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Secondly, residents become ill with greater frequency and — more seriously — it happens SOUD FOUNDATIONS AND NEW IDEAS all too often that they die very soon after their admission and sometimes applicants Annual General Meeting of the AJR pass away just before they are due for admission. As in previous years, the Hall of Hannah scholarly level, others consisted of genuine Though is is certainly to be welcomed that Karminsld. House was full to capacity at this autobiographies or fiction based on personal people keep their independence for as long years AJR General Meeting, held on June 17, experience, others again were written in a as possible, it is equally necessary to improve 1976. In his opening remarks, Mr. W. M. Behr, more journalistic vein, and, for this reason, and increase the facilities for those who are OBE, Chairman of the AJR, paid tribute to the sometimes limited in their value. In this coun­ now in the Homes as far as this is possible niemory of those Board members whom we try the AJR, under the auspices of the Council within the residents' physical and mental limit­ nad lost during the year: Rabbi Dr. G. Salz- of Jews from Germany, has also embarked on ations. In this connection, the speaker stressed ^erger. Rabbi Dr. I. Maybaum, Mr. E. J. a History of Emigration research scheme. the importance of occupational therapy, if Speyer, Mrs. Margaret Schurmann, Professor Thanks to the services of Mrs. Margot Pottlit­ necessary concentrated on one Home with the A. Reimann, and Dr. L. G. T. King. zer, good progress has been made, and the provision of transport facilities for interested E>r Rosenstock, Director of the AJR, in his same applies to research work in several other and suitable residents of the other Homes. address first referred to the loss inflicted on countries, especially in Israel, France and the our dear colleague, Mrs. Margot Williams, United States. Therefore, the publication of a Mrs. Taussig agreed with the view expressed whose husband, Mr. Maurice Williams, a symposium, rendering an account of the posi­ by one of our fellow workers at our latest v^idely recognised authority in the field of tion of the Central European immigrants in Board Meeting in January, that some people Philately, had passed away two days before the main countries of resettlement, gradu­ would certainly be less reluctant to move into ally takes shape. The Council of Jews from one of the Homes if, in accordance with the the meeting. general rise of standards during the past In trying to assess the period for which Germany, of which the AJR is the British constituent, is probably the only world or­ years, the rooms were provided with private the services of the AJR would still be re­ toilets. However, apart from the cost, this was quired, the speaker stressed that, while it was ganisation of formerly Continental Jews, which can claim to be based on active member not possible because of the architectural lay­ impossible to make any exact prediction, it out. Other suggestions for the improvement *as definite that the need for looking after organisations in various countries. Throughout the years, it has not only helped to maintain of life in the Homes would be welcome and People of our background would persist for carefully examined. The speaker also reported niany years to come. Most of us have now the contacts between the dispersed Jews from Germany but also played a decisive part in that the appeal for voluntary visits to resi­ been in this country for about 40 years, and dents of the Homes and isolated people living those who arrived in their forties or thirties representing their interests. Whilst the legis­ lation on individual restitution and compen­ privately, published in AJR Information, had ^e now in their eighties and seventies. They so far met with very limited response, and nave thus spent their formative years outside sation has now more or less come to its con­ clusion (with the possible exception of ques­ more "Adopt-a-Friend" Helpers would be this country. As far as they want to or have welcomed. to spend the eves of their lives in Homes tions in connection with "Lastenausgleich" tor the Aged, they would prefer to stay with and Social Insurance), several member organ­ Turning to the work at Hannah Karminski People of their own background. As, more isations face difflculties in continuing their House, Mrs. Taussig mentioned the increasing Often than not, our people are already 80 years welfare work, especially for the elderly, and importance of the AJR Club under the guid­ or older at the time of their admission, a long- efforts aiming at alleviating theu* position are ance of Mrs. Margaret Jacoby and of the term policy for the maintenance of the Homes, going on at present under the auspices of the Meals on Wheels Service which, thanks to *l"eit perhaps on a gradually decreasing scale, Council. Mrs. R. Anderman and her helpers, now sup­ ^ad to be envisaged. Beyond this, it has also plied about 900 meals per month. At present, to be realised that some of those, who came Organisational Changes some building work was going on in the house "ere as children, included quite a few in need to comply with the stricter fire precautions or special care, because the shock of having Dr. Rosenstock's report was followed by an imposed by the authorities. As before, the neen uprooted at an early age both from their account on current problems and plans for House provides bed-sitting rooms in the upper j^untry of birth and from their families had the future, rendered by Mrs. S. R. Taussig, floors, and Marie Baneth House in Golders jeft its indelible mark on them. All these General Secretary of the AJR since January Green is used for the same purpose. pfoblems made the continuation of our work 1, 1976. During the first months in her new As far as the Flatlet Home, Eleanor Rath­ ndispensable and called for the co-operation position, she said, the greatest upheaval was bone House, is concemed, there has not been and financial support of members of the com­ the physical absorption of Self Aid (of which much movement, as few vacancies arose. paratively younger generation, who also came Mrs. Taussig has been and also remains Gen­ Desirable as it would be to have more such over as refugees but were able to build up eral Secretary) into Fairfax Mansions. How­ flatlet accommodation, the rocketing price of leir lives anew in this country. ever, what could have been a traumatic affair building unfortunately made this question went through smoothly. Now both organisa­ academic. tions have settled down to a new pattern and AJR in Anglo-Jewish Life At the end, Mrs. Taussig referred to the are constantly finding new advantages in being invaluable services rendered by AJR Informa­ Turning to the position of the AJR in Anglo- close together. The sharing of premises also tion and expressed her thanks to Dr. Rosen­ j^^sh life, the speaker stated that, due to helps to reduce the overhead expenses. stock and Dr. E. A. Lomnitz for their constant ts reliability and eflBciency, the organisation All sections of the AJR continue their work readiness to help and advise her in carrying nad established a widely recognised reputation unabated. The Social Services Department out her work as newly appointed General ^f itself. These bonds are also getting in- deals daily with complex problems. Employ­ Secretary. ereasingly closer because there is now a gen- ment is now extremely diflScult and accom­ In his financial Report, the Hon. Treasurer, t^l tendency among the Jewish organisations modation even more so. Where admission to Dr. F. E. Falk, said that, according to the 0 narrow the gap between each other, to ex- Old Age Homes is concemed, there is, in audited accounts for 1975, the income from hange experience and to avoid duplication by accordance with general trends in all sections subscriptions and donations had risen by eo-ordination and, to some extent, by pooling of the population, a marked tendency among about £4,000, amounting to £25,600 as com­ resources. the elderly to put off their admission until pared with £21,400 in 1974. Whilst this was In the course of the past years, there has they have reached an advanced age. This certainly to be welcomed as an expression of creates multiple problems. Firstly, the average solidarity of our members and of their appre- of ^1? a growing tendency to put the history age in the Homes is very high, which reduces jthe Jewish refugees on record. Some of the the activity and ambiance of the Homes, Continued on page 2, column 1 Publications, so far produced were on a high Page 2 AJR INFORMATION August 1976

placency among the Jews because once, as a AJR GENERAL MEETING result of economic difficulties, racialism raises its head, it would not stop with one group- tontiiiiied from page 1 cluded the representation of the community To meet the situation, one of the measures ciation of our essential activities, it was below as a whole and, above all, its essential welfare to be taken by the Jews in this country should the increase of expenditure, which, in keeping work in many spheres. This should be kept be the intensification of Jewish education. with the inflation rate during the year, had in mind by members, when they assessed their The speaker, therefore, endorsed the recent risen by 24 per cent. The total flgures of In­ payments. Dr. F. Hellendall raised the ques­ suggestion of Mr. Fred Worms to branch off come (including the contribution of the Jew­ tion of the future of the Wiener Library, which part of the income of the Joint Israel Appeal ish Trust Corporation out of the heirless had already been mentioned at the previous to Jewish educational work in Britain. This property) amounted to £35,900, and of ex­ General Meeting by one of his fellow members was particularly essential because Jews—in­ penditure to £38,400, leaving a deficit of of the PEN Club of German language authors cluding university students who often bear £2,500, The main single item of expenditure abroad. He asked for an assurance that all the brunt of Arab attack—would not be able arose from the printing and despatch of AJR alleys of keeping the Wiener Library in Lon­ to defend themselves Lf they did not possess Information, v/hich, after deduction of the don would be explored, Mr. Behr, who is also the knowledge, the spirit and the driving force income from advertisements (£1,700) amount­ Chakman of the Wiener Library, stressed that which had sustained our people for 3,000 ed to £7,000, to which the apportioned share in all people concerned were interested in keep­ years against overwhelming odds. the overhead expenses of the AJR had to be ing the Wiener Library in London but that this would only be possible if the means for Recalling that President Roosevelt had once added; this brings the actual cost of our offended "The Daughters of the American Monthly to more than £11,000, The speaker covering the substantial annual deficits could be found on a long-term basis. Though so far Revolution" by addressing them as "My fellow asked the members to help reduce the deficit immigrants", Mr. Pinner said that none of us by advertising in our Monthly. The paper, all attempts in this direction had failed, the endeavours were going on. would take offence at this title, nor could we he stated, not only rendered highly essential forget who we are when others in this country services by publishing any developments in The discussion was followed by the election are hurt, insulted or discriminated against the fields of restitution, taxation and related of the Hon. Officers for the forthcoming busi­ because they are now "the immigrants". He subjects but also served as a link between all ness year. Mr Behr announced that he had warned that racialism was becoming respect­ members and, at the same time, carried art­ decided to resign as Chairman and proposed able again. icles of specific interest and value to people as his successor Mr. C. T. Marx, until now Welcoming the Prime Minister's statement of our background. Vice-Chairman of the AJR. Mr. Marx, whose at the dinner for President Katzir about the A further means of increasing our income. election as Chairman was agreed by the mem­ great contribution of Jewish immigrants to Dr. Falk stated, was the payment under Deeds bers, accepted the office and took over the British society, Mr, Pinner said it should be of Covenant in favour of the AJR Charitable chair of the meeting. He first thanked Mr. seen within the context of a potentially dan­ Trust. He also mentioned that during the Behr for his outstanding services as Chair­ gerous situation against the background of recent years members and friends had left man and also for his readiness to remain economic difficulties, unemployment and in­ legacies to the Trust, and he appealed to associated with the work of the AJR as mem­ flation. members to follow the example of these de­ ber of its Executive. He then proposed to Mr. Pinner's well balanced and concise ceased friends by including such provisions elect as new Vice-Chairman Dr. F. E. Falk, analysis of the situation was greatly appreci­ in their WUls, The assets of the Trust were up to now Hon. Treasurer of the AJR, and as ated by all present and, on their behalf. Dr. required for the maintenance of Hannah new Treasurer Mr. L. Spiro, a member of the A. R. Horwell moved a cordial vote of thanks Karminski House which, just at present, is AJR Executive. These proposals as well as to the speaker. faced with heavy costs, and, jointly with the the re-election of the other Executive and CBF, of Eleanor Rathbone House, of which Board members and the co-option of Mrs. the AJR is the co-owner. Above all, the Trust Ruth Schneider to the Board were unani­ RENTENERHOEHUNGEN mously agreed, as suggested by the Executive Die deutschen Sozialversicherungsrenten would have to subsidise to an increasing ex­ and listed in the June issue of AJR Informa­ sind vom 1, Juli 1976 um 11,4 Prozent erhoeht tent the AJR in carrying out its day-to-day tion. worden, charitable work because other sources of in­ Durch das 5.Bundesbesoldungsgesetz, das come, especially the subsidies out of the aber noch keine Rechtskraft hat, sollen die heirless Jewish property, would only be avail­ "Jews in a Changing World" Pensionen der Beamten und Richter mit able for a limited period. After the completion of the formal business Wirkung vom 1,Februar 1976 um fuenf Prozent In conclusion, Dr. Falk expressed his and of the General Meeting, Mr Hayim Pinner, erhoeht werden. Fuer die Neufestsetzung der Renten auf Grund des Bundesentschaetiigungs- his colleagues' thanks to the AJR staff. If it Executive Director of B'nai B'rith, spoke about gesetzes (BEG), die grundsaetzlich iaehrlich was possible to make up for the natural losses ".Jewish Problems in a Changing World". One den entsprechenden Beamtenpensionen ange­ in membership by the enrolment of new mem­ of the fundamental changes during the past glichen werden und die ebenfalls rueckwirkend bers this was mainly due to the recognition decades, he said, was that the United Nations, vom l.Februar 1976 in Kraft treten wuerden, of their eflficient services and their methodical founded by the war allies and originally com­ liegt zur Zeit nur ein Rohentwurf vor. Wir propaganda work. prising 52 countries, now had a built-in Third werden unsere Leser ueber den Fortgang der World majority. Changes had also arisen by Entwicklung unterrichten, Discussion and Elections the ascendancy of the oil-producing countries. The reports were followed by a discussion. Furthermore, the polarisation in world policies WITWER VON BEAMTINNEN Mr. Herbert M. Hirsch pointed out that most between East and West had been replaced Hinterbliebenen-Pension unabhaengig von of those members whose contributions were by a North-South polarisation. Last, but not Unterhaltsanspnich least, due to the existence and position of the Aus dem Beschluss des Bundesverfassungs­ at the lower end of the scale did not realise gerichts vom 12.Maer2 1975—2BvL 10/74--, that, in fact, their payments only represented State of Israel, there was now "antisemitism" even in countries where no Jews were living. ergangen auf Vorlage des Landgerichts a reimbursement of the AJR's out-of-pocket Muenster, wurde im Bundesgesetzblatt vorn expenses for supplying them with AJR Infor­ Mr. Pinner stressed that Jews in the Diaspora IS.Mai 1975 nachfolgender Entscheidungssatz mation. It should be brought home to them stand and fall with the destiny of Israel. veroeffentlicht: that, apart from publishing its Monthly, the In this country, at present the main minor­ "Par.141 des Beamtengesetzes fuer das AJR required the contributions for the accom­ ity under attack is the coloured section of the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen in der Fassung plishment of its manifold activities which in­ population. Yet this does not justify any com- vom l.Juni 1962 (Gesetz— und Verordnungs­ blatt S.272) verletzte Artikel 3 Absatz 2 und 3 des Grundgesetzes und war deshalb nichtig. soweit er den Anspruch des heim Tod der Beamtin in ehelicher Gemeinschaft lebenden Witwers auf Witwergeld dem Grund und der Hoehe nach vom Bestehen eines gesetzlichen Greyhound Guaranty Limited Unterhaltsanspruchs des Witwers g^g^" seine verstorbene Ehefrau abhaengJg Bankers machte". . Der vorstehende Entscheidungssatz bax gemaess Par,31 Abs,2 des Gesetzes ueber da* 5 GRAFTON STREET, MAYFAIR, Bundesverfassungsgericht Gesetzeskraft. Bonn, 9.Mai 1975 LONDON, WIX 3 LB Der Bundesminister der Justiz Dr. Vogel Telephone: 01-629 1208 (Wir verdanken den Hinweis auf dtese Telex: 22465 Cables: Greyty, London, W.l Entscheidung unserm inzurischen verstor­ benen Freund Dr. L. G. T. King.) AJR INFORMATION August 1976 Page 3 HOME NEWS j^TT). *5fT 0^ A. 1^^ ANGLOJVDAICA SOth Anniversary of THE ARAB BOYCOTT AND THE ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT HONOURED IN Hebrew University Friends GOVERNMENT BRITAIN A galaxy of prominent speakers and a Mr, HSic Moonman, Labour MP, for Basildon, Professor Katzir, president of Israel and a distinguished audience gathered at Bedford supported by Mr. Tim Sainshury (Cons.) and noted scientist in his own right, paid a private College on July 4 to mark the SOth anniver­ Mr. Greville Janner, QC (Labour) raised visit to Britain at the invitation of the British sary of the British Friends of the Hebrew strong protests in the House of Commons Society to participate in the 70th birthday University. The speakers included the Presi­ against the Arab boycott of firms dealing with celebrations of Sir Emst Chain, a fellow dents of the British Academy, Sir Isaiah tsrael and said it was time the govemment biochemist. In spite of the private character of Berlin (who is also President of the "Friends" openly condemned the boycott. The Arabs now his visit, he was given a warm welcome from and was in the chair), of the Royal Society, not only boycotted firms which traded direct official quarters. The Queen invited him to Lord Todd, and of the Royal Academy, Sir With Israel, but also companies which carried a luncheon at Windsor CasUe, and the Prime Erast Gomhrich, as well as Professor Yehuda on business with other firms doing business Minister was his host at No. 10, Downing Bauer of the Hebrew University's Institute With Israel, Some corporations actually volun­ Street the following day. of Contemporary Jewry and Professor Albert teered to fulfil the Arabs' demands. Some Later during the week, Mr. Katzir took part Neuberger, Chairman of the Friends' Exe­ firms had tumed down a project which would in the discussions of the symposium of the cutive. The central event was the presenta­ nave netted £140 million over five years in British Society and attended a dinner in Middle tion of a Document of Honour to Dr. Anna connection with the Haifa Ports Authority, Temple Hall in honour of Sir Emst. At a diinner Freud, who in her impressive and charming Replying for the (jovemment, Mr. Meacher, given at the Dorchester by tbe Britdsh Friend.s reply interpreted this award as a belated Under-Secretary for Trade, said the Govem- of the Weizmann Institute, Sir Harold Wilson tribute to he father, a member of the nient could not direct or instruct firms to was also present. Professor Katzir told the University's first Board of Governors. At the supply specific markets or to prevent exporters audience that as a young man he had reported end of the function Yehudi Menuhin played from producing whatever documents were re­ to President Weizmann on the institute's pro­ movements from Bach's Partita in E major. quired in respect of goods shipped to a particu­ gress. On that occasion Weizmann had said In a moving speech after the recital, he lar country. There were regular contacts to him: "Don't mix in politics, otherwise your associated himself with the other speakers oetween British and Israeli Trade and other end will be like mine". He continued: "I and stressed his personal identification with Mmisters, and a joint committee was being set didn't listen to him—so here I am". Weizmann the objects of the Hebrew University. Up to examine further ways of promoting had had a deep conviction of the vital role exports in both directions. The National Coal which science would have to play in the Board had signed a consultancy contract with After Entebbe the Israel Ports Authority covering the coal- development of a Jewish State, out he gave handling facilities to be installed as part of even higher priority to the Jewish values of At the time of going to press, feeling of the development of Haifa port. The differences justice and righteousness. anger, horror and revulsion at the fate of r-to which Mr. Moonman had also referred— Mrs. Dora Bloch and condemnation of lor Jewish employees to travel to Arab SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA Uganda's President Amin for his complicity countries were exaggerated. A number of Arab were expressed by members of Parliament, Mrs. Sadde Reif, wife of Mr. Robert Reif who communal and Zionist leaders in a succession States did not require a visa for British citi­ went to prison for refusing to take down a zens, most others only required viisa applicants sign stating that he would only sell his house of protests, messages and vigils. In a letter to state their religion. In most cases therefore to an English family, said in a press interview to the Foreign Secretary, Mr, Anthony there was nothing to prevent a British Jew that she shared her husband's views on the Crosland, the Board of Deputies urged the from travelling to most Arab countries if he need for racial purity. She said her husliand British Govemment to continue to press for so desired. Individuals must decide for them­ had voted Labour until he attended a Trafalgar her assassins to be brought to justice and selves the urgency of the business they wanted Square meeting in 1962 where Colin Jordan expressed the hope that the attempt at the to transact and any risk that might be in­ stated: "Hitl.-- was right". He had then joined UN to castigate and censure Israel will be volved. the British National Socialists and was sent resisted. to prison twice for refusing to pay a fine for BOOST FOR ANGLO-ISRAEL TRADE daubing racist slogans and for smashing an ISRAEL THREATENED BY ISOLATION Indian shop window. Michael Mclaughlin, a More than 200 academics from 35 British The 25-year-old Anglo-Israel Chamber of member of the British Movement formerly led universities and 8 polytechnics took part in Commerce and the Economic Council for by Colin Jordan said at a subsequent interview the sixth and largest symposium on Israel, Israel, established in 1968, have decided to that Hitler had been right and that anyway he Zionism and Jews in international life which nierge for the sake of greater efficiency. The had not killed any Jews—they had been had been convened by the Institute of Jewish new council has ten specialised committees typhoid victims, A Jew in New York had writ­ Affairs at University College, London, Leading tor trades from fashion to computers. During ten Anne Frank's diary. The concentration academics from Israel and the USA also took t»75, Israel imported goods from Britain to camps had all been built after the war, all part. Professor Finer from Oxford drew atten­ the value of £237 million, more than any Communists were Jews and Russian anti­ tion to the danger of sympathy for Israel Single Arab country including Saudi Arabia semitism was nothing but a split between being eroded under the impact of Arab, pro- (£200 million), Egypt (£108 million), or Communists and Zionists. Arab and Leftist propaganda, especially Kuwait (£99 million). Over the same period, among younger Jews who had never realised Israel's imnorts to Britain rose to more than the deep reasons which had made the creation ^91 million. In the first three months of 1976, of a Jewish State an historic necessity. Pro­ Israel's total exports increased by about 50 per With acknowledgement to the news service fessor Glazar of Harvard warned against over­ Rent compared with the same period last year. of the Jewish Chronicle. estimating the power which any ethnic group ^ .spokesman for the Israeli Embassy said that could exert in the shaping of US foreign ^int committees of senior officials of the policy, especially as the commitment to Israel jPtltish and Israeli trade ministries were was being undermined by its costliness, the oeing set up to promote economic relations shifting attitude of the mass media in pre­ and the exchange of technical know-how be- senting Middle East events and the growing "^ween the two countries. Your House for:— influence of Arab wealth. ^ne of Britain's top fashion designers, Mr. M~ Gibb, opened the second Israel Clothing /extiles show and said that he was impressed CURTAINS, CARPETS, THE "GOD DIMENSION" IN ISRAELI LIFE ?/ the use of colour and pattern in many of Over 300 people attended the 35th annual "e new fabrics on display and by the strength FLOOR COVERINGS on-f-ren'-e "f tbe Reform Svna?ogues of Great 5?u maturity of the Israeli industry. The goods Britain in Harrogate. The chairman, Mrs, Eva jusplayed by seven of Israel's largest fabric SPECIALITY Mitchell, emphasised the movement's increased jnanufacturers included shirting, dress fabrics commitment to Israel, but demanded religious -•Jo ethnic-style embroidered cottons, canvas equality for the Progressive community in "nd Wool suiting, CONTINENTAL DOWN Israel and its rabbinate. She deplored the "mthless stranglehold" of the Orthodox PRIME MINISTER FRIEND OF ISRAEL QUILTS establishment and underlined the paradox ot a largely secular state, founded on the prin­ .Like his predecessor. Sir Harold Wilson ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS ^etore hun. Mr, Callaghan, the Prime Minister ciples of the Torah, which "alienates with as accepted an in\itation from the Lahour ESTIMATES FREE brutal discrimination those whose love of ["ends of Israel to attend the "Israeli Even- Judaism is real and deep, but not fundament­ p.s^they will be holding during the Labour alist". Mrs Mitchell who twice received a stand­ arty Conference at Blackpool. DAWSON-LANE LIMITED ing ovation, strongly criticised the recent (Ettabll«h«d ISM) Earls Court Salute to Israel rally, the largest ever gathering of the Jewish community in CORRECTION 17 BRfDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK this country, "What should have been an VfThe number of votes, received by the Telephona: 904 6671 opportunity", she said, "for presenting Israel's *'allr—•tiona"l 'Fron^ t... in . the recent. .loca l ...election. s ntwility, humanity and achievement, was .uul Jlyy issueisi , p.l2) should have read 50,000 (not PtrsOMi attention ol Mr. W. Shaekman. cheapened to an exercise in chauvinism and 000,000) vulgarity". Page 4 AJR INFORMATION August 1976 NEWS FROM THE EAST NEWS FROM ABROAD EAST GERMAN REPRESENTATIVES AT W.J.C. MEETING UNITED STATES SOUTH AMIERICA Mr. Helmut Aris, President of the Federa­ Elsdnger ezconununicated Israeli team finds water tion of Jewish communities in the German An Israeli team of water planning consultant Democratic Republic, and Dr. Peter Kirchner, A body calling itself the Supreme Rabbinic engineers has found 150 wells in an agri­ chairman of the East Berlin Jewish community, Court of America Inc. has "formally and cultural research project on three Pacific zones attended the Ehiropean brmich meeting of the unconditionally" excommunicated "Avraham of Nicaragua. World Jewish Congress at The Hague as ben Elazar Kissinger, otherwise known as observers. The participants of the conference Heinrich Adolf or Henry Kissinger, from the Revenge for Eichmann? comprised 70 delegates from 20 countries. Dr. .Jewish people". It proclaimed him "a traitor Kirchner, the first representative of the to our god, our people, the Jewish nation of The body of Dr. Salvador Akerman of Jewish community in East Germany to address Israel and our eternal heritage and way of Buenos Aires who had been abducted from a W.J.C. meeting, reported on Jewish institu­ life, our Torah". Head of the organisation his suburban clinic, was discovered under a tions in the G.D.R. and on its Jewish com­ which has its headquarters in Washington, is bridge on a minor road. A local newspaper munity's support for the State of Israels Rabbi Marvin S. Antleman who at a solemn reeeived a message from the kidnappers independence, though they might disagree with excommunication (Cherem) ceremony at the saying that he had been killed "in revenge New York Hilton, declared Dr. Kissinger had for his participation in the concealment of some of Israel's policies. The conference also pressurised the Jewish people "to give up Adolf Eichmann after his abduction by Israeli offered the opportunity for a talk between the divinely ordained, liberated areas of our pro­ agents". The kidnappers calling themselves Chairman and General Secretary of the West mised land". German "Zentralrat". Mr. Wemer Nachmann the "Lilieration Command of America" quoted and Mr. Alexander Ginsburg, respectively, and from a work of fiction which said that the two representatives of the East German Accusations by fonner Vice-President Eichmann had been hidden by the agents in a clinic near Dr. Akerman's. Mr. Isser communities, who stressed that they womd During a TV interview, Spiro Agnew who Harel, the Jerusalem author of the book, wrote welcome a closer co-operation between the resigned from the Vice-Presidency of the to the newspaper saying that he had written Jewish communities in East and West Germany- United States during the Watergate investi­ a work of fiction which had no bearing on gations, said that he maintained statements the real facts of EHclimann's capture. BABI YAR MEMORIAL IGNORES JEWS made in a novel that the American mass media The recently unveiled memorial to the vic­ were under Zionist influence and that there SOUTH AFRICA tims of the Nazi massacres perpetuated at was a powerful Zionist lobby in Congress. Scientific ties with Israel Babi Yar, the ravine near Kiev, does not men­ tion that a great number of the victims were Tough anti-boycott laws South African and Israeli research councils Jewish, and no inscription in Yiddish is have jointly drawn up a programme of close included. On September 29 and 30, 1941, alone, The Senate Finance Committee proposes collaboration, allowing for the exchange of 33,000 Kiev Jews were machine-gunned, and strong legislation which would deny foreign scientists and an annual ssmiposium on topics the constant delay of the erection of the mem­ tax credits, tax deferment on income from of interest to both countries. The first such orial evoked protests from Soviet writers and abroad and other benefits to companies par­ symposium, to be held in Israel, will concem poets, like Yevgeny Yevtushenko. ticipating in a boycott against any country, the recycling of waste water. nationality or religious group. If this recom­ JEWISH CEMETERIES BROKEN UP mendation l>ecomes law, it would bring in Africans kill Jewish doctor The Prague Jewish community has an­ an additional £170 million to £227 million, 56-year-old Dr, Melville Edelstein was the mainly from U.S. oil companies operating in nounced that the old Jewish cemetery m first victim of the Soweto riots. He was pulled Litomysl (Leitomischl) on the border between the Arab world. The Administration is opposed from his car and stoned to death. A deeply to such a measure. Moravia and Bohemia was to be ra^ed ano religious Orthodox Jew, Dr, Edelstein had transformed into a public park. Tombstone-^ wamed in a recent survey of the opinions Prison sentence for former Mizrachi president which have not been claimed by relatives ot and attitudes among Soweto's matriculation those buried there before the end of the y^r, Mr. Bernard Bergmann, a non-practising pupils, that they showed considerable hostility will be used for a monument on the site which rabbi who has resigned from the presidium to Afrikaners, and this was an ominous is to serve as a memorial to the cemetery- of the World Mizrachi Movement, was sen­ danger signal for the country and the Earlier this year the demolition of five ceme­ tenced to four months' jail after pleading Govemment. He had expressed the hope that tries in Slovakia had been announced. eiiilty to two charges of a £500,000 fraud in his revelations would lead to a "dramatic the operation of a nursing home. There has initiative" to meet the Africans' grievances. PHILOSOPHY SCHOLAR SENT TO ISRAEL Responsible African leaders have expressed been a violent press campaign against Mr, Vitaly Rubin, a Jewish activist, and his wife Bergmann who since 1958 has been described their deep regret for Dr. Edelstein's death, because as chief welfare officer of the Bantu were allowed to emigrate to Israel four-aiw-a- as the head of a "cartel" of nursing homes half years after first applying to leave. Pe,r' conspicuous for neglect of patients, abuse and Administration Board, he had spent Ms life working for reconciliation between the races. mission was at first refused because Mr. Rubin fraud. was considered an important specialist whose subject is ancient Chinese philosophy. Award for Elizabeth Taylor VATICAN VOTES WITH ARABS At the end of the Vancouver Habitat Con­ NAZARETH MAYOR IN MOSCOW At a dinner dance to mark the 60th anni­ ference, an Iraqi-sponsored clause supporting The recently elected Communist mayor of versary of the American Jewish Congress, the the UN resolution equating Zionism with Nazareth, Taufik Sajad, was the only Israeli Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.A. presented racism was included in the declaration of citizen to be invited to the Soviet Wnters the film actress Elizabeth Taylor with an principles, Britain, the United States and most Congress in Moscow. He is well-known as tne award to an "artist and humanitarian". In Western nations voted against, whereas Swit­ author of emotional nationalist poetry in his 1973. Miss Taylor who was converted to zerland, Sweden, Austria, Portugal, Japan and native language. Judaism when she married the late producer some South American nations al^tained. Mike Todd, founded the Israeli War Victims' Among the 89 delegates in favour were the AUSTRIA DOES NOT Fund with money obtained from an auction representatives of the Vatican and of Mexico, CLOSE THE DOOR TO JEWS of part of her jewellery collection. apart of course from the Arab and Communist Mr. Buno Kredsky, the Austrian Federal delegates. In its official paper, the Osservatore Death of Successful Refugee from Germany Chancellor has publicly stated that his country Romano, an article was published to explain would remain open to Jewish emigrants i^^^ Mr. Fred S. Mendel, the meat packer and that the Vatican would not have voted in the Soviet Republic in transit to other art patron of Saskatoon, Canada, died in Cali­ favour of that particular paragraph of the countries, fornia, aged 87. He first emigrated from Reck­ declaration if it had been possible to vote on linghausen to Australia and went to Saskatoon each paragraph separately. A number of lead­ MAUTHAUSEN MEMORIAL in 1940. He founded the firm Intemational ing Jewish and Catholic organisations have On June 20, a memorial was unveiled on *"£ Packers Ltd. and donated about £90,000 and a protested in Rome. site of the former Mauthausen concentoation number of paintings to the local art gallery. camp where thousands of Jews were kilie^- He was a member of B'nai B'rith and a direc­ 75 YEARS ISRAELITISCHES The victims include Dr. Otto Hirsch, the Execu­ tor of the American Jewish Joint Distribution WOCHENBLATT tive Director of the Reichsvereinigung ol in« Committee. The weekly paper issued by the Swiss Fede­ Jews in Germany, who was deported to tn ration of Jewish communities, Israelitisches camp and murdered there on June ^^'/ Sr' TALMUD IN SPANISH Familienblatt has published a special edition The erection is due to the efforts of .i"^ on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. The "Komitee zur Errichtung und Erhaltung eine» Some years ago, Mr Abraham Wais of Swiss President and the president of the city Mahnmals fuer juedische Opfer in Mauthausen Buenos Aires founded a publishing house with of Zurich sent letters appreciative of the under the chairmanship of the President o- the express purpose of producing a Spanish special part the weekly had played in putting the Vienna Jewish community. Dr. Anton ricK- translation of the Babylonian Talmud and important issues before the public. In one The memorial consists of a seven-branc works by Jewish scholars. So far ten out of article of the jubilee edition. Dr. Boschenstein, Menorah, six branches representing the si> 26 Talmud tractates have been published to­ Bem. critically examines Swiss policy with million dead the seventh the eternal light- i n gether with the works of Philo of Alexandria regard to refugees before and during the last memorial was unvedled by Ing. Simon "lesen and Josephus Flavius. war. thai and two other former inmates of the Camp- AJR INFORMATION August 1976 Page 5

Egon Larten talent which made the Berlin of the twenties and early thirties the cutural capital of Europe. A MONUMENT TO THE CABARET Basically, the Berlin cabaret was anti-Nazi; the Nazis had no calwrets 'oecause there just Lisa Appignanesi is a nice young Jewish Kiinstlerkneipe, was also born in Munich in the wasn't any talent aniong them. Was our cabaret Woman from Poland whose parents survived first decade o!' our century : the Simpl, taking an effective political weapon ? We hoped so the war, emigrated with her as a baby to its name from the congenial satirical weeklj fervently ; yet we knew that our destiny was France and, in 1950, to Montreal where she —it was Th.Th. Heine's idea, and he also not being decided around the Kurfurstendamm. grew up. As a student she moved to England, designed the new cabaret's emblem, a bulldo.c As Kastner said about Tucholsky: "A little married an Italian, and gained her Ph.D. in opening a bottle of champagne with its teeth, fat Beriiner tried to stop a catastrophe with his comparative literature at Sussex University, Kathi Kobus, a peasant's daughter and cer­ typewTiter". The effort just had to be made. She is much too young to have ever seen a tainly no intellectual, was the hostess, beloved Lisa Appignanesi shows the English reader real cabaret, yet she has written the most by her guests and performers, Schwabing's how it was done ; there are many translated comprehensive book on its history. The Cabaret pKiets, artists, political radicals and students. texts: from Tucholsky's writings, Kastner's (Studio Vista, London). You won't get more It was here that Joachim Ringelnatz, the Wenn ivir den Krieg gewonnen hdtten, Walter than 5p change out of £7 when you buy this sailor-poet, made his debut as a cabaretist; Mehring's Lied der Hakenkreuzler, verses by large, lavishly and beautifully illustrated so did Erich Miihsam, the son of a Jewish Klabund and Brecht which were sung in the volume, but it's worth every penny of it, and pharmacist from Berlin, who later took part cabarets. We are reminded of our splendid a good many British readers seem to think so in Munich's Raterepublik and ended his life performers : Trude Hesterberg, Rosa Valetti, too : the book will already be reprinted for in Oranienburg in 1933, Kate Kiihl, Blandine Ebinger, Claire Waldoff, Christmas ; a German edition was published Miss Appignanesi tells us of a cabaret in Valeska Gert, Annemarie Hase, Paul Gratz, even before the English one, with a foreword Prague, the Montmartrc, though she gives us Erich Weinert, Emst Busch ; of Karl Schnog, by Werner Finck—a seal of approval indeed. no dates but claims that Egon Erwin Kisch, Ringelnatz and Werner Finck, who recited But its cultural-historical value is much greater Franz Kafka, Max Brod and Jaroslav Hasek, their own work, and who often extemporised— for the English-speaking reader for whom, as Schwejk's creator, were among the contribu­ like Finck who, when an intruding SA man The Guardian put it in its three-quarters-of-a- tors, and that songs were performed in Yid­ shouted at him "Dirty Jew!" in the Katakombe. page-long appreciation, the cabaret is still only dish, Czech and German. It must have existed answered calmly : "You are mistaken, I only "an exotic idea lurking in Isherwood's Berlin", very soon after 1918 ; I had never heard of it. look that intelligent". For us Continentals, however, the book is a But she discovered what hardly anyone out­ The book distinguishes well between these monument to a literary and political form of side Munich knew : that at the Oktoberfest political-literary little stages and the more dramatic art that was once part of our daily 1919, Bertolt Brecht took part in a sideshow ambitious satirical cabaret revues, starting Uves — at least for those of us who are old which Karl Valentin rim in a little booth, and with Max Reinhardt's Schall undRauch in 1901, enough to be nostalgic about it. the book includes a peach of a picture of thc and culminating in the brilliant shows by It took Lisa Appignanesi two years to re­ troupe with Brecht playing the clarinet. Friedrich Hollander and Mischa Spoliansky/ search her subject, and she made very good Throughout his life, he acknowledged the great Marcellus Schiffer, in which Marlene Dietrich use of her sources from various countries, influence of Valentin on his stage craft. and Margo Lion played their first cabaret including many interviews she has made with parts. The Kabarett der Koviiker was the "survivors" from the pre-war and war-time Heyday in Berlin longest-lasting theatre-like cabaret; its per­ formers ranged from Ilse Bois, the gifted Periods of the cabaret. The book is generously The Berlin cabaret in the Weimar period furnished with a great number of characteristic parodist, and Willy Schaffers to guest artists played a part which is unique in cultural such as Kar] Valentin, Roda Roda, and Yvette dialogue texts and lyrics from cabaret pro­ history ; the film Cabaret, verj' vaguely based grammes in the original languages and with Guilbert, and here Fritz Griinbaum and Paul on Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, presents a Nikolaus were the resident conferenciers. English translations (several of them com- completely false impression of what it was PetenUy done by our Loudon colleague, Griinbaum was tortured to death in Dachau, really like, emphasising the "grim aura of Nikolaus took his own life in his Zurich exile. Dorothea (Jotfurt). No less important are the Weimarian decadence", as Lisa Appignanesi references to the historical and social back­ says. She gives us the true picture. Fcr us. ground which made the cabaret at certain however, one of the most important factors In Exile periods almost a necessity and, particularly is that the Kabarett, like the other cultural Lisa Appignanesi's history of the cabaret ex­ in Central Europe in our century, a political activities of the era, reflected that extra­ Weapon. tends well beyond its final curtains in Ger­ ordinary symbiosis of Jewish and Gentile many: "As the enemies of the Nazi regime fletl to other countries, exile cabarets began to Roots in the 18th Century spring up in Vienna, Prague, Ziirich, Paris, One may argue with the author about the London. From these centres, writers, actors, origin and migrations of the cabaret. She is CLUB 1943 composers, set-designers in a profusion of certainly right that the first beginnings may exiled talent continued the battle against be traced back to the days of Francois Villon Meetings every Monday at 8 p.m. sharp Nazism and exposed its horrors to foreigners in the fifteenth century, but I believe that it at Hannah Karminski House, who were rarely aware of Germany's plight". started to play its modern part in pre-revolu- 9 Adamson Road, N.W.S. Cabarets sprang up even "in such improbable tionary France in the eighteenth century and PROGRAMME AUGUST—SEPTEMBER places as a Canadian internment camp". In not, as she teUs us, only in the 1880s, reaching Ziirich. the Pfeffermiihle—^with Erika Mann its greatest height two decades later with August 2: Mrs. F. Schulmann: "Die and Therese Giehse—battled bravely against Aristide Bruant and Yvette Guilbert. Then, Juden in der Sowiet-Union". the Swiss authorities who were anxious not says the author, it "travelled east" from August 9: Dr. Rudolf Breitenstein to annoy Hitler. Our London exile cabarets, Prance to Germany before the First World (Pressereferent der Deutschen Botschaft) the Kleine Biihne of the "Free German League War; but surely the climate of the Habsburg spricht ueber seine wirtschaftlichen of Culture" and the Laterndl of the "Austrian jnonarchy produced political-literary cabarets Satiren, Centre", are fully recorded and appreciated in in Budapest even before Vienna's Nachtlicht August 16: Max Danziger (Tel Aviv) this book, and so are the main purposes we zeigt Lichtbilder von seiner Reise nach opened in 1906 with Karl Kraus, Polgar, dem Fernen Osten. had in mind when we kept them going through­ Altenberg, Friedell, Roda Roda. At any rate. August 23: Amo Reinfrank: "Atom- out the war: to maintain hope among our *e all agree that the German cabaret started energie in der deutschen Politik". fellow-refugees and to inform our English With the Elf Scharfrichter on Friday, April 13, August 30: Bank Holiday. friends of the reality behind Hitler's speeches. 1901, in Munich, mainly in protest against September 6: Mrs. Sheila Levy: "The But that story has already been told in these imperial Germany's infamous Lex Heinze, Development of Palladian English pages. which permitted police interference in art. Architecture". September 13: GeUert Tausz: "Bygone We may take pride in having introduced the Among the contributors and performers were cabaret in England, which had never known Frank Wedekind. Hanns von Gumppenberg, Era in India". September 20: Mrs. Lucy Middleton that art form before; perhaps we may call our­ the Simplicissimus editor Albert Langen, the (former MP): "Women's Contribution to selves the spiritual fathers of "Beyond the theatre director. Otto Falkenberg, and the the Labour Movement". Fringe" in the theatre, "That was the Week fascinating Marya Delvard — the first stage September 27: Gabriele Tergit spricht that was" on television, and the "Establish­ "v-amp". The SimpUcissimus artist Th.Th. ueber das Kapitel "Die hohen Duefte ment" in Soho, all of them now gone. Maybe Heine designed the posters (he died in exile in Asiens" aus ihrem Blumenbuch. so long as this is a free country it wiU have 1948). no permanent need of the "grim critique" of Entrance 30p per evening The altemative form of the cabaret, the cabaret satire. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION August 1976

/. W. Bruegel the National Socialist danger as for the time being overcome". (In 1932, there were two presidential elections and two to the Reichstag, RESISTANCE OR COMPLIANCE? apart from those to the Lander diets.) The minutes really do not indicate that the Party leadership indulged in such delusions. But that The Problem of the Social Democrats in those dismal days one could not help re­ For some time an abundance of well- democratic socialists, no matter how it was joicing over NSDAP defeats, since stressing documented literature has been available on instigated, would like the Austrian up­ them was apt to raise the spirit in the own the fall of the German democracy in 1933, and rising of February, 1934, have amounted to a camp — this was fully understaodaible psycho­ of its strongest pillar, the Social Democrats. moral trump for the future, hut not to a logically. It is surprising that an editor as Nevertheless, the recent publication oi some prevention of the dictatorship for the thorough in his research as Schulze should say relevant documents adds substantially to our present". that it is impossible to find out if Otto Weis knowledge aibout one of the most lamentable Here a comparison with the Austria of that took part in the Zurich conference of the chapters of modem history. The source are period suggests itself: in both cases the coup Bureau of the Labour and Socialist Inter­ the Prague archives of the SPD, the German against the Social Democracy was not carried national of February 18 and 19, 1933 ; surely Social Democratic Party in exile, which, pre­ out by its main militant opponent and tme a brief coiKultation of the Archives of the viously believed lost, were rediscovered in adversary. Apart from the fact that because of International deposited in Amsterdam would the Grerman experience, in Austria everything have sufficed to settle this point. Stockholm a few years ago. A selection of 13 seemed preferable to going under without documents has been edited by Hagen Schulze, resistance, the Austrians were spared the mill­ who published them, annotated with admirably stone of a Communist mass party, virtually methodical footnotes and amplified by a survey allied with the worst reaction, which was then THE GERMAN SCENE of the members of the Party executive, a brutally destroying it. However many tactical chronological table, etc. The title of the book, and fundameratel mistakes the SPD may have ISRAELI AWARD TO PRIME MINISTER "Anpassung oder Widerstand ?"* is not en­ committed and did commit in the years before OF HESSE tirely appropriate. For no one in the SPD was At a ceremony at Wiesbaden, the Israeli thinking of a genuine adaptation to the pre­ 1932, the fact that it was possible for a man Ambassador to the Federal Republic, Mr vailing conditions, and as far as resistance is like Hindenburg to become President in 1925 Meroz, decorated the Prime Minister of Hesse, concemed, it was only a question of whether (which, as the documents show, was far more Albert Oswald, with the Magen David Adom it should have been brought to bear with the disastrous than was publicly admitted) was Medal of the Israeli Red Cross Organisation, due exclusively to the refusal of the Commu­ for which he had done important work. Mr same strength against Papen—who paved the nists to support a united republican candidate Oswald said in his vote of thanks that the way for HiUer—as against Hitler himself. for the presidency. Before the Communists Israeli organisation fulfilled the spirit of the Part of the documents date back to the joined forces with the National Socialists in Founder of the Intemational Red Cross, Henri period before the ominous January 30, 1933, the Berlin transport strike aeain^t the demo­ Dunant, by looking after men and women of al' and they also include a contribution by Otto races, nationality and religions. cratic administration in November, 1932, their Dr, Walter Hesselhach, chairman of the Weis, written in retrospect, on the hardly less speaker, Wilhelm Koenen, reacted in the Board of the Federal Bank fiir Gemeinmrt- ominous July 20, 1932, when the Braun- Prussian diet (30/8/1932) to the deposition of schaft was awarded the "Torch of Learning Severing Govemment of Prussia was deposed the Braun-Severing Govemment with the for his support of the Hebrew University m by force. The other documents are from the following words, which might be reearded as Jerusalem. time after Hitler assumed power or, as one the very essence of political blindness : might rather put it, ascended to it by trickery. GERMAN-SPONSORED 'The discussions . . . must not disguise that REHABILITATION HOSPITAL What all these documents have in common The largest and most modern rehabilita­ are the depressing marks of utter helplessness in f^<'t it Ls only the debate between two narliamentarv srouns of fascism , , , (They tion clinic for the physically handicapped in the face of the piecemeal extinction of are) merely differences of opinion as to how was opened on Mount Scopus in Jemsalem- everything that had been achieved. For an '•apitalism is to be saved most effectively Nearly 27,000 Germans contributed to the observer of the 'seventies, fully conversant from the imminent revolutionary dan- Axel Springer Fund which has financed the with the tragedy which was then only beginn­ pers. , , ," hospital which has workshops, sports arenas ing to unfold, it is, of course, easy to turn Admirable as the resistance of the SPD was, and kitchens specially adapted to people up his nose at the inability of the leading SPD working from a wheelchair. There are even "rvntinuin? under the "legalised" terror of the cars which have facilities for handicappeo functionaries to make successful attempts at NSDAP, so that as late as March 5, 1933, 120 people to leam to drive. The director of the stemming the avalanche which was then So'/^ql Demofats were elected to the Reichs­ cliniic. Professor Magora, said that it woulo sweeping Germany, But what would be much tag — the "linutes of the internal party dis­ be open to all: Jews, Arabs and Christians more difficult is to try and develop serious cussions make depressing reading. Although and that it would co-operate with hospitals concepts of what might or could have been on January 31, 1933, Breitscheid proclaimed on the West Bank of the Jordan. done at that late hour in order to stop the the slogan "preparedness is all" i.e., in case the catastrophe. Everything that was done or left ORDER OF MERIT FOR JEWISH HERO newly appointed Reich-Chancellor Hitler vio­ The Mayor of Munich, Helmut Gittel, pre­ undone in 1932, carried the risk of helping to lated the Constitution, it is not clear — and sented the Jewish businessman Henryk Ingster put Hitler in the saddle instead of rendering nrobably never vras — what precisely one was with the Federal Order of Merit. The certin- him innocuous. The Braun-Severing Govern­ to be readv for. An almost spookish note is cate accompanying the Order states that ment has been much ridiculed for not retort­ struck by later discussions between the mem­ Ingster had shown great courage and readi­ ing to their deposition through Papen by any bers of the Party Executive who had fled to ness to sacrifice himself when he saved a other steps than an appeal, based on the Prague, and some Party officials who either fellow prisoner in camp Fiinfteichen m Weimar Constitution, to the Supreme Court, could not or would not emigrate, cherishing Silesia from deportation. the decision of which—though even positive the illusion that at last something might be ROW OVER DEGREE FOR AXEL SPRINGER in the main — no longer had any practical saved for the movement by lying low. A man There is a lot of antagonism among students significance. like Kurt Schumacher—who had to pay dearly and the general public to the honorary degree for this error—did not consider it enough for which the Hebrew University wants to confer But even if it was only a token gesture, the officials who had stayed on to disas.sociate on the Gennan publisher Axel Springer who there was simply nothing else to be done at themselves from the "Prague people" (Weis, has made reconciliation with Jews and ijn_ that moment. In the "Gewerkschaftliche Vogel, Hilferding. etc.). He insisted on the qualified support of Israel one of the guiding Monatshefte" of July, 1975, Professor Hans lines of his publishing policy. He is a frequeni Mommsen clearly made the point that there latters' expulsion from the Party, and on a visitor to Israel where he has establisheu was not the slightest chance of restrainimg formal "dissociation" from the Intemational, a cultural foundation and has contributed Papen by a general strike and the mobilisation This was only two days before the ban on any £357,000 to the Israel museum library i" of the "Reichsbamner" and "Iron Front" party activity. Jerusalem. organisations : We must be grateful to the editor, Hagen VICTOR GOLLANCZ HOUSE "Such an attempt would have given direct Schulze. for his painstaking commente. The IN FRANKFURT support to Hitler's ambitions. For the only point where he seems to draw the wrong The Society for Social Research and Planning NSDAP which could not hope to attain conclusions is when he complains that as late and the Institute for Social Workers ana power legally, was only waiting for such an as the end of 1932, the "traditional overrating Teachers in Frankfurt have jointly set up ?" interior political constellation to enable it of tbe significance of election results" had still Institute that will cover all aspects of socja to pose as the saviour of the Fatherland not been given up by the SPD and that the research and social work. The building i, from 'Marxism' and to use this as a pretext which the Institute is to be housed, is naniei for usurping power. An open revolt by the decline of the NSDAP seats from 230 to 198 after Victor Gollancz, the British Jewish pu"^ between July and November, 1932, had been lisher who helped to provide aid for starvine * "Anpauung od«r WIdersland? Aut d«n Akten des considered "sufficient reason for the leader­ Partehrorttanda* dar dautechen Sozlaldamokratla 1132/ Germans and worked for reconciliatio 1933". 230 pp, Verlag Neue QesellsOiaft. Bonn 1975. ship of the Social Democratic Party to regard immediately after the last war. AJR INFORMATION August 1976 Page 7

H. W. Freyhan second world war." (This could also be said of the Last Four Songs). It is doubtful, though, whether Schoenberg's fusion of "seemingly disparate elements of the AN ENGLISH SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN MUSIC German tradition" and Mahler's absorption It is probably true to say that in the realm scholar, and it covers more or less the whole of "a variety of musical cultures" can be of the arts Germany has made the widest im­ output of the Vienesse classics—more than its called a "Jewish faculty" which led to their pact through her music. The works of the title promises. The historical background is denunciation as "cultural Bolshevists" by the great German—and in this context, one must not ignored so that a fuller picture of the Nazis; their racial origin provided sufficient include Austrian—composers are known all period emerges. reason for that! But this a a minor point. over the world; they are an indispensable Peter Gradenwitz, the Israeli musicologist, part of the intemational repertoire. It is gives an apt description of the pre-classical SIR ERNST CHAIN 70 therefore hardly surprising that the vast period, and Nicholas Temperley writes of Sir Ernst Chain whose 70th birthday cele­ literature which deals with German music Schubert's songs with artistic insight. brations brought Israel's President Mr, Katzir is not confined to German-language publica­ Although the editor, H. H. Schoenzeler, to Britain, was born in Berlin. His father, an tions, and Anglo-Saxon writers have, for more industrial chemist of Russian origin, was a than two centuries, made contributions in has recently promoted the cause of Weber friend of Chaim Weizmann. His own career this field which are in no way inferior to the (e.g. he has conducted a new recording of started in the biochemistry department of the relevant German literature and include such some lesser-known works) he has left the dis­ Berlin Charite hospital. He came to Cambridge outstanding biographies as Thayer's Beet­ cussion of this composer to Hugo Zelzer. But soon after the Nazis came to power, hut later hoven and Emest Newman's Wagner. Yet, he is also an authority on Bruckner, on whom on received a call to Oxford where he strangely enough, no attempt seems to have he published a book in 1970, and his essay on developed his work leading to the isolation of Brahms and Bruckner benefits from his de­ penicillin and the demonstration of its drama­ been made to produce an English History of tic effect in curing infectious diseases which, German Music, nor have the relevant German tailed studies. in 1945, won him the Nobel Prize. After a publications been translated. John Douglas Todd, who comes from Aus­ spell as head of the microbiological research tralia, deals with Wagner. His subtitle centre of the Institute of Health in Rome, he A new volume (Of German Music, edited Romantic Zenith—Seeds of the Future is not returned to Britain, and with funds provided by H. H. Schoenzeler. Oswald Wolff, London, vrithout justification. His commitment to the by the London University and the Wolfson 1976. £6-50) does not set out to fill this gap Bayreuth master is a total one—it could al­ Tmst he established, in 1961, the department with any claim to completeness, but it does of bio-chemistry at Imperial College of Science provide a survey which roughly covers the most be called totalitarian—and it is possible and Technology which he headed until his re­ development from about 1400 till the pre­ to share his enthusiasm for Wagner's music cent retirement. He is a member of the Royal sent day. It takes the form of a symposium without endorsing his excessively far-reach­ Society and was knighted in 1969. He with contributions from ten authors. The ing conclusions. With all his missionary zeal, supports many Jewish causes and was also a he is not always above factual errors, e.g. in patron of the "Thank-You Britain" Fund. editor has refrained from imposing any rigid his assumption of Wagner's—and Cosima's guide-lines on his contributors, and this has At the No. 10 Downing Street luncheon in resulted in a great variety of methods and Jewish ancestry, which has long been dis­ honour of himself and of the Israeli President, approaches, and also of standards. Moreover, proved. the Prime Minister, Mr. Callaghan, in a special it has caused not only a certain amount of In discussing Wagner's antisemitism he reference to Sir Emst, recalled the benefits duplication but also some evident distortion: seeks to play it down by the tiresome familiar and talents which Jewish immigration had less important material has sometimes taken list of the composer's Jewish friends, and he brought to Britain. precedence over what should have been also adopts Bryan Magee's argument (see AJR PROGRAMME OF CLUB 1943 "musts". The article on the Bach family, by Information, May 1974) that Wagner, while Antony Hodgson, whilst giving Johann Sebas­ critical of Mendelssohn, would have approved In this issue, readers will for the first time of "giants like Schoenberg and Mahler" find an advertisement announcing the pro­ tian his due, fails even to mention the B- gramme of the Club 1943 for the forthcoming minor Mass, and as outstanding a composer (Todd), which is just wishful thinking, I fear. two months. It is intended to publish these as Hugo Wolf gets only one brief reference The author sees in Wagner "the very central programmes regularly. —as a music critic! point of German musical history". If this is Club 1943 was founded by former refugees Variety of approach is not necessaiily _ a highly debatable, what is one to make of his during the war. The fact that for 33 years it disadvantage. Musicology needs both the his­ claim that Wagner, "had he been born 2000 has had regular weekly meetings indicates that torian, especially when his research is not years earlier, might well have become the its activities render an important service to founder of another world religion", and that the community and that the organisation is oblivious of the general background, and the built on sound foundations. As the last chair­ aesthetic scholar who probes deeply into the his music "is a wider ranging experience than that which the formalised religions have to man of the Club, the late Mr. Hans Jaeger, put music itself. it: "The Club meant a homestead for many Both these approaches are represented in offer" ? One need not even be cynical and lonely souls, it gave inner enrichment for their extremity in the present volume. Percy refer to the founder of a certain Weltan­ hundreds, created permanent friendships". Young, that great expert on Baroque music, schauung who did claim Wagner as one of Today, the Club comprises not only pre-war explores the course of German music from his chief inspirations. refugees, but also a number of post-war immi­ Schuetz to Telemann, shedding much light on Not surprisingly such one-sided Wagner grants from the Continent as well as British- the sociological aspects, but hardly dealing worship leads the writer to some striking born members. In spite of the natural losses, with Schuetz' towering works. On the other undervaluations of other composers. But he the total membership amounts to nearly 130. Not all of them are active, but most of them hand, Hans Keller, deliberately discriminat­ also condemns those conductors who, in his pay their membership fees regularly and ing against historical considerations, presents opinion, have not accepted Wagner's ideas on attend the functions whenever possible. much novel—and of course, provocative— interpretation: there is the "Toscaninian cult We are, however, aiming at a still better thought on the music of Mendelssohn and of literalism" (but Bayreuth engaged him!), attendance of our Monday evenings. Having Schumann. His thorough study of Mendels­ and Klemperer presents "Beethoven's works enlisted the co-operation of high-ranking sohn's instrumental works leads him to a as animated museum-pieces" ! Modem stage speakers, it is sometimes embarrassing to con­ fresh evaluation of this still underrated production of Wagner meets with disapproval front them with only a comparatively small master and disposes of the patronising way and Wieland Wagner is not even mentioned. audience. The attendance will certainly grow, in which he is not seldom treated. Whether After such eccentricities, the author con­ if more people in our midst become aware of one accepts his viev of Mendelssohn's Violin cludes with a few sensitive hints on the right our interesting lectures and other functions. Concerto as "one of the greatest symphonic approach to Wagner's music and speaks con­ This is the reason for which we make the structures of all times" or not, he silways ar­ readers of this joumal acquainted with our vincingly of the "protracted moments of great weekly functions at Hannah Karminski House, gues from strength, and his contribution is stillness when the rhythm is very much below and we hope that the announcements of the one of the book's greatest assets. the surface of the music." programmes will induce them to join the Club Some controversial statements also occur In two essays Eric Roseberry covers the or to attend some of its functions as guests. in Basil Lam's survey of The Classical Sym­ transition to the twentieth-century as well as E.S. phony. But again, this is the essay of a noted the music of Schoenberg and Hindemith. These are sympathetic but well-balanced stu­ BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE dies which include a brief, yet essential out­ CAMPS line of the wider cultural and sociological 51 Belsiza Squara, London, N.W.I INTERNMENT—P.O.W.— background. The position of Strauss and SYNAGOGUE SERVICES FORCED LABOUR—KZ Mahler is judiciously defined. On Strauss' late are held regularly on the Eve of Sabbath I wish to buy cards, envelopes and folded post­ Mefamorphosen the writer has this felicitous marked letters from all camps of both world wars. and Festivals at 6,30 p.m. and on the day Please send, registered mail, stating price, to: comment: they "revealed him on a separate, PETER C. RICKENBACK sunset-lit plane amidst the globally scattered at 11 a.m. 14 Rosslyn HIII, London, N.W.3 emblems of German musical culture after a ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Page 8 AJR INFORMATION August 1976

WEST BANK HEATLH SERVICES PRAISED FROM THE ISRAELI SCENE BY WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATIONS A report issued in Geneva bv the World REFORM RABBI EXCLUDED FROM EMIGRANTS COME BACK Health Organisation, a United Nations Agency, RELIGIOUS COUNCIL says that the health services in the West BanK After several supreme court orders had Mr. Josef Almogi, chairman of the Jewish and the Gaza strip have improved consideraDiy stated that no political party had a monopoly Agency reported that during the first four since Israel occupied the areas during tne on religion in Israel, the Progressive Jewish months of this year, Jewish Agency staff had 1967 Six-Day War. The members of the com­ community nominated Rabbi Dr. Weiler for dealt with 1,750 applications from Israelis who mittee which drafted the report, a Romamaiv a seat on the Jerusalem Religious Council. Mr. had emigrated but wanted to retum home. a Senegalese and an Indonesian had been Raphael, Minister for Religious Affairs, re­ Most of them had now done so. During the refused admission by Israel until this year jected the claim stating the Independent same time, there had been 6,000 new immi­ when they were allowed to visit the terntortee Liberal Party (IPL) which had sponsored the grants, but only 38 per cent of Soviet Jews separately. The report notes that residents nomination, did not maintain a positive atti­ leaving for the West in AprU had come to who need highly specialised treatment or tude towards Judaism. The Minister of Israel, the lowest percentage ever. In the first operations, are admitted to Israeli hospitals •TourLsm, Mr. Moshe Kol, himself a member of three months of 1976, 1,830 Soviet Jews and charged only a nominal fee. The report the IPL, declared in public that he was arrived in Israel, compared with 2,400 in the was refused adoption by the conference after ashamed that such an attitude should be pos­ same period in 1975. The Soviet Immigrants' Association in Israel is to send emissaries to a protest by Arab States and most of tne sible. Rabbi Weiler, who was bom in Riga, Third World countries which claimed tnai founded the Union of Progressive Judaism in Vienna, Brussels, and Rome to reduce the full South Africa and opened a kindergarten at his number of Russian emigrants trying to settle the investigators had not been given synagogue for black children. Two of his sons in Western countries. freedom to investigate all the items they were supposed to look into. were killed on active service in the Israeli The Jewish Agency has refused to deal with Army. a complaint by the Zionist Organisation of Canada that prospective immigrants had not ISRAEL TV's LEFT-WING BIAS? DIVORCE AFTER ARTIFICIAL been given correct details of the kind of prob­ INSEMINATION lems they were likely to meet in Israel, particu­ The Israeli Parliament is seeking to change larly about buying a home, and that therefore the broadcasting laws, because political anu The Jerusalem Beth Din compelled a as many as two in five of Western immigrants military leaders allege left-wing bias in tne woman to accept a divorce from her husband, returned to their home countries within five way the independent National Broadcasono because without his consent, she had received years. Authority is running the Israeli TV services- A.LD, (artificial insemination by donor, i.e. They want television to be made the sp^ia^ not by the husband). Artificial insemination RETURN TO ARAB COUNTRIES responsibility of the Prime Minister's O^'^v^ by the" husl)and had been unsuccessful, and the saying that the reporting of recent -Arao husband objected to the adoption of a child. Mr. Yosef Nawi, 47, who came tn Israel rioting in the occupied territories had been The court ruled that the woman was not 20 years ago with his parents, has left the greatly distorted. There were many instance^ entitled to claim maintenance from her hus­ country with his wife and two daughters and of Arab injured, but no films of the many band and that the Orthodox Shaare Zedek returned to Baghdad. Both Mr. Nawi and his Israeli troops hurt. So far, some employees Hospital in Jerusalem was to blame for treat­ wife were interviewed twice on Baghdad radio of the Authority have been dismissed fo^ ing both hushand and wife. in Hebrew and declared that Iraq was a garden showing left-wing sympathies on the satirical of Eden and that Iraqi Jews had made a "That Was The Week That Was" programme. RECORD CITRUS SEASON serious mistake when they left for Israel. Mr. Nawi had failed to find suitable work The 1975/76 citrus season which has just and, when he sought to open a butcher's shop, OIL HOPES IN ASHDOD ended, hroke records for the amount of fruit was refused a licence. sent abroad and the amount of foreign cur­ Eleven families of Moroccan origin, living Reports from experts seem to indicate that rency earned, according to Mr. Tulipman, in Haifa have announced that they planned Israel has made a substantial off-shore on-i^Jt general manager of the Citrus Marketing to leave Israel for Paris where they would near Ashdod. The Israeli Government nas Board. 49 million cases were exported, bring­ receive a Moroccan visa enabling them to entered into an agreement with American oU ing in more than £98 million tti foreign return to their former country. They alleged companies to drill for oil in southem Sinai. currency. Most of the fruit was shipped from discrimination over housing and income tax Haifa instead of Ashdod which is closer to tbe and harassment by the police. main growing areas, because of the long and Meanwhile, a committee of Jews from Arab BRITISH AID TO JERUSALEM HOSPITAI' repeatsed strikes in Ashdod. countries is demanding compensation for pro­ perty and money left behind when they went Mr. Victor Mishcon revealed at a meeting GIFT FROM ISRAEL SPURNED to Israel, A document stating their claims of the British Council of the Jemsalem Shaare Israeli authorities had planned to present has heen sent to U.S. President Ford. 600,000 Zedek Hospital that the organisation had sent of the 850,000 Jews who formerly lived in £239,000 to the hospital in 1975. sets of the Encyclopedia Judaica to all univer­ Arab countries are now in Israel, and, accord­ sities in Greece, Israel's representative, Mr. ing to the committee, the property they were Timor was to have presented the first set to forced to leave behind is worth five times BUST OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN FOR Salonika University which at first accepted his as much as that abandoned by Palestinian ISRAEL offer, but subsequently declined it on the pre­ refugees. text that the university senate had not given Under a joint resolution of the United permission. There are 2,200 Arab students at CASUALTY CENTRE OPENED States Congress, signed by President Ford, Salonika university, 1,000 of them Pale­ bronze bust of the young President Abranan stinians. Nearly four years after the laying of the Lincoln, sculpted by the late Sidney LofLpi foundation stone, Tel Aviv's new Magen David Chicago, was presented to the people of israe SYMPHONY CONCERT IN THE OLD CITY Adom Centre was opened in the presence of a by the people of America. The bust was The London impresario Victor Hochhauser large delegation of British friends who pro­ acquired from the sculptor's widow by tn recently presented the first symphony concert vided one million pounds needed for the new Gildesgame family of the U.S. and Britain, au in the history of the Jewish Quarter of the Old venture. The building consists of a complete of whose members attended the unveuine City as an open-air event. The all-Beethoven underground first-aid centre and shelter, and ceremony in Ramat Gan, programme was conducted by Lukas Foss, a three storeys above ground. The Minister of nephew of the late Dr. Richard Fuchs, a Health, Mr. Shemtov, said at the opening leading member of the London Board of the ceremony, that it was the best-equipped cen­ PHOSPHOR STAMPS INTRODUCED Leo Baeck Institute. tre in Israel. In the course of automation of I^'^^fl- KING SOLOMON'S MINES IN postal services, Israel has introduced ^ SMALLEST GERMAN THEATRE SAUDI ARABIA? method of phosphor bars on the eountry VISITS ISRAEL stamps. Phosphor is used to work electroni American aod Saudi geologists thmk they devices in letter sorting and facing machine*- The Theater in der Westentasche from have found the legendary "lost" gold mines Ulm, Germany's smallest theatre, paid a visit used by King Solomon. In a mountainous re­ to Israel and gave numerous performances gion between Mecca and Medina they have dis­ ISRAELI JOURNALIST BEATS all over the country. They had brought with covered an abandoned mine where the waste CHANCELLOR AT CHESS them members of the Ulm public: 50 people rock left behind by the miners stili contains between 14 and 73 years of age. six-tenths of an ounce of gold per ton. Accord­ Chancellor Schmidt recently organised a Another group of visitors from Germany ing to the Bible, 1,066 talents (about 34 tons) chess tournament at Palais Schaumburg, "^^ consisted of some 400 inmates of Bavarian of gold were brought to Jerasalem from Ophir official residence, between politicians ^J\ old-age homes whom the Bavarian Red Cross by Solomon's workers. At today's prices, these joumalists. During a two hour match ^gaw^^ had sent on a Mediterranean craise. They would be worth about £65 million. The geolo­ the Israeli joumalist Daniel Dagan, he W4 spent three days in the country and were gists think that they have found the only mine twice beaten. received by members of the govemment, of within range of ancient Israel which could the Universities and the Israeli equivalent of have produced such wealth smd must there­ Further Israeli News the Red Cross, the Magen David Adom. fore have been Ophir. on Page 10 AJR INFORMATION August 1976 Page 9

MRS. MATHILDE PICKARDT, 80 Mrs. Mathilde Pickardt will be 80 on BIRTHDAYS September 11. She is known to many as an indefatigable worker for numerous good DR. WALTER SCHINDLER 80 KURT MAY 80 causes and organisations. Her particular loyalty Dr. Walter Schindler will celebrate his 80th Mr Kurt May will be 80 on August 15, and goes to the Theodor Herzl Society to which birthday on August 25. Full details of the this is a welcome opportunity of paying tribute she has been giving many years of devoted career and achievements of this eminent to his magnificent work in the field of restitu­ effort as Hon. Secretary, Joint Hon. Treasurer psychiatrist and psychotherapist who came to tion and compensation as General Manager of and as never-tiring hostess at all social occa­ this country from Germany in 1938 were the United Restitution Organisation (URO). sions. She also endeared herself to the mem­ related in these columns five years ago on The activities of that body, established in bers of the AJR Club whose account books the occasion of his 75th birthday. Today, I 1948 in London, were originally restricted to she keeps in perfect order. She is an active should like to place on record the deep grati­ the former British and French Zones of Ger­ member of her local Liberal Party and of the tude of the Theodor Herzl Society for his work many and their corresponding sectors in Ber­ Council of Christians and Jews. For many m conceiving the idea of and arranging over lin. However, until 1953 the US Military years she was Secretaiy of Hampstead Zion a period of approximately 12 years as Director authorities did not permit URO to extend its House in Eton Avenue, the home of numerous of Studies the annual lecture courses, under work to the US Zone. Therefore, in order to Zionist and other Jewish organisations. She the joint auspices of the Society and London help persons, who had claims for restitution of has been an interested member of the AJR for University Extra Mural Department (whose property in the American Zone but could not several decades. Her many friends and in par­ co-operation he was instmmental to secure). afford the services of private lawyers, the ticular the Executive and members of the These courses have become an outstanding Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation (the Theodor Herzl Society extend to her their feature of Jewish life in London, due to the successor organisation for the US Zone of Ger­ warmest congratulations and wish her many excellence of their standard and the breadth many and the US Sector of Berlin) set up a more years of fruitful activity and personal of vision which inspired their founder. Almost Legal Aid Department at its headquarters happiness. all areas of Jewish life and history, in Israel which w»re first in Nuremberg and later in F.E.F. and the Diaspora, were covered and the central Frankfurt. teachings of the three great monotheistic ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF F.W.V. Kurt May was Head of the Legal Aid Depart­ To mark the 95th anniversary of the founda­ religions explored and compared by scholars ment which co-operated with the URO offices. tion of the F.W.V. (Freie Wissenschaftliche of renown, Dr Schindler himself also made A former highly respected lawyer in Jena, he Vereinigung), the London former members of some notable contributions, proved himself an outstanding personality. the fraternity held a dinner on July 10. The I am sure that not only the Executive and When, in 1953. the Claims Conference assumed function was presided over by the chairman. members of the Theodor Herzl Society, but all the financial responsibility for the mnning of Dr. H. G. Sandheim, who welcomed the those whose knowledge was enriched by these the URO offices, the scope of which had in­ "Bundesbrueder" and their wives and the lectures, will wish to thank Dr. Schindler, and creased enormouslv after the enactment of the guests. In his introductory speech he recalled to join with his friends and patients in sending Federal Indemnification Law (BEG) and later that the F.W.V. had been founded to overcome him their sincere congratulations and very best of the Federal Restitution Law (BRuG), Mr the discrimination then prevailing at German wishes on his 80th birthday. May he long be May was appointed Chief Executive (General universities. Notwithstanding the fundamental able to continue as a wise counsellor to his Manager) of all URO Offices in Germany and changes since 1933, this basic idea of mutual Patients and to make his contributions in all of the offices established in the countries of tolerance had not lost its topicality. The atmos­ those fields where his activity has been a immigration. He was particularly qualified for phere of imderstanding between old and newly source of inspiration. this work due to his remarkable legal know­ gained friends made the party a piost enjoy­ FRANK E. FALK ledge and striking juridical acumen, linked able event for all those who were present. with enthusiasm and drive. He was an inspiring leader of URO's legal team, commanding res­ pect and general affection of the URO staff (comprising over 1,000 persons at the height of operations) and also of those who came into contact with him, from high-ranking judges and civil servants to humble clients. Imbued with a deep conviction of the im­ perative necessity to undo the wrongs peme- trated by the Nazi regime, Mr May felt that DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX URO's obligation was not restricted to the renresentation of its own clients. As he saw it, URO had also to assist lawyers in Gennany LTD. and all over the world, who represented private claimants in the pursuit of their claims. With the help of senior legal officers in the service of URO. he organised a Research Department which brought to light an abundance of inform­ ation about the insidious methods of spolia­ tion adopted by the Third Reich, thus helping in the substantiation of claims. It was only in the nature of things that the complex edifice of legislation dealing with restitution and indemnification led to moot points and differences in the interpretation of the law. Under the active guidance of Mr May, Dunbee House URO lawyers helped to fight cases (not necessarily of URO clients only) before the highest German Courts and obtained a con­ siderable number of important Court decisions 117 Great Portland Street, on questions of prinicple which served as use­ ful precedents for future cases. During its existence URO so far has repre­ London, W.l sented approximately 300,000 claimants, on whose behalf over 500.000 claims were sub- matted, a truly gigantic task and a lasting monument to Mr May and the staff of the URO. Kurt May has reached 80 in undiminished vigour and health. His friends' wish is that he and his wife. Vera—herself an eminent Tol: 01-580 3264/0878 (P.B.X.) jurist—^may continue so for many years to come. C,K. Grams: FLEXATEX LONDON, HOUSE OF HALLGARTEN BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER 53/79 Highgate Road, London, NWS 1RR Rnest selection reconditioned PIANOS TELEX. Always interested in purchasing well-preserved instruments. INT. TELEX 2-3540 Choose Hallgarten—Choose Fine Wines JAQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel.: 723 8818/9 Page 10 AJR INFORMATION August 1976

m MEMORIAM FROM THE ISRAELI SCENE Dr. L. G. T. KING, 1898-1976 Dr. L. G. T. King, or "Munti" as he was Continued from Page 8 ARABS FINANCE EMIGRATION? known in the F.W.V. students' fratemity, was MEDICAL CARE FOR LEBANESE A member of the Likud opposition party bom in Berlin, where he practised as a in the Knesset announced that he had reliable Rechtsanwalt. With the advent of Hitier his information that an Arab consortium had successful legal career came to an abrupt end. Hundreds of wounded and sick Lebanese provided $1,000 million to encourage Jews He and his young family emigrated to England Christians have crossed the border clan­ to emigrate from Israel, According to Israeli where he made a new start in the commerical destinely in order to be treated by Jewish broadcasts the consortium has also begun to sphere, interrupted by his War service. doctors. A hole was cut in the security fence buy houses in Israel. With the new German legislation on resti­ to allow old people, women and children to tution and compensation he got his chance to cross into Israel, Parked under a tree in the follow again his chosen career as a lawyer. neighbourhood there is an Army ambulance OPERA'nON ON EGYPTLIN WOMAN IN Within a short time he had established himself used as a consulting room by Jewish doctors, JERUSALEM and made his reputation as a knowledgeable who refuse to accept payment for their ser­ adviser. His gift for lucid and painstaking vices. Israeli soldiers serve the patients with A 55-year-old woman from Cairo, Paduah exposition of his clients' claims, his integrity coffee, while they are waiting for treatment Kurdijah, came to the Hadassah hospital in and his faimess came to be highly respected and medication. Most of them are then sent Jerusalem for an open heart operation. She had by clients and authorities alike. back to their villages, but those needing been induced to do so by an Arab-language In later years he largely concentrated on hospitalisation, are sent to Israeli hospitals. television programme about medical progress social insurance cases. He was one of the first All of them asked not to have their photo­ in Israel. A speaker for the hospital confirmed few lawyers to recognise the importance of graphs or names published, as they allege that that she was the first Egyptian patient, but these claims for Nazi victims and contributed other people who were treated by Israelis, people from other Arab countnes had re­ peatedly come to Jerusalem for treatment. to a new interpretation of the relevant laws. were later murdered by terrorists. His concern for his fellow human beings, his fatherly advice in helping to solve their prob­ SECOND DEATH SENTENCE IN ISRAEL WORK FOR ARAB INTEGRATION lems made him a friend of many. It was the old and ailing who benefited most from his One of the terrorists who attacked and The Israeli Govemment is to set up special generosity. occupied the Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel in March machinery to handle the affairs of the His warm personality inspired trust and 1975, when two soldiers and nine civilians country's 450,000 Israeli Arabs and to speed loyalty. A harmonious atmosphere pervaded his died, was sentenced to death by a military up their integration in Israel's national life. office and made it an ideal place to work in. court. He is a 24-year-old Jordanian, Mussa His happy family life was his mainstay. Hussein Tallaka, who was trapped in the ISRAELI ARABS WANT NATIONAL His was a fulfilled life. J.J.H. wreckage of the hotel after a night-long RIGHTS siege by Israeli forces. Another terrorist, 21 DR. GERTRUD KOEBNER years old, and supposed to be the guiding A committee of Israeli Arab leaders pre­ Dr. Gertmd Koebner died on June 24 at thc spirit of the attack, was sentenced to life sented the Israeli govemment with a memo­ age of 87. The widow of the historian Professor imprisonment. Since the foundation of the randum stating that the 450,000 Arabs in Richard Koebner, she was a scholar in her own State of Israel, only one death sentence was Galilee, the Negev and the north-east of Tel right. She wrote several works on aesthetics, pronounced and carried out—against Adolf Aviv insist on having fuU national political among them the book "Vom Schoenen und Eichmann. Under Israeli law only the crimes rights in a bi-national State. The committee seiner Wahrheit" (1957), Dr. Koebner spent of genocide and treason in war conditions are comprises Communist and PLO sympathisers, the last years of her life in Heinrich Stahl subject to the death penalty. headed by the Mayor of Nazareth. House.

FAMILY EVENTS Kroner.—Lucie Kroner, of 11 Caris- Leiner. — The stone setting in Miscellaneous brooke Court, Weymouth Street, memory of Mrs. Paula Leiner, be­ REVLON MANICURIST / PEDI- Entries in the column Family London, W.l, formerly of Berlin, loved mother of Mr, M, Leighton, CURIST, Will visit your home. nassed away on June 24 at the Events are free of charge. Texts will be held at Bushey Cemetery, 01-445 2915. Middlesex Hospital, London, after a on Sunday, August 22, at 11 a,m. Personal should be sent in by the 15th of short illness. She spent most of REISEGEFAEHRTIN oder the month. her life helping others—^relatives, friends and strangers, and her loss Gefahrte fiir die Wintermonate will long be deeply moumed by CLASSIFIED gesucht. GeteUte Rechnung. Deaths us all. Bridgeplayer bevorzugt. Reiseziele The charge in these columns is nach Vereinbarung. Bin Witwe, Baron.—Mrs. Margarete Baron 15p for five words. in den Siebzigem, geborene (Katz, n6e Cohn), aged 91, form­ Laufer.—Mrs. Margaret Laufer pas­ Tschechin, gesund, finanziell unab­ erly of Welwyn Garden City, pas­ sed away on June 30, aged 84. sed away on July 4. Sadly missed Situations Wanted hangig, lebe in London. Box 595. Deeply moumed by her son and ATTRACTIVE FEMALE (28), by her children. Vera and Kurt daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. LADIES AVAILABLE for shop­ Ambrose (Manchester), Susi Simon varied interests, seeks single Langford, 75 Quickswood, Chalcots ping, cooking, companionship, light attractive tall intelligent business (Paris), grandchildren and great­ Park, London, NW3 3RT. attendance duties for at least 3 grandchildren. Ill Higher Lane, hours per day up to 5 days per or professional sincere male (28- Whitefield, Manchester, M25 7EY. Rosenthal.—Mrs. Hedwig Rosenthal week. Telephone: AJR Employ­ 35). Enclose photo. Box 596. (nee Weissl) of 97 Park Avenue ment Agency, 01-624 4449 and find WIDOWER, RETIRED, Mid- Borg. — Mrs. Toni Borg, (n6e North, London, N.W.IO, passed cut whether we know of someone seventies, North London, wants Woflf), aged 84, passed away on away peacefully on June 28 at the in your area or in easy reach by companion, who is also lonely, for July 6, at Morris Feinman Home, age of 89. Deeply moumed and bus or tube. mutual visits and walks. Friend­ Manchester. Deeply moumed by ship only. Replies to S, Nagel, 51 sadly missed by her daughter Lissy, NURSING COMPANION. Conti­ her daughter and son-in-law. Lore son Heinz (Brazil), all her rela­ Windsor Road, Holloway, London, and Heinz L. Lehman, 428 Roch­ nental lady, German-speaking, N.7. dale Road, Middleton, Manchester tives and friends. seeks non-residential position. Also night duty and as travelling com­ ELDERLY LADY wishes to share M24 2QW, her grandchildren, great­ holiday with another lady in grandchildren and many friends. Schuster. — Nelly Schuster passed panion. Please call 458 8698 be­ away peacefully at home. Sadly tween 6 and 9 p.m. August in England.—Box 599. Fleck.—We regret to announce the missed by all her relatives and JEWISH LADY, Continental origin, death of our lieloved Liesel Fleck. friends. ALTERATIONS OF DRESSES, well educated, travelled, sociable, Peacefully on Tuesday, June 22, etc, undertaken by ladies on our varied interests, "young 55", at Harrow Nursing Home. Deeply register. Phone AJR Employment would like to meet Jewish gentie­ missed by relatives and friends. Memorial Stone Agency, 01-624 4449. man with view to marriage.—^Box Joachim.—The stone setting in Accommodation Vacant 597. Italiener.—On June 27, 1976. Peace­ AJR Enquiries fully at home, Hedwig, beloved ever-loving memory of Kurt Karl, wife of the late Rabbi Dr. Bruno beloved husband of Else, wiU be PROFESSIONAL WOMAN offers Marcus.—Mrs. Edith Marcus. La^ Italiener, dearly loved by her at the Liberal Jewish Cemetery, large room with dining/kitchen in known address: 7 Cumberland daughters, Ruth and Hannah, son- Pound Lane, Willesden, on Sunday, quiet house in Wembley.—Box 598. Court, Great Cumberland Place, in-law and all her family. September 5, at 12.30 p.m. AN IDEAL HOME for an elderly London, WIH 7DP. widower or single man, one bed­ Personal Enquiries Jaffe.—Mr. Gerald Jaffe passed Klimt.—The stone setting in lov­ room, one sitting room, own bath­ Neumann.—The heirs of Maxirnjl' away suddenly on June 2, aged 79. ing memory of Helen, beloved wife room, 5 minutes Marble Arch in ian Alfred Neumann deceased, late Deeply mourned by his wife, Herta, of Fred, will be at the Liberal Little Venice; meals if required. of 80 Wohner Gardens, Edgware, childrrai, grandchildren, relatives Synagogue Cemetery, Pound Lane, Please phone before 10 a.m. or should get in touch with Rechtsan­ and friends. 8 Claremont Road, N.W.IO, on Sunday, August 15, at after 5 p.m. 01-286 5676 or write walt Bemd Stein, Neue Kantstrasse Croydon, Surrey. 11 a.m. to Box 594. 9, 1 Berlin 10. AJR INFORMATION August 1976 Page 11

EXILED AUTHORS IN CALIFORNIA

MISCELLANEOUS The Francke Verlag, Beme and Munich, HILDE SPIEL HONOURED RECENT PUBLICATIONS published a paperback book about the German The writer Professor Dr. Hilde Spiel was Exile Literature in Califomia, The editors RESISTANCE AND PERSECUTION are John M. Spalek, Joseph Strelka and Sandra awarded the "Preis fuer Publizistik" of the IN BADEN pity of Vienna. Previous authors honoured H. Harychak, The book carries comprehen­ m this way included Alfred Polgar and Fried­ As a sequel to the two-volume work about sive infoi-mation about the German language rich Torberg. Hilde Spiel's main work is the "The Persecution of Jews in Mannheim 1933- authors who had to leave Germany when the biography "Fanny Amstein oder Die Emanzi­ 1945" the Municipal Archives of Mannheim Nazis came to power and settled in California. pation" (1961). Dr. Spiel spent the years of recently published a volume about "Persecu­ It gives valuable biographical and bibliogra­ emigration (1936-1963) in England. She is now tion and Resistance under the National phical information, and quotes reliable source also regular cultural correspondent to the Socialism in Baden" (W. Kohlhammer Stutt­ material. The writers dealt with include Alfred Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. E.G.L, gart). The contents lay stress on resistance Doeblin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Alfred Polgar and, based on reports by the Gestapo and the and Wilhelm Speyer. Most of the contributors PROFESSOR E. J. COHN MEMORIAL public prosecutor in Karlsruhe mainly deal to the volume are attached to universities SCHOLARSHIP with the "illegal" fight of members of the in California and other parts of the U.S. The North Westem Reform Synagogue labour movement and ithe circle of the poli­ A second volume, still in preparation, wUl Group of the Friends of the Hebrew University tical Catholics (around the Freiburg Arch­ deal with exiled authors v/ho lived in New decided to launch an appeal for the establish­ bishop Dr. Conrad Groeber). Whilst, gener­ York. ment of a scholarshia in the name of Professor ally, Jews are only mentioned in connection E.G.L. Ernst J. Cohn in the Faculty of Law of the with few incidents, the book carries refer­ Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Professor ences to the former Karlsruhe lawyers Dr. Cohn was both "a distinguished jurist of Leopold Friedberg (died 1966 in New German-Jewish origin and an active Jewish Zealand) and Ludwig Marum, the former OPINION POLL ON PLO communal worker. Contributions may be sent member of the Reichstag and of the Baden to the headquarters of the Friends of the State Council, who was murdered by the A survey carried out by National Opinion Hebrew Universitv, 3 St. John's Wood Road, Nazis in 1934, E,G,L. Poll claims that 75 per cent of the British London NWS 8RB or to the North Westem public support the PLO in its call for a secular Reform Synagogue. Alyth Gardens, Finchley TWO JEWISH LAWYERS REMEMBERED democratic State with equal rights for Jews Road, London, N.W.ll. Two books have just been published which and Arabs. This was disclosed at a press con­ remember two Jewish jurists from the South- ference by the Free Palestine Infomiation HEINRICH SCHALIT West of Germany who attained eminence dur­ Office whose director, Mr. Louis Eaks, a former The former organist of the old Munich Main ing the Weimar Republic. Ludwig Landmann chairman of the Young Liberals, described the Jiynagogue Heinrich Schalit died in Colorado, whos life and work is described in a book by results of the survey as "beyond our wildest USA, aged 90. In the Thirties he used to give Dr. Rebentisch, was Lord Mayor of Frankfurt hopes". A spokesman for National Opinion Poll religious organ recitals in liberal synagogues between 1924 and 1933, His many achievements explained that 2,000 people had been ques­ m Berlin and elsewhere. Between 1933 and in adding to the industrial and cultural im­ tioned but that the results were obtained from 1939 he was choirmaster of the Rome Great portance of the city were widely recognised, answers given by 1,100 people judged to be Synagogue. His brother was the writer and but after 1929 he was under constant attack familiar with the Middle East situation and palsworthv translator Leon Schalit who died from right-wing forces and forced to resign in "an adequate sample to ascertain the views m London in 1950. March, 1933. He left for Holland shortly before of the population". Asked which side they sup­ the outbreak of war and was, with his Dutch ported in the Arab-Israeli conflict, 36 per cent PROFESSOR HANS ROTHFELS wife, kept hidden by Dutch friends. He died, said the Jews, 7 per cent the Arabs, 31 per cent Shortly after his 85th birthday, which was sick and starving, in 1945, neither, 8 per cent both and 18 per cent didn't Referred to in our June issue, the historian, Dr. Giinther Rossmanith has described the know; 68 per cent felt that Britain should not *;rofessor Dr, Dr, h.c, Hans Rothfels, died in life of Hermann Isay (1873-1938) who was supply arms to either side, 5 per cent to the tuebingen. After his dismissal in 1934 as born at Trier into a family of lawyers, prac­ Israelis only, 1 per cent to the Arabs only; professor of Modern History in Koenigsberg, tised as a lawyer in Berlin and published a 21 per cent to both, and 18 per cent held no *^rofessor Rothfels emigrated first to this number of important works on the law of opinion; 49 per cent said that the PLO should ^ountry and later to the United States, where patents and trademarks and commercial law. be involved In further Middle East peace nego­ ^e became Professor at Chicago University, He was baptised, but had nevertheless to tiations, 33 per cent said it should not, and f^e retumed to Germany in 1951. His works relinquish his professorship at the Charlotten­ 19 per cent didn't know. These figures formed include a book about "The German Opposition burg Technical Academy in 1933 and died in part of a twelve-page report published as an against Hitter" (1949), E,G,L. 1938. E.G.L. advertisement in The Guardian.

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Glancing over the pro­ grammes of German-speaking theatres this (page 4), you mentioned Mohammed Ahs gratulated on its latest exhibition, Original summer, one wonders how the species gift to a Jevrish home for the aged and hand.i- Vicky Cartoons and Drawings. This event has "operetta", so often ridiculed and "finally" capped in Washington, and I am sure you wiU been made possible by a number of generous buried, has survived its obituaries in such a not mind if I send in a correction of yow loans and gifts, which recall the deep convincing way. Among the revivals for the statement. ., humanity and timeless quality of Vicky's 1976 summer season, we find Benatzky's Mohammed Ali made a contribution to Self- artistic achievement. He was one of us, born "Meine Schwester und ich" at Aachen, help Community Services in the amount of as Victor Weisz in Berlin in 1913, and becom­ Milloeckers' "Gasparone" in Bremerhaven, $100,000 (which has been fully paid) for tts ing a well-known and beloved cartoonist first Kalman's "Zigeunerprinzessin" in Essen, and Hillside Aged Programme in Washington to the News Chronicle, then the Daily Mail Zellers' "Vogelhandler" in Mannheim. KUn- Heights, lohich is an area in the borough oj and lastly to the Evening Standard, where he necke is also represented with his celebrated Manhattan in New York City in which still a had become the successor to the famous car­ "Vetter aus Dingsda" (Wuppertal-Buehnen), large number of Nazi refugees live. whilst Vienna follows its tradition of the annual The programme offers day care services to toonist Low. His tragic death by suicide in "Merry Widow" performances and Bad Ischl 1966 ended a brilliant career. seriously handicapped older people who o,re stages its usual Operetta Festival. Perhaps not being transported to and from the centre, To those of us who came from Germany too bad for a type of entertainment which, 30 meeting there and receiving a hot lunch among the most remarkable fact of the exhibition years ago, appeared totally eclipsed and out­ other services. Without Ali's contribution we is perhaps the realisation how intimately dated by the arrival of the American Musical. would have had to close it last September. KURT G. HERZ. Vicky knew and appreciated the English scene, Ruehmann-FQm Weekends are being arranged English as the English or perhaps more so. this summer at the Austrian castle of Laxen- Executive Vice-President, His strongest works, still pungent and not in burg under the heading "Film Comedies of Selfhelp Community Services Inc. the least dated, are those which concentrate the German Language". Ranging in production 44 East 23rd Street, the design on one or a few figures, such as dates from 1934 to 1973, they include successes New York, N.Y. 10010. the writer, an old man who writes letters for such as "Allotria" (with Renate MueUer and Indian illiterates or Harold Wilson worship­ Adolf Wohlbrueck), "Frasquita" (with Jarmila ping an enormous sign of the £. Or again, Novotna) and many post-war films, like SPANISH ROYALTY IN SYNAGOGUE Wilson waving from the Post OfiBce tower. "Hauptmann von Kopenick" and "Narren- Vicky was a good portraitist, and the exhibi­ schiff" with Oskar Werner and Vivien Leigh. Sir,—Your report that Queen Sofia's visit to the Madrid Synagogue was the first by ^ tion includes brilliant renderings of De Gaulle Birthdays. German star actress Jenny Jugo, Spanish monarch for 500 years reminds me oj and Nehru as well as Macmillan as Moses. The who created innumerable film roles for UFA the tales we sometimes hear of what was not diminutive figure of the artist is a frequent and who partnered Werner Krauss, Gruendgens known in Israel for 2,000 years—T.V., fridges, inhabitant of his own cartoons. and Gustav Froehlich, celebrated her 70th two Chief Rabbis, etc. I daresay there never Few of the works are precisely dated ; Vicky birthday; she is specially well remembered as was anything like this in 2,000 years. Nor was Eliza in the German "Pygmalion" version. a Spanish monarch ever in a Spanish synagogue is crying out for a monograph devoted to his Viennese actor and producer Hans Jaray is — for the simple reason that no mediaeval Life and Work, in which the artistic and also 70. monarch, Spanish or other, could ever dream chronological problems of his oeuvre could of entering a synagogue, the sanctuary o; be further elucidated. Obituary. Hilde Hildebrandt, the German people, the "killers of Christ", who were ai H. ROSENAU film actress, has died at the age of 78. She best, with good grace or ill, tolerated in a was a highly-polished performer, typifying the Church-dominated society, usually on secular once so popular parts of "Ladies of Society". and strictly material considerations. AWARDS AND HONOURS S.B. Also may I briefly comment on the informa­ Robert S. Wistrich, the editor of the Wiener tion that Sephardim from Spanish and Frencn Library Bulletin whose first book "Revolu­ Morocco claiming Spanish nationality vrill noiv tionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky" will JUBILEE OF BRITISH BALLET need to prove only two, instead of ten V^^I^ be reviewed in one of the next issues of residence. To the best of my knowledge, tnis AJR Information, has received one of the Fifty years of British ballet were celebrated can apply only to Sephardim from the /'"'"J^!! twelve Wolfson Fellowships awarded for the in radio and television and at Sadler's Wells French zone of Morocco as those from tne first time this year by the British Academy, Theatre with personal tributes to Dame Marie Spanish one obtained the concession as far with the object of strengthening links between Rambert who was bom Cyvia Rambam in back as April, 1931, when the short-Uvea British and European scholars. Robert Wistrich Warsaw in 1888. 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