Volume XXXV No. 5 May 1980 INFORMATION ISSUfD BY THE ASSOCUnOH OF JIWISH RBUSBS U SREAT BRITAIII

Richard Grunberger Budapest, Melbourne, London, Sao Paulo and Oslo, and a central screening office was created in Frankfurt, with Dr. Ernst G. Lowenthal as man­ "LESS THAN SLAVES" aging director. The Giult of German Industariallsts An applicant wbo did not know when the typhoid epidemic had broken out or where the Of the three SS ofiScers recently sentenced by a Wollheim—^and other claimants, who, encouraged latrines were located was soon disqualified. Cologne court for deporting Jews from Drancy by his initial success, had meanwhile come for­ Many ineligible claimants conceded that they to Auschwitz one had been mayor of a small ward—that any compensation payment would must have been mistaken and their claims were German town—in other words a Respektsperson— have to be accepted as a "goodwill gesture" rather apologetically withdrawn. right up to the day of the trial. Less Than Slaves than the "discharge of an obligation" by the firm. Detailed information was received from sur­ by Benjamin Ferencz* is about German Respekts- The legal battle continued. In 1956, three years prising sources. Hershel M. of Paris had en­ personen of a diflFerent ilk. These were in charge, after the initial Frankfurt hearing Farben agreed graved into his memory the specific tattoo niun- bers assigned to the various transports that not of a small municipality, but of huge industrial to settle "out of court". They offered 5,000 marks arrived at Buna. He knew by heart that the first corporations, with names like L G. Farben, to each claimant—2,000 marks less than the abso­ transport was composed of German, Austrian, Krupp, A.E.G., Siemens, Rheinmetall, etc. As lute minimum to which the Jewish claim had been and Polish Jews from Buchenwald and that they owners or directors of world-renowned firms they whittled down. all received numbers between 68,000 and 69,000. had collaborated in the exploitation of slave A year later the Claims Conference, the Jewish The next 1,000 numbers went to the second labour which was an integral part of the Nazi war body principally concerned in the negotiations, transport, which came from Sachsenhausen, and effort. Pursuing profit in the name of patriotism, became, in the author's words, "fed up with the the 1,000 after that went to the C^ech Jews they had reduced their "employees" to a state indignity of the continuing hassle about how much from Theresienstadt. described by one of the latter in the following should be paid to which Auschwitz survivors" and Was Justice Done? words: accepted the low offer. Farben finally paid compensation to 5,855 sur­ We were not slaves but less than slaves. True Then two things happened—each more stomach- vivors, and thc Claims Conference was able to fix we were deprived of freedom and became a turning than the other. Firstly, Farben shares its sights on other major employers of slave piece of property which our masters drove to appreciated 10 per cent in value on the German labour, such as Krupp and Siemens. Alfried work. But here all similarity with any known stock exchange. Secondly, Farben shareholders Krupp, who had been released prematurely in form of slavery ends . . . The machinery had to challenged the agreement, which when finally 1951, refused to accept any moral obligation to be operated with care, oiled, greased and allowed ratified contained the condition—endorsed by the compensate his surviving helots—but was eventu­ to rest; its life span was protected. We, on the Bundestag—that all claims had to be filed before ally pressured by John McCloy (the ex-US High other hand, were like a bit of sandpaper, which, the end of that year. Commissioner who had set him free) into making rubbed a few times, becomes useless and is This gave the Claims Conference precisely 10 payments even less generous than those of Farben. thrown away to be bumed with the garbage. months in which to elicit and scrutinise appli­ Siemens, who after the war had published a Mr. Ferencz comments at the end of his book cations from several thousands of survivors living history of the company skilfully obscuring their that whereas Nazi concentration camp command­ in 40 dififerent countries across the globe. Screen­ involvement in the Nazi slave labour, also settled ants were mostly tried and executed after the war, ing committees were set up in Prague, Vienna, eventually. They insisted, however, that a clause those German industrialists who took slave be written into the settlement denying any legal labourers from the camps and treated them in the or even moral obligation on their part to pay nianner described above were for the most part compensation. not even put on trial. Even those slave masters The Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain Rheinmetall likewise accepted no obligation who had been tried and sentenced were released by whatever, but the Claims Conference could exert Us High Commissioner John McCloy under a invites members and friends to the pressiu-e on them when they tendered for a US general act of clemency in 1951, at the height of the Korean War. GENERAL MEETING Army contract in competition wilh the Springfield The bulk of Less Than Slaves deals with the Armoury. Realising that adverse publicity could on Tuesday, July 1, at 7.45 p.m. harm their commercial interests the firm exorcised trials of the industrialists and the demand for at Hannah Karminski Honse, ••eparations made by some ex-slave workers who its discreditable past by paying compensation. The had managed to survive their "employment". 9 Adamson Road, Swiss Cottage, N.W.3 fifth and last German company to settle was The key case described in the book was one (Side Entrance) A.E.G.—the firm which under its Jewish founder brought in 1953 by Norbert Wollheim, a Buna I Emil Rathenau had given Germany pre-eminence survivor, against I. G. Farben before the district Report on AJR Activities in the electrical industry a few generations earlier. Court at Frankfurt. (During the war, incidentally, Treasurer's Report It is estimated that, in all, about 200 German the manager of the Buna synthetic rubber factory Discussion companies had made use of slave labour during the war. The fact that five of them—admittedly at Auschwitz had objected to the public beatings Election of Executive and Board S'ven to Jewish slave workers. He felt it demoral­ some of the largest—eventually paid compensation ised other workers and suggested that the SS carry The list of candidates submitted by the Executive to their surviving "employees" can thus hardly be out the beatings within the confines of the camp!) will be published in the next issue. considered meritorious, especially in view of the Members who wish to propose candidates for the At Frankfurt a witness from the Farben direc- Board should write to the General Secretary by niggardly sums involved. Jprate characterised the slave-labour camp as a the end of May. For all that, the aforementioned five companies 'convalescent home", and defence counsel argued were exemplars of virtue and charity by com­ that by employing the plaintifif as a slave worker n parison with the remainder. the firm had actually saved his life! RABBI HUGO GRYN One industrialist supplied a paradigm for the The court, however, had the integrity to hand Senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue attitude of that remainder: Friedrich Flick. Flick, down a judgment stating that Farben had, at the will speak on another convicted war criminal, owned an indus­ ^ery least, been negligent in their treatment of the RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN trial empire comprising 300 firms, among them Workforce, and that the firm "cannot evade its DL\LOGUE— Dynamit Nobel and Daimler-Benz, makers of the responsibility' any more than can an individual." Opportunities and Frustrations Mercedes car. Having employed Jewish girls de­ Farben challenged the verdict of the Frankfurt ported from Czechoslovakia and Hungary to ^urt, and in the ensuing legal tussle informed Non-members are not entitled to vote but are welcome as guests at the meeting Auschwitz in his mimition factories, he contrived •Harvard University Press 1979, $15.00 (£9.00), 250 pp. Continued at column J, page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION May 1980

Contd. from page I "LESS THAN.SLAVES" THE WORLD OF RADIO AND TV to avoid making any compensation payments It is a coimnon complaint that so many pro­ conclusion that to the high-ranking protectors of whatever. In 1967 he had actually agreed to pay grammes of particular interest go out on the air these criminals, who also included tiie late Car­ five million marks—only to renege on the agree­ amongst a host of indifferent material that one is dinal Spellman, it is unthinkable to hand over anti- ment on the grounds that he was "short of cash". apt to miss one of them. There have been quite Communists to their homelands now govemed by Such a shortage did not, however, prevent him a few during recent weeks which one should not communists, as anti-Communism has been the from simultaneously making gifts to his son and have missed. The most moving of them all was driving passion in post-war America. BBC2's Man Alive Programme on the quest for BBC2 showed a slightly sentimental film about daughter of sums larger than the Jewish claim. In Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who the London East End, the most interesting contn- 1968 Dynamit Nobel stated that it had "neither a saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives in Himgary bution to which—notwithstanding Arnold Wesker's legal nor a moral obligation to make payment". during thc war and who disappeared after being reminiscences—was the historian of the Victorian Finally, in 1972 Flick died, aged 90. simimoned to a meeting with the Russians in 1945. Jewish East End William Fishman whose con­ Reading this one could easily be tempted into They have since declared that he died in prison in ducted tour contained valuable elements of oral the blasphemous thought that God's mills grind Moscow soon afterwards, but recentiy a refusenik history. exceedingly slow. Mr. Ferencz, who is concerned arrived in Israel who claimed to have met him in with human rather than divine justice, comments prison in Moscow two years ago. His family, who never gave up hope, have since taken up the quest THE UNIVERSITY DEBATE "Although Friedrich Flick was reputedly the for him with renewed vigour and enlisted the richest man in Germany and the fifth richest man support of the Swedish government. However, the In the 1980 Cambridge Union Society debate, in the world, and left assets worth over one billion programme's impact stemmed from the testimor ies the proposition "This house calls for the immedi­ dollars to a playboy son, when he went to his given by a number of survivors whom he had ate establishment of a Palestinian State on the grave he had paid the Jewish concentration camp literally snatched from the trains on which they West Bank" was defeated by 144 votes to 53, with inmates not a single cent". were to be deported by producing fake Swedish 33 abstentions. passports. On one occasion, he apologised to the At the City of London Polytechnic, Jewish This is no mere authorial comment. Mr. elderly amongst the deportees, saying that as he could students succeeded in dissuading the union from Ferencz was a key participant in all the nego­ not save all, he was taking the young ones to en­ giving £180 to the Palestine Solidarity Revolution­ tiations described in his book, and had spent nine sure the survival of the nation. The programme ary Movement of the College in order to hold a years fruitlessly pursuing the Flick case. His mentioned that he had received little recognition Palestine Solidarity Day of Action. The Union dedication to this task arose in large measure in Israel. Only recently a tree was planted in his was instructed to write to the ambassadors of from the circumstances of his earlier life. A child name in the Avenue of the Righteous Gentiles, and a Israel and Egypt and to the PLO representative in immigrant to the US from Transylvania, he had miserable little street was named after him. Britain, pledging support for the peace agreement. retumed to Europe with the American army and Jewish students at Essex University had their witnessed the horrors of the liberated concen­ Missionary Activities application to form a Soviet Jewry Action Group rejected by the Students' Union whose executive, tration camps. Afterwards, as a US war-crimes Two progranmies evoked strong reactions: some of whom belong to the Labour Club, called investigator, he had been among the first to ex­ London Weekend Television examined the thomy the application a "Zionist trick to divert issues amine the Nazi records of the holocaust. Finally, problems of missionaries and discussed the case away from Palestine." having become a lawyer he specialised, in liaison of a student Benjamin Lesser whose suicide last year was blamed by his parents on his involvement At a meeting held at Brunei University, Ux­ with the Claims Conference, in cases involving with missionary groups. After an interview with bridge, a fist-fight broke out between a Jewish compensation for Jewish victims of slave labour. the Lessers, members of the missionary groups student and an Arab student. When order was His book shows him to have been a tireless with whom he had been in contact, discussed their restored, the Jewish students walked out and the meeting was no longer in quorum. A motion advocate for the survivors of the Holocaust—and relations with him. The main one was the In­ visible Church whose founder Nelson Nurse said: which declared Zionism as racialism therefore is itself an eloquent epilogue to that mind- failed. Brunei's standing orders stipulate that 200 numbing event. It deserves to be read and pon­ "His problem was not the Church. The last time he saw me, he called to tell me the tremendous was the minimum number for a quorum. The dered! news of his relationship with Jesus." The Rector Arab students, who had previously failed to of Edgware, the Rev. Gordon Betmet, said he felt secure one, had calculated that most undergradu­ he had a responsibility to help Jews in his parish ates would be taking examinations and bad to know about Jesus. He had met Benjamin twice drafted a great number of post-graduate students- 36 MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COURTS and felt it his duty to encourage him in his When on this occasion the 20 Jewish studen^ Christian living. Eventually, a counselling session walked out, they were amazed to see that 60 The Berlin Public Prosecutor has been trying to others followed them. establish which judges of the infamous People's at the headquarters of the "Church's Ministry Courts were still alive and what was known about Among the Jews", whose patron is the Archbishop the sentences they had given. He has now an­ of York, and an interview with the education VISITS TO THE POPE nounced that to date, 36 former judges and officer of the Board of Deputies were shown. prosecutors have been found, but that it is impos­ In a discussion on London Broadcasting's "AM" Ninety members of the British Council 9 sible to say when the extremely thorough investi­ programmes, pro-Arabist Mr Christopher Mayhew Christians and Jews were received by the Pope m gation of the whole complex will be terminated. MP said Israel's new Foreign Minister, Mr. Itzhak a special audience when they visited Rome re­ Shamir, had been a member of "Begin's outfit", cently. Four leaders of the Council, Sir Sigmund the Stem Gang. Its activities were wholly tmfor- Sternberg, Mr. Sidney Carob, Mr. Len Goss and giveable, and both Mr. Begin and Mr. Shamir had the Reverend Peter Jennings, were presented to TRIAL OF EX-GESTAPO CHIEF far worse records for terrorism than either Yasir him. In his welcoming address, the Pope said that 69-year-old former SS Colonel Ernst B. Ehlers, Arafat, the PLO leader, or George Habash, leader he wished to express his cordial encouragement who was in charge of the Nazi security services in of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pales­ for the Council's endeavours to overcome preju­ Belgium and Northern France during the Second tine. Israel hadn't a friend in the world. Afterwards dice, intolerance and discrimination. Bishop World War, is to be tried in Kiel, accused of LBC received more than 120 telephone calls com­ Torella, the president of the Vatican Commission sending 26,000 Jews, including 4,5(X) children, to plaining about the remarks, and Mr. Eric Graus, for Christian-Jewish Relations, told the delegates Auschwitz. Only some 1,200 survived. After the president of British Herut, was invited to a further that there was no hostility to Israel, but that ij war, Ehlers was appointed a judge at Schleswig programme to repudiate Mr. Mayhew's allegations. could not receive recognition because its final social court, but when he was recognised by A Granada TV programme in "World in Action" borders had not yet been settled. He pointed out former victims, he was prematurely retired in investigated the 300 or so war criminals who are that the Vatican had no formal relations with 1962. Since then he is said to have drawn nearly prospering in the US by courtesy of Government Britain or with Jordan either. DM 500.000 in State pension payments. 15 years Agencies and proiected by the Roman Catholic After the audience. Christian members of the ago the Flensburg district court decided that there Church. The programme concentrated on some delegation were deeply moved by a visit to the was insufficient evidence against him, but now, the of them: the man who killed the inhabitants of Rome Synagogue and the Jewish Museum with Karlsruhe Supreme Court has ordered the Kiel the Riga Ghetto among them as well as Val­ its reminders of the great history of Italian Jewry- jury to proceed with the charges. His aides, 73- erian Trifa, the instigator of pograms by the Iron A few days later, the Pope granted a private year-old Konstantin Canaris and 70-year-old Kurt Guard in Bucharest, now a wealthy bishop of the audience to Mrs. Ilse Joseph of Heswall, Mersey­ Asche, head of the Jewish department at the Romanian Church in Detroit. Mr. Charles Allan, side, the indefatigable fighter for peace who has Brussels headquarters, will be tried with him. a writer described how he was investigated by the travelled the world playing the violin and speak­ In Dortmund Wilhelm Wuebbels, a former FBI after sending a dossier on war criminals to ing for reconciliation and peace in memory of her member of the SS and one of the most active neo- Robert Kennedy, the Attorney-General of the day. children killed by the Nazis. The Pope was visibly Nazi propagandists, has been given a one-year He and other researchers later discovered that moved by her story and by her appeal to him to suspended sentence for inciting hatred against the several of these war criminals were employed by help in the fight against antisemitism which was Jews. the CIA and the FBI who blocked any attempt to re-emerging everywhere. Subsequently Mrs. JoseP^ have them investigated. Vice-President Nixon in­ travelled to Berlin where she took part in a pubi|f tervened under Eisenhower's presidency to protect reception to open the "Woche der Bruderiichkeit- With acknowledgement to the news Nicolas Malaxa who financed Bishop Trifa's She again appealed for love and reconciliation service of the Jewish Chronicle. pogroms with the proceeds of his arms deliveries and donated a record of her Kol Nidre recital to to the Germans. The programme ended with the the Society for Christian-Jewish cooperation. AJR INFORMATION May 1980 Page 3 HOME NEWS ANGLO'JVDAICA New Irish Chief Rabbi TROUBLE AT UNIVERSITIES VANESSA REDGRAVE WANTS TO BAN When Rabbi David Rosen was installed into At Salford University there were violent clashes ISRAEL office as Chief Rabbi before a congregation of hetween the Jewish students and the Palestinian Actress Vanessa Redgrave, known for her pro- 350 at the Adelaide Road Synagogue in Dublin, Solidarity Society during the annual Israel Week. Arab and anti-Zionist opinions, appealed to the service was attended by the President of the The Palestinians carried banners reading "Israeli Equity, the Actors' Union to ban the sale to Irish Republic, Dr. Hillery, and his wife. There soldiers kill Palestinian children", and one of their Israel of films and TV programmes and to refuse were also representatives of 11 embassies and of speakers drew a parallel between the Munich and to work in the State of Israel. She was interrupted the two main political parties, as well as of the the Camp David agreements. A Jewish photo­ with cries of "Shame" and "What about the six Catholic, Protestant, Presbyterian and Methodist grapher was forced to surrender his film of the million?" Her motion, signed by 31 members, was churches. Britain's chief rabbi Dr. Jakobovits demonstrations. narrowly defeated by 90 votes to 86 with two officiated at the induction of Dr. Rosen, the Re­ Supporters of the Palestinian and Arab Students abstentions. The Equity conference was attended public's fourth holder of that office. Dr. Jakobo­ and the British Anti-Zionist Organisation took by 250 of the union's 26,500 members. Miss Red­ vits himself had been the second of them. part in a three-hour Sunday moming demonstra­ grave insisted that she was not Anti-Jewish, but tion, escorted by police, outside London's Hillel the rights of Palestinian artists were inseparable The Cost of old-age Care House and distributed anti-Zionist leaflets during from the rights of the Palestinian people. Among Mr. Gruson, chairman of the Dublin Jewish a Jewish Students' seminar on "The efifects of peace the supporters of the motion was Tom Kem­ Home for the Aged, said that owing to inflation it On Zionism". pinski, a descendant of the well-known family of now costs £80 per week to maintain each resident Mr. Trevor Phillips, president of the National Berlin restaurant owners vvho said he was proud "in fairly good health." When there is serious Union of Students, issued a statement to all con­ of being both Jewish and a Communist. Several illness, the cost is greatlv increased to well over stituent organisations, saying that a letter sent out members of his family had perished in the gas £100. hy the baimed National Union of Iraqi Students chambers. Miss Redgrave said she had many ^^'as a forgery. The letter alleges that Mr. David Jewish friends who agreed with her in her objec­ Refusenik at Leo Baeck House Aaronovitsch, tipped to become the ne.xt president tion to the way Israel conducts herself. CBF/World Jewish Relief held a conference of the NUS, was financed by the Israeli Embassy SUNDAY JEWS LOSE LICENCES for members of its coimcil and the chairmen of and had attacked the Iraqi Ba'ath regime and sup- Forty market traders claiming to be Jewish committees in London and the provinces at Leo Ported its Communist opponents. turned up for the Sunday market on Blackbushe Baeck House, one of the four Old Age Homes in . At a B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation Luncheon airfield on 23 September which happened to be London jointly administered with the AJR. Guest 'n London, the guest of honour was Mr. Michael the last day of Rosh Hashana. They were reported speaker was Captain Moshe Eidelman, a former Heseltine, the Environment Secretary. Mr. Michael to the Board of Deputies, and subsequently 15 of Merchant Marine officer from Riga and a refuse­ Sacher, joint managing director of Marks and them lost their licences. Four managed to convince nik, until he was allowed to leave for Israel to Spencer, referred to the attacks to which Jewish the Board of their bona fide status. Until last join his wife in 1978. He delivered a message on students were subjected at universities up and December, it was sufficient for Sunday traders to behalf of Jews still in the USSR, some of whom down the country". Mr. Fred Worms, chairman of swear an affidavit that they objected on religious had been waiting for more than ten years to leave the B'nai B'rith Foundation, said the problems grounds to working on Saturdays. Since then the> the country: the support of Jews all over the world facing Jewish students were quite unprecedented. have been obliged to produce a Board of Depu­ had helped to give them strength and hope. He Persecution was too strong a word, but students ties' certificate authenticating that claim, but added that the officially sanctioned policy of anti­ ccretainly faced harassment. people who already hold a licence are unlikely semitism in Russia was furthered by all tiie media At Manchester, however, students passed by a to have it withdrawn. Traditional markets like there. When, after the war, he retumed from four three-to-one majority a pro-Zionist motion, con­ Petticoat Lane are not subject to the same regu­ years in concentration camps, the first question demning the PLO and calling for self-determina­ lations, and all traders, Jewish or Gentile, arc asked bv the Russians was: "Why didn't the Nazi tion for all peoples in the Middle East. permitted to trade on Simdays. kill you?" NEW PRLMATE AT BOARD OF DEPUTIES "UNWISE" CENSUS QUESTION Holocaust Plaque in Synagogue Shortly before his enthronement, the new Arch- The Board of Deputies has protested to thc In thc April issue of AJR Information we hishop of Canterbury-, Dr. Robert Runcie, was Government against the planned inclusion of an reported that a holocaust plaque, created by guest of honour at a luncheon given by the Board ethnic origin question in the 1981 census, which it sculptor Mr. Fred Kormis, had been fixed in the of Deputies at Woburn House and stressed that he calls unwise and detrimental to good race re­ entrance hall of the St. John's Wood Synagogue. Was searching for strong links with the Anglo- lations. It also protested against a rank order of Our attention has now been drawn to the fact that Jewish Community. Recalling his visits to the ethnic groups, starting with "English, Welsh, the plaque can be ordered from the foundry at Middle East and the fact that he had once Scottish or Irish" at the top, with people of about £70-75, and it is to be expected that some of fravelled from Jerusalem to Damascus and back Chinese or "mixed racial or ethnic descent" at the our friends may wish to obtain one to present to in one day, he said that at the Jordanian border bottom. their synagogues to remember their own family fhere had been a sign reading: "Double-crossing A BENEFACTOR TO HUMANITY victims of the Holocaust. Another memorial by [s only permitted for diplomats and certain Rolf Schild, now happily re-united with his Mr. Kormis "The Ever I-amenting Harp" is about hishops" On his visits to the Soviet Union, he had family after the Sardinian kidnapping, came to to be dedicated in Kiryat Gat in Israel. always raised the issue of Jewish rights with the Britain as a refugee at the age of 15. His parents A Lucky Dip authorities and had attended synagogue services were killed in a concentration camp. According to A yellow Datsun car, valued at £3,500 and 'n Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev, The president a report in the "Ham and High", he worked for a dubbed the "Angela Rippon Cheny'" was donated of the Board, Mr. Greville Janner, presented the small electronics firm in 1949 when he met Pro­ to charity by Datsun and auctioned by Irish Archbishop with an Haggada which Dr. Runcie fessor Denis Melrose, professor of surgical science Television. It has Angela Rippon's name on its said he would keep at his prayer stool as some­ at Hammersmith Hospital. He subsequently Ux book and fetched £7,500. The TV service on thing especially precious. The Israeli Consul- played a major part in developing medical tech­ which the auction was conducted, called for three General and the political counsellor at the nology, particularly the first heart-lung machine deserving charities to share the proceeds. The first Egyptian Embassy attended the reception together used in Britain and the EMI brain scanner for out of the hat was the Dublin Jewish Home. A with leaders of several Asian communities and a which its inventor. Dr. Godfrey Hounsfield, re­ resident of the home, Mrs. Esther Heselberg, had number of MPs. ceived the Nobel prize. Professor Melrose said nominated it. "Mr. Schild has a passionate belief in helping LABOUR FRIENDS OF ISRAEL medicine, and it comes from the fact that he feels Moslem buys kosher Hotel Sir Harold Wilson was the host at a reception hs should pay back to Britain something for the Brighton's last remaining kosher hotel, thc ^. introduce the new director of the Labour education and living it has given him." He still King's, has been bought for a reported £200,000 Friends of Israel, Mr. Doug Hoyle, and his has a small company that is working on medical by a practising Moslem, Burmese-bom Mr. Peter assistant, Mrs. Valerie Cocks. He said it was projects. Bawa, who claims that his grandmother was a important to strengthen the Friends' finances British-born Jewess, a Miss Judah. He has been because of the major changes in the attitude of Your House for:— granted a licence by the local kashmt commission the British Govemment towards Israel, which FLOOR COVERINGS to continue to run King's as a kosher hotel, ^aced the organisation with a great challenge. supervised by a shomer. Rabbi Fabricant of Hove Mr. Hoyle, who lost his seat at the last general CURTAINS, CARPETS, said he would rather have a kosher hotel mn by election, is president of ASTMS, the Association SPECIALITY a Moslem than none at all. of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Stafifs. ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE CAMPS DUVET COVERS & SHEETS INTERNMENT-P.O.W.- 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.S FORCEO LABOUR-KZ ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS I wish to buy cards, envelopes and folded post- ESTIIvlATES FREE Our new communal hall Is available for iiarked letters from all camps of both world wars. DAWSON-LANE LIMITED cultural and social functions. For details Please send, registered mail, stating price, to: (established 1946) 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Offica. 14 Roselyn Hill, London, N.W.3 Telephone: 904 6671 TeL: 01-794 3949 PETER C. RICKENBACK personal attention of Mr. W. Shacknian Page 4 AJR INFORMATION May 1980

ITALY Rome Reveals Terrorist Links NEWS FROM ABROAD Thc 27,000 pages of investigations into the mur­ UNITED STATES THE JEWS OF ZIMBABWE der of Mr. Aldo Moro, the Italian Christian Rabbi involved in Fight A representative of the Salisbury Jewish com­ Democratic leader, in 1978 reveal that there were Thirty-nine-year-old Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, West munity has said that at the moment, Jews in relations between the Italian Red Brigades, the Coast director of the Lubavitch movement and Zimbabwe have no special problems. In 1968, "Black June" organisation and the PLO. George 13 yeshiva students of the West Coast Talmudical three years after UDI, there were some 7,000 Habash, the leader of the Popular Front for the Academy were arrested for disturbing the peace Jews in the country. Many of them have gone to Liberation of Palestine, was said to have met Red in Hollywood and taken to the police station in Israel, and no more than 2,300 are left. Brigade members in Libya to co-ordinate terrorist handcuffs. Neighbours had been complaining activities in order to secure the release of jailed about their loud chanting in the early morning EINSTEIN BUST IN MEXICO members of both organisations. President Portillo unveiled a bust of Professor hours, and when the police arrived in five squad Italians back PLO cars to investigate, they were attacked by the stu­ Albert Einstein in the General San Martin Park, where hundreds of Jewish families live. The bust Italy's Foreign Minister, Mr. Ruffini, told the dents. Rabbi Cunin runs a number of welfare Senate in Rome that "Italy has declared publicly programmes for Jewish university students, drug was created by the Russian-bom Jewish sculptress, Tosia, who came to Mexico as a child. on every occasion that it will fight for a solution addicts and prisoners. The 14 men were released of the Palestinian problem. . . . For some time on bail. ISRAELI CLUE FOR SKIN DISEASE Italy has recognised the PLO as the relevant Prize for Peace Champion A Norwegian research team has been treating political force of the Palestinian people. However, the right of Israel to live in peace and security Fifty-two-year-old Mr. Abie Nathan, the Israeli 25 women patients suffering from psoriasis, a skin within recognised borders must be establish^ campaigner for peace, is to be presented with a disease which afflicts nearly 3 per cent of the before their national destiny can be translated prize by Hadassah, the American women's Zionist Northern Hemisphere's population, with artifici­ into reality." organisation. During the war, he was a Royal Air ally-made Dead Sea water. They had noticed that Force pilot. For many years, he has operated a sufferers from the disease had greatly improved A Public Apology "peace ship radio station" in the Mediterranean. after taking summer holidays in the Dead Sea The municipal authorities of Busseto, birthplace At the prize-giving dirmer in New York's Plaza area of Israel. If their research proves successful, of Verdi, issued a public apology after an anti­ Hotel, each guest will contribute at least £1,100 they hope to develop a Dead Sea pill which will semitic incident. During the carnival procession, to the Hadassah medical organisation. effectively hold the complaint in check. one of the floats had shown a Jew being thrust into a gas oven by SS guards, whilst in another S. African Fugitive in Los Angeles ALLEGED ISR.4ELI ARMS PLOT tableau, a man caricaturing a Jew, was being Mr. Chaim Wainer, a fugitive South African The Danish police have discovered a plot "stewed" in a pot. The float had been prepared by Jewish landlord who left his multi-million rand teenage pupils from a secondary school, and after property in chaos and fled in 1976, has been between Danish nationals and Mr. Zabludowitsch, a number of protests from non-Jews and Jews, discovered in La Jolla, Califomia, as president of an Israeli arms dealer, reported to act on behalf the organisers apologised in the local newspaper- the local orthodox Synagogue. In Johannesburg of the Israeli Defence Ministry. They had illegally Mr. Ale*k Jaffe, a prominent member of the bought a Danish hand-grenade factory. DUTCH ORDER FOR YESfflVA HEAD Jewish community and a former mayor of the 76-year-old Rabbi Berlinger was awarded the city, is leading a campaign aiming at bringing him ANTI-JEWISH CAMPAIGN IN BELGIUM Order of Orange Nassau in recognition of his long back to South Africa. When he left, 44 of his com­ The Belgian Chamber of Representatives has and devoted service as head of a small yeshiva in panies were taken into receivership and sub­ asked for an inquir>' about the flourishing para­ Utrecht which he set up in 1945. Until now. sequently liquidated, causing investors substantial military organisations, including two neo-fascist students received part-time instruction in the losses. groups which are said to have been trained by rabbi's home. He has now retired, and his succes­ CANADA right-wing groups at camps in Britain. At a press sor will have to transform the yeshiva into a Jews in Trudeau's Cabinet conference, held by the Volksunie, the Flemish full-time institution. Nationalist Party, reference was made to thc Two of the three Liberal MPs retumed in thc recent General Election were sworn in as members "guest" status of Belgian Jewry. When one ANTISEMITIC OUTBURST IN AUSTRIA of the new cabinet. 49-year-old Herb Gray, a journalist pointed out that most of them were As there is an Austrian law prohibiting incite­ lawyer and an MP since 1962, was appointed Belgian citizens, he was told that even black ment to hatred, Mr. Simon Wiesenthal, head oi Minister for Industry, Trade and Commerce, and people held Belgian passports, but that did not the Vierma Jewish Documentation Centre, has 43-year-old Mr. Robert Caplan, a board member imply that they were Belgian. filed criminal charges against the "Tirolcr of the Canadian B'nei B'rith, is Solicitor-General. Tageszeitung" whose deputy editor-in-chief had Both men wore yarmulkas at the swearing-in published a virulently antisemitic article. In it he ceremony. The Canadian-Arab Federation pro­ maintained that through the ages, Jews had ex­ tested at Mr. Gray's appointment on the grounds erted a fatal influence by the destruction of ethicaj that as an active Zionist, he was unfit for Cabinet taboos. Freud had tumed love into sex and oflSce. changed men into beasts, and Marx and Engels had brought hatred and envy into politics, as "the Mass Wedding Jew Bert Brecht" had introduced it into literature- Twenty-eight Soviet-Jewish immigrant couples Wd (Neither Engels nor Brecht were Jews.) have been "remarried" at a ceremony in the Adas Israel Synagogue in Hamilton, Ontario.

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DR. HANS TUCH IN MEMORY OF SIR LUDWIG GUTTMANN Two years ago, this paper congratulated Dr. Hans Tuch on the occasion of his 90th birthday on 15 February 1978. This time it is our sad duty Only a short while ago, we saw Sir Ludwig hospital and, within the unavoidable limitations, to record his passing away in Vevey, Switzerland. Guttmann in a TV interview, dealing with the to lead a normal life. In 1969 he had the honour Dr. Tuch was a judge at the Berlin "Kammer- special problems of the Disabled in coimection to see Stoke Mandeville Sports Staduim opened gericht". This in itself testified to his high legal with the forthcoming Olympics in Moscow and by Her Majesty the Queen. qualifications. He was dismissed by the Nazi expounding his plan of an Olympic Village in Sir Ludwig was also an inspiring teacher to his regime, but after the war, the Federal German Stoke Mandeville. He was as clear, determined assistants and colleagues. His advice was sought Authorities paid tribute to his standing by ap­ *nd outspoken as always and little did we expect in many countries, and his death occurred a few pointing him "Reichsgerichtsrat i.R.". that a few weeks later, on March 18, his life would hours after his retum from Egypt He has opened Dr. Tuch came to this country in 1938 and come to an end. "He saved and made worthwhile spinal injuries centres and rehabilitation units in shared all the vicissitudes of refugee life, including the lives of many thousands of disabled people all Australia, Israel, South Africa and Germany, and a prolonged involuntary stay on the Isle of Man, over the world", wrote The Times in its obituary, has three spinal injuries centres and two streets an experience to which he often referred without and it is hardly possible to sum up his achieve­ named after him in Spain, Germany, Israel and any rancour, but with the sense of humour which ments in more fitting terms. The Netherlands. was as typical of his personality as his innate Bom in Tost (Upper Silesia), Ludwig Guttmann In Israel, with which he had close links, the kindness and generosity. attended school at nearby Koenigshuette and National Spinal Injuries Centre in Tel Hashomer After the war, he entered the services of JRSO, studied in Breslau and Freiburg. He then became is named after him, and in December 1978, the the Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation for assistant to the famous neurological surgeon Pro­ Sir Ludwig Guttmann Institute was opened in the American Zone of Germany. He was seconded fessor O. Foerster in Breslau. When the Nazis came Haifa. His strong Jewish affiliation was symbolised to the Berlin Office, which also represented the to power, he took up a position with the Jewish by the fact that he gave his house the name Jewish Trust Corporation (the Successor Orgaius- Hospital in Breslau, first as director of the depart­ "Menorah". ation for the British Zone) and its French Branch. ment of neurology and neurosurgery and from The many honours bestowed on him included a He was in charge of the Berlin Office from early 1937 onwards, also as medical director. With cour­ knighthood, in 1966, being one of the first knight­ 1949 till 1953 and again from 1956 until his formal age and resolution he saved innumerable fellow hoods awarded to a refugee. He was also a Fellow retirement in 1%5. Yet also after his retirement he Jews. Quite a few of them found shelter in the of the Royal Society and Freeman of the Borough continued for many years as Consultant, whose hospital during the 1938 pogrom days and he was of Aylesbury. In 1972, the late President Gustav advice was highly valued. instrumental in enabling colleagues and other fellow Heinemaim decorated him with the Star of the It was in Berlin that evidence of the mass spoli­ Jews to find refuge in other countries. He himself, Grand Cross of the Federal Cross of Merit on the ation of Jewish movable property (e.g. Securities together with his wife and children, left Germany occasion of the 21st Intemational Stoke Mande­ and Bank Accounts) converged, but had to be ex­ as late as March 1939. With the help of the Society ville games in Heidelberg. tricated from the bulk of the files of the former for the Protection of Science and Leaming he was For us, "Lumpel" Guttmatm's loyalty to his Finanzpraesidenten. the Reichsbank, the Pmssian able to take up research work at the Nuffield commimity of origin is an additional reason State Bank (Seehandiung) and of such strange pre­ Department of Neurosurgery in Oxford. for keeping his memory alive. Having spent his datory creations of the "Third Reich as the "Haupt- His great hour came in 1944, when he was asked formative years in the German-Jewish youth treuhandstelle Ost" (General Trust for the Eastem °y the British military authorities to take charge movemeitt and in the KC fraternity, he remained Territories). The extent of these spoliations might of the newly opened unit for spinal injuries at the a close friend to many of its former members. He never have been even remotely ascertained but Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Stoke Mande- also associated himself with the AJR immediately for the tenacity with which Dr. Tuch and his J'ille. From then onwards. Stoke Mandeville and after its foundation and was a member of its devoted staff traced every vestige of evidence Ludwig Guttmann became almost synonymous Board. When the AJR held a meeting on the 20th through a jtmgle of files and documents. The terms. The pioneer work he constantly carried out aimiversary of the Boycott Day of 1 April 1933 Successor Organisations might also have been faced for the paraplegic has been repeatedly mentioned he was one of the three speakers, and he was also with decades of litigation, if Dr. Tuch's stupendous m these columns, and it is also described in the a patron of the "Thank-you Britain" Fund. legal acumen and mastery of argument had not obituaries published in the national press. His As a fitting memorial to htm, the first Olympic led to the conclusion of a number of global settie­ professional resourcefulness was enhanced by the Village for the Disabled in the world will be built ments with the German authorities. ouman understanding of the patients whose lives in Stoke Mandeville, and a Sir Ludwig Guttmann An eminent lawyer and an outstanding jurist had taken an unexpected tragic tum as the result Memorial Fund has been set up to continue and has left the scene. 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A ROSE CALLED "ROSALYNN" THE ISRAELI SCENE At the 23rd Haifa intemational flower show, a new rose called "Rosalynn" in honour of President Carter's wife, featured among a number of new KOLLEK AGAINST SETTLEMENTS BENEFITS FOR TOURISTS floral varieties making their intemational debut- At a gala dinner held by the London B'nai B'rith Under a new scheme, visitors to Israel will be South Africa displayed a new orchid, developed Foundation, presided over by the new president able to obtain refunds of VAT on purchases paid at Cape Town university in recognition of the Mr. Werner Lash, Jerusalem's mayor Teddy Kollek for in foreign currency in Israel. Refunds in the twinning of Cape Town and Haifa. spoke out strongly against the West Bank settle­ same currency, will be paid at the airport banks A-BOMB BOOK BANNED ments and the move to Hebron. He said that all on departure or sent to visitors' home addresses. Military censorship has harmed a book by Ann those were wrong who said that the settiements NO HUNT FOR BLACK MONEY were necessary to safeguard Jemsalem. He sin­ Doron and Eli Teicher, which is supposed to gjve cerely believed that, on the contrary, they were The Cabinet refused to endorse the plan of Mr. details of Israel's nuclear capabilities. According detrimental to Jemsalem. "If we want to annex the Yigal Hurwitz, Minister of Finance, to check safe- to CBS in America, Israel is said to have several areas, there is a political justification, otherwise deposit boxes held by private citizens in banks, in dozen atomic bombs including hydrogen bombs. they are a waste of money. For each family settled order to track down black money from undeclared in the West Bank, there could be three families in income. CHASSID'S DEATH THREAT Jerusalem." JEWISH DRUNKARDS? Police and firemen dressed as Chassidim man­ Mrs. Aliza Begin, wife of the Prime Minister, aged to coax to safety a Jerusalem yeshiva student WHAT THE POLLS SAY is sponsor of the five-year-old Israel Society for who threatened to jump to his death from the fourth floor of the yeshiva building on which be According to a recent opinion poll, published in the Prevention of Alcoholism which has started a campaign to help the country's 6,000 alcoholics. had spent eight hours. He was taken to hospital a newspaper, 62 out of a total of 120 parlia­ for a psychiatric examination. mentary seats would go to the Labour opposition Judge Bazak, the chairman, praised Mr. and Mrs. if there was a general election now. Begin's Likud Begin for not serving alcoholic drinks at public functions in striking contrast to the distribution CHRISTIAN LIFE IN ISRAEL bloc would only get 26 seats, or 40 seats if he At a meeting of the London Society of Christian were to be replaced by Defence Minister Ezer of bottles of whisky to the pilots who shot down four Syrian fighter planes last September. and Jews, Canon Schneider, consultant on inter- Weisman. faith relations to the Archbishops of York and CATASTROPHIC PRISONS Canterbury, said that in Israel he had for the first FASHION SUCCESS Mt Haim Levy, the Israeli Commissioner of time seen a Christian minority living among .^ Israel's clothing industry has boosted its ex­ Prisor*. complained to reporters during a tour of Jewish majority. He did not see an increase in ports by 62 per cent to some £28 million during prisr-- 'vcilities that in Israel, prison conditions Christian missionary activity as a threat as, since the past year. According to Mr. Conrad Morris, were worse than anywhere else in the Western the State was founded, more Christians had be­ head of the fashion committee of the Anglo- world. Because of overcrowding, many prisoners come Jews than Jews had become Christians. Israel Chamber of Commerce, Israeli products had to sleep on the floor. The total prison popu­ Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the minister of Goldeis had succeeded because they were now in the lation was 5,800, of whom 2,700 had committed Green Synagogue, said that Judaism welcomed middle-price range. 37 manufacturers exhibited security offences. He said he would like a change pluralism and co-existence. fashions for autumn/winter 1980 in London re­ of the penal system, so that punishment other than cently. imprisonment could be found for wrongdoers. HOSPITAL PROBLEMS At this year's Ideal Home Exhibition, Israel's JEWISH SPY SENTENCED Share Zedek, the orthodox medical centre in award-winning Mul-T-LoCk was prominently dis­ The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected thc Jerusalem, which faced closure because of i'^ played, together with the blue ribbon award "for appeal of 34-year-old New Zealand Jew Ian Bader debts, has been reprieved. The Government has significant contribution to domestic comfort and against a six-year jail sentence imposed in 1976 agreed to pay the debts of over £3,500,000 for efficiency" awarded at the IH exhibition. Its sole for passing secret information fo the Egyptian mnning costs and to contribute nearly £2 million UK distributor, Ramicube, has established new intelligence organisation in Madrid. Mossad. to complete the building of the centre. It insisted, markets for it in Southern Ireland and Nigeria. Israel's intelligence agency, had refused to enlist however, on reducing thc number of beds from The lock has also gained commendation from him. 430 to 295 and making redundant some 500 em­ police forces, governmental offices and the Greater ployees, including doctors and nurses. Share London Council. 7,000 are already in use in this NEW SLIMMING METHOD SUCCESSFUL Zedek was established in 1902. The new medica' country. A new method to lose weight has helped dozens centre, which is costing some £25 million, w*' of patients of the Tel Aviv Beilinson Hospital to dedicated last November. Individuals and institu­ LAST ARAB LEAVES JEWISH QUARTER lose several stones in weight. The patients are tions in Britain are financing four wards, two Only hours before an eviction order was due to fitted with a temporary denture which prohibits departments, and an operating theatre. be carried out, the last Arab residents left the fhe consumption of all but liquid food. The den­ In Ashkelon, there has been such an overwhelm­ Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jemsalem. They ture must be worn for up to seven months and a ing response to the volunteer dental clinic set up agreed to accept compensation, amounting to liquid diet, with few calories, but all essential by the Joint Israel Appeal with volunteers from 500,000 shekels (about £57,000) for the house in minerals and vitamins has to be adhered to. .^fter Britain, that a third dental surgery had to be set which they had lived for forty years. The owner a few days, patients can work and speak normally up and a visiting team, seeing the long queues, had fought a protracted legal battle to be allowed whilst wearing the denture. agreed to stay for a working visit. to remain in the Quarter with his family of 11. Mr. Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem, wel­ KEREN HAYESSOD MEDAL comed the compensation agreement which, he CLUB 1943 To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the foun­ said, was in keeping with the pattern of life in Vortraege jeden Montag um 8 p.m. dation of the Keren Hayessod, the government the city where members of each group lived in im Hannah Karminski House, has issued a bronze medal, showing a key and th^ close proximity to each other. star of David and bearing the inscription "'The 9 Adamson Road, N.W.3. Key lies in the Hands of the Jewish people", ^ PAY INCREASE FOR TEACHERS 5 Mai. Kein Vortrag. quotation from a 1920 appeal by the Zionist Con­ The Ministerial economy committee capitulated 12 Mai. Dr. E. Kessel-Ruhemann und F. gress in London. to tough industrial action by teachers which Ruhemann lesen aus Werken von PRAYER AT THE WALL virtually paralysed the education network and Felix Langer. decided to cut 1.5 per cent from the budget of 19 Mai. Hans Freyhan:' "Joharmes Brahms- Members of the British Everton football team who played against Ramat Gan in their fii'** every ministry to finance the teachers' increased ein Hamburger zieht nach Wien" pay, totalling some £5 million. World Cup qualifying match, visited the Western (mit Grammophonplatten). Wall in Jerusalem and placed notes with a prayer 26 Mai Kein Vortrag. in its crevice. They later said they had asked i° 2 Juni. Dr. Ruth v. Schulze-Gaevernitz: win the FA Cup diis year. In Ramat Gan, they LEIGHTON HOUSE "Zur Entdeckung der Erdkugel im Alter­ were held to 1:1 draw. ART GALLERY tum". 12 Holland Park Road, London W14 9 Juni. Walter Lewis: "The Israeli Secret Tel 01-602 3316 Service". 16 Juni. Annemarie Jacobs: "Das Land der Peter Baer—Mixed Media Prints MARIKA EVERSFIELD Maja". Edith Greenwood—Sculpture Paintings 23 Juni. W. R. Powell, BA, FRGS: "Meyer- ling—An Assessment". 24th April—15th May SUZI ACZEL 25 Juni. Ausflug nach Hever Castle.* BEN URI ART GALLERY Sculpture 30 Juni. Clemens Nathan: "A Glimpse at 13-24 May, 1980 Florentine Art" (with colour slides). 21 Dean Street, London Wl Weekdays: 11.00-6.00 •Naeheres ueber den Ausflug wird auf Saturday: 11.00-5.00 Vortragsabenden bekannt gegeben. Monday—Thursday 10-5 p.m. AJR INFORMATION May 1980 Page 7

HONOUR FOR ROBERT WELTSCH JACOB MAITLIS ATSO On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Leo Baeck Institute, Dr. Robert Weltsch was honoured by the award of the Leo Baeck Medal, Only a few days back I received from my old in their own folk language, paraphrases, tales and dedicated by the New York Section of the LBI. friend Dr. Salomon Birnbaum, who after years of legends." And in the Introduction to his "In The medal, which carries the portrait of Leo Golus in England is now working hard in To­ Praise of Rabbi Shmuel and Rabbi Judah Baeck, was handed over to Dr. Weltsch by Rabbi ronto, his new weighty book "Yiddish", published Chassid", Maitlis emphasises: "This study in Dr. Max Gruenewald, President of the Institute, at by the University of Toronto; and on the first Yiddish folklore is essentially only part of a a function in Jerusalem, the first part of which page, in the first paragraph of his preface, I found larger research work." consisted of the fourth Siegfried Moses Memorial Lecture, delivered by the historian Professor myself coupled with Dr. Jacob Maitlis. "Some Maitlis had been working in Berlin with the scholars", writcs Birnbaum, "have devoted their Gerson Cohen of the Jewish Theological Institute Yiddish Scientific Institute (Yivo) before the in New York. entire lives to the study of Yiddish," and he lists Churban then still in Vilna, had been one of its sorne of them, among them "J. Leftwich, J. J. early aspirants. In London he took over the In his laudatio to Dr. Weltsch, Dr. Gmencwald Maitlis", arm in arm in the company of such activities of the London Yivo group, and he has paid tribute to the outstanding publicist who, with authorities as the Weinreichs, father and son, spoken of this activity in his contribution in the his wide vision and independent way of mind, had Yudel Mark, Niger, Noah Prilutzki, Harkavy and Hebrew University volume "The Cultural Life of rendered unique services to Jewry and Judaism the like. I would only disclaim my place among the Jews in England". for more than six decades. In his moving reply, the Yiddish scholastics, since I am not one, not a Robert Weltsch, now in his 89th year, recalled Yiddish researcher, but a worker in the field of I have referred to Dr. Maitlis's contiguities the three periods of his activities: his editorship Yiddish literature, and mainly in translation. with me. They stem from our common interest in of the "Juedische Rundschau" from the end of thc and love of our East European Jewish heritage. First World War, up to the dangerous years under However, I treasure the appreciation of my He has spoken of me in print as "rooted body and Work in Yiddish, both from Birnbaum and from the Nazi regime, his work for the Hebrew paper soul in the rich soil of centuries-old European "Haarez", and his activities in London, during Maitlis. I have just looked at a collection of Jewishness." He salutes it in me because it is tributes from my friends when I was 75, and I see which he devoted his life first and foremost to the equally, more so tme of himself. I have not had Leo Baeck Institute and was, among other things, Dr. Maitlis there speaking of me as 'a craftsman his advantages and his deprivations and his losses with words, who made his reputation with his in charge of the publication of the Institute's Year —of birth and early upbringing in that centuries- Rooks. translations from Yiddish literature." I am con­ old East European Jewishness. He came from tent with this. And on his 80th birthday, an Sosnowice, the rich industrialised mining town Notwithstanding his age. Dr. Weltsch is still occasion on which the Editor has asked me to within the vicinity (40 miles) of Cracow. I active as an author, and the papers which have comment, I his elder by almost a decade, salute know it only from two or three visits there after the privilege to benefit from his contributions him as one of those men who have devoted them­ the Churban. It was an empty shell. But to include "AJR Information". Only last month, his selves to the study and the cultivation of Yiddish, Maitlis it is home. And his father, Joseph Levi, Pesach article in this journal testified anew to his for rne particularly the cultivation, the keeping was the dignified prosperous President of the continuous eagerness of reading and assessing new alive of Yiddish with all it means of our roots in Jewish Community, who afterwards fell a victim, literature directly or indirectly pertinent to the Centuries of East European Jewish life, East together with Maitlis's mother and others of his present Jewish situation. We congratulate Robert European Jewish culture. For a scholar the two family, to the Hitlerist mass-slaughter. He himself Weltsch, a trusted personal friend to many in our can go together. Professor Sol Liptzin in his book had gone to Germany to study, and had been midst, on his well deserved formal recognition of "A History of Yiddish Literature" speaks of "the working at the Hochschule fuer Judische Wis- his personality and his work, and wish him un­ folklorist and literary historian Jacob Maitlis". senchaft, with his special subject Yiddish. Not diminished strength for the continuation of his And for Dr. Chaim Schwarzbaum of the Israeli long before the war he escaped to England with constructive activities for a long time to come. Institute for Jewish and Arab Folklore Research, his wife and their only child. Professor Peter ne is the folklorist and the scholarly unraveller of MEETING OF COUNOL OF JEWS Maitlis (Sheffield University). But the straight FROM GERMANY 'e.xts. He came like Bimbaum and others to road he had chosen in academic life, in scholarly London, a victim fleeing from Hitler Germany, research was diverted, his career like that of many On March 20, the "Council of Jews from still in time to make personal acquaintance with others broken. These studies that he courageously Germany" held its meeting in Jerusalem. It was 'hat other London Yiddish folklorist Dr. Moses pursues in his field are but sparks that under attended by representatives of the affiliated groups Gaster, to consult him and to follow on with normal conditions would have blazed into a sus­ in Britain, the United States, Israel, France and his Maaseh Book studies, and produce his own tained flame. Belgium. The close bonds between the organisations Contribution to those studies, listed in Schwarz- of the Jews from Germany in their various haum's massive volume on the Fox fables of JOSEPH LEFTWICH. countries of resettlement have been persistent Rabbi Berechiahiah Ha-Nakdan, for his little since the Council's foundation after the war; thus book 'The Maaseh in the Jewish Ethical Litera- TRIBUTE TO MARGARET JACOBY thc Council has been able to act as the spokesman •ure". Maitlis has done much work on the on all matters of common interest to them. The Maaseh Book, and I find him in Zinberg's monu- Time flies. It is hard to believe that another 12 reports given at the meeting re-affirmed the in­ niental work "A History of Yiddish Literature", months have passed since these columns carried tensive and steadily increasing work carried out where he speaks of the Maaseh Book—"Jacob a birthday tribute to our dear, widely beloved by the affiliates for the benefit of Jewish victims Maitlis, in his monograph 'Das Maasebuch' pub­ Mrs. Margaret Jacoby. On May 22, she will be 98, of Nazi persecution. Due to the age structure of lished in 1933 in German." And Dr. Schwarzbaum difficult as it is to believe. Her activities are un­ the remnants of Gennan Jewry, the establishment has placed it on record that "Maitlis has devoted diminished. She holds the reins of the AJR Club. and maintenance of Homes has become of in­ * life time of study to the Maaseh Book." It is Energy blended with human compassion give creasing importance. On the other hand, the incidentally worth noting that Bcrechiah was special, yea unique character to her work. She financial problems for continuing this essential according to the Anglo-Jewish folklorist Joseph gives guidance to the Club, a friend and adviser constructive work have reached a critical stage. Jacobs, an English Jew of the pre-Expulsion era to her devoted helpers. At the same time, she Under this aspect the expectation of the global (about the end of the 12th century). would never miss the opportunity of writing to German payment under consideration at the time members on happy occasions and in cases of ill­ of the meeting was thoroughly discussed at the Recently the Israeli Academy of Research pub­ ness. These messages are never matters of routine. conference with the view of obtaining an allocation lished a volume of Dr. Maitlis's research into the They always have a personal touch and are spiced for the benefit of the institutions of the Council's language, the diction and the social background with an inexhaustible sense of humour. Her reports affiliates. The Council, among other things, also °f Rabbi Anshei Levi's old-Yiddish Midrash at our Board meetings, delivered without prepared discussed questions of finances and organisation. nianuscript (around 1530). He has studied and notes and in faultless English, are always high The Meeting was presided over in the morning hrought up to date a number of other medieval points at these annual events. Living in the pre­ by Mr. H. Gerling (Jemsalem) and in the after­ old-Yiddish works. He has written in regard to sent, like few other members of her age group, she noon by Dr. F. E. Falk (London). Mr. Gerling •'ne of these, "At the end of the middle ages the is also aware of her roots, and the reminiscences resigned as Joint Chairman of the Council and World of Yiddish developed a rich folk-literature, of the leading role played by her family in Posen, became a member of the Presidium. In his place. which beside its secular signs bore a definitely her city of birth, published in last month's issue, Dr. Hans Capell (Tel Aviv), until now a member 'eligious^iidactic character, which spread through testify to her role as a link between a long of the Presidium, was elected Joint Chairman: the 'he places where Jews lived at this time in Ger- extinguished past and our—utterly different— two other Joint Chairmen are, as before. Dr. F. E. •nany, Bohemia, Upper Italy and Eastem Europe, times. May she remain as strong and active for Falk (London) and Dr. C. C. Silberman (New adapted for the plain unscholarly Jew and Jewess many years to come. 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EXHIBITIONS IN BERLIN SCHOOLS NEWS FROM GERMANY After having arranged the informative pictorial and documentary show "Juden in Berlin", the pro­ GREAT PLANS FOR FRANKFURT gressive and active Gustav-Heinemann-Schule in SPRINGER FOR OLYMPIC BOYCOTT Berlin-Lichterfelde held an exhibition "Die Kinder Thc committee for culture of the Frankfurt city Berlin's controversial publisher. Axel Springer, vom BuUenhuser Damm", which shows the fate of council agreed unanimously on a Jewish Museum said in a recent speech that he was still ashamed 20 Jewish children between five and 13 years old, to be opened in the former Palais Rothschild. It of what Germans had done to the Russians during who were hanged by the Nazis in Hamburg- will later incorporate the former Philanthropin the Second World War, but nevertheless he was Rothenburgsort shortly before the end of the war; school, now owned by the city, which is to be strongly in favour of boycotting the Olympic the children had been used for dangerous experi­ preserved as a permanent memorial to the Jews Games. He had never been able to understand ments in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp- of Frankfurt. why, in 1972, the Games went on after the murder The exhibition will also be shown in other In the autumn, the foundation stone for the new of the Jewish athletes. He quoted a letter from the educational institutions. The perpetrators of the community centre for the present-day community late Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Chain, who had criines were SS-Arzt Heissmeyer and SS Officer of 5,000 Jews will be laid. It will at last bring the told him: "You are one of those people who have Strippel. Heissmeyer, who had first gone under­ various communal institutions—nursery' school recognised the danger of the pseudo philosophy of ground, was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude and sdiool, youth centre, administration, club the East Block for European culture." by the Magdeburg Criminal Court, whereas Strip- rooms and restaurant—at present indifferently pel is still scot-free. housed all over the town, under one roof. TTie NEW RABBI FOR BERLIN E.G.L. building will cost about 17 million marks (about German-born Rabbi Ernst Stein, a former en­ £4,400,000) and both the city of Frankfurt and the gineer who is a graduate of Leo Baeck College, Land Hesse will make a sizeable contribution. London, has been appointed minister of West AN IMMORAL SALE E.G.L. Berlin's three non-Orthodox congregations which The Appeal Court of Landau (Palatinate) de­ The cities of Frankfurt and Tel Aviv have just have 6,000 members. cided that the 1943 sale of the Kirrweiler Jewish been partners to a treaty of friendship pledging cemetery to a vintner for RM 250 had been close co-operation and the exchange of ideas, CENTRi; FOR RESEARCH ON against public morals and tliat the buyer's heir, experiences and research results. The Lord Mayors ANTISEMITISM 50-year-old vintner Erich Hoffmann, was not en­ of both cities met in Tel Aviv for the signing of The board of the West Berlin Technical Uni­ titled to any compensation for the restitution of the treaty during a festive session of the Tel Aviv versity has decided to set up a special Centre for the cemetery to the Jewish conmiunity. He had town council. the Study of Antisemitism. been repaid the price with interest arid was not entitled to more. Mr. Hoffmann said he was going GRANTS FOR RESEARCH IN ISRAEL ATTACKS ON BREMEN SYNAGOGUE to appeal to the Federal Court because he wanted The West German Government has allocated Bremen police are still hunting for the people recognition of his rights. He had no intention to 1,450,000 marks (appr. £338,000) to provide a who daubed Nazi slogans on the walls of the destroy the cemetery. chair for mathematics at the Hebrew University's city's synagogue and Jewish community centre. Einstein Institute and a chair of modem history The slogans included "Juden raus" and "Freiheit FOR CANCER RELIEF IN ISRAEL at the Hebrew University as well as some £117,000 fiir Lischka" (the former deputy Gestapo chief of Sponsored by Mr. Rau, Prime Minister of for the Tel Aviv Institute of German Culture. France sentenced to ten years' jail). North Rhine-Westphalia, a society for cancer relief in Israel was set up in Diisseldorf. GYPSIES PROTEST HTTLER LOSES CIVIC HONOUR West German Gypsy survivors of Nazi camps The majority Christian Democratic Union and "WALTHER RATHENAU HAUS" IN BERLIN gathered at the former concentration camp at the Citizens' Party of Bad Nauheim agreed after The Dahlem headquarters of the Free Demo­ Dachau and began a hunger strike to draw lengthy debates to revoke the honorary citizenship cratic Party has been re-named "Walther Rathenau attention to their demands for financial compen­ of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP district official, House". It will also be the seat of a new Rathenau sation. They also claim that Nazi files on gypsies Ferdinand Wemer. The town council "regretted Foundation. are still being used by the authorities, and they the honours, awarded under the Nazis, but nothing E.G.L want them destroyed. could be done to alter the fact of the awards." 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F. Reinach ficant. Basically, this is a story of an individuaUst, an outsider—most of Andersch's main characters are outsiders and he himself lives outside Ger­ HOMELESSNESS OF AN INTELLECTUAL many, i.e. in the Ticino. This is not a typical After the following review was written, news wie verrUckt). Psychologists may, of course, form refugee story, it is rather about a writer and a has reached us that Alfred Andersch has died in some subconscious connection between this term thinker. The author is interested in Jewish people Berzona (Switzerland). His novels, apart from and Auschwitz. Dutifully, he goes to the Convent and their lives, but his main concern is with the "Efraim", include "The Night of the Giraffe" homeless, deprived and disillusioned members of and "Flight to Afar". He was also a radio- school, which Esther last attended. His reception is again polite but cool, feelings of guilt may still our society, and in this sense, also with some Jews. dramatist. The book is available in German and in an Alfred Andersch, born in Munich in 1914, is prevail. He is unable to obtain any information about Esther, who has simply disappeared and English translation undere the title "Efraim's One of the better known contemporary German Book" (Jonathan Cape, 1972). The German edi­ writers. His outlook on life is as cosmopolitan as nobody knows anything about her ultimate fate. In the end, he comes to the conclusion that there tion has a somewhat surprising blurb in which Thomas Mann's, for whom he has incidentally Efraim is described as an intellectual, who hap­ ponsiderable respect, and he is very much at home is a final break between his own generation and the present one. He has, however, met in West pened to come to London as a Jewish child ("er in the American, English, Italian, French and, of gelangte nach London!"). His background and course, German world of literature. In most of Berlin a girl called Anna, who haik from East Berlin, and she invites him over for a visit. The the Jewish persecution in Germany are not men­ Ws novels he likes to have at least one Jewish tioned, and one is left wondering why? character , and attention has already been drawn East German situation reminds him rather more in an article in AJR Information December 1971 of his own past. Anna's father to whom he is More recently, Andersch has written a well ("Nonconformists under the Nazis") to one of his introduced is an old Communist, who is now dis­ reviewed, more philosophical book about the clos­ early novels, entitled "Sansibar oder der letzte illusioned and, like Efraim, he can see no par­ ing period of the war ("Winterspelt"). As for Grund". A later novel, Efraiin, merits however ticular meaning in life. Anna herself, whose age readers of this paper, Efraim should, however, be our special attention.* puts her in the post-war generation of younger of very special interest and I can thoroughly Germans, understands Efraim better than any­ recommend this work. Its subject is the life story of a German Jewish body else and she is almost willing to accompan>' refugee who came to this country from his home him back home. Although she flies back with him in Berlin shortly before the outbreak of the war. as far as Frankfurt, she decides there to leave him BUBER BIBUOGRAPHY He is adopted by his uncle Basil, a distant rela­ for good. A 160-page bibliography of Martin Buber's tive of Sephardic Jewish origin. The latter is a works, covering the years 1897-1978, was pub­ very cultured and leamed gentleman and a physi­ We would expect that on the completion of his lished at the end of last year by Magnes Press cian, whose ethical and humane, but unorthodox. mission, Efraim would return to London, report (Jeru.salem) and Saur (Munich, New York, Lon­ Philosophy of life young Efraim adopts. He to his chief editor Keir and then continue his nor­ don. Paris). It has been compiled by Margot Cohn i'ecomes a joumalist, is taken under the wings of mal work. This is, however, impossible and the and Buber's son Rafael. his chief editor Keir, an upper middle-class Cam­ reasons for this are to be found in Efraim's mar­ riage, in his relationship to Keir and in his per­ bridge graduate, who sends him to Berlin in the JEWISH RADIO IN BELGIUM nineteen-fifties, ostensibly to report from there on sonality. Efraim is married to a newspaper A new daily 45-minute programme "Radio •he Korean war. but in reality to find out what photographer with a lower middle-class back­ ground from the North Staffordshire potteries. She Judaica", is being launched in Belgium. The pro­ happened to a Jewish girl Esther in whom Keir ducer is a Belgian lawyer, Maitre Henri Bcn- ^as at one time, and is stiU, interested. was once Keir's lover, who passed her on to kowski. The impressions and emotions Efraim has on Efraim; he realizes that he has nothing in com­ mon any longer with his rather limited and un­ being back in the city of his childhood are typical OPERETTA COMPOSER REMEMBERED of those most of us have experienced on a return faithful wife. Keir, it now turns out, is Esther's ^isit to Germany. The first night after he comes real father, since he had a love affair with a Mrs. The "League of Berliners and Friends of Berlin" Bloch before the war, and could have saved his has renamed its guesthouse in Berlin-Grunewald hack, when he stays in a Berlin hotel, he dreams "Leon Jessel House" in memory of the composer about eternally packing suit cases, just as he did own child quite easily, but failed to do so. Due to this fact, but also as a consequence of his particu­ Leon Jessel, whose 1917 "Schwarzwaldmadel" and when he emigrated. He goes back to the family other operettas are still widely remembered. An home in the Bismarckstrasse, and his first thought lar Scottish Presbyterian upbringing, he has strong exhibition showed documents of Jessel's produc­ 's that he has just come back and everything is as feelings of guilt, and he employs Efraim as a tions. Jessel, born in Stettin in 1871. died in ^fore. He meets the new owners, the wife is even journalist, partly in order to relieve his guilty Berlin in 1942 after lengthy imprisonment by the friendly and he feels momentarily that he has conscience. A further reason for Efraim's un­ Gestapo. returned home, but gradually he becomes aware willingness to go back to his joumalistic work is E.G.L. of the passmg of time and that this house has no its particular character. Journalism has always longer anything to do with hira. His feelings are meant for him mere fact finding and objective similar when he stands on the site of the old reporting, but he now wishes just to think, to sort AJR CLUB'S 24th BIRTHDAY Synagogue in the Fasanenstrasse, and he needs out his own ideas and to write from a subjective Bringing and Buying was the purpose of more hme to realise that the original building was in angle; the result of all this, so he plans, will be a than 150 customers for coming to the Bazaar and fact bumed down in 1938. book about himself and about his destiny. leaving happily, loaded with cheaply acquired household goods, cosmetics, foodstuff, jewellery, . He is invited to a party, but finds the conversa- Berlin means nothing any more, London has disappointed him, he has become somewhat bitter animal toys and a little more expensive exquisite hon superficial, uninteresting and irrelevant. His items from the collection at the Boutique. Thc anger is aroused and he hits somebody who uses and certainly disillusioned, and in this mood he foodstorc was tops again viith £122. The total *he phrase "bis zur Vergasung", which he takes decides on Rome as his future place of residence, result: over £1,300, due to the generous contri­ *o be a reference to the gas chambers of Ausch­ where he wishes to live without any ties or com­ butions of the donors and also to our numerous witz, but it is later explained to him that this mitments. In his past life, he fails to see any devoted helpers especially to our sales ladie^ Expression is in common usage in modem Ger­ meaning. Why was he saved, why did Esther perLsh who contributed by their untiring work to our man, and just means "like blazes" (in German: like his own pareats and so many others? To say success. that this is ordained by fate or individual destiny M. JACOBY ^'fred Andcrsch: Efraini, Diogenes Verlag Ziirtcti has no meaning for him, the only relevant ex­ planation seems to be that all in life is mere chance, as amongst others Anna's father believes. ATTENTION! ZIGGY'S HAIRDRESSERS Ultimately, this world is a world of chaos and ALL MIGRAINE SUFFERERS! certain events are just inexplicable. This philo­ Special Rates for sophy of life is basic to the work of Alfred INSTANT RELIEF IS NOW POSSIBLE Senior Citizens Andersch, whose thinking is influenced by the Keep an "Izpack" Migraine Mask always philosophy of existentialism and especially by handy on the lower shelf of your fridge. TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY Kierkegaard. When you feel a Migraine attack is and THURSDAY "Efraim" had been much acclaimed when it was approaching, put it to your face and after first published. Andersch received the Nelly Sachs a short while you will feel a relief of pain. Shampoo and Set £L85 prize for German Literature for it, and the French periodical Express described it as the old myth of Price: £4.50 post free 47 Fairfax Road, Swiss Cottage, N.W.6 the wandering Jew in a modem version. But is it? PLAISTICAIR (J. BENNETT) Tel.: 328 2063 The novel is written by a non-Jew, this particular 40/41 Valentine Road, London E9 world is seen through the eyes of a non-Jew, and 01-985 8637 the specifically Jewish content is not very signi­ Page 10 AJR INFORMATION May 1980

versity and OSE. At her wedding in 1948, the offi­ ciants were the late Chief Rabbi Dr. Israel Brodie, OBITUARY and the present Chief Rabbi Dr. Jakobovits. ERICH FRO.MM IN MEMORY OF HANS FUCHS PROFESSOR FRITZ BAER The psychoanalyst and social philosopher, Erich Two years ago, the 40th aimiversary of the The eminent historian Professor Fritz (Yitzhak) Fromm, who has died at Muralto, Switzerland, 1938 November pogroms was remembered in Baer has died in Jemsalem, aged 91. The des­ aged 79, was a life-long critic of the dehumanising (iermany in a number of Television and radio cendant of a well-known Halberstadt orthodox effects of modern industrial society. In his best- broadcasts. One TV show, shot in this country, family, he went to Palestine and became one of known book "The Fear of Freedom", published in was to give German viewers an idea about the the first scholars and teachers of the Hebrew 1941, he argued that Nazism and other fascist life of refugees in Britain, showing three former University. In Germany, he published a number movements offered to their followers a refuge refugees, Arnold Horwell, Gertmde Stranz and of seminal works during his teaching at the from this inhuman environment. The book has Hans Fuchs, who in different ways were typical Research Institute for Jewish Scholarship in Ber­ been reprinted 25 times. He was born in Frank­ of our community. Probably, Hans Fuchs's stmggle lin. Professor Emst Simon, Jerusalem, referred to furt as son of a wine mercham and descendant to strike roots was the hardest one. It is now him as "the Ranke among Jewish historians". of a long line of rabbis and brought up as a learned that he has died at the age of 58. The son E.G.L. strictly orthodox Jew. He received his training as of a gynaecologist in Breslau, he came to this BETTY CASH a psychoanalyst at the Berlin Psychoanalysts' In­ country as a boy and became a leather worker in Betty Cash, photographer and travel writer who stitute, but eventually accused Freud of neglecting the Midlands. Later, he established a leather has died recently, was the widow of J. Allan Cash, social and economic factors in his teachings. He goods business in West Hampstead. His stmggle the famous photographer and writer and founder left Germany in 1933, taught at a number of with the language of the country was aggravated of the Allan Cash picture library. His photo­ universities and became an American citizen, but by the Midland dialect of his fellow workmen, a graphic studies appeared in most papers in this returned to Europe in 1969 and settled in Switzer­ fact which he demonstrated amusingly in his country. His wife was widely known for her land. broadcast. His appearance fittingly counterbal­ photographic studies of life in Israel, a country anced the more intellectual and academic ap­ about which she published a number of well- proach of his two partners in the film, thus avoid­ informed and enthusiastic articles. ing a one-sided description of our multifarious MR. F. L. ROSENTHAL community. Though integrated into the life of his RESEARCH WORK ON GERMAN JEWRY Mr. F. L. Rosenthal, who died at the age of 91, was new environment, Hans Fuchs always remained AND ANTISEMrnSM for many years a member of the House Committee of conscious of his special position, and it filled him New Bibliography Planned Heinrich Stahl House. As long as his health permitted, with pride and satisfaction that he could give vent "Germania Judaica", Koelner Bibliothek zuf he regularly took part in the deliberations of the to his feelings in the film, which also resulted in Geschichte des deutschen Judentums, Josef- Committee and also paid personal visits to the many approaches to him by German viewers. Haubrich-Hof 1, 5000 Cologne 1, is preparing » residents, whose well-being was very near to his heart. new edition of its information about study projects He will be gratefully remembered by all who knew HANNA ROVINA in the field of German Jewry and Antisemitisnj- him. The great Hebrew actress Hanna Rovina, who The publication is to include information on all as co-founder of the Habima Theatre in 1917 planned, current and completed investigations on became known as one of Europe's leading tragedi­ the subject, including habilitation papers aa^ ennes, has died in Jemsalem, aged 91. One of her doctorial or master theses. All interested scholars, Dr. HANS CTAUDINGER outstanding parts was Leah in the "Dybbuk" with professors and students are asked to inform the Dr. Hans Staudinger, who died in New York at which she conquered Berlin in the 20s. In 1928 "Koelner Bibliothek" about unpublished works of the age of 90, was a high civil servant under the she emigrated to Palestine and remained for many theirs on the subject matter. Weimar Republic who as a strong anti-Nazi, years thc Habima Theatre's leading actress, ap­ voluntarily resigned in 1932, when he was Secre­ pearing with the company in Israel and in many MATERIAL REQUESTED tary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Com­ countries overseas. The "Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichi­ merce. He emigrated to the United States and MRS. ELIZABETH DE ROTHSCHILD schen Widerstandes" plans the publication of nja'' from 1984 until his retirement was Professor of Austrian-born Mrs. Elizabeth de Rothschild erial about the Austrian anti-Nazi emigration and Economics at the "New School for Social Re­ has died al Exbury, the Hamjishire Rothschild asks all persons owning documents on the state o' search". His wife. Dr. Else Staudinger (-Maier), estate. She was born Elizabeth Edith Lentner and Austrian refugees in Great Britain (especially who predeceased him in 1%6, was the founder was for many years president of the women's divi­ papers published in the intemment camps) to ge* and, for 20 years, head of the "American Council sion of the CBF and an active supporter of many in touch with them (Altes Rathaus, Wipplingef for Emigres in the Professions". other Jewish causes, including the Hebrew Uni­ Str.8.A-l010 Vienna IV

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CENTENARY OF A POET Am 17. April war der 100. Jahrestag der Geburt NEWS FROM THE EAST von Eduard Saenger. Nur wenige Freunde, die ihn I)ersoenlich kaimten, sind noch am Leben. Er RUSSIA POLAND selbst ist schon am 22.Maerz 1948 in London No Olympics for Disabled Andscmite in Politbm'eau gestorben. Aber die Leser deutscher Lyrik, die Fifty-five-year-old Andrzej Werblan, who offi­ seine Gedichte—"an Hoelderlin anklingend", wie Russia has refused to stage the Paraplegic cially inspired the 1968 Polish anti-Zionist cam­ Jakob Hegner einmal schrieb, kennen, werden Olympics, fotmded by the late Sir Ludwig Gutt- paign as its leading ideologist, has been elected to seiner gedenken, so wie er selbst Aller gedachte, niaim, saying that it was impossible to stage both the Polish Politbureau. The campaign marked the die uns durch die Hitler-Katastrophe in Deutsch­ events. Traditionally they have always been held virtual end to a millennium of Jewish settlement land entrissen wurden: m the country where the Olympics took place. in Poland. Mr. Werblan had claimed that the GEDENKEN Jews, a national minority, took an excessive share Von Eduard Saenger Fiist Rabbi Ordained in the elite of power, national defence, security, Der Tag ist wie mit Faden propaganda, and representation abroad. There are stillgehalten. ^Ir. Adolf Shayevitch, a former engineer, has now between 6,000 and 8,000 Jews in Poland as Noch gliihen Rosen, hecome the first Soviet rabbinical student to be compred to 3,500,000 in 1939, of whom three iiberzeitlich, imgebeugt. Ordained for more than 30 years. He received his million were murdered by the Nazis. Und ihr seid ausgetilgt diploma at the Budapest Jewish Theological "Zionist Slander" und hin, ihr, Lieben? Seminary in the presence of 500 people, including Poland's political leadership has blamed "Zionist Wer sagt noch, einer lebt, ^e Rabbi of Moscow and the chairman of the circles" in the United States for "an intensification ein andrer schwand? Moscow Jewish religious community. He vsdll of the gross compaign of ridicule and slanderous Rosen, erscheinende, Probably be appointed to the Leningrad Syna- insinuations directed against the Polish people, fortgluehendes Gedenken . . . Sogue, the second largest in the Soviet Union, and a rash of Polish jokes". The government- und stillgehalten wie mit Faden 'i'hich has been without a rabbi for many years. controlled Polish press also accuses West Ger­ ist der Tag. Of the 16 students at the Budapest Seminary, 12 many of collaborating with Israel in an anti- are from Hungary, three from the Soviet Union, Polish camimign. In a Warsaw newspaper, as.) *nd one comes from Czechoslovakia. Edmund Orkiszewski rants against writers like REFUGEE PHILOSOPHER HONOURED Leon Uris, Elie Wiesel and others for their "lie Sir Karl Popper who was a professor at the Seder in Moscow that Poles, Hungariar§, Ukrainians and Rou­ London School of Economics from 1946-1969, was manians surpassed the Nazis in bmtality in inur- given an honorary degree by the Frankfurt Uni­ Moscow's Arkhipova Street synagogue bakery dering Jews". He also accuses B'nai B'rith's versity last year. The speeches made by him and haked 150 tons of matzot for the city's Jews. All "National Jewish Monthly" for having started the others on that occasion have now been published ^ambers of the congregation were invited to a campaign in 1969 with an article that "dared to in a special symposium. Professor Popper was ^er Service. Matzot were also sent to rabbis in allege that antisemitism is an integral part of bom in Vienna in 1902. His father was a lawyer, * number of countries who had previously been Polish life, accepted, sanctioned, and encouraged but as a young communist, he worked as a car­ SUests of the Moscow synagogue, rabbis in Hun­ by Church and State". These accusations had been penter and social worker before studying philo­ gary and Britain among them. intensified after the election of Pope John Paul 11. sophy and psychology at Vienna University. Until The American Joint Distribution Committee 1936, he taught mathematics and physics in vari­ Curb on Drop-Outs ous schools, then he taught in New Zealand for sent nearly 180 tons of matzot and Passover Mr. Raphael Kotlowitz, head of the Wizo im­ 10 years before coming to London where he Soods to many countries including Egypt, Leba- migration and absorption department, revealed became famous for his fundamental work on "The •^on, Tunisia and Poland. Some 100 tons were sent during a visit to London that the Joint and Hias, Open Society and its Enemies" and made im­ 'o Romania. Soviet-Jewish emigrants in Italy, the two agencies helping Soviet Jews to go to portant contributions to the theory of knowledge Waiting for their US visas, were provided with all America, had accepted a proposal by the Israeli and of scientific research. He has abandoned his ^uisites for the Seder, including Haggadoth in Government to assist them only if they are joining socialist background and become a protagonist of Hebrew and Russian. "first-degree" relatives. liberal democracy. E.G.L.

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ADEU; REIFENBERG-ROSENBAUM A Remarkable Exhibition THEATRE AND CULTURE A remarkable display of work by the octo­ Otto Preminger, the versatile film director, has los of this most intelligent writer, who remained genarian painter Adele Reifenberg-Rosenbauffl just completed his Mth picture, "The Human eager and active even after the loss of his Austrian was on show last month at the Margaret Fisher Factor", based on Graham Greene's novel. His homeland.When asked, whether Australia was not Gallery, 2 Lambolle Road. Not all the works were next subject can be expected with particiUar too far a place for contemplated emigration, he of recent origin, but the exhibition as a whole interest: a film about the four Israeli wars. gave the often quoted reply: "Far—from where?". clearly demonstrated the breadth, vigour ano 50 years ago. "To-day I am so happy" ("Ich bin S.B. versatility of the artist's talent. ja heut' so glUcklich") was sung and whistled by everyone in 1930, when delightful Renate Mueller Especially striking was the oil painting of the stood at the begiiming of her whirlwind career DUSTIN HOFFMAN WAR FILM artist's mother and another oil painting, not tot which was to end so abruptly. She was—and this Columbia Pictures in the US are about to make sale and not included in the catalogue, of ber was learnt much later—only "so happy" in her a film about a true happening in the Yom Yippur sister-in-law. In another sphere, there were some fUm "Die Privatsekretarin", but not in private life. War. The writer of the scenario, Mahmoud Kabil, excellent landscapes, especially a view of East­ In love with a German-Jewish doctor who emi­ captured an Israeli pilot Yair Barak, and the two bourne and another of Jaffa. The exhibition di*' grated after the events in 1933, she was blackmailed men became close friends. They recently met not only comprise oils, but also a large selection by the Nazis, but she never yielded and, coming again for the first time in 12 years. The Jewish of pastels. These are well drawn with distinctive under very strong political pressure, was driven to actor Dustin Hoffman is reported to have been utter despair and committed suicide in 1937. offered about £1.6 million for playing the star but blending colours. Particularly striking were Obituary. The death was annouced of Franz part. "The Tree in the Garden" and "The Letter-box in Schafheitlin who died in Mimich, aged 84. Well- Englands Lane". There were also two pastel nudes known as stage and screen actor, be was Mephisto CEMETERY GARDENER'S POEMS which in themselves were well worth a visi*- in one of Max Reinhardt's Salzburg productions "Dead-Man's Fall" published by Bodley Head, Prices, in these inflationary times, were very of "Faust".—Maria Kramer, who has died in is the first collection of poems by James Greene modest. ALICE SCHWAB Vienna at the age of 73, was personification of who was bom in Berlin in 1938 and for some Viennese charm. Starting in 1928, she was one of time worked as a gardener in Willesden's Jewish BEQUEST TO NATIONAL GALLERY the most popular members of the Vienna Burg­ cemetery. Previously, he had studied French and One of the two latest acquisitions of the N*' theater. Sadly, she had been an invalid for many Russian at Oxford, and psychology and English tional Gallery, Monet's "Bathers at La GrenoiJu- years, after a brain tiunour ended her stage career at London University, and worked in psychiatric lere" which has just come on show, is delightin? during a tour of Holland in 1954.—Obituary not­ hospitals. Even earlier, before coming to this many visitors. Together with a Cezaime, it ha* ices in Munich call Olga Tschechowa who has died country, he had studied art under Kokoschka in been bequeathed to the Gallery by Mrs. Walzer o' there, aged nearly 83, "elegance in person". She Switzerland, and wanted to become a painter. He Oxford, who inherited it from her father Bruno acted in over 200 films during a long and successful has also done a number of translations from Cassirer. It is one of the earliest impressioni* career. Whether seen in "Drei von der Tankstelle" pictures. in 1930 or watched in her dealings as head of her Russian and French. cosmetics firm (which she ran to the last days of REFUGEE CHILDREN . her life) she was —so the papers say—"efficient, WRITER INTO RABBI Sir,—I am doing research work on the topic ai impressive and a fighter who would never give Mr. William Wolff, a well-known Fleet Street the Jewish Refugee Children in Great BritaW up". journalist, has become a student at the Leo Baeck 1938-1945 and am looking for any kind of mat­ Alfred Polgar Biography. After 1938, Alfred Pol­ College in order to train as a rabbi. He has erial on the subject. I would also ask forrnet gar, the "feuilletonist" of the Twenties and Thir­ worked for Reuter's, travelled all over the world, refugee children to contact me. and also peop'e ties, called himself a "displaced person". This—and and been in the House of Commons Press Gallery, who worked with them. much more—is quoted in a biography "Er war but says he always wanted to be a rabbi. He now Aminadav Str. 16, Apt. 27 Zeuge—Alfred Polgar" by Ulrich Weinzierl, pub- works free-lance for the "Daily Express", the Yad Eliyahu, lishul by Loecker & Wegenstein Verlag, Vienna. "Evening News" and the "Now!" magazine, and Tel Aviv, Israel. The references to his numerous boiunots remind commutes between Fleet Street and Seymour Place. JUDY TYDOR BAUMEI-

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