Volume XXX No. 12 December, 1975 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE AssooAim Of xmH RSUCSS HI WEAT KITAIH

Ernest Hearst finanzpraesidenten throughout the Reich (4.11.1941). 'Diu-ing the next few months Jews not working in economically essential indus­ THE ADMIMSTRAUVE STRUCTURE tries will be removed to a town in the Eastem territories. The property of Jews so removed will be taken over by the Reich. Each Jew will OF GENOCTOE be allowed to take with him 100 RM. and What will people make of the twentieth tives concerning their deportation, the organi­ 50kg. luggage.' What the reality of such a century two or three hundred years hence? sation of their transports and finally the "removal to a town in the Eastem territories" Will the emphasis be put on the scientific and various fates marked out for the doomed on looked like has been described in a report technological developments which altered not arrival at journey's end are all closely studied. submitted by Jewish, Quaker and Red Cross only the physical and social terms of man's This scrutiny of the administrative structure organisations to Herr Lammers, head of the existence, but enabled him to leave the con­ of genocide is followed by recording individual Reichs Chancellery and forwarded by him to fines of his native planet and set foot on the fates, fossilised in the reports of a watchful Himmler (14-3-1940). Clearest stars of a beckoning universe? Or will scribbling officialdom. Much of what Adler "The deported were stripped of all their the perspectives of history be dominated by relates in great detail has been told before and possessions. They were not even allowed to the century's equally monumental aberrations, more generally in G. Reitlinger's Final Solu­ keep their hand luggage and the women had by its propensity for organised brutality and tion or Hilberg's The Desfrwctton of European to surrender their handbags. Some people premeditated millionfold mass murder? Jewry. But what gives this work its particular who, because of the bitter cold, had tried to These are questions the contemporary asks relevance—apart from investigating the role wear several coats or pieces of underwear oot so much of the future as of himself. Can he played by the German bureaucratic apparatus on top of each other, had their coats taken justifiably look forward to the world his chil­ —is its concentration on the specific and the away... . The deported arrived in Lublin with dren will have to inhabit, or must any hopeful individual. nothing but what they stood in. . . . They anticipations be immediately modified by the were then moved on to the villages of Unspeakable horrors he has lived through or My Lai not Auschwitz Piaski, Clusk and Belcyce about 17-19 miles Witnessed? Can the future, he wonders, liber­ While one fears that so voluminous and away from Lublin. In a temperature of —20 ate itself from a past which betrayed the im­ expensive a book will necessarily have a degrees centigrade men, women and children memorial belief in human perfectibility and readership confined to academics and other had to make their way to these villages progress. How widely shared is this belief professional researchers into the immediate along snow-covered roads . . . During this anyway? Perhaps it belongs only to the in­ past, its appearance and the wealth of docu­ march which lasted more than 17 hours, 72 herited, mental fumiture of a now aging mentation it presents is nevertheless timely of the approximately 1,200 deported col­ generation, which appears to its offspring as enough. For the process by which the events lapsed by the roadside, many of them aged an outdated antique, irrelevant and unsuitable of thirty years ago have been absorbed into and up to 86 years old. Most of them died to their style of living. our consciousness and form part of our political of exposure. Among them a mother who had Be that as it may, for those who lived language, has tended to dim the enormity of carried her three-year-old child in her arms, through the holocaust years, the traumatic the horror. This happens whenever trendy trying to protect it with her clothes from question remains how could these enormities radicals taunt the police with shouts of Sieg the cold, until, totally exhausted she col­ be perpetrated in our age; and not in far-away Heil, or as was recently the case, when pro­ lapsed in this position . . . Arrived at their Places by primitive people, but here in Europe gressive and politically enlightened producers destination it was up to the deported to in the heartland of civilisation. H. G. Adler of a television documentary on the Nurem­ find accommodation in the already over­ in his monumental 1.076-page Der Verwaltete berg War Crime Trials encouraged the crowded huts and houses of the native Jews Mensch, Studien zur Deportation der Juden aus scriptwriters to draw parallels between . . . The deported had to look for shelter in I^eutschland (J. C. B. Mohr, Tubingen, DM 120) Auschwitz and My Lai. Now My Lai was dread­ bams, sheds and stables, and as apart from tries to answer this question. ful enough to shock eventually even the black bread there is no food and the 'How was it done', he asks in his foreword. military who condoned and tolerated it, not to hygenic conditions are appalling the daily 'How did it become and was made possible? mention public opinion in America and the death toll is mounting particularly among Who formulated and transmitted the orders? rest of the world. But for all the terrible and the aged and the children. . . . The situation What actually happens, if one does not simply insensate slaughter of men, women and chil­ is further aggravated by the complete des­ fxpel, as it has become since 1945 an increas­ dren. My Lai was not Auschwitz, and to try titution of the deportees; lacking even cook­ ingly and terrifyinsly accepted practice in and draw parallels between them, really ing facilities, they must slowly perish". Europe, Asia and Africa; but when—so to amounts to equating coldly planned and It would be easy to quote other documents speak according to barbarically ordered pro­ ranaciously organised crime with the homo- equally harrowing or murderous directions cedures—a human being is against his will up­ cidal outburst of a fearful, frustrated and couched in equally bland officialese. But this rooted from his familiar surroundings, deprived brutalised soldiery. For those who perished, is hardly necessary, for readers of this paper pf all—or almost all—his human attributes, the difference may be meaningless—although know about the extermination camps; and their is legally expunged and in this way administra­ one was a quick death and the other a slow own experience with Nazi bureaucrats allows tively eradicated, long before being actually darkly apprehended, inexorable agony—^but for them to believe that the eventual annihilation niurdered.' Using the vast amount of evidence those who survived and want to prevent the of German Jewry was achieved in accordance an assiduously form-filling Nazi bureaucracy recurrence of such enormities, it is profoundly with neatly phased and punctiliously execu­ bequeathed posterity, the author, helped by relevant to distinguish between the two Wnds ted orders. The author therefore devoted the the hitherto undiscovered archives of the of savagery and their motivation. second part of his book to an investigation WUrzburg Gestapo containing more than 24,000 Indeed it seems to be the whole purpose of into all aspects of the administration appara­ documents, has been able to follow these 'bar­ H. G. Adler's research to demonstrate how this tus, the way It transmits and even generates baric procedures' in minute detail. Pains­ slaughter of people In their millions, was— state power and how in Germany—and by takingly, step by step, the road towards the owing to the texture and conventions of the implication in all modem industrialized socie­ 'Pinal Solution' is being retraced. The official society in which it was enacted—^first trans­ ties—it became increasingly powerful, threat­ decrees ruling the initial disfranchisement and formed into the almost innocuous sounding ening to enslave the individual it was origin­ identification of Jews, their subsequent segre­ abstractions of official directives eagerly ally meant to serve. While the erudite enquiry gation, the confiscation of their property in formulated by a reliably callous civU service. Into the history and dynamics of administra- accordance with exact inventories they them­ Take for instance the notice sent by the selves were compelled to provide, the direc­ Reichsfinanzministerium to various Ober- Continned on page 2, column 1 ^^ -.mmm.^m^'i^i^

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people living in Europe were dying . . . THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE If the rest of the world had threatened to intervene at this moment the lives of a mil­ OF GENOCIDE lion or more people might have been saved .... They abandoned their .... brothers Continued from page 1 USSR throughout the 'thirties other imtold so that their agreeable state of general tran­ millions were uprooted, deported, starved quility might continue". tion will only be fully appreciated by sociolo­ or worked to death. Like the Wurzburger So a bitter Solzhenitsyn commenting, on tbe gists or political scientists, the waming the Gestapo files, the archives of the Smolensk officially imposed Ukranian famine of 1934. author sounds against the uncontrolled growth Party Headquarters for the period of 1917- (Times Literary Supplement, 23.5.1975.) A few of the administration complex, culminating in 1938 give a detailed official account of the years later the free and powerful peoples of the "Administrated Man", the Verwaltete persecution and destruction of the Soviet the West were equally unwilling to endanger Mensch ot the book title, is plain enough even "class enemy". They first fell Into German their agreeable tranquility by any action on for the uninitiated. and after the war into American hands and behalf of the doomed Jews. "Knowingly or unknowingly administra­ were edited and published under the title However, if we believe the horrors the tion all too readily regards itself as execu­ Smolensk under Soviet Rule. world has lived through have sharpened its tive power, an ambition it always nurtures 'In February 1930 directives were received sensitivity to human suffering or widened its but which is fully realised only in totali­ to divide all Kulak households into three compassion, we are profoundly mistaken. When tarian regimes. There it succeeds all the groups according to the danger they pre­ in the spring of 1975 the victorious Khmer readier because the men In power who have sented to the Soviet authorities. "The Rouge marched the about one-and-a-half usurped the govemment and are account­ counter-revolutionary kulak active" to be million Inhabitants of the Cambodian capital able to no one, do depend on tbe adminis­ arrested by the OGPU, "certain elements Phom Penh—including the aged, the infirm trative and executive bureaucracy and par­ of the kulak active" to be deported to "far- and the young—off to be resettled on the ticularly on Its drafting and form-filling off" parts, and the remaining kulaks to be land, the world again refused to be distiurbed. clerks over whom they seem to hover so resettled locally on swamp lands, eroded Nobody seemed particularly concerned. No Intlmidatingly. It is tliis class which — areas and other soil in need of improve­ Foreign Ministers were asked to make repre­ imlike in the times of the ancient tyrants ment.' sentations and the militant, if selective, and despots—now does the work for the If the realities of the deportation and re­ defenders of human rights at the United dictator and his henchmen. However much settlement did not differ essentially from those Nations failed to raise their voice. they may ridicule these penpushers and endured by the Jews, the bureaucratic appara­ As one sadly wonders how many mothers their paper-work, the administrative rules tus responsible for the liquidation of the collapsed by the roadside under the blazing which suddenly begin to govern the citizens alleged "enemies of the people" proved to be Cambodian sun almost in the same position had nevertheless to be clearly formulated infinitely less efficient and compliant than its in which a generation earlier her Jewish sis­ and tidily registered, even though as they Nazi counterpart. There was popular resis­ ter froze to death in the snows of Poland, are inherently evil, recourse to obfuscating tance. "Now they are taking bread from the one is almost inclined to ask the author of circumlocation became often inevitable. In kulaks", villagers grumbled, "tomorrow they Der Verwaltete Mensch to write another book this way— and this book bears vidtness to will tum against the middle and poor peas­ extracting from the available documentation it—^the deportation of German Jewry ant". When a local official insisted on leaving on the various extermination systems the was accomplished". enough grain to the kulaks for sowing and common denominators which enabled them to Here, and with all one's admiration for the feeding the children, he was reprimanded by thrive so hideously and thus to invalidate author, one must join issue with him. his superior. ". . . . don't think of the kulak's all the achievements in other fields of human Although aware of the threat to individual hungry children, In the class struggle philan­ endeavour. freedom posed by the proliferating tentacles thropy is evil". of the administration apparatus and conscious In its terrible bluntness this direction of the need to limit its prerogatives consti­ answers Adler's initial question "How was it NEO-NAZIS IN WEST GERMANY tutionally one wonders, nevertheless, whether done?" It was done and made possible by the The Chairman of the West Berlin Jewish the existence of a docile and accommodating single-minded and merciless determination ot Ckimmunity, Heinz Galinski, launched a protest bureaucracy was either the cause of or an the despots in control, to pursue the mirage against anti-Semitic publications distributed important contributing factor to the persecu­ of their aggressive, messianic ideology irres­ by a so-called "Circle of Friends of the tion and eventual massacre of German Jews. pective of the cost in human suffering or NSDAP" from a Hamburg address. They des­ cribed Galinski, Simon Wiesenthal and other Indeed one would almost hope this had been lives. The instruments of coercion they used anti-Nazi campaigners as "accusers of the so, for then merely legal safeguards would or developed certainly do not touch the heart German nation", adding "we all know what suffice to tame the terrifyingly savage and of the problem. Significantly the exhortation we can do about it—and we must do it". murderous forces which seem to dominate otu- "not to think of the kulak's hungry children" Readers are asked to study Hitler's "Mein century. is paralleled by Himmler's contempt for soft­ Kampf" in order to discuss it at their regular The destructive power of the forces has, hearted Germans who all knew at least one meetings. Galinski wams against any tendency however, remained demonstrably unaffected "decent Jew" and his glorification of the to dismiss such publications as the acts of a by the existence of bureaucratic structures "unsung heroism" of his SS who cleansed lunatic fringe and stresses: "We all know Germany of the "race enemy", however repu­ what the ravings of even a small number of although where at hand, they were, of course, political psychopaths can lead to. We should put to use. The "Final Solution", the murder of gnant the procedure. These assaults on a civil­ never forget the lessons of the past." six million Jews, was the Bon Pensants, the isation based on the sanctity of human life Albert Krueger, a 60-year-old Celle business well intentioned liberals were led to believe have another feature In common. They were man, accused of murdering 170 people in a for a long time, something so unimaginably mounted In the face of a knowing yet stonily concentration camp in White Russia, said in frightful, something so out of keeping with indifferent world. court that Jews and gipsies were members of the underlying thrust and ethos of the "We thought that the free and powerful inferior races who had done no work during twentieth century as to represent a novum, peoples of the West would find it intolerable the war, but had roamed the countryside an anti-human infamy sui generis. Alas even that a neighbouring people should be committing thefts. The White-Russian popu­ this is not the case. In the process ot oppressed as if they were apes or cattle lation had therefore supported their extermina­ dekulakisation and collectivisation in the .... But the fact remains that six million tion. A MONSTER TRIAL IN FRANKFURT In 1963, Hubert Gomerski, SS supervisor in the Sobibor death camp in Poland, was sentenced to life imprisonment for mass mur­ der. He was released in December 1972 to Greyhound Guaranty Limited await the result of his appeal. The appeal Bankers trial started in November, 1973. Recently the judge and jury went to Poland to inspect the remains of the camp and interview survivors. 5 GRAFTON STREET, MAYFAIR, During the visit, the judge knelt at the Sobibor and Maidanek memorials and laid LONDON, WIX 3LB down flowers. After his return, the accused asked for his removal as he seemed to be prejudiced. This request was refused by the Telephone: 01-629 1208 authorities. Gomerski had intended to accom­ pany the jury to Sobibor, but had been re­ Telex: 22465 Cables: Greyty, London, W.l fused a visa by the Polish authorities. So far, more than 100 witnesses have been heard, AJR INFORMATION December 1975 Page 3 HOME NEWS 1^ .A ANGLO-JUDAICA Rabbi writes Libretto for Cantata CARDINAL HEENAN BOYCOTT HITS BRITISH JOBS A Friend of Jewry Rabbi Dr. Albert Friedlander has written the Mr. Stephen Wills, director of the semi­ libretto for a cantata "The Five Scrolls" which official British Overseas Trade Group wamed is based on the Bible. The music was composed „ At the annual conference of the Council of businessmen that British business and jobs ^nristians and Jews—the late Cardinal Heenan, by Donald Swann. The work was inspired when were being lost to competitors because of un­ Mr. Swann heard Dr. Friedlander give a talk Jne Archbishop of Westminster, said that justified fears of the Arab boycott. Mr. Wills ^ne need for the Council had not yet on the Jewish faith and its music at South­ said that some competitors, especially the wark Cathedral. The cantata was given its disappeared. Even if there were no overt Germans, had realised that they could do antisemitism, "it stdl smoulders under the sur- world premiere at the Westminster Synagogue profitable business with both Israel and the before going to the United States. It carries a lace — sometimes called anti-Zionism — and Arab States. He cites the example of a British Could break out again". The Archbishop of message of reconciliation among the nations of company manufacturing telephone equipment the world and will be heard at Temple !-anterbury. Dr. Donald Coggan, told the meet- which refused an Israeli order with a view to ®g of his deep personal gratitude to Judaism, Emmanuel and the Cathedral of St. John The get larger orders from the Arab world. As Divine in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and ^e said he had come into contact with many these did not materialise, the firm had to close Jews, which had led to precious friendships, at various universities, synagogues and down a factory employing 500 workers. West churches in America and later in Jerusalem. smce his undergraduate days at Cambridge. Germany had now overtaken the UK as Israel's Judaism had also given him a love for the second largest supplier (after the US). Hebrew language which he had learnt as a Oldest club in East End to be sold "oy and taught at Manchester University. Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg, Conservative MP for The Buber-Rosenzweig medal was presented Hampstead, provided the Secretary of State for The Brady Club and Settlement, the oldest- '0 the Rt. Rev. George Appleton, former Trade, Mr. Peter Shore, with evidence that a established Jewish youth club in the East End Archbishop of Jerusalem, by the Rev. Dr. W. P. nationalised concem apparently submitted to has been forced to put its premises on the *;ckert on behalf of the German branch of the the boycott. Mr. Greville Janner, QC, Lat»our market because of a deficit of £8,000 and a "-ouncil, in acknowledgement of his devoted MP for Leicester, raised the question of British considerable bank overdraft. They will pro­ services for better understanding between Leyland which had stated in a letter to the bably be sold for over £250,000 to the Spital- *-hristians and Jews in Israel. German-Israel Friendship organisation that it fields Project, run by the GLC, ILEA and was the company's policy not to supply Tower Hamlets Council and financed by the vehicles for export to Israel. Mr. Gerald Home Office. It is hoped to open a community CHIEF RABBI AND ARCHBISHOP Kaufman, Under-Secretary for Industry said in centre for local residents where Brady would IN JOINT BROADCAST reply that in the Govemment's understanding, be allowed to continue its youth clulb on two Leyland "do in fact supply the Israeli market evenings per week. .In a broadcast on Radio London's programme with vehicles". Leyland which is about to re­ You Don't Have To Be Jewish", the Chief ceive large sums from public funds, intends to ^abbi. Dr. Jakolwvits, and the Archbishop of establish a factory in Egypt. Eminent Guests at Ben Uri Art Gallery Canterbury, Dr. Coggam, made a joint appeal Jor the revival of moral values as a response The Ben Uri Art Society and Gallery re­ [•o the present ills in British society. Dr. Jako- BBC PROTECTS JERUSALEM cently celebrated their 60th anniversary at oovits said the remedy was a return to a CORRESPONDENT a reception attended by Mr. Hugh Jenkins, nealthy attitude towards work and the curbing Minister of State; Sir Robert Mayer, CH, one Of.Vested interests in the spirit of love in the A group of members of the Council for the of its oldest supporters; Amold Wesker, the original Hebrew meaning: a capacity to give. Advancement of Arab-British Understanding playwright; and the Israeli Ambassador, Mr. On the foUowing day, the Chief Rabbi demanded in a letter to The Listener "an im­ Gideon Rafael. The chairman, Mr. Alexander and the late Cardiiial Heenan spoke at a partial enquiry into the Zionist bias" of Margulies, announced tljat the Society was Reception to mark the anniversary of the Michael Elkins, the BBC's Jerusalem corres­ going to buy more works by new artists, to ^econd Vatican Council's Declaration on the pondent. The letter was signed by Sir Anthony sponsor new writings and new music amd to Jews. The Chief Rabbi saw in the declaration Nutting, a former Foreign Office Minister, make its permanent collection fully represen. J^ne of the most important tuming points in three former Ambassadors to Arab countries, tative. Mr. Jenkins took as his cue the biblical {Je history of human relations. Cardinal and three MPs (two Labour, one Tory). Sir description of Bezalel Ben Uri as a man "with iieenan stressed that the declaration had out­ Charles Curran, the BBC's director-general, the ability to think thoughts and to devise lawed antisemitism in the Roman Catholic described Elkin's accuracy, objectivity and skilful works". At the end of the reception, J-hurch and banished for ever the belief that integrity as unchallengeable and said that he an appeal was launched. •^ne Jews were an accursed race. was prepared to publish both the complaints and his comments, leaving the decision to pub­ lic opinion "where it properly belongs". The Students Union bans Jewish members from letter in Tfie Listener marked the climax of a rally OESTERREICHISCHE campaign against Elkin which had l>een going The Strathclyde Students' Union, Glasgow, SOZIALVERSICHERUNG on for some time, alleging that his Jewishness refused Jewish students entry to a rally in Die oesterreichischen Sozialversiche- and "self-proclaimed Zionism" coloured his support of Palestine and Dhofar (Oman) on rungs-Pensionen werden ab 1. Januar, 1976, broadcasts from Israel both by omission and the grounds that the admission of Zionists nm 11-15% erhoeht. commission. might prejudice security. The meeting was addressed by Said Hammammi. PLO represen­ tative in Britain. A protest gathering was ERASMUS PRIZE FOR SIR ERNST With acknowledgement to the news service mounted by the Glasgow Students' Society. GOMBRICH of the Jewish Chronicle. The organisers of the rally had circulated a ^ Sir Ernst Gombrich, director of the Warburg "draft document" for the setting up of a institute and author of "The Story of Art" united anti-Zionist students' organisation. and "Meditations on a Hobby Horse" re­ ceived the Erasmus Prize at the Vincent Van Mayoral visit to synagogue JfOgh Museum in Amsterdam in recognition of Vour House /or:— .Contributions to developing relations between Councillor and Mrs. Norman Hirshfield, the ^ne visual arts and the public". He shares the mayor and mayoress of Barnet, paid a visit to «Ward which was presented by Prince Bem- CURTAINS, CARPETS, the Golders Green Synagogue, Dunstan Road. ^ard of the Netherlands, with Dr. Wilhelm After the Service Mr. Alfred Woolf, president ^andberg, the former director of the of the Ssmagogue, presented the couple with Amsterdam Museum. FLOOR COVERINGS Rabbi Newman's book "The life and teaching of Isaiah Horowitz". SPECIALITY APPOINTMENTS New cemetery in Edgware Lord Goodman has been appointed president CONTINENTAL DOWN A cemetery shared by the West London ?t British ORT. He is also President of the Synagogue, the Spanish and Portuguese Con­ institute of Jewish Affairs and Chairman of the QUILTS gregation and the Union of Liberal and "Jewish Chronicle Trust. Next year he will be- Progressive Synagogues was opened at iOme Master of University College, Oxford. Mr. ALSO RE-MAKES ANO RE-COVERS Edgwarebury Lane, Edgware, Middlesex. At ijavid Young was made chairman of British the opening ceremony a tablet was dedicated y^T in succession to Mr. Gabriel D. Sacher ESTIMATES FREE Who has resigned in order to live overseas. He to the memory of the six million Jewish pj^l, however, remain a member of the World DAWSON-LANE LIMITED martyrs. jT's goveming bodies. (Established 194E) BBC pledge ..Lord Nathan has been elected chairman of •J* council of the Royal Society of Arts, an 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK The BBC will make certain that there will ?«ice held by his father from 1961-1962. This Telephone: 904 6671 be no political bias in programmes transmitted js the first time in the history of the Society during the Islam Festival next April. The 'nat the office has been held by a father and Personal attention ol Mr. W. Shackman. assurance was given by Sir Charles Curran, Son. the BBC's director-general. g««iaiK'J^-a55¥«SiH ¥y"TiBggiiBBB^-;-»'«';'>Ti!y.?3-<".Jg"Hg»'B ••••i;!^wg--M!m »i?«.wv«aa

Page 4 AJR INFORMATION December 1975 NEWS FROM ABROAD THE GERMAN SCENE NEW POLITICAL PARTY UNITED STATES UN REVERSE THE PSALMS A liberal-conservative centre party, the Aktionsgemeinschaft Vierte Partei has been Murdered for not carrying money on the A cantata written by the Austrian composer formed at Stuttgart. Its programme is orien­ Gottfried von Einem for a celebration of tated towards new ways in foreign and econ­ Sabbath United Nations Dav had as its text part of omic politics. The vice-chairman, Kurt Meyer, Mr Israel Tiu-ner, a 54-year-old business­ the 121st psalm, but omitted the line "Behold, a former chairman of the Deutsche Soziale man, was killed outside his home in Brook­ He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber Union, stressed that the party had no relations lyn by a young Black, who was disappointed nor sleep". Mr Chaim Herzog, Israel's chief with the NPD which it regarded as its politi­ not to find any money in his victim's pockets. UN representative, protested at the omission cal enemy. So far the Party has between Mr Turner, an Orthodox Jew, was returning and refused to attend the concert. The com­ 10.000 and 20,000 members. A spokesman for home from a Friday night service and carried poser claimed to have used an abridged ver­ the FDP from which a number of members neither money nor keys. His funeral tiurned sion of the psalm in a German Bible. The were recruited, stated that the new party was into a mass demonstration against the Temple University Choir, which participated bound to fail. The NDP, which until 1969 had increase of crime in the neighbourhood. in the concert, also protested, whereupon Mr. about 28,000 members, has stated that its Young blacks and Puerto Ricans in the area von Einem offered to compose a special song membership is now reduced to 15,000, but that reacted by shouting "Hitler was right". A fight for them, "The Keeper of Israel". it provides candidates in all constituencies for between them and enraged mourners, some the Federal parliamentary elections in 1976. of whom had Auschwitz tattooed numbers on MEXICO their arms, ensued and had to be broken up The President's Honorary Doctorate MEETING OF WORLD UNION FOR by the police. Mr Turner and his wife had PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM both survived Auschwitz. The students of Tel Aviv University asked President Echeverria of Mexico to retum the For the first time for more than forty years, Afiter the murder Orthodox rabbis debated the World Union for Progressive Judaism met whether it would be permissible to carry honorary doctorate awarded to him during in Germany. The meeting in Karlsruhe was money in order to save life, as it was well- his recent visit to Israel. Mexico supported attended by rabbis from the United States, known that killings of mugged persons the anti-Zionist vote at the United Nations. Israel, Holland, Switzerland and Britain. The are not uncommon if they have no or not British delegation of seven Rabbis was headed sufficient money. Rabbi Emanuel Rackman CANADA by Rabbi John Rayner who preached in Ger­ of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, an Orthodox man in the new Karlsruhe synagogue, whereas scholar, said that he had already stated that Olympic Terror Plot the German Rabbi Levinson preached in it would be permissible to carry money in a Tbe Royal Canadian Mounted Police have English. Among many non-Jews who atten­ handkerchief, a hat or a belt, but not in a been asked to investigate mmours of a Pales­ ded the reception after the meeting were the pocket, wallet or purse. tinian conspiracy to commit acts of terror at mayor of Karlsruhe, delegates from the Inter­ the Olympic Games in Montreal next year. national League for Freedom of Religion and The suspects are said to include the Ontario the Council of Christians and Jews. During an America to Leave Geneva Organisation leader of the PLO and a bomb expert, known excursion to Worms, the delegates paid a visit for his sympathy with the PLO before his to the historical Jews' Cemetery and the Rasbi The United States are to withdrew from the immigration to Canada. Chapel where a memorial service for Nazi Intemational Labour Organisation in Geneva victims was held. to which they have belonged since 1934, be­ AUSTRALIA cause it allowed the Palestine Liberation MEMORIAL FOR DRESDEN SYNAGOGUE Organisation to participate in its activities. "Jew of the year" It has only recently transpired that in April In recent yeairs the US have contributed a German born Mr. Gus Hines, the president a memorial for the Dresden synagogue, an quarter of the organisation's budget. of the South Australian Jewish Board of Depu­ architectural masterpiece burned down in ties, has been named Australia's "Jew of the November, 1938, was consecrated in the Year" for his outstanding contributions to the presence of the mayor of Dresden. It takes Discrimination in Universities community. Since arriving in Australia in 1940, the form of a candelabrum with six branches Mr. Hines has been active in Zionist and sport­ in remembrance of the six million Jews killed The University of California in Los Angeles ing activities. In 1972, he was awarded the by the Nazis. During the consecration, the has been accused of discriminating against OBE. He has been asked to become 1976 chair­ Leipzig Synagogue Choir sang in Hebrew with white applicants in favour of racial minority man of the South Australian Red Cross Door- a Budapest Chazan as soloist. A further mem­ students. The case was brought by an American knock Appeal and is a govemor of the New orial sei-vice was held in the new Jewish of Norwegian extraction who claims that he Opera Foundation in the State. was denied a place in the medical school cemetery when a number of desecrated scrolls because he is white. The Anti-Defamation were buried. League of B'nai B'rith and the Order of Sons FRANCE of Italy in America have filed a joint "friend Protest against anti-Zionism LIST OF MARTYRS PREPARED of the court" brief. At the annual congress of LICA (Inter­ The Red Cross Interaational Tracing Service national League against Antisemitism and in Arolsen still receives many inquiries from individuals and official quarters. This is partly Education and Income Racialism) in Paris, the 700 delegates from all over the world pledged their 30,000 mem­ in connection with a memorial volume to be A survey conducted by the Ford Foundation bers to fight these two evils which "under the published in collaboration wdth the Federal has shown that Jews have both the highest guise of anti-Zionism are threatening to Govemment and the Munich Institute for Con­ average income and the highest level of educa­ destroy Israel and diaspora Jews". The con­ temporary History. This book is planned to tion among American citizens. They are closely gress condemned the "abject resolution" of a commemorate all persons who were resident in followed by Irish, Italian, German and Polish UN committee which equated Zionism with the Federal Republic and Berlin area at the Roman Catholics. Average income in 1974 was racialism. The speakers included Beate Klars­ start of persecution. The Tracing Service now $13,340 (about £5,500), the average length of feld, the campaigner for trials against Na2ii has innumerable lists of the inmates of concen­ schooling 14 years. criminals, and Mr. Jacques Soustelle, a former tration camps and prisons and of deportees. French Minister who appealed to his govern- mejit to use its Security Council veto to block JEWISH PAINTER HONOURED ARGENTINA the anti-Zionist vote. The city of Osnabruidk invited its citizens in a public appeal to donate money for the Repentance of an S.S. OfBcer Car bombs planted by Palestinian Students purchase of works by the Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum who died in a deportation camp The former SS stormtroop-leader Werner Sell- Two cars belonging to the sons of Mr. during the war. Nussbaum had received the mann, who had found refuge in Buenos Aires Pierre Bloch, president of the International Pmssian State Prize of the Academy of Arts after the war, left his large fortune to charities League against Antisemitism and Racialism in 1931, and 56 of his paintings are already in in Israel. In his will he stated that he wished were destroyed by bombs for which the the local museum. So far some DM50,000 has to try and assuage to a small degree the suffer­ National Front of Palestinian Students claimed been collected. ings which he and his friends had inflicted responsibility. on the Jews between 1933 and 1945. ITALY HAMBURG MEDAL FOR JTC REPRESENTATIVE Antisemitic Periodical The Pope receives Dachau prisoners The city of Hamburg awarded one of its 41 200 bishops and priests who had been civic medals "for faithful work in the service A new antisemitic periodical Restauracion imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp of the community" to Mrs. Erna Goldsmidt, has appeared in Buenos Aires. The paper des­ were received in audience by Pope Paul who the Hamburg representative of the Jewish cribed Hitler "as the saviour of Christian admonished them to work for forgiveness and Trust Corporation and until recently secre­ civilisation" and referred to the widely read reconciliation. Their memories of the evil they tary of the Jewish Communal Fund for daily paper La Opinion as "the newspaper of had experienced should spur them on to fight North-West Germany. She is a Theresienstadt the Sanhedrin". for friendship among the people on earth. survivor. AJR INFORMATION December 1975 Page 5 friedrich Walt to reject, to leave out. What then remains, er remains perhaps—perhaps". Let us now, for a still moment, leave aside GERMAN WRITERS ON THEIR the questions of the "Why" and "What" these writers are writing about and tum to the contribution of Emst Kreuder which concems "MOTIVES" FOR WRITING us more deeply than perhaps all the others. Instead of immediately answering the ques­ A Collection of Essays tions put to him, Kreuder, bom in 1903 and chiefly known for his post-war novel "Die In 1971^ a German publishing firm, the of the most deeply-felt stories of the persecu­ Gesellschaft vom Dachboden" ("The Attic Horst Erdmann Verlag, Tiibingen, put the ques­ tion of the Jews in Nazi Germany. Goes writes: Pretenders"), begins the short narration of tion "Why do you write?" to a certain number "The language is a house, the one house where I can feel at home. Languages and his life as follows: of contemporary German writers. The answers, "One night, Ernst Bayerthal, a friend of edited by Richard Sails, were published under language are two things. I know the bliss mine from Mainz, a gifted poet and musician, Jne title "Motive". Egon Larsen very skilfully of being able to enter for an hour, by the swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills. He translated this collection of essays under the immediacy of the language, the hall of was to be taken away on a lorry the next same title "Motives"*. He also wrote the fore­ Sophocles, the sacred grove of Genesis, the morning, and sent to the Theresienstadt word in which he explains in a very sym­ villas of Catullus, or the study of Charles concentration camp. For three days and pathetic, understanding and intelligent way the P6guy; and I should like to hear the 'tolle, nights, his mother sat by the bed of the lege' of St. Augustine in many languages; unconscious Emst. He never retumed.—I ^ery special problems and difficulties of "com- but I am at home only in my mother tongue, had met him, the son of the Jewish apothe­ niitment" and language confronting these in the house where I can be at home—^tied cary, at the seminary of German literaiture German writers in their attempts to deal—or to the powers of order, resisting a sense of at Frankfurt University. He graduated with Jiot to deal—with their own and their coimtry's righteousness ... I write a book as I do a a thesiii on Georg Trakl's poetay.—^In his traumatic experiences imder and after ttie letter, and I have some idea to whom it is last years, Bayertnal had occupied himself Nazi regime. addressed; or should I say for whom I write with German mysticism and astrology ..." Their answers differ according to their —^because I do not write against but for . .." Here we have, in a few terse and moving ^ifferent attitudes and temperaments. But they The concem for the German language is in­ sentences, a poignant contribution to the nave one thing in common: they are all frank, deed one of the recurrent and main themes of tragic fate of German Jewry. honest and thoughtful in their self-examination. almost all contributors — for the very good Siegfried Lenz, author of a most remarkable Some of the contributions are purely auto- reason that, as Egon Larsen points out In his novel "Die Deutschstunde" ("German lesson") oiographical, their authors trying to explain foreword, "one of the worst legacies of the tells us in his no less remarkable evocation of their motives for writing through their reac­ totalitarian State was the debasement of the German language during the Hitler regime". his childhood and youth under the Nazi regime tions to the experiences of their childhood Boell and Goes, being poetic prose writers, lay how one of his teachers, a gentle man and a and youth lived under the Nazi dictatorship. the stress on the evocative and associative quiet anti-Nazi, used to tell him and two of . Of the now older writers. Alfred Andersch, powers of a writer's mother-tongue from his co-pupUs when he invited them to tea that in an interview, had some very enlightening which the German language can be purified suffering is the strongest motif in the creations and thought-provoking things to say on the and resurrected. of all great writers. It is their mission "to lend 'Problem of Commitment". He is, in this But even such a young avant-garde writer as words to sorrow". Am I right in assuming that country^ mainly known for his novel "Efradm" Peter Handke who in his first play "Publikums- in the German original this teacher quoted m which he tried to give us a very noble amd beschimpfung" (Offending the Audience") Goethe's lines from "Tasso": "Und wenn der courageous portrait of a German-Jewish seemed more concemed with the abolition of Mensch in seiner Qual verstummt. Gab mir ein emigre-writer. To the interviewer's question than the respect for language, has now matured Gott, zu sagen, wie ich lelde". whether he believes that "literature repre­ to the point of writing that the image of a The most simple and conclusive answers to sents a force" he replied: changing world, as he sees it, "mu.st find a the question of why they write are given by "I can only speak for myself, for my own reflection in the language, in basic language three authors. The poetess Luise Rinser writes: generation, as a writer in the Western world, patterns, in the grammar. . . ." in a capitalist society—and I can say that "To the question 'Why do you write?' I can our work and our public stand have con­ The writer Kurt Kusenberg, belonging to an reply only with 'I write because I write'." tributed to changing peoples' minds toward.'; older generation and little known outside Ger­ Kurt Kusenberg puts it in similar terms: "Why criticism. I like giving this answer because many, perhaps because he is one of the last do I write? I am tempted to reply: because I the New Left in Germany has denied it. "Meister der kleinen Form" in the tradition can't do anything else". Wolfgang Koeppen, They've said that post-war literature was of Alfred Polgar and a brilliant "feuilletonist", best-known for his novel "Das Treibhaus" phoney liberalism and had no effect what­ gives us his concise and sceptical summing-up ("The Hot-House", an allusion to the goings- soever. One of them, for instance, advised us in these sentences: on in Bonn during the fifties) writes: "In the to stop altogether writing novels and stories "The German language, despite all its last resort I became a writer because I did not and plays—because it was all ineffectual, richness, elasticity and still undiscovered instead we should write industrial reports want to be a man of action. I do not like to and political articles. Grass says something possibilities, is so spoilt that one can dumo go into the market place and talk. I don't like similar; he derides the committed writer half of it straightaway. The lawyers, the being at the centre of social life". and demands that we should go into active bureaucrats, the businessmen and the parlia­ This particular aversion of his is reflected politics, as he has done. These are today's mentarians have seen to that. To write in the answer of almost all the other writers. problems. The whole notion of the writer's German means, therefore, in the first place: They all, although politically inclined to the commitment has been called into question left and saying so, have, with a few exceptions, because there are people like the New Left on the one hand and Grass on the other, who their reservations about direct participation say: Political commitment, that's nothing. FROM A GERMAN LIBRARY TO BE in politics and "commitment". This, too, is deeply rooted in the German tradition and You have to become proper politicians . . . DISSOLVED I write for the middle classes as a matter one of the main differences between German of course because I belong to them. I can't and English literature. Write for the workers or the very rich . . ." All books pre-war editions in very Goethe once said to Eckermann: "Wir Heinrich Boell, winner of the Nobel prize good condition, almost new. Neueren sagen jetzt besser mit Napoleon die lOr literature in 1973, touched in his Stock­ Politik isit das Schicksal. Hueten wir uns aber holm Nobel-Lecture, reprinted in this antho- '''gy, on the question of the preservation and Kant, Samtliche Werke 6 Bde lose! ei4 mit unseren neuesten Literatoren zu sagen, ""enewal of the German language: Schopenhauer Samtliche die Politik sei die Poesie, oder sie sei fur den Poeten ein passender Gegenstand. Der eng­ "It is useless," he said among other things, Werke 5 Bde Insel El 2 Plato Halbleder 5 Bde Muller £14 lische Dichter Thomson schrieb ein sehr gutes "to say that we speak the same language if Gedicht Uber die Jahreszeiten, allein ein sehr We neglect to include the overtones of reg­ Schiller, Samtliche Werke 6 Bde Insel £12 ional or even local history with which every schlechtes uber die Freiheit; und zwar nicht Word is charged. To my ears at least, some Heine Samtiiche Werke 10 Bde Tempel £20 aus Mangel an Poesie im Poeten, sondern aus of the German I read and hear sounds more Shakespeare Werke 6 Bde Insel £15 Mangel an Poesie im Gegenstande". foreign than Swedish of which, I am sorry Stifter Werke 6 Bde Insel £14 Apart from Guenter Grass, few contemporary to say, I understand very little . . ." Keller, Ausgewahlte Werke 4 Bde Insel £10 German writers would, I suppose, contradict . Boell's thoughts and sentiments are echoed Goethe on this point. One might or even should ^ the contribution of Albrecht Goes, a theolo- |ian by training, who in his short novel "Das If bought altogether, Price E90. perhaps not approve of his and their attitude °randopfer" ("The Burnt Offering") wrote one but for one who is himself so deeply steeped Replies to Box 540 in this particular German tradition as your • "Motives", Oswald Wolff (Publishers) Ud. E3-50. reviewer it is difficult not to sympathise with it. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION December 1975

Wolf Simon Matsdorf (Jerusalem) DEATH OF A SPIRITUAL LEADER In memory of Aaron Steinberg Aaron Steinberg, who died recently at the ISRAEL'S SALUTE TO INDEPENDENT age of 84, was a renowned Jewish scholar. He laid the foundations of the cultural activi­ ties of the World Jewish Congress and until PAPUA NEW GUINEA his retirement was Director of its Cultural Department. He came from an old family of When Carl and Irene Shipman arrived in play, which in many and various ways reflects distinguished Talmudic scholars and Hebrew and Yiddish writers in Dwinsk. He and lus Sydney in 1937 from Bingen-Rhine, they could the life of the New Guinea tribe, now on the elder brother, Isaac Nachman, attended the not have thought that some 38 years later way to nationhood, coincided with that coun­ Pemau Gymnasium where they were able to they would contribute towards the establish­ try's declaration of Independence and Sover­ observe religious customs during their studies. ment of a tangible link between their new eignty. While during the last few years some In 1907 Aaron went to Germany to study philo­ country's historic decision to grant indepen­ New Guinea Cabinet Ministers paid visits to sophy, history and law at Heidelberg Univer­ dence to the Territory of Papua New Guinea Israel, there existed, so far, no official contact. sity. His former tutor. Rabbi Rabinkov, and his and a 27-year-old Jewish State. brother followed him and together they In fact, this large island with three million founded the "Heidelberg School of Talmudic The oflScial opening in Jerusalem at the inhabitants was so unknown in Israel, that an Study". Nahum Goldmann and a number of Israel Museum of an exhibition on "Life and official exhibition poster carried the Hebrew other future Zionists joined the circle around Art in Papua New Guinea" before Rosh words: "LO AFRICA" (Not Africa), and a Rabinkov. Hashana, coinciding with the eve of the large map at the entrance explained the The reason for the move to Heidelberg was declaration of Papua New Guinea's indepen­ geography of the area. The Israel Govemment that according to Russian regulations, even dence from Australia, symbolised the unique­ congratulated the Government in Port Moresby the sons of people with a right to residence ness of these developments. on their Independence and offered to recog­ had to leave as soon as they came of age, The opening ceremony in Jerusalem was nise it diplomatically, and soon the coimtry but could acquire a right of residence of then" will occupy a seat at the United Nations. own if they studied at universities abroad. performed by Jerusalem's Mayor Teddy Many articles by Steinberg were soon published Kollek and the Australian Ambassador Richard In the meantime, Israelis and the many in Russian and in Yiddish. During the First J. Smith, who emphasised the historic signi­ visitors to the New Guinea exhibition will World War, Steinberg and other aliens were ficance of this event, which for the first time learn more about the coimtry. The official intemed in a German village where soon a brought New Guinea before the Israeli public. display guide explains that "we are interested Jewish research centre came into being and The Ambassador also spoke of his own experi­ in the objects as well as in their cultural and Steinberg gave a number of lectures. After the ence in the island and stressed the compre­ religious context. New Guinea is in the ad­ war, he returned to Russia and was instru­ hensive and representative character of vanced stages of acquiring independence from mental in the setting up of an Institute of over 500 original items on display. Mayor Leaming in Leningrad where Jewish scholars the Australian Government. Independence in­ like Dubnow taught. Steinberg and Dubnow Kollek expressed his appreciation to the volves many changes, cultural, social and became friends and when, in 1922, Russia Shipmans for their generous donations which political. Along this path are the people of gradually ceased to provide room for Jewish will form the nucleus of a new ethnographic Papua New Guinea today". studies, they went to Berlin together. Aaron section of the Israel Museum. Steinberg's brother was for a while Minister Or in the words of Carl Shioman: "The of Justice, but soon came into conflict with Though the Shipmans, now residing in Mel­ grandsons of cannibals are studying at Port the Bolsheviks and resigned. He, too, went to bourne, did not attend the ceremony, Mr Carl Moresby University". Berlin where he founded the Freeland Move­ T. Shipman, in the oflScial lavishly illustrated "This exhibition can lead the way to a ment for Jewish Territorial Colonisation. He catalogue as well as in a talk with the writer better understanding of different and distant died in New York in 1957. several months ago, explained how this col­ societies and illustrate both universal local lection and his donation to the Jerusalem Aaron Steinberg was a co-founder of the elements found in all cultures", was the mes­ Gesellschaft fuer juedische Wissenschaft and Museum came about. Shipman's interest in sage by Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem. of the Yiddish Scientific Institute (Yivo) which archaeology goes back to 1928, when he made recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with excavations in Bingen in Germany during the a scholarly congress in New York. He also rebuilding of his deoartment store and dis­ translated the ten volumes of Dubnow's "World covered an ancient well which contained pot­ ISRAELI AND GERMAN TEACHERS MEET History of the Jewish People" into German and tery dating from Roman times to the Middle collaborated with Dubnow in a three-volume 15 Israeli and 20 German teachers met in "History of the Jewish People", published Ages. Kdnlgstein, Taunus, at the invitation of the shortly before the Second World War. Apart After his arrival in Australia in 1937, his German Teachers Union. In a resolution, they from his W.J.C. activities, he wrote for many travel interest centred mainly on Asia and stressed that it was one of their most important periodicals and Festschriften in Hebrew. the Pacific Islands, long before tourists "dis­ tasks to provide a political and humanitarian Yiddish, English, German and French. He covered" these areas. He also visited New education aiming at peace. A German-Israeli endeavoured to form a bridge between past Guinea, where in little towns he found curio and present, Israel and the Diaspora, Hebrew schoolbook commission was appointed to deal and Yiddish. Even after his retirement, his shops with strange carvings. He regarded this with problems of the German-Jewish past and philosophy on Jewish life and culture continued as a last chance of finding artifacts of a Stone the new German Jewish relationship in both to be a spiritual influence on individuals and Age cultiu-e. countries. organisations, scholars and politicians. Sitting in his office in Melboume recently surrounded by most precious totems and other JOSEF FRAENKEL New Guinea artifacts, he explained—amidst Does your heating cause dry air—affecting (A Memorial Meeting for Dr. Steinberg was tield '" a hive of business activities—how, some eight London under the auspices of tiie World Jewish Congress your health or piano, plants, anfiques, in co-operation with the Association of Jewish Joumallsi' years ago he asked the only just opened Israel and the Yiddish Committee on November 13.) Museum, whether they would be interested in woodwork & painfings' the remnants of a rapidly disappearing cul­ Ai HUMIDIFIER- ture. After Jerusalem's most enthusiastic SPECIALISTS we NORMAN CROSSLAND ADDRESSES affirmation he started to collect for them. He GERMAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR travelled by day and would talk at night to shall be pleased people like native police officers, missionaries, fo advise you Every year, the former inmates of the planters or white men living in the then almost German Prisoner-of-War camp Featherstone and send you Park, whose British education officer was unknown New Guinea Highlands. He collected Mr. Herbert Sulzbach, hold a reunion meeting most artistic ornaments and decorations, our free in Germany. The main speaker of this years carvings from people in the Sepik River area, explanatory gathering on October 18, in Duesseldorf was often with the help of crocodile himters who Mr. Norman Crossland, correspondent to Tn^ lived and traded in the area. Mr Shipman leaflet Guardian and The Economist. The function travelled by private plane, canoe or by road. was attended by 80 persons, among them The carvings and other items had to be trans­ quite a few members of the younger genera­ ported by canoe to the nearest New Guinea tion and a Jewdsh survivor of Auschwdtz, MT' port and then to be shipped to Melbourne. A Weispaker of Holland, who had also attendeo previous gatherings. The talk by Mr. Cross- special permit had to be obtained from the land was followed by a lively discussion. Those Melbourne Museum to send the collected THE HUMIDIFIER COMPANY present also included a representative of '•"\ items as gifts to the Israel Museum in Jem­ 25 Bridge Road, Wembley Park, Middx. British embassy in Bonn and Mr. Herbe" salem. Tel: 01-904 7603 Sulzbach (London), Hon. President of "Arbeit*- The opening of this most informative dis­ kreis Featherstone Park." AJR INFORMATION December 1975 Page 7

Erwin Seligmann letters, illustrations and newspaper reports covering its developments from 1804 to 1942. Hugo Schaumberger and Arthur Galliner sketch the history, Sigmund Hirsch recalls its LITERATURE ON FRANKFURTS PAST spiritual values as shown by the writings of its teachers, and Ludwig Ries, Wemer Gross, The city of Frankfurt is foremost among the bers of the community between 1628 and 1901, Kurt Goldschmidt, Walter Baum and Rafael many German towns which suffered a great was sent to the National and University Rosenzweig contribute memories of their deal of devastation during the war and are Library Ln Jerusalem, accompanied by a short schooldays, whilst Tilly Epstein, Otto Driesen, now rapidly changing, in trying to safeguard explanatory booklet in English and Hebrew. Betty Rand-Schleifer, Albert Hirsch and Fanny the memory of its past. During the past fifteen At the instigation of the Kommission zur Baer record their experiences as teachers. I years or so, the publishing house Waldemar Erforschung der Geschichte der Frankfurter am sure the book will be treasured by former Kramer, Bomheimer Landwehr 57, has brought Juden Dr. Mayer's short historical survey in pupils all over the world. out a number of short books commissioned by that booklet was subsequently translated into the Historj' Museum, the Association for Local German and enlarged by the author. The book Paul Amsberg's Pictures from Jewish Life History and Topography and the Commission contains good illustrations of the most impor­ in Old Frankfurt^ is a collection of newspaper for Research into the History of the Frankfurt tant Jewish monuments and a concise, but articles written between 1960 and 1970, mainly Jews, and nearly half of them deal with Jewish comprehensive survey of the main historical for the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". topics. Dr. Dietrich Andemacht, the director events, personalities and aspects of Jewish Their avowed purpose was to keep alive the of the City Archives, deserves special praise life in Frankfurt, from its beginnings in the memory of the Mother Community in Israel as for his skill in assembling and editing these eighth century to its end on November 6, Frankfurt's community was called throughout documents and for the warmhearted interest 1942. It lists historical sources and describes the middle-ages and beyond. Lightly written he takes in Jewish affairs. He has seen to it legal problems in dealing with the city but knowledgeable, the sketches are carefully that the Jewish contribution to the city's past authorities and in the community itself, as selected to reawaken a lost way of life in its finds its place even in the general historical well as religious developments, achievements more important manifestations. There are publications. For general information on the in the fields of commerce and of science and historical essays such as "The Clock Tower in past and present of Frankfurt, the Frankfurt the arts. Nothing important is forgotten, and 1900", "The Jews and the Profile of the City", Lexicon'' is probably the best source. There if the short book cannot replace the still out­ "The Emperor's Fountain", "The Oldest Jewish are more than 1,500 entries, ranging from standing modem history of the Frankfvirt com­ Tombstones", descriptions of synagogues, ceme­ "Aberglaube" to "Zuwachsgemeinde", and munity, it remains the best substitute so far. teries and schools of all trends, excursions into many good illustrations, all concemed with the city politics such as the unhappy story of the city's life and appearance. The short para­ The memorial volume for Frankfurt's famous Heine Monument, the sociology of the Jewish graphs under each heading are excellently Jewish school, the Philantropin, is another coffee shop, the beginnings of Zionism in written, exhaustive and unbiased. Treuner's valuable contribution.s Fifteen former teachers Frankfurt and many more. and pupils have collaborated in producing it. Altfrankfurt^ specialises in architecture and Last but not least we should mention an historical monuments. Two artisan brothers, It is not a coherent history of this unique Jewish achievement, but it contains documents. exhibition "Documents to the History of he Hermann and Robert Treuner, spent over 30 Jews in Frankfurt" which was shown in the years to make wooden coloured replicas to historical St. Paul's Church in June 1975. It exact scale of the most important parts of had been initiated by the evangelical study the Old Town before it was destroyed during circle "Church and Israel in Hesse Nassau" the last war. during this year's Protestant Convention. With the help of the head of the City Archives, Biitschli's Goetheplatz-Erinnerungen'^ are Dr Andemacht, his staff and the History more specialised, entertaining and nicely Museum, it displayed annotated pictures and written, I myself remember the famous Cafe documents of the most important events in Biitschli in the Goetheplatz where you bought By appointnnent to H. M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Frankfurt Jewish life. Eight glass cases showed the best ice-cream in town. The book by its Confectioners the many Jewish personalities who contributed former owner gives vivid impressions of his Aclcermans Chocolates Ltd. London family, his own growring up in the "Kaffeehaus" to sciences and arts, politics, trades and com­ milieu and the quality of life in Frankfurt for merce and to charitable causes. A small yellow the middle-class customers of the establish­ leaflet gives details of the items shown. The ment. Inevitably in view of their financial and exhibition met with a great deal of interest social position and their predilection for good, ACKERMANS and was favourably commented on in the local non-trefah food. Jewish personalities are fore­ press. most among them. Butschli who was bom in ' Frankfurt Lexicon, 1960. Sth edition 1970. Waldemar 1864. draws amusing sketches of such Jewish L^nocoiated ^JJe cJLuxe Kramer, DM 6-80, ' Fried Lubecke, Treuner't Altfrankfurt, Kramer 1960. orieinals as the double-dealing estate-agent Max IN BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED DM 14. Jaffa, the grotesque Kannix and Davidsborg ' August Butschli. Qoelheplatz Erinnerimgen, Kramer 1970. (who also figure in the local poet Stoltze's PRESENTATION BOXES DM 12-80, * Eugen Mayer, Die Frankfurter Juden. Blicke in die work) and the obese golden-hearted Clemens Vergangenheit, W, Kramer 1966, DM 6'80 Cahn. This is a passage from the book : "I ' Daa Philantropin in Franklurt a/M, Dokumente und can well say that on fine summer days the oLiaueur cnocotated Erinnerungen, ed, Albert Hirsch 1964, W. Kramer DM 8, * Paul Arnsberg, Blider aut dem JOditclien Leben im whole of Frankfurt's Jewry assembled at alten Frankfurt. W, Kramer, DM 12-80. Roeder's Ice Parlour (as it was called before the Biitschlis acquired the coffeehouse). And fr/arzipan Specialities there was a 'Gedlbber und Gedos' as in the BRING AND BUY SALE OF AJR CLUB promised land. . . . Everybody knew everybody else very well or was related. Naturally there The Annual BRING AND BUY SALE were those exceptions who behaved impudently eJjiabetic ckocoiates OF THE AJR CLUB in aid of the Gertrtid Schachne Fund, the Margaret Jacoby-Orgler and provokingly, but they were ostracised by Fund and the Ahavah Children's Home in the others." Israel, will take place on Sunday, January 18, Among the wholly Jewish contributions to 1976, from 2.30 to 6 p.m., in the Hall of Frankfurt's history, the book by Dr. Eugen Haimah Karminski House, 9 Adamson Road, Mayer,* former syndicus of the pre-war Jewish N.W,3. community, deserves foremost mention. In 1966 We would appreciate it if members of the AJR would contribute gifts and support the the old Memorbu^h wdth details about mem- SALE by their attendance.

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E. G. Lowenthal million (of which $76 million was in citrus fruit); diamond exports totalling $201 million; textile and wearing apparel worth $77 million; food, drink and tobacco in tbe amount of $87 million; and an identical sum for medicines, THE JEWISH KULTURBUND-THEATER chemicals and paints. E.xports to the Common Under the title "Juedisches Theater im important role, and the theatres in the Provin­ Market comprised some 40 per cent of Israel's Dritten Reich", a documentary film was pro­ ces, Furthermore, the motivation, organisation total exports for 1974. H.F- duced by Walther Schmieding. The official first and development of this courageous venture of show on the Second German TV is scheduled Jewish cultural self-help does not get across. TRIBUTE TO RABBI DR. HOLZER for February 29, 1S76. Yet in anticipation of Possibly due to the unbalanced structure of this premiere, the film was recently shown It is learned with regret that Rabbi Dr. the film the ensuing lively discussion hardly Paul Holzer died in London in his 83rd year. in the Berlin Jewish Gemeindehaus, The per­ dealt with the first five creative and successful Born in Krotoschin and brought up in Koenigs­ formance was attended by about 200 persons, years and concentrated on the happenings huette, he studied at the Jewish Theological among them not only Jews and including quite after the pogroms of November 1938. Seminary in Breslau and obtained his doctor­ a few young people. This first attempt, interesting as it was, calls ate at Erlangen University. From 1923 to The film consists predominantly of inter­ for substantial supplementation, especially in 1939 he was Rabbi of the Neue Dammtor views with some members of the ensemble the psychological sphere. As we all remember Synagogue in Hamburg and, from 1934 on­ of the former Jewish Kulturbund, who now the gratitude of the Jewish public grew at the wards, he also leotured at the Hamburg Jew­ live in Berlin or London and, to a lesser extent, ish Lehrhaus. After his emigration to this same pace as the general situation deteriorated. country he acted as rabbi in Epsom and also of documents such as stage sceneries, posters, The producer, Schmieding, supposes that in took charge of religious tuition in various newspaper criticisms, photos, etc. the middle of the 'thirties the Berlin Kultur­ other districts. The interviewees included, among others, bund produced a film at the request of the Dr. Holzer was one of the first rabbis to go Martin Brandt, Herbert Gruenbaum, Walter supervising Staatskommissar Hinkel. Any infor­ to Germany after the end of hostilities to help Hertner, Lilly Kann, Steffi Ronau-Walter, mation which might help to trace this film in bulding up a new Jewish religious life in Camilla Spira and the musician Martin Rosen, would be greatly appreciated. the British zone of occupation. He first stayed Unfortunately, Rudolf Schwarz, the conductor temporarily but later, from 1951 to 1958, he of the Kulturbund-Orchestra from 1936 to 1941, held appointments as rabbi, first for the Jewish who afterwards had to stay for four years in ONE-FIFTH OF WORLD JEWRY communities of North-West Germany and after­ concentration camps, felt emotionally unable LIVE IN ISRAEL wards for the Land Northrhine-Westphalia. During those difficult years he never spared to contribute his recollections of those tragic At the end of September 1975, Israel's popu­ himself, visiting also the Jews in isolated and years. As our readers know, Rudolf Schwarz lation was—according to an estimate of the distant places and looking after their spiritual now plays a prominent part in the musical Central Bureau of Statistics — 3,460,000, of and .social welfare. life of this country. The film also shows inter­ whom 2,927,000 were Jews. The 1975 Statistical Dr Holzer spent the years of his retirement views with Trude Wisten (Berlin), the widow Abstract, published recently in Jerusalem, re­ in Hendon, in constant contact with his large of the actor and producer Fritz Wisten, and vealed that during the Jewish calendar year family and with a wide circle of congenial, Ruth Abels (London), the helpmate of Dr. 5735 (September 1974 - September 1975), interested personalities. A man, upright in Kurt Singer, who perished in Theresienstadt Israel's population grew by some 73,000, This character and appearance, he knew how to in 1944. forge links between the values of the past and compared with a growth rate of 84,000 the of the present. He will always be remembered It is in the nature of a venture of this kind, previous year and of 106,000 two years ago. with affection by those who knew him, that its scope Is limited. Thus, the film only The decrease was almost entirely due to the deals with the theatre in Berlin, disregarding drop in immigration, the birth rate in the year E.G.L. the opera, which played an at least equally 5735 being up seven per cent as compared with the previous year. At the end of 1974, 20 per cent of world Jewry resided in Israel, while the comparable figure upon the establishment of the State had been 5-7 per cent, Sabras (native bora Israelis) DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX comprised 50 per cent of Israel's Jewish popu­ lation. Of the 519,000 non-Jews living in Israel at the end of last year, some 393,000 were LTD. Moslems, 84,000 Christians, and 42.000 Dmse and others. Since 1967, 106,000 new immigrants have arrived from the Soviet Union, of whom 5,000 subsequently left. The number of Russian immigrants has dropped sharply recently, with only 5,500 having arrived since January of this year. The 26th annual Statistical Abstract, whose 950 pages are a treasure house of data on virtually every aspect of Israeli life, shows Dunbee House that nearly half the population (47 per cent) live in the Tel Aviv and central districts. In the past 13 years, the number of cities 117 Great Portland Street, of 100,000 and over has increased from three to seven. 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RtCKENBACK choose Hallgarten —Choose Fine Wines 14 ROSSLYN HILL, LONDON, N,W,3 AJR INFORMATION December 1975 Page 9 CONFERENCE OF THE COUNQL Obituary PAULA ESSINGER OF JEWS FROM GERMANY Paula Essinger died at the age of 83 after a short, but very severe, illness which she On October 12 and 13, the Council of Jews Federation of Jews from Central Europe, Prof­ bore with ithe same tranquillity with which from Germany held a conference in London, essor Herbert Strauss, the CouncU has spon­ she faced all the problems in her life. which was attended by representatives of the sored research work on the history of the Paula was the sister of Anna Essinger with Council's affiliates in the US, Israel, Britain, Immigration and Resettlement of the Jews whom she founded the Landschulheim Herrlin­ Prance and Belgium. At the first day of the from Germany. This scheme has proved more gen (near Ulm) which in 1933 was transferred meeting, which was presided over by Mr. W. M, difficult than originally anticipated, partly due to England. In 1935 they were joined by Behr, OBE (London), co-chairman of the to the lack of sufficient expert research work­ another sister, Berthe Kahn. Paula's special Council, the affiliated organisations reported flair was the care of delicate children and ers, partly for lack of funds. those vrith special problems. about their activities which are now mainly Up to now, the work has been concentrated concentrated on the care for the aged. It trans­ on four countries and, as the result of the Most Bunce-Courtians will remember "Tante pired that the welfare activities, especiaUy the research so far carried out, papers were read Paula" with great affection and will miss maintenance of homes, will be essential for at being able to visit her at the Isolation Bunga­ about Britain (by Margot Pottlitzer), France low in the grounds of Bunce-Court. Apart least a further 10 years. On the other hand, the (by Ruth Fabian), Israel (by Heinz Gerling) from Berthe Kahn, Miss Essinger is survived means with which there homes had been and the United States (by Professor Herbert by yet another sister, Marie Levistein, who erected and maintained out of the heirless Strauss). Though the subject is so vast that is a sprightly 93-year-old. former Jewish property in Germany, will be each of the speakers could only deal with a depleted soon. limited number of aspects, their papers showed Though in most countries voluntary donat­ that some degree of progress has been made RUDOLF HERZBERG ions are being raised among former Gennan and it is hoped that sufficient material for the Rudolf Herzberg (formerly Hanover) died Jews, these contributions will not be sufficient publication of a symposium will be available in Capetown at the age of 93. Before he was to cover the needs. The Council considered within the not too distant future. The urgency forced to leave Germany, he played a leading various ways of securing the flnancial needs of securing the material arises from the fact part in Jewish life of the city and Province for the continuation of this vital work. The that the number of those who can contribute of Hanover. He was a board member of the meeting also dealt with various questions of information from first-hand knowledge is bound Jewdsh community and of .the regional Jewish welfare office. For many years, he was also restitution and compensation. The fact that, by to decrease in the course of time. head of the Hanover district of the Central- its very existence, the Council provides a plat­ Both days of the Meeting testified to the Verein as well as an infiuential member of form for an exchange of information and undiminished strength of the Council and to the Central Board of the C.V. Rudolf Herzberg mutual advice is in itself a very decisive the great number of essential tasks for whose first emigrated to the U.S. via Cuba and some asset. It also indicates the strong sense of solid­ accomplishment its existence is of vital import­ yeairs ago joined his relatives in South Africa. arity among the Jews from Germany notwith­ ance. standing their integration into their new environment. DEATH OF S. ADLER-RUDEL MR. DAVID RADFORD It was this question of integration, which When this issue went to press, it was learned Mr. David Radford, a former Jewish refu­ stood in the foreground of the meeting on with deep regret that Mr. S. Adler-Rudel, gee from Konigsberg, who died at the age of 71, the second day, when Dr. W. Rosenstock, Hon. an outstanding personality in Jewish life, had been instrumental in forming the Haven Secretary of the Council, was in the Chair. For has died in Jerusalem. 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DIAMOND DEALERS TO LEAVE THE ISRAELI SCENE Some hundred leading diamond merchants have threatened to emigrate and to take their VISITORS FROM THE PENTAGON HOUSING SHORTAGE FOR YOUNG diamond fortunes with them in a cigarette COUPLES box in their pockets. They are threatening to A Pentagon delegation, headed by the Direc­ do this unless the tax authorities drop their tor of Production Sources at the US Defence There have been spontaneous demonstrations demands that dealers and manufacturers must Department, recently attended the "Inter­ by groups of young couples unable to find keep registers and accounts of their trade national Metal Industries Week" and said homes. In Ashdod a group of 130 couples occu­ Israel occupies a leading place in the world they wanted to find out more about Israeli pied a new block of flats allocated for immi­ diamond market. Exports of cut and polished production in the fields of electronics, and grants, which was standing empty. The stones were worth some £250 million in 1974. armaments and aircraft factories. The dele­ Housing Ministry gives loans up to £4,300 to One of the causes for the merchants' refusal gation included representatives of the three young couples in coastal districts, but the to keep accounts is the recent decision of branches of the US Armed Forces. average cost of a three-room flat in Ashdod De Beers, the London Diamond Syndicate, to Chaim Bar-Lev, Minister of Commerce and is about £10,000. In Tel Aviv it is much more supply the country with only one-third of the Industry, opened the congress and said that, than that. In development towns, housing is stones she needs. This has forced the trade to in view of past experience, no firm or indi­ more easily available, but it is very difficult buy the remaining two-thirds through third vidual need give in to Arab blackmail. Out for unskilled people to find permanent jobs. parties. For generations, Jewish diamond of a total of 200 foreign firms operating in dealers all over the world have based their transactions on mutual confidence. Many mil­ Israel, 140 American firms were doing very EL AL'S DEFICIT well and had suflered no ill-effect as a result. lions-worth of diamonds have changed hands More than 350 industrialists and buyers from For the first time in 15 years Israel's national without written contracts. 20 countries attended the Metal Week. airline El Al showed a deficit amounting to NURSE IMPORTS £29,500. The chairman of the company, Mr. ARABS GREET PRESIDENT Moshe Carmel, regards the balance as satis­ The Israeli Health Ministry is considering factory in view of the world-wide drop in tour­ When President Katzir visited the Arab an offer from an American agency to supply 200 nurses to alleviate the acute staff shortage ism and increased fuel and other costs. He Shfar Am centre in Galilee, he was given a in hospitals. The agency guarantees to have mentioned that El Al would still have shown warm welcome. The mayor conferred the free­ the nurses on duty in the wards within 30 a profit if there had not been strikes by ground dom of the town on him. The population is a days of the contract being signed. crews and heavy expenditure on security. mixture of Christians and Moslems.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO Letters to the Editor RABBI DR. G. SALZBERGER Again a year has passed and another BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF REFUGEE we advise to contribute to this project but opportunity has arisen to express our grati­ BUSINESSMEN that It pursues quite different aims from those tude and admiration to our revered friend, of the research project on the History of Rabbi Dr. Georg Salzberger. On December 23, Immigration under our own auspices in con­ Sir,—The Research Foundation for Jewish junction with other affiliates of the Council he will be 93. This in itself is an achievement Immigration Inc., New York, in co-operation of Jews from Germany in their countries of Yet what makes the event particularly remarlc­ y>ith the Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte, Munich, resettlement. The Foundation aims at estab­ able in Dr. Salzberger's case is his undimin­ is assembling data for the International Bio­ lishing as comprehensive as possible a ished alertness that manifests itself whenever graphical Archives and Dictionary of Central dictionary of all refugees from Nazi oppression he speaks to a large audience or has a European Emigres, 1933-45. The Dictionary is in various countries—we are endeavouring to designed to offer biographical information on describe in historical sequence the experience private talk with one of his numerous friends oustanding emigres of this period in all fields of the Jewish refugee community in Britain. and followers. His power of concentration is of endeavor and communal leadership, irres­ Theirs will be a work of reference, ours a unsurpassable. His gift on happy or sad pective of age, religion or political affiliation. consecutive record. In many ways the two occasions to express his thoughts and feelings Questionnaires sent out previously have met projects are, therefore, complementary.—(Ed.) spontaneously, formulating his sentences on with encouraging response. However, it is felt the spur of the moment without being tied that the names of some emigres who have been down to a manuscript, makes each of his active in business in their country of origin OSCAR STRAUS ARCHIVE and/or following their emigration may have addresses a masterpiece. Together with Mrs. escaped attention. It would, therefore, be Sir,—I am surprised that in the announce­ Salzberger, Dr. Salzberger also often spends appreciated if you would appeal to your ment of the newly established Oscar Straus Friday evenings with the residents of one of feeders to supply the additional names, Archive, published in your October issue, no the Homes. There his wide knowledge and addresses (in England or abroad) and brief mention is made of Oscar Straus's chef teaching experience enable him to clarify the identifications of outstanding present or past d'oeuvre, the immortal "Walzertraum", which business leaders, founders, oumers and/or had seen over 1,000 performances in the minds of the participants and to make managers in all areas of manufacture, distri­ Vienna Carl-Theater, vying in popularity vnth them aware of our rich Jewish heritage. We bution, finance and service industries. Nat­ its contemporary in the Theater an der Wien, vrish Dr. Salzberger undiminished health and urally, those who have already filled in a "The Merry Widoio", and so charmingly spiritual strength for a long time to come. (luestionnaire are not included in this appeal. re-staged in the late fifties in the Vienna Readers in England are requested to forward Volksoper. May I also recall the memory of the W.R. listings in care of our associate, Mr. R. W. delightful ballet, the "Princess of Trabant", PROFESSOR WILHELM FELDBERG 75 Stent, 23/31 King Street. London, W.S. in the Vienna Staatsoper. Readers abroad may, if they prefer, write to C. I. KAPRALIK Professor Emeritus Wilhelm Feldberg, Research Foundation for Jevnsh Immigration, 8, Star & Garter Mansions, C.B.E.,F.R.S., celebrated his 75th birthday on Inc., 570 Seventh Avenue, New York, N.Y. London SW15 IJW. November 19. Until his retirement, he was 10018. Expenses for postage overseas will be LECTURE OF HOLOCAUST STUDIES Head of the Laboratory of Neuropharmacology reimbursed. at the National Institute for Medical Research. (Prof.) HERBERT A. STRAUSS On the occasion of the General Meeting of To promote Anglo-German scientific exchange, secretary and co-ordinator of research. the Friends of the Hebrew University on Thurs­ he created a Trust out of the German com­ day, December 18, at 5 p.m. at Jews' College, pensation payments made to him. Professor We have received a number of enquiries W.l. Professor Yehuda Bauer will speak on from people already approached by the "Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University Feldberg has been an Interested member of Foundation and we should like to explain that of Jerusalem." the AJR for many years.

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JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS THEATRE AND MUSIC NEWS Of the 11 people who have been awarded the Nobel Prize this year, four are Jews. Dr. Davia With Johann Strauss' 150th birthday, celebra­ Touring in Germany is Tschechow's "Uncle Baltimore and Dr. Howard Martin Temin share tions took place all over Europe. The list of Vanya", a play as indestructible as one of its the Prize for Medicine, Dr. Ben R. Mottelson the special concerts and operetta evenings on the actors, Franz Schafheitlin, 80. Also on Tour: Prize for physics and Dr. Leonid Kantorovicn Continent is, of course, endless, but Britain did Anouilh's "Ring Round the Moon" with Thomas that for Economics. The latter, a mathema­ not fail to mark the occasion in style: Strauss Fritsch and Lil Dagover, the living legend of tician of 63, has been a member of the Soviet concerts in London are easy "sell outs" UFA Film days. Academy of Sciences since 1958 and is also (although the Anniversary Concert in the Royal a recipient of the Stalin Prize and the Lenin Prize. Festival Hall sadly lacked imagination, and was Madrid. The Lara Theatre performed partly marred by the long sequences of ARTISTS RETURN waltzes), and a remarkable feature in London Brecht's "Arturo Ui", a production surprising was the lecture, "Happy Birthday, Johann in its frankness, which—to the astonishment of Elisabeth Bergner starred in the ffliJJ Strauss" held at St. John's, Smith Square, the audience—appeared virtually uncensored. "Nachtdienst" which was made by Ppusn where the lecturer was Dr. Marcel Prawy, directors and shown on the Saar Television chief "Dramaturg" of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna. The "Burg" provided a special car­ service and author of many opera books. (Dr. Prawy, nival atmosphere out of season: Schoenthans' The flautist Alfred Lichtenstein from incidentally, is a personal friend of Leonard "Raub der Sabinerinnen", a play which first Konigsberg, who left Germany in 1939 ana Bemstein, and established "West Side Story" appeared over 90 years ago. Joining the fun established a reputation in the USA, playea in the repertoire of Vienna's Volksoper.) were Alma Seidler, Fred Liewehr, the two in a concert of French 19th century music Wessely daughters Elisabeth Orth and Maresa in the Charlottenburg castle. He includea Without Johann Strauss visits to operettas Hoerbiger, as well as former Burg-Chief Paul several of his own composition. E.G.L. would have been unthinkable during "those" Hoffmann in the part of Striese, the Theatre CONTROVERSIAL DREIGROSCHENOPBR years 1933-1945 when Strauss, Lehar and director. PRODUCTION Kiinnecke provided the musical menu in The Cologne Opera has stopped perform­ Germany. Almost a whole generation made ances of the controversial production ot the acquaintance of composers like Offenbach, Birthday. Nico Dostal, Austrian conductor Brecht's Dreigroschenoper in which Peachum, Kalman, Abraham, Ascher, Oscar Straus, and operetta-composer ("Clivia", "Ungarische "the Beggars' Friend", appears as a greedy Granichstaedten and Leo Fall very much after Hochzeit") is 80 years old. Jew—an innovation for which there is no the Second World War, and today's repertoire justification in the text. The production was still obtains enrichment from "catching up". Obituary. Walter Felsenstein, one of the most sold out for 38 performances and met with Other German theatres combine operettas with controversial theatre producers and directors, strong protests from the public, the publishers American musicals, among which "My Fair Intendant of the East Berlin "Komische Oper", of the text and from Brecht's heirs who an­ Lady", "Gigi" and "Anatevka" (Fiddler on the creator of the so-called "realistic Music nounced that they would refuse consent to any Roof) have reached the highest number of Theatre", died in Berlin at the age of 74. performance of a Brecht work by the producer performances. S.B. Hansgiinther Heyme. JEWISH BOOKS For English and German Boolcs of alt kinds, new & second-hand. Whole libraries & single volumes bought, Talesim. HANS PREISS Bookbinding. M. SULZBACHER International Booksellers lEWISH & HEBREW BOOKS (also purchaie) UMnED 4 Sneath Avenue. Golders Green Road, London, N.W.II. Tel.: 455 1694. 14 Bury Place, London, W.C.1 405 4941

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