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Human singer, loyd George, in a phrase that came to haunt him, boosted dictators of the ilk of Egypt's Nasser, godlike song pi3 called the 1914-18 conflict the 'war to end all Indonesia's Sukarno and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Lwars'. In fact the only - theoretically - good Developments over the past few years, such as the thing to come out of the Great War was the League of demise of Communism in Eastern Europe, the Nations. That the League achieved so little was emergence of America as the only real superpower Our primarily due to American non-involvement, though and, most recently, the humbling of Saddam, have Celebration the equal standing accorded to great and small powers now allowed the world, as it were, to turn over a new Dinner at Geneva also played a part. leaf; President Bush has even grandiloquently pro­ The architects of the United Nations in 1945 had jected a 'new world order'. ome of the most learnt their lesson. America was prominently involved However, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip. significant from the start and the world's five most powerful The unfolding Kurdish tragedy demonstrates just Soccasions in the countries were invested with the right of veto at how difficult it is - especially in the Middle East, the history of any Security Council deliberations. Despite such improve­ world's worst trouble spot - to bring what is desirable organised community, ments over the old League the U.N. failed to fulfil the into accord with what is possible. The President's from ancient Athens to modern Britain, high hopes it had given rise to. The two chief reasons initial indifference to the plight of the Kurds shows have involved for this were the Cold War-induced superpower how strong isolationist reflexes are in the American individual members rivalry and the rise of a Third World bloc which national psyche. sitting down to break Since then there has been some change in bread and drink Washington's stance but one should never underesti­ together. It is a mate the strength of the 'bring-the-boys-home' lobby tradition evoked in in America. Should the U.S.A. ever relapse into Plato's Symposium, isolationism hopes for Middle East peace - or indeed and recnacted annually at London's ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING world stability - would be set at nought. In the final Mansion House. analysis America, however black it is painted, is the Half a century on only power capable of discharging the role of world from the founding of will be held on umpire-cum-policeman. AJR we feel entitled To project the U.N. as a potentially effective to claim that we have THURSDAY 6 JUNE 1991, 7.30 p.m. supreme world authority is either unrealistic 'glo- established a tradition baloney' or an all-purpose catchphrase mouthed by of our own. To at celebrate that fact we inveterate anti-Americans. are holding a Golden Nor do the arguments bandied about before the Anniversary Dinner 15 CLEVE ROAD, LONDON NW6 Gulf War - that the Arabs, or the Muslims, are the which promises to be best people to settle Mid-Eastern conflicts among a memorable themselves - possess a shred of validity. The chimera occasion. Eschewing AGENDA of Arab solidarity has been exposed by the mayhem hyperbole we can the Iraqis first visited upon Kuwaitis, and Kuwaitis guarantee all Annual Report 1990 participants a Hon. Treasurer's Report then visited upon Palestinians. As for Islam, faith of congenial mixture of Discussion Allah the Merciful, one need only look at the Sudan, good cuisine, Election of Executive Committee where a fundamentalist government will not let food conviviality and - Amendment to AJR rules aid reach the starving to maintain the fiction that the with Sir Claus Moser Followed by a talk by Rabbi Hugo Gryn entitled country is free of famine. as guest speaker - 'Revisiting the past' The achievement of a new world order, particu­ culture. Please see larly in the Middle East, has to start from the premise announcement on Refreshments will be served after the meeting. pige 3. that few countries in the region have evolved beyond the political equivalent of the Stone Age.

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Surreal estate Profile A Dublin road building scheme threatens the demolition of the last remaining 19th- century buildings in Clanbrassil Street. Here, at number 52, James Joyce's hero Man of parts Leopold Bloom would have lived, had he Leipzig to Moscow, and Poznan to Plovdiv. existed. The tourist authorities put up a At the Leipzig Fair he sold a red Triumph plaque to him in what was formerly the sports car to Frau Grotewohl, wife of the centre of Dublin's Jewish community, a East German prime minister, which got her slum area boasting 17 kosher butchers and into some trouble. At Poznan he got into bakers settled by refugees from East trouble himself when riots erupted. The European pogroms. D return of the British sales force from riot- torn Poland to the DDR took place in United nations exhibition several vehicles, one of which needed tow­ To celebrate its 40th anniversary the United ing. The tow rope snapped outside Nations High Commission for Refugees is Frankfurt on Oder. David asked a passing holding an art exhibition and auction in farmer with a horse and cart for help. The July. This will take place in the exhibition other ruminated 'wie konnen wir den halls at Selfridges in Oxford Street. Genossen helfen?' - a question, David The UNHCR is looking for artists, realised, addressed to the horse - before especially those from the refugee communi­ proffering a chain for which he would take ties, who may be willing to contribute to no payment. this event. Anyone interested in supporting From selling David went back to produc­ it should contact: Catriona Pike, United tion, as manager of a factory manufacturing Nations Association, 22 New Quebec power units for refrigerated lorries. In his Street, London WIH SDH. Telephone: David Mdur I'bulu: Newman. mid-fifties, having much earlier become a 071-402 9029/9020 D Chartered Engineer through evening study, aster of many trades and Jack of he took a Law degree by the same means. Justice delayed none would be an apt description His original intention to practise at the Bar of this month's profilee, David Austria has held no war crimes trial since M was set aside when he became director of Maier. Interviewing him another catch- 1975, when a jury aquitted two men the Youth Enterprise Scheme (for acquaint­ phrase - about writers being 'engineers of accused of building the gas chambers at ing young people with industry and busi­ the soul' — vaguely came to mind, though Auschwitz. Now the authorities are con­ ness). In January 1987 he published an only in a very special sense: as a young man templating action against Innsbruck- article about the scheme in AJR David wanted to exercise the cure of souls, resident Mikulas Polhora who, Simon Information — and the rest is history! i.e. become a rabbi, before switching to the Wiesenthal alleges, was commander of the Of the 50-odd issues of the journal that study of engineering. largest wartime Slovak concentration camp have appeared since there has hardly been Born in Freiburg, S.W. Germany, in and responsible for the deportation of one without a contribution by D.L.M. In 1921, he grew up in an acculturated, and at 8,000 Jews. D addition David is involved in the B'nai the same time traditionally Jewish, house­ B'rith business start-up scheme, and takes hold - his science teacher father served as an active part in the affairs of Belsize Square community chairman - and came to Synagogue, whose monthly bulletin he Let your body England at sixteen. Living in a hostel close edits. Truly a man of parts! to Sigmund Freud's last abode, he took D K.G. take a holiday matriculation and enrolled at Jews' College. He thus escaped Kristallnacht, when his Whilst enjoying good quality hotels and father was sent to Dachau in a cattle truck. excellent cuisine, why not ease your aches AJR CLUB and pains with the famous Fango mud Permission to come to England secured a 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 treatments as well as Health, Beauty and life-saving release in spring 19.39; when the Fitness therapy. family were reunited I^avid had already SUNDAY 23rd June at 3 p.m. ABANO SPA, ITALY foresworn rabbinics for engineering (which AN ENTERTAINING AFTERNOON WITH Abano is situated in beautiful countryside he studied at Regent Street Polytechnic). The International t^ystery Man just 45 minutes from Venice. A year later, David was interned, and his DAVID BIRQLAS President of ttie Magic Circle Schedule flights from Heathrow and father - exempt by some bureaucratic regional airports - Prices with or without Admission incl. tea, members 50p, guests £1 treatments - Private car transfers included. oversight - went along with him rather than FOR COLOUR BROCHURE endure another separation. We welcome you and your friends on WRITE OR TELEPHONE Released, David worked in a press-tool TUESDAYS - THURSDAYS - SUNDAYS factory that produced seamless copper 2 p.m.-6 p.m. You will enjoy tfie friendly atmosphere ctwards tubing for Spitfire engines. After that he did you can talk - play cards - play games. ••of VVestminster Limited•• research in agricultural engineering before One Sunday a month live Entertainment. 276 PRESTON ROAD, HARROW *'Bk MIDDLESEX HA3 OQA /^ - becoming a sales engineer. As export manager of Standard Motors he attended Sunday June 16th CLOSED TEL: 081-904 22021^'"^ Sunday June 30th OPEN trade fairs throughout the Soviet Bloc from AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1991

How did it feel to be back? 'My' house The Isle of Man Revisited seemed larger than remembered, but the beautifully-proportioned and well-kept ter­ raced lawn was exacdy as in 1940. Only the trees had grown and now obstructed the view of the red roofs of the town towards the Irish Sea and the little castle in the harbour which had been so often drawn and painted by the interned artists. But the silence was eerie. And the empti­ ness. No guards with mounted bayonets, no barbed wire, no roll-calls, no small groups of men seated on the grass listening to eminent academics. Looking down from an attic room at the Commandatura I thought of all the friends who for so many months had peopled this small area, and recalled the emotions - from despair to hope - experienced there 50 years ago. D K. £. Hinrichsen

Bonn chance A sketch hy one of the island's internees. During the Gulf War a group of German public figures took newspaper space to disseminate a Helft Israel appeal. The text oon a permanent exhibition entitled island. Their questions showed an amazing of the appeal highlighted the Germans' Internment in Tiuo World Wars will awareness of the subject and its relevance to special responsibility for the fate of the Sopen in the newly enlarged Manx the internment of Iraqis in Britain. Jewish State, and charged German suppliers Museum in Douglas, Isle of Man. The staff at the Manx Museum were of arms to Iraq with criminal actions. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary young and enthusiastic and eager to show Signatories to the appeal included the of internment the museum had invited me to me and Wolf Salinger around. One morning former Federal Chancellors Willy Brandt give an illustrated talk on Art in Internment. we were driven to historical and beauty and Helmut Schmidt, ex-Bundestag Speaker At the same time a Newcastle-based film spots; having been confined to three streets Annemarie Renger, the Mayor of Berlin company was shooting a documentary for in 1940 I had no idea how varied and full of Eberhard Dietgen, and the writer Siegfried Border TV about the internees' cultural and historic monuments the landscape was. Lenz. n artistic life, for which I had supplied a certain amount of material. Some of this had reached me from a most unexpected source: a few years ago after a radio talk about being interned together with Kurt Schwitters, I had received a letter from the son of the Commandant of Hutchinson Internment Camp. He asked me to identify a large number of drawings, woodcuts, AJR linocuts and even oils given by all the Hutchinson artists to his father (who had indeed been helpful to them). The collec­ 50th Anniversary tion, kept in a leatherbound album, included works by Ernst M. Blensdorf, Georg Ehrlich, Hermann Fechenbach, Paul A Celebration Dinner Hamann, Fritz Kraemer, Erich Kahn, Kurt Schwitters, Fred Solomonsky, Fred Tuesday 15 October 1991 is the date when the AJR will celebrate its Golden Uhlman, Helmuth Weissenborn and many Anniversary with a celebration dinner. others - a unique collection. He also had Guest of honour and speaker at the dinner will be Sir Claus Moser, prominent <^Yer a hundred photographic negatives academic. Government advisor and statistician. faken on his father's instruction inside the Full details and a booking form for this special event (£65.00 per person) will be '^amp, but never printed. This was a sen­ issued with the July issue of AJR Information. sational find, and he allowed me to use some of his collection for my talk. Please note this important date in your diary. It will be an unforgettable occasion. Sixth Formers taking History for A-level ^^re bussed in from all corners of the AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1991

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One-way Channel crossing Co-ordinating ed. Werner E. Mosse SECOND CHANCE. Two centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom, illustrated. Publislied by Mohr, Tubingen, Germany. 668 pp. Hardback. Special U.K. subscription price until the 30 June 1991 (from Leo Baeck Institute) £36. From I July, 1991 DM 128.

ewish immigrants entered this country in two waves from German-speaking Central Europe — 'a business community J in the 19th century, with a fringe of scholars, artists and political exiles, and the post-1933 refugees who were more of a mix'. The latter group, has for some tiine been systematically researched by the Leo Baeck Institute, which has now published a 'Stage and concert platjorins were less readily conquered'. Ballets Jooss 'I'be mirror', 1935 volume of essays of remarkable scholarship }oos Archil), Wiesbaden. and literary quality. Jews first came from Germany to Britain an asset to the U.K.'. For many this meant Chain, Hans Krebs and Bernhard Katz, first in small numbers under the Hanoverians, either transmigration or employment in generation doctors and dentists did not poor people mostly. They arrived in greater domestic service, so that by 1939 the age have an easy time of it. Nor was re-entry to nuinbers in the 19th century, predomi­ and occupational structure of the refugees the legal profession free from difficulties, nantly middle-class and secularly educated, was anything but a mirror image of their albeit more for technical reasons than any thus able to combine, pace C. C. Aronsfeld, original communities. By the end of the war other, and 'scholars remained more promi­ 'commerce with culture as well as phil­ the majority had managed somehow to re­ nent than pure practitioners'. anthropy'. They brought entrepreneurial establish their lives and careers, but many It could be said that the Fine Arts offered skills to existing industries and helped to were rescued from genteel poverty, not least greater scope. Sir Ernst Gombrich and Sir create wealth through the development of in their retirement, by timely restitution Nikolaus Pevsner being outstanding ex­ new technologies. payments. amples of achievement in this area. Stage But, in spite of individual successes, they This, in rough outline, is the theme of the and concert platforms were less readily failed to impress themselves collectively on first section of Second Chance. The next, conquered. Individual stories of unqualified Jewish life in Victorian England or on larger, part of the book looks at the social success — such as the Amadeus String British society in general. Already largely and cultural impact German-speaking Jews Quartet - do not abound, and, of com­ assimilated before emigration, many were have made in the two centuries of their posers, one at least was 'lost' for many years prepared to abandon Judaism altogether, by presence in this country. Substantial contri­ until he was at last accorded much delayed intermarriage and, in quite a number of butions can be claimed in such fields as acclaim. cases, conversion. psychology and psychoanalysis, linguistics, It was, of course, in trade and industry Also, when strong anti-Germanism the writing of history, publishing, law, that Jews of German origin found opportu­ spread before and during the First World medicine, science and the arts, as well as nities to bring prosperity not only to War it seemed a wise precaution to anglicise commerce, industry and banking. themselves but in large measure also to the German-sounding names. National politics, it might be thought, country of their second chance. Some Thus, when the first refugees arrived in would be completely closed to those of started modestly, others arrived with means Britain in the thirties, they could identify foreign descent but ever since Lionel at their disposal and a few laid foundations ^ few Jews of obviously German origin to Nathan Rothschild entered the House of to vast empires, like GEC and ICI. whom they might have turned for help. At Commons, Britain has admitted enough Paths to Acceptance, the final section of first this country was sought out by aca­ contributions to political theory and prac­ the book, deals with the fundamental prob­ demics and the liberal professions, followed tice from German-Jewish immigrants to lem of all immigrant minorities: the need to by merchants and such industrialists as demonstrate a 'degree of openness to out­ come to terms with the socio-cultural were attracted by incentives to the siders . . . unparalleled in the European matrix within which integration takes depressed areas of the north of England and context'. Rather less ready to accept their place. They encountered ingrained hostile South Wales. In 1938 the Anschluss Continental colleagues were members of the attitudes of the indigenous majority, often changed the situation in respect of ease of medical profession. Requalification require­ reflected in official policies and procedures, entry. Now visas to land and stay were ments (and, for a time, internment) were but also instances of organised support and (with few exceptions) only granted to serious obstacles for the newcomers. individual generosity. German and Austrian refugees 'likely to be Notwithstanding the Nobel Prizes of Ernst n David Maier AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1991

'saving' truth and its focussing on the Jews A Stranger No More Disease with no as 'accursed of God' for denying that claim. Several academics demonstrated how the known cure Irene White. I CAME AS A STRANGER. 'gospel' truth about Christ's martyrdoin Hazelwood, 122 Sunningfields Road, THE LAST EXODUS, Broadcast 23 had been 're-arranged' by opportunistic March, BBC 2; PANORAMA: RACISM gospel writers, who, anxious not to offend London NW4. 1991. Paperback. £5. - UK, Broadcast 8 April, BBC I; THE Rome, exculpated Pilate and blamed the LONGEST HATRED, Broadcast 9 Jews. Le plus ga change: The poisonous April, ITV. antisemitism of the seminal Catholic St Paul ('Judaism is the synagogue of Satan') was echoed, one and a half millenia later, by his spring's TV schedules seemed Luther, the first Protestant. more crowded with programmes What made Christianity in either form Tabout Jews than ever before. Some of substantially different from Nazism was the us considered this a mixed blessing, arguing 'escape clause': Jews were permitted a, that Panorama's spotlight on the activities frequently leper-like, existence to provide of the British National Party may conceiv­ an object lesson of what happens to those ably inspire interest in Holocaust News, who deny the Saviour. and copycat desecration of cemeteries. Post-religious racist antisemitism arose to Irene White. rboto: Newman. Others held that there cannot be enough counter the civic emancipation of the Jews programmes about Jew-hatred if the fog of in the 19th century. It culminated in Hider, here are many refugee stories. All ^ prejudice and ignorance surrounding the who, through the greatest- and credulously strike a chord of sympathy and recog­ 1 subject is to be lifted. believed - propaganda hoax of all time, Tnition. None more so than those ^ Of course, there are programmes and took on the image of a Messiah purging the told in clear, unadorned, straightforward programmes. However good the intention, world of the Jewish spawn of Satan. language. the execution often leaves something to be The Longest Hatred deployed impressive One such is Irene White's slim volume, a desired. The Panorama expose of the Tower scholarship to shine the light of reason onto daisy-chain of memories, strung together Hamlet-based BNP, for instance, com­ a miasma of atavistic superstitions. with charm and sincerity. It is, as author pletely omitted the historical background: However, even post-Hitler, reason still has James Herriot says in his Foreword, the today's neo-Nazi skinheads infest the same an uphill struggle. This was made depress- story of the remarkable life of 'a brave area of the East End that was the prewar ingly clear by some 'Christian' spokesmen woman who survived tragedy and persecu­ stamping ground of Mosley's blackshirts. caught on camera. An archetypal Tyrolean tion yet kept her sense of humour'. The chief weakness of The Last Exodus interviewed outside the church commemor­ She takes us, with her stories, into her was its diffuseness. Although ostensibly ating the alleged ritual murder victim childhood days in Germany, then to the about Russian Jewry, it digressed lengthily Anderl von Rinn for instance, stated with kibbutz life of her adolescence and on to her into Polish-Jewish history and the rise of blithe conviction 'It is a well known fact arrival as a refugee in pre-war London. We Nazism in Germany. The programme, that a Jewish sect drinks the blood of see her as a nurse in peace-time and in war, nonetheless, offered several minor coups: Christian children'. There is, clearly, a lot of and follow her into marriage and mother­ clips from a silent Soviet film version of mileage in the longest hatred yet. hood. We share her grief when after 40 Isaac Babel's Odessa Tales of Jewish D R.G. blissful years her husband dies and she finds gangsters, as well as an interview with a 92- solace in bringing comfort to others. year old Jewish ex-pathologist, who remem­ The stories in this book are Irene White's bered seeing his father killed in the Death - a German master retlections on human nature, its frailties and Simferopol pogrom, and himself almost fell The DM 25,000 Schiller Prize of the city of its strength. They are, not least, a mirror of victim, 50 years later, to Stalin's Doctors' Mannheim has been awarded to Lea Rosch a life full of compassion and feeling. And if Plot. for her study, written jointly with the the book bears witness to her character, so The Longest Hatred, though less divert­ historian Eberhard Jiikkel, Der Tod is ein does her decision to devote the proceeds of ing, followed a firmer line of exposition. It Meister aus Deutschland - der Mord an den its sale to the AJR for the Homes and Belsize pointed up the linkage between Juden Europas. Lea Rosch is currently Square Synagogue. Christianity's monopoly claim to the director of radio services at Hanover. D n David Maier

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BILINGUAL SPEEDCOP Sir - Caught speeding on the M5 motorway some years ago I was interviewed by an U^^Sco^SS^^<^ . officer who deduced my origin from my first name on my driving licence. He told me that his wife, too, came from Germany, which he SIR YEHUDI AT 75 works only for theology. Jews make the considered his second home. He then stam­ mistake of cleaving to the living god and of mered a few words in pigeon German on Sir - Whatever the personal tragedies, seeing the youngster as impostor to the title. which I complimented him in the - mis­ shortcomings or failures of any man, Sir It might be a joke; the reality reveals our ape taken - hope that he would let me off with a Yehudi has given so much pleasure to so mentality. warning. many in his life that he deserves a better St Swithun Street Gertrud Walton Recently I was caught in a speed trap - birthday present. Winchester again on the M5 - and interviewed by the A}R Information should, in my view, same officer. Recognising me he addressed have shown more generosity. Live Music GUARDING THE GUARDIANS me in near-fluent German. This time I said, Now providing live music for old people, Sir - It is a pity that the March editorial is in all sincerity, 'Sie haben aber ganz fantas- hospitals and other charities, founded and splashed with a big blot of intellectual tisch Deutsch zugelernt', to ivhich he nurtured by Sir Yehudi, is just one of many snobbery by stating that the Conservatives replied 'Es ist nur sehr bedauerlich, das man ways in which he has helped young and old. conferred leadership 'first on a woman and nicht Gleiches behaupten kann, ivas ihr I also recall, personally, his generous re­ then on a quasi-prole'. Auto-fahren betrifft'. sponse in 1956 to the needs of musicians I, for one, found this phraseology ex­ Sutton Coldfield W. £. Abraham who escaped from Hungary. He was one of tremely objectionable and unworthy of an West Midlands the first to donate instruments. AJR publication. How could Sir Yehudi further his many Vallance Road M. Maynard STAY SINGULAR! causes without PR? It is a small price to pay London, N22 Sir - You are entitled to your opinion under for the pleasure he provides. It is a pity that Beauty, they say, is in the eyes of the the principle of freedom of expression, but more of the famous musicians do not give beholder. The same, alas, holds good of this does not give you blanket authority to equally generous help to musicians of the irony. Ed. future and to those for whom music is a speak on behalf of your readers by adopting lifeline. HORROR AND HOPE an editorial 'we'. By pre-empting another I felt ashamed when I read your article, Sir - We participated, in Poland, in the person's opinion, you deprive that person of but this will not deter me from continuing to 'March of the Living' whose itinerary his or her right to freedom of expression. appreciate the wonderful work which AJR included Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka Wembley Park Ruth Willers and Sir Yehudi are doing in their different and Jewish Warsaw. Nothing brings home Middlesex ways. the horror more clearly than seeing with RAYS OF LIGHT Haverstock Hill Marion F. Bieber one's own eyes the mountains of shoes, London NWl shaving brushes, spectacle cases, tallitim Sir - As volunteer co-ordinator for the Otto and suitcases - each clearly marked with the Schiff Housing Association I should like to DEPORTATION DATES owner's name, town of origin and date of thank the many volunteer visitors who birth. come regularly to the homes. Their visits Sir - I must correct the statement in your But it was heartwarming to commemor­ bring light and pleasure to the many who April issue that deportations of Jews from ate Yom Hashoah together with 2,000 otherwise have few contacts with the out­ Hamburg started on 7 November 1941. youngsters from Israel, U.S.A. and Britain, side world. I hope that some of the many The first deportation occurred on 25 at which one of the six torches (to com­ people who read this letter, and have not yet October 1941. I know this from the official memorate our six million victims) was lit by come forward, will call, in the first instance, City Archives, which showed that both my a 'righteous gentile'. Laura Howe at the AJR on 071 48.3 2536 to parents and my brother were among those It was physically and emotionally an enrol and make the necessary arrangements deported to Lodz on that day. The second exhausting trip, but one, we felt, that HAD for visiting the residents in the homes in the transport took place on 8 November 1941. to be made. Bishops Avenue. '• Most victims' names are recorded in a Earlham Road £. & M. Friedman Volunteers Co-Ordinator Darii Neale special memorial volume published by the Norwich Otto Schiff Housing Association Hamburg authorities in 1967. ^ Parliament Hill Ruth Hingston London NW3 EAST BERLIN - EAST GERMANY

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to persuade Zweig to further collaboration 'Aryanizing' music and expressed detestation of all racist ideol­ Sixty years ago ogy in a letter — which the Gestapo passed Browsing through the Jewish Directory n January 1990 the Musical Times pub­ on to Hitler - Goebbels forced Strauss to lished an article by Eric Levi on the Nazi give up his office and the opera was of Berlin, 1931 I Aryanization of music. Levi, currently prohibited. engaged on a book, Music in Nazi Rosenberg, the enemy of the Churches, weighty tome of 600 yellowing Germany, deals with three aspects: the was the driving force behind the attempt to pages; the bulk of them, arranged devaluation of Felix Mendelssohn, the reshape the texts of Handel's oratorios; he Atelephone directory fashion, lists attempt to replace non-Aryan texts set by even claimed that the Messiah, in the final 70,000 names and addresses. German composers, and the Old-Testament instance, had nothing to do with the The preface states 'German Jewry is subjects of Handel's oratorios. Messiah of the Jews. Goebbels, who des­ going through difficult times. Political and Naturally, the regime promoted Aryan pised Rosenberg, forbade any alteration of economic clouds darken the horizon. The substitutes for Mendelssohn's Shakespeare Handel's text, yet did not persist in this weapon of Jew-hatred is used ever more music. But even among Party members and attitude. recklessly. In last September's Reichstag Nazi sympathizers such attempts met with Judas Maccabeus posed a particular elections over six million cast their votes for disapproval. Thus, Hans Pfitzner, not problem. Its London premiere, in 1747, had antisemitism — but however much enemies exactly a philosemite, confessed that he attracted many of the city's Jews, who want to deny our Deutschtum, it exists. No felt unable to surpass Mendelssohn's already then enjoyed much tolerance. For power on earth can sunder our attachment Sommernachtstraum score. Another prob­ the Nazis the text was ruled out, and their to the German people'. lem was posed by settings of Jewish poetry rewritings culminated in Wilhelm von The list of communal functionaries is by German composers. One case was Nassauen. A similar revision befell Israel in headed by Gemeinderabbiner Dr Leo Beethoven's song cycle An die feme Egypt, which became transmogrified into Baeck; Joachim Prinz and Wilhelm Levi are Geliebte, based on poems by Jeitteles. Then Mongolensturml listed as preachers. The rubric 'Outstanding came settings of Heine, including even one It all seems rather ridiculous, but if one Jewish personalities in Berlin' comprises by Wagner (a French version of The Two remembers the policy of which it was but a 127 names headed by James Simon, indus­ Grenadiers). More conspicuous were the minor aspect, it ceases to be a cause for trialist, collector and philanthropist. The Lieder by Schubert and Schumann; here the ridicule! section on Jewish organisations devotes five beneficiaries were the Jewish musicians of D H. W. Freyhan columns to the Centralverein, and six lines the Kulturbund, whom Nazi edicts nor­ (!) to the Zionist Association; much more mally banned from performing German space is given to Adass Jisroel, the Jewish music. Ex-Servicemens' Association and the Problematic operatic librettos included Honorary Doctorate Prussian Landesverband. Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and C05/ ORT and OSE head the list of social fan tutte, whose author was Lorenzo da r Ernest Foulkes CBE, an eminent welfare organisations. Also listed are 27 Ponte, a converted Venetian Jew. Nazi and long-standing member of the charitable associations - from the i attempts to substitute German translations DAJR, was awarded an honorary Volkskiiche to the hachnassat kallah pro­ did not remove the problem, since the degree of Doctor of Medicine by Newcastle viding dowries for brides from poor families available ones were by Hermann Levi, University on 10 May 1991. The degree has - 10 Youth movements, 7 sports organisa­ who was even blamed for introducing been awarded in recognition of his role in tions (Maccabi, rowing club Ivria, etc), 8 Wagnerian concepts! the Foulkes Foundation, a charitable trust associations of graduates, 11 professional Richard Strauss' favourite librettist, the established to enable scientists to take and 12 women's groups. The 'Yellow pages' half-Jew Hofmannsthal, who died before medical degrees in order to undertake section enumerates painters, decorators, 1933, could not prompt a ban on Elektra, future research with a dual background. Dr carpenters, parquet floor fitters, car Rosenkavalier, Arabella etc. When Strauss, Foulkes' work over the years has encour­ sprayers, builders, plumbers, glaziers, President of the Reichsmusikkammer, com­ aged the University to establish a new orthopaedic boot-makers, pest extermi­ posed Die schweigsame Frau to a libretto by degree course with a dual approach. The nators, engravers and printers. the Jewish emigrant, Stefan Zweig, Hitler Foulkes Foundation will make funds avail­ Such was the profile of the largest and Goebbels were prepared to permit the able to individuals undertaking this German-Jewish community on the eve of performance; yet when the composer tried course. D destruction. D R.G.

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Spoilt for choice Pension advice Volunteers meetings f you are on Income Support and are une 1-7 is Volunteers' Week. One also receiving a German or Austrian olunteers who visit elderly AJR Volunteer Bureau sent me information / pension Agnes Alexander and her team members were invited to meetings at about it and asked if AJR would like to of social workers would be interested in VHannah Karminski House by the J nominate one or two outstanding candi­ hearing from you with a view to checking volunteers coordinator, Laura Howe, on dates for the title of 'volunteers of the year'. your Income Support to ensure that you are the 5th and 12th of March. I thought about this very carefully, but receiving the maximum due to you. At both meetings Mrs Rita Marmorek, for me every week is Volunteers' Week and When DSS calculate a person's Income herself a volunteer, spoke about her work as how am I to choose one or two above all Support most types of income are taken into a child care officer for Barnardo's, the others? Pace Prince Charles and to quote account in full but some are disregarded or voluntary child care agency. In her talk she Shakespeare, 'Shall I compare thee to a ignored in part. outlined the ways in which Barnardo's has summer's day'? In other words, do we A pension from Germany or Austria paid evolved within a changing pattern of State commend specially the people who regu­ to the victims of Nazi persecution who are responsibility for children in need over the larly drive members to their great lifeline the also in receipt of Income Support can have last 125 years. Day Centre? What about the volunteers £10 per week discounted as income - e.g.: If Mrs Marmorek believes that many of the who turn out in all weathers, who serve at a person on Income Support gets £40 per guiding principles of her child care work table, run bingo, clear up, cheer up those week pension from Germany or Austria, remain very relevant to her voluntary work who are sad? only £30 will be taken into account as for the AJR. After much thought she has Some people have been visiting members income when DSS make the Income drawn up a list of qualities which she feels in the residental Homes, or in their own Support calculation for that person. are essential for potential volunteers. These homes, for years. They have helped with Our Social Services Department has include: respect for the individual, a readi­ hospital appointments, shopping, listened found that the DSS have not applied this ness to listen, an understanding that it takes to sadness and joy, helped with forms and rule in a number of cases. When this was time to build up trust, an awareness that 'phoned dentists about false teeth. Office pointed out to the DSS substantial arrears promises must be kept and an abiding helpers work as hard as paid staff. were paid to our members. respect for confidentiality. No, I do not think I can choose one or Please remember that this only applies to Both meetings were followed by lively two volunteers but at least I have been you if you are in receipt of some Income discussions and all present agreed that the reminded that we do not say 'Thank you' Support and a German or Austrian time spent together was very enough to those who work with us for no pension. D worthwhile. D financial reward. I hope there are other rewards. Thank you all very much. D LH. OPEN DAYS URGENT CHANGE OF DATE ROOM AVAILABLE IN IN THE HOMES THE PAUL BALINT AJR ONE OF OUR HOMES FOR SHORT TERM 6o//nt House DAY CENTRE RESPITE CARE. i Sunday 9 June OPEN DAY For further information at 3 p.m. please contact:- WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON Entrance £2.00 and £1.00 children Mrs Ruth Finestone Sunday 16th June 1991 071-483 2536 Leo Baeck House at 2.30 p.nn. Sunday 30 June To all members, volunteers at 3 p.m. and friends RESIDENTIAL CARE Entrance: £2.20 Why not join us? We would like to remind our readers that, from time to time, vacancies arise in the Entrance £2 residential care Homes administered by Osmond House to include refreshments the Otto Schiff Housing Association. Sunday 23 June If you, a relative or friend, need residential at 2.30 p.m. care, please apply in confidence to: SHELTERED FLAT Entrance: £2.00 Ruth Finestone to let at Eleanor Rathbone House, Highgate, comprising bed-sitting room, kitchenette, AJR Homes Department Heinrich Stahl House bathroom and entrance hall. Resident Hannah Karminski House warden. 9 Adamson Road Sunday I September Enquiries to:- London NW3 3HX at 2.30 p.m. AJR Tel: 071-483 2536 HANNAH KARMINSKI HOUSE Entrance £2.00 and £1.00 children 9 ADAMSON ROAD, LONDON NWS 3HX 071-483 2536/7/8/9 AJR INFORMATION JUNE 1991

FAMILY EVENTS Oppenheimer Margaret Oppen­ area. More details from Laura Manicurist Visits your home 081- Diamond Wedding heimer died 25 April, aged 87, at Howe, AJR Office, 071-483 2536. 445 2915. Congratulations to James J. Heinrich Stahl House, Bishops Elderly lady requires lady for com­ Electrician City and Guilds quali­ Avenue, London Nl. Mourned by Walters, formely Walschaur, and panionship and light duties, no fied. All domestic work undertaken her many friends. Ellen, nee Cahn, who celehrated cooking, Saturday and Sunday from Y. Steinreich. Tel: 081-455 5262. their Diamond Wedding annivers­ Tietz Anncmarie Tietz, widow of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone 071-722 Typing in English or German: ary on 5th May, 1991. Ulrich, died peacefully on 2 May, 5731 after 5 p.m. 081-455 6692. aged 91. Deeply mourned by all her Carer experienced, available 7.30 family. Antique furniture repaired, res­ Birthday Greetings p.m. to 9.00 a.m. Mondays to tored, French polished. Original Weigl Erna Weigl died 30th Ison Klompus Wishing you good Fridays. 451 0743 (6.00 to 8.00 Furniture Craft. Established since March in her 89th year at Osmond health on your 85th birthday, and p.m.) 1947. Tel: 081-455 8420. many happy years to come. All our House, where she had been a popu­ Professional couple wish to pur­ love, brother George, Helga and lar resident for many years. Fondly Personal chase old Persian rugs privately. many friends. remembered by her niece and nephew in Vienna and her cousins in Prague born 73 year old 5' 8" Tel: 081-458 3010. Emmi Simson On her 84th birthday London, who join in our gratitude mobile, healthy Londoner seeks much love from daughter Eva and for the loving care of the nursing lady for platonic friendship. Box her grandchildren. staff at Osmond House. No. '204. WHY NOT ADVERTISE IN AJR Miscellaneous INFORMATION? Deaths CLASSIFIED Please telephone Lowenberg Irma Lowenberg (nee Collector of old Jewish and Companion/carers the Advertisement Dept. Marx) died April 22, aged 96, at Palestine picture postcards. Single Sutherland Nursing Home. Would you help a blind lady read cards purchased. David Pearlman, 071-483 2536 and write letters? Born in Berlin, she 36 Asmuns Hill, London NWll. Marcus Mrs Charlotte Marcus lives in the Ladbroke Grove WIO 081-455 2149. died, aged 89, on May 10, 1991. Much mourned by her family and ADVERTISEMENT friends. RATES IRENE FASHIONS FAMILY EVENTS First 15 vi^ords free of charge, formerly of Swiss Cottage The AdR does not accept £2.00 per 5 words thereafter. Sizes 10 to 50 hips responsibility for the CLASSIFIED standard of service Summer is around the corner - be prepared, come and see our £2.00 per five words. rendered by advertisers. wonderful selection in time for your holidays. BOX NUMBERS FOR THAT SPECIAL OCCASION- £3.00 extra. SOMETHING DIFFERENT AS ALWAYS For an early appointment kindly ring before 11 am DISPLAY, INCLUDING SEARCH ALTERATIONS or after 7 pm 081-346 9057. NOTICES OF ANY KIND TO per single column inch LADIES' FASHIONS 16 ems (3 columns per page) £8.00 12 ems (4 columns per page) £7.00 I also design and make children's clothes ANTHONY J. NEWTON West Hampstead area 'SATELLITE INSTALLATION^ 071-328 6571 SALES & REPAIRS &C0 Television - Videos - Aerials - Radios - Stereos - Electrical Appliances SOLICITORS NEW & SECONDHAND TV'sA/IDEOS FOR FAST EFFICIENT FRIDGE 22 Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead, NW3 5NB FOR SALE & FREEZER REPAIRS Tel: 081 -909 3169 Answerphone With offices in: Europe/Jersey/USA 7-day service AVIS TV SERVICE All parts guaranteed ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN A. EISENBERG J. B. Services Telephone: 071 435 5351/071 794 9696 Tel. 081-202 4248 until 9 pm RELIABLE & CAPABLE PLUMBER

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Kohn Denham is adept at seeking out • unrecognised or forgotten talent and has I achieved notable success with his exhi- ^ bition of works by two Russian artists (2-16 June). The principal artist shown is Boris Ivanovitch Pastoukhoff (Kiev 1894— London 1974). Pastoukhoff, as a true patriot, joined the Russian army in 1914, suffering severe leg injuries in his first engagement. Before World War I, he attended the Kiev Art School. After the war he studied in Zagreb. In 1931 he settled in Paris where his talent was quickly recog­ nised. In 1942 Pastoukhoff married his second wife Julia Warwick who, despite her name, had a Russian father and French mother. John Denham's exhibition shows the more intimate side of these two artists' Hat tree iVJi'yj. By Lynne Cohen ourtesy of the Barbican Art Gallery. work. Julia's work includes several portraits and still-life subjects. living in Ottawa). Lynne recently showed as 'The Hay-Wain' and 'Stratford Mill', lent The Ben Uri is showing works by two her work at John Denham's gallery and also by the National Gallery, but also many Israeli artists (7-28 July). Yaacov at Canada House. other well-known works including 'Wiven­ Boussidan, born in Egypt in 1939, emi­ Sir Edward Paolozzi was awarded the hoe Park' from the National Gallery of Art grated to Israel at the age of 10. In 1959 he Goethe Medal in 1991 and, to mark the in Washington, which has not been seen in was awarded the First Prize as a Youth occasion, the Goethe Institut, London, is England for 50 years. Aliyah Graduate Artist. Boussidan now presenting an exhibition of his sculptures The theme of this year's Grosvenor lives in London and has won an inter­ and graphics (until 6 July). House Antiques Fair (12-22 June) will be national reputation for his prints, lettering Peter Nahum at Liberty is showing the art and influence of Japan. The Oriental and illustrated books. Ayala Friedman was 'Romantic Landscapes from the war and Department of Spink & Son will be showing born in Israel and teaches art in Tel Aviv. after' by Norman Town (1915-1987) and an important group of Japanese works of Her sculptures, mostly cast in bronze, are 'Illustrations from the Flower Book' by Sir art on their stand at the Fair, including a mainly figurative, but she is also showing Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1895), the series of scroll paintings by the celebrated some ceramics. This is the first major well-known pre-Raphaelite (until 15 June). monkey painter Mori Sosen (1747-1821). exhibition of her work. The Annual Summer Exhibition at the The Grob Gallery is showing works by Photographs by Lee Friedlander, the Royal Academy opens to the public on 9 Gregoire Midler (until 15 June). A major well-known American photographer, are June and continues until 18 August. The exhibition of some forty paintings by the being shown in the 'Like a One-Eyed Cat' Academy is showing 'The Fauve Landscape: great 19th century French painter Jean exhibition of his work at the Victoria and Matisse, Derain, Braque and their Circle Baptiste Camille Corot has been arranged Albert Museum (until 25 August). 150 1904-1908' (until 1 September). The gal­ by the South Bank Centre and will be shown photographs are on display, including some leries have been extensively refurbished and at the Manchester City Art Gallery (until 30 unpublished and previously unexhibited will be officially opened by H.M. the June), after which it will go to the Norwich works. 'Lee Friedlander — nudes' are being Queen, accompanied by H.R.H. the Duke Castle Museum (6 July-18 August). D exhibited at the Zelda Cheatle Gallery, of Edinburgh, on 10 June. London (31 July-13 September). To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the 'The True North: Canadian Landscape birth of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Painting 1896-1939' and 'Un-natural (1591-1666), known as Guernico (the Traces: Contemporary Art from Canada' Squinter), the British Museum is holding an Annely Juda Fine Art exhibitions at the Barbican (until 16 June) exhibition of over 200 of his drawings (until Has moved to are well-worth visiting. There are fine 18 August). The centrepiece of this display 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street), landscapes by J. E. H. MacDonald (1873- will be 100 works from the Royal Library, London Wl R 9AA 1932), A. Y. Jackson (1869-1952) and Windsor Castle. Barclays Bank has spon­ Tel: 071-629 7578 many others. The most outstanding artist is sored a 'John Constable (1776-1837)' exhi­ Fax:071-491 2139 Emily Carr (1871-1945) whose colours bition at the Tate Gallery (until 15 CONTEMPORARY PAINTING AND SCULPTURE remind one of Franz Marc. In the September). This exhibition focuses on Mon-Fri: 10 am-6 pm Sat: 10 am-1 pm Contemporary Art section there are fine Constable's landscapes and not only prints by Lynne Cohen (b. 1944 and now provides fresh settings for such masterpieces

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Once famous - now But not all of Ludwig's forays into areas SB's Column of controversy were as maladroit. forgotten Examining, in Juli 1914, the highly conten­ ews from Austria: After years of tious issue of responsibility for the Great Salzburg's Easter Festivals, there xactly a hundred and ten years have War, he identified Imperial Gertnany as the N will be the first Whitsun Festival in elapsed since the birth of a chief culprit; his interpretation has since 1992 for which Sir Georg Solti has been German-Jewish writer who courted been corroborated in Fritz Fischer's classic engaged as chief conductor. — The annual E study Der Griff nach der Weltmacht. Juli fame and infamy in turn; fame by producing Schubert festivities in Vorarlberg will non-fiction bestsellers on a one-man 1914 earned Ludwig, in addition to his feature the Alban Berg Quartet and recitals assembly line — and infamy by acting as PR largest ever sales figures, the undying by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. - Leas man for a Fascist dictator (even if, subse­ enmity of the German Right. Never one to Hochzeit, a premiere at Vienna's 'Josef­ quently, he became an effective anti-Nazi avoid controversy, he also raised hackles by stadt', focuses on a Jewish wedding and publicist). writing a study of Jesus entitled Son of Man. illuminates generation problems. The play Emil Ludwig was born in Dresden as the It is widely known that Hitler's accession is by the stimulating Dutch-Jewish author son of the oculist Hermann Ludwig Cohn. to power in 1933 drove prominent Judith Herzberg. With an eye on a career in academe he Christian converts like Arnold Schoenberg Birthdays. Berlin-born actor-comedian change his surname and converted to and the ICI's Lord Melchett back to Curt Bois had his 90th birthday. After a Christianity. Becoming a freelance writer, Judaism. Ludwig had already reconverted career in Germany and Austria he emi­ he achieved overnight fame — to the intense 'to express solidarity with my Jewish grated to the States where he succeeded chagrin of conservative critics - with brethren in their hour of need' after the against heavy odds playing small parts in Goethe, a psychological biography, while murder of Rathenau in 1922. more than 40 films. Back in Berlin after still in his late twenties. Similarly psycholo- As an emigre after 1933 he continued to 1950 he acted under the direction of Fritz gising studies of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, express such solidarity, inveighing power­ Kortner in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Beethoven, Napoleon, Lincoln and Lassalle fully against Nazi antisemitism on the as Moliere's L'Avare. His autobiography followed and found eager readers. occasion of the Berlin-sponsored 'Deutscher Zu wahr um schon zu sein appeared in East Eventually Emil Ludwig's reputation was Tag' in New York in 1936, and writing a Berlin in 1980. such that almost all important political spirited defence of David Frankfurter, Camilla Spira who had her stage educa­ personages of the 1920s (Roosevelt, Stalin, Jewish assassin of the Nazi gauleiter of tion at Max Reinhardt's Schauspielschule, Nansen, Masaryk, Briand, Rathenau, Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff. mainly worked in Berlin. She emigrated on Venizelos, Lloyd George, Hindenburg, The Holocaust turned him into a bitter account of Jewish ancestry, but the Nazis Wilhelm II) granted him interviews in hater of all things German. He faulted the caught up with her in Holland. She per­ the belief that this would ensure them a Morgenthau Plan, which advocated the formed in The White Horse Inn at measure of immortality. total postwar dismantling of German indus­ Westerbork Camp, whence Dutch Jews Mussolini, too, craved immortality - in try, for not going far enough, and were sent to Auschwitz. Returning to Berlin the long term. What he wanted of Emil demanded that no Jew should ever set foot in 1947, she continued her stage and film Ludwig in the short term was a full length on German soil again. But Ludwig's sense of career into the Eighties. Having attained the portrayal that might make him acceptable Jewish identity was always more in the age of 85, she last appeared in public during in polite society. Flattered to be taken into nature of defensive reaction than positive a discussion on East-West relations just the confidence of a 'man of destiny', Emil affirmation. One of his last books, pub­ before German reunification. - Peter Ludwig duly obliged. Worse was to follow: lished in 1945, was The Mediterranean. Ustinov who needs no description, turned when Italy invaded Abyssinia, the writer Interviewed about it he told a reporter 'I am 70 in April. - American film actor Gregory trivialised that act of naked aggression. a European attracted to the Mediterranean Peck, star of numerous films, unforgettable probably because I am a Jew . . . On the in Hitchcock's Spellbound and John other hand 1 visited Palestine, but did not Houston's Moby Dick had his 75th FOR THOSE YOU CARE MOST ABOUT feel at home there'. birthday. Emil Ludwig died in 1958 in Ascona, Obituary. Only a few months after the Switzerland. „ , death of Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Springdene D R.G. Switzerland lost its second most important A modern nursing home with dramatist. Max Frisch, who died in Zurich, 26 yrs of excellence in health aged 79. The death, at 96, is announced of care to the community. 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Human singer, godlike posterity of Mozart the man. It was gener­ sounds much more impressive when we ally regarded as inconceivable that such read, as a contribution from an Australian song heavenly music could have been written by medical source, that 'the beginning of the a composer whom his contemporaries knew end occurred when, as a boy, Wolfgang had as an inveterate joker who loved wine, contracted a streptococcal infection, and hroughout the year preceding the women and song, and who was also ex­ this was complicated by the development of 200th anniversary of Mozart's death tremely fond of his food. Schoenlein-Henoch Syndrome. Further, Twe are already being overwhelmed by Even his wife Constanze had to be immune complexes were deposited in hype of exorbitant proportions. The scribes moulded into a woman fit to be the mate of Mozart's kidneys ... so as to cause chronic are working overtime to make the man fit a genius. Lately, as illustrious a musicol­ glomerulonephritis, the disease which was his gigantic work. The re-hash of almost ogist as H. C. Robbins Landon has taken it eventually to cause his death'. 200 years of biographical invention and upon himself to defend Constanze's virtue. speculation is being dished up to millions It is pure slander by some biographers to who never gave a thought to the little man suggest that the wife of a genius like Mozart Poppycock from Salzburg until they saw Milos should have deceived him with his pupil, This is the kind of poppycock that will Foreman's film Amadeus. Now all the old Franz Xaver Suessmayr. If Mozart had no confront the general public in ever increas­ cliches are being revived. proof of Constanze's infidelity, he may have ing volume until 5 December 1991 and good reason to be at least suspicious, even probably far beyond. Mozart would have Cruel blow of fate jealous. This is obvious from a letter to her loved this diagnosis. Particularly the term According to Wolfgang Hildesheimer most dated August 1789, when she took the glomerulonephritis, which he could easily biographers depict Mozart as a man 'con­ water in Baden, near Vienna, in Suessmayr's have used in one of his letters to Baesle, his scious of his destiny, a profound thinker company. He writes: young cousin in Augsburg. He would prob­ who had not only come to terms with life '. . . a woman has to guard her respect­ ably have explained to her that it was but also with Death, whom he regarded as ability, otherwise people will gossip. My medical jargon for flatulence. man's best friend'. (He refers to the com­ dear, forgive me for being frank. . . .' At the n J. Rotter poser's letter to this father, dated 4 April beginning of October 1791, two months 1787.) Mozart succeeded, mainly by corre­ prior to Mozart's death, Constanze is again spondence, to create an image of himself as in Baden in Suessmayr's company. On this a man who trusted in God and honoured his occasion the two are partnered by her 40 Years Ago parents, whose death has frequently been younger sister Sophie. Mozart makes no described as 'a cruel blow of fate'. By and bones about his distrust of Suessmayr when, this Month large this is the picture that was presented to on 8 October 1791, he requests both women in his letter 'to box his ears good niii inni IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII iiiMiHiini iiniiiinii IIIIIIIII HIiinilliIIIIIIIIIIIIIII and proper on my behalf. He gives no reason for this unusual request, put forward 1851-1951 "The purpose of the Festival of Britain", half jokingly with an undertone of rage. said Mr Morrison, its proud begetter, "is to Constanze went quite frequently to enable the British people to pat themselves Baden to take the waters. It has never been on the back and say to themselves, 'Bravo, proved that her state of health warranted the British go ahead'". This, too, was the the expense. Nevertheless, the question purpose of the earlier Festival, called the Great Exhibition, in 1851, which displayed arises: For what purpose did Suessmayr the bulging confidence of the age that have to keep her company during the last progress lay securely in the mechanism of 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 two years of Mozart's life? Mr Robbins science. That confidence now looks rather Landon's approach to this affair may strike the worse for the wear and tear of a most unorthodox century, and perhaps the TUESDAY AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES us as somewhat naive, although he had no Manchester Guardian of such Liberalism as TUESDAY CIRCLE compunction whatsoever to report Josef still survives, is right in feeling that what we Entertainment in the form of a variety of Haydn's affair with Italian soprano Luigia have to offer today is faith in social and interesting and topical talks given by Polzelli. economic invention - "the application of guest speakers on the first Tuesday of the scientific attitude to the organisation of each month at 2.30pm followed by human society". refreshments Heartrending grief? Jews above all have cause to reflect on the changes. A hundred years ago they were SEW & SO In his Mozart biography Wolfgang struggling for their civil emancipation A social group of people meeting on the Hildesheimer expresses the opinion that the which was not won till 1858. In the very second Tuesday of each month at circumstances of the composer's death are year of the Exhibition, Alderman David 1.30pm to participate in making knitted, described by highly unreliable accounts Salomons, having been duly elected for Greenwich, audaciously entered the House crocheted and embroidered items for credited to a considerable number of synagogue and charitable functions without taking the oath 'on the true faith of people. The heartrending grief demon­ a Christian', and to the great scandal of one BRIDGE CLUB strated by family and friends at the dying half and the evident delight of the other, All bridge players are welcome to join the man's bedside quickly evaporated, and by managed to vote in the division before the Sergeant-at-Arms removed him. Bridge Club which meets on the third the morning none of them followed the Tuesday of each month at 1.30pm. AJR Information jur]e 1951. coffin to its final destination. Space donated by Pafra Limited Hildesheimer speculates that Mozart may have died of a virus infection. Of course, it

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Polishing up the image VERSE AND WORSE Quotes of the month During last year's presidential election Oddly, after ivatching the anti-racist film ARAFAT campaign Lech Walesa did not scruple to The longest hatred / found myself, in the 'Effendi' they are urging use antisemitic innuendo against his op­ end, struggling against some rising preju­ 'A plan your face to save: ponents in a bid for votes from an ill- dices of my own: against the complacent Call in a plastic surgeon, educated, bigoted electorate. Having won ignorance of the Austrians {one third of But first - have a good shave!' the election he has switched to wooing whom harbour some anti-Jewish feeling, another constituency: Western, especially THE MANDELAS according to a recent survey) and the American, public opinion. He accordingly As on Winnie's 'football team' apparently impenetrable old hatreds of the announced, on a recent U.S. trip, the Nelson turned his purblind eye. Poles. creation of a Polish government committee While verkrampte loudly scream. Thomas Sutcliffe, TV critic of to combat anti-semitism. Whatever Into nightmare turns a dream The Independent Walesa's motives, his appointment of such And the world can only sigh doughty anti-racists as Jerzy Turowicz, SCHV/ARZKOPF 'We Britons seem to care more about editor of the Catholic weekly Tygodnik animals than we do about people' a She was Berchtesgaden's Liesel Powszechny, and the historian Ladislaw And Glyndbourne's darling voice Conservative MP said yesterday when Bartoszewski on to the committee holds asked about his postbag. 'Kurds? No, Kurds Ambition fuelled her diesel out the promise that the Polish public aren't a hot issue. Badgers, whales, pigs and But some, given the choice may at last, 50 years after the Shoah, horses, notv you're talking.' Nominate Stormin' Norman undergo some re-education on a subject Their top-performing German The Independent, 20 April 1991 that has stained the country's reputation for centuries. MAITRE VERGES 'My family fled to Gaza in 1948 and 1 ivas President Walesa has also announced that Lyons' notorious silk born in a tent' says Abdel-Bari Ativan, Polish Jews living abroad would be able to Of the law-subverting ilk editor of the London-based Palestinian petition for a return of their property in He went to Pot with Pol neivspaper El-Quds. 'Then ive were Poland. D Thought Barbie was a doll allowed to build cell-like homes of breeze- blocks, with nine to fifteen people per room. We made a great mistake. If we had stayed AMAZING CLEAN WATER in our villages and lived in Israel, we would Filtered quality water system units, with RELIABLE AND CONSCIENTIOUS three year guarantees. For a free HANDY iVIAN be in a much better situation now.' demonstration in your home or office Daily Telegraph, IS April 1991 I can undertake the following: please contact: Heavy duty domestic cleaning. Mrs. R. Wint-081-455 1841 General repair work, garden clearance. References supplied. Just published! THURLOW LODGE Telephone: 081-346 3186 and Rettet Ossietzky! HAMPSTEAD HOUSE Dokumente aus dem Nachiass (Residential Homes) for the elderly and retired, situated in an von Rudolf Olden exclusive part of Hampstead. Both homes CAMPS provide luxurious accommodation with INTERNMENT-P.O.W.- Rudolf Olden, well-known barrister, 24-hour nursing care in a homely FORCED LABOUR-KZ journalist and human rights activist, atmosphere. Strictly kosher cuisine. Long and short stays welcome. Many bedrooms I wish to buy cards, envelopes and folded post­ was one of the team defending Carl have en-suite facilities. Moderate fees. marked letters from all camps of both world wars. von Ossietzky when he appeared For further information and brochure: Please send, registered mail, stating price, to: before the 'Reichsgericht' on the Tel. 071 794 7305/071 435 5326. 14 Rosslyn Hill, London NW3 11/12 Thurlow Road, Hampstead, PETER C. RICKENBACK charge of fiigh treason. Having fled London NWS soon after the Reichstag fire via Czechoslovakia and Paris to England, Rudolf and Ika Olden were prominent in efforts not only to secure PARTNER JACKMAN• Ossietzky's release but also his in long established English Solicitors J nomination for the Nobel Peace (bilingual-German) would be happy to SILVERMAN assist clients with English, German and Prize. The book documents their (.COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS Austrian problems. Contact involvement in this unprecedented campaign conducted by the exiles in Henry Ebner Britain against the Nazi regime. at Myers Ebner & Deaner UK retail price £15.00 103 Shepherds Bush Road Available from: The Secretary, London W6 7LP institute of Germanic Studies, Telephone 071 602 4631 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA 29 Russell Square, London ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN Telerhone: 071 409 0771 Fax: 071 493 8017 WC1B5DP.

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BertI Goldstein Obituaries Upside-down world The death, at 72, of Vienna-born Bertl Goldstein brought to an end a life gener­ ur March editorial drew attention Max Frisch ously devoted to the welfare of others. to a series of paradoxes: Germans Bertl's work for her fellows took two forms: detesting war, and saving Russians Max Frisch who has died, aged 79, was one O entertainment - she had trained as a singer — from starving, Gorbachev exchanging of the outstanding dramatists of the post­ of old and blind members of the commun­ perestroika for repression, and the Tory war period. His experience as an observer of ity, and regular voluntary service at the Paul Party crowning first a woman and then an the Nazi phenomenon from the proximity Balint AJR Day Centre. We extend heartfelt early school-leaver. Meanwhile there has of neutral Switzerland inspired his two condolescences to her husband. D been a competititon between the leaders of internationally best known plays. The Fire the main political parties as to who has the Raisers and Andorra. The Fire Raisers, with haziest recollection of the number of O its hero Biedermann —a name connoting Level passes gained. It looks as if soon the blinkered philistinisin —could be read as a University of Life will challenge Oxford's domestic allegory of Chamberlain's claim to be the alma mater of most occu­ appeasement of Hitler. Andorra has found a pants of 10 Downing Street. place in the repertory of world theatre as a moving allegory on the Shoah. Even so the In the House of Commons, too, topsy- turvidom is rampant, with Labour left- play lacks a positive Jewish dimension; its Search Notices hero-victim is only a Jew in the sense that wingers beating their ploughshares into King William's College, Isle of Man is swords. While Claire Short once warned the others think him one. seeking information about the following ex- It can be said that at a time when, thanks internees to update their records: Coalition against imposing a tyrannous to the Third Reich, German (in the narrow Fuchs, Alfred Peter. 25 November 1932. regime on Iraq, Dave Nellist roared Rosenberger, Gerhard Hermann. 8 July 'betrayal' at ministers reluctant to intervene sense) letters had dwindled into sterile 1933. in Kurdistan. Correspondingly the govern­ provincialism, Frisch and his fellow-Swiss Van Issum, Bernhard Ernst. 12 November Friedrich Diirrenmatt helped maintain the 1934. ment benches beat their swords into Plehler, Paul Hermann. 26 June 1929. ploughshares with MPs who had eagerly high standards of the German-speaking Replies to: Brian Crookhall, Alumni Office, literary tradition. D King William's College, Castletown, Isle of backed the Gulf War counselling respect for Man. the principle of inviolate national frontiers. Marcel Reiner/Rainer. Born Cracow 1924/ Reports from the United States com­ Graham Greene 5. Lived on Syrokomla Str. School friend of pounded the general confusion. It appears Graham Greene was a man of prodigious Alexander (OIek) Spatz (now resident in that the last 'first lady' was no lady. Also, Israel) he left for school in England, Isle of literary talent and output - and no less Man or Isle of Wight, in 1937 (approx.). despite having been no more than a starlet prodigious contradictions. Conversion to Please contact Mrs S. Mencer, 10 Ackland herself, she put all her faith in the stars. Catholicism in his twenties turned him into Crescent, SES 8EQ in order to contact A. What is worse, the President, while flying Spatz. a doubter, rather than a believer. The chief Air Force One when off terra firma, was protagonist of his 1930s novel The Power Mario Herrlich is working on a dissertation actually 'Number Two' in the White House. about Jewish doctors in Dresden, Zwickau and the Glory was a priest operating and Chemnitz during the Weimar and Nazi But the most mindboggling examples of perilously under a left-wing Central periods. Please send any relevant topsy-turvidom come from Gogol's home­ American dictatorship that had outlawed information to him at: Claus von land, Russia. In the Soviet Union Stauffenberg Strasse 31, Hoyerswerda, religion. Several decades later Greene hob­ Deutschland 0-7700. Communists represent conservatism and nobbed with Fidel Castro and General striking workers are anti-Communists. Meyer 1 am looking for friends of Mr Felix Torrijos of Panama. Meyer and Mrs Lena Meyer (nee Buxbaum) Georgian and Moldavian independence Brighton Rock had a 'hero' whose unmi­ who were deported from Erfurt, Germany to fighters adamantly oppose demands for tigated evil Greene, by his own admission, Theresienstadt in September 1942 and died independence of others within their terri­ there. Please contact: Walter J. Reis M.D., found more appealing than tepid goodness 226 South Maple Avenue, Greensburg, PA tory. To cap it all the going rate for forged resulting from obedience to convention. 15601 U.S.A. Telephone 412-837 0900. Jewish identity papers varies from between one and five years' average salary. To think Despite having served in wartime British Piatowski Victor Piatowski escaped Intelligence Greene felt no revulsion against Majdanek camp 28/3/1944. Please contact that 50 years ago our hunted coreligionists Kim Philby, to whose autobiography he Ruth Green (nee Cosky: 081-886 0651. 25 all over Europe would have given anything Arnos Grove, Southgate, London N14 7AE Wrote a sympathetic introduction. Most (Possible family). for forged non-Jewish identity papers! notoriously, standing on the Eastern side of D R.G. Eva-Maria Ballo, born 25/8/25 (probably in the Berlin Wall — where would-be escapers Hamburg) and Hans-Joachim Ballo, her Were routinely shot - he once said he would brother, born 8/9/24. Please contact Gisela rather be there than in the West. Jackson, 12 Margate Road, St Annes on Sea, Lanes FY8 3EG. Mrs Jackson seeks An equally notorious fact, though one information on behalf of Frau Use Herzog, strangely omitted from most obituaries, was who is resident in Hamburg. CZECHOSLOVAKIA, PRAGUE the antisemitic undercurrent of Stamboul Tishler The Jewish Refugees Committee is Train, the novel which consolidated still trying to locate descendants of Daniel Holidays, W/end breaks. Central Greene's fame half a century ago. Though Tishler. Would Michael Tishler, who accommodation. £30 double, £20 single. telephoned in May 1989, please telephone the author never repeated this lapse he again. Telephone George Czaban: evidently saw no need to disown the work (0626)770211 3s a youthful aberration. D

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that the war in the Gulf hinges on oil doesn't Treason of the clerks satisfy Chomsky; he sees it as part of Out of the ashes Washington's design to subjugate the entire verybody knows what the term clergy Third World and siphon off its wealth. ofgeismar, North Hesse, may be a connotes, but few are au fait with The British counterpart to Chomsky is comparatively small town near E clerisy. The latter are 'a body of Harold Pinter, who, though no scholar, H Kassel, West Germany, but it shares scholars, or learned men'. In the Middle enjoys considerable cachet as a playwright. with Frankfurt/Main the distinction of Ages clergy and clerisy overlapped; given Sharing Chomsky's world view, Pinter gets being the only other place in Hesse with a the Church's monopoly of learning, the additional mileage out of an anti- Judaica museum. In an area where today's only intellectuals extant were 'clerks in holy Americanism that is second nature to many youth grows up without Jewish neighbours, orders'. intellectuals in the U.K. Graham Greene, for where school children regularly express the Julien Benda's 1920s polemic Le trahison instance, was so Americophobe that his desire to learn something about Jews and des clercs was aimed not at the priesthood, New York agent had to travel to Canada for Judaism, the Hofgeismar museum provides or even office employees; he charged intel­ face-to-face meetings with the author. a facility to help to close this gap. In lectuals with funking their duty to society Whereas Greene was a lapsed antisemite conjunction with the Jahrbuch Kassel, a by non-involvement in the burning political - vide Stamboul Train - Pinter and local history magazine, a number of import­ and moral issues of the day. Chomsky are lapsed Jews. Neither shows ant Jewish contributions relevant to the Today Benda's strictures no longer apply; any concern for the survival of the Jewish district have been published which in 1985 some would even say that the opposite State, which they see merely as an instru­ were re-issued in a special edition Fremde holds good (and are not too happy about it, ment for the West's subjugation of down­ im eigenen Land (Strangers in their own either!) trodden Third World Arabs. Country). A sequel is planned for the not Interestingly enough Benda was Jewish - Le trahison des clercs has thus acquired a too distant future. as are some of the most vocal intellectuals meaning quite opposite to the one intended In order to further historical research a involved in the current political debate. by its author. In Chomsky's and Pinter's regional Jewish bibliography was published No one personifies the politicised scholar case one could talk of twofold treason - to in December 1989 comprising no less than more eye-catchingly than MIT's Noam Jewry and to the countries of their birth. 971 titles; some of the listed authors such as Chomsky, the 'father' of modern linguistics. Fortunately for us - and them! - the U.S.A. Franz Rosenzweig and Rudolf Hallo are of America is a country whose strength - or, as and Britain are democracies where outre general importance considerably beyond he would say, weakness - lies in the posturings which would be regarded as merely local interest. The growing library of agreement of Democrats and Republicans treasonable elsewhere are permitted. the Hofgeismar museum can provide most on crucial questions such as the Cold War D R.G. of the books in question. In their totality and the Gulf Crisis. Not only is Chomsky they are indeed a record of Verbrannte critical of consensus politics - he has Geschichte, incinerated history, the title of produced a version of American history this well produced booklet of 83 pages. It is which amounts to a catalogue of crimes: obtainable from the publishers: near-genocide of Red Indians, enslavement Verein fiir hessiche Geschichte und of Blacks, napalming of Vietnamese, exploi­ Israel's Landeskunde e.V., Zweigverein tation of Hispanics, and so forth. To say Hofgeismar near Kassel, Germany. Cost Very finest Wines DM9. n

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