Volume XXVIII No. 12 December, 1973 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE Assomim w masH iimeas IN CREAT BRITAOI f^obert Weltsch logical upheaval from which some lessons will have to be drawn. If this is done, it may help towards the achievement of peace for which Israelis and other Jews are longing. The deep WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE ? wounds of the past weeks were, perhaps, re­ quired to put facts straight which should Reflections on the Yom Kippur War always have been obvious but were mostly blurred by distorting glasses. Coming back from Jerusalem after a month been mobilised not for war but as a routine The observer could not rid himself of the unexpected shock, heart-breaking experi­ deployment of reservists. Fury spread among impression that the present much spoken-of ences and supreme tension, one becomes aware the public against those responsible for a crisis of confidence, justified as it is, derives p a momentous historical drama unfolding debacle of a sort which Israelis had been only from a short-term event, however grave "* breath-taking tempo. It may signal a new taught would be unthinkable. Later, official and painful, and does not go to the root of urn of events, a new orientation and perhaps spokesmen made contradictory and obviously the matter. The real cause of the crisis is the He advent of a more promising epoch, if untrue declarations (such as, to quote only continuous misinterpretation of Israel's basic eason, good will and humanity prevail. At one blatant instance, on the second day of the situation. In this respect, the great victory /lis hour, however, the first and foremost war the statement that all the twelve Egyp­ of 1967, in spite of its military and political motion involving Israel, and indeed the whole tian bridges had been destroyed, while actu­ significance as relief from grave danger, ewish people, is sorrow for the great ally in the same night 70,000 Egyptian troops had a less agreeable psychological side effect. imber of men who died or were crippled, and 900 tanks had crossed the Canal on these It led the people to overestimate Israel's ^numerable families in Israel are bereaved; "not-existent" bridges). If one Israeli journa­ power and created a belief in its own perman­ nousands of human beings—certainly on both list spoke of an "atmosphere of lynch" he ent mDitary superiority and invincibility. Over­ lues of the front—were shattered by their may have referred to the widely rumoured night Israel had become the strongest military ^ucounter with death and with horrors which outbursts in hospitals, where the heavily factor in the Middle East, a sort of Great Power cr K ^ genius like Goya could adequately des- (cum grano salis) in the region. This gave it wounded and crippled were cursing national a strong deterrent position and a feeling of ibe. Many retuming soldiers were unable, figures who only a few weeks earlier had security, but it also created an intoxication unwilling, to speak of what they had wit- enjoyed general admiration as impeccable and with military might without due consideration essed, and one may assume that the sur- infallible heroes. for other—military and non-military—factors ivors will also be mentally affected for the As to the prospects of fighting, one para­ in the conflict. Military strength and the "n^ of their lives. In accordance with mount anxiety in Jewish minds was the un­ stupendous success in the battlefield were an Progress" in armaments, this war has been certainty about Soviet Russia's real intentions understandable cause of pride, but also a °fe frightening than all the preceding ones, and the danger of direct involvement of Rus­ source of self-righteousness which often ah *^^ moment of writing these lines— sian troops on the Arab side. In this respect affected sober judgement. ^oout a fortnight before publication—things the immediate American reaction to the threat ejn to be moving in a calmer direction, was reassuring, but nobody felt certain how In these October days some inveterate ^ainly thanks to the efforts of Dr. Kissinger far the Americans would really go to prevent illusions were exploded. First of all, the belief nose ability as a peace-maker is undergoing such a fatal step. When in the later stage of in the permanent inferiority of the Arab g '^'^9^1 test. But every day may bring a new the war, after Israel's counter-ofFensive had soldier. In the Six-Day War the Arab armies Tirise, and it would be preposterous to cem­ reached momentum, cries were voiced about were badly equipped, badly officered and ent on the details of developments which advance towards Damascus and possibly also badly trained. The great military reform car­ j^ jn the making. The actual happenings are Cairo, one wondered whether the public was ried out in Egypt and Syria under Soviet yhow known to the reader from the daUy aware of what would be the reaction of Russia guidance was underestimated in Israel. Rely­ ^ ess and the media. In Israel itself, although —and possibly also America—to such a mili­ ing on her strength Israel was lulled into a nrst news was scarce and obscure, in the tary adventure, and also what the practical belief that the "status quo", i.e., the Israel ^ eond week already whole battles and the results of such an attempt, even if it suc­ occupation of Sinai, of Golan and of the terri­ Q^^'^ee of tanks were watched every evening ceeded, would be in the long run. To many tories inhabited by Arabs in "Judaea and y.^V—naturally only from the Israeli side; listeners it was not edifying to hear prominent Samaria", would last for ever. The ancient gj quite a number of people in Israel can political figures produce boasting cliches with Biblical names were used in order to indicate jj. 0 see Egyptian and Jordanian television. which the Israeli public had been fed in the historical Jewish connection although we Pg *3s a nerve-racking sight, more so for several variations through over six years. know, in spite of the sentimental impact, that lin whose near relatives were in the front Moreover, politicians could apparently not rid there was no stable political union of these V(,^~~3nd that means almost all of Israel. There themselves of the influence of the impending regions in antiquity either. The movement Wh^ ^^^0 no shortage of the sort of reporting election campaign although the elections them­ for "The Whole of Eretz Israel" ("lema'an jj^jeh has become a modem feature—and a selves, originally scheduled for October 30, Eretz Israel hashlemah"), boosted by the slogan had to be postponed (for the time being only of "Not an Inch" (sc. to be retumed to Arab and r "^ disgust—since the First World War, sovereignty), although in its organised form ^ to which Karl Kraus has set a monument. to December 31). It was, perhaps, the impact of this constellation which induced the various representing only a minority of Israelis, had sy~ e terrible shock which the Israeli public an emotional effect on a not inconsiderable PJ ?''ed on Yom Kippur was not only accom- party leaders in the Knesset to outdo each other with nationalistic brag, some of them periphery of politically naive people. This spj.'^d by horror and mouming as the news created a curious mental climate. in fh °^ ^^^ initial massacre of Israeli troops utterly repulsive. an K unprotected front line. It also brought In this retrospective survey we cannot dwell One astonishing thing was that the Israeli and ^]"^P* awakening from over-confidence on details which will become material for the rulers treated these territories as though for by tJ^^ dreams which had been fostered military historian. This article can only be a ever only they had to have a say in the tiig ^ prevailing doctrine of underestimating subjective appraisal of the situation, and it planning for the future. Trae, the stren^^ersary and overestimating one's own must be made with full candour, even if it occupation regime was—and is—undeniably ino ^^- In consequence, it created a resound- may hurt the feelings of some readers (and more benevolent and in many respects more s^ensis of confidence, consrtructive than it often occurs in similar of the writer himself). situations elsewhere. Also, there were some had f .'^'^e clear that the Israeli intelligence It would be senseless to try to predict the "nnp ^"d that the army had been caught future, but one must assume that in any case •Prepared. Many of the faUen victims had this war has produced a tremendous psycho­ Continued on page Z, column 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER, 1973

suicide slogans such as the glorification of WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE ? "Masada". To prevent this has now to be the Continaed from page 1 principal concern of all who care for Israel's and the Jewish people's future. enlightened and ingenious political moves questions be reached, no peaceful life and It is no use to lament the omissions of the such as the policy of "open bridges" between fruitful co-operation will be possible unless past; but it may be recalled that some ol us Israel and Jordan which went on even through­ the piled-up mountains of hatred and distrast tried in 1967* to plead for a generous gesture, out this war—one of the puzzling positive are pulled down. To this end these brave to be made from a position of strength and phenomena of these weeks, as was also the writers can contribute considerably, especially while Israel was hailed by sympathy and good complete quiet at the border with Jordan and among the youth, and they may find a more will of the world, perhaps in the form of a inside the occupied territories themselves. willing ear now also among wider circles. Manifesto to the Arab people and especially Yet often affairs of these lands appeared to the Palestinians, proposing a new era of to be a matter to be settled only between The Occupied Territories coexistence and co-operation of equals, with­ the Israeli political parties, or between The present ferment will be of lasting value out victors and vanquished, without humilia' the army and other authorities. So it tions and annexations, in the trend of the happened that the programme of "hitnachlut", only if it contributes to a rethinking of the whole position. There will come a critical declaration made by Prime Minister Levi Le., enforced Jewish colonisation in this Eshkol at the outbreak of the June war. It occupied Arab region, became part of official moment in the forthcoming negotiations when the question of evacuation of occupied would have been more appropriate to make policy. Only a comparatively small group of such a move as part of a voluntary and con­ Israelis, though many of high intellectual and territories will be on the agenda. This is the central problem, and one has to expect that ciliatory Jewish initiative to place relations moral standing among them, opposed overtly on a new basis, instead of waiting for a harden­ this master attitude. The case of the inhabi­ considerable pressure wUl be exerted on Israel to conform to the Arab demand of complete ing of the fronts and ultimately for pressure tants of the two Christian villages of Ikrit and from all sides, risking the gradual pejoration Biram, who were backed by a large number withdrawal ("with small alterations"). Much will depend on the details of such a scheme, of Israel's image. By the way, this is by no of Jews, as referred to in the October 1973 means a new idea. It was strongly advocated edition of AJR Information, is only a com­ but undoubtedly it will come as a big blow to Israelis who were so happy with the state by one Zionist faction immediately after the paratively small example but characteristic First World War, when Palestine suddenly as a matter of principle. of "no peace no war" which left them in ^..... ,,«..« .,..., ,...^.. . „..^„ undisturbed possession of the conquests, with ceased to be a subject of ideology and enterea There was also the incident of the 45,000 the military limes far away. But actually this the sphere of practical politics where attention Beduins expelled from the desert in Rafia, the is only a reminder that Palestine was always had to be paid to the reality of circumstances northem region of Sinai near Gaza, under a bi-national country; this is the reality to including the inhabitants of the country. J^ circumstances later condemned and officially which Zionism had to accommodate itself. For sort of Manifesto to the Arabs was contern- described as unjustified action by a non- this reason Mandatory Palestine could not as plated at the twelfth Zionist Congress in 1921^ authorised person, but never repaired. On the a whole be constituted as a "Jewish" State but We were reminded of those efforts of 52 years contrary. General Dayan ordered the building of of a new Israel town on the same spot, with had to be partitioned. The choice was between ago recently when the second volume a harbour to be ready in four years; and on living together in one undivided bi-national Martin Buber's Correspondence was puo" the very eve of the Yom Kippur War Israeli country (with separate national entities), or lished.** papers carried pictures of bulldozers prepar­ establishing two sovereign States with some Buber's efforts to carry through a Resolu­ ing the ground. Many other examples of this links dictated by geographical and economic tion to this effect were frastrated because mentality could be adduced, including the necessity, as the official partition schemes of Zionists regarded such a step as "renuncia- advancement of birianrspeculai'o^^ ^^^O and 1947 envisaged. This reality has not tion" of just claims. In July 1922 Buber wrote: ^."- . "6 uap a uy o iBu changed—cxcept that a new generation has ..jj the view I expressed from the Balfour promoters in the Arab region near Jerasalem arisen on both sides which may be weary of and elsewhere. Arbitrary decisions, violations wars and death -Jan d ...maLy be amenabl^ e to, Declaration onward had been accepted, ^^ of property rights, expropriations and destruc­ living together, even to co-operation in a would have conducted a proper policy towara tion of whole villages by bulldozer embittered peaceful manner, instead of fighting and kill­ the Arabs spontaneously and in anticipation the population. ing each other. of events; that is politically something com­ In spite of many warnings—also in the Thinking this over, one feels—at least theo­ pletely different from doing the same unaer Israeli press which sometimes very sharply retically—that there are great potentialities pressure" (p. 107). This principle still hoias- criticised the politics and general attitude of in the present situation. Trae, from the point Perhaps now there is another chance f°J the Israeli Government—Israel did not under­ of view of security the guarantee of the two such an unconventional approach "" jj, stand the whole weight of the Arab propa­ Great Powers is essential; and so is an over­ circumstances very different from those gandist counter-offensive which on the whole due Israeli reconciliation with Soviet Russia 1967, both as to the constellation in the A" was remarkably successful. It could not be against which Israel has for many years con­ worid and on the global plane. Hard politic*^ silenced by moralising or by indignation based ducted a violent propaganda campaign in dis­ bargaining will be unavoidable when a pea ^ on the assumption that all the world should regard of the actual power relations. Russia conference starts. It will require much tiin^ a priori accept the validity of Israel's clainis. is a staunch supporter of the Arabs and their and patience; many disagreements will ^ The outcome was that, notwithstanding the supplier of arms; but they are also totally *« be overcome But more ™portant " ^ manny launiufaithfuli irienafriendss OofI Israelisraei, publipuouc opmioopinion dependent on her and she may stUl play the details wdl be the spmt which ammaies in the worid became to a large extent hostile ^^1^ ^f ^ restraining influence on them. Her talks. Certainly both sides have infinitely rn^^ to Israel, and that on the intemational scene co-operation with the United States in stabilis­ to win by agreement than by stubborn on^ Israel became increasingly, and finally totally, ing peace and making a new beginning pos­ sided obstinacy which may lead to overa isolated: one against all. The sad last chapter sible will anyhow be indispensable. catastrophe. to this was written during this war when all 1967. But much will be contingent upon the spirit * See my articles in '•AJR Information" of August, African countries, once close friends of Israel, and May, 1968. in which the new relationship within the :e»in18"; severed diplomatic relations as though Israel Middle East is initiated. In the Jewish camp, * Martin Buber. Briefwechsel aus sieben •l^*'":Zte\ier were an outcast. And from the practical point one has to beware of destructive and damaging BanId 11: 1918-1938. Heidelberg, Veriag Lambert scnrw of view the shrewd Arab weapon of oil cur­ 1973 tailment, which had not been taken seriously, proved very effective. After the 1967 war, when the youth of Israel —and these are the soldiers—suffered from the trauma caused by the horrors of battle, a remarkable literature of Hebrew anti-war novels crept up, some of them very moving, Greyhound Guaranty Limited recalling in spirit the poetry of poets like Bankers the Englishman Wilfred Owen who was killed at the age of 25 in November 1918 just before the armistice. (Forty-five years later his verses 5 GRAFTON STREET, MAYFAIR. were used by Benjamin Britten as part of the text of his War Requiem.) These Hebrew LONDON, WIX 3LB writers of post-1967 were conscious of the Telephone: 01-629 1208 moral aberration and practical danger involved in the fanning of mutual hatred. Telex: 24637 Cables: Greyty, London, W.I Even if a settlement about political and legal AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER, 1973 Page 3 HOME NEWS ANGLO'JUDAICA Protest Month for Soviet Jewry FmLER ON EMBARGO VOTE PLEA FOR STRONGER RACE LAWS Britain's month of protest for Soviet Jewish •—Alderman Michael Fidler, M.P., speaking on In London the chairman of the Race Rela­ IHisoners ends on December 16, the anniver­ fhe Middle East" to the Council of Man­ tions Board, Sir Geoffrey Wilson, made a plea sary of the first Leningrad "hijack" trial. Com­ chester and Salford Jews, said that he was not for stronger race laws giving the board posi­ munities in London and the provinces synchro­ prepared to make any apology for voting tive powers of investigation. Sir Geoffrey, who nised their protests and publicised the plight against his Govemment in the arms embargo criticised both the scope and the power of of Jews imprisoned in the Soviet Union oe- H^oate. It was dangerous nonsense to suggest the 1968 Act, said that its effectiveness rested cause of their wish to emigrate to Israel. jnat the Arabs would be satisfied if Israel were with the willingness of people to lodge com­ JP retire behind the pre-1967 borders. He also plaints. A complaint-based system was inade­ Strained Anglo-Israel Relations uenounced Britain's conduct in not allowing quate because of a natural reluctance to lodge ^erica facilities to convey supplies to Israel, formal complaints, because of a fear of vic­ The last public appearance before retuming during a meeting at the Sedgley Park County timisation and because most people are un­ to Israel of Mr. Michael Comay, the Israeli P"nary School, Prestwich, Mr. Alan Hasel- aware that they are being discriminated Ambassador in London since September, 1970, SJ^t^ M.P. for Middleton, Whitefield and against. Because of these and other factors, was at the silver anniversary dinner of the fTestwich, said that the British Government he said, the Act does not bite on discriminatory Anglo-Israel Association. Speaking in the pre­ of t^ wrong not to have condemned the breach patterns of employment and housing which sence of Mr. Joseph Godber, the Minister of .^ the United Nations' ceasefire resolution by help to determine income levels and residen­ Agriculture, Mr Comay said that, on the official „^? Arab countries on Yom Kippur. He also tial concentrations of population. diplomatic level, relations between Israel and 5k .that he believed that the arms embargo Britain were now more strained than they had Ai^k ^^^^ ^^^° total to both Israel and the THREE-PARTY JEWISH CONTESTANTS been for many years. The people of Israel ^^os and not confined to what were termed In the Wavertree division of Liverpool, felt let down by Britain at a crucial moment. i,°^tlefield areas". There had, he thought, three Jews will contest the next General Elec­ Earlier, Mr. Godber had reiterated both the j^en no crisis in supplies to Israel, but there tion. Mr. Anthony Steen will stand for the British commitment to the survival of Israel •night have been had the war dragged on. Conservatives^ Councillor Ian Levin will be and the British view that she could gain peace Labour's candidate, with Councillor Cyril Carr and security only by accepting withdrawal BBC WAR COVERAGE standing for the Liberal Party. from occupied Arab territory. Both sides have criticised the BBC for its NATIONAL FRONT IN HOVE Appointments T^yerage of the Yom Kippur War. In contrast Many Jews living in Brighton and Hove ~^ndon Broadcasting, the new independent all- made strong protests because John Harrison- The Rev. Chaim Graniewitz has been induct­ GaK • ''^'^io station, was complimented by Mr. Broadley, the National Front candidate, and ed into office as reader of the Stanmore and grj^iel Padon, press counsellor at the Israeli his supporters were allowed to use Hove's Canons Park District Synagogue. Mr. Granie­ k™°assy, for its even-handed reporting, and new town hall for an election meeting. The witz, who was educated in Israel, received j^ j^neikh Najjib Al-Amuddin, president of Jewish community felt that a political party his chazanut training in Tel Aviv. pT^uIe East Airlines, on the fairness of its so extreme that they have to have a 100-strong Thirty-one-year-old Rabbi Jeffrey Newman, coverage. police guard to protect them during an election a graduate of Leo Baeck College, has been meeting is not the kind of party which should appointed minister of the Finchley Refonn "JEWISH" M.P.S? be accorded the hospitality of the town hall. Synagogue. tj,?'^ B'nai B'rith sent a letter of protest to VICTIMS IN IRELAND Hendon Liberal Synagogue horiV' objecting to the designation "Jewish Two Jewish officers, who had only been in According to the annual report of the Union ij^^^fl and "Jewish MP" employed on radio and Northern Ireland for two months, were re­ of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues, there tho J^^Porting of parliamentary discussions on cently the victims of a parcel bomb in their has been a substantial increase in membership ter ^^ernment's Middle East policy. The let- Army camp in Londonderry. One, aged 23, in many Progressive synagogues over the past testasai: d that the BBC did not refer to Pro- whose home was in Brondesbury, London, was year. The report states that steps are being hav^°^ or Catholic MPs and, indeed, it would killed, and the other seriously injured. Both taken to set up a new congregation at Hendon. of p 1?^° improper to do so since Members officers had served in Germany. jQ^^^^iiament represent their constituents and Nightingale Home Extension whi h particular religious or ethnic group to EXPORTS TO ISRAEL Point i^^y ™*y happen to belong. It was also In the first seven months of this year British Work on the £2 million extension to the the r °"t t^^* t^e strongest protests against exports to Israel grew by almost 50 per cent, Home for Aged Jews, Nightingale Lane, Wands­ fr._^ovemment's Middle East policies came compared with the same period for 1972, worth, has begun. An amount of nearly °»i two non-Jewish MPs. Britain exporting goods and materials to Israel £1,750,000 has already been contributed to to the value of over £110 million compared extend and modernise the home to accommo­ LETTER BOMBS with last year's £79 million. The largest part date at least another 200 residents and to pro­ of British exports consisted of machinery and vide the most modem geriatric, medical and roHo?*^^"'^ Yard announced that an Arab ter- transport equipment, manufactured goods and therapeutic facilities. Patf^ organisation plans to resume the dis- diamonds. More than half of the Israeli imports ^e^t of letter bombs from various East and were food and live animals, with Jaffa grape­ Jewish Community Hospital orgol- '""opean countries to individuals and fruit supplies for Britain higher than last year. try ^'gations in Europe, including this coun- The London Jewish Hospital in Stepney has Eur addressees are believed to be West for some years been getting fewer and pro­ Jev(,?^eans, including also persons of non- With acknowledgement to the news gressively older patients. It will now become begn °^gin and businessmen who may have service of the Jewish Chronicle. a community hospital, serving the Jewish com­ Port l^^ected as targets because of their sup- munity, in particular its elderly and elderly lor Israel during the Yom Kippur War. disturbed from anywhere in the Metropolitan area; it will serve Tower Hamlets for the rehabilitation of this type of person, and a ^OUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Vour House for:— number of beds will be set aside for commu­ nity care. The hospital's denominational charac­ Cavf^j'^^hom Dr. Brian Josephson of the CURTAINS, CARPETS, ter will be preserved. is at'?^^ Laboratories, Cambridge University, ce'ivo • one of the voungest men ever to re- FLOORCOVERINGS PWi ^ Nobel Prize. He shares the Prize for Blindness no Handicap PropB ^^^ chemistry for his discovery of a SPECIAUTY Radio Merseyside recently featured two as i^^^ which some scientists believe will be blind men who had overcome their physical basip ^°^nt t° electronic development as the CONTINENTAL DOWN handicap. One, Mr. David Levy, who has been c research which introduced the transistor. blind for 30 years, related how he founded QUILTS the Liverpool Jewish Gazette in 1947, and how HULL FREEMAN he at present successfully copes as the paper's ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS general manager. .Aide leadp;^™ian Sir Leo Schultz, the Socialist ESTIMATES FREE a Cent °° Hull City Council for a quarter of Glasgow Synagogue Fire Hun "^. has had the honorary freedom of PowpJi^'Jferred on him. Described as the most DAWSON-LANE LIMITED The second Glasgow synagogue blaze in Worirt'i! °ian in Hull politics since the Second (btaklMMd 1«4«> recent years has occurred at the Newton Wht V^r, he was made an O.B.E. in 1945, Meams Synagogue, which was severely dam­ i%ed 17 BRIDGE ROAO, WEMBLEY PARK aged and its communal hall destroyed. The and .in 1966 and was Lord Mayor in 1943 Telephone: 904 6671 ^trirt^'^She ^ in 1968. At present he is a Hull synagogue executive has unanimously decided '^'Uor a councillor, a Humberside county coun- rtneiwl attMitleB af Mr. W. Wmliwn that the synagogue must be rebuilt as speedily *^d a member of Hull Umversity council. as possible. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER, 1973

DUTCH STAND NEWS FROM ABROAD Dutch public opinion does not appear to have been intimidated by the Arab States ou boycott. Indeed, non-Jews in Holland have been UNITED STATES AWARD FOR TORONTO CHEMIST contributing to the United Jewish Appeal, New York's Jewish Mayor with committees formed in many towns. Sup­ Science's highly coveted Meldola Medal and port for Israel was declared by prominent Whitechapel-bom Abraham Beame has be­ Prize for 1972 of the Royal Institute of Chemi­ Dutchmen, including three former Prime Mini­ come New York's 104th Mayor and the first stry has been awarded to Dr. Geoffrey A. Ozin, sters, in a full-page newspaper advertisement, Jew ever to hold this office, having obtained an associate professor in chemistry at Toronto following the attack by Egyptian and Syrian more than 60 per cent of the vote in the University, Canada. The prize was established forces on the Day of Atonement. election. He received the largest majorities and endowed by The Maccabaeans, of which Holland's pro-Israel attitude largely stems in the Jewish middle-class districts of Brooklyn, Professor Raphael Meldola was president, from her sympathy for Dutch Jews, most oi Bronx and Queens, but he also captured nearly after his death in 1915. Deriving from an whom were deported by the Nazis and niur- 70 per cent of the vote in the City's Black ancient Sephardi family of rabbis and scholars. dered in concentration camps during the and Spanish neighbourhoods. Beame was bom Professor Meldola was one of Britain's most Second World War. Despite the choice of Hol­ in London in 1906 as the son of Polish-Jewish celebrated scientists. land from among the European nations W immigrants. He went to the United States with Dr. Ozin comes from Hove, Sussex, and is a certain Arab States for an oil boycott, both the his family as a three-month-old infant. A graduate of King's College, London, and Oriel Prime Minister, Mr. van der Stoel, and the former City Comptroller, he may look back College, Oxford, having gone to Toronto Uni­ Foreign Minister have announced that there on 23 years in public service. He has also versity four years ago as a research graduate. is no change in the Dutch attitude towards always been active in Jewish communal life. the Middle East. Whilst supporting the impl^ mentation of Security Council Resolution 24-i Last Immigrant Synagogue Burnt FRANCE for Israel's withdrawal from occupied terri­ tories, Holland feels that Israel must possess In the lower East Side of New York, a one­ " safe and recognised " frontiers. time important Jewish neighbourhood, the last Jewry's Protest of the immigrant synagogues has been bumed. TURKISH "MORAL" SUPPORT Its minister said that the fire was deliberately The Representative Council of French Jewry started by youth gangs determined to root out (Crif) conveyed to Mr. Pierre Messmer, the Turkey has reiterated her policy towards the the last remnants of Jewry from the area, now Premier, French Jewry's anger at the Govem­ Middle East, stating that Security Council Reso­ largely Negro and Puerto Rican. This was the ment's pro-Arab policies, particularly the ship­ lution 242 should be implemented and that second act of vandalism against the synagogue ment of arms to Arab countries. Israel should withdraw from occupied Arao at 297 East Third Street, and the second fire Replying to numerous appeals voiced in the territory. The Foreign Minister issued a simuar bombing of a synagogue in the neighbourhood Assembly in support of Israel, Mr. Michel statement, adding that Turkey "morally" sup­ in the past three months. Jobert, the Foreign Minister, claimed that ported the Arab cause. Soon after Egypt auo Israel was primarily responsible for the situa­ Syria attacked Israel, the Arab countries ha" Second Yom Kippur tion because she had refused to accept the asked Turkey for her support as a Middle East Nearly 80 congregations in Southern Califor­ United Nations' peace formula in 1971. The Moslem country. nia participated in "Yom Kippur Sheni" (a embargo on arms applied to Israel, Egypt, Syria second Yom Kippur) as a day of mouming and Jordan. Libya, Morocco and Saudi Arabia NORWEGIAN INTELLECTUALS PLEAD and of solidarity with Israel, commemorating were considered to be outside the category of FOR ISRAEL " battlefield countries ". the first victims of *he Yom Kippur War. A call on the Government and people oi CHILE Libya placed an order for 30,000 air-to-air Norwav to support Israel was made by ^„% missiles with a French factory and, during the than 50 Norwegian intellectuals. They recalieo Allegations of Antisemitism Refuted hostilities, a number of Saudi Arabian cargo that, in the U.N. resolution adopted at tne aircraft landed at Le Bourget airport to load end of the Six-Day War, the Arabs supporteo In a notice, published in the leading Chilean French arms supplies. a resolution recognising Israel's right to U* newspaper. El Mercurio, Rabbi Dr. Angel within secure and recognised borders. These Kreiman (Santiago) refutes the allegation that borders^ said the Norwegian statement, couj the new military govemment of Chile is " Superiority Complex " be achieved only by negotiation, for wnicw anti-Jewish. He stresses that the Jewish com­ Israel had been ready but not the Arabs, an munity in Chile enjoys complete liberty and Le Figaro, the French daily, has stated that the Arabs must bear the major responsibUU'J' that its cultural and social institutions are the reason for Israel's setbacks is the " superi­ for the war. unhampered in their activities. He also writes ority complex of the Israeli leaders". The that the relationship between the Govemment paper claimed that on October 1, five days and the Jewish community, especially its before the war began, Mr. Moshe Dayan, the SOVIET JEWRY rabbinate, is very friendly and appeals to the Israeli Defence Minister, rejected American Pro-Israel Demonstrations religious and secular Jewish leaders abroad intelligence warnings that an Arab attack was to contradict allegations, which may prejudice imminent. Three days later the Americans Soviet Jews actively demonstrated their sUP" the normal running of Jewish communal life asked the Israelis for a new intelligence evalua­ port for Israel during the recent hostilitie' in Chile. tion of Egyptian and Syrian intentions. Again both by means of public statements ^^^-a the Israelis replied that there was no reason courageous street demonstration. Three ySlSy ARGENTINE AND URUGUAY to believe that the Arabs intended to attack demonstrators were arrested in Moscow. Tn-J —Mr. Dayan thought that the Arabs were carried banners demanding exit visas to I^^-g A joint declaration by the major representa­ bluffing. for all Soviet Jews who wanted to go tne tive organisations of Argentine Jewry, read and earlier issued a statement expressing sur^ out at a mass rally of an estimated 10,000 people in Buenos Aires, stated that the genera­ porTirtT-tt foft\rr IsraelToT-Qol . Forty-fivT?rtf"tv_fit,iea Mosco"Mrtc/^nvow .TAWJ^**,S . SanC d- tion which remembers Auschwitz, Treblinka Does your heating cause dry air —affecting a message of solidarity to the Govemment aw and Maidanek will not allow itself to be exter­ people of Israel the day after the fighi"J| your fiealth or piano, plants, antiques, started. The signatories included Professo ^ minated. Argentine Jevn^ was proud to be in David Azbel and Alexander Lerner and J» the rearguard of the State of Israel, which woodwork & paintings? Dina Beilin. was fighting a battle for survival. As HUMIDIFIER- Several thousand Jews took part in a pro- Protests Continue Israel rally in Montevideo, Uruguay, attended SPECIALISTS we by many representatives of the Churches and shall be pleased About 20 Jews were arrested in Mosco national institutions. A register was opened while attempting to submit a plea to . for people volunteering their services for to advise you Supreme Soviet to reduce the ten-year gj essential civilian work in Israel. and send you sentence of Silva Zalmanson (Mrs. Eou Kuznetsov) who is in poor health. prize- AUSTRALIA our free Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel ^.ji- Jewish Library in Sydney explanatory winning author, has accused the Soviet autn jy leaflet. ties of encouraging the two Arabs who rocen A library of the North Shore Synagogue. threatened the life of Dr. Andrei Sakn^^^j, Sydney, was opened recently. It has been the physicist, for his support of Israel, /"^^g named after its Emeritus Minister, the Rev. Arabs have said they are members ot William Katz (formerly Kassel) who founded Black September terrorist organisation, ^gl the synagogue in 1940. The library, the only A group of Moscow Jews addressed an aPppf one of its kind in Sydney, contains more than to Mr. Sean MacBride, the visiting beao^g 1,000 books. Early in 1974 it will be open to Amnesty Intemational, to intervene w. .jjed the general public. The reading room has been THE HUMIDIFIER COMPANY Soviet authorities for the release of inipri|^^gt named after the late Otto Weissmann (formerly 25 Bridge Road, Wembley Park, Middx. Jewish political prisoners. Eighty-five Ajjgse Mannheim) who, together with his wife, had Jews signed a petition for the release of ^" been a generous contributor to the project. Tel. 01-904 7603 prisoners. AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER, 1973 Page 5

/• Maitlis concepts throughout the centuries, in particu­ lar among different layers of human society. In Israel, where many cultures meet, the FOLKLORE STUDIES IN ISRAEL level of humour differs considerably among various communities and the strata of diver­ . Jewish life in the once flourishing and thriv­ Jewish folk-material and traditions as they gent origins. ing East European communities, with its are found in a variety of communities in Mos­ The place of the lion as the king of the creative and homogeneous folk-culture, has lem and East European countries. In his animal world in the fable and folk-tale is ^or a long time past attracted the attention French paper David Corcos examines certain widely known. Shimon Toder quotes and ex­ of many ethnologists and folklorists, and in­ aspects of the Jewish community in old plains some 362 proverbs and sayings in which spired the work of many outstanding writers Morocco, and Harvey E. Goldberg discusses the lion plays a major role. He utilises Jewish and artists. At the turn of the century. the subject of "The Social Context of North sources ranging from the Bible, talmudic Writers like Peretz, S. An-sky and a host of African Jewish Patronyms". In her study on literature and apocrypha to modern writings. young folklorists, conscious of the inherent funeral songs recited by Jewish women in Haim Schwarzbaum deals with the concept Values of the indigenous cultural heritage and Romania, Gisela Soliteanu writes extensively of companionship between man and animal the specific features of Jewish traditional life, on Jewish musical folklore. which is common in most ancient and recent called for their preservation, collection and Tamar Alexander, together with Yosef Dan, cultures. Myth, folk-tale, legend and fable fre­ study before they would be obliterated and publishes an interesting version of the old quently tend to portray human beings as lost in the turbulent changes and rapid trans- Midrash Vayisa'u (cf. A. Jellinek, Bet Hami­ creatures endowed with definite traits and tormation of the Jewish pattern of life. In­ drash, III), containing the full text of the faculties derived from the animal world. deed successful attempts were made. In par­ stories about the war waged by the sons of Schwarzbaum presents us with an adequate ticular the well-organised ethnological Jacob against the Amoraite kings, and the number of forms of zoologically tinged stages expeditions into the towns and villages of the wars between the children of Jacob and Esau. of man's existence. In Jewish, Greek and ^ale of Settlement in Russia, launched by From an historico-literary point of view the Islamic sources the animal bequeathes certain An-sky in the years before the First World third part, based on manuscripts discovered characteristics to man. The heroes of many a W^ar, proved to be extremely promising. Of in Hamburg and London, is particularly folk-tale live in amity and companionship with sreat importance for the furtherance of the important. Noam Stillman's essay on Cain and animals. Men appear as birds or take the ethnological and folkloristic studies were the Abel in Midrashic thought should also be men­ shape of other animals. The eagle has become ^siduous activities continued in interbellum tioned. As the narration in the book of Genesis the symbol of longevity and the phoenix is has left many gaps, the Midrash supplements the personification of rejuvenation as it rises Poland by the Yiddish Scientific Institute it with henneneutical explanations, incorporat­ (Yiyo) in Wilno, and elsewhere. ing some revealing moral and didactic reflec­ from its ashes. In Jewish, Islamic and Slav Since the destruction of the centres of tions and conclusions in the true spirit of folklore animals grant a number of their "Jewish life in Eastern Europe, the paramount Judaism. own years to man, as his original span of life 'ask of preserving and studying extant was short. In the Midrash as well as in an ttiaterial, of tracing its roots and discovering An essay by Abraham Stahl deals with the Islamic version, the drunk resembles animal the creative process of Yiddish and other development of humour, analysing its ele­ types in the various stages of his drunken­ jore has been successfully taken up in the ments and the gradual transformation of its ness. In the first stage he is like a peacock, '"tate of Israel. Leading in the field are the then like an ape, a lion and at the end like Israel Folklore Society "Yeda Am" due to a hog. Jhe untiring efforts of Dr. Yomtov Lewinski, Conversely, there are also folklore motifs, *ho died a short while ago, and, in recent where animals are endowed with distinctive years, the Folklore Research Centre at the human faculties and features. This trait is old ^ebrew University in Jerusalem, headed by and widespread. The serpent, the fox, the fish *^rofessor Dov Noy. The Centre has launched —a whole host of the animal world—behave ^ series of publications whose objects are to like man. They speak, reason and act, and By appointment to ^ollect folklore material and to deal with H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother sometimes are like man—sly, cunning or ^rious aspects of folklore research. The latest Confectioners subtle. The role of the serpent in the Bible •*o volumes of the series, Nos. 2 and 3,* carry Aclcermans Chocolates Ltd. London is known. In the ancient Mesopotamian myth * variety of ethnographic matter and folk- the serpent snatches away the plant of im­ Juristic subjects. Volume 2 contains a full mortality from Gilgamesh. In Jewish folk­ page of well-preserved collections of Yiddish tale the grateful fish teaches the man, who j^''f"Songs and ballads recorded in Galicia be- ACKERMANS stood by him in his need, knowledge, the lan­ *een the two world wars by the young folk- guages of the seventy-world nations, and, in jorist Shmuel Zanvl Pipe and edited with com- addition, the language of animals—a motif j.^?^tive annotations and a summary in Eng- L^nocolatei ^Jje cJLuxe also to be found in the folklore of other j'sn. Coming from the depth of Jewish folk- nations. There exists, it would seem, a recipro­ fe and a homogeneous cidture. Pipe was one IN BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED cal relationship between man and the animal \1 }^^ "lost enthusiastic and gifted field-col- PRESENTATION BOXES world which is frequently reflected in ancient ctors of valuable material over a period of sagas and folk-tales. jears. In the years 1935-39 he became a Thus the third volume of the Folklore Re­ 'esearch associate of the Folklore Centre of search Centre presents the scholar with a rich ivo in Wilno, publishing some of his interest- cJLlc^ueur ckocolatei diversity of material. S. findings in scholarly Yiddish journals, ^^inly in the publications of the Institute. jj.As a conscientious and devoted collector, iHarzlpan 6peciautie6 aK?.^ has shown great aptitude and a remark- THE FOUNDER OF "DER MORGEN" able Centenary of Professor Julius Goldstein » - intellectualuiciicuiuali curiositycuiiosiiy. Hne wrotwroie dowuownu j^rst-hand material such as popular songs and .UJialfetic ckocolated Professor Julius Goldstein, who was born ailads which he obtained from various racon- 100 years ago, on October 29, will be particu­ tottf^ and informants in his Galician home larly remembered by Jews from Germany as the first editor of the Jewish bi-monthly "Der Wn and the neighbouring villages. He thus Morgen", published by the Philo-Verlag, Ber­ jQ°uuced a valuable model of regional folk- lin. The periodical was founded in 1925 as a » e, which mirrors the profusion of creative Jewish equivalent to the Catholic "Hochland" "ees of the Jewish people inside a single and the Protestant "Zeitwende". Professor section of Eastem Europe, Goldstein was in charge of the magazine fer third volume of the series is of a dif- until his early death in 1929. He also shtf^-' nature. As scholars outside Israel are contributed to the interpretation of political Q wing increasing interest in the work of the trends in Germany, especially as far as they (directly or indirectly) concemed is ^^^^' ^ sreat number of essays and studies the position of the German Jews by .J,, Published in languages other than Hebrew, his books on " Rasse und Politik" and in p'lon-Hebrew section includes contributions "Deutsche Volksidee und deutsch-voelkische Heh'*''*^'^ and English and summaries of the Idee". Bom in Hamburg, he lectured "rew studies. Several papers deal with 9 GOLDHURST TERRACE, philosophy at the Technische Hochschule in FINCHLEY ROAD, N.W.6 (01-624 2742) Darmstadt from 1902 onwards, but he became ^01 ^"'i^'o^ RMMrch Centra Shidlse Vol. 2, edited by ls«.?"d Meir Noy, Jerusalem, 1971. Vol. 3, edited by an ordinary professor only as late as 1925. "'"er Ben-Ami, Jerusalem, 1972. E.G.L. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER, 1973

Han» I. Bach practice and interpretation of dreams and their significance; the diffwence between Jung's empirical psychology and the theologi­ cal and philosophical identification of God and C. G. JUNG^S LETTERS God image; Jung's travels to Africa, India and America. There are also glimpses of his life Just over 12 years after the death of C. G. teristic influence, amply attested by history, in his hideout at Bollingen on the Lake of Jung, a representative edition of his letters which they have exerted on their en­ Zurich where he did his own cooking, gre* has been published in English and German. vironment. It must after all be supposed that his own potatoes, chopped his wood himself, The English version, edited by Dr. G. Adler, a people which has kept itself more or less wrote, carved, painted and sailed on the lake. comprises two volumes, the first of which is unadulterated for several thousand years and The variety of the subjects may be gauged available (Routledge, £7-50); the second will clung onto its belief in being chosen is by a random selection: connections between follow next year. The German, in three psychologically different in some way from psychology of the unconscious and molecular volumes, is already complete (Walter-Verlag, the relatively young Germanic peoples whose physics (on which Jung develops ideas stiU Olten, sfr. 180), edited by Aniela Jaffe who culture is scarcely more than a thousand far ahead of our time); correspondence bet­ also published Jung's "Memories, Dreams, Re­ years old". (2.3.34) ween body and mind (the physiological side flections." The content in both languages is To him, Jewish religion in particular was a of archetypes); illness and suicide; numbers practically identical. In the English edition, value not to be despised. "No one who is a and nature; crystal structure; the nature of be­ German letters have been translated bv R. E. Jew can become a human being without lief; the effect of drags; the psychology of C. Hull, who also translated Jung's "Collected knowing that he is a Jew". (26.5.34) Towards tuberculosis; frigidity; the treatment of alco­ Works". It is more fully illustrated. On the the end of his life, he proudly spoke of the holics; psychological interpretation of noise; other hand, the editor of the English edition, many of his students and analysands "who brain washing; artificial insemination; prayer; as he mentions in his foreword, had to found back to their original faith, including astrology and alchemy; ghosts; clairvoyance; reduce the extent of the biographical and fac­ even Parsees who returned to their temple of parapsychology; "flying saucers"; national tual annotations to the letters. This is greatly fire, Jews who recognised again the deep sig­ characteristics in traffic; the Pied Piper ot to be regretted; as the Gerinan edition is nificance of their religion, Chinese and Hamelin; etc. spread over three volumes, more latitude was Hindus..." (26.10.56) In fact, Jung had a allowed in this respect. Altogether, the care, considerable knowledge of Jewish tradition, A further notion of the range of the letters devotion and leaming enshrined in the notes in particular of Jewish mysticism, quoting may be gained by quoting some of the ad­ are admirable and, as they also quote from e.g. the Talmud on dreams or midrashim as­ dressees. Meetings are described with Einstein, many letters replied to, indispensable for the signing the symbol of the eagle to the pro­ Churchill, and William James. The correspon­ understanding of the numerous allusions in phet Elia. dents include A. W. Dulles, the chief of p® Jung's letters. A few additional details on this subject war-time American Information Service, Jung is sometimes still believed to have may be gleaned from a chapter on "Jews and Upton Sinclair, James Joyce, Hermann Hesse, been a Nazi follower and an antisemite, and National Socialism" in a booklet by Aniela Laurens van der Post, J. B. Priestley, the the readers of AJR Information may be Jaffd, "From the Life and Work of C. G. Zen scholar Suzuki, an Indian guru, the i5" specially interested in this aspect of his Jung" (London 1972). She mentions that in vestigator of extrasensory perception J- ^' letters. They are quite clear: "Concerning my 1936, in a paper on "Wotan", Jung clearly Rhine, "Mountain Lake", the chief of the so-called 'Nazi affiliation'" (Jung writes on foresaw the trend of National Socialism, Taos Pueblo Indians, a good many Protestant 29.9.36), "there has been quite an unnecessary though after the war he said that he "really parsons and Catholic theologians but, above noise about it. I am no Nazi, as a matter of had not thought that man could be so ab­ all, quite a large number of unknown fact I am quite unpolitical. German solutely bad". (20.4.46) In 1940, his books ordinary people to whom Jung never tires to psychotherapists asked me to maintain their were suppressed in Germany and his name give advice and answer questions, such as to professional organisation, as there was an im­ put on the black list. The fact is, however, a "simple worker" on good and evil, to » mediate danger that psychotherapy would be that in the beginning, like G. B. Shaw and packer in an American government arsenal wiped out of existence. It was considered as Knut Hamsun, Jung had been fascinated by on the problem of reincarnation, to a recidiv­ 'Jewish science' and therefore suspect. Those the "formidable phenomenon of National ist offender asking how to avoid doing tne German doctors were my friends, and only a Socialism", and Mrs. Jaffe also finds the same again, to a young Jewish Liberal i" coward would leave his friends when they unwise timing of his insistence on America requesting guidance on how to write were in dire need of help. Not only did I set psychological race differences regrettable. a sermon on Jung's book "Answer to Job"- up their organisation again but I made it She quotes a letter to her by Gershom Only a few examples of his deep-reacbine clear that psychotherapy is an honest-to-God Scholem of 7.5.63 on what Leo Baeck told and human response to various correspondent attempt, and moreover I made it possible for him of a talk he had with Jung. On his first can be given here. To an American physicia." Jewish doctors, being excluded from pro­ post-war visit to Switzerland in 1946 Dr in the early years of psychotherapy: "Analysi fessional organisations, to become immediate Baeck, in view of Jung's reputation, did not is not only 'diagnosis' but, even more, under­ members of the Intemational Society at least. call on him and declined an invitation to standing and moral support in the hones But nobody mentions the fact that so many visit him. Thereupon Jung came to his hotel endeavour and experience called 'life'. For tn perfectly innocent existences could have been and they had an animated talk of two hours individual one can never 'know better' or i completely crushed if I had not stepped in." during which Jung explained his position but advance. One can only help people to unde In a letter of 19.12.38 Jung adds: "I have also said: "Well, I slipped up". "They parted stand themselves and to gather up coxu^o very much to do with Jewish refugees and from one another reconciled again." enough to try and risk." (19.6.27) . am continually occupied in bringing all my To a lady in England: "If you have the fe^'] Jewish acquaintances to safety in England The Letters ing not to do justice to yourself, try ^^ >i and America", and on 22.5.40 he states: "We theless to accept yourself, even if you doo all hope and pray for a British victory over The letters themselves are enchanting by believe in your being adequate, but make t^^ the Antichrist". It is in line with this at­ their humanity and warmth, the deep effort and grant yourself this kindness. ».^jj titude that Jung held strong views on penetration of the most diverse subjects and, cannot be friendly and understanding ^^^ Gennan collective guilt (25.5.45). last not least, the simple and unpretentious others if you are not with yourself. J^^^j. As to antisemitism, he states with equal expression, which does not exclude that some very serious. We are never satisfied with o clarity: "I am absolutely not an opponent of psychological or theological explanation can selves. It is the burden that each of us n^^ the Jews even though I am an opponent of be quite intricate. In a short review, it is of to carry: to live the life which we have Freud's. I criticise him because of his mat­ course impossible to do justice to the wealth live. Thus be friendly to the least of y° erialistic and intellectualistic and—last not of ideas and experiences covering more than sisters—which you are yourself." (24.9.50^ half a century. Yet a rough survey of the least—irreligious attitude and not because he To a rationalistic agnostic: "Religion oo is a Jew... Had Freud been more tolerant of content of the letters may be given by listing some of the chief categories: psychotherapeutic sists of psychic realities which one cannot ^^ the ideas of others I would still be standing are rght or wrong. Are lice or elephants rig ^ at his side today. I consider his in­ tolerance—and it is this that repels me—a or wrong? It is enough that they exist." (6-^' , personal idiosyncrasy". (26.3.33) ISLE OF MAN Of himself, Jung wrote towards the ^'^^gj; However, he insisted on racial differences: INTERNMENT 1914/18 & 1939/45 his life to a close friend and fellow-wor* _ "It is my opinion that the peculiarity of the I buy envelopes and folded letter "As the living will of God is always "j^g Jews might explain why they are an ab­ powerful than I am, I am always fiu°^ j solutely essential symbiotic element in our forms from these and other camps. myself in it: I do not throw myself into >^ population. If there actually were no dif­ Please send to: PETER 0. RICKENBACK, am thrown into it . . . for always God's ni^ ^ ferences between them and other people, 14 Rosslyn HIII, London, N.W.S. is greater than my will. I can only there would also be nothing in the charac­ servant." (1957) AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER. 1973 Page 7

Friedrich Walter were dead for him; Carl Zuckmayer confesses that in spite of all his "admiration of his (Heine's) brilliant intelligence and his poetic ability I have never been able to establish con­ DIE GESCHICHTE EINES JUEDISCHEN MUSIKERS tact with him". (This confession did not pre­ vent Diisseldorf's city administration to bestow on him the Heine Prize on the occasion of the Daniel" von Margarete Moses 175th Birthday Celebrations!) Golo Mann, although claiming Heine as part of his own Margarete Moses hat ihrem Roman "Daniel" Hier, bei Margarete Moses, glaubt man sie in identity, denies that Heine had any message oen Untertitel " Die Geschichte eines judischen den lebhaft und anschaulich geschilderten, to give and claims that he was responsible Musikers" gegeben.* Seine Geschichte spielt spannend erzahlten Vorgangen ihrer Roman- to art and not to society. ("The soldier in sich in den ersten drei Jahrzehnten imseres handlung aufs gliicklichste wieder anzutreffen. the fight for the emancipation of mankind" Jahrhunderts in der noch gefestigten, wenn Und noch etwas anderes empfindet man als might have spared one of his iromic smiles auch schon vielfach gefahrdeten Welt deutsch- sehr " Wassermannsch", vielleicht sogar als for this professional pomposity!) Martin Walser Jiidischen Biirgertums ab. Daniel Mandel­ einstmals deutsch-jUdisch: den angelegent- had no time to make any contribution as he stamm ist der Sohn eines ostjiidisehen Philo­ lidien Emst namlich und die Intensitat, mit was too pre-occupied writing a novel, nor sophen und einer musikalisch begabten Mutter denen sich die Romangestalten von Margarete had West Germany's Nobel Prize winner aus deutsch-judischer Familie. Sein Vaiter ist Moses milt ihren kleinen Alltagsfreuden- und Heinrich Boll, from whom the editors were D^ach einem Pogrom, in dem er seine erste Sorgen sowohl wie mit Uiren grossen seelischen only able to squeeze out the quotation "I see *"rau und zwei Kinder verloren hat, aus Polen Krisen auseinandersetzen. in Heine less the Jew, but rather consider lach Deutschland geflohen und hat dort seine Gewiss, es ist eine vergangene Welt, in die him foremost as a Rhinelander"! zweite Frau, sehr gegMi den anfanglichen das Buch uns noch einmal zuriickfiihrt. Aber Widerstand ihrer Familie, geheiratet. Daniels wer ihr entstammt, wer sie gekannt und Eltem kommen bei einem Eisenbahnungluck geliebt hat, der fiihlt sich wieder von ihr Missing Monuments ums Leben. Der friih verwaiste Knabe wachst ergriffen und wird Margarete Moses dankbar unter der liebvoUen Obhut seiner Grossmutter sein fiir den gehaltvollen erzahlerischen wie Robert Neumann describes the history of und seiner Verwandten miitterlicherseits gedanklichen Reichtum, mit dem sie sie noch the missing Heine monuments and summarises beran. In diesem ausserlich noch geborgenen, einmal zum Leben erweckt hat. it with the words: "A monument or a com­ aber doch auch schon von inneren Spannungen memoration by giving a name to an institu­ durehzogenen Milieu deutsch-judischen Biirger- tion are unimportant matters, only the re­ tuins durehlebt Daniel all die seelischen, F. Hellendall fusal is important and of political relevance." geistigen und physischen Konflikte seines The same argument was forcefully put in ^Imahlich erwachenden und reifenden GERMAN AUTHORS ON HEINE great detail by Hermann Kesten in his speech Kiinstler-und Menschentums. Auf der Suche An Anthology of Assessments made at the Heine Hearing at Diisseldorf •^ch sich selbst, nach seiner " Identitat", wie University in June, 1972, extracts of which are ^an es heute nennt, tritt er eine Reise nach To commemorate Heinrich Heine's 175th publishet^ in this anthology. The young West Polen und damit gleichsam auch das Erbe birthday and Diisseldori's Heine Congress last German author Klaus Rarisch underlines Neu­ Seines Vaters an : denn nun flndet er den Weg, year Professor Wilhelm Gossmann, newly elec­ mann's argument: "As long as we conceive the den er zu gehen hat und der ihn in seine wahre ted President of Diisseldorf's Heinrich Heine University as a place of enlightenment, it Heimat, in das biblische Land seiner Vater Society, has compiled an anthology of state­ remains imperative to name it after Heine." •iihren soil. ments on their attitude to the poet by approxi­ It is impossible to quote in this short note In dem Buch von Margarete Moses tritt uns mately ninety German-speaking authors of all the views even of the better-known authors •'odi einmal, vielleicht zum letztenmal und age groups except the youngest.* The young­ who have contributed to this anthology. It aufs bewegendste die Welt des deutschen est author quoted is 27-year-old Berengar may, however, be permitted to mention a few. Entwicklungs—und Bildungsromans entgegen. Pf ahl, a student in DUsseldorf writing at a time Giinter Grass draws an interesting comparison Sie ist hier vielschichtig angelegt und empfangt of his life when Heine had already written between Heine's poem on the Silesian Weavers Jbre besondere Bedeutung von der fruchtbaren some of his most famous works, suclh as the and Gerhart Hauptmann's play on the same °egegnung zwischen Ost- und Westjudentum, "Book of Songs" and the "Harzreise". subject; Hilde Domin writes her contribution Tj*u den Gegensatzen, die den daran beteiligten Some of the statements made even by well- in the form of an imagined interview with Menschen oft schmerzhaft spiirbar werden, wie known present-day authors are truly shattering. Heine. A paraphrase of Heine's "Germany, a ypu den gegenseitigen Bereicherungen, die Thus Willy Haas, who died recently, admitted Winter's Tale" by Wolf Biermann describes a ^finen dabei in vollem und schonem Mass that Heine's poems, even the most famous ones. joumey by the writer into the Federal Repub­ ^uteil werden. In diesem Zusammenhang tritt lic, "a German land from whose reactionaries ^os als eine der reizvollsten Figuren des I had fled"—coming from a "comparatively ^gurenreichen Romans der deutsch-judische progressive country", the German Democratic Arzt Dr. Baum entgegen: er ist es, der, obwohl Republic. The "Advertisement in Search of ?^er auch weil ein " Freidenker" in der Fatherland" by Amo Reinfrank describes *Prache seiner Zeit, zwischen der tiefen, leiden­ how the author, unable to feel at home in schaftlichen Religiositat der ost jiidischen und either of the two German Fatherlands, pre­ ^er gelasseneren, weltfreudigen Frommigkeit Dor/on ferred to settle in England; and the Diissel- ^«r westjiidischen Welt den Ausgleich und die dorf-bom Catholic writer Josef Odenthal re­ flarmonie herstellt. Damit verhilft er auch dem calls the Nazi days when he saved a copy of ^gen Daniel zur Selbsterkenntnis und zur Heine's works from being pulped by a waste- ^insicht in sein jiidisches Kiin^lerleben- und Qkocolates paper merchant to whom it had been sent by ^chicksal. Dr. Baum spielt eine ganz ahnliche the Nazis. Odenthal concludes his story with «^e wie die Gestalt des Mittler in Goethes the words: "The love of freedom and the need for an understanding between the Wahlverwandtschaften", die Margarete *^oses wohl als Vorbild vorgeschwebt haben nations—this is what that 'young man with mag. rejected blood' taught us in those days." It is good to hear such a message from Heine's Insoweit ihr Roman auch eine Familien- make native city. ebronik ist, fiihlt man sich oft und immer ^leder an die Erzahlerkunst von Jakob Wasser- * GetUndnlise, Heine Im Bewusattein heutiger Autoren. JJ^ann erinnert, zumal die " Fabulierkunst", very special gifts Published by Wilhelm Gossmann in co-operation with Hans Peter Keller and Hedwig Walwei-Wiegelmann. Droste- ^e Thomas Mann so sehr an ihm riihmte. Verlag Dussaldorf. 276 pages. Paperback, OM. 24. * Deutsche Ver!agsanstalt, Stuttgart, 1973. DM 20.

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emergency. 53 per cent of those interviewe.d replied that they "do not hate Arabs at all"; ISRAEL DUMNG THE WAR another 11 per cent said "only a few"; another 15 per cent answered "Yes, some of them". More negative were 6 per cent who TANKS AND VIOLINS tary donations to the Soldiers' Welfare Fund said "Yes, most of them", while a mere 15 instead. Most of these "Promenaders" were per cent admitted "Yes, all of them". The first concert of the winter programme young women and elderly people. There was of the Israeli PhUharmonic was scheduled a cordial and relaxed atmosphere, especially Different Reactions for the day after Yom Kippur. However, as as the public had been given permission by In this connection, there was a difference the blackout arrangements for the huge Hall Mehta to applaud also after the end of a of reactions between men and women. Some­ of the "House of Nations" (capacity 3,000) movement of a symphony, whenever they what fewer women than men replied "I don't could not be completed at such short notice, liked it (and they liked it very much). Neither hate Arabs at all" (47 per cent v. 65 per it was postponed for one week. Though many did Mehta mind the noises by the small cent). A correlation was also found between subscribers—and also cars—had been called children, whom their mothers had taken the educational level and the degree of up, the concert was well attended. As usual, along; some of them may have had good hatred of the Arabs—the higher the many members of the audience had brought reason for crying, with their "abba" so far educational level, the less the all en­ their torches along, to follow the scores and away. . . . compassing hatred. Especially marked were the programme commentaries. Yet now, these One of the special concerts for soldiers was the differences in regard to the countries of torches had to fulfil an additional function: arranged by Danny Kaye, who had gone to origin of those interviewed. Persons of Asian- they also had to be used as guides in the dim Israel by the first available post-Yom Kippur African origin were most hostile—only 39 foyer. The orchestra was conducted by Zubin aircraft. Among the other musicians who per cent of them "don't hate at all" while 22 Mehta, and the soloist was the French pianist, played to the Forces were, apart from Pom­ per cent "hate them all"; "sabras" who were Jean-Bernard Pommier, whom the audience mier and Stem, the Israelis Daniel Baren­ already born in the country hate less—the certainly did not wish to hold responsible boim, Pinhas Zuckermann and Rafaele Arieh. respective percentages are 48 and 13. With for the embargo policy of his Government. The orchestra received many messages from people bom in Europe or America the Though 20 members of the orchestra had friends and colleagues abroad, including one equivalent figures are even more positive—58 been called up immediately—one of them from Yehudi Menuhin, who cabled that he as against 12. served as the commander of a tank unit— was impatiently waiting for his guest perform­ There is a close correlation between these every concert, apart from the postponed first ance, planned for January, and promised to answers and a survey conducted in November performance, took place as planned. This was play in army camps and to wounded soldiers 1971. When the question then was asked possible because several musicians, who had on the occasion of his visit, of course free of "Would you be prepared to make friends already retired from the orchestra, stepped in. charge. The secretariat of the orchestra also with an Arab?" the replies anticipated the announced that Mehta and Pommier had position in the days of the war and on both Performances in Military Camps transmitted their fees (and more) to the occasions the distribution of the answers Performances by the orchestra and its Soldiers' Welfare Fund. remained practically unchanged. About one- chamber ensemble were also rendered in the It was in the same spirit that, notwithstand­ third replied "Decidedly yes," another third military camps. Particularly memorable was ing their current strenuous commitments, "maybe, depends on the circumstances", a^" a concert in an air force base, with Mehta as actors like Hanna Maron, Daliah Levi, Esther the remaining third "unwilling" or "decidedly the conductor. Isaac Stem as the soloist and Ofarim, liana Rovina, Haim Topol and many unwilling". some jet pilots overhead as celestial accom­ others helped to brighten the dark weeks of The lack of hatred against the enemy panists. the war and to lighten the grey time since reminds of the attitudes of the Israelis The orchestra also arranged a number of the end of the fighting. during the Six-Day War when, in its after­ math, soldiers were asked about their feel' "Prom" concerts with popular programmes in ERICH GOTTGETREU (Jemsalem) Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. The entrance ings and sentiments. Most of them did n"^ was free, and the audience gladly made volun- hate so much the Arabs as they hated the war. What a tragic generation! DO THE ISRAELIS HATE THE ARABS? HERBERT FREEDEN (Jerusalem) A the height of the fighting during the "Yom Kippur War", the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research jointly with the Hebrew University's Institute of Com­ DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX munications, conducted a survey on the home HOUSE OF HALLGARTEN front as to the attitude of the average Israeli citizen towards the "enemy". On October 16, LTD. 1973, the eleventh day of the war, a sample of people in the three major cities—Jerusa­ Specialist Shippers lem, Tel Aviv and Haifa—^were asked the question "Do you hate the Arabs?" The survey was carried out in 324 homes. The question, with which the people were Fine Wines Unique Liqueurs confronted, is tied up with a more general one, namely whether it is possible to fight without hating the person you are fighting // you ea/oy wines Dunbee House against. Studies during the Second World War revealed that this is indeed possible. write for our latest free list American G.I.'s, it is reported, did not really 117 Great Portland Street, hate the Germans—on the contrary, their which is full of fascinating feelings towards their British AUies were in London, W.1 many cases less friendly than those towards information, maps, vintage reports the German enemy. The questioners deliberately refrained and charts, descriptions, wines from going into greater details. Naturally, in any population there are those whose behaviour is undesirable in the eyes of for laying down Tel. 01-580 3264/0878 (P.B.X.) others. In this sense at least a few members of any large population are "hateful". Ac­ Grams: FLEXATEX LONDON, cordingly, the answers were formulated in terms of the "percentage" of the poplilation HOUSE OF HALLGARTEN TELEX. that was hateful". 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tm m JOHN F. OPPENHEIMER 70 BIRTHDAY TRIBUTES '^ Mr. John F. (Hans) Oppenheimer (New York), who celebrated his 70th birthday on PROFESSOR HANS LIEBESCHUETZ, 80 became a wiso man. This is manifest in all November 13, has been associated with Jewish his writings, above all in his two main books activities throughout his life. In Germany, he Nowadays, it is no longer rare that people on the subject: Das Judentum im deutschen held responsible positions with the Central- are celebrating their SOth birthday; but it Geschichtsbild von Hegel bis Max Weber Verein from the pre-Nazi days onwards, first still remains a good occasion to pay tribute (1967) and Von Georg Simmel zu Franz in Frankfurt, then in Stettin as regional to the life of a person to whom one would "Syndikus" for Pomerania, and finally in Ber­ Rosenzweig (1970), both published under the lin, where, after 1933, he became head of the iiot tell face to face how much one liked him auspices of the Leo Baeck Institute. To that circulation department of the C.V.-Zeitung (or her) and what his or her work meant to body, in whose work he has taken a leading and a member of its editorial staff. He left the world. Hans Liebeschutz, who will be 80 part since its inception, as well as to the Germany during the eventful days of Novem­ on December 3, is one of those who would AJR, he always acted as a real friend, and ber 1938 for the United States. There, as never ask for publicity, but he has done a we can do no better than to wish that these partner of the firm of Wallenberg & Wallen­ great deal to deserve it. relationships may last for many more years. berg, he built up a successful printing and Born in Hamburg, the most English of duplicating office. He was also a co-editor of We wish to thank him, and to congratulate the "Philo-Lexikon", of which four editions German cities, he has always kept his love him and his wife, Dr Rahel Liebeschiitz, who were published between 1934 and 1937, and tpr it and the 'Waterkant'. The stations of his was and is a great support to him. We hope he resumed the idea of a one-volume reference We and work have been recorded in this to read many more of the products of his book by editing the "Lexikon des Judentums" paper on the occasions of his 70th and 75th learned scholarship and warm humanity. We (Guetersloh 1967 and 1970), the only German birthdays; this need not be repeated. He is a wish him well. VICTOR EHRENBERG language Jewish lexicon published after the historian whose chief interest was first in the Second World War. Middle Ages—partly, but by no means ex­ We extend our sincerest congratulations to clusively, in the attitude of Christianity DR. L. G. T. KING 75 our friend Hans Oppenheimer and wish him towards Judaism. Later he became immersed many more years of undiminished construc­ The legal adviser, Rechtsanwalt Dr. L. G. T. tive activities. }n the history of German Jewry, in particular King, will celebrate his 75th birthday on Jii the mutual influence, since the 19th cen- December 17. Bom in Berlin, where he prac­ DR. HANS H. KUTTNER 80 ^•wy, of Germans and Jews. Men such as Her- tised as a lawyer, he served with H.M. Forces ''^nn Cohen, Georg Simmel, Franz Rosen- during the Second World War and, after The dental surgeon (now retired). Dr. Hans ?^eig, however different in their reactions to several years in commerce, established himself H. Kuttner, who will be 80 on December 7, as a legal adviser in restitution and compensa­ may look back on many decades of selfless their German and their Jewish heritage, or tion matters in 1955. Since then, he has been service to his fellow Jews from Central on the other hand, such men as Heinrich von helpful to many former refugees in settling Europe. He has been particularly closely Treitschke, Jacob Burckhardt, and Max their claims. His expert advice is particularly associated with the activities of the Belsize Weber, are some outstanding examples for sought in the complicated subject of social Square Synagogue. He was the congregation's •^is discussion of the co-existence (or the lack insurance, about which he also frequently choirmaster until 1953 and, until a short while °' it) which is still a subject of debate, es­ published articles in AJR Information. The ago, also the hon. secretary of its Chevra pecially with G. Scholem. AJR is particularly indebted to him because Kadisha. He has also been an active member he often forfeits charges for advice rendered of the Leo Baeck Lodge and was a board mem­ Liebeschiitz's sound scholarship is gener­ by him in favour of the Old Age Homes. ber of the AJR for many years. The occasion ally convincing. He may deal with men, but Dr. King is also a member of the AJR Board of his SOth birthday serves as a welcome j^ore important to him were the ideas behind and of the Leeal Committee of the " Council opportunity to thank him for all he has done ^ men, and as a historian of ideas he of Jews from Germany ". We extend our hearti­ for the benefit of our community and to convey o^came himself a kind of philosopher, he est congratulations to him to him our sincerest congratulations.

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MIN. RAT i. R. DR. WALTER HUBINGER IN MEMORIAM Vor kurzem verstarb plotzlich wahrend einer Urlaubsreise in Griechenland, im Alter PABLO CASALS PROFESSOR DR. EDUARD BEREND von 73 Jahren, Min. Rat i. R. Dr. Walter Pablo Casals who died at the age of 96, was Life-Long Student of Jean Paul Hubinger. a dedicated friend of Israel from the day of The literary historian. Dr. Eduard Berend, Dr. Hubinger war seit 1951 bis zu seinein her establishment. At the age of 84, he made died near Marbach, the seat of the German one of his rare appearances at Israel's first Literary Archives of the Schiller National im Jahre 1966 erfolgten Uebertritt in den musical festival in 1961. He also appeared in Museum. He would have been 90 this month. Ruhestand als Leiter der Abteilung fiir An­ the festival of 1969, and the last public per­ His research work for almost 65 years was gelegenheiten des internationalen Sozialver- formance of his life was in August, 1973, dedicated to the life and work of Jean Paul, sicherungsrechtes im osterreichischen Bun­ when he conducted Israel's Festival Youth about whom he published several books and Orchestra in "Hymn of the United Nations" monographs. He edited a critical edition of desministerium ftir soziale Verwaltung tatig. (which he himself had composed) and in a the complete works of Jean Paul, first under In dieser Funktion war er u.A. auch mit der Mozart symphony. At the outbreak of the the auspices of the Prussian Academy of Anpassung der Bestimmungen des oster­ Yom Kippur War he sent a message of sym­ Sciences (1927-1933) and, after the Second pathy and comfort to Israel. World War, sponsored by the German Academy reichischen Sozialversicherungsrechtes an die of Sciences. In recognition of his work, he was berechtigten Erwartungen der zur Auswan­ DR. N. TUR-SINAI (TORCZYNER) awarded the Medal of the Jean Paul Society derung gezwungenen Naziopfer betraut. (1956), an honorary professorship (1957) and, The Bible scholar and Hebrew philologist. on the occasion of his SOth birthday, the Es war seinem menschlichen Verstandnis Professor emeritus Naphtali Herz Tur-Sinai honorary doctorate of the University of Berlin. der Probleme, aber auch seinem juristischen (Torczyner), has died in Jerusalem at the age Professor Berend was bom in Hanover as Scharfsinn zu verdanken, dass im Jahre 1954 of 87. Bom in Lemberg, he lectured at Vienna the descendant of one of the oldest Jewish und in den folgenden Jahren richtige und University from 1913 to 1919 and afterwards families of that city. Until 1939, he lived as at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des a freelance author in Munich and later in prazise Gesetzesformulierungen gefunden Judentums in Berlin. He left for Palestine Berlin. He spent the war years as a refugee werden konnten, die den Wunschen und In­ in 1933 to occupy the Bialik Chair of Hebrew in Geneva. He was a brother of the conduc­ teressen der Ausgewanderten entsprachen. Philology at the Hebrew University. In 1935, tor, the late Dr. Fritz Berend. E.G.L. he founded the Hebrew Language Academy Das "neunte Bundesland", die Emigration, and served as its president until 1955. Pro­ DR. VIOLA KLEIN ist ihm zu tiefem Dank verpflichtet und be fessor Tur-Sinai's works include a German- dauert sein jahes Hinscheiden. Der Schreiber Hebrew dictionary. He was also responsible The sociologist. Dr. Viola Klein, recently for the publication of the later volumes of died in Reading. She was bom in Vienna and dieser Zeilen trauert um einen spat im Leben came to this country as a refugee from Czecho­ Eliezer Ben Yehuda's Hebrew Dictionary. slovakia. Some time after her arrival she was gefundenen Freund. awarded a scholarship to the London School C.I.K. of Economics. A pupil of Karl Mannheim, she DR. A. W. DOROTH-DUESTERWALD obtained a Ph.D. degree for a thesis on "The MEMORIAL FOR FELIX FECHENBACH The economist. Dr. Avraham (Wilhelm) Feminine Character". In 1964 she was ap­ Doroth-Duesterwald died in his 73rd year, pointed Lecturer at Reading University, sub­ To commemorate the active Jewish socialist sequently (1967) Senior Lecturer and Reader Felix Fechenbach, a memorial stone was un­ while he was on a visit to Berlin. Before he (1971). After her retirement this year she emigrated to Palestine in 1934, he was an was continuing active work. Dr. Klein was veiled in the forest of Scherfede near War­ economic correspondent to the Vossische the author of several works on the status of burg, where Fechenbach had been murdered Zeitung and other German papers. In Pales­ women in society. by the S.A. in August, 1933. The main speaker tine he was, before the Second World War, was the Prime Minister of North Rhine- most active in helping the new arrivals from Germany. After the establishment of the State DR. LUDWIG MERZBACH Westphalia, Kuehn, who had spent the war of Israel, he became an adviser to several Dr. Ludwig Merzbach, professor emeritus years as a refugee in England. At a subsequent Govemment departments, a contributor to of economics at the South Westem University meeting in the neighbouring monastery of various papers and also a guest lecturer at in Texas, who died recently, was a survivor Hardehausen, Dr Robert M. W. Kempner, a universities in several countries. Dr. Doroth of Theresienstadt. Before his deportation, he friend of Felix Fechenbach, recalled the work was closely associated with the work of the worked with the Finance Department of the of this anti-Nazi and pacifist. Fechenbach's 78- organisation of Jewish immigrants from Cen­ "Reichsvertretung". When the camp was tral Europe (Irgun Oley Merkaz Europa) and liberated, he assisted the "Mayor" of There­ year-old widow, who now lives in Switzerland, the Leo Baeck Institute. sienstadt in winding up the camp. also spoke. FAMILY EVENTS Rothschild.—Mrs. Alice Rothschild, PART-TIME, simple clerical work RESEARCH IN MEMORY .OF of 33 West Heath Court, North undertaken by English German- A GERMAN RABBI: Broschure Entries in the column Family End Road, London, N.W.ll, passed speaking lady. Tel.: 01-458 2678 Bericht konstituierende Versamm- Events are free of charge. Texts away on November 14. Deeply from 9 a.m.-ll a.m. or write to lung der Gesellschaft zur Ford^ should be sent in by the 15th of moumed by her loving daughter, Box 362. rung der Wissenschaft nes the month. son, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, Judentums vom 2 November 190^ sister, grandchildren, relatives and Verlag Flemming, Glogau, sougni. many friends all over the world. ALTERATIONS OF DRESSES against reward, in memory of ur. 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MANY VOLUNTEERS THE ISRAELI SCENE Israel appears to be able to absorb a total of about 5,000 volunteers, although the number "MISTAKES" PRECEDING THE WAR? HARD TIMES AHEAD may be enlarged later and more than 40,000 The question is being asked in Israel why The Israeli economy faces a grave strain people have enlisted all over the world for the country was caught napping by the Yom in the coming months and perhaps years. This voluntary service in Israel. This was stated ^ippur War. Not so much why the Government will have its effect on manpower, supply and by Mr. Moshe Rivlin, the director-general of decided that Israel should absorb the first foreign exchange. With about one-quarter of the Jewish Agency, m London on a one-day plow but, if it did have foreknowledge of an the labour force fully mobilised, Israel's out­ visit. Mr. Rivlin emphasised that the volun­ impending attack, why no adequate steps were put suffered and, since the ceasefire, the teers must go to Israel when the State requires taken to mobilise the reserves and prepare the economy is probably operating at no more than them and should be patient if their departure standing Army for action ? 75 per cent of its normal capacity. Since direct is delayed. At the outset of the fighting Mrs. Golda Meir defence needs will have to remain at a high There is a particularly urgent need for volun­ ^ted emphatically : "We were not surprised ". priority for a long time to come, economic teers to drive trucks or pick oranges. The activities will necessarily suffer. export of Jaffa oranges is seriously endangered The Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General David by shortage of labour in the citrus orchards. Elazar, has thrown the blame on Military In- The Government is taking action designed The Jewisn Agency intends to send at least y^Uigence saying there was "insufficient warn- to lower the standard of living, and two war 1,200 British volunteers to Israel in the next ^g". The former Chief of Staff, Mr. Chaim loans are already being collected to ease the six months. They are expected to stay in Israel ?^lev, said "there was plenty of reliable situation. Part of the cost of rearmament will for at least four montlis and must pay their JMormation on Egyptian and Syrian prepara­ also be covered by U.S. Govemment grants. own fares. Priority is given to those who might tions for war. It was the evaluation (of this Also, much of the country's non-military expen­ stay in Israel for longer than the minimal formation) which did not stand the test". diture will have to be bome by Jewish commu­ period. Over and above any personal responsibility nities throughout the world. tor Israel's unpreparedness, it is felt that some In addition to kibbutz workers, skilled trades­ of the strategic and political concepts govern- REACTIONS IN GERMANY men are sought for work in more than 20 {Jig the conditions imder which Israel might kibbutz factories, engineers are required to •^ve to fight a war in the post-1967 situation The German-Israeli Parliamentary Group of maintain export production, and medical per­ the Bundestag, which has 100 members of all sonnel are also being recruited. *ere faulty. One of these was that the strategic Urgently needed as well are supplies of ^epth of the pre-October 5 lines made them political parties, sent a message of sympathy good second-hand clothing, particularly for ~ie most convenient to hold. But the Arab to the Knesset. In a telegram to the Histadrut, children. *^es were so ranged on the other side of the Executive Committee of the Federation ^eni that they could open fire whenever they ^hose. Israel had subscribed to a policy of of German Trade Unions expressed their un­ PEN CONGRESS CANCELLED almost static defence lines which, although reserved support for Israel's right to a peace­ "ley were held, were done so at a terrible cost. ful life within secure borders. The Land Hesse The intemational congress of the PEN Club donated DM 500,000 to the Magen David Adom planned in Jerusalem this month has been FOREST DESTROYED cancelled. The president and secretary of the (the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross). world organisation notified the Israel PEN , The night before the ceasefire came into The Protestant Bishop of Berlin sent a mes­ centre of this decision. lorce terrorist rockets destroyed a forest of sage to the Chairman of the Berlin Jewish In the second week of the October War ^ome 80,000 trees near Kirvat Shmona. Planted Community, Heinz Galinski, and the mayors the Hebrew Writers' Association asked literary aoout ten years ago, the damage to the forest of the Berlin districts of Wedding, Steglitz and associations in different parts of the world to •s estimated at £100,000. express support for Israel's struggle for her Overseas volunteers will help to plant a Neukoelln telegraphed to the mayors of their existence. However, the association reports u^*/.orest in the same area of Galilee bounded respective twin cities, Holon, Kiryat Bialik and that it has not received a single reply to its ^ Kiryat Shmona and Misgav Am. Bat Yam. appeal.

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BERLIN-BORN M.P. ADDRESSES GERMAN ORGANISATIONAL NEWS EX-PRISONERS-OF-WAR ANNIVERSARY OF CLUB 1943 LONG-STANDING FAITHFUL SERVICES This year's reunion meeting of former Ger­ man prisoners-of-war at Featherstone Pa'""' To mark the SOth anniversary of its founda­ Retirement of Mrs. Stella Epstein (Northumberland) was held in Duesseldorf on tion, the Club 1943 held a social gathering October 27 and addressed by Mr. Peter Rtw^- at Hannah Karminski House on October 28. It After several decades of unrelenting serv­ M.P. (Con.), who was born in Berlin in 1930- was not a birthday party in the usual way ices, Mrs. Stella Epstein, Secretary of the Mr. Rost, who is half-Jewish, came to this because the thoughts of all present were Jewish Refugees Committee, recently retired. country in 1937. He is the only German-born bound to be concentrated on the events in She was associated with the Committee from Member of Parliament. The subject of his Israel and on the victims of the war. the pre-war days onwards and thus played a address was the strengthening of Anglo-Ger­ The Club has every reason to be proud of responsible part in the work for the Jewish man relations by Britain's entry into the EEO- its achievements. Founded during the Second refugees from Germany and Austria during the most critical years of their history. After The gathering was the fourteenth meeting World War by a group of intellectuals who of "Arbeitskreis Featherstone Park". The Hon- seceded from the Free German League of Cul­ the war, she also had to take charge of the ture because they did not wish to be associ­ new arrivals who were victims of the up­ President of the "Arbeitskreis", Mr. Herbert ated with the League's prevalent Communist heavals in Egypt, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Sulzbach, was British education officer in the sympathies, the Club has become part of the As a Jewish refugee from Austria, she knows camp. He has unceasingly worked for tne history of the Central European immigrants. the human difficulties with which a refugee promotion of a new relationship between Ger­ For 30 years it has held regular weekly meet­ is faced in his struggle for settling down and many and Britain and between Germany and ings with talks on a wide range of subjects, striking new roots. She excelled by a deep Jewry. including, among other things, literature, poli­ insight into the needs of those in her charge, A report on the reunion was given by Mr tics and Jewish themes. The undiminished and she was at thetr disposal—office hours or Norman Crossland in the "From Our Own need for the Club's activities is reflected in no office hours. Her compassion is coupled Correspondent" programme of the BBC. the fact that it has over 130 members and with the proficiency of a level-headed "case­ that a steady influx replaces the unavoidable worker". Links between her and the AJR natural losses. Yet the members do not only have been particularly strong since the incep­ FORMER "HYPHEN" MEMBERS benefit from the give and take of the talks tion of the Old Age Homes as the result of and discussions. They have also found a home her membership with the Committee in charge Addresses Required from home in a close community of people of interviewing new applicants. Fortunately, of the same background. The achievements she will continue her work on this Committee, Mr. Peter Johnson, a founder-member of are, in the first place, due to the unrelenting but as she is now relieved from the burden the, now defunct, "Hyphen" has in his posses­ efforts of its chairman, Hans Jaeger, who also of the day-to-day work at Woburn House, we sion the first membership lists of the group briefly surveyed the past and present activities welcome the opportunity of thanking her for and would very much like to bring them UP of the Club. all she has done for her fellow-refugees and to date. Naturally, many former members have At the function the greetings of the Ger­ wish her happiness in her well-deserved meanwhile changed their names and ^^^. man Ambassador were conveyed by Herr leisure. dences. Ex-Hyphen members are asked to Boettcher, army attache at the Embassy, notify him of their current names, former and gratitude of the members was expressed CBF AID names (if married) and oresent addresses- by the senior member of the Club, Rabbi Dr. Replies should be sent to: Mr. Peter Johnson, G. Salzberger, whose frequent expert talks at The annual dinner of the Central British 290 Grove End Gardens, London, NW8 9Lti- Club meetings are always particularly appre­ Fund and British Ose was held at the Dorches­ ciated. Dr. W. Rosenstock said that the AJR ter Hotel, London. The chainnan. Lord Nathan, was very happy to provide a congenial venue reported that the CBF spent £105,000 in the GOLDEN HAGADA EXHIBITED for the Club at Hannah Karminski House. past year on assisting Jews in the Soviet Union and East European countries. A large The exhibition of Oriental manuscripts and SELF AID CONCERT number of parcels had been sent to Jews in books at the British Museum, has been ex Eastern Europe. tended until the end of December. EigmeeB Just over £100,000 of a target of at least of the 270 items are Hebrew works—Bibies. The soloist at this year's Self Aid Concert £U million was raised at the dinner for the on November 6 in the Queen Elizabeth Hall siddurim, machzorim, hagadot and halacni 1973-74 appeal. codes. Exhibit No. 1 is an early tenth-centu« was 15-year-old Marius May, who mastered the Pentateuch written on vellum, coming "O" difficult passages of Haydn's Cello Concerto in GRANT FOR NEW YORK LEO BAECK somewhere in the Near East, and one of in D with great virtuosity. He also played the INSTITUTE oldest Hebrew Bible codices known. The four­ charming Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky. teenth-century Golden Hagada is on displ^yj The orchestra was the London Mozart Players The reputation which the New York Leo a reproduction of which was recently publisne Baeck Institute as a unique collection centre at a price of 200 guineas. under Harry Blech, which also played the has established for itself is reflected in the beautiful Symphony No. 29 by Mozart and a award of a grant of $30,185 by the National symphony by Haydn. Endowment for the Humanities (Washington The artistic success of the concert was D.C.). The amount may be amended by a HISTORICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE matched by a most gratifying financial result. further $30,000 next year. The money will be used to complete and complement the A Jewish Historical Society conference Wil The hall was sold out. and the benefit for Self Institute's existing collection of historically be held in July, 1975, on the subject of t"^ Aid from ticket sales and programme adver­ important Jewish periodicals of the nineteenth provincial communities of Anglo-Jewry, V''. tisements amounted to £5,300. and early twentieth centuries. The library of ticularly of the period after 1840. It is hope" At the same time the annual concerts con­ the Institute includes more than 700 different to deal with the rise and development of *' periodicals published for and by Jews from tinue to serve as a welcome opportunity for torian provincial Jewry, especially coverin| 1800 to 1943. However, because of their rarity, the impact outside London bf the arrival meeting friends whom one usually does not the fact that many of them had been des­ the large-scale immigration of the four.^ see during the year. Thus, also under this troyed, and because the Institute began gather­ quarter of the nineteenth century, and ii social aspect the Self Aid concerts play an ing them long after they had been issued, intended to obtain a contribution about eve 3| important role for London's former refugees. the collection is not complete. community in existence around the year ly-^

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