Volume XXV No. 12 December, 1970 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIAim OF JiWISH RERKBS IN GREAT BRITAIN

Hobert Weltseh a centre of the old Prussian intelligentsia, and also a centre of Jewish enlightenment. Ludwig Lichtheim, a cousin of the author's grand­ father, was a respected professor of medicine YOUTH IN REVOLT-60 YEARS AGO in Konigsberg to whom hundreds of Jews came for consultation from neighbouring Russia; To say that contemporary events are the former " assimilationists ". The vocal criticism in order to get his chair he had converted to connnuation of the past, having evolved from of the so-called New Left is motivated by Christianity together with his three daughters. conditions created in the past, is a platitude ; reasoning quite beyond the purely Jewish Jacoby was also a physician, but in addition he but a glimpse at the world of yesterday also orbit, from a concept of global revolutionary was a philosopher, a writer and a courageous makes us conscious how radically circum­ ethos without clear ideas of present or future political fighter, one of the most interesting stances have changed during our lifetime. The reality. figures of the Vormdrz and the Bismarck era.t pompar son often helps to a better undei-stand- The disputations about the validity of the Often quoted is his appeal to King Frederick ing of our own situation. That is why auto­ Zionist diagnosis of the Jewish situation which William IV of Prussia, when in November biographies and memoirs written by men who occupied Jewish public Ife 60 years ago 1848, a delegation, of which Jacoby was a took part in public life, or for that purpose, appear somehow ephemeral in retrospect. Very member, submitted a suggestion for political Sven by simple men of open mind, often make rarely were they concerned with the realities reforms : "It is the misfortune of kings that Us understand both the past and our present of Palestine, which were mostly unknown to they refuse to listen to the truth ". A few years position better than scholarly treatises do. A the speakers. Their characteristic feature was earlier, when a Berlin Court had absolved book recently published though written a long the matching of wits in the assembly hall, and Jacoby of the charge of high treason, the King t nie ago. the Memoirs of Richard Lichtheim,* fhe aim was to conquer the adversary by better had said : The faithful East Prussians will have ?ne of the prominent figures in German Zion­ argumentation or more impressive oratory. It to choose between their King and Israel ism at the beginning of this century, not only was, as Lichtheim says, a purely intellectual (meaning Jacoby). throws light on political events during the debate, mainly concerned with the question Jacoby never left the Jewish community, but PJi^t World War but also makes us reflect whether the Jews should regard themselves as most of the other branches of the Lichtheim Upon the vicissitudes in the orientation of a separate group, or whether their sole aim family did. His maternal relations were also Jewish thought and attitudes after half a cen­ should be to merge (" assimilate") in the a jolly crowd. Among them were the Landau tury. general life of society even if the latter hesit­ brothers, Eugen and Hugo, well-known figures The author came from the Jewish upper ated to accept them. Paradoxically enough, the in the financial aristocracy of Berlin to whose middle-class of the turn of the century, and younger Zionist generation, men like Licht­ magnificent and somewhat snobbish dinners for many readers the first chapters, the story heim and Kurt Blumenfeld, had personally and dances the author as a young man was of his family with its particular, but also gone through the whole process of assimila­ often invited. One maternal uncle, Bernard typical facets, may have a special attraction. tion, which gave them full command of the Pollack, was a music lover in whose salon the That a young man from this milieu should join intellectual resources of modern European virtuosi of the period assembled. He some­ the Zionist ranks was, in the eyes of his social thought. This faculty they had acquired not times functioned as anonymous accompanist ''lass, something exceptional, even slightly from Jewish sources or from the arsenal of to Fritz Kreisler, and later he was for a short shocking. Zionism was regarded as a curious traditional Jewish education, but through time married to Fritzi Massary before she sect, a youthful aberration perhaps, but with­ identification with European culture and from married Max Pallenberg. I still remember that out wider importance except to scandalise contemporary literature. Quite logically they in the 'twenties we used to refer to Fritzi Mas­ People of vested interests. The comfortable life called themselves " post-assimilatory " Zionists. sary jokingly as " Lichtheim's aunt ". Anyhow, *ent on more or less undisturbed, at least Switching the debate from the field of objec­ Lichtheim's mother and her relations had some Until the outbreak of war in 1914, which was tive inquiries to the analysis of the struggles kind of Jewish pride which expressed itself in * caesura in many respects. within the human soul and restoring personal a contempt for those who sought social advant­ pride, Zionism appeared mainly as a problem ages through conversion. Later, the Zionist movement gathered of personality (Personlichkeitsproblem). •Momentum and during the 'twenties the Needless to say that in this context the Arabs It seems a long way for a young man of this Jewish world was still firmly divided into Zion­ of Palestine had no particular part to play. The origin, completely alienated from all things ists and anti-Zionists. This controversy domin­ whole interest was focused elsewhere. Jewish as he was, to join the Zionist move­ ated Jewish life for a generation also in Ger- ment. Yet, his case, though particularly strik­ •Uany. Today these differences have lost their Today, all this is very different. The State ing, was by no means exceptional. It was one relevance because the whole Jewish establish- of Israel is now not only one of the main con­ of the ways in which the revolt of sons 'Uent the world over is now supporting Israel cerns of the whole of world Jewry, but also expressed itself at that time, and many of the ~~an attitude which formerly would have been a bone of contention in world politics, making prominent Western Zionists had a similar described as Zionist or pro-Zionist. There are headlines almost every day. The inner-Jewish background. But as soon as Lichtheim became only very few remnants of anti-Zionism of the differences of approach, which aroused strong a Zionist, it was obvious that a man of his P'iginal type. Moreover, this support for Israel passions, have almost completely disappeared. education and talents would not play a second­ is—or was until a short time ago—altogether The experiences of the Hitler era have deeply ary role. He soon assumed a leading position, uncritical—a regrettable fact, because con­ shaken all previous Jewish tenets. What to and his book gives an account of his work until structive criticism would have helped Israel the majority once seemed a marginal issue or 1921. The Zionist Executive which at that time Uiuch more than the echo of a conformist an obsession of cranks, is now accepted as the resided in Berlin appointed him in 1911 as (gleichgeschaltet) public which did not care central compound of Jewish life. diplomatic representative in Constantinople. '° get to the bottom of the real problems but One has to recall that Palestine was then part *as generous in financial contributions. Dis­ The first part of Lichtheim's book is headed of the Ottoman Empire, and the Young sent from, or at least criticism of, Israel's " The Story of a Conversion ". It is a master­ Turkish revolution of 1908 seemed to have Policy in many fields and especially in the piece of characterisation, a genuine mirror of opened a new chapter full of prospects. Dur­ Political sphere, was and is much more fre­ nineteenth-century German upper class Jewry. ing the war Lichtheim was instrumental in quently forthcoming from " old " Zionists, or, His paternal grandfather, whose own father saving the Jewish community in Palestine ^or that matter, frwn Israelis, than from the went to America in 1830 and disappeared t On Jacoby. well known from all political chronicles of fhere, grew up in Konigsberg in fhe house of this period, see the exemplary biographical sketch in ^ Richard Lichtheim : RQekkehr. L«b«nMrinnerung«n au* his uncle Dr. Johann Jacoby (1805-1877), the Ernest Hamburger, Juden im otfentlichen Leben Deutsch­ Tl'/rtihzeil de* dcuUchan ZIonlamu*. Deutsche Verlags- famous liberal politician. Konigsberg—now the lands, Tubingen 1968, pp. 189-197. Ir,,.. " Stuttgart. 1970. (Publication of the Leo Baeck '"stitute.) DM. 32. Russian town of Kaliningrad—was at that time Continued on page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION December, 1970 claimed by Siegfried Bernfeld, the outstanding YOUTH IN REVOLT-60 YEARS AGO leader and philosopher of youth culture, who in May, 1918, convened the Jiidische Jugendtag Continued from front page in Vienna, an event quite unprecedented at the time.f The Galician youth was far more from destruction. In this he had the active sup­ made by various groups to convince the Zionist nationalist and Hebraised than the youth in port of the American Ambassador Henry authorities of the necessity of concessions and the West; on the other hand, David Horowitz Morgenthau (a Jew who at the age of nine had of the sporadic attempts at actual negotiations. describes how they acquired their attachment come to the United States from Mannheim in He does not mention, or does not know, that to nature and comradeship in the woods and 1865), but he also succeeded in convincing the during the 'twenties and 'thirties German Zion­ valleys of the Wiener Wald. These young German Embassy that protection of the Jews ists were in the forefront of this discussion, people did not hesitate to embark on the path was in the German interest.t During his warning official Zionism not to ignore the to Utopia. The Russian revolution with its term of oflfice he met (and had to negotiate Arabs and advocating a policy of reconcilia­ slogans of a better and juster world seemed with) many high-ranking German diplomats tion. In this internal dispute Lichtheim was on to have shown the way. Jewish youth was in such as Wangenheim, Mutius, Kiihlmann, the side of the political extremists ; conse­ revolt and eager to create something new. Bernstorfl, and perhaps the most interesting quently he later joined Jabotinsky's " revision­ For the sake of constructive socialism as the passage is his account of the co-operation with ist " faction. But that was a long time after the basis of a new nation they were prepared to Baron Constantin von Neurath who in 1915 story told in his book had ended. Aharon accept an austere and burdensome life. But, was appointed First Secretary at the Embassy. Cohen's reliance on the uniting power of alas, it led to disappointments and suffering, The man who 18 years later became Hitler's socialism which would overcome nationalist and the experiments of new community life foreign minister and afterwards " Reichspro- differences is, alas, unconvincing, especially in in Palestine in a rather monastic atmosphere tector" of occupied Bohemia-Moravia, is des­ view of actual developments. It is based on an engendered tension and neuroses. Moreover, cribed as an old-style conservative who was error of judgement very widespread in the the Jewish youth movements in general shared certainly no antisemite ; actually he was very Zionist labour movement. But otherwise the fate of the confused socialist camp which helpful to Lichtheim and prevented the immin­ Cohen's book, although diffuse and not without abounded in hair-splitting ideological discus­ ent persecution of leading Palestinian Jews by contradictions, deserves attention as a chron­ sions, in doubts about personal commitments, the Turk sh authorities. icle of omissions and errors, the consequences and finally led to many divisions. Some Jewish The power was in the hands of the Turks of which are felt in the predicament of our youths who joined the Communist movement and ther mighty allies, the Germans, but the own days in which all world Jewry now take met a miserable fate in the Stalinist hell two inhabitants of Palestine were Arabs, and en­ part. or three decades later. couraged by the Young Turkish revolution After the shattering events of the past 50 which had pledged itself to democracy, the years it is not always appreciated what a funda­ In the course of time, Horowitz's comrades small group of Arab intellectuals had started mental turning point 1914 was for the world had to come to terms with reality ; quite a a nationalist movement. Already in 1914, Licht­ and also for the Jewish people. Lichtheim still few of them later developed in a direction far heim reported to the Berlin Executive about came from a comparatively undisturbed world. away from their original ideas. The author these tendencies and explained that the Arab The next generation had to start their quest had to pass through many stages before arriv­ opposition to Jewish settlement might in the for identity under more sinister conditions. ing at his present position. As a non-conform­ future harden and lead to an irreconcilable Therefore, to round up this fragmentary his­ ist within the Kibbutz and inclined to inde conflict. Lichtheim did not believe in the pos­ torical tour d'horizon, a short reference may pendent and critical thinking, he soon sensed sibility of an appeasement; also much later he be allowed to another recent autobiography, the paradox of the early romanticism and regarded all expectations in this direction as written by the Governor of the Bank of Israel, started studying at the London School of an illusion. David Horowitz. 11 Leaving aside the details of Economics. In his description of the adven­ this amazing career, the case in point is the turous road which brought him after 40 years emergence of a generation which for the first to one of the leading economic positions in THE ARAB PROBLEM time experienced hardships completely un­ Israel, many psychological and practical prob­ lems and hurdles are mirrored which this Many may feel today that in this respect he known before, and became aware of the insta­ bility of a way of life which they had taken for generation had to overcome. It is a fascinating was far-sighted, as both parties seemed to picture of the time. accept nothing less than clear predominance granted. Masses of Jews became refugees; in the country. The real question was whether one of the momentous consequences was the People who were the " youth in revolt" at in view of existing facts, of which most Zion­ meeting of East and West, which not only left the beginning of the century are now part of ists with their purely ideological approach had its stamp on the form and content of the the establishment. Already we can perceive no inkling, an accommodation could not have youth movement, but also contributed much the noises of a new youth in revolt which been found at an early stage. In those days the to the evolution of a modern type of Jew. rattles at the door. Arabs were in need of moral and material sup­ David Horowitz and many of his friends came port and the oil croesuses were not yet in exist­ from wealthy bourgeois assimilated families ; in Galicia there was even a double assimila­ If It is gratifying that in these days a new collection of ence. That the opportunity for co-operation Bernfeld's writings has been published in Germany, which should have been grasped, is the contention of tion, German (Austrian) and Polish. The Zion­ in addition to his essays on youth psychology and psycho­ ist youth of 1918 was much more radical than analysis also contains his most important Jewish pro­ Aharon Cohen, a leading member of the nouncements, such as " Das judische Volk und seine League for Arab Jewish Rapproachement, that of 1900, it was committed to a life of per­ Jugend " and " Kinderheim Baumgarten ". Cf. Siegfried whose book " Israel and the Arab World", sonal pioneering in Palestine, and imbued with Bernfeld, Antiautorltare Erziehung und Psychoanalyse. Ausgewahlte Schriften, herausgegeben von Lutz von originally printed in Hebrew in 1964, has now the ideas of youth revolt, which was also pro- Werder und Reinhart Wolff, lularz Verlag Frankfurt 1970. been publisbed in an English translation and Three Volumes, 955 pp. Paperback DIki. 12 each.—See II David Horowitz, Ha-etmol «h*l*« (My Y**t*rday). also in Year Book X of the Leo Baeck Institute (1965). brought up to date.§ Cohen maintains that Schocken Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1970 (Hebrew). Willy Hoffer : Siegfried Bernfeld und Jerubbaal. Lichtheim adopted a wrong attitude towards the Arabs from the very beginning. Today, in the age of decolonisation and of Balkanisation, it is difficult to understand the prevailing men­ tality of pre-1914; even much later nobody believed that the British Empire would dis­ appear and that Zionists would be confronted solely with the inhabitants of the vast Arab Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. terrorities and their nationalism. Now all these problems appear in a different light. Mr. Cohen, as many others, believes that oppor­ Bankers tunities of an understanding, albeit naturally not on the basis of full acceptance of one side's original demands, existed and were missed. This is how the idea of a bi-national State came BASILDON HOUSE, 7^11 MOORGATE, E.C.2 into being, and Mr. Cohen's book is an almost exhausting record both of the endeavours Telephone: 01-600 8151 t The whole story of Germanys policy towards Palestine in World War 1 is now fully related in Professor Egmont Zechlln's book Die deutsch* Politlk und di* Juden Im Ersten Weltkrteg. Gdttingen, 1969. Telex: London 25157 § Aharon Cohen : l*r**l and the Arab World. W. H. Allen, London, 1970. £4.20. AJR INFORMATION December, 1970 Page 3 HOME NEWS i^^A«qif mm ANGLO-JVDAICA Deputies' Election SOVIET JEWRY APPEAL NAZI DIVORCE INVALID Lord Janner has been re-elected as chair­ The Board of Deputies has made public an A divorce granted in Germany in 1939 has man of the foreign affairs committee of the appeal signed by 82 Moscow Jews, brought to been declared invalid by an English judge. Board of Deputies, with Mr. Harry Landy as London by a tourist. Most of the signatories Mr. Justice Bagnall ruled that Mrs. Gertrud vice-chairman. Dr. S. Levenberg has been are professional people, some representing Bertha Hedvig Meyer, of Bristol, was still the elected chairman of the Erets Israel commit­ whole families, lliey state they are persons wife of Mr. Isaac Lobel Kurt Meyer when he tee ; Mr. Hyman Diamond, chairman of the of various ages and professions, of different died five years ago. The decree granted to law, parliamentary and general purposes com­ character and world outlook, but all are united her, a non-Jewish wife, after her husband fled mittee ; Dr. Bernard Homa, chairman of the by anxiety for the fate of the Jews and of from Berlin in 1938, was not effective in Eng­ shechita committee; Mr. Victor Mishcon, Israel. They ask for their appeal to be made land as it was obtained under duress. She had chairman of the Defence committee (Mr. public in all Jewish organisations, synagogues been given the choice of divorcing her husband Martin Savitt, vice-chairman) ; Mr. Harry and schools, as well as in the Jewish press of or losing her job. Landy, chairman of the finance committee. the entire world. The Moscow Jews describe As a result of the ruling, Mrs. Meyer can Miss Beatrice Barwell is chairman of the the persecution and humiliations which fol­ claim a proportion of the £1,400 a year pension education and youth committee, and Mr. Julius lowed their request to be reunited " with our granted by Germany in compensation to her Jung, is chairman of the aliens committee. People and our relatives in Israel." They con­ late husband. Her claim was rejected by Ger­ Alderman Michael Fidler, M.P., is ex-officio firm that there had lately been night searches man courts, and she asked for a ruling from chairman of the executive committee. in Jewish homes in various parts of Russia, the English courts, it having been indicated and state that the majority of those persecuted that the German courts would accept the Ajex House Opened are giulty only of having openly shown insis­ English ruling. tence to emigrate. The new flats at Ajex House, Stamford Hill, CONFERENCE OF WORLD JEWISH were opened by Lord Greenwood. Whilst as GROMYKO'S VISIT CONGRESS Mr. Anthony Greenwood, he was Labour's Minister of Housing, his Ministry encouraged To coincide with the visit to London by The two-day Biennual Conference of the the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Mr. Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Prime Mini­ World Jewish Congress, British Section, was Women to extend its welfare services in the ster, three days were held of almost constant field of housing for elderly and disabled ex- protests against the treatment of Soviet Jewry. opened by a " keynote address " delivered on This culminated in a march organised by the October 31 by Rabbi Dr. Joachim Prinz, chair­ Servicemen, Ajex has now completed its Board of Deputies, when hundreds of Jews man of the WJC Governing Council. Dr. Prinz initial scheme to provide 20 flats, with help marched to the Soviet Embassy. A delegation expressed the view that " in terms of a mean­ from the Government and the Hackney consisting of leaders of the Board, of all sec­ ingful Jewish life and Jewish continuity, most Borough Council. Further projects are planned tions of the religious community, of Ajex and if not all Jewish communities outside Israel by Ajex to accommodate applicants on the university students, tried unsuccessfully to must be regarded as a disaster area ". Young waiting list. present a protest letter to Mr. Gromyko. Jews, he said, expected that something concrete is said from the Jewish angle about the needs M.P. Addresses Herzl Society The Universities Committee for Soviet Jewry of today—hunger and unequality, war and arranged a demonstration during Simchat peace. The Theodor Herzl Society held a reception Torah, to show solidarity of Anglo-Jewish for Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg, M.P., the first youth with Soviet Jewry. Great Cumberland The pessimistic views expressed by Dr. Prinz Jewish Member of Parliament for Hampstead. Place, in the West End, was renamed " Arkhi- were contested by several speakers on the Afterwards, Mr. Finsberg gave a talk on " A Pova Street" for the occasion — the street second day of the conference, at which under New Approach to Foreign Policy ? " He at­ where the Moscow Great Synagogue is situated the heading " Embattled Jewry " topical issues tributed some of the present problems in the and where every Simchat Torah in recent years were debated. The contributions to the discus­ Middle East to a " far too hasty handing over Soviert-Jewish students have manifested their sion on the New Left included a remarkable of the Palestine mandate and the U.N.'s initial allegiance to, and solidarity with, world Jewry speech by Mr. Paul Rose, M.P., in which he inept handling of the situation". Mr. E. J. and the Jewish State. outlined the questions with which a Left-wing Speyer was in the Chair. protagonist of Israel is faced in the political LIBERALS AND ISRAEL arena. Mr. Rose censured the Anglo-Jewish community for faUing to present Israel's case Garden Suburb Rabbi A resolution by the British Young Liberals adequately. " Last week", he said, " we had supporting the creation of a secular Palestinian the spectacle of the Chief Rabbi telling us that Thirty-year-old Rabbi Isaac J. Bemstein, who ^tate was defeated at the congress of the the only justification for the State of Israel has been minister of the Terenure Hebrew World Federation of Liberal and Radical is the Bible. If I stood up in the Commons Congregation, Dublin, for the past four years, louth held in Belgium. Congress was pre­ has been elected senior minister of the Hamp­ and told them that, I would be laughed out stead Garden Suburb Synagogue. pared to recognise only the right of the Pales­ of the House. The justification for the State tinians to independence, despite strong pres­ of Israel is Auschwitz and all the other perse­ Appeal for Aged sure by the British delegation. The recognition cutions the Jews have suffered." Of Israel and eveiT modifications of her 1967 Other subjects on the agenda of the confer­ Speaking at the 73rd annual meeting of "Orders in the interest of security were sup- ence were " The Jew in Contemporary Society " Nightingale House, the home for aged Jews Ported. and a Survey of the International Scene. in Wandsworth, Mr. Cecil Kahn, the chairman, .Among the 30 new members elected to the urgently appealed to the community to help Liberal Party council, second only to the NATIONAL FRONT IN MARYLEBONE raise £750.000. The money was needed to ^ual assembly as the party's policy-making ELECTION carry out further vital developments, and un­ oody, are eight, including Mr. Jeremy Thorpe, til it was found Mr. Kahn warned that 150 wno belong to the Liberal Friends of Israel. The National Front candidate in the Maryle­ old people would have no hope of even being A further six are known'to sympathise with bone parliamentary by-election polled only 401 accepted on the waiting list. ^^'jael. Pro-Arabists gained six places. —2.4 per cent—of the total vote, thus forfeit­ Mr. Louis Eaks, former chairman of the ing his deposit. This is the first time that a Tribute to Cecil Roth |oung Liberals, was recently reported in the candidate of the extreme Right has stood in ?t. Albans Evening Echo to have said at a Marylebone and it is not possible to assess The B'nai B'rith First Lodge of England ipeetmg of Young Liberals in the area that whether there has been increased response to arranged an evening at the Hampstead Syna­ Jews see themselves as the master race " and the appeal which the N.F. has been making, gogue hall, to pay tribute to Professor Cecil jpat "Israel is guilty of some brutal atroci- especiailly on the issue of coloured immigra­ Roth who died in June in Israel. More than "es against humanity ". At the Liberal Party tion. But the percentage polled is below the 100 people attended the gathering, at which council it was proposed that the council should average of 3.6 per cent which the ten N.F. personal impressions of the historian were ^;ondemn and dissociate itself from the candidates registered in the General Election given by the Emeritus Chief Rabbi, Sir Israel .'uuammatory" comments. Mr. Eaks' atti­ in June. Brodie; Mr. Raphael Loewe of the Jewish tude was described as "antisemitic". The Historical Society; and Mr. Michael M. Mitz- association of the party's parliamentary candi­ man. dates dissociated itself from Mr. Eaks' views. With acknowledgements to the news Manchester's Public Relations BBC-1 DOCUMENTARY service of the Jewish Chronicle " Irresponsible " individuals and organisa­ P The subiect of a documentary on BBC-1 was tions who damage the good name of the Man­ sTich Weiss, the son of a Hungarian rabbi. chester Jewish community were taken to task r*eiss was better known as Harry Houdini, the by Mr. Jack Barsh, president of the Council of «^t escapologist, who died in 1926. NEW LIBERAL JEWISH CONGREGATION Manchester and Salford Jews. The fact that " Th "^^"^^" showed a documentary film 51 Belsize Sauare, London, N.W.3 Jews had never been living in a better climate of tl? Trout" about a rare occasion when five SYNAGOGUE SERVICES was, he said, due in no small measure to the DiiKi-^ world's greatest yoimg soloists gave a public relations work of the council and of tho T*^ performance of the quintet. They were are held regularly on the Eve of Sabbath the Association of Jewish ex-Servicemen. «e Israelis Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Periman and Festivals at 6.30 p.m. and on the day Enormous harm could be done by publicising anj Vl^"^ Zukerman, and Jacqueline du Pr6 at 11 a.m. " such actions as we have seen over the past ^nd Zubin Mehta. ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED twelve months." Page 4 AJR INFORMATION December, 1970 NEWS FROM ABROAD JEWRY IN THE EAST HUACKERS UNITED STATES FRANCE Frannas and Brazinkas Koreyevo, the father Jewish Governors and Congressmen Nazi Emblems Banned and son who hijacked the Russian civil air­ craft to Turkey, had requested political Mr. Milton J. Shapp is the first Jew to have In Paris the police prefect has banned the asylum, claiming that they were of Jewish been elected Govemor of Pennsylvania. Mr. sales of Nazi uniforms, caps, badges and similar origin. The military commander of Trabzon. Marvin Mandel. also a Jew, has retained the souvenirs. For some time an increasing influ­ the Black Sea coast town where the aircraft Governorship of Maryland. Mr. Louis Lefkowitz ence of Nazi doctrines among young people landed, has stated that the two are definitely was returned as State Attorney-General and has been noticed. There has so far been no not Jewish. This is borne out by the fact that Mr Arthur Levitt as Controller. All the Jewish explanation of this but there is a belief that Koreyevo is a typical White Russian name candidates won in the Congressional elections, it could be a reaction to the Left-wing influ­ while the first names are Lithuanian, and the including Congressman Emanuel Celler, the ence which has been dominant in the imiver- combination of two such names would not be doyen of the House of Representatives. A new sities since 1968. chosen by Soviet Jews. election to Congress is that of Mrs. Bella S. Abzug, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Jews in Grenoble Fire AWARD FOR JEWISH MINISTER Seminary Teachers' Institute. Among the 144 people killed in the dance- To mark his 60th birthday the Order of Hijackers hall fire at Grenoble were two young Jewish Lenin has been awarded to Mr. Benyamin pop musicians, both from Paris. Michel Gold- Dymshitz for his services to his country. Mr. Federal investigators are seeking a possible blum and Alain Starmann were members of Dymshitz, a Soviet Deputy Prime Minister, link between the hijackers who have been a five-piece pop group called " Storm ". is the chairman of the USSR State Committee detained and charged with planning to hijack for material and technical supplies. an Arab airliner in London and fly it to Israel, SPANISH DICTIONARY and the activist Jewish Defence League. The JDL had vowed that " Arab blood would flow " Following consultations between the Royal PRO-ZIONIST SPEECH if Jewish hostages held by Arab hijackers were Academy of the Spanish Language and Mr. harmed. Isaac Molho, an expert in Sephardi Jewry in A former resident of Kiev who recently Jerusalem, the new nineteenth edition of the emigrated has given to the Jewish Chronicle Avraham Hershkovitz had worked as an official Spanish dictionary has been purged of the first full account of what was probably office manager for the JDL, and his wife Nancy expressions offensive to Jews. The definition the first pro-Zionist public speech made in Joan as a secretary. The organisation is trying of Jew as a usurer or miser has been deleted. the Soviet Union since the 1920s. to raise half a million dollars for their bail. Derogatory references to Jews from Catholic Boris Kochubievsky, who is serving a three- Rabbi Meir Kahane, the executive director, text books have already been erased by Spain. year sentence for " slandering Soviet reality ", said the two were taking the four revolvers made the speech. According to his own testi­ and a hand grenade to Israel where " every DUTCH PENTATEUCH TRANSLATIONS mony, he started to teach himself something single gun helps ". Hershkovitz was bom in about Jewish history by studying a Russian- Auschwitz concentration camp and had served Dr. Itzhak Dasberg, who recently retired language Bible. In July, 1967, at the time of in the Israeli Army. after 16 years as chairman of the Ashkenazi the Six-Day War, when a Soviet general Orthodox organisation representing 45 Dutch addressed the workers at the Kiev radio equip­ Race Bias in Books congregations, has spent seven years of spare- ment factory where Kochubievsky was chief time work on religious translations. The new engineer of one of the departments, he de­ A study published by the Anti-Defamation Dutch translation of the Books of Genesis and clared himself to be a Zionist, denouncing the League of B'nai B'rith, " Minorities in Text­ Exodus have already appeared in one volume Soviet press for its " unrestrained antisemitic books ", finds that it is impossible to obtain in Holland, to be followed in January by trans­ campaign ", and the general for his statements " a reasonably complete and undistorted lations of the remaining Books of the Penta­ against Zionism. picture " of American Negroes, Jews and other teuch in one volume, with the Haftarot added. Kochubievsky was dismissed from his job minorities from any existing American text­ soon afterwards. In early October, 1968. he book on social studies. The report states that VENEZUELAN COMMUNITY a significant number of texts published today spoke at a memorial meeting at Babi Yar, the continue to present a principally White, Pro­ The 15,000-strong Venezuelan community last ravine where the Nazi massacre of the Jews testant, Anglo-Saxon view of American past year opened the first stages of a modern Jew­ of Kiev took place. He was then arrested. and present, with the nature and problems ish school in Caracas, and restored its oldest of minority groups going largely neglected. monument, the Sephardi cemetery in Coro. RIGA ARRESTS Although the image of the Jews is no longer The restoration was supervised by Mr. Jos6 The Association of East European Jews negative, the major emphasis is still on the Curiel, the Minister of Public Works, whose made public in Paris reports of a new wave ancient past, neglecting modern Jews and great-great-grandfather was the first Jew to of arrests in Riga. A leaflet distributed by the their contributions to America. About 45 per settle in Coro and who bought the land for association said that Miss Ruta Alexandrovich. cent of the texts examined inadequately treated the cemetery. a 23-year-old Jewish student, was arrested on or completely ignored the Nazi persecution of The new " Hebraica " school is an enterprise October 7 and charged with anti-Soviet acti­ Jews and other minorities. According to the widely supported to ensure the continuity of vities. She was urged but refused to give study, the idea of Jewish guilt for the death of Jewish life in the country. evidence at the trial of 34 Soviet Jews, Jesus is inadequately dispelled. alleged to have been involved in an attempted hijacking of a Soviet airliner in Leningrad in Hall of Fame Your House for:— June. It was also stated that Mr. Misha Shepshe- The names of Professor Albert Abraham lovich had been arrested and faced similar Michelson (1852-1931), the physicist, and CURTAINS, CARPETS, LINO charges. Both had asked many times to be Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), a pioneer in allowed to emigrate to Israel. social work, have been added to New York UPHOLSTERY University's hall of fame for great Americans. HIGH HOLY-DAYS IN POLAND The Jews Discovered America ? SPECIALITY The High Holy-days in Poland this year were observed only by some elderly men in In 1885 the Smithsonian Institution found a homes for the aged in Warsaw and Lodz, who stone inscribed with Canaanite letters in a CONTINENTAL DOWN organised services on Rosh Hashana and the burial mound in Tennessee. Only in August of Day of Atonement. According to reports this year were the letters recognised as QUILTS! reaching London from Warsaw, this is Semitic. Dr. Cyrus Gordon, of Brandeis Univer­ apparently the first time in the history of sity, an acknowledged expert on Mediterranean Polish Jewry that the High Holy-days have peoples and languages who was consulted, ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS been so sparsely observed. The services m states that there is now a new factor of the old people's homes were formerly also Hebraic history and cultural studies which fits ESTIMATES FREE attended by other Jews, including young into a documented context. But, he states, this people, but there are few left now. does not imply that the Jews came first to what is now America, or that they were the DAWSON-LANE LIMITED only people. HUNGARIAN PEN CLUB MEDAL Dr Gordon said that the events which could 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK The Hungarian PEN Club has awarded have touched off Jewish flight to distant places Mordecai Avi-Shaul, an Hungarian-born Israeli occurred in the year 70 CE, when the Jewish Telephone. 904 6671 writer, a memorial medal for his Hebrew rebellion was put down by the Romans, and Personal artentien ot Mr. W. Shackman translations of Hungarian literature. He is a the year 135, when the Bar-Kochba revolt was Left-wing writer who has translated a number terminated by Rome. of outstanding poetry and prose works. AJR INFORMATION December, 1970 Page 5 PEM Old Acquaintances

FRITZ LANG OHNE MONOKEL Austria : Paula Wessely and Paul Hoerbiger will be in " Der zerbrochene Krug" at the Zuni 80. Geburtstag am 5. Dezember Burg.—Heinrich Schnitzler is directing Anouilh's " Goldfische " at the Josefstadt.— In vielen Essays und Buechern, besonders woUen; scWiesslich aber sandte er doch ein Maximilian Schell will direct his father's play in Frankreich, sind Fritz Langs Filme analy- Telegram an sie : er wuerde nach der Vor­ " Auf Befehl des Kaisers " in Salzburg. His siert worden ; man hat Absichten in sie hinein stellung auf sie warten. Wir sahen damn eine sister, Maria Schell, will be in the lead and interpretiert, von denen der Regisseur gar­ mibtelmaessige " Nachtasyl"—^Auffuehrung her husband, Veit Relin, will design the decors. nichts geahnt hat als er sie schuf. Lotte H. und ich verabschiedete mich ganz gegen seinen —Otto Schenk will produce Verdi's " Don Eisner, die in Berlin geborene und in Paris Willen; vielleicht dass er Angst vor der Carlos " at the State Opera. lebende Filmhistorikerin, arbeitet an der Wiederbegegnung mit jener Frau hatte, die Obituary : The death has occurred, in a car ofiSziellen Biographie Langs und wird sicher­ er einst entdeckt, geliebt und deren Lebens­ accident near Bad Toelz, of Grethe Weiser, lich sein Lebenswerk in den Rahmen der weg er gelenkt und bestimmt hatte und die Germany's most popular stage and screen Zeitgeschichte einordnen, Wie der in Wien inzwischen verheiratet und geschieden und comedienne, and her husband, film producer Aufgewachsene als Maier in Paris begann und Mutter einer Tochter war. Dr. Schwerin.—Helmuth de Haas, who for dann in Berlin Drehbuchautor wurde, und wie Um Zwei laeutete des Telephon. Gerda political reasons resigned as literary editor of er mit dem " mueden Tod " dann kurz nach Maurus war am Apparat. " Ich weiss, Sie Axel Springer's Die Welt and became editor Kriegsende den Grundstein fuer seine Karriere werden mich erschlagen ", sagte sie, " aber Sie of the monthly Twen, has died in Oberhausen als Regisseur legte, das ist laengst klassische muessen kommen. Sie brauchen nur um den at the age of 42. Filmgeschichte. Aus dem moralischen Durch- Hotelblock zu gehen ; dort sitzen wir in einer einander der Inflation entstanden dann 1922 Bar." Dort traf ich sie, Gerda und Fritz, wie Germany: East Berlin's Deutsche Theater " Dr. Mabuse ", aus der Verbindung mit Thea zwei junge Veriiebte, als waeren nicht inzwi­ has elected 90-year-old Tilla Durieux as an von Harbou die beiden " Nibelungen ". Langs schen mehr als 20 Jahre vergangen. Vergessen honorary member, despite the fact that she Biographin wird entscheidend untersuchen, schienen Erfolge, andere Erlebnisse und an­ lives in the West.—Romy Schneider's husband, Welchen Einfluss jene Frau auf ihn und seine dere Laender. Als Lang ins Exil ging, obwohl Harry Meyen, played Professor Higgins in a Filmstoffe wie " Metropolis ", " Spione " imd ihn Goebbels schon wegen der " Nibelungen " new adaptation of " Pygmalion " in Hamburg. " Frau im Mond" gehabt hat, und ob die am liebsten arisiert haette, blieb die Maurus, —The Munich dramatic critic, Herbert Ihering, Unbekannten, die Lang zu Stars machte, nur heiratete den Autor Stemmle, wurde geschie­ spoke at a memorial in honour of Fritz Puppen waren. Ich moechte an seinem 80. den und eine Buehnenschauspielerin bei Kortner.—Joerg Jannings, a nephew of Emil Geburtstag von dem Mann hinter dem ewigen Gruendgens. In dieser Nacht sank das Alles Jannings, is producing a play on Radio Bremen. Monokel, das seine Schutzmarke geworden ist, in Vergessenheit. —Leonard Steckel, who spent the war years erzaehlen. in Zurich, directed Feydeau's "Einer muss Am naechstein Tag flog ich nach London der Dumme sein" in Hamburg.—Curt Bois Da Lang waehrend der Aufnahmen nicht zurueck und Gerda Maurus begleitete Lang, sang ballads at Berlin's Academy of Arts.—The gestoert werden will, interviewte man ihn am der nach Frankfurt zu seinen Freunden, den Berlin production of Rolf Hochhuth's new play, besten am Tage vor Drehbeginn. Da lagen Adornos flog. Die beiden haben sich nie mehr " Guerillas," did not meet with success.—Roda dicke Rollen umher, auf denen er die genauen wiedergesehen, und ein paar Jahre spaeter Roda's " Feldherrnhuegel " was revived on TV. Plaene fuer jede Szene aufgezeichnet hatte. ist Gerda Maurus gestorben. —Yvonne Georgi visited Buenos Aires to Auf Millimeterpapier war jede Einstellung Bevor ich diesen Geburtstagsartikel schrieb, choreograph Orff's " Trionfi ".—Zarah Leander, der Kamera angegeben; nichts schien dem habe ich Fritz Lang in Berverly Hills ange- discovered in Vienna in 1935 by the late Max Zufall ueberlassen. Lang bereitete seine Filme fragt, ob ich so persoenlich werden darf und Hansen to appear in " Axel an der Himmels­ wie ein Architekt vor. Waren die Schauspieler tuer", gave a concert at Berlin's Sportpalast. iiur Schachfiguren, die sich einzufuegen ueber jene Begegnung berichten darf. " Schreib haitten ? Stammte sein Ruf, im Atelier schwie- was Du willst", hat er geantwortet, " ich habe Milestones : Ernst Lothar, dramatic critic, ^ig und ein Sadist zu sein, aus jener Genauig- Gerda sehr gera gehabt. . . ." Zur Geschichte novelist and former director of Vienna's Josef­ jfeit ? Dabei fliesst Arbeit und Privatleben bei eines Menschen, der schon bei Lebzeiten ein stadt, is 80 years of age. He emigrated to ihm ineinander. Jeden Tag traegt Fritz Lang Klassiker geworden ist, gehoert auch das the United States, but returned to Vienna after jede Begegnung, jedes Gespraech, jede Aus- Private, selbst wenn es wie Klatsch wirkt. the war.—Opera singer, Erna Berger, born in Sabe in ein dickes Buch ein. Bevor er seinem Besonders bei einem Mann, der durch seine Dresden and now teaching in Hamburg, is 70 Stoffaffen " Peterchen ", seinem Talisman, den Arbeit und der Kunst zuliebe in den Ruf years old.—Professor Dr. Hanns W. Eppels­ ^^ ueberall mitnimmt, gute Nacht sagt, gekommen ist, ein Sadist zu sein, soil man heimer, founder and director of Frankfurt's schreibt er auf, wen er gesehen und gespro- die zarte, sanfte Seite nicht uebersehen. Deutsche Bibliothek, has celebrated his 80th ehen hat. Es ist kein Tagebuch und kein birthday. Haushaltungsbuch, sondem eine taegliche fast preussische Bilanz. Home .\eics ; Billy Wilder, who started as TENTH REUNION OF GERMAN a dancing partner at Berlin's Eden Hotel, will Als er fuer " Das Testament des Dr. Ma­ EX-PRISONERS OF WAR present his new film, " The Private Life of buse " in Spandau einen Riesenschomstein in Sherlock Holmes", at a Royal Charity Per­ die Luft sprengen liess, eine Aufnahme, die The tenth annual meeting of former German formance on December 3.—Walter Felsenstein, sich nicht wiederholen hess, sah ich Um fuer war prisoners of Feathersitone Paxk camp was the outstanding Austrian opera producer in fange Jahre zum letzten mal. Ueber " Liliom " held in Dusseldorf on October 24. These an­ East Berlin, will visit London next spring to in Frankreich ging Lang zu " Fury", jenen nual gatherings are not only social reunions present Britten's " Midsummer Night's Riutigen ersten Angriff gegen die Lynchjustiz but, in keeping with the ideas of Featherstone Dream ", Offenbach's " Blue Beard ", and " II •^ch Hollywood. Er arbeitete viel mit Sylvia Park Circle's Hon. President, Mr. Herbert Sulzbach (London), the former education Trovatore" at Sadler's Wells. Sidney, mit Kurt Weill an "You and me", officer of the camp, also aim at fostering ^it Brecht an " Hangmen also die", mit Anglo-German relations. The rally was at­ PEM ^larlene Dietrich in " Rancho Notorious " und tended by many former prisoners, quite ^szenierte nicht zu vergessen " Woman in the a few of whom have attained responsible Window " und " Scarlet Street". Als er Mitte positions in Germany, as well as by a number der fiinfziger Jahre zum ersten Mal wieder of guests, including a particularly large con­ NEW LIBERAL JEWISH CONGREGATION nach Europa kam, begleitete ich ihn auf tingent of younger people. The opening ad­ Invites you and your friends Seinem Besuch nach Deutschland ; er war nicht dresses were given by Mr. Sulzbach and the to come to their |anz sicher, ob man sich seiner noch erinnerte. Chairman, Landgerichtsrat Schwedersky, a former inmate of the camp and now investi­ Zu seiner Ueberraschung fand Lang, dass eine gating judge for Nazi crimes. Excerpts from a CHANUCAH BAZAAR neue Generation von Kinobesuchern seine book by Arao Reinirank about Featherstone '^ihne nachgesessen und studiert hatte. Park, shortly to be published, were read by the Saturday, December 5, from 6 p.m. , "Und nun wollen wir noch Gerda Maurus author, and the mam address was delivered by Sunday, December 6, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. besuchen", sagte er am Tag vor Abschluss Mr. John Biggs-Davison, M.P., who spoke about Unserer gemeinsamen Rundfahrt. Ich rief in " Europe—Hopes and Fears ". The function at 51 Belsize Square, N.W.S ^uesseldorf an, erfuhr, dass sein einstiger was given considerable publicity in this (near Swiss Cottage) Star spielen wuerde und bestellte zwei Karten. country, including a " 24-Hours " TV broadcast and an article by Norman Grassland in The Entrance 1/-. ^ni liebsten haette Lang sie ueberraschen Guardian. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION December, 1970

Egon Larsen children will show the way to the grown-ups. " The generals, colonels and majors listened politely, though a little startled ", Jella Lep­ A BRIDGE OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS man continued her story. "The presiding general asked the sobering question how Jella Lepman's Dream Information Control Division was supposed to get the money for such an exhibition as its She was not what one might call an attrac­ post of chairman of the Wurttemberg Deutsche budget did not provide for children's books. tive woman. Her body was angular, her move­ Demokratische Partei; she also stood as a It was then that I made my first attempt at ments were awkward, her voice shrill; she Reichstag candidate together with Theodor surmounting obstacles. ' General', I said, lacked female gracefulness. Her colleagues Heuss. ' may I ask respectfully why you got yourself often foimd her exacting, those working imder Her " third life " began with her emigration an adviser on youth questions at H.Q. if there's her were constantly kept on their toes; her to London in 1936. The years in exile were— no chance of carrying out a project like friends were sometimes exasperated by her as some of her friends recall—much harder this? '" nervous energy. Yet Jella Lepman was one of for her than her brief data in the Frankfurt In the end, Jella Lepman received permission the very few remigrant women who, by their brochure suggest. She was never happy in to collect books for her travelling exhibition so achievements, have left a lasting mark in England, although she had the advantages of long as she got them free of charge, and the post-war Germany. a comfortable home in Hampstead Garden project was given the highest official blessing When she died in Ziirich a few weeks ago, Suburb, put at her disposal by friends, and of " First Priority". Jubilantly, she went to the obituaries were full of details about her of all kinds of jobs where her talents and work. " Heute " now had to manage without work, but strangely lacking in personal data; experience proved useful: editing Arthur her. all the reader was told was that she had Schnitzler's unpublished papers for Cambridge In his introduction to Jella Lepman's book, completed her 79th year—quite a surprise for University, working as adviser on youth ques­ Carl Zuckmayer described what it was like to those who had come to look upon her as rather tions for the BBC and Foreign Office, com­ be at the receiving end of this formidable ageless. In fact, Jella Lepman had never dis­ piling a modern reader for German-language woman's attack. She cornered him in some closed how old she was. Asked to supply some classes in English schools (still being re­ office of the occupation authorities in Novem­ biographical details for the brochure to be printed). She also took British citizenship. ber, 1946, and—frightened by women in uni­ published when she was awarded the Goethe But her frequent spells of unemployment in form—he tried to escape, but in vain : " I was Medal in Frankfurt last year, she wrote: " It those years frustrated this intent, energy- looking into the most candid and friendly eyes seems to me that I have lived not one life charged woman very deeply; where others that ever defied a uniform; and what I was but many. . . . Bom at Stuttgart. A happy might have resigned and blamed world his­ to hear came out in such genuine, never-to-be- childhood, understanding parents. Father: a tory, her thoughts were racing around in her shed Schwdbisch as perhaps only Theodor democrat in Uhland's tradition. School: the brain, trying to find an escape from the waste­ Heuss could surpass it. It was a Swabian Royal Katharinastift, where Moricke had taught fulness of weeks and months, like animals avalanche of words, of entreating and implor­ literature." seeking a hole in their cage. Eventually, she ing. She asked for help, understanding, agree­ And then a clue to what was to grow into got a permanent job—at least " for the dura­ ment, for gifts, gifts—of books wherever they the great dream of her later years : as a teen­ tion "—with ABSIE, the American Broadcast­ could be found, children's books, fairy-tales, age girl she founded an " international reading- ing Station in Europe. picture-books, school-books, German, foreign- room " for the children of foreign workers in language ; exercise-books, drawing-paper, That "third life" ended, and her fourth crayons, paint-boxes—and one understood that a Stuttgart cigarette factory. That was before began, in October, 1945, when she stepped on the First World War. After the war she this woman was a fountain of goodness, board a U.S. military aircraft bound for Frank­ of sympathy, of the will to help and also of married and had two children. " End of my furt. The American occupation authorities had first life ", she wrote, " when my husband died helplessness, walking about in an olive-green asked her to work at their headquarters in uniform." suddenly ". Bad Homburg, again as adviser on youth ques­ Jella Lepman threw herself into an inten­ tions ; in other words, on the re-education of a Needless to say that the exhibition material­ sive professional life as a journalist, and generation of children who had begun to grow ised, and it did so in record time. Publishers became the first female editor with the up under Hitler. of 14 countries had responded to Jella Lep­ Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt, running its pink- " I first met Jella Lepman in 1946 in man's requests ; some i»rted with their last coloured women's supplement. In the 1930s Munich", says the Berlin-bom writer and remaining file copies for the purpose, which she launched herself into politics, rising to the translator Heinz Norden who had retumed to Continued on next page Germany in U.S. uniform from his American exile. " I was editor-Ln-chief of Heute, a German-language magazine of the ' Life ' type; she was assigned to me as an associate editor HOUSE OF HALLGARTEN PELTOURS —but this is rather like imagining Mrs. Pank- hurst and Isadora Duncan rolled into one WORLD-WIDE SERVICE accepting the role of a charwoman. There were some historic fights that shook the pain­ Specialist ^lODiawiy Shippers FOR fully patched-up ruins of the Volkischer Beobachter building in the Schellingstrasse, but in the end it all benefited Heute, and no BUSINESS one, least of all I, loved Jella any less when her voice cracked and her head bobbed in Fine Wines UniqueLiqueurs AND dedication to her cause. That cause was children's books." // you enjoy wines HOLIDAY In her own volume of reminiscences, " Die Kinderbuchbriicke ",* she recalled the scene at write for our latest free list the Bad Homburg H.Q. when, during one of TRAVEL the weekly meetings of generals, colonels and which is full of fascinating majors, she suggested a travelling exhibition information, maps, vintage reports PERSONAL ATTENTION of the best children's books from all countries ; " Let's make a start with the children to get and charts, descriptions, wines EXPERT ADVICE this deranged world back on its tracks. The * Published by S. Fischer, Frani

Frietlrich Walter geboren, besuchte die Gymnasien in Chem­ nitz und Zittau und studierte Jura in Freiburg, Munchen, Leipzig und Berlin. Von 1905 an wirkte er in Gorlitz als Rechts­ DEUTSCH-JUEDISCHE LYRIK anwalt und Notar. Nach dem ersten Welt­ krieg, wahrend dessen er beim Zentral­ Zu den Dichtungen von Vera Lachmann und Paul Muehsam komitee des Roten Kreuzes in Berlin tatig war, begann er seine Lyrik und Prosa zu " Golden tanzt das Licht im Glas " ist der Exil-Lyrik gleichfalls das jUdische Ver­ veroffentlichen. 1933 emigrierte er mit Titel eines (jedichtbandes, mit dem die machtnis mit dem antikischen in Eins seiner Familie nach Israel, wo er 1960 im Lyrikerin Vera Lachmann unlangst hervor­ zusammenfloss, in ein Zusammengehoriges, Atler von 83 Jahren starb. getreten Jst.* Sie wurde 1904 in Berlin aus dem sich Trost und Zuversicht, die "... Als Europaer aufgewachsen, unlos­ geboren und kam durch ihre Lehrerin Gewahr eines Fortbestandes schopfen liess. lich verbunden mit der Heimat und vor Helene Herrmann, eine Freundin Friedrich Aus dieser poetischen—und gewiss sehr , allem der deutschen Sprache, meinem Gundolfs, friih mit der Philosophin Edith personlich gestimmten — RUckbesinnung geliebten Instrument, dem einzigen, auf Landmann (1877-1951) in Beriihrung, die empfangen auch die Gedichte Vera Lach­ dem ich spielen kann, empfand ich die wiederum eine lebenslange Freundin Stefan manns, zumal diejenigen, in denen sie der Trennung von einer Welt, die mir ans Georges war und der damals erst Sech- Gefahrten und (Jefahrtinnen gedenkt, die Herz gewachsen war, als einen unheil- zehnjahrigen die (Jeorgesche Dichtungs- in den Schreckensjahren der Hitlerzeit sei baren Bruch meiner Lebenslinie, als Her- und Gedankenwelt erschloss. Von 1933-1939 es von eigener, sei es von Morderhand ausgeschleudertsein in eine vollig fremde leitete Vera Lachmann in Berlin-Grune­ umkamen, einen innigen, zartlich-warmen und anders geartete Umgebung, als eine wald eine Schule fiir Kinder rassisch Ton, der bei aller sprachlich-formalen Verbannung." verfolgter Eltem. Seit 1939 lebt sie in Treue zum Vorbild Georges dessen kUhle Feierlichkeit doch weit hinter sich lasst. Dieses schmerzliche, aber gewiss nicht Amerika und unterrichtet nun seit einer vereinzelte Bekenntnis, das Paul MUhsam Reihe von Jahren Griechisch und Latein "Jiskor" ("Moge Er gedenken") heisst eins der schonsten und bewegendsten dieser 1955 in seinen noch ungedruckten Lebens­ an der Universitat der Stadt New York. erinnerungen " Ich bin ein Mensch gewe­ Die in diesem Sammelband enthaltenen Gedichte nach dem hebraischen Namen fur die Kerze, die am Versohnungstag fUr sen " niederschrieb, wird man mit Gedichte Vera Lachmanns sind zwischen Ehrfurcbt aufnehmen, wenn man seine 1951 und 1968 entstanden und unverkenn­ die Toten brennt. Es spricht daraus eine Stimme zu uns, die in der Innigkeit ihrer Prosaschrift " Tao—der Sinn des Lebens " bar von der strengen Kunstform Georges, Empfindung, ihrer verhaltenen Glut mit liest. Diesen Sinn erblickte er darin, dass seiner sprachlichen Zucht sowohl wie einer Tradition deutscher Lyrik im Ein­ " alles Leben in der Tiefe eins, weil gott­ Eigenwilligkeit gepragt. Sie sind aber auch klang steht, wie sie uns in den Dichtungen lichen Wesens ist." Und diese Lebensfrom- von einem Gefiihls-und Gedankenmotiv von Novalis und Holderlin aufbewahrt ist. migkeit schopfte er aus den Quellen west- durchzogen, das ganz und gar nur aus der licher wie ostlicher Weisheit, aus jUdischen personlichen wie geschichtlichen Erlebnis­ In Zusammenarbeit mit Vera Lachmann wie christlichen, griechischen wie indi­ welt der Dichterin und ihres deutsch- hat der amerikanische Dicbter Spencer schen Glaubenslehren, vor allem aber wohl jiidischen Schicksals hervorgegangen ist. Hoist ihre Gedichte in diesem Band sehr aus der Philosophie des deutschen Idealis­ Davon legt gleich das erste Gedicht dieses liebevoll und feinfUhlig in englische Prosa mus, in der ihm Herder und Schelling am Bandes, das dem Gedachtnis Edith Land- ubertragen. nachsten standen. Sie mUndeten ihm zuletzt manns gewidmet ist, Zeugnis ab. Es ist " Mir stehen die Sonette am hochsten, in eine von deutschen Mystikem wie Jakob " Die Potnia " iiberschrieben ; " Potnia ", von denen ich einige ganz ausserordentlich Bohme und Angelus Silesius getonte das homerische Wort fiir Herrin, Gottin, finde . . . vor allem in dem mehr hym- " Religion der reinen Menschlichkeit ", in Mutter war zugleich der Name, den Edith nischen Abschnitt ' Gewolk,' der aus anti­ eine still gefasste, fast schweigende Selbst- Landmanns Freunde ihr gegeben hatten, in kischen Formen ein sehr starkes Zeitge- einkehr-und Besinnung ein. deren Gestalt sich, so heisst es in Vera fuhl entaussert ..." So schrieb Stefan Diese " Innewendigkeit" spiegelt sich Lachmanns (redicht: ". . . noch lebend wie Zweig Uber einen im Jahr 1926 erschie­ aufs schonste und gedankenvollste auch in vormals/Ernst der gekroneten Thora/ nenen Gedichtband von Paul Muhsam. Eine seiner Lyrik wider, wie man ihr in dem Attischem Lacheln vermahlt." Auswahl seines heute vergessenen Werkes, Auswahlband seiner Gedichte "... seit der Dieser ins Mythische verklarte Gedanke an dessen Herausgabe Paul MUhsams Toch­ Schopfung wurde gehammert an diesem Haus" begegnet. In ihr glaubt man oft einer Vermahlung jiidischer Ueberlieferung ter Else Levi-MUhsam mitgearbeitet hat, haben uns jetzt zwei deutsche Verlage in einen reichen und lebensvollen Nachklang mit antikischem Erbgut kehrt in dem von Schillers philosophischen Gedichten zu Gedicht Uber Simone Weil wiieder, die dankenswertester Weise vorgelegt. t) Paul Muhsam wurde 1876 in Brandenburg vemehmen. Das in diesem Band enthaltene franzosisch-judische Mystikerin und Philo­ dramatische Gedicht " Der Ewige Jude " sophin, die im Jahre 1941 Landarbeiterin t Paul Muehsam : Tao—dar Sinn dea LelMn*. Drei- Eichen-Verlag, Hermann Kissener, Muenchen. DM 6.80. andererseits tragt starke und deutliche in den Weingarten Siidfrankreichs war. "... aelt der Schoepfung wurde gehaammart an dainem Haus." Seekreis-Verlag, Konstanz. DM 18.50. ZUge einer faustisch-goetheschen Dichtung. Der schweren, oft qualvoUen MUhe dieser Die ahasverische Stimme Paul MUhsams, Arbeit, die Simone Weil, ein fragiles Ge­ seines und unseren jUdischen SchicksaLs schopf, freiwillig auf sich genommen hatte, dringt nun wieder umso reiner und ergrei­ wird in Vera Lachmanns CJedicht ein fender an unser Ohr und GemUt, als sie gottlicher Segen zuteil—der Segen des C. F. FLESCH hier in der Sprache deutscher Klassik zu (Jottes Bacchus, der die von der todesmat- uns redet. ten Weinleserin gepfluckten Beeren einsam- melt, " Sein freudig eigenstes Leiden/ Erinnemd zu kosten/Durch sie." Aehnlich Now associated with:— verbindet sich in dem Gedicht " Lechem NELLY SACHS BEQUEST Min Haarez " der Uber das Brot ausgespro­ An amount of £25,000 and all future pro­ chene hebraische Segen in der Vorstellung Mansbrook,Rud(lsCo.Ltil. ceeds from her books have been left to home­ der Dicbterin mit dem " Segen der Erde ", less children, irrespective of religion or race, wie er sich in dem griechischen Mythos der by Nelly Sachs, the 1968 Nobel Prize winner. Fruchtbarkeitsgottin Demeter und ihrer The new Home for the Aged of the Diissel­ Tochter Persephone verkorpert. Associated Insurance Broicers dorf Jewish Community, " Nelly-Sachs-Haus ", was recenty opened in Diisseldorf. Man wird bei diesen wie anderen Gedich­ ten Vera Lachmanns, nicht ohne Ergriffen­ AUDREY HOUSE, ETROGIM FOR TOPOL heit, an an einen anderen judischen Dichter 5 HOUNDSDITCH, aus dem Stefan George-Kreis, an Karl A request to send a lulav and etrog to LONDON, E.C.3 Yugoslavia was received by a store in WUles- Wolfskehl erinnert, dem in seiner spaten Telephone: 01-283 7922 den, London. These were for Topol, playing * Vera Lachmann : Qoldan lanzt da« Licht im Qlaa. the screen version of Tevye in " Fiddler on Castrum Peregrin! Presse, Amsterdam. Hfl 14.95. DM 16.45. the Roof " being filmed in Zagreb. AJR INFORMA'nON December, 1970 Page 9

TONI STOLPER, 80 BIRTHDAY TRIBUTES Toni Stolper, widow of the publicist Gustav Stolper and an authoress in her own right, celebrated her SOth birthday on November 22 DATAN DR. L GRUNFELD, 70 PROF. WILHELM FELDBERG. 70 in the United States. Her works include a Dayan Dr. I. Grunfeld, who recently cele­ biography of her late husband, " Ein Leben im Professor Wilhehn Feldberg, C.B.E., F.R.S., Brennpunkt unserer Zeit: Wien, Berlin, New brated his 70th birthday, is one of those former recently celebrated his 70th birthday. Bom in York" (Tiibingen 1960) and numerous con­ German Jews who by their standing in Anglo- Hamburg, he was, prior ,to his emigration in tributions to the " Deutsche Rundschau " and Jewish life have added lustre to our com­ 1933, a lecturer of physiology at Berlin Uni­ the " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". munity. Originating from Wuerzburg, where versity. In this country. Professor Feldberg Gustav and Toni Stolper were close friends he practised as a lawyer, Dayan Grunfeld's was until his retirement Head of the Labora­ of the late German Federal President Theodor writings have also contributed to the preser­ Heuss and his wife, and their names frequently tory of Neuropharmacology at the National appear among the addressees of the recently vation and adequate assessment of our spiritual Institute for Medical Research. In 1961, he published letters of the late President. heritage. He has been an interested member created a Trast out of the (Jerman compensa­ of the AJR for many years and also lent the tion payments made to him, which is to be DR. HARRY ABT, 70 prestige of his name to the " Thank You used for the promotion of Anglo-German Dr Harry Abt (Johannesburg) recently cele­ Britain" Fund as a sponsor. We extend our scientific exchange. We extend our best wishes brated his 70th birthday. Prior to his emi­ sincerest birthday wishes to our friend Dayan to Professor Feldberg, who has been an inter­ gration in 1939, he was Studienrat at the Gmnfeld. Realgymnasium of the Adass Jisroel congreg­ ested member of th© AJR for many years. ation in Berlin and, from 1936, Director of the Jewish Reformrealgymnasium in Breslau. MR. FRITZ ROSEN, 80 HANS LESCHNTTZER, 60 As head of the cultural department of tne The designer, Mr. Fritz Rosen, recently South African Jewish Board of Deputies, Dr. Mr. Hans Leschnitzer (Montevideo) will be Abt was in charge of Jewish adult education. celebrated his 80th birthday in Crowborough From 1956-1964, he was Rabbi at the Oxford (Sussex) where he now lives in retirement. 60 on December 2. As Executive Vice-President Synagogue (Johannesburg). In the twenties and early thirties he was of " Centra ", the federation of communities recognised as one of the leading graphic de­ CENTENARIAN signers in Germany. He was, inter alia, com­ established by Central European immigrants missioned to design a number of posters in South America, he is also well known to the Juslizrat Dr. Leo Cohn-Biedermann (for­ against the rising Nazi party. In this country, Hon. Officers of the Council of Jews from Ger­ merly of Berlin) recently celebrated his 100th his clients included leading refugee firms in many and he attended several Council con­ birthday. He is a resident of ithe New York the textile, chocolate and chemical industries. ferences as representative of his organisation. Jewish Home for the Aged. Congratulations Mr. Rosen's professional services were also It is to a high extent due to his efforts on behalf of Mayor Lindsay were conveyed to of great benefit to Jewish refugee relief him by the Deputy Commissioner for Public organisations in this country as well as to that the contacts between the member con­ Events of the City of New York, Mr. Hellmuth the Jewish National Fund. A birthday tribute, gregations of " Centra " could be maintained Kohn, who is also Chairman of the Board of published in the leading German magazine and strengthened. Last, but not least, Mr the " Aufbau ". In 'the name of the German " Gebrauchsgraphik", bears witness that his Leschnitzer plays a leading part in the ac­ Federal Government and of the Mayor of achievements are still well remembered by his tivities of the " Nueva Congregacion Israelita Berlin, Dr. Harald Graf von Posadowsky- former colleagues in Germany. Mr Rosen has Wehner, the Gennan Consul General in New been a member of the AJR since its inception. de Monlevideo" of which he is the Vice- York, presented to Justizrat Cohn-Biedermann We extend our sincerest birthday wishes to President. We extend our sincerest congratu­ a reproduction of the Medieval Machsor him. lations to our friend Leschnitzer. Lipsiae.

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ALFRED SIERADZ The co-founder of the Dusseldorf Jewish IN MEMORIAM post-war community, Mr Alfred Sieradz, re­ cently died at the age of 79. A survivor of SUSAN MARKUS LUDWIG LAZARUS the Theresienstadt concentration camp, he was for many years a member of the Repraesentan­ Der AJR Club betrauert das Ableben eines Mr. Ludwig Lazarus died in Hanover at the tenversammlung and, from 1949-1960, of the seiner altesten Mitglieder : Susan Markus. Fur age of 70. He had dedicated the last years of Board of the Jewish community. Susan Markus war der Club ihr Lebenselexier. his life to Jewish genealogical research work, and one of the fraits of his labours in this MR. BRUNO TAUSSIG Unermudlich sammelte sie alle Literatur, die field was a unique and most interesting work den Club betraf, und ebenso unermudlich about the descendants of Jente von Hameln, a The death occurred suddenly, in his 81st photographierte sie alle Ereignisse im Club. sister-in-law of Glueckel von Hameln. So far, year, on November 10, at Osmond House, of So entstand ihr Lebenswerk: Die Geschichte this family tree has, unfortunately, only been Brano Taussig. He had been a resident of the des AJR Clubs, In den letzten Jahren gait ihr recorded as a private print. Lazaras readily •home since 1964 and was loved by everyone. Hauptinteresse dem Bring-and-Buy Sale am put his knowledge and nis huge collection of books and documents at the disposal of Despite the fact that he had no close relatives Geburtstag des Clubs. Dazu stiftete sie selbst- enquirers from many spheres of life, including his room was often full of visitors from among gezogene Pflanzen und ubernahm die Ver- •the Broadcasting Company, the Press and the relations erf other residents. teUung der von ihr entworfenen Handarbeiten students. Bom in Berlin as the son of a partner Although he will not be remembered be­ zur Fertigstellung an die Mitglieder. Bis kurz of the well-known second-ihand booksellers A. cause of any specific achievements his memory Afiher & Co., he opened a bookshop of his own will remain with the residents and staff of vor ihrem Ableben war sie schon mit den Osmond House through his cheerful accep­ Vorbereitungen fiir das nachste Jahr tatig. when he had to discontinue his studies at the University in 1933. He was arrested in 1936 tance of the loss of both his legs. His fortitude Grosszugig war sie im Geben. So wird das because of his contacts with his fellow Social­ was a shining example to all who came in Andenken an Susan Markus bewahrt werden. ists and spent three years in prison, and in contact with him. Dachau and Buchenwald. In 1940, Lazaras man­ MARGARET JACOBY aged to emigrate to Shanghai but he retumed MARTIN BUBER FOREST to Gennany in 1949 and took residence in IN HAZOREA MR. GERT WHITMAN Hanover. A Martin Buber Forest will be planted at Kibbutz Hazorea whose founder members The banker. Gert Whitman, died in Frank­ JOHANNES URZIDIL originate from the German-Jewish youth move­ furt. A son of the late Staatssekretaer Weiss­ ment, " Die Werkleute" and include many mann. he was in pre-war Germany an author­ The poet and writer. Johannes Urzidil, (New former disciples of Martin Buber. Among the ity on the implications of the Dawes and York), who originated from the Prague circle guests at the opening ceremony was Dr. Ger­ Young Loans. He emigrated to the United around Kafka, Werfel and Brod, died at the trud Luckner (Freiburg i.B.) who courageously States, where he anglicised his name and re­ age of 74 in Rome. He was on a lecture tour helped the Jews in Germany when the Nazis were in power and who has taken a leading turned to Germany after the war as an in the course of which he had also planned to give a talk at the Club 1943 in London. In part in the work for German-Jewish under­ adviser to the American High Commissioner 1968, Urzidil delivered the llth Leo Baeck standing since the end of the war. Mr. Jacob John McCloy. Until he went into semi-retire­ Memorial Lecture at the New York L.B.I. His Tsur, Director of the Keren Kayemet, read ment last year, Mr. Whitman was associated sub.iect was the contribution of Jewish Prague out a greetings telegram from German Federal with the firm of S. G. Warburg. " He was an to (Jerman literature. Urzidil's works include President, Dr. G. Heinemann. The funds for international banker in the classical sense," several volumes of poems and essays as well the planting of the Forest were raised among as the novel on America " Das Grosse Halle­ friends and followers of Martin Buber in Israel writes The Times in its obituary. lujah " (1959). and Germany.

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TREATMENT FOR RHEUMATIC wish Miss Jenny Chaim, of 15 Situations Wanted MISSING PERSONS Lytton Close, London, N.2, all the PAIN, poor circulation, etc. Keep POSITION WANTED IN WEST Personal Enquiries very besrt on the occasion of her fit by regular body massage and Arndt.—Ilse Amdt (n6e Cohn), 90th birthday on December 21. END OR N.W. LONDON for part- exercise. Also facials, skin care, time bookkeepers, ledger and filing bom in Glogau, lived in Breslau, spot reducing, etc., by qualified married in Dresden, age end of clerks, general ofiice duties. AJR beautician. WUling to visit Old Slater—Mr. Martin Slater (Schlach­ Employment Agency ('phone 01- People's Homes. For appointment 50s, sought by Kate Brower (n6e ter), Aberdare, Glam., will cele­ 624 4449). 'phone Mrs. Edith Friedmann, 3 Behnsch), 3210 Greenfield, Royal brate his 73rd birthday on Decem­ Hurstwood Road, Henlys Corner, Oak, Mich. 48072, U.S.A. ber 6. Men Golders Green, London, N.W.ll. 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Riesenfeld.—Dr. Friedrich Riesen­ by AJR Social Service Department feld passed away in Paris on HUl/CheLsea. Would consider shar­ ing flat with another lady. Box 182. for home and hospital visits. Ladies November 6, 82 years old. Deeply able to shop and cook in emergen­ JUDAICA BOUGHT moumed by his daughter, Mrs. FOR SALE cies especially welcome. All ex­ Spice Boxes, Pointers, Menorahs, Erica Fryszman, his son-in-law, penses wUl be refunded. Please Hagadahs, Magilles. Engravings. MaximUien Fryszman, his grand­ TWO PROPERTIES—from former 'phone Mrs. M. Casson, 01-624 4449. Oil Paintings. Etchings. daughters and his great-grand­ refugee's estate in Stamford HUl daughter.—50 Rue de la Tourelle, area, each with vacant possession Personal ROBERT KIRSON 92-Boulogne (Auts - de - Seine), of a 2-room flat. Remainder of the ATTRACnVE WIDOW, beginning 13 Bracawood Gardens. East Croydon. France. houses yielding income from let­ SOs, young, own income and home. Stirrer. 01-686 2607 evenings attcr 8. AJR INFORMA'nON December, 1970 Page 11 NEWS FROM ISRAEL AND GERMANY LEO BAECK PRIZE This year, the Leo Baeck Prize of the " Zentralrat" of the Jews in Germany was U.S. ARMS BILL DOCTORATE FOR GERMAN awarded to Professor Dr. Franz Boehm and Mr. Johannes Giesberts, Beigeordneter of the A £829-million defence procurement BUI has The Hon. Doctorate of Tel Aviv University City of Cologne. Professor Boehm was a lead­ been passed by the United States Senate. This was awarded to Stadtrat Walter Hesselbach ing member of the German delegation at the includes authority for the Administration to (Frankfurt) in recognition of his work for the Hague negotiations which resulted in agree­ grant Israel unlimited credit to buy American promotion of German-Israeli relations. Stadtrat ments on global reparation payments and on weapons on easy terms. The Bill, which im­ Hesselbach is Chairman of the German the principles of individual compensation. As plies that the arms sales are to "restore Societies of Friends of the Hebrew University a member of the German Bundestag, Professor and maintain the mUitary balance in the and of the German Society for the furtherance Boehm was one of the architects of the ensuing Middle East", is considered the most liberal of economic relations with Israel. legislation. His work for the establishment measure for buying arms granted by America of a new relationship between Germany and to any country. Jewry has been motivated by a deep commit­ CONSULATE IN MUNICH ment to the ethical principles of justice, AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS democracy and human understanding. To strengthen her commercial relations with Beigeordneter Johannes Giesberts, who is The American Jewish community has this the German Federal Republic, Israel wUl open in charge of the School Department of the year provided the largest national group of a consulate in Munich ; it is the first Israeli Cologne municipality, has been particularly immigrants to Israel. In the first eight months consulate in a German city, apart from Bonn. active in the promotion of contacts between nearly 5,000 Americans arrived, with the the German youth and members of the younger intention of settling in Israel. The Jewish generation in other countries, especially Israel. Agency predicts that the total wUl reach 8,000 GERMAN CITIES REMEMBER The exhibition "Monumenta Judaica" (1964) or 9,000 by the end of the year, with more JEWS was organised under his aegis. than 10,000 m 1971. There has been a con­ Following the examples of a number of siderable increase in the flow of immigrants German cities, the municipalities of Schwein­ MOSHE MENUHIN AND RIGHT-WING from the smaller urban communities in the furt and Duisburg intend to publish the WEEKLY United States. histories of their Jewish communities and ask Mr. Moshe Menuhin. the father of Yehudi This year altogether about 42,000 new for the co-operation of their emigrated former and Hephzibah Menuhin, has quit his post as settlers are expected to arrive. French Jews fellow-citizens. Particulars about Schweinfurt cultural and political affairs adviser of the are second in the number of immigrants. Last should be sent to Rabbi Dr. Max Koehler. 12 extreme Right-wing nationalist weekly, the year's total of about 1,600 British immigrants Fairholt Street, London N.16, the last rabbi of Deutsche Nationalzeitung. A leading contri­ IS not expected to be much exceeded. the community who was recently received by butor in the paper's anti-Israel and anti- the Mayor of Schweinfurt. The organisation in Zionist campaign, it is understood that he has HIGH LIFE EXPECTANCY charge for Duisburg is: Christlich-judische decided to retire from his post because he Arbeitsgemeinschaft Niederrhein e.V., Duis­ felt the paper's policy towards Israel was no The Israel Statistical Yearbook states that burg, Krusestr. 31. longer " combative" enough. It is also said men in Israel have a longer life expectancy he disagrees with the paper's opposition to the than those in the U.S.. France or Japan. Last The September, 1970 issue of the magazine, Bonn Government's new attitude towards year the average life expectancy of the IsraeU " Karlsruhe—Heute und Morgen ", carries an Eastern Europe. population rose to 69.5 years for men and 73.3 article by Kurt Kranich on the occasion of the forthcoming opening of a new synagogue for years for women. In the United States it is ANTISEMrriC LEAFLETS CONDEMNED 66.7 years for men and 73.8 years for women ; the approximately 400 Jews who now live in ui France 67.8 and 75 years respectively ; in and near Karlsruhe. The site — between Antisemitic leaflets were distributed in Japan 67.7 and 73.6 years respectively. Adenauerring and Knielinger Allee — was donated by the Land Baden-Wuerttemberg. Frankfurt's West End, calling on the public The first synagogue of the city, the author re­ to join a demonstration " against the Jews " BERLIN ENDOWMENT caUs, was erected in 1810. The second syna­ responsible for the " misery" there. This gogue at Kaiserstrasse was completed in 1875 follows allegations of expulsion of tenants and The Land Berlin made a donation of and destroyed in the course of the November, exorbitant rentals charged by a group of DM 500.000 to the Negev University for the 1938 pogroms. The author also refers to the Jewish brokers. These allegations have been building of a reading room in the Agnon deportation of the Jews from Badenia and the denied by Jewish business circles. Librar%'. Palatinate to Gurs (Southem France) in The distribution of the leaflets was con­ October, 1940. Among them were 1,267 Jew­ demned by a Frankfurt citizens' committee, ish citizens of Karlsruhe. who said that antisemitism is out of place in DENMARK SCHOOL IN JERUSALEM the city. The public prosecutor has opened inquiries. The Denmark School has been opened in " KARL ABRAHAM INSTITUT " r^^^isalem, built with money largely contri- OBERAMMERGAU PLAY outed by a group of ten American Jews in In memory of its founder the " Berliner nonour of the Danish people who saved their Psychoanalytische Institut" changed its name The organisers of the Oberammergau coreligionists from Nazi persecution. During to " Karl Abraham Institut". The decision passion play have announced that an opinion •rr^^^^*"*^ World War the Danes rescued was taken on the occasion of the Institute's poll among 530,000 visitors to this year's per­ ''WO Jews. The 150 Danish visitors at the 50th anniversary celebration which was also formance showed that the overwhelming opening of the school included members of the attended by Hilde Abraham (London), th3 majority do not support charges that it is wanune Danish Resistance. daughter of the late Karl Abraham. antisemitic.

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COLDWELL 871 Finchley Rd., Golders Green, 17 Parsllal Road, N.W.6 In order to ensure that you receive 11 Fenstanton Avenue N.W.11 (next to Post Office) 435 58564 8565 your copy of " AJR Information " London, N.12 01-455 8673 regularly, please inform us imme­ "•he Boarding House with Culture Tel.: 01-445 0061/2 Newest shades In Hosiery diately of any change of address Page 12 AJR INFORMATION December, 1970 LETTER TO THE EDITOR NOBEL PRIZEWINNERS Professor Sir Bernard Katz, who is professor of biophysics at University College, London, is UNITED NATIONS always remember that just two weeks before oae of the three joint prizewinners of this the beginning of the Israeli-Arab June war in year's Nobel Prize for medicine. He was bom UNJUSTIFIED CRITICISM 1967, U Thant offered U.N. peace-keeping troops in Leipzig, where he obtained his M.D. in Sir,—^T was interested to read Dr. Brassloff's to Israel which that country refused to accept 1934. Professor Katz, who was knighted last assessment of the United Nations after 25 and thereby diminished the role of peace-keep­ year, came to Britain from Germany in 1935, ing which the U.N. played so successfully in one of the eminent persons in the fields of years' existence, but on reflection feel that by science, medicine and literature whom Nazism trying to cover the entire and vast range of the Congo, Cyprus, etc. And let us remember, brought to the free Westem world. U.N. activities, political, economic and social, too, that U Thant has personaUy appealed to the leaders of the Soviet Union, Iraq and Dr. Julius Axelrod, the other Jewish prize­ the end result tums out to be, perhaps neces­ winner for medicine, is professor of pharm­ sarily, rather shallow. Egypt to allow Jewish citizens in their coun­ acology at the National Institute of Health in Some of the acctisations contained in the tries to emigrate. {See his Annual Report, Betbesda, Maryland, U.S.A. New York-born article, however, .>need refuting as so little 1969.) Dr Axelrod described his prize-winning work appears to be known or understood about the The U.N. is not a world govemment. It is as a long-time study of how nerves transmit U.N. "The C/JV. has failed to show genuine a set of rules and a piece of machinery, far messages to bodily organs. concern at such grave issues as the tragedy of from perfect, but the best available at present. The Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics Biafra." Actually 40 per cent of all the medi­ The job of the U.N. supporters is to urge its has been awarded to Professor Paul A. Samuel- cal and nutritional aid supplied was channelled wse in all appropriate circumstances. It is son, the American economist. He is the son of through U.N.7.CJB.F., not to mention the trite to say " the U.N. deserves critical sup­ Jewish immigrants from Poland and his family negotiators or the attempted mediation. Dr. port ". It deserves first and foremost com­ is related to the poet, I. L. Peretz. Head of the Brassloff further writes that the U.N. appears mitted support which, if it is thu.s, can rightly economic department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the past 30 years, unconcerned about " the denial of elementary be critical. It has enough of the other kind Professor Samuelson was influential in the human rights in so-called Socialist countries ". already. economic planning of both the Kennedy and The Soviet action in Czechoslovakia was almost Johnson Administrations. His citation says he universally condemned in the General Yours, etc., has done more than any other contemporary Assembly. It is difficult to assess the effect HANS G. WOYDA. economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory. of the U.N. in such situations, but it is prob­ 12a Telford Parade, ably highly significant. Of course it is ham­ Streatham Hill, S.W.2. pered by the continued reluctance of member WOMAN PROFESSOR OF LAW States to forego any of their national sovereignty and their insistence on no outside The first woman to hold a law chair in the SELF AID CONCERT United Kingdom is Dr. Claire Palley, who has interference in what they consider to be in­ been appointed professor of public law at temal matters. As every year, the concert of Self Aid of Queen's University, Belfast. Sihe is also one But perhaps the most regrettable accusation Refugees in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on of the very few women to have a chair at the November 10th proved a great social and university. Dr. Palley, a barrister, gained her in the article refers to " the frequently equi­ Ph.D. at London University, and was born and vocal behaviour of the Secretary-General, U artistic success. The artists were the violinist Szymon Goldberg, well known to former Ber­ educated in South Africa. Her husband is Dr. Thant", especially it seems alleged, in the liners as the leader of the Berlin Philharmonic Ahron Palley, who was for twelve years a case of Israel. It has been my privilege to be under Furtwangler, aqd Radu Lupu, the 25- member of itie Rhodesian Parliament. chairman of the Streatham branch of the U.N. year-old pianist who won the 1969 Leeds Piano Association for over ten years, during which Competition's first prize unanimously. It was, MENUHIN HONOURED time I have been kept fully informed of the therefore, no surprise that the artistic level was actimties, statements and resolutions at the of the highest possible standard. It ranged Yehudi Menuhin has had the Nehru Award U.N. I know of no statement or action of from Beethoven to Debussy. for Peace and International Understanding U Thant which could be thus described. In­ The concert also proved an outstanding conferred upon him. He gave his services free deed, this accusation appears with monotonous financial success and yielded £6,700 towards at a series of concerts in India in 1951, the regularity in the political Right-wing and Self Aid's funds which will help them to con­ proceeds of about £15,000 going to famine tinue their urgently needed work for former relief. Menuhin thinks he is the first violinist Zionist press and is never substantiated. Let us refugees. of Jewish origin to be so honoured.

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