VolumeXXXIV No. 8 August 1979 INFORMATION iSSUfD BY THE ASSOOAnOH OF MWBH MWGOS U OlEAT BRITAm

easily cared for flats, independent but with a modicum of supervision, but Homes would be for A YEAR OF SUCCESS those who were really disabled in a greater or lesser degree—whether the cause be sickness, con­ AJR General Meeting fusion or simply very old age. Referring to her previous report about the This year's Annual General Meeting on June 28 The journal also carried comments on contro­ problems encountered in the process of unionis­ *' Hannah Karminski House not only re-afBrmed versial issues. This had an enlivening effect and ation of the Homes' staff, Mrs. Taussig reported "le undiminished need for the AJR as the rep­ resulted in an increase of "letters to the Editor". that the situation was now much better. For this resentative body of our community but also Mrs. S. Taussig, General Secretary of the AJR, work tribute had to be paid to the administration Stifled to the organisation's continuous accom­ reported that there had been almost no change in of the CBF, which is the owner of the Homes and plishment of new tasks. Dr. F. E. Falk, Vice- the number of members, which amounted to about the employer of the staff and which, by dint e apologies of the Chainnan, Mr. C. T. Marx, be made up by new enrolments. Yet if everyone come the problems. *ho had been unable to attend. He paid tribute to brought us new members, it would raise our pro­ There was a need for more people to interest 'he Board members, who had died during the past spects and our finances considerably. themselves in the Homes and the residents on a y^r: Dr. Arthur Kaufmann, Dr. Herbert Lawton Sheltered Housing personal level and to relieve a little the members *ithe Holocaust Film had made in enormously successful Club under Mrs. Jacoby's had to deal with cases, where people could not Germany, Britain and almost all other countries in and Mrs. Segall's benevolent guidance, and the bring themselves to agree to go into a Home, even ^hich it was shown. He also stressed the duty of Meals on Wheels kitchen with its marvellous band though they found it very difficult to cope in their 'he survivors to save the names of the victims of volunteers sent out nearly 1,000 meals a month. own homes. It was essential to help people to ^^m oblivion. For this purpose, a "Hall of In 1975, the cost of a meal was 38ip, in 1979, manage independently as long as possible and, of yamej" had been created in Yad Vashem, including delivery, the cost was 72ip of which course, the Meals on Wheels Service played a big •'erusalem. He appealed to the audience to register customers were only charged 60p for this splendid part in this. In recent months it had become even '"e names of relatives and friends of theirs, to be service for emergencies and for regulars. more important; while for over a year the admis­ ^"shrined in the Hall; the necessary forms may be Eleanor Rathbone House, jointly owned with sion of new residents was quite rapid, we were °fdered from the Board of Deputies of British the Central British Fund, was always full, and on once again in a position of having to keep people [•^ws, Wobum House, Upper Wobum Place, Lon- the rare occasions when a flat became available waiting, particularly for Osmond House, where °°n WCIH OEP. there were always people ready and waiting— admission was usually urgently needed. , "deferring to the political situation in this country, though not as many as in the past. Since the "^ stressed that, although the National Front had original applications were received, many had Social Services "tained only comparatively few votes in the Gen- found altemative accommodation or been admitted There was a constant co-operation with social fal Election, the danger of its activities should to Old Age Homes. The voluntary support work work departments of the local authorities, hosp­ °t be underestimated. for Eleanor Rathbone House had, for a long time itals and voluntary organisations. They recognised Turning to the work of the AJR, the speaker past, been carried out with great devotion by Mrs. our work and the giving of help and advice was a ^Ported that the Office constantly received en- Anderman, Mrs. Mautner and Mrs. Trent. As the two-way traffic. This was also trae of our Social ^''•ries on legal questions most of which were two latter were at present unable to continue, new Services Department, where there had been some />nnected with the award of German Social In- helpers were needed and anyone who could under­ changes. Mrs. Marion Casson had retired at the , ranee pensions and the taxability of various take to go to Highgate and see the residents end of 1978. She had buih up a highly efficient Itindis of payments to Nazi victims. Though the department but she was also one who was well offic, should contact Mrs. Anderman or the General e had no experts on its staff, it tried to give Secretary. able to delegate, and Mrs. Sylvia Matus, who has j ^'•niation on matters of a general nature, but taken over the Department from her, had known more complicated cases enquirers were directed Old Age Hoines how to profit from this. In future, the Department ft u^^ ^^^ professional experts working in this With regard to the Old Age Homes, Mrs. Taus­ would also take on most of the counselling work sig reported that efforts were constantly made by of Self Aid. Both organisations now worked hand . ''• Rosenstock also mentioned that the con- the AJR in conjunction with the CBF to improve in glove and the need for this integration had been ^^ts with the Committee of the British Academy, the standard of the Homes. As the buildings aged, recognised and nearly achieved. j,"'ch decides on fellowships out of the "Thank- the repairs increased, and many thousands had to Mrs. Taussig ended her comprehensive report by j°f Britain" Fund, had been strengthened. Whilst be budgeted for this work. The CBF continued to announcing that the next Self Aid Concert, that . '^'ng the last years awards had sometimes been do yeoman work in obtaining Local Authority well loved institution which provides an annual cftJ^ for research work on more abstract themes, support for this, and also for the second great area meeting place for the comraunity, was scheduled effo,'•"t s at obtaining more applications from of expenses—that is for fire precautions. To these for Monday, November 5, and that details would y '^^^r% who were able to work on topical ques- two areas of expense had to be added a third, even be announced in "AJR Information". ^ had been intensified, greater—the need to improve the facilities within The Financial Report, which followed, was given /o ^^^ ^"^' "^^ speaker dealt with "AJR In- the Homes, to modernise them and to increase by Mr. L. Spiro, Hon. Treasurer of the AJR. p^^°f'on". As the "Jewish Chronicle", where the toilet facilities. To provide more care for the very Referring to the audited accounts for 1978, copies 5]^'" had been typeset for almost 25 years, had frail, a "Frail Unit" had been established in of which were laid out in the Hall, he stated that jj^d its printing plant, new arrangements had to Osmond House. In the course of the next ten the income from subscriptions and donations had ris ^.^'^^ which also involved a very considerable years or so, Mrs. Taussig pointed out, we would amounted to £34,000 to which the contribution in costs. A high proportion of the columns see a very considerable reorientation of the care of £14,000 through the Central Fund out of the 'he "f^* required for news items and Personalia; for the old. The tendency was already away from heirless Jewish property in Germany had to be efore, space for feature articles was limited. the Homes for the fairly fit. Many would welcome continued on page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION August 1979

A MORAL VICTORY AJR General Meeting Our readers will have seen from reports in the continued from page 1 press that the German Federal Parliament has decided in a free vote to abolish the Statute of added. Against this total income of £48,000 stood help and understanding among Jewish and non- Limitation for murder. This brings the German an expenditure of £51,000, leaving a deficit of Jewish residents of this country. This was also Federal Republic in line with most Western £3,000. To consider the future policy, a special stated in the Vote of Thanks moved by Dr. Arnold countries where the Statute has never applied to Membership Sub-Committee had been set up. So Horwell, who had known Dr. Levy from the early murder. Contrary to widely-held beliefs, this far, there had been no obligatory increase of the days of Kitchener Camp onwards. He recalled decision has no great effect on the prosecution ot subscription fees, but the expenditure which was various episodes during his service with the British Nazi murderers, since the Statute was lifted for bound to rise in future could only be covered if Army and also paid tribute to the personalities in genocide in 1969, and known Nazi criminals who all members who were able to do so, voluntarily charge of the relief organisations for refugees. On emerge from hiding, would always have been increased their contributions and, if possible, made behalf of the audience, he thanked Dr. Levy for brought to court. It does affect the small number their payments under Deeds of Covenant. The the frank and understanding way in which he had of new cases which are still coming to light- speaker also appealed to members to make be­ dealt with the many-sided subject of his talk. However the decision is important as a moral quests in their Wills for the AJR Charitable Trust gesture: as proof that the Federal German laW' and mentioned that during the year ending April givers feel in conscience bound to continue in 1978, the last audited business year of the Trast, their endeavours to punish the guilty and to make £27,000 had been received in this way. sure that a younger generation, deeply stirred by Whilst many victims of Nazi persecution ren­ THE REFUGEES OF 1979 the lessons of the "Holocaust" film, is made aware dered their support to the practical work of the of a past about which they know all too little- AJR, quite a few of them tried to forget the past. Jews all over the world, and in particular those Jewish organisations in this country, in Israel The speaker particularly referred to the annual of us who have experienced the fears and anxieties and elsewhere have congratulated the Federal London Meetings in Commemoration of the War­ of escaping from persecution, are following with Goverimient on its courageous stand in the face ol saw Ghetto Uprising and the Sbc Million Jewish horror the news about the Vietnamese boat- a strong opposition led by Franz Joseph Strauss Victims of the Holocaust. It was regrettable, Mr. people. It now appears that the numbers may not who wanted the past forgotten and buried. Spiro stated, that only rather few former German be far from the terrible proportions of the Holo­ Jews attended these important functions, and he caust. We have heard that these people are proud, expressed the hope that in future their proportion industrious and intelligent and have much to RETIREMENT OF JOAN STIEBEL in the audience would increase. offer any host country. We must be prepared to After more than 40 years' work in aid of The Financial Report was unanimously adopted refugees. Miss Joan V. Stiebel, MBE, retired as contribute to every effort to alleviate their suffer­ Secretary of the Central British Fund for WorW by the members. ings. In the ensuing elections, the proposals of the Jewish Relief. In 1933, when the emergency arose in Germany, she held a position in the firm of the Executive Committee, published in the June issue The various agencies which deal with the late Otto Schiff. At that time. Otto Schiff started of "AJR Information", were unanimously adopted. problem and which would greatly welcome any his unforgettable work for the rescue of the This means that the chairman, Mr. C. T. Marx, donations include the British Council for Aid to victims of Nazi persecution and for the care oi the other members of the Executive and of the Refugees, 35 Great Peter St., London S.W.l. those who had found refuge in this country. ^°^° Board were re-elected and that Rabbi Dr. C. The Jews' Temporary Shelter in London has Stiebel, as his helpmate, was involved in th^e Cassell, Mr. F. Durst and Mrs. Helen Ury were asked the British Council for Aid for Refugees efforts from the very beginning. In 1939, S"^ co-opted to the Board. whether it could be of assistance in housing a joined the Jewish Refugees Committee as a senior small number of families, but was told that, at the full-time worker, later she was seconded to the moment, it was planned for the refugees to be CBF and ultimately became its Secretary. She Rabbi Levy looks at the Past housed at one London site. reviewed the history of the CBF only recently in a comprehensive and concise lecture under the aus­ /Vfter the conclusion of the General Meeting the Mr. Paul Hartling, the United Nations High pices of the Jewish Historical Society. Yet on that Rev. Dr. Isaac Levy, OBE, gave a talk on "My Commissioner for Refugees, has praised the occasion she did not refer to her own decisive Friends from the Continent". Dr. Levy was well Israeli Government for the initiative taken about share in the CBF's achievements. This omission known to many members of the audience by his Vietnamese refugees. He had received a letter from was made up for on the occasion of a Receptio? work as Jewish Chaplain at Kitchener Camp and Mr. Begin, proposing that all UN members should in her honour, when the chairman of the CBF. his various other activities during and after the declare their readiness to accept a number of Mr. Kenneth D. Rubens, and other fellow workers refugees commensurate with the size of their of hers in London, the Provinces and overseas war. In assessing the record of Anglo-Jewry he countries and populations. International confer­ paid tribute to her. They all praised the efficiency was highly, and perhaps a little too highly, critical ences would not solve the problem, they would and devotion by which her activities excelled, bu' of the community's reaction to the catastrophe. only create endless talk, as Jews remembered from it was certainly no accident that the word "charin Many more persecutees, he stated, could have been the Nazi era. was also included in each of the speeches. We, the saved, and more Jewish families should have pre-war refugees, were the first beneficiaries of her accepted German-Jewish children in their homes. In America, Jewish groups have been active work, and there has always been a close personal He also recalled that, with the best mtentions, helping refugees. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid relationship between her and officers of the AJR- Society (Hias) has placed 5,000. Mr. Elie Wiesel, Though we regret that she will no longer be our money collected was not always spent in the most chairman of the President's Holocaust Commis­ "opposite number" at Woburn House, we find constractive way. Thus a hostel for refugee girls, sion, urged all countries to offer asylum and to comfort in the thought that she will make goo" established by one congregation, was so luxuriously learn from the lesson of the Holocaust not to err use of the well deserved freedom from the day-to­ equipped that with the same funds more hostels again. day duties and will retain her interest in the worK for more children could have been built. He also and the people in charge of it. recalled the difflculties with which "German- Miss Stiebel will be succeeded in her office by speaking British soldiers" were faced, because they Mrs. Eva Mitchell, who is also a vice-president were not allowed to use the German language. of the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain and He himself had disregarded this order, whenever a GERTRUD LUCKNER HONOURED vice-chairman of the National Council for Sovie' refugee soldier wanted to pour out his heart to Jewry. „ Dr. Gertrad Luckner, a Roman Catholic, who him. As an outstanding example of those who risked her own life and spent years in concen­ spoke up for the persecutees he mentioned the late tration camps for helping a great number of Jewish Bishop Bell of Chichester. Dr. Levy expressed people to hide and to escape from Nazi per­ EINSTEIN MEMOIOAL STAMP regret at the fact that the Anglo-Jewish establish­ secution, was made a freeman of the city of To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of ment had not adequately made use of the former Freiburg. During the ceremony, a representative Albert Einstein on March 14, the German Federal religious leaders from Germany, "the cream of the of the Jewish community said that her life and her Ministry of Post will issue a memorial stamp.*"; German-Jewish intelligentsia". He also mentioned record had helped to make it possible for Jews to August 9. The delay is attributed to technica' live in post-war Germany. The Israeli Ambassador difficulties. The stamp (60 Pfennig) will not depicj the contributions made by Jews from the Con­ sent a letter in which he thanked Dr. Luckner for tinent in the fields of scholarship and industry. In the head of the great scientist but an abstract what she had done. graphic sketch. Memorial stamps have, among the course of time they had integrated into their other countries, also been issued in the German new environment. Yet it was the task of all of us, Democratic Republic and in the US. difficult as it may be, to convey the memory of our past experience to the younger generation. PEACE PRIZE FOR YEHUDI MENUHIN For the first time ever, the Peace Prize of the VOLKSWAGEN SUPPORTS LEO BAECK Dr. Levy's critical remarks on Anglo-Jewry were INSTITUTE followed by the audience with deep interest. How­ German Book Trade was awarded to a musician: it was given to Yehudi Menuhin "who sees in The Volkswagenwerk Foundation has contri" ever, whilst most of those present had gone music a chance to bring about peace". The award buted about £80,000 to the New York Leo Baec^ through some of the difflculties described by the mentioned that in many countries he had donated Institute for the completion and publication of a speaker, they also remembered acts of unselfish the fee for his concerts to humanitarian causes. catalogue of its archives. AJR INFORMATION August 1979 Page 3 ANGLO'JVDAICA HOME NEWS Ambitious new Housing Project Lord Fisher of Camden and Barnet's Mayor JEWS FOR EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY 160 YEARS JEWISH BUND SOCIETY Rita Levy opened the new Home "'Harmony Three Jews were among the Conservatives More than 200 guests, including the Duke of Close", built by the B'nai B'rith Housing Society elected to the European Assembly. 56-year-old Mr. Edinburgh, gathered at the Carlton Tower Hotel in Golders Green at a cost of nearly £2 million. Ted Tuckmann. who came to this country as a to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the Jewish It has room for 120, mainly elderly people, but refugee from the Continent, had a majority of Blind Society, called "the brightest jewel in the also 25 flatlets for younger singles and 10 units for nearly 34,000 in the safe Conservative seat of crown of Anglo-Jewry" by Lord Fisher. The disabled tenants. Mr. Fred Worms, chairman of ^icestershire. During the war, he served in the chairman reported that the Society had started the B.B. Building Committee, said the two-acre *oyal Air Force, later he studied politics at Lon­ life at the London Tavern in Bishopsgate, and development was a classic example of inter-faith don University. For many years, he has worked as that the annual report for 1873 showed an income co-operation: half the site had been bought from nianagement consultant in Germany, Finland, of £300 against £1,042 expenditure, "one of the the next-door Carmelite monastery*. The cost per ?M Switzeriand. Mr. Derek Prag, a 55-year-old earliest examples of deficit budgeting." In 1938 the flatlet had risen from £4,500 in 1963 to over journalist who speaks seven languages and worked Society brought over 150 blind people and their £20,000 in 1979. The bulk of the funds came from 'n Intelligence during the war, won the Hertford- dependants as refugees from Nazi oppression. This a 60-year mortgage, supplied by the Department J.''ire constituency with 47,000 votes. He has pub- year, it has an annual budget of £1 million. The of the Environment, with substantial contributions •sned books and pamphlets on Europe and re- Duke of Edinburgh praised the work of the from the Fund. ,^'ved the Silver Medal of European Merit in Society and said that its establishment in 1819 tK u ^^- Madron Richard Seligmann registered "speaks volumes for the tradition of the Jewish Success of new Day Centre 'ne highest vote (130,000) and the largest majority community in caring for its less fortunate Michael Sobell House, the new Jewish Day °i any candidate in Britain (95,000). His interest brethren." He expressed his thanks to all those Centre in the former La Sagesse convent in " European affairs began when, some 40 years who had helped to maintain this tradition and the Golders Green, is now fully operational with a *8o, he was a fellow-student of Edward Heath in wish that the Gentile world could do as well. daily attendance of some 120 persons. Many yword and went with him on an exploratory organisations use the centre for their own meetings ourney to Nazi Germany in August, 1939. His GREVILLE JANNER BOARD PRESIDENT and functions. One important unit transferred to neenuity and command of German helped them Mr. Greville Janner, QC, MP, until now senior it is the Welfare Board's rehabilitation unit, which ° get back to England two days before the out- Vice-President of the Board of Deputies, was caters for persons discharged from psychiatric an?» °^ ^'^^- They have remained firm friends, elected Board President. Like his predecessor. hospitals. At the day centre, there are various Oo Mr. Heath has often stayed as a guest at Mr. Lord Fisher of Camden, he has always been a shops, and the services of a hairdresser and a 2^»8mann's villa on the French Riviera. Mr. most helpful friend of the AJR. chiropodist are available. Later on a Citizens' j^'i&nann is a member of the well-known banking THE "GUARDL\N" AND THE JEWS Advice Bureau, the first on the premises of a Mr. Peter Preston, editor of the "Guardian", Jewish organisation, will be added. At present, the said during a discussion with representatives of centre has 17 paid employees, and 140 volunteers, GUIDELINES ON ARAB BOYCOTF the Board of Deputies that his paper's policy was but there is still an urgent need for drivers to jj 'ne Department of Trade has issued new, to encourage the peace-making process begun bring people from outlying districts like Harrow J "J^r.guidelines for British companies on how to between Israel and Egypt and was not conducting and Wembley. Brif• ^''*' ^^^ Arab boycott, in order to encourage a campaign against Israel or Zionism, as was often CBF helps 100,000 witK u ''"sinessmen to trade with Israel as well as alleged. At a dinner at Skinners' Hall in the City of *h k Arabs, and to resist boycott undertakings THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PLO London, for nearly lOO supporters of CBF, now frft!? *°"W "unnecessarily limit their commercial Sir Ian Gilmour, Government spokesman on called World Jewish Relief, the guest of honour. mr;^? ^^y *^'^ explicitly that the Govem- foreign affairs, has called on the Palestine Liber­ Sir Marcus Sieff, said the organisation had brought *nt "is opposed to and deplores all trade boy- ation Organisation to accept the principle of a 100,000 victims of the Holocaust to Britain. It Q^J~„'hat lack intemational support and auth- negotiated Middle East settlement and to ac­ was now helping the Jews of Iran. An appeal y- The Department's Commercial Relations knowledge Israel's right to exist. He said that in raised £10,000. The Sephardi community also c^T-Export Division is ready to give "in strict that case there would be no difficulty for the launched a campaign for World Jewish Relief at a r™idence" advice to any firm faced with the government to talk to the PLO. dinner at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Francis •^cott situation. RESEARCH ON AUSCHWITZ Mocatta. Mr. Kenneth D. Rubens, WJR chair­ '^W OPPORTUNITIES FOR BRITISH Mr. Eric Moonman, chairman of the Zionist man urged the Sephardi community to seek closer „ , INDUSTRY Federation, will chair a committee to investigate identity with the organisation. £3,000 was raised. noth the London Board of Trade and the com- the war-time attitude of the Allied Powers to Speaker Guest of Cardiff IVIizraciii ^^fcial section of the British Embassy in Tel Auschwitz in the light of recent revelations. Mr. George Thomas, the Speaker of the House exijn ^^^ urging British constraction firms and FAKE LEAFLET AT SOVIET EXfflBITION of Commons, was a guest of honour at a luncheon 8ooS"^^" of capital machinery and consumer held by the Cardiff Women's Mizrachi group and OBenfj*** ^^'^ themselves of die opportunities During the recent USSR National Exhibition at Earls Court, the Women's Campaign for Soviet was presented with a certificate to denote the EKVT* "P *" ^^rae\ after the peace treaty with placing of a plaque in the name of his late i^^: Four seminars for businessmen will Jewry managed to substitute a specially printed leaflet for the official leaflet on the exhibition in mother, Mrs. Emma Thomas Davies, at the Bnei •p2JJ*int them with the new prospects for trade, Brak vocational girls' school in Israel. An amount •he K ^^^ multi-million pound projects, involving which they referred to the position of Soviet Jews under the heading "The real trath not on show at of £1,300 had been collected to provide an annual M "adding of militar>' bases and of the new domestic science prize as a permanent memorial heax^ ''^^^nce installations, and the provision of the USSR National Exhibition". For two days, the Soviet officials distributed the substitute leaf­ to Mrs. Davies. Mr. Thomas expressed his grati­ ^^ transDortransport vehiclesvehicles. let. tude to the Cardiff Jewish community for ho ding BIAS nv LBC BROADCAST his late mother in such high esteem and his Mai ISRAEU ORCHESTRA AT PROMS admiration for "the wonderful contribution" don'*"^ listeners protested against a LBC (Lon- The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Jewish people made to the city of Cardiff which iiiB "^nimercial radio) phone-in programme dur- Mehta is one of the three visiting orchestras to he represented as an MP. "8 n '^ the director of a new Arab publication this year's Prom season, and will be giving two li„"*ys". Mr. Bill Harcourt, indulged in what one concerts. The first on September 4, consists of Jewish voices on the air sJ?**^, called a 'Vicious anti-Zionist tirade". In Schubert's Sixth and Mahler's Fifth Symphony, BBC Radio Brighton's newest programme <^sti * complaint to the Independent Broad- whilst the second, on the following evening, will "Shalom" was given an official send-off at a re­ Onj 8 Authority, the editorial director, Mr. Ron include the first performance in this coimtry of ception held in the Brighton Pavilioa The pro­ Zion"*' ""^f^sed to grant equal air-time for a pro- Josef Tal's Third Symphony, together with gramme is written and produced by Mioiael objZf.' broadcast, saying that three callers Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, and Beethoven's Friedland, the presenter of BBC Radio London's Sand '"^ during the programme to the propa- Fourth Piano Concerto in which Daniel Baren­ "You Don't Have to be Jewish". It is transmitted vi«!r. °^ a magazine portraying the Arab point of boim will be the pianist. on Wednesday evenings. Both programmes are ^ had redressed the balance. produced in cooperation with the Board of Deputies. Your House for:— At; ntANIANS DEMONSTRATE of'^u* niemorial service for the executed president FLOOR COVERINGS Radio brad Oub the ?-l.''^nian Jewish community, conducted by Miss Freda Keet, senior English newsreader at fortu Rabbi at die Maida Vale Spanish and CURTAINS, CARPETS, the Israel Broadcasting Authority, was the main 0(j{ "^^^e Synagogue, Dr. Jakobovits expressed SPECIALITY speaker at the inaugural meeting of the newly Jews • ^T* "^^ murder and fears for the future of ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL founded Israeli Radio Club at a private bouse in Ag4 "^ ^® **''* ^^^ °°* *'"*^ ^^^ Middle St. John's Wood. The club already has 130 mem­ to jj has a Jew been murdered because he chose DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, bers in all parts of the country. ^oune T^ with his people." During die service, DUVET COVERS & SHEETS Anodier centenarian 8oitup xJ*'"*ns demonstrated outside the syna- ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS Mrs. Rose Klibanski, a member of the Belsize in A!: Members of the Zionist Federation's "Jews ESTIMATES FREE Square Synagogue, has celrf»rated her 100th birth­ '•inev; -r*°*^ Committee" took part in a lunch- day. aaainJ?^" outside the Iranian Embassy to protest DAWSON-LANE LiMITEO tr"?st anotiier murder, the beheading of the (•ttabllthad IMS) ^^^ Jewess Mrs. Mukhtaran Bascohen in 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK Witb acknowledgeoMiit to the newe Go{,^uirawraz,' . Th-^ e chairma. . n of the committee, Mr. Telophone: 904 6671 service of the Jewish Chrooicle. 6«5y. recited a memorial prayer for her. pwtonal attoatlan at Mr. W. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION August 1979

FRANCE Memorial Act for Gurs NEWS FROM ABROAD A major commemoration of those who '''^^^ Gurs or were deported from there, was held at tn UNITED STATES ARAB BAN ON CANADA invitation of the House of Youth in neighbouring Jews honour Helmut Schmidt The Arab Monetary Fund has stopped dealings Oleron-Ste. Marie. Among those particii»ting When the German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt with Canada in protest against the new Govem­ were all major organisations of deportees, of tn visited the United States recently, the American ment's election promise to move the Canadian Spanish-Republican Army and the volunteers oi Jewish Committee conferred on him its Human Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (The move the Interaational Brigade. On the 40th anniversary Rights Award for his signal services to bring has since been postponed indefinitely.) of the opening of the camp, a memorial P'^IJ! about reconciliation between Germans and Jews. was fixed to the camp entrance. It enumerates tn When he was asked during the ceremony whether AUSTRALIA occupants of the camp: the first had been 23,W" the Federal Republic would be prepared to play an Award for former German Rabbi Spanish Republicans and 7,000 International active part in promoting peace in the Middle The Queen's Birthday Honours List includes the Brigade Volunteers, followed by 12,860 Jewisn East, the Chancellor said that in view of the recent appointment of Rabbi Dr. Rudolph Brasch, OBE, refugees in France, interned in May/June 19^ ' past, this wras hardly possible, because the present as a member of the Order of Australia for services 6,500 Jews from Baden, and later 12,000 Jews generation of Germans were unable to take an to the Jewish Community (he retires this year arrested in France by the Vichy Governrnw^ unbiased view on Jews and Israel. He did not after 30 years as chief minister of Temple After a number of speeches, a large erow accept the concept of collective guilt, but never­ Emanuel, Sydney). Before he went to Australia, walked on the old camp road to the camp cem­ theless all Germans were involved in the political Berlin-born Rabbi Brasch was a rabbi in this etery, where the rabbis of Pau and Bayonne nei heritage left by those who had been guilty. country to which he had come as a refugee. a service in which Catholic priests took part, m Open Letter to the Pope young people of the region had put flowers o No Help from Romania to prosecute Archbishop In the joumal Symposium, edited by an Angli­ each of the 1,200 graves. The Lord Mayor oi A trial will be opened shortly in Detroit against can priest. Rabbi Raymond Apple, chief minister Karisrahe and his deputy said that the 40th airoi Bishop Valerian Trifa of the Romanian Orthodox of Sydney Great Synagogue, published an open versary of the deportation of Jews from "f tg Episcopate of America, accused of having taken letter to Pope John Paul II in which he said that and Wuerttemberg in October 1980 would n^ part in a massacre of Jews by the pro-Hitler Iron Jews looked to him for increased political under­ remembered in his community where, under t Guard in Bucharest in January, 1941. The US standing between Catholics and Jews. Rabbi Apple influence of the "Holocaust" fihn and the recenw Govemment will seek to prove that he entered the said the Vatican guidelines on Christian-Jewish published book "Menschen in GUrs" by Hann* country illegally, and that his citizenship should be relations were steps in the right direction, but Schramm and Barbara Vormeier, young P^P" . revoked. The bishop came to the US from Italy Jews were surprised that they make no reference about as a displaced person in 1950 and was granted were constantly asking the older generation to the State of Israel as a basic cracial factor of their part in the criminal proceedings. An e citizenship in 1957. Justice Department officials Jewish life. are complaining, that in spite of repeated requests hibition of authentic photos, sketches and doc during the piast 16 months, the Romanian Govem­ OLD SYNAGOGUE RECONSECRATED IN ments of life in the camp added to the de ment has denied the US prosecution access to wit­ AUSTRIA impression left by the dignified proceedings. nesses of the massacre or to documentary evidence. The private prayer-room of the Wertheimer As a student leader of the Iron Guard, Trifa is family in the Old Ghetto of EisensUdt, one of Israeli Displays at Paris Air Show alleged to have taken part in the massacre of Austria's oldest synagogues, has been recon­ At the Paris air show, new sophisticate hundreds, perhaps even thousands of Jews during secrated by the Chief Rabbi of Austria and the weapons and aircraft were shown at the Isra ^ a rebellion against the Romanian Army. He had former Rabbi of Eisenstadt, during an inter­ been sentenc«l to hard labour, but the sentence national symposium on "Judaism in the age of pavilion. They included a pilotless spy P'^'J^'gu was later annulled. the Enlightenment." Torah scrolls and chandeliers mobile anti-tank missile and launcher, ^°. j-f. from the 18th and 19th century are preserved in improved version of the supersonic Kfir "^ iyg "Jewish Executioners"? the synagogue which cost about £34,000 to rebuild The first visitors at the pavilion were n A man who claimed to be a journalist, entered and will form the nucleus of a Jewish museum, Egyptian pilots, warmly welcomed by the }^^tt the New York house of Mr. Boleslavs Maikovskis occupying the whole Wertheimer mansion, built in staff. At the end of the show, Israeli's airpi^^ and shot a man whom he mistook for Mr. 1720. The Austrian Government, and the Burgen­ industry had completed four important busin Maikovskis who has appealed against charges that land province will contribute to the £167,000 deals worth tens of millions of pounds. An agr ^^ he supervised the round-up of the Riga Jews during needed for the purpose. ment was made with four French firms, t'*^" jy the war and denied this when he received US them state-owned, for the construction and supP' citizenship. The attacker escaped, but a few hours NETHERLANDS of a defence system for a third country. later, news organisations throughout the city re­ Dutch Search for War Criminals Mr. Ludowijk de Beaufort, the Amsterdam ceived phone calls that he was a member of a group Bolshoi performance intemipted calling itself "JEWS"—Jewish Executioners with Public Prosecutor, has been appointed Holland's Silence—which was also responsible for a series hunter for war criminals. He will be assisted by About 150 members of the French Committee ^^ of abortive letter-bombs sent to American Nazis. the country's police force. The appointment was Aid Soviet Jewry invaded the Paris Palais made, because in 1948, when more war criminals Congrfes and interrapted a performance by . ^ Ford Employee's Dismissal demanded and collaborators were sentenced than in any other Bolshoi ballet for fifteen minutes, during wnj Several hundred Jews demonstrated outside the year, many sentences were imposaJ "in absentia", the philosopher Professor Bernard-Henri Levi, Manhattan Ford Motor Company's headquarters, and most of those sentenced, have been living in historian, Mr. Patrick Gerard, and Mi?- ^'^^j demanding the dismissal of Mr. John Demjanjuk, hiding ever since. Five of them were recently dis­ Malraux, former wife of the late writer a who has worked for Ford in Cleveland, Ohio, covered by joumalists, living under assumed politician Andr6 Malraux, held an impromp since 1951. He is accused of having operated the names in Germany. news conference. gas chambers at Treblinka camp, where more than Tribute to Anne Frank 800,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis. The US Queen Juliana opened an exhibition of Anne ITALY Department of Justice has started proceedings Frank's original manuscripts, lent by her father, Soviet Jews threatened < against him. If it can be proved that he lied about in Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. It marks The post office square and the sea-front his wartime artivities when he was granted US Anne's fiftieth anniversary. A memorial service citizenship in 1958 it will be revoked. Ostia, near Rome, where some 4,000 Soviet i was conducted in the Westerkerk, in front of are waiting for permission to settle in "^^-0, which a small statue of her was unveiled a few countries, was declared out of bounds to in ^^ Holocaust Memorial Garden years ago. Anne Frank House is visited by 300,000 At the Manhattan Brotherhood Synagogue, a following warnings that Arab groups planned people every year. An illustrated memorial book attack their camp. memorial garden for the six million Jewish victims has also been published, giving details of her of the Holocaust has been dedicated. Herr von history, her arrival in Amsterdam and her life in Staden, the German Ambassador, presented a the house now dedicated to her. There are two "Millions see Holocaust" .^ cheque for £5,000 and promised further support other monuments commemorating the fate of the Some 20 million people saw the Holocaust tvP^ for the project. In a garden setting, the memorial Jews in Holland, in Amsterdam: one is the on Italian Television. In Spain, where u J^ contains a wall of remembrance, and artists Hollandse Schouwburg, where 80,000 Jews were shown late at night, it attracted the largest around the world have been asked to provide held before being deported, the other, the designs for a sculpture to be put next to it. audience ever. In towns and cities, the str^^^^ Dokwerker monument near the synagogues, which were virtually deserted. Neo-Nazi ajds- marks the 1941 protest strike' against the de­ scrawled antisemitic slogans on walls afterw portation of Jews. BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER Govemment Apologies for Antisemitic Remarlcs Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS In an interview with the Dutch weekly "De Haagse Post", Dutch soldiers, serving with the BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE United Nations Forces in Israel, said: "They did 51 Belaize Square, London, N.W.3 Always interested in purchasing only one thing wrong in 1945: they should have well-preserved Instruments kept the gas-ovens a little longer. Four million Our new communal hall Is available f Jews could have been added also". The Dutch cultural and social functions. For deta JACQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. Government has started investigations and has apologised for the remarks to the Israeli Embassy, apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Office- 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel.: 723 8818/9 saying the Defence and Foreign Affairs Ministries Tel.: 01-794 3949 regarded them with horror. AJR INFORMATION August 1979 Page 5

FIRST TRIAL OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS Six suspected neo-Nazis, alleged to have formed NEWS FROM GERMANY a terrorist neo-Nazi organisation and including a former lieutenant of the Federal Army, Michael Kuhnen, have appeared as defendants in the first NAZI MEMBER FOR EUROPEAN NAZIS IN COURT major trial of right-wing extremists in the Federal PARLIAMENT Republic. 23-year-old Kiihnen said he was a There have been many protests in the press and A 23-year-old unemployed man, Michael Pohl, member of revolutionary National Socialism and 'rom the general public as well as from the Jewish was given a suspended sentence of six months' had set up an underground organisation aiming ^mmunity against the election of Dr. Hans Edgar imprisonment before a Berlin Court for forcing at the overthrow of the govemment, the liberation ••ahn, already a member of the Federal Parlia- his way into a discussion of the Holocaust, of Rudolf Hess from Spandau prison, and the "lent, as deputy for Lower Saxony in the Euro- arranged for young people by an educational demolition of the Bergen-Belsen memorial for the P^n Parliament. In 1943, Dr. Jahn published a organisation, and shouting that the Jews were victims who died in the camp. The trial is ex­ "ook with the subtitle "Jewish-Bolshevist Im­ enemies of the people who had to be fought with pected to last for more than a month. perialism", excerpts from which were recently all possible means. He said in Court asocial ele­ ments, including Jews, had been sent to concen­ GERMAN WOMAN ASKS CARTER reprinted by "Der Stem" and "Frankfurter FOR HELP .^ndschau". In it Jahn referred to Jews as tration camps for re-education, but nobody had been gassed. The gas chambers had been built by The West German high school teacher, Renate P^stard people with bestial instincts" and talked the Americans after the end of the war, a fact Kiblitzki, has sent an urgent appeal to President ^Dout the "despicable Jewish racial spirit." The acknowledged by foreign historians. He also said Carter to help her Jewish husband, Joseph speaker for the Christian Democratic Union in that if he was sent to prison, he was going on to Kiblitzki, to leave the Soviet Union. She had Lower Saxony, Mr. Volker Benke, said that so far state his convictions in public. The presiding judge married him when she was teaching at the German inere had been no proof of the allegations against said the number of Jews killed was open to school in Moscow, but 32-year-old Joseph lost his :*hn, but it was expected of him to resign if he discussion, and was being discussed by scholars job as a film designer and painter when he applied jaued to justify himself. In accepting his mandate, and others. The Court did not expect the de­ to emigrate to Israel. Despite the fact, that he left ~J- Jahn said the European Parliament was com- fendant to alter his opinions or to refrain from the Army ten years ago, he was denied an exit P^sed of many nations and many political factions, discussing them, but it did expect him to refrain permit because he was said to know military ^ch with its own past, which had always suc­ from attacking the dignity of a particular group of secrets. Mrs. Kiblitzki has also made an appli­ cessfully worked together without mutual people. The Social Democratic Party and the cation to Leonid Brezhnev. *Usations about past activities and attitudes. Jewish community have protested against the bias BAN ON NAZI PUBLICATIONS shown by the judge. The public prosecutor has The Federal Office for the Protection of Young ^^^BVDDT CHALLENGED TO VISIT ISRAEL appealed against the sentence. People from dangerous Publications has announced ^iirgen Wohlrabe, a Berlin Christian Democratic that, during the last few years, the sale of an ™|ember of the Federal Parliament and vice- Four of the nine defendants in the Diisseldorf increasing number of books and records glorifying i'^irman of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Maidanek trial which has now gone on for over the Nazi period and the war had been withdrawn ( °up, said on his retum from a three-day journey 31- years, have been arrested in Court, because from general distribution. At the moment, 42 jPJsrael that Israelis failed to imderstand why the they are likely to be given heavy sentences and records, books and pamphlets are involved, 20 of federal Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, had never can therefore be expected to jump bail. So far all which were published in the last three years. They isited Israel. Was it because the Chancellor of them have been on bail. Two of them are must not be offered in shops to which young anted to avoid difficult political decisions? people have access and can only be supplied on demand to grown-ups. Three publications were PROTEST AGAINST DELAYED TRIAL written by the former Colonel in the Federal Some 50 young French men and women who Army, Hans Ulrich Rudel. j~" themselves the "sons and daughters of French MORE BOMBS IN FRANKFURT in k ^^° ^ after deportation", demonstrated WARTIME NAZI LOSES JOB ••J the Cologne Court against the delayed proceed- After a bomb exploded in the Frankfurt central Bremen Construction Minister Hans Seifriz, a "8s against former SS leader Kurt Lischka and wholesale market, groups calling themselves Social Democrat, was forced to resign after a local p o other members of the Nazi security police in "revolutionary cells" sent letters to the Press, newspaper published extracts from an anti-Semitic ^fance, alleged to have been involved in the claiming responsibility for attacking the lorries of article he wrote 35 years ago when he was 17, in [oPprtation of many French Jews between March a German firm importing fruit from Israel, and which he said the Jews were a race cursed by God. t^ and May 1944. The young people also pro- announcing that there would be more bombs for He said he had always regretted his behaviour at ^d ^Sainst the acquittals in the Maidanek trial all such firms. Nobody was hurt, but the damage the time. -J,™ demanded speedier trials against NS murders. was estimated at about £12,000. PROOF OF GAS CHAMBERS DEMANDED ney y,,grg accompanied by Mrs. Beate Klarsfeld 14 tombstones in a Frankfurt Jewish cemetery During the Holocaust discussions, TV joumalist J no with her husband had tried to abduct Lischka were overturned in broad daylight. The gardener Renate Harpprecht had said that her family had j^'n his Cologne home in 1971 and was sub- saw the perpetrators, but was unable to identify been gassed in a concentration camp. A Nurem­ ^Uently sent to prison for doing so. them. £3,000 worth of damage was done. berg lawyer Eberhard Engelhardt subsequently sued her for libel on behalf of former SS man Hans Kroker, saying that the "gassing story had been an atrocity story long shown to be false by foreign and home researchers", and she should therefore provide evidence for the trath of her RENAULT "allegations". JEWS FROM ASCHAFFENBURG Request for Information The city of Aschaffenburg is preparing a docu­ See the Renault range mentation of the fate of former Jewish citizens from 1933 onwards. For this purpose, any inform­ ation of addresses of emigrat«l Aschaffenburg at Old Oak Jews as well as material (if desired on loan), e.g., publications, articles, memoirs, lists, documents, '^•B SPRECHEN DEirrSCH/MUMME CESIW) photos (also when referring to a previous period) would be greatly appreciated. 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Gabriele Tcrgtt die russisch-polnisch-galizischen Briider ab­ gewalzt. Es bedeutet aber heute Zionismus Rettung aus Halbheit, Zwitterwesen, fur deutsche BERLINER JAHRE Juden Sprung in die neuhebraische Literatur, keine Erinnerungen von Moritx Goldstein "Verjudung" mehr als Vorwurf. Aber sie konnen Wenn ein kiinftiger Soziologe iiber die deutschen Gottesdienst im Betsaal stosst ihn ab. Er meint, keine hebraischen Dichter werden. "So sehr sie es Juden und ihre Vemichtung schreit)en mochte, so vielleicht wenn der Vater genug Geld fUr wiinschen miissen, jUdische und nichtjudische findet er ein erschutterndes Modell in Moritz Synagogenplatze gehabt hatte? Er weiss schon Deutsche kulturell reinlich von einander zu Goldstein ("Berliner Jahre, Erinnerungen 1880- nicht mehr, dass zehn Manner im armseligsten scheiden . . . das Judentum ist in einer mehr als 1933", herausgegeben von Will Schaber. Dortmun­ StiJbchen ftir diese 4(XX)-jahrige Religion, die tausendjahrigen Gemeinschaft mit dem Deutschtum der Beitr^ge zur 2^itungsforschung, DM 28.—). Christentum und Islam hervorbrachte, geniigen. so eng in den Wurzeln verwachsen, dass beide Alle Zitate dieses Artikels sind aus diesem Buch. 'Aber freilich ich lehne das Ritual ab." nicht mehr von einander gelost werden kbnnen. Goldstein starb, 97 Jahre alt, 1977 in New York. Die jiidischen Zeitschriften im Haus? "Von "Die rassischen Germanen werden doch die Er war ein Mann von hoher Ethik, ein Wahrheits­ ungeniigendem Niveau". Den Lehrer, der ihm Tatsache nicht aus der Welt schaffen kbnnen, dass fanatiker, der niemandem zum Munde redete, hebraische Privatstunden gibt, nennt er "unan- deutsche Kultur zu einem nicht geringen Teil wenn es ihm auch noch so schr schadete. Sein sehnlich und ungepflegt". Er studierte Germanistik judische Kultur ist." Grossvater war "'ein kleiner Kramer" in Chorzow bei dem verehrten Erich Schmidt der Berliner Dem Chamberlainschen Chauvinismus, Mch (Oberschlesien). Der Grossvater miitterlicherseits Universitat, machte seinen Doktor iiber "Die dem alle grossen Europaer einfach Germanen sind, erfand einen Berliner Vergnugungsanzeiger. der zyklischen Rahmenerzahlungen Deutschlands von stellt Goldstein den eigenen gegenUber und fragt. auf der letzten Station von Berlin in die Ziige Goethe bis Hoffmann", vvurde auf Empfehlung ob nicht der Geist der freien Unternehmimg Geist geworfen wurde. Der Vater griindete ein Blatt Schmidts sieben Jahre lang Herausgeber der der judischen Untemehmung, judischer Geist der "Berliner Borse". Alles bracbte nicht viel ein, bis Goldenen Klassikerbibliothek, ein Gliicksfall, aber Unternehmung ist. der Vater Direktor der Berliner Passage Unter den cr fand: "Die Stellung hinderte mich an dem, was Goldstein fragt: "Wenn wir mit endlich erwachtem Linden wurde. mir das einzig Wichtige war, an meiner Mannerstolz dem deutschen Volk, das uns nicht Goldstein war im beriihmten Kbllnischen Gym­ dramatischen Produktion". Nur einmal lief ein mag, den RUcken kehren wollten, kbnnten wir je nasium einer von sieben Abiturienten, von denen Stiick von ihm mit Bassermann im Staatstheater aufhbren, zum grbssten Teil Deutsche zu sein- sechs Juden waren. Er schreibt: "Mein gesamtes filr kurze Zeit. Im iibrigen wurden die Stiicke mit Unsere Toten sind deutscher Staub. Deutsche geistiges Leben wurzelt in der deutschen Kultur", Titein wie "Alessandro und der Abt" und "Melis- Jahreszeiten sind unsere Jahreszeiten." Er geht aut und unbewusst in ihren Vorurteilen. Frauen- sas Schatten" kaum aufgefiihrt. Beethoven, den Grunen Heinrich und deutsche schonheit ist "hochbeinig", "Ich empfinde den Das Einjahrigen-Dienstjahr, schreibt er, "hatte Marchen ein, "eine unglUckliche Liebe, die man Namen Moritz Goldstein als ein Martyrium". Die mir unschatzbar wohlgetan". Das Phanomen der sich mannlich aus dem Herzen zu reissen hat. Da* Arbeit von Agenten, Reisenden, Vertretern nennt Macht wiihlte ihn so auf, dass er ein sechsbandiges mussen wir wollen". Und dann, waram es nicht er "Gange der Demiitigung". Seinem Vater gelang Werk dariiber beabsichtigte. Veroffenlicht wurde vvollen kbnnen: "Naturlich gibt es Trennendes, es, "wenigstens dem puren Handel zu entfliehen". nur ein Kapitel auf englisch, Jahrzehnte spater, was uns verbindet ist mehr." "Es ist nicht meine "Man war weder politisch noch wirtschaftlich 'Fuhrers must fall". "Ich bestaunte die Armee als Schuld, dass ich keine Lbsung weiss." So endet die imeressiert, und ich war es schon gamicht. Das einen riesigen, wundervoU funktionierenden Ap­ Abhandlung: die Hauptsache ist, sich als Juden Leben, das sich mir lohnte, spieite sich im parat, zusammengesetzt in jahrhundertealter zu bekennen. "Die Juden, die deutsche Kultur Feuilleton ab". Er fUhlte sich als Jude, aber der Erfahrung." Ueber seinen Armeefilhrer im Krieg machen und sich einreden, man merke es nicht. schreibt er: "Er wirkte als Personlichkeit derart das sind unsre wahren Feinde, sie gilt es von alien bezwingend, dass jeder einzelne von uns im Emst- fall lieber totgeschossen worden ware, als dass er sich unter seinen Augen feige benommen hatte". 1 1912 wird Goldstein mit seiner "Doppelheit, LEON JESSEL LIMITED seinem Zwitterwesen", Deutscher und Jude, nicht mehr fertig. "Die Abhandlung 'Deutsch-judischer Parnass' brach aus mir hervor," Nach siebzig Jahren erscheint diese Abhandlung als das Manufactufws of Aufschlussreichste, was iiber deutschen Antise­ with the compliments of mitismus geschrieben wurde. Goldstein halt in Fancy Leather Goods, seiner Deutschheit nur "entweder/oder", Tren- nungsstriche ziehen, reinliche Scheidungen. fiir Gift Goods anstiindig und Kompromisse fiir faul, weil er einfach nicht weiss, dass es "sowohl als auch", Briicken bauen, agree to disagree, gibt, und dass which ar* advertisad throughout the das Leben aus Kompromissen besteht. Die Darstellung der Gefiihic eines geistigen deutschen worid as Juden in einem fiktiven Konflikt ist uniiber- troffen. Dass er ein paar falsche antisemitische "EMBLEMS OF GOOD GRAFTSMANSNIP BY Behauptungen flir wahr halt, erscheint weniger wichtig. Nach ein paar Ablehnungen verbffent­ THE JESSa ORGANISATION" lichte er die Abhandlung im "Kunstwart", "dessen glSubiger Leser ich viele Jahre war", obwohl, wie er auch selber schreibt, der literarische Redakteur Pafra "ein verbobrter Veteran des Judenhasses, Adolf Bartels, war." We also manufacture Industrial Er beginnt die Abhandlung mit antisemitischen synthetic adheelves E(^ipment in Leather and Canvas Zitaten von Wagner, zu denen er schreibt, "es gibt kaum etwas Scl^menswerteres fiir uns Juden, adheshre appilcators als dass judisches Geld Bayreuth ermoglicht hat", von H. S. Chamberlains "Grandlagen des 19, Jahrhunderts" und von Schopenhauer. Es ist der P.O. Box 12. Corporation Street Hass seit 800 Jahren, scit den Kreuzzugen, dann der "Rausch der Emanzipation" und, wie Gold­ Walsall, WSl 4HP stein schreibt, "auf alien kulturellen Posten, von denen man sie nicht gewaltsam fernhalt. stehen Pafra Limited West Midlands platzlich Juden". Er geht dem Hass gegen Heine Bentalls * Basildon nach: "Macher waren auch Kotzebue und Raupach, schliipfrig Wieland, Herwegh wurde Franzose. Essex •8814 3BU T«lN*MWi 0922-24649 or 0922-2205< Aber nur gegen Heine hort man das Gebriill des Pogroms, das jedem von uns gilt, der irgend etwas Taluii OiMMii G Wdnll 338212 LiJfS leistet. Also Biindel schnilren und seiner Wege gehen?" Aber Literatur ist national. Jiidisch gilt als Vorwurf und wird von den meisten Juden auf AJR INFORMATION August 1979 Page 7

SOVIET JEWS ALLOWED TO LEAVE BERLINER JAHRE More than 600 Soviet Jews were greeted with joyful tears from relatives and friends when they continued from page 6 arrived at New York's Kennedy Airport in the largest one-day airlift of immigrants to America sichtbaren Posten zu verdrangen ... als ein englischen Herd aus der Steinzeit zum Brennen from Italy since the last war. Their arrival re­ bringen. Sie machten wieder eine Pension in Wales flected the recent decision of American authorities falscher Typus Jude, sie gilt es mundtot zu machen to "Uberate admission on parole" for between und allmahlich auszurotten. Ehe wir aber soweit auf. Wenn ich ihn bodenwischend traf, sagte er: 25,000 and 30,000 Soviet Jews. There were also sind, fordem wir Achtung vor einer Tragik, die "Hier sehen Sie mich in meiner Knechtsgestalt." two Jews, Dymshitz and Kuznetsov among the *ir hier mit schwerem Herzen vor aller Welt Aber sie konnten monatelang in London Ferien five dissidents, released in exchange for two Soviet aufgedeckt haben." machen. spies held in the US. Mr. Kuznetsov's wife, Sylvia Oas Aufsehen war ungeheuer. Goldstein selber Dann zum Sohn nach Amerika. Der missglUckte Zalmanson, had been staying in London as guest ^hreibt: "In der Tat grosser als die Wirkung Versuch, wieder eine Fremdenpension zu fUhren. of June Jacobs, chairman of the National Council Frau Goldstein war eine KochkUnstlcrin. "Es war for Soviet Jewry, and immediately flew to New "•g«id einer anderen Presse-Verbffentlichung. Die York to join her husband. Kuznetsov had been in deutschen Staatsburger judischen Glaubens pro- die Hblle", schrieb er, "sechzehnstundige Arbeit prison for 16 years, classified as a dangerous pol­ 'estierten in wilder Wut. Die Zionisten spendeten und ihre Schlepperei der schweren Markttaschen." itical criminal. Both the Kuznetsovs and Mark jubelnd Beifall. Aber ich bin ein Feind des Sie starb 1950. Und er blieb fast 30 Jahre allein Dymshitz have in the meantime proceeded to Nationalismus, also auch des judischen National- in einem Zimmer in New York. Er schrieb den Israel, where Mr. Begin, the Prime Minister, ismus. Ich sehe mit Trauer. was ich vorausgesagt ergreifenden Satz: "Ich fUhle mich als Schriftsteller greeted them at the airport. He addressed them in habe, dass die schlimmsten ZUge des Nationalen in gescheitert." Alles war tragisch, nicht nur der Russian, calling them "the spiritual heroes of Israel". They were also met by the five other Gestalt von Intoleranz und skrupelloser Gewaltan- Artikel im "Kunstwart". dissidents Boris Penson, Wolf Zalmanson, Sylvia's wendung auch bei der Jugend Israels hervortreten. brother, Altman, Butman and Khmokh who had ^ionismus sollte nicht heissen noch ein National- served nine years in prison camps for trying to •smus zu den vielen, an denen die Menschheit NEWS FROM THE EAST hijack a plane and were recently released. Mr. ^on leidet." Die Abhandlung ist immer wieder NAHUM GOLDMANN'S DISSENTING VIEWS Begin thanked President Carter for obtaining the Sedrackt worden. Im Dritten Reich wurde ihr in At a meeting of the B'nai B'rith First Lod^e of dissidents' release and announced that Mr. Carter 'Oie Juden in Deutschland" ein ganzes Kapitel England, Dr. Nahum Goldmarm, founder president had promised to continue his efforts for the re­ lease of other Jewish prisoners from Soviet jails. Segeben, natUrlich ohne Goldsteins Antinazi- of the World Jewish Congress, said the Jewish people had made one of their greatest mistakes y^ericbtsberichte zu erwahnen. Fur den Verein over the entire problem of Soviet Jewry. Jews in HOLOCAUST MEMORLiL IN DANGER lUdischer Studenten wurde die Abhandlung Russia had two problems: their life in Russia The Soviet authorities have announced that they PflichtlekSire. and emigration. In his view, the great majority are going to demolish the Minsk memorial com­ ^ Er hatte cin jUdischer Politiker werden kbnnen. would never emigrate and should therefore be memorating the Jews killed in the Holocaust to Aber das beruhte auf ciner Verkennung dessen, allowed to live a Jewish life in Russia. This aspect make way for a new housing estate. Russian exiles in Britain have said that a planned substitute **s ich gewollt hatte, und insofern ich dieses had been completely overlooked by all those who concentrated their campaigns on emigration. They memorial will no longer bear an inscription in Missverstandnis durchschaute, fuhlte ich micb were sacrificing two and a half million Jews who either Hebrew or Yiddish, but will be in Russian Sarnicht behaglich. Was an dem Aufsatz liter- were staying for 250,000 who would be allowed to only. ?nsche Leistung war, erkannten nur wenige." Das emigrate over the next three or four years. The •ft der unpolitische Goldstein, der Dynamit als Russians now regarded Jews as their major 18 MILLION CHILD VICTIMS jj'erarische Leistung betrachtet haben will. "Der enemies in the world, but without the consent of At an international conference in Warsaw, one ^rfolg ist n-lif eben auf einem ganz falschen Russia there would never be peace in the Middle of the Polish speakers said that, according to East. investigations made in Poland, 18 million children ^ebiet begegnet." Dann kam der Krieg, den er ini had been deported and tortured or killed in con­ ^egensatz zu seiner Generation im Juli 1914 eine Mr. Fred Worms and the Chief Rabbi Dr. centration camps. Of the 1.8 million Polish chil­ J^Jarrheit nannte. Nach dem Krieg ging er zu Jakobovits, joint chairmen of B'nai B'rith Inter­ dren, 600,(X)0 had been Jewish. A modern l^llstein, nach 1928 als Nachfolger des Gerichts- national, presented Dr. Goldmann with a B'nai children's hospital, supported by Polish and B'rith medal, inscribed: "Dr. Nahum Goldmann— intemational donations, is being built in Warsaw to *uilletonisten Sling. Er nennt dies seine for services to the Jewish people." «"icklichsten Jabre. keep their memory alive. '933 bestand seine Frau auf sofortigcr THE POPE'S AUSCHWITZ VISIT NAZI PRISONERS BETTER TREATED THAN Auswanderang. Sie gingen in ein Landschulheim JEWS ^1 Florenz, erbffneten eine Pension bei Viareggio, When, during his recent visit to his native Mr. Anatoly Altman who was released from country. Pope John Paul II preached to a large prison earlier this year, after serving nine and *Urden 1939 ausgewiesen, verloren Haus, Mbbel. congregation which included many former in­ ibliothek, wanderten nach England, arbeiteten a half years of his ten years' sentence for trying mates, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, he said this had to hijack a plane and who now lives in Israel, pU*er in einem Emigrantenheim in Manchester. been the Golgatha of our time. He knelt dowrn at has reported that Nazi collaborators in prison had ^ konnte alles, Mbbel aufpolstem, einen the 19-language intemational memorial monument, been better treated than Jewish refuseniks. He and and turning to its Hebrew text, he said: "We his fellow prisoners received 50 grams of meat a remember the people whose sons and daughters week, compared with 400 grams given to the were destined for total destruction—the same prison dogs. people which was the first to receive from God the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill'. 'This people originated with Abraham who is also the patriarch of our religion."

YIDDISH IN RUSSIAN SCHOOLS In Russia efforts are imder way to introduce lessons in Yiddish for Jewish primary school chil­ dren who want to leam the language. The Yiddish monthly "Soviet Heimland" which is in its 18th 182 year of publication, has now between 17,(XX) and 18,0(X) readers. The last Yiddish school in Russia was closed down 30 years ago, and it is doubtful ISOPON whether there are enough teachers to be found to give lessons to those who want them.

IDA NUDEL DAV Fights Rust The 21st June, the longest day of the year, was 2'®wly developed. Zinc compounds declared Ida Nudel Day by Soviet Jewry groups ^l^e some of the finest rust inhibitors.The all over the world working for the release of Ida Vf)thetic resin base foims a lough skin, Nudel, the 48-year-old Jewish economist who is imprisoned in a Siberian barrack in a situation pf^h seals the surface from moisture. where there is no day or night. Her hut is shared p^rTl^ll good hardware and accessory storea. with Russian ex-convicts who are considered a Iiir*''ter»ture from David's ISOPON,FREEPOST danger to society. She was sentenced to five years Jr^'way House, London N20 9BR. in exile for demanding an exit visa to Israel on a poster displayed in a window of her Moscow flat. A BBC "Tonight" film about her was shown by all British groups, whilst in America a week's seminar on her was held. Pages AJR INFORMATION August 1979

VISITS TO EGYPT APPROVED During his recent negotiations in Egypt, Foreign THE ISRAEU SCENE Minister Dayan was told by President Sadat that Egypt had every intention of having people mov­ ROW IN PARUAMENT COURT INJUNCTION AGAINST SETTLERS ing freely in both directions between their two During the Knesset Debate on the new West The Israeli Supreme Court issued an injunction countries. Within a month or so, Israelis and Bank settlements. General Sharon, the Minister of forbidding new settlers to take residence or do Egyptians would be able to visit each others Agriculture, unleashed an uproar of deafening further work on the Gush Emunim Settlement of country by air and by sea. However, the Sinai proportions, when he said the opponents of the Eilon Moreh on the West Bank near Nablus, the land border will remain closed until the Israelis new West Bank settlements were "anti-Zionist". capital. 17 Arab landowners had appealed against withdraw to the El Arish-Ras Mohammed line in He particularly attacked Mr. Ralik Halaby, a the taking over of their land. The Government six months' time. During his visit to Cairo in the Druse reporter working for Israel Television who, was asked by the Court to give reasons why it company of his wife, Dayan received a tumultuous he implied, was engaged on fifth column activities. should not compel the settlers to leave. The Court welcome from shopkeepers and shoppers at ^e Mr. Zaidan Atashi, a Druse Knesset member, President, Justice Moshe landau, said he under­ famous Khan Khalili market in the old city. He accused Sharon of racism. Prime Minister Begin stood the bitter feeling of the landowners who had pushed his security guards aside and shook hands defended him, saying that the Labour critics of submitted statements from the former Chief of with many of them to shouts: "Dayan is a real Sharon would soon be forgotten, "while future Command, General Bar-Lev, and from another man!" generations of Israeli schoolchildren will be learn­ General, stating that contrary to Government ex- An American chartered boat "Gabriel" took 18 ing of the great military exploits of Ariel Sharon." Israel's security. Subsequently, troops stopped passengers, including one Israeli, on a first over­ (Sharon, a former chief of the Israeli Army long lines of cars carrying prospective settlers at night cruise from Tel Aviv to Port Said. It is Southem Command, was recalled from the reserve road blocks in the West Bank. In the Knesset, planned to make trips twice a week in the near and spearheaded Israel's advance across the Suez Defence Minister Weizman threatened to resign, future. The British travel agency Goodmos has Canal during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.) because he did not think the settlement was needed chartered a yacht with an Israeli crew for four An independent inquiry by the Broadcasting for strategical reasons, and he objected to the tours in August, leaving Tel Aviv each Sunday Authority has cleared Mr. Halaby of lying when requisitioning of private Arab land, but he was night for a 20-hour trip. On disembarkment, he said that cultivated Arab land had been seques­ outvoted by the hard-line group, led by General passengers—there is room for about 12—will be tered for the Elon Moreh Settlement, whereas the Sharon, Minister of Agriculture. transferred to a minibus to Cairo where they will Government maintained that they had only taken In the meantime, work on another settlement stay for a few nights in a top class hotel. Cost of unworkable, rocky areas. Mr. Halaby, 33, has been "in the heart of Samaria" has begun. It is called the tour, including meals on board and breakfast a well-known reporter for TV for the last five Kamei Shomron, and straddles the way between at the hotels, will be about £200. On the other years. He holds a Hebrew University degree and Kalkily and Nablus. Most of the land is govern­ hand, no air-line company has so far come for­ served for more than three years as an Israeli ment-owned, but a small area, belonging to the ward to start a shuttle service between Tel Aviv Army officer in the Lebanon border areas. He said, nearby Arab village of Azzun, was appropriated and Cairo. Under the Arab-Israeli peace treaty, he went to the West Bank to discover the trath to build an approach road. Egyptian and Israeli companies are excluded from rather than to represent any party or faction. At a later date, Israeli troops fired teargas to setting up the service until the two countries have disperse crowds of demonstrators who attempted exchangai ambassadors. British Airways have CURSE ON MAYOR KOLLEK to storm a road block outside Elon Moreh. In stated they wanted to be asked rather than to Religious zealots have given waming that Tel Aviv, large numbers of "Peace Now" demon­ apply for the service. Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem will be cursed strators arrived from different parts of the country NEW RABBI FOR CAIRO in a Cabalistic ceremony, if he persists in his to attend a protest meeting of about 30,000 outside plans to build an Olympic-sized sports centre in Rabbi Yitzhak Debbi, son of the former the city museum. Prominent writers and intel­ Sephardic rabbi of Alexandria, and now an North Jerusalem. In the 700-year-old ceremony, lectuals called for a campaign to bring down every curse "from Moses unto the present" is Israeli, has been designated as the new rabbi of the Begin and "to return Zionist aspirations to a Cairo Jewish community which has some 130 heaped on the head of the victim, while a black course of sanity and rationality." candle is lit and a black shofar is sounded. members. The Egyptian Government has ap­ JUDGE CRITiaSES CIVIL SERVICE proved the appointment of an Israeli. Two months ago. Judge Yoel Sussmann of the Israeli Supreme Court said, the Government was in contempt of court to disregard an injunction not to build a particular road in the Negev. A few France & Germanys weeks ago, he heard the case of a boy who became blind after an accident caused by a military vehicle. In 1977, the Tel Aviv district court had DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX Finest Wines awarded him nearly £800,000 damages, but, pend­ ing an appeal, the State only paid him about £16,000, and when it eventually paid up after the LTD. SHIPPED BY rejection of the appeal, the value of the award had been greatly diminished because of inflation. Judge Sussmann said, that no civilised country would tolerate the Israeli Civil Service. It should be replaced, and officials who were not doing their HOUSE OF job, should be dismissed. UN COLONEL SMUGGLED ARMS A high-ranking ofiicer of the United Nations HALLGARTEN Forces in Lebanon was arrested because he was found to carry arms for terrorists into Israel. This was discovered by chance, when a vehicle carry­ I am able to offer you a superb ing two Nigerian oflficers was involved in a traffic selection of French (incl. Kosher accident and searched by traffic police. In future, all UN vehicles will have to undergo a rigorous Dunbee House Alsace) and German wines, check, before being allowed to cross one of the shipped by the famous importers, three official checkpoints on the Lebanon border. Most of the UN troops spend their leave in 117 Great Portland Street, House of Hallgarten, and to advise Israel, where the UN Force also buys all its sup­ you personally and help you with plies. London, W.1 your wine purchases. The selection GOETHE INSTITUTE IN TEL AVIV The President of the German Goethe Institute, ranges from your everyday wines Klaus von Bismarck, came to Tel Aviv to attend the festive opening of the Tel Aviv Goethe In­ to the finest for your special stitute. Many other guests from the Federal Simcha. 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C. C. Aronsfeld It was a small place and meant to be. "If we had started business with a large establishment such as the Trocadero (Joe once reflected), we might have finished up with A FORTUNE IN A CUP OF TEA being proprietors of a small coffee house, but having started from the bottom rung of The face of Britain is changing in many of the tea shops had occurred to him at some the ladder we were able to gauge month by ways, but in few more strikingly than with of the exhibitions he attended, both com­ month the popular requirements and so the disappearance of the famous Lyons tea mercial and artistic, where he found the increase our business". shops which once upon a time were as much standards of eating deplorable. Not oidy was The first Lyons shop proved to be, accord­ a part of London as Big Ben or the Ritz or the food expensive, it was often also dirty and ing to Montagu Gluckstein, "a howling Eros and his customers in Piccadilly. Now they drearily served. So, in the 1880s, then aged success"; at any rate the Popular Cafe carried are gone, having been taken over by (of all about 35, Lyons opened first a small restaurant some social significance—not so much because people) Allied Breweries. where he himself did the cooking, then a greater value was here given for less money The last of the tea shops was actually coffee stall at an exhibition in Liverpool. but mainly because new standards of comfort closed as far back as 1976, though some Curiously enough, the idea was shared by were established which made it possible for ghosts lingered on under the pretty, if a cousin of his, Montagu Gluckstein, who was the respectable, if impecunious, middle-class dehydrated, name of Jolyon, until they too a traveller for Messrs Salmon & Gluckstein, family to have a larger share in the amenities were laid to rest. The old needs are being tobacconists (now long since taken over by of life. met in new ways—by self-service, Wimpey, Imperial Tobacco). He noticed how little In the City especially there was (as Robert wine bars—a melancholy fate that has also opportunity there was for eating out in com­ Cecil's "Life in Edwardian England" describes befallen other regulars of High Street: Home fort. "Supposing (he once related) that you them) a "rapidly multiplying race of clerks & Colonial, ABC, dairies and the family had been a stallholder then and unable to and ofBce workers" who "demanded a new grocers, even Montagu Burtons ("The Tailors spare much time for your meals. You had your kind of catering", and the young women of Taste") and so many other brand names choice of three things, and three only—the typists, secretaries and telephonists were par­ of footwear and haberdashery. An empire has extortionate and unsatisfactory catering within ticular too. They all no longer needed to cast declined at home in a manner hardly less the exhibition itself, the public house or a a jealous glance at the splendour of Rumpel­ sorrowful than the larger empire abroad. Sic visit to a coffee house or to one of those mayer's, nor put up with the dingy coffee transit . . . Lyons' profits for the last year familiarly known as 'a good pull-up for car­ house or dread the beastly pub. Here was a (1977-78) fell from close on £10 million to men' ". place whose very appearance was clean and £6-2 million; debts actually stood at over So, with his brother, Isidore and brother-in- bright, white-gilded with a light brown letter­ £250 million, and, rightly or wrongly, the law, Bamett Salmon, the partners of Salmon ing that Suburbia come to Town was only management was sadly found incapable of & Gluckstein, he decided to set up a new too pleased to accept as pure gold. The rooms adapting to modem conditions. company of which he was to be the manager, were well aired and prettily decorated, the Old "Joe" Lyons would have raised at though they would not trade under the family crockery decent, the table-cloth clean too— least one eyebrow at what the Prices Secre­ name; popular catering was considered no small thing in a country where, even years tary called the "cake and ale" merger. Had inferior to the aristocratic business of cigar- later, responsible critics would sternly rebuke anybody told him the startling news, he would manufacturing. They needed (so Montagu "our filthy habits in regard to the sale and have treated it as fit for fiction which was no later explained) "someone to act as ambassa­ service of food". stranger to his diversely gifted mind. He dor to the new firm and negotiate with the Step by step, the Popular Caf6s multiplied actually wrote an odd novel or two. For he exhibition authorities". This man was found in (there were eventually 250-odd including more Was not only a businessman but equally a Joseph Lyons, a distant relative. than 120 in London), and bigger and better ''omantic, with a literary talent, a connoisseur It was an inspired choice, for Joseph not only tea shops arose—the Corner Houses, State of art and himself an amateur artist; a knew the trade, he had also the knack of Cafes, Maisons Lyons: veritable Marble Halls composer of briefly popular songs and music- making himself agreeable. He was a great with all the glitter and grandeur of Fairyland. "all sketches; an inventor of gadgets who raconteur and his anecdotes, whether true or Exquisite attention was devoted to every ?lso managed to design the first scenic shoot- not, always helped to captivate good will. detail bearing on comfort, including good mg gallery with moving targets, a once great Later, among the gossip columnists of Fleet light music by exotically clad orchestras; even attraction, amusing the public and profitable Street (as Bemard Falk tells in his Memoirs), early on, at the Newcastle exhibition, bread ti> himself. Now that his name has been over- "on any slow afternoon, Joe Lyons was good and butter was consumed to the no doubt awe- t;iken by the passage of time, it is perhaps for half a column. Either his reminiscences or inspiring strains of a—Hungarian band. But fi ttingt o retrace the story of the unusual man his views on topics of the day provided 'copy' careful note was also taken of every failure. a Id his achievement. as entertaining as the papers demanded and Montagu Gluckstein tells a characteristic Joseph Lyons did not start in business. so to journalists he was as good as a free episode. They used to have the tipping W »ving been to a private academy, the cockney insurance endowment poUcy". system which was, of course, the rule in the flirted as a painter—a water-colour painter— Montagu visited him in Liverpool, offered catering trade. But they were the first to *'d he exhibited his first pictiu-es at the him shares in the business and thus Joe joined employ women as waiters, the attractive, °->yal Institute where he appears to have done the Gluckstein-Salmon team. He was to be smartly dressed "Nippies", who were depend­ •'Jticeably well with a number of titled custo­ chairman of the firm which was to be called ent on the customers' generosity. The draw­ mers. The trouble was (he later confessed) after him if only to avoid confusion with the back of this system soon became apparent, "^e hated selling his pictures; like many an tobacconi.'sts. especiaUy after a press campaign had been Artist before and after him, he loved his But while Montagu Gluckstein was launched under the slogan "The Lyons and "andiwork too much. So he gave up this undoubtedly the driving force, Lyons had the Lambs". "We realised we had made a Profession and launched himself on something ideas of his own. As he put it, he sought to mistake", Montagu Gluckstein afterwards J'ke a literary career, writing fiction that was discover what the public wanted and then set related, "We said so publicly in the press and to emerge as periodical items of a "Lyons about getting it. "Our crest, had we had it announced: 'As from tonight NO GRATUI­ Library" published by Cassels. embossed", he said, "would have been a TIES' ". They introduced instead the system He met the grand Welsh character Cecil pickaxe and our motto 'We'll either find a way of payments and commission. j^leigh (recte Rowlands) who took pride in the or make one' ". On these lines some experience The public's favour was captured almost ^ct that he had been "brought up to no trade. was gained at a number of exhibitions, in from the beginning. Clear proof was given Calling or profession". Having managed with Newcastle, Glasgow, at Olympia, at the that while the British often regard cooking Jhese qualifications to become (for a while) "France-British Caf6 and Restaurant" in Paris, as one of the lost arts, they will appreciate "e dramatic critic of Vanity Fair and of 1889, and eventually the first Lyons tea shop good food if it is presented with grace and in ^Porting Times, he tumed out an Impressive was opened in Piccadilly, London, on Septem­ conditions not inferior to the best standards. ^^y of plays, melodramas, pantomimes (some ber 20, 1894. They will then even relish dishes they had ' which actually appeared in Drury Lane) not hitherto known and which they would ^oder such engaging titles as "The Sins of CAMPS otherwise disdain as foreign. When the S?piety", "Marriages of Mayfair", "The Derby Piccadilly Comer House opened in 1910, a Winner", "The Great Millionaire", and a part- INTERNMENT—P.o.W.— queue a quarter-mile long was waiting to get '^I'ship with "Joe" Lyons produced two FORCED LABOUR—KZ inside. As Shaw Desmond wittily remarks in "inUers, "The Master Crime" and "The I wish to buy cards, snvslopss snd foMsd post- his Edwardian memoirs, " 'Christians to the 'narksd letters from all camps ot both world wars. Lyons' became once more an accomplished treasure of the Temple", Please send, registered mail, stating prica, to: fa °^ course, these were only hobbies so 14 Roashra HIII, Lamton, M.W.S fact". j^ as Lyons was concemed, and the "Lyons 'orary" did not last long anyway. The idea PETER C. RICKEMBACK continued on page 10 Page 10 AJR INFORMATION August 1979 MISCELLANEOUS A FRANKFURT JEWISH BIBLIOGRAPHY A FORTUNE IN A CUP OF TEA More than 10,000 items are listed in the re­ cently published "Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Frankfurter Juden 1781-1945" (Veriag Wal­ continued from page 9 demar Kramer, Frankfurt). It records the entire relevant literature (books, periodicals and news­ While Lyons were never wanting in hand­ midday meal". Soon "a big popular cafe (was) papers) published up to the end of 1977. The some tributes, not the least notable compli­ spreading itself from a humble baker's and 700-page volume is divided into a general part and an alphabetically arranged bibliographical section ment, though perhaps the least sincere, was confectioner's"; "Levy's of Oxford Street" covering all personalities of Jewish faith or de­ paid them in that Nazi press articles during would open also "Levy's in the Strand" where scent, who played a role in the city's public, the war which, having crudely lampooned the before long it was "considered rather 'fast' cultural or economic life; other well known per­ Jewish founders, reported "the smell of to dine" because "this Jewish fellow was sonalities who originated from Frankfurt are also Solomon's Kosher People's Kitchen" in "all clever enough to realise that a bad moral tone included. the highways and byways of London". "If would kill the business but a romantic and The general part deals in chronological order Lyons' menu says cabbage, then the whole vaguely suggestive aura was sufficient to set with the periods from the beginning of the of London will reek of cabbage". it going with a swing". emancipation up to the time of persecution. Actually, if the Nazis had known what Those "white facades and their triumphant The personal part includes about 900 names, Lyons were doing at that time they might golden signs . . . were the fountain heads and among them, to quote only a few examples a* random. Rabbis Abraham Geiger, S. R. Hirsch have been less pre-occupied with cabbage. the mark of fame", while "in the provinces and Georg Salzberger, furthermore Gabriel Ri^ Lyons were adding to their catering list a rose others no less prosperous, no less carefully ser, Leopold Sonnemann, Paul Ehrlich, the diet that was to be deadly for the Germans. consideied, each one planned and planted in Rothschilds and Speyers. On Govemment orders they began to manu­ firm ground by the mind and the hand of The publication is edited by the young historian facture munitions at a recently established their creator". In fact "there would be no Hans-Otto Schembs. He could base it on the and as yet underdeveloped Royal Ordnance town in future days lacking a Levy cafe: preparatory work carried out by Diplombiblio- factory near Bedford. They specialised in high Levy's was something permanent and solid, it thekar Emst Loewy and the late Rosel Andernacht explosives and the factory's original capacity had identified itself with the English charac­ and was also assisted by the staff of the Municipal of 90,000 bombs a week was stepped up, within ter and because of its general familiarity had Archives (Director Dr. Dietrich Andemacht) and little more than a year, to over half a million. become a national advertisement". of the Municipal and University Library. Here was produced the literally devastating Now it has closed down. Lyons has become E.G.L- blockbuster, the 4,000-pounder which soon little more than a period piece, to be treasured BERLIN BAR KOCHBA REMEMBERED . «rew to 12,000 and 22,000, and in fact out of Eighty years ago, the 'Juedische Tumvereio by those coimoisseurs of whom Joe himself Bar Kochba" was founded in Berlin. To mark the the total of nearly 100,000 tons of bombs was one. There is a nostalgic ring al>out it, anniversary, the Bar Kochba-Hakoah Nachricht^ dropped on Germany by British Bomber Com­ the (now) beguiling atmosphere of the (Editor, Fritz A. Lewinson. Tel Aviv POB 11587) mand over one-tenth passed through this upstairs-downstairs world. The baxiars of published a special issue, partly in German, partly Lyons shop. fashion caught on to it and for a while the in Hebrew, in which former members assess the "Joe" Lyons did not live to see those days. "Nippy Line" or the "Waitress Dress" was in ideological conditions, which led to the found­ He died, aged 70, during the First World War, vogue, embroidered with a dash of more than ation of this Zionist sport organisation, and in 1917. Not long afterwards, too, he entered suggestive magic which would probably have record the Bar Kochba's achievements in the field been frowned upon in the Popular Caf6s. of athletics. The paper also carries personal rem­ iterature—not as the author of now forgotten iniscences of former Bar Kochba members. One . tories but as the hero in one of Daphne du In 1911, Lyons was knighted in recognition article deals with the position of the Bar Kochba -iaurier's novels, "The Progress of Julius" of the services he had rendered in various as constituent of the Maccabi World Movement, 933). Julius Levy, the French Jew, appeared fields of public affairs. Tribute was paid to which from 1929 until 1933 had its headquarters a some disguise, of course, and disembellished the "energetic and liberal support" he had in Berlin. When the Nazis came to power, the .>y poetical licence. Joe Lyons had rather given to the London County Territorial Force Maccabi archives were secretly taken to London- more human feeling and what he lacked in Association, but especially he was thought The leading role, played by the second Lord highly of because he had "contributed not a Melchett in World Maccabi is also gratefully concem for himself he made up by a notice­ remembered. able public spirit. Yet, though Miss du Maurier little to the fall in the drink bill which is one has claimed that "the story was entirely of the most hopeful features of modern CASPARIUS ExmarnoN IN BERUN fictitious and not based on any real person", English life". No doubt his fanciful mind When Hans Casparius attended the Photogra­ of both it was true that they began in the would have appreciated the not too subtle phic Congress in Berlin last year, the Larules- smallest way, "creating a great novelty" for irony that, having done so much for the cause bildstelle acquired many of his photos of pre-NaZi "the numberless clerks and poorer City men of temperance, his tea shops were eventually Beriin, his home-town until he emigrated to LoO' who . . . were agreeably surprised to come to be gulped down by Allied Breweries. don in 1935. These pictures have now been shown across this place that provided a quick, cheap. in a special exhibition which attracted many visitors.

FAMILY EVENTS Deaths Situations Vacant Entries in the column Family Events BERNSTEIN.—Ruth Bemstein died LADY REQUIRED TO TAKE are free of charge; any voluntary peacefully on June 21 in her 87th H.WOORTMAN&SON donation would, however, be appreci­ CHARGE OF HOUSEHOLD with a year. Deeply moumed by Hans and 16 year old schoolboy—parents de­ ated. Texts should be sent in by ISth Nora Fembach, Heinz Weraer and 8 Baynes Mews, Hampstead, N.W.3- of the month. ceased. A nice, well fumished flat Phone 435 3974 and 450 6266 Ruth Lowenstein and her many N.W.2. with all amenities and good friends. remimeration offered. Please phone Continental Builder and Decorator Birthdays GUHRAUER—Alex Guhrauer, for­ momings until 11 a.m. 222 4647. Specialist in Dry Rot R epairs merly of Braunschweig, passed away SCHIEREN,—A Happy 90th Birth­ peacefully on June 30. Deeply WE WOULD WELCOME hearing ESTIMATES FREE day on August 16 to Mrs. Beate mourned by his wife Hella, relatives from more ladies who would be will­ Schieren (Auntie Be) of Otto Schiff and friends everywhere. 226 Mancroft ing to shop and cook for an elderly House, 14 Netherhall Gardens, Lon­ Road, Aley Green, Luton, Beds. person in their neighbourhood on a don, N-W.3. from all her relatives OFFENBACHER.—Paul Offenbacher temporary or permanent basis. Cur­ and friends. rent rate of pay £1.40 per hour. Please died peacefully on June 7. Deeply mour­ ring Mrs. Matus 01-624 4449, AJR AJR WILLIAMS.—On August 28, Mrs. Lilly ned by his wife, daughter and friends. Employment, for appointment. Williams of 126 Sutherland Avenue, W.9, SIMON.—Walter Simon, husband of CHARITABLE TRUST will celebrate her SOth birthday. All her Steffi, brother of Ruth, passed away Personal friends, grateful for many acts of kind­ on June 27 in his 71st year. 153 LADY, EARLY FfFTIES, dieerful and These are the ways in which ness, wish her many years of un­ Cholmley Gardens, Mill Lane, Lon­ easygoing, looking for friends. Box 779. you can help. diminished health and strength. don, N.W.6. CONTRIBUTIONS CLASSIFIED UNDER COVENANT Golden Wedding The charge in these columns is SOp GERRARD.—Mr. Gerhard and Mrs. Mr. CHARLES GIFTS IN for five words plus 25p for advertise­ YOUR LIFETIME Hilde Gerrard celebrated their Golden ments under a Box No. CAR SERVICE Wedding Anmversary on July 28. A BEQUEST 959 2541 26 Manor Road, Harrow, Middx. REVLON MANICURIST. Will visit IN YOUR WILL HAI 2PB. your home. Phone 01-445 2915. AJR INFORMATION August 1979 Page 11

IN MEMORIAM HANS JACOBI PERSONALIA On the 25th of July our dear friend Hans MAX MORDECHAI SINASOHN GEORG SCHLESINGER PRIZE IN BERLIN Jacobi would have celebrated his 70th birthday. Max Mordechai Sinasohn, who recently died in To commemorate the name of Dr. Georg He did not live to celebrate it. Is it allowed to Israel at the age of 92, was headmaster of the Schlesinger, who was Professor at the Berlin alleviate our sadness at having lost him so Primary School of the Adass-Jisroel Community Technische Hochschule (now Technische Universi­ grievously early by dwelling for a moment on the in Beriin from 1919 to 1942. He and his wife, who taet) from 1904 to 1933, the City of Beriin made vision of how he would have celebrated it? On his predeceased him, managed to find refuge in an endowment which bears his name. The pro­ happiness at welcoming his friends to his and his Belgium, where they survived the war in hiding. ceeds are to be awarded to research workers on beloved Lili's home, on their table laden with In 1947, he went to Palestine, where he spent the production methods. Professor Schlesinger had selected dishes, with exquisite drinks, lavish flower {ast years of his life in a Home for the Ag«l in been a pioneer in this field, and the creation of arrangements, surrounded by cheerful guests? How Nahariya. Max Sinasohn's acdve interest in the the "Institut fuer Werkzeugmaschinen und Hans and Lili would have radiated pleasure, re­ P?st of Berlin Jewry is reflected in two books of Fertigungstechnik" owes its creation in 1904 to joiced in the festivity and chuckled in delight at "IS, a "History of the Beriin Adass Jisroel" (1966) him. To mark the 75th anniversary of the Insti-, ^ its success? ^d a meticulous record of Berlin's Private Syna­ tute, a ceremony was held on June t in the former JL'' Alas, it was not to be. All his friends are gogues and their Rabbis (1971). In recognition of Charlottenburg Castle. Tributes were paid to poorer, being deprived not only of his unequalled his standing as a Jewish scholar, he was awarded Professor Schlesinger's achievements, and the hospitality, but, above all, of a loyal, judicious, 'he honorary title "Morenu" (Our Teacher). He guests at the function included his children. many-sided friend, full of humour and high spirits. *as also a member of the Jewish Academy of Arts Georg Schlesinger was born in Berlin in 1874. Yet surely, he would have wished to be remem­ and Sciences in New York. When the Nazis came to power, he was taken into bered rather by the joy he gave than by the E.G.L. pre-trial custody for no particular reason and unmitigated sense of bereavement with which he solely on account of his being a Jew. After his has left us. release in November 1933, he emigrated to E.G.R. JOSEF PLAUT CENTENARY Belgium, where he was for four years lecturer at , A hundred years ago, on June 5, the widely the "Universite Libre" in Brussels. After his re- J^own and highly popular artist Josef Plaut was emigration to England, he was appointed director ^rn in Detmold. To mark the centenary, RIAS of the research department of the British Institute ARCHITECr OF DRESDEN'S SYNAGOGUE °erlin arranged a special broadcast, reviving the of Production Engineers in Loughborough. He Centenary of the Death of Gottfried Semper memories of the "Josef-Plaut-Abende", which were died in London in October 1949, 75 years old. One hundred years ago, the famous German Jnjoyed by large audiences all over the country. When, during the war, the AJR gave thought to architect and art historian, Gottfried Semper died ^|ney excelled by the artist's versatile gifts as a the economic and vocational problems which in Rome, 76 years old. His works during his 15 P^onner and the specific humour of his repertoire, many refugees might have to face after the end of years' stay in Dresden included the city's Syna­ *nich also included many pieces written by him- hostilities, two of its honorary officers met Pro­ gogue, completed in 1840, one of the architectur­ p'f- Plaut emigrated in 1936 and as a refugee had fessor Schlesinger and obtained his expert and ally outstanding Jewish houses of prayer in J sp through difficult times in Switzerland, South understanding advice. Germany. The main initiator of commissioning ^rica and England. Six years after the end of the Semper was a private man of letters, Bemhard **>•. he decided to return to Germany. His last ISAIAH BERLIN'S GIFT Behr (1801-1861), who was a member of the Com­ "Ppearance in London was arranged under the Sir Isaiah Berlin has donated the £1,500 Jeru­ munity Board. The Synagogue was destroyed dur­ *"s.pices of the AJR. He resumed his artistic salem Prize money recently awarded to him, to ing the November 1938 pogroms, yet after the war, activities in Germany imtil he retired and died, the Jemsalem Institute for the Prevention of miraculously, a number of silver ritual objects '' years old, in Bad Salzuflen, not far away from Blindness at the Hadassah Medical Centre- He ex­ were retraced. *»" place of birth. pressed the hope that the money would help more E.G.L. people to read books. E.G.L.

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Marleae Dietrich has joined the circle of stan roENTITY AND INTEGRATION who inform their fans about themselves by writing Salute to Belsize Square Synagogue an autobiography. "Nicht nur mein Leben" (puh- When, in 1939, Jewish refugees arrived in great site was consecrated in 1958. lished by Bertelsmatm, Munich) is meant to be numl>ers in this coimtry, quite a few of them From the very beginning, the Synagogue has a truthful account, partly a denial of the avalanche missed the kind of religious service they had been excelled by its lively religious, intellectual and of stories written about Marlene, the wicked used to on the Continent. It was due to the initi­ welfare activities. At the same time, without losing "Blue Angel". She recalls a great number of ative of several former Jewish communal workers its identity, it has become an integral part of famous friends, among whom director Josef von in Germany and to the helpfulness of the late Dr. Anglo-Jewieh life. May it go on from strength to Stemberg ranks first. She also pays tribute to J^" Israel Mattuck and the late Hon. Lily Montagu, Gabin and Charles Chaplin, and to the man who that a New Liberal Jewish Association was strength in the yeas to come. founded. It soon replaced the term "Association" assisted her in her second career as show star-- by "Congregation" and, being more moderate than THEATRE AND CULTURE composer Burt Bacharach. It is a book about most of the Anglo-Jewish Liberal congregations, The German Stage provided a colourful end-of- Marlene as we know her, elegant and proud, ultimately adopted the name Belsize Square Syna­ season picture, probably mindful of visitors from confessing her dedication to total professionalisffl. gogue. To mark the 40th anniversary of the abroad: Brecht's "Furcht und Elend des Dritten S.B. Synagogue, an impressive Anniversary Service was Reiches" was seen in Marburg and Essen, the held on June 17, and a particularly well laid out special issue of the Synagogue's magazine "Our "Diary of Aime Frank" at the Stadttheater, Aachen, and—in sharp contrast—a nostalgic revue Congregation" carried several contributions refer­ "VOICES OF (X)MPASSION" at Berlin's "Theater des Westens": "Wie einst im ring to the event. Under the heading "Just for today", speechM ol TTie history and current problems of the Syna­ Mai", with music by Willi and Walter KoUo. church leaders and other public personalities M» gogue were described by Rabbi J. J. Kokotek both Municb. "My Mother's Cotirage" was the title been compiled on a Long Playing record (*^;' in his Thanksgiving Sermon and, in greater detail, of a dramatic work given here, written by the late incl. postage obtainable from P.O. Box "Jusj ^Y\ in an article published in "Our Congregation". George Tabori, the Hungarian-born writer who today", Romford, Essex). The profits will .^ Extracts from the memoirs of the late Rabbi Dr. emigrated to England. The main part of the play distributed among various charities. The texts in' Georg Salzberger, the spiritual leader of the which depicts the true story of the deportation to elude words by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Synagogue from its foundation until his retirement Lord Soper, Dame Sybil Thorndike and, among after 17 years of devoted service, cast the readers' Auschwitz of the author's mother, is played by Haima Schygulla who could be seen in several others, also the prayer, which Mr. Herbert ^j^ minds back to the innirnierable di£fictilties during bach addressed to 4,000 German Prisoners-t^W*^ the first years, when most of the members had to main rdles during the series of Gennan Fassbinder in Scotland after the end of the Second Won struggle hard to make a living in this country. Films at the National Film Theatre earlier this War. Bravely, and under great personal sacrifices. Rabbi year. Dr. Salzberger as well as Cantor Magnus Davidsohn Birthdays. Czech-born musician and conductor put up with these unavoidable shortcomings. Yet Rafael Kubelik who for a number of years was their loyalty and unshakable belief in their cause musical director of Covent Garden Opera House, "HAMBURGER FAMEUENBLATT" and perhaps also the organisational ability, which Request for Copies .jg they and the honorary officers had "transferred" celebrated his 65th birthday; Grete von Zieritz, a pupil of composer Franz Schreker and one of Copies of the Hamburger Familienblatt fuer o from their country of origin, helped them through Israelitischen Gemeinden Hamburg, .A' ^^ the difficult first decade, when they had to hold the few intemationally-knowTi women-composers, Wandsbek, 1924-1932 (Beilage zum Israelitiscn^ their services in small flats. It was only in 1950 was feted by Bayrischer Rimdfunk on the occasion Familienblatt) are urgently required. Any ''^^Vg that they could open their own Synagogue in the of her 80th birthday; Lotte Reiniger, legendary who can be of assistance should kindly '^^^^^^^ fonner vicarage of St. Peter's, Belsize Square. inventor of the SiUtouette film (her first film Leo Baeck Institute, 4 Devonshire St., Lono Their present, beautiful Synagogue on the same appeared 60 years ago), is also 80 years old. WIN 2BH (Tel.: 01-580 3493).

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