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1964, and it was highly essential to reduce the deficit by obtaining more income from JOINT EFFORTS REVIEWED subscriptions and donations. As the work would have to go on for a very long time to come it was also increasingly essential AJR Board Meeting to secure the support of members of the comparatively younger age groups. Organisations often face the danger of how only covered the current ordinary The general report was followed by a becoming bureaucratic institutions and expenses, and not any major repairs, special report given by Mr. A. S. Dresel tosing contact with the community for administration expenses of the AJR and the (Chairman) on the Flatlet Scheme, Avenue ^ose benefit they have been built up. C.B.F. and amortisation of invested capital. Road, Highgate. The property, he stated, itie AJR, established at the outset as a At Osmond House the present maintenance would be jointly owned by the C.B.F. (two- membership organisation, has always had rates of £15 per week for self-paying resi­ thirds) and the AJR (one-third). It was jhe good fortune of being able to enlist the dents were considerably below the actual envisaged to build 48 one-room flats in a ^elp of a great number of men and women current expenses. On the other hand, by twelve-storey tower block; five two-room who devote their time and experience to the establishment of this Home for more flats, one three-room flat and three common tne common cause. These devoted workers infirm people a widely felt gap in our rooms in a two-storey block. The erection of serve on committees such as the Executive, geriatric work had been filled. Due to the a tower block had turned out to be neces­ |fie Management Committee, the Pre-Selec- devoted staff and the unflinching services sary because of the particular shape of the tion Committee or the House Committees of the House Committee members an atmo­ site and also because it was considered lor the Homes, or the AJR Club Committee. sphere of happiness had been created in highly essential that the rooms should face While all these committees are permanent all five Homes. south. Working teams, the AJR Board, which com­ The AJR Employment Agency required prises 80 members, meets only once a year. The estimates of the building costs had the co-operation of our friends, especially been higher than originally expected. On « consists not only of friends, who are con­ for placing elderly persons. There was also stantly active on behalf of the AJR in one the other hand, the scheme would only be a constant demand for rooms at reasonable feasible if the rents to be charged for cover­ neid or another, but also of personalities rents. Lastly, the regular advisory work Whose association with the AJR is an asset ing the outgoings (including the servicing of a psychiatrist had proved most essential of a mortgage) remained within reasonable ^^ \^ ^^^^^ general standing as scientists, and effective. scholars, writers or businessmen, or due to limits. After detailed consultations with "?e positions they hold with other, In the activities for the Homes and in experts and thorough investigations of the Kindred organisations. the work of the Social Services Department building costs for similar projects, the R A cross-section of the community, the a most happy co-operation with the C.B.F. Management Committee and the AJR jfOard may thus be considered as the Par- and Self-Aid has developed. Executive had arrived at the conclusion lament of the Jews from Germany and that, on principle, it would be justified to fiustria in this country. This definition cer- New Premises for AJR Club carry on with the scheme. At the same lamiy calls for some qualification, for, as a time, any possibilities of cutting the costs iion-political organisation, the AJR is sel- During the year under review the AJR down would be explored. While every­ vnt^ ^3ced with questions which may pro- had acquired the house at 9 Adamson Road, thing would be done to expedite the pro­ *OKe heated controversies. But the reports, mainly to accommodate the constantly ceedings, it was bound to take some time vip " at the meetings and the exchange of expanding AJR Club, which had been until the flatlets would be ready. tn tu^ arising from them give new impetus inadequately housed for several years. The J:" the Executive, as well as to the Board upper ground floor (three rooms and a tea Restitution and Compensation members themselves. kitchen) would be used for the ordinary j y^^er this aspect, this year's Board meet­ Club activities, and the lower ground floor A brief report on legislative questions of ing, held on January 26, was particularly would comprise two rooms, which would be restitution and compensation was given by ^ccessful. It was opened by the Chair­ used, jointly or separately, for meetings, Dr. F. Goldschmidt (Chief Legal Adviser of man Mr. A. S. Dresel, who first paid tribute and a kitchen. The upper floors consisted URO). He referred to the articles in " AJR pL'^°^,."^eniory of those members of the of four double rooms and four single Information" (August and September, f-xecutive. Board and staff who had passed rooms ; they would not be converted into 1963) on the Draft Bills of the amendments ^way since the Board last met: Dr. Walter proper flatlets, but cooking facilities would to the Federal Restitution Law and to the ^erlin, Dr. Paul Chapp, Dr. Richard Engel, be installed. It was intended to let these Federal Indemnification Law. The Draft of Al* *y™in Heller. Mr. Hugo Stern, Dr. rooms to indigent persons, but it had not the Federal Restitution Law was now being •^red Straus and Miss Hilde Mohr. yet been decided which type of residents considered by two Parliamentary Sub-Com­ fi,,3 "^s report on the general activities would be eligible for this limited accommo­ mittees, and though no exact forecast could yijring the past year, Dr. W. Rosenstock dation. It was hoped that the actual build­ be made it was hoped that the Law would Jf^"ejal Secretarj') dealt with the current ing work could start soon. be promulgated this summer. The Federal W V°/ t^e Old Age Homes. It had been " AJR Information" had continued to Indemnification Law would be dealt with of tiT' ^^ stated, that after the completion render essential services. Other activi­ after this. The speaker stressed that it SLM^ fourth Old Age Home (Heinrich ties during the past year included two pub­ could not be foretold whether all the pro­ infi!? ^ouse) and of the Home for more lic meetings on restitution matters with visions envisaged in the drafts would be mfa^ elderly people (Osmond House) it addresses by Federal German Deputy, incorporated into the final laws. Doll possible to relax the selection Rechtsanwalt Hirsch, and Ministerialrat The reports were concluded by a vivid Huucy. However, there was a steady influx Feaux de la Croix, respectively. talk given by Dr. Eduard Rosenbaum on earn "* applications and, as before, appli- Turning to finances. Dr. Rosenstock the work of the Leo Baeck Institute. Out­ as'et ^ comparatively larger incomes or reported that according to the preliminary lining the ideas and activities of the L.B.I., be al • *^^*'" disposal could, therefore, not figures available for 1963, the income from he stated that by becoming conscious of our rafo < ^^'^ at present. The maintenance subscriptions and donations had amounted historical background we became conscious Afro tr self-paying residents in the Old to £8,780 (against £7,880 in 1962) and the of ourselves. Under this aspect the work onlv "°°^es amounted to £10 per week, but expenditure to £12,800 (against £12,400 in of the Institute was important for every WP^,. ^ v^,^^^^^" proportion of the residents 1962). Due to the expansion of work a ""ere able to pay the fuU rate, which any­ rise of expenditure was to be expected in Continued on page 2, column 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION March, 1964 AJR BOARD MEETING FROM THE GERMAN SCENE Continued from page 1 GERMANY'S JEWS CALL FOR ACTION RESIGNATION OF MINISTER The board of directors of the Central Nazi Past Revealed Jew from Germany. The literature of the Council of Jews in Germany has called upon Institute should find its way not only into the West German Government to take Barely three months after he appointed him. libraries, important as this was, but also adequate action against the anti-Jewish Chancellor Erhard was forced to suspend Herr into the homes of all former German Jews. propaganda campaign of Arab offices and Hans Kriiger, the West German Minister for students in the Federal Republic. Pointing Refugees, while instructing a senior Cabinet Even those of our friends who thought that colleague to investigate the details of his they themselves were not inclined to out that antisemitic pamphlets edited by the Arab Information Office in Cairo are being political past. Kriiger has now resigned over become acquainted with this literature, issued in West Germany, the Council has charges relating to his wartime activities. should realise that future generations of announced that a complaint for criminal action Two East German lawyers brought to Bonn their families might take a different view ; has been filed against the distributors in West material alleging that Kriiger, as a judge at a this, in any case, was a frequent experience Germany. Nazi special court in Chojnice in Poland, was in Jewish history. The minimum contri­ jointly responsible for at least five death sen­ The Council also referred to the case of tences considered to be excessive penalties. bution required from members of the Professor Hofstatter, head of the Institute of It is stated that eight Polish witnesses have L.B.I. (4 Devonshire Street, W.l) amounted Psychology at Hamburg University, stating testified to these sentences. Kriiger is also to only £3 per annum, and it included that it was incompatible with democratic prin­ alleged to have been directly responsible for the free delivery of the Year Books and ciples that a high school teacher with his a number of sentences of hard labour,—(JC.) of the quarterly bulletins of the Institute. attitude should be entrusted with the training of teachers. Last summer the professor said It was highly essential that the Institute at a public discussion that the Killing of the NAZI CRIMINALS COMMIT SUICIDE could base its work on the moral support Jews by the Nazis was an act of war. Although of a widespread and large membership. the Hamburg authorities had " rehabilitated " Dr. Werner Heyde (Sawade), facing trial on The speaker also gave an impressive the professor, the Council would not consider charges of taking part in the killing of more survey of the numerous books and mono­ the case closed.— (J.C.) than 100,000 people under Hitler's euthanasia graphs published by the Institute during programme, hanged himself with his trouser belt in a prison cell in Frankfurt. the comparatively short time of its AUSCHWITZ TRIALS existence. The trial in which Dr. Heyde was the chief The Frankfurt public prosecutor has stated accused is going on in Limberg, although Dr. The reports were followed by a discus­ that a second trial of another 20 former S.S. Hans Hefelmann, who is not in custody because sion in which the following Board members of ill-health, is the only one of the original four members of the wartime staff at Auschwitz named to appear in the trial. Dr. Bernhard participated : Dr. E. Gould, Mr. Herbert M. concentration camp is planned. Points on Bohne fled from Germany last summer and his Hirsch, Dr. H. Fleischhacker, Rabbi Dr. M. which the indictment could be upheld needed whereabouts are not known. Alfred Tillman Eschelbacher and Dr. Erna Goldschmidt. careful checking, and for this reason it was plunged 100 feet to his death from a window A wide range of questions was covered, unlikely to begin this year. in a Cologne office block a few days before including the work for the Homes, restitu­ Dr. Franz Lucas, a former doctor at the camp, denied charges that he had taken part Heyde's suicide. The chief Frankfurt prose­ tion and finances. Several speakers sug­ in selecting prisoners for gassing and had cutor, Dr, Bauer, said he had a strong suspicion gested that " AJR Information" should supervised the killing of prisoners in the gas that Tillmann also committed suicide. " The allocate more space to the achievements of chambers. Dr. Ormond, who represents the suspicion has never left me that there was a the AJR. It was the general feeling of all mostly Jewish plaintiffs, said that some silent agreement by all involved that the trial those present that in discharging its wide­ Auschwitz survivors testified at preliminary should not take place." spread duties the A.IR rendered signal ser­ inquiries that Dr. Lucas was the only doctor vice to the community for which it has they knew who had opposed Nazi death orders SUICIDE OF ERHARD'S BODYGUARD been established. and had helped prisoners wherever possible. Lucas who was in medical charge of the Ewald Peters, head of Chancellor Erhard's gipsy camp, said that when approached about bodyguard, who accompanied him on his more medicine. Dr. Josef Mengele, the former recent visit to London, committed suicide in VERORDNUNG FUER JUEDISCHE S.S. chief doctor, had replied that life was his Bonn prison cell. He was arrested and GEMEINDEEBEDIENSTETE VOM 2.4.1963 " over for gipsies ". He knew Mengele con­ charged with the mass murder of Jews in South ducted experiments on gipsies but he did not Russia during the war. The arrest was ordered Ablauf der Anmeldefrist 31. Maerz 1964 know what kind. Mengele fled after the war by Herr Rauschendorf, a prosecutor of the and is now believed to be in South America. Agency for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Ueber den Inhalt der Verordnung haben Because of his obstinate refusal to take part Dortmund. Herr Hoecherl, the West German wir in " AJR Information " Juni 1963 aus­ in the killing of prisoners he had been trans­ Minister of the Interior, suspended Peters fuehrlich berichtet. Diese Verordnung ferred from one concentration camp to after the arrest became known.—(J.C,) sieht erhebliche Verbesserungen vor. Es another, Lucas said. At Sachsenhausen prisoners helped him to escape and he was BUCHENWALD CHILD LIVES ON handelt sich hierbei insbesonders um hidden in Oslo for the rest of the war. folgende neue und erweiterte Ansprueche : Bruno Apitz, in his book " Naked Among Ausdehnung auf Bedienstete juedischer GERMANS IN EGYPT Wolves," told ilow inmates of the Buchenwald Gemeinden und Einrichtungen deutscher concentration camp risked their lives and Staatsangehoerigkeit oder deutscher Volks­ Mrs. Golda Meir, the Foreign Minister of several died under torture to protect a little zugehoerigkeit, die in Danzig oder im Saar­ Israel, replied to a motion in the Knesset boy till the Allies arrived and freed the camp- gebiet Oder in den nach dem 31.12.1937 charging the West German Government with The boy. Stephan-Jerzy Zweig, now 23, is a angegliederten Gebieten einschliesslich des allowing ten months to elapse without effecting student at Lyons, and his father, Dr. Zacharias Protektorats Boehmen und Maehren action to stop German scientists working for Zweig, a lawyer, is in Israel. Stephan spent Egypt. She expressed " regret and amaze­ his 23rd birthday with Willy Bleichert, one bedienstet waren. ment " that the West Germans had not yet of the men who helped save him from the Erweiterung der anerkannten juedischen introduced a Bill to this effect. The Israeli Nazi gas chambers. Einrichtungen, wobei betont werden muss, Cabinet took all necessary steps but it coul(i Apitz, when he was told the news, said it dass auch hier nachzuweisen ist, dass ein not force the West German Government on the was like finding his own child after 19 years. Ruhegehaltsanspruch bestand oder ohne timing and form of a law to be adopted. die Verfolgung crworben worden waere. According to her information, the German MARTYRS' FOREST Voile Anerkennung der Entscheidungen Cabinet would soon submit an amendment to the Passport Bill designed to prevent German The West German section of the Jewish auf Grund der frueheren Richtlinien, auch scientists from working in countries that National Fund is to plant a forest near bezueglich der spaeteren Erhoehungen, declare themselves to be at war with other Jerusalem in memory of German Jews killed Neueinfuehrung von Sterbegeld, soweit der States.—(J.C.) by the Nazis, The project will cost about Tod des Berechtigten nach dem 30.9.1961 £218,000 and will contain 180,000 trees, one eingetreten ist. DACHAU FIRE for each German-Jewish victim of the Nazis. Diese neuen und erweiterten Ansprueche Non-Jews have also been asked to contribute. werden nur auf Antrag gewaehrt, der bis The main building of the former Nazi exter­ zum 31. Maerz 1964 beim Bundesverwal­ mination camp at Dachau has been destroyed EAST GERMAN MEMORIAL STAMP tungsamt in Koeln zu stellen ist. by fire. Damage is estimated at about Sonderdrucke des oben genannten £217,000, and arson is suspected. To mark the 25th anniversary of the Artikels koennen noch vom United Restitu­ Organisations of victims of the Nazis, the November Pogroms, the East German postal Bavarian State Government and the Munich authorities have issued a memorial stamp. It tion Office (London), Ltd., 183/189 Finch­ municipality had planned to turn the building shows a burning synagogue and, underneath, a ley Road,, London, N.W.3, gegen Ein- into a museum. Neo-Nazi groups in West Magen David in chains and carries the inscrip­ sendung von 1/- bezogen werden. Gennany were against this scheme. tion "Never Again Crystal Night". AJR INFORMATION March, 1964 Page 3 JEWRY IN THE EAST HOME NEWS ANGLO-JUDAICA Pamphlet Attacking Jews BROOKE AGAINST ANTIDISCRIMINATION "Gutless" Community In an address to the B'nai B'rith First Lodge A booklet on Judaism entitled " In the name LAW of England, Mr. Leo Abse, M.P., criticised the of the God Jehovah " published in the Soviet Mr. Henry Brooke, Home Secretary, general " gutlessness " of Anglo-Jewry and the Union, alleges that Russian rabbis issued no declared in the Commons that it would not be reluctance of many Jews to obtrude into call to fight the fascists during the Nazi practicable to draft legislation against racial political life or to take a stan(l on matters con­ occupation, and that they paralysed the will of discrimination which would be effective and cerning their own rights as citizens. workers to resist. The booklet also refers to enforceable. He stated that the Government Mr. Abse also castigated the community for those " representatives of the Jewish bour­ believed discrimination could only be eradic­ failing to protest against the Public Order Bill. geoisie " who were said to have made direct ated through the education of public opinion. If the Jewish community had not been agreements with the fascists, particularly Mr. Harold Wilson, the Labour leader, has inhibited about using its voting powers and mentioning the late Dr. Rudolf Kastner. said that if Mr. Fenner Brockway's Racial had campaigned the Home Secretary in suffi­ Discrimination and Incitement Bill does not cient numbers, we could have had the Bill we Matzot Baking become law before the election and if a Labour wanted, he stated. Government is elected, it would legislate on People with relatives in Russia have con- Manchester's Lord Mayor lirmed the trend towards relaxation of the the lines of the Bill as a Government measure Virtual ban by the Soviet Government on against racial discrimination and the incite­ Alderman Dr. William Chadwick, a general parcels of matzot from abroad. Reports say ment of racial hatred.—(J.C.) practitioner, is to be the next Lord Mayor of that while State bakeries will again not bake Manchester. He will be the third Jew to have matzot and State shops will not sell them, CZECH TORAH SCROLLS IN LONDON held the office in the past ten years. parcels from friends and relatives abroad will oe allowed. Last year most such parcels were More than 1,500 Torah scrolls have recently Death of Mr. Ellis A. Franklin either confiscated or returned to their senders. reached this country from Czechoslovakia, and Mr. Ellis A. Franklin, who passed away are now at the Westminster Synagogue, recently at the age of 69, took a leading part Jewish General Replaced London, where a museum is to be built to in the work of the Board of Guardians (now house them. Jewish Welfare Board) and many other com­ General Grigorevich Kreiser, the Jewish During a visit to Prague Mr. Eric Estorick, munal organisations. He was instrumental in Commander of the Far Eastern military managing director of Sevenarts Ltd., was bringing refugees from Nazi oppression into oistriet, has been replaced by General I. G. approached by officials of Artia, the Czech this country. For a period of several months, Favlovsky. This is officially announced in Foreign Trade Corporation. They had been he completely gave up his work in the City Red Star ", the organ of the Soviet Armed asked by the Council of Jewish Communities to ascertain whether anyone in the world and spent twelve hours a day at the refugee * orces. General Kreiser, a Hero of the Soviet office. y^on, was in command of the district since would be interested in acquiring 1,562 Torah scrolls which could no longer be used by the •I960. No reason for the change has been Jewish Museum given. General Kreiser has been a member depleted communities of Bohemia and Moravia, 01 the Communist Party since 1925 and he is The matter was discussed with Rabbi Dr, Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen has accepted an one of the best-known military experts in the Harold Reinhart, minister of the Westminster invitation to become president of the Jewish «ed Army, Synagogue, who suggested that the scrolls might form the nucleus of a Jewish museum Museum. His late father. Sir Robert Waley at the synagogue.—(J,C.) Cohen, was one of its founders and his father- Antisemitism Denied in-law, the late Lord Nathan, was president until his death last November. Derby Ware Mr. V. F, Promyslov, Mayor of Moscow, and YOUTH ADVISORY BODY FOR C.C.J. figures of a Jewish pedlar and his wife were other members of the Moscow City Soviet presented to the Museum as a " retiring gift" Relegation, paid a visit to London at the The Council of Christians and Jews is to from Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, M.P., who invitation of the London County Council. At have its own youth advisory committee, as a was its president for ten years until he handed 3 press conference they were asked what direct result of the inter-denominational youth over the office to the late Lord Nathan. lacihties, if any, were being provided by the conference held at Ruskin College, Oxford, Moscow municipality for. the religious and under the joint auspices of the Council and Home for Ben Uri cultural needs of minority groups such as the the Young People's Committee of the Jewish National Fund. The Ben Uri Gallery has opened its new .. ' We make no distinction on nationality There are as yet no definite plans for the premises in Soho's Dean Street. This is the lines among the citizens of Moscow," the form the committee will take or for its pro­ Gallery's first permanent home in the half- mayor replied. " Among the 1,084 members of gramme. The Rev. W. W. Simpson, general century of its existence. At the reception held }ne City Soviet there are Russians, Ukrainians, secretary of the Council, who presided at the to mark the official opening Mrs. Robert Jews, Tartars and others. As to religion, the conference, thinks that it should confine itself Solomon, chairman of the Gallery, said that synagogue in Moscow is open and anybody who to advising on problems of contact and com­ it was. the Gallery's aim to establish a perma­ wants to goes there. The same applies to other munication between Christian and Jewish nent home for first-class pictures by Jewish oenominations." youth clubs, leaving the actual task of trans­ artists and sculptors. But while the Gallery lating ideas into action to the clubs themselves. intended always to present pictures of the Communities Dwindling He also suggested that it should aim at pro­ highest standard, it also hoped to encourage ducing some " publishable material" that young and promising artists. In a feature programme on Jewish life in the would be of benefit to these clubs.—(J.C.) ?oviet Union broadcast for listeners abroad, Infirm Home Planned j!^°scow Radio confirmed that the number of ewish religious communities in the country YORK NAZI CENTRE A separate home for the infirm aged, to be fow totalled 97. Of these 27 are in the erected as an extension to the Lewis W. uKrainian Soviet Republic, with the largest Colin Jordan, leader of the National Socialist Hammerson Memorial Home in The Bishop's community living in Kiev. The broadcast also Party, has stated that he has chosen York as Avenue, London, is^ being planned at an !ifted that although Jews constitute only li his party's centre for a propaganda campaign. estimated cost of about £60,000. Half of this per cent of the total population of the Soviet The movement's secretary, John 'Tyndall, sum has already been raised. recently addressed a meeting of workers in PV ' ^^^y ^re the third largest group with Friends of Boys' Town ^xperts in the different branches of the Soviet York to outline plans for a membership drive. conomy. Forty-two Jews have been made On the following day Mr. Charles Longbottom, The Friends of Boys' Town in Britain are to eroes of Socialist Labour since the war. M.P. for York, stated that he would do every­ make a drive to raise 120 scholarships of £250 nffPS the war 110 Jews were made Heroes thing in his power " to prevent this obnoxious each to enable Boys' Town, Jerusalem, to °i the Soviet Union, movement spreading " in the city. increase its intake from 500 to 1,000 boys. Rabbi A, S, Linchner, vice-president of Boys' Further Sentences SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS BY CLAIMS Town who is also the president of the Mesivtah Torah Vodaath in the United States, addressed y ??'^teen Jews have been sentenced to CONFERENCE a meeting and reception where this was jn^Pus terms of imprisonment following trials announce(l. a" Pf, Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod. The trials Applications for scholarship and fellowship Da? L- sentences were reported by " Zazra- grants for the year 1964/65 have to be sub­ LONDON MEMORIAL MEETING ^pSKaya Pravda". The only accused named mitted to the Claims Conference, New York, tinn • *s. All were charged with participa- not later than March 31. 1964. The necessary This year's meeting in commemoration of SDP i'^. alleged economic crimes involving application forms may be obtained from the the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and of the Six peculation in foreign currency. Central British Fund, Woburn House, Upper Million Jewish Martyrs will be held on Sun­ t-„ eniamin Gavrilov, one of three men sen- Woburn Place, London, W.C.1, The grants day, April 5, at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Tpr ^r *^° ^^^*h l^st August by the Stavropol will be awarded to Jewish victims of Nazi W.C.2. Details about the function, which will ren "^^ Court on various charges of cur- persecution who qualify for scholarships in commence at approximately 3 p.m., will be red ^ speculation, has had his sentence Jewish teacher training and in Jewish studies, announced in the next issue. The speakers a °^ced to 15 years' deprivation of liberty on and for fellowships to carry on independent will include Professor Alan Bullock. As in ppeal to the Supreme Court of the Russian research projects in the Jewish social sciences, previous years, the AJR is one of the sponsor­ soviet,—(J.C.) literature and arts. ing organisations. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION March, 1964

"THE REPRESENTATIVE" NEWS FROM ABROAD Rolf Hochhuth's play, " The Representative," opened in Vienna at the Volkstheater. A group of 50 or 60 young Catholics interrupted the first performance with catcalls and U.S.A. JEWRY PROTESTS AGAINST ANTI-RACE LAW FOR SWEDEN? whistles which continued despite an appeal TREATMENT OF RUSSIAN JEWS Two Liberal M.P.s have introduced a Private from the stage by the director of the theatre. Members' Bill in the Swedish Parliament There were worse disturbances on succeeding All the major organisations of American nights but most of the audience shouted down Jewry have finally formed an ad hoc commit­ aimed at outlawing racial discrimination. The Bill suggests the setting up of a special com­ the interrupters and there was loud applause tee to present their protests against the at the end of the performance. treatment of Russian Jews. This was finally mission on the matter, and penalties for those decided after a prolonged and bitter wrangle who turn away " persons belonging to a cer­ Most Austrian papers reviewed the play as to who should present the protests, and a tain group" from restaurants, cinemas and favourably. Even those who disagreed with its other public places. viewpoint argued that the problem of Pope history-making unity meeting included leaders Pius XII's attitude to Nazi persecution of the of every kind of Jewish organisation. Mrs. Segerstedt-Wiberg, one of the M.P.s Jews should be discussed objectively and One of the activities planned is a big concerned, is the daughter of the late Profes­ calmly. demonstration in Washington the day after sor Torgny Segerstedt, war-time editor of the The play, known as " The Deputy" in Passover, with calls on President Johnson and Goteborgs Handelsoch Sjofartsdidning and one America, has also opened on Broadway, with the Russian Ambassador. This plan for April of the few men who dared to write articles Emlyn Williams as Pius, and is reported to 5 is tentative inasmuch as no decision was attacking Hitler and Nazi persecution.— (J.C.) have the support of nearly all the large taken as to whether the demonstration should Jewish organisations and some important take the form of a mass march or a gathering DUTCH NAZI Jewish leaders. of organisational leaders, rabbis and other In our last month's report on a London communal personalities. Jacques ter Haar a leading Dutch Nazi even Symposium, the Aldwych Theatre producer The International Secretariat of Amnesty before the war and today a prosperous cattle of "The Representative", Mr. Clifford Wil­ International, a movement for freedom of breeder in the north-eastern Dutch province of liams, was stated to have said that the Company religion and opinion, has condemned the Soviet Drenthe, has been appointed " clerical visitor " had been asked by the Council of Christians Union's " militant campaign" against the for the Dutch Reformed Church. This honorary and Jews not to perform the play. Mr. W. W. Jewish, Christian and Moslem religions. In a office entails visits to clergymen in his area Simpson, General Secretary of the C.C.J., has statement reference is made to the fact that and reports on their religious and moral drawn our attention to a letter to the Jeivisn numerous synagogues, churches and mosques standards. The appointment was made though Chronicle, according to which the alleged state­ remain closed despite the wishes of their his record was known to the Church authori­ ment did not actually represent what Mr. congregants and that religious instruction is ties. He was sentenced to nine years in gaol Williams intended to convey. What in fact limited. The statement also points out the after the war and deprived of all voting rights did happen was that representatives of the difficulty of baking matzot for Passover.— (J.C.) for life. Council and of the Royal Shakespeare Com­ Despite protests by a well-known anti-Nazi pany informally met to discuss not the ban­ AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWS clergyman in Drenthe, the Dutch Reformed ning of the play but the possibility of present­ Church authorities take the view that ing it in such a way as to avoid causing President Johnson, at a meeting called by " Christian forgiveness" demands that ter dissension between the churches. There was him at the White House, appealed to the Haar's past be forgotten.—(J.C.) no question of the Council's being concerned immigration sub-committees of both the to " hush up " the play. This, the letter con­ Senate and the House of Representatives for cludes, "is clearly shown by the fact that an basic changes in United States immigration DUTCH TV SHOW ABUSED interpretative statement issued by the Council laws. He specifically asked for the abolition was printed in the souvenir programme sold of the discriminatory national origins quota The Dutch Socialist broadcasting and tele­ in the theatre." system, the basis of American immigration vision organisation. Vara, has a satirical pro­ policy since 1921. gramme " So It Also Happens Sometimes," a Dutch version of " That Was The Week That "SOUTH AFRICA SETS EXAMPLE" If the changes asked for by President Was." After its third instalment it received Three British Right-wing leaders have been Johnson are adopted it would mean the grant­ antisemitic reactions and expressions such as visiting South Africa—Sir Oswald Mosley ing of more visas to would-be immigrants " dirty Jews " and " Jewish gangsters." Some (Union Movement), A. K. Chesterton (League originating from Eastem and Southern of the characters in the programme are of of Empire Loyalists) and Blyth Thompson Europe, and Jews from these areas would Jewish or half-Jewish origin but none are (South African Society). The latter two are undoubtedly benefit, actively associated with Jewish organisations. canvassing for financial and political supi)ori and are establishing branches in South Africa. Jewish immigration into America has in The protests were aroused by an item recent years been from 5,000 to 7,000 a year, Mosley, who visited Cape Town to pay intended to ridicule television worship in "-courtesy calls" on Cabinet members and to but it could double if the national origins Holland, when a non-Jewish member of the criterion were abolished and total immigration continue his survey of local conditions and cast recited a " prayer" to television, which business interests, stated that he would not be increased from 157,000 to 250,000—suggestions was represented as God, using verses from the made by several Senators at the Senate immi­ organising a branch of his group in Soutn Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer, Africa. He advised immigrants from Britain gration sub-committee hearing that began Newspapers received a great number of pro­ after the White House meeting.— (J.C.) to join the Nationalist Party whose views were test letters, many from religious people who close to his. South Africa, he said, was a kind were deeply shocked. Other complaints, of laboratory for race relations and was setting WARSAW SURVIVORS HONOUR DANES including anonymous telephone calls to Vara an example for the parallel development ot and members of the cast, were actuated by The Danish Ambassador to the United States malice.— (J.C.) races. ,, . •„ accepted a plaque to present to King Frederik He added that individual Jews could join of Denmark in commemoration of the help of his movement, providing they had been the King's father, his own and that of the BISHOP IN SYNAGOGUE Danish people given to the Jewish people at properly screened beforehand, the time of the Nazi persecution. The tribute For the first time in the history of the 300- ISRAELI SENTENCED FOR WAR was made by the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance year-old Jewish community of Kingston, ACTIVITIES organisation in New York which was formed Jamaica, a Catholic bishop addressed a congre­ The Tel Aviv District Court has sentenced last year by 200 ghetto survivors living in New gation from the synagogue pulpit. Rabbi Henry Hirsch Barenblat, chorus master of the Israel York. Proceeds from the ball at which the P. Silverman, J,P,, minister of the United National Opera, to five years' imprisonment presentation was made will be used to build a Congregation of Israelites, invited the Roman for his activities during the war, when he monument in New York in tribute to resist­ Catholic Bishop of Kingston, Mgr. John J. headed the Jewish police under the Nazis m ance against human oppression, McEleney. to speak to a crowded gathering on the Bendin Ghetto in Poland. Barenblat was " Ecumenism ". found guilty on five of twelve charges, the most AMERICAN NAZIS The Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime serious of which accused him of handing over Minister and other high dignitaries were Jews to the Nazis for deportation, The Los Angeles Superior Court sentenced among the congregation. five members of the American Nazi Party for JEWS WELCOMED IN NEW ZEALAND attacking participants in a " Salute to Israel" NAZI DOCTOR IN GHANA Mr. A. Schiff, treasurer of the Wellington rally last April. Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, has said The ringleader of the group received one to Speaking at the Documentation Centre in that the Wellington Jewish Welfare and Reliet ten years in a State prison and another Haifa, Mr, Gideon Hausner, the former Society is anxious to give every support to defendant one to three years for conspiracy attorney-general who prosecuted at the Eich­ Jews wishing to settle in New Zealand. Britisn only. Leonard Holstein, who claimed to be mann trial in Jerusalem, called on President Jews would be sponsored for assistance to go half-Jewish, was placed on probation for three Nkrumah of Ghana to extradite the notorious to New Zealand and work and accommodation years on condition that he spends the first Auschwitz doctor, Horst Schumann, to West would be arranged on arrival. Mr. SchiS ten months in the county gaol, and two other Germany. President Nkrumah has so far pointed out that Jews have been happy in New defendants of 20 and 21 were referred to the refused to grant a West German request for Zealand and many have reached prominent California Youth Authority.—(J.C.) Schumann's extradition.— (J.C) positions. AJR INFORMATION March. 1964 Page 5 E. G. Loicenthal Old Acquaintances Germany: Willy Fritsch's 20-year-old son, "MONUMENTA JUDAICA" IN COLOGNE Thomas, made his stage debut as Marchbanks in " Candida " at Heidelberg.—Curt Bois made Exhibition Extended to March 15 a successful appearance in " Der eingebildete Kranke", directed by Fritz Kortner in . Up to the beginning of February, 67,000 exhibition. The " Welt ", Hamburg, states that Hamburg.—Walter Rilla adapted and pro­ visitors have seen the exhibition " Monumenta " Monumenta Judaica" was neither an art duced Ginsbury's "Der Mann nebenan" on Judaica—2,000 Years of Jewish History and exhibition nor a defence of Judaism; its TV.—On the Berlin stage again, for the first Culture along the Rhine " which was organised decisive value derived from the fact that it time_ since the war, Erika von Thellmann is oy the City of Cologne. This means an average enabled the visitor to discover the truth for appearing in Maugham's " Der Kreis" and of 4,200 visitors per week. himself. Wilhelm A Iff, in the "Frankfurter Anni Mewis in " Die Krake ".—Detlef Sierck The exhibition has been extended until Allgemeine Zeitung ", described the exhibition produced lonesco's " Koenig Stirbt" in March 15, and it is to be expected that by as an event of major importance in contem­ Munich,—Ursula Schuh, wife of the director of then the total number of visitors will have porary German history. The Roman Catholic Hamburg's Schauspielhaus, designed the decor reached the 100,000 mark. This is an extra­ paper " Rheinische Merkur " writes : " Nothing for Stravinsky's " Feuervogel" at Hamburg's ordinary success for a scholarly venture of similar has ever been attempted before. Here State Opera.—Fritz Schulz appeared in this kind, and it is really a pity that the at last the sources are shown in an unbiased Cologne in " Opernball ", starring Elfie Mayer- oisplays cannot also be shown in any of the way, without having been screened for the hofer.—Imo Moskowicz will produce Hoch­ other cities which fail within their purview. sake of propaganda." Bishop Lilje's " Sonn­ huth's " Stellvertreter " at Frankfurt,—Ludwig However, a transfer is impossible because tagsblatt " states : " How big was the number Berger directed his own play " Ottilie" in more than 2,000 of the items—books, pictures, of German artists, poets and scientists whose Giessen. historical documents, objets d'art and ritual achievements were once described to us as a Obituary: Rudolf Ullstein, the last of the requisites have been received on loan from matter of course, until we were told that they five brothers, has died in Berlin at the age of about 150 different sources. were not Germans but Jews ". 90. He survived the war in London.—Lori The interest has not been restricted to Ger- The periodical " Christ und Welt" remarks : Leux, 67-year-old star of many operettas by nians. There have also been many visitors from " Since the material has been represented in Kuenneke in the early 'twenties died in abroad. The useful, well-illustrated catalogue an unexpurgated and undiluted way, it has Berlin,—Joseph Schildkraut has died in New an(i the handbook with its numerous expert also proved possible to exhibit documents of York at the age of 68 ; the son of the famous articles were already out of stock at the end antisemitism and of internal Jewish problems Rudolf Schildkraut began on Broadway in of last year and reprints had to be produced, such as the immigration of Jews from the East " Liliom " and won two " Oscars", one of On some days, not less than twenty-five guided after 1918 without explanatory commentaries which was for his part in Dieterle's " Zola ".— tours had to be arranged; there is a panel and moralising comments. The exhibition Bruno E. Werner, journalist and former Cul­ of more than a dozen specially trained male speaks for itself ". tural Attache to the German Embassy in and female students for this purpose, and Washington, has died in Davos aged 67,—The from time to time members of the exhibition's 64-year-old actress Lissy Arna, who appeared Advisory Council also act as guides. Group " Memorial for Murdered Citizens " in many films in the 'twenties, has died in Visits have been organised for school classes Berlin,—Robert Klein-Lorek, who took the *ed by the teachers or religious instructors, The " Stuttgarter Zeitung" writes: part of the First Pupil in " The Blue Angel" umversity students, "Referendare", Catholic " Last but not least the Monumenta Judaica has died in New York. and Protestant Women's Leagues, adult educa­ Exhibition is a humble memorial for the Home IS'ews: Dr. Carl Brinitzer, a founder- tion classes, branches of the Society for 11,000 murdered citizens of this city and for member of the German B.B.C. section and Christian-Jewish Co-operation, Trades Union all their fellow sufferers. ... It is good that author of a Lichtenberg and a Heine bio­ youth groups. Rotary Clubs—to quote only nothing has been suppressed or embellished graphy, has succeeded Edmund Wolf as pro­ sonve examples at random. of the suffering the Jews had to endure at the gramme director,—Ken Adam, a son of the The special reading corner installed by the hands of the Christians ". Lastly, we quote the well-known Berlin family, is responsible for ^ologne Library for the History of German " Koelnische Rundschau ", the leading news­ the sets of " Dr. Strangelove".—Lea Seidl Jewry, "Germania Judaica", is visited by about paper of the city where the Exhibition is being appeared on TV in " Espionage ".—The Marl­ ^0 people per day. They browse through the held: " Much talk is going on about the past borough Fine Art Gallery is now showing an literature and also ask questions on a wide which has to be liquidated. Here we are con­ Emil Nolde exhibition.—Wanda Rotha just range of problems. One student asked, from fronted with the past happenings. There has returned from three months in Spain on Which date the Jewish Calendar started. been a Jewish question also before Hitler, location with " Circus World ", left for Berlin Another visitor wanted to know what the Himmler and Eichmann ; the exhibition makes to star in the TV production of " That Lady " lalmud actually was. Others again inquired, us aware of this fact. We have to realise that directed by R. Cartier.—German actor Gerd tl?* ^^^ Yiddish Language came about, what actually we are faced not with a Jewish ques­ Froebe is to take part in the next James Bond ine meaning of Purim was, whether Tucholsky tion but with a Christian question." film, " Goldfinger ". *as a Jew, or were interested in material about The merged German Eagle and Star of j|ie Jewish participation in the anti-Nazi David, the impressive symbol of the " Monu­ Milestoneg: Bruno Paul, who started as a resistance Movement. The reading corner menta Judaica ", which, for months, has been cartoonist of " Jugend " and " Simplizissimus ", also provided an opportunity of becoming displayed on posters all over Germany will became co-founder of " Werkbund" and cquainted with works as widely diverse as not be forgotten. It will keep on reminding " Bauhaus", and director of Berlin Kunst­ tne poems by Wolkskehl, Elbogen's " History people of this important and successful exhibi­ gewerbeschule, has turned ninety.—Valeska Of the Jewish Religious Service" and illus- tion for a very long time to come. Gert celebrated her 70th birthday ; she started Th*^ books on the Nazi period. The impact could hardly be better summed as pupil of Rita Saccetto and made a name for The reaction of the German dailies and up than it was done by the South German herself as a dancer of the grotesque. She periodicals has been particularly important Broadcasting Station : " After this exhibition spent the war years in New York and now lives oecause it reflects the general impact of the nobody is still entitled to plead ignorance ". in Berlin again.—Siegfried Kracauer, a journalist on the staff of the "Frankfurter Zeitung" and author of " From Caligari to Hitler", is 75 years old. \eics from Everyivhere: Grete Mosheim and Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. Ernst Schroeder appeared in Billetdoux's " Tchin-Tchin ", directed by Berlin's K. Raeck, at Zurich's Schauspielhaus.—Francis Lederer, Bankers Lord Mayor h. c. of Canoga Park (California), has donated part of his property to the city BASILDON HOUSE, 7-11, MOORGATE, E.C2 for a public garden,—Friedrich Hollaender has Telephone: METropolitan 8151 gone to live in Ascona.—Curt Riess of Ziirich is working on a biography of Gustaf Representing : Gruendgens,—Salcia Landmann, whose col­ I. L. FEUCHTWANGER BANK LTD, FEUCHTWANGER CORPORATION lection of old Jewish jokes much to our dislike became a German bestseller, is to edit a Jewish TEL AVIV : JERUSALEM : HAIFA 60 EAST 42nd ST,, NEW YORK, 17, N.Y. cookery book for German consumption. PEM Page 6 AJR INFORMATION March, 1964

Eva G. Reichniann Militarapparats verbiindete. Der Erfolg, der ihm vorher versagt war, blieb denn auch diesmal nicht aus. Der Nationalsozialismus, den er als einer der ersten Warner aus den TRAUER UM ALFRED WIENER kleinen Anfangen antisemitischen Geplankels zum Weltfeind sich hatte entwickeln sehen, In Potsdam, wo Alfred Wiener vor fast 79 gegen Riickschritt und Verdunkelungsgefahr, lag geschlagen am Boden. Aber in sein Jahren geboren wurde, steht—oder vielmehr: die Deutschland, Europa, ja die Welt Verderben hatte er Leben und Gliick stand—die Synagoge nicht wie in den meisten bedrohten. Warnend trat er in den Jahren der ungezahlter Opfer mitgerissen, Europa war deutschen Stadten auf einem freien Platz, Weimarer Republik vor die Manner der eine Wiiste des Hungers und des Leids. Auch sondem als Reihenhaus eng angelehnt an Regierung, der Wirtschaft, der Politik und Alfred Wiener war nicht verschont worden. nachbarliche Gebaude. Das jiidische Gottes­ des Heeres und mahnte sie, sich die Macht Zwar wurden ihm seine drei geliebten Tbchter, haus, selbstbewusst und stolz, und doch nicht entgleiten zu lassen. Es war vergebens. die die Holle der Konzentrationslager hatten eingefiigt in Recht und Ordnung der Umwelt, Mit dem Regierungsantritt des National­ erleben miissen, wie durch ein Wunder wieder geschmiickt mit dem preussischen Adler—es sozialismus war sein Werk gescheitert, geschenkt; aber seine Frau, ihre Mutter, war war wie ein Sinnbild des Lebens Alfred Er war tief erschiittert, Fiir kurze Zeit der Qual eriegen. Wieners, das sich von hier entfalten sollte. schien seine Kraft zu versagen. Aber Der schwer erkampfte Sieg der freien Welt Er war das einzige Kind seiner Eltern. iiberraschend schnell raffte er sich auf und brachte kritische Zeiten fiir die " Wiener Seine liebevolle Bindung an seine Mutter, die beschloss, die Arbeit, die in der alten Form Library". Fast von einem Tag zum andern bis in die Zeit der hollandischen Emigration in Deutschland nicht mehr moglich war, verlor sie ihren offiziosen Charakter und in seiner Nahe blieb und deren freundliche jenseits der deutschen Grenze fortzusetzen. musste auf eigenen Fiissen stehen. Nicht Lebensweisheit ihn erfiillte, war eine nie Er griindete aus kleinsten Anfangen in wenige wohlmeinende Berater hielten die versagende Quelle seines Lebens. Weitere Amsterdam das Jewish Central Information Zeit fiir sie gekommen, ihre Pforten zu flossen ihm zu aus der jiidischen Tradition des Office. Es sollte in einer Welt, die von schliessen. Wieners unfehlbarer politischer Elternhauses und dem preussisch-deutschen umstiirzenden Gewaltakten verstort und von Instinkt leitete ihn zu andern Entschliissen. m Geschichtsbewusstsein Potsdams. Es waren unkontrollierten Geriichten aufgescheucht War denn mit der militarischen Niederlage starke und eigenwillige Quellen, und stark war, der wohl dokumentierten, abgewogenen, des Dritten Reiches auch das Ende seiner und eigenwillig war der Strom des Lebens, objektiven Wahrheit dienen. Wo durch zerstorerischen Irrlehren besiegelt ? War sein der jetzt in das Meer der Ewigkeit eingemiin- ziigellose Propaganda die Grenzen zwischen Aufstieg und Untergang nicht ein welt- det ist. Wirklichkeit und Liige verwischt waren, sollte bewegendes Phanomen, das nun erst recht Noch wahrend seiner Jugendjahre zog er die elementare Sprache der Tatsachen wieder die historischen Forscher auf den Plan rufen mit seinen Eltern in das kleine Posensche gehort werden, leise vielleicht zunachst, denn musste ? Durfte man Uber das namenlose Stadtchen Bentschen, dessen jiidische Entsetzen, das es im Gefolge hatte, hinweg­ Atmosphare ihn weiter pragte. Er wollte gehen, bevor man ihm Erkenntnisse una zunachst Rabbiner werden, wahlte aber dann politische Lehren abgerungen hatte, die eine das Studium orientalischer Literatur, das er Wiederholung unmoglich machten ? Die mit der Erwerbung der philosophischen " Wiener Library" miisse bestehen bleiben, Doktorwiirde in Heidelberg abschloss. Friihe entschied Alfred Wiener. Und mit unge- berufliche Verpflichtungen fiihrten ihn brochenfT Kraft ging er von neuem ans Werk. voriibergehend nach Kairo und Palastina, das Er war damals 60 Jahre alt, also in einem er dann als Soldat im ersten Weltkrieg Alter, in dem andere danach trachten, sich das wiedersah. Eine zeitlang war er der Sekretar Leben leichter zu machen. Er hatte wohl des jiidischen Philanthropen Paul Nathan, kaum diesen Wunsch ; aber selbst wenn er eines liberalen Politikers aus dem Kreise Ludwig Bambergers und Paul Barths, der ihm ihn gehabt hatte, ware ihm die Erfiillung die enge Verbindung deutscher Politik mit versagt geblieben. Er kampfte gegen judischer offentlicher Arbeit vorlebte. Sie Schwierigkeiten, die fast jeden Jiingeren wurde schliesslich zu seinem Beruf, als der umgeworfen hatten, Er ging durch Krisen, er Direktor des Centralvereins deutscher Staats- erlebte Enttauschungen, aber er gab nicht biirger judischen Glaubens, Ludwig Hollander, auf. Zusammen mit seinen Mitarbeitern ihn zu seinem Mitarbeiter machte. entwarf er unermiidlich neue Plane, verfolgte neue Ideen, gewann neue Heifer. Nie ist es Der Name des Vereins war sein Programm. ihm vergonnt gewesen, sein Werk wirklich Als Jude Deutscher zu sein, und als Deutscher fiir eine betrachtliche Zeitspanne gesichert zu Jude zu bleiben: eingefiigt in selbstbewusster wissen ; aber durch die grossziigige, freund­ jiidischer Treue in die Reihen deutsch- schaftliche Forderung unseres unvergesslichen biirgerlicher Ordnung, wie einst die Synagoge Leonard G. Montefiore waren ihm doch fu' der Heimatstadt—so sah Alfred Wiener sich die Zeit dieser gesegneten Zusammenarbeit selbst, und so wollte er das deutsche Judentum die schwersten Sorgen abgenommen. sehen; es weiter fortbilden, bis die ideale Photo—Keystone Press Agency Ltd. Die " Wiener Library " ist eine Dokumenta­ Synthese erreicht ware, und es gegen Angriffe fiir grosse Lautstarken schien der Amster­ tion des Grauens, eine " Schreckenskammer von aussen schiitzen, die die erstrebte voile genannt worden. Sie musste gewiss ouc?t das Harmonie gefahrdeten. damer Informationsapparat wenig geeignet, aber unwiderleglich. Wohin immer seine sein, weil furchtbare Zeitlaufte sie dazu Aber Alfred Wiener war kein Mann des Worte drangen, sie wurden sich, so hoffte er, jiidischen Bezirksvereins, Von Anfang an magisch vervielfaltigen, da sie ja die Wahrheit war er sich der Aufgabe bewusst, in der kiindeten. eigenen Sphare die allgemeine Entwicklung Auch diese Hoffnung erfiillte sich nicht. Your Houst for:— voranzutreiben. Die Abwehr des Antisemi­ Allzu viele der die Weltpolitik wirklich CURTAINS, CARPETS, LINO tismus begriff er als einen Teil des Kampfes bewegenden Krafte standen einer rechtzeitigen UPHOLSTERY Erkenntnis der heraufziehenden Gefahr im Wege. Der Krieg wurde unvermeidlich. SPlCIAtTY Gorta Radiovision Bevor er ausbrach, iiberfiihrte Alfred Wiener seine nun schon recht ansehnlichen CONTINENTAL DOWN Service Sammlungen nach London, wo sie zum Grundstock seiner bedeutendsten Schopfung, (Member R.TR.A.) der " Wiener Library ", wurden. QUILTS 1 13 Frognal Parade, Den Lesern dieser Zeitschrift ist die ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS FincUey Road, N.W.3 " Wiener Library" hinreichend bekannt, um keiner Beschreibung zu bedurfen. Weniger ESTIMATES FREE SALES REPAIRS bekannt ist vielleicht der " Kriegsdienst" der Agents for Bush, Pye, Philips, Bibliothek, ihre Mobilisierung fiir die DAWSON-LANE LIMITED Grundig, etc. politische Kriegfiihrung der Alliierten, Mit 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK Refrigerators, Washing-Machines Stocked ihr durfte nun Dr. Wiener endlich die Stunde Telephone : ARN. 6671 Mr. Gort will always be pleased to gekommen sehen, in der sich die ideelle advise you. Macht der getreulich dokumentierten Wahrheit Pirsonal attention of Mr. W Schichmann. (HAM, 8635) mit der materiellen Macht eines iiberlegenen AJR INFORMATION March. 1964 Page 7 research and the dissemination of information. TRAVER VM ALFRED WIENER TRIBUTES He was a delightful companion, warm-hearted, Continued from page 6 generous and intelligent. The challenge left gemacht hatten. Aber sie hatte keine Dr. Robert Weltsch writes : by his death is that his work shall go on. Schopfung Alfred Wieners sein durfen, wenn For former German Jews in this country— in ihr auf die Dauer der Schrecken hatte and indeed, in other countries as well—the ungemildert herrschen diirfen. So wenig sie death of Alfred Wiener is a heavy blow. If THE GEOGRAPHER ALFRED PHILIPPSON es je verabsaumt hatte, auch dem " anderen ", we add a few words to the tribute paid to him dem humanitaren, freiheitlichen Deutschland in this journal, it is for two reasons. Centenary of his Birth in ihren Sammlungen Gerechtigkeit wider­ First of all, a personal one, Wiener was fahren zu lassen, so drang er nun darauf, dass such a charming man and good friend, such During his internment in Theresienstadt, in ihr dem innerdeutschen Widerstand der a warm-hearted person, that one cannot sup­ Alfred Philippson, who died in Bonn in 1953, Kirchen, der zivilen und militarischen press a tear at the thought that he will now wrote a so far unpublished essay, " How I Martyrer, der unbekannten Heifer der Ver­ be absent for ever. In the public arena, he Became a Geographer ". Can we now, on the folgten ein Denkmal gesetzt wiirde. Er tat held strong views, but he also respected the occasion of the centenary of his birth, hope niehr : mit einer Wendung von uberraschender point of view of opponents. Perhaps one may for a publication of this autobiography of his und keineswegs allgemein verstandener und say that he sometimes saw people and the youth ? For manifold reasons it would be of gebilligter Radikalitat ging er daran, in outside world with an over-optimistic eye. In value and interest. His father. Rabbi Dr. I'eutschland selbst wieder zu Menschen guten the assessment of the Jewish position, differ­ Ludwig Philippson, spent a lifetime in further­ Willens zu sprechen, Vor allem suchte er die ences might occur, but Wiener always sought ing and reforming contemporary Judaism and, Jugend auf und wies ihr in offentlichen Reden understanding in human relations which, he more than 125 years ago, founded the Allge­ und personlichen Gesprachen neue Wege des felt, were more significant than political con­ meine Zeitung des Judentums. Denkens und Empflndens. troversies. As an example, I should like to Professor Alfred Philippson was regarded as Was er von seinem Wissen und Wesen in quote the very moving and generous letter one of the great geographers of his time. dieser Tatigkeit in Fulle gab, wurde ihm in he wrote me last year on the occasion of the When, on May 25 of the fateful year 1933, the begliickender Dankbarkeit zuriickgegeben, death of Kurt Blumenfeld, the Zionist leader, centenary of the birth of Ferdinand von Seine Reisen nach Deutschland wurden ihm with whom he often had crossed swords in Richthofen (1833-1905), the founder of modem fu einem Jungbrunnen. Von jeder kehrte er bitter contests of principle in the old days. scientific geography, was celebrated, his pupil befriedigt und erfrischt zuriick, voll ermuti- True humanity was Wiener's foremost virtue. Alfred Philippson was honoured with the gender Eindriicke und Erlebnisse, deren tief Secondly, I have to discharge the sad duty Golden Richthofen Medal. On February 18, ernstem Hintergrund er in der Erzahlung of saying a few words on behalf of the board 1948—not long after his liberation from the Lichter von strahlender Helle aufzusetzen of the Leo Baeck Institute, of which Alfred camp—the Mathematical Faculty of Bonn Uni­ wusste. Er war kein blinder Optimist. Er Wiener was a member from its foundation in versity bestowed on him an honorary doctorate natte einen viel zu klaren Blick, um die noch 1955. Wiener was passionately devoted to of science. On that occasion, at the venerable Oder wieder iiber die deutsche Szene wogenden the subject with which the Leo Baeck Institute age of 82, he lectured on the ,i^gean Sea. "Olken zu ubersehen. Aber im Grunde waren is concerned, namely, research into the history This was one of his many—actually his fore­ es doch die besonnten Landschaften der of Jews in Germany from the time of the most—fields of research, kontrastreichen deutschen politischen Land- Emancipation onward. This was part of his Alfred Philippson died in 1953, having com­ karte, die sich ihm vor allem einpragten. very life, the almost inexhaustible romance pleted almost 90 years. He was buried in the Enthusiast des Lebens of which even today German-speaking Jews Bonn Jewish Cemetery not far from the graves consider themselves the product. His own of his parents. These are the milestones of Denn hier lag eines der Geheimnisse dieser great achievement, the Wiener Library, was tatigen, vitalen, erfiillten Personlichkeit, his life : In 1892 he became Privatdozent in an instrument of work in the same field Bonn, in 1904 Ordinary Professor in Bem, ein Geheimnis des Zaubers, mit dem er Men­ though primarily occupied with the last tragic schen an sich zog: er glaubte, ein durch ein from where, in 1906, he was called to the period. It was a cause of regret that during University of Halle. In 1911 he took over the langes Leben politischer Taktik ausge- the last years of his life, owing to his illness, Sbchener, kiihler Skeptiker zu sein, und er Chair of Geography in Bonn, which he held Wiener could not take such an active part until his retirement in 1929. ^ar doch ein Enthusiast. "Er war ein in the activities of the Institute as he, and Enthusiast seiner Arbeit, seiner Liebe zu indeed his fellow-members, would have Philippson's large private library today Menschen und Biichern, ein Enthusiast des wished. But only a few weeks ago, from his forms the nucleus of the Geographical Insti­ ^ebens. Keiner konnte wie er bis ins hohe sick-bed, he sent an enthusiastic letter, in tute of Bonn, which he originally started as a Alter mit so hinreissender Begeisterung von trembling hand-writing, to the office of our seminary. In this way his memory is kept neuen Begegnungen berichten, mochte es sich London Board, full of appreciation of the alive amongst contemporary students. This, nm das Kennenlernen eines lebendigen oder latest publications and of warm encouragement however, does not diminish the interest which Sedruckten Lebenslaufes handeln. Keiner for the future. That was, alas, his last com­ a publication of the memoirs of his beginnings konnte so behaglich geniessen, so herzlich munication to the Leo Baeck Institute; it would certainly find amongst general readers. anerkennen, in Menschen und Dingen so carried sad forebodings to the recipient. untriiglich den Humor erkennen, " der E.G.L. trotzdem lacht", Er war ein Enthusiast, und The president of the Leo Baeck Institute, er War auch ein Gliickskind des Lebens. Nicht, °ass es in seinem Leben nicht Schmerz und Dr. Siegfried Moses, has sent his own con­ ^ual und Sorge genug gegeben hatte. Wie dolences, and so have other members of the konnte es bei einem Mann unserer Generation, board, but we would like to repeat here on ^le konnte es bei einem so bedeutenden behalf of the London Board and of the Keprasentanten dieser Generation anders Institute as a whole, our deep sorrow at the Sein ? Aber der Urgrund seines Wesens war irreparable loss that his death means to all "Och eine freundliche Heiterkeit von solcher who care for what German Jewry once was. ausstrahlender Aktivitat, dass sie seine Welt ^ach seinem Bilde formte. Er nahm von Mr. David Kessler, Chairman of the Execu­ ftuckschlagen nur insofern Kenntnis, als er tive Committee of the Wiener Library, innen standzuhalten hatte. Er liess sich nicht Von ihnen niederwerfen, Ungebeugt errichtete writes: ?r wieder und wieder um sich herum seine With the death of Alfred Wiener, after a inm freundUch lachelnde Welt, long illness borne cheerfully and courageously, the executive committee and the staff of the Der Endkampf war lang und schwer. Und Wiener Library have lost a beloved colleague «och durfte er auch in der traurigen Leidens- and a faithful friend. Alfred Wiener was an ?^it sich umsorgt und getrostet wissen von der unusual man, who combined admirably the bebevollen Lebensgefahrtin seiner reifen finest characteristics of the great German- Jahre, die ihn mit selbstloser Aufopferung Jewish cultural tradition in which he had Pflegte bis zum Ende. Ihr standen Kinder been nurtured and a profound love for the Und Freunde bei. Es war nie einsam um ihn, country in which he made his home as a uessen Liebe zum Leben ihm so reich erwidert refugee from the Nazis. *iirde. Wer immer sich von dieser Lebens- The Library was his inspiration and after "ebe erwarmen und begeistern lassen durfte, 1934 his life's work. It was his determination, *ird trauemd und dankbar ihren Abglanz his optimism and his persuasiveness which led in sich tragen. to its development as a serious centre both for Page 8 AJR INFORMATION March, 1964

Rabbi Dr. Neufeld munity fell on his shoulders, for there was no other preacher besides him. For years attempts were made to find an academically trained Liberal rabbi who, unlike Sachs, would be pre­ MICHAEL SACHS-RABBI OF BERLIN pared to officiate in the organ-synagogue, but it was not until 1866 that a rabbi was found in the person of Josef Aub, of Mainz, who appeared suitable. Yet even in this election Centenary of his Death the communal representatives were unlucky, and despite all warnings were forced to accept A hundred years ago Michael Sachs died in Jewish community in Berlin and later repre­ the extremely radical reformer Abraham the prime of his life in Berlin on January 31, sentative of the City of Berlin in the Prussian Geiger. 1864, in his 56th year. Very few are destined Upper Chamber, effected his appointment in Sachs came to the particular attention of the to live on in their own works, but Michael Berlin in 1844 as preacher and rabbinical Berlin population when he was asked, after Sachs was one of that select band. For even assessor. His eloquence was already remark­ the March revolution in 1848, to speak with today, a century after his death and the able in Prague, but it came to full flower in the ministers of other religions at the graves scattering of the remnants of Central Euro­ the Berlin community. In 1844 the Berlin of the fallen in Friedrichshain. All Berlin pean Jewry throughout the world, the Machzor community numbered about 8,000 souls; but was then in a ferment and some 20,000 people with Michael Sachs's poetical translation is in 1847, when Jews in the Province of Posen were at Friedrichshain and in the Landsberger still used on High Holy-days by older Jews, were permitted to migrate to other parts of Allee, so that his reputation spread far beyond whether they be in New York, Buenos Aires, Prussia, the community grew very rapidly and the confines of his con;,'regation. When he Johannesburg or Tel Aviv. at Sachs's death numbered not less than died on January 31, 1864, the gap was imme­ At the celebration marking the centenary of 24,000. diately felt. He was buried in the specially his birth 56 years ago, the memorial address reserved row in the then new cemetery in was delivered at the Hochschule fiir die Trained in the Modern Way the Schoenhauser Allee, but no truly repre­ Wissenschaft des Judentums by Dr. Josef sentative preacher was available. By a curious Eschelbacher, the Conservative Berlin com­ Sachs won the ears and hearts of all his chance his great friend, Moritz Veit, also died munal rabbi, Leonhard Sachs, the son of listeners. The two old rabbinical assessors at at the same time. Thus it was found necessary Michael Sachs, said that Eschelbacher was his that time still working in Berlin were essen­ to summon the Breslau rabbi. Dr. Manuel father's real successor, although he only came tially active as Talmudists and Dayanim and, Joel, more than once in the course of a few to Berlin 36 years later. For in the inter­ unlike Sachs, had no influence on the congre­ days, and he was able to represent the com­ vening period every Berlin communal rabbi gants. Sachs was trained in the modern way munity in a really worthy manner. had ministrated to all the synagogues without and inclined to accept modern innovations, in Apart from those already mentioned, several distinction. Eschelbacher, however, had been fact he experimentally introduced the con­ other works by Sachs have been published, called to Berlin specifically for the non-organ firmation of girls, but essentially he was a including two volumes of his excellent synagogues and his principal field of activity traditionalist and a decided opponent of the sermons issued shortly after his death. was the Old Synagogue in the Heidereuter­ Reform community established in 1845, which gasse, to which Michael Sachs had exclusively held its services on Sundays. Furthermore, concentrated his attention. when the Berlin community, despite strong VILLAGE JEWS IN WESTFALIA opposition, decided to introduce an organ and Michael Jehiel Sachs was a distinctive The publication in Germany of monographs mixed choir in the proposed representative on the history of Jewish communities in personality, out of the common rut. He had synagogue in the Oranienburgerstrasse, Sachs grown up entirely in the German cultural German cities, townships and villages reflects was definitely against it. It was an imposition the desire to give the German public an environment after the Mendelssohnian era of to ask him, the celebrated preacher, who was undistorted picture of German Jewry. At the enlightenment, right in the middle of the opposed to the introduction of an organ, to same time such publications are valuable con­ movement towards apostasy and of the fight preach experimentally in this synagogue in tributions to the history of the Jews in for emancipation and assimilation at the same 1863, even before it was completed, simply to Germany at large. Last, but not least, they time. He was born on September 3, 1808, in try out the acoustics. Such a task could in are also of interest to individual Jews and Glogau, one of the few Silesian communities their families who were driven into emigration fact have been undertaken by any experienced and who, together with their descendants, can with an historic past. He was educated in the teacher, but it was typical of the attitude of spirit of German humanism at the local thus trace back their genealogies and get an the communal council at the time to expect idea of the circumstances under which their grammar school and continued his education Michael Sachs to do it. Usually Sachs preached forebears lived before and after the emancipa­ in the same spirit at the newly established •I to a full congregation, but here he preached tion. University of Berlin. But for his Jewish to empty pews and his speech was a farewell Rabbi Dr. B. Brilling, former archivist of education he depended entirely on himself. address because he never intended to preach the Breslau Jewish Community and now a He acquired his elementary knowledge in his in the organ-synagogue. And in fact he never Custodian at the University of Munster, has native Kehilla, partly from his father, a did so, because the synagogue was only inau­ just published a small study on the history businessman of the type that possessed some gurated on September 5, 1866, two years after of the Jewish Community in the Padberg Jewish leaming. his death. district, which comprised the places Bering- hausen, Helminghausen and Padberg and dates Sachs actually wanted to become a grammar- Despite his widespread activities in the ever­ back to the middle of the seventeenth century. school teacher, but at that time Jews in Prussia growing community, he found time for literary Together with Ulrich Dieckmann, Rabbi Dr. were not eligible for this type of post. So work. He concerned himself particularly with Brilling has also edited a brief history of the he turned his attention to Jewish studies, synagogal poesy, on which Zunz had previously Jewish Community of Munster from 1933 to which was not easy then. It was another done research. Already by 1836 he had trans­ 1945. carrying a complete list of its members decade, 1854, before the Jewish Theological lated and annotated the Psalms and later and their fates. Seminary in Breslau was founded, the first translated 15 books for Leopold Zunz's Bible academy in which rabbis could study the translation. Then he engaged in the scientific results of the young Science of Judaism in study of poetic literature and later translated addition to the old Talmudic learning. The such literature into poetical form. In 1845 HERTIE LTD. great majority of rabbis originated, therefore, he wrote " Die religiose Poesie der Juden in from yeshivot and were in consequence Spanien ", in 1863 " Stimmen vom Jordan und unable to offer spiritual guidance to their Euphrat" and then a more scientific work (Textiles) more educated congregants, who included a (1852-54), "Beitrage zur Sprach- und Alter- • high proportion of graduates. tumsforschung". Later on he started and In 1836 Michael Sachs was appointed completed the work that is of lasting value. preacher in the Tempelgemeinde in Prague on He translated the Machzor. the order of service the recommendation of Leopold Zunz, who had for the Five Festivals, into German in an held the appointment there before for a short artistic, poetical form. " Die Festgebete der time. In Prague he had a very friendly rela­ Israeliten" (1855-56) is a work that has gone tionship with Salomon Jehuda Rappaport through many editions. He also translated (SHIR), who was appointed communal rabbi into German the Siddur, the daily prayer book 33, Margaret Street, of Prague in 1840. This relationship was a (1858). London, W.l source of much scholarship to Sachs and it It is difficult to understand how he found formed a stimulus to his academic plans which time for all these accomplishments. Prac­ were to come to fruition later on in Berlin. tically, the whole burden of the religious Telephone: LANgham 2189 (2 lines) His friend Moritz Veit, senior member of the work for the steadily growing Berlin com- AJR INFORMATION March. 1964 Page 9

Friedrich WaUer original comic writers as Thomas Peacock and Ronald Firbank, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Nigel Dennis, and had in their favour Humour in a Damp Climate dropped others whose humour is, I feel, either A writer of German origin, Egon Larsen a direct consequence of the dampness of the conventional or laboured or both (e.g., Trol­ (well known to the readers of AJR Informa­ English climate.) lope, Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, P. G. Wodehouse). But if, for a moment, I might tion), and an Englishman, Eric G. Linfield, But Linfield stresses yet another essential be allowed to be thorough at the risk of Worked together in compiling an anthology of element of English humour: he calls it its appearing humourless: The Oxford Dictionary English humour which they call " Laughter in " robustness" and here again he quotes an defines " humour", among other things, as a a Damp CUmate".* authoritative source, this time an English one. " mood", an " inclination", in its ancient The great essayist and humorist Hazlitt once That is an apt and well-chosen title ; no less Latin and later mediasval meaning even as a wrote : " A degree of barbarism and rusticity happy is the choice of the pieces which make " fluid of the body formerly held to determine seems necessary to the perfection of humour." up the contents of this anthology. In their physical and mental qualities ". As different This seems at first rather disturbing but it is entirety they amount to what the German as these are our individual responses to all the also a very true and profound remark. Linfield edition in its sub-title calls " eine kleine different shades of humour reflecting the shows us clearly the gradual refinements of Literaturgeschichte des britischen Humors", variety of human nature and so richly reflected this robust core through wit, irony and social starting as it does with a very funny scene in this anthology. from one of the early English mystery plays, satire which, as he rightly says, are insepar­ going on to Chaucer's " Canterbury Tales", able from humour and its literary evolution then giving us extracts from the writings of the —its " infinite variety " of which the pieces THALHEIM REMEMBERS ITS JEWS chosen by him and Egon Larsen for this great comic writers throughout the following In 1932, the township of Thalheim in the centuries up to and largely including our anthology give us many various examples. Heilbronn district had about 90 Jewish inhabi­ present time. To the constituent elements of humour I tants. Recently, Hauptlehrer Theobald Nebel To this wealth of well-selected material would also add that of self-irony. This precious has written a booklet about the " History of which is as amusing as it is thought-provoking, gift to laugh at oneself—it has often before the Thalheim Jewish Community ". The work Eric G. Linfield has written a highly enlighten­ been identified not only with English but with has been published by the Municipality of ing introduction, a most intelligent guide to Jewish humour also. That it should be shared Thalheim " in memory of its Jewish fellow- this elusive, complex and endearing phenome­ by both seems paradoxical. Could it be citizens who were murdered under the non, the EngUsh sense of humour. He makes explained through its very contradictoriness ? National Socialist Terror regime". In the It derive from and connects it very con­ Did the English humorous brand of self-irony introduction. Mayor Robert Ehrenfried states vincingly with the English climate not only in stem from a long series of almost miraculously that the relationship between Christian and Its literal meaning but with what the Spanish- lucky escapes from the misfortunes of history, Jewish inhabitants of the town had been a American philosopher Santayana, whom he whereas the Jewish variant grew from a still good one also during the years 1933-1945, Quotes, once called the Englishman's " inner longer history of almost unrelieved sufferings ? when Jews could rely on the understanding atmosphere, the weather in his soul". But this is dialectical thinking, hence very and support of the general population. Of (" Gefiihlsklima" I would call it in German inappropriate where humour is concerned the 88 Jews who lived there in 1932, ten died between 1933 and 1939, 38 emigrated, eight and feel tempted to say that the indefinable which is indeed a matter of inner climatic and atmospheric conditions, in other words: a moved to other places in Germany, and one and admirable dryness, the casual understate­ died in a concentration camp. The remaining ments of EngUsh humour result from and are matter of feeling. When questioned about my own feelings I could have wished that 31 Jews were deported and murdered. Linfield and Larsen had included in their The publication is well documented and _ * Egon Larsen and Eric G. Linfield : Laughter in a uamp Climate. Herbert Jenkins, London. 30s. otherwise excellent anthology such great and carries good illustrations. E.G.L.

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Robert Weltsch humanity by opening up treasures which, with­ out his care and understanding, would never have gone beyond the narrow confines of Eastern Europe, as it then was (it does not INGATHERING THE HARVEST exist today). Publication of Martin Buber's Writings Finally, the volume " Der Jude und sein Martin Buber, who was 86 in February, is spread to EngUsh-speaking countries, due to Judentum " contains most of Buber's writings now busy with what he calls " ingathering the the translation of part of Buber's work into over almost sixty years on topical questions harvest." His writings in the German originals English. There, too, it has been received as and discussions of the Jewish problem. The are being collected in four huge volumes, each book starts with the famous lectures which, on a true revelation. the eve of the First World War, opened a new of approximately a thousand pages or more. In the present book Bubex also included his The first was already referred to last year on epoch in the approach to the Jewish question. own replies to criticism recently made within These lectures had a particularly revolutionary the occasion of Buber's 85th birthday. Two the Jewish camp about the manner in which other volumes recently foUowed: " Schriften effect on youth far beyond the Zionist ranks. he had handled Chassidism for half a century. The first lecture was delivered in Prague in zum Chassidismus " and " Der Jude und sein He was accused of having dressed it up for Judentum."* 1909 ; two others followed, later published as Western consumption, allegedly disregarding "Drei Reden iiber das Judentum" (1911), It is difficult today to appreciate properly the historical setting of the chassidic teaching which after the First World War became the impact which, almost sixty years ago, within the Kabbalist tradition. The challenge "Acht Reden," and after the Second World Buber's first books about Chassidism made in came from Professor Gershom Scholem, the War were supplemented by the four lectures Western Europe or, more correctly, on the greatest living authority on Kabbala, in a lec­ united under the name " An der Wende." In German-speaking world. These books com­ ture originally delivered in London and later other parts of the book we find some of Buber's pletely transformed the image of the Jew. printed in German in the " Neue Ziircher most important pronouncements on Zionism, Western intellectuals, accustomed to judging Zeitung," in English in " Commentary," and Jewish nationalism, humanism and questions Judaism in terms of the official Jewish bour­ now included in a provocative little volume of Zionist (and IsraeU) poUcy, including the geois community, were perplexed to leam of of German essays called "Judaica."** The relation to the Arabs. Of special interest to a religious popular movement in the plains of ensuing discussion, on the highest possible the readers of this paper are the articles PodoUa and Wolhynia in Eastern Europe of level, is of absorbing interest. It is evident written during the Nazi regime in Germany, which they knew nothing, though its message that the two men start from different points where Buber was then teaching. Half a cen­ contained so much of devotion and wisdom, of view. Scholem, as an historian and a scholar, tury of Jewish development is reflected in humanity and comfort. They had to revise is primarily concerned with the meticulous these pages. their views .ibout East European Jews, who treatment of the literary sources and their had hitherto been regarded mainly as objects interpretation within the historical context, This is a harvest worth bringing in. of philanthropy. Buber's first chassidic book, while Buber, on the other hand, claims licence " Die Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman," was to select from the spiritual wealth of a Uving pubUshed in 1906; " Die Legende des Baal —and, alas, rapidly degenerating—community POPE AIDS ANNE FRANK HOUSE Schem " was pubUshed in 1907 by Riitten and its finest fruit, and to translate the spiritual Pope Paul VI and more than sixty artists, Loening in Frankfurt. In addition to relating gist of the teaching in a faithful way into a many of them internationally famous, have the stories and legends of these chassidic language of more universal appeal. This gives given works of art to an exhibition in Rome masters, Buber gave a fundamental introduc­ the chance of " presenting to our times what to raise funds for the Anne Frank Italian tion to the world of Jewish mysticism. After is suitable in helping to overcome the plight of House in Israel. The home is being built at Neot Mordechai. this beginning many other books on Chas­ faith." A purely historical and exact account in Upper Galilee, to accommodate children in sidism followed. These are now all collected cannot fulfil this task. True, says Buber, Chas­ need from all parts of the world. Already 40 together in their final version in this one sidism never pretended to be a message for children are in residence and more money is volume of 1963. During the past 60 years the whole of mankind; but actually this is required to complete and maintain the home. Chassidism, thanks to Buber alone, has become what Chassidism was, and in this sense one The exhibition was organised at the A.C. part of the modern Jewish consciousness. has to interpret it, even against its own will. Gallery by Mrs. Leila Hirschfeld and the After the Second World War its influence also What matters is not the theoretical or specula­ American Committee of Youth AUyah in Rome. tive view of Chassidim, but the existential The Vatican became interested when Mr. • Martin Buljcr : Werke. Dritter Band : Scliriften Herzl Emmanuel, the American sculptor, and zum Ciiassidismus. Kosel Verlag & Lambert reality. Schneider. 1,271 pp. DM 52. his wife, spoke of the exhibition to one of the Martin But>er: Der Jude und sein Jndentum. Scholem does not share this view. He officials. Pope Paul chose a specially commis­ Gesammelte Aufsal/^e und Reden. Mit einer Ein­ argues that the description of Chassidism must sioned sculpture as his gift. leitung von Robert Weltsch. Joseph Melzer Verlag Koln. 837 pp. DM 48. be from the theological approach and the his­ torical development. It is, of course, impos­ sible here to enter into the details of this con­ troversy. Yet, as far as Buber's achievement is concerned, it must be said that when the handsome editions of these books first Ackermans appeared in Germany it was clear to all that Buber's account was not a " scientific" his­ torical one, but rather something close to poetry. The tales and sayings of the Chas­ Chocolates sidim were not simply translated into another De Luxe language. They were transformed in a con­ IN BEAUTIFULLY genial manner for readers with quite a differ­ ent culture, ignorant of the specific tradition DESIGNED in which the chassidic communities were PRESENTATION embedded. To make a message of this kind BOXES acceptable to a completely different public is the creative task of a genuine interpreter. MARZIPAN Buber's " Chassidische Schriften," now before us as a whole, beautifully produced, bear wit­ SPECIALITIES ness to the tremendous importance of his work. He has enriched Jewish thought and DIABETIC '* Gershom Scholem : Jndalca. Suhrkampf Verlag CHOCOLATES Frankfurt 1963. 234 pp. DM 5.80. 43, KENSINGTON CHURCH ST., LONDON, W.8 WES. 4359 and Wir kaufen Einzelwerke, Bibliotheken, Autographen und moderne Graphik 9. GOLDHURST TERRACE, Oirektor : Dr. Joseph Suschitzky FINCHLEY ROAD, N.W.6 38a BOUNDARY RD., LONDON, N.W.S MAL 2742 Telephone : MAI. 3030 APIOOB AJR INFORMATION March. 1964 Page 11 pubUshed a short biography of " Isaac Wolff- son, ein hamburgischer Wegbereiter des THE BAYSWATER JEWS Rechts und der deutschen Emanzipation". He presents a vivid portrait of the man who, together with Gabriel Riesser and during the The Anglo-Jewish community has been in tory in tone about the son (" had Dr. Adler 32 years that he survived him, played a lead­ existence for more than three centuries, yet been a Roman CathoUc he would have been ing role in introducing democratic institu­ It is surprising that only two synagogues in the canonised"), for Adler also had his tions in his native city. Wolffson, a lawyer MetropoUs are more than one hundred years opponents. A chapter is also devoted to Rabbi by profession, was a member of the Municipal old. Bevis Marks, the main Sephardi syna­ Dr. Sir Hermann Gollancz, Bremen-born, who ParUament from 1859 to 1889 and its President gogue, holds pride of place with some two became the only rabbi in England ever to be from 1861 to 1863. He was also the President hundred and fiity years of active life; the knighted. of the Anwaltskammer of the three Free second is the Bayswater Synagogue which There is no doubt that the Bayswater Jews Cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Luebeck celebrated its centenary last year. There was, held an influential place in the community, from its foundation in 1879 until his death. of course, the Great Synagogue in Duke's A man of unlimited energy and vast know­ and it is perhaps not putting it too high to say ledge, he also belonged to the Reichstag from Place, but it was destroyed by enemy action that " from its outset there was a great cachet in 1942. its inception (1871) until 1881; he was one attached to the congregation", certainly by of the ten deputies who were entrusted wijh . The reason for the paucity of old synagogues some sections of the community, but hardly by the preparation of the new German Civil IS explained in The Bayswater Synagogue the later immigrants who despised the West Code and the committee's only Jew and sole 1863-1963 by Olga Somech PhilUps and Hyman Enders' particular brand of Orthodoxy and lawyer. His considerable contribution to this A. Simons, privately pubUshed to celebrate resented their patronage and charity which important law is reflected in various mono­ the synagogue's centenary. The old-established was liberally bestowed. graphs which he wrote on a variety of legal City synagogues were jealous of their rights The book is, however, less concerned with problems. As a poUtician, he represented and steadfastly, sometimes under threat of the social environment and those changes his city during the complicated negotiations excommunication, refused to allow other which unfortunately now threaten to make the which Hamburg had to conduct with Bismarck's synagogues to be estabUshed, despite the fact synagogue redundant, than with the per­ Prussia. inat their more afiluent congregants were fast sonalities who officiated and worshipped there. migrating to the West End and the newer These are treated most generously and there Wolffson was greatly honoured by his com­ suburbs of Bayswater, Maida Vale, etc. is suflicient wealth of anecdote and bio­ patriots during his lifetime, and his memory graphical detail to titillate and satisfy the was kept alive in the decades that followed It was only after the hotly contested election his death. A street in the north of Hamburg 01 the new Chief Rabbi, Nathan Marcus Adler imagination of any student of the Anglo- bore his name, his bust was erected in the trom Hanover, in 1844, that the situation Jewish scene. Hamburg Court of Appeal and a relief of his enanged. For he, more modern in his outlook WALTER M. SCHWAB. head found its place in the Hamburg Town Jnan his predecessor, urged upon the authori­ Hall. When the Nazis came to power, all ties the need for subsidiary places of worship A HAMBURG JEWISH POLITICIAN these monuments of gratitude were removed outside the City and East End. so that the memory of this great Jewish citizen Erich Lueth on Isaac Wolffson might be obliterated. Fortunately this did t tu^^ ^°°^ '^ largely devoted to the Adlers. not come to pass: Wolffson's bust has been i«her and son, particularly the latter who (18171895) re-installed in its niche of honour and Erich omciated at Bayswater for many years before On behalf of the Freie Akademie der Lueth's essay is meant to remind the new assuming his father's office of Chief Rabbi, Kuenste in Hamburg, Erich Lueth, the German generation of the lasting merits of erhaps the authors are somewhat too adula­ Director of the Staatliche Pressestelle, has one of Hamburg's greatest sons.

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Dr. Emerich Hunna (Wien) keit, ein milder Humor und eine in unserer Zeit ganz seltene, fast spartanische Anspruchs- losigkeit pragten das Bild dieser wertvollen DR. PAUL ABEL ZUM 90. GEBURTSTAG PersonUchkeit. Selbst ohne Arg und voll Vertrauen zu den Andern stand Paul Abel im Anldsslich des 90. Geburtstages von Dr. Paul Abel hat uns der Ehrenprdsident Jahre 1938 den Ereignissen fassungslos der Rechtsanwaltskammer fiir Wien, Niederosterreich und Burgenland, Dr. Emerich gegeniiber: Er konnte es zunachst kaum Hunrui, den folgenden Gliickwunsch zur Verfiigung gestellt. Die AJR betrachtet es verstehen, dass ich unablassig darauf drangte, als eine besondere Ehre, dass Dr. Abel als langjdhriges Mitglied ihres Board mit ihren dass er Oesterreich so rasch als moglich Bestrebungen eng verbunden ist und schliesst sich den gut^n Wiinschen auf das verlasse. herzlichste an. Ein gUtiges Geschick hat schliesslich bewirkt, dass Dr. Abel auch die furchtbaren Mit Dankbarkeit und Bewunderung und Rigorosen mit einstimmiger Auszeichnung Jahre des Krieges korperUch und vor allem gedenken Oesterreichs Juristen, vor allem die abgelegt hatte. geistig in wunderbarer Verfassung uberwinden Wiener Rechtsanwalte, des 21. Marz 1964, an In seiner Ausbildungszeit bei Dr. J. L, konnte. Wir mussten einsehen, dass er nach dem einer ihrer Grossten seinen 90.Geburtstag Brunstein hatte er eine besondere Vorliebe 1945 zogerte, wieder nach Wien zuriick­ —feme der Heimat—feiern wird. Mit fur die wissenschaftliche und praktische Pflege zukehren, betrachten aber Dr. Paul Abel nach besonderer Liebe und dauernder Verbunden­ des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes gewonnen. wie vor als die Zierde der osterreichischen heit fiihle ich mich berufen, die Gliickwiinsche Schon im Jahre 1908 erschien das von ihm Rechtsanwaltschaft und sind erfiillt von den der Wiener Anwaltschaft zu diesem seltenen verfasste, preisgekronte " System des oster­ innigsten Wiinschen fiir sein ferneres Wohler- Fest zum Ausdruck zu bringen. reichischen Markenreehtes", das noch heute gehen! Es sind ja genau 50 Jahre, seitdem ich im in Theorie und Rechtsprechung grosse Fruhjahr 1914 in die Kanzlei der Wiener Hof— Bedeutung hat. Er konnte das profunde und Gerichtsadvokaten Dr. Adolf (Edler von) Wissen und Verstandnis fiir alle Zweige des ERICH LUETH 60 Bachrach und seines Schwiegersohnes Dr. gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes im Rahmen der Paul Abel als junger Konzipient eintrat. Es Anwaltskanzlei immer mehr vertiefen und On February 1, Erich Lueth (Hamburg) verwerten. Am 3. Mai 1904 wurde Dr. Abel als celebrated his 60th birthday. A few years after war damals wohl die beriihmteste Kanzlei der the war, he initiated the " Peace with Israel' grossen osterreichisch-ungarischen Monarchic. " Hof- und Gerichtsadvokat" in die Liste der Wiener Kammer eingetragen, der er bis zur movement. Since then he has constantly made Dr. Adolf Bachrach, eine wahrhaft geniale the German people aware of the guilt they PersonUchkeit, genoss das besondere Ver­ Besetzung Oesterreichs im Jahre 1938 angehorte. have to atone for and worked for the estabUsh­ trauen des kaiserlichen Hauses ; weit mehr als In diesen 34 Jahren war Dr. Abel als unbestrit- ment of a new relationship between Germans ein Dutzend Erzherzoge, mehrere auslandische tene "Autoritat" auf dem Gebiet des Patent—, and Jews. In his publications he has dealt regierende Fiirsten, hervorragende Mitglieder Marken—, Muster—, Wettbewerbs — und both with the life in the new State of Israel der Hocharistokratie, aber auch angesehene Urheberrechtes tatig. Es gab wohl kaum einen and with the contributions of Jews, especiaUy industrielle Unternehmungen wurden dauernd grosseren Prozess dieser Art, an dem er nicht in his home town, to Germany's political and von ihm anwaltUch beraten und vertreten. in irgend einer Funktion teilnahm. Dazu kam cultural Ufe before 1933. At the same time die umfassende Tatigkeit in den iibrigen he courageously raised his voice whenever he Paul Abel hatte schon als Student seine Angelegenheiten der Kanzlei, die auch nach felt that—as in the case of Veit Harlan^ ausserordentlichen Fahigkeiten und sein dem Zusammenbruch der Monarchic und der activities under the Nazi regime were too wissenschaftliches Streben bewiesen ; er wurde damit verbundenen grundlegenden Wandlung easily overlooked or that symptoms of neo- der gesellschaftlichen, sozialen und wirt­ Nazism were not properly recognised. We am 18. Janner 1899 sub auspicUs imperatoris wish Erich Lueth. the outstanding author and an der Wiener Universitat zum Doktor juris schaftlichen Verhaltnisse standig mit iournalist, many further years of constructive promoviert, nachdem er alle seine Priifungen schwierigsten Aufgaben betraut war. work. Vorbildlich war und blieb auch im Wechsel der Zeiten der vornehme, wirklich uneigen- ntitzige Charakter der Berufsausiibung. Dr. Abel empfand und iibte die Anwaltschaft zeit seines Lebens als nobile officium, nur bestrebt, das Recht durchzusetzen und dem Klienten zu helfen. Die Honorarfrage kam immer zuletzt: ein beachtlicher Teil der Kanzleitatigkeit AMC wurde unentgeltlich geleistet. Die iiberlegene, ausgeglichene Art, in der Dr. Abel auch allgemeine Rechts—und insbesondere auch die anwaltlichen Standes- fragen behandelte, erwarb ihm schon in fruheren Jahren auch das Vertrauen der THE ATLANTIC METAL Kollegen, die ihn im Jahre 1912 in den Ausschuss der Wiener Rechtsanwaltskammer CO. LTD. wahlten, dem er dann seit 1924 als Erster Vizeprasident bis zum 15. Marz 1938 vorstand. Nur eine ganz ungewohnliche Arbeitskraft und Arbeitsfreude ermoglichten es, dass Dr. Paul Abel neben diesen beruflichen Arbeiten dauernd an der osterreichischen Gesetzgebung For auf dem Gebiet des gewerblichen Rechts­ schutzes als Gutachter, Kritiker oder Berater der vorbereitenden Gesetzgebungskommis- Ferrous and Non-Ferrous sionen teilnahm, eine nicht ubersehbare Fiille wertvoller Publikationen in osterreichischen Metals und auslandischen Zeitschriften veroffentlichte und sich an einer Reihe angesehener Vereini­ gungen mit grossem Eifer und Erfolg beteiligte, u.a. als Vorstandsmitglied der Wiener Juristischen Gesellschaft, Vize­ prasident der Oesterreichischen Landesgruppe der Association Internationale pour la Propriete Industrielle, Vorstandsmitglied der Association Internationale pour la Protection des Oeuvres Utteraires et artistiques, MitgUed der Oesterreichischen Landesgruppe der 15-23 St. Pancras Way, International Law Association, etc. Loncion, N.W.I Das Wirken und das Wesen des grossen Advokaten Paul Abel war bestimmt durch EUSton 9001/7 seine echte Menschlichkeit. Gute, wahre Bescheidenheit und unbeugsame Rechtlich- AJR INFORMATION March, 1964 Page 13

DR. FRITZ M. WARBURG 85 Birthday Tributes On March 12 Dr. Fritz M. Warburg, the youngest and only surviving of the famous five DR. F. H. KROCH 60 DR, LEO ENGEL 75 brothers from Hamburg, will be 85 years old. On March 29, hiding in Italy, Dr. F. H. Kroch, We extend our sincerest congratulations to He will celebrate this day in the Kibbutz a man of many parts, scientist, industrial Dr. Leo Engel who will be 75 on March 31. In Netser Sereni, near Beer Yaakov, where he leader and social worker, will be celebrating Germany Dr. Engel was Secretary-General of the " Reichsverband des deutschen Gross-und Uves with his Swedish-born wife, close to two nis sixtieth birthday. Domiciled in the daughters, their husbands and children. Manchester area since 1937 he founded in that Ueberseehandels ". When the AJR was built year, on the site of a disused bleachworks, a up, he put his experience and energy at its After studying jurisprudence he was a disposal and thus played an important part in partner of M. M. Warburg & Co., at Hamburg, chemical company which under his guidance strengthening the foundations of the organisa­ Was to expand vastly and eventually to become from 1907 to 1938, specially in charge of the tion. Since then he has, as a Board member, credit department, the metal business and 9ne of the most progressive units in this always taken an active interest in our efforts. industry, known and respected throughout the certain industrial interests. In contrast to his brothers, Max, Paul and Felix, he at no time World. In the field of voluntary work his MISS NELLY WOLFFHEIM 85 restless energy has been no less fruitful and of his life fell under the spell of the United Wide in scope to the lasting benefit of industry Miss Nelly Wolffheim who will be 85 on States but was essentially European, En and, particularly, of his fellow refugees. As March 28 may look back on many achievements Gammal Europe, as a Swedish friend called non. treasurer of all the successive groupings in the educational field. She was the head of him in a charming essay five years ago. As of Jewish refugees in the Manchester area, a well-known kindergarten and a tutor for such he was and is a Uving repository of the which eventually became merged in the Morris Jewish kindergarten teachers in Berlin, and history of the Haute Finance in the last sixty ^einmann Homes Trust, as the co-founder of is the author of widely recognised publications years. His conversation has not the crisp and thg first Home for ageing refugees in Great on questions of education and psychology. It pungent wit which characterised his brothers. Britain and as the guardian angel of many is particularly gratifying that she can still be Professor Aby and Max, but is of a more epical hundreds in need of help and advice he has active as a writer. A personality of Miss style, with a sharp but never evil eye for created for himself a lasting monument. Wolffheim's standing is also an asset to Otto foibles and frailties, a puckish humour, and Schiff House where she has been living for the all this wrapped in the warm glow of his past years. We wish her health and ability to humanity. PROFESSOR GUIDO KISCH 75 work for a long time to come. Professor Guido Kisch recently celebrated His favourite and well-known hobby was and nis 75th birthday. He started his University MRS. CLARA FREYHAN 85 is graphology, useful even in business where career in Leipzig, and from 1922 to 1933 was Mrs. Clara Freyhan will be 85 on March 16. a handwritten letter or even a signature some­ ^rdinary Professor of History of Law at Halle Throughout her life she has been actively times could betray what a balance sheet tried University. After his emigration to the United associated with various general and Jewish to conceal. But his interest in this kind of *'tates he became attached as a research causes. In Berlin she was well known in the " Ausdrucksbewegung" goes far beyond a scholar to the Hebrew Union CoUege, New North-Western district, especially for her narrow practical purpose into the spheres of jfork, and was also appointed editor of Historia activities for the German Democratic Party culture and psychology and he would never "ludaica. Professor IGsch's pubUcations include and for the Central-Verein. In this country, pretend that it was a safeguard against errors a Work on Jews in the History of Law in the the efforts of organisations built up by former of judgment in business or life in general. "iiddle Ages and many other books and essays German Jews, including the AJR, have always Our sincerest wishes are going out to Dr. on Jewish historical subjects. He is still active been near to her heart. We extend our and Mrs. Warburg and to their family in Israel as a lecturer and research worker. sincerest birthday wishes to Mrs. Freyhan. and Italy. E.R.

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PROFESSOR DR. RAHEL HIRSCH LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Information Required LILLY KANN LESSER URY'S WORKS Relatives or friends of the late Professor Dr. Rahel Hirsch, born 1870 in Frankfurt, attached Sir,—/ was very interested in PEM's short Publication of Catalogue Intended to Berlin Charite from 1909-1919, and believed note on the 70th birthday of Lilly Kann in to have died in London, are urgently asked to your JaniMry issue, but I regret that—no doubt Sir,—It is proposed to compile a catalogue get in touch with Dr. med. habil. G. Volk- owing to the lack of space—his remarks raisonne of all the widely dispersed works of heimer, Berlin 62, Bayerischer Platz 9. Dr. seemed to do less than justice to an actress the painter Lesser Ury (1861-1931). This will Volkheimer who is shortly going to lecture whose career has been in the best traditions of cover paintings, pastels, water-colours, draw­ in Jerusalem on an important medical dis­ the great tragediennes of the German stage. ings, engravings and, if possible, also his covery made by the late Professor Hirsch, Long before joining the Jiidischer Kultur­ correspondence. All present and former would especially like to know details of her bund, Lilly Kann had already excelled in possessors of works by Lesser Ury or of rele­ life in London and the year of her death ; he leading parts at the Staatstheater, Dresden ; vant documents are requested to notify the would also be pleased to obtain a photo of the Stadtisches Schauspielhau.s, Frankfurt; undersigned. Professor Hirsch. and the Dumont Theater, Diisseldorf, and her The fmblisher of the catalogue of works performance in suxh roles as Lady Macbeth, would also be grateful for any references TWO LONDON BOOK EXHIBITIONS Elisabeth (in Bruckner's Elisabeth von which might help in locating further works England) and as leading lady in Eugene by Lesser Ury. O'Neill's " Desire under the Elms", is still Two interesting book exhibitions were on remembered by those who had been privileged Yours, etc., view at the headquarters of the National Book to see her. (Dr.) KONRAD KAISER. League in London. Frederic Raphael was After her emigration^ she was one of the Am Pfaffenberg 16, represented by two books of Jewish content, " The Limits of Love" and " Lindmann." small number of refugee actors and actresses 872 Schweinfurt, West Germany. who, thanks to their talent, were able to find Other books by Jewish writers were Maurice an assured place in the English theatre. Her Edelman's "A Call on Kuprin" and Mar- long series of successes included " Awake and gh^nita Laski's " Little Boy Lost." Two books of outstanding Jewish interest by non-Jewish Sing ", the " Golden Door " and her portrayal DUTCH HOME FOR CHILDREN of Margaret in Strindberg's " Father ", as well writers were C. P. Snow's " The Conscience of as countless films, TV and radio plays. The foundation-stone of a new Jewish the Rich " and Patrick White's " Riders in the Lately she appeared in TV in Golding's children's home on the outskirts of Amsterdam Chariot." " Magnolia Street", Tolstoy's " Resurrection " has been laid. The land on which the new The 70 works of American fiction in the and " I Want to Go ". home is being built has been given on a free­ exhibitions included books by J. D. Salinger, Yours, etc., hold basis as a symbol of the strong ties exist­ Irvin Shaw, Isaac Singer and others. Max R. B. JONES. ing between Amsterdam and her Jewish Gerson's photographs of literary personalities London, S.W.7. community. were displayed on the surrounding walls.

FAMILY EVENTS Roth.—Mr. Otto Roth (formerly TWO ADJOINING FURNISHED BACHELOR, young 42, well edu­ Breslau), 134 Aldershot Road, ROOMS, single or together, Crickle­ Entries in the column Family cated, German-Jewish origin, some Guildford, Surrey, passed away wood. Central heated, modern capital, living in London, wishes to Events are free of charge. Texts suddenly on January 27, 76 years block. 'Phone: GLAdstone 2458 contact sympathetic lady up to 35. should be sent in by the 18th of of age. Deeply mourned by his mornings/evenings. View friendship/marriage. Box the month. wife, Margot (nee Roth) and daughter. Ilse. COMFORTABLE double / single Birthdays rooms with full board, three DOCTOR'S WIDOW (49), inde­ minutes sea, excellent Viennese pendent means, own house and car, Kurrein.—Mrs. Stella Kurrein CLASSIFIED cooking, moderate prices. Mrs. self-supporting, grown-up family, (widow of the late Rabbi Pro­ Wheeler, 11 Palmeira Avenue, wishes to meet cultured gentleman fessor Kurrein. Linz), 29 Newlands, Hove, 3, Sussex. Situations Vacant interested in music, films and poli­ Letchworth, Herts, celebrated her tics, with view to friendship in the 70th birthday on February 22. BOOKKEEPER wanted, part-time, Accommodation Wanted first instance. Box 377. male or female, for export/import SMART LADY, Viennese origin, Schragenheim. — Mr. Ernest J. UNFURNISHED FLAT for 2 Schragenheim, F.F.S. (Eng.) (for­ business. Box 386. widow, independent, 45, seeks com­ ladies, 3 rooms, kitchen and bath­ panionship of cultured gentleman. merly architect to the Jewish room. Box 378. community in Frankfurt/Main), Situations Wanted Photo, please, which will be 207 Lordship Road, London, N.16, returned. Box 379. will celebrate his 70th birthday on Men Miscellaneous FOR MY SISTER : I am looking for March 12. In this country he has a cultured and educated man-- been active as a surveyor under GENERAL CLERK / SALESMAN SUPERFLUOUS HAIR safely and about 50 years old—in good the auspices of the United Syna­ (Textiles), experienced in records, permanently removed by qualified position, preferably of Continental gogue and as a consultant on 41, reliable, seeks suitable, full- Physiotherapist and Electrolysist. origin, who would like to meet a several communal building time position. Box 376. Facials. Body Massage. Visits woman of similar background with arranged. Mrs. Dutch, D.R.E., 239 schemes. SENIOR SHIPPING EXPORT/ a view to marriage. My sister is Willesden Lane, N.W.2. Tel.: WIL­ 42 vears old, widow (no children) IMPORT CLERK, experienced in lesden 1849. Deaths banking, insurance, able to type, and of extremely attractive appear­ Hertz.—Miss Gertrud Hertz (for­ knowledge of various languages, GERMAN BOOKS purchased. Con­ ance. She is so intelligent, depend­ merly AUenstein - East Prussia) seeks responsible position. Box 380. tinental Book Supply, 42 Com­ able, interested, hard-working and passed away suddenly on January mercial Road, London, E.l. Nur good-natured that I would think 29. Deeply moumed by her family VERSATILE, INTELLIGENT schriftl. Angeb. od. Telephone: anybody lucky to find such a com­ and friends. MAN, 37, experienced in general MAI. 6892. panion. At the moment, my sister clerical work, storekeeping (elec­ TYPEWRITER wanted by needy is living abroad but would like to Low.—Dr. Oskar Low, 30 Well- trical or telephone appliances), housebound disabled woman as a retum to this country where she house Avenue, Leeds, 8, passed commercial artist, hotel reception­ gift. Box 383. has been living for many years. away on January 25, after a long ist, seeks suitable partial sedentary Box 387. illness, aged 77. The brilliance of position. Box 381. his spirit, the integrity of his Personal MISSING PERSONS character and his great kindness CORRESPONDENT, experienced will be remembered by all who in commerce and travel agency JEWISH MARRIAGE BUREAU— Personal Enquiries knew him. He will be moumed for work, seeks part-time position. Introductions arranged. Strict Kupfer.—Dr. Erich M. Kupfer. ever by his wife and family. Box 382. confidence assured. Details from : whose parents lived at No. 27 or 29 Mrs. Blake. 107 Francklyn Gardens, Fitzjohn's Avenue, London, N.W.3. Mathiason.—Mr. James Mathiason, PART-TIME BOOKKEEPER offers Edgware, Middlesex. Would any reader who may know of 511 Street Lane West, Leeds, services. Competent to Trial Balance, complete set of books, YOUNG LADY, 24, good looking, of his present address please con­ 17, passed away on January 15. well educated, good family back­ tact Mrs. H. Havum. Rislingstrasse Deeply mourned by his wife. Erica, also conversant with wages and P.A.Y.E. Box 385. ground (German origin), would 5, Ziirich. 7, Switzeriand. children Edith (Wang), Gerda like to meet young, intelligent Ruben.—Mrs. Rosie Ruben (n^ •l (Wiesenberg) and Elisabeth-Helga gentleman, with view to matri­ Schul), who came to this country (Bauer), relatives and friends. Accommodation Vacant mony. Box 373. in the summer of 1939 from Meyer.—Mrs. Martha Meyer (n6e VERY NICE FURNISHED ROOM WIDOW, mid-forties, good posi­ Zbaszyn. Poland, wanted by twin Heinemann) (formerly Cologne to let. off West End Lane, near tion, Jewish, own home, would like sisters, Ursel and Liesa Krenzler. and Hanover), of 2 Corringham buses and underground. Small to meet gentleman up to about 50 Please contact Mrs. Liesa Kennedy- Road, London. N.W.ll, passed away court, first floor. Gentleman pre­ to 55. View friendship/matri­ White, 17 Silverdale Avenue, l| after a long illness on February 15. ferred. Box 384. mony. Box 374. Prestwich, Manchester. AJR INFORMATION March, 1964 Page 15 AJR CLUB'S EIGHTH BIRTHDAY ANGLO-GERMAN LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION Forthcoming Functions The large ground-floor room at 57 Eton significance of the event; and last but not At its Annual General Meeting to be held on Avenue was full to capacity when Mrs. M. least, the Good Fairy of the club : Mrs. Gertrud Tuesday, March 17, the Anglo-German Lawyers' Jacoby, chairman of the club, introduced the Schachne, without whose ever-ready help the Association will report on its activities in special birthday celebration of the club on club could not exist. She also mentioned many connection with restitution and indemnification Sunday, February 9. In her opening remarks of those who had provided entertainments for matters, and on the various lectures given on she specially welcomed Dr. F. Falk and Dr. the members during the year: Dr. and Mrs. topical legal questions. This report will be A. R. Horwell, members of the Executive of Horwell, who invariably come to the club followed by a lecture to be given by Professor the AJR, who had come to join the members every Chanucah ; Lucie Schachne who gives E. J. Cohn on the subject " Schiedsgerichte im on this festive occasion. an interesting talk every year at the opening Englisch-Kontinentalen Rechtsverkehr." of the club's season ; and she thanked many Further lectures will be held on Tuesday, Remembering the very beginnings of the of the artists: the Blumenfeld Trio, Katinka April 7, by Professor Andrew Martin under the club eight years ago when she and Mrs. Seiner, the soprano, the Children's Choir of heading " Towards the Reform of the Aliens Schachne had been sitting in the small club the New Liberal Jewish Congregation con­ Law in the United Kingdom ", and on Thurs­ room anxiously waiting for prospective mem­ day, May 14, by Ministerialrat Wohlfarth, Legal ducted by Mr. and Mrs. Lichtenstern, the Adviser to the Ministerial Council of the Euro­ bers to turn up and whiling the time away Streat Trio, and particularly the artists who by offering each other coffee and cakes, Mrs. pean Communities, on the subject " Constitu­ had come that day to present a special birth­ tional and Legal Aspects of the European Com­ Jacoby proudly surveyed and greeted the day entertainment, as they had done on munities ". assembly of about 150 members. She paid previous occasions: Rudi Offenbach, Hilde tribute to the hostesses of the club, Mesdames Lergens and Stefan Bukowitz. Hilde Lergens ANONYMOUS GIFT FOR LEO BAECK Bernstein, Berlowitz, Berent, Boss, Dean, was at her best in delightful renderings of HOUSE Eisler, Ruppert, Jeidel, Segal, Dr. Wittel- light opera chansons and stimulated every­ hoefer, Wilker and Scheiner, whose never body with her charm and temperament; Rudi A Money Order for £100 was sent anony­ failing devotion to their duties at the club Offenbach sang songs in Hebrew, French, mously to Leo Baeck House. As the House prevailed throughout the year. Referring to German and English and he brought the house (Committee does not know who the benefactor ^be " Heinzelmaennchen", Mrs. Jacoby down with one song specially written by him is, it wishes to express its sincerest thanks to thanked Mrs. Pickardt, the bookkeeper, Mrs. him in these columns hoping that he is a for the occasion. Martha Freudmann, an reader of our journal. This generous help is Elias, the poetress of the club, and Miss octogenarian member of the club delighted Markus, the skilled photographer, and most welcome and will be used for additional the audience with some beautifully rendered amenities for the Home which cannot be paid expressed special thanks to the latter for her piano playing. Her performance, and the out of the ordinary maintenance funds. Presentation to the club of a leatherbound charm, enthusiasm and energy of the chair­ book depicting the history of the club in man, Mrs. Jacoby, lead one to think that LEGACY FOR AJR J'eports, announcements, photographs and today's generation of octogenarians is still an invitations from 1956 up to the present time, invaluable asset to our community. Mrs. Mr. Hugo Stern, an AJR Board member all the items having been collected by the Jacoby has watched over the club since its whose death was announced a short while ago, chairman herself. inception and the friendly and welcoming has left a legacy of £200 for the AJR. The atmosphere which the club now provides is bequest is greatly welcomed especially in view Mrs. Jacoby then gratefully acknowledged of the new liabilities arising from the building in a large measure due to her foresight and projects for the AJR Club and the flatlet the help given by the " Heads " of the club : planning, and constant thought for the well- block. At the same time, the AJR Executive ^r. Adelheid Levy, its founder, who at every being of each individual member. was deeply moved by the loyalty to our cause Jewish festival comes to the club to give a expressed by the late Mr. Stern in this <^barming and most inspiring talk about the S.H. generous and gratifying way.

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there are among Continental, especially Ger­ ISRAELI YOUTH AND DICTATORSHIP man, wines. Quite a stir was created by a recent discus­ examined did not mind a dictatorship in one Or do we ? Could any of us, blindfold, tell sion broadcast over " Kol Israel" on the atti­ form or another, he did not want to give an the difference between, say, a Niersteiner and tudes of Israel's youth to the country's politics. impression, as misunderstood by some jour­ a Steinwein ? We ought to, of course, and One of the participants, a lecturer on Political nalists, that the entire youth of Israel wanted with a bit of tutoring we can. This is now Science at the Hebrew University—Dr. Moshe a dictatorship and that there was an immediate offered in a splendid new book, "The Great Czudnowski—made the surprising statement danger facing IsraeL Wines of Germany ", compiled by that famous that 57 per cent of the young people he con­ Anglo-French connoisseur Andre L. Simon, When asked for the man whom they would President of the Wine and Food Society, and tacted were either in favour of a dictatorship like to emulate, most indicated nobody, a very in Israel or would be indifferent to it. After the leading London importer of German few said Weizmann or Ben-Gurion. The wines, Fritz Hallgarten. It is a truly inter­ some agitated reaction in the Hebrew press. preliminary impression is that the parents do Dr. Czudnowski somewhat qualified his remarks national effort, for the publishers are the not try to influence their children about American McGraw-Hill Company, New York yet his revelations are nevertheless of general politics. As to the question of what is more interest. and London, and the volume, with its 30 important in life—knowledge and talent or impressive colour plates, has been luxuriously His research was done on 700 18-year-old good connections—they generally said that all printed in England and Holland. It costs boys and girls, in towns, villages and settle­ three were important. There seems to be no 72/6d., but the money is well spent if you ments, taking at random a cross-section accord­ group discrimination. Most answered the ques­ want to know what wines to buy and drink, ing to the population census. The emphasis tion : " Who should get the important positions and impress your friends with some elegant of the survey was on testing how much they in the State—Ashkenazim, Sephardim or immi­ one-upmanship in your well-stocked cellar. knew about politics and what are the sources grants from the Middle East ?"—by stating The book may, indeed, save you a lot of of influence. The controversial question which they did not understand why one group should money, ill-spent on some worthless Rachen- gained so much prominence was only one of be singled out and that posts should go to putzer ; it teaches you to read labels properly, many—" Would you personally care if a dic­ the ablest. to distinguish between good and bad vintages, tatorship was established in Israel ?" (Possible No less illuminating are the findings about and not to be deceived by collective names answers : " Yes, I think it is desirable "; "I reading material. Preliminary indications are such as Liebfraumilch (which, by the way, would care, it would be very bad"; "I would that the young people read thrillers and light does not mean " Milk of Our Lady"—the not care very much"; "I would not care at novels, all of them translations. They very Milch is, in fact, a corruption of Miinch, an all.") Question No. 2: "Under what condi­ seldom read classics. Popular science and old form of "monk"). tions would you agree to the establishment of technology are the only non-fiction that is The historian will find a fascinating history a dictatorship ?" (Possible answers : " If a suit­ popular. able man was found "; " In a time of security of wine-growing in Germany, which goes back HERBERT FREEDEN (Jerusalem) to the Romans who taught the mead-swilling crisis " ; an open answer ; " Never.") natives how to produce and appreciate the Dr. Czudnowski commented that he deliber­ fermented juice of the grapes ; but, as Simon ately did not ask if they really wanted a dic­ ONE-UPMANSfflP IN THE CELLAR states, Germany (and not only the Rhine- tatorship, nor did he define what he meant by land) owes a far greater debt of gratitude to a dictatorship. In an interview with the " Jeru­ Wine-drinking has become almost a status the church—the early missionaries were also salem Post" he made it clear that only those symbol in Britain's afiluent society, and for us vignerons, for without both bread and wine who answered " Very bad " or " Never " were ex-Continentals there is perhaps some satis­ there could be no Mass. considered as being really and decisively faction in seeing whole strata of the population At the risk of being suspended for having opposed to dictatorship under any circum­ weaned from beer, gin and Scotch, and turn­ been bribed with a crate of Gewurztraminer stances. All the rest were either apathetic or ing to the gentler, more refined and exhilarat­ I must recommend this volume as the first vnlling to submit to it under certain condi­ ing pleasures of wine. It pains us, though, English-language standard work on its sub­ tions. ' Some did say that they did not know to hear our English friends call anything ject, and a most valuable reference book on what the question meant. Dr. Czudnowski yellowish in a wine glass " hock"—for we every aspect of Germany's wines, including pointed out that, although a first view of the know, of course, how many widely different a glossary of terms and phrases. evidence indicates that 57 per cent of those varieties, how many delicate hues of bouquet EGON LARSEN.

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