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Religious Fundamentalism m^mm mm^up^:.',.m:':,^^r,^ AJ R Information Volume XLVII No. 3 March 1992 £3 (to non-members) Don't miss . German Pensions - Latest p8 Religious Fundamentalism GBS the dictators and the Jews p7 The third evil to fly out of Paridora's box Hitler groupie pl4 nouihl's Becket, currently in the West End, 1990s. This, alas, will not necessarily lead us into an shows King Henry II and his Archbishop untroubled future, because real priests can also wreak Aturning from friends into murderous enemies. irreparable damage. Real ordained clerics are respon­ It is a box office draw because it personalises the sible for the third twentieth century 'ism' - after FDR's conflict between Crown and Church. Beyond the Fascism and Communism - to threaten the world, message footlights, however, the drama had long term consti­ namely Fundamentalism. tutional consequences: no Englishman, King or priest, Fundamentalism combines all the characteristics of ike 1992, has ever been able to concentrate all power into his the first two - paranoid aggression, bigotry, the 1932 was a own person. Henry VIII tried 'Caesaropapism' and dehumanisation of non-believers and an itch to LUS eiecrion Cromwell the rule of 'The Elect' - but neither suc- control every aspect of life - with the appeal to year. It ended with ceded for long. tradition and the sanction of revealed religion. Roosevelt as For most of the Twentieth century lethal outbreaks This constitutes a heady mix which has a superficial President. He told of secular religion - with witch doctors like Hitler or attractiveness for people disoriented by change and the American Stalin tricked out as high priests - have shaken the uncertainty. For that reason Fundamentalism has people they had world to its foundations. cropped up in the First World, albeit none too nothing to fear Such fake priests are no longer in fashion in the stridently, as well as in the Third. except fear itself. Fundamentalism in the Catholic Church is like a It behoves us to river in limestone country; the fact that it is invisible remember his on the surface doesn't tell us whether it exists or not. words now Upholders of the Latin Mass, Vichyite bishops in disillusion has France, the Polish Primate Glemp and his fellow replaced the .LMSPENDE prelates. Opus Dei zealots and sundry militant expectations of Catholics suspicious of democracy because it gives two or three years equal air time, as it were, to Error and revealed Truth, ago. With Eastern all form part of the dead weight that has prevented the Europe in turmoil, implementation of Vatican Two over the last quarter the Middle Eastern of a century. peace talks half- Protestant Fundamentalism makes its less-than- suspended, and appealling presence felt in Ulster and the US Bible racists active in the Belt. Jewish Fundamentalism too is a sufficiently West one can obnoxious phenomenon to have prompted a recent easily lose hope. cri-de-coeur by President Herzog. Succumbing to But it is, of course, the existence of the Islamic fear is, however, variety that gives Fundamentalism its current top­ the surest way of icality and shock appeal. The spectre of a milliard bringing about Muslims united by visceral hatred of the West (and of that which is Israel) conjures up a Doomsday scenario. Fortunately feared. And one such unity often proved a mirage - not least in the other thing: •^f^£-^^'^''JSr^\i:'^^}*^. Iran-Iraq and Gulf Wars. But let us beware of Human Rights, complacency. The Moslem world resembles a row of generally paid lip bubbling cauldrons stretching from Afghanistan to service nowadays, • ,i./..)«i.w^Hi(: ^<4.A.«.v... fef^'^'^a; . -^ I Algiers (and on a lesser scale from Marseilles to were never spoken Bradford). How to keep the lid on them will tax the of in the ingenuity of Western leaders and voters for years to Thirties. D ir.aiiy KiDinan Zionist jiostet. i..ina 1^00. come. AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1992 Action against amnesia Profile Since the Fall of the Wall xenophobic violence has been widespread in many East out; not long afterwards the synagogue was German towns. One is pleased to note, Shtetl - showbiz - destroyed in an air raid. therefore, that the Hanseatic city of Ros­ chazzanut Josef meanwhile appeared in a Russian tock is trying to buck the trend. There the opera season at the Adelphi Theatre under historian Frank Schroder already published the baton of Anatol Fistoulari (whose wife newspaper articles about the town's Anna Mahler he met). More importantly, vanished Jewish communit)- in 1986, when he met and married ENSA organiser Stella, officially decreed amnesia was the order of his companion for the last 50 years. the day. Recently thanks again to Frank 1943, reversing the usual showbiz pat­ Schroder a 'Vereinigung fiir judische Ges­ tern, brought 'triumph and disaster'. Sing­ chichte und Kultur', with over 40 members, ing in The Lisbon Story, a musical about the has come into being. Their efforts to reclaim Free French, he received such critical a once-integral part of the town's life from acclaim that the envious leading lady - and oblivion have now been placed on a secure mistress of the impresario - scotched his foundation. Dr Herbert Samuel, an AJR career prospects. There followed provincial member living in Blackburn, Lanes, has tours of such musicals as Lilac Time (where donated the house his late father owned in Josef was a more convincing Schubert than Rostock to the 'Vereinigung', D his London 'double' Richard Tauber). By the end of the Forties he exchanged the Mi dor rdor - hazards of showbiz for work first in a Joseph Dollinger. Photo: Newman. Communication between handbag factory, and then in a timber survivor parents and their he Dollingers reside in North Lon­ import firm. In the mid-1950s he became children don, in a house filled with Chinese cantor of Belsize Square synagogue where, Tobjets d'art, her paintings and his under Rabbis Salzberger and Kototek, he Since April 1991, a small group of survi­ Hebrew calligraphy. When, after glancing served for an impressive 21 years. vors/refugees and members of the second at the collection, the visitor listens to Josef's A onetime resident in half a dozen generation have met at the Belsize Square story he reflects that the Greeks had a word countries, Josef Dollinger has followed at Synagogue once a month on Sunday after­ for it. The word is Protean (after a mytho­ least as many careers, and achieved acclaim noon. For the older generation it was an logical creature capable of taking on differ­ in three. Truly a Protean personality! opportunity to talk to the younger gen­ ent forms). D R.G. eration about their experiences, often for Consider this: Josef Dollinger hails from the first time, and to explain why they were a Galician backwater. His father and grand­ not able to do so before. In the past, parents father were ritual slaughterers. Raised in the wanted to protect their children and chil­ shtetl tradition he wore peyot till 13. In that dren in turn did not want to hurt their year, 1920, the family moved to Germany, parents by asking questions. For the chil­ and eventually settled in Dusseldorf. A dren, it is important, in establishing their visiting cantor's praise of his voice led Josef own identity, to learn about their roots. to study singing. After lengthy preparation The next group for first and second at the Brussels and Diisseldorf Conserva­ BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE generation Holocaust survivors/refugees toires he made his professional concert will start on Sunday, March 8 1992, from debut in January 1933, attracting good 51 BELSiZE SQUARE, NWS 4.00-5.30 pm and, thereafter, will meet notices. Within days Hitler was in power monthly for eight sessions. and shots were fired at the Dollingers' front We offer a traditional style of Numbers are limited, so if you are door. Acting on a policeman's warning of religious service with Cantor, interested, please apply as soon as possible, worse to come, the family emigrated, with Choir and organ to Mrs Henny Levin at the Belsize Square Josef first going to Amsterdam. He later Synagogue, 51 Belsize Square, London joined his parents in Antwerp, where he NW3 4HX. Telephone 071 794 3949. D secured an engagement at the Royal Opera. Further details can be obtained from In the 1935 season he sang tenor roles in our synagogue secretary Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos at perfor­ Annely Juda Fine Art mances conducted by Richard Strauss and Telephone 071-794-3949 Has moved to Hans Knappertsbusch. Alas, when the 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street), opera administrators discovered his Jewish Minister: Rabbi Rodney J. Mariner London W1R 9AA origin they did not renew the contract. Cantor: Rev Lawrence H. Fine Tel: 071-629 7578 For the next few years he eked out a living Fax:071-491 2139 as cantor at Antwerp's little Hollandsche Regular services: Friday evenings at 6.30 pm, Saturday mornings at 10 am CONTEMPORARY PAINTING shul, before obtaining a similar appoint­ AND SCULPTURE ment at the Western Synagogue in London. Religion school: Sundays at 10 am to 1 pm Mon-Fri: 10 am-6 pm Sat: 10 am-1 pm On the Sunday earmarked for the signing of Space donated by Pafra Limited the contract the Second World War broke AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1992 Birthday party The majority of the residents who moved The suitcase in to Balint House in January 1991 had come from Otto Schiff House, NW3. They ut of the blur of my school days in appear to be very happy with their new Nazi Germany one figure looms up surroundings.
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