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Volume XLVII No. 9 September 1992

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Mea culpa p3 Talking it out p7 Rosh Hashanah 5753 Lying through gold teeth pl6 orality, wrote Sigmund Freud, is 'conduct system. Morality, on the other hand, aims for the designed to benefit society as a whole or its absolute, that which by definition is not entirely M members individually'. The same is, of course, achievable but which must still be taken and respected true of law. However, as between some legal theorists, as the measure of desirable human behaviour. there has long been in existence a basic difference of The major implications of this point of view are Gleams of opinion as to the precise relationship between morality that law making and enforcement are the prerogatives and law and their respective functions in the social of political power and official authority, while morals hope order. One school of thought holds that the tenets of are and remain a purely personal matter, subject only morality are one thing, rules of law another and that in to an individual's private conscience and concern. The ost-Cold War practice, in real life, law should not seek to enforce the law should not impose morality and neither should euphoria has moral values of the majority (or, indeed, any others). received conceptions of morality impose themselves Pnow given While both, so runs the argument, are indeed intended upon the law. way to deep to serve similar ends - the maintenance of an No such dichotomy exists in the religious and established and stable social order - they do not have philosophical traditions of Judaism. The Jewish faith worries about the much else in common. For law must of necessity rejects the separation of morality and legal rules, not state of the world. pursue pragmatic justice, that which is attainable least in order to ensure that the conduct of human Fortunately global given the imperfections of an unavoidably fallible affairs is governed by the law of God, not Man. Put gloom is relieved simply, sin is crime and crime is sin. In this respect, at by some gleams of any rate, there is no divergence based upon synagogue hope. After a affiliation: Jews of whatever colour of commitment to traditional concepts are at one on this point, no tentative break of matter how some outward forms of worship and the Arab-Israeli observance may differ from each other. logjam comes This year it is, perhaps, especially appropriate to news of the stress this aspect of what might be called the Jewish Vatican's mission to the world. For lately, it would seem, the impending prevailing social order has become disturbed enough recognition of the to call into doubt both legal rules and their efficacy and popularly conceived standards of morality. Once Jewish State. This again an increasingly turbulent world seems ready to Roman thaw after defy both divine law and its man-made counterpart. a fort)' years' We have, in recent months, not lacked examples of the freeze is more than wanton disregard of both by individuals and groups; a diplomatic and all too often the response of the rest of society has nicety. It points to been a reluctance to find fault with some, if not all, the perpetrators. Too often have we seen the 'unaccep­ an incremental table face' of power in public, and not so public, li.fe. change in the The liturgy of Rosh Hashanah, Day of Judgement, Church's attitude is punctuated by the blowing of the shofar. One towards Jew from hundred trumpet blasts remind Jews of their uncon­ hostility to - ditional commitment to the moral standards of an however grudging ancient legal code. Perhaps the shofar's strident tone will penetrate the walls of our synagogues and - acceptance. Long prayerhalls in order to proclaim that there are values may it Blowing the Shofar at the New Year. Illustration from Die Juden on which followers of all religions (and of none) continue! D in Deurschland. N.T. Gidal, 1988. should now be able to agree. D D.LM. AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1992

Hungarian compensation Profile We understand that there is the possibility of making a claim for compensation from At Guildford, too, he was a pioneer the Hungarian Government for those Anti-Revisionist directing his students' interest to the role of people. Of their relatives, who were unjustly art and language in propaganda. He also deprived of their life, freedom, property etc made them do analytical work on Nazi for political or religious reasons between documents — a project that led on to his 1939 and 1989. own personal involvement with anti-Revi­ We have been advised that applications sionist scholarship. must be submitted by midnight 2 November After five years of research, which 1992. involved the feat of gaining access to Soviet Further inquiries are being made but, in the archives, he published Hitler and the Final meantime, members who may qualify can Solution (Oxford University Press, 1982) to apply for application forms to the Hungar­ refute David Irving's thesis that the Holo­ ian Embassy, 35 Eton Place, London SWl. caust was carried out behind the Fuehrer's Telephone number 071 235 4048 (a small back. The book attracted much attention fee may be charged for the application and excellent reviews — from, among form). D others. Professor Trevor-Roper — but even that has not as yet sufficed to demolish the Honoured by his peers Revisionist thesis totally. To procure further ammunition against Siegfried Lenz, one of the best known the Revisionists he has continued his contemporary German writers, will deliver researches into hitherto unavailable docu­ the laudatio at the award ceremony of the ments about Auschwitz in Soviet archives. Peace Prize of the German book trade to the When I interviewed him at his study Israeli author Amos Oz on 4 October at the (adorned with Diirer and Cranach engrav­ Paulskirche, Frankfurt. D ings) at the height of the Goebbels Diaries brouhaha he was firing off statements and Misplaced wreath contributions to publications as diverse as Mr Gerald Fleming. Photo: Newman. Nelson Mandela placed a wreath at the the Independent on Sunday and the Jewish shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini on a visit to Chronicle. Iran. Tehran Radio reported the ANC hen I first encountered the word Gerald Fleming is a man with a mission president as saying 'Khomeini's ideas in the Thirties Revisionist meant which, six years into retirement he pursues encouraged us during our struggle against Wrightwing Zionist. In the 1960s with the zest and volubility of someone half apartheid'. D Revisionist was an intra-Communist exple­ his age. I salute him as a doughty volunteer tive flung by the hawkish Mao at the in the unfortunately necessary engagement allegedly doveish Krushchev. with the slimy proponents of Revisionism. Since then its connotation has changed D R.G. drastically. Nowadays Revisionism denotes East-Germany a denial of the Holocaust and/or Hitler's share in it. The man who has probably done more than any other in Britain to combat and Berlin the Revisionists with the weapon of scholar­ We give immeaiate attention. ship is Gerald Fleming. COMPANIONS We process and buy properties/claims. Born in South West Germany in 1921, Gerald came to Taunton at the age of fifteen OF LONDON to attend school. Three years later his We pay cash. parents were able to leave Germany and his A specialist home care service father, a former Oberstudienrat, obtained a to assist the elderly, people We have proven track records and furnish language teaching post at Bradford Gram­ documentation. with disabilities, help during mar School. During the war Gerald worked and after illness, childcare as a precision engineer. Subsequently he and household needs. Write to: trained - inter alia at the Sorbonne - to Nagel & Partner For a service tailored to your individual needs Kjrfjrstendamm 182- I (X)0 Berlin 15 teach languages. His first appointment was by Companions who care - Please call Phone:030-882 56 31 at a large South London Comprehensive fax:030-881 39 16 where he experimented with the use of 071-483 0212 visual aids in the teaching of French gram­ 071-483 0213 mar. His pioneering work, which received support from the Ministry of Education, 110 Gloucester Avenue, served as a launching pad for an academic Primrose Hill, career that eventually took him to a reader­ London NWl 8JA ship in German at the University of Surrey. (Emp Agy) AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1992

its judicial component, of any lingering From the beginning his earnest demean­ Romancing the Stone vestige of antisemitism. (The vaunted objec­ our, the regularity of his attendances and his tivity of the 'law lords' in the matter can be exemplary punctuality were daunting. And ave gown, will travel' is not a inferred from Lord Shawcross's letter to although his command of the grammatical quote from a footlose trans- The Times citing a 'supposed' Commons intricacies of the German language was 'Hvesdte , but describes the attitude majority for the War Crimes Bill. In actual initially not much above average, this was of a growing number of dons with one foot fact the House of Commons voted 3 to 1 in admirably camouflaged by an impeccably in academe and the other in Fleet Street/ favour of the measure). clipped Teutonic enunciation. Wapping. Their forerunner was A J P One does not have to see roshes under Taylor, who saw no incongruity between every bed — as imputed to me by a respon­ Unsmiling and sinister his professed Socialism and working part- dent to the Questionnaire - to suspect that time for Lord Beaverbrook, the rightwing At first I hoped this 'mature' student, self- vestigial antisemitism surfaced in the Lords' press tycoon. assured, articulate and clearly intelligent War Crimes Bill debate. If Stone can give the might act as a leaven in a group of inhibited, Today Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times anti-War Crimes lobby, some of whom unresponsive second year undergraduates. has at least two Oxbridge professors on its sententiously contrasted Jewish Old Testa­ He had, of course, the opposite effect, and payroll. One is the book reviewer John ment vengefulness with Christian forgive­ as he increasingly dominated our halting Carey, whose championing of middle ness, a clean bill of health, then he is hardly conversations, my pedagogic skills were against highbrow literature need not the surgeon whose second opinion will tested to the utmost. I began to dread those concern us here. command much respect. Tuesday mornings, when young Irving The other is historian Norman Stone, D Richard Grunberger would contrive to be waiting for me - lying called in to repair the paper's gaffe in asking in wait, as it seemed to me — outside the lift David Irving to vet the Goebbels diaries in gates: erect, unsmiling and slightly sinister Moscow. Substituting Stone for Irving is Mea culpa (methought I heard the clicking of heels). like replacing a quack by a surgeon — but, Inside the tutorial room the atmosphere alas, that is not the whole story. Whereas f David Irving's superior knowledge of grew charged, as Irving injected into our surgeons invariably have one area of spe­ the subtleties of Dr Goebbels' prose was a innocuous conversations about holidays in cialisation. Stone suffers from a compulsion factor in his having the honour of deci­ I Austria or the pros and cons of set books to produce snap judgments on every aspect phering the Diaries for the Sunday Times, I unvarnished notions of neo-fascism and of world history and politics. am to blame. anti-semitism. As to the manner born, he As I look back over a long teaching would dazzle us with facts and figures, Factual errors career, many students have faded into quoted verbatim from the latest edition of oblivion, a few, for better or worse, are In a Sunday Times piece on Czechoslovakia the Soldatenzeitung, a rabidly nationalistic ineradicable from the memory. None more he wrote 'somebody described Austria- newspaper which, as a good scholar (I so than tall, dark and handsome David Hungary as an experimental laboratory for encouraged my students to work from The Irving whom I encountered in the late World destruction'. (The name of Karl Text) he nearly always carried under his 1950s. While Imperial College was evi­ Kraus had slipped the Professor's memory, arm. It was fascinating stuff, straight from dently fully stretched laying the foundations and a busy schedule prevented him from the Nazi horse's mouth. But with im­ of his future career I, a young assistant looking it up.) Earlier he had written an pressionable youngsters, two of them Jew­ lecturer in German at a sister institution, article in the Daily Telegraph lauding the ish, in the group, how long could I let it was asked to admit him to my weekly English tradition of academic amateurism pass? over the stodgier Continental approach, discussion classes. Finally, I sought the advice of my Head of and quoting the Cavendish Laboratory's Department, a mild mannered and much pioneering work on the atom as an ex­ respected English Germanist. His reaction ample. This piece contained at least six FOR THOSE YOU CARE MOST ABOUT was baffling. 'If this were to get out', he said factual errors, as Sir Rudolf Peierls, FRS, the visibly shaken, 'do you realise where it renowed nuclear researcher, pointed out in could end up? In the House of Lords!' He a subsequent letter to the paper. Springdene clearly knew more than I dreamt of in my Stone's view of intuitive English scientists A modern nursing home with innocent philosophy. But why the caution, 3s superior to plodding Continentals may 26 yrs of excellence in health care to the community. why such craven timidity? It was not for me, he discounted as wrongheaded, but endear- Licensed by Barnet area health on the lower rungs of the academic ladder, 'ngly romantic. authority and recognised by BUPA & PPP. to ask the reason why. Nothing more was No such allowance can be made when he HYDROTHERAPY & said or done, attendances at my discussion inters the minefields of the Origins of PHYSIOTHERAPY class predictably dwindled, and Mr. Irving's Hitler's War, of the German 'Historians' provided by full time chartered cares physiotherapists for inpatients linguistic prowess, alas! went from strength Quarrel, and of the British War Crimes Bill. and outpatients. to strength. On the first topic he inclines towards (his D Brigitte E. Hay •teacher's) A J P Taylor's view that 'Hitler's SPRINGDENE 55 Oakleigh Park North, Whetstone, London N.20 War' was a misnomer. In a comment on the 081-446 2117 '^'storikerstreit he resorted to logic chop­ SPRINGVIEW 6-10 Crescent Road, Enfield. 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alone a Jewish Homeland. He saw himself this book, such as a detailed account of the Montagu's blue- as a true Brit and, fearful of the charge of part she played in securing the release from blooded Capulet dual loyalties, in cabinet fought the Balfour internment of some 500 academic 'enemy Declaration to the last. Despite this he aliens' balances the picture. For it is largely Naomi B. Levine, Politics, Religion &. Love, New York University Press, 1991, £27.95 encountered antisemitism. Even Asquith due to her that most of the highly qualified and Venetia joked behind his back about immigrant scientists, research workers, 'the Assyrian in his silken tent'. Far worse teachers, sociologists, musicians, artists, his book claims to be 'the story of a was the hatred some of the Tories bore him, medical practitioners and consultants, were love affair that changed the face of and even his own party colleague Lloyd able to start their work again, to the great Tpolitics in the British Empire'. The George uttered sentiments more redolent of benefit of their new, and the disadvantage of claim is justified. It is a learned work Nazidom than Liberalism. But Winston their old, country. (complete with scholarly apparatus) analys­ Churchill was his friend. ing the letters of the great, the good and the The Montagu-Stanley marriage so affec­ Well-deserved tribute awful, and yet it holds one enthralled like a ted the Prime Minister that he did not fight romantic historical novel. While this volume does not quite equal, in back sufficiently in the Coalition crisis of either scholarship or presentation, some Its hero is one of Anglo-Jewry's turn-of- 1915 and lost the Premiership. Naomi previous contributions to the subject of the-century luminaries, Edwin Montagu, Levine goes beyond and behind the histori­ refugee achievement (Wolfgang Mock's and its heroine the scion of one of Britain's cal material. She also provides some bed­ Technische Intelligenz im Exil comes to oldest aristocratic families, Venetia Stanley. chamber revelations, in language suitable to mind) it is a timely and well-deserved His ancestors were East European ortho­ the serious aims of her book, of course. tribute to a remarkable Society and a dox immigrants who earned a hard crust in D John Rossall remarkable woman with total commitment Liverpool. Edwin's father, however, rose to to the refugee cause. The AJR Charitable become the incorruptible financier-cum- Trust is to be congratulated on having made politician Lord Swaythling, one of the first a financial contribution to the publication. Jews to enter Parliament, where he covered Brain drain in reverse Most readers will, therefore, be prepared to his head on all solemn occasions. She could overlook the poor proof-reading which trace her ancestry back to 1066; one of her R. M. Cooper (ed.) REFUGEE SCHOLARS. countenanced such unfortunate howlers as forebears had played a decisive part in the CONVERSATIONS WITH TESS SIMPSON. Frieberg im Briesgau, Karlsrur, Marburgh, overthrow of Richard III. 1992. Moorland Books, Leeds. 258 pp. greatful, and committment. Against this Illustrated. minor blemish may be set the minor 'scoop' Not much of a Jew represented by the facsimile reproduction of As if this was not enough disparity, the great lthough sometimes viewed with sus­ a letter vouching for 'the perfect loyalty to Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith (later picion, these were not Greeks bear­ this country' of a refugee art historian, Lord Oxford) was deeply in love with her Aing gifts, but refugees from Central signed by — of all people — Antony Blunt! and she seemed to reciprocate his feelings. Europe who came to Britain to escape from n David Maier Yet she bestowed her favours also on Edwin Nazi persecution. That they were able to Montagu, seventh child of ten, of Samuel bring their very real gifts at all was in no Montagu and Ellen Cohen. In fact, she small measure due to the devoted efforts of married him and converted to Judaism. a courageous Yorkshirewoman, whose life Needless to say, she never became a Jewess and work this book celebrated. in the spiritual sense of the word; the thing Leeds born Dr Esther ('Tess') Simpson in GERMAN BOOKS was done to prevent Edwin being disin­ 1933 joined the Academic Assistance herited. Not that he was much of a Jew Council, which aimed to help individual BOUGHT either. He would not even look at poten­ academic refugees to come to Britain and A. W. MYTZE tially suitable Jewish spouses; scorning all resume work in their special fields. other women he resolved that only Venetia Renamed the Society for the Protection of 1 The Riding, London NW11. would do. Science and Learning (SPSL) in 1936, the All this was complicated by the fact that organisation continued its valuable work Tel: 071-586 7546 Edwin was Asquith's favourite. In 1906 the for many years, with Tess Simpson as Liberals won a landslide victory and Edwin Secretary. got into Parliament. With Asquith's backing Her story, as told by herself in a series of recorded interviews, has, as Lord Ashby he achieved some of the glittering prizes of CAMPS politics - the India Office being one of points out in his Foreword, 'all the infor­ INTERNMENT-P.O.W.- them. The Indians liked him, loved him, mality of a private conversation'. Tess FORCED LABOUR-KZ even. (They put up a statue to him.) Edwin Simpson comes across as a women of great I wish to buy cards, envelopes and folded post­ was also a favourite of Asquith's wife. Lady charm, talent and determination, gifts she marked letters from all camps of botti world wars. Margot - after all he had freed her of her used to advance the cause of helping fellow- Please send, registered mail, stating price, to: rival, Venetia. human beings. She speaks of herself and her 14 Rosslyn Hill, London NWS PETER C. RICKENBACK Ardent opponent of Zionism, he would achievements with much modesty. Fortu­ not countenance a visit to a synagogue, let nately R. M. Cooper's own contributions to AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1992

Harem globetrotter | From farce to tragedy Opto-pessimist Elaine Feinstein, LOVING BRECHT, Hutchinson, Jiri Weil, MENDELSSOHN IS ON THE ROOF, Henry Stanhope, ON THIN ICE. Dorrance 1992, £13.99. trsi Marie Winn, HarperCollins, £14.99 Publishing Co., 1991, £12.95 (paperback £4.99).

ertolt Brecht was the great genius of endelssohn's statue stands, among oncealed behind the book's title is a his time, the man from the sticks (i.e. those of other giants of music, on story with which subscribers of this BAugsburg) who first took Berlin and M the roof of a Prague concert hall. Cjournal are familiar: it is 'our' story, then the civilized world by storm; a name Reich Protector Heydrich wants it knocked told with a difference. The author sees the which is a byword for cultural worth down. The SS man who leads a 'task force' tragedy in which he was spared the worst decades after his death. This still wide­ of two Czech workmen is unable to identify with quite relentless humour. If readers can spread perception - at any rate in this the Jew, so he goes for the fellow with the accept Mr Stanhope's unwavering 'opto- country - is not shared by Frieda Bloom, the big nose . . . the proto-Nazi Wagner. From pessimism', and tongue-in-cheek modesty storyteller of Mrs Feinstein's elegant and there the whole thing goes helter-skelter. about his quite considerable achievements, neatly compressed novel. Jiri Weil follows the Czech tradition of they will enjoy this Odyssey. extracting humour from even the grimmest And something like an Odyssey it is, User of women situation, and he does not spare the ranging from birth in post-World War One In 187 pages Frieda is whirled, in Brecht's grimness. Berlin to a desperate, but not serious, orbit, from festering Berlin to Moscow, from The Czech gentiles in the story display a struggle with Japanese businessmen and Stalinist Moscow to New York and Holly­ dumb insolence which is a poor substitute dealings with a Madame Butterfly. And at wood, from McCarthy's America to peaceful for opposition to the occupying Nazis. Nor the end, in his seventies, a love-hate rela­ London and back to the eastern rump of is the author overly sympathetic to his tionship with painting and the word pro­ Berlin. And her story is that her lover Bertolt Jewish characters. Both in Prague and cessor that produced this work which, was a weak man in many ways who used Theresienstadt they eagerly help rheir mur­ though offered as an autobiography, strikes talented women to do much of his work for derers-to-be in order to prolong their own me more as an autobiographical novel. him. This touches on the well-rehearsed lives; this is even true of those in the debate about the relative importance of an community establishment who have artist's creation and of his own character — a guessed what the end result will be. Both Oddities abound debate that may well go on forever. Jews and gentiles, however, have their From the word go oddities abound. Henry Readers familiar with the playwright's heroes and heroines, too. The shining exam­ was born into a Berlin slum, where a Galileo will find that Frieda sees strong ples are two little Jewish orphan girls who crippled war veteran helped keep him alive similarities with the great Italian scientist are hidden by a Czech family, and gain a with the milk of a cow which bureaucracy who was also a great trimmer. He recanted moral victory over the Gestapo. had decreed was to be deported from the when shown the Inquisition's torture instru­ n j.R. metropolis. Anneliese the cow, and the ments, only to reassert the theories another veteran won so that Henry survived. He man (Copernicus) had developed ahead of grew up in the 'Weimar' years the son of a him. much-loved doctor who had an enormous slum practice and chose to live among his Waywardness of Brecht Israel's patients (though in a much improved In Mrs Feinstein's book Brecht is accused of house). treating Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, to Very finest Wines Henry felt that he had entered the world W'hom he owed much of his reputation, with unsurmountable handicaps having badly. Frieda, a very young bourgeoise, SHIPPED BY been born a Jew and a coward. The first is nonetheless loved him to distraction. He undeniable, the second doubtful. He served sleeps, more or less seriatim, with his entire in the British Army for six-and-a-half years. harem; she copies his writings and gives him HOUSE OF He also depicts himself as a 'con-man' and a access to her body on demand. Lest any­ master of incompetence. Admittedly, he body think this is a crude bodice ripper let HALLGARTEN bribed a Gestapo officer to get out of me assure them that the love interest is Germany after Crystal Night, and in the depicted with delicacy. Tragedy overtakes British Army he resorted to the shifts known several of the leading female, as well as YARDEN and GAMLA to all 'old sweats'. But he became a skilled male, protagonists, but that owes more to AVAILABLE NOW designer and an expert on aspects of gun­ Ae crimes of Hitler and Stalin than the nery. He was evacuated from France, sick Waywardness of Bertolt Brecht. Please write or phone for with meningitis; he helped to keep Britain The author's excursion into the terrible, full information safe from invasion; he served in Italy; he and withal nostalgic, past takes in produc­ shook hands with Field Marshal Alexander. tions of Brecht's great stage successes which DALLOW ROAD And then he founded a design office 3re shown in all their tawdry, and often LUTON BEDS which was one of the cornerstones of haphazard, glamour. What now looks like LU11UR Britain's recapture of world markets. All t^he mind and shaping hand of one genius done by a timid bungler? Tell that to the *as often no more than opportunistic 0582 22538 Marines ... it is the biggest laugh of all. S^asping at last-minute compromise and the collective effort of those not credited. D n John Rossall AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1992

LINGUAPHONIES Re your editorial philosophy HAPS (July issue, p. 9). Acculturation sounds dreadful. Is this a 'new word' listed in a recent edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary? Or is it a PEN FRIEND WANTED far from ideal, a short 35 years after the word you have 'created'? (It does not appear in my 1951 edition of the C.O.D.). Ich bin 30 Jahre alt. Vaterlicherseits stamme historic Civil Rights Act of 1957, there are On the subject of reaching for the dictionary ich aus einer jiidischen Familie welche in numerous Black leaders in national and to look up more difficult words, why does Wilna-Litauen gelebt hat. Mein Vater hat state governments, the judiciary (including the Supreme Court), in the arts and sciences, one of your ads read 'Zahnarzt/Dental als einziges Familienmitglied den Holocaust and throughout the complex strata of the Surgeon'? I would have thought every ex- in verschiedenen Lagern wie Maidanek und nation. refugee living here would know the term Buchenwald iiberlebt. Finally, but not least, I take great excep­ 'dentist' by now. Bis 1989 war es fast unmoghch von Amershom, Bucks K. L Orpen Ostdeutschland aus Kontakt zu bekommen. tion to your 'However much we may smart Ich mochte gern in Briefkontakt mit einer under the current negative image of judischen Familie oder Einzelperson treten Israel...'. Who are the we that are smarting? What negative image? Friends of democ­ BUSCH BABIES um alle Fragen welche Menschen im tagli- racy, Jew and Gentile alike, respect and chen Leben betreffen auszutauschen. Sir - As the author of Rudi's Tierbiichlein I admire Israel while remaining aware of her Welters habe ich grosses Interesse an jii- would hope that I have nothing in common occasional mistakes. dischen Leben und Geschichte. with Wilhelm Busch, with the possible Ich wiirde mich iiber eine Antwort sehr May your front page be more blessed in exception of the use of rhyme which your freuen. Schalom. future! reviewer dismisses as 'versification' and Purley, Surrey Sam Notkin Hegelstrasse 61 Uwe Schwarz which, with a little more generosit)', he Cottbus, 0-7513, Germany might have accepted as poetry. UPPER SILESIA In contrast to Busch, I would like to think A TALE OF TWO GHETTOS Sir -1 have received a very interesting of my animal poetry as devoid of all nastiness; it aims to entertain, perhaps to Sir - In contrast to the scholarly quality of book: Juden in Oberschlesien, Ted 1 His- teach a little zoology and to serve the cause most of your articles, the July editorial was torischer Uberblick. Jiidische Gemeinden of species conservation. a surprisingly rambling, disconnected tale (/) edited by Dr. P. Maser of the University (or, in the vernacular, a farblundgete of Miinster, with beautiful photos of the 7 Mayfield R. S. Lenk bubbameise). synagogues of Kattowitz, Gleiwitz, Worth, Crawley Beuthen, Konigshiitte, Oppeln etc. West Sussex RH10 4FT Yes, Jews and Blacks experienced ghettos and ghetto-like oppression, but so did the They sent it to me because I provided Armenians and the American Indians, the descriptions of Crystal Night and the time BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Gypsies, and the Aborigines. Are Jews also before emigration. similar and different in regard to those My home town Neisse will be dealt with Sir -1 read with pleasure that Dr. Kurt peoples, and isn't it therefore 'A tale of two, in their second volume. Pahlen is, at 85, still spreading the musical three, four, or ten ghettos'? The extensive text is surprising: I never gospel. I fondly remember singing in a Next, most Blacks do have a sound family before saw such amazingly detailed work of Viennese children's choir founded by him to environment, as do most Jews. Crime and non-Jewish authors about centuries of bring out the joys of music. criminals. Black or White, however, are no Jewish history. I sang alto till my voice broke — or more respecters of good family ties - as we all Leo Baeck House, Mrs. C. Singer accurately — disintegrated, but my love of know. Black African families were, of London N2 making music has remained. course, shattered by Arab and White So, many thanks and happy returns, slavers; fortunately, that misery has healed A BALLOT-PROOF FUTURE Maestro. itself with time. While poverty and relative The Jewish community has to face up to Bettles Close Eric Fisher lack of opportunity burden Black families, rising antisemitism. Ralph Blumenau thinks Uxbridge, Middx. they also burden White, Brown, Tan and British Jews must support MPs who criticise Yellow families. Israeli actions to prove their loyalty to the On to role models. In denigrating role United Kingdom. The debate between VERSE AND WORSE models like Jimmy Hendrix or Mike Tyson, Zionists and anti-Israeli Jews reminds me of Sir — Apropos of the lines on Dr Casey i^ others such as Jessye Norman and Frank 1937/38 debates in Vienna between the your July edition I wonder what you would Bruno (in entertainment and sport) are 'Unionists' (assimilationists) and the say if a Jew were ridiculed in the same way conveniently overlooked. To counter­ Zionists. in a Catholic periodical. balance the author's Nkruhma and Mugabe I feel a great wave of dispair. However, Willowbrook, P. Needharr examples in post-colonial Africa, there are the antidote to dispair is not to fragment our Eton, Berkshire Mandela and Houphouet-Boigny; for Mal­ efforts between Zionists and Anti-Israeli Having satirised many Jews - among them Kan colm X and Farrakhan in the States, try Jews, but to act together against our Kraus {Sauerkraus, with his pen a-dripping gall)- substituting Ralph Bunche and Martin enemies. David Irving and those that give Arthur Schnitzler {Schweinskerl) and George Luther King. Don't they count as role his lies publicity will always treat us alike. Steiner (The fellow's brains have gone to his models? Hawkshead Lane Henry Toch head) - / feel no need to apologise for poking f"" Although race relations in America are Hatfield, Herts at Dr Casey. Ed. AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1992

Talking it out

he refrain 'We don't talk about that', from an old song could apply to the Tattitudes of many Holocaust sur­ vivors towards their experiences under the Nazis. No one likes to invite pain and the memories of many of us are so horrific that for the greater part of our lives we have preferred to bury them. This may tempor­ arily shut out a reality we would wish to forget, but it has a way of coming back to haunt us. It spreads into our personal relationships and can form a barrier between ourselves and the next generation. To combat this, a group was formed under the leadership of a psychoanalyst with the aim of breaking down this silence. The group was fairly evenly balanced between so-called first and second-gener­ ation Holocaust survivors. For the most The above picture shows Mr Rolf Weinberg (right) shortly after being decorated by the Commander-in-Chief of the French army in the Garden of the Resistance at the French Ambassador's residence in London. The part, the participants were not related, decoration was given, on July 14, in recognition of Mr Weinberg's Resistance activities during the last tvar. which meant that we were able to speak freely. We met on Sundays every 4 weeks for several months. There was no set agenda, were young teenagers when they arrived. registered a certain unease, a fear of reality but people spoke as and when they felt they They had to leave school at the earliest in their parents' attitudes which they found had something to contribute. possible moment to find work as funds for imprisoning. They described their parents' their upkeep ran out. Many of the girls tendency to cling to them and resent their became nurses while the boys took tempor­ independence. Some told of their parents' No contact ary jobs before going into the army. One of occasional outbursts of anger which had For me this was an interesting and moving their grouses was about the curtailment of Httle to do with the situation in which it had experience. I came to England with the their education. The other group consisted occurred, but more with the deeply- Kindertransport at the age of 9 without my of people who were children from age 7 repressed anger they felt against the Nazis. parents who were later killed by the Nazis. I upwards. These fared better educationally Sometimes they also exerted great pressure Was brought up by a Jewish couple who had as they had more time to learn English and for academic success on their children or got emigrated from Poland at the turn of the in my case, pass the 11+, that open sesame a bogus security out of clinging to rigid century-. Their friends were people like to a grammar school. Where we lost out arrangements of furniture and possessions. themselves, so I had virtually no contact was, even more seriously, on our sense of I hope, I think, we all left the group a little with other Austrian refugees during the identity. Our memories of our home-town wiser about the feelings of the other gener­ whole of my later childhood and ado­ were sketchier, our knowledge about our ation and the experiences of our contem­ lescence. families less detailed. I remember one well- poraries. Many of us talked about things At university I did meet an young woman meaning but misguided teacher saying of that had lain buried for decades and who had come from Berlin, but as the me 'she's just like an English girl'. The although it will never be easy for us to tell granddaughter of a very rich man, she and cultural and emotional chasm that divided our children our story, it now seems more her mother and sister had come to England me from my schoolmates was ignored, possible to do so. together and had even brought their furni­ making me a very confused teenager. D Martha Blend ture with them. I didn't think there was much in common in our situations. Besides, our heads were filled with Shakespeare and Problems of adaptation Donne and other writers. Our lives seemed There were many stories in our group of insignificant by comparison. I had little early struggles, of exploitation in foster- idea, therefore, of what happened to the few homes, or harsh employers. Some of us had John Denham hundred children who were on my train in been lucky enough to end up with kind - Gallery 1939 or the rest of the 10,000 who like me foster-parents, though we still had many managed to get out of Germany, Austria problems of adaptation. Perhaps the most and Czechoslovakia. I remember some of 50 Mill Lane. West Hampstead interesting contribution to the discussion London NW6 1NJ 071-794 2635 the children on the train saying 'I'm going to came from the younger generation. None of Manchester' or "I'm going to a town near them had suffered the terrible traumas of I wish to purchase paintings Scotland', but what happened to them persecution and loss of parents that we had. and drawings by German, thereafter I had no idea. Nevertheless, they felt that their lives had Austrian or British Artists, pre-war or earlier, also It was good then to hear the stories of not been easy either. Some felt this more paintings of Jewish interest. others of my generation. We divided than others, but in some way the Holocaust broadly into 2 groups: there were those who had cast its shadow over all of them. Several AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1992

Membership up to date Office. They lend a preliminary ear to PAUL BALINT AJR callers' problems before directing them to DAY CENTRE n the course of the last 10 years of AJR's the appropriate department. They are existence, none of its departments has patient and compassionate and have undergone a greater metamorphosis than become experts in interpreting the manifold I foreign accents. the Membership and Reception Depart­ ment. Gone are the days when all its work The one link between to-day's computer­ rested in the phenomenal memory of the ised proceedings and the old days at Fairfax late Mrs Trude Oettinger, who for many Mansions is the genial Gary Leon, who years presided over the membership work. continues to give his regular voluntary She knew most of the members personally, services and has made overseas distribution sending out stern reminders to dilatory his special responsibility. payers. Covenants were handled by Mrs The Membership Department forms an Susi Friedlander, then AJR bookkeeper/ important 'window to the world'. In spite of accountant, who spent many days each year the steady loss of members through deaths, laboriously typing long lists required by the it is dealing with growing membership Inland Revenue for the purpose of obtain­ figures - as those amongst former refugees ing tax refunds. who have hitherto preferred to stay outside the AJR ranks realise that they, Today the department is filled by the hum too, can benefit from its services and/or of the computer, in whose memory are make a valuable contribution to the lodged all the membership details, payment organisation. D records etc. (It was Ludwig Spiro, then Hon. Treasurer of the AJR, who foresaw the need for, and supervised the introduction of, computerisation.) The computer, which can now conveniently be blamed for any errors The Executive Committee and Staff of the or mix-ups, also prints out the address here is a constant need for labels for AJR Information, formerly pain­ AJR volunteers to give a hand to stakingly and noisily 'banged out' on an wish all members a Tothers. Pictured above are some ancient duplicating machine by a patient VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR of the regular volunteers who attend volunteer. and thank them for their continuing It is the membership staff who form the the afternoon club sessions at the Paul support Balint AJR Day Centre. As any wise all-important first point of contact with person will tell you, it is better to give members visiting or telephoning the AJR than to receive. People are needed now to give a little time to others. D AjR TAKEAWAY MEALS AJR The day centre has extended its SERVICE hours and will remain open until 7 Members can now take advantage of & p.m. Monday to Thursday and on the catering facilities offered at the Paul SELF AID Sundays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Balint AJR Day Centre, in the comfort of their own homes. 45TH VOLUNTEERS ARE ANNUAL CHARITY CONCERT Meals consist of three courses: URGENTLY REQUIRED soup, main dish (a choice of fish or November 8th, 1992 meat), and dessert. The cost is only To help with a variety of tasks - Guest artists: including driving members to and from £1.50 per meal. the centre, serving refreshments, Clients who do not attend the Day JOHN & KATHRYN LENEHAN - helping on reception, running the shop Centre can collect meals at 15 Cleve PIANO DUO etc. Road between 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday to Thursday. All dishes are Please ring Bobbi Spencer at the Have you ordered your tickets? day centre on 071-328 0208 deep-frozen, ready to be re-heated in a Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday conventional or microwave oven. Avoid queues in the interval by buying your coffee 2.00 p.m.-7.00 p.m. For further details please contact vouchers before the concert from the desk in the Monday and Wednesday SYLVIA MATUS 071-328 0208 foyer. 9.30 a.m.-2.00 p.m. AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1992

Each case is a person country, had problems with his residency AJR BOUQUET permit. A misunderstanding had disquali­ Sirs — May I express my sincere thanks for fied him from claiming a pension in Britain. here are few quick and easy solutions your help. Just to know that you are there is It took two years from his application to the great - to receive your help is wonderful. to the kind of problems brought, with AJR for help, to the day he arrived at the increasing regularity, to the AJR With my thanks and best wishes to all. T office with a large bunch of flowers for the Putney M.L Social Service Department. social worker who had successfully dealt London Hundreds of clients are currently seeking with his problem. help and advice from our social workers. A council re-housing case has taken three Some come directly as members, others are years of letter-writing, form-filling and reg­ WHO IS WHO referred by local authority social work ular meetings with officials to come to IN THE AJR OFFICE teams. Ever)- new client receives a visit to fruition. Administrator assess their situation. Sometimes their needs Lydia Lassman seem small, especially to those of us who Editor, AJR Information can take mobility and family life for Large workload Richard Grunberger granted, and they may be helped by being A lady who lost 22 pounds in weight over a encouraged to attend the Paul Balint AJR Publications and PR Manager few months due to receiving sub-standard Maurice Neivman Day Centre in West Hampstead. Others can dental treatment has had a complete new be catered for simply by providing a regular course of treatment provided — social Assistant to Administrator Carol Rossen volunteer visitor to do a little shopping. services continue to campaign for damages Some urgently need direct financial on her behalf. But it is the hundreds of, Sheltered Accommodation assistance. seemingly, minor cases which make up the Katia Gould bulk of the department's workload: The Head of Homes Department A variety of problems assessment visits, the follow-ups, the docu­ Ruth Finestone Clients bring a variety of problems to the ment chasing and endless paperwork. Head of Social Services department including harrassment by noisy Happily, for all of us, this is not a Agi Alexander neighbours, underpayment of state benefits, thankless task. Although the caseload is Day Centre Organiser bad housing and claims for damages. They huge and the work may seem endless, Sylvia Matus all receive professional attention and indi­ members of the department say that they Volunteers Co-ordinator vidual care. have very high levels of job satisfaction. Laura Howe Anecdotal evidence of the good work 'Each case is a person', says one, 'and people Membership/Reception are fascinating. You hear about different performed is easily obtained: One gentle­ Maralyn Summers man, recently arrived from another EC worlds every day!' D

PAUL BALINT AJR SEPTEMBER Monday 21 An Autumn Recital for Tuesday 8 (a) Outing to Sissinghurst Cello 6c Piano - Richard DAY CENTRE (b) 'Staendchen' - Clare jenkinson (Cello) and 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL McCourt (Soprano) and Paul Lewis (Piano) ^t Tel. 071 328 0208 Nigel Foster (Piano) Tuesday 22 Music for a While - ^B Wednesday 9 Songs From My Album David Greiner and ^m Cantor Michael 1 Elizabeth Upchurch ^B Open 9.30 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday to Thursday. 2 p.m.-7 p.m. Sundays. Rothstein and Sheila Wednesday 23 Viennese Cocktail - flg Games (Piano) mm Emmanuel Emerich Thursday 10 The Rythms of Life - (Violin) and Jason Brooks Morning Activities - Bridge, kalookie, Talk by Joe Goodman IB 1 scrabble, chess, etc., keep fit, discussion (Piano) 1^ Sunday 13 Music & Fun with Thursday 24 Autumn Melodies - H group, choir (Mondays), art class {Tuesdays and Thursdays). Debbie O'Brien Valerie Gelinas (Flute) S Monday 14 CAMERATA TRIO - 1 and Sarah Down (Piano) fl Maureen Lawton and Sunday 27 CLOSED m Afternoon entertainment - Stephen Paisley with Monday 28 CLOSED m SEPTEMBER Stephen Salter (Piano) Tuesday 29 CLOSED V Tuesday 1 Songs with Memories - Tuesday 15 Hans Freund: The Yom Wednesday 30 A Tasre of Ireland - H Rita Davis and Jack Tovim are Near Barbara O'Neill (Mezzo), fl Davis (Piano) Wednesday 16 Recital of German, Gerarda McCann fl Wednesday 2 Eddy Simmons Sin; French & Hebrew Light IB 1 (Dancer), Sjobhan Fox S Entertains with Piano Classical Music - Noa (Violin) & Graham fl Accompaniment Lachman and Arnon Erez Dinnage (Baritone & '^m Thursday 3 Take a Quick-Step Back (Piano) Bodhran Player) « in Time with Geoffrey Thursday 17 Songs My Mother Taught Strum (Tenor) & Johnny me - Sylvia Hartman and OCTOBER Walton (Piano) I Hermione Goldsmith Thursday 1 Metropolitan Police Band Sunday 6 Plain & Pearl Entertain — (Piano) with Sergei Sunday 4 Debbie O'Brien At The K Maggie Stables and Larry Bezkorvany (Violin) Piano 9 Barnes Sunday 20 Classics &C Evergreens - Monday 5 Take a Quick-Step Back Monday 7 Strauss &: Other Gitte Sorensen (Flute) ani in Time with Geoffrey Romantics - Maja Elliott Vegard Lund (Guitar ft Strum (Tenor) & johnny .fl 1 Walton (Piano) M AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1992

Seeking Friendship FAMILY EVENTS Slough on 6 August, one month ADVERTISEMENT before her 93 rd birthday, after Attractive lady, 58, wishes to meet Birth RATES many battles with illness, greatly educated gentleman with shared Gruenwald Congratulations to missed by her daughter Marion and interest. Box No. 1219 (Please send FAMILY EVENTS Stephen and Tina Gruenwald on the First 15 words free of charge. her numerous friends. phone number). birth of their son jasper James on 26 £2.00 per 5 words thereafter. Leopold Siegfried Leopold, hus­ July. A second grandson for Mrs M. Helen seeks penfriends - world­ CLASSIFIED band of Charlotte, father of Miriam wide. Main interests: literature, £2.00 per five words. Gruenwald. Kramer, grandfather of Joanna and opera, cats. Box No. 1222. BOX NUMBERS Deaths Robert, died peacefully on 25 June, £3.00 extra. Miscellaneous Collier John Collier (formerly aged 97 years. DISPLAY, INCLUDING SEARCH Electrician City and Guilds quali­ NOTICES Hans Kohler) died, aged 78, on 13 Samson Fritz Samson died on 3 fied. All domestic work undertaken per single column inch July 1992, m Fulham, SW6. Greatly July, 1992. Sadly missed by his wife, 16 ems (3 columns per page) £8.00 Y. Stemreich. Tel: 081-455 5262. missed by his wife Judy, children son and daughter and their families. 12 ems (4 columns per page) £7.00 Manicure and pedicure in the com­ and grandchildren. Weil Julie Weil passed away fort of your own home. Telephone: Eisner Paula Eisner passed away peacefully in her sleep on 27 May in The AJR does not accept 081-455 7582. peacefully, on 11 August, at Leo her 91st year, after 67 years of a responsibility for the Ladies alteration work. For quick, Baeck House, London. very happy marriage. Deeply Standard of service accurate, reliable service phone: Kendall Hilda Kendall, born 21 mourned by her husband Konrad 081-455 0168. 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Alice Schwab Marevna and Montpamasse Marevna, so-named by the poet Maxim Gorky, came to Paris in 1912 as a Russian Jewish emigree and joined the circle of painters in Montparnasse, many of whom were of similar origin. She enrolled in the Russian academy and soon fell in love with ita Mathews, widow of the late the painter Diego Rivera, the father of her Henry Mathews, is holding a one-day daughter Marika. A talented painter in her Rretrospective exhibition of his works own right, she was amongst the first women at the Charles Bernard Hotel, 5 Frognal, Cubists. In 1947 Marevna came to England London NW3 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on 20 and lived for nearly 40 years in Ealing with September. (Prices of prints from £10). her daughter, where she held regular salons' Henry Mathews came to art late after a and continued to paint. To mark the career designing and manufacturing fashion centenary of her birth, Wildenstein have clothing. entitled their summer exhibition Marevna Manet: The Execution of Maximilan at and Montparnasse (until 16 September). the National Gallery (until 27 September) The Manor House Society is showing contains some very fine pictures well worth watercolours and graphic works by Jerusa­ visiting. From 30 September to 13 lem-born Rivka Sinclair, (until 30 Sep­ December the National Gallery will be tember). After training at the Bezalel showing Themes and Variations: Saint School, Jerusalem, Rivka obtained a Jerome, tracing the life in art of particular diploma at the London College of Print- subjects and themes associated with Jerome, making. She has had a number of one-man the 4th century scholar and polemicist. shows in London and her screenprints have Camden Arts Centre is showing North­ been bought by public collections in this ern Adventures, an exhibition of European country and by private collectors. Marevna, Deux personnages Georgiens, 1913, oil on art displayed at St Pancras Station and in the canvass. The Ben Uri Art Society's Annual Open gallery itself. It comprises works by 8 artists Exhibition will be held from 13—27 Sep­ (British and European), all inspired by some Jean Rustin, born in France in 1928, is a tember. This exhibition is open to all Jewish aspect of the station, its history, scale and major figure in French and European paint­ artists, professional or amateur, and always changing functions. The title of the exhibi­ ing. A full range of his paintings can be seen attracts a large entry of pictures and sculp­ tion is derived from Paul Nash's 1929 in London at the Cooling Gallery, Cork tures, most of which are for sale at reason­ painting of that name. Street (from 5 October 1992). able prices.

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who had initiated a world-wide effort for Jordan's work had received widespread A Life for refugees transferring Jewish refugees from Shanghai recognition in his lifetime, he wore the after the war. Later, having access to French Legion of Honour and the Nansen Government departments he spread his Ring awarded by the King of Norway, and activities; he helped Jews get out of Eastern enjoyed the friendship of Golda Meir and Europe, and set up orphanages and old age Teddy Kollek. homes in Poland. Naturally, he was a bete His memorial service in New York was at noir to the KGB and all their dependent Carnegie Hall; the London one was con­ sections in the Soviet satellites. ducted by Rabbi Hugo Gryn. The Charles The Joint, not satisfied with the result of Jordan wing of Heinrich Stahl House was the autopsy, asked a Swiss doctor for a named in his honour . second opinion. This doctor returned to D Fred Liebermann (cousin) Switzerland and let the Joint know he was preparing a report. Shortly afterwards he was found dead near his home, his car 300 Leo Baeck Lodges yards away from his body. Subsequently a In our June issue the open day at Clara Czech defector, Mr Frolic, claimed to have Nehab House was mentioned together with been an eye witness when Charles Jordan the Homes of the Otto Schiff Housing was pushed into a car outside his Prague Association. Although the Clara Nehab hotel and taken to the Egyptian Embassy. Charles Jordan. House is administered by OSHA, it is the Frolic, then a Czech secret service agent, was residential home of the Leo Baeck Housing ust 25 years ago Charles Jordan's corpse told not to interfere and to stay outside the Association Ltd. which is the Housing Was found floating in the Vlatva. Accord­ Embassy. Next morning they dragged Jor­ Association of the Leo Baeck Lodges. D ing to a Czech autopsy he had died of dan's body out and threw it into the river. J drowning, suggesting suicide. Anyone Although defector stories should always ^ho knew him would strongly refute such a be taken with a pinch of salt, his account I NOTICE ''otion. Jordan was a senior executive of the sounds plausible; the 'suicide' occurred a j SB is on holiday. His column will appear I again in the October issue. 'Werican Joint Distribution Committee mere two months after the Six Day War.

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A history of the Jews in the German-speaking lands and in 1337 a further 51 communities suffered in Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria. Part 3: The Period of the Crusades (II) When the Black Death spread panic through the population in the years begin­ The Crusades ning 1349, another fearful slander made the rounds: that the Jews had poisoned the ronically, it was only one year after the be the possession, not of the princes and wells. The fact that Jews were also victims Emperor Henry IV had confirmed and bishops, but of himself so that he could of the Black Death did not prevent this idea I extended the privileges of the Jews that extend his protection to them. from spreading, though it has been sug­ Pope Urban II called a Crusade to drive the gested that perhaps the Jews, with the religious obligation to ritual cleanliness, Infidel Turks out of the Holy Land (1096). Superstitions Travelling along the main river systems possibly suffered proportionately less from During the period of the Crusades a number crusaders from all over Europe converged the Plague than did the rest of the popula­ of superstitious beliefs gained currency on the Mediterranean. tion. Instead they suffered from more mas­ which further inflamed the mobs against the In days when roads were poor or often sacres: 300 communities in Germany were Jews. One of these was the Blood Libel: the non-existent, rivers provided the best means destroyed, including 6,000 killed in Mainz story, initially propagated by converts from of transport. Because they were the arteries and 2,000 in Strasbourg. Judaism to Christianity, that around Pas­ along which trade flowed most easily in sover time, the Jews would secretly kidnap peacetime, Jewish communities clustered The Catholic Church and murder Christian children in order to most thickly along the river valleys. The The Popes during the period of the Crusades use their blood for the making of un­ crusaders massacred Jews whenever they occasionally spoke out against these super­ leavened bread. The charge was the more found them on their way; and the destruc­ stitions; and they fairly regularly denounced outrageous since the Jewish religion specifi­ tion along the Rhine Valley was particularly massacres and forcible conversions. cally forbids the ingestion of any blood. But extensive. Cologne, Mainz, Speyer, Worms, On the other hand, the Papacy became now, if any child was found missing or dead Trier, all witnessed slaughter. Sometimes increasingly intolerant of any religions out­ at Passover/Easter time, there was the the crusaders offered the Jews the chance to side the Catholic Church. Pope Innocent lH danger that the Jews would be blamed and save their lives if they would accept bap­ (1198 to 1216), whilst opposed to conver­ massacres of Jews would spread from the tism. Many accepted; but most preferred sion by brute force, certainly wished to use immediate locality to entire regions. The death, preferably at their own hands or all means short of actual force to pressure first such incident took place in Norwich in those of fellow Jews, to idolatry. They Jews into baptism; and the new Dominican 1144. A particularly vicious wave swept believed that when they had committed and Franciscan Orders were encouraged by through Southern Germany in 1298, in the Kiddush haShem (Sanctification of the Holy him to preach against — and indeed to - the course of which 146 Jewish communities Name) they would go to Heaven as mar­ Jews to achieve conversion, and to keep 3 are said to have been wiped out. The same tyrs - where they would be under an obli­ sharp eye on those who had converted in area was again affected in 1475. The Jews gation to argue with God for the sake of case they relapsed. were expelled from Swabia and hounded those who were still suffering persecution The Church certainly wished to eliminate down in other parts of Southern Germany on earth. the Jews from positions of influence and following an incident which had led to the prosperity and to isolate them from the entire Jewish community of Trient in the Damage limitation Christian community. So the Third Lateran Tyrol being committed to the flames. The Emperor, princes and bishops were Council (1179) urged the rulers of Christian unable to halt the massacres; but once this Europe to enforce residential segregation First Crusade was over, they tried to undo Desecration of the host between Jews and Christians; and man)' the damage. In 1103 the Emperor Henry IV Another story that intermittently spelt des­ German rulers complied. In city after city allowed forcibly converted Jews to return to truction for Jewish communities was the the Jews were to be confined to special their faith without incurring the penalties belief that they desecrated the host. The quarters, known since the 16th century aS prescribed for 'backsliders'. There was a Doctrine of Transubstantiation — that the 'ghettos', but initially called Judengassen in short debate in the Jewish community body of Christ was physically present in the Germany. These were often close to the whether to receive back those who had wafer taken at Communion - had been castles or the residences of bishops, so that it deserted Judaism; but Rashi (see Part 1) promulgated at the Fourth Lateran Council would be easier for these to protect theff- defended them and persuaded those who of 1215. It was alleged that Jews would try Because the mobs would often try to burn would have rejected them. to get hold of these wafers and pierce them down Jewish houses, they tended to be built The First Crusade was followed by seven to kill the body of Christ. If wafers have of stone - still an expensive and therefore others over the next 300 years; and each of been stored for a long time, they can rare building material for private homes " for extra protection; but this certainly did them exacted its toll of victims. In the produce a rust-coloured fungus called ergot. nothing to endear the Jews to their jealou* Second Crusade (1144) several communi­ Whenever that happened, the superstitious neighbours and gave further currency to the ties again suffered, though not quite as believed that the discolouration was the idea that the Jews must have become severely as in the First Crusade, because St dried blood of Christ; and then it would go enormously rich through money-lending- Bernard, the inspiration behind the Second, ill with the Jews. There were massacres came out strongly against massacres; as did of Jewish communities in Beelitz, near The Fourth Lateran Council of 121^ the crusading King of France, Louis VII. In Berlin, in 1243; the story played its part in decreed that the Jews were to wear distinc­ 1146 (see Part 2) the Emperor Conrad the massacres of 1298 in Wiirzburg, Nur­ tive clothing - badges (the Judenfleck) ot 3 announced that henceforth the Jews would emberg, most of Bavaria and Austria; special kind of pointed hat. Wherever thi*

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ruling was enforced it put every Jew at the reinforced the control of their leaders, who onwards. Poland was still economically so mercy of attacks in the street by urchins and were sometimes fairly wealthy individuals backward that the contribution which the bullies of every kind, and perhaps did more but were more often the rabbis. Jews could make there was greatly valued; than anything else to cow the Jews and to In the course of a few generations the during this early period Jews feeling safer in rob them of their pride. Jews became, through no fault of their Poland than anywhere else, were pleased to own, total strangers inside Germany correlate the name of the country with the The Ghetto society, alien in appearance, alien :n Hebrew Po-lin which means 'Stay There'. Indeed, these two decrees effectively cut off customs, and alien even in language, for the They took with them, of course, the Middle the Jews of Germany from the Christian majority of them lost touch with the lan­ High German they had spoken in Germany World for the better part of 400 or 500 guage of that society: Yiddish became the and which, mixed in with Hebrew and Slav years. It forced them to become an inward- language not only of those Jews who had words, was to become Yiddish. looking communit)'. Deprived of access to gone to Poland, but also of those who Universities, they would be excluded from remained behind. Mutually intensely sup­ The Wandering Jew the intellectual advances that were made in portive of each other, in their rare contacts But many Jews remained in Germany. the Gentile world; and their own intellect with the Christian world, they were under­ Expelled from one region could usually find Would concern itself almost exclusively with standably suspicious, often forcing them­ refuge in another one, where the rulers Talmudic studies and the religious life. This selves to be obsequious for fear of insults found them useful enough to offer them Was all that could give meaning to their and worse. protection. This would last for a time until existence, and the rabbis insisted, probably that region in turn experienced some deadly tightly, that only a firm and total adherence Exodus to Poland spasm of hatred which the rulers could not to Talmudic orthodoxy could ensure the When the Middle Ages ended, the Crusades, control. Then the Jews would be on the Cohesion and survival of the Jewish the decrees of the Church, and the super­ move again. So was born the legend of the communit\-. The Jews organized their own stitions which have been described had Wandering Jew. It is considered that Schools; they were required to organize the utterly destroyed such prosperity as the throughout the Middle Ages only the Jewish raising of the taxes demanded by the rulers, Jews had enjoyed before the Crusades. The communities of Worms and of Frankfurt and had the right to tax themselves for their period is punctuated by massacres and by could show an unbroken history. Every­ own communal purposes. They settled dis­ expulsions. There was a massive exodus of where else in Germany the Jews had been putes among themselves in their own German Jews to the East, to Poland and driven out at one time or another, though 'Courts. Altogether, the fact that the Jews Lithuania, whose kings and Grand Dukes once a wave of anger had burnt itself out, *ere organized as corporations with con­ offered the Jews a welcome and granted the rulers often invited Jews back. siderable powers to administer themselves them a series of charters from 1264 n Ralph Blumenau

on him. Once in power he was inundated (or keeping them there long after they Cherchez la femme with offers from women wanting to bear his should have known better). child; news of his death triggered a wave of Brecht abandoned his early nihilism (vide female suicides. Baal) thanks partly to KPD member Helene he sickening media circus surround­ Which of the two - the sexual or the Weigel. Egon Erwin Kisch's longterm ing the Goebbels Diaries has refo- pseudo-religious — components dominated loyalty to Moscow - he eulogised Stalin in cused attention on the role of T in Hitler's appeal to German womanhood is 1947! - has been ascribed to his wife. Louis Mephisto's wife. Magda Goebbels appar­ hard to determine. In this connection a Aragon's conversion from Surrealist to ently had the nous to characterise her glance at the opposite political extreme, i.e. Communist owed much to Elsa Triolet. "Usband as 'the devil incarnate' - which, Communism, might be instructive. Romain Rolland arrived in the same camp however, did not stop her worshipping There were, of course, important differ­ from Pacifism, and stayed there, under the hitler with equivalent fervour; in fact she ences built into the two behef systems. influence of the domineering second Concurred in the suicide of the entire Communism did not postulate the inferi­ Madame Rolland. In France the tradition Goebbels family upon Hitler's death. ority of women - on the contrary, it continued into the 1970s. The philosopher counted Rosa Luxemburg and La Passio- Louis Althusser, Marxist guru of the '68 ^Timy Sonnemann naria among its heroes. Soviet reality, alas, generation, too, was in thrall to his wife t presented a different picture: the only Tau Goering, the former actress Emmy (whom in a bizarre reversal he eventually '^onnemann, was more detached from Nazi woman in the Russian government in the strangled in a fit of insanity). politics; she is even credited with having last half century was Madame Furtseva, Ersatz religion helped some Jewish ex-colleagues to get out Commissar for Culture. ^t Germany. Sad to relate, only one of the The conjunction of a female with culture What was it that turned all these wives into ^^P Nazi 'ladies', Henriette Schirach, wife had a symbolic aptness within the ambit of priestesses of an ersatz religion? Women's ^t the Hitler Youth leader turned Gauleiter the Left. Between the wars, and even greater need for a sustaining faith, and ^^ Vienna, had the humanity to protest at a postwar, the Communist cause received corresponding susceptibilit)' to fake Mes­ policy that involved murdering a million powerful moral support from famous siahs? To hazard such suppositions is to "children. writers: Brecht, Kisch, Romain Rolland, invite the wrath of feminists. I hope I shan't Overall one could say that irrespective of Louis Aragon, Auden, O'Casey, Pablo arouse the ire of co-religionists if I point out J^atus German women were even more Neruda, etc. Research has meanwhile estab- that Helene Weigel-Brecht, Gisela Kisch, ^evout Hitler worshippers than men. Frau hshed that in some significant cases the Elsa Triolet-Aragon and Madame Althusser ^echstein, Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche and writers' wives were instrumental in drawing were, all of them, Jewish! Winifred Wagner conferred early legitimacy their husbands into the Communist camp n Richard Grunberger

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VERSE AND WORSE Search Notices Cookery Corner ANDREW NEIL Gertrude Meaney may be the only survivor of How, dear reader, could I the Weil family of Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna, It should be noted that the recipes contained With clear conscience deny Czechoslovakia). Would Mrs Meaney, or any here do not take the form of a rigid set of of her relatives or friends, or anyone who orders for the preparation of any meal. That HRH Princess Di knows of her, please contact Mr E. H. Strach, Made a suicidal try? 7 Tower Way, Woolton Park, Liverpool, They are simply suggestions which are L25 6EB. How could I not say grazie meant to inspire the reader to take a new October 1993 will be the 120th anniversary of approach to an old standard. If a recipe To an amateur Nazi the founding of the orthodox Rabbinical Who proved the extermination Seminary in Berlin by Rabbi Esriel contains too much garlic, use less. If it isn't Of the God-chosen nation Hildesheimer. The preparation of a spicy enough, add pepper. If you prefer to comprehensive history of the seminary, its fry in butter, rather than olive oil, feel free. Was their own fabrication? teachers and (as far as possible) its students It might affect circulation is underway. Anyone with documents If you prefer to ignore this column alto­ pertaining to the seminary (archival material, gether and make all your food purchases in ELDORADO letters etc) are asked to send them to: Dr E. ready-made form from Marks & Spencer, The plot of sex-and-sangria soap Hildesheimer, 16 Ha'ari St., Jerusalem 92191. (Originals for short-term loan or photo-copies.) that's OK too. Reverses Masoch-Sacher: Any expenses will be refunded. Readers are invited to submit quick and No woman need abandon hope Sonja and Betty Feinkuchen, born ca 1920, easy recipes of their own to this column. To be a ganze maja last German address c/o Carl Pefrausch, Burgstrasse 21, Cottbus. Emigrated to Please send recipes to M. Newman at GARRICK CLUB England 1939. Please contact: Charlotte Hannah Karminski House, 9 Adamson Schneider, Bachstr. 2, Cottbus 0-7500, Road, NW3 3HX. In yonks since Garrick did his shtick Germany. - With women played by boys - Familie Schonbrunn aus Aachen: In Around St James they still must trick connection with a genealogical project anyone No. 6 HOT CHICKEN AND SAVELOY who has contact with, or knows the SALAD Themselves out in disguise whereabouts of, members of this family is requested to contact Mr Gerd Friedt, Ingredients (serves 2-3) MARQUESS OF BATH Jawlenskystrasse 12, 8000 Munchen 71, 1 chicken breast fillet His forebear was a King's man true Germany. 2 saveloys And Papal wealth belittler 2 cloves garlic While he made money from a zoo 2 onion To purchase art by Hitler 40 Years Ago 2 green pepper Alongside Heinrich Himmler's specs i\ this Month 2 red pepper And similar choice exhibits. Tomato puree Proceeding thence to outdoors sex - A NEW YEAR English mustard Which decency prohibits It is the intention of our Rosh-hashanah to Soy sauce MELLOR emphasise year by year that in spite of time 4oz mushrooms never being cancelled, man is nevertheless Tongue lashings on an Israel trip enabled to begin again, to start on a new A selection of your favourite salad vege­ Endeared him to the media hacks stretch of time. We can come to be aware of tables (any you like) Who now reveal his own bare facts no better comfort and consolation 'midst Red wine vinegar To titillate their readership the troubles of life, and atonement also is rooted here. Apathy or despair would be a Method: denial of the very idea of Rosh-hashanah Chop the chicken breast into cubes. Slice the and Yom-kippur. saveloys and the green and red peppers and Here is the main way where people, both the onion. Fry the chicken in extra-virgin CLUB 1943 individuals and nations, may unite again after their course has parted them. There is olive oil until almost cooked then add the Anglo-German Cultural Forum no final fate of division. Speaking of a fate, chopped saveloys and vegetables. While Meetings on Mondays at 8 p.m. we mostly think of the future; we should they cook stir in a spoonful of tomato puree, at the Communal Hall rather think of the past. It is only the past a spoonful of mustard and a few splashes of Belsize Square Synagogue that stands still, nor can it be broken off. But soy sauce. Simmer for two minutes. Add the 51 Belsize Square the future is the great opportunity given to London NW3 man time and again. It shows us the task, mushrooms and leave for a further couple since it points out the beginning which no of minutes until it all looks very edible. Sept. 7th. Dr Hermann Hierv. one and no day are debarred from. Every­ Prepare all the salad vegetables in a large Culture Contact and Culture Shock - where is the road to coming together anew. bowl, and sprinkle with vinegar. Add the Germany in New Guinea (1848-1914) Our world has become smaller, it is a contents of the frying pan to the salad and world of inter-dependence now. No nation Sept. 14th. H. Leyrer BSc BA. toss. Serve with creamed potatoes. Two Controversial Economists: can escape the other they are confronted Rosa Luxemburg and Joseph Schumpeter. with, and so often adverse to, each other. D Ai.N. What they stand in need of to-day is a new- Sept. 21st. Bea Lewkowicz. way, a new principle, for the sake of which The Jewish Community of Salonika some part of the old independence, the old (with slides). fate, so to speak, could be abandoned. Not Annely Juda Fine Art Sept. 28th. No Lecture. merely another year should begin here, but a 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street) Oct. 5th. Dr. Tom Lukes. New Year. And a Day of Atonement will Tel: 071-629 7578, Fax: 071-491 2139 Siegfried Sassoon. The Anglo-German then follow. CONTEMPORARY PAINTING War Poet. L BAECK AND SCULPTURE AjR Information September 1952.

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Obituaries Birthdays

Heinz Galinski Assumed national leadership Ruth Anderman - 80 The death of Heinz Galinski at the age of 79 After the Nachmann scandal of 1988 he AJR is what it is thanks to the devoted, and has deprived German postwar Jewry of its assumed the national leadership of 30,000- frequently unsung, efforts of many volun­ undisputed spokesman. It has also deprived strong German Jewry. His meeting soon tary workers. One such worker for whom Germany as a whole of the 'conscience of afterwards with Erich Honecker led to service to others is virtually second nature, the nation', and of the most authoritative improved relations between Isreal and the is Ruth Anderman. voice calling for Jewish-German reconcili­ DDR, as well as to East German admission The daughter of a Berlin lawyer, she came ation after the horrors of the past. of some Soviet-Jewish refugees. The col­ to Britain (after a study year in France) in Heinz Galinski had firsthand experience lapse of the Berlin Wall prompted him to the mid-1930s and married a 'compatriot' of those horrors. The son of a severely warn of resurgent German nationalism. His businessman. Despite family obligations she Wounded Great War veteran, he lost his words, alas, proved prescient: the last did social work during the war when her entire family in the Holocaust which he months of Galinski's extraordinary life husband was away in the Forces. survived as a slave labourer. Despite having were embittered by seeing Hitler salutes Postwar, introduced into our Association personally experienced the indifference, and openly given in the streets through which he by the incomparable Margarete Jacobi, she worse, of his neighbours in Nazi times, he had been dragged off to Auschwitz 50 years involved herself in a range of welfare resolved in 1945 to rebuild German-Jewish earher. D life out of the ashes. This endeavour did not activities. She chaired the Eleanor Rathbone endear him to world Jewry, to say the least. House Committee, served on the AJR Executive and visited members in the vari­ The growth of Berlin's postwar commun­ Dr Hans Feld ous Homes. ity from 1,400 in the 'Year Zero' to the present 8,000 is, nonetheless, testimony to a It is with great regret that we inform our Most importantly she started, at her own man who worked indefatigably to re-estab­ readers that Dr Hans Feld, a 90th birthday expense, the Meals on Wheels service (later lish communal institutions and synagogues tribute to whom appeared in the July issue, supplemented by a Luncheon Club) whose in the former capital. passed away recently. D clientele increased from initial thirty to two hundred; launched in 1967, the service continued for over twenty years.

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Nolte has argued that Hitler was entitled to Lying through gold intern the Jews on grounds of wartime Trauerarbeit teeth security, that Auschwitz equalled the gulag, etc. eaders will by now be familiar with From here on the shadowy penumbra the North-Hessian town of Hofgeis­ pon losing the Kaiser's war Luden- obscuring the distinction between darkness R mar, its Jewish Museum, and the dorff produced an alibi which, in and light, broadens out. The Sunday Times publications of their Local History Society. U flagrant violation of the truth, affords Irving the opportunity to apply his The latter has recently added a fifth volume alleged that Germany, undefeated in battle, technique of selective quotation to the to its series 'Juden - Hessen - Deutsche'. It had been stabbed in the back by Liberals, Goebbels Diaries. The Daily Mail has contains 207 pages and costs DM18 plus Marxists and Jews. likewise given Hitler's spin Doktor a post­ postage, obtainable from Verein fiir Hes­ This myth of the stab in the back - humous sounding board, as has Der sische Geschichte, Hofgeismar, Nordhes- Dolchstosslegende — gained widespread Spiegel. sen, Germany. belief in the country in Weimar days, and The book reviews 450 years of Jewish became official dogma under Hitler. Titillating jaded palates history in this area. There are 22 individual The Second World War can be seen as a The public-has-a-right-to-know justifica­ contributions, covering the period from replay of the First, with Hitler yoking his tion put forward by these papers for titillat­ Philipp the Magnanimous to the Holocaust. own resolve to exterminate the Jews to the ing readers' jaded palates with tainted fare Included are names of 440 of the victims in Kaiser's aim of world domination. is pure disingenuous hogwash. Nothing the districts Hofgeismar, Kassel-Land, and published to date has added significantly to Wolfhagen. For the first time the more Total denial the stock of historical knowledge. distant area of Eschwege is included. The collapse of 1945 spawned its own Although neither the Sunday Times nor This publication was made possible by mythic alibis. A new Dolchstosslegende the Daily Mail are any longer located in the generous sponsorship of both the grew up around Canaris, Stauffenberg and Fleet Street, that name is symbolic: the Catholic and Protestant Churches, Local the Officers' Plot of July 1944. As to the River Fleet was once an open sewer. It was Authorities, and individuals. Holocaust, it was first 'minimised' by a with prophetic foresight that Karl Kraus, Its value is best summarised by Professor downward revision of the number of arch-enemy of venal journalists, warned of Dr Krause-Vilmar's postscript ''It makes victims. Subsequently a total denial of the printer's ink poisoning the world's wells of very clear . . . ivhat tvas destroyed, never to Final Solution took place. The details are truth. come back, and ivill be missed by future wearily familiar: the gas chambers at n R.G. generations'. D Auschwitz were post-war Allied propa­ ganda mock-ups, the Jews use the 'holo­ caust hoax' to extort money from Germany BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE and so forth. 51 Belsize Square, NW3 PARTNER SELICHOT SERVICE in long established English Solicitors at the Synagogue with Choir and Cantor (bi-lingual German) would be happy to Side effects of war Address by Rabbi assist clients w/ith English, German and on SATURDAY, 31st AUGUST at 10 p.m. Austrian problems. 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