Vol. XII No. 9 September, 1957 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN 8 FAIRFAX MANSIONS. O^ce and Consulting Hours: FINCHLEY ROAD (Corner Fairfax Ro»d), Monday to Thursday 10 a.m.— I p.m. 3—6 p.m. LONDON, N.W.3 Friday 10 a.m.—I p.m. Telephone: MAIda Vale 9096/7 (General Office) MAIda Vale 4449 (Employment Atency and Social Services Dept.)
SEPTEMBER 15th AND AFTER A NEW YEAR The Forthcoming German Elections The perio(i of the High Festivals is a time when we pause for contemplation— Some of our readers are likely to ask: " Is it high one. A spokesman of the Zentrale, who really one of the AJR's concerns to take a attended meetings of various strongly anti- when we review the past year and take special interest in the hustings of the forth Nazi organisations, drew attention to a stock of our hopes for the future. coming general elections of the Bundes- sinister development which indicated the republik ? " They may argue quite justly that existence of international anti-Semitic co-opera Although this is written to convey our tne overwhelming majority of German-Jewish tion. When summing up he stressed that we New Year greetings to our friends, we refugees from Nazi oppression are no longer should beware of minimising as well as over write with a heavy heart. For many years *-^rmans; that for them the past is a mere span rating these storm signals, but we cannot help it was our privilege, on the occasion of 01 history, and that for the new Jewish genera- realising that this does not get us very far. J^n which has grown up since 1933 a new era the High Holydays, to piiblish a message "egan when Hitler came to power. Revaluation of Judaism from our revered leader, the late Rabbi Such reasoning, however, would imply con Dr. Leo Baeck. In his unique way he troversial over-simplification. World history It is, therefore, gratifying to see that the would forge a link between the etemal attitude of the Christian churches—Protestant ^^ established in Judaism and Jews a unique values of Judaism and their meaning in and living link between the past and the present, and Catholic—stands out in sharp relief against *tth lasting relations between Jews—both in the this dark background. It is also heartening to the present day. Now. for the first time, tJiaspora and in Israel—and the nations all the hear, from the meeting on " Church and we can no longer call on him. But his World over. These vertical and horizontal bonds Judaism" convened by the Deutsch-Evange- life and his work are an ever-lasting lischer Ausschuss fuer Dienst an Israel, that the nave proved their permanence and—paradoxical inspiration for us. ^s It may sound in the face of 2,000 years of younger generation, and students especially, persecution—the more so if and when resting seems rather immune to nationalist or racialist It is our sincere wish that the coming on a spiritual rather than a material foundation. phraseology appealing to emotional fallacies. year will bring happiness and well-being Lectures of the late and never-to-be-forgotten A ^l^'t^S such reflections, so to speak, as the to all our friends, and that we may all prchimedean point of approach to the foUow- Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck and of Martin Buber, tje observations, the significance of the outcome arranged by a number of German universities, go forward in a better and a peaceful ot the general elections in Western Germany were overcrowded, and a representative con world. ^ September 15th may well be far-reaching, or ference of Evangelic Theologians was addressed even decisive, for Germany's destiny and all it by Dr. Wilhelm, the Swedish Chief Rabbi, who tnplies. Of course, these observations are not spoke on " Leo Baeck as a Jew and a Euro RUECKERSTATTUNGSGESETZ tne pretext of a tour d'horizon round world pean ". In this connection it is also noteworthy politics, nor will there be any soothsaying that Mgr. Cucchetti, a high dignitary of the Anmeldung von Anspriichen Whether the next Bundeskanzler will be the Catholic church who lately visited Israel, made it quite clear in his farewell address that the Die amtlichen Anmeldeformulare und die .^rand Old Man " once more or a newcomer. Merkblaetter zu ihrer Erlaeuterung fuer die '>T 1 he sole aim and end is an attempt to establish attitude of the Catholic church towards Anmeldung der durch das Gesetz neu begruendeten lair balance between the anxieties and expec- Judaism is now much more positive and Rueckerstaltungsansprueche und zur Anmeldung ^'lons of Jews in general and German Jews in encouraging than hitherto. " I wish to end my derjenigen Ansprueche, fuer welche die neue particular, as to whether the new Bundestag message"—these were the final sentences of Anmeldefrist eroeffnet worden ist (siehe die til herald a more reactionary and less demo- his address—" with a few words of brother Sonderbeilage zu unserer Juli—Nummer auf Seite ratic tendency in German politics than up till hood and love. Hold fast to your faith, your 12 and 13) sind soeben erschienen und koennen 0*. or whether its members will sincerely try poetry, your music. ... Be the backbone and beim United Restitution Office, 183/9 Finchley the essence of civilised life in future centuries ". Road, London, N.W.3 angefordert werden (1/- und 0 assuage a smouldering or still open Jewish Freiumschlag.) •^ssentment. It goes without saying that these noble words might even meet with a stronger response from Fuer Ansprueche, welche Entziehungen in der Diaspora Jews than from Israelis. britischen Zone betreffen, sind die Anmeldungen Anti-Semitic Trends an das Verwaltungsamt fuer innere Restitutionen, Furthermore, there is good reason to hope Stadthagen, Obemstrasse 29 zu richten (frueher that a deeper understanding and a reappraisal Zentralamt Bad Nenndorf). Fuer die amerikanische Quite frankly, news from Germany indicates Zone ist das Verwaltungsamt fuer innere Restitu ^^t anti-Semitism has by no means disap of the perennial values of Judaism may well tionen, Aussenstelle Muenchen, Muenchen 2, peared ; although it would be unrealistic to be advanced among a new German elite when Deroystrasse 4/II zustaendig (frueher Zentral "lagine that anti-Semitism could have been the monumental compendium "Judentum, anmeldeamt Bad Nauheim). Zustaedig fuer ompletely eradicated even after the catastro- Geschichte und Gegenwart" edited by Pro Berlin ist der Haupttreuhaender fuer Rueckerstat- Pt»c collapse of Hitler and his hateful regime, fessor Dr. Franz Boehm (that staunch champion tungsvermoegen, Berlin W 30, Nuemberger areful research by various institutes of public of the cause and rights of German Jews) Strasse 53-55 (frueher Treuhaender der Mili pinion discloses rather disturbing facts. We together with Walter Dirks and Dr. Rudolf taerregierungen). Jfi informed that one-third of those who were Heilbrunn, appears. Die Anmeldungen sind in vierfacher Ausfer- Westioned are still imbued with anti-Semitic The significance of the tendencies referred tigun einzureichen. i/^J"dices. Commenting on this unpleasant to in the two fundamentally contradictory sets Weiter ist bekannt geworden, dass die Ober of facts just mentioned, js self-explanatory in finanzdirektionen bei der Befriedigung der im ^tement Die Zentrale fuer Heimatdienst, a Rueckerstattungsverfahren bereits fest gestellten J,"^'"Official and entirely unbiased organisation, a way, because they reveal a basic problem in Ansprueche die bisherige Praxis der Gewaehrung J. °s some even more alarming details. It men- the German mind. There is no need, therefore, zinsloser Darlehen auch weiter aufrecht erhalten ons that although a large proportion of those to explain in detail that the Association of werden. Vorschuesse im Sinne von § 33 BRueG noer the influence of Nazism are, of course, Jewish Refugees, as the standard-bearer of our (siehe Seite 13 der Sonderbeilage) kommen nur in led ^^ticated people without any direct know- German-Jewish heritage, can only whole solchen Faellen in Betracht, in welchen bereits ein of tK °^ ^^*^ ^^'^ Jewish life, the percentage heartedly wish that, together with material Bescheid der Oberfinanzdirektionen im Befriedi t those with Nazi leanings belonging to the well-being, better sense may continue to prosper gungsverfahren gemaess § 39 BRueG (siehe Seite Ij/^^lled educated classes and especially to the in Germany after the elections. 14 der Sonderbeilage) vorliegt. ^fal academic professions, is an appallingly L.Z. More Restitution News on p. 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION September, 1957 RESTITUTION NEWS FROM THE GERMAN SCENE STUNDLNG DER HVPOTHEKEN- GEWLNNABGABE EXTREME NATIONALISM ROEHM PUTSCH TRIAL August Haussleiter's periodical " Die Deutsche After the trial which dealt with the events in Eine wichtige Entscfaeidung Gemeinschaft" published an article by its corre Silesia during the Roehm affair, a court in Nach Artikel 6 Abs. I, Teil X des Bonner spondent in Saudi Arabia under the title " Kapo Osnabrueck convicted the main defendant Udo des Kolonialismus ". This article states that the von Woyrsch, who in 1934 was the supreme S.S. Ueberleitungsvertrages sind die Angehoerigen der Allies wanted to turn Germany into a cattle leader in Silesia, of complicity in six cases of Vereinten Nationen bis zur endgueltigen Regelung pasture and German factories were therefore manslaughter and of manslaughter in two cases, der sich aus dem Kriege ergebenden Ansprueche dismantled and the patents were stolen whilst and sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment. The gegen Deutschland von alien Sondersteuern, Allied tribunals, supported by people like Otto other defendant, Ernst Mueller-Altenau, was Abgaben oder Auflagen befreit, die sich tatsaech John, celebrated orgies of a new-fangled justice. acquitted. Taking into consideration the time lich auf das Vermoegen auswirken und zu dem Neither England nor France, the article goes on, Woyrsch, who is 62, has already spent in captivity besonderen Zweck auferlegt werden, Lasten zu were able to recover economically; after a guilt complex had been inculcated the Germans had to or in prison, he will have to serve another two decken, die sich aus dem Kriege oder aus Repara- years and a half. tionen oder aus Restitutionen an eine der work for these two countries. The main attack, however, is reserved for the restitution agreement The court ruled that Roehm wanted to make a Vereinten Nationen ergeben. Die deutschen with Israel. "That is how the Adenauer Govern Behoerden und Gerichte haben bisher die Meinung putsch in order to organise a militia based on ment, up to the present day, finances and pays for the S.A., but that he had not planned a coup for vertreten, dass diese Bestimmung durch Artikel 6 the wrong the Jews have done to the Arabs ". July 30, 1934. It had been proved that Woyrsch Abs. 2 aaO. dahin eingeschraenkt werde, dass played a leading part in the execution of high Angehoerige der Vereinten Nationen fuer die Zeit S.A. officers in Silesia. ab I. April 1955 zur Hypothekengewinnabgabe S.S. AGAIN herangezogen werden koennten. The Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes HINKEL ACTIVE Auch der Bundesfinanzhof hat sich zunaechst invited representatives of the European resistance dieser Ansicht in einem Bescheid vom 26. Oktober movement from Italy and Holland to take part Hans Hinkel (Sonderkommissar des 3. Reiches 1956 angeschlossen. Hiergegen wurde Antrag auf in a joint protest in Bonn against an international fuer das Judenproblem unter Kuenstlern, Bevoll- muendliche Verhandlung gestellt, de&sen eingehende meeting which, it was reported, former SS members maechtigter der Reichsregierung fuer den totalen Begruendung den Bundesfinanzhof veranlasst hat, had planned. It was said that 2,500 former ICriegseinsatz des Grossdeutschen Rundfunks, unier Aufhebung aller vorhergehenden Entschei French members of the SS and 7,000 from Belgium. Ministerialdirektor) was elected first Chairman by dungen und des eigenen Vorbescheides einen neuen Denmark, Holland, Italy and Austria were the Goettinger Orchesterverein, in spite of the —freilich vorlaeufigen—Bescheid zu erlassen, in expected in Western Germany for this meeting. protests of some towns where the orchestra dem angeordnet wird: regularly plays. The main promoter of this appointment was Ernst Jaenicke (Redakteur an " Der Beschwerdefuehrerin werden die Goebbels' "'Angriff", Referent im Propaganda Leistungen auf die Hypothekengewinnabgabe In Karlburg/Unterfranken, 6,000 former mem ministerium, abgestellt nach Warschau zur Haup bis zur Entscheidung auf die von ihr eingelegten bers of the Waffen-S.S. met for a so-called tabteilung Kultur beim deutschen General- Rechtsmittel der Berufung an die Schiedskom- Suchdiensttreffen. The former S.S.-Panzergeneral. gouverneur in Polen). mission fuer Gueter, Rechte und Interessen in Meier, who was sentenced for war crimes by a Deutschlaod bzw. der Rechtsbeschwerde Canadian military tribunal, saluted the meeting DARMSTADT AGAINST *' COULEUR" gestundet. . . ." with his raised fist. In his address he said that the STUDENTS Obwohl der Bescheid die Frage noch nicht members of the S.S. had obeyed orders, just as had endgueltig regelt, ist er fuer Angehoerige der the British paratroopers at Suez. In Darmstadt the Senate of the Technische Vereinlen Nationen von grosser Bedeutung. Hochschule has withdrawn its licence from 1' students' clubs whose members fight duels and wear " couleur ". The clubs may apply for new licences SPECIAL EDITION OF At an election meeting of the DP/FDP, Vice- under the condition that no more duels will take BUNDESRUECKERSTATTUNGSGESETZ Chancellor Bluecher urged the rehabilitation of place and " couleur" will only be worn during the members of the Waffen-SS. He said that indoor meetings. A 58-page brochure has been published by the further discrimination against these very young Verlag Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in people was intolerable. Everybody who had not GAULEITER KOCH Deutschland, Dusseldorf-Benrath 58 S. (DM 5.80). committed crimes ought to be rehabilitated. The brochure includes the text of the Bundes The former Gauleiter Koch, who is in a Polish rueckerstattungsgesetz of July 19th, 1957. In a prison, was to stand trial in March. His state detailed introduction written by Dr. H. G. van AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES JEWISH of health made this impossible and no new date Dam, he describes the main aspects of the Law, DELEGATION could be fixed. Erich Koch is accused of being and several laws indirectly connected with the responsible for the deportation and murder "i Bundesrueckerstattungsgesetz are reprinted in the In the Hofburg the new Austrian Federal Polish citizens, mostly Jews. appendix of this most useful publication. President received the executive of the Jewish conununity : President Dr. Maurer, the two Vice- SUPREME RESTITUTION COURT Presidents, Dr. Feldberg and Kommerzialrat BLACK-WHITE-RED Weiner, as well as Amtsdirektor Krell. Dr. The Bundestag has decided that former members On July 29 Mr. Mathew asked the Secretary of Maurer congratulated President Dr. Schaerf on his of the Wehrmacht shall be allowed to wear all State for Foreign Affairs how many claims against election. medals and decorations to which they are entitled- the German State for compensation due to British with the exception of those which were the special subjects are still awaiting determination by the awards of the Nazi Party and kindred organisa Supreme Restitution Court in Germany ; and if he DR. FIGL SEES DACHAU COMRADES tions. Medals and decorations may not in future will make representations to the German Govern Austrian Foreign Minister, Dr. Figl, in his carry a swastika, but medal ribbons will once ment that these long overdue cases should be capacity as a former inmate of Dachau concen again be in the black, white and red colours oi disposed of without further delay. tration camp, received the representatives of the the German Empire. Mr. Ian Harvey replied that H.M. Government International Dachau Committee, Dr. Marsault of Only the SPD voted against the new la*' are concerned about arrears of appeals before the Paris, Nico Rost of Amsterdam and D. Petrovic although they had approved it in committee. Their second division of the Supreme Restitution Court, of Belgrade. The Committee is engaged in a main objection was that ribbons ought to be «n which deals with cases arising in the former British project to transform the Dachau camp area into the black, red and gold colours of the Federal Zone of Occupation. The Federal Government a memorial site. Republic. and H.M. Government have each appointed to it one more judge than the minimum which the Charter of the Court specifies. The Federal Government have recently been urged to consider FOR TRANSFER OF DEUTSCHE MARKS further remedial action. Following is the estimate: TO THIS COUNTRY CONSULT The Supreme Restitution Court classifies cases according to the claimants' places of residence, not nationality. Information obtained from it suggests Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. that cases pending after the end of June in the names of residents of Britain and the Common Bankers wealth in the three divisions of the court against defendants of all types total 149. Of these. 140 91, MOORGATE, LONDON, E.C.2 await consideration by the second division of the Telephone: METropolitan 8151 court. Forty-three of these 140 cases are against Representing: the State. He could not say how many of tbe other nine I. L. FEUCHTWANOER BANK LTD. I FEUCHTWANGER CORPORATION cases before the other two divisons are against TEL-AVIV : JERUSALEM : HAIFA I 52 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, 4, N.Y. the State. •^JR INFORMATION September, 1957 Page 3 ^- Rosenstock of being built, and there are also allocated sites on which the work has not yet commenced. Thus the whole area is a town in the making, and the HANSA-VIERTEL HITS THE HEADLINES visitor has the unique experience of seeing its birth. As to the buildings themselves, this has already Exhfi,^?^ '"^^'^ ^o tttany articles about the Interbau closely-knit Jewish community, consisting mainly been amply covered by the national papers of all un,', °" 'P "le former Hansa-Viertel, I felt the ot middle-class people. There was hardly a build countries, and it is not the object of this article to evef H-i^^ " f°f '"V^^lf- My motives were, how- ing in which one did not know at least one family. deal with that aspect further. me ih ^ •"' '° *^°^^ of ""o^t other visitors. For Between the two wars groups of Jewish youtn The centre of the new town will be the Hansa tvnpc fT*'" attraction did not lie in the various movements (Zionist and non-Zionist alike) platz, with a library and shops. The Kaiser- thk ''uildings, though much can be said about nourished in the district, perhaps even more than Friedrich-Gedaechtnis-Kirche has been rebuilt on want„H*. 'own-planning venture as well. What I in any other part of the city. its former site, and has been nicknamed "St. distrirt °c "°* i" ^^^ first place was what the When for the first tune after the war I visited Aluminium " because of the material used on its hone' ',°S ^*>'ch I once knew every street and the Hansa-Viertel in 1950, it was a very different facade. There is also again a restaurant on fhe chanL °u^-^^ ''''^ "ow, and the topographical place. Only few people stiil lived there—it had site of the former " Charlottenhof ". see fh .u*"'^'^ ^""^ 'aken place. I was curious to tjeen almost completely destroyed by an air raid What hi J ^^^ Hansaplatz was still the same; in November 1943.' But the streets, at least, were New Underground Line Cafp D happened to the house where once the still there and the shells of many houses still the B,Press e had stood, and whether the houses served as a reminder of the past. Now the streets The Hansa-Viertel will at last be connected with rueckenallee still faced the Bellevue Park. have gone, together with the ruined houses. Para Berlin's underground railway. A new line is being Th' doxical as it may seem, the ch;inge from 1950 to laid from Steglitz via Bundesallee (formerly Kaiser iust a'! f!?"^''"' was not only a personal one for, 1957 was, from an emotional point, greater than allee), Hansaplatz, Moabit, up to the Wedding. UD with ,t u*.""-'^*'^'' history is inseparably linked that between 1939 and 1950. An entirely new The tunnel between Zoo and Hansaplatz has Vienel 1 t ^"'°'y °f '^"'"''^ J^*''y- 's the Hansa- town has arisen, which could belong to any part already been completed, but the rails have not RenL.^*'l,"P *''h the Jewish life of the city, of the world. The past is for ever gone, and no vet been laid dovvn. However, a car service has pare .hi L''"''''^hed on the exhibition often com- room for nostalgia has been left. been temporarily installed, and serves the area for with ,^„ "ansa-Viertel bordering on the Tiergarten the time being. This is supplemented, at least for HvHp Po i7°".^, Bayswater district bordering on A Garden City the duration of the exhibition, by a Sessel-Iift from tecturai • '"^ ""ay be the case from the archi- What has happened is that the whole area has Zoo Station to Schloss Bellevue, providing a anele th "^i"' °^ ^t**' ''"t from the sociological been razed to the ground. Most of the old streets wonderful view of the whole exhibition grounds. with H Hansa-Viertel could rather be compared have been ignored, and a new garden city is being There is no less a change in the Tiergarten. also nht'"^''^^^?'! ^^^'i'^h. for several decades, has erected. Ihe greenery of the Tiergarten, which Although it is a park as it was before, its whole portion P^ "' ^Pe'^'fic 'colour from its high pro- once ended at the Handelallee (formerly Handel- layout is entirely different. Thiis the returnee can Fn? °^ ^^*'^h inhabitants, strasse), has been extended over the whole area, no longer see the places which were so familiar. onlv '"^"^ •'^*'^'' families the Hansa-Viertel was and the buildings stand virtually in a park. The This applies even to the Neue See, the face of quartPrc ^t^PPing-stone from the " deteriorated " new Hansa-Viertel is shaped roughly in a triangle, which has been changed by small new islands, fashion kf"™'' t^« Alexanderplatz to the more the base being the Charlottenburger Chaussee built out of bomb debris, and the present Rousseau and \?/?.^ centrally-heated houses in Schoeneberg (now Strasse des 17. Juni), the left-hand border Insel, beautiful though it may now be, has verv rem-im i r^"dorf. The majoritv, however, being the railway between the Tiergarten and the little resemblance to the former one. imnnrf, . faithful to the district, not the least Bellevue Stations, with the right-hand border run Walking through the streets and through the garten u?'^,_^^°" ''^'"8 the proximity of the Tier- ning roughly from the Bellevue Station via the park, one is reminded of Carl Zuckmayer's '=n, which was a children's paradise. It was a former Brueckenallee to the Grosse Stern, where " Elegie von Abschied und Wiedersehen ", written the Siegessaeule has stood since the middle 30's. in America as early as 1939: Hardly any of the former streets remain, and even " Ich weiss, ich werde alles wiedersehn, as far as this is the case they only serve as Und es wird alles ganz verwandelt sein. thoroughfares, with the houses not facing the streets but standing as detached buildings. Practic Ich werde durch erloschne Stadte gehn, ally only two of the former streets have been left— Darin kein Stein mehr auf dem andem Stein— at least in name—the Klopstockstrasse, running as Und selbst wo noch die alten Steine stehen, previously from the Tiergarten Station to the rail Sind es nicht mehr die altvertrauten Gassen— way near the Bellevue Station, and the Altonaer Ich weiss. ich werde alles wiedersehen Strasse, which commences at the Grosse Stern and Und nichts mehr finden, was ich einst verlassen" terminates at the railway near the Hansabruecke. These two streets intersect at the Hansaplatz but the third street which used to cross the Hansaplatz (the Lessingstrasse) has vanished, as have the Cux HEINRICH MANN'S WORKS havenerstrasse and the Brueckenallpe. The Government of Czechoslovakia is to hand That part of the former Hansa-Viertel which is over all the manuscripts of Heinrich Mann in their outside the triangle—North of the railway—is not possession to the Academy of Arts in East Berhn. part of the exhibition and is still comparatively Among the manuscripts is a trilogy novel about unchanged. Most of the houses between the Bach- Frederic II of Prussia. The first part, "Der strasse and the Spree are in ruins, and there are Kronprinz ", is finished, but the second one, " Der only very few new buildings; it is intended to Koenig ", remains a fragment. There is also the rebuild this area as well. Beyond it there will be novel " Lidice ", which is in the form of a dialogue stretches of park land and further on (between the and deals with the destruction of this Czechoslovak Hansabruecke and the Flensburger Strasse) there village by the S.S. Poems which Mann wrote as Chocolates will be school buildings, the nucleus of which con a youth in Luebeck and sketches about his parental sists of the undamaged Realschule. The area home, have been preserved and will probably be De Luxe between the Flensburger Strasse and the Spree (the published for the first time. Northern part of Lessingstrasse, Claudiusstrasse. His daughter, Leonie Mann, revealed that etc.) is also badly damaged and will be gradually shortly before his death, her father had given some • reconstructed. of his manuscripts for revision to his close friend. Before the actual building work on the exhibition Lion Feuchtwanger. These papers had returned IN BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED ground could be started, much legal work had to to her via Washington and Prague. Among them be done. A holding company was founded, which are the original scripts of his novels " Der Unter PRESENTATION BOXES had to acquire the properties from the 160 various tan ", " Die kleine Stadt", " Zwischen den owners, though only transitorily because the newly Rassen" and "Die Goettinnen". In 1939. when built houses will gradually be resold to private the Germans marched into Prague, a Czech worker persons or companies. Thc difficulties were rescued these MSS, from Mann's house and hid increased, as the exhibition prospectus states, by them in a coal cellar. The writer's library was the fact that in many instances the heirs of the confiscated and was to be removed, but the ^•3, Kensington Church St. original proprietors were scattered all over the Gestapo overlooked it. Now the books are in the world (the prospectus does not indicate the reason Academy of Arts in East Berlin. London, W.8 for this dispersion !) After this legal work had been enacted, architects MUNICH LITERATURE PRIZE FOR WES. 4359 from various countries were invited to work out a FEUCHTWANGER new plan for rebuilding the area, and each of them and was allocated a site. Israel, one of the participants, The city of Munich awarded its Literature Prize is represented bv Alexander Klein (Haifa), who —not without determined opposition in the city worked in Berlin from 1919 to 1933. The buildings council—to Lion Feuchtwanger who was born in 9» GOLDHURST TERRACE, vary from 17-storev blocks of flats to small the capital of Bavaria. The famous writer has bungalows. The variety is no less conspicuous as expressed his sincere thanks in a telegram, and FINCHLEY RO.\D, N.W.G. far as the style of the buildings is concerned which, has said that he hopes soon to see his home town to a great extent, are designed on the styles pre again. It is pointed out that such a visit is not MAI. 2742 vailing in the various architects' countries. likely to occur before 1958, when Munich will Some of the buildings are already completed and celebrate its 800th anniversary. Feuchtwanger now partly occupied. Others are still in the process lives in Santa Monica, California. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION September, 1957 Egon Larsen Hitler salute, and to intone the Horst Wessel song ; who looked down upon Eastern European Jews and praised German order and efficiency "• TALKING OF TRANSLATIONS Some of the Wendriner pieces in this anthology strike us as even more pathetic now than they did Tucholsky in English then, before the horrors of Auschwitz, Wendriner is as timeless a character as a topical political At one time or another we have all attempted achieved a succes d'esiime. Their translated writer could make him. to convey to our English friends something of the works will give at least some idea of the merits of Yet how few of these anthology pages will significance which certain German-writing authors the originals. But now that we have come into evoke from the English-speaking reader more than have for us. As a rule, we failed ; and those of contact with English and American writing in its a passing smile! He is bound to judge them by us who are actively engaged in the business of original language we can perhaps gauge the diffi the standards of Thurber and Benchley, of the writing or translating have asked ourselves: would culties of this translation traffic running in the " New Yorker " and " Punch ", and that of course it be possible to give, by means of a really good opposite direction. For instance, take "Alice in it fatal. Here, Harry Zohn is not much of a help. translation, an impression of the work of these Wonderland" ; there are, of course, Gennan What is the English reader to make of names and writers to English readers or playgoers ? Could translations, but can they possibly convey what terms such as Bolle or Gebuhr, Otto Brahra or a translation convey what Karl Kraus means to the original, almost every sentence of it, means to Paul Lindau, the Brockhaus or the Staatspartei'? an Austrian ? Can Erich Kastner's poems be those who grew up with it ? Where we smile he can only be confused. effectively rendered in English ? Would Georg Some languages, we like to think, are better and And Dr. Zohn adds to the confusion by falling Kaiser or Sternheim " come across " ? some are less suited for translation into certain into the most obvious traps. He translates Surprisingly, a number of them have been other languages. Somehow the atmosphere of the Akaderniker as "academician". He let' successfully translated. Brecht is, of course, the great Russian classics seems to have been Tucholsky say that the Germans " did not invent most striking example. Kafka already gained a admirably re-created in their German translations. gunpowder". Where Tucholsky uses the Berlin foothold before the last war. Robert Musil has Perhaps the closest relationship one can get is idiom, Zohn draws on his rather limited know Czech and German, or rather Prager Deutsch, ledge of Bronx slang. Some sentences—such a* because these two languages have been living his "Where do the Holes in the Cheese Com^ POET AND DOCTOR together and borrowing from each other for such From ? "—sound like laboured emigranto. Occa a long time. In Grete Reiner's brilliant translation sionally only does he hit on a first-class rendering In Memory of Arthur Zanker (1890-1957) of " The Good Soldier Schwejk ", the famous first such as " They prey and they pray" for " Sie sentence of the book—" Also sie ham uns den angeln und sie beten ". Arthur Zanker, whose death was announced in Ferdinand erschlagen "—is immaculately rendered I'm not so sure if the publishers will help t" our previous issue, was born in 1890 in Oderberg from the Czech original, while it is as flat as a introduce Tucholsky to the English-speaking publie (Silesia). Before he emigrated to England, he doormat in the English standard translation: " So by offering their readers, on the last two pages oj worked in Vienna as a specialist in the treatment they've killed Ferdinand ". The whole atmosphere the book, $100 "for the best statements in regard of children's diseases. He worked in this country evaporates with that one sentence as if the air to Tiicholsky's humour ". All you have to do .•' as a psychiatrist. rushes out of a pricked toy balloon. " to jot down which one of the fifty satires, in There was no division between his work as a your opinion, is the most effective and shows up doctor and as a poet, for nature was his source Capturing of Local Atmosphere the author's esprit best, and which, on the other for both. As a doctor, he first shared the world hand, is so banal that it could have been omitted of children with them in their illnesses, and later Probably the greatest difficulty a translator may without loss, together with the reasons for these he shared the world of the mentally deranged with encounter is the rendering of the period flavour. judgments". These expressions, the publishers them. In both these worlds nature dominates Local atmosphere is evasive enough ; but to promise, will receive " wide publicity as a pilot reason, and simplicity softens the hard facts of translate intelligibly the associations and allusions study of comparative literary taste ". All that and everyday life, converting them into dreams. They in the work of an author who wrote for day-by- perhaps $100 too: what a chance for those of us are worlds which have their origins in the source day consumption and fought against the follies who failed to get the offered bedroom suite for of life. It is to this same source that the poet and foibles of his contemporaries is a truly some similar " judgment" about soap flakes or turned. Nature inspired his poems, not the over herculean task. I therefore take my hat off to bubble gum! whelming grandeur of gigantic mountains and vast Dr. Harry Zohn, of Brandeis University, Waltham, I can almost see "Tucho" reaching for hi' oceans, but the idyllic silence of woods and swaying Mass., for having attempted the well-nigh celestial typewriter when he hears of this publicity fields, the scent of flowers in a meadow and hay impossible by presenting the first volume of works stunt for his own works. Wait for that fifty-firsj in a barn, a country lane and an apple tree—-those by Kurt Tucholsky to English readers. satire, Dr. Zohn, before you prepare a ne* qualities in nature which simplicity can transform Dr. Zohn is an Austrian-born scholar, a Harvard edition! into visions. graduate, who has done much useful work as a biographer and bibliographer ; Stefan Zweig has Neatly rendered by serene and gentle words, all been one of his main subjects. It must have been this can be seen, can be heard, leaves its difficult for him to delve into the atmosphere of SHADOWS OF THE PAST taste on our tongues, and a haunting tune in our the Berlin of the 1920s and eady 1930s, whose ears: the threshing of the wheat in a barn, the Editor of Neo-Nazis Paper Arrested baking of the bread in an oven, the dripping of personalities cannot have meant much more to him the dry red wine through the presses, the simmering than mere names from magazines, books, and Robert Kremer, the editor of the extreme Right' of meat in the pot; delicious and delicate things newspapers ; one can tell by the slipshod rendering wing and anti-Semitic periodical " Die Anklage > which can be enjoyed in a contemplative and of some of them. He may not be responsible, has been arrested in West Berlin. He is accused receptive mood. however, for the title of this Tucholsky anthology, of aiding and abetting a war criminal, and i' " The World is a Comedy", which made me alleged to have helped the former Legationsrat i" To Arthur Zanker nature was almost equivalent wince. Sci-Art Publishers, Cambridge, Mass., who to human life, and man quietly enjoying life was the Nazi Foreign Office, Franz Rademacher, t" are marketing the book at $3.75, may have thought escape abroad. He is further supposed to be * nearest to his heart. His family, his home and its that it might attract a few more readers. One could festivals—particularly the Jewish Holydays like member of an anti-democratic group. The PubllJ also find fault with the selection of the fifty pieces Prosecutor believes that a neo-Nazi network may Purim and Chanukka—peaceful evenings, the which he has picked as most suitable ; some, like pleasures of the table and the exchange of spiritual be discovered through Kremer. the long and whimsical " Conversation in Limbo " At the same time the police searched 'be thought. (Nachher), do little credit to Tucholsky. But His unique gift for understanding both the premises where " Die Anklage " is printed. Th« Dr. Zohn has wisely left his author's poems manuscripts and the completed set-up of the JU" miracles of nature and the most secret mysteries alone; even more than Kastner's, Tucholsky's of the human soul, and his readiness to identify number of the periodical were confiscated because verses were written in the idiom of their day and of its neo-Nazi contents. himself with the feelings of others, enabled him place, and addressed to a special public. Besides, also to penetrate the miracles of English poetry, many of his lyrics were meant for the Kabareti. Professor Clauberg Dead and to translate English poems into equally and posterity can do little with them. They have beautiful German. Thus his emigration to not worn well. Professor Clauberg, the S.S. doctor who **' England gave him the opportunity of doing his To compare Tucholsky with Heine, as Dr. Zohn accused of having conducted experiments o" most important and his most creative work. For and his publishers do, is somewhat unfair—not female Jewish prisoners in a Nazi concentration Arthur Zanker, to whom everything could be to Heine, but to Tucholsky, who regarded himself camp and causing the death of many, died in * transformed into blissful happiness—even death mainly as a Gebrauchslyriker. He was a fighter prison hospital at the age of 56. His trial **' was kind to him in its suddenness—was a born and warner who chose the pen as his weapon due to commence shortly. translator. His interpretations of Keats, Shelley, and medium, not a poet for poetry's sake. His Blake, Milton, Hardy, Yeats and Browning are " Gruss nach vorn" touches us not as Heine's " Deutsche Soldatenzeitung " masterly achievements by which his name will be prophetic verse does, but as the despairing greeting remembered for many years to come. A number 1Q the Bundestag the S.P.D. asked the Govern to posterity of a man who has lost hope in his ment up to which date the Federal Press Offi<=* of his translations have been published, and a new time and country. (By the way, I am not sure and almost complete edition of his own poems is subsidised the " Deutsche Soldatenzeitung " to the that, like Heine, Tucholsky " embraced amount of DM 13,000. The S.P.D. wanted to being issued by an Austrian publisher. Protestantism" as a young man, as Zohn know whether it was knovra, at the time of tjj* There was nothing to separate Arthur Zanker, assures us ; but we know that in his later years last payment, that the paper had attacked '".^ the poet, from Arthur Zanker, the scientist and he was attracted by Catholicism.) Government's efforts to create a democrati'' the human being. They were completely integrated. Tucholsky never felt strongly about the fact that relationship between the armed forces and th* They were indivisible. There were no conflicts and he was a Jew, as Heine did. Vet he fought in Govemment. The Govemment was asked to sta',* nothing problematic to split them. It is a happy himself the latent Wendriner, perhaps his most whether financial aid to an anti-Semitic and an''' world of humane kindness and poetic serenity powerful creation: the all-too-assimilated Jewish democratic periodical was in accordance with tn which has gone with him. Berhner who. to quote Zohn, " was quite ready authorities' duty to protect the democratic con' ROBERT SPIRA to lick the boots of his oppressors, to give the stitution. ^JR INFORMATION September, 1957 Page 5 ^'•- M. Eschelbacher ANGLO-JUDAICA JEWISH VILLAGERS R.S.P.C.A. and Shechita At the meeting of the Board of Deputies, a J, Vfring the sixteen hundred and more years of ments" and the symptom of a " trend of report of the Shechita Committee was submitted by leir history, from the beginning up to the final assimilation ". He finds place to mention Marcus its Chairman, Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn, who drew the atastrophe in our own days, Jews in Germany Lehmann and his weekly " Der Israelii". but is Deputies' attention to a paragraph in the annual £!ave been living in villages and small rural towns. silent about Ludwig Philippson and his " Allge report of the R.S.P.C.A. for 1956. which referred fey Were never concentrated, as they were in other meine Zeitung des Judentums " ; he pays tribute to the plight of cattle arriving at Birkenhead from countries, mostly in big towns. Therefore the to Esriel Hildeshejmer, but ignores Zacharias Eire on their way to an Essex slaughterhouse and Ural congregation was a characteristic feature of Frankel. The character of the book as a publica said that, although some animals because of their ^'rman Jewry. Hermann Schwab, the historian of tion by an orthodox central organisation does not condition had to be slaughtered where they lay, ^erman orthodoxy in general, and the Religions- call for such narrowness. A wider, more general their end was a more merciful one than that which ?"*'lschaft in Frankfurt a.M. in particular, in the Jewish outlook is compatible with strict orthodoxy. awaited their fellows, who were destined for a introduction to his book,* says he is the great- It is a pity that these wilful and unjust barriers Jewish slaughterhouse. w'th'^k™ °f a Jewish villager. Connected in spirit diminish the value of the book. Mr. Zeitlyn stated that he had addressed a letter .'tn his ancestor three generations ago he gives a There are two highlights. The first is the dedi of protest to the Chairman of the R.S.P.C.A.'s cation to the author's late wife Dina: " Hers was Council, in which he wrote that their statement Picture of the old communities in the village and a dedicated life and untold blessings were the fruit would tend to exacerbate the relations between the sm I'fall town. In three parts, subdivided into of her labours ". The other is the picture opposite Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of this country, inall chapters of two or three pages, he depicts the title page: a German Jewish villager, from and called for an unqualified apology and with "e rural congregations, first in the South, then in a drawing by K. Rothschild. A bearded face, drawal of the offending paragraph. Lord Merthyr, g^ntral and North Germany, and finally in the deeply wrinkled, the expression of a life in the Chairman of the R.S.P.C.A., had expressed his ^ast According to him the communities in open air, in wind and weather ; an elderly man, regret at the form of the report but refused to outhern Germany stemmed to a great extent from who looks at the world with serious but good and withdraw the paragraph owing to the fact that arge-scale immigration from France and Italy. In friendly clever eyes, his head covered not with the it was based on his own personal opinion. During ^entral and North Germany "the first Jewish skull cap of the orthodox, but the cap of the the discussion which followed, it was pointed out tiers were tradesmen who left marching armies peasant, a tobacco pipe in his mouth—difficult to that everything possible, including scientific n the highway between East and West". In the imagine in a big town. Thus this Jew represents research by Jews and non-Jews, should be done to ^ast he traces' the origin of the Kehilloth " to a in his whole appearance that " phenomenon preserve shechita in this country and to resist the sreat influx of Russian Jews into West and East rarely seen in the Jewish diaspora " which is the campaign waged against it. Mr. Janner said that russia. They tried to find a refuge from perse- subject of the book, " the wide distribution of the position of shechita in the United States and Wion, but settled in small towns and villages, Jews over countless villages and hamlets in Ger in the Dominions was also precarious, and it was preferring the hardships of the new life to the many where they Jived as fully integrated parts of the duty of the Board to " stop the danger here". j "^ave danger in their native country ", while those the village communities ". Implicit in this sentence J the Province of Posen were originally Polish is the author's final view of the position of the p^Y^ who in the course of the three partitions of World Jewish Body oiand became Prussian subjects. rural Jews amidst the German people. On the basis partly of his own reminiscences and Schwab has not drawn only on his own know The Alliance Israelite Universelle has stated, in partly of substantial literature, he describes their ledge. Rather have the reminiscences of many a letter to the Board of Deputies in connection everyday life as well as Shabbat and Jomtov. other people found place jn his book. He has with a paragraph in the Foreign Affairs Com Joraim Noraim, Chanukka and Purim. He lets written it with the co-operation of a large body of mittee's report dealing wjth the World Jewish "s see the synagogue as the House of God as well German Jews, now dispersed all over the globe. Body suggested by Dr. Nahum Goldmann which a^ the meeting place of men. He sketches the He has made an appeal to the Jewish world to said that the Alliance had been reported as having Professional activities of the Jewish villagers—as communicate to him their reminiscences, and his agreed to join, that they have no intention of ^alers in cattle or grain, as craftsmen, as farmers call has found an echo. Of the 65 that answered becoming a member. The Alliance had indicated nd peasants, as cultivators of hops and tobacco and whom he thanks by name, 32 live in the only that it was ready to consult with other n particular. He tells how, in the beginning of U.S.A., 14 in England and 12 in Israel, but not a parties which were considering the suggestion, as ne nineteenth century. Jews came to adopt their single one jn Germany. Thus, without any com well as with any other existing groups, and that present family names and he mentions the Hebrew ment, the list shows the distribution of the former it was prepared to take part in some meetings. printing presses in Dyhernfurt and Krotoschin. German Jews all over the globe, and it seems that in five continents in the wide world rather than Accent on Orthodoxy in present-day Germany is the memory kept alive Elkan and Toscanini of what German Jewry was. A copy of Benno Elkan's bust of Toscanini, The book is issued " as part of the publication acquired by the Younger Friends of the Israel programme of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Philharmonic Orchestra for presentation to the congregations, London ". Thus it discusses the TRIBUTE TO RABBI REINHART Orchestra, was formally handed over at a reception 'nstitutions Orthodox Jewry has created for their Rabbi H. Reinhart, who recently resigned as given by the Younger Friends at the International fecial needs, such as the preparatory schools in Music Association. [lochberg and Burgpreppach. Schwab gives a Senior Minister of the West London Synagogue, Picture of eminent leaders, such as Samson has always been a friend of those who came to Mr. Lewis Gorden, Chairman of the Younger {Raphael Hirsch and Seligmann Baer Bamberger, this country as refugees. In the eariy days he Friends, handed the bust over to Mr. Leo Savir, "ft also recalls less widelv known and neariy started " Club 33 " on the Synagogue premises, and Press Attache at the Israeli Embassy, and spoke lo.rgotten ones, such as the Mohel Benjamin the hospitality newcomers received there will be of the long and close association that had existed r^'iederhofheim or the once famous Schtadlan remembered with the deepest gratitude. At the between the Orchestra and Toscanini. "Mendel Zell. The author mentions the manifold same time. Rabbi Reinhart was most helpful to his colleagues from Germany, many of whom were activities of Rabbanim. Chazzanim and Schoch- able to resume work as rabbis and ministers Hungarian Refugees m Without giving names. But these do not repre- through his assistance. He was also closely jj.Pt the whole of Jewish life. There were also associated with the Seminar established under the A further 270 Jewish refugees from Hungary in ^ttt tendencies out of necessity and with deep Synagogue's auspices which, particularly through have arrived in this country lately. The accom P^r justification, which have, during the last two its Monday morning lectures, became the rallying modation problem for them as well as for manv point for many Continentals interested in Jewish of the 1,100 Hungarian refugees previously ^ nturies, moved Jews everywhere—in the country registered with thc Central British Fund is a th *^^ *^ '" ^^^ towns. Schwab shuts his eyes to scholarship. His sympathy and understanding of the spiritual background of our community, con serious one. There is also the difficulty of finding cse and brushes them aside as " reform move- siderably assisted us in finding our feet in this employment for many of the refugees. Coon!r"5^"" Schwab. Jcwbh Rural Commnidttes In Germany. country. ' Book Company. London. 1956. 93 pages. 8s. 6d. Last but not least. Rabbi Reinhart was an under Vandalism at Synagogue standing foster father to the refugee children Three recent consecutive acts of vandalism were HART SON & COMPANY accommodated in the hostel run by the Synagogue. committed by unknown persons, when they broke He would go to any amount of trouble when his windows and chandeliers at the Philpot Street LIMITED help was lequired by people in our midst. Great Synagogue, E. It is thought that these acts were not caused by hooligans but more probably Merchant Bankers THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND by a group of over-exuberant youths. AUGUSTINE HOUSE SHOLEM ASCH Austin Friars, London, E.C.2 The late Sholem Asch was so captivated by the Registry of Jewish Births 'Phone LONdon Wall 7633 description of the beauty of Sarah given in the Biblical Apocryphon, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls It is planned to set up a central registry of all published in Jerusalem last year, that he made a Jewish births in London. Members of the com Specialists in the radical alteration in the last novel on which he was munity throughout the country would be invited ~^^ conversion of hard at work only a few days before his death. He to contribute details and, pj-ovjded that they prove GERMAN MARKS and BLOCKED had originally planned to write a novel around co-operative, the results of the scheme should be AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS the lives of Jacob and Rachel, but then decided far-reaching. It has also been decided that a to deal in his book with the period of Sarah and register of authorised mohelim should be made Inquiries invited Abraham as well. available to the public. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION September, 1957 Erivin I. J. Rosenthal future to meet every four years, and a Council of 35 was formed, 24 of whom were chosen from the members of the Congress, among theni WORLD CONGRESS OF JEWISH STUDIES Rabbi Dr. Altmann, Director of the Institute ot Jewish Studies jn Manchester. Non-Jewisn members of this Council include Professors Meeting in Jerusalem Dupont-Sommer of France, Ryckmans of Belgium. Goodenough of Yale (U.S.A.) and Widengren .ot On one of the Judaean hills surrounding the speaking participants and Prof. G. Widengren of Uppsala (Sweden). The Council is charged witn venerable city of Jerusalem the Hebrew University, Uppsala, a leading authority on the history of devising projects of co-operative research such as driven from its first home on Mount Scopus, is religions, roused an eager audience to prolonged a new critical edition of the Hebrew Bible and rapidly building the " University City ". Here, in applause when he stressed that we were all of one the publication of Genizah documents from the brilliant sunshine under a rich blue sky, the Second flesh and bone and that Israel and its scholarly efforts belonged to Europe and the Western various libraries which have acquired the treasures World Congress of Jewish Studies took place tradition of learning and search for truth. of the Cairo Genizah. between July 28th and August 4th. Several As at all international gatherings of scholars It would be tedious to enumerate even some or scientists, not the least important side is the hundred men and women, Jews and non-Jews from of the many lectures and papers. Suffice it there more than a dozen different countries, assembled social get-to-know-one-another. This Second fore to give the sections into which the Congress Worid Congress of Jewish Studies—like every early in the morning for a week in the Mazer divided: Bible, Hebrew Language. History of the Building—only officially opened on the morning thing which has to do with Jews and Judaism—had Jewish People, Talmud and Rabbinics (including its peculiarity as well in this respect. If anybody of the beginning of the Congress—in the Kaplan Jewish Law). Jewish Thought—Qabbalah, Philo wants to know what Sabbath-rest is really Jike> School—opened just over a month ago—and in sophy and Religion ; Archaeology and Palestino- let him go to Jerusalem and spend a Shabbat the Planetarium to listen to 20 lectures in the graphy ; Yiddish Language and Literature ; Jewish there. If he has no frjends he will have the Plenary Sessions and about 200 papers read in Ethnic Groups and their Languages ; Demography greatest difficulty getting any food as no restaurants the 10 sections. The principal language was of the Jewish People. or cafes are open. But this was not the omV Hebrew, only a few lectures and papers were If we think back to the beginnings of Judische reason for private hospitality which the resourceful delivered in English or French and at least one Wissenschaft we realise that Jewish learning today organisers of the Congress prepared: a number not only treasures the legacy of Zunz, Graetz, of teachers of the Hebrew University invited the paper was read in German. But outside the lecture Geiger and the other founders, but that it has con halls German and Yiddish was frequently heard. foreign visitors to their homes on Friday nigW. siderably widened its scope, has become more Shabbat and other days, and made them feel,at Friendly exchanges of opinion were often comprehensive and, though devoting much energy home as only Jews can. It goes without saying punctuated by rather noisy building operations to a better understanding of the Diaspora, has that there was a good deal of official hospitality- which must have been equally disturbing for a now its centre of gravity in the modern State of The President of the State of Israel received.us number of students of the Hebrew University who Israel with its close attention to the Bible, to the in the beautifully situated Garden of the Munici were engaged in examinations. Two years ago archaeology of Palestine and to the history and pality near the University Campus ; the Minister the foundations of one or two buildings were morphology of the Hebrew language. The presence of Education in the Institute of Jewish Studies. hardly laid ; today half a dozen or so buildings of large numbers of Oriental Jews is Professor Urbach. gave us a lunch in the dinin.2' are already in use—a sign of ceaseless activity and helping considerably in the development of the hall of the Administrative Building and the Presi determination to be a modern university in every scientific study of Hebrew phonetics and Hebrew dent of the University, Professor Mazar, enter respect. dialects. Naturally this trend was also reflected tained us at the conclusion of the Congress, The members of the Congress met in the light, in the papers read at the Congress, mainly by finishing up with a film of the University's archaeo spacious dining hall of the Administrafion Israeli scholars trained at the Hebrew University logical expeditions to the Sinai Desert, Beth building for lunch. A welcome break in the by linguists of German-Jewish origin or at any She'arim and Hatzor. morning sessions sent us all, hot and thirsty, to the rate German-trained. Lectures and discussions were happily supple basement of the Institute of Jewish Studies for mented by a number of well-arranged exhibitions, refreshments. The fare provided was rich and Communal Interests varied, though sometimes tending to cause mental such as the Dead Sea Scrolls in the possession ot indigestion by a combination of heat, tempo and Although numerically and intellectually Israeli Israel, finds from excavations, manuscripts, recent in general an embarras de richesses. scholars were very much in evidence, there was no books on Jewish studies published in Israel : his Every single participant was at once captivated sign of exaggerated national pride or chauvinism: torical documents were gathered from various by the rare atmosphere of Yerushalayim, its we were all brothers " responsible for each other ", collections, and members were invited to visit the beauty and its momentous history memorable for imbued with a desire to learn from each other archives, the Ben-Zvi Institute for Research o" Jews and non-Jews alike. To choose between something of that truth which is the goal of all Jewish Communities in the East, Yad Washefflj oapers in different sections was often tantalising. scholarly endeavour. But, no doubt, the Israeli the Leo Baeck Institute and the Bezalel National So much of interest and excellence was offered. scholars who were our hosts (and very generous Museum where coins and illuminated MSS. and Although naturally the Jews were in a clear hosts at that) set the nace : their enthusiasm and books reminded us of many a period of Jewish majority a number of distinguished non-Jewish energy imbued the whole Congress and gave its history and where Yemenite arts and crafts forged scholars shed lustre on a unique event. The first deliberations a sense of urgency and practical a link with the present-day Yemenite Jews livinS Congress took place ten vears ago when Israel was importance such as one rarely finds at international in Israel. This Congress has unobtrusively demon still Palestine under British mandatory rule. This learned conferences. Community of interest and strated the continuity of Jewish history and of Second Worid Congress was organised jointly by of purpose was translated into real fellowship Jewish studies and has underlined the living past the Hebrew University, the Ministry of Education which embraced also the non-Jewjsh participants, and the importance of Modern Hebrew for and Culture and the Jewish Agency, and jt was who were all distinguished in their own fields and Judaistic studies in which former German or very well organised by a Committee headed by eager to contribute to the success of this Congress. German-speaking Jews take an active part. Prof. B. Dinur (Dunaburg), the noted Jewish Some of them spoke excellent Hebrew and read historian and until two years ago Minister of their paoers in this language so appropriate to Education. Jewish Studies. Others could at least follow the RESEARCH GRANTS TO VICTIMS OF proceedings in Hebrew, while only some benefited NAZISM Eminent Scholars Lecture from the few lectures delivered in English, French or German. It has been announced by the Jewish Claiinj A fact of special interest to the readers of this Of general interest were the sessions devoted to Conference in New York, that scholarships a^° journal may be noted: among the members of the the Scrolls from the Judaean Desert. Here the fellowships totalling 5135,000 have been granted Organising Committee were Professors Mazar Israeli scholars vied with Professor Dupont- for the academic year 1957 to 1958 to 190 Jewish (Meisler). the President and Rector of the Hebrew Sommer of the Sorbonne and Professor K. H. students and research workers throughout the University ; Tur-Sinai (Torczyner), the President Rengstorff of the University of Miinster world who were victims of Nazi persecution. of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and (Institutum Delitzschianum) to clarify some of the Of the 190 recipients, 46 are students preparing formerly Professor for Bible Studies at the manv problems which remain unsolved. Dr. Yigael mostly for careers in the teaching of Jewish sub Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judentums Yadin's lecture in English was particularly jects ; 54 are engaged in graduate study ; and "0 in Berlin ; Ephraim Urbach, Director of the aopreciated. as was Professor Mazar's own are Fellows conducting independent research in Institute of Jewish Studies, formerly of the Enalish summary of his Hebrew lecture. the various fields of Jewish scholarship and Rabbiner Seminar in Breslau ; S. D. Goitein, One of the most lively impressions was this creative art. „. whose " Jews and Arabs " was recently reviewed uninhibited co-operation between Jews and non- The grant of $135,000 is part of the $1,230,000 in this journal ; Gerhard Scholem, the foremost Jews in the interests not of inter-faith apologetics alloration by the Conference this year for cultura- authority on Jewish Mysticism. Professor at the and polemics, but of a true understanding of and educational rehabilitation. Hebrew University and on the Executive of the spiritual problems common to all. Another wel Leo Baeck Institute. Mr. S. Talmon was the very come sign of genuine human friendliness was the MAX-PLANCK INSTITUTE OF HISTORV able Secretary of the Congress. Mr. I. Ben-Zvi, naturalness with which Professor Renestorff spoke President of the State of Israel, was its Hon. his native German, after a few words in Hebrew, In Goettingen the Max-Planck Institute of President and lectured on " Research on the and its acceptance by the audience. History was opened as a successor of the Kaiser- Jewish Communities of the Near and Middle Even if Hebrew was not entirely the common Wilhelm Institut fuer Geschichte. Its director i' East" at the opening session in the " People's language, Jewish studies in the widest sense formed Professor Hermann Heimpel, who, in an interview- House" to which no less than 3,000 men and the binding link between Israel and the Diaspora, emphasised his strong interest in research into women had flocked to launch the Congress on jts between Jews and non-Jews. Most fittingly this German-Jewish history, and explained the rela' way. Mr. Ben-Gurion. the Prime Minister, also common interest found practical expression in the | tionship between his Institute and the Muenchener spoke, as did the Minister of Education, Mr. Z. establishment of an Iggud 'olami lemada'e Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte. The Institute will hold Aranne. Prof. Salo Baron of Columbia Uni ha-yahadat (World Union for Jewish Studies) with semester. The tutors will be Professors Kaehler versity brought greetings from the English- headquarters in Jerusalem. It was decided in and Nuernberger. ''JR INFORMATION September, 1957 Page 7 flerhert Freeden (Jerusalem) .Mission [U.S.O.M.] whose experts often work in fields related to those of the U.N. bodies), co ordination is essential both in planning projects EXPERTS, FELLOWS AND EQUIPMENT and in their implementation. Each item of assis tance—experts. Fellows and equipment—is being extended in response lo a specific and detailed U.N. Technical Assistant to Israel request submitted by Israel. All apphcations from The loss of prestige which the U.N. suffered senior govermnent officials and professional men Government departments, educational institutions " Israel after the Sinai Campaign has not yet and women, are taking advantage of this. As in and private enterprises are carefully reviewed by an Interministerial Government Committee before een recovered. However, the suspicion with which the case of the consultant programme, this service is mutual, and Israel also acts as the host they are passed on to the Technical Assistance . '^ august body is viewed, does not extend to Programme. ' ^ Technical Assistance Programme and the to Fellowship recipients from abroad. During ^Pecialised Agencies from which the countrv 1956 five Fellows from four countries studied in oenefits in funds and advice. Israel. Israel is also the centre of several inter IN MEMORIAM During the current year, twenty-two Israeli national pilot projects, such as the development overnrtient departments and institutions are of eucalyptus trees and windbreak-tree plantings, $10,000 Gift to Holland eceiving the expert guidance of forty-nine con- a joint undertaking of the F.A.O. and the Israeli Forest Service. The results of these two experi The American Jewish philanthropist, Nathan uiiants from overseas. Together with laboratory Strauss, has made a gift of $10,000 for the restora Id demonstration equipment for projects at the ments are to be utilised through the semi-arid world. tion of a student hostel in the ancient town of _jechnion in Haifa, the radio station "Kol Israel" Delft, site of Holland's technical university. This 'Id the Ministrv of Agriculture, the estimated Voluntary Contributions gift was made by Mr. Strauss in gratitude for the Qoilar cost is approximately 450,000. Since the assistance rendered by the people of Holland to programme started operating six years ago. 139 The whole programme is financed by voluntary Dutch Jews who were persecuted during the Nazi -^perts from seventeen countries have placed their contributions of member states, and Israel, too. is occupation. ^nowledge at the disposal of Israel. The United doing her share. For the current year, the Gov ^'ates leads the list with 56 consultants, followed ernment has pledged I£I43.000. These funds will Auschwitz Monument ">• 'he U.K. with 33. be used to help meet the expenses of overseas The International Auschwitz Committee has ".is encouraging to see that Israel has not only experts and Fellows in Israel, and also to cover organised a competition for a monument to be eceived but also given assistance, for the U.N. a portion of the salaries of Israeli experts recruited erected in the former concentration camp at programme is one of mutual interchange of for service in other countries. Auschwitz. Artists from all countries can partici jeehnical skills among nations. In 1956. "seven As to technical equipment, Israel is, in 1957. pate. Particulars are obtainable from Kassies. sraeli experts served abroad and assisted the receiving equipment for demonstration and experi Keizersgracht 609. Amsterdam. The English "'''•Ppines rEnvironmental Sanitation), Kenya mental work in mobile recording; a laboratory sculptor, Henry Moore, is a member of the jury. for use in agricultural development ; laboratory ^eterinary Suraerv). Mexico (Hydrologv), Greece The Towers of Dachau 'geology), India (Mother and Child Care) and and demonstration equipment for soil mechanics, J;^iiatemala (Agriculture and Productivity). Only telecommunications, mechanical engineering, The Bavarian Ministry of Finance had decided ecently an expert on water utilisation has left sanitary engineering, and hydraulic engineering lo demolish the towers of Dachau concentration srael for India on a one-vear assignment, on laboratories. c;imp. but, as the International Dachau Committee ^enalf of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organi- Since the United States also has a Technical wants to preserve the site as a memorial, the towers j*'?n. His services, which have been sought by Assistance Agency in Israel (the U.S. Operation have been reprieved. ndia, include advice in the study and application .' irnproved irrigation methods for a proposed iver valley authority in the State of Bihar. '" which field is Israel being helped ? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR • ^'^e Ministry of Agriculture is fortunate enough LONDON'S REFUGEE THEATRES JEWS AT FREIBURG UNIVERSITY ^ having the largest number of advisers. A arietv of experts is attached to the Ministrv of 5;>,—Egon Larsen's reference to the Free German Sir,—/ should like to comment on Dr. Carry L>evelopment. League of Culture makes one wonder how far Sprinz s letter published in your August issue. some of the articles in your very attractive publica . Advisers on air traffic services, telecommunica- Dr. Sprinz is, of course, quite right in staling that tion of August, 1957, are politically biased. Larsen 'Ons, airport development, fire prevention and we may be proud of Heinrich Rosin, that famous glamourises the Freie Deulsche Kulturbund when irline economics help Israel's civil aviation. The legal scholar and teacher who was a professing Jew. many of us erstwhile refugees know only loo well aining of instructors in photo-reproduction and However, when I was a law student at Freiburi; that this was one of several cover organisations dvising plants now in operation, is an offshoot in 1909, I had the privilege of being received both advocating and propagating unadulterated Com the Ministry of Labour, which needs such in Ihe home of a non-Jewish professor and in that munist doctrines. We are only too sadly aware Pecialists for its Vocational Training Services. of Jonas Cohn, the philosopher. I do not of Ihe abuse of the term " Kultur" on the part believe that either then fell particularly liv? "^ branch of the same Ministry, the Produc- of the Nazis, but " Kultur " did not become culture " courageous " wlien inviting Jewish students. Jf^^y Institute, is aided by a productivity engineer because refugee Communists from Germany and ruhv, '"^"^"'^'iori of plastics, the use of reclaimed Austria and their fellow-travellers and Party Emil Bloch is not known to me either, nor do I and • ^"'^ methods of standardising, cheapening Members of British nationality encouraged the remember Edwin Goldmann. Whether Ihe " , improving diemakine are some of the growth of the Freie Deutsche Kulturbund. I was economist Roberi Liefmann and his colleague Paul •>lVt r ^ which are tackled bv foreign technolo- almost pestered by two fellow Trade Unionists Mombert, both outstanding. " regarded themselves ^«s for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. working with me in the same Tool Room during and were regarded as Jews ", I do not know. The to H'° programming specialist helps " Kol Israel " the War, one a Jewish refugee from Germany develop educational broadcasting, and a and the other a Jewish refugee from Austria, with Jewish origin of both was generally known ond I ^J."?'"o'ogist advises the Ministry of Police on persistent requests to join this organisation in order do not believe that they ever tried to camouflage -thods of crime prevention and on prison to make my contribution towards the overthrow of il. At any rate, these two siiared the fate of racial Administration. Hitler. When I declined 1 was eventually persecution to the full and suffered final extinction. Tile tragic ending of their lives and the fate of their Scope of Assistance dismissed as an incorrigible bourgeois. It is not surprising to those always examining a new project families are related in a remarkable publication anH^'^if ^'^P«rts are anached to the Haifa Technion. with a critical eye and remembering the iniiicd " Aus der Geschichte der Rechts- und Staalswissen- "a the Graduate Library School of the Hebrew stages and future development of the Free German schaflen zu Freiburg i. Br.", recently edited by the se"'^^""y is assisted by a library science and League of Culture that it is now " Eastern Faculty as a Festgabe on the university's 500th 5- '•'^^? specialist. An immigration research Germany's monopolistic mammoth organisation." anniversary. The same applies to one of ihe Ann'r II'' is working with the Israel Institute of In my opinion, no honour should be bestowed greatest scholars of his time, tbe jurist (Romani.sl) upon those reckless individuals who gave so much and ^o'^ial Research, to advise on analysis Otto Lenel. Both his unique scholarly achieve adil P'^^sentation of data concerning the social ardour to a project which taught tens of thousands of innocent men and women the art of accepting ments and his wonderful humanity are equally i^stment of new immigrants to Israel. blindly the new God, which has since failed so stressed in the book. His last years, which were aid "^^v^ '^* manv and diverse forms of technical many. Perhaps Mr. Larsen will have a look at darkened by persecution, are poignantly described ^ 'be textile industry, too, will benefit, last week's " Jewish Chronicle" and refresh his and so is the fate of his widow and his daughter act; •''- rnany-sided programme includes technical memory as to the cold-blooded murder by Stalin who were deported. His wife perished in a con Terh -^^ of eight organisations—U.N.T.A.A. (U.N. and his hirelings of the flower of Jewish Russian centration camp. His daughter devoted herself lo dm "' Assistance Administration). IL.O. culture, a political slaughter which at the time was Iter fellow-sufferers as a nurse. I feel that we, too, ann A"*''°"^' Labour Organisation). F.A.O. (Food ardently defended by those who shared the spirit may well share the memory of all those tragic g"*^ Agriculture Organisation). U.N.E.S.C.O. (U.N. artd political indoctrination of most members of victims without loo much discrimination. lCAn°"^'' ^i^n'ific and Cultural Organisation), the Freie Deulsche Kulturbund. I should like to add that Hitlerism is outspokenly tinn\ 1 ' *^Iriternational Civil Aviation Organisa- May I express the fervent hope that your admir (Int WO- EWorld Health Organisation). I.T.U. condemned in various contributions to the able journal will never again present its readers Festgabe, not only under the aspect of racial per ^M.- .'frnaitionaO l Telecommunications Union), and with misleading reports of the nature to which fWorld Meteorological Orginisation). secution but as an all-round perversion of law. SerWitv h "^' providing of experts runs another I have referred. Yours sincerely, gjvg'5u ^^^ granting of Fellowships to Israelis to Walter Bluhm. Yours, etc.. abrn J ™ '" opportunitv to studv a specific subject 45 Great Russell Street, °*°. This vear 2i Israelis, most of them London, W.C.\. Dr. Ernst Schaefcr. Page 8 AJR INFORMATION September, 1957 Leon Auerbach (1813-1887), Abraham's third RECORDS OF SIX GENERATIONS son, was a rabbi and teacher in Geneva and a fourth son, Samuel (1827-1884), was Rabbi at Nord hausen and Homburg v.d.H. The Descendants of Rabbi Abraham Auerbach The only son who did not become a rabbi was Joseph Auerbach (1823-1868). He was a teacher German-Jewish genealogy has been enriched by as publications or causes of death) are also and wine merchant in Wald near Solingen. One included. of his sons was Geheimer Sanitaetsrat Dr- a comprehensive and stimulating work, "The Benjamin Auerbach (1855-1940)—a well-known Auerbach Family" by Siegfried M. Auerbach.* The lay-out, on a similar pattem to that of the Feuchtwanger genealogy, is arranged in a most doctor in Cologne and Chairman of the Court of This work records not less than 834 descendants, Honour of the physicians of that city—who held spread over six generations, of Abraham Auerbach convenient way. The first main section contains the genealogical tables and the second section leading positions in Jewish communal life. (1763-1845) in Bonn, Chief Rabbi (Consistorial- contains the biographies of the descendants and It is interesting to note that the rabbinical tradi Oberrabbiner) of the Consistory of Rhine and their spouses. An alphabetical index of names tion of the family, which reaches back to several Moselle. at the end of the book makes it possible to find centuries, has only been maintained in the present Apart from the Feuchtwanger family tree, this each descendant's genealogical position in the first day by one branch of the family (the "Halber is the most detailed and methodical work on section and his biographical data in the second stadt " branch) and not, with one exception, by German-Jewish family research published in our part. the descendants of Abraham Auerbach's other times. Its importance for the historiography of sons. But, probably due to the family's intellectual Rabbi Abraham Auerbach was the scion of an trends, we meet a turn to the professions at a German Jewry cannot be overestimated. Only old family of rabbis and talmudical scholars. His the transitory generation to which the author comparatively early stage. first known ancestor was Rabbi David Tewele There were only four inter-marriages within the belongs possesses the background knowledge and Auerbach (Wien c. 1575), whose descendants held the urge, indispensable in the carrying out of such Auerbach family. On several occasions different office in various Austrian, Polish and Bohemian branches of the Auerbach family married into the research. Those born or brought up after the communities. It was Abraham's grandfather Z'vi same families (three times into the Feuchtwanger dispersion of German Jewry must lose tho feeling Hirsch Auerbach (1690-1778) who, having received family and twice into the Kober family of Silesia). of continuity. And yet, for them it seems to be a " call" to Worms, became the first member of Up to 1933 most of the spouses also derived fronj essential that they know the roots of their own the family to settle in Western Gennany. We families domiciled in the Western part of existence and it is therefore most gratifying that thus come up against the surprising fact that a Germany; this, of course, changed after the the author embarked on this painstaking enter family already living in Westem Germany before dispersion. the emancipation period, had not lived there prise. The fact that he succeeded in an almost uninterruptedly but originated from Central and Of the 538 descendants and spouses resident in miraculous way, will be no mean reward for his Eastern Europe. It would be interesting to kno-A' Germany when Hitler came into power, 63 were labours. whether this applies to many " old established" murdered by the Nazis in Germany or in occupied Westem German families or whether the Auer- territories. More than 50 per cent of those who emigrated settled in Palestine—a symptom of the Genealogical DiflBculties bachs' immigration was rather due to their vocation as rabbis, which involved changes of strong Jewish leanings still prevailing in the family. To assess the difficulties involved, we need only residence according to the " calls" its members An index of places reveals the regional distribution think of the position in which the average received from various Kehilloth in the course of the descendants all over the world. individual is placed. Such a person usually knows of generations. Be that as it may, in a wider sense The author of the book deserves unreserved of his grandparents, his parents' brothers and the Auerbachs were not immigrants but returnees praise for his work. Not only the members of sisters and their children—his first cousins. It is to Western Germany. Their name indicates that, his family but also German-Jewish historiography- not uncommon among Jews, with their strong originally, their family came from Auerbach-an- are indebted to him. fainily sense, that they can follow up their der-Bergstrasse—just as the names of many other W. ROSENSTOCK ancestry one generation further, at least in the Eastern European families (Landau, Eppstein, etc.) male line, up to their great-grandparents. Some recall that, prior to their expulsion, they lived by may even know from hearsay how many children the Rhine. their great-grandfather had, and perhaps their names as well. But here it mostly stops. There is usually no contact with second cousins and the DUTCH AND FLEMISH ART average person definitely does not follow up their Family's Progenitor offspring. This is what Siegfried Auerbach. a New Exhibition at London Gallery great-grandson of the family's progenitor, has Rabbi Z'vi Hirsch Auerbach's son, Selig Auer done. bach (1726-1767), was rabbi at Bouxviller (Buchs- There is no place like London for those wonder weiler) in Alsace, and was the father of Abraham ful exhibitions of recent art, which make us relive The author's work would have been difficult Auerbach, whose descendants are dealt with in the the joy and fear, the excitement and nervousness. enough if most of his relatives still lived in book. Abraham Auerbach's first marriage to of modern man. Yet from time to time the Alfred Germany. It called for almost superhuman per Gudula Sinzheim was without issue. His second Brod Gallery (36 Sackville Street, W.l) invites us severance and industry after the family had been wife, Ester Rebecca Oppenheim (1785-1865), who to see a new collection of Dutch and Flemish dispersed all over the world. Not satisfied with was twenty-two years younger than her husband, paintings, to offer us rest from contemporary recording the names, Auerbach in each case also bore him sixteen children, of whom six sons and restlessness. denotes the exact dates of birth, marriage and five daughters survived infancy. These children We find there, of course, many familiar names ^ death of the descendants and their spouses, their and their descendants are the subject of the book. Jacob Ruysdael's " Landscape with Water-Mil' ],• occupations and. if still alive, their present not unlike his " Old Jewish Cemetery in Dresden ' - addresses. The names of the spouses' parents Five of Rabbi Abraham Auerbach's six sons This picture immediately found a buver for (including their mothers' maiden names) are also also became rabbis. The oldest, Dr. Benjamin £20,000. Not for financial but for purely aesthetic given, and in a number of cases further particulars Hirsch Auerbach (1808-1872), graduated as a reasons, I would have chosen a much smaller about the career and other details of interest (such doctor of philosophy in Marburg. He was elected panel—a delicate seascape by Salomon Ruysdael • Perry Press Productions Ltd. A limited number of copies District Rabbi (Landesrabbiner) of Hesse-Darm costing only half as much. Or a work bv Dirck (35/-) may be obuined from thc author at 124 Victoria Street stadt in 1834, but resigned after frequent conflicts Hals (brother of the famous Frans Hals) " "Voung <3r
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SIMON RAWIDOWICZ a name for herself in plays by Strindberg and Ibsen in many German towns and particularly in The Israeli Minister in Berne, Dr. Oskar Dr. Simon Rawidowicz, Professor of Jewish Berlin, has died in that city at the age of 88. She Wolfsberg-Yeshayahu Aviad, died in Switzerland at Philosophy and Hebrew Literature at the Brandeis survived the Nazi regime in Germany. After the University, died in the United States at the age war she became an honorary member of the the age of 64. He was born in Hamburg, where of 60. He was born in Poland and graduated from Buehnengenossenschaft. he practised as a children's specialist. He was the Berlin University in 1926. His scholarly passionately devoted to his profession and, at the activities in Germany included the publication of same time, was a prolific writer on Jewish the seventh volume of Moses Mendelssohn's work subjects. Of his publications, the best known are and co-editorship of the Jewish Lexikon in " Die Theorie der Evolution und der Glaube der German. ANNE FRANK Juden ", •• Zur Zeit-und Geistesgeschichte des After Dr. Rawidowicz left Germany in 1934, he Judentums", and "Die Grundlagen nationaler first came to England, where he was a lecturer al The income from the sale of a documentary Erziehung ". In Germany he was the President the School of Oriental Languages in London, and account of Anne Frank's life will provide Euro of the Misrachi. He emigrated to Palestine in later on became head of the Hebrew Department pean scholarships for Israeli students The volume, 1933. After the murder of Count Bernadotte he of the University of Leeds. He was a son-in-law which is to appear under the title " Anne Frank— became an Israeli Envoy Extraordinary for the of the well-known Zionist leader, Dr. Alfred Klee. The Trial of a Child," will also be adapted to Scandinavian countries, and brought about the radio programmes. It is being compiled by reconciliation between Sweden and Israel. He was MR. WALTER ERLANGER German author and broadcasting .station director Ernst Schnabel, and will be published by the S. a life member of the Executive of the Zionist It is learned with the deepest regret that Organisation and he belonged to the World Fischer publishing house in Frankfurt whicn, Mr. W. Erlanger (formerly Nuernberg) passed together with the broadcasting stations, will form Executive of the Keren Hayesod. In this capacity away at the age of 64. As the director of the a joint scholarship board to administer the entire he visited Western Germany two years ago. well-known printjng firm De Vere Press, Mr. proceeds. Erlanger was for many years most helpful to the AJR, whose publications he printed on many PROFESSOR ISAAK HEINEMANN occasions. His expert advice in this connection was a great asset. Apart from this, as a member Professor Isaak Heinemann passed away in of the AJR since its inception, he always displayed The " Anne Frank-Stiftung" has bought the Israel at the age of 80. In Breslau, he taught at a great interest in our activities. It was only house where Anne and her family were hidden natural that in the course of the years personal during the war and where she wrote her famous the Jewish Theological Seminar, and was also an bonds developed between him and the officials of diary. The house in the Prinzengracht in the old honorary Professor of Breslau University. At the the Association. town of Amsterdam is to be restored and trans same time, he was editor of the " Monatschrjft Those who knew Mr. Erlanger will remember formed into a memorial where young people from fiir Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums ". this kind and cultured personality with gratitude all over the world can meet. The " Stiftung " alms His authority as a Jewish scholar and as a teacher and affection. Our sympathies go out to his widow at putting into practice the ideals which Anne had was widely recognised. and family. set herself in her diary.
FAMILY EVENTS HUNGARIAN REFUGEE, 30, Accommodation Hugo, Betty and Gerhardt Spanier, former judge in Budapest, seeks formerly of Breslau. Wanted by Entries in this column are free of VACANCY FOR PERMANENT charge. Texts should be sent in by the clerical or business position with Hans Sachs, c/o Schimansky, Berlin. prospects, pref. in work connected GUEST, lady or gentleman, in beauti W., Kurfuerstendamm 184. \%lh of the month. fully situated, well-heated country with law. Box 241. house; continental cooking, every Mrs. Alice Wosznianski, nee Birth GENERAL CLERK (languages: diet. Mrs. K. Schwarz, " Furzedown ", Schlesinger, formerly Berlin, Land- Schuhmaim.—On August 13th a French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Wood Road, Hindhead, Surrey. haus Str., or her daughters (one of daughter, Marion Helen, born to Hebrew) seeks position. Box 242. them named Lilian). Thought to live ELDERLY CLERK seeks part-time I or 2 UNFURNISHED ROOMS Evelyn (n^e Pick) and Werner S. WITH KITCHENETTE required by in England, wanted for inheritance Schuhmann. 52 Foscote Road, Hen work or home typing. Box 243. matters by E. E. Brenner, 18 Mapes PACKER/STOREKEEPER, elderly widow, low rent. Furniture don, N.W.4. for 3 rooms can be provided as bury Court, Shoot-up Hill, N.W.2. DESPATCH CLERK, elderly, reli equivalent. Box 237. Death able, former representative in textiles, MISSING PERSONS Mrs. Lotte Ward, nee Weil, daughter seeks work, preferably light. Box 244. Miscellaneous of Ludwig and Adele (formerly of STOREKEEPER / PACKER, exp. Enquiries by AJR Ludwigshaven, now of Johannesburg), leather bags, former salesman, seeks ACTIVE PARTNER accustomed to died on June 23rd, 1957, at her home suitable work. Box 245. visiting retail customers, required by Mr. Ludwig Salomons, born 8.12.1888 in Harpenden. VERSATILE, ELDERLY MAN, well-established Ladies* Underwear in Neuenhaus, Kr. Bentheim, and his former furrier, able to supervise, can Wholesalers of branded goods with wife Luise, n^e Hertz, born 4.4.1897 CLASSIFIED do finishing, passing, cashier or numerous accounts (stores, co-ops., in Gunterslskim Kr. Oppenheim. Left Situations Vacant general clerical work. Box 246. drapers, etc.) in England and Wales. a Will at the Amtsgericht Hagen/ HUNGARIAN REFUGEE, former Requested capital at least £1,800 for Westf. Went to Liverpool on Women expansion only. Box 254. 14.1.1939. Wanted for matters of civil servant in Hungary, seeks factory inheritance by AJR. PART-TIME HOUSEKEEPER, 50- work, pref. in cigarette or radio fac QUALIFIED TEACHER accepts 60, pref. res. N.W.6, for middle-aged tory. Lives N.8. Box 247. pupils for coaching. Please contact Miss Claire Mauder, formerly Fuerth/ couple. Exp. diet cooking, 11-2 Women Mrs. Wolff, 3 Hemstal Rd., N.W.6. Bavaria, Friedrichstr. Thought to Mon.-Fri. 10/- daily. German spoken. MAI. 8521. have come to England with Youth 'Phone MAI. 4336. RECEPTIONIST / TELEPHONIST / SALESLADY. Woman of 41, good Personal Enquiries Aliyah in 1938 or 1939 and was COMPANION wanted for cheerful employed by Standard Varnish Works, elderly lady, pleasant home, suit appearance, formerly blouse presser but must now switch over to more Marie and Hedwig Erlenbach, Rosenberg-Loewi & Co., London, retired nurse. Write Hacienda, N.W. Chorleywood Rd., Rickmansworth, sedentary work, seeks position. daughters of Sigmund Erlenbach. Willing to be trained. Box 248. Marie emigrated from Vienna to Herts. London 16,2.1939, Hedwig 19.7.1939. Edgar Oscar Cohen, born 3.12.1873 in INTERPRETER / SALESLADY / Hamburg, Hugo Oscar Cohen, born CLERK (ledgers, some typing). Hun Wanted for restitution matters by Situations Wanted Franz Poplutz, Forchheim, Bucken- 23.5.1875 in Hamburg, both emi garian refugee, good ref., seeks grated to England. Men suitable work. Box 249. hofenerstr. 6. GENERAL OFFICE WORK sought RECEPTIONIST position required by Miss Gertrud Lewin, last-known by retired Civil Engineer/Architect former felling hand, no longer strong address: 8 Belsjze Park, London. with seven years' experience with enough to work with heavy coats. ALL MAKES N.W.3. London Cjty export/import firm as Box 250. assistant in shipping, forwarding, BOUGHT. Samuel Gerstenblueth, born 3.9.1892. COOK, exp., seeks full- or part-time formerly Leipzig. Owner of a banking, cashier. Perfect in German, work in private household. Box 251. SOLD Czech, Hungarian, Yugoslav, German furrier's establishment. Said to have NEEDLEWOMAN, exp. alterations, EXCHANGED emigrated to England. shorthand. Good at figures. Part- fin., mending, darning, seeks part- time work pref. Box 238. time or home work. Box 252. REPAIRED & MAINTAINED Hans Rittcr. Changed his name to RELIABLE, ADAPTABLE MAN, ATTENDANCE on sick people or Chas. Rudolph-Ritter, last-known many years' exp. wholesale business, invalids undertaken by reliable address: 86 Maida Vale, N.W.8. Said seeks position as stockkeeper, stock- ELITE TYPEWRITER Co. Ltd. to have died 3 or 4 years ago. Was woman, full- or part-time. Box 253. WELbeck 2528 controller, despatcher, selling. Box 239. WELL-EDUCATED GIRL, 19 years, married to actress Oily Stuewen, who HOMEWORK wanted by elderly seeks position as household help in 18 CRAWFORD STREET died in 1950. Heirs are urgently man, willing to be trained. Box 240. Austria. Box 236. (off BAKER STREET), W.l wanted. AJR INFORMATION September, 1957 Page 15 AJR SOCIAL SERVICES XEWS IN BRIEF Employment Agency LECTURES ON JUDAISM IN FRANKFURT PROTESTANTS DISCUSS POST-WAR According to the latest Government regu Professor Gerhard Scholem (Jerusalem), the GERMANY lations, it is now possible for retirement pensioners greatest authority on the Cabballah, ended the The Evangehcal Academy held hs traditional to take up work again. We have several elderlv present series of the Loeb Lectures in Frankfurt meeting, as always, on the date of the anti-Hhler people on our records who are anxious to resume University with a course of lectures on his special plot, July 20. The subject of the discussion was employment but we have difficulty in getting subject to his large audience, •" Twelve Years after Twelve Years". The suitable jobs for them. We would welcome offers Martin Buber spoke earlier on " Zuege des speakers were leading historians and the audience for employment of men and women, full- or part- ojblischen Gottesbildes". Nearly 1,000 people was mostly youthful. One of the speakers said time or for home work. "Phone MAI. 4449. n'led the auditorium on a hot summer eveninj; ; that the past seemed confused to many Germans, 't almost had the appearance of an ovation for and that today it often appeared that Hitler had Visiting the Sick the Jewish sage, who is nearly 80. been buried but had not gone to rest. It would be appreciated if people seeking advice The lecture by Rabbi Dr. Ignaz Maybaum or wanting Mrs. Williams of our Social Depart (London), " Die Opferung Isaaks ", has now been ment to visit them, would telephone or call on Published in the periodical " Evangelische OLD AGE HOME IN NEUSTADT 1 heologie ", Mrs. Williams if possible only on Mondays, Neustadt a.d. Weinstrasse is to have an Old Wednesdays or Fridays, in order to make appoint ments. ('Phone MAI. 4449.) NEW LNSTITUTUM JUDAICUM Age Home again. In the Karolinenstrasse the same stone was used which was laid in 1911 for In Tuebingen the Evangelic Theological Faculty the Jewish Home burnt down in the "Kristall °' the University opened a new Institutum nacht " when, on June 2nd, the foundation stone THE HYPHEN Judaicum, whose director will be D. Otto Michel, was laid for the new building. yean of the Faculty. This Institute is to con The September programme of the Hyphen tinue the tradition of Adolf Schlatter, who made includes a visit to Battersea Pleasure Gardens and th ^^^^' °^ Judaism the centre of research into CHILDREN'S HOME IN SOBERNHEIM a ramble to Oxted. Details may be obtained tne New Testament. The Institute will not only from the Hon. Secretary, Miss Brigit Cassel, 20 concern itself with the relation between Judaism The Jewish community of Cologne has just West Heath Court, North End Road, N.W.II, and early Christianity but also with modern opened a children's home in the little village of •phone MEA. 1810. Jf wish life and letters and with the latest develop- Sobernheim near Bad Kreuznach. For the first jnents in Israel. The results of its endeavours are time more than 100 Jewish children are spending THEODOR HERZL SOCIETY •o be passed on to a wider public. their holidays there. It is planned that fhe home, which with its grounds, covers 15,200 square metres The Theodor Herzl Society have prepared their ALBERT BALLIN CENTENARY STAMP altogether, should be open to Jewish adults in winter programme, and will start with a Brains term time and to non-Jewish victims of Nazism. Trust on Tuesday, September 17th, at 8 p.m., at All edition of twenty million 20-pfennig stamps Zion House, 57 Eton Avenue, N.W.3. Mr. E. J. nearing the portrait of Albert Ballin has been Speyer will be the Question Master, and the put on sale by the West German Post Office, to TRIER SYNAGOGUE RECONSECRATED following personalities are included in the team: mark the centenary of the birth of the Jewish Rabbi J. Kokotek (Liberal Synagogue), Woolf ,"'P°^ner, who was a friend and adviser of the The new synagogue in Trier was dedicated in Perry (Vice-President Zionist Federation) and ast German Kaiser and who was in the forefront August, and the first Bar-Mitzvah after the war William TeeUng, M.P. Members of the AJR are international maritime affairs. took place. invited to attend this function. MENA LESTER GLADSTONE GUESTHOUSE THE DORICE CONTEVENTAL 27 Hoveden Road, N.W.2 Continental Cuisine — Licensed BOARDING HOUSE off Walm Lane The Caterer for Small IN HAMPSTEAD Single—Double Rootns '65a Finchley Rd., N.W.S MAI 6301 Functions Hot and Cold Water Single—Double Rooms, H.C.W. Full or partial Board. . PARTIES CATERED FOR Full or Partial Board MAIda Vale 6652 Moderate Terms Rinj MAI 007» Excellent Cuisine HOSEMOUNT Continental Atmosphere SCHRBIBBR'S Tel.: GLA. 4641 '7 Parsifal Road, N,W,6 BOURNEMOUTH Ideal place for Holidays and Convalescence GRIFFEL CATERING CO. HAM 5856 SIMAR HOUSE 26 Blenheim Gardens. N.W.2 Well known (or high-claii catering. ''ME BOARDING-HOUSE WITH CULTURE 10, Herbert Road, Bournemauth West (15 houses from underground and buses) Weddingi, Barmitzvahs, aod Social H & c in all bedrooms; Television; Garage; Functions at your Home or any Hall. Pleasant Garden; Continental Cuisine, Permanent and temporary residents ; all rooms hot and cold water. Garden, TV. A Horn* for jrou 'Phone: Westbourne 64176 Own crockery provided, also staff. Bdcrlir people welcomed GLAdstone 5622 SIMON and MARGOT SMITH Onb botae-oiula cake*. Verj reasonable chanee.
"ASHDALE GUESTHOUSE" PIcMe coBlmct Maoater. Mn. Maadelbaa MAIda Vale 2395. ^^' "EAULIEU RD„ BOURNEMOUTH W,
°g"^ beautiful " Alum Chine." 5 min. All Conveniences. Excellent Comfortable bright rooms with all modern Cuisine. conveniences in well-oppointed house near tube and buses. Short-stay visitors welcome. From 51-7 gns,, according MRS. GERDA SALINGER fo room and season. 20, LEESIDE CRESCENT, N.W.II •Phone : SPE. 8789 'Phone : Westbourne 619471 ~-______Prop.: E. BRUDER " FURZEDOWN" The ideil piece for holidays end convalescence ,^ "ARLET" Large garden with sunshed • St. Gobriel's Rood, London, N.W.2 p Tel. OLA 402» Running h. ft c. water in all first-tlsar bedroomi Home atmosphere, Continental cooking «f«"w!lr' ^"*"' *"•* ^i'i'o" eomins «o London (all diets), Children welcome '"me in my cxquiiitely furnished ind «ltiv.ted Privite Guest House CORSETS • CORSELETS "•» 0 Cold Woter, Radiator HeoHng Book early for Whitsun and summer months. - Garden, Television BELTS • BRASSIERES Reduced terms for off-season periods and for long or permanent residents Ve^'^]™*' ""»!« "n be provided if desired CORSETS SILHOUETTE LTD, 130, PARK LANE, LONDON. W.l. l^*" residentiil district. Buses end Tube verif neer WOOD ROAD. HINDHEAD, SURREY Nn. Utte Schwmrz Telephone: Hindhead }}S Page 16 AJR INFORMATION September, 1957 ZKIVITH PHOTOCOPIES OF DOCUMENTS If it's TYPEWRITERS ALL STYLE and Duplicators From 1/6 TAILOR Phone: DECORATING SBOtVICE LTU. Price reductions for quantities. MAI 1271 MAC 1454 SUITS & COSTUMES made to measure by first-class Tailors in our COLDERSTAT A. BREUER, E. MIEDZWINSKI own workrooms. Works: 25, DOWNHAM ROAD, N.l 57 FairfaxRd. 27 JEFFREYS ROAD. S.W.4 N.W.6. We specialize in: Phones : CLIssold CT13 (3 linos) While you wait ALTERATIONS & REMODELLING Residence : 54, GOLDERS GARDENS H. WOORTMAN PHOTOCOPIES OF YOUR all Ladies' & Gentlemen's Suits at Com N.W.ll. -Phonas : SPEadwall S64) DOCUMENTS petitive Prices. 8 Baynes Mewt, Hampstead, N.W.S Tel. HAM 3*74 from 1 /6 onwardi 172 FINCHLEY RD., LONDON. N.W.S Continental Builder and Decorator Tuesday to Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m- (HAM 8101) ANY PniNTiNG Specialist in Dry Rot Repairs or 'phone for appointment Private and Commercial. ESTIMATES FREE Mrt. H. M. Barry (betweon Fincbley Rd. Underground aod L.M.S. Firtt-class Work. Quickest Service. Flat 115, 20 Abbey Rd., St. John's WaadWaaa, Sutions) CON 4860 Ext. 115 N.W." * Urgent matters in 24 hourt. SHOE REPAIRS AJR H. I. WALL CLE. 6723 RICH'S SHOE REPAIR SERVICE NORBERT COHN (formerly REICH) now at HAIVDICR.IFT . GItOlJP 133, HAMILTON ROAD, N.W.U F.B.O.A. (Hons.). D.Orth. Large selection of attroctive and useful RABENSTEIN LTD. (2 min. Brent Station) We Collect and Delirer OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN OIFTIS Kosher Butchers, Poulterers Tet: SPEedwell 7463 HA.Mpatead 1037 20 Northways Parade, Finchley Rooi at reasonable prices and Swiss Cottage, N.W.S Tel. PRInirose *«60 Gift tokens available Sausage Manufacturers Reissner & Goldberg Orders for all kinds of needlework will be gladly accepted Undtr the Supervition o/ the Beth Din ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS High-Class Interior 8 FAIRFAX MANSIONS 141 Canterbury Road, N.W.6 Decorating FINCHLEY ROAO, N.W.3 MAI 6721 (Fairfax Road corner) MAI. 4449 Wholesaler 8 and Retailers Before 8.15 a.m. and after 7 p.m. Open: Monday—Thursday 10-1, 3-6 of first-class H. KAUFMANN Friday 10-1 MAI 2646. 0359 Continental Sausages 168 Hampstead Hill Gardens, N.W.3 SPACE DONATED BY S. F. b O. HALLGARTEN Tel. HAMpstead 8936 Wines and Spirits Importers & Exporters Daify Dellferies VESOP 1 CRUTCHED FRIARS, LONDON, E.C.3 /orflaaaunHg Strnfm. STANDARD SEWING MACHINE SERVICE LTD M. GLASER 5, Fairhazel Gardens, N.W.6 Tel.: V/£L 252S PRACTICAL UPHOLSTERER All makes of Sewing Machines Sold. All Re-Upholstery, Carpets, Tel: MAI 3214 & MAI 9236 himlture Repeirs, French PellsMnt Bought and Exchanged. Easy Ternns WILL BE DONf TO YOUR Repairs promptly executed SATISFACTION Bundesrueckerstattungs- fbonei HAHpstead 5*01 or call et 18 CRAWFORD ST. BAKER ST. W-l 411 FINCHLEY RD. (Childs Hill), N.W.1 gesetz (BRueG) dargestellt von Ae OTTEIV F.B.O.A. (Hont.) OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN Dr. Ernst Schaefer (London) TaL 118 FINCHLEY ROAD Publlthed at o tupplement to AJR HAMpstMd OPPOSITE JOHN BARNES « FINCHLEY ROAD MET. STN. Information, July, 1957. ESSENTIAL for FIRST-CLASS You may order copies for your HIGHEST PRICES CONTINENTAL COOKING friends in this country and paid for 1/10 per 8 oz. bottle abroad from Obtainable from Crsceri and Stores Ladies' and Gentlemen's Manufactured by VESOP PRODUCTS LTD. 4*1 Homsey Roed, London, N.l* cast-off Clothing, Suitcases, The Astociation of Jewith Refugeet, Trunks, etc. 8, Fairfax Mantiont, London, N.W.3. JONIDA maiutfacture (Ladies' large sizes preferred) (2/6 plus postaoe) WE GO ANYWHERE, ANY TIME EIDERDOWNS, New and Recovered, S. DIENSTAG Space donated by : BED SPREADS. PRAM RUGS, DOLLS TRADE CUTTERS LIMITED (MAIda Vale 1649) PRAM SETS. 38, Folshom Roadi, Putney, S.W.IS. EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS. SHERRIFF DAY NURSERY Wholasale, Retail and to order. Principal: Dr. L. Collinge M. FISCHLER JONIDA make up curtaint, loete covert. open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. CONTINENTAL UPHOLSTCRY Afenu (or Psrker-Knoll. Christie-Tyler end JONIDA for quilting and machine various other makes. embroidery. Happy atmosphere Carpets supplied mnd fitted below shop prices. Valentine & Wolff Ltd. Pleasant Playground CURTAINS, DRAPES AND MATTRESSES MADE JONIDA, Insurance Brokers ALSO FRENCH POLISHING Physical Training 129, Cambridge Rood, N.W.6. in issocistion with IDS AXHOLME AVE., EDGWARE, MIDDX. ARBON. LANGRISH & CO. LTD. 23, SHERRIFF ROAD, WEST HAMPSTEAO (EDG. 5411) TeL: KILbum 0322 Tel.: MAI. 9961 HASILWOOD HOUSE FOR THE HIGH FESTIVALS 52 BISHOPSGATE Prayer Books, Taleisim, Cops, N«w Year The WIGMORE LAUNDRYLtd . Cords, Luachs. LONDON, E.C.2 JEWISH BOOKS of ony kind, new ond Tel.: LONdon Will lUt wcond-hand. Whole librorios and single CONTINENTAL LAUNDRY SPECIALISTS vglumes bought. Most Lortdon Districts Served (10 lines) M. SULZBACHER SHE 4575 - brings us by radio Writ* or 'phona ttia Monoger, All Typei of Insurancet with 4 Sneath Avenue, Goldert Green Road, Lloydt and all Companiot London, N.W.ll. Tel.: SPE. 1694. Mr. E. Hearn. I STRONSA ROAD. LONDON. W.ll
frimeJ by The Sharon Preii: C. Barclay (Lomltnt. Ltd. 31, Pumkial Street, London, E.C.4.