Volume XXXIII No. 1 January, 1978 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE AssoaAnm or JEWBH RERKOS BI GIEAT BRmm
E. HeUendaU these parties grappled with the all-pervading problem of antisemitism. The authors of the three interesting essays on this subject be A LESSON TO BE LEARNED long to a younger generation which did not actually experience the pre-Hitler period. Nearly every issue of this joumal carries career although "he did little to translate his It is to be regretted that the articles do not reports indicating a rise in neo-Nazi trends in campaign antisemitism into practice". Never all deal with the final period of German- if T^'^^'^ Republic and making us wonder theless, Rosensaft concludes that Lueger's Jewish history, the period of the Weimar Whether Germany is really "coming to grips "benign socio-economic antisemitism" and his Republic. Robert Wistrich somewhat arbit wth the dark side of her past" as President "popular antisemitic rhetoric provided much rarily limits his investigation of the attitude Scheel recently asserted. This "dark side" of the foundation for the Austrians' enthu of German Social Democracy to the "problem started long before 1933. To what extent were siastic participation in the anti-Jewish out of Jewish Nationalism" to the period from we, and our parents and grandparents aware rages which followed the Anschluss in 1938" 1897 to 1917. With the benefit of hindsight he of the dangers growing around us? and that it was the "combination of leads an attack against Karl Kautsky whom We are approaching the 45th anniversary Schoenerer's and Lueger's antisemitic ten he describes somewhat contemptuously as the Of that fatal January 30, 1933, the beginning dencies", "which enabled the vast majority of "Pope of the Intemational Labour Move Of the end of German-Jewish history; more the Austrian people to accept as legitimate ment", whilst showing quite clearly that dur than a generation has come and gone and it the Hitlerite programme for the Final Solu ing Kautsky's life, there was no such thing as « only right that the Leo Baeck Institute has tion of the Jewish Question". It is as well that a pope or a dogma in the Socialist movement, aevoted the greater part of its 1976 Year Rosensaft underlines this historical truth as and ignoring the fact that Kautsky was later oook to the Jewish question and antisemitism against the fairy tale so often put forward by the subject of pungent attacks by Lenin. aunng the last one hundred years, although post-war Austrian apologists including govem According to Wistrich, Kautsky believed that some smaUer essays deal with the eariier his mental circles that the majority of the Aus only the forced segregation of the ghetto with tory of German Jewry*. Thus Dolf Michaelis, trian population was "forced" into participat its attendant civil and political inequality ^^° .^ssay on the Ephraim family, describes ing in Nazi atrocities as a result of the enabled Jewry to maintain itself, and observed f history of this prominent Berlin Jewish military invasion of that country by Nazi that Zionism "sought to divert the Jewish family as a "microcosm" of the fate of Ger- Germany. masses away from their historical role of help man Jewry Frederick II of Prussia, whilst Mendes-Flohr shows Sombart, one of the ing to overthrow Tsarist absolutism". He Bresf"^^ the settlement of Jewish famUies in leading German economists in the first half quotes Kautsky's views: "Zionism meets anti tiVienna, towards the German Jewry was therefore confined to the lum of the centur\-. According to him, Lueger of their environment, good or bad! Apart Liberal, Socialist and later the Communist from other reasons, a generation later Nazi Was not an antisemite at the beginning, and parties**. some of his best friends were Jews", as the persecution and the fact that hundreds of ^ying goes; however he is stated to have Perhaps the most important articles in the thousands of Jews were able to find a refuge Year Book are devoted to the question of how in what later became Israel should have dis oecome an antisemite because it helped his posed of any arguments in the intemational ** See in detail on this point the excellent essay by labour movement about the justification of Warh^f ^^^^ 'n»"ime Year Book XXI, 1976, Seeker & Amold Paucker—"Zur Problematik einer juedischen J6ri«=i • '-°"'lo"- published for ttie Instituie London, Abwehrstrategie in der deutschen Gesellschaft" In "Juden assi^.t • ''«*' '*'°^- E'ii'ed by Robert Weltsch with the im wilheiminischen Deutschland" (reviewed in AJR Infor "sis.ance of Arnold Paucker. £7-50. mation June 1977). Continaed on page 2, colnmn 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION January 1978
deplored the radical, racial antisemitism and on the Jews" and adds that "no comparably A Lesson to he Learned looked on the Fanatiker in the voelkisch and authentic account has been published by Continoed from page 1 Nazi movements as madmen. Conventional students of contemporary history in the moderate antisemitism also had its dangers, Federal Republic". Jewish statehood in Israel, but it may be that for it made the German people callous to the The author concludes—this reviewer is un in those early years of Jewish nationalism Jewish tragedy in history and to their mis able to quote any material to the contrary— the contradictions between the messianic and treatment in Germany. . . . The prevalence that "no major contribution to our real under liberating ideas of Jewish nationalism and of moderate antisemitism and its seeming standing of German-Jewish history has hither chauvinistic and even racialist tendencies in harmlessness may also have blinded the Jews to come out of the GDR" and that none of the certain sections of the Zionist movement be to their real peril". How far Jewish blindness East German authors "has really come to came apparent. To close one's eyes to these towards racialism went is shown by the grips with the complex problem of German- tendencies is just as unrealistic as to persist pathetic example of the Democratic Reichstag Jewish co-existence". Yet the same criticism in modem variations of Kautsky's rejection of Deputy Ludwig Haas—once rejected for a appears to apply to West German and to Jewish nationalism as reactionary and racialist seat in the Reich Cabinet solely because he Jewish historians. and even a complete denial of the right to was a Jew and whom a leading Democrat An essay "Politics of Translation" by the preserve any ethnic or cultural Jewish Richard Bahr sought to remove from the young American professor Martin Jay des characteristics. It is perhaps a pity that Dr. Party's Reichstag group "because there are cribes the impact of Buber's and Rosenzweig's Wistrich did not deal at greater length with already too many Jews in the Group". Haas Bible translation and the criticism of it by the attitude of German Social Democracy to helped to organise a women's association in Siegfried Kracauer, one of the brilliant the questions of antisemitism, Zionism and the Rhineland to protest agamst black troops writers in the feuilleton of the liberal "Frank Jewish emancipation in the Weimar Republic in the Allied Occupation Forces after 1918! furter Zeitung". Looking at the historical back when these problems became more acute for The third big Party in Weimar Germany ground of this dispute. Jay exaggerates to a German Jewry. which permitted Jews to participate in its degree obvious to anyone who lived in the The tragic self-deception of German Liberal activities was the Communist Party, whom 1920s. He states apodictically that "after 1918 Jewry in the pre-1933 era is thrown into relief the young West German historian Konrad new emptions of antisemitism ended any by a study on the "German Democratic Party Kwiet in his article "Historians of the G.D.R. hopes . . . that Jewish integration into German and the Jewish Problem" by Bruce B. Frye. on Antisemitism" credits "for having been society through liberal means was a plausible In an article summarised in the June, 1977 among the few who raised their voices against goal". In fact the vast majority of German issue of AJR Information Amold Paucker has the persecution of the Jews"J. In his analysis Jews voted for the Liberals, and the re drawn attention to the antisemitic tendencies of writings by East German historians on anti mainder for the Left-wing parties, realising in the German Liberal parties before the semitism and persecution Kwiet states: "When that a return to irrationalism in Germany First World War. After the establishment of in 1945 the full extent of the Nazi policy of would mean a mortal danger to their own the first German Republic this situation did genocide became knovra, no spontaneous cry unfinished emancipation, even though they not fundamentally change: Bmce Frye shows of anguish was forthcoming from the German coidd not have foreseen the Holocaust. that out of an estimated 250,000 professing population, and that was equally the case in Jews eligible to vote about 150,000 voted for all occupation zones". Unfortunately Kwiet's The argument for or against the Buber- the liberal German Democratic Party. This interesting and as it seems thorough research Rosenzweig Bible translation may today be a only non-Socialist Party, which was not on this subject is not entirely free from cold purely historical one. As Gershom Scholem openly antisemitic and which was the "only war attitudes. Thus Kwiet repeatedly carries stated in 1961 the translation had been "the middle-class party where Jews were influen on polemics against the theories of Marxist tombstone of a relationship that was extin tial", was attacked as the "Judenpartei" by historians about the "function of antisemitism guished in horror". How pathetically tragic German Conservatives as early as 1918. Never as an instrument of manipulation and diver it would be that if Kracauer was right, the theless according to well-documented material sion in the arsenal of the ruling class" and, idea on which the translation was based may quoted by Frye this party "sheltered anti he, inter alia, attacks the East German his have been influenced by the same spirit of semites as well as friends of Jews". Frye's torian Mohrmann—himself a "half-Jew"—for mysticism which made the horrors of 1933 to analysis illustrates the Fools' Paradise in saying that "the methodical destmction of all 1945 possible. The question to what extent the which liberal German Jews lived under the persons of Jewish origin initiated by Hitlerite thoughts of some Jewish thinkers of those Weimar Republic. Amongst the prominent Fascism . . . was carried out at the behest of years were influenced by mysticist and racial non-Jewish members of that party, revered by the ruling class and represented the most ist tendencies of their German environment innumerable Jewish readers of the "Frank savage expression of their economic and poli calls for a more thorough investigation than furter Zeitung", the "Berliner Tageblatt" and tical interests". He states that Mohrmann is possible in a review of this kind. Although the "Vossische Zeitimg" there were quite a "fails to supply any historical evidence for one hesitates to say that Jews could have few who at one time or another lapsed into his assertion". May be that the German been influenced by the thoughts of those who antisemitic remarks. Frye shows, inter alia, "ruling class", the von Schroeders, Kirdorfs, were intellectually responsible for Auschwitz, remarks of this kind by Anton Erkelenz, Springorums and Voeglers did not in fact Jay rightly points out that "there are un Wilhelm Kuelz, Gertmd Baeumer and Willy order the installation of gas chambers, but settling residues that remain unpurged to this Hellpach, candidate for the presidency of the there is ample evidence—which no whitewash day". In the interest of historical truth and Republic in 1925. Max Weber and Friedrich ing will remove—that with full knowledge of also in the interest of our own self-preserva Meinecke "despite many Jewish friends the aims of the Nazi Party as proclaimed in tion they ought to be brought to the surface. seemed to have remained moderate anti "Mein Kampf", the "Stuermer" etc., they sys semites". Otto Fischbeck, though "not re tematically financed it and brought it to Present and future generations will ignore garded as an antisemite", thought that "too power, and it is equally well documented that at their peril the lesson to be drawn from many Jews in prominent positions would the great industrial combines greatly bene the picture which emerges after a study of endanger the German Democratic Party", a fited from the policy of "Aryanisation" and this remarkable Year Book: How pseudo- kind of thinking which Frye rightly points that I. G. Farben had a factory at Bunawitz scientific racialism, irrationalism and mysti out "made it easy to rationalise discrimination where Auschwitz prisoners were used as slave cism were able to undermine the moral fabric on the groimds of caution . . ." Koch-Weser, labour before being ultimately murdered in of a once great nation and made the horrors the son of a Jewish mother and thus a "half- the gas chambers. Do we really need any of the Holocaust possible. Throughout the Jew" according to the Nuremberg laws, Reich more "historical evidence"? history of the past 2,000 years, Jewish com Minister of the Interior in 1920 and for many munities have always thrived in times of years the main spokesman for the Democratic Kwiet mentioned how in the various phases reason, tolerance and respect for different Party in the Reichstag, "introduced legisla the attitude of historical research in East creeds and opinions and contributed to the tion on behalf of the Govemment coalition Germany towards an analysis of the problem growth of human culture and civilisation which was intended to round up, intem and of antisemitism and Judaism changed. Thus, sometimes far in excess of their numerical deport thousands of alien 'Ostjuden' ". Accord regrettably, a study of the resistance of strength; they have always suffered persecu ing to Frye, "other aliens seem to have been German Jews against Nazism by the East Ger tion when reason and tolerance were befogged unaffected by the measure", but Koch-Weser man historian Eschwege had to be published and ultimately destroyed by mysticism, in and the Democratic Prussian Minister of the in London in abbreviated form. On the other tolerance. Chauvinism and racism. The Holo Interior, Dominicus "seem to have strenu hand, Kwiet points out that the East German caust and the history preceding it has been ously enforced the measures against the author Paetzold "is in a position to present in the last terrible example of this simple tmth. "Ostjuden" which "won them plaudits in their minute detail an empirically sound recon There is a lesson to be leamed from this own party"! Frye comes to the conclusion: struction of the beginnings of the Nazi policy frightful history not only for Jewish com "The moderate antisemite in the Gennan munities everywhere, but for all countries Democratic Party thought of himself as open- t Unfortunately, this record Is not free from blemishes and people threatened by the new emergence minded and the friend of several Jews. He either. In this connection Kwiet recalls inter alia Stalin's of racialism which we experience now, 45 handing over of German Jewish Communists to the Gestapo. years after that fatal January 30, 1933. AJR INFORMATION January 1978 Page 3 HOME NEWS A nglo-Judaica Bishop and Chief Rabbi at Liverpool Meeting THE CAMPUS WAR THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BOYCOTT The Chief Rabbi and the Bishop of Liverpool At the opening of the National Union of In answer to questions raised by Mr. Eric addressed a joint public meeting at Liverpool's students' Congress in Blackpool, Miss Susan Moonman and Mr. Malcolm Rifkind in the Harris Polak Hall organised by the Council of Jl Slipman, its Communist president, gave a House of Commons, Mr. Edmund Dell, the Christians and Jews, the Church's Ecumenical • stem waming against the infiltration of Secretary of State for Trade, said there were Council and the Jewish Representative Council « Trotskyists and other extreme Left-wingers no figures available for the influence of the for Merseyside. The Roman Catholic Arch whose activities "spelt death for the student boycott on British trade. The Government de bishop and the Free Church Council were also movement". They were trying to exercise a plored the boycott, but was not ready to follow represented, and three former Lord Mayors of form of mind control which the majority of the example of the American and Canadian Liverpool attended the meeting. Bishop Shep students found abhorrent. Governments who had introduced legislation herd said that in a multi-racial, multi-religious Mrs. Williams, Education Secretary, con against it. Britain's export record to Israel was community steps should be taken together to demned all university and polytechnic stud rather good, but individual firms were entitled combat racial prejudice and to uphold human ents' unions which have denied full rights to to consider the impact on their affairs and rights. The Chief Rabbi said the central theme Jewish students. Students would be the first employment of reactions to the Arab boycott. of Jewish teaching was the unity of the human to complain if anyone tried to censure or race and the diversity of human beings— throttle them. "But what applies to the rela YOUNG CONSERVATIVES INVITE P.L.O. uniqueness with equality which did not mean tionship between the NUS and the outside uniformity. Social justice must be combined world, must surely aoply to the student bodies Mr John Biggs-Davison, M.P., has strongly with civic responsibility. themselves". Mrs. Williams was given a noisy criticised the Greater London Young Conser and hostile reception by a group of about 100 vatives who invited a representative of the Bearsted Hospital to close down students who had earlier tried to have her Palestine Liberation Organisation to attend the Blackpool Party Coiiference. He said the Britain's only Jewish maternity hospital, the banned from speaking. Bearsted Memorial Hospital in London, is to The conference eventually adopted a new P.L.O. man had spoken "smoothly on behalf of an umbrella organisation for terrorist gangs." be closed according to a Board of Deputies policy which calls in general terms for a united decision. The closure is, however, conditional campaign against racism, but does not stop TO RELIEVE SUFFERING on the establishment of .Jewish maternity faci anyone expressing their views. Students who lities at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead use violence to dismpt National Front Mrs. Jacqueline Sokel of New Wanstead was and continued use by the Jewish conmmunity marches, will no longer be able to claim that elected chairman of the newly formed London of the premises and site of the Bearsted cney are supporting NUS policy. branch of the Compassionate Friends, the hospital. interaational organisation of bereaved parents. NA-nONAL FRONT LEADER She said that of the 30 people who have con Edward Heath lannches Wolfson Fund AND THE JEWS tacted her recently, about a quarter are Jew At a dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, -,J? an article in the "New Statesman", jour- ish. The branch is inter-denominational, but London, Mr. Edward Heath, the former Prime I^il® »T .^^^'i" Buchan reports on an interview has a high number of Jewish members. Minister, launched the Sir Isaac Wolfson 80th ^i.?* l*.'°°^l ^ont leader John Tvndall who The same applies to the Samaritans. Mr. Birthday Scholarship Endowment Fund set up ^la to him : "I think the wish of a great many Richman, one of its volunteers in Brent, said by the Friends of the Bar-llan University. Jews IS to settle in Israel and we would not that Jews not only provided a large number More than £500,000 has already been contri prof""^^^^ them. The ones who want to inte- of helpers, but they also formed a large pro buted. The Fund is to further the development sraie here and not cause trouble, have nothing portion of those who use this organisation for of the newly established School of Business to fear from us." the suicidal and depressed. Clients included Studies at the university. both the assimilated and Chasidim. N.P. STRONGER THAN MOSLEY FASCISTS Chief Rabbi bars women CBF CHAIRMAN GETS EUROPEAN POST The Chief Rabbi, Dr. Jakobovits, has declared Ro^L^ nieeting of the Manchester Jewish fnirt^f °*^^^^^ Council, Mr. Martin Bokker Mr. Kenneth Rubens, the new chairman of that women cannot be elected to serve on viHtv, \^^^ wrong to compare the Mosley era the Central British Fund, was appointed honor boards and managements of synagogues under rMr.v,«j ^*,_ present position. "Mosley never ary secretary of the European Council of the aegis of the United Synagogue, nor can alrparf,, ..^^ strength the National Front has Jewish Community Services at its Strasbourg they belong to its Council. He has, however, ber
NEW PRESIDENT OF WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS NEWS FROM ABROAD During the recent 40th anniversary meet ing of the World Jewish Congress, its founder UNITED STATES A BELGIAN ACT OF ATONEMENT and president for many years. Dr. Nahum Goldmann, announced his retirement and was "Aufbau" Editor honoured Cardinal Suennens, Primate of Belgium, replaced by Mr. PhUip M. Klutznick. He was, and Grand Rabbi Dreyfuss jointly dedicated I however, re-elected as "founder-president" for The West German President, Walter Scheel, a memorial plaque in St. Michael's Cathedral awarded the Federal Distinguished Service life. Lord Fisher of Camden, the president in Brussels denouncing an accusation against of the Board of Deputies in Britain, was Cross, to the editor of the "Aufbau", Dr. Hans Belgian Jews which dates back six centuries. Steinitz, in recognition of his successful elected chairman of the WJC's governing On Good Friday, 1370, the Jews had been board, a post previously held by Mr. Klutznick. endeavours to build a bridge between refugees accused of having stabbed the host on the from Germany and the Federal Republic. For the first time, the meeting was attended altar causing it to bleed. This "miracle" was by representatives of the Jewish communities Dr. Steinitz has been editor-in-chief of the subsequently depicted in one of the stained "Aufbau" since 1966 when its first editor-in- in all Communist countries with the excep glass windows of the Cathedral. The plaque tion of the Soviet Union. There were also chief, Manfred George, died. For some time states that the Church authorities had re he was president of the Federation of Foreign observers from Morocco. Among American searched the matter and concluded that there politicians attending were Andrew Young, the Correspondents in the United States of which was no truth in the allegations which had led he is still an honorary member. US Ambassador to the United Nations and to heavy persecutions in the past, and that the Senator Howard Baker, the leader of the "miracle" was a legend. Republican opposition who accused the Carter Jewish ritual in Lutheran Churches Government of gambling with world peace CORPSE OF NAZI MURDERER The American Lutheran Church has and Israel's security. In his fareweU speech. suspended two member churches in Long DISAPPEARS Dr. Goldmann said the WJC had always Island for subordinating the Cluristian Gospel co-operated with countries and nations all to Jewish customs. Pastor Hove of St. John's The body of the former SS officer Eduard over the world, regardless of their political Church said: "We have adopted a rather Roschmann who had lived in Paraguay and make-up. He reported on recent contacts he Jewish life-style". This included keeping a Argentina under the name of Wegener since had made with President Tito of Yugoslavia, kosher home, wearing a talit and yarmulka the end of the war, and who died in August, Ceaucesco of Rumania, King Hussein of and praying in Hebrew. Consequently his has disappeared from the morgue where it was Jordan and with a number of leading Arabs. Church had lost some of its 700 members, kept. Roschmann was responsible for the kiU President Carter and the ambassadors of whereas others hoped for a retum to past ing of thousands of Jews in the Riga camp. many countries attended the Plenary Session. practices and opposed the use of Hebrew. He was presented by Dr. Goldmann with a Pastor Smestad of Christ Lutheran Church SWEDEN ACCUSED OF ANTI-JEWISH PAST sixteenth-century Torah scroll which came from said his congregation had lost half of its 400 old Bohemia. Mr Klutznik gave the president active members since the introduction of Mr. Gote Friberg, police chief of the Swedish the Nahum Goldmann Medal, awarded for Hebrew. "Many of our Christians discovered town of Helsingborg during the last war, has special merits in the field of human rights. they had been antisemitic all along". He published a book, "Storm Centre Oresund ", The British Chief Rabbi, Dr. Jakobovits, added that Jesus was a Jew, but that his which alleges that many German Jews who said in his address that thanks to his family creed differed from the Jewish creed in had escaped to Sweden in 1938 and after, were he was "internationalised", as his children and accepting Jesus as the Messiah, similar to sent back by the Swedish authorities, and it grandchUdren lived in London, New York and many Jews in the first century. The symbol had been the Swedish authorities who asked Jerusalem, enabling him to form a picture of of the Church combines the cross with the the Nazis to mark out Jewish passports with a the problems facing Jewish families and com Shield of David. "J" in order to be able to proceed against munities in various countries. illegal immigrants. The 1938 Swedish Aliens Another visitor was Madame Simone Weil, Holocaust Memorial Act stipulated that people whose rights were the French Minister of Health and Family taken away from them for reasons of race or Welfare, who only spent half an hour at the The Govemor of Connecticut, Mrs. EUa origin, were not to be considered political conference to make a speech, and had to Grasso, attended the dedication of a memorial refugees. retum to Paris immediately afterwards. She to the six million Jewish victims of the Nazis described her youth in a home which had no in the presence of seven thousand people. It BOYCOTT CLAUSE REMOVED FROM Jewish background so that the Nazi terror is the first municipaUy sponsored American against Jews was at first incomprehensible memorial of its kind. STATE CONTRACT to her. She was sent to Auschwitz where several members of her family perished. She In the Norwegian Parliament, questions were had come as a Jewish Frenchwoman to ask CANADA asked about an Arab boycott clause in con the WJC to plead for more humanity, human tracts between Egypt and two Norwegian ship Anti-boycott resolution rights and justice. During a visit to Jerusalem, yards who received credit guarantees from the she had been greatly moved by the Westem The Canadian Labour Congress, represent Norwegian Govemment. Subsequently the WaU as the symbol of centuries of persecu ing nearly 2i million workers, has publicly Government issued a declaration that it had tion, and despite her lack of religious feelings, condemned the Arab boycott of Israel and been unaware of the boycott clause and that she had joined the other supplicants by of firms doing business with Israel because it had asked the Egyptians to eliminate the putting a piece of paper with a prayer into "it forces Canadians to discriminate against clause. The contract was finally signed in Cairo its crevices. other Canadians on the basis of religion". without the offending clause. The Congress called upon provincial govem RECEPTION FOR AUSTRALIAN ments to develop legislation to outlaw boy AUSTRIA GOVERNOR-GENERAL cott practices. Kreisky's "No" to PLO The Anglo-Jewish Association held a recep Award for Anne Frank friend tion at the House of Commons in honour of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky has rejected the Sir Zelman Cowen, Govemor-General designate PLO's appeal to act as a mediator between the of Australia and his wife. Sir Zelman wel The Nicholas and Hedy Munk brotherhood Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel. award of the Canadian CouncU of Christians comed the presence of the Emeritus Chief He praised the Israeli Prime Minister, Mena Rabbi, Sir Israel Brodie, whose pupil he had and Jews will be presented to Mr Victor chem Begin, saying that like General de GauUe Kugler who received and sheltered the family been in Melbourne before the last war. of Anne Frank during the War. He has been he was a true nationalist who had the courage living in Toronto in modest circumstances for to take far-reaching decisions. JEWISH MUSEUM IN GREECE 22 years. The award is worth about £5,500. More Jews from Russia A museum to commemorate the cultural heritage of Greek Jews was opened in Athens SWASTIKAS IN FRANCE During the first nine months of 1977 more by the Jewish community. Before the last war, than 13,000 Jews reached Vienna from the 76,500 Jews lived in Greece, today there are The police of Alsace are looking for un Soviet Union, 3,000 more than in the previous about 5,000 of whom nearly 3.000 live in known persons who daubed war memorials in year. Athens. The exhibits include Torah scroUs several towns of the region with swastikas and from "lost communities", old prayer books and inscriptions : "Long live Hitler !" LEGAL ACTION IN SOUTH AFRICA tefillin dating from the eighteenth centurv The South African Jewish Board of Deputies CAMPS has decided to take legal action against the BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE publishers of the antisemitic pamphlet "Snoop" 51 Belsize Square, London. N.W.3 INTERNMENT—P.O.W.— (Sunrise) which has just begun publication as FORCED LABOUR—KZ a monthly. SYNAGOGUE SERVICES I wiiti to buy cards, envolopea a/id folded post- are held regularly on the Eve of Sabbath marked te(t«rs from alt oamps of l>oth world war* Pl«aa* send, reulsterMl mail, stating price, to: and Festivals at 6.30 p.m. and on the day With acknowledgement to the news PETER C. RICKENBACK at 11 a.m. 14 RoMhm Hill, Londan, N.W.S service of the Jewish Chronicle. ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED AJR INFORMATION January 1978 Page 5
Egon Larsen 1901. She had come to him "as a mother", she said. "My whole development," he wrote, "could not have taken the course it did but WOMEN IN SEARCH OF GENIUSES for the influence of this extraordinary woman." Is it permitted, in these days of sex equality, my life". But they married only in 1929, when Ten years later, Lou attended a Congress to say that here is a book for women? Walter she was nearly fifty. And now she retumed of the Intemational Psychoanalytical Associa SoreU, the Vienna-bom biographer and critic, to the faith of her youth and went to con tion and met Sigmund Freud. At first, he wrote Three Women: Lives of sex and genius fession again. When Hitler marched into took her for one of those liberated ladies (Oswald Wolff, London, £5-95) as a labour of Vienna she joined Werfel, after a brief sepa who used psychoanalysis as a new toy, but love; but it is the women who, first and fore ration, in Capri, with two suitcases. "Esdle soon they became great friends. He was only most, wiU love to read it. The three are is a terrible disease", she wrote in her diary. five years older than Lou, and for the next Alma Mahler-Werfel, Lou Andreas-Salome, and They went to Ziirich and from there to two and a half decades they corresponded Gertmde Stein; they aU lived from the last Paris. As the German army caught up with extensively—right until his last work on Moses decades of the nineteenth to the first decades them, they fied—like many other refugees— and Monotheism, which he discussed with her of our own century, and they had one thing to the South of France, stopping for a short in letters. She also wrote a number of essays in common: their attraction for men of genius. whUe at Lourdes, where Werfel became which appeared in the psychoanalytical But the subtitle of the book is somewhat acquainted with, and inspired by the story joumals; and it was Freud who wrote her misleading, for in only two of these three lives of Bernadette Soubirous. They climbed over obituary in one of them: "She was devoid did sex play any part in that process. the mountain passes to Spain, and eventually of all feminine, perhaps most human fraUty ... How much it did in Alma Mahler-Werfel's made their way to New York, where he wrote Whoever came close to her succumbed to the life we know from her own writings which his best-known work. The Song of Bernadette. magic of her personality". Professor SoreU uses dUigently, together with He had become, under Alma's influence, a Catholic, though he never took holy water. To include Gertrade Stein in this book the reminiscences of some men who crossed about "lives of sex and genius" was perhaps her path, to compUe a well-balanced short His physical condition worsened; he had several heart attacks, and died in 1945, only a mistake: whUe Alma and Lou sought the biography of that extraordinary woman. He friendship of men of genius, Gertmde was is, however, somewhat negligent about giving 55 years old. Alma spent her last years in a two-room flat in New York; she reached sought by them, and was convinced that she dates or keeping to the chronology of events, herself was "the most important writer of with the resiilt that there are gaps on the one the ripe old age of 84, surrounded by friends and music, books and memories. the time". She was the only Jewess of the hand and repetitions on the other. The reader three women—and the only one not interested would also like to know more about things in men as sex partners, for she was a lesbian. "ke Alma's famUy background, or even her Friend of Nietzsche She came from a very bourgeois background; maiden name; all we leam is that she was her father was vice-president of the Omnibus brought up in Vienna as a Catholic, a circum Lou Andreas-Salome—her name sounds like Cable Company in San Francisco and thus stance which was to play a major part in Jv.gendstil personified—belonged to an older one of the creators of the city's great attrac her later years. generation. Bom in 1861, she was the daughter tion, the cable tramway. Cynics might call her the greatest Promi of a Russian general of Huguenot descent, ^entenschaufel in modem times—scooping up Gustav von Salome, and the first of her num Bom in 1874, she studied medicine but did famous men by the dozen. She must have erous acquaintances with famous names was not succeed; a passionate affair interfered with been a very beautiful girl, and she certainly Friedrich Nietzsche, whom she met in St. her studies. In 1903 she moved to Paris had no inhibitions in matters of sex at a time Peter's Square in Rome in 1882. He fell in where she set up house first with her brother when it was swept under the carpet in middle- love with her, and the idea of Zaratliustra, and then with her permanent Jewish friend, class society. Nor did her Catholic upbring- says Sorell, was the result of that encounter, Alice B. Toklas, at 27 Rue des Fleurs. It grew }°f restrict her choice of men in any way. his "reaction to his suffering through Lou", into the "home from home" for all the Ameri Mahler and Werfel, mv first and last hus including his famous advice not to forget the can writers and many French and Spanish bands, were Jews", she told SoreU in old age. whip when going to women. A lasting friend artists who were attracted by the congenial i spent some of my most exciting and re- ship without sex developed during the few atmosphere created by the two women: wardmg years with them." But she also enticed years before Nietzsche went mad. Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood i^rhart Hauptmann, Gustav Klimt, the famous Anderson and VirgU Thomson, John dos artist and founder of Vienna's Sezession, the On the spur of the moment she married a Passos and Thornton WUder, Picasso and composer Alban Berg, Oskar Kokoschka the professor of phUology, Friedrich Carl Andreas, Cezanne, Matisse and Cocteau, ApoUinaire and artist, Walter Gropius the architect and because he was so unhappy that he had Juan Gris. founder of the Bauhatts—to mention only attempted suicide. It was a marriage only in a few. name, and she was stUl a virgin when she Gertrade Stein's work is part of literary met Frank Wedekind in Paris in 1894 and history, and Walter Sorell wisely refrains Alma's marriage to Gustav Mahler began had begun to write herself, mainly about from elaborating on it. But her complex and as a great passionate affair and ended in eroticism. There was a funny episode before sensitive personality emerges very well from mutual disappointment. She caUed herself "a she lost her virginity for good: whUe trying his book, although he omits to mention her soaring, guttering bird", but he "would have to undress her, Wedekind "was not aware of work for the French wounded in the First oeen better off with a grey, lumbering one", having wrapped her in an impenetrable World War, for which she was decorated. Her ursmg their chUdren, copying his manu- verbal fabric", and the great event had to be salon was famous in two continents between cnpts, cooking and waiting for him at home, postponed. She may have inspired him when the wars, and Thornton WUder once said that •^nen came Gropius, who feU in love with her he created the character of Lulu, and Lou Americans, when coming to Paris, wanted to wnue she was stUl married to Mahler. After later liked to caU herself by that name. see the Eiffel Tower and Gertrude Stein. Mahler's death she married Gropius, and when It was in Vienna, at the tum of the cen The two, Gertmde and Alice, survived Hit that marriage (during the First World War) tury, where she became the centre of attrac ler's war and the Nazi occupation of France. ^ad run out of steam she moved on to Ko tion in the famous literary circle which used As Jews, they were of course in great danger; koschka. Not for long, though; for now it was to meet at the Cafe Griensteidl—mainly Jews, but they never foUowed their friends' advice *Tanz Werfel who, introduced to her by Franz or at least people with Jewish ancestors: to flee across the Swiss border. "Nothing hap ^lei, began to arouse her passions. Mahler Arthur Schnitzler, Felix Salten, Peter Alten pened to them," writes SoreU, "either because •lad been more than two decades older than berg, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Hugo von Hof they had friends in high positions and high Alma, Werfel was a dozen years younger. It mannsthal. According to SoreU, one of Lou's society, or they were known to some German ^d not matter; Werfel was bowled over by Viennese friends was young Martin Buber, oflScers, literary-oriented, as those two crazy , er love-making: there was, he revealed, but the book gives us no details about this. literary American ladies. It seems to be very j^°?^ething suicidal, a self-destmctive urge The man with whom Lou had her greatest characteristic of Gertrude Stein that she "* her climactic surrender". love affair in those days, however, was a wondered about 'the unreality' of 'the whole Yet, says SoreU, "one could not think of doctor of eastern-Jewish descent, her "un- affair' whUe the world was bleeding and E?o more different personalities. She, a ofiBcial husband". The next phase came when burning". ^^erian figure in the disguise of a Vien she met, at Jakob Wassermann's house in She survived, but only just. In 1946, after nese CathoUc. He, a Jew from Prague with Munich, a 21-year-old poet by the name of an unsuccessful cancer operation, she died a message of brotherhood behind the mask Rene Maria RUke. It was Lou who "changed and was buried, as she would have wished, in ?f an etemal rebel. In her constant fiight his first name to Rainer", says Sorell. He had the P6re Lachaise cemetery, amongst the ^om herself. Alma found the realisation of read her essay Jesws the Jew and was most great men and women who had lived, like her, ner dreams in the opposite of everything she impressed. They travelled in Italy, but she in Paris—Proust and Balzac, Chopin and Bizet, him • ^^^ her first "glorious night" with did not like what he wrote about their liaison Isadora Duncan and Sarah Bernhardt, Musset nun, she caUed him "the resolving chord of in his Tuscan Joumal, and they parted in and Oscar WUde, Moliere and Modigliani. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION January 1978
/. W. Bruegel 1938 Eisenlohr was denoimced as a traitor by WUhelm Bohle, the NSDAP-watchdog in the Foreign Ministry). Solely on the basis of NATIONAL SOQALISM VERSUS EXILE the diplomatic files one might also assume a certain readiness on the part of the Czecho Among the ever-growing mass of literature German diplomats abroad were partly unwiU slovak Government at the end of 1937 to yield analysing the various aspects of the Third ing partly unable to fulfil the wishes of their to Nazi pressure and put a stop to the political Reich's policy there was, up to now, no system new masters in preventing political activities activities of the Germain emigres in that coun atical treatment of the Nazi regime's fight of refugees, the Gestapo had frequently to step try, but in reaUty nothing of the kind was against the various groups of its political in and do the dirty work themselves, as in conceded, the right of asylum was fuUy adversaries in exUe. This lacuna has now been the cases of Professor Lessing's murder in respected and political activity, if not actively fiUed by an exceUently documented book of Marienbad in 1933, that of Dr. Strasser's assis helped, at least tolerated up to the fateful the young German historian Herbert E. Tutas tant Rudolf Formis and the smashing of his decision of Munich. (bom 1942) which is mainly based on a secret radio transmitter south of Prague in thorough study of the files of the German 1935, the abduction from Basle of the writer Tutas has also assembled important material Foreign Ministry and the German diplomatic Berthold Jacob and the SPD-functionary Josef about the problem of expatriation and the posts. (Nationalsozialismus und ExU. Die Lampersberger from a Czechoslovak border ensuing confiscation of property which for the Politik des Dritten Reiches gegeniiber der station likewise in 1935. In comparison vrith Nazi regime was an additional weapon against deutschen politischen Emigration. 354pp, Carl its later imcompromising attitude the Nazi the emigrants but was later on even used Hanser Verlag, MUnchen 1975.) Apart from rdgime at that time was still susceptible to against Germans living abroad who were in occasional dips into wartime events it deals outside pressure and both Jacob and Lampers no way refugees. Tutas does not, however, only with events up to the outbreak of war, berger were released although they were mention the Nazi attitude to the naturalisation although for instance the efforts of German German citizens. (Jacob, though, died a vic of emigres in other countries (it happened diplomacy to sUence the emigres in Switzer tim of the Nazis in 1944, whUe Lampersberger before 1938 practicaUy only in Czechoslo land went on through almost the whole period managed to flee to Great Britain.) Tutas vakia). Let us therefore add something on of the Second World War. In one sector offers likewise a good survey of the efforts of that score. Could it have escaped the attention Tutas' work is complemented by a book of Hans German legations to prevent journalistic and of Berlin that Hans Kelsen was appointed Georg Lehmann on the problem of expatria political activities of the Emigres whose influ Professor of international law at the German tion (In Acht und Bann. PoUtische Emigra ence on the host countries, if any, they University in Prague in 1935, which made him tion, NS-Ausbiirgerung und Wiedergutma strongly over-rated. However, the spreading automatically a Czechoslovak citizen? At least chung am Beispiel WiUy Brandts. 388pp, of the truth about the terror in the Third in the case of Thomas Mann the fact that he Verlag C. H. Beck, MUnchen 1976), with which Reich by the refugees had definitely a sober became one before being deprived of his we intend to deal later on in a special article. ing effect and destroyed some iUusions. Upon original German citizenship created a great deal of confusion in Berlin, as refiected in the According to Tutas, the systematical fight the insistence of the Gestapo the efforts of German diplomacy were also aiming at un Foreign Ministry files. For reasons of foreign of National Socialism against the poUtical poUtics the expatriation of Thomas Mann was exUes started as early as May 1933, even before covering contacts between poUtical emigr6s and their adherents at home for which goal postponed untU after the 1936 Olympiade in the various political groups managed to begin Continued on page 7 regular political activity abroad. In this an enormous amount of money and energy was struggle no holds were barred, no quarter at times spent. given; forcible abduction and murder were Many detaUs mentioned by Tutas become, part of the game. As naturally the "old" however, only understandable if one knows more than can be found in the Foreign Office files about the background of some of the diplomats not eager to fulfil Nazi demands. Adolf MUUer, Minister in Beme (who, how ever, retired already in 1933), and Roland Koster, Ambassador in Paris (died 1935), had entered the diplomatic service as convinced DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX Social Democrats and had remained such. Walter Koch, a National Liberal from Saxony, and his successor as Minister to Czechoslo LTD. vakia, the career diplomat Emst Eisenlohr,— both never joined the Nazi party—were any thing but ardent Nazis and most probably tried to cover up this "deficiency" by reporting to Berlin as if they had acted particularly energetically against German refugees. (Li
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Continued from page 6 and was victorious in the process. In May HERBERT M. HIRSCH 80 1933 Franz Bemheim, haUing from Gleiwitz, Berlin. When it was carried out and he was addressed the League of Nations CouncU from On January 11, our friend Mr. Herbert M. deprived of German citizenship in December Hirsch wiU celebrate his SOth birthday. For 1936 and his property in Germany confiscated, his Prague exile with a complaint that he had many years he has been an interested member It came as a very unpleasant surprise to the been dismissed from his employment in a of the AJR Board and a personal friend of German authorities that Thomas Mann pro Gleiwitz Department Store for racial reasons many in our midst. We therefore cordially tested by pointing out that he had meanwhUe which amounted to a violation of the German- associate ourselves with the congratulatory acquired Czechoslovak citizenship. This led to PoUsh Agreement on Upper Silesia, signed message we received from one of his close a-^hitherto unpublished—letter of the Reichs- in 1922 and containing a ban on discrimination feUow-workers. ministry of the Interior to the Foreign Minis of any kind. The League of Nations CouncU H.N.F. writes: Herbert M. Hirsch can look try (May 27, 1937) which is remarkable decided in his favour and this decision was back on a Ufe of four-score years. Born in because not even in the Third Reich did it gradgingly accepted by Germany before they Berlin, he took an early interest in Jewish happen frequenUy that the intention to violate left the League of Nations. Apart from the affairs and played his part in Zionist activities, its own laws was so candidly admitted. It moral aspect of this unambiguous condemna having joined the K.J.V. contains the foUowing passage: tion, not only Bernheim benefited from the In this country Herbert continued his con ''Bei einem rechtsmaessigen Erwerb der decision of the Council but up to 1937 (when structive work. He is past chairman of Hamp tschechoslowakischen Staatsbuergerschaft stead Zion House where he served during a the validity of the agreement expired) the somewhat turbulent period, and looking back, aurchT.M. am 19.11.36 waere seine Ausbuer German Govemment had to exempt Upper one can appreciate how well he managed to gerung durch die Bekanntmachung vom 3. Silesia from aU discriminatory measures. Dezember 1936, die Beschlagnahme seines combine a forward-looking policy with a nearly Vermoegens und die Erstreckung der Aus- Tutas' book is a most welcome addition to fanatic attention to detail. Duergerung auf Familienangehoerige gegen the efforts for the "Bewaeltigung der Vergan For several terms Herbert Hirsch has been standslos und somit unwirksam gewesen. genheit" and the author deserves the gratitude chairman of the Theodor Herzl Society. It is of aU those who were driven into exile. due to a circle of friends who worked in close Da ich nicht beabsichtige, die Beschlag- co-operation with him that the usual Lecture Jwime aufzuheben, bitte ich, besonders die Course, ran in biennial conjunction with the ^age zu praefen, inwiefem das bei der University of London (Extra-Mural Dept.) is Einbuergerung T.M.s tschechoslowakischer- CENTENARY OF BENNO ELKAN up to the present day considered to be the seits gewaehlte Verfahren von der normalen inteUectual vanguard of the Zionist Organisa Einbuergerangspraxis erheblich abweicht." On December 2, 1877, Benno Elkan, one of tion in Great Britain. At present Herbert M. ihe examination demanded by the Minister of the most prominent sculptors of his time, was Hirsch is co-chairman of the T.H.S. and—as the Interior did not produce the expected born in Dortmund. His numerous works in during the past three years—^he is the convener Germany include portrait sculptures of many of their 1978 lectures. result which does not mean, however, that weU-known personalities. He also created anything was altered. several monuments in memory of the victims What Tutas reports in his book about Nazi of the First World War. Some of them were sabotage of aU endeavours to provide help for destroyed by the Nazis, however the monument the German refugees within an intemational in Frankfurt, which was removed under their EXHIBITION BY REFUGEE ARTIST iramework shows up the Nazi rdgime once regime, was re-erected in 1946 with the help Berlin-born businessman Henry Mathews again in its crass inhumanity—long before of the American occupation forces. Elkan exhibited a number of gouaches and collages, settled in England shortly after 1933. His based on musical themes and on Shakespeare ine instaUation of the gas chambers, works in this country include his bronze plays, at the Stanmore Recorderie. He studied th "^ a book of that length cannot treat candelabrum with motifs of the Old and New art in Berlin, came to this country in 1938 and tne subject exhaustively and although some Testaments at Westminster Abbey, and the served in the Army during the war when he gaps are, therefore, understandable, the omis impressive menorah which, with the help contributed to the soldiers' paper, "Blighty". sion of the "Bemheim case" is rather surpris- of a committee under the chairmanship of the After a successful business career, he now mg and regrettable. This was the only case first Lord Samuel, was donated to the Knesset devotes himself to art and social work. He n history where a refugee invoked inter in Jerusalem. In memory of the victims of the is treasurer of the Leo Baeck Lodge of B'nai national authorities against the Third Reich Holocaust, he created a memorial which found B'rith. its fitting place at the Jewish Liberal Cemetery in London. Benno Elkan was awarded an O.B.E. in 1957, on the occasion of his SOth birthday. He died at the age of 82 in 1960. —E.G.L. INTERBOOK with the compliments of 52 MANCHESTER STREET LONDON W1 • 01-935 3441
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C. C. Aronsfeld tural experiments. He specialised in the breeding of silk worms and production of raw silk, and on his two haciendas he planted, for IN THE LAND OF THE INCAS this purpose, 14,000 mulberry trees. The ejctent of the enterprise as well as the new methods Early German Jews in Peru he introduced soon brought his name to pubUc notice, in fact this "distinguished German citizen" was recognised as "the first to estab One of the first English poems I knew, Southern Germany and from Posen especiaUy, Ush the entirely new industry of sericulture" and one I long seemed to enjoy more than and not all were moving for material reasons. which was felt to have a bright future in many others, was W. J. Turner's "Romance". The Jewish paper wistfully remarked: "We Peru. cannot really say we are sorry to see them Badt enlarged his operations when he joined When I was but 13 or so go. Unfair discrimination, humiliation, and the I went into a golden land: forces with a native whose more technological Chimborazo, Cotopaxi denial of solemnly granted civil rights can be mind had devised modem machinery. Finan Took me by the hand. given no better answer than—emigration". cial help by Badt enabled Seiior Julio Chocano The houses, people, traffic seemed to order the necessary plant from Europe, and Thin fading dreams by day: Immigrants from Posen when the suitably named "La Germanica" silk Chimborazo, Cotopaxi Among the forty-odd thousand Jews who left factory was opened in 1907 the much pub They had stolen my soul away. Provinz Posen between 1830 and 1870, a small Ucised ceremony was attended by Badt's per number settled in Peru. They did not forget sonal friend, the German minister in Lhna, I often wondered why these lines kept the people they left behind; when news was Count von Hake. bobbing up in my mind until I reaUsed that received (in 1873) that the synagogue in I myself—though then rather older than 13 Ostrowo had been damaged, the Lima Lands or so—was sometimes straying into a golden leute promptly collected 130 Thalers to cover Pioneers in Industry land, not even too far away from Chimborazo, the repairs. As a result of the Franco-Prussian The new industry which helped substan Cotopaxi, a land I heard about in my child war, a handful of fellow-Jews arrived from tially to promote Peru's economy, was seen as hood because members of the family had Alsace-Lorraine. By 1872 there were upwards a credit to the prominent part played in it emigrated there from our little place in Posen of 20 families plus 30-40 eligible young men; by Badt—"one of that liberal-minded band of —to, well, yes, Peru, the land of the Incas, actually there were a good many more, but foreigners who have come to our country not on the west coast of South America, which they frequently mtermarried and so dis only to gain a livelihood for themselves but to me sounded as legendary as perhaps the appeared from Jewish life. Today hardly a above all to make a soUd and effective con other side of the moon which, come to think trace of them is left; their descendants occa tribution to the nation's moral and material of it, seemed nearer and more famiUar. sionally emerge as faithful Christians, e.g. advance". In the year 1865, at the age of 16, Gustav Ambassador Berkmeyer, a grandson of Berko Don Gustavo proved himself in fact an Badt, a step-brother of my grandmother's, set Meyer (from Posen). ardent patriot in peculiar circumstances. Dur off to Lima where he joined a six years older Though Peru at that time, like other South ing the Pacific War between Chile and Peru brother Michaelis. How they came to choose American republics, enjoyed political liberty in 1879, he raised a special military unit made that far-off city, I never knew. Tradition has to the point of political licence, in reUgious up of his circle of friends and the labourers it that news was received from an enterpris matters the Roman Catholic Church made sure he employed. He himself served as captain, ing and successful railway constructor of there were no gods beside her. Any public setting what one of the Lima papers called "a U.S.A. German (Jewish?) extraction who told worship other than Roman Catholic, was for noble example of civic virtue and love of the folks back home in Posen about great bidden, so when the immigrants from Germany country which we can only wish would often opportunities available in Peru. Some no founded in 1870 the first Peruvian Jewish con be emulated". In this war (which Peru lost) doubt pricked up their ears; some also were gregation, the Sociedad de Beneficiencia the brothers Jacoby went practically bankrapt attracted by visions of a golden land, the Israelita, the first of its kind in Latin America, as a result of the loans they lavished on the stories current about the gold mines of it was a strictly private body. The spiritual Government. Hancavelica. head was Moises Moses, from Inowraclav, and All I know for certain is that my forebears Though actively associated with the Socie the lay leaders were J. Herzberg (President), dad from the start. Uncle Gustav never were not then the only Jews to venture over Michael Badt (Vice-President), A. Gosdinsky seas. There were scores, in fact so many that achieved greater congregational distinction (Secretary) and F. Lowy (Treasurer). They than that of Burial Secretary. He was not much as early as 1854 the Allgemeine Zeitung des built a synagogue in 1874, and the earUest Judenthums reported from Bremen "not an of a Macher. But he served his adopted grave in a Lima Jewish cemetery is that of country well, and the widely read magazine emigration but a veritable migration of the Minna Rosenberg, aged 42, bom in Bromberg peoples (Volkerwanderung)" — Jews from El Peru Moderno had ample cause to declare: in 1833. "Those who Uke Seiior Gustavo Badt have put By profession most of the immigrants were at the disposal of their second fatherland Peni CLUB 1943 businessmen, especiaUy wool and cotton aU their labour, their fortune and the most Vortraege jeden Montag um 8 p.m. traders, jewellers, exporters and importers, precious gift of all, a whole lifetime of devo im Hannah Karminski House also, heading for HancaveUca, geologists and tion, deserve the gratitude of the nation". 9 Adamson Road, N.W.S mining engineers. The brothers Sigismund and Eduard Jacoby, while acting as Rothschild's 2 Jan. Bank Holiday. agents, were the first to open a foreign ex change in Lima and Paul Ascher, legal adviser Everyone 9 Jan. Dr. Kurt Pflueger: "Die mensch to the Sociedad, established the Commercial liche Sprache". Bank of Peru. Though it was some time before rL^rfs water. 16 Jan. Henry Hellmann: "Die Wider- Jews were able to acquire Peruvian nation needs standsgruppe Neu Beginnen aUty, the Govemment never failed to demon Overcome the problem of dry air in und ihr Gmender (1933-37)". strate its good wUl towards aUens and citizens stuffy homes and officesi 23 Jan. F. C. Fifer, B.Sc, Ph.D.: "The alike. For your health's sake and that of your Gustav Badt seems to have begun his career pets, piano, furniture, antiques, paintings Inca civUisation" (with colour ADD the required moisture with an slides). in business but apparently only for the pur 30 Jan. Dr. F. Langer liest aus eigenen pose of making sufficient money to devote himself to his trae interest which was farming. Werken. He bought two estates, near (now inside) 6 Feb. Graham Tayar, M.A. (Producer Lima, which he developed by way of agricul- at B.B.C. London): "Ethiopia". 13 Feb. Paul Rom (Studienrat a.D.): "Deutung von Erinnerungen BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER imd Traeumen". 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LEGACIES FOR AJR CHARITABLE NEWS FROM GERMANY TRUST As in previous years, last year too, the AJR MORE NAZI REVIVALS BUNDESVERFASSUNGSRICHTER received a number of legacies from deceased MARTIN HIRSCH 65 members and friends. They included bequests Manfred Roeder, the leader of the extreme from Mr. and Mrs. E. and L. Eisner, Mrs. F. Kight-wing Deutsche BUrgerinitiative was fined On January 6, Bundesverfassungsrichter Graumann, Miss L. Loewenstein, Mr. W. t250 for attempting to place a wreath in mem Martin Hirsch wUl celebrate his 65th birthday. Ostwald, Mrs. E. Rankl, Mrs. M. Sandys, ory of the leading Nazi war criminals and Before he was appionted to his exalted office Mrs. E. Stephany, and Mrs. P. Thau. Further resisting police at the court buUding where the in 1971. he was a member of the German Fed more, the late Mr. Werner M. Behr, past chair Nuremberg trials were held. eral Parliament. In this capacity he rendered man of the AJR, left a legacy to the Staff In Bremen, police arrested a group of eleven signal services to the victims of Nazi persecu Retirement Fund of the AJR, a most gratifying jnen and boys in SS type uniforms who tried tion, especially during the period when he was gesture which re-affirmed his concern for those to march through the city centre singing Nazi chairman of the Parliamentary "Wiedergut who work at AJR headquarters. ^ngs and distributing pro-Nazi pamphlets. machungsausschuss". Many acts of legislation The need for strengthening the AJR Chari Members of the pubUc had complained to the were due to his efforts, and he equally fought table Trust is steadily growing. The Trust is Pouce about them. with undaunted vigour whenever he felt that responsible for the substantial maintenance certain clauses of a law under discussion costs of two buildings: Hannah Karminski In Frankfurt, the poUce seized 2,500 swas might impair the rights of the victims. "Wehret tika stickers, 500 swastika posters and 2,000 House, which provides a beautiful venue for den Anfaengen", he would warn on such the AJR Club, a meeting hall and seven bed- '^azi pamphlets at the home of a 48-year-old occasions. metal worker who is a self-confessed Nazi, sitting rooms; and Marie Baneth House in aunilar material was found at his home some Mr. Hirsch was in constant contact with legal Golders Green, with five bedsitting rooms and time ago. members of the CouncU of Jews from Germany a caretaker flat. A further property in Finchley and other representative bodies of the Nazi was acquired last year and will be ready soon; victims in the main countries of resettlement. it will accommodate in nine bedsitting rooms NAZI TOYS FOR SALE His visits to London provided the CouncU people who, for one reason or another have members in this country with the opportunity difficulties in finding permanent accommoda In Altenkirchen near Bonn, a pedlar who of discussing current problems with him. He tion and most of whom are under the care of ^Ued himself the "initiator of flea-markets" would always have an open ear for their the AJR social workers, and there will also be was found guUty of trading in Nazi emblems requests. It was only natural that these meet a warden's flat. As joint owner with the CBF, oy a local court, but no penalty was imposed ings also resulted in many personal relations the Trast is also partly responsible for the Because the court said many other dealers in with him. Yet his interests were not restricted maintenance of the Flatlet Home, Eleanor inese markets had offered SS daggers, swasti- to the legal sphere. To get an impression of Rathbone House. Furthermore, it subsidises ^h fj^ other Nazi emblems, and the poUce the social work carried out with the global the Meals-on-Wheels Service and the AJR »nould have stopped such dealings immediately. payments received from the German Federal Club. Lastly, the income of the Trust will be " ^^s, however, deplorable that the sale of Government, he also visited several of our increasingly required to secure the continuity nf tV, ^'•'icles should revive abroad an image Homes. of the charitable activities carried out by the "I the Federal Republic which should by now Martin Hirsch's 65th birthday gives us a various departments of the AJR. inc ^- ^^f eded into history. It also unfortunately For all these reasons it would be greatly inspired young people to indulge in Right-wing welcome opportunity to express to him our deepfelt gratitude and to wish him health and appreciated if those of our friends who are M ^^^'^t'.onary activities, happiness for many years to come. able to do so, stipulated bequests for the Trust of tl?' §^idemarie Wieczorek-Zuel, a member in their wiUs, thus helping those whose fate "i ine Social Democratic Party in the Land BUNDESTAG APPROVES SACKINGS they had to share from 1933 onwards. Legacies salo *^^' strongly criticised the increasing for the Trust are excluded from the assets tn oii° J *°y^ *^th Nazi emblems and appealed Members of all parties in the Bonn parlia liable to death duty (capital transfer tax). Any thpm "^P^ rtment stores and shops not to seU ment expressed their approval for the sacking further information may be obtained from : hiKu'j^? *^^ display of Nazi symbols was pro- of 11 officer cadets guilty of anti-Jewish beha The Secretary, AJR Charitable Trust, 8 Fairfax "loited by law. viour. They agreed that such activities were Mansions, London, NW3 6JY. Phone (Monday not symptomatic of present-day German and Thursday) 01-624 9096/7. PROTESTS AGAINST SS CULT servicemen. One Bavarian member of Parlia ment, Frau Ursula Krone-Appuhn, called the oj.^ '?""iber of trades unions and anti-Nazi Government's reaction excessive and said she ERLEICHTERUNGEN FUER pp°x°^sations have protested against the re- condemned the officers' behaviour, but it was LEBENSBESCHEINIGUNGEN SS ar,H •'"P'^ to glorify and whUewash the due to the tendency of German parents and nf t? i,i^sisted on the exclusion of members schools to suppress memories of the Nazi Wie wir von der Deutschen Botschaft from *^°""er SS Members Mutual Aid Society era. General Harald Wust, head of the Bun erfahren, sind fuer die Beibringung von tho (/^''^^''^'^'•ance services for the Dead of deswehr, issued an order to concentrate Lebensbescheinigungen folgende Erleichte Dnint S*^°°<1 World War. They have also political education in military barracks on the Ss^?? out that apart from the book about subjects of Nazism, antisemitism and Right- rungen eingefuehrt worden: tranoi 5- ^^s recently appeared in an English wing extremism. 1. Bei Leistungen aus der Sozialversiche- mo niP'*' there is a pamphlet "Waffen SS rang genuegt es, wenn der Empfaenger die Verlaa •' published by the Hamburg Jahr- eenorfi ^^^th an introduction by ex-brigade- Lebensbescheinigung unter Vorlegung seines the .,^-7°° Einem. It describes in great detaU THE TBEODOR HERZL SOCIETY Reisepasses bei der Polizei beglaubigen laesst tain^^Jr'*™^ and arms of the SS and con- in conjunction with the und direfct an die auszahlende Behoerde nach which Article "Gratitude to the Waffen SS", University of London Stuttgart sendet. Einer Legalisierung durch be dri,„,°".'=ludes with a toast to the SS to die Deutsche Botschaft bedarf es nicht. anmk m vodka. announces its 2. Bei anderen laufenden Zahlungen, z.B. Lecture Course, Spring 1978 auf Grund des Bundesentschaedigungsgesetzes, INCITEMENT TO RACE HATRED kann die Beglaubigung unter Vorlegung des JEWISH MESSIANIC MOVEMENTS in Gorm^^' *^^ organisation of Nazi victims Reisepasses ebenfalls durch die Polizei open nr ^°^'' -^^^^ appealed to the courts to at Hampstead Zion House erfolgen. In diesen Faellen muss aber die sent ,*,v*^^edmgs against unknowm people who beglaubigte Bescheinigung zur Legalisierung ber of f^Pamphlet "Juden Song", to a num- 57 Eton Avenue, N.W.3 an die Deutsche Botschaft gesandt werden, contai„„^°°^^sses in Germany. The pam The opening lecture wiU be given by jedoch ist es, im Gegensatz zur bisherigen Jewish K ^'^'•^^^ *^*«=^ s^y '"^^^ s^^lP '°* 3 anri o;LTf°*. makes an e.xceUent lampshade". RABBI DR. LOUIS JACOBS Praxis, nicht mehr eriorderlich, auch den Reisepass beizufuegen. Box Rdi7% . ^^SDAP Organisation Abroa on Tuesday, January 17, at 8 for 8.15 p.m. °*14, Lincoln, Nebraska 68506, U.S.A". TAX EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN "INTRODUCTION TO THE GERMAN BENEFITS DEVELOPMENT OF THE ^RMAN HONOUR FOR DR. KISSINGER MESSIANIC IDEA" Clarification with regard to East Berlin tarv'"of^|P7 Kissinger, the former U.S. Secre- Six further lectures wUl be given on Pederai n^^' '"eceived the Grand Cross of the January 31, Febraary 14, etc., by various We wish to clarify that the lOO'vi exemption ^vas iiaT,i^5"°^° Order of Merit. The award University lecturers. A discussion and from U.K. tax of certain German Social Insur ster Gemf t °^^^ ^° ^^ by the Federal Mini- ance pensions paid to Nazi victims (referred visit fn xf- '" °° the occasion of his recent tea follows each lecture. DetaUed leaflet to in our October, 1977 issue) does not extend Gensoho.^^r ^°^^- In his address. Minister obtainable from: Herbert M. Hirsch, 21 to persons formerly employed in East Berlin. I>r. Ki„i„'"^^f'^ed, among other things, to Marlborough Mansions, N.W.6. Their pensions are treated in the same way Was maHi^^^s speech in Fuerth, when he Tel: 435 7221 as those paid to persons formerly employed in also i??^ '^ Jreeman of his citv of birth; he West Berlin and continue to qualify for the achievina *° ,Henr>' Kissinger's efforts at Guests very welcome 50% exemption provided by Section 22 (2), "^S a realistic policv of detente.—E.G.L. Finance Act, 1974.—F.E.F. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION January 1978
CHIEF RABBIS FOR JERUSALEM For 17 years, Jerusalem has not had an THE ISRAELI SCENE Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, and for seven years it has lacked a Sephardi one. Now both posts ARABIC AS FIRST FOREIGN LANGUAGE? SIEFF ASKS FOR NON-STOP FLIGHT have been filled after months of embittered The IsraeU Ministry of Education is con On a British Airways flight to Tel Aviv, electioneering campaigns. The elections took sidering a proposal to replace English by Sir Marcus Sieff, chairman of Marks & place in the rebuUt sixteenth-century Yohanan Arabic as the first foreign language in Israeli Spencer, asked the captain on behalf of his Ben Zakkai Synagogue in the Old City after schools. At the moment, it is not a compulsory fellow-passengers not to touch down in Athens, two secret ballots by the 60 members of the subject, but most schools have now included but to fiy straight to Ben-Gurion airport, electoral college. The new Ashkenazi Chief it m the curriculum in the fourth year, because Athens airport has a poor reputation Rabbi is Rabbi Bezalel Zolti, 57, and the together with English. for security and terrorists might attack the new Sephardi Chief Rabbi is Rabbi Shalom plane. At Heathrow, Sir Marcus had learned Messias, formerly Chief Rabbi of Morocco. A BRITISH NON-JEW'S GIFT that because of a caterers' strike in London, An anonymous non-Jewish woman who is a the airliner would land in Athens to pick up FOREST IN MEMORY OF GERMAN HERO friend of a member of the Brighton and Hove food supplies. A forest was planted near Sacharia to com New Synagogue donated £2,000 to the British memorate Professor Heinz Joachim Heydom Friends of Israel War Disabled. She gave the CHARTER FLIGHTS TO ISRAEL who died in 1974. Born in Hamburg in 1916, he money to the synagogue's rabbi, explaining deserted during the Second World War and that she did not need it, as God had looked After the publication in our previous issue was condemned to death, but escaped. In 1945 after her in the past and she felt sure he (p. 14), which was based on reliable informa he re-established the Socialist Students' would continue to do so. The monej^ will be tion, certain difficulties in the implementation Association. In 1969 he visited the Hebrew used for a new branch of the Haifa Beth of the scheme arose. We now leam that the University as a guest lecturer and addressed Halochem in the name of the Brighton and position has changed again and that Israel wiU the students in Hebrew. The funds for the forest Hove Synagogue. permit charter holiday flights. The dates at were raised by his friends and admirers in which the scheme wiU be put into effect vary Germany, led by Professor Berthold Simonson BIRMINGHAM MAYOR IN ISRAEL among the tourist operating companies con of the University of Frankfurt. At the invitation of the Mayors of Jem cerned. salem and Tel Aviv, the Lord Mayor of BENN PRAISES HAIFA TECHNION Birmingham, Mrs. Freda Cocks, paid an official NEW CHIEF FOR EL AL At a luncheon held by the British Technion visit to Israel, the first by a Lord Mayor of The former Israeli Air Force Commander, Society, Mr. Tony Benn, Secretary of State for Birmingham. She presented solid silver Mr Mordecai Hod, 51, has been appointea Energy, described the Haifa Technion as one salvers, made in Birmingham, to both her managing director of Israel's national air-line of the "finest institutes of advanced work any hosts. She told them that she was greatly El Al. This appointment ends a bitter battle where in the world." Mr. Evelyn de Roth impressed by the lack of commercialisation between El M and the cargo-airline CAL schUd, chairman of the Technion Board of in Jerusalem and promised a Birmingham which Mr. Hod set up last year in conjunction Governors, proposed the toast to the guests, Garden to be laid out in the Jerusalem with agricultural exporters in fierce competi who included Sir WUliam Hawthorn, Master Gardens National Park. She also said the tion with El Al. Before CAL was founded, of ChurchiU College, Cambridge. He spoke of tremendous work involved in improving the exporters had been charged about £390 a the exchanges between the two institutes of poor quarters set an example for the world ton in freight costs. CAL managed to reduce learning which should set an example to to take note of. this to £195 per ton. other universities.
Deaths CLASSIFIED LADY, aged 56 years, wishes to Bobasch.—Dr. jur. Adolphe meet believing Jew, sociable and Bobasch passed away peacefuUy in The charge in these columns is active, not retired, with view to Mr. HERBERT hospital on December 9, in his 84th 25p for five loords plu.s 20p for marriage.—Box 700. year. Beloved husband of Maria, advertisements under a Box No. father of Eva and Steven. LADY IN HER 60s, independent, M. HIRSCH MisceUaneous with nice home, would like to meet Francken. — Mrs. Dora Francken, another sympathetic lady of same nee Heymann, of 10 Belsize Park, HAVE YOU ANY MEN'S SHOES age for friendship and holidays — London, N.W.3, formerly Aachen in good condition? Urgently need Box 698. and Dortmund, died on November ed for Jewish hospital patients. The members of the Ex 12, aged 94. Beloved mother of Hans and Lisl, grandmother of AJR, 8 Fairfax Mansions, London, WHICH INTELLIGENT educated ecutive of the Theodor Barbara, John and Deanna, great- N.W.3. 01-624 9096/7. gentleman would like to meet mv grandmother of James and Julia. niece (M.S.C.)_, 25 years old, taU Herzl Society, London, con RE-VLON MANICURIST / PEDI- and good-looking, religious, with vey their heartiest congratu Gossels.—Mr. K. Gossels, beloved CURIST. WiU visit your home. view to friendship and later mar husband, father, grandfather, 01-445 2915. riage?—Box 701. lations on the occasion of brother-in-law and uncle, passed his 80th birthday, wishing away on November 20, 1977. BOOKS WANTED.—Peter Alten WIDOW, bom Vienna, living N.W. Levy.—Else Levy, formerly of 10 berg: Ashantee; Semmering 1912; London, early fifties, inteUigent him happiness and good WUtera Court, 29 Shoot-up-hUl, Nachfechsung. W. R. PoweU, 32 and attractive, looking for suitable health for many years to London, N.W.2. With deep regret Howberry Road, Edgware, Middx. gentleman friend. Box 703. we announce the death on Novem come! ber 21 of our nearest and dearest PERSIAN CARPET wanted to pur LIVELY, PROFESSIONALLY relative.—Lore, Ronald and Edwin chase by family. 01-458 3010. ACTIVE WIDOW with wide cuU Dr. F. E. Falk, Dr. H. N. Lucas, 32 Southlea Avenue, Thom- ural interests wishes to meet male liebanks, Glasgow, G46 7BS. Situations Vacant companion to share activities, con Feld, Mrs. M. Kristeller, Meyer.—Mrs. Hannah Meyer, nie versation, travel. Preferably North Mrs. B. Lewin, Dr. L. Nel Goldschmidt, of Greet Cottage, WE WOULD WELCOME to hear West London. Age range 55^9. Doddington, Kent, died peacefuUy from more ladies who would be Box 704. ken, Mrs. M. Pickardt, Dr. on November 21. wUling to shop and cook for an W. Schindler, Mrs. P. Posen.—Helen Posen, wife of the elderly person in their neighbour INFORMATION REQUIRED Speyer, Mr. G. H. Trenter. late PhUipp Posen, passed away hood on a temporary or permanent Friday, November 11. Mourned by basis. Current rate of pav £1-25 per Personal Enquiries her famUy.—56 Cholmley Gardens, hour. We also need ladies who London, N.W.6. would be prepared to sleep out for Pick. — Would any member who FAMILY EVENTS Simon.—Mr. Hans Simon, of 23 shorter or longer periods. No nurs knows the present address of Dr. Sandlileigh Avenue, Withington, ing duties. Rate of pay between £3 Walter Pick (fonnerly lawyer in Entries in the column Family Manchester 20 (formerly Berlin) and £5 per night. Please ring Mrs. Berlin), last known address 30 Events are free of charge; any passed away peacefully on Feb M. Casson, 01-624 4449, AJR South Street, Barrow-on-Soar, voluntary donation would, how Employment, for appointment. ever, be appreciated. Texts should mary 19, 1977. Deeply moumed by Leicester, please write to Box 699 be sent in by 15th of the month. his wife and daughter. Personal AJR Enquiries Birth CHANGE OF ADDRESS I AM LOOKING FOR A LADY, Kann.—Mr. Rudolf F. Kann. Last Andersen.—On November 3, in In order to ensure that you about 65 to 73 years of age, who is known address 24 Granville Gar Grenaa Denmark to Finn and receive your copy of "AJR Infor as lonely as I am. I am a widowed dens, London, W5 3PA. Vivien (nee Hahn) a daughter, mation" regularly, please Inform retired professional lady of inde second grandchUd for Lissy Hahn us Immediately of any change of pendent means. Kindly let me have Kelson. — Mrs. E. Kelson. Last of 97 Park Avenue North, London, address. a few lines, with your telephone known address 91 Ashford Court. N.W.IO. number.—Box 702. Ashford Road, London, N.W.2. AJR INFORMATION January 1978 Page 11
FRITZ EISNER Seit 50 Jahren waren wir mit der FamiUe OBITUARY Eisner verbunden. Es war eine Freundschaft, GOTTFRIED MOLLER die ueber die Zeit ihres Bestehens wuchs und DR. HANS BACH sich vertiefte. Dr. Hans Bach, the writer and Uterary his The founder of Chevrat Bikkur Cholim— Vieles haben wir gemeinsam mitgemacht: torian, died on December 5 in his 76th year. the Friends of the Sick Society—Mr. Gottfried Emigration, die Probleme waehrend des Born in Stuttgart, he spent his formative years Moller, has died in Golders Green, aged 78. Krieges. Ferien im Winter in den Bergen der JP the German-Jewish youth movement, He had been a jeweller in Hamburg before Tschechslovakei, in Cannes, in der Schweiz. 'Kameraden", and was throughout his life coming to this country with his famUy in Wir sahen unsere Kinder heranwachsen und actively associated with Jewish research. At the late 'thirties. From the start, much of wir nahmen AnteU an unseren Enkelkindem. the same time, he was, after the completion his time was devoted to the religious and In alien Phasen blieb Fritz der Gleiche. of his studies, a Reader at the Ministry of social needs of the Jewish communities in Entsprechend der FamUientradition, nahm er Ulterior untU 1933, and also entrusted by the Hendon and Golders Green. With his wife, seinen Platz ein in der alten, hochgeschaetzten Academy of Science to co-edit the Complete who died only a few weeks ago, he founded Firma von Eisner & Kircheim in Berlin, ein Works of Jean Paul. From 1933 onwards he the Society in 1947, having enlisted the help Untemehmen mit einer Geschichte, die sich Was co-edUor (jointly with Dr. Eva Reich of a number of rabbis and community leaders. ueber ein Jahrhundert erstreckte. mann) of the monthly periodical "Der Morgen" His yearly budget exceeded £50,000. Many of Fritz Eisner vereinte in sich viel von dem which, by the high level of its contents, played those he helped were former refugees; they Besten der deutsch-juedischen Symbiose. an important role in the cultural efforts of will remember him with gratitude. Praktische AusbUdung m Kolmar und auch in the Jews in (Jermany during the pre-war years Bradford und ein Studium der Nationaloe- under the Nazi regime. He also published a DR. JACOB ROBINSON konomie, das er mit dem Dr. rer. pol. beendete. collection of Jewish autobiographies in the Sein ganzes Leben hindurch arbeitete er in ochocken book series. Dr. Jacob Robinson, who died in New York jeder freien Minute an Heine und seinem Together with his wife, he came to this at the age of 88, was one of the foremost Werk. Als die Weimarer Ausgabe—ein country in May, 1939. During the war, he historians of Jewish suffering under the Nazis. Gesamtwerk von 26 Baenden—geplant war, forked at the Foreign Office and the Board Born in Lithuania, where he was for several wurde er von Professor Hirth zur Mitarbeit 01 Trade in connection with confidential war years a member of Parliament and, later, aufgefordert, und nach dem Tode von Hirth documents. After the war he first taught adviser to the Foreign Office, he emigrated gab er die Korrespondenz heraus, acht Baende merman at a grammar school and later worked to the United States when the Soviet Union von Briefen von und an Heine, mit Lesarten, on the editorial staff of Butterworth publish annexed Lithuania in 1940. In 1947 he became Anmerkungen und Kommentar. Es war ihm ers for ten years, untU he reached retirement an adviser to the Jewish Agency on inter vergoennt, den letzten Band im Druck zu age. national law. In 1952, he joined the IsraeU sehen, bevor er im Alter von 84 Jahren starb, delegation to the United Nations, and in 1957 geistig voeUig rege und aktiv, bis zum Letzten. , A prolific writer, his magnum opus was the he became head of the research branch of Sein ganzes, Leben hindurch blieb FYitz "lography of the phUologist Jakob Bemays, the Claims Conference. ah *?^\ which not only conveys knowledge Eisner der Gleiche und sich selbst gleich. Er sH? 1 u ^^ °^ this outstanding and solitary nahm an Allem Anteil, war seiner Frau und ERNST JOHANNSEN Lebensgefaehrtin engstens verbunden. Kinder hic'i- t also recreates the atmosphere of und Enkel liebten ihn, vertrauten ihm. Er war W f^" 1^'^^ Information had the great privi- Emst Johannsen, who died in Hamburg at ein Mensch, human. Humanist und—etwas harrti o^nefiting from his knowledge, and the age of 79, was a popular author, some of ungemein Seltenes, in unserem Jahrhundert
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Education". One could not have wished for a more fitting theme in memory of Dr. Salz THEATRE AND CULTURE berger, who played a leading part in the foundation and work of this unique venture A Jewish Exhibition in Vienna. Under the generation he was Heidi's grandfather in the with its new approach to Jewish adult educa heading "The Jews of Vienna during the long-nmning chUdren's TV series. tion. Equally, Dr. Friedlander was particularly Greta Keller, whose name was made as qualified for the address because, being of Middle Ages", an exhibition took place at German-Jewish origin, he could interpret the Vienna's City Hall (Rathaus); the exhibits "The Diseuse" in the 'twenties and 'thirties, ideas and characterise the personalities of emphasized the value of Jewish participation whose cabaret and club appearances took her those in charge of the Lehrhaus. In his vote in the development of the city between the to every town in Europe and to New York's of thanks. Rabbi Kokotek paid tribute to the 12th and 15th centuries. Broadway, and who also gave guest perform memory of his predecessor. Dr. Salzberger, ances in London, has died in Vienna, aged 72. and stressed that it would always be the task Munich. In a new production of Goethe's of the synagogue to blend the awareness of the "Faust", the part of Mephisto was played by Kammersaenger Paul Schoffler, who began values of our German-Jewish past with an a woman for the first time. WhUst reviewers his career in Dresden, and who became one open mind for the needs of the future. did not have a single good word for the pro of the outstanding baritones of the Vienna duction, "Miss" Mephisto received unanimous State Opera, has died at the age of 80. He praises. She was Maria Becker, daughter of sang Wagner as well as Mozart, and was the actress Maria Fein, who was once a mem Alfonso in the "Cosi fan tutte" production TWO JUDGES REMEMBERED ber of Vienna's "Josefstadt", and later of the which visited Covent Garden in 194'7. A reading room in the Hebrew University's Schauspielbaus, Zurich. S.B. law faculty has been dedicated in memory of In a play at Munich's "Kleine Freiheit" Sir Seymour Karminski and Lord Cohen of THEODOR HERZL SOCIETY LECTURES Walmer. Both were eminent judges in the Carl Schell played eight different parts; it British appeal courts. The dedicatory plaque proved a minor theatrical event, and the whole As readers wUl have seen from the adver was unveUed by Lady Karminsld, president of famUy (including brother Maximilian and tisement in this issue, this year's series of the Women Friends of the Hebrew University sister Maria) attended the premiere. lectures of the Theodor Herzl Society in con in Britain, and the Hon. Lionel Cohen, Lora junction with the University of London wiU be Cohen's son. Tit-Bits. Rudolf Platte, 73, ready to resume centred around the subject "Jewish Messianic acting after a serious disc operation; "Sweet Movements". There wUl be altogether seven THE GUETERSLOH JEWS (Jharity", the popiUar musical, has reached the lectures, held every second Tuesday from Residenztheater in Munich; Dale Wasser January 17 onwards at Hampstead Zion House, The town council of the Westfalian town of mann's "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" 57 Eton Avenue, N.W.3. The series wiU be Giitersloh has sponsored the publication of a to have its Austrian premiere at the Kanuner- opened by Rabbi Louis Jacobs, and the speak book "Jews and Jewish Community in spiele, Linz. ers at the further lectures are the scholars Gutersloh 1671-1943", wrUten by the Israeli, and authors, Hyam Maccoby, Markham J. Yehuda Barlev, who hails from Gutersloh, to Birthday. Valerie von Martens, Lienz-bom Geller, Barnet Litvinoff, Rabbi David Gold commemorate his parents Salomon and Klara actress of many parts, now retired, is 75. stein and Dr. Robert Wistrich. It is hoped that Herzberg. Giitersloh had 80 Jewish inhabi She was married to the late Curt Gotz, author many A.J.R. members and their friends wUl tants in 1924, of whom 62 remained in 1933. and actor, and is best remembered for co- avail themselves of this opportunity of listen 26 of them were deported, the others man ing to expert speakers on a highly interesting starring with him in many of his comedy aged to emigrate. The book contains a wealth subject. of interesting material, making use of many successes ("Ingeborg", Hokuspokus", "Das local archives including that of Fiirst zu Haus in Montevideo.") DR. SALZBERGER MEMORIAL LECTURE Bentheim-Tecklenburg in Rhoda. There are a Obituary. Heinrich Gretler, the popular few omissions: It would, inter alia, have been Swiss actor, who was the typical "Swiss of On December 4, the first Rabbi Dr. Georg interesting to have heard more about the Salzberger Memorial Lecture was given at the popular teacher, Marcus Gottlieb, who was mature years" and during the war years an Belsize Square Synagogue. The speaker was active in 1904/5 before goin| to Offenbach active helper to emigre-actors, has died in Rabbi Dr. Albert H. Friedlander whose subject as Kantor and later emigrating to London Switzerland at the age of 80. To the younger was "Frankfurt, the Lehrhaus and Jewish where he died in 1960. E.G.L.
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