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Diaspora Blues and Variations of the Schmooseoisie PI4 , ^T AJ R In[u lai Volume LI No. 4 April 1996 £3 (to non-members) ^on't miss ... Eleanor From Exodus to exit? •^athbone '•ernembered p2 Discreet charm Diaspora blues and variations of the schmooseoisie PI4 , ^T"his week we celebrate Passover - the ever- destinations). At the JFS in Camden Town - Anglo- I I recurring festival of Jewish liberation in Jewry's largest educational institution 'Re-migrants' pi5 I commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt. Israeli-born children form an integral part of the in­ In significant ways we, too, experienced liberation take. in our own lifetimes. We were liberated from the Education ranks alongside social work, charity threat to our very lives - and from the subsequent and fundraising as a major Anglo-Jewish communal I threat to the survival of the State of Israel. activity. Literally in the last few weeks the commu­ The world In fact the Jewish State now feels so secure that the nity has also spawned a new institution which must act bestselling Israeli writer A B Yehoshuah, has recently analyses the attitudes of its own members. The first i put the galut in its place. Diaspora Jews he said findings of this new body, the Institute for Jewish * should not presume to counsel Israel on what to do, Policy Research, make encouraging reading: sixty ur main and should first learn Hebrew if they nonetheless in­ per cent of Anglo-Jewry reject the idea that "the editorial sisted on proffering advice. only long-term future for Jews is in Israel". Odescribes The Israeli President, Ezer Weizman, has in turn This perception is totally at variance with 'sraci as 'feeling offered counsel to Jews living in Germany, a country Wassterstein's prediction that the Diaspora is secure'. This holds indelibly associated with the Holocaust in his mind. doomed. In reply he could point out that the figures friic in the sense His one-word advice 'Don't!' elicited a spirited re­ - 450,000 UK Jews in 1945, .300,000 today - have buttal from Frankfurt City Councillor Daniel their own irrefutable logic. However, linear extrapo­ t'lat no Arab state (lohn-Bendit in the columns of Die Zeit. lation of the future from the past is a most imprecise n»w entertains The exchange between Weizman and Cohn-Bendit method of forecasting. (Sec Demographic disaster "•^•alistic dreams of was given added relevance by the publication of page 13)U conquering her. Bernard Wasserstein's book with the self- ^^ the same time, explanatory - and attention-grabbing - title The ^^'^ Jewish state Vanishing Diaspora. In the aftermath of Hitler's War the ghost com­ ^=ices relentless munities of camp survivors and U-boats f^ror. Middle reconstituted on German soil had been viewed as ''astern peace is ]jquidationsgemeinden till an influx of East Euro­ ^'tal to the world, pean DPs made them semi-permanent. The addition ^hich must devise of over 10,000 ex-Soviet Jews since the fall of the ^*>unter measures Iron C'urtain guarantees continuity. With a popula­ tion of over forty-thousand, today's German-Jewish f<> terror. F.uropean community is larger than the Italian one - and who '^dvocates of would deny the permanence of the latter? "critical dialogue" (icrmany is not the only area which fails to bear "^•'h Iran call to out Wasserstein's thesis of the irreversible decline of "^'"J Lord Halifax Diaspora Jewry (though, of course, the present Ger­ f"""ing his hopes man community is but a shadow of its predecessor). "n the - W^sserstein has a point when he says that aliyah I has practically halved the size of Russian Jewry - """-existent - } but there has also been a sizable coxxntcv-aliyah of Seder phue showing the four sons, from the right • defer, had, "^"derates in the • Israelis settling in Western Diaspora countries (with simple mid the one who does not understand how to ask. (KPM, ^a^-i leadership D I New York, Los Angeles and London as favoured early nineteenth century). AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1996 i wage system which favoured men - seek­ Profile ing equal pay for women; her dedication to achieving family allowances; and not least, the importance she gave to protect­ Bridge builder ing the individual, especially women and olf Rosner was born in Berlin in children. That commitment had led her to. 1917 to parents no longer strongly warn the Commons as early as 1934 o. attached to Judaism; even so he re­ the evils of the Nazi regime and to chaifl' R pion the interests of Jews trying to escape tains fond memories of his barmitzvah at which Rabbi Joachim Prinz officiated. the Nazi terror. Not long after that event, alas, his film Ben Helfgott, chairman of thfi importer father and mother divorced. Yad Vashem Committee, recollected he^ This meant that as a teenager Rolf experi­ utter devotion to justice and humanity enced first a 'private' and then a and her "passionate support for Jewish 'public' trauma - i.e. the Nazi takeover emigration to Palestine". From 1939 on­ - within a short time of each other. wards she was known as the 'Membef for Refugees' as she headed a Hous' In autumn 1933 his father sent him to a Rolf Rosner committee seeking to protect their inter­ (fee-paying) vocational school in Czecho­ ests. slovakia for training in woodwork and cial 'baby' tries to instil an interest in sci­ interior design. The mid-thirties found ence, technology and the environment in Eleanor Rathbone's great-nephew, Tin^ Rolf alone in London where, thanks to school children, and to develop inter-re­ Rathbone xMP, spoke of the family's enof- the Depression, work was scarce and pay gional partnerships between local schools, mous pride in 'Aunt Eleanor' an'' barely enough to keep body and soul to­ industry and commerce. The scheme has recounted a meeting with that largef gether. After hard times, and a bout of gathered broad support and involves doz­ than-life character when he was a young illness, the coming of war drastically ens of schools with literally thousands of boy. From the audience, Simon Reiss rc transformed employment prospects. pupils. called that, together with 9,500 othe' Kindertransport children, he owed his lit' As an evening-class trained draughts­ Is it too fanciful to suggest that living to the urgency with which Eleanof man Rolf now found work at a factory close to Newcastle - emblem: the Tyne Rathbone had introduced legislation i" making components for Royal Navy Bridge - has inspired Rolf Rosner to be­ the wake of Kristallnacht which had al­ ships. (It was at the same workplace, inci­ come a bridge builder in a different sense lowed him 'temporary' refuge in Britain- dentally, that he met his wife). of the word? Prior to her death in 1946, legislatio" Long habituated to study outside of DRG was passed which brought family allow­ working hours Rolf managed to become ances into existence. A school was name'' an Associate of the Institute of British Ar­ in her memory in Israel in 1949 as wa* chitects at the end of the war, when he Eleanor Rathbone Eleanor Rathbone House in Highgate '" joined the LCC Planning Department 1969, a block of sheltered apartment^ (and shared in designing the Ashburton remembered with which the AJR remains closely asso­ Estate near Putney Heath). When the leanor Rathbone, daughter of a ciated. LCC job came to an end he went to Ger­ wealthy Liverpool mercantile family, many where he worked on public housing Eentered the House of Commons in DRonald Channii4 projects, lectured and published several 1929 as a fiercely independent Member books. for the Combined English Universities. THEODOR HERZL In Germany too, he had a fraught reun­ Immediately she devoted her considerable and the ion with his father whose life the second reforming zeal and powerful personality - non-Jewish - wife had saved (while to the advance of social reform and to ORIGINS OF ZIONISM Rolf's mother had perished at Ausch­ pioneering family allowances. More par­ A SYMPOSIUM witz). ticularly, she was an outspoken opponent 16-19 April 1996 of the evils of Nazism, and passionately In the mid-sixties Rolf brought his own Co-ordinator: concerned herself with the plight of refu­ family back to England and became a PROF. EDWARD TIMMS housing architect at the Department of gees in Europe during the 1930s and Centre for German-Jewish Studies the Environment, Newcastle. Since retire­ World War II. University of Sussex ment on age grounds in 1982, he has been On the 50th anniversary of her death, with channelling most of his considerable en­ the life and works of Eleanor Rathbone Austrian Institute, London ergy into two projects designed to benefit were celebrated at a meeting held at the Institute of German Studies the wider community. House of Lords, hosted by Lord Merlyn- The first was the Benchmark Workshop, Rees and organised by the Holocaust Registration £30 to established with Church support, where Educational Trust. Administrative Secretary, the unemployed were taught skills such as Greville Janner QC MP saluted "the Institute of Germanic Studies, textile printing and painting on china. memory of a great and formidable lady". 29 Russell Square, London WCIB 5DP The second is the far more ambitious Frank Field MP spoke eloquently of the Cheque to University of London IGS Bridge Project. This, Rolf Rosner's spe- many aspects of her work: her attack on a AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1996 Exodus 1939 heard them phone Cologne for a car to take me away. It was now or never - I JACKMAN• hance has played an incredible had to invent a believable story, and I told part in my survival.
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