SuSuSSESSExx 1 jEjEwwISIShh nEnEwwSS what’S InSIdE.... A STudEnT’S VIEw | jOEl ShAPSES | EMERGEnCy In jERuSAlEM | ThE nEw 100 CluB | whAT’S On | And MORE Whats july 2015 • TAMMuZ / AV 5775 • ISSuE 254 2 Pause for thought 3 Following the vote at the National Tower. They are known and familiar We don’t know. Union of Students to support the and, more importantly, visible. But what we do know is that BDS (boycotts, divestment and But is it because the universities communities can help each other. sanctions) against Israel, we sought are in Falmer and so far out of But we have to reach out to each a local student’s opinion. It is on the communities with which we other to do so. It seems to us that page 11 of this issue. are most familiar that they seem the Jewish students at our local Dario Celaschi is a Brighton universities cannot live in the bubble University student who sits The Jewish students at our of campus life. Similarly, our Jewish on the Brighton and Sussex communities cannot live solely Students Jewish Society local universities cannot within their familiar limits. Committee. He is Israeli. We live in the bubble of campus We thank Dario for opening up are privileged that Dario has life. Similarly, our Jewish powerfully to our wider community. provided us with his views on communities cannot live solely To all Jewish university students in the negative impact of BDS on Sussex, we open our community’s Jewish Student Politics. within their familiar limits. hands to you if you want them. But it also started us thinking: Let’s build a bridge to each other invisible? Or is it that many of our SJN is a magazine for all of our and grow stronger. local students have left to continue Sussex Jewish communities, not their studies elsewhere that the just the ones we know, the tried and local Jewish university students and true. 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ISSUE 254 | JULY 2015 2 Contents 3 Sussex Jewish News PO Box 2178 • Hove BN3 3SZ Telephone: 07906 955 404 FEATURES 1 AUTUMN SPIRIT A sculpture by Joel Shapses 10 JOEL SHAPSES A profile on the sculptor 11 CAMPUS LIFE AND STUDENT POLITICS Dario Celaschi on university life within the context of BDS 12 EMERGENCY IN JERUSALEM Brian Megitt on Israeli health care REGULARS 4 COMMUNITY LIFE Stories from across the county 4 YOUR VIEWS Your thoughts and opinions 5 YOUR NEWS Your personal announcements 14 CULTURE Film, theatre, JACS and more questionable cookery from the SJN Kitchen 20 WHAT’S ON Regular and special events in your community YOUR COMMUNITY 16 HOVE HEBREW Congregation 17 BRIGHTON & HOVE PROGRESSIVE SYNAGOGUE 18 BRIGHTON & HOVE HEBREW Congregation 19 BRIGHTON & HOVE REFORM SYNAGOGUE Full page (A4 size) £170 Sussex Jewish News (‘SJN’), its Editor and Editorial Board: • are not allied to any synagogue or group and the views expressed by writers Half page (A5 size) £100 are not necessarily those of SJN; Quarter page (A6 size) £65 • accept advertisements in good faith but do not endorse any products or services and do not accept liability for any aspect of any advertisements; 1/9 page (credit card size) £40 and Personal Announcements in a box (up to 6 lines): £25 • welcome readers’ contributions but reserve the right to edit, cut, decline or submit the content to others for comment. 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Refugee Artist in Hove 1938-1940: A Plea for Local Assistance So, certainly the criteria fitted the description in the Simply Sales advertorial, “What makes a Jewish estate agency – we In June of 1938, Viennese artist Arthur Paunzen and wife believe a Jewish owner and a Jewish sales manager”. B. Cornelia Westreich-Paunzen fled Nazi Austria for England: Jackson & Co. certainly had these and more. It was a name they were but two of the thousands who made their way to to be known in the Jewish world of Brighton, and our late Britain’s shores before the war. The Paunzens found refuge in mother, Sally Crook, was always inordinately proud of it. Hove, assisted by a London gallerist, the Jewish community Indeed, my brother was given the name Jackson as one of his and St John’s congregation. middle names, in case he ever went into the business, and Their last-known residence (1940) was at 7 Adelaide as a result I was also given this middle name, a fact that has Crescent. Paunzen had a studio at 44 Brunswick Road. We given much amusement to later generations! suspect that some of his drawings and pastels are still in Good luck to Simply Sales. We wish them the same success family collections in Hove and Brighton. Such art works and that B. Jackson & Co. had in becoming the prime local estate any local information at all will be of immeasurable value to agents for the Jewish community. our on-going efforts to write his biography. If you are able to assist, please contact us at [email protected]. Angela Davis Sussex Archive, The Keep Hove Brighton Florence Place According to Wikipedia, Arthur Paunzen died on the 9th Following last month’s SJN article on the Florence Place August 1940, in the Central Internment Camp, Douglas, cemetery, Godfrey Gould has written to clarify a few points Isle of Man. In May 1940 the British authorities interned all about the article. German and Austrian citizens in the country, including Jews The Ohel is constructed specifically of ‘terracotta’ bricks and fleeing Nazi oppression. His death is described by his friend not simply ‘red’. The graves do not fan out, they are arranged and fellow-internee, the composer Hans Gál, in his internment in the normal arrangement of straight parallel rows. Although diary. He died of severe bronchial pneumonia, exacerbated, the octagonal Ohel is without doubt both unusual and rare, I according to Gál’s account, by neglect on the part of the think that it may well be more than that. In the British Isles, at authorities. Paunzen is buried in the Jewish section of least, it must be unique! Douglas Borough Cemetery, Isle of Man. And finally, in my list of those connected with this Cemetery and who are commemorated on Brighton’s buses, I somehow The First Jewish Estate Agent in Brighton & Hove failed to include Henry Solomon. My apologies to his memory. I was taken aback when I opened my SJN this week, and saw an article/advert of which the first sentence read, “The first Jewish estate agent in Brighton & Hove”. NO! The first Jewish estate agent was opened approximately Voluntary Support Agencies 70 years ago, just after WWII, when our late maternal • Ralli Hall Lunch & Social Club (Day Centre) grandfather, Benjamin Jackson, opened B. Jackson & Co in Imperial Arcade (opposite Churchill Square). Our late father 01273 739999 [email protected] Harry Crook joined him when he returned from France, and • Norwood/Tikvah, Rachel Mazzier House 01273 564021 the two of them ran a very successful business, later joined • Hyman Fine House 01273 688226 also by our uncle, the late Stanley Jackson. They were well • Helping Hands 01273 747722 known in the Jewish community, most of whom used them [email protected] for their property dealings. Both my brother Michael Crook and I have fond memories of this office, overlooking the • Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare Board 07952 479111 or Arcade and the lower end of Dyke Road. (I still have evocative [email protected]; website: www.bhjwb.org dreams of the place!) • Brighton & Hove Jewish Housing Association In the late 50s another office was opened in Church Road, [email protected] Hove, followed by ones in Tunbridge Wells and Fairlight, near • Welfare at Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue/ Hastings.