Keffiyeh-Clad Heirs of Streicher

VOLUME 2 No. 9 SEPTEMBER 2002

Keffiyeh-clad heirs of Streicher

Ihe atrocities of September 11 drew less slaughter gentile children to make matzos '^nan a unanimous reaction from across the for Passover. Cairo, the intellectual capital *orld. The West was divided between a of the entire Muslim cosmos, boasts Ein horror-struck majority and a minority who Shams University. Here Dr Adel Sadeq, deplored the deed but felt they could President of the Arab Psychiatrists 'understand' the perpetrators. The East Association, recently intoned this paean of •displayed a different sort of division. Some praise to suicide bombers: "As a Muslims, exemplified by the ululating professional psychiatrist, I say that the Women caught on camera in the West height of bliss comes with the end of the "3nk, rejoiced, while others professed to countdown: ten, nine, eight, seven, six, "^tect the hand of the Israeli intelligence September 11 Ground Zero five, four, three, two, one. When the service Mossad behind the atrocity. As martyr reaches 'one' and he explodes, he June 28. The article, permed by ex-editor P''oof, they cited the Saudi-manufactured has a sense of himself flying, because he Harold Evans, talked of a "dehumanisation °êga-lie that 4,000 Jewish employees of knows for certain that he is not dead. It is a of all Jews manufactured and propagated the World Trade Center were absent from transition to another, more beautiful, throughout the Middle East and south *ork on September 11 because they had world. None in the Western world Asia on a scale and intensity that is utterly •êen tipped off. sacrifices his life for his homeland. If his unprecedented." In the West there were, and are, those homeland is drowning, he is the first to Evans echoes our comments on the jump ship. In our culture it is different... Who argue that the 3,000 victims mobilisation of Muslim opinion expressed this is the only Arab weapon there is and ntombed beneath Ground Zero are in pro-al-Qa'eda demonstrations from anyone who says otherwise is a outnumbered by Afghan civilians killed in Palestine to Pakistan in the wake of the conspirator." ^^ air raids - and quite dwarfed by the New York and Washington bombings. number of Third World citizens dying daily But there is still worse to come. We wrote that it was not despair - as the •"om malnutrition and disease. Palestinian intellectuals, who must be as let's-drop-food parcels-on-them lobby, familiar with Yad Vashem as Londoners ^^sterners with that mindset coined the and, latterly, Cherie Blair hypothesise - are with the British Museum, actually ^'ogan 'Drop food parcels instead of but sheer unadulterated hatred that deny that the Holocaust took place. ^mbs!' at the start of Allied air operations fuelled the grisly manifestations of Outdoing even the unspeakable Jean- ^^r Afghanistan last autumn. In fact, both resurgent Islam. Marie Le Pen, the official Palestinian *'ngs happened: US bombs paved the - Evans's copiously researched article newspaper dismissed the Shoah as "a ^'Iniittedly bloody - path for the arrival of proves beyond doubt that the Muslim Jewish hoax to promote their international ^ food supplies. world stands ready to re-enact the mind- marketing operations." ôw that the most urgent problems of boggling absurdities of Jew-hatred What, one is led to wonder, hipty stomachs in Afghanistan have been pioneered in the Third Reich. Thanks to differentiates Arab Jew-haters from Hitler, *^kled, a more widespread problem what they read in their newspapers, see on Goebbels and Streicher? Precious little, "^^cting a billion Arabs and Muslims from TV, and hear in their mosques, the except that the latter would never have ^ Atlantic to the Pacific forces itself upon residents of 22 Arab countries (and of called Jews Nazis - a term Palestinian "^ World's attention. It is the problem of Muslim states from Iran to Indonesia) spokesmen routinely apply to the Israeli ^Pty minds - i.e. minds bereft of the perceive Jews as "dirty, hooknosed, Defence Forces. The more pertinent ^cr of informed independent reasoning money-grubbing vindictive and scheming question is what do Al-Ahram and Al- into which Keffiyeh-clad heirs of parasites. Israelis poison water, inject Mayal have in common with the Volkische ^'cher have been pouring antisemitic Palestinian children with Hiy and feed Beobachter and Der Stiirmer? The answer '^'son for decades. drug-laced chocolate to women to make is everything! Both the German and Millions of Muslims believe that them sexually corrupt." According to the Arabic perverters of truth focus(ed) on J^Ptember 11 was a Jewish plot," The Cairo-based Al-Ahram, the leading Jewry as the bell-wether to be slaughtered *^^ stated in heavy type in its issue of newspaper of the Arab world, Jews in the assault on Western civilisation. AJRJOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2002

An inexplicable void Claims Conference ready to pull Richard Grunberger out of insurance company deal

Risking the charge of Jewish The Claims Conference is prepared to mediating in the dispute that "we reject megalomania yet again, I assert that withdraw from a deal that protects the granting of [legal] closure." Britain's greatest figurative painter German insurance companies from Mr Gibowski said there was no reason to lawsuits by survivors of the Holocaust in and her greatest playwright - i.e. take such action: "We are doing everything return for the pledge of reparation funds. on the German side. The foundation is Lucian Freud and Tom Stoppard - are Israel Singer, elected the Conference's there, the money is there." The companies both Jews as well as refugees. Not that new president in May this year following stood to gain nothing by postponing one would have guessed as much from the death of Rabbi Israel Miller, has said payments, he asserted. their work, however! that his members are "fiiistrated" by the The 150-odd paintings and etchings slow pace at which Holocaust-linked Insurance claims process nnay on display in Tate Britain's Lucian restitution payments are being made. be extended Freud exhibition present the fruit of six According to a report in the Jewish The fiftieth anniversary of the signing of Chronicle, Wolfgang Gibowski, a the Luxembourg Agreement on decades' work. The painter's skill is spokesperson for Remembrance, reparations - by the West German hugely impressive, though I found his Responsibility and the Future, a foundation government, Israel and the Claims unvaryingly sombre, not to say joyless, set up by the German govemment and Conference - occurred recently. Over $50 cast of mind discomfiting. major industrial companies to make swift billion in reparations has been secured for But that is neither here nor there. payments to forced labourers and other more than 500,000 survivors in the My point is that a visitor from Mars Nazi victims, denied that the insurance half-century since the agreement came could not possibly have deduced from companies were to blame. Gibowski into effect. placed the blame squarely on the the oeuvre where Freud - in the current Two years ago German insurance firms International Commission of Holocaust catchphrase - was coming from. Here is agreed to pay some $225 million as part of Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC). ICHEIC a $5 billion German government and someone who at eleven experienced was set up in Washington in October 1998 industry fund once legal immunity had traumatic uprooting and displacement by the National Association of Insurance been settled. But a Claims Conference into an alien environment - and who Commissioners and several European spokesperson said that most of the still (as journalists have pointed out) insurance companies, European companies were not following ICHEIC retains a German accent. How, I ask, regulators, representatives of various guidelines. Jewish organizations, and the State of can all this, not to mention the An independent report commissioned Israel to address the matter of unpaid encompassing Jewish drama ofthe last by ICHEIC released earlier this year insurance policies issued to victims ofthe century, the echoes of which still found that many firms were too quick to Holocaust. deny claims and criticised ICHEIC for resonate in this, fail to find an echo in a Dale Franklin, an ICHEIC spokesman, high expenses and insufficient oversight single one of Freud's painting? responded: "There has been a lot of of agencies hired to handle enquiries an" By the same token, I fail to criticism about how much time it has process claims. "It identified areas where taken, but those not involved in the understand why no single line in Tom we could help claimants more and improve negotiations cannot understand the Stoppard's prodigious output of plays our procedures," said Mr Franklin. He complexity of the challenge. There is good hints at the author's Jewish origins. Of added that the insurance claims process faith on both sides, but we would like to course, a childhood spent in the India of would probably be extended beyond the 30 conclude the negotiations so we can move September deadline. "Once claims are pal" the Raj must have obscured his forward with payment of claims." and everyone has accepted or rejected emerging sense of identity - but half a Rabbi Singer said the Claims their offers, ICHEIC should be able to century has elapsed in the interim. Conference might "reject the funds" and close down," he said. jjg Interestingly enough, the theme of inform the US federal judge who has been exile permeates Stoppard's latest trio of plays - currently being staged at the AJR Journal National Theatre - which focus on Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief JACKMAN • prominent Russians who fled Tsarist Ronald Channing Executive Editor Howard Spier Editorial and Production SILVERMAN rule for political reasons. Could the AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSLILTANTS trilogy, I wonder hopefully, be a la Frognal, London NW3 6AL Tel: 020 7431 6161 Fax: 020 7431 8454 step on Stoppard's road towards e-mail: [email protected] grappling with the Jews' perennial www.ajr.org.uk 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA experience of exile? Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 801? AJRJOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2002

The uses of illiteracy Richard Grunberger NEWTONS Leading Hampstead Solicitors advise on Our current editorial focuses on the veritable umbilical cord. Something Property, Wills, Family Trusts Ignorance that exists across wide similar has long been at work in the and Charitable Trusts swathes of the Muslim world. Alas, less eye-catching sphere of economic French and German spoken Britain itself, birthplace of Caxton of activity. Wool was, pace the Home visits arranged Pnnting-press fame, a country with 'enthronement' ofthe Lord Chancellor possibly the highest newspaper on the woolsack in the House of Lords, 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, readership in the world, is far from the main source of the country's London NW3 5NB free of the taint of illiteracy. By wealth in the Middle Ages. England's Teh 020 7435 5351 illiteracy in the British context I don't advance fi-om a wool to a cloth Fax: 020 7435 8881 "lean the inability to read, but a producer - what we would nowadays deliberate rejection of knowledge and, term from a 'developing' to an ôngside it, of thought and feeling. advanced economy - was greatly A prime example of this deplorable assisted by the influx of Flemish •nindset is the recent use of a Hitler weavers and dyers. The development PARTNER skit' in the video put out by the anti- of metallurgy over the centuries owed in long established English Euro campaign. To raise the Hitler much to Germans from Gregor Solicitors (bi-lingual German) "Ogey as an argument against Agricola (Bauer) to Henry Bessemer. would be happy to assist clients 'European integration, when the very The Dutchman Cornelius Vermuyden with English, German and Austrian âison d'etre of the EU is the cleared the Fens. French Huguenots problems. prevention of future Nazi horrors, is a founded Barclays Bank. The German Contact Henry Ebner '•'^ck that combines perfidy with Jew Ludwig Mond established Myers Ebner & Deaner hoarse insensitivity towards all who Imperial Chemical Industries. 103 Shepherds Bush Road survived the Third Reich. A similar picture emerges in the London W6 7LP Telephone 020 7602 4631 Told of adverse European reaction arts. In literature, the (admittedly ^^ the video, Vic Reeves, one of the dazzling) creations ofthe Tudor period ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN Clown princes who appear in it, drew heavily on Italian models. In uelivered himself of a memorable music, the towering figure for two dictum: "Britain owes Europe centuries was Georg Friedrich Handel Clothing!" - a German import. As for painting, a Here speaks the voice of truly flourishing art form in late medieval AUSTRIAN and GERMAN and abysmal illiteracy. Almost from Italy and the Netherlands, no major PENSIONS here '^'ônehenge onwards, impulses English figure arose before Hogarth rove ûianating from the Continent - and Reynolds in the 1700s. PROPERTY He Conquest by Rome, conversion to For their unpardonable illiteracy, Vic cess RESTITUTION CLAIMS ;30 uristianity, Norman invasion, the Reeves and the other clown princes EAST GERMANY-BERLIN 'Reformation, the accession of William with street cred who appear in the jaid On instructions our office will Orange, which sealed the triumph video of the NO campaign deserve ;ted assist to deal with your ; to Protestantism and constitutional sentencing to an indefinite period of applications and pursue the matter jônarchy - have moved English educational community service. And HS with the authorities. history forward. what more appropriate location for However, it is not just the turning them to start serving their sentence For further information and appointment Points of political and constitutional than the Continental Britons please contact: istory which time after time turned exhibition at the Jewish Museum, "•he link with the Continent into a Albert Street, London NWl! ICS CLAIMS 146-154 Kilburn High Road London NW6 4JD Tfte cfiairman. Management Committee and Staff Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) îsft aff AJR members a ftajfpy, fteaftfty ancfjjeacefuf New Year Fax: 020 7624 5002 AJRJOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2002

Otto Schiff homes Sue Levy

Regina Markstein has had 'a new lease of life' since she came to the home. Originally from Hungary, Regina, a sprightly 94-year-old, informs me that she loves to talk. She wants to remain as independent as she can and uses the lift to accommodate her zimmer frame, proudly leading me to her comfortable bedroom. "I'm very contented in my room. I love to Usten to Classic FM and I love to read," she says, showing me a Danielle Leo Baeck House, run by OSHA in partnership with Jewish Care Steele novel with large print. She points early in life, memories locked away for out the magnolia tree outside her Gaby, herself a second-generation window and her bed which came from refugee, tells me about OSHA's years can come flooding back. Our staff home. I want to know what life is like at homes. These include Osmond team is sensitive to this, giving practical the home but Regina chatters away House, which offers specialist care for and emotional support in a warm and about the past, painful memories and people with Alzheimer's disease and caring environment. happier times, then shows me a box of other forms of dementia. Gaby "A lot of people who came from old photos. She looks forward to her explains: "We keep up to date with Europe before the war continued to live chats with Sid, a volunteer who is one of practices for dementia care. We had as a community. We feel comfortable her special friends. fimding from the Sir Halley Stewart with people who remind us of our roots. Trust to carry out two research projects Otto Schiff homes are a mini- Leo Baeck House is impressive. At at Osmond House, giving us a fresh community, a caf6 culture, where the the bottom of the sweeping staircase is insight into the needs of refugees and continental way of life is dominant - it's a the hairdressing salon, next to the survivors. If you have suffered trauma natural progression." wood-panelled hall. Frances Hillman, 80, is receiving the final touches to her shampoo-and-set. "It's a real tonic," she declares, showing me her newly Residential, nursing and dementia care polished nails. "I've made a lot of friends for the Jewish refugee community and I enjoy the food - it's really good." Some residents settle in more quickly otto Schiff Housing Association, specialist providers of housing and than others. Adrienne Emstoff, 96, care for refugees since the 1950s has vacancies for long-term came to Balint House one week ago. She residential care in its three recently refurbished and modernised homes plays kalooki and since her arrival has in The Bishops Avenue, London N2. won twice at bingo and been to a concert. "The people are nice. They look Balint House, Leo Baeck House and Osmond House offer a warm and homely atmosphere where residents enjoy a high level of personal care after me and I am happy," says Adrienne, from our long serving staff team. who was born in Budapest. "They bring me an early morning cup of tea. I have Set in extensive grounds, the homes offer spacious accommodation, room service for breakfast and I have my mostly with en-suite facilities. Fully kosher, continental-style cuisine lunch in the dining room. I like it here and special diets are catered for. very much." We also offer short-term respite care subject to availability. Irma Faith, 98, came to Balint House in February. Irma's family visit regularly Call Jewish Care Direct on 020 8922 2222 but she misses her friends who have for further information, quoting OSHA died. Originally from Hamburg, what she wants most is a good friend, someone who is "her sort". Jewish Care service manager Gaby Wills promises to working in partnership with OTTO SCHIFF JEWISH CARE introduce her to a lady along the hall. HOUSING ASSOClAnON "We'll arrange for you to have tea Charity Registration Number 210396 Charity Registration Number 802559 together," she says. AJR JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2002 CONTINENTAL BRITONS: Talks from the exhibition programme Ronald Channing

The cultural impact of refugees Daniel Anton Walter M Snowman Freud from Nazism they were "able to think across borders," increasing infirmity. It was the main Daniel Snowman, author of The Hitler crossing intellectual boundaries in family meeting place, and Walter visited Emigres and producer and presenter of science as well as the arts. Religious his grandparents every Sunday 3 complete evening's programming on Jews, such as the late Lord Jacobovits, morning. Walter remembered his ^BC Radio Three on the same topic, also played an immense part in grandfather appearing at 1 pm from his spoke to an audience of overl 20 at the maintaining Jewish religiosity and study, but being rather reluctant to Continental Britons exhibition on the cultural traditions, while the Reform communicate. From 1923 he had cultural impact of Jewish refugees. movement was essentially Central undergone periodic surgery to Britain and the Continent in the European in origin. ameliorate cancer of the jaw and this 1930s he saw as two worlds apart: one made conversation a painful process. spawned Bauhaus architecture, 'Memories of my grandfather, Walter perceived his grandfather to "inovative design and a modern urban Sigmund Freud' be a kind and generous man, but one "festyle, while the other relied on re In 1938 Anton Walter Freud arrived in whose only relaxation consisted of presenting the arts and crafts of a Britain from Vienna, a member of the playing cards. oygone age, a revered Bloomsbury set, extended family group which f^eithian BBC, Vaughan Williams' rural The household was large and Freud's accompanied his grandfather, Sigmund "^ylls and Lutyens's garden suburbia youngest child, Anna, played an Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, into ^nd empire architecture. important part. She took on the role of exile in Hampstead. her father's assistant and guardian of his 'n the film The Red Shoes Moira When Walter was born in 1921, his work, possibly as a substitute for the ^hearer was danced to death by a grandfather Sigmund was already 65 marriage which the carnage of World •^'aghilev character played by emigre years old. He recalled that in inter-war War I had prevented. In his grandson's ^ctor Anton Walbrook. The De la Warr Vienna, "everyone you knew lived just view, "Sigmund Freud accomplished '^avilion in Bexhill, arguably the finest round the corner." what he wanted to accomplish." "Modernist building in Britain, was designed by Erich Mendelsohn, and the His grandfather occupied a large Walter Freud later had a distinguished Political cartoonist Vicky, otherwise ground floor flat at 19 Berggasse, career in the British armed forces, being Victor Weiss, had an immense impact. which served both as home and parachuted into Austria as "a one-man °^rthold Lubetkin's penguin pool of consulting rooms, where he became a advanced guard" in the face of the virtual prisoner due to age and conquering Russian army. 931 could not be overlooked, nor Karl Ebert's, Fritz Busch's and Rudolph Bing's Continental Britons Exhibition and Arts and Events Diary - September Contributions to establishing opera at ^'yndbourne. Only a refugee like ^'cholas Pevsner could have conceived Until 8 September Ludwig and Else Reform Synagogue Meidner - an exhibition on two German ''s rnammoth task of cataloguing every Mon 16 Club 43 No lecture '^^jorbuilding in England! refugee artists. Ben Uri Gallery, Monday- Salter Gropius of the Bauhaus, Thursday 10 am to 5.30 pm, Friday 10 am Wed 18 'Scenes and Personalities in to 3 pm, Sunday 12 noon to 4 pm Anglo-Jewry 1800-2000'. Judge Israel ^ntre of the new design philosophy, Finestein, QC. Mrs book of this title, ^^d his followers discarded "living in the Mon 9 Dr Anthony Grenville, recently published by Valentine Mitchell, pst", coining the phrase "form follows Research Centre for German and Austrian completes his trilogy on Anglo-Jewish 'Unction", and applied this dictum to Exile Studies, London University, history. The Jewish Museum, Camden Creating the Exhibition: Continental ^^ design and manufacture of Town. 7 pm ^Veryday household objects. Alexander Britons. Club 43 Mon 23 Jens Bruning, journalist and . °rda employed many fellow refugees Tues 10 The Welcome of Strangers: author, Berlin, 'Gabriele Tergit und ihre designing, scripting and making The Cultural Impact on Britain of Bucher* (in German). Club 43 London Films'. Picture Post brought a Refugees from Nazism'. Talk by Monica ^w level of socially revealing Bohm-Duchen, art historian, writer, Wed 25 'Continental Britons: Identity ^Photography under its editor Stefan lecturer and curator. Jewish Museum, and Assimilation'. Talk by Dr Marian ^^'•ant. Gombrich, Weidenfeld, Solti Camden Town, 7 pm Berghahn, publisher, social anthropologist, and author of the book '^^ the Amadeus Quartet could not be Sat 14 Czech Scroll Memorial Service Continental Britons: Identity and •fitted from his sketch, and there were Shabbat Shuvah, 10.15 am for 10.30 Assimilation. The Jewish Museum, °iJntless other contributors among the am. After the service there will be a Camden Town, 7 pm .000 refugees who settled in Britain. special kiddush followed by a screening ° 3 degree their being marginal and of the documentary film Nicholas Mon 30 Dr F. Rosner, 'Fritz Kortner the srnopolitan led Snowman to believe Winton - The Power of Good. Finchley Producer'. Club 43 AJRJOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2002

cheer. In the Exodus brouhaha of, 1 , lETURS^ Editor reserves the right 1947 the Royal Navy prevented to shorten correspondence Holocaust survivors from reaching I TO THE ) submitted for publication Palestine and forced them back to DP ^ EDITOR^ camps in Germany. Of course, they acted under orders. Frank Bright CONTENTIOUS PRIDE of individual merit or he would not Suffolk Sir - The Jews in Germany mostly resort to what he shares with millions carried the culture and intellect of of others." UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS our time, but it needs humility and Robert Speyer Sir - I am not quite sure why Ruth charity to justify this gift. Its abuse Gundelfingen, Germany Cemach (July issue) thinks she is creates - together with jealousy - different from Kindertransportees. I antisemitism, which no amount of Sir - The list of Jews who achieved was 16 when I came from Prague in lectures can reach as it is on great things does not give me the 1939.1 was put into service in an old another level. right to feel pride. Nor do I feel Victorian house - 7 bedrooms, E Mitchell responsible for the misdeeds of some kitchen, scullery, pantry and cellar, 4 London NWS of my co-religionists. To be a Jew is an big rooms downstairs. I started at 6 accident of birth. am to clear out the fireplaces, light Sir - I can go along with the notion M Herz the fires and bring the coal in, and that, as we know them, Hollywood Northwood, Middx finished work about 10 pm. Sunday movies and Broadway musicals was my day off. I was allowed to go might not have existed without their Sir - Your July editorial makes suitable out after the lunch dishes were Jewish creators. Certainly, things get reference to some great enterprises, washed up and put away; by then it a little more difficult when it comes including M&S. Perhaps it would not would be after 3 pm. Usually I was so to psychoanalysis. The case of be remiss to include the tired that I just slept. I got 10 shillings nuclear physics raises questions of pharmaceutical giant Glaxo - now a week for over 100 hours of hard quite a different order. The timetable Glaxo Smith Kline. Its New Zealand- work. I also did not get enough food of developing the atom bomb and based founders Joseph Nathan and for a hardworking, growing girl, and where - mercifully - it was first sons rose to success concurrently was always hungry. I managed to do developed, assuredly did depend, with their slogan "Glaxo builds this for about 6 months. If Ruth came crucially, on the extraordinary bonnie babies" (which some of us old here as a domestic servant, I can only insights of Jewish physicists. But that ones may still remember). presume that there were set the development of nuclear physics Klaus Heymann working hours and set wages. I came (or any other science) could ever owe London SWl 3 as a child, and there were no controls its progress uniquely to Jewish (or for that. any other race of) scientists, as the FIRST-TIME PLAYWRIGHT article seems to imply, is patent EJS Sir - Richard Grunberger's piece nonsense - even worse, I fear, racist Westdiffe-on-SeS seems to imply that Diane Samuels's nonsense. Kindertransport was devoid of Prof Karl Overton sensitive insights because of her East CHILD CAMP SURVIVORS Edinburgh EH9 European ancestry. This is a rather Sir - Can I ask if anyone in the Jewisi^ unfortunate turn of phrase. Does he community is able to make ^ Sir - Your July editorial proves mean that only German Jewish documentary on the child camP conclusively that Jews are part of the writers have the gift of poetic survivors? There is a need to pass o^ human race. I am delighted to have sensitivity? I hope not. our story to future generations. FiftV' this confirmed. It does not prove Lena Stanley-Clamp seven years on we are not known an'' anything else. Director, European Association our survival needs to be recorded. Karl Gruenberg for Jewish Culture Clare Parke' London NW11 Otto Schiff House, London A/l^^ MEDIA BIAS Sir - In his Aphorismen, Arthur Sir - The editor raises only two cheers HEARTFELT PLEA Schopenhauer wrote: "The tawdriest for Fleet Street (July issue) and three Sir - May I add a heartfelt plea to th^ form of pride is national pride. He for the Fleet. However, I would editor to grant us a brief respite iro<^ who professes it betrays his own lack reduce the latter by at least one the outpourings of Peter Zander. Tl^ AJR JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2002

fall-out from Wimbledon and the dedicated to Bach cantatas renders World Cup is as much as I can handle Christ lag in Todesbanden as ARE YOU ON A LOW just now. "Christian lay in death gangs." And a INCOMEANDINNEED recording made by the MiJnchner Victor Ross OF HOMECARE HELP? Ashford, Kent Bach Orchester is credited to the Munich brook orchestra. AJR might be able to offer financial assistance. BANKCHARGES TAiena Kendall, Totnes, Devon Sir - Following advice from the Central Members who might not Holocaust Claims Office, I contacted otherwise be able to afford % bank (HSBC) to enquire if I was JACOBITES homecare please contact: eligible for a refund of bank Sir - When the storm-in-a-teacup Estelle Brookner, Secretary commission charged to me. Having raged as to whether we should still AJR Social Services Dept been in receipt of a German refer to ourselves as refugees, I Tel: 020 7431 6161 retirement pension since reaching the suggested (albeit with tongue in 3ge of 65, I was able to produce the cheek) the acronym JACOBS - •bank's monthly notifications, standing for Jewish Association of showing the charges made. I also had Continental Britons, thus enabling us 3 copy of the 'Guidelines to all Banks' to call ourselves Jacobites. I am Companions ^""om the British Bankers Association, pleased to note that the description of London ^hich I had obtained from the 'Continental Britons' has now been Incotporating Hampstead Home Care Holocaust Claims Office. A few days adopted. '^ter, I received a letter from my bank Eric Fisher, A long established company confirming that my account had been Uxbridge, Middx providing care in your home credited with a considerable sum as a Assistance with personal care special payment, representing the ATTACK General household duties ''strospective waiving of charges. I am Respite care ^^ry grateful for the advice from the Sir - I am anxious to reply to Mr Medical appointment service Central Office for Holocaust Claims. Schick's gratuitous attack on Freud (July issue). Unfortunately, he did not 'OUR CARE IS YOUR CARE' Lottie Levy, state his qualifications to act as a 020 7483 0212/0213 London NW7 judge of one of the most famous Jewish savants of modern times. If he SEARCH NOTICES were a professor of psychology at the /% SPRING ^''' - Hats off to Anthony Joseph (July Tavistock Clinic, his views might be GROVE '^sue). I would endorse his request not worth listening to, but from his letter 214 Finchley Road to cut down or - even worse - exclude it seems that he has never actually London NW3 •êse. The Journal is passed on and read any book by Freud. I would be ""âd internationally by people of the interested to see the statistical London's Most Luxurious RETIREMENT HOME Pre-web generation, not all of whom background to his statement that •^^ computer-literate, and many "many psychiatrists now believe that • Entertainment-Activities ^^ccessful results have been achieved. Freud's theories were one of the • Stress Free Living • 24 Hour Staffing • Excellent Cuisine , ° please continue - telephone and greatest medical blunders...." • Full En-Suite Facilities ^flail-mail' are still in current usage. A W Freud, Call for more information Jo Maier, Oxted, Surrey or a personal tour Wembley, Middx 020 8446 2117 NAIVETE or 020 7794 4455 ••OST IN TRANSLATION Sir As an ex-Kind, I am absolutely [email protected] Sir- Those of us who came here as amazed at Peter Zander's comment êr rnan speakers and had to learn a (July issue) that he considers himself a ,^^ language remember some citizen of Germany or Austria first. Simon R Rhodes M.Ch.S. "arious mistakes when we chose an How naive can a Jewish adult be! Let STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST '^Slish translation from our much- him simply ask the vast majority of Surgeries at: ^^d Langenscheid dictionary. Germans or Austrians if they consider 67 Kilburn High Road, NW6 (opp M&S) owever, I don't think any of us him to be a German or an Austrian, or Teleplione 020 7624 1576 anaged anything quite as simply a Jew! His is an Alice-in- 3 Queens Close (off Green Lane) ^^raordinary as the versions Wonderland attitude. Edgware, Middx HA87PU Telephone 020 8905 3264 ^^tomatically translated by Henry Herner, Visiting chiropody service available er. '^Puter. For example, a website Caracas AJR JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2002

and dreams become him. His sensual brush illuminates doe-eyed mermaids - RG'S INTGRFACG the ultimate symbol of unattainable sex NOTES - in Siren in Full Moonlight But the The Golem. Around 1580 Rabbi Loew of Prague allegedly created a nineteenth-century naturalists had a Gloria Tessler huge clay statue into which he more abstract ethic. Light was no breathed life to protect his The National Gallery examines the longer a key to divine grace: it was role of light in a new exhibition until congregation from pogroms. The tale more likely to convey truth in natirre. which (indirectly) inspired Mary October. Its subject may seem Turner condensed matter and energy Shelley's Frankenstein became a contrived - what, after all, is art without into one dramatic, swirling sea-storm. classic German silent film starring light? An artist of the studio of El And Renoir's Boating on the Seine Paul Wegener. H Leivick's Yiddish Greco, for instance, depicts the Agony achieves a wonderfully synthesised play on the Golem theme is currentiy in the Garden of Gethsemane through dappled effect through dabs of being performed off-Broadway in volume and texture. Christ's radiance colour absorbing girl, canoe, sky, and English. derives directly from his relationship watery light. Leg break. The phrase 'Break a leg' with God. John MartWiS Destruction of But the Age of Enlightenment and intoned by well-wishers at stage Sodom and Gomorrah illustrates divine the Age of Reason have their own debuts comes from the German Hals- fury with a bolt of lightning, which resonance. Joseph Wight's und Beinbruch. Bruch (the origin of calcifies Lot's wife but leaves her as a magnificent Experiment on a Bird in the the Yiddish expression oy a broch!), minor player, obliterated by the Air Pump uses the inner light of which means fracture, may be a radiance of divine retribution. science as much to illuminate reason mispronunciation of the Hebrew The meaning of light for early artists and technology as to portray emotion broche, or blessing. Another term current among US actors is shtick. was a quest for the effulgent. Jesus is on the faces of two children worried Derived fi'omth e German noun stuck, naturally the most illuminated figure, about the bird's safety. For me, piece, it means audition piece. The whether in the subtle light of his grace Matthias Stom's Salome Receiving the or the bolt of spiritual light which film Kissing Jessica Stein, a lesbian Head of John the Baptist is one of the comedy laced with Jewish New York emanates both from him and towards most remarkable on show. Here, sophistication, started out as the him. Thus the light surrounding the despite its grisly subject, Salome's face stage playLipshtick. baby Jesus in Rembrandt's Adoration is neither lustful nor rapacious, but of the Shepherds outshines the has assumed some of John's own Hollywood Greats, a) Sam Goldwyn is currently the subject of a Broadway shepherds' lanterns. But Salvator celestial purity. Rosen's Witches at their Incantations play which shows him in a favourable The German artists Ludwig and does the opposite. At a time when light. Unlike his rivalLoui s B Mayer, Else Meidner, who escaped the Nazis women in Europe were often executed he opposed McCarthy - and when the to reach London in 1939, have launched Danish ambassador objected to his as witches, his bloodcurdling imagery Ben Uri's new home with their casting of the Jew Danny Kaye as combines women with trees and powerful, intensely Jewish and Hans Christian Andersen, Goldwyn serpents in interchanging shapes. But affirmative work. Ludwig's portraits - apparently replied that he had some artists ofthe Dutch School took a honest, satirical and fearless - betray a ordered the actor to bleach his haifi more pragmatic approach. Gerrit caricaturist's eye. "If you want to draw - which would make his nose appear Berckheyde's geometric use of light be cheerful, spirited and lively. shorter, b) A German biography of conveys the blandness of daylight - or Embrace the world," he said in 1917. Billy Wilder by Andreas Hutter possibly the transparency of business - (Bohlau Verlag Wien/Koln) reveals Neither artist flinches from showing in his Market Place at Haarlem. where Wilder first encountered the the grotesque side of life. While cynical journalist 'hero' of his 1950 Paxil Delvaux finds that moonlight Ludwig's work is more analytical. film Ace in the Hole. In the mid-1920s Else's is warmer. You notice the Wilder had worked on the Jewnsh- unexpected way the light catches the owned Viennese scandal sheet Di^ hair, the cheek, the nose, or a neck- Stunde. When news of the scarf, and it is the oddness of these assassination of Hugo Bettauer portraits that you look at. The subjects (author oiDie Stadt ohne Juden) by 3 have a sense of being taken unawares, Nazi broke, another reporter quipped: wavering, at odd angles, whether it is a "Couldn't that clot Bettauer have got truculent mouth or the interplay of himself killed a few hours earher? hands. What comes through both Then it would have filled tomorrow's their works is the essence of the front page, instead of the Stop Press Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump column!" by Joseph Wight Jewish refugee.

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Spitalfields Festival concerts their father. Thomas Mann can afford to be generous because a few years ^l^rist Church, Spital fields, London after the success of The Magic The beguiling Eastern melodies and Mountain he receives the Nobel Prize. colours of the Ladino prayer REVI EWS In his acceptance speech at ênedicho Su Nombre, in a world Stockholm, he makes a plea for premiere arrangement by Malcolm postwar reconciliation, but the Nazi Mizrahi's charismatic introductions, Singer, formed a highlight of a tide is already rising in Germany. the evening concluded memorably fnrilling concert by the charismatic, The advent of Hitler evoked with the mixed Jewish and non-Jewish Greek-born American cantor Alberto responses which differed according to audience applauding and singing "îzrahi, with the formidable BBC the generations. In early January 1933 enthusiastically in the zestful encores, Singers conducted by Malcolm Singer. Erika inaugurated the political cabaret a tongue-twisting 'Had Gadya', and a The concert was a highlight of the The Pepper Mill, which made an Sephardi Yismach Moshe'. Soaring Spitalfields Festival, which this year, instant impact in Munich's operatically above the BBC Singers at "nder the artistic director Jonathan supercharged political atmosphere. full tilt, tambourine in hand, Alberto Dove, was devoted to Jewish music, Thomas happened to be on a lecture Mizrahi was clearly relishing every ^he first stage of a continuing focus on tour outside the country at the time moment. East End immigrant communities. but fully intended to return. When the Malcolm Miller Cantor Mizrahi - affectionately burning of the Reichstag in February •^nown as the 'Jewish Pavarotti' - provided the Nazis with the pretext to •jazzled the audience with his strident, Prophets not honoured in round up all political opponents, "Operatic tenor voice and spine- their own country Heinrich fled to France, and Erika and ^'ngling 'falsetto' range, in a THE MANNS Klaus phoned Thomas in Switzerland, warning of 'bad weather' in Germany. fascinating programme from the BBC Four: German documentary âdiest and most recent Jewish music, with English subtitles In early March, as Hitler's election Spiced with his charismatic victory rang down the final curtain on '^Productions. Especially evocative The Mann brothers were one of the German freedom, Erika and Klaus êre two medieval chants - the strangest phenomena in literary escaped to Switzerland where the êlth-century Obadiah the Proselyte history. Both were serious authors but, former - at considerable personal risk - ^'^d Ladino Respondemus - which whereas Heinrich's (temporarily) continued to tour Die Pfeffermuhle as 'îzrahi embellished with ravishing worldwide fame rested on the risque an anti-Nazi cabaret. •"hapsodies. More virtuoso and intense film The Blue Angel, Thomas appealed Following a brief stay at Sanary-sur- ^^re a series of dramatic cantorial to more highbrow readers and earned Mer (the bolthole for the entire âr-horses - Mana-Zucca's Rachem the Nobel Prize halfway through his German literary diaspora), Thomas ^nd works by Roitman, Zilberts and writing life. They also differed widely Mann settled down near Zurich, •Rosenblatt, while his rendition of Kurt in their politics. While Thomas backed whence he and the family moved to ^îll's Kiddush was especially the Kaiser's War, Heinrich wrote Der the USA in 1937. He was given a post Appealing, with its slinky Broadway- Untertan, a coruscating attack on at Princeton, visited President "^'ues melody. And there was much to Wilhelminian Germany. A third Roosevelt and the White House, and ^'^joy in a recently composed difference lay in their respective broadcast to Germany on the radio. ^^Phardic Havdalah by American lifestyles, with Heinrich veering Fate was far less kind to his brother ^^ntor Charles Osborne, full of towards the bohemian and Thomas Heinrich, whose bohemian lifestyle ttractive Eastern dances and sweetly ever the haut bourgeois. had led to an entanglement with, and ^^rmonized melody The documentary starts in the 1920s marriage to, a barmaid. He escaped Throughout, Mizrahi's stirring voice with the brothers' reconciliation at the Nazis in 1940 only by clambering °^nd a superb complement in the their mother's deathbed. Thomas over the Pyrenees. He too reached the '^ûisite singing, in precise Hebrew, admits to having been wrong about USA but, unable to find employment the BBC Singers and piano the Great War, and Heinrich opines as a Hollywood scriptwriter, he ccompaniment of lain Farrington. that the Untertanengeist (spirit of subsisted on Thomas's handouts while Acidly conducted by Malcolm Singer, subservience) is still widespread in the his wife descended into alcoholism this superb choir infused rich beauty country. The subsequent scenes focus and eventual suicide. Erika and Klaus to Hebrew Psalm settings by the on the hedonism prevalent in the meanwhile found fulfilment in various ^Venteenth-century Salamone Rossi, Weimar years, with Thomas Mann's forms of anti-Nazi journalism, she as a chubert (who composed Psalm 92 for precocious eldest children Klaus and foreign (i.e. European) correspondent ^ Vienna Synagogue), Louis Erika setting a furious pace. Gustav and he as a member of a military ^Wandowski, the atonal Arnold Grundgens briefly marries Erika but propaganda unit. /•hoenberg, and Singer's own Psalms essentially she is inseparable from her After the war the siblings were left ;ss 'J and 117, which came across with brother; they party, write, act and go without a raison detre. Erika found "ôsphere and bite. Fuelled by on globetrotting trips subsidised by one as her father's secretary, but Klaus

9 AJR JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2002 \ drifted and - hopelessly addicted to well as to Klaus's active cavortings. Why Not just another book on drugs and homosexual promiscuity - was there no reference to the West the Holocaust took his own life in 1949. In the same German campaign against Thomas, The Holocaust Chronicle: A History year Thomas visited both Germanies who was accused - by fellow writers - of in Words and Pictures on the occasion of the Goethe having deserted his country in her hour bicentenary - but the West Germans of need? I also missed the rather Lincolnwood ll: Publications International, 2001, £19.95 -i- £4.45 did not appreciate his poignant story of W H Auden marrying (for free delivery for members living in 'evenhandedness'. His return to the US Erika to give her the protection of a London postal districts, , )4 was not particularly pleasant either British passport - and doing so with the te/020 8953 1840) • because the McCarthyites viewed him remark "After all, what are buggers as dangerously left-wing. Meanwhile for?" And why was no mention made of When I was asked if I would like to the widowed and somewhat pathetic the Mephisto affair? Mephisto was the review this huge tome, my heart sank: Heinrich was prevented by a fatal title of the prewar novel Klaus wrote surely not another book on the stroke from taking up a ceremonial castigating his sometime brother-in- Holocaust! But I soon realised how post the East German authorities had law Grundgens for opportunistically wrong I was, for this is a work that created for him. Thomas, however, throwing his lot in with the Nazis. makes the Holocaust highly intelligible was able to spend the last years of When the trial judge in 1949 found the to those born after the war. his life (he died in 1955) in the book libellous and ordered all copies This 768-page book has been German-speaking ambience of destroyed, Klaus sank into such despair written by seven doctors of Switzerland, where he had been an that a week later he killed himself. philosophy and the wish of the exile 20 years earlier. RG publisher to report the facts clearly I found the three-part documentary has been well achieved. There is a totally engrossing. At times, however, timeline of some 3,000 items which I felt that the personal was Regent Hall Summer Festival pinpoint the deportations, atrocities emphasised at the expense of the Regent Hall, London and major developments in the political. A lot of attention was given Holocaust, together with individual to Thomas's latent homosexuality - as This year's summer music festival, acts of cruelty, compassion and presented at the surprisingly little- heroism. known Regent Hall at Oxford Circus, The Holocaust is chronicled by 2,000 Annely Juda Fine Art featured two talented Jewish opera photographs in stark, visual terms. 23 Dering Street singers in an adventurous programme The opening chapters to the essays (off New Bond Street) including works by Mozart, Beethoven place the most important years in Tel: 020 7629 7578 and Puccini and by Gershwin, Witold perspective. The thousands of Jews Fax: 020 7491 2139 Lutoslawski and Menachem who, despite insurmountable odds, Wiesenberg. The programme was fought back defiantly, albeit CONTEMPORARY PAINTING devised by the festival's artistic director, hopelessly, are also remembered, a^ AND SCULPTURE Alberto Portugheis. are other targeted groups of mass As delightful on the eye as on the ear, destruction, such as homosexuals, the soprano Anya Szreter revealed her handicapped and Gypsies. GERMAIN and range from chanson by Henri Duparc to Twelve chapters covering the yeaf* evocative duets with the works of 1933-46 give readers insight into the EIVGLISH BOOKS German-Israeli composer Paul Ben relevant history, including the creation BOUGHT Haim. Mezzo-soprano Ruti Halvani of the State of Israel. The fact that the sang in Spanish, Russian, Ivrit and Holocaust was not carried out solely Antiquarian, secondhand and English, growing in confidence and by the Nazis is made clear by fi^^ modern books of quality musicality as the evening advanced. descriptions of the fascist regimes in always wanted. Her rendition of Eli Eli, a lament Romania, Ukraine and Croatia- We're long-standing advertisers reportedly composed by World War II Included in the volume a""^ here and leading buyers of heroine Hanna Senesh, was appendices, a glossary, an extensive books from AJR members. particularly moving. list of further reading, and ^ We pay good prices and Sympathetic piano accompaniment detailed index. come to collect. of the highest order was provided This comprehensive volume '* throughout by Malcolm Miller, whose published as a non-profit project- For an immediate response, poem to his wife Bea was put to music There is in addition a website whicn please contact: by composer Roger Steptoe for contains the full text and provides Robert Hornung MA(Oxon) 2 Mount View, Ealing, soprano, mezzo, baritone (Giles links to other pertinent interne London W5 IPR Chaundry) and piano, and premiered in locations. This is a worthy project tha Email: [email protected] the presence of the composer. deserves to succeed. Tel: 020 8998 0546 (Spm to 9pm is best) Ronald Channing Martin Hasseck

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During almost fifteen years of vmting enabled him to spread his wings. He profiles for AJR Inf ormation/Joumal, I PROFILE wrote countless letters to BBC have interviewed, among others, a life producers and eventually got a foot Richard Grunberger peer, two heads of Oxford colleges, a inside the door of Broadcasting House. Regius Professor of History, the drama Here he worked as an actor - with the critic of the Daily Mail, an inventor, two Manuel dexterity odd foray into the German section - as industrialists, and two published poets - well as a playwright. He is particularly but none of these had anything proud of having written The Revenge, a approaching my present profilee's short play whose plot is conveyed by instant recognition factor'. means of sound effects without a single TV viewers from Land's End to John word of dialogue (the play received an O'Groats who split their sides over the international radio award). shenanigans of Fawlty Towers know In the early 1970s, now married and napless Manuel from Barcelona. with a growing family, Andrew got to However, only a discerning few are know John Cleese through their joint acquainted with the fact that 'Manuel' involvement in making industrial nails fromBerli n and not Barcelona. training films. Cleese was, of course, Andrew Sachs was born in Berlin in the lead actor in, and main begetter of, ^930, the youngest of three children of a the Fawlty Towers sequence, which êd marriage. His father was an launched them both into the •nsurance broker, and his mother a stratosphere of popular acclaim and trained librarian. He grew up in middle- video sales. In between the first (1975) class comfort and started school and the second series (1979) of Fawlty iinaware of being different from his Andrew Sachs Towers, Andrew had a chance to display classmates. Nazi reality only kicked in his versatility as the henpecked ^hen his best school chum announced the following week's production. husband who breaks free in a television •ât his parents had forbidden him to Schedules being so tight, Andrew could adaptation of H G Wells's History of play with a half-Jew. hardly believe his luck when, promoted MrPolly. h September 1938 Andrew's father to stage manager of the Liverpool Now at the peak of his powers, *as arrested, but a police official Playhouse, he found that this theatre Andrew appeared in modem 'classics' niendly with Andrew's mother's family went in for leisurely three-week runs. like John Mortimer's A Voyage Round ^ved him fromgoin g to a concentration Eventually London beckoned. Here my Father and Tom Stoppard's/ww/iers '^p. The father immediately left for he encountered living theatrical at leading theatres. His last stint at the London, where he obtained a job with legends such as Robert Helpman, who National Theatre was in O'Keefe's Wild ê insurance firm Leroy Flesch. He directed Noel Coward's After the Ball at Oats six years ago. Since then he has wought over his family in December the Globe Theatre. Among the kept busy with TV and radio work, ^d they settled in West Hampstead, glittering first-night audience was voice-overs and poetry readings. ^nere Andrew's anglicisation started Coward himself - on his arm a Turned 70, Andrew is reluctant to follow ôni scratch at his local primary school. shimmering apparition in white who the strenuous routine that acting on ^drew left William Ellis at sbrteen- turned out to be none other than stage involves. He remains nonetheless ^d-a-half and spent two terms at an Marlene Dietrich. After the final - in his wife's words - a 'workahoUc', and acting school - the family budget didn't curtain, when the two celebrities came last year toured with a one-man show of ^•^retch any further. From that point on, backstage, Andrew resisted a strong his own devising. "^th the exception of two years' national impulse to remind la Dietrich that they ^^rvice, he 'trod the boards'. had actually met once before: his Andrew Sachs's public appearances in At the start, Andrew's thespian career mother was related by marriage to Emil 2002 have included a cameo role in the ctually involved sweeping the boards Jannings and in 1931 the latter had video that complements the ^^re than treading them. He served the brought his Blue Angel co-star to the Continental Britons exhibition. He also ^-obligatory apprenticeship as an Sachs apartment where she had attended the launch of the exhibition. ^sistant stage manager at places like chucked 18-months-old Andrew under Such gestures demonstrate that, exhill-on-Sea and Worthing. In the the chin. despite his minimum exposure to ^50s local repertory companies After his stint at the Globe, Andrew yiddishkeit (and a distaff family link to ^nded to put on plays for one week - was talent-spotted by Brian Rix and he Emil Jannings), he feels an abiding firing which time the actors also had to appeared in a succession of Whitehall identification with the Jewish ^1^ the lines and attend rehearsals for farces. This secure long-term berth community of fate.

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contribution to life in the country which made Finchley Road their meeting place INSIDE gave us our safety. Jenny Zundel and from here developed a new social and recounted her life from her time as a cultural life. A film containing interviews theAJR medical student in Vienna in 1938: with well-known former refugees meeting her husband, a doctor, living in showed us the numerous contributions to various locations in the UK, and bringing art and science our people have made to up a family. Joe Behrens told of his travels this country Pinner hears from a creative to Africa on a freighter until reaching what Julie Franks professional was then Northern Rhodesia, where he established himself as a successful When our speaker Laurence Till, Artistic South London quiz with Helen electrical contractor Herbert Haberberg Director of Watford Theatre, joined the Aronson theatre in 1999 his brief was to lead a team spoke of his early life followed by army of 75, produce at least 10 plays a year, and service in the Jewish Brigade and his The subjects were General Knowledge, raise over £7 million to pay for postwar life as a metal trader dealing Films, Literature and Music, and modernisation. Most of this, he said, had mainly in Eastern Europe. Meetings seem History. Most of us did well and been achieved. Laurence then discussed to be averaging 20 members. everybody received a prize. A very the type of plays we would like to see - enjoyable afternoon, with over 20 Herbert Haberberg drama which contained humour, nostalgia, members attending. 'good things', little violence or bad Next meeting: Thursday 26 September, Anne Poloway language. Finally, he told us about an 10.30 am. Rabbi Frank Dabba-Smith on anonymous lady who had been keen to the Leitz family, manufacturers of the Next meeting: Thursday 12 September help in memory of her husband: he had LEICA cameras thought she might donate around £10,000, but she sent a cheque for a cool £1 million! Sheffield full of enthusiasm Altogether, an interesting look at how a Essex: Remembering the lessons The second meeting of this newly formed creative professional goes about his work. of the past group took place at the home of Hilary and One member brought along her husband, a Steve Mendelsson. A very welcome guest Paul Samet thoroughly English gentleman who had was Lisa Vincent from Nottingham. Df Otto Jacubovic reported on the highly Next meeting: Thursday 5 September, 2 recently celebrated his 90th birthday. We 'Continental Brits' must have made an odd successful Northern get-together at Beth pm: The Swinging 30s and 40s', with Shalom: the hospitality shown by the Bill Phillip impression on him, but he seemed to take to us like a fish to water and joined in when Smith family and the facilities and the each of us described the work we had done gardens there were greatly appreciated. It Harrogate opts for informality before settling down as OAPs. This of was decided that Sheffielders would meet 3-4 times a year as well as support m At our second meeting, we were joined by course brought back bitter memories of strength the forthcoming Northern several newcomers. Northern Region the past. But we soon returned to the meeting in Manchester. The neW Group Co-ordinator Susanne Green present with our usual go at today's happy- group is full of enthusiasm and appreciates brought us up to date on recent go-lucky youngsters who don't wish to the lead and encouragement given by developments within the group and on know about war. But the past must never Susanne Green. what was organised for the near future. We be forgotten: if we were all to write an spent the rest of the afternoon getting to account of our past experiences, future Steve Mendelssott know the newcomers and cementing generations should be able to study these relationships. Instead of arranging for documents and perhaps find an answer to Next meeting: Sunday 27 October ir" future speakers, we decided to keep these the unanswerable. vestibule of the new Sheffield' occasions completely informal for the Synagogue Jtdie Franks time being and simply to enjoy one another's company. For further Next meeting: Tuesday 10 September, information on the Harrogate group, 11 am at Finchley Road Synagogue, Brighton and Hove Sarid briefed please telephone 01423 886 254. Westcliff e-on-Sea on political situation in Israel Michael Rosen, Press Officer at the Israeli Inge Little Embassy in London, gave an excellent Essex visit to Continental Britons Next meeting: Monday 30 September, account of the present situation. "^ exhibition 2.30 pm referred particularly to relations with th^ Our first stop was the AJR Day Centre in media of the UK and Europe versus Cleve Road, West Hampstead, where we relations with the media in the USA, whic^ North London's 'in-house' affair enjoyed a wonderful three-course dinner. view Israel and its fight against terror The meeting turned out once again to be Arriving at the Jewish Museum, we found through completely different eyes. " an 'in-house' affair, with members talking ourselves in the Exhibition Hall, to be also reiterated that, despite tn^ about their lives and experiences since confronted once again with the sad polarisation of right and left in Israel, it' coming to the UK. What emerged was how reminders of the Holocaust. There were generally conceded that ^ varied and interesting these experiences many photos of the persecuted Jews who accommodation with the Palestinian^ had been. More important is the fact that arrived in this country after the war must take place despite the obvious we have made a not inconsiderable seeking freedom and humanity. They difficulties and dangers. In the li^^™

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Question-and-answer session that loUowed, Rosen could not be shaken in his AJR Celebration Tea KT-AJR relief that sooner or later an independent Pialestinian state would be established. with Light Opera MONTHLY MEETINGS AT Sunday 20 October 2.30 to 5 pm CLEVE ROAD F Goldberg London Marriott Hotel Monday 2 September 2002 f^ext meeting: Monday 23 September, Grosvenor Square, London W1 11.45 am for 12.15 pm 10.45 am. Judy Ironside on Brighton Special guest appearance of Susanna Alexander, Education 3nd Hove Jewish Film Festival 'The Garden Party' Officer of the Jewish Museum, from the Royal Opera, will speak on Surrey: garden party In style Covent Garden 'The Continental Britons Exhibition' Please complete and retum the enclosed booking form and Lunch £5 Reservations required: send to the Please telephone 020 7328 0208 AJR Functions Secretary tel 020 7431 6161

AJR 'Drop in' Advice Centre THE LUNCHEON CLUB Paul Balint AJR Day Centre 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 Richard Grunberger between 10 am and 12 noon on Editor-in-Chief of AJR Journal ^embers enjoy A.W. (Tony) Freud's garden. will speak on Thursday 5 September "s threatening to become an annual 'Dual Allegiance: Jews and Muslims' Tuesday 10 September ^vent! Once again, our amiable host, Tony A comparison between the NEW VENUE 'Teud, invited us to enjoy his splendid experience of Jewish and Muslim From Wednesday 18 September garden for another deUghtful lunch, to Immigrants AJR 'Drop In' Advice Centre will be at ^nich many of us contributed. There were Wednesday 18 September 2002 AJR Head Office '^'^ ot us reUshing fine food and wines - not 11.45 am for 12.15 pm 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal to mention Tony's own-make hot Marillen 15CleveRoadNW6 3RL between 2 pm and 4 pm Knoedl! We welcomed three more Early reservations please! "^^Wcomers. Also toasted by the group was Lunch now only £5 Wednesday 18 September "^yrna Glass for her sterling work in Please telephone Sylvia or Susie on Tuesday 24 September ^^Veloping and maintaining our activities. 020 7328 0208 Wednesday 2 October

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Monday - Thursday 9.30 am - 3.30 pm, Sunday 2 pm - 5.30 pm

SEPTEMBER Afternoon Entertainment: Sun 1 DAY CENTRE OPEN - No Entertainment Mon 2 KT LUNCH & Kards & Games Klub Tue 3 Daphne Lewis and Jack Coleman Wed 4 Opdal Trio Thur 5 Katinka Seiner & Laszio Easton Sun 8 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - Rosh Hashanah Lunch at the Old Dairy Farm Mon 9 Kards & Games Klub Althorpe visit Israel' Tue 10 Eddy Simmons with Bill Bradley at Piano llent A group of 35 AJR members Wed 11 Guyatherie Peiris and Bill Patrick visited Althorpe House in Thur He 12 Amanda Palmer Entertains Northamptonshire, home of Earl Sun 15 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - Kol Nidre thtlje Spencer and childhood home of his Mon 16 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - Yom Kippur rersus sister. Princess Diana. The visit Tue 17 Rosemary Wiseman - Entertains whicfi included tours of the stately home, Wed 18 THE LUNCHEON CLUB terroi' the magnificent grounds - from Thur 19 Nicola Smedley - La Diva He where the island resting place of I^iana could be seen - and the Sun 22 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - Succot the exhibition of her life and work. Mon 23 Kards & Games Klub •1, it is Lunch was taken at the Old Dairy Tue 24 Ronnie Goldberg - Guitarist ^^Tvn in Upper Stowe. all Wed 25 Valerie Hewitt - Piano and Voice inians Thur 26 Mike Marandi Entertains ivions [Suggestions for similar visits are always welcomed] Sun 29 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - Simchat Torah lively

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To Ruth Anderman at 90, an extra-large birthday card Central Office For Holocaust Claims Since we were both Berliners and our Adamson Road in Hampstead. Here, lathers were lawyers, it was not delicious continental meals were Michael Newman surprising that my father introduced me cooked, deep-frozen and delivered at a Payouts reach 100,000 survivors to Ruth. In 1969 he and Ruth were on the very cheap price to housebound The number of people who have AJR Executive Committee. Ruth members. Ruth could be found most received their first payment from the proposed me as a member of the House days in the kitchen, peeling vegetables, German Slave and Forced Labour Committee running Eleanor Rathbone stirring huge pots of soup and - most Compensation Programme has House in Highgate, which was to be importantly - adding herbs and spices. In reached 100,000, according to figures opened shortly. Soon, Milena Mautner 1983 she opened a Luncheon Club next released by the Jewish Claims became the committee's third member. door to the kitchen where AJR members Conference (JCC). The JCC has also pledged to complete the first round of Ruth assiduously interviewed and staff came to eat several times a payments by the end of this year. week. This service continued until the prospective tenants for the flats - Eligible applicants will also receive a paradise for most tenants, who had Day Centre opened in Cleve Road. cheque for $1,000 (approximately come to the UK as nurses or domestics, Ruth combined all this with a happy £600) from the Swiss Banks settlement had never had a home of their own, and family life. as well as a further payment of around êre alone in the world. Assistance was Many readers will remember £1,500 from the German Fund at the Provided to supply curtains and Margaret Jacoby, whose picture hangs in beginning of next year. "^niture and to furnish the entrance the small lounge of the Day Centre. Praise for Dutch Fund "all and communal lounges. Ruth visited Margaret, who lived to over 100, sent More than 450 UK applicants to the every weekend and is remembered regular birthday cards to all members. Dutch Maror Fund have received êctionately by many ofthe residents. Although Ruth has always hidden her payments totalling £18 million. The Fund, which has been praised for the light under a bushel, she would surely Also in the 1960s, Ruth initiated and speed and efficiency of its work, *en ran the AJR Meals on Wheels have received an extra-large card on 18 has confirmed that the worldwide Service with its operational September, the day of her 90th birthday. total number of eligible victims is likely •leadquarters in the basement kitchen in Eva Trent to be 35,000. German ghetto law correction Further to the note published in last Search Notices George for Neusatz (now Novi Sad). After month's journal, the new address the war, my father, who survived by for correspondence of the ^••ist L Freud (1892-1970) architect, leaving Vienna in 1938 for Rhodesia, Landesversicherungsanstalt Freie und ^''chjtectural historian seeks information could never find them. Information, Hansestadt Hamburg is Postfach ^f^ Freud's clients, collaborators (in please contact Peter Deutsch at 701125, 22011 Hamburg, Germany. f^^fticular Heinz Jacobsohn, Alexander pld(Sperlynd.com. French investigative commission ^^^2, both in Berlin, and (G B ?) Bartlett in Bruno and Robert Goldschmidt, born The deadline for filing claims in respect ^^ UK), and his projects in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg 24.11.1926 and 19.05.1925 of bank accounts and other financial ^•^d London. Freud concentrated mainly respectively. Bruno changed his name to assets despoiled by the Vichy regime "^•^ domestic architecture (detached Brian Goldsmith and Robert to Robert ^^mi-detached houses, refurbishment, and its German occupier during the Goldsmith or Solomon Robert Goldsmith. "^terior designs, and furniture designs). Second World War has been extended According to Jewish Refugees . ^^ a preliminary list of clients, especially to 18 January 2003. Committee, London, they became "^ Berlin, and to help with further To make an application or receive naturalized British citizens in October and "^formation, please contact Volker Welter further information about the work of November 1947, and Brian joined the °^ [email protected]. British Army in May 1944 (his army the Commission, write to Le ^3yan Wolf Beck, born 18.02.1863 number 14494195). Information, please Rapporteur General, Commission ^tomo, lived Sternengasse 85, Cologne, contact Herbert A Lindow, 4515 Willard Indemnisation de Victimes de ^ter Horst-Wessel-Platz 14. Deported Avenue, Apt 706, Chevy Chase MD Spoliation (CIVS), 1 Rue de la ^6,06.1942 to Theresienstadt with wife 20815, USA. Manutention, 75116 Paris, France, tel ^ôcha nee Rosenfeld, born 11.03.1878 0033156 52 85 00. Peitz. I am researching into Jewish ^ îsnits. A granddaughter may live in inhabitants of Peitz in 1938. Also, seeking Further help /^^ USA, a greatgrandson may live, or information on Heinz Richard Abraham, Written enquiries should be sent to ^ê lived, in London. Information, born 23.04.1919 in Konigsberg, an Central Office for Holocaust Claims ^'âse contact Mrs Hedvah Ben Zev, electrical engineer who emigrated to (UK), 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, ^°onstr. 50, D-50674 Cologne. Oxford, England in 1939. Please contact London NW3 6AL. For assistance with '"'^da Deutsch, my aunt, married Albert Susanne Rothe, Dorfstrasse 16, 15868 the completion of application forms, "ênde in Vienna. They left Vienna in 1936 Ullersdorf, Germany, tel (033671) 30502 please telephone 020 7431 6161 for an of '^h children Eleanore, Joseph and email [email protected]. appointment.

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Desperately seeking solidarity Part 2 Newsround Richard Grunberger Jewish Museum set for expansion It followed as a matter of coiurse that I totally non-unionised workforce. London's Jewish Museum is set to triple in size following the purchase of a building too went into the rag trade. My fellow Obedient to YA directives I started a adjoining its Camden Town site. Museum garment workers, though Jewish to a membership drive for the Amalgamated Director Rickie Burman said the extended man, were not particularly Engineering Union - which netted site would house enlarged galleries for sympathetic. A puzzling aspect of our exactly one recruit! If class- permanent and temporary exhibitions, as relationship was their repeated consciousness languished, xenophobia well as providing space for a children's mention of Franz Josef mit di waxed powerfully. A female capstan gallery and education centre, an papierenen hoisen (paper trousers). operator dubbed me 'the refuggie', while auditorium and a cafe. I later discovered that my Austrian the factory storekeeper was given to Next year's Holocaust Day in origin put them in mind of Emperor saying 'My name is Smith with ay!' and Edinburgh Franz Josef and his dress imiform of covering his nose with his hand every The Home Office has announced that pink tunic and white trousers. time we met. The fact that the 'joke' next year's principal Holocaust Memorial The year 1940 brought three passed over my head in no way Day will be held in Edinburgh. The event will focus on 'Children and the disparate forms of excitement: a spell diminished his delight in retelling it. Holocaust'. As previously, local and behind barbed wire on the Isle of Man, One person at the Radiamp, however, regional activities will also be held across the London Blitz, and my recruitment treated me as a fellow human being and the UK. into Young Austria. That organisation invited me home. He was my boss - in Jewish primary school to be built in did really valuable work in engendering other words the exploitative, bourgeois Cologne refugee solidarity at the same time as it class enemy conjured up by Marxist The Lauder Morijah Elementary trumpeted the pathetic fiction that the mythmakers. This was not the only School, the first Jewish primary school iri Heimat yearned for our return. paradox my Young Austria mentors Cologne since the war, is scheduled to Though draped in the Red-White-Red had difficulty in explaining away in 1945. open in 2003. It is named both after a flag. Young Austria were, of course. Just as baffling was the fact that the school closed by the Nazis and in honour Reds of the deepest dye. Accordingly, Heimat neither thanked the Allies for of the US charity the Ronald S Lauder when Russia came into the war, they having liberated it nor showed any Foundation exhorted the membership to support appetite for Communism. By 1946, Rhodes memorial vandalised the British war effort. I left the rag under the impact of the Shoah and with According to a report in the JeiV'S'' trade and enrolled in a government Palestine coming to the boil, my Jewish Chronicle, the Rhodes Holocaust training scheme to become a centre- sense of solidarity kicked in again. Not Memorial, which was dedicated earlie'' this year, has been vandalised. The lathe turner. My first donning of that I did very much, except having shouting matches with leftie dinosaurs memorial commemorates 1,973 Je^' overalls struck me as a veritable rite of from the Greek island who perished '^ among my friends. However, all this passage. Was I not about to join the the concentration camps. Islander* industrial working class, to whom the emoting must have done some good reportedly see the vandalism as 'alien't" great Marx had assigned the vanguard because decades later my eldest son the history and civilisation of Rhodes. headed Labour Friends of Israel. Would role in the forward march of humanity? Nazi collaborator ruling it be hubris to detect genetic Reality could not have been more The European Court of Human Rights h^' different. At the Radiamp Works in programming behind this convergence ruled that Maurice Papon was denied ^ Tottenham, N17, I encountered a of two foci of solidarity? fair appeal over his 1998 conviction '" war crimes. Papon, now 91, ^^ AJR GROUP CONTACTS East Midlands (Nottingham) sentenced in April 1998 to 10 years for t^'* North London Bob Norton 01159 212 494 role in the wartime deportation if° Jenny Zundel 020 8882 4033 West Midlands (Birmingham) Bordeaux of 1,690 Jews to the Na^' South London Henny Rednall 0121 373 5603 death camps. Ken Ambrose 020 8852 0262 North (Manchester) Memorial dedicated to Hungai"'^" Pinner (HA Postal District) Werner Lachs 0161 773 4091 Va'ad Vera Gellman 020 8866 4833 Leeds HSFA A memorial statue in honour of RudolP Surrey Trude Silman 0113 225 1628 Kastner and other members of Hunga Edmee Barta 01372 727 412 Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, controversial wartime Jewish Aid ^ Brighton & Hove (Sussex Region) Newcastle, Harrogate & Sheffield Rescue Committee - the Va'ad - has be«^ Fausta Shelton 01273 688 226 Susanne Green 0151 291 5734 dedicated in the courtyard of Budap^* icf Wessex (Bournemouth) Essex (Westcliff) main synagogue. It is the first s^ Mark Goldfinger 01202 552 434 Larry Lisner 01702 300812 memorial to the Va'ad.

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