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Don't miss . . . Reflections on political correctness

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Austrian pensions n 'interesting' incident occurred at an Ameri­ advocates of PC have demanded the dropping of such pl6 can university recently. An Israeli student DWEMs as Aristotle, Dante and Shakespeare from Atrying to finish an essay around midnight university study courses, and substituting authors yelled at some noisy black girl students outside his more relevant to the concerns of female and ethnic dormitory block: 'Get away from here, you water students. The wider PC hit list also includes Thomas The AJR at Work, buffaloes; there's a zoo a mile away!' Jefferson (who kept slaves), Emily Bronte (whose page 8, contains A major row involving a university disciplinary Wuthering Heights glosses over slavery in the West a full report of hearing ensued. The black students complained that Indies) and Joseph Conrad (for whom Central Africa the 1993 Annual the term 'water buffalo' was a racist slur aimed at was the 'heart of darkness'). General Meeting. their African ancestry. The Israeli insisted that he had Then there is the term chair instead of 'gender- simply used the closest English equivalent to the specific' chairman (parodied in the placename Person- Hebrew term behemoth which came into his head. (In chester), not to mention vertically challenged for addition his defence counsel pointed out water small and follically challenged for bald. buffaloes are not native to Africa, but to South-East The Paris Presented in this manner it might appear that the Asia.) The case continues, with reverberations reach­ insistence on politically correct language is an eccen­ shooting ing into the U.S. Senate itself. tric foible — but things are not as simple as all that. The Interestingly enough, this account of pohtically Jewish experience has shown that some words carry he carrying incorrect language could itself be faulted as politically undertones that don't merely make them pejorative, out of the - incorrect. The term 'black' has followed 'coloured' but criminally libellous; it is only a matter of years Tlong overdue and 'Negro' into the litter bin of PC; the kosher word since the verb 'to jew' as a synonym for cheating - 'death sentence' in politically correct U.S.-speak is 'Afro-American'. disappeared from some English dictionaries. The on Rene Bousquet No less interesting is the acronym DWEM which sublimal association between the term 'Jew' and Judas by a maverick stands for Dead White European Males. Some has been the subject both of a learned study and a - gunman was a somewhat meretricious — recent TV feature. twofold mercy Some weeks ago Stoke-on-Trent radio tried to killing. It was an extract humorous antisemitic mileage from a script act of mercy to AN IMPORTANT DATE FOR YOUR DIARY featuring a Jewish milkman named Tight Gitenberg. Bousquet who no (The offending programme has since been dropped.) longer has to In a rather higher sphere of entertainment Arnold answer for his AJR Wesker has laboured mightily — and, not surprisingly, sickening crimes & in vain - to detoxify* Shakespeare's Merchant of before an earthly Self Aid Venice and produce a sanitized Shylock shorn of his court - as well misanthropic attributes. as for an 46TH What pains Wesker is the age-old association ANNUAL CHARITY CONCERT Establishment between the Jew and the insistence on the 'pound of which connived at Sunday October 17th, 1993 at 3.00 pm at the Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road flesh' perpetuated in the Bard's version. But there may his postwar be brand-new negative stereotypes that we need to be comeback. Alas, Guest artists: ERICH GRUENBERG & ANTHONY GOLDSTONE more concerned about. The 'Zionism shall not pass' this form of banner recently carried in Moscow by anti-Yeltsin euthanasia also Programme: SCHUBERT, CHOPIN, KREISLER, BEETHOVEN demonstrators infers that Russian Jews are exploiting puts to sleep the current misery in the country in the interest of consciences that Ticket application forms will appear in the August issue. Israel. This is a rehash of the sentiments once might otherwise poisonously expressed in Der Stiirmer-and wouldn't have been stirred Regrettably, the R.A.M. has no facilities for we (and the civilised world) have been glad if the by their country's wheelchair users. constraints of PC had applied in the days of the wartime shame. D Weimar Republic? D AJR INFORMATION JULY 1993

Compensation for DDR Profile claimants Reports have been received that the German dered her career prospects. Having for Government proposes to charge a levy of From shadowland to several years been involved in setting up 33^% on compensation paid under the Shadchanut informal groups of people in their twenties 1990 legislation to DDR Claimants for and thirties — one with the charming name property expropriated by the Nazis. The of 'The Gregarians' - she hit on the idea of purpose of this levy is to fund any compen­ opening a marriage bureau. sation paid by the Government to indi­ Her initial office was a room in her own viduals and Jewish communities. suburban house; later she acquired We understand that the Conference on premises, first in Beauchamp Place, and Jewish Material Claims against Germany, then Camden Town. In her 25 years in the Inc, which negotiates with the German matchmaking business she has brought Government on all matters concerning com­ together 5,000 clients — though she hesitates pensation to Nazi victims has taken up this to claim they all lived happily ever after. matter and is making every effort to What sets Hedi's agency apart from others persuade the German Government not to is the cross-channel nature of her oper­ charge this levy. D ations. She has interviewed U.K.-oriented potential marriage partners in Milan, Symbol of the city Zurich, Diisseldorf, Paris, Brussels and Antwerp. (The last deserves a special men­ rs Katharina Ziebura, the officer in tion because Jews make up a sizeable part of charge of the programme for invit­ her clientele). ing Jewish former Berliners to their M Hedi Fisher Photo: private. Hedi hardly approximates to the prover­ place of birth (a scheme which has been in bial Hungarian — who follows one into the operation for 24 years) was honoured with edi Fisher was born a rabbi's revolving door and comes out in front — but a reception held by the Association of daughter in provincial Hungary nor does she let grass grow under her feet. Jewish Ex-Berliners. The reception took under the Horthy regime. She had Only this year she launched out on two new place in Willesden Synagogue in the H just turned a teenager when the Germans, ventures — briefly as an agony aunt on presence of 107 members ofthe association abetted by local Nazis, took over the Breakfast TV, and, more permanently, as and their spouses, many of whom had country and completed the Final Solution. the author of Matchmaker, Matchmaker. In travelled great distances to attend. Her parents and brother were sent to multi-cultural Britain, where many ethnic In her address, Mrs Ziebura spoke of the Auschwitz, the parents never to return. subgroups 'believe' in arranged marriages events of the first Heinrich Stahl Day (April She initially escaped the roundup with the her book should do well. 22) when a ceremony had been arranged to aid of forged papers. Discovered, she was D R.G. celebrate the affixing of a plaque to the wall sent, with the surviving inmates of the of the house where Stahl was born. The Debreczin ghetto, in a sealed cattle truck to owner of the house had given verbal per­ Austria to perform slave labour. She ended mission to place the memorial plate, but up at a camp attached to the Siemens and Israel's withdrew it at the last moment. The cere­ Schuckert works near Tulln. When the Very finest Wines mony had to be reconvened to a more Third Reich collapsed an Austrian factory receptive site further down the road. A foreman with a daughter of Hedi's age hid SHIPPED BY street in Dahlem has been named after Stahl her from the SS coralling the camp inmates in remembrance of his life and work. for a death march. (He also saved her from At the close of the reception Mrs Ziebura rape by the liberating Russians). HOUSE OF presented the Association with a porcelain Repatriated to Hungary she met up with bear - the symbol of the cit>' of Berlin - she, her brother, a survivor of Auschwitz and HALLGARTEN in turn was presented with a medallion Mauthausen, and together they joined an made from an antique bronze coin from the uncle in London. Here Hedi finished her year 68 AD. The meeting was conducted by schooling and soon went to work, but YARDEN and GAMLA the Chairman of the Association of Ex- found no satisfactory employment. She Berliners, Mr Martin Teich-Birken. D attended evening classes and acquired secre­ AVAILABLE NOW tarial skills as well as a diploma in soci­ ology. In the midst of all this she got Please write or phone for BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE married to another orphaned Hungarian full information 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.3 survivor. The marriage failed because, in Our communal hall is available Hedi's words, 'he was looking for a mother DALLOW ROAD for cultural and I for a father'. LUTON BEDS and social functions. LU11UR For details apply to: The uncle died and she found life for a Secretary, Synagogue Office. divorcee with a small daughter hard. She 0582 22538 Tel: 071-794 3949 worked in the social services, but realised that discrimination against females hin- ! ^.—I—i^ 2 - I ^^^smssm^m^sm

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silence. There are no birds or animals, it is Anniversary seminar Educational experience as if they do not feel right there. The last THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING. A seminar arher this year the Trustees of the AJR place I saw in the camp ivas a massive pit, to mark the Fiftieth Anniversary ofthe Warsaw Charitable Trust were approached by filled with the ashes of victims. To me it Ghetto Uprising, 9 May 1993 E representatives of the Jewish Free looked like a giant sandpit. . . . School (JFS) in Camden with a request for I feel that it is very important that every This seminar, organised by the Institute of financial help. JFS were organising a trip to Jew should see for themselves the evidence Contemporary History and Wiener Library, Poland, including the sites of former con­ of these camps. I am very grateful to you for brought together historians and witnesses centration camps, they felt would be of helping me to gain a tvider knoivledge and to the life and death struggle of the Warsaw great historical and cultural value to developing my personal thoughts and Ghetto. It was opened with a presentation students taking part. However, for some emotions. by Dr John Fox, who edits the 'British Journal of Holocaust Education'. He ex­ students the trip was financially unviable. The other student reports: *he Trustees were asked to make a amined the reasons why armed resistance to donation towards the cost for two students After arriving at Warsaiv airport we the Nazis did not occur until January and who would otherwise have been unable to travelled to Lublin by coach. When we April 1943. Dr Fox also dealt with the go. arrived at what was once a yeshivah and is complex and controversial behaviour of the now a medical college it ivas late at night, Jewish Councils, explaining how their As representatives of a major Jewish but we could still see the word 'Jude' and actions could be understood in terms of refugee organisation, the Trustees receive two large magen davids daubed on the wall what they knew of Nazi plans at the time, iiany requests for financial aid. JFS has had in yelloiv paint. . . . the Jewish historical experience and rabbi­ a long association with the AJR via student On one afternoon we visited Birkenau. nical opinions. volunteer schemes which include helping at Here we were privileged to attend a cere­ the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre. Recognis­ Janina David, author of two volumes of mony at the memorial at which Yitzak ing the value of education through experi­ memoirs of the period, 'A Square of Sky' Rabin made a speech. . . . ence and the excellent reputation of JFS, the and 'A Touch of Earth', then gave a child's I rustees agreed to make a donation. This trip was an invaluable experience view of life in the ghetto from 1941 to early for me and I am proud that as Jews we 1943. She spoke frankly about the appalling Subsequently the two students were survive. I would like to thank the Trustees suffering, but also the existence of wealthy included in the party which toured Poland, very much for giving me the opportunity to Jews who patronised restaurants in the ^n their return they each wrote a letter of visit Poland, ivhere my grandparents came midst of mass starvation. Her vivid recollec­ thanks to the Trustees in which they from and many members of my family tions, often using some small, domestic recorded their impressions. The following suffered. It ivas through your generous detail to highlight the grim conditions in the IS an extract from the first letter: contribution that I ivas able to pay my ghetto, left the audience better informed Whilst walking from barrack to barrack respects to them, and I am deeply and also deeply moved. '" Majdanek camp I noticed a complete grateful. D Felix Scharf, who has recently introduced an important collection of photographs of the ghetto in a new book 'In the Warsaw OPEN DAYS Ghetto — Summer 1941', placed the Upris­ ing in the context of Jewish and Polish IN THE OSHA HOMES memory. Jews today mourned the destruc­ tion of a civilization that was one thousand Osmond House years old. Yet for many years Poles could Sunday 18 July not appreciate this and thought of them­ 2.30 p.m. selves chiefly as victims. While 100,000 Entrance £2 BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE Jews had been saved by Poles, the nation as 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 Balint House a whole had faced a cruel moral test imposed on them by the Nazis and had not Sunday 15 August We offer a traditional style of 2.30 p.m. excelled. religious service with Cantor, Entrance £2 (Children £ I) Steve Paulsson, who is conducting Choir and organ research at St Antony's College, Oxford, Heinrich Stahl House presented the early fruits of his work on Sunday 22 August Further details can be obtained from Jews in hiding on the 'Aryan side'. This 3.00 p.m. challenged many stereotypes of Polish Entrance £2 (Children £1) our synagogue secretary behaviour and helped to explain the deadly realities of the 'moral test' they faced every All entrance prices include Telephone 071-794-3949 refreshments day in relation to the Jews. Minister: Rabbi Rodney J. Mariner D David Cesarani, Wiener Library Cantor: Rev Lawrence H. Fine Clara Nehab House Regular services: Friday evenings at 6.30 pm, 140 Jewish Marshals, Generals, Saturday mornings at 10 am Admirals OPEN DAY by E Rubin Sunday 25 July, 3.00pm Religion scliool: Sundays at 10 am to 1 pm Do you have a copy of this book? Entrance £2 (incl refreshments) Space donated by Pafra Limited If you can help me find one please phone Peter Schweitzer 081-868 0025 AJR INFORMATION JULy 1993

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sentenced to 10 years, Stella was immedi­ to him both as a technical author and a Guilty victim ately freed as she had already served this visual artist of considerable ability. On period. display were his pubHshed titles (including Peter Wyden, STELLA, Simon & Schuster, New She now lives somewhere in the Federal one which has gone into 13 editions since its York, 1992, $23.00 Republic, where Peter Wyden interviewed original appearance in 1934) and a selection her recently. Her only daughter is in Israel of 24 of his figures, reflecting the artist's ne ofthe darkest chapters of recent where she has worked as a nurse among innermost thoughts and feelings, not least Jewish history was collaboration Arabs and Jews. For 12 years she worked in as the son of Holocaust victims and a Oin the Holocaust. Throughout the Sinai desert among Bedouins. She was refugee and survivor. Above all, they speak Europe the Nazis tried to force victims to do decorated by the Israeh government and of his vision of reconciUation between Jew their dirty work for them by promising when the Sinai became Egyptian again the and Christian, Jew and German, Jew and them advantages. They demanded lists of new Egyptian governor wanted to meet the Arab, human being and human being. And names for deportation from Jewish authori­ Jewish woman who had served his people so this central theme was taken up in the full ties. In defence of officials who complied it devotedly. She never mentions her mother coverage of the exhibition in the VDI's own can be argued that without their co-oper­ and when asked about her family only refers journal and Evangelical Church magazine ation the same number would have perished to her grandparents who perished in 'Der Weg'. Both articles quoted the key and Jewish officials were probably kinder in Auschwitz. sentence in Dr Gerber's opening address: their dealings with their co-religionists than The author tells a gruesome, extremely 'With his work as an artist Walter Gold­ the SS would have been. Such mitigation well-researched tale. In the end he asks the stern calls on us to set an example for cannot be extended to the 'Greifer' reader how he would have reacted if given greater tolerance towards others every­ (catchers) used by the Nazis to seek out Jews the choice which the Gestapo gave Stella. where'. It is indeed a noble thought. in hiding. The book under review centres on Before we condemn her we must ask D David Maier Stella, one of the greifer of Berlin. ourselves the same question. D Peter Prager Blonde bombshell Acting the Judas goat I remember her very well from my class in the Goldschmidt Schule where we called her Reconciliation SORRY, JUDAS. Without Walls, TV programme broadcast on Channel 4, Monday 5 April the blond bombshell. She was pretty and well aware of it, but to us boys she was An Exhibition of Sculptures by Walter Goldstern, DiJsseldorf unapproachable, seemingly more con­ oward Jacobson, fresh from his cerned with attempting to impress young battlefield exposure of Roots male teachers. Her parents had a US affi­ n the light of the most recent attacks H Schmoots, dived straight in during davit but, like so many German Jews, could on foreigners, this exhibition has a Easter week to do further battle with the not obtain a visa due to American quota 'I particularly poignant topicality.' With dragons of anti-semitism, prejudice and restrictions. The outbreak of war caught the these words, Dr Ing. Peter Gerber, the misconceptions. He went for the central family in Berlin. They tried to live illegally Director ofthe Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, beliefs of the Christian faith, and slated after escaping a round-up but were even­ underlined his personal invitation to the them as misbeliefs. His programnie tually caught. Stella was tortured to force formal opening on 1 February of a unique followed the publication of Hyam Mac­ her to divulge the names and addresses of exhibition at his organisation's head office coby's book on Judas Iscariot, and though Jews in hiding, and finally agreed to become in Diisseldorf: the work of Walter Gold­ Maccoby as well as assorted bishops and a greifer so that her parents might be saved stern, refugee, engineer, writer, sculptor. rabbis appeared on the programme, it was from deportation. Able to use knowledge Walter Goldstern lives in Cheshire. He our Howard all the way. gained as a U-Boot of the hideout of many came to England in July 1938 and worked He used every device — from subtle friends and acquaintances, she (like her in Leeds in his special field of thermodyn­ argument to histrionic bad taste, from fellow greifers) hunted down hundreds of amic engineering until 1968, when he Jewish jokes to meta-history - to drive fellow Jews who then ended in the gas rejoined his former employers, the VDI, in a home his points. chambers. As did her parents, since the consultative capacity. He returned to this For starters he made himself up, actor Gestapo didn't keep their part of the country in 1986. In 1988 he published fashion, as the stereotypical Jew of medieval bargain. Nevertheless, to save herself Stella 'Vertreibung und Emigration deutsch­ demonology, or modern anti-semitic car­ kept on with her nefarious work, and sprachiger Ingenieure nach Palastina 1933- toons, in yellow coat and hat, star on breast, helped bring about the deaths of over a 1945' (written in collaboration with Pro­ with red wig and a big hooked nose, hundred people. Upon liberation the Rus­ fessor Yoav Gelber and reviewed here in synthetic warts and prayer shawl peeping sians sent her to prison for 10 years after a July 1988). out and, surrounded by bottles of blood and summary trial entirely in Russian where she Fifteen years ago, at the age of 72, he took other noxious substances, muttered was allowed no defence. Released after 10 up sculpture seriously (he had always been 'money, money, money'. Then he asked the years the West Berlin authorities tried her interested in this art form) and since then he question 'Jewish enough for you?' again; this time defence witnesses were has worked in this medium with remarkable His audience - the one in the studio — allowed. She denied all allegations; how­ success. were not allowed to miss the point. Which ever, there were sufficient witnesses to By hosting this exhibition, the Associa­ was that they were all the Jews at the Last support them. Found guilty and again tion of German Engineers has paid tribute Supper, from Jesus to the last disciple — but AJR INFORMATION JL/Ly 1993

only Judas is the traitor, because ofhis name photographs and maps, she has drawn from denoting Jew. a wide variety of sources, many familiar, Pioneer of corporate The bishops were bemused, the rabbis others less so, material to illustrate almost design seemed doubtful, a former nun, now a every aspect of her subject. Each chapter Writer, agreed with Jacobson. I felt uneasy contains sets of questions designed not about the relentless clowning of the pre­ merely to consolidate what factual infor­ he refugee contribution to British life senter. When it came to the complex of mation students will have gathered from is, by common agreement, a huge ntual slaughter and human sacrifice he did a their reading, but also to stimulate thought Tone. Within it one area probably dance, dressed up as a present-day hygienic about some of the most profound and looms larger than most: the visual arts. The butcher, among dangling slaughterhouse painful issues raised by the Holocaust. famous names just tumble out of the carcases; he dangled some more in his It is possible to criticise the book for recesses of one's mind: painters like Lucien disguise of Judas Iscariot in a reafistic attempting to do too much. It attempts to Freud and Frank Auerbach, art historians representation of a judicial, rather than a trace anti-semitism through 3,000 years of hke Pevsner, Gombrich, and Reith lecturer suicidal, hanging. Jewish history in addition to providing an Edgar Wind, art book publishers like Mr Jacobson made his point, namely that adequate account of the rise of Nazism, the Walter Neurath of Thames & Hudson Christianity owes its existence to Judas as a impact of the Holocaust on its victims, fame, architects like Erno Goldfinger, person as well as an analogue of Judaism Jewish and non-Jewish, while also treating potters like Lucie Rie, etc. but oh, the embarrassing gimmicks he used such topics as the Armenian genocide of If Ernst Gombrich's bestselling Story of to get to that point. He urged the Church to 1915. This may seem impossibly ambitious, Art and Nikolas Pevsner's County Books of niake Judas into Saint Judas and name but, remarkably Carrie Supple manages it Architecture have profoundly influenced streets, stations and churches after him. all admirably. English ways of seeing, in terms of what When, not long afterwards, Jacobson Although concerned primarily with the people actually see in their daily lives, the •defended his position, with convincing Holocaust as a Jewish tragedy, her study refugee deserving pride of place is the far '^'gnity, on Channel 4's Right to Reply, the does not neglect other victims of Nazi mass- less well-known F. H. K. Henrion. •iiost interesting contribution in that debate murder. She deals sensitively with the fate of Henrion reads like the made-up name •^ame from the executive producer of Sorry, the gypsies and homosexuals. She also which it in fact was. Its bearer started life as J^das; he said he was a Catholic who had treats in some detail the vexed question of Heiner Kohn, son of a respected Nuremberg left his native Austria because he could not resistance in the ghettoes and the camps. lawyer. Averse to a legal career he went off stand its pervasive anti-semitism. The inescapable — and clearly intended - to study design in Paris — where he became D John Rossall conclusion of this book is that genocide, of acquainted with such variants of modern which the Nazi attempt to destroy the art as Surrealism - and in 1936 settled in Jewish people remains the paradigm ex­ London. From 1940 on he designed posters The lesson that must ample, is not exclusively confined to the and organised exhibitions for the Ministry Holocaust and, as today's 'ethnic cleansers' of Information (e.g. one called 'Off the be learned demonstrate, is not confined to the pages of Ration'), which were not insignificant history. weapons of ideological warfare. ^°rrie Supple. FROM PREJUDICE TO Carrie Supple also introduces an extra Post-war Henrion started his own office, t-NOCIDE: Learning about the Holocaust, dimension which brings to her book a which ultimately employed over 60 staff. In 'rentham Books. Stoke-on-Trent. £16.95 poignancy lifting it far above the average 1951 he worked on the South Bank exhibi­ history text book. She traces the personal tion of the Festival of Britain which seemed, he now voluminous literature consti­ stories of four survivors - Esther Brunstein, to a country still tired from the exertions of tuting 'Holocaust Studies' has suf­ Harry Nagelsztajn, Werner Mayer and Liesl war, to portend a more optimistic future, Tfered, in this country at least, from Silverstone — whose lives and moving testi­ with modern design very much to the fore. one glaring omission: there has been no monies personify the tragedy of millions in a He also taught at the Royal College of Art atisfactory account designed primarily for way that will move and enlighten students and the London College of Printing. ^^ purpose of teaching the subject to of all ages. Pressed to serve on committees and udents in secondary education. Carrie A wonderful book that should be in every advisory councils, he freely gave of his time Apple's excellent book attempts to do this. school and college hbrary. to advance the cause of design, both as It would be no exaggeration to say that D Michael Faulkner international president of the Alliance '^^ task she has set herself is a formidable Graphique Internationale, and Master of "^- To do justice to the subject without the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry. "ncessary oversimphfication or serious But Henrion's most obvious contribution ''Mission, in such a way as to communicate AJR to our immediate visual environment lies in ^^ facts and their significance to GCSE and Our new address is: his own designs of ubiquitously glimpsed level students, may be considered a rare I HAMPSTEAD GATE, corporate logos, such as that for KLM , "levement. Carrie Supple has succeeded lA FROGNAL, LONDON NW3 6AL. Royal Dutch Airlines, the Post Office's "^ doing exactly this. National Giro Service, the National Our new phone number is: f^he author is herself a teacher of history. Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall and the ^ has developed the material for this book 071-431 6161 London Electricity Board. ^r many years and has written it as a text F. H. K. Henrion died three years ago, . •" National Curriculum History'. As such, Our new Fax number is: aged 76, garnering fulsome obituaries in all 'Conforms perfectly to the standard quality newspapers. 071-431 8454 'luirements. Profuselv illustrated with D R.G. AJR INFORMATION JULy 1993

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ne doesn't have to be alarmist to apply the phrase 'hostages of civi­ OMISSION Vienna charges a commission of not less Olisation' - which Eva Reichmann Sir - It was gratifying to see the report by than A.S. 50,00 for every transfer and, at coined for German Jewry in the 1930s - to M.M.K. on the conference 'Jewish Refugees our end. Midland Bank now charges £6.00 Jews in present-day Russia. If the forces and Refugee Work 1933-1993' (AJR, May for every transaction, irrespective of the ranged against reform carry the day in 1993). Unfortunately, a few errors seem to sum involved. Moscow they will rend Yeltsin, branded have crept into the account. The conference Thingwall Road Fred Masserick variously an American catspaw, an agent of was organised and chiefly funded jointly by Liverpool Israel, or a Jew tout court. CBF World Jewish Relief and the Wiener Anti-Yeltsinites are an unholy alhance of Library. It was supported by grants from READY FOR ANYTHING Communists and Great-Russian chauvin­ the Lord Ashdown Charitable Settlement, Sir - May I add to the delightful story ists. Demonstrators marching under red the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation and 'Ready for anything'. Henry (my husband), flags seem oblivious of the fact that the the AJR. The Wiener Library and CBF as a boy of 17 shared a tent with Norbert founder of Communism Karl Marx, unlike World Relief are very grateful for the Brainin at the Prees Heath Internment Yeltsin, really was a (baptised) Jew. By the financial assistance of the AJR towards Camp in Shropshire, where Norbert enter­ same token Great-Russian xenophobes realisation of the conference, but it is only tained his fellow prisoners with daily virtu­ carry portraits of Czar Nicholas II, who was fair to acknowledge the terrific backing oso performances on his violin, which kept seven-eighths German and one eighth Slav. which the event received from these other their spirits up. But then paradox is the name of the game funding bodies. I would also like to pay Henry introduced Norbert to Peter in the jockeying for power in today's tribute to the staff at the CBF and the Schidlof who had been to school with him Russia. Redundant apparachiks masquer­ Wiener Library who were responsible for and played the violin. Norbert asked Peter ade as defenders of parliamentary sover­ the first-class organisation of this inter­ to play something on his violin and told eignty. If Yeltsin, a far more committed national gathering. Henry: 'This boy has a remarkable talent'. democrat than Khasbulatov, Sorkin et al, Institute of Contemporary David Cesarani After their release, Norbert persuaded his wants to impress the apathetic populace he History and Wiener teacher to take Peter under his wing and needs to act the strong man. Khasbulatov, Library Limited teach him free of charge. This was the ally of the political gutter, is a sorcerer's beginning of the famous Amadeus Quartet, apprentice, who, as a member of the OVERCHARGED with Peter playing the viola. After his despised Chechen minority, would hardly Sir - Under the heading 'Overcharged', untimely death, the three remaining survive a xenophobic backlash. To Sorkin, your correspondent, H. K. Meyer is quite members stopped playing as a Quartet. So highest judge in the land, the principle of correct in recommending German (or Aus­ close was their friendship that they would judicial objectivity is a closed book. Russian trian) pensions to be paid in Sterling into a not replace Peter Schidlof. xenophobia has venerable antecedents. U.K. bank account which I find to be the North Mymms Margaret Toch After Napoleon's defeat the contribution to most advantageous and economical Hatfield. Herts method. However, the Creditanstalt in GURS East-Germany Sir — Any reader wishing to join the Friends of Gurs — the French camp to which the PARTNER Nazis deported Jews from Baden and else­ and Berlin where — should contact me. The annual in long established English Solicitors We give immediate attention. subscription is £5. (bi-iingual German) would be happy We process and buy properties/daims. to assist clients with English, German / Sneath Avenue R. Bergman and Austrian problems. Contact London NWl I 9AJ We pay cash. BOUQUETS Henry Ebner Sir - I am taking the opportunity to We have proven track records and furnish documentation. at congratulate you on the way you have transformed and improved AJR Write to: Myers Ebner & Deaner Information. 103 Shepherds Bush Road Nagel & Partner Beechcroft Avenue Paul Hollander Uhiandstrasse 156' 1000 Beriin 15 London W6 7LP London NWl I Phone:030-882 56 31 Fax:030-881 39 16 Telephone 071 602 4631 Sir - I must say that AJR Information ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN continues to be my favourite periodical. Wellington Hermann Strauss New Zealand AJR INFORMATION jULy 1993

victory of Scots-descended General Barclay de Tolly was downplayed to inflate the Guernsey's shame Breaking the silence reputation of the echt Slav General Suvorov. Pushkin limned anti-Polish ic Gary, Will Sulpher, John Leale, ome 50% of U.S. high school students, diatribes. Dostojevsky hated Catholics, Is Guernsey still proud of your deal it appears, do not know the meaning of Liberals, and the West in general. VWit h those whom you served with Sthe term 'holocaust'. Closer to home But there have been powerful counter­ such zeal? the late Wagnerian genius. Sir Reginald vailing voices, too. Tolstoy was excom­ Goodall, insisted that the Final Solution municated from the Orthodox Church for Or have you, John Leale, Messrs Sulphur was greatly exaggerated, and who hasn't supporting dissident sects. Chekhov was an and Carey heard of David Irving's diatribes on the admirable humanist, and Gorki detested Met the ghosts of the girls you subject? antisemitism with ever)- fibre of his being. denounced? Latent and manifest denials also emanate (As, incidentally, did Shostakovitch.) Have ever you given the slightest from the Channel Islands. Several months Poles tend to assert that their powerful expression ago Guernsey said 'no' to a Holocaust play, Eastern neighbours are Asiatic, not Euro­ Of the guilt on your conscience? as illustrated by Julia Pascal's experience. pean, and quote the old saying 'Scratch a Have you made your confession Her play Therese recounted what happened Russian and you'll find a Tartar'. This is too After labouring mightily and with to Therese Steiner in Guernsey. As a young pat a judgment. It is, of course, true that devotion Austrian, escaping the Nazis to find refuge historically Russia shares a great deal with With other great notables of your domain in London, she was evacuated to Guernsey Germany. Stalin identified with Ivan the Who shared with much zest the great only to find herself trapped when the island Terrible and Peter the Great, as Hitler did honour to be was invaded. Handed over to the Gestapo with Frederick of Prussia; the arch- 'Obedient Servants' (the records agree) by the wartime adminstation she was Imperialist Russian Empress Catherine the Of the enemies of your sovereign deported to Auschwitz, where she died. Just Great was wholly German by birth, ances- For which somewhat later a fulsome over 2 years ago a row erupted in Guernsey •^ry and upbringing. Worshipping 'strong citation when the author's own drama group t^en' and looking down on parliaments as Betokened the thanks of your King and attempted to stage the play at the island's mere talking shops belongs to the deplor­ concert hall. Mysteriously, the venue your nation able Tradition of both countries. became unavailable on the pretext that the Let us, however, remember a significant Your lillywhite hands never wielded the play was 'inappropriate' for it, that the •difference from the not-too-distant past. lash language of the play was 'distasteful', and Russian soldiers storming Berlin in 1945 Nor gassed anybody and burned them to that this converted church was not Would first rape a woman and then dangle ash. equipped to stage the play. Clearly, this "er child on their knees; the Wehrmacht in Your fingers were clean and unsullied purely documentary drama which anyone Moscow might have done the former, but with red over the age of nine could see without being not the latter! For what are six girls among six million offended was not welcome and the play­ That, is why, fundamentally, Germany dead? wright encountered a wall of silence upon had to be brought back to civilisation by Theresa, Marianne, Auguste, her visit there. outside force (as it were) while there is still a And Annie, Elizabeth, Elda In April, Middlesex University first year "ghting - ominous word! - chance that To be sure, you remember them well drama students performed Therese at the Russia might reform herself by her own Though they're only six girls among more Phoenix Theatre, Ivy House (near Golders efforts. If she does so, the future for Jewry, than six million Hill Park) under the direction of tutor and the world, could be hopeful; any other Whose tumbrils were rumbling with death Derek Proctor, to whom Julia Pascal had scenario is too awful to contemplate. riding pillion. given special permission to stage it. Given D RG. the stringency of resources, the director But now is the time devised a Promenade style of performance To unbury the crime which required a 'movable' participating Which the dead cannot tell: audience. As one of the spectators, I experi­ GERMAN BOOKS You consigned them to hell enced the play in this novel and untra- We are always buying: While most of your neighbours averted ditional way. The promenade style was a Books, Autographs, Judaica their eyes conscious experiment which succeeded Please contact And showed neither pity nor shame or well, with all the fourteen characters put­ Antiquariat Metropolis surprise. ting heart and soul into it. The actors were Leerbachstr. 85 So that to this day a squalid disgrace ably supported by a technical crew of 23 W-6000 Frankfurt a/M Disfigures the face of the island race. students performing various essential func­ Tel: 0104969559451 n R. S. Lenk tions to lend realism to the experimental REGULAR VISITS TO LONDON venture. D K.C.S. 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Our Annual General Meeting ) Guest speaker

lthough London's weather on 10 The recent move of all AJR departments alph Blumenau began by pointing up June, oppressive heat interspersed from Adamson Road to the new complex at the academic differences between Awith torrential downpours, was Hampstead Gate, Frognal, should facilitate RFrance, cradle of the University of the more reminiscent of Rangoon in the rainy a smoother operation for all departments Third Age concept, and Britain. In France, season than England in late Spring, it was and allow room for future expansion of the the courses are organised by the local business as usual at the AJR's Annual services which the AJR can offer to its university whose faculty members do the General Meeting. members. teaching. British U3A has no link with The climatic conditions notwithstanding, In concluding, Mr Marx offered a special academic institutions and, most crucially, a very large audience attended this year's vote of thanks to all the volunteers and staff 'third agers', i.e. retired people, do the AGM and the stylish glass-walled hall ofthe who worked with such enthusiastic energy teaching themselves. For this they need no Paul Balint AJR Day Centre was packed to to organise these and other events so much formal qualifications — the corollary being the gunnels. enjoyed by our elderly members. that lecturers are simply called co-ordina­ The meeting opened with the address of The Hon. Treasurer, Mr Max Koch­ tors — and have to prove no more than an the Chairman, Mr Theo Marx, who was mann, then took the floor. As always, he ability to keep a minimum number of able to recount an impressive list of suc­ avoided producing long lists of figures, students attending their class. cesses and highlights from the past year. He knowing that few people find them gener­ ally interesting. He did, however, make the praised the work of the Day Centre staff and Freeing Latent Ability volunteers, who have coped with a steadily present financial situation of the AJR as increasing workload during the year and clear as possible in layman's terms. Essen­ The setting free of latent ability and enthu­ continued to do so. Mr Marx also noted the tially, he said, the AJR can pay its way. But siasm has produced an impressive array of new catering arrangements now directly the increasing pressure brought to bear by courses on offer: 75 in Central London, supervised under the auspices of the AJR, reduced state benefits, and the fact that attended by 1,500 students. Hardly less and increased capacity of meals on wheels many of our elderly members are totally impressive is the way U3A caters for the distribution, as well as the take away meals without savings or capital, makes continued physically handicapped. Some classes service. financial support from better established actually take place in housebound Highlights of the year included the first members absolutely vital. members' homes; for one literature study AJR communal Sedar, which was so suc­ Through a mixture of long and short term programme BT have even set up a telephone cessful that it is now set to become a regular investments the AJR Charitable Trust is link between participants. event. The Day Centre's organised group able to generate funds, but the effects of the The speaker also touched on regional holidays have also proved extremely introduction of the Community Care Act on variations between U3A branches. Hud­ popular. the elderly make the financial future diffi­ dersfield organises lots of music; Cambridge The Chairman also paid tribute to the cult to predict. What does seem certain, attracts retired country doctors and solici­ sterling work done by the social service however, is that our obligations as an tors; London has a disproportionate department, under the guidance of Agi Association must be seen as lasting for the number of Jewish - particularly refugee - Alexander. Our social workers continue to next 15 to 20 years at least. students. Asked for an explanation of the deal with a steadily growing number of Following the Hon. Treasurer's speech latter phenomenon he ascribed it to word- increasingly complex cases. Mr Marx asked those present to approve of-mouth 'propaganda' (the implication Mr Marx expressed his wish that AJR the election of Mrs Claudia Srebnik to the being that we are a rather gabby lot). Information, the Association's news organ, executive committee and the re-election of Mr Blumenau also pointed out that supported by the Editorial Advisory Com­ the following members, Mr C. T. Marx; potential students should disabuse them­ mittee, should continue to serve as an Chairman, Mr M. M. Kochmann; Vice- selves of the idea of the U3A as a lonely I important link between AJR members, and Chairman &c Hon. Treasurer, Mrs K. hearts club. However, he felt honour-bound the refugee community as a whole. Gould; Hon. Secretary, Mrs E. Angel, Mrs to admit that a number of marriages had M. Brook, Mr C. W. Dunston, Mr J. H. been made in the lecture theatres. Dunston, Mr M. Durst, Mrs H. Goldsmith, After that entertaining aside Ralph AJR Mr A. C. Kaufman, Mr H. E. Levy, Mr Blumenau ended on a high note 'Enrol in Our new address is: W. D. Rothenberg. The election was carried U3 A and you may find it gives new meaning I HAMPSTEAD GATE, by acclamation. to life!' D IA FROGNAL, LONDON NW3 6AL. After a lively and informative discussion Our new phone number Is: in which the Chairman and Hon. Treasurer answered questions from the floor, Mr 071-431 6161 Marx called upon the guest speaker, Mr Mr Blumenau's AGM talk has been Ralph Blumenau, who delivered a most recorded by Irene White and will be Our new Fax number is: interesting lecture on the work of the made available to those members University of the Third Age, in which many who receive AJR Information on tape. 071-431 8454 AJR members are enrolled. D

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Sun, sand, sea, smiles, shmooze - and shopping Fragebogen

ecause of the impending entry of Austria into the Economic Commun­ Bity, many of our members who pre­ sently receive an Austrian Pension may have Regular readers will recently received a letter and questionnaire recognise this photo [Fragebogen) from the Pension Authorities from last month's in Austria. report of the Paul Mint AJR Day We have had many requests for help in Centre holiday in completing the Fragebogen and if anyone Bournemouth. [Photo: ]. Lee). needs assistance please telephone our Social Services Department on 071-431 6161. D

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn D D D Paul Balint AjR D D Day Centre D D n VOLUNTARY VISITORS NEEDED PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE D OPEN DAY D (1) A lady in a Kilburn residential home D (AJR CLUB) D wants Jewish contact. D All members, volunteers D D and friends are invited to (2) A visitor is needed in Golders Green to AFTERNOON HIGHLIGHTS D give a husband occasional respite from his D Join us on D twenty-four hour a day caring. A once Sunday 25 July D Sunday 4th July 1993 D weekly visit would provide welcome The Connaught Opera Touring D relief at 2.30 p.m. • Opera Company D D For further information please contact; Entrance by ticket only D Entrance £2 D Laura Howe, AJR Volunteers Coordinator on Price £3.50 including refreshments. D to include refreshments 071-431 6161. D nnnnnDDDDDDnnnn

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Alice Schwab Polish Cultural Institute in Portland Place by an exhibition oi Polish Jeivs: An Outline SB's Colunnn Portrait. After the successful Royal Residences of ritish Festivals. Summer Festivals the Victorian Era exhibition at the have become cultural institutions, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (until B Salzburg having started the trend in 31 July), the Gallery is showing From View 1920, with Edinburgh following in 1947. Mulian Treuherz, son of our old friends to Vision (until 2 October), a display of (Both were initiated by Austrian personali­ • Mr & Mrs Werner Treuherz of Roch- British watercolours from Sandby to ties: Reinhardt and Hofmannsthal in the M dale, now occupies the prestigious Turner. case of the former and Rudolf Bing the ^ position of Keeper of Galleries for the The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibi­ latter.) Special performances, concerts and National Mueums and Galleries on Mersey- tion - until 15 August - is always worth a shows of every description have long been side. Recently he was involved in the visit because of the mass and sheer variety of regular features on the continent; now exhibition of Viktorianische Malerei at the pictures on show. Also at the Royal Acad­ Britain is catching up. This year Brighton Neue Pinakothek, Munich, as well as writ­ emy (2 July to 10 October) is The Impres­ caters mainly for the young with a Victorian ing Victorian Fainting for the Thames & sionist and the City: Pissarro's Series Paint­ funfair, the Chinese State Circus and a Hudson World of Art series. This is an ings. This exhibition brings together 70 'Rock shop', Arundel stages The Comedy of excellent and highly informative account of works from the last, astonishingly pro­ Errors as a pyrotechnical fantasy (27 the painting and painters of the period ductive, decade of Camille Pissarro's life. In August to 3 September), Henley-on-Thames (price £6.95). view of rhe likely popularity of the exhibi­ has an opera gala with Rita Hunter as guest Visitors to Cornwall this summer will tion advance booking is advisable. Tickets artist, and the Buxton Festival - now a well- have an opportunit}' to see the new multi- can be obtained from the Royal Academy established annual feature - fills the second million Tate Gallery at St Ives, an artists' and from the ticket agents First Call and half of July with music ranging from organ Mecca for generations, and see an exhibi­ Ticketmaster. Prices of entry range from £5 recitals via jazz to opera (Donizetti's Maria tion devoted to artists from the St Ives to£l. Stuarda and Cimarosa's Secret Marriage). school since 1925. The Ben Uri Art Society is showing In the SO years ago Louis Treumann died in German Refugee Artists in Great Britain Attic, paintings by Marlene Rolfe (11 July— Theresienstadt. Today, only very elderly (A Selection) is at 44, Acacia Road, London 1 August). Marlene was born in London in threatregoers remember this very talented NW8 (until 31 July). Viewing is by appoint­ 1946, but her German Jewish mother Austrian operetta singer who at the zenith il ment only, Tuesdays to Saturdays (tele­ worked in the German Resistance and was of his career was the first Danilo in Merry phone 071-483 1626). The exhibition, or­ imprisoned in Schloss Lichtenburg by the Widow in 1905, received acclaim in Kal­ ganised in collaboration with the German Nazis. Though Marlene read English at man and Lehar operettas in the Twenties, Embassy, features Peter Baer, Pamina Lie­ Cambridge she now works part-time in and made a final comeback in 1930 in bert-Mahrenholz, Margret Marks, Klaus refugee homes running art groups and has Abraham's Victoria und ihr Husar. Meyer, Walter Nessler, Helmut Weissen- exhibited in several open and group shows. Jerusalem. 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A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING LANDS Some reformers were more radical than others; and among their critics also there was a variety of opinions. There were the Part 10: Jewish responses to emancipation uncompromisingly traditional and ortho­ dox, led by Rabbi Moses Sofer of Pressburg he emergence of the Jews from the There were a number of responses to this (in Hungary). The neo-Orthodox, led by ghettoes and their increasing partici­ question. Many Jews were genuinely capti­ Samson Rafael Hirsch of Frankfurt, Tpation in the general life of Europe vated by the nationalist enthusiasm that defended all orthodox practices in terms of raised for many of them questions about swept through the German intelligentsia in their symbolical importance, but at the their own previous ways of life and about the 19th century. These saw themselves as same time allowed choral singing and the philosophy and religion associated with 'Germans of the Mosaic persuasion', and sermons in the vernacular and also insisted them. What exactly should be the relation­ the logical consequence of this would be the on Sittlichkeit in the services. The ship of Judaism to the modern world? The abandonment of Zion-oriented prayers. Conservatives, under Zechariah Frankel, problem was particularly acute in the Ger­ They embraced Reform Judaism. the chief rabbi of Saxony, accepted that man-speaking world between 1800 and some reform was desirable, but wanted to 1871 because the progress of the Jews there, Reform Judaism and its opponents keep those features which had historically unlike, for example, in England or in This had had its beginning in the town of defined Judaism for centuries: the Sabbath, France, was not interrupted: the emancipa­ Seesen, in Westphalia, where in 1812 Rabbi the use of Hebrew, the dietary laws, and tion of the revolutionary period was Israel Jacobson had set up a temple [sic: circumcision. followed by the post-1815 reaction; the to signalise that what happened there abortive 1830 revolutions raised hopes Rabbi Abraham Geiger of Breslau, who would be different from what happened which were disappointed when the rulers was personally a moderate reformer, called in the traditional synagogue). In 1818, were able to revoke the concessions they a series of synods from 1844 onwards to after the Napoleonic Wars, another temple had made; and the pattern was repeated debate all these questions in the hope that was created in Hamburg and this used a with the reaction after the 1848 revolutions. some common ground could be found. The new prayerbook which was published in There had been revolutions and counter­ Orthodox, of course, did not come; but 1819. revolutions in France as well during this after the first meeting the Neo-Orthodox period; but the fortunes of the French Jews Reform services went a good deal further and the Conservatives also absented had not fluctuated in the same way; and of than no longer praying for a return to themselves. course in England there had been no Jerusalem. References to the coming of the All these groups responded to the chal­ revolutions or counter-revolutions at all. Messiah were eliminated; most of the lenge of emancipation in religious terms. prayers were now said in German rather They all assumed that you could be a good than in Hebrew; regular sermons were German and also a religious Jew. Hirsch, Judaism and German Nationalism introduced, and these, too, were in German. for instance, held that Israel is a divine The situation of the Jews in Germany might The services were modelled on those in community or nation, not a secular one; therefore be characterised as being neither Christian services: more decorum [Sittlich- and he saw no reason why orthodox Jews hopeful nor hopeless; and German Jews in keit) was required from the congregation; should not play a full part in the national particular felt that their future position organs and choirs were introduced, and the secular society and identify themselves with might be determined at least in part by their choirs included women. The chazan now German nationalism. own attitudes. Already in the 18th century stood in front of the congregation instead of they had learnt that acceptance by the in the middle. The rabbis adopted dress Moses Hess similar to that of Protestant pastors. Samuel gentile society was limited to those Jews But there was a small group who appUed the Holdheim, who led a reform congregation who were 'enlightened' and were willing, doctrines of nationalism to the Jewish in Berlin from 1847 to his death in 1860, and indeed eager, to share the cultural people themselves. Foremost amongst these went so far as to conduct Sabbath services outlook of the German intelligentsia. was Moses Hess (1812 to 1875). Hess was both on the Sabbath and on Sundays, and In the 19th century one of the dominant an early communist, who both influenced, after a while on Sundays only. Some reform preoccupations of great sections of the and was influenced by, Karl Marx. He rabbis even proposed the abolition of German intelligentsia was nationalism. initially showed little interest in Judaism, circumcision. Right wing nationalists, as we have seen, married a Christian, and believed that the would not accept Jews as fellow-Germans, Needless to say, these innovations caused Jews should assimilate. But he came to feel but liberal nationalists did not discriminate enormous controversy throughout Jewish that the oppression of one race by another in this way - and this presented German religious communities. The Rabbi of was an even more serious problem than that Jews with the question of whether they Prague, Solomon Yehuda Rapoport, of one class by another. He became an could identify themselves with German accused the reformers of making these advocate of national liberation and in 1859 nationalism. changes not because Jews no longer felt the enthusiastically supported the Italians in So Jews had to ask themselves whether old forms satisfying, but because they their national struggle against the Aus­ Judaism had a purely religious meaning, or wanted to make Judaism more acceptable trians. But just as the Italians had a right to whether Jews were also a people with a to Gentile society. Quite apart from his their nationhood, so, he came to believe, the separate national identity. Were they theological objections, he also made the Jews had a right to theirs. In Rome and prepared to identify themselves entirely point that only by preserving the traditional Jerusalem, which he published in 1862, he forms could the commonality of all Jews, I with German citizenship, or did they still clearly drew the parallel between the rights long for the day when they could leave not only inside Germany but also through­ of the one and of the other. He now believed Germany and return to Jerusalem, as their out the Diaspora, be protected. that the Jews must preserve their nationality traditional prayers implied? This commonality was indeed splintered. in exile and should strive for its political 12 i AJR INFORMATION JULY 1993

restoration in Palestine. His book can actually have found the Christian religion been one of the Society's founder members. therefore be considered as the first Zionist more persuasive than Judaism; but in most These scholars believed that Jewish students text of the 19th century. cases Jews converted to make themselves of Judaism had confined themselves too more acceptable to the Gentile society with exclusively to Jewish theology, rabbinic Karl Marx which they now mixed. This was almost literature, and the halacha (Jewish law): it Hess and Marx had already parted com­ certainly the case with the famous society was time to broaden their enquiries into pany by the time of the Communist Mani­ hostesses, Henrietta Herz and Rachel Levin wider fields: into the archaeology of the festo (1848); and Hess's support of and with the children of Moses Mendels­ Bible lands, for instance; into the study of nationalism and of Judaism was of course sohn. Others admitted that the reason for Hebrew linguistics and poetry; into cal­ anathema to Marx. Born a Jew, Marx was their conversion was to make them eligible ligraphy; into Jewish music; into the soci­ an extreme example of what came to be for posts in the civil service or the univer­ ology of the Jews; and into their contri­ know'n as 'the self-hating Jew'. An ideology sities which were still closed to Jews. Such butions to philosophy, mathematics, that described religion as 'the opiate of the was the case with the father of Karl Marx, astronomy, geography, science (especially people' would naturally be opposed to who had himself baptized in 1817 in order medicine), industry and commerce. Like all Judaism as a religion; but the virulence with to become an advocate (and who in 1824 historians of the time, Zunz was influenced which Marx attacked the Jews goes far had his then six-year old son baptized, too). by Hegel's teaching: that history was the beyond ideology and betrays a deep The most famous definition of such conver­ story of development; that religious loathing of his own origins. His abuse of sions was the one given by Heinrich Heine traditions, for example, had evolved with Jews was actually more racial than it was when he himself converted in 1825: 'the history rather than having been absolutely religious, and he did not refrain from certificate of baptism is the entry ticket to ordained by Torah and Talmud; and that repeating the vilest of stereot\'picaI attacks European culture'; and he made it clear that there was therefore no reason why this in two essays of 1844, entitled On the his conversion did not imply a genuine evolutionary development should not Jeivish Question. In his later writings, he acceptance of Christianity. He did not continue. This was of course a view that portrayed the bloated capitalist exploiter as escape self-loathing and indeed despised his appealed to Reform Judaism; but at the the direct descendant of the Jewish usurer. own conversion: in no other way could we same time the awareness that Judaism had None of this would prevent Marxism interpret the bitter poem he wrote against an organic history was also called in aid by from attracting a large number of Jewish his friend Eduard Gans who, in order to the neo-orthodox in support of their con­ followers: it appealed to many Jews who qualify for a university appointment, tention that the historical roots of Judaism felt as oppressed by the Establishment as by accepted baptism only six months after go very deep and cannot and should not be the Talmudic and passive past of the Jewish Heine did. changed too easily, simply to comply with experience or who sought to submerge their the fashions of the moment. Jewish identit)' in the supposed solidarity of Verein fur Kultur und Wissenschaft We have been looking at the response of the masses: it was often another form of des Judentums the intellectuals to challenges of the modern extreme assimilationism. Heine and Gans had both been members of world. In the next issue we will look at the a scholarly body dedicated to the Wissen­ economic responses to the opportunities Conversion schaft des Judentums, clumsily translated that emancipation opened up. into English as the Science of Judaism. The D Ralph Blumenau Assimilation could also take the form of word Wissenschaft actually means the outright conversion to Christianity'. Some impartial and academic study, and this was Jewish historians indeed speak of a 'conver­ to be applied to the History and Culture of sion epidemic': there were some 11,000 Judaism in the same way in which the new conversions in Germany between 1800 and discipline of historical studies was applied 1870. This is actually not a very large to the history and culture of any other number - it would represent only about COMPANIONS society. If treated in that way, there was no 0.66 per cent in each of the three gen­ reason why the History of the Jews should erations represented by that figure; and OF LONDON be studied only by Jews: some members of almost all of them would have come from this group hoped that state universities the educated upper strata: the great mass of A specialist home care service might study the history of the Jews in the the Jewish population was not affected at to assist the elderly, people same spirit in which they studied the history all. with disabilities, help during of other societies - though this did not and after Illness, childcare In these upper strata some Jews may happen in German universities until after and household needs. the First World War. For a service tailored to your individual needs The Society was founded in Berlin in by Companions who care - Please call 1819: the lawyer Eduard Gans was its first President and he had of course played an 071-483 0212 GERMAN BOOKS important part in drawing up its constitu­ 071-483 0213 tion. This actually required the members of BOUGHT 110 Gloucester Avenue, the society to take an oath not to convert to Primrose HIII, A. W. MYTZE Christianity! London NWl 8JA The Society collapsed round about the (Emp Agy) 1 The Riding, London NWl 1. time of Gans' conversion; but its philos­ ophy continued to be expounded by a group of scholars around Leopold Zunz, who had

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Obituaries

Dr Ernest Martin Foulkes, Dr Eng, medical training, he endowed, on his retire­ Hans Sahl ment in 1974, the Foulkes Foundation. Its Hon MD, Hon FRCP purpose is to assist, each year, six to eight Hans Sahl died in his 91st year in Tiibingen. He was the last of the now vanished Frankfurt-born Dr Foulkes, engineer, exceptionally able young scientists to generation of German literary exiles. businessman and medical philanthropist, embark on the long medical training course. has died aged 91. In 1982 Dr Foulkes extended the operations After studying at various universities, the Jewish banker's son became a critic for the Having obtained a doctorate in engineer­ of the Foundation to Israel, with particular Berlin Borsen-Courier in the late 1920s and ing in Berlin in 1929 he came to this country emphasis on biotechnology. wrote political articles in the left-wing in 1936. Starting with nothing except his For his contribution to medical science, Tagebuch. expertise and energy he formed a company Ernest Foulkes was appointed CBE by HM which made the machine-tools then so the Queen, and awarded the Independence In Parisian exile he led a lonely existence, much needed by Britain. Despite this, when Coin of the State of Israel. He was elected to opposing the view propounded by Brecht, war broke out, he was interned for a while an Hon Fellowship of the Royal College of and others, that opposition to Hitler pre­ on the Isle of Man. After the war he turned Physicians in 1988, and two years ago the cluded criticism of Stalin. After internment to the production of laboratory equipment. University of Newcastle conferred on him by the French he managed in 1940 to escape In 1966 the company, known to scientists an MD honoris causa. to the U.S.A., where he lived in obscurity for the world over as MSE, was one of the first Dr Foulkes is survived by his wife Senta, many years. Post-war Germany, too, to win the Queen's Award for export and his daughter Maureen who has taken showed little interest in his novels and achievement. over the chairmanship of the Foulkes poetry. The situation changed in the 1980s, when works like Wir sind die Letzten During his business career Ernest Foulkes Foundation. D (1971) and Umsteigen nach Babylon (1988) recognised the need, in medical research, for found a readership in the Bundesrepublik. doctors who were highly trained in both Dr Peter Wolken At the end of the decade Hans Sahl resettled scientific research and clinical medicine. Peter Wolken was one of the most influen­ in Germany, where his remaining years, Aware of the immense difficulties that face tial doctors in Jewish refugee circles from though overshadowed by ill-health, young scientists who want to undertake a Western Germany. As a student he partici­ brought him long overdue recognition. D pated in anti-Nazi activities in Berlin and as Search Notices soon as he qualified as a doctor emigrated to France and joined the French Foreign Dr Erna Dannemann Hans E. Fuchs, formerly of Breslau. Born May Legion. He arrived in the United Kingdom Erna Dannemann, who taught music at 20, 1922. Mother Eva Fucfis (nee Bloch). Father Dr Arnold Fuchs (Gynaecologist). Brother Franz- before war broke out. He joined the British Riverway Girls' School for many years, died Reinhardt. Came to Blackburn Feb 1939 approx. Army and as a Captain in the RAMC served on 8 May at the age of 89. Worked at Universal Leathers. Would appreciate talking to anyone who can tell me about my with the Sth Army, attending the wounded She was born near Stettin, Germany and family. Jahine Freed. Box No. 1247. at Monte Cassino, one of the bloodiest studied medicine and later music, obtaining Peter Jacob(s), last known in North West London (Southgate/Palmers Green), or anyone knowing battles of the Italian campaign. On demobi­ a Ph.D in musicology at Heidelburg Uni­ of him. please telephone present address to 081- lisation he became a GP in Maida Vale, versity in 1930. 866 5607. David and Ryfka Jacubowicz, or their relatives, where he practised for 40 years. Appointed When conditions worsened in Nazi Ger­ originally from Otwock-Srodborow near Warsaw - Official Medical Officer of the German many she fled to London in August 1939. please contact Roman and Yolanta Korban, 205 Stephen Street, Blacktown, NSW 2148, Australia Embassy in London in 1955 he dealt with Afterwards she returned to Germany as an - from whom they will receive good news. applicants for restitution for over three interpreter with the Allied Forces, eventually Lowenfeld Fur eine medizinhistorische Dissertation suche ich Informationen, decades. The Federal Republic of Germany settling in Stafford in 1955. Photographien und Material in jeglicher Form honoured him by awarding him the In later years she kept her interest in music, uber Dr. med. Heinrich Lowenfeld, Nervenarzt und Psychoanalytiker. geb. 1900 in Berlin. Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit in playing duets with friends, going to concerts Emigration uber Schweiz, Frankreich nach Prag 1979. He was a modest man with some and arranging a Concert every year. 1933, nach USA 1938, niedergelassen als Psychoanalytiker in New York, gestorben famous patients, a practising Jew and Zio­ Erna will be remembered with affection by dortselbst 1985. Thomas Muller. Fidicinstrasse nist. He is missed by his large number of 23, D-W-1000 Berlin 61. Tel: (010 49) (0)30-693 all who had the privilege of knowing her, for 2462. Vielen Dank. patients and friends, who remember him her intelligence, humour and above all a deep Ing Marx (b. 1930) and Hannelore Marx (b. with gratitude and affection. humanit)- and feeling for those around 1932), daughters of Ellen Bamberger (b. 1904 in Lichtenfels) and Alfred Marx, granddaughters of D Margaret Toch her. D Josef Bamberger from Lichtenfels. Said to have escaped to London in May 1939. Contact requested in connection with a history of the Bamberger Family of Mitwitz and Lichtenfels now being completed. LANDAU, BAKER & CO Ellen Merlander, born January 8, 1906. Came to Chartered Accountants Britain late 1930s. May have been gym teacher Registered Auditors then head of old age home. Last known addresses: 14 NetherhatI Gardens NW3 and 45 Albany House, 324/326 Regent Street, Linden Lea, N2. Would she or any members of her family please contact Rainer Frobe MA, London W1R5AA Historian, as Richard Merlander's house in Company Audits, Individuals and Partnership Accounts and Taxation Krefeld am Rhein is tieing converted into a fnuseum and the history of the family is of great Wages; Acquisitions Systems and other specialist work interest. Contact: Frotie. Schleiermacherstrasse Initial free consultation. Competitive Fees. 28, D-300 Hannover 61. Telephone: 071 636 2727 Fax: 071 436 0727

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6/rthc/oy 40 Years Ago

Flora Livingstone Children's Care Committee a great deal this Month easier may seem unremarkable. But look again at the picture and consider this HAMPSTEAD 'SACRED SOIL' information in the light of the knowledge In his inauguration address to the that when this woman was born, in Tauber­ Hampstead Borough Council, the newly bischofsheim, Bavaria, the year was 1893. elected Mayor, Councillor Emmanuel Snowman, said: '. . . When I walk along The Livingstone family became refugees the highways and byways of Hampstead I twice. They emigrated to Italy in 1936, but have the feeling of treading on sacred soil. were expelled by a Mussolini decree in It is because I remember with the deepest 1939. They came to Britain, where Flo and gratitude the welcome Hampstead gave to some of my brethren who were fortunate her husband joined the Leo Baeck Lodges enough in escaping the gas chambers of and both became very active members. Auschwitz and Belsen. It was a welcome in Flora played a prominent part in organising a true Christian spirit, a British spirit and a annual charity functions, which raised sub­ humanitarian spirit'. In a letter of stantial amounts for the Lodge's Charitable congratulation to Councillor Snowman the AJR wrote: "... We were particularly Trust. She was made an Honorary Life moved that in the very first public address Flora Livingstone. Photo: Newman. Member of the Council in appreciation of after your election you so kindly referred to her outstanding work. the part played by Hampstead in giving Flora Livingstone ('Flo' to her friends) has The warmest greetings of her many refuge to many Jewish persecutees from the recently had an operation on her eyes. The Continent. We are very grateful for this friends go out to Flo Livingstone, whose effects have been remarkable — 'Now I can noble gesture which reflects your deep mental and physical agility belies her age to catch up on my reading', she says. The fact sympathy with our Community. At the such a great extent. All the best, Flo, on the same time we wish to thank you that our that the sprightly lady pictured above is occasion of your 100th birthday. own feelings of gratitude were so aptly expanding her book list, and finds that her expressed by you as Hampstead's First renewed sight makes her work for the n M.N. Citizen on this solemn occasion'. AJR Information, July 1953 of birth and when and why you emigrated Austrian pensions from Austria. Once you have received the Antrag auf n the context of the 51st Amendment of Ausstellung einer Beschemigung please con­ tact the Social Services Department of the the Austrian Social Security Act further COMPENSATION CLAIMS improvements ofthe social security bene­ Austrian Embassy (Tel. 071-2353731, Ext. I 29) for an information sheet concerning the GERMANY fit regulations for emigrants (persecuted on documents the Embassy must see, before a grounds of their political and religious Under a new Agreement regular Bescheinigung can be issued. D The above beliefs or their descent) have been enacted hardship payments will be made to and come into force on 1 July 1993. is a press release from the Austrian victims of the Holocaust who were This amendment provides the possibility Embassy. hitherto unable to apply for or of retrospective payments of Austrian social received only inadequate security premiums for times of emigration compensation payments. without a previous time of insurance. As of Retirement by the sea Claims may be filed by persecutees 1 July 1993 all emigrants who were born Come to sunny Hove who were held in concentration before and including 31 December 1932 camps for at least six months. Those can apply to be considered for such late Are you finding it hard to cope who were confined in ghettos or lived payments of premiums which would then alone . . .? For a happy and secure in hiding for at least eighteen months entitle them to an Austrian pension at retirement start a new life at Marigold are also entitled to claim. age 65 — provided they were registered with House, a small, friendly kosher home On instructions our Office will assist the Austrian authorities as having their close to the sea, synagogue and shops. you to prepare your Application and place of residence in Austria on 12 March Happy atmosphere in homely pursue the matter with the authorities. 1938. surroundings, 24 hour personal care, On the basis of the regulation - if a good kosher food, special diets, level For further information please person was forced to leave Austria in 1938, ground, bus stop outside, one hour from contact: if the required 180 monthly premiums are central London. paid and if not further times of insurance ICS—Claims Long-term, convalescence, holiday stays exist - a pension would amount to AS 146-154 Kilburn High Road 3.153,20 (as of 1.1.1993) monthly (14 from £200 per week. 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