Vol. VI. No. 3 .:>IARCH,'I95I INFORMATION OWED «r THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN 8. FAIRFAX MANSIONS. FINCHLEY ROAD ( FAIRFAXTOAO ) LONDON. N.W.3 Office and ContuWnf Hours : 10 o.m.— I p.m., 3—6 p.m, Sunday 10 ».m.—I p.m. Telephone : MAIda Vila 909S (General Office) vn MAIda Vale 4449 (Employment Ajency)
PROGRESS IN RESTITUTION J) T^HE promulgation of the Berlin Indemnification BERLIN INDEMNIFICATION LAW Law is an important step towards the com pletion of legislation in the field of restitution and The Berlin Indemnification Law which as the implementing orders and the forms compensation. Apart from certain shortcomings, had been adopted by the West BerHn have become available, claimants will in "ttich, it is hoped, will be overcome by amendments, " Magistrat " as early as October 30, 1950, many cases have to seek individual advice "6 new law is as little unsatisfactory as could be has now been approved by the AUied before registration. expected under prevailing circumstances. There Kommandatura, and was published in the Amongst the groups of claimants, defined ^6. of course, many general deficiencies arising out Berlin " Verordnungsblatt" of February in Art. 8, Par. 1, the following two categories the peculiar present political position in Berlin, 8, 1951. The delay of the approval is are of main interest from the Jewish point of "•Id the new law reminds us again of the unequal mainly due to the fact that in certain view : Persons who had their domicile in \\) '^^tment of former residents of pre-war Germany. important points the Law has fallen Berlin on January 1, 1947, and persons (and The organisations which represent the Jews from short of the corresponding regulations of the their heirs respectively) who dieci, emigrated, ^rmany do everything possible towards a reduction Indemnification Laws in the American Zone. were deported or expelled prior to January 1, 3U0<1 ' the injustice from which those former German When it gave its approval, the Allied Kom 1947, if they had their last domestic residence J6Ws have to suffer who are not covered by present mandatura, therefore, asked the Municipal in Greater Berlin. Furthermore, for damages •^Sislation. It will be an indication of the good will Authorities to remove these shortcomings by to landed property in Berlin indemnification the German Federal RepubUc whether and to future amendments. The three deficiencies will be granted irrespective of the domicile •^at extent it helps to remove hardships which which are of special importance to Jewish of the injured person (Art. 8 Par. 2). id, '"St for a great number of Nazi victims. In these victims of Nazi persecution, are the following According to Article 55, the Indemnifi *ys, when the criminal promoters of the catastrophe ones : the maximum indemnification for fe treated with clemency, their victims are entitled cation Law shall not be valid in that area of '^ *xpect justice. property losses is fixed at DM. 40,000 (as Berlin in which the " Magistrat" are against DM. 75,000 in the American Zone) ; prevented from the exercise of their rights ^ne gap should also be narrowed by an early the D.P.s who had been staying in Berlin and duties. The view has been expressed J ""lulgation of Indemnification Laws in the camps are (with certain exceptions) excluded; by well-informed quarters in Berlin that this 2^nder of the British Zone. Readers will see from contrary to the American Laws, the Berlin restriction is meant merely territorially and 's issue that the " Council of Jews from Germany " Law does not expressly name the Jewish that, therefore, it may reflect, e.g. on damage ^ again taken up this highly important matter Successor Organisations as beneficiaries of to real property in " Berlin " (Art. 8, Par. 2), *'th the British Authorities. certain types of claims. but not on the claims of people who emigrated ''Urthermore, steps have to be taken in order to The " Coimcil of Jews from Gennany " of from East Berlin (as part of " Greater r 6(1 up transfer facilities, without which restitution which the AJR is a constituent member, had Berlin ") and who no longer reside in Berlin compensation are meaningless for the vast at all. It can, however, not be foretold S «iber of Jewish Nazi victims who are living already drawn the attention of the Alhed ''tside Germany. Authorities to these setbacks, but had, at whether this view will be accepted by the the same time, suggested that the Law Courts. 1 all these and many other questions the Jews "1 Germany themselves have to take up their should be put into effect as soon as possible The Law lays down three main types of ^ ^ through their appropriate representative on the understanding that it should be damages for which indemnification may be ^ '^s. Every claimant, whether he is able to improved by way of future amendments. granted : Damages to life, body, health and g P'°y a lawyer or whether, being indigent, he This attitude of the " Council " was guided freedom, damages to property, and damages "^sts his case to the United Restitution Office by the idea that in the interest of the great to profession or occupation. ^ realise that the legal settlement of his claim number of claimants any further delay should Under the first category indemnification Pe on general developments which call for be avoided. It is gratifying that this pro- may be granted to widows, minor children J "lanent action and vigilance. Therefore, under ceedure has been adopted by the Allied and grandchildren of persons who lost their ! 6^ ^pect of restitution as among so many others, Authorities and that now a Berlin Indemnifi lives during the Hitler regime as persecutees. t]^ ^ Jew from Germany has a vested interest in cation Law has come into force which, apart Furthermore, indemnification may be granted ^successful work of the AJR and of the " Council from the setbacks mentioned above, corre to persecutees who have suffered bodity harm 'nt ,!*^ from Germany," of which the AJR is an sponds in its main points with the Indemnifi or whose health has been impaired. Indem cation Laws in the American Zone. nification for loss of freedom may be granted As in the American Zone, not all types of at the rate of DM 5 per day, if the persecutee l5 ^ MEET YOUR NEIGHBOUR damages are indemnified at once ; the Law was detained for at least one month. ^ *1E announcement of the intended creation of lays down three categories of claims which, Under the second category indemnification according to priority, have to be settled one up to DM. 40,000 may be granted for damage Une '^^^^ °^ " ^^^ °^^' *'** ' '^^^ ™^*- ""^^^ ^" after the other. to property including special dues (e.g. li and ''^'^^^'^ly large response. It was interesting— The time limit for the registration of claims Judenvermoegensabgabe) and emigration tax how P^''liaps also somehow distressing—to learn is February 9, 1952. On the other hand, {Reichsfluchtsteuer). anjjj "^ny in our midst are feeling isolated and are iviiQ^**^ to come into closer contact with others, claims cannot be registered at present The third category of claims refers to gt
l^roiessor Franz Soeliin (Frankfurt a. M..) : ANGLO-JUDAICA The German Challenge The air of spring is not too pure this year. When " bygones are bygones " in Germany, then in fact A GERMAN ON ANTI-SEMITISM bygones are come-backs everywhere. It seems strange to think that the record of the German Those Germans who are not content to acknow able by death or had even been tried, terrible horrors which was discounted once because it was ledge the existence of anti-Semitism in Germany atrocities, torments, tortures, insults, degradations, not believed, should be discounted again because bnt who query its cause, often like to answer that robbery, immeasurable misery. If they did avenge " worse things are happening now," as was pain the cause of hatred of Jews is to be found in the that, it would be unpleasant.' They would repay fully argued by reviewers of the recent English Jews themselves. Therefore anti-Semitism will one crime with another. But they would only just translation of Dr. Eugen Kogon's famous book *top only when the Jews change. be quits with us. " Der SS Staat." The restoration of German arms When these same people talk in one breath of We accept anti-Semitism as unalterably given. and war criminals is now considered a matter not ^rtain injustices of the restitution law and its We should like to see it disappear, but we believe of principle but of expediency, though British Jews Application in some instances, and of the terrible this to be impossible so long as Jews exist whose too appear to be somewhat divided on the issue. ^nsequences of anti-Semitism for the Jews, then presence may appear obnoxious to any of our they are trying to compare two incomparable The thoroughly reprehensible suggestion by the fellow-citizens. We should like it best if the Jews British High Commissioner that the murderers at things. If the surviving Jews wanted to retaliate would completely disappear for 200 years so that 'Q kind, they would have to avenge the destruction Landsberg had been convicted by " hate and anti-Semitism would die of its own for lack of revenge," was vigorously denounced by the Anglo- °f their families, the murder of millions of innocent subject matter to feed on. After that they might ^6n none of whom had committed a crime punish- Jewish Association even before the Prime Minister slowly and carefully reappear—but only very disowned it (three weeks later). The " Jewish gradually. It would be better if they disappeared GERMAN SONGS IN ISRAEL—YES OR NO ? Chronicle " observed a tactful silence on Sir Ivone once and for all. We should then have plenty of Kirkpatrick, ventured some " astonishment " at The recent banning by the " Cinematographic time to make them into saints post mortem, like General Eisenhower, but passefl severe strictures Censorship Board " of the use of German in public Joan of Arc, who was also first rendered harmless on the fellow-Jews at the Board of Deputies whose Performances has aroused the liveliest discussion in and burnt, just to be on the safe side. protest against certain proposals to rearm Germany *he Israel press. The ban had resulted in striking it dismissed as " unhelpful platitudes." trom the programme of Kenneth Spencer, the That, of course, would be an ideal solution. i'^erican basso, songs by Brahms and Schubert. There is an example which is often recounted to These strictures received support from the Anglo- •tTle majority of the papers expressed the vi^ that show how we discriminate against Jews ; I refer Jewish Association, while the Board was upheld the Board had exceeded its authority. to the Poles. It is quite clear that the Poles have by the " Zionist Review " and probably a majority . Ha'aretz thought that the Germans should be revenged themselves quite differently from the of British Jews. lodged according to the standard of their great Jews for the wrong done to them. They have not only Anti-Semitic Propaganda POets and not that these should be judged by the conducted a few exaggerated restitution cases, but A correspondent of the " Catholic Herald " some Abominable deeds of a disgraceful generation. " In have chased millions of Germans, men, women, time ago complained he had found this propaganda 'oe classical songs of Germany the poet and the children and invalids, from their homes across the in a number of books lately as well as in a journal Ijlusician become one, and with this fusion it frontier without means of subsistence, and this issued under Catholic auspices ; soon afterwards ^comes impossible to separate the two elements, without regard to their guilt or innocence. What too he reported evidence which he said assured him toe world is empty enough of all forms of spiritual would have happened if the Jews had done that ? that " the anti-Jewish campaign has taken a strong JJ^pression. There is no need to drag poetry through Now another point about the Restitution Law. hold on the Catholics in this country." Where this the law courts or to shut the ears of mankind to campaign is not the result of ancient prejudice, it the innocent beauty of the poet's utterances." This law follows on a robbery, an injustice. The Restitution Law intends to return what has been may well be due, in part, to the inspiration of The Jerusalem Post voiced somewhat similar robbed. The restitution of thousands of cases of refugees from Iron Curtain countries. One of these. yiews : " The ban of the performance of the German political mass injustice is always a tricky and V. L. Borin, a leader of the anti-Benes Czechs in 'Anguage has caused much concern on the part of difficult matter, especially when one or two decades London during the war, has just launched a vicious * vigilant Israel public. Such a ban,, we feel, is have passed and when each individual case is anti-Semitic newsletter. ''•stjBteful both for its echoes of totalitarianism difierent. It is practically impossible there to Friends of the Jews ^'^d its futile application. . . . Spleen of that kind proceed exactly according to right and justice. *ill not advance our cause among the nations, It is gratifying to note that when the anti- We will probably all admit that 90 per cent of all Communist Jew-baiters appeared in Devon, the fnstead it may hold us up to derision, particularly " aryanisations " were unscrupulous rackets. But '^ the world of the arts and invite challenge of our local newspaper at once took up the challenge in in a number of cases, more or less fair prices were forthright words : " Our Jewish population in this ^Uicerity when we profess to be counted among the paid. Yet even in these cases we have to remember defenders of basic freedoms." part of the world is very small. They are accepted that alter all the Jews did not sell out voluntarily, without question as members of the community . The evening paper, Hador, however, thinks that, but because a terrible capital levy had been imposed and stand on their own merits as individuals. Any } there is no absolute necessity for them, displays on them and because they had to flee from the attempt to single them out would no more be H* German should be prevented. " When one local country to avoid being sent " up the chimney." tolerated by public opinion than it is by the law. ••tizen talks to another in German, it is one Jew The real reasons of anti-Semitism are super- We fought a ghastly war against this sort of thing, i^lking to another and he does it because he must. and would-be Himmlers will receive short shrift." ^1t what compulsion is there to sing Brahms in tition, obsession, hatred of the stranger, intolerances ^rman and not in another language ? We have against neighbours and fellow-citizens who want to At the same time, guard must be taken against ^ot much means at our disposal nor many oppor live their own lives, whose faith, habits, traditions outbreaks of anti-Semitism, particularly in Hamp tunities for preventing the world crusade of appease- and customs are different from our own. In the stead, as the Hampstead Council of Christians and "lent towards the sons of the Third Reich, who Ancient World Jews were persecuted because they Jews were told by the Rev. Copland Simmons, of "ok forward to the revival of that regime. Let us refused to worship the gods of the peoples among Frognal. Speaking of the Nazi atrocities, he said : . t least not be parties to this universal crime. For, whom they lived. In the Middle Ages, especially at " We are inclined to think that these things could ?deed, such crime always begins with ' trifles.' the time ot the Crusades, they were persecuted not happen here, but those who live here know that to-day—a concert in German ; to-morrow—^trade because a terrible superstition caught hold of they could—if not physically, mentally." Never ^th the Germans ; and the day after—the approval Christians which had no connection with Christian theless, the Rev. Simmons felt that the quiet t political relations." faith or teaching : the superstition, that is, that the understanding between Christians and Jews in the Jews were cursed by God because they had crucified Council was gradually making it impossible for J, Here are two of the numerous letters to the Jesus and that all those who had dealings with the anti-Semitism to assert itself in the borough. '^^itor :— cursed were themselves damned. We do not believe It was also encouraging to read a new judgment , " When Dr. Goebbels and his henchmen in 1933 that any more ; but a remainder of the superstition .•irned books of Je^vish authors, Jews and non- on Shylock in a prominent Catholic paper. " My survives to this day in the notion that there is sympathies are all with the Jew," a critic exclaimed Jews all over the world regarded and condemned something queer about the Jews. We moderns are ?i^ action as foolish and as a crime against in a note on the " Merchant's " recent performance by no means as enlightened and unprejudiced as at the Old Vic. Antonio was described as a Christian •iyilisation. The recent action of our Censorship we like to imagine. ^ard in banning songs, etc., in the German whose greed " would have enraptured, and indeed I^iguage in pubUc performances is of a similar There is a further point : With every obsession may have inspired, the late Reichmarshall Goering." Patter^." and superstition there combines a cruel trait of Shylock, it was said, despised the persecutors of his nation " with understandable, almost laudable, ' Whereas Goebbels was solely animated by blind, human nature, the hunting instinct, the desire to chase the helpless and the outsider. Of course these ferocity." The words had rather a topical ring in ?*iirderous hatred of the Jewish people, Israel the hubbub around the war criminal C. C. A. j'^blic opinion is motivated by the very normal people know in their innermost hearts that the> are /"d commendable human resentment of watching doing vnrong. But these pangs of conscience make o''Wic performances in the language spoken by their anti-Semitism only more wild and determined. HEINRICH STERN .??se who have looted, tortured and murdered one It is an old fact that man inclines to love him whom Heinrich Stem suddenly died in London at the hird of the Jewish people with utter impunity aad he has done good and to hate him towards whom he age of 66. He took a leading part in Jewish life ^thout the slightest show of remorse." feels guilty. The injustice which men have done and was prominent in the Jewish Liberal Movement Mr. Frank Pelleg, Director of the Music Depart- to the Jews nags them inside and makes them even in Germany as well as, .after his emigration, in this ?^iit at the Ministry of Education and Culture, said more anti-Semitic than they were before. country. For several years he was chairman of the !r a statement that " such a ban can only deepen That is why it is not a matter for the Jews to " Repraesentantenversammlung " of the Jewish ^ prolong grievous reminiscences, and that can't deprive anti-Semitism of its foundation. If they Community, Berlin. As a Board Member he took r^ the purpose of the humanitarian education of a all turned into angels, that would make no difference an active interest in the work of the AJR. By his y^* generation. The arts, and especially music, to anti-Semitism. It would only incite it all the deeply-founded religious outlook, his wide Jewish jfjould be used to neutralise the bad feelings more. The cause of anti-Semitism is inside our and general knowledge and his gift as a promoter I, °usands of Israelis may rightly have against the selves. That is where we must find it and destroy it. and organiser of many Jewish causes he has left his "^ of German." H. F. From DiejSegenwart mark oa the history of German Jewry. •••iHillil Page 4 AJR INFORMATION March, 1951 !i:|5_
grants from Eastern Europe and instrumental iu ti Lutz \V eltmann : their transport from Haifa to Cyprus. *1 Cousins has a story to tell which is tragic and TWO STORIES FROM JEWISH HISTORY unpleasant at the same time. The sad story begins in Rumania where the Jews cannot make a living The two stories under review here are taken from elements of them willing to help, and yet doomed any longer. A manifesto signed " Zionist Forces in recent history, their heroes are anonymous, and to be collaborators in the destruction of their both authors are Gentiles. Europe " offers them transport to Erez Israel, free ^ Wh brethren. Some served, after realising what they of charge. As they have nothing to lose and as septej John Hersey who wrote the story of the Warsaw were doing, in order to prolong the lives of their next ghetto (" The Wall "—Hamish Hamilton : 15s.) is of kin. Zion was a desire kept alive in their hearts, they go -he J, aboard one of the notorious hell-ships. The squalor to-relj an American, thirty-six years old, and made his The author's studies have been very thorough, name with the novel " A Bell for Adano " (which and death during this crossing equals the torments liind. his psychological insight is profound, and he has a the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto underwent. Jews was turned into a film) and the Penguin Docu great gift for portraying both the " Group " and mentary " Hiroshima." But in their case they were the victims of an unholy Hetm Jewish, Polish and German individuals. Great alliance between Western Jews who supplied the 1648 a " The Wall " is a novel under the disguise of a conflicts take place in human souls : once the money for relief and, as the author suspects. Jig, documentary, not easy to read, which is a great pity. Germans come with the white flag, and the Jewish guerilla fighter who had enjoyed some Western Communists who intended to brew trouble in »ell t And yet, it ought to be read by many. There Palestine by transporting them. Driftwood misused Lithu are still many amongst us who lament the loss of education hesitates for a moment, in case hostilities home, wealth, language and profession, which is could be finished in a sportsmanlike manner, but in the struggle of the great powers. is a i idmis only human ; but what is this compared witb the his Eastern fellow-Jew has none of those inhibitions The English officer whom we may identify with f^jji^ suffering of those Jewish martyrs in Eastern and shoots the negotiator. Hersey, with Anglo- the author of the story is confronted with an jj ^, Europe.' It is a great thing to emulate men such Saxon fairness, makes us understand both characters. unenviable task. He faces a new world of " Yid- (bstai as Field Marshal Smuts and Pandit Nehru, who And there is a Zionist, who learned from the dishers" in humiliating circumstances. What {^^^ . were able to forget the past, but the magnanimity happenings in the ghetto that the movement was happens in Palestine and Cyprus has repercussions ^ ^, required from Jews is tbe greatest ever asked for in threatened by the same nationalism against which in Britain, rousing resentment among Jews and (e^,^' history : not to forget, which is impossible, nor to they were fighting, that there was a danger that the Gentiles. A world of prejudice, red tape, officialdom, m^j ^ forgive, which is superhuman, but just to bury Jewish heritage, a pillar of Western civilisation, incompetence is shown, pandemonium is let loose ijj^^ hatred, which one side must start doing. might perish on the very ground where it had with human beings as sufferers—our feUow-Jews as j^-^j.^ John Hersey's book fights the inertia of the heart, sprung from. the sport of the gods. But there is a conciliatory forQii, both of Jews and Gentiles. He gives a story of This is the topic of another book : " Come Like conclusion. The British officer learns from his jj ^, " Jewishness," which belongs to our history as much a Storm," by E. G. Cousins (Ernest Benn : 10s. 6d.). psychological experience, and already in Cyprus ^^ as the glory connected with great names such as The author of this novel is at least two decades one of the victims is able to see the British side of (^^ , Spinoza, Disraeli, Mendelssohn and Heine. It is an older than Hersey : he was born in China, went the case. Here we Jews must act as a Smuts and t}j,? epic of the human heart, of its foibles and of its through the Boxer Rebellion, fought with the New a Nehru did. L-. endurance. There are those amongst our com Zealanders in the first World War and served with munity, who are not only deserters, but even the Royal Pioneer Corps in the second. As O.C. profiteers in the hour of darkness. There is the Troops on British transports in the Eastern Mediter " Judenrat," established by the Nazis, the best ranean he was an eye-witness of the illegal immi- Buber's new book " Israel und Palastina—Zur «ar tl Geschichte einer Idee " (Artemis Verlag, Zurich) Vail has both a German and a Hebrew edition. German Jews living now in English-speaking countries and LAW and LIFE having become acclimatised to English empirical L*gal Advics Hours (for psrsons with limiltd mtans only) •' Sundav 11 a.m.-12 noon by appointment. thinking will probably realise how estranged they have become to Buber's German argurftentation. K ^° < NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS floor of our insurance building we inspect the first But the Hebrew edition of this book will—it is to Let us always bear in mind that this is an insur floor, where we find insurances against inability be feared—find a wide public in Israel ; there the 'amitt ance in the proper meaning of the word and that to work not caused by medical reasons. The first readers will be happy to be given au interpretation Pi-ocess the benefits are not welfare payments out of a door is marked " Unemployment Insurance." We of Zionism which is a justification of 20th Century n"* As charitable fund. find here that the rates of benefit are the same as nationalism and of the negation of the dia.spora. Povert, Let us imagine that the National Insurance is a those for sickness except for a married woman who -'t^nturi building in which a number of special insurances receives £1 per week (4s. more than in case of Because peasant life was the background of the are housed, similar to a comprehensive householders' sickness), but the insured must have been a con prophetic centuries, Buber demands that the teiteo policy which covers different kinds of damages, tributor for at least 26 weeks. The benefit is paid Jewish people must again have its peasants in order i.e. by water, fire, theft, burglary, etc. The National for 180 days, but may be extended according to to understand fully the prophetic teaching. The ^^disl Insurance hou.se contains three floors. On the previous contributions to 1 year. On the other word " peasant " stands here for Buber's German ground floor we find the insurance for inability hand there may be no benefit for the first 6 weeks word " Bauer." But neither the English word ''the] to work on medical grounds ; the first floor houses if the insured has given some cause for her unem " peasant " nor the other English word " farmer " an insurance for inability to earn a living for other ployment. convey what Buber's " Bauer" is. With the ^«tl? than medical reasons ; the top floor contains the The next door on this floor is marked " National German word " Bauer " Buber fully accepts the departments covering special allowances granted Assistance," and there payments are made to Romanticism with which the Germans surround it ; under special personal circumstances. persons who for some reason or other are not covered the Communists to-day are trying to destroy a The insurance for inability to work on medical by the Insurance, e.g. unemployed whose unem neolithic peasantry ; Roman Catholicism in the ^'if7 grounds provides free medical treatment, free ployment benefit has e.xpired. The National Middle Ages tried—not quite successfully—to He,'" medicines, etc., free treatment in hospitals, in other Assistance is not part of the National Insurance christianise the pagan countryside ; in the Anglo- words the Health Scheme which should by now be but a supplement to it. On this floor we also find American civilisation there are no peasants ; there familiar to everybody. But while the patient is the " Retirement Pension." Men over 65 and the farmers, farm owners and farm labourers, are treated under the Health Scheme he may be unable women over 60 are entitled to 26s. or 16s. re part and parcel of an urban civilisation. to work, and in English Law there is no compulsion spectively. The pensioner who has a wife under for the employer to continue payment of wage or 60 receives a further 16s. and 7s. 6d. for one child Against this urban civilisation of the Western salary during illness. The Insurance pays to a under school leaving age. But if the retired earns world Buber employs the Marxist argument. The person over 18 years of age (but not to a married up to 20s. per week, this will not affect his pension, word- " parasite " (p. 196) which the Nazis used thSa woman who is not separately insured) the amount for every further Is. earned one shilling is deducted against the Jews, is also used by Buber, and it of £1 6s. per week and a further 16s. for an adult from his pension until the man is 70 years old, the becomes one of his arguments against Jewish dependant (i.e. the wife who has no separate income) woman 65 ; thereafter no reduction for earnings existence in the diaspora. By his " blood and soil ' <5 and a further 7s. 6d. for the first child under school takes place. theory he wants to amend the proposition that leaving age. A youth of 18 is entitled to 15s., an The top floor of the Insurance Building houses " Jewry broke out of the cosmos " (" aus dem insured married woman to 16s. insurances under certain special conditions. The Kosmos gebrochen "). Buber puts the clock back- If the inability to work is caused by industrial family allowance, the guardian's allowance, the But he does it, robed in the mantle of the scholar, injury or industrial disease (these are specially widow's benefit and death aUowance. Under the quoting Bible and Aggada, calling the whole Jewisb enumerated in the Act) the rates for the adult are first, a grant of 5s. weekly is paid for every child history as witness in his indictment against Noo- £2 5s. per week for 24 weeks. Thereafter the after the first one, a benefit intended to encourage Zionism. We hear that the commandment " B* Disablement Benefit takes its place at the rate of larger families. The guardian's allowance repre thou a blessing " means " Be thou a blessing in the between 9s. and £2 5s. according to the grade of sents a payment of 12s. per week to anyone who land of Israel," implying that only there can the JeV disablement. This part of the National Insurance takes an orphan into his family, provided that one be a blessing to mankind. Many more examples takes the place of the Workmen's Compensation of the parents of the orphan was a contributor to of such " exegesis " are presented to the reader. Acts and special allowances are granted in case the the Insurance. industrial injury or disease results in death. A widow under 60 whose husband was a contri Buber, the author of " Das KOnigtum Gottes," An expectant mother who has to give up her butor receives £1 16s. and 7s. 6d. for the first child also speaks in the pages of this new book. But not work before the childbirth is entitled to a maternity under school leaving age for 13 weeks, thereafter often. When he does, we are reminded that once allowance of £1 16s. per week for 13 weeks begin the Widowed Mother's aUowance of £1 13s. 6d. he was the co-worker of Franz Rosenzweig. In t^Q^ <* ning 6 weeks before the expected confinement. If Under certain conditions a widow's pension of those bygone days—and up to the time when Buber she has not worked before she is only entitled to £1 16s. per week may be granted in place of tbe left Germany, we listened to him. He gave us 17,2 fin: £1 per week for 4 weeks after the baby is born, former allowances. On the death of an insured "Das Konigtum Gottes." How the author of this bee but she will in any case receive the maternity person or his wife or husband or child respectively, great book could also write the book under re\aew. grant of £4 for each baby. a grant towards the costs of funeral becomes due, I fail to understand. After having visited all offices on the ground which for an adult amounts to ;^20. IGNAZ MAYBAUlVi J51 l:2*JNFORMATION March, 1951 Page 6 I in ^aul H. Em Jen : O/d Acquaintances and gins " The Consul" :—London's audiences have to nng THE ARRIVAL OF THE ASHKENAZIM make something good after showing so little s in appreciation of Menotti's two earlier operas. Already his " Telephone " and " Medium " showed free ^ When, Menasseh ben Israel came to London in Still worse was the fact that the great number of the new and modern ways this gifted American- I as -leptember 1655 to plead for the re-admission of new destitute refugees brought the London com Italian composer goes ; but it was a financial flop. r go .he Jews_ ^l^g tertible plight of his Russian-Polish munity into serious conflict with the Government. Now Sir Laurence Olivier has brought his " Consul " t ^.'"^^ligionists was uppermost in the Dutch Rabbi's As most of them had never learned a trade, they from Broadway to the " Cambridge," and this time ;nts mind. Between half and three quarters of a million either peddled on the highways or drifted into it depends on all of us to prove that we appreciate 3nt. Jews had been slain by Cossack hordes under their crime and so their condition became a public Menotti's courage and topicality. The writer- fi^^'^an, or Fuehrer, Bogdan Chmielnitzki and in scandal. The Home Office remonstrated with the composer shows that he would still be an excellent the b48 a wave of Jewish emigration started westwards. Synagogue authorities who replied that they were playwright if he couldn't write one single note ; '^ n ?*'^'^asseh ben Israel himself had informed Crom- not to blame but the Government which made his drama is Sartre at his best, full of thriUs and '. f'r^ that the Jews were " in great straits in Poland, immigration too easy. The outcome was that the excitement. People like you and me are filling the s '''tbuania and Russia," and urged their misfortunes Synagogue petitioned to restrict the influx. In stage ; it's the story of the eternal refugee trying ^ a reason for granting his petition for the re- structions were now issued that in future only such to escape from dictatorship and tyranny, hunting 'Qniissi''Imissio—n o-'f ' hi•s brethret_-i. n ti_o EnglandT7.__i__j . HereiTT—;_n iuth_e Jews who had paid their passages in full were to through three acts for a visa. The waiting room of Rabb^bbii had not succeeded and only those " as sit be permitted to disembark ; to those who had a consulate is the place, and " the Consul " who pleaded poverty and received a half price, or even , the inquisition " could count on meeting no gives the name to the play never appears at all. free, ticket, entry was to be refused. At that It's grim, sombre, hopelessly sad, and wonderfully hat I ^*^le when settling in this country. They had everyone wishing to immigrate had to hold a pass '^d from the stakes of .the Peninsula and, belonging humane. Moving from the beginning to the bitter an' s V\ .1 - - port issued by one of the British Ambassadors or end, it's a " must " for you to see. Patricia Neway, nd I ^ Spanisb-Mediterranean-Levantme group of Ministers abroad. At the same time raids were a 26-year-old Jewess from New York, is the leading im, i^^"^' were Sephardim and generally highly cultured made on Jewish pedlars all over the country and lady, and she sings so effortlessly that one has the •se l J *e althy people. Distinct from them were the the Lord Mayor promised free transport from feeling she isn't singing at all ; she really lives her as J^^riazim who, of German-Franco-Polish origin, London to the seaports to any Jews wishing to part, living and dying in the jungles of red tape jiy i.^'^f confined in narrow and miserable ghettoes, return to their native lands. and bureaucracy. She brings the fate and the his ji'^''"^'y separated from the culture of the countries tragedy of an epoch,—our epoch,—^to life. Even rus *'iich they lived, or rather vegetated, Provincial Settlements people who dislike opera will be moved by " The of A *^at actually happened in 1655, and what in ,The order that Jews " without good estate " were Consul," and others who don't appreciate Menotti's nd tiJ^Slo-Jewish history is called The Re-admission, was not allowed to settle in London had in the mean music will still enjoy every minute of that unfor b ^t no interference was put in the way of those while led to an interesting and important develop gettable evening. j, Phardim who might care to remove to England. ment : while the rich Sephardi merchants resided ^°se Ashkenazim, however, who in Hamburg— almost exclusively in the metropolis, the poor The End of a Famous Family :—Eleonore ;Y fu'^P'i'ling to a contemporary description " full of Ashkenazim were glad to settle wherever they saw von Menselssohn, who died in an unfortunate [jj^'tive Polish Jews "—and other ports waited to a chance of making an ever so modest living. accident in New York, was born fifty-one years ago ? > [3'' that they might come over to England, waited Within London that possibUity had, at least for to become a friend of the famous. Related to the in to ^^'"^ ^^^ ^^^ ^° tske up their staff once more the time being, disappeared and as the unwelcome great composer and the well-known bankers, she id ^^ refuge elsewhere. strangers had to turn somewhere, most of the ports, was always in love with the theatre although she al especially those on the south and west coast, had wasn't really a great actress. Married first to „ r Poor Refugees by the beginning of the 18th century a sprinkling Edwin Fischer, and later on to Rudolf Forster, 'n- kotk* • ^''^^"'^^ them completely would have been of Jews. The small settlements increased during Eleonore's house at Ammersee was a meeting place to iri . ^nipossible and illogical once the others were the century to such an extent that regular com of celebrities from all over the world. She was he Pr^**^ ^^^' bidden or unbidden, there arrived in munities could be established at Plymouth (1740), last seen on a German speaking stage when Max -,n in s of time sufficient to lay the foundation for Portsmouth (1747), Liverpool (1750), Bristol (1754), Reinhardt produced " Maria Stuart " in Vienna ; [•y PQ, Ashkenazi community in London. These and Falmouth (1766). The absolutely destitute in New York she was in the cast of " Madwoman jg ^''ty-stricken refugees remained for over a became pedlars, financed and equipped by Jewish of Chaillot." In her house Noel Coward wrote his '•nK ^^ unending source of annoyance and shopkeepers who sent them inland. As soon as " Operetta " for Fritzi Massary's only appearance re ;Q^a*rassment to the Sephardim who looked with such a pedlar had saved some money, he would set in London. Toscanini belonged to her circle in the le jjj .eoipt upon these tudescos, as they termed them, up a shop of his own, preferably in the district he States where Eleonore von Mendelssohn lived and er ^j?"* majority had no proper surnames, spoke but knew from his peregrinations. In the progress of married the former German actor Martin Kosleck, le fr^j. ^^h and after years of residence in this country time communities sprang up in Canterbury (1760), who used to act " Goebbels " on the screen in many in 5( .^ still'ignorant of all but the vaguest rudiments Exeter (1763), Manchester (1770), Birmingham anti-Nazi pictures. Wherever she was, her house •d • J'^ English language. (1770), Leeds (1772) and suchwise the formation of was open for everybody. As her only brother Lj?^ertheless the obligation to assist them could Jewish congregations in the English provinces was Francesco is quite ill in hospital, this seems to be '^ It iu^ evaded but carefully the Sephardim saw to almost exclusively the work of the Ashkenazim. the end of this branch of a great and once famous '^ 'hei ^° poor Ashkenazi became a member of family. ' "^^iv ^y^agogue. The objection, however, was The gradual relaxation of the vigilance of the * 3f jr^'^ in the instance of Benjamin Levy, a merchant Inquisition resulted in a progressive dwindling of Returnees :—None of those who returned during le (j^^^mburg who settled in this country about 1670. Sephardim immigration. For the Jews on the the last few months from their adopted countries " ken,^'?i°yed a great standing and among the Ash- Continent, however, there was without end and to Germany, intended to stay for good ; but some '' iftii ^'"1 was the first really rich man (of whom, will, I am sure. Playwright Hans I. Rehfisch, for respite " good cause " enough to quit their home instance, arrived from the States to have a look ® ^ne i"^^lth Levy, " the Queen of Richmond Green," steads. Even if free from actual persecution, they ^ ttn^rf.y more may be said). He played, though around, but after so many theatres accepted his lived everywhere under more or less oppressive old and new plays, he is so busy, and feels surely his|.'ttingly_ an outstanding part in Anglo-Jewish and degrading disabilities. The great attraction, Hoa/y—in 1696 he bought a piece of land in Globe at home again. His " Juckenack,"—a new version, the magnet, was England, btought into closer —will be shown in Hamburg ; his first novel, " The ofo f Mile End Road, to be used as a burial relation vnth Germany since the accession in 1714 Witches of Paris," will be published by Cotta, and i "^foi^ .^""^ the German aud Polish Jews. This of the Hanoverian George I. There was the land he even wrote the dialogues for Hans Albers t '•''eo ^^ purchase marked the first step towards of freedom and toleration and, whether welcome or " Bluebeard " picture in which Fritz Kortner, 1, toih/Sanisation of the Ashkenazi body as a separate not, the Synagogue could always be relied upon to another returnee, has an important part. Trude save the newcomer at least froip starvation. So it Goliat who ran a well-known .guest-house in Sussex t l^egi °VSh the influx of Ashkenazim was in its first came that by circa 1800—when about 20,000 Jews during the last few years, produced in Munich's " Atelier-Theater " a successful cabaret-revue for J ['otirf'^'Ss on a very small scale only, it attracted lived in London and 5,500 in the Provinces—the ' Of *nd in July 1677 the existence in London which gifted Robert Gilbert, Jean's son, wrote the Iev,j*,'lumber of destitute aliens pretending to be Sephardim, outnumbered by the constant immigra lyrics. Peter Lorre is directing and acting his first i '('ho • ^as reported to the Court of Aldermen, tion of Ashkenazim, formed but a fraction of Anglo- German post-war picture " Das Untier " in Ham . 8oo^"•^mediately ordered "that no Jews vrithout Jewry. burg, and Max Hansen returned from Scandinavia 3 J ^tate be admitted to reside or lodge in London." During the last seventy years the Ashkena z to start a tour with " Weisses Roessl " in Berlin. J j^lej °''der to stem further influx of poor Jews, iron branch of Anglo-Jewry has greatly increased. The Ernst Deutsch will have his first appearance in ' rj^e T **re introduced. Wten, however, in 1744, savage persecutions in Russia started in 1881, and Berlin when he plays " Danton's Tod," and ' w J&^'^ °^ Bohemia and Moravia were threatened Leopoldine Konstantin prepares a production of within a single generation something like 2,000,000 " Operetta without music," adapted by Alfred H. !• J'Oivf'^ Theresa with expulsion, the problem got east European (Ashkenazi) Jews had to seek new Unger. Of course, a writer like Leonhard Frank INR • '^'iti'ol- Il I'^SS one half of the 8,000 Jews homes. The vast majority settled in the United intentionally settled in Germany again, while all 'tte g 'Q London were dependent on charity and States and a fraction only in this country. Never the others first explore their special field before ' fi'''sii?^^8°S^s tried to check immigration by theless the number of Jews in England, estimated they decide. ' l^^it °S relief to aU foreign Jews " who had left in 1880 at 60,000 (of whom 47,000 in London), ^^""i ak'*'*^^ without good cause." But persecu- increased by 1905 to almost 200,000 (in London London New :—Peter lUing-Ihle will be in Nher ^^'i continued ; the PoUsh War of 1768 K^her 150,000). Twenty-five years later, that is prior to Carol Reed's new picture " An Outcast of the j^e jL^^eUed the immigration—and the burden the Nazi atrocities, there resided in this country Islands." — Elizabeth Bergner hopes to play .''2 k^^'icial position of the community had it about 330,000 Jews (London 180,000), and to-day " hameUendame " after the run of " Gay Invalid. <^ome so strained that the Great Synagogue, ""ort^akenazi house of worship, had to be 450,000 (London 185,000 and Greater London ed. 280,000). PEM. iBUHi MIKiHHtt Page 6 AJR INFORMATION March . i^ FRANKFURT HONOURS FORMER Letter to fhe Editor j FROM MT DIART MUSEUM DIRECTOR REVIEW OF GOLLANCZ'S ANTHOLOGV The recently published 1951 edition of the Jewish To honour its former Director, Georg Swarzenski, Yearbook follows the steps of its predecessors. on the occasion of his 75th birthday, the Staedel'sche Dear Sir, This means that it is just as indispensable as the Institute Frankfurt arranged an exhibition of the It passes my comprehension how anyone cottt, 1^^ previous editions have been. In the political most important pictures and other art treasures seriously suggest a parallel between Maimonidlb^ g, sphere, the Yearbook records a decrease of Jewish acquired by Swarzenski in the course of his activities " Guide " and the Anthology by Mr. V. Go//a>"^en(le M.P.'s after the 1950 elections and an increase of which, after 30 years, had to be terminated in 1933. as your reviewer did in the January issue-. It fcariui Jewish Peers by the elevation of Lord Morris and Georg Swarzenski is now living in Boston. surely not necessary for me to point out the differenktict • Lord Silkin (both former M.P.'s) and of Lord between the great and comprehensive philosophic^ th( Greenhill ; altogether there are now 11 Jewish effort made hy Maimonides and the composition o/iecom, Peers and 21 Jewish M.P.'s. Two new features of Stuttgart. Rabbi Dr. Siegbert Neufeld has been mere anthology however meritorious such a c^y^nim the present edition are an abstract of " British appointed Land Rabbi for Wuerttemberg-Hohen pilation may be. It is no doubt tantamount to md j^ Legislation affecting Jews " and particulars about zollern. Before the war. Dr. Neufeld was District falsification of spiritual and religious values to ^'""tenij the Israeli government and administration, the Rabbi in Elbing. During the past 12 years he lived these two on the same level by striking a parallel, hixed parties and the consular system of the young State. in Israel. Dr. Neufeld is also the author of Mono It is also more than obvious that in intention aj'^'e, i graphs on Jewish historical subjects. purpose Maimonides' great work is esseniinlv^ a L different to such a degree that one could hardly thi*-''^t^ of a greater difference. The propagation of vag^'^esX^ Under the heading " As if nothing had happened," Saarbruecken. A new Synagogue was con religious generalities cannot take the place of.^o. secrated in the presence of representatives of the the weekly " Hier und Heute," issued by the editors religious system for the simple reason that they ^P^es! authorities. Churches and Jewish organisations. in fact non-committal and of doubtful applicati'^^ adi of the " Frankfurter Hefte," publishes an article Addresses were, inter alia, delivered by the Chair by Walter Dirks which reads inter alia :—•" One They cannot give any positive guidance to the cowcf^^'p ai man of the Jewish Saarland community, Senats problems which occur within a definite social miM must be permitted to say quite a few things in praesident Alfred Levy, Mr. Shalome Kaddar, Germany to-day, but where it smells of anti- First Secretary of the Paris Israel Legation, and This is not the place to discuss difficidl proble Semitism, our patience has to end. There are in Mr. Grandval, the French High Commissioner. It is only necessary to mention briefly these objectio- this country some ten thousand people, the rem The two last pre-war Rabbis of Saarbruecken, Dr. in order to show that the elation provided by nants of several millions. They are ' hyper Rothschild and Dr. Ruelf, who had come from reading of the inspired utterances of great men m^ sensitive ' on the subject, and rightly so. We Switzerland and Israel respectively, also addressed remain a mere aesthetic enjoyment so long as tIA cannot bring back to life again the victims of the audience. The new building is particularly are not definitely connected with a pattern of coni*^ and behaviour. Auschwitz, but the least we can do is to be ' hyper beautiful from the architectural point of view. sensitive ' like these ' hyper-sensitive ' survivors, The writings of M. Buber about Chassidism art' . . . One cannot always be alarmed when generali There may not be too much similarity between case in point. One can state without fear of contfL~-^is sations are pronounced against Englishmen, school Moli^re's " Malade Imaginaire " and the " Gay diction that the Chassidic stories and representati'\J^}-^ of Chassidic ideas by M. Buber, in spite of W ^l*^ masters or Germans. In the case of anti-Semitism, Invalid " at the Garrick Theatre. There is, how literary excellence, did not make any contribution k. 'dc however, the matter is different, because here ever, hardly any difference (apart from the language) between Elisabeth Bergner of 1932 in religious feeling or to a real understanding " ^ tic something incredibly terrible happened in our Chassidism. They were just mere literature. Ver!*''' country, just recently, 17, or 12, or 6 years ago. Berlin and her Toinette in the present London performance. That she is still able to play a cham // any recommendation with regard to daily reading ^' Whoever speaks or writes as an anti-Semite to-day, bermaid of 20 years is already an achievement in could be expected to help, one might think of ' p 5' gives his approval to these terrible happenings. itself and for those who had seen her on the Continent, classical Hebrew literature and even the Prayer BlK)\^^^^ A ' moderate ' anti-Semitism may be debatable her acting will have brought home many happy as a more fruitful' " approach to a religious"• • revival-• '• 1?.!' elsewhere. In our country, however, the right to recollections. But also those who have met her i:l«Vt such an anti-Semitism has been burned in the for the first time are bound to come under the spell Yours sincerely. r^cal furnaces of .\uschwitz." of this unique actress. 137 Walm Lane, Dr. E. Lichtigfc NARRATOR N.W.2. v^O FAMILY EVENTS EXP. BARMAN wants suitable work. 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PERSONALIA DGTf AJR AT WORK Dr. Lutz Weltmann recently became 50 years old. In Germany he was well known as a critic, J AJR FUNCTION AJR Club producer and author. In this country where '^°M> ^J^ Function on Sunday, February 18, at A preliminary gathering of those who had he holds an appointment as schoolmaster, he is also 'n'x^ Embassy Theatre was a very great success. responded to the notices in the recent issues of active in various fields of cultural life. " AJR ''^''T^odelssohn and Brahms were wonderfully and " AJR Information," revealed a great enthusiasm Information " has had the privilege of enjoying his - «i ^"^'^S'y interpreted by Irene Eisinger, whose at the idea of a Club " for the over 40s." Whilst expert co-operation for many years. The AJR ^hh if^'^ and expression were, as always, the delight hope was expressed that a more descriptive name expresses its thanks for his assistance and wishes pMi« tjjg audience. Mary Iveson was a very for the Club might be found soon, it was the main him success and happiness for his future. " j^''°''^P''slied accompanist. Joseph Plant's pro- concern of those who were present to start work '^''T^oinie had a wide range from works by Daudet without delay. It was decided that the Club should vi/fllt Heine to amusing parodies. The pleasure of meet at fortnightly intervals on Sunday evenings. Sanitaetsrat Dr. Alfred iPeyser recently cele , ? ^. *^'ng to this naaster of his art was only slightly At the beginning the meetings are to be quite brated his 80th birthday in Stockholm. In Berlin, ,el. '"Xed with sad feeling, because, at least for some informal, as it is felt that people are mainly inter where he lived as a well-known doctor until 1939, ested in getting into personal contact with each " •"» ^' ^^ ^'^^ ^° ^^ ^^^ '^^* opportunity to see him Dr. Peyser took an active part in Jewish communal other. This, however, does not preclude that later i!
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