Volume XXVIII No. 6 June, 1973 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE AssooAim OF mnsH Rffuass m CREAT BRITAUI

'*'' Roaenstock duty to make amends for the past. This duty had been recognised by West Germany after the end of the Second World War and was implemented at the earliest possible time by VISIT TO NEW YORK compensation laws of the Laender and of the German Federal Republic after its establish­ Meetings of Council of Jews from Germany ment. By contrast, the GDR has restricted its and Leo Baeck Institute paymente to those victims of Nazi persecution who are resident in their country. It has made Forty years have passed since the dispersion on. Furthermore, the implementation of the no individual or global payments for the bene­ ^* Continental Jewry started, and those Jews existing laws calls for constant vigilance. In fit of those who live abroad and who are the ^om Central and Eastem European countries all these matters the Council acts under the vast majority. ho escaped the Holocaust are now spread all auspices of or in co-operation with the Con­ The participants at the Council meeting J'^r the world. They have settled in many ference on Jewish Material Claims against realised that it would be premature to sub­ 2^V"Wes, and it is only natiu^l that, with the Germany ("Claims Conference"), the oflScial stantiate in detail the claims to be submitted ot^ of a new generation, the consciousness representative body vis-a-vis the Germaii as long as the principle bas not been estab­ j. the common origin gradually decreases. Yet authoritdies. lished. The Council will co-operate in this ^s a slow process, and integration into the matter with the other major Jewish organi­ ew environment is still linked witlh aware- Claims Against East Gennany sations. Among the losses on which the claims •^^s of the past. have to be based the following items were ^ the case of those Jewish persecultees, In the past months a further aspect of the mentioned by way of example: Communal OoT hail from Geraaamy, this awareness is restitution and compensation problem has property, private and/or heirless property, , "^ only a matter of the individual but, per- come to the fore. It arises from the new posi­ personal damage sustained by Nazi victims as ^Ps more than among other former refugees, tion of East Germany, the German Democratic far as not, or not adequately, covered by West ^ also resulted in joint activities. This does Republic, in the intemational scene, expressed German legislation. It was stressed that before is • "^'^^'^t^ a lesser degree of integration. It by the opening of diplomatic relations between 1933 the assets concerned, to a very large abl" ^he first place due to the fact that, prob- Westem countries and the GDR and the envi­ extent, belonged to Jewish individuals and £ 'y in view of their antecedents, the Jews saged admission of the GDR to the United communities in that part of Germany which is lat* ^^'^^ny have retained the gift of trans- Nations. These developments are bound to now the territory of the GDR and that it is, f^J^^ feelings of solidarity into constructive put the question of restituition and compensa­ therefore, the duty of the Council to safe­ th ^^^r^^d-looking organisational work. On tion to the Jewish victims of Nazi Germany's guard the special interests of the Jews from ® national plane, this becomes evident in the persecution on the map, and the consideration Germany and their organisations in this mait- R^^Sth of the organisations built up in of this question was one of the reasons for ter. At the time of writing, the whole issue cnV * (AJR), Israel, U.S.A. and smaller which representatives of the Council from is still in an exploratory stage. Any develop­ "Entries of resettlement. On the inter- Britain, Israel and the United States met in ments will be reported in this paper. Z^^?al plane, it has resulted in the New York. The issue at stake is in the first j^ation of the Council of Jews from Ger- place a moral one. The perpetrators of the History of Immigration Research thp T '" ^^^ which takes up the interests of Nazi crimes lived in all parts of the territory W^^^^ from Germany, and of the Leo Baeck of the former Reich, whether it is now East The presence in New York of Council repre­ ^«ut€, founded by the Council in 1955 to or West Germany, and there is no reason for sentatives from various countries also served ^eserve by scholarly work the cultural heri- the Government of the GDR to disclaim its as an opportunity for a working meeting of UM '^^ ^hat was once German Jewry. It was those involved in research work on the his­ a n ^ ^^^ auspices of these two bodies that tory of the immigration of the Jewish refugees u "^JJ^ber of important meetings were held from Central Europe and their integration The Association of Jewish Refugees in into their countries of resettlement. The pro­ Jjew York this April. Great Britain gress reports given at the meeting and the Pr^'H **^"°<^atio° of the Council, whose first ensuing exchange of views reaffirmed that the j)j-^'°«iit was Leo Baeck, had been prompted invites members and friends to the position of the immigrants greatly differs from i^^^^rily by the need to safeguard the country to country. This in tum has also fielrt ^^ of the Jews from Germany in the GENERAL MEETING resulted in differences of approach and dif­ 1^ , °^ restitution and compensation. Many on Tuesday, June 19, at 7.45 pjn. ferences of priorities. In the United States the Ggj^^^tive measures from which Jews from at Hannah Karminski House, work is directed by Dr. Herbert Strauss, Pro­ STant^'^^ benefit and which are now taken for 9 Adamson Road, Swiss Cottage, N.W.3 fessor of History and Executive Vice-President the r ^^^ ^"^ **• ^^^ persistent efforts of I of the American Federation of Jews from ass~/'°5"'^*^- EquaUy when, at a later stage, Central Europe, who is also the main initiator ProD ''^ ^^ heirless and former communal Report on AJR Activities and co-ordinator of the whole scheme. He *^essrf^ were recovered by the so-called suc- Treasurer's Report reported that a bibliography of the relevant Cor^ organisations (JRSO and Jewisih Trust Election of Executive and Board literature published in the United States has Bfjij J^tion in the former American and (The list of candidates submitted by thc Executive been completed. Furthermore, a number of eiiQvfr^ Zones respectively), the Council was Is published on paq« 9.) former or present leaders of organisations to jf^ to allocate its share in the proceeds n and congregations, established by Jews from Out an^^^'^^' ^^^^ helping them in carrying Mr Jack Barnett Germany, have been interviewed. It appears ally f expanding their welfare work, especi- (General Secretarv. World Jewish Congress — that the impact of these organisations on the the l^^^ benefit of the aged. In both spheres British Section) personal destiny of the individual immigrant as f^^^ ^3s not yet come to an end. Though, will speak on has been greater than in some other countries, cerjji^ ,^s the German Federal Republic is con- CURRENT PROBLEMS IN JEWISH where the membership with organisations to jj. ' the bulk of the legislation may have certainly also played a great part, but was in '^nsidered as completed and has resulted LIFE not of such central importance. In Israel, the cee^wf'^^'^ts which very considerably ex- Non-members are not entitled to vote, but draft of a publication mainly based on per- Varj. the original estimates, negotiations on are welcome as guests at the meeting "s kinds of amendments are still going Continued on page 2, column 1 AJB INFORMATION June, 1973 Page 2 wald, Jocbanan Ginat, Ismar Schorsch), VISIT TO NEW YORK "Major Trends in Jewish Youth Movements m Germany" (Chanoch Rinott, Werner Rosen- Continued from page 1 stock, Herbert A. Strauss); "Village om SmaU-Town Jews in Germany" (Wern^ J- sonal interviews has been completed. It is ing some originals by Max liebermann and a Cahnman, Emil Schorsch, Erich Rosenthal;- also envisaged to commission an expert author recently acquired Heine portrait. The contents of the proceedings will he P""" with researcih work on the economic integra­ The deliberations at the LBI were, to some lished in due course, and it would be futiie tion of the Jews from Germany. In this extent, devoted to the relationship of the Insti­ to try and sum them up. It may suffice w country Mrs Margot Pottlitzer has collected tute with other enterprises. The discussion state that quite a lot of ground was covereo more than 100 life stories, based partly on indicated the importance increasingly and that, as far as the systematic perusal ana personal interviews, partly on written material attributed to the LBI which had commenced assessment of tbe widely-spread material were received in response to appeals published in its work under most difficult circumstances concerned, the participants did most valuable this paper. The collection is still going on, at a time when interest in German Jewish work. . t and any readers who wish to contribute in one history was practically non-existent outside our Under the aspect of historiography, the lat-l; way or another should inform the AJR. The own orbit. It is to a large extent due to the that most of the speakers had been actively work has deliberately been started from this spadework done by the LBI that the position involved in the events under discussion is » angle because the number of those who are ihas now completely changed and that there drawback and an advantage at the same tune- able to speak from personal experience is is an eagerness in having a share in this re­ On the one hand, we cannot have the detacn_ bound to decrease. At the same time it is search work among quarters which in former ment which the historian requires in order i realised that case history can only be used times kept aloof from it. The reports also arrive at an unbiased assessment. On the other as raw material, and that a balanced assess­ reflected the tremendous output of publica­ hand, and this appears an important task to ment calls for careful further study of the tions which appeared under the auspices of our generation, we can speak from firs*''^^? subject in order to avoid false conclusions the Institute during its 17 years of exist­ experience and thus help to preserve tn and imjustified generalisations. The (juestion ence. They include not less than 27 books of records for future historians and also gi* of how this can be done is under active con­ the "Schriftenreihe wissensdhaftlicher Abhand­ them an idea of the atmosphere and of tn sideration. There remains the wid© field of lungen" as well as memoirs and biographies imponderabilia which shaped the period con­ research in books, press publications as well of outstanding German Jews, articles in the cerned. .. „ as in available records of govemment depart­ Institute's bulletin and, last but not l^rast, the It is particularly important to note that tn ments and organisations. Year Books, whose 17th volume just appeared participants also included members of i» The scholarly work to be carried out in and will be reviewed in this paper shortly. younger age groups, some of them of Germa the U.S.A., Israel, Britain and France as vvell The quantity of the output is all the more Jewish origin, some of them American born, as in other countries will keep the organisa­ remarkable as it is matched by a quality which who now teaich at American universities. Ther tions and research workers concemed busy stands the test of scholarly standards. A great were also some German scholars who hav for a very long time. The participants at the number of further projects, some of them included German Jewish history in their SUD- meeting in New York therefore also considered already in an advanced stage, were also dis­ jects of research. This is an interesting aspec^ ways and means of publishing, as a first step, cussed at the meeting. As they were children, or not even bom, .^''^ a less thorough but equally important informa­ tbe Nazis were in power, their interest is n tive collection of essays about the subject, Scholars' Conference based on tbe guilt feelings of their elders, ^e comprising all major countries of resettlement. The climax of the New York functions was they are fascinated by the many-coloure The meeting of the responsible officers of a Scholars' Conference held under the auspices aspects of group relations, as manifested i the three sections of the Leo Baeck Institute of the New York LBI, from April 8 to 10. It the German-Jewish symbiosis, a phenomenon in New York, Jerusalem and London took was the second conference of this kind, the which has its bearing on German and Jewis place at the LBI building in New York. Any­ first one having taken place in Jerusalem in history alike. Even at the risk of beins body who visits New York should not miss the 1970. These conferences are, as experience reproached for mentioning something ^^j opportunity of calling on this unique living affirmed, an indispensable collateral to the should be a matter of course, it must be stape^ memento of German Jewry at 129 East 73rd written scholarly work initiated and commis­ that tbe ingenuous approach, marred by ^^'Vly, Street. Built up from scratch imder its first sioned by the Institute. They provide a plat­ apologetics on the Jewish side nor by emba director. Dr. Max Kreutzberger, it houses the form for an exchange of views and also estab­ rassment on the German side, was particular" most comprehensive collection of material lish personal contacts between those reassuring. . pertinent to our history isince the eighteenth associated with the work in one way or another. The Conference was held at Arden Ho"» ' century. It comprises books and complete sets This year's conference was arranged under the a beautiful country seat outside New YO of periodicails, documents, government gazettes heading: "Exploring a Typology of German donated by the Averell Harriman family of German States, family records and personal Jewry". Of course, it was neither possible nor Columbia University. One could not ba memoirs, to quote only a few examples. All intended to provide a complete typology dur­ wished for a better venue. Away f™"', yy this is not dead material but constantly used ing the short time available. Instead, a limited city, the participants could not only i"'^ by scholars working on special subjects of number of subjects was selected, for which concentrate on the proceedings, but ai German-Jewish history. In view of the steady each of the speakers appointed had delivered establish and renew personal contacts *' rise of interest in the subject matter among a paper in advance and which was only briefly each other. Recognition and thanks are » , students and graduates, especially of Ameri­ summed up and supplemented at the Con­ to the promoters. Rabbi Dr. Max Gruenewai can universities, the Institute's reading-room ference. The ensuing debates were opened by and Professor Dr. Fritz Bamberger, T^^^?fZ, is frequented by many people. The visitors' "discussants", also appointed in advance. The and Vice-President respectively of the ^ book also includes names of well-known per­ following list of subjects, together with the York LBI, as well as to the organiser, J^; sonalities who called on the Institute to obtain names of the speakers, discussants and chair­ Fred Grubel, Secretary of the Institute, an a general impression. Such visits are all the men, gives an idea of the proceedings: "The his staff. more rewarding as the building, a former Jewish Merchant" (David Landes, Hanns G. private mansion, excels by its exquisite layout. Reissner, Fritz Bamberger); "The Rabbi" The walls are adorned with pictures and (Alexan(ier Altmann, Alfred Jospe, Nahum N. ;BMAN^ photos of German Jewish personalities, includ­ Glatzer); "The Jewish Teacher" (Max Graene­ HITLER FILM PROTEST IN GE Protests have been made against tbe P?g formance in Munich of the film, "Hitler: J|^, Last Ten Days," produced by Metro-Goldwy Mayer and starring Sir Alec Guinness. --j) Dr. Hans Lamm, the president of the Mun'^j Jewisb community, said that the premiere Greyhound Guaranty Limited the film on Hitler's birthday at the birthpia^^ of the Nazi regime was an act of provocai Bankers and shameless profiteering which insulteo j feelings of millions of victims of Nazism democratic citizens. igd 5 GRAFTON STREET, MAYFAIR, Tbe West German Peace Society commeni „ that tbe showing of the film was "tactie» LONDON, W.l and "derogatory to tbe local population • ^ An MGM spokesman said in Frankfurt *j.'s the premiere having been held on .""tj,at Telephone: 01-629 1208 birthday was a coincidence. The last thing >.,gi- could be said was that tbe film glorified H* and bis regime. AJR INFORMATION June, 1973 Page 3 HOME NEWS ANGLO'JUDAICA Ashkenazy Charity Performance EAST GERHAN REPARATIONS RIGHT-WING GROWTH In one of his rare appearances Vladimir In the House of Lords the Britisb Govern­ The Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen Asbkenazy, the Russian-bom pianist who is now ment was urged to bring pressure to bear on and Women at its annual conterence in London an Icelandic citizen, performed for a Jewish joe German Democratic Republic for the underlined the increased strength of nation­ charity. At a concert arranged by tbe Women's payment of reparations. Lord Janner said that alist Right-wing organisations in Britain. Division of the Central Britisb Fund for Jewish i? the course of tbe negotiations with East Warning that it would be the height of folly Relief and Rehabilitation and Britisb Ose, be Jfermany for tbe establishment of diplomatic to assume that tbe Right-wing "leopards" had played witb the Pbilbarmonia Orchestra at the relations, the Government should urge tbe changed their spots Mr. B. A. Remington, Collegiate Theatre in London. Payment of reparations. Baroness Tweedsmuir chairman of the defence committee, said that 'ephed that both Governments had agreed to though the labels might be different, the con­ Mixed Marriages enter into negotiations for the settlement of tents remained the same. pnancial and property problems still outstand­ Tbe main factors contributing to the in­ The lack of unanimity among Jewry about ing between the two States, and that each creased Right-wing strength during the year the validity of "mixed" marriages where the J^overnment would be entitled to raise any were industrial and social unrest and high non-Jewish partner bas been converted, and HUestions. Tbe responsibility of tbe Britisb unemployment; the continued shortage of also about the situation of an adopted child government was for British nationals, but housing and the ease witb which this problem of non-Jewish parents who bas been brought ^ritain hoped that the German Democratic could be exploited against certain sections of up as Jewish, was raised at the annual meet­ Republic "will recognise its obligations to the community, particularly where individual ing of tbe Belfast Hebrew Congregation. It i'P'^Pensate victims of Nazi persecution landlords might be Jewisb or immigrant; and was mentioned that in some cases the con­ "respective of their nationality". tbe influx of Ugandan Asians "providing an version of the non-Jewish partner of the opportunity to enlist support for fascist marriage bad been approved in the United "NEW LOOK" ANTISEMTTISM ideologies". Kingdom and in other cases in Israel. Calling for constant vigilance in every In the best interests of the couples and of . Dr. David Cohen, who has made a life-long locality, Mr. Remington said that where Ajex adoptive parents, tbe London Beth Din was siudy of Christian-Jewish relationships, ad­ branches had advance notice of extremists' approached for a ruling to clarify tbe situation. dressed a meeting in London of the Weekly activities, they were frequently able to nullify religious Press Group. or cool the situation. Israel's 25th Anniversary Sitating that a "new antisemitism" exists frjong many Christians today. Dr. Cohen asser- COLOURED IMMIGRATION On tbe occasion of ber 25th year of indepen­ th • J ^ the world was not yet accustomed to dence Israel's Ambassador to this country, Mr. we idea_nor did they like it—that Jews could A symposium was recently held jointly by Michael Comay, in a message said that Anglo- ^snt and win a war. Some Christians felt that BBC Radio London's "You don't have to be Jewry can share Israel's pride in a quarter- * Jew could not work witb his hands and Jewisb" programme and the Jewish Chronicle century of phenomenal growth and achieve­ *as someone only out to make money. These at Kenton Synagogue. Tbe panel was split on ment, of which they were part. However, the struggle was not over and tbe efforts must old niyths bad been dispelled by Israel. The tbe question of whether Ango-Jewry should ni? i^ was now accustomed to the Jew standing take a stand regarding coloured immigration be continued and even intensified. rii ^\^ own feet, yet many Christians felt that to Britain but most speakers expressed the jFael^vvas "a slap against Christian Messianic view that, as descendants of immigrants the Bournemouth Symbolic Seder Jews had a special duty to fight against the A symbolic seder for Soviet Jewry was held 'ijj'Jiticising those who opposed any form of prejudice to which tbe newcomers are exposed. at the Bournemouth Synagogue at a secier (v'^logue" between Christians and Jews, Mr. The representative of the JC said that the table set in the synagogue and presided over pOnen said it was not enough for Jews and community as such should not express a cor­ by Rabbi and Mrs. Jonah Indech. Rabbi u^^istians to "do good together"; they bad to porate opinion on tbe issue of immigration, Indecb's commentaries were interspersed by AjRerstand each other in their own terms, which did not affect it directly. Mr. Sidney pleas for tbe Jews in tbe Soviet Union in ^^"lough Jews, rightly, asked much of Chris- Shipton, general secretary of the Zionist spiritual and physical bondage. jQj'ty in the way of understanding, be did Federation, expressed strong disagreement, Present at the ceremony was Sir John Eden, a- think that we gave as much in return claiming that the Jewisb community had to be MP for Bournemouth West and Minister for ^^ We ought. concerned with all vital issues affecting tbe Posts and Telecommunications; the minister of British community as a whole. He felt that the Boumemouth Refonn Synagogue, Rabbi DEPUTIES AND WJC such involvement should, however, not be made David Soetendorp; Christian clergy and lay at tbe expense of Jewry's fight to gain human leaders, together witb magistrates and coun­ 3 An overwhelming majority of the outgoing rigbts for itself and its brethren in other cillors. in.„''d. of Deputies resolved to recommend the countries, Jews should use their democratic Co°ining board to join tbe Worid Jewisb rigbts as citizens to express opinions Frustration for Aged tijaJ^.^ess. Tbe board came to the conclusion over such important issues as immigration, .. ..Was to its own benefit and best interests thought Rev. Dr. Isaac Levy, director of the Tbe Jewish Welfare Board, which has be­ vL^-^^^ as that of tbe WJC, to accept the in- Jewish National Fund. come increasingly aware of the fmstration and president hardships which many elderly people encounter ^ration of Dr. Nahum Goldmann, pi VOTES FOR WOMEN in baving to wait to enter homes for the aged, '^^ the Congress. has introduced several reforms. A revised anp " ^oldmann had given the board assur- An extraordinary meeting of the Yeshurun waiting-list has been initiated admitting only ind^^ and safeguards to ensure tbe continued Synagogue, Gatley, Manchester, unanimously urgent applications and thus ensuring that jjQjrPendence of Anglo-Jewry's representative voted that women be granted full membership delays in admission to a home are cut down and tbe right to vote. Women will still not be to a minimum. SOCIAL SERVICES CENTRALISATION eligible for executive ofiBce, but there can be Since there must be a degree of overlapping a maximum of four on the council including in applications for accommodation in homes jj or the present the Jewish Welfare Board the chairman of the ladies' guild. and flatlets run by the several Jewish organis­ for T^ • *•" accept that the Central Council ations which provide such facilities, it was trail j^*^^ Social Service becomes the cen- suggested that a central registry of old people Ser^rf administrative machine for social Your House for:— awaiting accommodation might help to reduce ti^T^'^es in Anglo-Jewry. The JWB will con- the problem and perhaps help to reduce num­ it T - ^^''k on the central council only if CURTAINS, CARPETS, bers on tbe lists. There is alrady some degree assp^F^ios a co-ordinating body. The board of co-operation in this regard. Parti ^ that it is necessary to restrict its arggJp^P^tipn on the council to clearly defined FLOORCOVERINGS New Southend Home daytp' which could include co-ordination in ing'x^ntre work, field work and joint purchas- SPECIALITY On May 13, Lord Goodman officially declared open Raymond House, the second home of its wgj l^owever, tbe hope is expressed that there CONTINENTAL DOWN kind in Southend administered by tbe Jewish . .''e complete centralisation in the future Welfare Board and built at a cost of £250,000. tak- t the rneeting where tliis decision was QUILTS The bome, situated at tbe top of the cliffs, stat^'^' reference was also made to the serious commands an uninterrupted panoramic view Wa^ °? the JWB's financial affairs, when it ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS of the Thames Estuary. Accommodating 36 197P Pointed out that tbe deficit at the end of elderly Jewish residents, it is purpose-built on Egoq^s over £100.000 Total expenditure was ESTIMATES FREE year u'-^™^ £130,000 more than the previous four floors witb two penthouse apartments, a Thi«' J^'hile voluntary donations had dropped. synagogue, a five-bedded elaborately equipped boaLr^fieit has had to be deducted from the DAWSON-LANE LIMITED sickbay, a surgery and a hairdressing salon. 'Oard (EstBkllslwd 1946) It cost £34,000 to equip the home and the s general assets. upkeep will amount to £36,000 annually. The 17 BRIDGE ROAO, WEMBLEY PARK cost of maintaining one resident is £20 a week, ^ith acknowledgement to the news Tefephone: 904 6671 although residents will only pay according to service of the Jewish Chronicle. PcnoMi sttentlOB tl Mr. W. Skackau*. their means and are selected irrespective of their financial circumstances. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION June, 1973 TORONTO NEWS FROM ABROAD First Sephardi Synagogue The foundation stone of Toronto's. first ARGENTINE Sepbardi synagogue was laid by Rabbi ur. UNITED STATES Solomon Gaon, the Habam. The Toronto Employment Destination Extradition Granted Sephardi community of 4,500 members mainiy Josef Schwammberger, a former SS oflficer consists of Jews who have arrived in the city In a Manhattan federal court the American who obtained Argentine citizenship in 1965, during the past 15 years from Morocco, Egypt. Government bas brought an action against tbe Iraq and other Middle East countries. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the is expected to appeal against tbe Argentine largest life insurance company in the United Government's agreement to a West German extradition request. ATHENS SYNAGOGUES States, which employs some 50,000 people. The During tbe Second World War, Schwamm- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission berger was SS chief of the Przemysl Ghetto The Athens Jewish community's two syna­ has accused the company of discriminating and in charge of Mielec concentration camp in gogues, a little more than a mile from tne against Jews and other minorities in its staff Poland. He is accused of many crimes against Acropolis, may be expropriated. The land on engagement and employment policies. The Jewish women, children and old people. Ar­ which tbe synagogues stand bas been oeag- Government also alleges that the Metropolitan rested in Innsbruck in 1945, be escaped from nated as an "archaeological site" by the Gree* fails to provide Jews witb work assignments Landeck prison in Austria in 1948, arriving in Archaeological Council. Objections have been allowing them to observe the Sabbath. Argentina in March, 1949, via West Germany lodged by the Greek Jewisb leadership. , and Italy, where he entered with a forged Soon after tbe Purim celebrations tbe city s Commemorative Stamps Italian passport. main Bet Shalom Synagogue was defaced W black swastikas. Police are investigating. In honour of the composer and song writer, Doctors Honoured The Athens community consists of some George Gershwin, an eight-cent commemora­ 2,800 Jews. tive stamp is to be issued by the United States. The first Jew to become president of the Dr. Leonard Leader, an historian living in Argentine Medical Association is Dr. Arnoldo ITALY Los Angeles, says that this is the fourth Ameri­ Binstock, the president of the Argentine can postage stamp honouring a Jew: in 1948 Society for Heart Surgery, who bas been active Fascist Violence Rabbi Alexander D. Goode was pictured with in Jewish affairs for many years. three other Second World War chaplains who The Argentine Medical Association has this During demonstrations by Right-wing extrem­ went down witb the s.s. Dorchester after band­ year awarded two Jewish doctors—Dr. Gregorio ists in Milan, which were held in spite of a ing their lifebelts to troops aboard the ship; Malajovic and Dr. Carlos Horacio Specter— ban by the city authorities, one policeman dieo in 1950 Samuel Gompers, the American Jewish prizes for scientific research. and another was injured when a bomb was leader was honoured in this way; Professor thrown by the demonstrators. The rioters were Albert Einstein was commemorated by a Department of Jewish Studies reported to have been led by well-known neo- fascist personalities assembled in Milan from stamp in 1966. Argentina, a predominantly Catholic country, different parts of Italy. In tbe parliamentary has for the first time in its history opened a debate after tbe riots Mr. Pietro Nenm, tne Award for "Judenrat" Book department of Jewish studies at a university. veteran Socialist leader, underlined a severe Inaugurated at the School of Oriental Studies waming of tbe setting loose of an authenn^ The 1973 National Book Award was pre­ at Salvador's Catholic University, three Jewish fascist movement. Pointing out that there were sented to Dr. Isaiah Trunk in New York for professors have been appointed to teach also many other danger signals of the fascw his book, "Judenrat", dealing witb the Jewish Hebrew language^ Jewisb post-Biblical history menace, he deplored tbe delay of the im­ councils which operated in Eastem Europe and Biblical Jewish philosophy. plementation of urgently needed effectiv under the Nazis. measures. -. President's Assurances Attack on Chasidim Vandals in Rome set fire to a motor ca» Daia, the representative organisation of belonging to Mr. Arrigo Levi, a prominen'; According to tbe New York Times, Chasidim Argentine Jews, has received written assur­ Italian Jewisb journalist, who had recenuj living in the Borough Park district of Brooklyn ances from Dr. Hector Campora, tbe successful returned from a visit to Israel as the specw are so concerned about their safety that several Peronista candidate in tbe Argentine Presi­ correspondent of the Turin newspaper, ^ hundred of them called on tbe police station dential elections held in March. The President Stampa. „ to protest at what they called police laxity in confirmed tbe promises he gave to a Daia Nazi and fascist slogans were daubed ou tbe case of two of their fellows beaten witb delegation which called to offer the congratu­ walls in Perugia near the shops and homes o lengths of wood by two youths. Rabbi Hertz lations of tbe Jewish community. community members. -^1, Frankel, who heads a Chasidic social service In his letter Dr. Campora declared that the In Padua, three men have been charge(i wu centre in Borough Park, and the Skwerer Peronista Party did not distinguish between tbe arson of the Jewish community buiia?»| Rebbe, Rabbi David Twersky, have expressed people concerning their religion, race, or land in October, 1972, and witb sending tbreateninB their concem about constant assaults on of origin. letters to local Jewish leaders. Two of t^j Chasidim. The wife of tbe Bobover Rebbe told Some sections of the community have con­ arrested men are employed in the library " tbe paper that antisemitic abuse was common tinued to express fears at the Peronista Franco Freda, a prominent neo-fascist heW^ victory. Milan on charges of organising bomb e in Borough Park. plosions in Rome and Milan in Decemoej^ The New York Times states that there has Attacks on Institutions 1969, when banks were wrecked and scor been a "population explosion" of Chasidic Jews of people killed and injured. in Borough Park. It is estimated that of the In tbe Argentine city of Rosario the area's population of 190,000 more than 120,000 religious Jewish "Rav Kook" school was ex­ are Jewish and almost 30,000 of these are tensively damaged by a night-time bomb attack. KOSYGIN AT PRESS CONFERENCE Chasidim. About 65,000 of the residents are of A large number of tar-oil bombs were At the end of his recent visit to Sweden W^^ Italian descent, 1,000 are blacks and there are thrown against the Mar del Plata community Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet Premier, §ave 4,000 "Hispanics" (Spanish-speaking people). centre and tbe synagogue, defacing the build­ ings. The community protested to the Governor press conference in Stockholm. ReplyinSnj,,.. of Buenos Aires. questions from Israeli correspondents. .,^ig German-Jewish Scientist Commemorated Kosygin said that tbe situation in the Mi°"uj Supporters of Dr. Alberto Trejo, the candi­ East remained one of the threats to woi date of the Nazi-inspired Nationalist Party peace. ^e A two-time winner of the Nobel Prize has during the local election, daubed antisemitic As regards the emigration tax law, >^j. established an endowment fund to honour tbe slogans on walls in the town of Tucuman. Soviet Union bad a right to determine wheiw distinguished scientist Dr. Fritz London, pro­ SOUTH AFRICA an individual was well off enough to pay^'i^gt fessor of physics at Duke University, Durham pensation for tuition when leaving the Sov (North Carolina, U.S.A.), who died in 1954. "Lmked with Whites" Union. But, the Premier concluded, as rn^'Jg cases had shown, this compensation coiud ^^ The endowment was created through gifts A recent issue of Jewisb Affairs, tbe monthly waived in cases where individuals did totalling $32,000 from Dr. Jobn Bardeen, journal of the South African Jewish Board have the means. Nobel laureate in 1956 and 1972 to "promote of Deputies, carried an article by its chairman, Mr. D. K. Mann. research and further understanding of physics "Tbe South African Jewisb community's at Duke and in the wider scientific com­ destiny is inextricably linked witb that of the munity". Dr. Bardeen stated that more than white group of South Africa, witb which it is INTERNIERUNGSUGER anyone else. Professor London bad "pointed integrated geographically", the article stated. Ich kaufe saubere Karten und UmschlSfl* out the path that eventually led to tbe theory Tbe small community, said Mr. Mann, must mil klaren Stempein aus Internlerung*' of superconductivity for which Leon N. Cooper, accept that its fate is largely in tbe hands of forces it is powerless to control or even to lagern; z.B. aus Jamaica, Rhodesle"- J. Robert Schrieffer, and I were awarded the Mauritius usw., von 1914-19 und 1939-45- Nobel Prize for physics in 1972." Professor influence decisively. Mr. Mann declared that the Jewish com­ Angebote mit Vorlage erbeten an : London, who had left Germany as a victim munity faced no special dangers from other of Nazi persecution, taught at Duke from groups to its continued existence as an ethnic Peter C. RIcfcenbKk. 1939 until his death. and religious entity. 14 Rosslvn HIII. LoiKlaii. NWS IPf. ^ AJR INFORMATION June, 1973 Page 5

WARSAW GHETTO ANNIVERSARY MISCELLANEOUS NEWS In London, the traditional commemoration meeting took place on April 29 at St. Pancras Town Hall, sponsored by all major organisa­ BRITISH JEWRY'S ROYAL SILVER INDEPENDENCE DAY tions including the AJR. Tbe key speaker WEDDING-FOREST The military parade which marked the 25th was Lord Greenwood of Rossendale. "These Dinner at Guildhall anniversary of the establishment of the State annual functions", he said, "are necessary, for of Israel may be the last of its kind. There the more the world knows about the happen­ To mark ,the Silver Wedding of Her Majesty is a growing mood against display of military ^ Queen and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, might as the best illustration of Israel's ings the better". Two lessons were to be drawn British Jewry has planted a Forest of one sovereignty. Tbe Israeli Cabinet considerably from the fiendish policy of the Nazi regime: ^Uion trees on Mount Debora near Nazareth, debated tbe holding of this parade, with Mr. the horrifying effects in which racial dis­ yhe scheme was sponsored by prominent Moshe Dayan, tbe Defence Minister, among crimination may result, and the recognition those against it. Those in favour of the parade that assimilation had turned out to be no Jewish personalities of various shades of saw it both as setting the final seal on Israel's Jewish religious and political opinion and solution and the establishment of a Jewish total sovereignty in the city and publicly state a necessity. Alderman M. Fidler, MP, Put into effect under the auspices of the demonstrating the fact to residents, tourists Jewish National Fund in co-operation with and tbe world. Tbe opponents argued that not President of tbe Board of Deputies, reminded all major Jewisb organisations. Tbe AJR also only was it a financial extravagance, but also the audience that the Ghetto uprising bad been Participated in the efforts and many former an unnecessary assertion of a militarist image carried out by tbe Jews with hardly any help refugees helped to make the venture a success which tends to over-shadow Israel's myriad from tbe Poles. Lord Janner stressed that the Oy donating trees either in answer to the achievements in many other spheres. acts perpetrated by the Palestinian terrorists appeal published in "AJR Information" or Independence Day was preceded by Mem­ endangered not only Israel and Diaspora through other channels. orial Day for Israel's fallen, marked by special Jewry but the whole world. He moved a reso­ ceremonies at the Western Wall and memorial lution (passed unaminously) calling for an end .To present H.R.H. tbe Duke of Edinburgh services at military cemeteries throughout the to the plight of the persecuted Jews in Iraq. With a commemorative volume carrying tbe land. The end of Memorial Day and the begin­ Tbe Israel Ambassador, Mr. M. Comay, and •lames of all contributors, a Dinner was held ning of Independence Day was heralded by Mr. Shalom Grayek, a leader of the uprising ^t Guildhall on May 7. Tbe guests included a ceremony on Mount Herzl, where the who now lives in Israel, also spoke. The the vice-chairman and general secretary of founder of modern Zionism lies buried. function was presided over by Afr. L. Feit, ^he AJR, Mr. W. M. Behr, OBE, and Mr. W. Jewisb communities and organisations all Chairman of the Polish Jewish Ex-Service­ *tosenstock respectively. over the world celebrated the 25th anniver­ men's Association. Mr. Rosser Chinn, President of the J.N.F., sary of Israel's statehood with a variety of public functions and private celebrations. A Who was in the Chair, told the audience that. gala concert at the Royal Albert Hall was the Presiding over a commemoration lecture de­ When the scheme was submitted to Bucking­ highlight of London celebrations. Yehudi livered by Mr. Reuben Ainsztein and arranged ham Palace for approval, there had been a Menuhin, Daniel Adni (the Israeli pianist) and in London by the Jewisb Quarterly, Mr. David spontaneous response. H. E. the Israel Ambas- Topol were the soloists, with tbe New Phil­ Astor, editor of The Observer, described the ^•Jor, Mr. M. Comay, recalled that Britain harmonia Orchestra and the Goldsmiths uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto as "the most *^ the first country which had shown strong Choral Union. The concert was presented extraordinary and admirable event of the jointly by the Zionist Federation and Anglo- Second World War". A detailed account of pmpathies witb the idea of a Jewisb home- the ghetto revolt was given by Mr. Ainsztein. .ajid. Her role as the Mandatory Power had Jewish organisations. Synagogues all over the left country held services of rejoicing and thanks­ He pointed out that it had not been some an indelible mark on the country. The giving, and extensive programmes of events isolated accident. It marked the culmination Rt. Hon. Julian Amery, MP, Minister of were arranged to celebrate the occasion. of Jewisb armed resistance in occupied Poland ^te, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, that bad manifested itself in other ghettos tated that Britain wished "to strengthen and before and was to occur again. Mr. Ainsztein SILVER JUBILEE OF AMADEUS is currently completing a two-volume history develop her ties with Israel." Recalling the for the Oxford University Press on "Jewish °le of his father, the late Leo Amery, who STRING QUARTET participation in tbe Polish and Soviet resist­ Jirafted the Balfour Declaration, be said that "The world's best string quartet"—with ance movement". "e Declaration had been motivated first and these words the achievements of tbe Amadeus •"emost by tbe recognition of the spiritual String Quartet were summed up in a recent A memorial evening for the victims of the senius of the Jewish people. TV broadcast, arranged "as an affectionate Holocaust was held at the Jewish Agency's tribute" to celebrate tbe 25th anniversary of transit centre at Kastel Schoenau, outside p "'Renting tbe Commemorative Volume to Vienna, participated in by nearly 200 Soviet S"ee Philip, the Chief Rabbi first paid its foundation. In 1948, three Jewisb refugees from Austria, Norbert Brainin, Siegmund Jews, most of whom had just arrived from tbe sa H *^ to this country in which, like thou- Soviet Union. After the main speech by the Nissel and Peter Schidlof, and a British-born Israeli Ambassador, Mr. Itzbak Patisb. six ref °^ others, be and his family had found Jew, Martin Lovet, formed a partnership Soviet Jews each lit one candle in memory of tuge when the Nazis came to power in which, as tbe programme in Radio Times put the six million victims of the Holocaust. Tbe next morning the whole group visited the site j^ermany^hoi, 'ent . onTh, e servefamildy lifase aonf thexample Royael coupleto the, it, "was to transform the musical public's j^uoi"Gne countryt nn .corv» SpeakinH QCg oni n ovumrila lighteo rti n veini\\a, attitude to chamber music". Many of us will of the Mauthausen concentration camp, leav­ fath^ recaUed that during the war his late remember the war time functions under the ing for Israel by air that evening. ^ ner had been rabbi of the congregation in auspices of the AJR and other refugee organ­ jjg °sor and that by the right of inheritance, Israel's homage to the six million Jews who isations, when members of the Quartet died in the Holocaust was even more sombre aj^ *^°tild therefore claim to be "the nearest rendered performances as soloists or as mem­ this year witb the disclosure that two more I'Proximation to tbe Queen's own Rabbi", bers of the orchestra then built up and concentration camps, hitherto unknown to tbe spi reply of the Duke of Edinburgh was conducted by the late Dr. F. Berend. The public, had operated in Germany. Yad Vashem, in +v^ ^^'•^ impromptus. "A nameless country Silver Anniversary broadcast not only included the Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Auth­ \^^^ Middle East", he said, had just cele- recitals of the quartet but interviews witb ority, revealed tbe existence of the camps at ; ed the 25th anniversary of its modem Gotha and Gardelegen in East Germany, where exist, the artists about their background and work­ thousands of Jews were exterminated appar­ •ence, "and we have survived—I should ing methods as well as delightful film shots ently without any survivors. ^y enjoyed—25 years of married life." "The describing their itineraries and their family 'lee^i'^ and I", he concluded, "appreciate lives. Israel's central commemoration of the Holo­ from *^^^ token of affection and loyalty caust was observed in tbe Knesset, where Mr. "FORGIVE AND FORGET" Pinhas Sapir, the Finance Minister, equated the Black September Arab terrorists with the German Jewess on "Woman's Hour" Nazis in their desire to murder Jews. Mrs. " THANK-YOU BRFTAIN " FUND Golda Meir, the Prime Minister, who addressed In memory of her cbildren, who perished thousands of Warsaw Ghetto survivors at Kib­ '^cture by Arthur Koestler on June 27 in Auschwitz, the violinist Mrs. Use Joseph butz Yad Mordecai, advised people who took Vea-^^^prs will be pleased to learn that this has recorded recitals of Kol Nidrei and other no action to save Jews from the Holocaust be j^,. Thank-you Britain " Fund Lecture will works. The proceeds will accrue to a Fund not to preach about morality to Israel. All "Thp K.V-ered by the author Arthur Koestler. administered by Children and Youth Aliyah Jewish places of entertainment and restaur­ lion "tie ehosen bv the speaker will be "The and be used for music scholarships. Recently, ants were shut at the start of Israel's tradi­ 6rji'.^nd the Ostrich; Two Asoects of Life in tional 24-hour remembrance of the Holocaust nesdi'^ - The lecture will be" held on Wed- Mrs. Joseph gave la recotal on BBC Woman's victims. During the memorial period appro­ Acad/' "^™^ 27, at 5 p.m., at the British Hour which, as usual in ber performances in priate music and other programmes were doa S.y. Burlington House, Piccadilly, Lon- this country, Germany and overseas, she linked broadcast and cbildren received instruction on feadpr ; '^'^ secure admission, interested witb a personal talk. Tbe broadcast was European Jewry and its fate during tbe Second th, to^?^shoul d ask for invitation cards from delivered under the heading "Forgive and World War. Traditional memorial prayers *intish Academy. Forget". were recited at synagogue services. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION June, 1973

Hans Jaeger and Protestants undertook responsibility jointly. Yet anyhow he saw no alternative be­ cause, in his opinion, the S.P.D. had not no itself of Marxist ideology; besides, be was A TRUE HUMANIST against nationalisation. He did not like the F.D.P. either because of its anti-clerical atti­ Biography of President Heinemann tude. He resigned from the Cabinet in 195^ and left the C.D.U., partly because he feared Wherever President Heinemann went, to founder-member of the C.D.U. in Essen and, that reunification would be beyond reach m Holland, Sweden or, some months ago, to Great for a short time, he was Minister of Justice tbe case of German rearmament, partly he- Britain, he first met with respect and very in North Rhine-Westphalia. Later he joined cause tbe majority of the C.D.U. claimed that soon affection. He was considered as the repre­ the Federal Government and became Minister its policy was based on Christian principles- sentative of another Germany, and his impact of Home Affairs. In Heinemann's view, acceptance of Nato hao was thus complementary to that of the German What followed cannot be understood without nothing to do with Christianity and opposition Chancellor, Willy Brandt. His widespread taking into account Heinemann's attitude to to it was quite possible out ot a sense ot recognition bas nothing to do with party con­ Christianity. This is a complex chapter the Christian responsibility. When he exhorted the siderations which should, anyway, not be details of which were not fully known before. church to maintain a greater distance between applied to a president, and it goes far beyond It reaffirms the fact that Heinemann does not itself and the State, be was in 1955 voted out the issue of tbe political past. It is a matter fit easily into any particular category. He bad as president of the synod. of his whole style, personality, emanation. not always been a Christian, as a child having Like bis father, Heinemann is a seeker- For all these reasons the Heinemann bio­ been estranged from the church, as often hap­ The man, who seems to emanate harmony a^io graphy* was awaited with the greatest interest. pened in liberal families at that time. calmness, is not complacent, and this explain* Placing as it does tbe main emphasis on atmos­ tbe various changes he underwent. He made phere, it is much more than a routine life Follower of Karl Barth bis experiment with an All-German People = story. In tbe foreword Siegfried Lenz writes Party and, when it failed, he wound it up and that Heinemann " deglamourised " tbe position In his early years be was connected witb the went over to the S.P.D. His critics did not of a president and removed the function from " Society for Ethical Culture ", and witb Ernst understand and be had to endure a great dea the gilded cage of a rigid ceremonial system. Haeckel's " I/cague of Monists". Unlike his of slander. They called him a fellow-traveller, He did away witb pompousness and stuflBness father he was, however, not a militant atheist. even a Communist in disguise, but Heinemann which is ridiculous and grotesque in the age His turn to Christianity was due to the Swiss did not pay back in the same coin. He bad n we live in. Yet this can only be done by one theologian Karl Barth and to bis wife, Hilda capacity for hatred or intrigue and he refuse who bas natural dignity. Heinemann is tbe Ordemann, daughter of a Bremen merchant. to regard politics as a struggle for power only- people's president. Of course, there are people Through her elder sister, who rebelled against Instead he propounded the idea of democracy who are not ripe for that conception or who conventional Christianity and worked on the with a social conscience in bome affairs, ano prefer to remain servile. social rehabilitation of prisoners in the Berlin- of security through balance of interests an As the foreword states, Heinemann abhors Tegel prison, Hilda had been brought into con­ not by the threat of force in foreign pol^'^": all that is not genuine, has tbe courage to tact with tbe Left-Wing Protestant anti-Wilhel­ In the S.P.D. the former industrialist first attack taboos, is against selfish pursuit of pros­ minian ideas of religious socialism. She passed met with some suspicion which was, however perity, against monopolisation of Christianity her examinataions in Marburg under tbe quickly dispersed. After a year he became on by a specific party, against a policy of illusory famous reformer Rudolf Bultmann and it was of the party leaders. In 1969, to bis great sur­ strength, against submissiveness instead of there that sbe met Heinemann. Hilda intro­ prise, the party unanimously appointed him a moral responsibility. He may be compared with duced Heinemann to Karl Barth's commentary their candidate as Federal President. He r^ another people's President, Masaryk. to tbe Epistle to the Romans, the book which ceived 512 votes, against 506 for Gerharo caused a revolution in theology in tbe 'twen­ Schroeder. Heinemann's background is rather interest­ ties. That was his "Damascus' and Heine­ ing. His maternal great-grandfather, together Individual and State with two brothers, fought in Baden during the mann now discovered tbe ideas of Christian revolution of 1848/49. One of the brothers was realism, tolerance and social engagement which For the first time a coalition of the S-P-t^' wounded in Waghaeusel; the other fled to he had not found before. Becoming a legal and tbe F.D.P. had outvoted the C.D.U. Wnen America from where he wrote that despite adviser to tbe Confessional Church he contri­ tical buted to the resistance movement though, in Heinemann took office, he asked for " cri an poverty he did not wish to retum as he could accompaniment", unheard of before m enjoy freedom of speech in that country. his modest and very conscientious way, he did no' later admitted that he had not done enough atmosphere of authoritarianism. He the Heinemann's grandfather gained his experi­ in this field. When, in 1936, be was offered a share the mistrust of tbe critical spirit or ence with Garibaldi in Italy and taught his post in the coal syndicate, he made it a condi­ anti-intellectual stance of some Federal ^J*^^ grandson the Hecker song—the hymn to the tion that be could continue bis work for the cellors. It is very characteristic of him tn leader of Baden's radicals. Here we find the church. As this was not accepted he refused he once stated that links between tbe in'^' - roots of Heinemann's rejection of the authori­ tbe job. dual and the State should not be based o tarian state and his demand for the citizen's emotions but on reason. This is what be mea active involvement in the democratic process. His friendship with Karl Barth lasted until when he said that he did not love the Sta ' His father, a councillor in Essen, fought for the latter's deatb. Bartb's Barmen Declaration, but that be loved his wife. He omJ social awareness and equal rights and respon­ which used the Bible to attack the heresies wanted in this way to indicate that tbe w^o sibilities, thus not being a conformist either. of the Nazis and of the pro-Nazi " German "love" should be used in its right conte*^ As a student Gustav Heinemann was deputy Christians ", left its mark on Heinemann. A Yet some super-critics misconstrued this , chairman of the democratic students' group in great influence also was the Stuttgart Church "lack of pride" in the State and as a o^^ Marburg. The chairman was the late Ernst Declaration of Guilt in October, 1945. Heine­ example. No wonder it was contrary to "'^ JJ, Lemmer, one of tbe very few C.D.U. members mann joined the C.D.U. only because Catholics sian State adoration (and to Hegelian tra who retained friendship with Heinemann after tion), which goes back to the exampl)le oi the latter's break with Adenauer. Sparta and now has its successors in ^.^.^fdiffer- After tbe completion of his studies, Heine­ ent part of the world. During the crisis ^g mann became a lawyer in Essen in 1926. Two July, 1972 [described by the reviewer in ^^ years later, at the age of 29, he was offered a Elka Couture front-page article of our February, 1973 i^L^g. contract as an industrial lawyer by Rheinstahl —The Ed.] Heinemann never lost his ne^'• in Essen. Eventually he became a board mem­ He only made it clear to tbe C.D.U. lea^j^ ber of the concern, remaining there until after E. HORNIK LTD. Barzel that the decision should be placed ^^ tbe war. Tbe British invited him to become the hands of the electorate. His quiet, so^^j Mayor of Essen because he was well known realistic, human way has convinced many. Jj as an opponent to National Socialism. Yet they there are still many others who find it !\ g soon found out that they had chosen an " awk­ Elsely House to get on with bim and who consider hini ward " man. He campaigned against the dis­ " provocative figure ". uriD^ mantling of industrial installations and also 24/30 Gt. Titchfield Street Joachim Braun has done his best to ",gj. told them that even as the occupying power the man nearer to those who do not im ^^ of a defeated country they could not have Loncion, W.l stand him, and bas endeared him more ^^^ their way in everything. Heinemann was then a those who do. Tbe comprehensive book g Telephone: 01-580 3448/9/0 includes a selection of Heinemann's spee .^jj * Joachim Braun : Gustav Heinemann—The Commuted which are a gold mine of wisdom, modera ^ President. Foreword by S!«gfrie

Herbert Freeden (Jerusaleni) HAMBURG COLLECTS WRITERS As a rule, bibliographies—books about books and data about their authors—are about as WOMEN IN ISRAELI POLITICS exciting as last week's laundry list, reference works which are of interest and value only for Recently a group of Israeli Wizo ladies, because " in local government they could take tbe literary historian. But tbe series of biblio­ part in civic work without leaving their homes graphies now being published in Hamburg meeting with twelve past and present women commands our attention for other reasons. It is Knesset members, suggested the nomination of for any length of time or neglecting them." a venture undertaken by a body calling itself Senta Josephthal for the post of Housing Minis­ Local authority also coincides in large measure Freie Akademie der Kunste, in collaboration ter in the next Cabinet. Though a sign of witb wbat be regards to be women's principal witb tbe library of Hamburg's university, and •"espect for Mrs. Josepbthal, the proposal was fields of interest, such as education, cleanli­ founded by the German writer Rolf Italiaan- Primarily a demonstrative gesture—^to demand ness, community and social services and the der, whose own bibliography—if it were ever a more active participation of women in Israeli arts, in which they could do a great deal for written—would have to include a number of Politics. Participants pointed out that female their localities. works published during the war, which he representation in tbe present Knesset was at an Dr. Weiss traces the reasons for the situation might prefer to consign to oblivion: Weg­ aU4ime low with seven members plus tbe to tbe nature of the beginning of public office bereiter deutscher Luftgeltung, Luftkrieg iiber ^rime Minister, as compared with twelve mem­ in that country as voluntary service, for which dem Mittelmeer, a biography of Mussolini's bers (plus Mrs. Meir) in earlier Knessets. women simply had not enough time. More Air Marshal Balbo and one of Hitler's most Dr. Shevah Weiss, senior lecturer at Haifa convincing, be makes tbe traditional inferior fervent admirers, the air ace Hanna Reitsch University, in a research paper, " Women's role of women in the Sephardi and Oriental (who later tried to persuade the Fiibrer to let representation in National and Local Political communities responsible for the present her fly bim out of besieged Berlin). ^fflces in Israel", notes that for years now impasse, and of even wider consequences, With his Hamburger Bibliographien,* how­ taere has been no woman Secretary of the religious prejudices against them. As Israeli ever, Italiaander has come down to earth after jiistadrut (Trade Unions) — since Mrs. Meir elections are held under the proportional his preoccupation witb the Nazi-Fascist sky. held the post—and only one female full mem­ representation system, women should have Tbe 15 volumes which bave appeared so far ber on the Histadrut's Central Committee. He been able to achieve a far greater share of include a great variety of writers: Nelly Sachs ^omes to the conclusion that the women in political offices, because they need not make and Tibor Dery, Kurt Hiller and Alan Paton, tsrael who comprise 52 per cent of tbe popula­ the trying and time-consuming personal cam­ Max Brod and Walther von Hollander, Willy tion, have failed to achieve anything like paigns that are a " must" in constituency Haas and Giintber Weisenbom, Alfred Kanto­ eommensurate representation in the country's elections. rowicz and Hans Leip (one of his sentimental Political offices, national and local. The fact little poems became the world-famous Lili Only recently, a " Women's Lib" was Marleen). Volumes on two more exiled writers, hat the present Premier is a woman, not only founded in Israel, with Dr. Masha Friedman ails to redress the imbalance but rather helps the poetess Margarete Susman and the literary as chairman. Mrs. Friedman, the wife of historian Professor Walter A. Berendson, are t° perpetuate it, as ber lofty position is ex­ Anglicist Professor William Friedman of Haifa ploited by tbe men to " keep women quiet" in preparation. University and mother of a daughter of six, Tbe bibliographies of Nelly Sacbs, Max •^y pointing to ber as an example. Further- bas grown up and graduated in New York ^^9^^. her central position in the State's leader- Brod, and Willy Haas, which bave been sub­ where she became familiar witb tbe latest mitted to us for reviewing, show bow much ^"ip that bas included membership in most women emancipation efforts. So far, tbe move­ Pi"evious Cabinets, " did not represent the painstaking labour has been devoted to making ment in Israel bas not extended beyond house them comprehensive and reliable works of emale sector. It may be assumed that she circles in Haifa and Tel Aviv but Dr. Friedman reference. Each volume contains, apart from ehieved her position not because she is a is confident that it will grow and that also tbe the complete documentation on tbe subject's *oman but despite being one." Israeli women will make a determined stand work, an introductory biography and literary . "[hile female members of the Knesset do against discrimination and male domination. assessment, a short autobiography, a chron­ It in committees and sometimes chair them, Among their immediate practical demands are ology, a portrait drawing, and a facsimile of here are no women in the Foreign Affairs and a week's paid vacation for every housewife and the author's handwriting. Tbe bibliography of ecurity Committees or the Finance Commit- national insurance coverage for them, as well Nelly Sachs—by necessity a slim volume as j?e, the most important committees in the as income tax reforms to eliminate injustices sbe published only 16 original works — has ouse. Dr. Weiss writes that while women against widows. been splendidly introduced by a 30-year-old ave had a proportionally high share of deputy Hamburg graduate, Paul Kersten. The volume jPeakerships, the importance of this office has on Max Brod, three times as thick, lists an r* fact declined as tbe number of deputies enormous literary work ranging from journa­ as increased, and no woman has as yet been lism to fiction, from poetry to opera libretti, Chosen as Speaker. from literary criticism to political pamphlets; HOUSE OF HALLGARTEN he even tried his hand as a composer. Willy .Of stUl greater significance be finds the fact Haas, who comes from the same Prague back­ ^at no woman bas ever been appointed deputy ground and atmosphere as Brod (and, of "^uiister, " a post that not a few women do course, Kafka), is best known as tbe editor gj in most Westem countries," as well as Specialist Shippers of tbe Literarische Welt in pre-Hitler Berlin; ^sewhere. He notes that "if the criterion of he emigrated to India and returned, via Eng­ "terest, natural fitness and talent for tbe land, to Hamburg. Rolf Italiaander introduces Post Were decisive, women would certainly the volume on his Geliebter Willy, as he .^^0 become deputy ministers. But such con- Fine Wines Unique Liqueurs addressed him; unfortunately, an embarrassing ^derations do not guide those who distribute (Freudian?) slip mars tbe pre-title page where Political offices." the subject's name appears, in solitary splen­ // you ea/oy mnes On the local government level, woman's dour, as "Willy Hass". P ace is even humbler in Israel, and they have write for our fatest hve fist EGON LARSEN jj^^er topped more than 3 per cent of local * Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg. ounciiiors. Only four women, including one which is full of fascinating ^'^b woman, have served as Council Chair- WEST GERMAN COMMUNITY , ^n. but only one of them not in a small MEMBERSHIP j^ eaiity—Rishon le-Zion. Nor bas there ever information, maps, vintage reports j^^en a woman deputy mayor in the large At the end of 1972 the membership of the and charts, descriptions, wines Jewisb community in West Germany numbered ties. Dr. Weiss considers women's minor 26,611, as against 26,779 at the end of 1971. osition in local government more serious than West Berlin, with 5,241 members, has tbe ^ir absence on the national government level. for laying down largest community in West Germany.

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BUBER-ROSENZWEIG MEDAL CONTINUITY AND COURAGE At tbe inauguration meeting of this year's Brotherhood Week in the German Federal 40th Anniversary of "Mitteilungsblatt" (Tel Aviv) Republic, tbe Buber-Rosenzweig medal of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Ckhoperation Longevity and continuity bave never been party of its own, the Aliyah Chadasha, whose was awarded to Professor D. Helmut Goll­ outstanding qualities in the history of Jewish aims were based on the principles of political witzer (Berlin). In tbe laudatio Professor joumals. Yet it seems that, with "Yeckishe" liberalism with all it entailed for the promo­ Dr. Dietrich Goldsehmidt recalled that the thoroughness, publications launched by orga­ tion of Arab-Jewish understanding and the contacts with Jews and Christians of Jewish nisations of Jews from Germany are exceptions rejection of extreme Jewish nationalism. The origin during the period of persecution had to the rule. This paper, with all its limitations, development up to the foundation of Aliyah made Helmut Gollwitzer aware of "tbe insep­ has now served the members of tbe AJR for Chadasha in 1942 and tbe general integration arable links between the Old and tbe New 28 years. Tbe extent to which it is regarded of tbe Jews from Central Europe into the Testament" and of the destruction of the most as an indispensable feature became evident political life of their country of resettlement elementary human values by the antisemitic last month when, as announced in advance, are vividly described by Heinz Gerling in his actions. After the war, he became one of there was a slight delay in the publication article about "Tbe 'Zionisation' of the Immi­ the foremost champions In Germany for the date. From the second day of the month on­ grants from Germany". The article is comple­ young state of Israel and for Christian-Jewisn wards impatient readers kept on inquiring mented by essays about the contributions of understanding. At the same time he has dis­ why they had not yet received their copies. the Jews from Ontral Europe in various tinguished himself as an uncompromising This eagerness is certainly the best compli­ fields, e.g., economics, theatre, press, social fighter ajjainst the social evils of our times. ment a paper can wish for. work and law. The wider aspects of the Yet these notes are not written to indulge events during the past four decades, seen in RESTTTUTION LAWYER ACQUITTED in self-congratulations. They are meant as the context of Jewish history, are dealt with Following a long trial on charges alleging birthday greetings to our elder brother, the by the editor of tbe MB, Hans Tramer. Tbe that he had swindled tbe West German Govern­ "Mitteilungsblatt" (MB) of the Irgun Oley article of his colleague, Kurt Loewenstein, ment out of nearly £2 million. Professor Hans Merkaz Europa, which recently celebrated the carries the beading "JoumaUsm as Bearer of Deutsch, an Austro-lsraeli restitution lawyer, 40th anniversary of its foundation. It was Truth" and sets out to define the duties of a has been acquitted. responsible joumalist. "The joumalist", he In coming to its decision to acquit PrO' created immediately after the organisation of fessor Deutsch and two others accused. Fried' immigrants from Germany, later extended to writes, "has to make the reader immune to rich Wilcke, a former SS captain, and Franz immigrants from other Central European slogans. He has to strive for truth and to Visney, a Hungarian refugee, the court too* countries, had been brought into being. Tech­ remain firm. He must not be influenced by note of the great difficulty in obtaining prooi nically, the MB differs from AJR Information victories or defeats which may be short­ of events in late 1944 in Hungary, at the time in two respects: it appears at weekly and not lived". That those responsible for the MB when tbe Germans were pulling out and tne adhere to these principles is noticeable in Red Army moving in. The case had involveo monthly intervals, and it is written in German priceless paintings and tapestries belonging and not in the language of the country. its columns week after week. They do not to Baron Hatvany which Professor Deutscn Starting as a mere information bulletin, the shirk from attacking taboos, they courageously claimed bad been seized by the Nazis in Buda­ MB soon became a magazine which also con­ criticise where they consider it necessary. Yet pest in 1944. After paying half of tbe resti­ sidered the wider issues of specific interest it is a criticism prompted by the love of the tution, tbe West German Government chargeo to Jews of Central European background. This country which tbey have helped to build and that the Russians, not the Germans, had stolen approach has been retained throughout the of which they have become an integral part. the paintings. years and is reflected in the choice of sub­ Thus, our cordial birthday wishes are not MEMORIAL AT GRUNEWALD STATION jects dealt with in tbe articles. Yet beyond solely motivated by tbe fact that the MB has tlhis—and here the terms of reference go managed to survive for 40 years. Tbe acciden­ "In memory of tbe tens of thousands oi further tham those of AJR Information—^the tal date serves as an opportimity to congratu­ Berlin's Jewisb citizens who, from February MB also takes sides in controversial issues late them on the spirit in which they have 1943 onwards, were deported by tbe Na^^i concerning life in the country. For some carried out their work. May this go on to hangmen from this spot to the death camP* time, before the foimdation of the State, the the Golden Jubilee and far beyond it. and murdered". A plaque with this inscription "Irgun" adopted a collective attitude in the was recently unveiled at the signal bouse oi political scene of Palestine by founding a W.R. the goods trains station in Berlin-GrunewaW-

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INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES AJR GENERAL MEETING LAUNCHES NEW PERIODICAL At the recent Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Jewish Studies, University As readers will have seen from tbe an- Breslauer, Rabbi I. Broch, Mr. F. Dannen, Dr. College, London, the Cbairman, Mr. Victor ijpuncement in this issue, the AJR General W. Dux, Dr. R. Elton, Dr. L. Eschwege, Dr. Mishcon, D.L., announced the publication of Meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 19, at H. Feld, Dr. A. Fleiss, Mrs. A. Fleiss, Mr. the first volume of the Institute's own half- {i^o p.m., in the Hall of Hannah Karminski R. J. Friedmann, Mr. F. Godfrey, Mrs. Elisa­ yearly periodical. The Editorial Advisory nouse, 9 Adamson Road, N.W.3. In the first beth Goldschmidt, Dr. Erna Goldschmidt, Mr. Board includes Professor Alexander Altmann, part of the meeting, reports will be given on R. Graupner, Dr. F. Gumpert, Sir Ludwig who is also Honorary President of tbe Insti­ activities of tbe AJR, especially on new Guttmann, Mr. S. F. Hallgarten, Mrs. G. Ham­ tute, Professors Bernard Lewis, A. D. Momig­ oevelopmsnts during the year under review, bourg, Mr. E. Haymann, Mr. Herbert M. liano, Cb. Rabin, G. Scholem, E. Urbach, in the second part, Mr. Jack Barnett, General Hirsch, Mrs. Susanne Horwell, Mrs. M. Jacoby, G. Vadja, R. J. Z. Werblowsky and Y. Yadin. secretary of the Britisb Section of the World Dr. A. Kaufmann, Mr. E. C. Kent, Dr. L. G. T. The Joint Editors are Professor S. Stein and Jewish Congress, will give a survey of current King, Mrs. F. Kochmann, Mr. M. Kochmann, Dr. N. Wieder with Mr. R. Loewe as Assistant problems in Jewisb life. Due to his important Rabbi Jakob J. Kokotok, Dr. H. H. Kuttner, Editor. The Hon. Secretary, Dr. Manfred Alt- ••ork in Jewisb affairs, Mr. Barnett, a long­ Dr. H. Lawton, Dr. Rita Lehmann, Dr. G. man, and the Director of the Institute, Pro­ standing friend of tbe AJR, is particularly Leon, Dr. F. Levy, Dr. Julius Loeb, Dr. E. G. fessor S. Stein, highlighted tbe importance of ^yahfied to deal witb the essential questions Lowenthal, Dr. E. Magnus, Mrs. M. Mautner, the new periodical, for which the co-opera­ »'ith which Jewry in this country and abroad Rabbi Dr. 1. Maybaum, Mr. H. C. Mayer, Mrs. tion of leading authors and research fellows 's faced and to give a balanced assessment L. Meyer, Mr. Perez Mosbacber, Dr. H. Neu­ bas been obtained. 01 current events. We are happy that Mr feld, Mr. E. Philipp, Mr. E. Plaut, Mrs. M. r^^'nett agreed to address our members, thus Pottlitzer, Dr. Eva Reichmann, Dr. E. Reifen­ In his report on the Institute's activities, g Implementing the reports on our own specific berg (Gabriele Tergit), Mr. A. Reimann, Mr. Professor Stein laid special emphasis on the ?ctivities by making us aware of the wider J. Sachs, Rabbi Dr. G. Salzberger, Mr. F. successful continuation of the regular weekly issues at stake. Samson, Dr. H. G. Sandheim, Mrs. M. Schur­ seminars at University College which are also mann, Mrs. D. Segall, Dr. W. Selig, Mr. P. E. open to interested laymen. The Institute's j^li.e proceedings of the General Meeting Shields, O.B.E., Mr. E. Speyer, Dr. Laura Stein, public lectures are given by prominent .•111 include the elections to the Executive and Miss Renate Stern, Mr. Julius Strauss, Mr. G. scholars. Fellowships are awarded for im­ 'I.e Board. The following proposals are sub- Streat, Mr. G, L. Tietz, Dr. U. Tietz, Mrs. Eva portant research work. Tbe Scripta Judaica "iitted by the Executive: Trent, Dr. Valerie WiUs, Dr. Charlotte Wittels­ Series, of which seven volumes have appeared, Committee of Management (Executive): The hoefer, Mr. H. Wreschner. will be continued and the next volume will nembers of the present Executive stand for be the collected essays of tbe late Professor le-election. They are: Mr. A. S. Dresel (Chair- It is proposed to elect as a new Board mem­ J. Weiss. 2jan),Mr.W. M. Behr, O.B.E. (Vice-Chairman), ber Mrs. Olga Albrecht and Mr. E. A. Sonnen­ Y^- P. E. Falk (Treasurer), Dr. W. Rosenstock berg. Jjeneral Secretary), Dr. E. A. Lomnitz The Board also includes representatives of ^iJeputy General Secretary), Mrs. R. Ander- tbe Provincial groups. ADDENDUM S,*n, Mr. s. Bischheim (Trustee), Mr. C. F. f/esch, Mr. O. E. Franklyn, Mr. H. S. Garfield, F. FRIEDLAENDER (Melboume). In the centenary tribute to Leo Baeck, it \ ^- K. Heyman, Dr. A. R. Horwell (Tms- "German Jewry's Spokesman", published in 5^e), Mr. C. T. Marx (Trustee), Mr. R. CBF MAKES £38,500 GRANTS our previous issue, a number of enterprises in •^ehneider, Mr. L. Spiro, Mr. F. W. Ury. this country with which tbe name of Leo Baeck is linked were mentioned. Due to a typo­ Board: It is proposed to re-elect the Grants totalling £38,500 were made at the nembers of the present Board. They are: last meeting of the Council of the Central graphical error, the list was incomplete. It ftfs- R. Abels, Mr. R. Apt, Mrs. A. 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Judas" (Insel-Verlag) was published in 1959. In Tel Aviv, Emanuel bin Gorion woriceo Birthday Tributes as a literary critic at tbe daily "Davar" ano as a librarian. Besides this he wrote, in DR. FRITZ WIENER 80 knowledge earned him general respect. For Hebrew, a commentary to the literature oi the students he was always a ready helper, legends and fairy tales. He edited, in German, On June 12, Dr. phil. Fritz Wiener will especially in tbe difBcult subject matter of "Der Mandelstab—Juediscbe Geschicbten aui celebrate his 80th birthday in Manchester. Old German grammar. At the same time be drei Jahrtausenden (1963). Bin Gorion is mar­ Born in Silesia, where he was a student of was stimulated to write contributions to ried to Deborah Bertonoff, a choreographer w Breslau University, he worked as a modern learned periodicals on literary subjects and international repute. After bis retirement froin language master at the school of the Berlin linguistic problems. As a sideline he took an tbe literary service and removal to Holon ne Jewish Community, which flourished under interest in folklore and in the origin and has been working on bis memoirs which, con­ Heinemann Stern. When this well-known meaning of Jewish surnames. On this special sidering the author's stature, should be a valu­ paedagogue emigrated to South America, birthday we wish bim many more further able contribution to the inside story of oui Wiener took over the direction of the school. years of happy retirement. Shortly before tbe outbreak of war be left H.L. F. FRIEDLAENDER (Melbourne) Germany for England. His profession bad given bim a much better EMANUEL BIN GORION 70 knowledge of tbe new homeland's language Tbe well-known scholar and writer, Emanuel QUEEN'S AWARD than most of us could muster. But he clearly bin Gorion, who will celebrate his 70th birth­ Among tbe recipients of the 1973 Qufe"'^ foresaw the difficulties of resettlement for any day in Holon (Israel) on June 18, was born Award to Industry for export achievement are arts graduate and, still in Berlin, decided on in Breslau, the only son of Micha Josef bin Graff Diamonds Ltd., a Hatton Garden nrni an unusual way to overcome them. He entered Gorion, famous as a master of neo-Hebrew founded ten years ago by Mr. Lawrence Gran, a course which gave him the training of a literature and as a collector of Jewisb tales 34, and Lillygould Ltd., a garment firm estao- rofessional cook. In this capacity he started and legends, publisbed in Germany under tbe lished in 1948 by Mrs. Lilo Gould. on Eis work in England, first in camps for headings "Der Born Judas" and "Die Sagen Graff Diamonds employs fewer than ^" refugees, but finally as a chef in an English der Juden". people and is one of tbe smallest concerns to hotel. He liked to recall this period of his Emanuel bin Gorion grew up in Berlin, receive the award. Mrs. Gould, who came to life, both as adviser in the kitchen of a where he acquired bis tremendous wealth of this country as a refugee from Germany, friend's house and as subject matter of enter­ knowledge. He mastered ancient as well as began by hand-producing three dozen blouse^, taining talks to students. It was obvious that modern languages. He entered the literary exported 2,500 in 1963 and last year sow he had found some enjoyment in the finesses world as a writer of pungent critical essays, 350,000 garments in over 20 countries. of this practical task. But his academic collected in "Ceterum Recenseo" (2 vols. Anglo-EMI Film Distributors Ltd., the pro­ interest in linguistic studies was never 1929/1932). His excellent selection of "Die duction and distribution branch of the EM subdued. hundert schoensten Geschichten" (new revised Film and Theatre Corporation, was also » When in 1942 the progress of mobilisation edition 1967) testified to his familiarity with recipient of the award. The chairman an" brought employment in higher education to vast regions of world literature. chief executive of the parent body is i*^|!' middle-aged refugees, Wiener became German Being an expert on Hebrew and Jewish folk­ Bernard Delfont, and Mr. Nat Cohen is chair­ master at a grammar school in Cheshire. The lore and literature, be contributed to the man and chief executive of its distributio' neighbourhood of Manchester gave him the "Encyclopaedia Judaica", worked as associate section. opportunity to acquire tbe degree of M.A. editor of the "Philo-Lexikon" and of the HONOUR FOR AN HISTORIAN in Germanic studies by week-end attendance recently published "Lexikon des Judentums". at the university. For a long time he had His intimate knowledge of ancient Jewish his­ In recognition of his 50 years' achievement cultivated a scientific interest in Esperanto. tory was proved by his documentations "Das in the field of historiography. Dr. Hugo Goi" He believed that the problems of this arti­ Leben des Flavius Josepbus" and "Das Haus (Tel Aviv) was elected a Fellow of the Jf^if" ficial language might throw some light on the des Herodes". For the purpose of Jewish adult Academy of Arts and Sciences in New Y^if' structure of human communication. This con­ education in the Nazi era he edited bis fine Dr. Gold recently completed his three volum^ cern brought him in contact with Professor reader "Das Siebenfache Licht" (1935). work "Die Trilogie der oesterreicbiscneu Collinson, who was head of the German de­ He dedicated considerable time to the pub­ Juden". His magnum opus "Gedenkbuch de>_ partment at Liverpool University. lication of his father's literary estate: "Sinai untergegangenen Judengemeinden in oe In 1947, Wiener became a member of his und Garizim", a comprehensive study of the Tscbecboslowakei" will be ready shortly. i?._ staff and he remained there as a lecturer origin of the Israelite religion, appeared in is also the founder and editor of tbe "^e'j until he reached tbe age limit in 1958. In German in 1926. He was assisted in his work schrift fuer die Geschichte der Juden", (i'9r^ close co-operation witb the professor a friend­ by his mother. Rahel bin Gorion (1879-1955). tion Olamenu, Tel Aviv) which recently ship was established which continued when Both left Berlin for Tel Aviv in 1936. New marked the tenth anniversary of its creatio" they both had retired. Among the members Hebrew editions of Micha Josef bin Gorion's by a special comprehensive and impressiv of the university staff the reserved bearing stories, essays and of bis book on Jesus fol­ Festschrift to which a great number of wen of a man of complete reliability and wide lowed. A new German edition of "Der Bom known scholars contributed.

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PROF. HANS KELSEN IN MEMORIAM Professor Hans Kelsen, the philosopher of law and draughtsman of the constitution of the First Austrian Republic, died in California MR. GEORGE LICHTHEIM RABBI H. B. AUERBACH in his 92nd year. Born in Prague, he was The philosopher and historian, George Tbe last Rabbi of Halberstadt, scion of a Professor of Law first in Vienna and later Liehtheim, died in London on April 22 at the famous family of Halberstadt Rabbis, died in Cologne. When be was deprived of his age of 60. He was born in Berlin as the son recently in Tel Aviv, aged 72. His great-grand­ position in 1933, he emigrated to Geneva °^ the leading Zionist politician Richard father, known as Nachal Eshkol, was Rabbi and from there to the United States. For many Liehtheim. He studied at Heidelberg Uni­ of Halberstadt from 1863 until his death in years. Professor Kelsen taught at the Uni­ 1872. He was followed by Selig Auerhach versity of Cailifomia, Berkeley, and, at the versity and went to Palestine in 1933, where (died 1901) and Isaak Auerbach (died 1932). ne was foreign editor of the Jerusalem Post, same time, continued his activities as a scholar ^lie paper sent him to Europe to cover tbe The Halberstadt community was almost and author. As an act of moral compensation, unique among the larger Jewish congregations the Free University in Berlin bestowed on Nuernberg trials, after which he became its in Germany in the 100 years before tbe rise eorrespondent in London. As an author, George of Nazism, in that its Rabbis reigned supreme, him an honorary doctorate in 1961. Liehtheim laecame widely known by his works its Synagogue and Klaus (and the Chasidic ^Marxism", "Origins of Socialism" and Beth Hamedrash) followed strictly Orthodox MR. HELMUT RUHEMANN Europe in the Twentieth Century". "A child tradition and tbe many non-Orthodox mem­ The picture-restorer, Mr. Helmut Ruhemann, °* the Weimar Republic", writes the New bers co-operated loyally in administering the recently died in London in his 82nd year. In Statesman, "his loyalties and emotions re- undivided Kehilla. Gennany, where be lived until 1933, be was *jained suspended between the Jews, tbe At one time, well over 1,000 Jews lived at Chief Restorer of the Berlin Picture Gallery. Philosophy and culture of pre-Hitler Germany Halberstadt, always a hotbed of antisemitism, After he had come to settle in this country, ?'id Marx, whom this great practitioner of and now part of East Germany. Now not a he resumed his work and, until he retired m ^tellectual contempt respected—perhaps in­ single Jew lives there. But the ancient Jewish 1972, cleaned many important pictures in the creasingly so in bis later years—not only for cemeteries (tbe oldest dating back to before National Gallery collection and in other "IS mind, but for his dreams". 1600) are reported to be in good order. The ownership. Mr. Rubemann was also a teacher last Rabbi of Halberstadt was installed in to several picture-restorers now in prominent office under the shadow of Nazism. His short­ posts. "His settling in this country bas caused DR. W. K. WRONKER lived ministry was burdened with anxieties a profound and highly beneficial change in but he was spared the supreme horror which the character of picture restoration here", . l^r. w. K. Wronker, for many years an overtook the last 186 members of tbe com­ writes The Times. interested and esteemed member of the AJR, munity who were taken away in 1942. ^'ed in his home town of Berlin in bis 80th In Israel Rabbi H. B. Auerbach published LOTTE MEFTNER-GRAF ^^ar. He was the son of Justizrat Wronker, the "History of tbe Jewisb Community of Halberstadt," from 1844 until its end (this The well-known portrait photographer, Lotte ^ne most successful and also most respected first appeared as a series of articles in the Meitner-Graf, recently died in London. Sbe priminal lawyer in tbe Wilhelminian era. Bulletin of tbe Leo Baeck Institute in 1967). was bom in Vienna and, together with her J^- K. Wronker himself was a brilliant scholar His great-grandfather had published, in 1866, husband, the chemist Dr. Walter Meitner, who °^i capable lawyer. Yet times had dhanged, the Community's History from its beginnings died in 1959, came to thds country as a ^^ he decided not to work for individual some 600 years earlier. Also in Israel, he pub­ refugee. Her works include photographs of ^'''^ents but for one single, great entity and lished tbe History of the Halberstadt Klaus as well as of tbe chevrot (charitable societies) John Gielgud, Danny Kaye, Artur Rubinstein joined the legal department of the Frankfurt and several Nobel prize winners. ^•^nch of the Deutsche Bank. which fiourisbed within the Halberstadt Com­ munity. His last book on Orthodox Jewish When his successful career came to an end communities in Germany was reviewed in the i?der tbe Nazi regime, he, together with his May issue of AJR Information. "UNSUNG HEROES" «e and daughter, emigrated to London. It Hirsch Auerbach was a man of leaming and The German farmer. Otto Nickel, who now . as not easy for them to adjust their lives great personal charm. A large circle of friends will cherish his memory. E.S.S. lives in Lueneburg, planted a tree in the int ^^^ changed circumstances. He himself, "Alley of the Righteous" at Yad Vashem (near nter alia, used his "second string", his con- Jemsalem). In 1969, Nickel had been awarded j °®i?ble musical gifts, by playing the piano MR. HEINZ ULLSTEIN by the Israeli Govemment tbe "Medal of the ? cinemas. He acquired an English law Righteous" because during the Second World j^Sree and, during the war years, also was a Mr. Heinz Ullstein, the senior of the third War he bad hidden two Jewish boys who ^ernber of the panel of lawyers who volun- generation of tbe UlMein family, died in were wanted by the SS. These two Jews, j'•ily took charge of the legal advice hours Berlin shortly after bis SOth birthday. He together with Uieir familiies, now live in Israel, ** refugees, organised by the AJR. was a son of Louis Ullstein and started his where they celebrated a reunion with the J^ter, Dr. Wronker became one of the legal career as an actor, author and film producer. man who had saved their lives. •hcials of tbe Jewish Restitution Successor Until 1933, be was a board member of the Another German, who courageously helped ^^ganisation (JRSO), first in Nuemberg, Ullstein firm. Heinz Ullstein survived the war a Jewisb persecutee, Klara Kaus (Mannheim) *Uerwards in Beriin. When JRSO had done in Germany under most difficult circumstances was awarded the German Federal Cross of gS Work, 'he took over a department of the witb the help of bis non-Jewish wife. Together Merit. In 1943 Frau Kaus and her husband ^erlin Indemnification OfBce, and in this way with other members of ithe family, he re­ had learned that a Jewisb famUy in Karlsruhe itinued to render valuable services to the established the Ullstein publishing firm in was threatened with deportation. They took ^^rseeutees. His retirement was marred by 1952 and remained a member of its board, a child of ithe family, Ellen Loebel, into their ^^ere illness. when the firm was taken over by the Springer house, where she secretly stayed until the ^.We extend our sincerest sympathy to his combine. In 1961, he published his memoirs end of the war. Ellen Loebel and her father, loow and the other members of bis family. under tbe title "Spielplatz meines Lebens". who also owes bis life to the Kaus couple, W.B. EGL now live in New York.

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IRAQI PERSECUTION THE ISRAELI SCENE The Knesset, in a resolution, declared that "the total exodus of the Jews still in Iraq na* become a most urgent necessity and htiinan NEW PRESIDENT IMMIGRATION requirement", after the Foreign Minister, «!'• Speaking in Haifa Mr. Arye Dultzin, the Abba Eban, had confirmed that five members The Knesset elected Professor Ephraim Jewish Agency treasurer, said there had been of the Kashkosh family were recently int"' Katchalsky, the 57-year-old Weizmann Insti­ a big increase in applications by Soviet Jews dered in Baghdad. It must be assumed tJiat tute scientist, as Israel's fourth President. He to leave for Israel since the Soviet announce­ all or most of the other 16 Jews kidnappe" changed his sumame to Katzir as a tribute ment of the suspension of the education tax. during the past months had also been kiUeO- to his younger brother. Professor Aharon Kat­ He stated that about 110,000 Soviet Jews had said Mr Eban. .^ zir, who was killed in the Lod airport massacre applied to emigrate to Israel. Israel has voiced fresh comcem over v^ last May. The new President took the oath Mr. Uri Narkiss, the head of the Jewish fate of 450 members of the Iraqi community, of allegiance at a special session of the Agency's immigration dei)artment, has mean­ following reports that eight more Jews nave Knesset on May 23, the day he assumed office while declared that the disappointing pace of disappeared. The Union of Iraqi Jews in in succession to President Shazar. Western immigration will not improve unless Israel has pointed out that with this group <» Professor Katzir sees the President's task absorption arrangements in Israel are better missing Jews, the total who have vamsnea as one of working for unity among the Jews planned. He had, however, noted that Israelis during the recent weeks has reached 24. in Israel and the diaspora, the closing of were now more friendly towards new immi­ From a letter sent by Lord Balniel, Minis­ the social gap in Israel and preventing the grants. Announcing that some 16,500 immi­ ter of State at the Foreign and Commonwealt" polarisation of the country into two nations. grants had arrived in the first four months Office to Mr. Michael Fidler, M.P., president of 1973, about the same as during the same of the Board of Deputies, it is evident thai period last year, he said that the total of INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR the British Government is unable to assist in 55,000 expected by December, 1973, would the plight of the Jews in Iraq. Although ex­ also be similar to last year's figures. The pressing sympathy. Lord Balniel states tliai Jerusalem's biennial Intemational Book Soviet Union was providing the largest there is no reliable evidence that the Je** Fair, now the second largest of its Tcind in number of immigrants (32,000 came last in Iraq are being persecuted or that the IraqJ the world, displayed 600 stands with 30,000 year). Not more than 1 per cent of the authorities are again on the eve of snow books. Among the 1,000 publishers from dif­ Soviet Jewish immigrants had left Israel, com­ trials and public hangings. Even if direci ferent parts of the world exhibiting their pub­ pared with the 20 per cent from the United representations were thought necessary tnis lications, more than 70 were British, the first States who retumed home. Some 500 Jews could not be done in the absence of diplomatic time that Britain has presented a national had left the Soviet Union for countries other relations, and it was also doubtful whether exhibition at the Jerusalem Fair although in­ than Israel, with 300 Jewish emigrants from any approach by the Government would "e dividual publishing firms have previously Rome on their way to different destinations. been represented. of any real help to the Jewish community- The formation of a second Philharmonic Following the Knesset resolution, repre­ The Jerusalem Prize, Israel's only inter­ Orchestra in Israel would be justified with sentations were made by Israeli envoys i" national literary award, was presented to the very large number of Soviet musicians London and in many other capitals to emi="' Eugene lonesco, the Rumanian-bom French who had arrived, while five new hospitals the support of Govemments in an attempt to playwright. The events included evenings of could be built and staffed by immigrant doc­ rescue the tiny Jewish communities in Trafi Israeli and French literature; celebrations of tors. The social problems of the Soviet and Syria. The Board of Deputies unanimously the 100th anniversary of the birth of the poet Georgian immigrants had been largely solved adopted a resolution calling upon the Ir^l Bialik; a puppet show; a Habimah presenta­ by keeping them together and they presented authorities "to cease forthwith the murderous tion of lonesco's play, "The Chairs"; and acts and vicious campaign of persecution • round-the-clock showing of documentary art no problem, Mr. Narkiss said. films with emphasis on literary themes. "There Thirty Soviet Jews who went to Israel could was also a symposium on "Internationalism in not settle and left for Vienna, where they Publishing" participated in by leading pub­ have been waiting for more than a year, have ELBOGEN IN HEBREW lishers from many parts of the world. received permission to return to the Soviet Union. Two weeks earlier 18 Soviet Jews, Ismar Elbogen's "Juedischer Gottesdienst in some of whom had been in Vienna for almost seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung" **„ TOURISTS OVER PASSOVER two years, also returned to the Soviet Union. recently published in a Hebrew translation According to Dr. Ephraim Ahiram, the Ab­ (Dvir Publishers). The translator is Dr. Joshua Almost 100,000 tourists came to Israel over sorption Minister's adviser, nearly one-third Amir, lecturer at Tel Aviv University. He i* Passover and Easter, a 40 per cent increase of Western immigrants to Israel leave within the son of the late Rabbi M. Neumark (Duis­ over last year. About 80,000 visitors arrived three years of arriving in the country, a pro­ burg), who perished in Theresienstadt. Anu' by air on 63 special flights. Apart from the portion much larger than with other immi­ has already translated into Hebrew works "J Queen Elizabeth 2, 11 other special cruise grant groups. He said two major issues facing Buber, Rosenzweig and Salo W. Baron. ships came to Israeli ports, bringing a total Western immigrants were housing and em­ of 8,000 visitors, many of them Christians. ployment. GERMAN AWARDS TO TWO ARTISTS The Israel Defence Forces for the first time invited individual tourists to join them for ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BERLINERS In recognition of their work for the P^^,' the seder. Kibbutzim and hotels arranged Former Berliners in Israel recently founded motion of cultural relations between israe^ sedarim, and in Jerusalem the municipality an Association. Its 12-member board is headed and Germany, the painter, Ludwig Schweon. sponsored a seder at a resort in the Jerusalem by the economic adviser, Consul Dr. Max and the composer, Abraham Daus, have been Forest. Flesch (Tel Aviv). awarded the German Federal Cross of Me"'-

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