VolumeXXXIV No. 10 October 1979 INFORMATION tSSUED BY THE ASSOOAJm OF aWBH RERIGHS IN 6REAT BRITAm

between the ghetto and the "Aryan" Under ground Resistance Movements. Later that year, TRIBUTE TO GHETTO HEROES the ghetto set about arming themselves, and building bunkers and underground tunnels to An Address by Baroness Hornsby-Smith protect non-combatants. Again in January 1943 Nazis rounded up thousands from the ghetto ^t this year's memorial meeting on the anni­ Birkenau—a mere 15 sq. miles—well over 3-4 for Treblinka. Heroically the inadequately versary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the million people were murdered by cyanide poison­ equipped, and hopelessly outnumbered Under­ fnain address was given by Baroness Hornsby- ing. ground, inside and outside the ghetto, fought in ^mith. It was a moving tribute by a British Despite all our efforts—and as Principal Private the streets. In London we learned of these heroic Gentile to the heroism of those who were Secretary to the Minister responsible for the attacks with anguish, we could not reach them killed after a tremendous fight, and we are Underground and SOE, Lord Selborne, I typed with anything approaching adequate help. How­ privileged to be allowed to publish an extract some of his passionate pleas about the ghetto, ever, for the first time, the "Aryan" public in f''om that speech. the forced labour and the extermination camps- Poland leamed something of the diabolical treat­ I am proud and honoured to have been given it was some time before the Western Allies and ment of their Jewish citizens. '[js opportunity to pay my tribute to the faith, the national press could credit the facts and pub­ '"« gallantry and the fortitude of the Polish lish even expurgated reports. For a time, ordinary, The Ultimate Horror if^ish population incarcerated in the Warsaw decent-minded people thought we were descending Yet again, Nazi forces raided the ghetto for '-'"etto. The more tolerant Western World has to Goebbels* level and manufacturing horror further deportations: again the Jewish fighters never really assimilated the horrors imposed by stories. In an endeavour to bring home to the initially repulsed the Nazis: again street fighting •he Nazis on Eastem Europe, West the full horror of Nazi doctrine, one heroic occurred. Then the Germans cleared street by Pole, Witold Pilecki, a junior cavalry officer, .Not having been conquered and occupied for street, buming people to death in the houses and though over 40, volunteered to get himself arres­ "'"e centuries, we in Britain tend to forget the the bunkers. By May 1943 major resistance had ted and sent to Auschwitz, in order to report been defeated, and by August they had virtually °^umented evidence of Nazi plans when they back the true conditions. He escaped, with irre­ Anticipated winning the Battle of Britain, "All cleared the ghetto at a cost of 56,000 Jewish futable evidence and later fought in the Warsaw lives. A wave of horror swept the Western world. An'e bodied men between 17 and 45 to be trans- uprising. ^"•'ed to Labour camps in Central and Eastern Resistance continued in Greater Poland. Jews turope," For British Jews—extermination, Until July 1942, fighting alone, virtually un­ were joined by non-Jewish resistance fighters, and |n conquered Eastern Europe the Nazis were armed, the Jewish Underground, and Polish heroically fought on, sabotaging the German e to implement that very racial and racist "Aiyan" groups sabotaged services and factories, defence against the approaching Allied armies. P?''cy on a scale of inhumanity unparalleled in and from outside the ghetto sought to provide Then came the final treachery: the Russians 'Story, Evicted from their business and home, what aid they could to the Jews in the ghetto. deliberately delayed entering Warsaw for long ^'f properties confiscated, sacked from their In that July, in reprisal, the Germans dragged enough to see the gallantly resisting Poles, Jew and Gentile, eliminated, depriving Poland of ^^'^^ssions, half starved and crammed 13 into a from their homes and murdered in the streets heroic leaders who would not lightly accept Com­ r?™ 'f you could obtain shelter, the unquench- hundreds of Jews. Then began the mass deporta­ tion to Treblinka—on average 7,000 daily, until munist control. We mourn today the victims of n'e spirit of the Polish Jews in the Warsaw the satanic Nazi policy which took place nearly j^netto rose above these sub-human degradations. the 370,000 inhabitants in the ghetto dropped to 35,000. Communications were then established 40 years ago in the Warsaw Ghetto, but these "espite the agony of seeing 100,000 of their are not horrors of the past, much of the enmity "mber die in the ghetto by 1942, and thousands and hatred is still reflected today, under a diff'er- ^^ore rounded up for slave labour, their spirit ent regime—the Communists. In defiance of thc or"'^'"^^ unbroken. With superb discipline and UN Charter of Human Rights, the USSR con­ 8anising genius, they provided health and wel- ANNUAL CHARITY CONCERT sistently denies free speech, freedom of worship, an^ '^^"tres, they sought to educate the children by SELF AID OF REFUGEES and the right to voice criticism, and pursues a j^Q they upheld their faith. They pooled tools (in conjunction with A,J.R.) particular racist vendetta against the Jewish race. ?m^^' up workshops, the produce of which was f^Uggied out to buy food. The underground in- at How can we bring home to today's young cou"^""" services with heroic ingenuity and people, who weren't alive at the time of the Queen Elizabeth Hall Warsaw Ghetto, the perfidy of those who profess tin 'maintained quite extraordinary clandes- Monday, November 5, 1979 "^ newspapers, support for the Charter of Human Rights and at 7.45 p.m. who signed the Helsinki Agreement, and toss it 1*01 *^^* *™^' ^'^ ^^^ '" England thousands of „ es wityith our regulareeular forces and active SpeciaSnecial aside like a Kleenex tissue in relation to their Ope JUPITER ORCHESTRA rations Executives underground forces. Infor- own regime or those regimes who pursue their niai CONDUCTED BY PETER GELLHORN 'on was passed to Moscow, London and Wash- WITH IVRY GITLIS (VIOLIN) Communist ideology? We owe to those brave ^8ton, Moscow didn't want to know—if the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto that we shall Ij^'^ans eliminated men of independence, intel- Programme includes Works by Beethoven, continue to fight for the freedom and dignity of ^^ence and culture, so much easier would it be Mendelssohn and Rossini man. It will not be easy—you will be accused 'rnpose Soviet control when their long-term "Dazzling playing which we shall not readily of prejudice, of exaggeration, and, as I have Dia"i s matured. In Washington it was dismissed forget."—Tho Times. been, of hysteria. The heroic resistance of the "A beauty of tone rarely heard among violinists Warsaw Ghetto was confined to a few hundred <^verdone and over-exaggerated propaganda. It these days.—New York Herald Tribune. acres. Today, the battlefield and the victims cover (, ?'"ed American credibility to believe that a millions of square miles, and dozens of coun­ ^ 'Ured and modem state could be embarking on Tickets: £1.50, £2.50, £3,50, £5,00 and tries where human rights are consistently denied. ^Policy of wholesale extermination of all Jewish £6.00 (incl. VAT) are available now from We fought the Nazis to defend freedom. The jj^'^ens. The Special Operations Executive (SOE), Self Aid of Refugees, 8 Fairfax Mansions, victims of the Warsaw Ghetto never gave up. In Sarn"^ very popular with the regular Services, London, NWS 6JY. Telephone: 01-328 their memory and for the future generations jj!?""ed evidence of this tyranny through men 3256/6, and from October 5, 1979, from the Box Office, Royal Festival Hall, London neither must we. Some of you may find it strange tia'll '^f''^'"8 tJ'eir lives in the Underground. Ini- that I, a Gentile and an Anglican, should have tfj •' '' *as dismissed as unreliable or exaggera- SEI 8XX. Telephone: 01-928 3191. Propaganda. In the area of Auschwitz and Continued at column I, page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION October 1979 NEWS FROM ABROAD THE EASTERN ORBIT MORE EXIT PERMITS EXPECTED UNTTED STATES FASCIST BOOK BANNED IN BELGIUM In July, 4,600 Soviet Jews received perinits to emigrate to Israel, three times as much as in y^j New Vanessa Redgrave Row The Brussels public prosecutor has forbidden 1978. Jewish leaders in Moscow expect ^^^^\ Jewish leaders have protested to CBS TV publication of a book "Open Letter to the Pope liberalisation of emigration which by the f"O o against the choice of Vanessa Redgrave to play concerning Auschwitz" by Leon Degrelle, a this year may rise to well over 60,000, twice tne Fania Fenelon, an Auschwitz survivor, in a three- notorious pre-war antisemite and war -time colla­ record figure of 1973. , .,;, hour TV film based on her book "Playing for borator with the Nazis who now lives in exile in Mr. Raphael Kotlowitz, head of the Je««n Time". When Vanessa Redgrave received an Spain, The book repeats the neo-Nazi claim that Agency's immigration department, announced tna Oscar in 1978, she referred to "Zionist hoodlums" no Jews were gassed and that the Jews killed this year has been a 67 per cent increase m t" in her acceptance speech. Recently she attempted were victims of Anglo-American bombing of thc number of Soviet Jews settling in Israel---<'.'*'6i to persuade Equity, the British actors' union, to camps. Mr. Debbaudt, the publisher of the book, 10,000 to the end of July compared with jusi boycott Israel. Mme Fenelon voiced her own ob­ is a leader of the neo-fascist movement. After the under 6,000 in the corresponding months of t^'^; jections in confrontation with the actress on the war, Degrelle was sentenced to death in absentia However, there has been a higher drop-out rate, CBS current affairs programme "Sixty Minutes", for having fought against Russia with the Ger­ in July, out of 4,608 Soviet Jews arriving i» She said: "Even if she understands all my suffer­ mans. He lived in Spain as a personal protege of Vienna, only 1,300 went to Israel. In Vienna, ing . . , being a pro-Palestinian and against General Franco. In Belgium, he is deprived of some Soviet emigrants have complained '"**., "^^ Israel, Vanessa cannot be me." Miss Redgrave civil rights and therefore barred from writing or have suffered from harassment by Polish railway said she was not an antisemite. "How could I be? editing published material. staff when changing trains at Warsaw, ^^"'z^ Everything I've done has shown I am against in dollars or vodka have been demanded ano racism." Mme Fenelon was a Paris musician with NEW ZEALAND there are reports of deliberate delays and damag a Jewish father, who worked for the resistance to luggage. and was sent to Auschwitz in 1943. She was put Mrs. Hedi Ruben into the orchestra which had to play whilst other Born in Berlin, Mrs. Hedi Ruben emigrated in prisoners were marched to the gas-chambers. The 1936 to New Zealand where she has recently died. SCIENTISTS PROTEST TV play, based on her book, was written by She and her late husband. Dr. Herbert Ruben, At the Moscow meeting of the l?'e™^,*'''afe Arthur Miller. David Wolper, who produced did much to help German-Jewish refugees to settle PoUtical Science Association, a Canadian ^^'^^.g,. "Roots", has cancelled another project with CBS in New Zealand. ripped off his conference badge in an angry V^^tl^, in protest against Miss Redgrave's selection. that the dissident Jewish Professor Alexan^ NO BREAK OF RELATIONS WITH Lerner, a leading world cybernetics expert, was Rabbi prays in Church NICARAGUA not allowed to attend. For six years, Professo Lemer has been refused permission to emig^a In St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan, Despite the support they have received from the to IsraeL After he applied in 1971, he was o^- its rector, the Rev. Ralph E. Peterson, and Rabbi PLO, the Sandinistas who have overthrown the missed from a top post at the Soviet Academy Sheldon Zimmerman of the Central Synagogue Somoza regime in Nicaragua, have declared their Science's Institute of Automatic Control. ^ conducted a joint ecumenical service, attended by willingness to continue diplomatic relations with American delegate had proposed that he shO"'^ some 50 rabbis, ministers, priests, and nuns. It was Israel. take part in the conference discussions about in organised by a joint committee, set up a few ITALY mathematical approach to poUtics. British P* ^ ^e months ago, to prejjare guidelines for joint Jewish- pants said the conference almost did not ta'^^ Christian worship. The service included a reci­ Denials of the Holocaust place owing to the refusal until the very /a* tation of the Apostles' Creed and of the Shema, Professor Robert Faurisson of Lyons University moment to provide visas for the Israeli delegation- as well as Bible readings in Hebrew and English, has given an interview to the Mondadori publica­ tion "Illustrated History" in which he claims that SHCHARANSKY LAWYER EXPELLED MEXICO Hitler never ordered any murders on the grounds Mexico's Ties with Israel of race or reUgion, that concentration camp A Canadian Professor of Law, Irwin Cotler, wjj^ has t)een extremely active in defence of Anatw In November, an Israel exhibition will open in deaths amounted at most to 360,000, that gas chambers were only intended to destroy body Shcharansky, was expelled at a moment's "'*"^ Mexico City's National Anthropological Museum. the day after the Intemational Science Congr6» In July, a Mexico coin exhibition was held in parasites and that Nazi crimes were little worse than those of Napoleon, Stalin, Churchill, Mao ended. Professor Cotler was attempting }° y^^« the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Israel and Shcharansky's parents when he was detained / Mexico subsequently struck a joint medal, the Tse-tung and Roosevelt. Faurisson blamed Israel and the mass media for keeping the "legend" alive. militia, refused contact with the Canadian t»j' first coin issued by two countries. The Mexican bassy and sent out aboard a Japanese ^'^*jg| side depicts an Aztec deity, the Israeli side a A similar but shorter version of his views was published in "Le Monde" some months ago. The Professor was to have met senior Soy seven-branched Menorah. The large gold medal judges on the matter, but his expulsion prevents and the silver medal were minted in Mexico, this. He had talks with other judges and lawy^^^ whose Government mint is the oldest in the NETHERLANDS It is now a year since he served appeal documen American continent. The small gold medal and Wavering in Face of Arab Boycott on the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. Representaiiy thc bronze medal were minted in Israel. Lucien Wolff, head of a US delegation also vis"- The Dutch Government is apparently unwilling ing the USSR, has asked Soviet officials for evioj Nuclear Scientist as Ambassador at present to take any measures against the Arab ence that Shcharansky was an American spy. °". Dr. Alfonso de Garay, a nuclear scientist, is boycott, although it is considering a prohibition this was not forthcoming. The delegation P<"'':f^ Mexico's new ambassador to Israel. He has previ­ on declarations of non-Jewishness. Beyond this, it out that more religious freedom would lessen tn ously collaborated with the Weizmann Institute proposes only to establish a committee to enquire drive to emigration. in Rehovot on research projects. into details of the boycott. Last year the Israel Information and Documen­ SOVIET JEWS IN AUSTRALIA tation Centre at The Hague stated that many NEW ANTI-ZIONIST ATTACKS According to a statistical survey, published by Dutch companies were complying with the boy­ There is grave concern among Soviet J* j the Australian Jewish Welfare Services, more cott, but the Foreign Minister, Mr. van der about the recent spate of "anti-Zionist" books an than 5 per cent of Jews leaving the Soviet Union, Klaauw, refused an investigation lest it should articles. A Jewish historian. Dr. Dakhshleyge'^ chose to settle in Australia or New Zealand. Of appear as an "act of recognition". wrote in an article in "Novoye Vermia , ', 1,849 Soviet Jews the Board had to deal with Soviet weekly on foreign affairs, that 2ipn' between 1973 and 1978, 922 had settled in Mel­ FRENCH NEO-NAZIS EMERGE ideology "cannot be divorced from internation boume, 794 in Sydney, 28 in Perth and 105 in A new right wing group has been in the ascen­ capital, as Zionists live by that capital and c other places. About 240 families, comprising 700 dancy recently, calling inter alia for ofiicial recog­ tainly serve it faithfully". people, were waiting for their Australian visas. nition of ancient Greek polytheism to fight Judeo-Christian traditions. Recmits are found SHOCK FOR HOLOCAUST TEAM among contributors to "Figaro" and other right- All 43 members of the United States Pi'es'^'''?^ TRIBUTE TO GHETTO HEROES wing publications. On one occasion, propaganda tial Commission on the Holocaust, headed bv ^i ( Concluded from page 1) material was distributed among employees taking Wiesel, have been touring Poland, the Sov training courses at some French firms. It included been invited to speak to you. Today, we have Union. Denmark, Austria and Israel, seeking i^^ broadsheets stating that "German conduct during for an American memorial for the victims. >• two-thirds of the world's population living under the war was not atrocious, rhey simply had to reply Polish Minister of Justice promised to ''^'^ -, dictatorship. The attack is from extreme Left to illegal methods" and "the myth of the con­ copies of material in the Polish archives for i.' and extreme Right. Those of us who believe in centration camps and of the Gestapo amounts to ther research. They visited the sites of Auschwu^^ Human Rights must unite against the odds against one of the biggest falsifications of history". One Birkenau and Maidanek and recited Kaddisn us—Jew, Gentile, black and white. The odds of the firms concerned, the Thomson-Houston the memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising- ' against us are no more formidable than those the concem at Cholet, publiclv deplored the content Kiev they were shocked to find that the oa" gallant Poles in the Warsaw Ghetto so heroically of the propaganda material which had been Yar monument does not reveal that tens of "r . secretlv placed among the printed matter distri­ sands of the victims of the 1941 massacre tner resisted. We owe it to them to have the faith buted for the course. Union delegates refused to and the courage to stand up. be counted and were Jews. During a service at the Moscow svn accept this explanation and suspended the courses gogue, they were given an emotional reception defeat these evils. until an enquirv panel has submitted its report. members of the congregation. AJR INFORMATION October 1979 Page 3 HOME NEWS AJSGLO-JVDAICA European Maccabi Games FOREIGN OFFICE REBUKES ISRAEL SELF AID CONCERT After one of the recent Israeli air strikes Some 500 competitors and officials were guests against villages in South Lebanon, the British The cynical remark "People go to Charity Con­ of the Leicester Jewish community during the foreign Office strongly rebuked the Israeli Gov­ certs less to hear but to be seen" certainly is not European Maccabi Games, watched by over 700 ernment, saying that Israel's policy in Lebanon true of the annual Self Aid/AJR Concerts, but spectators. Dr. MacGoldsmith was honorary pre­ if one followed this up on the same lines, one sident of the Games, which were also attended by *as unacceptable to Britain. The text of the letter the Lord Lieutenant of Leicester and the Lord Was revealed in the House of Commons by Mr. might add—"and to meet old acquaintances". The Mayor, as well as Lord Janner. The Israeli con­ reter Temple-Morris, MP, the secretary of the annual Self Aid Concert is, in fact, one of the tingent numbered 51. Britain won 9 gold medals, British-Lebanese parliamentary group, who said most important, if not indeed the only, social Israel 5. Dr. Israel Peled, Mayor of Raman Gan that one raid, carried out with American-supplied event which brings like-minded former Refugees fighter bombers, had resulted in the death of at who had just returned from the Maccabiah Games least 20 innocent civilians. together in congenial surroundings and makes the in Mexico, said that as part of the celebrations quarter of an hour before and the interval during he had been invited to a bullfight in the main stad­ JEWISH DIRECTOR FOR DIRECTORS' the Concert enjoyable in themselves. ium in Mexico and to enter the arena to greet the large audience which he had done with great trepi­ INSTITUTE This year's programme (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Mr. Walter K, Goldsmith who has just been dation. After the opening of the Leicester games, appointed director-general of the Institute of November 5—see advertisement in this issue) is Mr. and Mrs. MacGoldsmith held a reception pirectors, is the first Jew to hold the post in the a fully fledged orchestral Concert with the Jupiter and supper for invited guests in the communal Institute's 70-year history. He has had a dazzling Orchestra, the well known conductor Peter Gell­ hall. Lord Janner recalled some events leading Career as corporate vice-president of the Black horn and the superb Ivry Gitlis in the Men­ to the transfer, in which he was instrumental, of and Decker Manufacturing Company of Mary- delssohn Violin Concerto. It is unlikely that Self the Maccabi headquarters from Berlin to London '^nd, USA. He is also a former chairman of Aid patrons will react like the Leningrad audi­ in the early 1930s. Wembley Liberal Synagogue and an executive of ence which, according to a New York Times Problems of Jewish Hospitals •ne Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues, headline, "rushed towards the stage, arms out­ posts which he had to give up when he moved to At his own request. Sir Keith Joseph, the ^s Angeles with Black and Decker. His wife, stretched, to shake hands with the musician", yet we would expect great enthusiasm to be Industry secretary, received Jewish community ^rs. Rosemary Goldsmith, who returned from representatives who briefed hira on the position f-os Angeles with him, is a former magistrate. She aroused by this exciting artist. of the three Jewish hospitals, threatened with clo­ 'ntends to create a children's museum for the There is a very lively demand for tickets which sure by the National Health Service. They sug­ "nder-10 age group in London. are obtainable at the Queen Elizabeth Hall or gested that the Birchlands Hospital near Wands­ direct from Self Aid, 8 Fairfax Mansions, London, worth, should be returned to the Jewish NF LEADERS QUARREL NW3 6JY, Tel. 328 3255 and 624 9096/7. community, and leased to Nightingale House, the .After their rout at the recent General Election, Home for Aged Jews. The Stepney London Jewish '''fferent factions of the National Front have tried EX-REFUGEES HELP Hospital has been under threat of closure since !° oust John Tyndall, the party chairman, and VIETNAMESE 1976, and the Bearstead Memorial Hospital, the riartin Webster, the activities' organiser. Webster Jewish maternity unit, has been temporarily closed '^ said to have directed the election campaign In answer to its appeal for the Jewish commu­ to inmates, but still deals with out-patients. *' Labour voters, preaching "national socialism", nity to play its part in welcoming the 10,000 boat-people to Britain, the Board of Deputies is *nereas Tyndall appealed to disaffected Tories, Rabbi claims Conspiracy •nd the resultant watered-down campaign, allege daily receiving cheques, cash, and offers of prac­ 'ne dissatisfied, led to the election debacle. The tical help, many of them from people who them­ Rabbi Dr. S, Schonfeld said he had no intention deputy chairman, Andrew Fountaine, said he was selves were once refugees, and from their children. of giving up control or direction of the Jewish Sat­ ^oncerned with the very nasty image the Front One woman offered jobs for about a dozen Viet­ urday Schools Movement, a heritage for the whole of the Jewish people. His enemies were conspiring had acquired, "Its members," he said, "are a namese in her garment factory. The children of ^Plendid collection of people, willing to make a the West London Reform Synagogue voted to bring him down, but they would not succeed. '°' of sacrifices". unanimously to send their charity contributions The schools were beautiful and harmonious, and The Press Council has rejected a National Front to the central fund for the refugees, he could ensure that the girls taught there would •pmplaint against the "Sunday Mirror". Com- remain virgins until they married. He would not JEWISH SPORTS STARS allow the schools to degenerate into a situation, "lenting on the Lewisham march of 1977, the where 14-year-old girls were deflowered by bulky P*Per had referred to "National Front riots" and The newly-formed Board for Jewish Sport, one 16-year-old boys, as had happened in one London ^eclared that the group's claim to be a political of whose members is our friend Paul Yogi Mayer, Jewish school. party was bogus. The Council, upholding the right is trying to build a base from which to assist ' a newspaper to use strong language, stated that young Jews to achieve national standards. They Prayers in Historic Cemeteries "e reference to "riots" was justified on the evi- are looking through lists of thousands of names •^^nce available. that appear in the British national rankings to On Tisha b'Ay, hundreds of Jews visited the find whom they might help. They hope to enable ancient Sephardi cemeteries in Mile End Road, A SERIOUS ACCUSATION promising athletes to participate in international East London, to pray at the graves of rabbis, _ Under the headline "Search for Zionist Murder meetings which they might otherwise have to sages, and ancestors. In 1972, the Nuevo Ceme­ ^^ng'', the Dublin "Evening Press" published a miss. They also hope to hear from young Jews tery, opened in 1733, with about 7,500 graves, .^nsational story, alleging that the gang who held who have the potential to excel in lesser known was sold to Queen Mary College to build a medi­ -Pa bank in Tramore, Co. Waterford, shooting sports. cal faculty on the site. The College provided ^. killing a bank customer, was believed by the land at Brentwood, Essex, to re-inter the 7,500. ^"Ce to be the same gang, "thought to be hired OESTERREICHISCHE It also undertook to maintain 2,000 graves on the eg y^ intemational Zionist group" who some days adjoining plots and to keep the area as a garden. ^flier, had attempted to burn down the Irish SOZIALVERSICHERUNG p arision of the Dutch millionaire and former Nazi Es wird neuerlich darauf aufmerksam gemacht, ot u Menten. Subsequently, the superintendent dass die Lebensbestaetigungen fuer alle Sozial- Yeshiva Branch in London tin Traraore police declared that the sugges- versicherungsinstitute in Wien von der zustaen­ A new branch of the Yeshiva Dvar Yerusha­ "n Was "pure speculation". digen Polizeibehoerde gefertigt werden koennen. layim, the Jerusalem Academy founded by Rabbi Eine Vorsprache bei der Oesterreichischen Bot- Baruch Horovitz, has been opened in London. Its CHILDREN'S PEACE TOUR schafl ist nicht erforderlich. In alien Faellen, main sponsors are the Hubert family of St. After a stay at the West German peace studies sowohl bei der Botschaft als auch bei der Polizei­ Anne's, who are deeply involved in promoting J "'.'•e in Bendorff, 20 Israeli schoolchildren, ten behoerde, ist jeweils ein gueltiger Reisepass Jewish education. Like Rabbi Horovitz, they lived ^ wish and ten Arab, visited Britain under the vorzuweisen. in Frankfurt before their emigration to this Spices of Neve Shalom, an Israeli educational country. f.^''"y for the purpose of peace studies. It was jJi^ded by Father Brano, a Dominican monk Your House for:— Giri Chazen at Refonn Synagogue of. Comprises Jews, Christians, and Arabs. One FLOOR COVERINGS The New Synagogue in Cardiff (Reform) is ^, "s board members is Major WeUesley Aron employing a woman chazan. Miss Hilary Sugar j^ runs a peace study course at a Tel Aviv CURTAINS, CARPETS, SPECIALITY from Leeds, an opera singer who at one time J^ndary school. Rotary Intemational, of which sang in the choir of the Belsize Square Synagogue the'jJ' ^^'1'°'' office-holder is presenting prizes for ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL in London. During the High Holy-days, she will and K ^' work done by a Jewish child in Arabic, sing at services in the New London Synagogue, a by an Arab child in Hebrew. In London, they DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, St, John's Wood. At the same time, she is re­ suiwi ^'^own around Westminster Abbey by the DUVET COVERS & SHEETS hearsing the part of Madame Butterfly for a pro­ Pgljvean, Canon Baker, around the Houses of ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS duction by St. John's Wood Opera Group in j^ niainent by Mr. Ian Mikardo, MP, and invited ESTIMATES FREE November. •j;J^'Unch at Rex House by the Zionist Federation. DAWSON-LANE LIMITED Onp also visited the Mosque in Regents Park. (established 1946) J ^ Participant, Benjy Golan, was a leader of 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK With acknowledgement to the new (^•^eform youth group in Haifa and chosen to Telephone: 904 6671 Vou °" ^^^ '°"' ^ ^ result of his work with personal attention ol Mr. W. Shaekman service of the Jewish Chronicle. "ng Arabs in the surroimding villages. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION October 1979

TURKISH TRADE FAIR Both Israel and the Palestine Liberation O^ap- THE ISRAELI SCENE isation are represented at the Izmir Trade Fair. The Israeli stand is displaying chemicals, fertili­ NEW PROGRAMME FOR TOURISTS URANIUM FROM THE DEAD SEA zers, plastics, sanitary equipment and other pro­ Mr. Gideon Pratt, Israel's new Minister of Israeli scientists are plaiming to extract uranium ducts, while the PLO shows mostly propagaiwa Industry, Culture and Tourism, said he would like for nuclear power generation from the Dead Sea material. Trade between Turkey and Israel, de­ to see a 15 per cent increase in tourism. He which contains the world's largest single deposit spite political coolness and economic difficulties, expected a large increase from the opening of the of chemicals. When a new plant is ready in 1981, is developing satisfactorily. Israeli exports rose Egyptian border, which would enable tourists to it is expected to produce 60 tons of uranium, threefold in 1978 to £29 million and are increas­ visit lx)th coimtries. A further 6,000 hotel rooms enough to operate a 600-megawatt nuclear power ing again this year. In return, cars, cement and are being built at the moment and should be plant for six months. The plant will cost about farm goods have been sent by Turkey to Israel. ready within 18 months. The Arkia air-line which £30 million and will be built in the Negev by flies to Elat and the Sinai, must be given new Israel Chemical Industries in partnership with a SUCCESS STORY OF VIETNAMESE routes when the Sinai traffic comes to an end, West German concern. REFUGEES Mr. Pratt said, there was no reason why Arkia The 102 Vietnamese Refugees who were brought should not be given rights to fly to nearby destina­ CHARGES AGAINST KNESSET MEMBER to Israel some weeks ago, are being housed and tions like Istanbul, Athens, and Rhodes, or even rehabilitated in Afulah in the Emek Israel, m to Mecca. The Israeli State has lodged charges that Mr. quarters originally set apart for refugees from Flatto-Sharon and two colleagues attempted to Iran. 62 members of a first group of Vietnamese EGYPTIAN MUSIC IN JERUSALEM bribe voters during the 1977 General Elections. who arrived a year ago, have settled successfully At a concert of the Israel Philharmonic Orch­ They are accused of having offered 15,000 apart­ as doctors, dentists, and factory hands. One ot estra, attended by President Navon and many ments in development areas at cheap rents to them. Dr. Hua, a specialist on cardiac diseases at foreign guests, a work by 55-year-old Egyptian potential voters, and also to pay fees to "cam­ the Tel Hashomer Hospital, is advising the govenj; composer Gamal Abdel-Rahim was played. "The paign activists" and "election day observers" in ment on the treatment of newcomers, and stateo composer wrote to conductor Ronly-Riklis that proportion to the number of votes canvassed. recently that they were integrating well into Israeli he was unable to attend as he would have wished, More than 100 witnesses will be called, Mr. Flatto- society, and that their standard of living was but that he was happy to contribute lo under­ Sharon won 35,000 votes, enough for two seats higher than it had been prior to their flight.^^Many standing and cultural relations between the two in the Knesset. He stated that he only used the Israeli families in Afulah offered to "adopt" Viet­ normal procedures practised by the established namese families to help them to settle down. nations through his music, political parties and that he would make startling revelations in court. COLD CURE DISCOVERED MEMORIAL SERVICE AT HEBRON At the Weizmann Institute of Science, Mr. Several thousand people, including the IsraeU THE ARABS OF GALILEE Aharon Yerushalmi and his colleagues believe Interior Minister Dr. Yosef Burg, attended an that the common cold may be cured by breathing official ceremony in the old Jewish cemetery at During a tour of the Golan Heights, Major in a stream of warm moist air. Encouraging re­ Hebron in memory of the 59 Jews killed in the General Avigdor Ben-Gal, head of Northem Com­ ports have been received from the Kaplan Hospital 1929 Arab riots in the town, which virtually ended mand, told a group of Knesset members that in Rehovot and a small electrically-operated device Jewish settlement in the area until the Six-Day War, Jewish settlement there had reached saturation has been designed to provide the necessary heated Widespread security precautions were taken by point and that settlement activities should be airflow. Plans are in hand to produce the instru­ the Army to protect the residents of the Kiryat transferred to Galilee where half a million Arabs ment in a kibbutz industrial plant, Arbu settlement and their supporters as well as lived. He said they were becoming a cancer, be­ the families of Jews killed in the riots. After the cause they increasingly identified themselves with THE WALLS OF JERICHO ceremony, several hundreds of people danced the PLO and regarded themselves as an advance through the streets of the town to the cave of guard of Arab nationalism. He added that Israel American and Israeli scientists have discovered Machpela where a new Torah scroll vvas deposited must never give up the Golan Heights, even in an active fault in the earth's crust five miles in memory of the victims. exchange for peace with Syria, The Defence from Jericho and are convinced that an earth­ Minister, Mr. Weizman, issued a stem reprimand quake was responsible for the destruction of tni^ city walls, when Joshua blew his trumpet. Th^ HISTORICAL RICHES IN DANGER to the General and said that his remarks were unacceptable. The General apologised, saying that fault, known as the "Dead Sea Fault", probably At a meeting of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological he had been misrepresented by the media. marks the boundary where the continental plates Society in Burlington House, London, Professor of Africa and Asia scrape again.st each other. Kochavi of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology, gave a talk on Rescue Excavations VERDICT ON MAYHEW'S BOOK DR. JACOB BRAUDE REMEMBERED in the Biblical Negev and said, the proposed air­ A beth midrash for teachers to be trained m field in the Beersheba Valley would probably In a 29-page judgment. Judge Yaakov Bazak rejected a claim for libel by Mr. Christopher Jewish subjects for yeshiva high schools, was obliterate three major antiquity sites and others, opened in Kfar Saba. It is named after Dr, Jacob still unrecorded. Dr, Richard Barnett, chairman of Mayhew and Mr. Michael Adams against the Israeli evening paper "Maariv" which had said Braude who came to Britain as a refugee and was thc Society, said the Israeli army was "the greatest a member of the AJR. For 25 years he was chair­ consumer of archaeological sites". An appeal for that their book "Publish it Not—the Middle- East Cover-up" was pervaded by antisemitic senti­ man of the British and the World Council of the funds to save the "historical riches under the sand Friends of the Institutions of Midrashat Noam of the Negev" was launched. Lord Segal, presid­ ments and was Nazi-style propaganda. The judge said that the two authors might not even have (Yeshiva high schools) in Israel. Since Dr. Braude s ing, said, the excavations were now "a race against death, his son Mr. Andrew Braude has been acting time, the price to be paid for peace". been aware that they were employing the tone, terminology, and style of thorough-going anti­ chairman of the Friends in England. semites, but the book contained "terminology of a vile and pathological kind used in Nazi articles against Jews". Mr. Mayhew and Mr. Adams who had asked for about £8,0(X) damages, were ordered to pay all costs, including some £1,100 legal fees. They stated subsequently that they would now sue "Maariv" in the British courts and that the "ludicrous decision of the Israeli judge" had con­ firmed the theme of their book that Israelis use accusations of antisemitism to stifle honest and constructive reporting,

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AJR INFORMATION October 1979 Pages £gon Larsen German culture was head and shoulders above Pohsh culture, and we thoroughly agreed with the intensive Germanising of the province," she wrote. THE KAISER'S JEWS "In our exaggerated overestimation of everything German we children resisted any attempt at mak­ Three years ago, the social historian Monika eventually traitors working for the defeat of ing us learn Pohsh, , , . Yet our German upper Richarz published the first volume of her col­ Germany. classes, the local academics, did not really bear lection of excerpts from memoirs by German Jews A village teacher from the Marburg region saw out that great respect for the German character. since the age of emancipation two centuries ago, it all happen at ground level. The Reichstag MP. Drinking played a major role with these gentle­ covering the period until the foundation of the elected in 1893, was a certain Otto Bockel, one of Wilhelminian Empire. Now Miss Richarz has men, and tipsy academics in the streets were no 16 declared anti-Semites in the parliament, who rare occurrence." It is interesting that many followed it up with a second volume which deals spread his propaganda in the villages and small \\ith Jewish society under the Kaiser until the end German Jews in the Czechoslovak Republic had towns. The result was. for instance, that six-year- much the same attitude towards the Czechs, of the First World War: Jiidisches Leben in old Jewish boys were told that "a Jew can never t^eutschland—Selbstzeugnisse zur Sozialgeschichte The prominent Social-Democrat poUtician Philipp be among the best pupils in a German school" and Lowenfeld, born in Munich, complains in his 'I" Kaiserreich (Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart, banned from playing any instrument in the school 1979 DM40). Again the material has come from autobiographical notes about the social snobbery orchestra, Bockel brought a group of students among the Jews themselves. The resident famiUes the archives of the Leo Baeck Institute in New from Marburg to the village fair; they attacked York, and again these as yet unpublished auto­ wanted to have nothing to do with the many new­ the writer's father and two brothers—and these comers from the East. But they also kept much biographies offer an extraordinary insight into the three Jews beat up Bockel in their turn. They daily lives, the experiences and attitudes of apart from Christian families, "Even more puzz­ went to prison for a few days. ling was for us children that those Jews who did German Jews at all levels. The writers are horse- Even in Berlin, in the pre-war days, anti- dealers and lawyers, actors and housewives, village mix with Christians felt more refined than those Semitism was a fact of life. Arnold Hollriegel, teachers and businessmen, politicians and journal­ who didn't," wrote Lowenfeld, "Gradually we ists. then a young reporter on the Berliner Tageblatt, found that the social position of such Jewish found in a journalists' restaurant in the Friedrich­ families who had money or titles was of major The editor's task must have been rather strasse "a big chair with a carved head-rest importance. What also confused us was that my difficult, for—as Monika Richarz points out—"the representing the caricature of a Jew". He wrote mother and other Jewish parents thought their development of the Jewish population in the about it but was told that one should ignore such children were prettier if they did not 'look Jewish', Empire was much more complicated than its "eccentricities". Yet these same circles were deeply shocked when Continual growth during the period of emanci­ In 1893, the necessity of resistance against the a Jew left the Jewish community and got bap­ pation". The statistical figures alone show it: growing danger of anti-Semitism led to the found­ tized; my father used to say that one does not *hile the total German population rose between ation of the CV (Centralverein deutscher Staats- escape from a beleaguered fortress." '871 and 1910 from 41 to 65 million, i.e., by 58 hiirger jiidischen Glaubens), and Ernst Herzfeld, This kind of "escape" is a recurring theme in per cent, the number of Jews increased from later a prominent lawyer in Essen, helped to build the book. Before the First World War, Jews were 512,000 to 615,000, i.e., by only 20 per cent; this i; lip. He had been educated in his native Province admitted to the ranks of the Kaiser's officers only meant that the Jews' share of the population sank of Posen (Poznan), What amazed him was the when they had got baptized (except in the from 1.25 to under 1 per cent and would have Herrenvolk attitude of the German Jews towards Bavarian army, where Jews were occasionally been even less without the influx of Jews from the the "inferior" local Polish population. "Only commissioned without that formaUty). ".*• group East. But at the same time the importance of fhe those Jews forced to learn Polish for business of people who could not belong to the admired :'ews in poUtical, economic, and cultural life reasons could speak it. Not even all the shop­ officer class," wrote Ernst Herzfeld, "was thereby 'ncreased out of all proportion to their numbers: keepers in towns with Polish majorities could branded as inferior. This discrimination was felt and so did anti-Semitism, "the most decisive de­ negotiate in that language. Only very few Jewish in wider Jewish circles; every new recruit experi­ velopment for them under the Kaiser", as Miss lawyers spoke it. though in everyday court prac­ enced it and resented it." R'charz wxites. Even their hopes for greater social tice there were always Polish-speaking parties and This second volume of Monika Richarz' work integration as a result of the war "turned out to witnesses. Interpreters were needed. I cannot is illustrated. Two cartoons ridicule the Jewish pe an illusion", and the headcount of Jews serving remember having met one single Jewish doctor ambivalence in the matter of Christmas: one, 'n the German army in 1916 was carried out "as who could have talked to his patients in Polish," from the Zionist journal Schlemiel (1919), shows amateurishly as it was anti-Semitic". The results This experience is corroborated by Mally Diene­ Jewish parents giving their son a menorah under v^ere never published, and the Jews were widely mann, the daughter of a West Prussian business­ the Christmas tree; the other, also from that nranded as war profiteers, shirkers, cowards and man, "We children were firmlv convinced that periodical (1904), caricatures the evolution of the menorah into the Christmas tree under the head­ line "Darwinism". But the German Zionists them­ selves were surprisingly eager patriots in 1914. There is the facsimile of the Jiidische Rundschau'a front page with the bold address, "Deutsche RENAULT Juden.'". calling them to the Kaiser's arms; signed by the Reichsverein and the Zionist Association, it expressed the demand that "our youth" should volunteer to join the German army "with joyful See the Renault range hearts", and the Jewish Turnerschaft added its trust in all the "martial virtues" of young Jews, "in Mannesmut erstarkt" for the Kaiser's war. at Old Oak But the picture that shocked this reviewer most of all is an ordinary photograph of a group of IWm SPRECHEN DEUTSCH /MLUVIME CESKY) young men, taken in 1906, including three "uni­ formed" students with their monkey caps and Where we believe that changing your car is a very gaudy sashes. The caption says they were mem­ important business and you deserve to be treated as an bers of the Zionists' association Maccabaea, At individual, not just a sales figure. the risk of stepping on the toes of some "Old Where you can see the whole Renault range of value for Boys" of such associations, some of them with money cars and light vans. We try to keep most models duelling scars of which they are still proud, your in stock all the time. If we haven't got it, we'll get it. reviewer must record his horror at the depth to which many Jewish students sank in their urge to And where we try and make things easy by offering emulate the nationalistic, chauvinistic German sensible part exchange prices, helping with finance and youth of the Kaiser's establishment. He remem­ insurance where necessary and generally looking after bers only too well these aggressive rowdies. you. We're a family firm, and to us our customers always Hitler's vanguard, who roamed the streets of come first. Munich in the 1920s and attacked Jewish citizens Come and see for yourself. Old Oak-Service for cars-and people during the 1923 putsch. However idealistic the motives of the founder generation may have been, MOTOR the whole idea of estabUshing Jewish duelling COMPANY students' associations, copying that "Teutonic" LMITED speciality, strikes one now, in retrospect, as a OLD OAK regrettable aberration. 79 WINDMILL HILL. ENFIELD 01-363 2261 Page 6 AJR INFORMATION Octobeijl97 martyrs who gave a God to the world and F. Hellendall fought and suffered on all the battlefields ot the mind". REFLECTIONS ON HEINE'S BAPTISM Professor Windfuhr, a man so prominent in post-war West German Heine research, cannot be Nine years ago this journal welcomed though Windfuhr might have added that these isolated accused of anti-Semitism. It is all the more re­ critically reviewed what was perhaps the first com­ beginnings occurred in the years prior to the so- grettable that like many other recent authors on prehensive Heine biography to be published in caUed "Wars of Liberation" and disappeared with Heine in both parts of Germany he seems unable West Germany since the Second World War*. It is the new waves of persecution following the re­ properly to evaluate Heine's role as a Jew an remarkable and gratifying to note that a second storation of reactionary regimes in Germany after that he tries to maintain against the overwhehning and somewhat improved edition of this book has the defeat of Napoleon. It does not require lengthy weight of evidence the theory that Heine under­ now been publ ished* • and it is even more gratify­ philological or historical proof to show that this went baptism for any reason other than to escape ing to note that the author, Professor Manfred Wind­ withdrawal of the "first measures of emancipation" the social ostracism of the Jews in Germany in the fuhr, one of the principal editors of the historical caused a traumatic shock to all those young post-Napoleonic era. and critical Heine edition in the course of publi­ German Jews who had grown up in the more Could it be that the thesis that the 'great cation in Dusseldorf, has taken into account some liberal atmosphere of the Napoleonic era and syntheticist and universalist spirit" of Heinnc of the criticism expressed by this reviewer in this were eager to absorb the humsmist culture of their Heine really accepted a belief in the tenets of the journal and elsewhere. Thus Heine's social en­ German environment—a shock which nobody can Christian faith is more comfortable to Professor gagement (and that of Borne and Marx) is no understand better than our generation of German Windfuhi and other post-war German authors a» longer explained by a 'distance caused by race", Jews who had a similar although infinitely more it relieves them of the task of properly explaining but by his "forming part of a minority which was brutal and fatal experience in 1933, the beginning in those days of modem Jew-baitmg in Germany which at that time drove many Ger­ subject to discrimination". Windfuhr's statement This shock caused an elite of young German in the first edition that Heine was suffering from a man Jews into apostasy against their better con­ Jews to form the "Verein fiir Cultur und Wissen­ still "syphilitic disease" is corrected in the second schaft der Juden" (Association for Culture and viction. Although most history books are edition, and what is periiaps more important, tne Science of the Jews), described by Windfuhr as practically silent on this aspect of early nineteentn second edition corrects erroneous allegations made "Berliner Judenverein" (Berlin Jew Club) (p, 191), century German history we know now into wna by the author in the first edition (p. 188) that "in with the aim of finding some solution for the these un-Christian practices of the Christian co^ the early 19th century persecutions of the Jews young German Jewish generation which had munity in Germany developed in the hundre" were an exception" and that Heine obtained his grown out of the spiritual rigidity of the Ghetto, years following Heine's baptism. Rather p^, knowledge of the persecution of the Jews "from The "Verein" disintegrated when some of its propounding untenable theories about Heine the chronicles only". Windfuhr now admits that leading members sought their final emancipation baptism Heine research in Dijsseldorf and e'*^' "although in Heine's days pogroms were rather the from the Ghetto in baptism as this was a con­ where with its wealth of documentary and tecn- exception (? F,H,) the rule were more subtle forms dition sine qua non for a career at the University nical material should devote itself to the task o of discrimination of the Jewish minority: adminis­ or in the civil service. After long hesitation Heine revealing the origins and the history of this la trative barriers, social degradation and psycho­ took this fatal step in 1825, a step which he development in German-Jewish history. . logical baiting. In spite of some isolated begin­ •Manfred Windfuhr, Heinrich Heine, Revolution « described with disdain as "the entry ticket to Reflektion. i. S, MeUlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, »"p nings of emancipation the Jews were still re­ European culture" and which he regretted through­ gart. 1969. reviewed in AJR Information, February, " garded and treated as strangers throughout." out his life as he expressed over and over again. ••Do, Second Edition, 1976. ,„i.„in •••Ludwig Rosenthal . Heinrich Heine als Jude, Ull3«i^; In the first edition of his Heine biography Berlin. 1973 (reviewed in AJR Information. June. "' Windfuhr alleged that Heine's baptism "was not pp. 219 et seq. only a tactical step in order to express to the outside world that he belonged to this society and in order perhaps to obtain advantages for his future profession, but a logical conclusion of 12 years of his education and of his action in this LEON JESSEL LIMITED society . . . The partial reforms (envisaged by the "Verein"-F.H.) did not satisfy his syntheticist and universalist spirit. He desired to jump over the Manufacturers of artificial borders of the denominations and , , . with the compliments of remaining with Judaism would have been too Fancy Leather Goods, narrow for him". It is difficult to understand the argument that Gift Goods Heine's "syntheticist and imiversalist spirit" should have caused him to exchange the "narrow­ ness" of the Jewish community—which had un­ ^hich are advertised fhroughout the dergone more than a generation of emancipation since the death of Moses Mendelssohn—for an world as honest belief in a Christian faith which at that time in Germany was dominated by a return to -EMBLEMS OF GOOD CRAFTSMANSHIP BY romanticism and mediaevalism. In his thorough and well-documented criticism THE JESSEL ORGANISATION" Dr, Ludwig Rosenthal*** successfully rebuts Windfuhr's strange theses on Heine's baptism and proves to the hilt that Heine underwent baptism Pafra "unwillingly and only for the sake of his career". Whilst Rosenthal's book is mentioned in the bibli­ We also manufacture Industrial ography of Windfuhr's Second Edition no refer­ synthetic adhesives ence to it is made in the text of the book, Wind­ Equipment in Leather and Canvas fuhr's Second Edition merely adds the following two sentences to reinforce his untenable theory on adheshre applicators Heine's baptism:— "His (Heines-F,H,) contem­ poraneous letters and some utterances about baptism in his work prove that Heine did not take P O. Box 12. Corporation Street this step lightheartedly. But he never revoked it. Walsall, WSl 4HP even in the far more liberal French environment" (p. 18). We can find no better answer to this Pafra Limited specious argument than the words of Heinrich West Midlands Heine himself written in 1854, two years before Bentalls • Basildon his death in "Gestandnisse" (Confessions):— Essex • SS14 3BU "If aU pride of birth were not a foolish con­ TalaptMtw, 0922-24649 or 0922-22058 tradiction in the fights of the revolution and Talaii > Ctwcom G Walull 338212 LEJES its democratic principles the writer of these lines could take pride in the fact that his ancestors belonged to the noble house of Israel and that he is a descendant of these AJR INFORMATION October 1979 Page?

A PIONEER IN ENGINEERING In our August issue we reported about a cere­ NEWS FROM GERMANY mony in memory of the late Professor Georg Schlesinger, held at the Charlottenburg Castle on June 20 (not June 5 as erroneously stated). 100 YEARS ON AMERICAN NAZI DEFENDS NEO-NAZIS The occasion was the 75th anniversary of the Kaufhof" (formeriy Leanhard Tietz) Centenary At a court in Biickeburg, Lower Saxony, Gary foundation of the "Institut fuer Werkzeugma­ To mark the hundredth anniversary of the foun- Lauck of Lincolm, Nebraska, the leader of schinen und Fertigungstechnik" by Professor Schle­ 2«*ion of the Leonhard Tietz (since 1933 "Kauf- NSDAP/AO in America, appeared as a defence singer. Now, the present holder of his Chair at °0'") chain of department stores, a dignified cele­ witness in the trial of six Germans accused of the Technische Universitaet, Professor G. Spur, bration was held in the Cologne Opera House neo-Nazi terrorism. The Nazi salute was given has written a book about the history of the °n August 29. The importance attributed to the by some twenty spectators when Lauck entered Institute ("Produktionstechnik im Wandel—Georg event was made manifest by the fact that the the court-room. Gary Lauck publishes the Ameri­ Schlesinger und das Beriiner Institut, 1904-1979" jP*akers included Federal Chancellor Schmidt and can "NS-Kampfmf" and another neo-Nazi perio­ (Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich), The chapter "Die ^e Lord Mayor of Cologne, John van Nes dical in West Germany. He was deported from Katastrophe 1933" deals not only with the suffer­ ^•egler. Among other prominent guests was the the Federal Republic in 1974 for his activities and ings of Professor Schlesinger under the Nazis but JLjesident of the Federal Parliament, Stuecklen. special arrangements were necessary to enable also with the destiny of some of his fellow wor­ Ine development of the firm from small begin- him to appear for Michael Kuehnen, the chief kers, e.g.. Professor Kurrein and Professor Kro- IJings up to the present was described in a accused, in the present trial. However, after he nenberg and others who managed to build up their "^llet combined with pictures projected on a had given evidence, the prosecutor charged him careers anew after their emigration. ^<^reen. The enterprise started with the opening of with perjury and said that he would not be * store in Stralsund (1879) to be followed by allowed to re-enter West Germany. RAYMOND ARON HONOURED ^epartment stores in Elberfeld (1889) and Cologne The 1979 Goethe Prize, worth approximately ^1891). In the course of time, branches were BERLIN CEMETERY DESECRATED DM50,000, has been awarded to Ravmond Aron. Opened in many other towns, and at present The city police is searching for unknown the French Jewish Sociologist. hooligans who daubed swastikas on walls and Kaufhof" has department stores at 84 places removed tombstones from the cemetery of the FALLEN JEWISH SOLDIERS REMEMBERED *•;* a total staff of about 57,000 persons. Berlin Jewish community in Heerstrasse at night­ The book published in 1932 by the "Reichsbund The founder of the firm, Leonhard Tietz (Birn- time. They also destroyed technical installations juedischer Frontsoldaten" which recorded the ".aum 1849-Cologne 1914) was repeatedly men- and caused flooding by interfering with the water names of about 12,000 Jewish members of the jioned in the addresses. His work was continued system. The City Office of Information issued a German Forces who had fallen in the First World °y members of his family until 1933, when the statement, deploring the desecration of the ceme­ War has been re-published by the Alfons Steiger ^nterprise was "aryanised" and the partners had tery which it regards as a protest against Mayor Verlag (Postfach 2280, D-4130 Moers/Niederrhein, ,',0 quit under derisory terms. After the war, Stobbe's visit to Israel by right-wing extremists, DM 64), Kaufhof" made amends for the material losses ^tained by the members of the family, who, RUDOLF HESS THE MARTYR FRANKFURT'S "PHILANTHROPIN" yjer their emigration, had gone through very An anonymously pubUshed book "Rudolf Hess BUILDING SOLD •^cult times. They were also invited to the a German Martyr" is the subject of an investiga­ The building of the former Jewish Philanthro­ S^'^mony, and two grandchildren of Leonhard tion by the Traimstein (Bavaria) public prosecu­ pin school, which had remained undamaged dur­ y'etz attended the function: Ulrich Tietz (New tor. It is alleged to contain glorification of Nazi ing the war, has been sold by the Board of the /oi^k), the son of the late Alfred L. Tietz, and ideas. Jewish community to the raunicipaUty of Frank­ {^••s Tamara Tietz-Miles, the daughter of the late furt. It will be used as a civic and youth centre, fl'erhard L. Tietz (London), together with her SECRETARY OF STATE SUES NEO-NAZIS whereas the Jewish community plans to acquire nusband. The "Koelnische Stadtanzeiger" of Aug- Erhard Mahnke, Secretary of State in the Bonn with the proceeds of the sale a site in the West ^' 30 carried an interview with Ulrich Tietz, who Ministry of Transport, has brought a criminal End for the erection of an elaborate modern ^pressed his appreciation of the fact that the charge against the publishers of a pamphlet community centre. The transaction was contro­ jnerits of the Tietz family had been repeatedly "There never were gas chambers", distributed by versial; some people, among them former alumni "entioned by the speakers. Ulrich Tietz now the "Deutsche Arbeitskreis Witten" and sent to of the "Philanthropin" expressed the view that 'tes a leading part in the work for former Ger- his office. The unnamed author maintains that it would have been more appropriate to refurbish ,j;3n Jews in the US and is a Vice-President of there never had been gas chambers in concen­ the building and to convert it into a Jewish com­ P^ American Federation of Jews from Central tration camps and that no Jews had been gassed, munity centre. ^"'^ope. The late Gerhard L, Tietz was a board E.G.L. ""ember of the AJR. GARRISONS NAMED AFTER JEWS Dr. Hans Apel, W. German Defence Minister, "JEWS IN HESSE"—AN EXHIBmON .stated that most young Jews in Germany were .An exhibition about Jews in Hesse is held in STATISTICS OF INDEMNIFICATIOIV ready to serve in the Armed Forces, many as Friedberg and will later also be shown in other PAYMENTS volunteers, and that two garrisons had been named cities of the province. It comprises 300 well jj^'^rding to latest statistics, the German in­ after Jews killed in the First World War: Ludwig selected documents and 27 tablets, covering in demnification payments amounted to 59,000 mil- Frank, social democratic member of the Reichs­ chronological order the periods before and after •pn DM on January 1, 1979, Of these, the major tag, and Wilhelm Frankl, a fighter pilot. the emancipation, the persecution years and the S^ (46,000 million DM) were based on the re-establishment after the war. Altogether, re­ l^eral Indemnification Law (BEG) and 3,800 GERMAN THEOLOGY STUDENTS cords of about 40 places in Hesse are exhibited. IN ISRAEL ,""'ion DM on the Federal Restimtion Law THE WORMS JUDENGASSE KueG). The payments still to be made are Following a training programme devised by the r^'mated at 26,000 million DM, bringing the total Churches of Berlin, Hanover, Hesse-Nassau and the The Worms municipality has published a bro­ r.yments to 85,000 million DM, Of the benefici- Rhineland, young protestant students of theology chure on the Worms Judengasse which is •^es under the BEG 20 per cent lived in Ger- are to be sent to Israel to study Jewish tradition described as a historical monument of interna­ *'»y. 40 per cent in Israel and 40 per cent in and reconcile Christian and Jewish research into tional importance. The authorities are endeavour­ "er countries; the corresponding figvues for pay­ the Old Testament. The first students, a young ing to restore it as far as possible "as a reminder ments under the BRueG are 25 per cent in Ger- man and a young woman, have arrived to study of a history of Jewish settlement and scholarship otK ^' '^ P^ '^n* •" Israel and 35 per cent in Talmud and Mishnah, as well as Islam and bibli­ which lasted more than a thousand years and was ">er countries, cal archaeology at the Hebrew University. only broken under the national-socialist regime." SEESEN: A COMMUNAL HISTORY SWASTIKA IN PORNOGRAPHY A history of the Jews in Seesen has been "J^GHT-WING FANATICISM INCREASING Film producer Horst Peter of Essen has been written by Gerhard Ballin, member of an old Srr!^ 'he first trial against right-wing terrorist fined DM5,000 for issuing "Nazi Games", a por­ established Jewish family of that town (obtainable Da«^ at Biickeburg, Mr. Heinrich Sippel, de- nographic film including a sequence showing a through Buchhandlung Lippold, Poststr. 8, D-3370 pj^ent head of the Federal OflSce for the bare-breasted girl with a swastika armband. Peter Seesen. DM55). Based on thorough research and ej^Jpl^ion of the Constitution, was heard as an claimed that "Nazi Games" was a parody of documentary material the first section deals with 2o t* witness. He said that at present there were another film. the history of the community from its foundation fanar ^^ groups, with some 1,300 members, of in 1814 and the second with the genealogies of PuS right-wing activists in the Federal Re- about 50 Seesen families. There were close links the More than 75 per cent of them belonged to BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE between the Jewish residents and the Jacobson- evf^P?^-war generation and had not personally Schule (founded in 1801). Today, the local high tj,^'^«iced National Socialism. Before 1972, 51 Belsize Square, N.W.3 school and a street commemorate the name of )\l3 ? had only been two known cases of neo- the school's founder, Israel Jacobson (Halberstadt hre ^'^ivities in the Federal Republic. In 1976, SUCCOTH SERVICES 1768-Beriin 1828), fQy^,^*.ores of weapons, munitions and bombs were E.G,L, hard -"^ neo-Nazi centres, and the position was at the Beisize Square Synagogue JEWISH TOMBSTONES IN CHURCH tfg^?'iing. There were fewer members of ex- Eve: 6.30 p.m. '•nsu'^V P^"^'^' h"' t'^e present lot were dis- Medieval Jewish tombstones were foimd during S'lished by their desperately fanatical attitude, Morning: 11 a.m. restoration of the Koblenz Liebfrauenkirche, Ex­ '^o!?^''^.'^ witness in the case was sentenced to perts dated the stones to the early fifteenth Kitddush after each service in the century, when a Jewish cemetery, together with all the d f^*' '^*'^°''°'> f°r giving the Nazi salute to other Jewish property in the area, was seized by Wa,^. endants and the judge. Many of the people Succah the local Elector, The stones were then used in ''nifo °^ the trial appeared in black SS-like building the church. Pages AJR INFORMATION October 1979 H. W. Freyhan to the music section of the Akademie der Kuenste- He produced a prize-winning Cantata which " conducted at the Singakademie (still under the ARO\ FRIEDMAMM'S "SYMGOGIE MISIC" direction of Rungenhagen, his teacher, and one Felix Mendelssohn's successful rival for the pos )• A Gratifyiag Repriat After recovery from a long ilUiess he became chorus master of the Alte Synagoge where it waw Among the older generation of fonner Berlin He is on safer ground where his thorough Jewish his task to replace the traditional trio of "chazan^ Jews there must be quite a few who worshipped at learning enables him to present valuable inform­ bass and singer" by a 4-part chorus of boys an the Alte Synagoge, Heidreutergasse, where Aron ation on the Uturgy as such. As regards the musical men. His famous socharti loch was written for tm Friedmann officiated as cantor for four decades material he lists, with an abundance of examples in choir, as were his 12 settings of the 92nd Psaim until his retirement in 1923 (he lived tiU 1936). In notation, the various interpretations of the and many other compositions which ^^^ Ji 1908 he published his book Der synagogale Gesang, neginot. the accents used in the recitation of favourites with present-day congregations. TJ > which met with widespread interest, A reprint has bibUcal books, i,e,, the Torah (including the special are all published in his Todo w'simro (2 vols.; now been made available by Edition Peters, the chant for the High Holydays), the Haftara and the which followed his earlier Kol rino. well-known Leipzig music publishers (Mit Nach­ Megillot. He then proceeds to show their absorp­ In 1866 came his appointment as chorus "^^^^ wort und Registem; hrsg. Leo Roth und Richard tion in chants for prayers. The majority of trad­ of the Neue Synagoge Oranienburgerstrasse. r° Campbell in Verbindung mit Helmut Aris 1978, itional melodies is analysed in relation to their its liberal Service he added organ accompanimen ^ Bestell-Nr. 9317; 28,—M). One welcomes the fact basic scale. While he tends to rely too heavily on to his settings and also some organ preludes. « that a pubUcation of this kind should come out of the major and minor modes the characteristic— activities included a good deal of teaching, a Eastem Germany. "Jewish" sounding—modes which deviate from Aron Friedmann was one of his pupils, ... When the book was first published musicological customary European tonality are clearly defined, Like Sulzer, he was able to celebrate, while si exploration of this subject was still in its infancy. and so is the Steiger. the melodic type which in office, the 50th anniversary of his first aPP^'" ,' In accordance with his upbringing and his position forms the basis of many traditional tunes and was ment. The festivities concluded with a.'^"" ^ jj,e and experience the author concentrates on the often used in the constmction of new ones by the his compositions, with the participation of Ashkenazi tradition which he credits with a more cantors. Joachim Quartet (the most famous of its t'""^^. ancient—and more authentic—origin than the Although the author does not favour the intro­ the Philharmonic Choir under Siegfried OciWj Sephardic. Yet not many years after the appear­ duction of non-Jewish material he does accept such Soon afterwards Lewandowski retired and ance of the book Idelsohn began publishing his well-established cases as the Chanukah hymn and three weeks after his wife in 1894, His grave is collections of synagogue melodies which extended a few others. the Ehrenreihe of the Weissensee cemetery. ,^ to all communities of the Old World and thus For those who are familiar with the Ashkenazi The significance of the reprint of Fr'f'''"*"js: became the basis of authoritative research in this musical tradition—also much used in this country book is thus summed up in the publisher's ^""^ _ field. Friedmann no doubt took note of this new —Friedmann's book still makes quite fascinating "Seinen . . . Schriften begegnet der heutige Les^^ development which rendered many of his state­ reading. Of special interest are his two appendixes mit tiefer Betroffenheit als Zeugnissen einst gre ^ ments obsolete. He probably accepted the new out­ which contain the biographies of Sulzer and bar gewesener juedisch-deutscher Kultursymbios • look without feeling compeUed to undertake a Lewandowski, the two foremost composers of revision of his book in his old age. As it is, he has synagogue music in the 19th century. Written with enough to offer outside the confines of the his­ warm-hiarted admiration, they recall some signifi­ torical perspective. cant facts.

Sulzer and Lewandowski Salomon Sulzer (1804-90), who came from Hohenems (Vorarlberg), started his career as can­ France ^Germany's tor at the age of 16. From 1826-1881, he was the celebrated cantor of the Vienna Synagogue DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX Seitenstettengasse, His fame extended far beyond Finest Wines the Jewish community, and his admirers included Schubert, Lenau and Liszt. Schubert made him LTD. SHIPPED BY sing his song Der Wanderer three times and remarked: "Jetzt erst verstehe ich meine eigene Musik und was ich gefuehlt habe, als ich die Worte Ich wandre still, bin wenig froh, HOUSE OF Und immer fragt der Seufzer: wo? betont habe," At Sulzer's request, Schubert con­ tributed a Hebrew setting of the 92nd Psalm to the cantor's Shir Zion. HALLGARTEN Liszt, though no philosemite, was deeply im­ pressed when he heard Sulzer at a Service: "Wir I am able to offer you a superb haben ein einziges Mal Gelegenheit gehabt, eine selection of French (incl. Kosher Ahnung von dem zu empfinden, was eine juedische Kunst werden koennte, wenn die Israeliten alle Dunbee House Alsace) and German wines, Intensivitaet des in ihnen lebenden Gefuehls in shipped by the famous importers, Formen ihres Geistes kund gaeben." Louis Lewandowski (1821-94) was bom in 117 Great Portland Street, l-louse of hiailgarten, and to advise Wreschen. At the age of 12 he came to Berlin you personally and help you with where Alexander Mendelssohn, son of Joseph and London, W.l your wine purchases. The selection grandson of Moses, took an interest in his education. The young musician studied with B, ranges from your everyday wines Marx at the University and became the first Jew to the finest for your speoial who, after a rigorous examination, was admitted Simcha. Tol: 01-636 8677 Delivery to all U.K. addressee. CAMPS INTERNMENT-P.O.W.- Grams: FLEXATEX LONDON, Please write or phone : FORCED LABOUR-KZ JUSTIN GOLDMEIER I wish to buy cards, envelopes and folded post­ marked letters from all camps of both world wars. TELEX Wine Merchant Please send, registered mall, stating price, to: 22 Pennine Ortva, London, N.W.2 14 Roselyn Hill, London,'N.W.3 INT TELEX 2-3540 Tal: 01-465 8872 PETER C. RICKENBACK AJR INFORMATION October 1979 Page 9 P. L. Brassloff Susanne Liebmann THE STORY OF UNESCO BENEFACTOR TO An Insider's Views MANKIND . Unesco is one of the intemational organisa­ is Mr. Amadou-Ahmad M'Bow, a Senegalese Paul Ehrlich Aimiversary tions on which public opinion in Britain and Muslim with a French cultural background, A few months ago, the 125th anniversary of about whom Mr. Hoggart keeps rather silent. other Westem European countries is both Paul Ehrlich's birth was marked in Germany by a Mr. M'Bow was elected in response to demands badly informed and highly critical. Jews in ceremony, at which the then Federal President, Particular have been annoyed at and offended from non-European member States that a epresentative of the Third World should head Walter Scheel, presented the "Paul Ehrlich und ^y the recurrence of resolutions blatantly Ludwig Darmstaedter-Preis", the highest medical hostile to Israel and Zionism. Richard Hog- one of the specialised agencies belonging to award, to three distinguished professors. The 8art's critical and fair assessment of Unesco's the United Nations' "family". In fairness to Potentialities, achievements and shortcomings him, it should be taken into account that he trust, from which the awards arc derived, was ^s a valuable effort, aimed at bringing about had inherited the infamous anti-Israel resolu­ originally founded by Paul Ehrlich's widow in ^ better understanding of the working of the tions and has sought, in several instances, to 1929: after the war, it was reinstated with the United Nations' Organisation on Education, get consensus on basically controversial issuee. assistance of the Federal German Government, science and Culture: "An Idea and Its His heart is obviously more with Third World The anniversary was also commemorated by ^ervants—Unesco from Within" (Chatto & aspirations than Western democratic concepts Hoechst-A,G., which arranged an exhibition under Windus, London, 1978, 220 pp., £5-95). and ideas. But the trend to give priority to the the title "Paul Ehrlich—Forscher fuer das Leben". Hoggart became Assistant Director-General requirements of developing countries had The great contribution made by Paul Ehrlich to *t Unesco headquarters in Paris in 1970; he asserted itself before his ascendancy to the medicine was the invention of a new way of ••^signed from this post in the Spring of 1975, considerable powers at the disposal of the curing infectious illnesses. He was the founder of ^ few months before his term of office Director-General, Since then the Arab member chemotherapy, which provides a special, until ^xpired, because he felt unable to participate States have become more demanding; this is then unknown, remedy for killing the microbes J? the implementation of resolutions of the clearly reflected in Unesco's programmes and without doing damage to the body. general Conference which had agreed in activities—studies, conferences and publica­ Born in Silesia in 1854, Ehrlich was a pupil of ^ovember 1974 to condemn Israel on account tions. Robert Koch and took part in his teacher's re­ 1* alleged violations of the character of Already in the sixties Britain has shifted search into tuberculosis. He was infected and, to ''^riisalem by continued excavations and of responsibility for Unesco matters from the be cured, had to stay in Egypt for a time. In *arges of damaging Arab culture and educa- Ministry of Education to that for Overseas 1896, he was appointed director of a laboratory jOn in the occupied territories, excluded Development but the scope of Unesco concems in Steglitz, where he had only two rooms at bis •^fael from any of the regional groupings of transcends the terms of reference of govern­ disposal. Yet, as he put it, the success of his wort ^ember states, and had instructed the mental departments. The concept of continu­ depended on four G's: Geduld (patience), ^irector-General to withhold any assistance to ous education not restricted to formal school Geschick (skill) Glueck (luck)—and Geld (money). *^i"- These actions amounting to blatant dis- teaching has proved one of the valuable far- At the Georg-Speyer-lnstitute in Frankfurt/Main ~"tiination and isolation, have in the mean- reaching ideas elaborated and propagated he was supplied with everything he required, and 7?ie partly given way to wiser counsel, under Unesco auspices. An intemational il was there that the first cure for syphilis was ^though •condemnations" of the Jewish experts' congress on teaching on human rights, discovered: the famous Salvarsan. tate have become routine matters at consecu- held in Vieima in the autumn of 1978, recog­ ^^ General Conferences, disregarding inde­ nised the need for education on this topic at Discovery oJ Salvarsan pendent experts' reports favourable to Israel, all levels; this demand will be taken up by As an assiduous reader, Ehrlich knew ol the JJe belongs now to the Western Member Unesco. A declaration on race and racial pre­ experiments of Alphonse Laveran, who treated states' group. judice, adopted at last year's General Con­ mice suffering from blood parasites with injec­ , *t is indicative of Mr, Hoggart's sense of ference, was carried unanimously; this was tions of arsenic. He also knew the work of ecency that he severed his links with Unesco made possible by the Arabs consenting to the Schaudinn, who had discovered the microbes "lie others, more diplomatically minded, omission of any references to Zionism as which caused syphilis. After 606 experiments, ^•"ried on against their convictions. He is "racist". Consensus could also be reached at Ehrlich and his colleague. Professor Alfred '°* the warden of Goldsmith's College in the the same session on a declaration on the role Bertheim, found a compound of arsenic, which ^Diversity of London. The spell of service of the media for the promotion of peace and would kill microbes without doing harm to the y^ ^ high international servant was for the intemational understanding. The Communist mice. It was called Salvarsan ("Ehrlich-Bertheim an!? ^''Slish "provincial" both an interesting camp and its followers had insisted that poli­ 606"). Ehrlich kept the experiments going and, , d rewarding experience which he describes cies and activities af the media should be ultimately. Salvarsan was successfully used for the ii^'^i*^^' fairly and informatively in the book subjected to governmental control and re­ treatment of syphilis in human beings. There are "Oder review. sponsibility, but they relented in the face of records of many astonishing successes of Salvar­ strong and energetic opposition by the de­ san, but there were also occasional cases of con­ (^om • ^'"^^^ ^^ assistant director-general fenders of freedom of information. The dec­ p. r}Prised a wide range of topics, including vulsions and death, which have never been ex­ laration on race stipulates the right of individ­ plained. philosophy, the social sciences, the arts, the uals and groups to be different: this too is a eservation of ancient monuments, environ- After having attained fame, Ehrlich vvas given seminal concept, certainly of particular an audience by Kaiser Wilhelm II who offered to fjp^t, human rights, peace and action against relevance also from a Jewish point of view; ass^^' ^i*^i" ^^^^ terms of reference raise him to nobility, Ehrlich reminded the it may lead to new thoughts and actions in the Emperor that he was Jewish. When the Kaiser tl, '^'^^nt director-generals are responsible for sphere of human rights promotion. These are Pro ^^'^'inS out of parts of Unesco's current remarked thiit this could be changed, Ehrlich examples of how ideas, which were already replied: "I beg your pardon. Your Majesty, but (J. .^''snime and the preparation of future ones under consideration at the time when Mr. Gen ^ the supreme authority of the Director- this cannot be done in my case". Hoggart participated in shaping Unesco's poli­ In 1908, Ehrlich was awarded the Nobel Prize, th' ,e K^' ^^' Hoggart has a lot to say about cies, may be developed constructively. In bureaucracy at Unesco House in Paris, He died in 1915. As the forerunner of other Jhere answering the question "Should Unesco sur­ successful uses of chemotherapy, his work has a spirit of malaise prevailed at his vive?', he arrives at the unequivocal and rea­ gained even greater importance today, I) , ^ of service, largely due to the abrasive sonable conclusion: "In spite of all its fan­ a "aviour of the "boss", the brilliant, intoler- tastic, baroque, bewildering failings, Unesco (Readers who are interested in Ehrlich's work ^nd methodical Rene Maheu. His successor remains one of the more hopeful institutions can consult "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de created in this ambiguous century." Kruif.) *ECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER f^inest selectlo»i reconditioned PIANOS Annely ]uda Fine Art BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.S Always interested in purch£ising 1 1 Tottenham Mews, London WIP 9PJ well-preserved instruments "'-637 .5317/8 Our new communal hall is availat>

formed with many of the great names, Klemj^rer and Furtwaengler, and was acquainted with Sibe­ IN MEMORIAM lius, Elena Gerhard, Einstein and Schnabel—who accompanied her on one occasion. , PROFESSOR SIR ERNST CHAIN tions. When he returned to Britain from Rome, In 1939, she emigrated to England, togemer Professor Sir Emst Boris Chain, who has died he said one of his reasons had been his concern with her husband. Dr. Herbert Jessel, who died in at the age of 73, was the biochemist, who, to­ atx>ut the Jewish upbringing of his three children. 1965, and her daughter. She took up teaching m gether with Sir Alexander Fleming and Lord SIR OTTO KAHN-FREUND Woking and trained several well-known smgers. Florey, won the Nobel Prize in 1945 for the For many years, she was a patron of the Woking discovery of penicillin. He was one of the world's Soon after writing his charming Letter to the Festival. She also rendered her voluntary services greatest authorities on materials derived from Editor, published in the September issue of AJR to the AJR on the occasion of one of our annual living organisms and their biological effects. Information, our friend Sir Otto Kahn-Freund concerts arranged in the 'forties. He was born in Berlin as the son of a Russian- died suddenly in his home in Haslemere. Bom Sabine Meyen-Jessel's forceful personality im­ Jewish father and a German-Jewish mother. He in Frankfurt in 1900, he studied law at Heidel­ pressed itself on all who knew her. With ner studied at Berlin University and worked as a bio­ berg, Leipzig and London and was a judge in death, a further link with Berlin Jewry's past chemist a« the Charite Hospital until his emigra­ German courts until 1933. After his emigration, is broken, tion to England early in 1933. He first worked he became a barrister. From 1936-1951 he was DEATH OF DISTINGUISHED JOURNALIST in Cambridge and London before going to Oxford, lecturer and from 1951-1964 Professor of Law at at the invitation of the then Dr. Florey to organ­ the London School of Economics. Between 1964 Mr. Sam Modiano, the doyen of Greek jour­ ise a biochemical section. In 1938, while search­ and 1971 he was Professor of Comparative Law at nalists, has died, aged 84. For 35 years, he was ing through the literature for references to liso- Oxford. He was knighted in 1976 for services to chief correspondent and manager of Reuters in zyme, an enzyme with the ability to kill bacteria, labour law and a Fellow of Brasenose College Greece and Turkey. Before the last war, he was he came across Dr. Fleming's report on his dis­ (Oxford), Trinity Hall (Cambridge) as well as of owner and proprietor of the French language covery that the mould of penicillium notatum pro­ the British Academy. In 1969, he was elected an daily "Le Progres" in his native Salonika. It was duced a bacteria-inhibiting substance which, how­ Honorary Bencher at the Middle Temple. closed down in 1939, because it supported tne ever, he had been unable to extract. After an Sir Otto was a co-founder and co-editor of allied cause. When the Germans occupied Salo­ exhaustive research. Chain and Florey succeeded the "Modern Law Review" and a member of the nika in 1941, Modiano, his wife and children in producing pure penicillin which did much to Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Em­ went into hiding. Other members of his family' reduce death from infection among the wounded ployers Associations ("Donovan Commission"). including his 82-year old father, were deportee in the Allied Forces. The age of antibiotics had He published a number of important books on and killed in Auschwitz and Belsen. He himseii begun. Unfortunately, Oxford and the Medical a variety of legal subjects from Matrimonial hid, disguised as a blind professor, whose """'i?^ Research Council disregarded Chain's expressed Property Law to the Internationalisation of Eng­ was his wife. With the help of a friendly Italian wishes and refused to patent the new drug, so lish Private International Law. Last year, he de­ Consulate official, he provided false Italian docu­ that American drug companies reaped much of livered the "Thank-You Britain" Fund Lecture ments for 138 Jewish families to save them from the material benefits. under the auspices of the British Academy on deportation. For his work in promoting frieno- the topical subject "Labour Relations—Heritage ship between Greece and Britain, he was apPO'"" After the war. Sir Emst was unable to find and Adjustment". Based on a thorough know­ adequate research facilities in Britain and went ted an honorary OBE. He was also decorated pX ledge of the complicated subject and excelling France, Italy, and Poland. One of his sons, Mario, to Rome for 17 years to become scientific director by its concise formulations, the presentation was of the International Research Centre for Chemi­ is still Athens correspondent for "The Times'. a stimulating experience for all listeners. Mean­ REMEMBRANCE SER'VICE AT WILLESDEN cal Microbiology. He returned to Britain in 1965 while, the paper has been published for the British fo become Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial Academy by Oxford University Press, At the annual service of remembrance at tne College, London, where research facilities were Fully integrated into this counrty. Sir Otto Willesden Liberal Jewish Cemetery, before tne provided in the college's new biochemistry build­ memorial stone designed by refugee sculpt" ing. He had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Kahn-Freund always retained his loyalty to his community of origin, and various utterances of Benno Elkan, Rabbi J. Kokotek of the Belswe Society in 1949, and was knighted in 1969. He Square Synagogue said, the world had learne remained at Imperial College until 1973. his testify to his appreciation of the AJR, of which he was an interested member. little from the tragedy of the Holocaust, as couio Sir Ernst was also an accomplished musician be seen from the tragedy of the Boat People, n and in his youth tom between choosing music or continued: "In this age of hypocrisy, the ""'/,- science as a career. In 1975, he gave a recital at SABINE MEYEN-JESSEL nations repeat the indecision which contributed t Wigmore Hall, playing pieces for two pianos with The singer Sabine Meyen-Jessel who had at­ the liquidation of six million Jews and countless his son Benjamin. He spoke six languages fluently tained fame in Germany until her career was cut others besides." and enjoyed close professional association with short in 1933, died on July 29 at the age of 83, his wife Dr. Anne Beloff, herself a talented bio­ She began her professional life at the Hamburg REFUGEE MILLIONAIRE'S CHARTTIES chemist and member of a family of distinguished Opera in the 1916-17 season and later went to the Mr. Erich Markus, head of Office and Electronic Jewish scholars. He felt deeply for his adopted Berlin Staatsoper. There she sang most of the Machines, has left most of his £4 million estate countrv and was one of the Patrons of the major coloratura roles in Mozart and took her charities to be selected by his executors. He "^ j "Thank-You Britain" Fund. place as one of the great Queens of the Night. to Britain as a refugee from Nazi oppression i He was also a committed Jew and worked pas­ She was also one of the early artists of the gramo­ the thirties and built his company from *"Vgf sionately for many causes connected with Jewish phone and wireless, recording for HMV from 1921 beginnings into a public concem with a ^^'^^ft.js affairs and culture, and the State of Israel whose on and singing in the first broadcast performance of more than £30 million. He died, aged 73, at n academic institutions awarded him many distinc­ of Milhaud's "Christophe Colombe". She per­ home in Dolphin Square, Pimlico.

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OLD FRIENDS REVISITED The magniflcent new extension to the Tate THEATRE AND CULTURE Gallery has made it possible to show far more of American Plays on Israeli Stages. According to Berlin, "Juristen" is the title of a new play by the collection and to better advantage. ffcent reports, acting standards are high both in Rolf Hochhuth whose previous works "The Rep­ There is something there to satisfy every taste, Tel Aviv and Haifa, where the Municipal Theatre resentative" and "Soldiers" were much discussed but in Gallery 35 a number of old friends are ended last season with O'Casey's "Plough and the at the time of their appearance. Hochhuth, always well displayed. It contains, for instance, a beauti­ Stars", and where an ensemble, described as writing plays on topical and sometimes controver­ ful Max Liebermann self-portrait (presented by Unusually vital" revived Tennessee Williams' sial subjects, calls "Juristen" (which is to be given Simon Marks, later Lord Marks), Next to it, is Streetcar named Desire". American authors also a first performance at "Freie Volksbuhne", Berlin) a Muench oil painting and, directly opposite a scored in Tel Aviv, where Arthur Miller's "Death a history of the German Federal Republic. very fine oil by Martin Bloch, a painter who is of a Salesman" (at present also in the repertoire Obituary. "He always stood in the shadow of not as appreciated as he should be. Here there are of the Lyttelton Theatre, London) owed its suc­ his celebrated father." Thus runs the description also works by Barlach, Nolde, Lehmbruck, cess to a well-balanced cast, led by Josef Jadin of Gottfried Reinhardt, son of Max Reinhardt, Corinth, Schmidt-Rottluff and George Grosz, as *hose name as a leading actor of our time has who has died in Rome aged 66. During his well as a very good early work by Arthur Segal. Oy now also become known outside Israel. American exile he worked for a time with Metro- In Gallery 27 there are works by Jankel Adler, Senior Citizens of Vienna. In forthcoming pro­ Goldwyn-Mayer, where among other scripts, he Josef Herman, Leon Kossoff. and a number of ductions at the Vienna "Burg" during this wrote the book foj "The Great Waltz" in 1940, Frank Auerbach's oils. Gallery 53 contains a Ijutumn, the part of Madame Ponelle in Molifere's After his return to Europe, he produced several selection of works by Lucian Freud (grandson of 'Tartuffe" will be played by octogenarian fllms and in 1961, directed a new "Jedermann" Sigmund Freud), another Martin Bloch and large Adrieime Gessner, whilst in a revival of Rai- in Salzburg. As a sort of self-appointed adminis­ figure paintings by Francis Bacon. •nund's "Bauer als Millionar", Attila Horbiger trator of his father's literary estate, he wrote a David Bomberg has a particularly good showing ^iU be seen as "Hohes Alter", a part previously book "Der Liebhaber" which appeared in 1973. in the new extension, including one of his finest Pjayed by the late Otto Tressler when he was in The death in Vienna is reported of Heinz works "The Mud Bath", while Gertler's "Queen ™s 90s. Burg-actress Hilde Wagener celebra­ Sandauer (69), musician, composer and arranger, of Sheba" and "Jewish Family" fit happily to­ ted her 75th birthday; Dr. Karl Bohm, the only and above all, conductor of the Vienna "Rund­ gether with Epstein's sculptures. Austrian "Generalmusikdirektor", was feted in funk Orchestra" for several decades. This is but an outline of what is to be seen; Salzburg during this vear's Festival; he was 85 on the inquiring observer will find far more treasures, August 28. S.B. ALICE SCHWAB

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Yet these bare biographical facts cannot do BIRTHDAY TRIBUTES justice to his personality. Fritz Brodnitz is a man of widespread interests. He has remained ^ware META WORMS 85 Women's Lodge, and she had the joy of seeing of his roots and only recently was one °f ' The 85th birthday of Meta Worms on October her son Fred Worms serve two terms as National honorary guests of Berlin, his city of birth. Above 21 is an occasion to pay tribute to a remarkable President of the UK district of B'nai B'rith. all, he has retained a cordial relationship W'" woman who during the most critical and danger­ Through her life, Meta Worms has been an his friends of the old days, now scattered all over ous years in Nazi Germany worked single-handed example of Jewish motherhood in the widest the world. Like his newly won friends and col­ to rescue children from there and find homes for sense, always mindful of the needs—moral, emo­ leagues, they wish him many happy retums of them in this country. With the help of the British tional and material—of her charges, self-effacing the day. Consul in Frankfurt and of relatives who had in her activities, spontaneous and determined in already settled in this country, she found homes her actions, and tolerant and compassionate in here and managed to send 45 children to Britain. her decisions. Her "children", now scattered UNDIMINISHED VIGOUR All this was done at a considerable personal risk throughout the world and all her many friends 85th Birthday of Ida Herz as her enormous efforts and her daily visits to wish her many more years in good health and in On October 18, Miss Ida Herz will celebrate the British Consulate (where she was considered, enjoyable activity. her 85th birthday. Her activities and her vigour in her own words, "almost like an employee") S.H. have not decreased during the past years. On tn attracted the attention of the German authorities. contrary, several ventures made her even known to When trumped-up charges were about to be laid FRIEDRICH BRODNFTZ 80 a wider public. She delivered two broadcasts, one against her she left Germany at a few hours' It is hard to believe that "der junge Brodnitz" about reminiscences of Nuernberg, her city oi notice, leaving behind her mother, her young as he was called in Berlin as the son of Justizrat birth, and the other, based on her prof^"S^ daughter and her nephew whom she had taken Julius Brodnitz, has now become an octogenarian. experience, about "Beautiful Bookshops", ^ne into her home. Fortunately, her mother managed A laryngologist by profession, he held several also gave an account of her long standing rela­ to escape to France and her daughter and nephew leading positions in German-Jewish life. Closely tionship with Thomas Mann in a lecture, giY«" were able to join the third—and last—children's conneoted with Ludwig Tietz, he belonged to at London University College under the titw transport which Meta Worms had prepared before that wing of the Central-Verein, which fought for "Korrespondenz und Freundschaft mit Thomas leaving, and which she joyously received in this the participation of non-Zionists in the work of Mann". It was the relationship with the Bi*"' country. Throughout the war she continued to the Jewish Agency. After the death of Ludwig author which, to a high extent, has shaped ner look after all "her" children, coUecting funds Tietz, he also became his successor as chairman personality and given content to her life. "^^Jf^' from private sources, from B'nai B'rith and other of the Reichsausschuss der juedischen Jugend­ Mann's recently published "Tagebuecher '933/* organisations. verbaende. When his medical career was cut short bear witness to this. Time and again, he f^*^?'^ After the war, with the support of the Leo in 1933, he was appointed press officer of the that he had written to "die Herz" or had re'^^'J'^j Baeck (London) Women's Lodge, Meta Worms "Reichsvertretung". In 1937, he emigrated to the mail from her. Still in Germany, which he li8° founded the Children's Care Committee with the United States to resume his professional activities. already left for Switzerland, she was repeatedly object of raising funds for children's holidays and During the first years after his arrival, he was also instrumental in sorting out his affairs, ^^.^^^^^ education. Nowadays with the needs of Jewish associated with the work for the benefit of his risk to herself. Courage and a passion for Ju'V children in this country greatly reduced, much fellow Jews from Germany, and he is now the have always been among her outstanding qualities. of the money raised is being sent to Israel for "First Ex-President" of the Habonim Congrega­ Whenever she learns about happenings in Ger­ the same purposes. She remained the hard-working tion in New York, Yet, whilst always loyal to many or other countries, which might ''"P?g leader and chairman of this enthusiastic committee his origin, he later concentrated on his profession political freedom or endanger the position of tD^ for 21 years and is still active as a committee and became widely known all over the country as Jews, she will spontaneously contact her frienos member. an authority on voice treatment. He has many and discuss with them the possibilities of counter­ Meta Worms and her family have been deeply prominent artists among his patients, has ad­ actions. Mav she retain her youthful spirit atio involved in B'nai B'rith and communal affairs for dressed numerous conventions and is fully occu­ enthusiasm for very many years to come. many years. She herself had a successful term of pied by his lectures at Hunter College and his oflice as President of the Leo Baeck (London) publications on his special subject. W.R-

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