that he felt and took over the editorship of the Weltbiihne. E.O.L. it necessary to split himself up into five authors: But he was ill-suited for this role, he felt tied Kurt Tucholsky, Theobald Tiger, Peter Panter, down in Berlin and was eager to return to Paris. Ignaz Wrobel and Kaspar Hauser. Thus he called This he did after only a few months, handing the his first anthology Mit 5 PS, counting his own editorship to Carl von Ossietzky, the courageous name among the pseudonyms. For two years he pacifist—who was to pay with his life for his Was also the editor of Vlk, the weekly humorous ideals. HEAD OF SOCIAL SERVICES supplement of the Berliner Tageblatt. Then, late in 1932, came another strange turn required by AJR Throughout the Weimar era, Tucho's under­ in Tucho's life. He decided to stop writing. This is lying altitude was pacifist, democratic, anti- Grenville's explanation: "His decision must be authoritarian, and anti-bourgeois. "We want to seen as an admission of defeat and a legitimate fight with hatred born of love," he wrote in 1919, form of protest. Tucholsky had long been aware "for the oppressed—who don't necessarily have to of his political isolation. His love-hate had turned The successful candidate will be respon­ be proletarian, and we love in mankind the notion into contempt for all things German. ... To his sible for the administration and co-ordina­ of humaneness." But in 1924, he took an extra­ mind. Hitler and Germany were synonymous." ordinary step by emigrating to Paris, like the Paradoxically, he stopped writing at the very tion of social service activities Including social satirists Heine and Borne before him, from climax of his fame in Germany. His Schloss welfare work in associated old age homes the country about whose ideological and cultural Gripsholm, an attempt at repeating or even sur­ and operation of other homes providing Wellbeing he was so much concerned. Grenville passing the success of Rhelnsberg, had been re­ quotes as Tucho's reasons that he never liked ceived enthusiastically in 1931—also a kind of love sheltered accommodation for Jewish Berlin, which he called "vile, noisy and run­ story, but set in Sweden. For Tucho had left his refugees. Applicants should have qualifi­ down". Yet he continued to satirize the Berliners, beloved Paris in 1929 and settled near Goteborg, cations and experience in social welfare most of all the "Wendriners". at the sea, on the advice of his doctors who had Tucho had created Herr Wendriner as the treated him for sinusitis for some years. But he work and a suitable administrative record. typical German-Jewish philistine, politically short­ spent the summer of 1931 in the village of Working knowledge of German language sighted, materialistic, snobbish, and opportunist: Westwell, near Ashford in Kent, working on a helpful. •he quintessence of the Kurfiirstendamm bourgeois. comedy about Christopher Columbus together Grenville was quite right to translate and include with Walter Hasenclever. It had its first night at a Wendriner monologue in his book; but although Leipzig in 1932 and was a complete flop. We, who knew the type only too well, can hear It would be difficult, says Grenville, to establish him and laugh wrily about him, the piece just one single cause which led to Tucholsky's suicide Write in confidence to the Chairman, Can't make sense to the English reader. It might in December, 1935. But there is no doubt that his Association of Jewish Refugees, 8 nave been more effective to include, instead of physical condition played a major part: he had Fairfax IWanslons, Fairfax Road, Herr W.'s ramblings after a party, the prophetic had a total of eight nose operations which, vision, written in 1930, of Wendriner under Hitler's however, did not succeed in relieving his painful London NWS 6LA. dictatorship—Tucho at his most sarcastic and con­ and depressing sinusitis. Then there was his finan­ temptuous. StiU, Wendriner is a caricature, and cial situation: having condemned himself to how can one appreciate the value and humour of silence he had no income from joumalistic fees; fage6 AJR INFORMATION February 1982 Ena Steiner Berg, who also became Schoenberg's pupil ia the autumn of 1904). The fact that Adler, this diviner of genius, could not always follow Schoen­ berg's advanced musical thought did not prevent FATHER OF AUSTRIAN MUSICOLOGY him from including Schoenberg and his brother- in-law Zemlinsky in his plans for the reorgan­ ization of the Konservatorium der Musikfreunde Anniversary of Guido Adler under the intended leadership of Mahler, for whom this position would have provided an excel­ lent alternative after retiring in 1907—amidst much intrigue—from his position at the Hofoper. motion in 1880 to Doctor of Philosophy Adler was At Adler's request Webem wrote his thesis for On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the his promotion to Doctor of Philosophy about the birth of Guido Adler (1855-1941) news came at last set to start his life's work of musical research. Flemish polyphonist Heinrich Isaak's (1450-1517)- from Vienna of the City's resolve to grant a three-volume collection "Choralis Constantinus". grave of honour to this Jewish pioneer of The next twenty years in Adler's life, most of Webem's edition of the second volume was later Austrian musicology, who during the last war them spent in Prague as Professor at the Deutsche (1909) published by Adler in his "Denkmaeler", had died there a lonely death, followed by the Universitaet, left him sufficient time to prepare an honour also extended to Schoenberg in 1912, confiscation of his important library and valuable the ground for the achievement by which he who contributed bass realisations for compositions collections. will always be remembered: the collection, editing by the 18th century composers G. M. Monn and In the absence of a biography doing justice to and publication of the music of the past. It was J. C. Mann, whilst Mahler, although a member the divers activities of this man wholly dedicated orginally conceived on an intemational basis, but of the Selection Committee of the "Denkmaeler", to the furtherance and documentation of music eventually confined to the famous "Denkmaeler could not bring himself to a proper appreciation in general and of Austrian music in particular, der Oesterreichischen Tonkunst", commencing in of musicology. his name is nevertheless well known to the reader 1894 with compositions by J. J. Froberger, H. F. of the life-stories of Mahler, whose genius he Biber and J. J. Fux, and preceded in 1892 by Undiminished Activity recognised early, and of Schoenberg and Webem, two volumes of an experimental nature containing whose eventual importance he foresaw, making compositions by the Habsburg Emperors Ferdi­ Adler's work in the service of music also in­ him the rare case of a historian with equal imder­ nand III, Leopold I and Joseph I. Under Adler's cluded a book about his hero Richard Wagner standing of the past, present and future of an editorship 83 volumes of the "Denkmaeler" were in 1904, publications in 1914 and 1916 about art, the development of which he had chosen to published uninterruptedly until the "Anschluss" Mahler, the "Handbuch der Musikgeschichte" in record and sustain. in 1938, when he was forced to discontinue this 1924—a first attempt to entrust various specialists with the task of dealing individually with the Like Mahler (1860-1911), his junior by five years, monumental work, which at its inauguration multiple subjects of musical knowledge. There was Adler had grown up in Iglau, a provincial town had Brahms on the Selection Committee, and no standing still for Adler at any stage of his long in Moravia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian after the latter's death in 1897, Gustav Mahler, life, and in 1927, the year of his retirement from Empire) with a long tradition of German cuUure whose outstanding talent, nay genius, he had the University at the age of 72, he was instmmental against a background of increasing aspirations recognised early, and whose career he had taken in founding the "Intemationale Gesellschaft fuer of the Czech minority, where life was permeated every opportunity to promote, first by successfully Musik" with its seat in Basel, of which he re­ by a never-ending pageant of folksong and country recommending him as musical director at the mained the honorary president until his death dances to the accompaniment of village bands, Budapest Opera and later by supporting Mahler in 1941. and marching songs, bugle calls and martial music in his efforts to secure in 1897 the coveted from the soldien of the garrison stationed at the position as musical director of the Wiener Hofopcr Adler's love of Mahler and his appreciation of near-by barracks—an atmosphere that was to in tie face of opposition from Cosima Wagner, his music had not ended with his friend's death. leave indelible traces on Mahler's music. In ad­ who •vould not tolerate a Jew as Hofopemdirektor. Under his guidance the first Doctor's Thesis was dition, the piano teaching of Johannes Brosch, written in 1922 on the subject of "Gustav Mahler's which both Adler and Mahler enjoyed, albeit Helping Mahler Lieder", this at a time when Mahler's oeuvre at different times, was of a sufficiently high was by no means generally considered as a worthy Due to his efforts in 1897/98 Mahler obtained subject of research. As a further token of friend­ standard to enable them to enter the Vienna financial support from the "Gesellschaft zur Conservatory—Adler in 1868 as a part-time stu­ ship he dreamt of a Mahler Memorial in Vienna. Foerderung deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst und A meeting was called in 1926, attended by Mahler's dent, and Mahler in 1875 at the age of 15 at Literatur in Boehmen" for the publication of the such an advanced state of competence that Julius widow (by now Mrs. Franz Werfel), and money I and III Symphony and the orchestral parts of the v/as collected. Yet the protracted negotiations were Epstein, the celebrated piano teacher, accepted II Symphony. In his letter of recommendation him immediately as his pupil, and before long brought to an end in 1939, and the funds con­ he described the young composer as being together fiscated by the Nazis. sent him his own son for lessons to supplement with Richard Strauss, in the forefront of modern the young student's meagre allowance. music. At the age of 80, in his memoirs "Wollen und By that time (1875) Adler, destined by his In pursuance of his activities as editor of, and Wirken", Adler remembers for the last time his family for the study of law, had nevertheless contributor to musicological publications, Adler friend Mahler and Iglau, their home town, and advanced at the Conservatory to such a degree founded in 1884, together with Spitta and Chrys- the friendly relations between the Jewish Rabbi of efficiency as to be accepted by Bruckner for ander, the "Vierteljahreszeitschri ft fuer Musik- J. J. Unger and the heads of the local Catholic lessons in theory and composition—with Artur wissenschaft", where in his essay "Umfang, church, where Mahler sang in the St. Jakob Nikisch and Felix Mottl as his colleagues—all of Methode und Ziel der Musikwissenschaft" he Choir, getting to know there at an early age them filled with boundless admiration for Richard dealt with the principles and problems of musi­ works like Mozart's Requiem and Beethoven's Wagner, and together these young people founded cological research. He lost no time in applying "Christus am Oelberg". the "Wiener Akademischen Wagner Verein", in these principles on his appointment in 1898 to Adler's important collection of letters from, due course to become the meeting place for the the staff of Vienna University as Professor of the and documents relating to his great contemporaries two young men from Iglau, where the basis of a history of music in succession to Hanslick, estab­ is now deposited with the "Special Collections" friendship was laid that would last to the end of lishing there the "Musikhistorisches Iristitut". Department of the Library of the University of their lives, and beyond. Under his guidance musicology developed into a Georgia in Athens (Georgia USA), and it is to It was Adler's acquaintance with the writings respected discipline, the Institute becoming the be hoped that before long, now that the significance of the German musical scholars ChrySander (1826- focal point to provide future generations of of his work has been rediscovered in his homeland, 1901), an authority on Palestrina, Schuetz, students with a thorough education in this field. this collection will serve as the basis for a "Life" Couperin and Bach, and Spitta (1841-94), a Ideal conditions thus prevailed in 1902, when of this friend of genius, a life spent in the service specialist on Buxtehude, Bach and the music of young Anton von Webem (1883-1945), entered of music, research and untiring support of those Frederick the Great, that stimulated Adler's the University, and in 1904 took up the study of of his contemporaries who, he knew, would have interest in the history of music, leading to his musicological subjects with Adler, whilst counter­ to wait a long time for recognition. abandonment of law in favour of music. Musi- point and harmony were taught by Prof. Grae- cological studies were taken up at Vienna Univer­ dener and Dr. Karl Navratil. Driven, however, GERMAN-ISRAELI TWINNING sity under the guidance of Eduard Hanslick (1825- by his desire to make him study with a composer A pact of friendship between Dortmund and the 1904), who with his book "Vom Musikalisch- of stature, Adler sent this promising young student Israeli town of Natania was formally signed by official Schoenen" and his well informed music criticism to Schoenberg (1874-1951). delegates of both towns recently. Simultaneously, an exhibition entitled "Resistance and Persecution in was far from being the ridiculous figure of a The rest, of course, is history. It led to what Dortmund" was opened in Natania. It had already Beckmesser as which he has the misfortune to was later to be known as the "Second Viennese been seen by over 30,(X)0 people in Dortmtmd and at be largely remembered today. With his pro­ School" (consisting of Schoenberg, Webem and the University of Bochum. AJR INFORMATION February 1982 Page?

excelled from time immemorial. We also hear J. Maitlis from Jewish doctors who, as in other countries, were very popular among Christian and Muslim JEWS, VENICE AND ISLAM dignitaries and rulers. Jews also played a leading role in international commerce, with connections all over the world. In Tyre, for instance, we find Latest Volume of Baron's History Jewish shipowners and traders of a high standard. Expert Jewish artisans introduced new methods to the Levant. Soon Jewish learning began to flourish. Acad­ emies of learning were established by dis­ In the latest volume (XVII) of his comprehen­ maritime trade, exporting grain, salt and other tinguished scholars and the number of eager sive and detailed history of the Jews,* the dis­ commodities. They entered international trade students grew. tinguished historian Salo Baron turns from his with their usual zest and diligence, and enjoyed Baron devotes his last chapter to Jewish life in discussion of Jewish life in Eastern Europe with a measure of equality of opportunity under North Africa, the so-called Maghreb. He describes its phenomenal rise and growth, to an earlier Venetian rule. Their advantage was in dealing a colourful community of old settled Berber Jews period in the history of the smaller and widely with numerous co-religionists in many countries. and new arrivals from Spain who escaped the scattered communities in the declining Byzantine Jewish lawyers in the newly occupied territories clutches of the Church zealots and the harassing era. This is combined with an account of the were allowed to represent their clients before the Inquisition, followed soon by the mass expulsion emerging maritime power of the Venetian Repub­ general courts, a professional activity which was (1492) of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula. It is lic, with its expansion among the Greek islands "practically unknown in the West until the onset a well-documented account based on rich histori­ of the Aegean, and concludes with an important of Emancipation". cal sources. chapter on Jewish life under late medieval Islam In addition a number of Jews were also en­ However, as Baron points out, regardless of the and the Latin Kingdom established by the cru­ gaged in community service as rabbis, cantors, difficult conditions, the Jews in North Africa saders in the Middle East. scribes and ritual slaughterers. Of communal remained steadfast and loyal to their Judaism and With his usual methodical analysis, based on elders in commerce and other professions, Baron maintained their heritage and even succeeded in newly researched material, coupled with full mentions the noted Elijah Capsali, who served as making "occasional contributions to Jewish learn­ annotations, sources and bibliographical notes, a rabbi and physician. Jews excelled in medicine ing along well trodden paths". Baron presents a well balanced and vivid account during the Middle Ages and afterwards as well. In the Ottoman Empire the major 16th century of a Jewish past of which we had only rather Despite the frequent, often arbitrary imposts, communities under Islamic domination "injected scanty knowledge. As a sociologist and historian, Jews in the Eastern possessions of Venice were a new vitalising force into Jewish life throughout he deals with social mobility, advances and less harassed than in most other countries. Prof. the Muslim world". It was a national-religious changes, structure and continuity in all spheres of Baron concludes that relatively few Jews felt culture which inspired new study and learning Jewish life. Guided by his meticulous research inclined to leave Candia or other places, regard­ became a dominant factor in Jewish life in the and analysis, we note the gradual impact on Jews less of the enticements of the Ottoman Empire, Middle Eastern centres, and was followed "by an of the Venetian Republic, the expansion of the with its gradual territorial expansion in the 14th independent creativity among the revived com­ Italian merchants and their conquest of numerous and 15th centuries reviving the glory of the munities" in North Africa. The Jews under Aegean and Ionian islands, with their small JewLsh mediaeval Arab Caliphate. Islamic dominion were now able "to resume their communities and their socio-economic potential. position in world Jewry as a counterpart lo the There were Jewish settlements on the Arab Rivalries upsurging and rising Jewish communities in Greek islands in antiquity, particularly at the Baron presents a vivid picture of the grim Poland-Lithuania, and soon thereafter also in time of the Second Commonwealth, before and realities of Jewish life in late mediaeval Islam. Western Europe". after the destruction of the Temple (70 CE). The continuous rivalries and upheavals in the However, conclusive historical evidence of a per­ Arab lands shook Jewish communities deeply. manent Jewish presence on the islands, cither The decline of Muslim civilization also affected Under Byzantine or later Arab domination, is the Jews under Arab domination demographic- rather scarce. Jewish conununities in the area ally, economically and culturally. Not until the came to life again in the late Middle Ages, after ascent of the benevolent Ottoman Empire, con­ the decline of Byzantium, followed by Venetian tinually expanding its territory, did the centre of Remember expansion in the eastem Mediterranean. A con­ gravity of Mediterranean Jewry move back from siderable wave of Jewish immigrants from the the West to the Middle East. Israel Iberian Peninsula and partly from central Europe Baron discusses in great detail the history of settled in these inviting territories and Jerusalem under tbe rule of the Crusaders. The strengthened the old groups of Jewish inhabitants. conquest of the Holy City brought unimaginable 8o Israel may remember you Oppressed Jews sought refuge on the Greek islands massacres and destruction, which left a frightful and found the Venetian regime more accommodat­ memory for generations. The once flourishing If you wish Israel and Jewish ing even when the Republic of Venice refused to community of Jerusalem was laid waste by re­ Organisations to benefit by your tolerate Jews at home. According to Prof. Baron, peated ordeals. In consequence Utopian dreamers in Crete and the neighbouring islands, particu­ and the Jewish public saw in all those calamities Will, why not consult us? larly in Corfu, Ashkenazic and Sephardic signs of the coming of the messianic redeemer We have a special knowledge of immigrants "lived side by side with the older who would return the suffering Jewish people to Greek Jewish groups". their homeland. the problems and needs of The Venetian rulers made good use of the Nonetheless, a revival set in, particularly after commercial and diplomatic skills of the Jewish Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem. Pious pilgrims Jewish Clients, and can help you inhabitants. We hear, for instance, of the noted from the West returned to the Holy City. It is or your Solicitor to carry out your Elijah Mavrogonato who played a significant role even reported that numerous rabbis and dis­ in the domestic and foreign affairs of the Repub­ tinguished scholars from France and England intentions. lic in the 15th century. In addition, as Baron proceeded to live in the Holy Land, where rightly points out, Jewish economic stratification academies of higher Jewish learning were founded. For further information and in the region was to a great extent influenced by The noted rabbinical authority and biblical com­ advice, without obligation and long-established Western patterns and ways of mentator Moses Ben Nachman (Nachmanides) life. To the new territories they brought com­ arrived in Jerusalem from Barcelona in 1267, and free of charge, please apply to: mercial expertise and technical know-how which as Baron notes, the great rabbi emphasised in Was of great benefit and advantage to the people many passages in his commentary on the Pen­ Mr H. Rothman (Director) and its rulers. tateuch the duty of every Jew to live in his Besides being skilled craftsmen, dealers, mer­ ancestral home. K.K.L. Executor & Trustee Co. Ltd. chants and shopkeepers, Jews also owned farms. As so often in the difficult life of the Jewish Harold Poster House, Among a variety of artisans. Baron mentions people, economic factors played a considerable leather workers and farmers. On the whole Jews role. Here as elsewhere, the pattern of economic Kingsbury Circie, of the islands took an active part in financing the stratification was greatly diversified. Beside being London, NW9 98P. merchants and traders, Jews followed their tradi­ Teiephone: 01-204 9911, Ext: 36 'A Social and Religious History of the Jews by Salo Witt- tional crafts, especially dyeing and glass blowing. mayer Baron. Volume 17, Columbia University Press. New York. 1

CECIL P. TAYLOR Only a few weeks after the successful London pro­ IN MEMORIAM duction of his play "Good", Cecil P. Taylor has died at the early age of 53. Of Scottish-Jewish origin, Mr. Taylor was a prolific playwright often inspired by the REUBEN AINSZTEEN FRANZ OLLENDORFF Tyneside environment where he lived, and also using The historian and joumalist Reuben Ainsztein died Jewish themes. The plot of "Good", which is about to recently at his home at the age of 64. By birth a Pole, Dr. Franz Ollendorff, the distinguished electrical have a second run, is based on the gradual drawing of he went to Belgium in 1936 to study medicine. When and electronics engineer and mathematician, has died a decent man into an active part in the Nazi regime and the Nazis overran Euiojje, Reuben Ainsztein was ultimately into the administration of the Auschwitz in Haifa at the age of 81. From 1955 he was professor death camp. determined to escape and, aftei one imsuccessful at the Haifa Technion. He was well known as a tech­ attempt, he made his way through the Pyrenees and was interned in Spain. Released from the refugee camp, nical writer and teacher and received the Israel Prize HUGO ERDOHAZI he pressed on to Gibraltar and thence to Britain, where in 1954, was made an Honorary Citizen of Haifa in Hugo Erdohazi, who had a highly cultivated mind, he joined the RAF as an air gunner and after a number 1960 and received an honorary doctorate from the was a fervent Jew and active supporter of Israel has of active missions was posted to RAF Intelligence. Technical University of Berlin. He taught attheBerltn- died, leaving numerous friends and admirers. He was Ainsztein's linguistic ability—he spoke 11 lan­ Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule from 1929-33, a teacher in Czechoslovakia, a headmaster in Hungary guages—stood him in good stead after the war when and had previously taught in Danzig and worked for and a journalist in Great Britain and had experienced he joined the BBC monitoring service at Caversham. Siemens-Schuckert. After having emigrated to the bitterness and tragedies of East European Jews. From there he went to Reuters and later became Palestine he returned to Berlin in 1934 to work at the Surviving the Holocaust, he decided to dedicate his Eastem European correspondent of The Sunday Times life to those Jews of Hungarian origin who were in Having lost all but one of his family in the Holocaust, Theodor Herzl School there for child and youth aliyah. His widow is the daughter of the Danzig Lib»ral Rabbi need of moral or financial help. He was an enthusiastic he wrote and spoke much on the history of the Nazi initiator and supporter of all cultural activities of the crimes in Europe. In 1974 his most important tiook, Dr. Robert Kaelter (1876-1926) who wrote the history Federation of Hungarian Jews in Great Britain, of "Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Europe" was of the Jewish community of Potsdam (1903). E.G.L. which he was the Chairman of the Executive Com­ published. Although criticized, notably by Professor mittee and the editor of its periodical "Hirado". Lucy Dawidowicz, for some of its pugnacious expres­ He is mourned by his wife. Dr. Magda Erdohazi, sions on Poles, Orthodox Jewry and Zionist revi­ by the members and beneficiaries of the Federation of sionism, the work is a contribution to the history of RICHARD BROM Hungarian Jews in Great Britain and by many personal the Holocaust. friends. Richard Broh, who was associated with the labour and trade union movement throughout his life, LESLIE DONATH BERTHA JOURDAN recently died in his 86th year. Before he came to this country in 1938 he worked as a journalist in Berlin, Jews of Hungarian origin all over Great Britain and Bertha Jourdan, the educationist and former Social his native city. During the Second World War, he beyond have suffered a great loss with the death of Democratic parliamentarian, died recently in her served with the Pioneer Corps. After the war, he was Leslie Donath. Until his recent retirement he was a native FrankJfurt-am-Main at the age of 89. Mrs. appointed representative of the Deutsche Gewerk- successful businessman, well known and respected Jourdan, who came from an old Frankfurt family, schaftsbund (DGB) for Great Britain. He also took a internationally. But he will be missed most by the was a city councillor from 1924-28, and then, till 1933, responsible part in the re-establishment of the German members and beneficiaries of the Federation of a member of the Prussian Landtag (Berlin). She then trade union system and acted as adviser to the Social Hungarian Jews in Great Britain, of which he was the ran a private school for Jewish children until 1939. Department of the German Embassy. Until his retire­ President for many years until his death. His charis­ ment he was correspondent for the Welt der Arbeit. matic and warm personality gained many friends and She emigrated to Rhodesia, where she was active in The promotion of Anglo-German understanding was supporters for the cause of old and needy Jews living educational work, and was also the UN rapporteur for always near to his heart. An unassuming, loyal and in Hungary, Israel and in this country. He was an Rhodesian educational questions, returning to Frank­ reliable man, he will be gratefully remembered by all affectionate husband, father and grandfather and his furt in 1969. E.G.L. who knew him. many personal friends share the sorrow of his family.

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SUICIDE OF NEO-NAZI MILITANT MISCELLANEOUS After disclosing locations of a number of arms caches, neo-Nazi Heinz Lembke committed suicide BRITISH HELP FOR ISRAELI LIBRARIES PLO PRAISES EXTREME ORTHODOX while in prison at Lunehurg. Police found 40 anti­ Acquisition of Judaica and Hebraica is the Neturei Karta, the extreme Orthodox organisation, tank guns, over 100 kilos of explosives and many ultimate aim of the newly-founded British Com­ has received the personal congratulations of Yasser other weapons at the places he had designated. mittee of the Jewish National and University Arafat, head of the PLO, for its stand against Zionism. Lembke was suspected of implication in the Library at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This was revealed in Jerusalem recently by a spokes­ Munich October Festival bombing, and had been The committee will seek to provide funds for man for the sect; to avoid infringing Israeli law, he unsuccessfully interrogated about the activities of library purchases, including textbooks and learned added, Neturei Karta's letters to the PLO had been Manfred Roeder, now on trial for inciting hatred joumals for the use of the University's students. despatched from London. Its original message com­ against Jews. A 44-ycar-old forester, Lembke was The British group of former members of the prised a denunciation of Zionism and a disclaimer of deeply involved in neo-Nazi militancy in West K.-C. fraternity of Jewish students in Germany, the Israeli bombing in the Lebanon last summer. Germany. The Minister of the Interior in Lower has donated £300 to the library of Ben-Gurion Saxony has declared that there are fewer than University of the Negev in Bccrsheba. 1,000 neo-Nazis in his state and of these only SOLAR ENERGY EXPORT SUCCESS about 30 could be regarded as activists. Solar energy installations made in Israel are to be AUTOMATION GROWS IN ISRAEL THREATS IN CAMP ARCHIVE BUILDING With the increased political influence of Ortho­ imported by Greece to alleviate its severe energy prob­ doxy in Israel, hundreds of small firms have re­ lems. The Israeli system allies scientific ingenuity to A teacher taking pupils to see the new archive build­ arranged their work programme so that they can serviceable and solid manufacture, and this combina­ ing set up as a record of Neuengamme concentration be closed on Shabbat. Others, backed by research tion won for it the first prize at the Paris International camp was threatened by three young men. After saying in Israeli scientific institutes, are seeking ways of Solar Exhibition. that they would beat the teacher up, the men added, automation which can enable major industries to "We had to gas the Jews, we couldn't do anything continue working without staff for one day a else". Police later arrested two brothers aged 16 and week. Trades unionists are uneasy, since this de­ MILLION-POUND BOUNTY FOR 20, already known as right-wing extremists, together velopment might lead to a considerable reduction TERRORISTS with another man aged 26. in the workforce if automation proves successful. Israeli army reports say that Palestinian workers in Libya pay a tax of 6 per cent which is taken QUARREL OVER LIKUD FUND VILLAGE FOR THE HOMELESS YOUNG by Coicnel Gaddafi for investment in a fund to Allegations that a fund set up by Franz-Josef finance terrorist activity. Millions of pounds ster­ Strauss has been misused have led to sharp controversy The organisation 'SOS-Kinderdorf" has set up a ling are alleged to have been paid to terrorist in Israeli party politics. Leader of the Christian Social­ children's village at Arad near the Dead Sea, groups: £2.5 million was paid to the Black Sep­ ist Union in Bavaria, Herr Strauss is a long-term where Israeli youngsters who have no home of tember gang after the murder of Israeli athletes at Israeli sympathiser and has urged the West German their own can live among family surroundings. the Munich Olympic Games, and a similar goveriunent to follow his example. The current dispute They will be individually sponsored by families amount has been paid over the past 10 years to a within the Likud hinges on whether the fund was used living in West Germany, Austria. Holland and single Palestinian group with only 30 members or exclusively to further the cause of the party's Liberal elsewhere. This is the first project of its kind in fewer. The army command said that bounties wing, coupled with rumours that part of it was spent Israel and it is hoped that the children will accept were paid out for every attack directed against for the personal benefit of some Liberal leaders. their new homes as truly theirs. "SOS-Kinderdorf" Israel anywhere in the world. was founded by the Austrian Hermann Gmeiner, who attended the opening of the new project and AUSTRLVN PLO HIT UST FOUND handed over a "golden key" with the words, Continued investigations by the Austrian police "This is a living monument to love". SPD BARS "PRISONERS' FRIEND" have imcovered a list of 62 institutions which Ghazi Josefine Jurgens, who was awarded a Federal Hussain, the PLO representative in Vienna, had nomi­ nated as suitable targets for terrorism. As well as the ETHNIC GROUPS ASSIMILATING Cross of Merit for her charitable work with prisoners, has been suspended from the West Israeli Embassy and its oflScials, the list included the The gap between Oriental and Western Jewry in German Social Democratic Party for her anti­ Jewish Welcome Service and the Organisation of Israel is closing ever more rapidly because of inter­ semitism. In a television programme last summer, Former Concentration Camp Victims. Calls were marriage between the two communities. This is the she declared that the Maidanek trial had nothing made some time ago for the expulsion of Hussain and conclusion of Professor Ernest Krausz, an eminent to do with the rights of German citizens but was his wife Rosi, who is believed to be connected with the sociologist of Bar-Ilan University. Over the past 20 set up on behalf of Communists and Jews; that East German secret service. years, the percentage of marriages across ethnic group the court was under Jewish pressure and acted boimdaries has doubled. under Jewish influence; and, finally, that all the HITLER'S GIFT AUCTIONED witnesses were perjured. Some time ago, the When attending an auction recently, a Surrey man SCHOOLBOOK IMAGES DISCUSSED Prime Minister of Nordrhein-Westfalen suggested was able to purchase a relic of Adolf Hitler—a decora­ The Hebrew University in Jerusalem was recently to the West German President that Frau JUrgens' tive casket presented to the dictator on his 50th birth­ the setting for the first German-Israel schoolbook con­ award should be withdrawn, but the matter is still day by the German people. It is made of many different ference. Papers given at the five-day conference looked under discussion. kinds of wood and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, while forward to a more objective picture of each country in Another SDP decision lias been to bar members its contents include letters from Hitler promising gifts the school textbooks of the other. of HIAG, the Waffen-SS veterans' association, at his disposal from occupied Europe. Other memen­ from its ranks. toes sold with the casket were medals and a pay-book. The items were picked up by an RAF intelligence officer from the ruins of the Chancellery in Berlin; he WAS THIS YOUR SCHOOL? was surprised to find the Russian in charge quite unconcerned at the removal of the casket and other The Grunewald-Grundschule (formerly the things from Hitler's personal collection. Gemeindegrundschule, 7. Volksschule) will shortly celebrate its 75th anniversary and is anxious to obtain information about its past history. Former pupils and CONVENT BECAME TRANSIT CAMP others who knew the school in the years 1925-1933 are Among three memorial tablets in the Bonn area asked to contact the headmaster, Herr Eberhard Welz, which have recently been set up in memory of former at the school address, Delbruckstr. 20a, Berlin 33. Jewish communities is one marking the Convent of Perpetual Adoration in Endenich. The Nazis, after evicting the nims, turned the convent into a transit camp for Jews on their way to deportation. At the PeA diabetic dedication ceremony. Else Waldmaim spoke of a year A new range of Diabetic Chocolate Products she spent in the convent building before being sent to made with FRUCTOSE (without artificial Theresienstadt. Other memorials were unveiled at Heimerzheim and sweeteners) now available by mail order. Oberdollendorf, where Mayor Hank, after reading the Made under strict control by one of West names of those who perished, declared, "We all knew Germany's largest manufacturers, each item them—let no one say he did not see what was happen­ carries full analysis. ing". Check carbohydrate and calorie contents and remember to count it into your diet. CAMPS For further details write to: INTERN MENT-P.O.W^ HF AGENCIES LTD. FORCED LABOUR-KZ Freepost, London N19 4BR I wish to buy cards, envslopss and foldsd post­ No stamps required if posted within the UK. marked letters from all camps of both worid wars. Please send, registered mall, stating price, to: NOT SUITABLE FOR THE 14 Rossiyn Hill, London, NWS IFF OVERWEIGHT PETER C. RICKENBACK Page 10 AJR INFORMATION February 1982

VISIT TO ISRAEL FOR PRIZE-WINNERS RETIREMENT OF SfflRLEY TAUSSIG As part of their award, 15 prizewiimers of the Koerber Research Essay Competition, whose 1981 theme was "Alltag im Nationalsozialismus", spent a week in Israel. There they visited Yad Vashem and the Diaspora Museum, and their stay was climaxed by a personal interview of well over an hour with President Yizchak Navon. The participants, all students, had By the time this appreciation of her services appears nature. With her interest in music she derived much submitted research with such titles as "The life of in print, our general secretary will have relinquished pleasure from the organization of the annual concert, Mainz Jews 1926-1945", "The Persecution of the Jews her appointment with the AJR and Self Aid of despite the hard work involved. in Marburg... ", "Karlstadt Jews under the Swastika" Refugees. By the early seventies Self Aid's work had somewhat and "Gypsy Children in Mulfingen". The latter study The initials SRT have over the years become familiar reduced and provided no more than a part time job. opened by quoting the deeply pathetic letter of a to all who have had dealings with refugee social wel­ When AJR was seeking to reorganize in order to ease mother who wrote after the war to nuns in a children's home, thanking them for easing her own children's fare matters. They are also proudly displayed on the Dr. Rosenstock's burden it was natural for Mrs Taussig path to death in Auschwitz. number plate of her car and stand for Shirley Ruth to be appointed to the position of General Secretary of Taussig who was born in Yorkshire and received her AJR in 1975, while Dr. Rosenstock became Director The young prizewinners told how they had been inspired to take up this particular form of research: in education at Bradford Grammar School and Leeds with continued special responsibilities for editing AJR one case it was a visit to the former Ravensbruck con­ University. She then joined Leeds City Housing Information. centration camp, in another a vicious riddle: "What's Department for training in housing management, slum It was part of the arrangements of the new appoint­ the difference between a Jew and a Turk? The Jews clearance and other civic social responsibilities. This ment that the oflSces of AJR and Self Aid should be have already gone through what the Turks still have was followed by a variety of jobs v«th different northem combined. The two organizations retained their iden­ coming to them". local authorities, familiarising her with many aspects tity, but thenceforth operated from the same oflice in of social welfare work, including billeting evacuees in MOSHE DAYAN RELICS SOLD Fairfax Mansions with Mrs. Taussig responsible for Army goggles and maps formerly belonging to the the early war years and Citizens' Advice Biu'eau the administration and social welfare work of both. late Moshe Dayan raised £260 at a Tel Aviv auction services. Later she also became secretary to the Trustees of the where they were bought by an American tourist. The She clearly demonstrated her social commitments AJR Charitable Trust. Her duties included liaison proceeds were handed over to the Nahum Goldmaim when, in 1944, she volunteered for relief work in with CBF World Jewish Relief, who are the adminis­ Museum of the Diaspora. Also on the market is the liberated concentration camps in Germany and trative counterpart to our activities in looking after the former General's house at Zahala, described by the remained for three years as a welfare and administra­ welfare of the residents in the homes and dealing with agents involved as "part of the history of Israel". tive officer of UNRRA, the agency of the newly admissions, attendance at meetings of the Manage­ NEW AIR CHARTER ARRANGEMENTS established United Nations created to care for the ment Committee for the homes, and the several house After a long struggle with bureaucracy, the relief and rehabilitation of refugees and displaced per­ committees formed mainly by members of AJR. Israeli charter flight company MAOF has estab­ sons. It was here, too, that she met her future husband, To all these tasks Mrs. Taussig brought an extensive lished itself as a fully-fledged international a Czech refugee whom she married in 1947. knowledge and experience of social work, interest in charter flight company with its own aircraft. Resuming social work in 1954 she joined Finchley the people we care for and, not least important, a sense Hitherto it has only operated administratively. Memorial Hospital as almoner and four years later Direct flights between the UK and Israel are of humour. Our work is not always easy or straight­ scheduled for Sundays and Tuesdays, and MAOF became home work organiser for the physically handi­ forward and those who, like her, are possessed by a hopes to transport 180,(KX) passengers in its first capped with Middlesex County Council. desire to alleviate suffering and help the distressed, and year. She returned to work for refugees when, in 1964, she by a heart that understands human needs, must yet became Secretary of Self Aid of Refugees. Ever since temper sentiment with realism and common sense. SEA OF GALILEE MONSTER? 1941 Self Aid has endeavoured to support the most All these qualities she possesses in full measure and Aroimd the Sea of Galilee a number of fishermen needy and helpless in the community with weekly augments them with a disarming charm of personality, and tourists have declared that they have seen strange scaly creatures in the Sea. Hamat Gader alligator park financial support and by providing extra luxuries of the display of which not infrequently overcomes diffi­ is not far from the scene of the appearances, and it was life and occasional holidays, easements of grey exis­ culties in her way. She now leaves us on medical advice, naturally suspected at first that some of the animals tences of a kind not included in public social welfare and we wish her full restoration of health and happi­ had escaped from the park. However a count at Hamat services. Caring for the people of Self Aid gave full ness for many years to come, years which she will not Gader reveals no absentees and the sightings are con­ rein to the practical expression of her compassionate spend idly. C.T.M. tinuing.

FAMILY EVENTS Kohn:— Dr. Rudolf Kohn died peace­ Situations Vacant EXPERIENCED ALTERATION Entries in the column Family Events fully on 4 January 1982, aged 83. WE WOULD WELCOME hearing HAND, 12 years working in Harrods. are free of charge: any voluntary He will be greatly missed by his wife from more ladies who would be willing Collect from customers. Tel. 346 8883. donations would, however, be appreci­ Maria, family and many friends. to shop and cook for an elderly person POEMS SUPPLIED at short notice for ated. Texts should be sent in by 15th Nathan:— Jack Nathan of Edgware, in their neighbourhood on a temporary all occasions and festivities in German of the month. died on 25 December after months of or permanent basis. Current rate of pay and English, also Purim plays for suffering bravely borne. Deeply mourned £2.00 per hour. Please ring Mrs. Matus children. 960 3827. Birthdays and sadly missed by his devoted wife 01-624 4449, AJR Employment, for Sussman:— Mrs. Hildegard Sussman, of Martha, his relatives and many friends. Appointment. Personal 29, Yale Court, Honeybourne Road, Willner:— Elsa Willner passed away COMPANION/HOUSEKEEPER for INTELLIGENT LADY, young 60, NW6, celebrated her 85th birthday on peacefully on 28 December. Deeply elderly lady living in North London Viennese origin, planning retirement in 7th January. With love and good mourned by her son Stuart, daughter-in- requiring assistance with dressing and Israel, is looking for friendship with kind washes from her family. law Lesley, grandchildren, relatives and cooking. Position for a willing, reliable gentleman with similar ideas. Box 905. friends. aod kindly dispositioned person, able to LONELY GENTLEMAN, 60, sepa­ Deaths take charge in building confidence in a rated, seeks sincere lady for companion­ Bluhm:— Mrs. Rose Bluhm died recently CLASSIFIED previously active lady. Domestic help ship, and friendship. Continental Origin. and will be fondly remembered by all available. Please telephone: (Day) 01- Box 906. The charge in these columns is SOp for former pupils of the Augusta Schule in 405 4778 (After 6 pm) 01-346 8684. WIDOW, GERMAN ORIGIN, would Breslau. five words plus SOp for advertisements under a Box No. Miscellaneous like to meet sincere, unattached gentle­ Collins:— John Collins died on Friday, COUPLE WISH TO ADD to their man 60-73 for genuine companionship. 8 January. Deeply mourned by his son own home with Continental paintings, Northampton area. Box 904. Peter, daughter-in-law, grandchildren Change of Address and friends. MR. & MRS. FRANK HENDERSON china, silver, furniture and Persian INFORMATION REQUIRED (formerly Hirschfeld) would like their carpets/rugs, by private purchase. Personal Enquiry Herschmann:— Dr. Friedrich Hersch- 458 3010. Sterling:— Would Miss Valerie Sterling, mann (formerly Rechtsanwalt Vienna), friends to note that they have moved to of 29, Barons Keep, Gliddon Road, 3, Moor End Avenue, Kersal, Salford 7. REVLON MANICURIST. Will visit who attended (Row BB) the Self Aid London, W14, died on 11 January 1982 your home. 'Phone 01-445 2915. Concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall on in his 92nd year. Deeply mourned For Sale ELECTRICIAN City and Guild quali­ November 1, please contact enquirer for and missed by his devoted wife Ina and OCELOT COAT AND HAT, size 18, fied. All domestic work undertaken. an important message. Replies under sister Dora and nephew. hardly worn, £650. Tel. 385 6313. Tel. 455 5262. Box No. 907. AJR INFORMATION February 1982 Page 11

CAMBERG HISTORY To celebrate its septicentenniel year, the Nassau Letter to the Editor town of Camtierg has published a commemorative volume called "Camberg—700 Jahre Stadtrechte', WFaSS IN REICHSTAG at his house. 1 therefore called together a squad of "K" (Camberger Verlag Ulrich Lange, 1981). written by the Section of Jungbanner Charlottenburg and we spent a 81-year-old Catholic priest Caspar Hofmann It contains Sir,—/ refer to your article on the late Bernhard good part of the night at Dr. Klotz's private residence in a chapter on "The Jews in Camberg in the I9th and 20th Weiss, in your issue of November, 1981. case an attack was mounted. Fortunately, the attack did I well remember from my Berlin days this very coura­ Centuries", written with sympathy and understanding not materialise. by Fr. Hofmann, who also describes with dismay and geous Police Commissioner in Berlin who, in the end, in I thought the above details might be of interest to you. 1932, certainly showed a lot more courage than his 9 Broadwood Drive, disgust the destruction of the synagogues and desecra­ immediate Chief Grzesinski. Glasgow. MARTIN ANSON tion of the cemeteries. Until 1933 the Jews made up I was interested to note that in your commemorative two per cent of the Camberg population, two-thirds of article on Bemhard Weiss you mentioned an incident in them were deported during the Nazi p>eriod. Before the Berlin Reichstag building where he arrested 4 Nazi 1933, poor Jews were entitled to benefit, like the other Reichstag members who had beaten up a journalist. You obviously refer to the attack on Dr. Helmut Klotz, who inhabitants, from the charitable foundation set up by was Reichstag Lobby Correspondent for the Social a Regierungsrat Lieber in 1825. Fr. Hofmaim con­ Democratic Party of Germany. I know he was a very cludes from the records that the nicknames "Mehljud", much hated person within the circles of the Nazi Party MEMORIAL TO HUNGARIAN COLONEL "Lederjud", "Eisenjud" and "Christejud" indicated for his publication of the two pamphlets, Ehrenrang Former Himgarians living in Israel made a special that the inhabitants were best served by these artisans Liste Der NSDAP and Liebesbriefe des Hauptmann journey to Budapest to attend the unveiling of a plaque and merchants. E.G.L. Roehm. honouring Colonel Imre Reviczky, who saved thous­ / knew Dr. Helmut Klotz very well for I was an active ands of young Jews from deportation diu-ing the TV FILM OF STUDENT RESEARCH member of Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Jungbanner Second World War. A street in Safed, Israel, has also The television film "Zuriickgeblattert—Jever: Charlottenburg and often accompanied him when he been named after Col. Reviczky. Schiller erforschen die NS-Geschichte ihrer Stadt" has went to address meetings. The Hungarian Government is to inaugurate a per­ won for its director Wolf Landner the prize awarded On the occasion of the attack in the Reichstag, one of manent exhibition in memory of the 400,000 Hungarian by SPD-Charlottenburg for anti-fascist media projects the attacking MPs was the infamous Stegemann, and Jews who perished during the Holocaust. As well as relating to young people. The programme followed the as their attack on Dr. Klotz was only partially success­ documents, a railway wagon of the type used for researches of a group of young people who were study­ ful (although he had to be taken to hospital to be checked) deportations will be on display and the names of all ing the life of Jews in their town during the Third I was worried that he might be attacked again that night those who died will be recorded. Reich.

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FRED KORMIS Reliefs and Portrait Medallions THEATRE AND CULTURE An exhibition of works by our old friend Fred Kormis is being held at the Fieldbourne Galleries, 63 Ladies in the News. Elizabeth Taylor, never before Omnibus-edition by Proiil-Trend Verlag, Vienna. Con­ Queens Grove, London NW8 from 17 February to 5 on a European stage, will appear at London's Victoria taining the 922 issues of the magazine and the original March 1982. Kormis, born in Frankfurt in 1897, lived Palace in March, playing the Broadway success "The "Letzte Tage der Menschheit", it quickly became a and worked there until 1933 when he came to England, Little Foxes" by Lilian Hellman, an author familiar to pre-Christmas bestseller. after a short stay in Holland. The bulk of his early British theatre goers since the war years when her play work was lost as a result of bomb damage in 1940. "Watch on the Rhine" (Aldwych Theater, 1942) Birthday. One of the great stars of opera, Maria The present exhibition comprises three dimensional starred Anton Wallbroolc and Charles Goldner.— Ivogiin, celebrated her 90th birthday last November. and high relief works in which he excels. Special men­ Elisabeth Bergner and Lilli Palmer are filming in The Budapest-born singer was discovered by Bruno tion must be made of his portrait medallions which Hamburg, playing two sisters in "Peine Gesellschaft Walter, and had engagements in Munich and Berlin, demonstrate his outstanding craftsmanship and sensi­ mit beschrankter Haftung", described as a "crooked but retired early from the operatic stage to devote her­ tivity. A special collection of such medallions, includ­ story." Astrid Varnay, 63, the Swedish-born opera self to Lieder concerts, and later to teaching. Maria ing many portraits of famous figures of recent years, is star, member of the opera house in Munich, has gained Ivogiin now lives in Thun, Switzerland. Among her held in the Kormis Collection at the British Museum. the rare fame of having spent 40 years as an active pupils who gained world-wide fame are Rita Streich During his long working career Fred Kormis has opera singer, a career that has included 15 years at the and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. held many exhibitions and his work is included in pub­ Metropolitan Opera House in New York, and 13 lic collections in this country, Germany, Holland, years performing Wagner in Bayreuth. She has just Obituary. Fred Hennings, actor and writer—equally Israel, Norway and the USA. His "Prisoner of War" sung Herodias in Richard Strauss's "Salome." The known in both spheres—has died in Vienna at the age Memorial in Gladstone Park, Willesden is well-known; "Diseuse of the Thirties", Margo Lion, recently remin­ of 86. Hennings, a member of the "Burg" ensemble other commissioned worlcs are to be found in Stratford- ded German TV audiences of the heyday of German rom 1923 to 1971, popularised the charm and glamour on-Avon, Corsham and in Kiryat Gan, Israel. cabaret, as symolised by the near-classical "Schall und of his favourite city in books and numerous lectures on Rauch" and "Die Katakombe" (Berlin) where the the subject. Among his works, the "Ringstrassen- A major retrospective exhibition of the work of courageous wit of Werner Finck, mainly between 1933 symphonie" was a hymn of praise and a testimonial of Lucie Rie is being shown from 17 February to 28 and 1935, astounded and impressed listeners of very undying faith in Austria's capital and its historic mis­ March in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Lucie Rie different political convictions. sion. Rudolf Prack, a very popular stage and film actor was born and studied in Vienna at the Kunstgewerbe- who played in over 130 films and was a Television schule. She came to England just before the war and Karl Kraus Renaissance. "Die Fackel" by Karl favourite, has died in Vienna at the age of 76. has emerged as one of the most distinguished potters Kraus, one of the great magazines published during at work today. the first half of this century, has been reprinted in S.B. ALICE SCHWAB

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