The Psychopathology of Politics CND Posters on Myriads of Hoardings Against Germany Over Fighting the Demand 'Don't Attack Iraq' and Couple Actual Japanese Attackers

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The psychopathology of politics CND posters on myriads of hoardings against Germany over fighting the demand 'Don't attack Iraq' and couple actual Japanese attackers. France this with 'Freedom for Palestine'. Such occupies a totally different sphere in the slogans hardly square with the indebtedness stakes. All its organisation's professed aim, which is sophistication and assumption of nuclear disarmament. How can an cultural superiority over the cowboys on attempt to prevent a state like Iraq with the other side ofthe Atlantic cannot still a record of serial aggression against a sense of unease engendered by the neighbouring countries - Iran, Kuwait, nation's past. Today's French wince at Israel - from going nuclear earn the the recollection of their wartime censure of opponents of nuclear conduct and hate to be reminded that proliferation? Nor does another they largely owe their liberation from fevourite CND mantra, Jaw-Jaw not the Nazi yoke to the Americans. War-War', chime with an intifada-hred However great France's indebtedness oattle cry like 'Freedom for Palestine'. to America, it is dwarfed by that of Jaw-Jaw showed signs of prevailing over Afghan President Hamid Karzai Germany. The United States restored War-War in Israeli-Palestinian relations their democracy and - via the Marshall for most of the 1990s until Arafat's The psychological mainsprings Plan - their economy. Moreover, in 1948 obduracy hoisted Sharon into power behind such self-contradictory, not to the US organised the Berlin airlift, It is an undeniable fact that the most say perverse, attitudes were laid bare by which kept Germany's historic capital •'itractable proponents of the intifada - the seventeenth-century commentator from being starved into submission and llamas, the Al-Aksa Brigade, Islamic who wrote: 'The Puritans ban bear- total incorporation into Stalin's empire. J'had - think that they will only have baiting not because it inflicts pain on the For the next 40 years the Americans achieved 'Freedom for Palestine' when animals but because it gives pleasure to pursued a policy of strenuous military, 'srael has been wiped off the map. It is the spectators.' Applying this insight to economic and cultural competition with ^"^ same hardliners, utterly deaf to any the present situation, one can say that the Soviet Bloc, which eventually Appeal to reason or humanity, who glory those who put up the 'Don't attack Iraq - caused it to disintegrate. The most ^ resorting to the revolting butchery Freedom for Palestine' posters were not visible element of this disintegration bought by suicide bombers. And let us so much motivated by concern for was the collapse of the Berlin Wall - and "ôt forget that it was so-called ordinary Iraqis, who, anyway, would love alongside it the reunification of êstinian men and women in the to be rid of Saddam, or for Palestinians, Germany. 'êet who cheered when Saddam's as by sheer hatred of America or Israel. Given all these facts, the mind boggles *^d missiles hit residential districts of The explanation for the depth of anti-US at a German minister's assertion that ^1 Aviv, and ululated with joy at news of feeling throughout Western Europe can Bush, like Hitler, indulges in foreign "^ attack on the twin towers in also be found in psychopathology. It is adventures to divert attention fi-om Manhattan. simply that people - and peoples - bear a internal problems. Now President Bush, "^y do proponents of the Palestinian grudge against those to whom they are admittedly, has worries over corporate of it* '^se, who deck themselves out in the obligated. failures and rising oil prices, but they are Ionia tî ûtrements of moral superiority, Britain, which stood alone in 1940 as nothing compared to those of oi^, ^ôt bellicose battle cries instead of while America was still mired in the Chancellor Schroder. The (jack)boot is offi'*'' ^ngthening the human bond between slough of isolationism, has least reason very much on the other foot. Contrary to ortstt^ . '•" sides - as exemplified by the to feel so obligated. Even so, it ought to Frau Daubler's canard, it was Schroder 'âda*ssas h Hospital's implantation of a be grateful for the fact that after the who, to divert attention from pressing ^sh bomb \nctim's kidney into a attack on Pearl Harbour, President internal problems - stubbornly high Roosevelt gave priority to the war ^Perately sick Arab girl? continued page 16 AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002

Freudian slippage C. C. Aronsfeid: Passionate scholar of Richard Grunberger the Holocaust One day in September the Daily Cesar (he preferred the initials C.C.) Telegraph reported an American Aronsfeid, who has died at the age of scientist's discovery of a gene that 92, was a major scholar, researcher and renders Jews averse to consuming historian of the Holocaust, playing a alcohol in large quantities. It didn't seem key role in the establishment and a particularly world-shaking discovery running of the Wiener Library. In his Cesar Aronsfeld and his wife Helga since we are widely known to have a later years, he became the temporary greater propensity for fressing than editor of AJR Information, the Jewish relations was the AJR shickering (a term which incidentally forerunner of the A//? 7ourna/. Information. Having retired from the has entered Australian slang). However, Born in 1910 the oldest of four Institute of Jewish Affairs in the mid- embedded in the text of the report children of an Orthodox wine merchant 1980s at the age of 75, he was invited to become the temporary editor of A//? lurked a hideously inept malapropism. in Exin in eastern Germany (now Kcynia in Poland), Aronsfeld left Germany for Information, which he did for two This was the description of European England soon after Hitler gained years, handing over the editorship to Jews asashkenazis. ASHKENAZIS! power In London he met Alfred Richard Grunberger in spring 1988. Had the reporter responsible for this Wiener, who was at the time seeking an Following his departure, the AJR lapse, I wondered, ever heard that in English translator for an archive he was Information noted that 'we have since Hebrew male nouns take the suffix im in assembling on National Socialism. He received many letters indicating the plural. There are, after all, quite a was to become Wiener's principal appreciation of the lively debate he has introduced' and that the publication's few words with that ending in current assistant for the next quarter-century. The Jewish Central Information Office, 'contents and layout soon showed the usage - kibbutzim, chassidim, Bank as it was known before it was renamed marks of his professional experience, a Hapualim - that any fully-pledged the Wiener Library, played a key role in deep knowledge of Jewish affairs, and member of the journalistic profession information and propaganda aspects a feeling for the interests of our ought to be familiar with. Besides, of the Second World War. After the war, readership.' anyone with a nodding acquaintance Aronsfeld edited the Wiener Library Cesar Aronsfeld held with the Bible, or with Milton's Paradise Bulletin, which was perhaps his characteristically strong views on major Lost, ought surely to have heard of greatest contribution in the postwar Jewish issues of the day, including the cherubiw and seraphjw. years. When Wiener retired in 1961, Arab-Israeli conflict, on which he was Aronsfeid took over as acting director Having pondered the matter for inclined to take a doveish stance. A ofthe Library. Following Wiener's death strong polemical element informed several days, I am inclined to blame this in 1964, Walter Laqueur was appointed many of his writings, which were not slip of the word-processing tongue less director In 1966 Aronsfeld left the seldom imbued with a somewhat on ignorance than on 'Freudian slippage' Wiener Library for the position of apocalyptic warning about a possible due to brain-washing. If one hears Senior Research Officer at the Institute recrudescence in the UK or elsewhere constantly that members of the Israeli of Jewish Affairs. Here he edited the of Nazi-style antisemitism. He was very Defence Force behave like Nazis - an scholarly journals Patterns of Prejudice much a private man, deeply sensitive- and Christian-Jewish Relations. allegation shouted from the rooftops by modest, and friendly with peop'^ tub-thumpers like John Pilger and Will Aronsfeld was a prolific letter-writer whom he respected, yet he could be Self, and echoed by Establishment and one of the journals to which he unexpectedly abrupt towards those io' whom he had little respect or who, a' figures like Chris Patten - it insidiously frequently wrote, and to which he he believed, wished to interfere in h'^ worms its way into the collective made a regular contribution on themes relating to world Jewish history, closely guarded independence. subconscious. (Didn't a delegate to the Anglo-Jewish history and Christian- Howard Spi«^ TUC conference at Blackpool shout out 'Sharon!' when Tony Blair asserted that Saddam Hussein was the worst dictator in power in the world today?) AJR Journal On second thoughts, maybe Tom Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief r|J JACKMAN • Paulin is moonlighting as a Daily Ronald Channing Executive Editor W^ SILVERMAN Howard Spier Editorial and Production Telegraph journalist under an assumed AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, COMMERCl(U, PROPERTY' CONSULTANTS name. Stranger things have happened in la Frognal, London NW3 6AL Fleet Street, also known as the Street Tel: 020 7431 6161 Fax: 020 7431 8454 e-mail: [email protected] 26 Conduit Street, London WlR 9TA ofShame. www.ajrorg.uk Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 801' AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002

A two-way bet on Haider NEWTONS Richard Grunberger Leading Hampstead Solicitors advise on National character is far from immutable. The current crisis over Iraq has seen Property, Wills, Family Trusts 1 Tê Irish, once considered feckless, German politicians - from Social and Charitable Trusts currently operate one of the most Democrat cabinet ministers to flimsily successful economies in Western disguised communists - manipulate anti- French and German spoken Europe. Poland, now a staunchly Catholic American pacifism for electoral Home visits arranged nation, flirted with Protestantism in the advantage. In an effort to cling to power, seventeenth century. England, the so- even if it is only by his fingertips. 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, London NWS 5NB called Land ohne Mttsik, gave the world Chancellor Schroder has recklessly the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. undermined the international order. He Tel: 020 7435 5351 Sweden, whose armies once stormed has pledged his country to permanent Fax: 020 7435 8881 through half of Europe, has not fired a neutraUty over Iraq, not merely in shot in anger for nigh on two centuries. defiance of Washington, but also with But the greatest change has surely flagrant regard to whatever joint policy occurred in Germany. In the eighteenth the United Nations - or his own EU century Count Mirabeau quipped: partners - might eventually arrive at. CONSULTANT "hereas other countries have an army, Worse still, by giving aid and comfort to to long established English 'n Prussia the army has the country.' In Saddam Hussein, he has disadvantaged Solicitors (bi-lingual German) the nineteenth century Bismarck Israel, to which Germany owes an would be happy to assist clients munched three wars on the trot, and in indefeasible moral obligation. with English, German and Austrian the twentieth the Kaiser and Hitler Thanks to Schroder and the Greens, problems. ignited two global conflagrations. German electors still pay heed to the Contact Henry Ebner And now, breaking the habit of several cosily archaic Biedermeier injunction Myers Ebner & Deaner lifetimes, the Germans have embraced 'Put on your nightcaps, crawl into your 103 Shepherds Bush Road feather beds and pull the blanket over pacifism. For the first decades after 1945 London W6 7LP your heads!' ûch a Damascene conversion was to be Telephone 020 7602 4631 Welcomed, not least because of the Schroder's name will go down in "êhrmacht's co-responsibility for Nazi infamy. In the manner of the American ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN Crimes. Gradually, however, as the isolationists of the 1930s, he has Country, in its new incarnation as the counselled voters to contract out of °^ndesrepublik, re-entered the comity of world affairs and offload on to others the '^tions, it also incurred certain military burden of dismantling the ticking ^•^ligations specified by NATO. timebomb that is Iraq. But we live in an AUSTRIAN and GERMAN interdependent world, and a country of 't was the mihtary strength of the PENSIONS "^^st, underpinned by economic muscle, 80 million which is the economic "'hich caused Soviet power to implode in powerhouse of Europe is light years PROPERTY ^89, and Germany to be reunited. Not away from the Goethean backwater hat the end of the Cold War inaugurated whose burghers enjoyed the distant RESTITUTION CLAIMS Period of global peace. Bloody conflicts 'Kriegsgeschrei, wenn irgendwo in der EAST GERMANY - BERLIN êd up in the Balkans, the Gulf and Turkei die Volker aneinander schlagen' On instructions our office will ^tica. Many of these conflicts were (the sound of war when somewhere in assist to deal with your tided, or at least defused, by the the back-of-beyond nations clash). applications and pursue the matter ,!«< ^spatch of troops fromNAT O countries. It is a sad story. The only crumb of with the authorities. ^ a member of NATO Germany comfort to be derived from it is that an ^îcipated in the Kosovo campaign, election victory by Edmund Stoiber, the For further information "abling Serb propagandists to claim that Catholic conservative who banged the and appointment '"nian pilots were dropping bombs on anti-immigrant drum, would have been please contact: Îgrade - just as their Luftwaffe marginally even worse. Since Schroder, ICS CLAIMS •^•"^decessors had done in 1940. Running however indirectly, sustains Haider's 146-154 Kilburn High Road . 'îside Germany's participation in buddy Saddam, and Stoiber employed London NW6 4JD ' 0 was a counter current: the rise of Haider-style xenophobic rhetoric, the ^ê Or'"eense , a party voicing neo-Luddite Austrian would-be Fuhrer can actually Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) Sent;tnient s in tandem with equally be declared the winner of the Fax: 020 7624 5002 'êaU:Sti c pacifist notions. German election. AJR JOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002

Bitter sweet Israel Ronald Channing

On the eve of the 9/11 aimiversary, my wife and I arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport and were soon on the road to her parents' moshav where they first settled in a mabara camp 51 years before. Every visit witnesses the building of more superb houses on the moshav's former agricultural plots, white walls and cool ceramic interiors echoing Bauhaus living. A drive through the main View from Moshav Beth Hillel across Galil orchards to the Lebanese border thoroughfare of neighbouring Rehovot Jl reveals the construction of massive Romans, are captured in a large pool B'Hai Temple could be seen on the apartment blocks extending the town enjoyed by many human patrons. slopes of Mount Carmel, and then a into a conurbation serving a greatly We proceeded through the crusader straight run home. expanded population. The road was town named after Emperor Tiberius on On the 29th anniversary of the loss of full of cars and local shops were busy the shore of the Sea of Galilee, through my soldier brother-in-law in the Yom with customers. the rich and abundant agriculture of the Kippur War of 1973, an army rabbi, gun A cautious evening stroll along Tel magnificent Huleh Valley towards at the holster, led a moving Aviv's sea front belied the obscene Kiryat Shemona and then onto Moshav remembrance service at the grave side violence and indiscriminate death Beth Hillel and a guest house, with its in the presence of his widow, parents and perpetrated on youngsters gathered for exquisitely designed rooms. From the other close relatives. In the military an evening at the nearby aquarium balcony the hills which separate this section ofthe town's cemetery I counted disco. Now all restaurants and bars have demi-Eden from a threatening Hizbollah the graves of more than 40 young security checks and, although foreign in Lebanon appear so close. soldiers taken in the succeeding tourists were few, no one seemed A sad early-morning visit to the 29 years, a dreadful toll of youth no unduly hurried. People were just getting memorial to 40 young soldiers whose doubt replicated in towns throughout on with their lives. helicopters collided on a night mission this country. The bombing of a Tel Aviv bus on to Lebanon, then on to the Tel Dan On the evening of Kol Nidre I joined Allenby Street cost six innocent people nature reserve, crossed by the ice-cold my father-in-law in the moshsv their lives, including a Scottish Jewish waters of a significant source of the synagogue and, with a little help, was boy who was to study medicine at River Jordan from Mount Herman. The able to follow the service. The sight of Oxford, and the bus driver, who was site also contains the fortress of the the male congregation all wearing the trying to protect his passengers. Many Tribe of Dan who, after defeating the traditional talith (prayer shawl), and the more were seriously injured and will be Philistines, settled there. Kibbutz Dan's passion with which this generation ot scarred for life. Should any civilised extensive fish-farming pools were the IsraeH Jews comprehended and recited society be faced with such a bestial source of an appropriately chosen lunch. the ancient prayers for a good life in the attack, orchestrated and provisioned by Climbing out of the Huleh Valley with coming year, turned my thoughts ovef those seeking nothing less than the views over the Sea of Galilee, past Rosh the intervening 2,000 years. 0^ destruction of the Jewish state and Pinah and on to Safad, a city in which ancestors were dispersed over much "J its people? Jews have Hved continuously since the Mediterranean and Europe to sufiei^ Following good main highways, the before the destruction ofthe Temple and two millennia of persecution an" drive north, broken only by a picnic the dispersion, we passed through the pogrom until they began reconstituting breakfast in a JNF forest, passed some of forests up the winding roads of Mount Jewish life in oiu: ancient homeland >" Israel's oldest kibbutzim. South of the Meron. People continue to pray at the the mid-nineteenth century* Galilee the road abruptly plunged across tomb of the ancient Jewish sage, Rabbi Paradoxically, the Jewish settlers the Jordan Valley's gorge onto the stark, Shimon Bar Yachai. Along the border to development of the land brougl'' rock moonscape of the east bank to Ma'alot, whose children were prospects of employment to tens " travel south along the 1949 armistice massacred by an early PLO attack, and thousands of Arabs in uncontroU^ line. Improbably, the Hamat Gedera onto once vibrant, now uninspiring immigration (unlike the Jews) from th^ nature reserve appears, famed for its Nahariah. A stop on the road through surrounding countries and from ^ alligators and crocodiles. The warm Haifa iox falafel at an Arab restaurant beyond. Today many call themseWe- sulphur springs, once prized by the from where the magnificent, floodlit Palestinians. AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002

CONTINENTAL Aspects of Anglo-Jewry 'liberal approach' dictated that 'We should let people do as they wish' in BRITONS this matter The subject of Judge Finestein's talk, From marginal and of his latest book, was 'Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry 1800-2000'. to mainstream Israel Finestein, a former President of the German refugee art was given a 'very Board of Deputies of British Jews and the bumpy ride' in Britain at the start, a Jewish Historical Society of England, and packed audience at the Jewish former Chairman of the Jewish Museum, Museum in Camden Town was told. devoted much of his talk to what he Speaking on the subject The Welcome described as a central feature of Anglo- 9^ Strangers: British Responses to Jewry in the twentieth century: the Emigre Art and Artists in the 1930s and priority it had given to the Jewish day school system begun in the 1960s. The ''940s', a lecture held in association then Chief Rabbi, Lord Jakobovits, he vvith the Ben Uri Gallery, Monica Bohm- said, had understood that the future of •^uchen said that in the early days Jewish identity laywith Jewish education. Expressionist art was generally Within just four years he had designed •"^garded in Britain as inferior to the Lord Jakobovits and launched his greatest contribution to French tradition - it was seen as 'too Anglo-Jewry, the Jewish Educational "ervy and angst-ridden'. The dispute over the eruv, the device Development Trust. In place of the slogan which enables Orthodox Jews in a then driving the campaign for Soviet particular geographical area to carry Jewry, 'Let My People Go', he had written: items and push baby carriages on the 'Let My People Know.' Sabbath, is a 'wholly artificial' one. Judge Israel Finestein told a packed audience at Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry the Jewish Museum in London's Camden 1800-2000 is published by Vallentine Town. Speaking at one of a number of Mitchell at £17.50 paperback or £35.00 events held to mark the Jewish Museum's cloth. 70th anniversary year, he said that a HS

Continental Britons Exhibition and Arts and Events Diary - November

Oskar Kokoschka Mon 4 Prof Norbert Frei (University of Wonderland'. Club 43 Bochum), The Nazi Elite in Postwar ^^s Bohm-Duchen, an art historian, Tues 19 Sir Hans Singer will talk about Germany. Wiener Library. 6.30 pm his experiences as a refugee based on ^"•iter and curator, described the 1937 Mon 4 Ralph Blumenau MA, The 1920s'. family papers. CGJS '^sgenerate Art' exhibition in Germany Club 43 ^hen the Nazis ridiculed the work of Mon 25 Richard Grunberger, Tues 5 Ian Menzies (formerly Hans The Problem of Dual Allegiance'. Club 43 "âx Beckman, Emil Nolde, Oskar Menzinger), 'Re-acculturation - the Road "^^koschka and over 200 other Tues 26 Hanno Fry, 'A Young Refugee on Back'. Centre for German-Jewish Studies Contemporary artists. Those included the Isle of Man'. CGJS (CGJS) ^ ^he show, many of whom are now Wed 27 'Beethoven and Suppressed Sun 10 Hannah Arendt - Politics and Cognized as modern masters, were Composers' (composers who suffered or Responsibility. One-day conference, 10 ^Picted as deranged and subhuman. died as a result of Nazi or Soviet am-5 pm at University of London. Wiener oppression). Wu Qian, piano: Schedrin, ^ 1^6 following year saw the staging of a Library with New York University in London Schnittke, Skryabin. St James' Piccadilly. ••'Poste' anti-Nazi art exhibition in eta/. Tel 020 7636 7247 1.00 pm (admission free) |f ndon, and in 1939 the left-wing Free Mon 11 Dr Malcolm Miller, 'From Emigre Tues 3 December Open discussion ^rman League of Culture in Great to Sabra: Three Generations of Israeli chaired by Professor Edward Timms 'âin put on an exhibition supported Composers'. Club 43 followed by a reception. CGJS 'numerous prominent British people Tues 12 Renee Goddard, 'Reni and the /•n as Dame Sybil Thorndike. During Brownshirts'. CGJS ORGANISATION CONTACTS ^ War years a number of highly Wed 13 Prof Robert Skloot (University of Centre for German-Jewish Studies itical exhibitions, including one on Wisconsin-Madison), 'A Multitude of (CGJS), University of Sussex, Brighton. tens g 'n internment camps, was held in Annes - the Image of Anne Frank on Stage'. Seminars 4.30-6.00 pm in Al 55. Contact ^în. How far Expressionist art in this Institute of Jewish Studies, UCL Reception Dr Eric Jacobson tel 01273 877169 . ntry had come from the early days, 6.00, lecture 6.30 pm, Gustave Tuck Club 43 Belsize Square Synagogue. nica Bohm-Duchen said: now it was Theatre, UCL main entrance, Gower Street, Meetings 7.45 pm. Contact Hans Seelig I ^"''Stream - as witnessed by the WCl (admission free). Tel 020 7679 3520 tel 01442 254360 C'^n Freud exhibition at Tate Britain. Mon 18 Mary Shakeshaft MA (Middlesex Wiener Library 4 Devonshire Street, HS University), 'Lewis Carroll's Adventures in London Wl tel 020 7636 7247 AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002

HALS-UND BEINBRUCH Sir - The expression Hals- und The Editor reserves the right Beinbruch is a homophonic I TO THE ) to shorten correspondence adaptation of the Yiddish/Hebrew submitted for publication mazel un broche. It meets a theatrical ^ EDITOM superstition that to wish someone 'good luck' may attract its opposite. S S Prawer Queen's College, Oxford KEFFIYEH-CLAD HEIRS OF BRICKBAT STREICHER Sir - I am deeply troubled by the Sir - Your editorial strikes me as Editor's denigrating and vitriolic AN INEXPLICABLE VOID unadulterated racism, however attitude towards anyone who does not Sir - Mr Grunberger finds the absence thoroughly researched' it may be. fully support his view of the situation of signs of their Jewish refugee origins What was its purpose? All civilised in Israel and the occupied territories. in Lucian Freud's paintings and in Tom people, without exception, abhor Miss A Kramer Stoppard's plays inexplicable. Would the loss of life, the misery and the Cumbria he expect to find such signs in the hopelessness in and around Israel. scientific writings of Bondi or Perutz, Does your piece do anything to FIN-DE-SIECLE TEMPLATE or the performances of the Amadeus help? Do you, who are highly Sir - Jews have hated deviant Jews Quartet? Surprisingly, the answer may articulate, say anything about what since Babylonian times. Not restricting well be a qualified 'yes'. But instead of the Palestinians should or should himself to Vienna of about 1900, your looking at the subject of the pictures, not do, or what the Israelis should editor could have added to his list of plays, writings or performances as or should not do? You do not. pet hates the prophets, Spinoza, Freud such, he may perhaps find what he is Rather, you belittle those who seek and many others. He misses the one looking for in an approach to their solutions rather than apportion quality that has enabled Jews to work which in some indefinable way blame, and are content with survive millennia of persecution and embodies Jewish characteristics venting your justified anger. hate without losing belief in their handed down from generation to I too am angry: at the ability to contribute with all persons of generation and which perhaps does intransigence of both sides; at the good will - whether Jews, deviant something to fill Mr Grunberger's mindset of people who will not Jews, or non-Jews - towards the good 'inexplicable void'. countenance the possibility that the of individual humans and of mankind: Professor Walter Elkan other side has a point; at human generosity of heart and mind. London NW8 beings who would die and see Max L Meyer Sir - Richard Grunberger is obsessed others die rather than cede an inch; London with being Jewish. Why should Lucian and particularly angry at Freud and Tom Stoppard be equally intellectuals who incite hatred and, MESSAGE FROM HOLOCAUST obsessed? One is a great painter, the having seen the evident failure of SURVIVORS other a great playwright. The fact that the tit-for-tat approach, do not Sir - Mr Kaufman MP and others like their works are, seemingly, not understand that, unless there is him, who profess to be Jews, inflict influenced by their Jewish Continental some diplomacy, some meeting of mental torture on our own people on backgrounds is entirely irrelevant- minds, there is no future for Israel. TV, radio and newspapers. Their Richard called his article 'a" Marc Schatzberger motive is to brainwash and make inexplicable void'. Why 'inexplicable'? York people believe in lies in order to Why 'void'? Thankfully, we don't all destroy our love for Israel. These few have a chip on our shoulder about I totally refute the charge of racism. people, who have been privileged with being Jewish. The Egyptian novelist Naguib a good education and pampered lives, Mahfouz is among my favourite are starved of one thing: knowledge of Peter Phillips Loudwater, Herts authors, while the statement 'Not Israel's past and present. May we bring one Muslim leader is doing what the to their attention that they do not have MUNICH NEWSLETTER Chief Rabbi has just done' by the to be Jews - they can convert to Sir - The AJR Journal is among recen^ Muslim journalist Yasmin Alibhai- whatever is best for their political Brown (The Independent, 9.9.02) recipients of two emails from Dr '^ orientation and ambitions. But they bears out the point t have made in Heusler of the Stadtarchiv in Munich should not disguise themselves as many editorials - Ed. The second of these emails, heads" wolves in sheep's clothing with their 'Newsletter des Stadtarchi^'* Sir -1 have searched and searched - anti-Israeli poison. We already have Muenchen 01/2002' and dated ^^ without success. Surely you have most of the world doing just that. August 2002, contains muc"^ told us somewhere that some of Israel was, is and always will be. interesting information for Jewi*'^ your best friends are Muslims. Hedi FrankI and Jess Salmon people now living in the UK who wef^ Ernie Manson (Forced labour camp survivors) mostly Munich-born teenagers in th Edgware, Middx Clare Parker (Camp survivor) 1930s. The initial concept ° AJR JOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002

producing this kind of newsletter was Trafalgar Square rally, it is indeed mine and was strongly supported by heart-warming to find the AIR Journal ARE YOU ON A LOW Dr Heusler in his subsequent as always a solid rock of loyalty and INCOMEANDINNEED discussions with the city's integrity. Your hard-hitting and Kulturreferat. I had previously eruditely researched editorial speaks OF HOMECARE HELP? expressed concern to Dr Heusler that for itself. AJR might be able to offer Munich, compared with other towns Fred Rosner financial assistance. and villages in Germany, appeared to Chigwell, Essex be doing next to nothing to maintain Members who might not otherwise be able to afford any form of contact with the relatively UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS êw remaining survivors of its Jewish homecare please contact: My husband, who came to England refugees and their descendents. I Estelle Brookner, Secretary aged 18 on a £50 guarantee from a hope you will find it opportune to give AJR Social Services Dept relative, could not find a job at all. He the contents of Dr Heusler's present lost three stone in weight during that Tel: 020 7431 6161 and future periodic newsletters much- period. Thanks to his sister, who was needed publicity. four years older and slaved in H Peter Sinclair domestic service, he was helped with Pinner, Middx nourishment, whenever possible. A Companions marvellous single woman took me of London HOLOCAUST CHRONICLE and my sisters into her humble home. Incofporating Sir - The volume reviewed and However, after her unfortunate death Hampstead Home Can fêcommended by Martin Hasseck in seven months later, we three girls the September issue is a most went through the rough and tumble A long established company 'mpressive read. It describes many of so many others. Domestic service providing care in your home events that occurred during my youth for me, aged 16, and my two Assistance with personal care and early adulthood, such as Walter younger sisters meant looking after General household duties fâthenau's murder and the flight of children in unregistered children's Respite care Medical appointment service the assassins. An important event not homes where we were all exploited. "Mentioned in the book, however, is My middle sister, now Professor •OUR CARE IS YOUR CARE' ^he murder of Karl Liebknecht and Emeritus at the University, of "" 020 7483 0212/0213 °osa Luxemburg in Berlin on 15 Minnesota, was forced to work 16 ••anuary 1919. This removed the hours, sleep with the children in their ^Partakist opposition to the Weimar communal room, and beaten into the <%, SPRING 'Republic which Scheidemann had bargain (aged 14). Luckily she was Pi'oclaimed on 9 November 1918. eventually rescued by the Quakers. ^> GROVE Edwin Rosenstiel Laura Seto 214 Finchley Road London SWl 5 London NWl 1 London NW3 London's Most Luxurious RETIREMENT HOME ^HlLD CAMP SURVIVORS THANKYOU "• - With regard to the letter from Sir - On behalf of my husband, my son • Entertainment-Activities • Stress Free Living Clare Parker (September issue), a and myself, 1 wish to record our • 24 Hour Staffing • Excellent Cuisine "documentary was made recently by a appreciation of the AJR's effort to give • Full En-Suite Facilities ^^rman film crew entitled Children of us such a wonderful day when we Call for more information visited the Day Centre for lunch and ^^lldogs Bank. A copy is held at or a personal tour ^halvata in Hendon. Also, the book went on to the Continental Britons 020 8446 2117 '•ove Despite Hate, written by Sarah exhibition. It will live long in our •ôscovitch about 20 years ago, memory. or 020 7794 4455 Ocuments the experiences of child Sarah Goldsmith [email protected] 'Jrvivors. It is no longer in print as far Newcastle recent ^^ is known. It has been pointed out to us that 1 or A Jacky Young Simon R Rhodes M.Ch.S. Elizabeth Spencer (October issue) is STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST lunicl^- London N2 ieade<< mistaken in stating that the Blue Surgeries at; rchi^/5 Danube Club is omitted from the 67 Kilbum High Road, NW6 (opp M&S) CONTRADICTION ed 13 Continental Britons exhibition. In fact, Telephone 020 7624 1576 miicf' "^ • At a time when our Chief Rabbi the Club appears on the map of the 3 Queens Close (off Green Lane) Jewish ^ fit to make highly controversial Finchley Road at the centre of the Edgware, Middx HA87PU Telephone 020 8905 3264 10 wef^ t'-lsrael statements, thereby exhibition, and its director, Peter Herz, iinthe "^tradicting his own pro-Israel is among those listed on the 'roll of Visiting chiropody service available t 0' Stan honour' above the exhibit (Ed.). ^ê so recently voiced at the AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002

was drifting away - involved in a search for myself and my subject?' RG'S INT6RFACG NOTES The Holocaust was a subject he confronted obliquely through his Hollywood. Kevin Brownlow's paintings on biblical themes. "When documentary on the making of Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator Gloria Tessler Hitler was ravaging Europe - could we was premiered in October. It reveals How do you react to a huge canvas of express ourselves by having a beautiful that, as work on the film progressed, sheer colour divided by a vertical slit of girl lying naked on a divan?', he asked. Chaplin was asked to abandon the black paint? The Polish-American- In 1960 he began work on his famous project, lest it further spur Hitler's Jewish artist Bamett Newman threw series The Stations ofthe Cross, which aggressiveness. He countered that away everything he painted up to the opened six years later at the Hitler could not be worse than he age of 40, and I am tempted to say what a Guggenheim Museum in New York. already was. However, Chaplin pity! The progress of an artist is as Three years before, he contributed to subsequently stated that had he important to later generations as the the exhibition Recent American known the extent of Nazi atrocities, work itself, and Newman's reductionism Synagogue Architecture at the he would not have made the film. had a tortured development absent from Jewish Museum in New York. His London, (a) Covent Garden is his exhibition Who's Afraid of Red Cabalistic sculpture Zim Zum evokes staging the premiere of Sophie's Yellow and Blue, at Tate Modem until the moment of creation, which perhaps Choice, an opera by Nicholas Maw January 2003.1 would have liked to have gives a clue to Newman's thinking. based on William Styron's Holocaust seen the creative and intellectual When war broke out, Newman's novel of the same name; (b) One of process that brought the work into such family had long been estabhshed in the four couples in the foreground of fervent being. New York. His father Abraham was a Zadie Smith's bestselling debut novel secular Jew and a leading Zionist. White Teeth is Jewish. Her new novel, Newman was a polymath, as interested The Autograph Man, predominantly features Jews. Smith seems intent on in botany, geology, ornithology and outdoing Iris Murdoch, who also had a music as in art. He wanted to paint but penchant for Jewish characters. was urged, like a good Jewish boy, to support his studies by working in the Berlin. The Theodor Wolff prize for family business. Among those he journalistic excellence was instituted befriended were Mark Rothko, a far 40 years ago. Wolff, editor of the more diverse and interesting painter, Berliner Tagesblatt, the most prestigious newspaper of the Weimar and Jackson Pollock. Republic, fell victim to Nazi The problem wdth Newman is that he persecution in Nice in 1943. verbalises what in his paintings is dramatically simple. They are not an Vienna, (a) The Kammerspiele arrangement of objects, spaces or Theatre is mounting a full-length graphic elements, he insists, but evoke programme of linked sketches the late Karl Farkas originally devised for his belief in an open society. He Barnett Newman his Simplicissimus cabaret; (b) Fritz considers that he has freed art from Muliar, the (non-Jewish) remarkably Newman became an artist at the point artistic convention. What has been proficient Yiddish-speaker - he was where mythology meets surrealism. preserved from the 1940s shows a the foster-child of a Jewish couple The issue facing artists of the 1930-40s sense of order flying through the deported to Auschwitz - has retired was, of course, the war, to which he was colours, but the later work, with the from the stage. His last appearance a conscientious objector, and the ragged, vertical stripe, contains the was in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr contemporary struggle for the meaning question that breaks up the monotony Shane; (c) Robert Schindel, the of painting at a time when formal art was of colour. Newman was laughed at by wartime offspring of (subsequendy challenged by movements like the art critics, who later fawned on him. deported) Jewish slave workers, who Abstraction and Cubism and by German That is not an unusual story. His grew up in a children's home, Expressionism which was banned as admirers speak of losing themselves in achieved literary fame with GebUrtig, degenerate by the Nazis. While his early his huge blocks of colour. He himself a work whose fractured structure reflects his own experiences. The work eludes us, his questions do not. says it all when he admits: 'I am novel, adapted for the screen by 'What is painting?', he asked. 'Is it really beguiled by what colour does for me.' Stefan Troller, the writer-director of circles? Is it really nature? What are we The lack of progress in this exhibition the trilogy The Emigrants, is going to paint? Surrealism? Cubism? I does little for me, I'm afraid. currently being filmed. AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002

Unsatisfactory account of including Michael Seyfert's seminal internment work on culture in internment, Deutsche Exilliteratur in britischer WE BUILT UP OUR LIVES: Internierung (1984). Schwartz Seller's EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY REVIEWS book would have been better informed AMONG JEWISH REFUGEES on the subject of newspapers in the INTERNED BY BRITAIN IN WORLD women's camp, for instance, and on WARM accuracy and completeness. The other things besides, had Seyfert's Maxine Schwartz Seller problems begin with the inexact findings been taken into account. êstport, CT/London: Greenwood subtitle and with the failure to All in all, then, despite the promising ''ress, £53.95 distinguish clearly both from within topic and the undoubted interest of Schwartz Seller's own sample of much of Schwartz Seller's material, this The story that Maxine Schwartz Seller interviewees and in general, between book remains a not entirely satisfactory has to tell is certainly worth the telling. the Jewish and non-Jewish internees account of the internment experience. Professor Schwartz Seller first sets out (while acknowledging in a footnote the It is a pity that her opportunity to ^he context - the arrival of German- existence of a substantial minority of produce an English-language work of speaking refugees in Britain in the the latter). There are also numerous similar standing to Seyfert's German- ^930s, the outbreak of war, the irritating errors in the rendering of language account has not been more tribunals and, as Britain began to fear names and places: Agnes Walstein wholeheartedly grasped. "Imminent invasion, the mounting rather than Waldstein, Mary rather Charmian Brinson Public pressure for the mass than Marie Neurath, Friedenberg "iternment of 'enemy aliens' - before rather than (Richard) Friedenthal, a "loving on to the book's chief concern, reference to a later career spent at the organisation of everyday life in the 'Moreley College and Kingston Evocation of an English '•iternment camps. Here the net is Polytechnical'. These are, of course, childhood drawn widely to include both men's relatively minor points, though the WAR GAMES ^f^d women's internment camps in conflation of Anna Freud with her Jenny Koraiek °ritain, particularly though not great-niece Emma (!) and the exclusively on the Isle of Man, and the rendering of Dora Diamant, friend of Egmont Books Limited, £4.99 ^^mps in Canada and Australia to Kafka and a significant cultural figure in Winter, 1938-39. A Jewish family in ^hich thousands of unfortunate Rushen, as Dora Dumont are examples Prague, expecting an invasion by Hitler, '"fernees were transported in 1940. of the more serious lapses to which this are desperately, vainly, trying to book is prone. While drawing on the individual emigrate. And then - a sudden miracle. Accounts and experiences of former There is a problem, too, in the An Englishman, the dazzling Miles "iternees, the author aims above all to manner in which Schwartz Seiler Nash, is prepared to take their young examine community life in internment, assembles and presents her basic - and son, Hugo, on one of his children's ^^ nianifested in, for instance, forms of extremely interesting - range of oral transports to England. Moreover, by a êlf-government, religious life and the history interviews: 'my respondents', an happy arrangement, his own parents, ^Îtural activities that flourished in the expression employed repeatedly, refers who run the family prep school, are '•^rnps. Two chapters are devoted to not only to those former internees willing to act as his sponsors. ^"ûcation in internment. The first whom she herself has recently This is a children's story of wartime considers the men's camps with their interviewed, but also to interviews England seen through the eyes of a ^'rtraordinary wealth of educational carried out by others, years ago, on small English girl, herself an exile from Opportunities, including the popular behalf of the Imperial War Museum. South Africa. Holly, shy, sensitive, Universities. The second describes And if this, while irksome, may be said ardent, bestows her loyalty and Ûcational provision in the Rushen not fundamentally to affect the overall friendship on Hugo, her new T'omen's Camp, both for the women picture of internee life presented, the playfellow and 'forever friend'. Hugo's . emselves and for the children (the book's omissions are certainly of relationship with the adults is "^ômitable Minna Specht played a considerable significance. These are somewhat more complex. Splendidly J'^cial role here, of course). A final the failure to consider the first-hand irrational. Holly's mother has some ^âpter examines both the end of internment accounts - surely standard trouble with the fact that the little . ternment and life for former fare for scholars of internment - of Livia refugee boy is actually Jewish. (For his '^ternees in post-war Britain, while Laurent, Alfred Lomnitz, Fred Uhlman end part, Hugo is equally ill at ease in the - eavourin--w.,.r>g^ alsaiJ«oJ tIVo( pu(JUtl thlliee and the like; the failure to include, hymn-singing C of E chapel service.) ernment experience into some kind either under the heading of community But then there's his sponsor's anxious historical perspective. or of education, the activities of the wish that the boy should be accepted ^ î\'en the inherent interest of the political exiles in the camp and the by the other boys in the school. And, ^ "iect matter of this study it is youth work they promoted; and the when Hugo falls ill with pneumonia, ^"•ettable that the author did not take failure to consider any of the German- the vicar asks the congregation to ^ter care to ensure the book's language sources on the subject. spare some of their precious coal AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002 ration to keep his room warm. As for me, it is not only a story of war proletarian present in the lecture hall? All in all, this is a happy time for Holly and refugees, but an intense evocation After three terms of assiduous and Hugo - almost a childhood idyll. of an English childhood. attendance and persistent late- And yet war obtrudes (evacuation, Gerda Mayer coming, he must surely have noticed black-outs, sirens, gasmasks) and then my work-worn appearance! casts its inevitable darker shadows. Eventually I concluded that Socialism Holly's father returns from Dunkirk, - which reputedly means love for one's exhausted and distressed. The Hole-in-the-heart historian fellow-men - was for Hobsbawm an glamorous Miles dies at sea. At the end affair of the head, and not the heart. INTERESTING TIMES of the war, Holly and Hugo (by now ten- This impression is fully corroborated in Eric Hobsbawm year-olds or so) accidentally, his autobiography/nterest/ng Times. In horrifyingly, see a newsreel of Belsen. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press, £20 it he doesn't shy away from Jesuitical Perhaps one should never confuse Back in 1948 I was a baisting hand and logic-chopping to justify his culpable authors with their story. Yet it needs to found there weren't enough hours in silence in the face of Soviet atrocities. be mentioned that Jenny Koraiek, the day. From 8 am till 6 pm, with half He doesn't scruple to compare the married to the architect Paul Koraiek, is an hour off for lunch, I toiled in a millions of famine victims resulting the niece of 'the dashing Trevor workshop south of Oxford Street, from Stalin's collectivisation Chadwick - see April 2002 issue oiAJR spending most evenings at Birkbeck programme with the 50 million dead of Journal - who, together with Nicholas College where lectures were arranged the Second World War, and writes Winton, rescued the children from in three-hour blocks. The problem was sententiously: 'Was the sacrifice Prague. The Chadwick clan alone that 6 pm, when I was supposed to lay worthwhile? I frankly cannot face the sponsored three of the children (myself down my tailor's scissors in Soho, was idea that it was not. I cannot say it included). the precise moment when the first of would have been better if the world So, although a work of fiction, the the evening's Birkbeck lecturers was run by Adolf Hitler.' book contains much autobiography. mounted the podium in Bloomsbury. What blatantly disingenuous conflation of two totally disparate In those days, being newly married, I phenomenal It insults readers' was still of gaunt appearance, with intelligence to liken the totally arbitrary figure to match, and could sprint like a Annely Juda Fine Art deaths of Stalin's famine victims to the latter-day Pheidippides-which was just 23 Dering Street carnage forced upon the world by its as well because I had to complete a refusal to surrender to Hitler and (off New Bond Street) thrice-weekly marathon between Soho Hirohitol Something else that sticks in Tel: 020 7629 7578 and Bloomsbury. I would fly out of the the craw - though to a lesser degree - is Fax: 020 7491 2139 workshop at five minutes to six - any Hobsbawm's self-definition as a 'non- earlier departure would have cost me CONTEMPORARY PAINTING refugee'. (His Berlin-based Jewish the job - and steam, sweating and family regrouped in London in March ANO SCULPTURE breathless, into the lecture hall at ten 1933, barely two months after Hitler's minutes past six. At this point, Eric accession to power.) Hobsbawm would briefly turn his bespectacled gaze from the lectern to Non-refugee or not, he had close GERMAN and the door before continuing his contacts with the coterie of Hampsteao peroration without a pause. At first I emigres, especially Erich Fried ano EIVGLISH BOOKS was grateful to him for ignoring my Jacov Lind. I have it on the latter's BOUGHT persistently late arrival, but eventually authority that Hobsbawm was at on^ with Fried in his vehement oppositio^^ Antiquarian, secondhand and my take on the situation changed. to Zionism. It is therefore hardly modern books of quality After a day in the sweatshop and surprising that he has been faulted io' always wanted. lacking time for a clean-up, I usually paying insufficient attention to th^ arrived at Birkbeck with the insignia of We're long-standing advertisers impact of nationalism on world affairs- my craft - bits of sewing thread, traces here and leading buyers of of chalk, etc - still visible on my clothes. What I do find surprising is his choice books from AJR members. From conversation with my fellow of title for this book. After all, if th« We pay good prices and alumni I discovered that they followed twentieth century was the mo^ come to collect. middle-class professions - civil service, 'interesting' - i.e. disturbed and bloody teaching, local government - to a man, in human history, the blame res*' For an immediate response, and that 1 was the only worker among largely with the Kaiser, Hitler, Stalin a(^'^ please contact: the student body. Why, I asked myself, Mao. And the two last-mentioned " Robert Hornung NIA(Oxon) those four monsters were, I''' 2 Mount View, Ealing, did the Marxist Hobsbawm, who saw Hobsbawm himself, undeviatinS London W5 IPR all history as a prelude to the Email: [email protected] 'dictatorship of the proletariat', not Marxists. Tel: 020 8998 0546 (Spm to 9pm is best) evince any personal interest in the only Richard Grunberg^

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Readers may remember the list of my the climax of which Lord Montague of most prominent profilees (see PROFILE Beaulieu drove his vintage car onto September issue, p. 2), whom I sought the stage. In Liverpool he organised Richard Grunberger out in such elevated locations as the annual 'Nuts in May' concerts, Pâce of Westminster and Cambridge Renaissance man featuring a Liszt Twist and other colleges. Even so, I was not prepared on the Mersey parody items. This approach helped for the Georgian splendour of the draw new young audiences into house Fritz Spiegl inhabits in concert halls. But though Fritz is a Liverpool. Fortunately, being popularizer of music, he has a strong, aesthetically untrained, I am absolved not to say visceral, aversion to Pop. He from the chore of describing his called the Beatles phenomenon 'the iTimiature palazzo - since it serves as greatest confidence trick since the the setting of Granada TV's ongoing Virgin Birth' - a judgment bound to Forsyte Saga series. All I can do is to rouse the ire of all Liverpudlians (half state prosaically that it houses a of whom are Catholics, and the rest Veritable Aladdin's cave of bibelots, old 'Fab Four' addicts). On the other hand, 'Wusical instruments, pictures, Fritz mollified at least some of his antiques and books. Scouse neighbours by tracking down ^ propos of books, as I mounted the the apparently lost score of the only stairs to the first floor, I faced rows of Fritz Spiegl opera set in their native city: bookshelves that took up the width of newcomer shared a snug berth with a Donizetti's Emilia di Liverpool. the landing. The spines of the volumes fellow refugee by the name of Walter He then went on to have this •^ the middle section, I discovered, all Neurath (subsequently founder of the musical rarity broadcast by the BBC ^re jokey titles: Richard Wagner's Kol art publishing house Thames and Home Service with Joan Sutherland in îdrei, 1985 by George Orwell, The Hudson). What makes this episode in the lead. ^hood of Amold Schoenberg (NB: Fritz's early life read like a page torn Fritz's association with the BBC has "^hoenberg had turned Catholic, and from Who's Who is the fact that the also yielded such worthwhile series as t'ên Protestant, before reverting to Margessons employed Marjory 'Music for Pleasure'; later he was a Judaism in 1933). It took me some time Strachey (sister of Lytton, the regular on 'Start the Week'. In the to realise that I was looking at the Bloomsbury literary lion) as their boys' interim he had turned to authorship, Ûmmy spines of non-existent books. home tutor, and the father of the actor producing a string of books linked to *ne whole trompe Toeil concealed a Peter Bowles as their chauffeur. this profession, including Music ^^cret door (a feature found in many Fritz was sent to a minor public through the Looking Glass, Musical <ôuntry houses). school, where he learned little beyond Blunders, and The Lives, Wives and close Fritz Spiegl has not always lived like 'rugger, plane-spotting and a bit of Loves ofthe Great Composers. Impelled npstead "Us. He was bom in a fly-blown village Latin'. Eventually he went to London to by his impish humour, he then cast his ed and ^ Burgenland, close to the Austro- work in the design department of an net wider with such titles as A Bedside latter's Ûngarian border. From the age of ten advertising agency. From art he Book for English Lovers, Lem Yourself at one Scouse, A Game of Two Halves, Brian positiofi ^ attended a Catholic Konvikt, where switched to music, taught himself the hardly ^^ teachers were either priests, or flute, enrolled at the Royal Academy of (about football). Grave Humour (about Ited io' ^îs - or both'. His father distilled Music and, within a short time, became tombstone inscriptions), and Keep to the ^ Water, and several uncles followed Principal Flautist with the Liverpool Taking the Tabloids (an attack on affairs- jnularly humdnun trades. However, Philharmonic. newspaper jargon and cliches). He also s choice '^tz had a Viennese cousin whose Fritz stayed in that post for 15 years, homed in on the last-mentioned target ifthe uiployment by Reuter's agency gave during which time he increasingly in his 'Usage and Abusage' column in mos' 'Un foreign contacts (as well as the branched out into extra-mural, though the Daily Telegraph. bloody ejos Chronicle proprietor, Lord still music-related, activities. He Right now Fritz is at work on a ne rest5 ^^yton, as a father-in-law). formed a wind ensemble, gave talks on alinai^ related book to be entitled oned " 'nanks to this cousin, who was as the BBC's Third Programme, and co- Contradictionary. Given that he is an icitous as he was well-connected, composed the signature tune of Z Cars, ever-vigilant guardian of the purity •e, li"^ l2 viatinS ~year-old Fritz got taken into the which sold 150,000 records. In and stylishness of English, I am happy ^rthamptonshire home of Captain addition, he turned the Royal Albert to report that. AJR Joumal has passed /^gesson MP a minister in the Hall into the venue for performing a the Spiegl test. And, what is more, he ^^berlain govemment. Here the Concerto for Motor-car and Orchestra, at has recently taken out a subscription. 11 AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002

Next meeting: Thursday 7 November at Next meeting: Thursday 28 November INSIDE 2 pm: Laszio Eckstein, 'Antiques for at 10.30 am: Alf Keiles, The Jewish Fun'. Also please bring your own Influence on Jazz and Pop Music (with theAJR unusual items Musical Illustrations)' Essex: Report on the Jewish district Brighton & Hove Sarid: the of Kazimierz Brighton Jewish Film Festival South London: '150 Years of Our guest speaker Alex Rosenzweig told We were given a most interesting talk by Moss Bros' us of his recent visit to the district of Judith Ironside, Director of the Brighton Kazimierz, once the heartbeat of Jewish Monty Moss gave a most interesting talk Jewish Film Festival, the only one of its on the history of Moss Brothers. The firm life in Cracow. Today the houses, kind in the UK - though it is 'exported' in synagogues andyeshivot still stand but are was founded in 1860 by his great reduced format to London. Every year grandfather Moses Moses, who sold men's empty. About 100 elderly Jews form a Judith attends the Berlin International community; their rabbi is Moishe Isserlis. clothes out of a barrow, offering good Film Festival, where she selects the films material, good styles and good value. Over Many Poles have retained their hostility that will eventually be shown in Brighton. to the Jews. What is left of this once- the years other members of the family The festival's audiences are 55 per cent joined the business and shops were opened flourishing Jewish district has become an non-Jewish and there is growing interest attraction for foreign tourists. in London and the provinces. Customers among the younger generation. unable to pay outright were given credit - a Julie Franks look at their shoes decided the amount of Fausta Shelton credit allowed! By 1982 there were 35 Next meeting: Tuesday 12 November. Next meeting: Monday 18 November shops in England. The firm is still going Otto and Emil will bring videos to at 10.45 am. Group members will strong. inform and entertain us discuss their contribution to this Anne Poloway country Nottingham (East Midlands) Next meeting: Wednesday 13 Next meeting: Thursday 14 November. Harrogate's sociable afternoon November. Contact Bob Norton for Guest speaker: a representative of the For the third time this year, Susaime details Israel Embassy Green, AJR's Northern Group Co ordinator, gathered together members The report 'Brighton & Hove Saridfree-for-au West Midlands: 'Once Upon a Time' from Harrogate, York, Leeds and other which appeared in our October issue was n^ Three members - Hertha Linden, Paul surrounding areas to spend a sociable written by F Goldberg as stated. Our apologia j Oppenheimer and Heinz Shire - each gave afternoon. Given the presence of three to himforthis error-Ed a 15-minute talk on their experiences on gentlemen who joined us for the first first arriving in this country. The 30 time, Susanne asked us to regale each other with mini-biographies so that members present looked as though they AJR GROUP CONTACTS nobody should feel left out. By this means really enjoyed the stories presented to North London we are all getting to know one another a them. A delicious array of home-made Jenny Zundel 020 8882 4033 little better. Susanne also reported on cakes added to a most cordial get-together South London recent AJR meetings and 'advertised' and it was felt that everyone was looking Ken Ambrose 020 8852 0262 forward to our next meeting. those that will take place in the near future. Pinner (HA Postal District) Werner Abrahams Vera Gellman 020 8866 4833 Inge Little Surrey Edmee Barta 01372 727 412 Next meeting: Sunday 12 January 2003 Next meeting: Monday 3 February Brighton & Hove (Sussex Region) at the Progressive Synagogue. Rabbi Fausta Shelton 01273 734 648 Tann: The Lighter Side of Judaism' North London: the Leitz family of Wessex (Bournemouth) Wetzlar Mark Goldfinger 01202 552 434 Pinner basks in nostalgia In yet another successful gathering we East Midlands (Nottingham) In a nostalgic return to the 'swinging 30s were addressed by Rabbi Frank Dabba- Bob Norton 01159 212 494 and 40s' on superbly recorded discs. Bill Smith on the Leitz family, whose guiding West Midlands (Birmingham) Phillip paraded a wealth of music beginning words during the Nazi period were Henny Rednall 0121 373 5603 with, among others, Al Jolson singing allegedly 'altruism and pragmatism'. The North (Manchester) 'Rockaby Baby' and the (pre-Hitler Berlin) family owned the factory in Wetzlar which Werner Lachs 0161 773 4091 Comedian Harmonists rendeTingDieganze manufactured the famous Leica camera Leeds HSFA Welt ist wunderschon. He included gems and other optical equipment. Their value Trude Silman 0113 225 1628 such as a Perry Como recording of the to the Nazis was incalculable. Like a Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool Rogers and Hart number 'With a Song in number of so-called Mittelstand, the Newcastle my Heart' - before a break for apples and family harboured a profound aversion to Susanne Green 0151 291 5734 honey to usher in the New Year. Nazi behaviour. Essex (Westcliff) Larry Lisner 01702 300812 Walter Weg Herbert Haberberg

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A happy retirement for Agi Alexander Would you like to join us KT-AJR for a visit to MONTHLY MEETINGS AT OPEN HOUSE CLEVE ROAD THE GLORIA HUNNIFORD Monday 4 November 2002 SHOW 11.45 am for 12.15 pm on Tuesday 19 November Leon Pilpel will speak on 2002 'The Dreyfus Affair' If interested, please contact Lunch £5

Agi with husband Simon and son Michael Sylvia or Susie Reservations required: at the Day Centre on Please telephone ^t a farewell party in honour of Agi Tel: 020 7328 0208 020 7328 0208 Alexander, Marcia Goodman, Head of the AJR's Social Sen/ices Department, expressed gratitude to her predecessor for the excellent work she had done THE LUNCHEON CLUB 'DROP IN' ADVICE SERVICE 'Or the AJR and wished her well for NEW ARRANGEMENTS the future. Maurice Grosse As from 5 November 2002 Agi was born in the Hungarian city of will speak on there will no longer be a t^^brecen. Following the Nazi The Reality of the Paranormal' weekly drop in clinic •Occupation of the country, her father Wednesday 20 November 2002 at the Paul Balint AJR ^3s murdered by Hungarian Nazis but 11.45 am for 12.15 pm "^r Slovak-born mother was taken to Day Centre. "âvensbruck. After the war she and her The Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Members requiring 'Mother were repatriated to Eastern 15CleveRoadNW6 3RL benefit advice please telephone Linda Kasmir êchoslovakia. Early reservations please! on 020 7431 6161 In 1949 mother and daughter arrived Lunch now only £5 "1 Israel where Agi met a South African to make an appointment at AJR, tourist who was eventually to become Please telephone Sylvia or Susie 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, on 020 7328 0208 ^^r husband. Having moved to South NWS 6AL Africa, Agi finished school and attended a secretarial college. The Couple concerned with political Paul Balint AJR Day Centre 15 Cleve Road, West Hampstead, NW6 ^^^nts in the country, subsequently left Tel: 020 7328 0208 ÔrtheUK. Louring her first years in London, Agi Monday - Thursday 9.30 am - 3.30 pm, Sunday 2 pm - 5.30 pm *âs busy raising a family, but in the ârly 1970s she became a voluntary NOVEMBER Afternoon Entertainment: Ôf^ker at Harlesden's Advice Centre. Sun 3 DAY CENTRE OPEN - No Entertainment /'e also studied for a diploma at Ealing Mon 4 KT Lunch & Kards Games Klub Tue 5 Opdahl Trio ^hnical College. In 1989 she was Wed 6 Katinka Seiner & Laszio Easton ^PPointed head of the AJR's Social Thur 7 Daphne Lews and Jack Davidoff ^rvices Department, relinquishing the Sun 10 DAY CENTRE OPEN - No Entertainment ôst in 1997 to specialise in Welfare Mon 11 Kards & Games Klub ^^fief its Advice. Tlie 12 Michael Heaton entertains '-'r^da Kasmir, previously a volunteer Wed 13 Rosemary Wiseman entertains "" the Citizens Advice Bureaux, has Thur 14 Hounslow Community Opera ^•ên over as the AJR's Welfare Sun 17 DAY CENTRE OPEN - No Entertainment ^^fief its Adviser. Mon 18 Kards & Games Klub HS Uie 19 Jenny Kossew - Accordionist Wed 20 LUNCHEON CLUB Thur 21 Francoise and Friends ânda Shaw, AJR's Volunteers Sun 24 DAY CENTRE OPEN - AJR/FJR ô-ordinator for the past five years, Mon 25 Kards & Games Klub ^** left to take up a career in Tue âching. Carol Hart, who has wide 26 Nicola Smedley - La Diva ^*Perience as a Jewish community WM 27 Yakov Paul entertains Volunteer, has taken over the post. Thur 28 Margaret Gibbs - Opera Pops

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Birth Robinson. To Caroline and Jonathan, 28 NEW VENUE FOR SECOND AJR August, Amelia Abigail - Kurt and Renate THE FJR CLUB Treitel's second granddaughter. THE PAUL BALINT NORTHERN REGION AJR DAY CENTRE Deaths GET-TOGETHER Trent. Eva. An obituary will appear in the 15 CLEVE ROAD December issue. LONDON NW6 3RL Tuesday 5 November 2002 Classified Open to all AJR members Manchester HUTSCHENREUTHER CHINA Meetings: WANTED. We are anxious to buy cups Once a month on Sundays Details & booking: and saucers to complete our set. Our old Esteile Brookner First Meeting 24 November: 020 7431 6161 design is white china with black and gold Pre-Chanukah Party border. Please call private family on 020 Ronnie Goldberg Susanne Green 84583010. with his Guitar 0151 291 5734 Miscellaneous Services Manicure & Pedicure in the comfort of your own home. Telephone 020 8343 0976. ACACIA LODGE Mrs Pringsheim, S.R.N. MATRON Caring Carers Day Centre For Elderly, Retired and Convalescent Shirley Lever at the Paul Balint AJR (Licensed by Borougti of Bamet) The experts in live-in Home Care. Day Centre. New clothes for sale, • Single and Double Rooms. • Ensuite facilities, CH in all rooms. We can provide long or short term dresses, underwear, cardigans, etc. • Gardens, TV and reading rooms. Tuesday 5 November 9.45-11.45 am. • Nurse on duty 24 hours. assignments from our professional • Long and short term and respite, and reliable care team. Chiropodist. Trevor Goldman at the including trial period if required. Paul Balint AJR Day Centre From £350 per week Please call our Care Manager Wednesday 6 November 10-11.30 am. 020 8445 1244/020 8446 2820 office hours 020 8455 1335 other times for a no obligation chat on: Shoe Sale - Bob of Home Comfort will 37-39 Torrington Park, North Finchley, 020 7372 9041 London N12 9TB be at the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Fax: 020 7372 9038 Thursday 7 and Wednesday 27 November 9.45-11.45 am. Leo Baeck Housing Association Ltd Pamela Bloch at the Paul Balint Clara Nehab House AJR Day Centre. Clothes sale, separates Residential Care Home BELSIZE SQUARE etc. Wednesday 21 November All single rooms with en suite bath/shower Short stays/Respite and 24 hour Permanent Care 9.30-11.45 am. Large attractive gardens SYNAGOGUE Ground Floor Lounge and Dining rooms 51 Beisize Square, >fW3 4HX Lift access to all floors We offer a traditional style of religious Attractive Sheltered Flats to Let Easy access to local shops and public transport service with Cantor Clioir and organ Single occupancy Enquiries and further information Further details can be obtained from One or two rooms, Lift, Entrance Hall, please contact: The Manager Kitchenette, Bathroom, Resident Warden Clara Nehab House the synagogue secretary 13-19 Leeside Crescent Telephone 020 7794 3949 Leo Baeck Housing Association Ltd London NW11 ODA Minister: Rabbi Rodney J Mariner 11 Fitzjohn's Avenue, NW3 Phone: 020 8455 2286 Cantor: Rev Lawrence H Fine Enquiries: A Flynn tel 8958 5678 or F Winkler tel 8958 5565 Regular Services SWITCH ON ELECTRICS Friday evenings at 6.45 pm Saturday mornings at 10 am Rewires and all household Religion School: Sundays at 10 am to 1 pf electrical work WHY NOT JOIN US? Nursery School: 9.15 am to 12.15 pm PHONE PAUL: 020 8200 3518 Belsize under 3's: 9.30 am to 11.30 am The Leo Baeck Lodges of B'nai B'rith Space donated by Pafra Limited stand for 'Benevolence, Brotherly and Sisterly Love and Harmony' within the ALTERATIONS Anglo-Jewish Community OF ANY KIND TO LADIES' FASHIONS We meet every Wednesday at 8 pm at I also design and make children's clothes BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE 11 Fitzjohns Avenue, NWS West Hampstead area 51 Belsize Square, London NW3 (near Swiss Cottage) 020 7328 6571 in addition we have regular visits and Our communal hali is available for outings to the theatre, concerts, cultural and social functions museums and places of Interest, parties, BELSIZE SQUARE APARTMENTS Tel: 020 7794 3949 local informal groups, bridge, etc. 24 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 We look forward to seeing you soon. Tel: 020 7794 4307 or 020 7435 2557 The AJR does not accept You will be most welcome. Modem Self^atering Holiday Rooms, Resident Housekeeper, Moderate Terms responsibility for the standard of Enquiries: 020 8958 2859 Near Swiss Cottage Station services offered by advertisers

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Obituary Nicolai Rubinstein Central Office For Holocaust Claims Professor Nicolai Rubinstein, who has 1945, a lecturer at London University's Michael Newman died at the age of 91, was one of the Westfield College (now merged with twentieth century's most outstanding Queen Mary College). Here, his special Frankfurt forced labour compensation scholars of renaissance Italy. He was contribution was to inspire and run the Victims of Nazi persecution used as born in Berlin into a cosmopolitan joint course in history and the history of forced labourers in the city of Frankfurt Jewish family.Hi s upbringing in Weimar art which he established with are entitled to claim an extra Germany, a partly French-speaking Christopher Brooke in collaboration compensation award under the terms of a reparation programme introduced by education, a lengthy stay in Switzerland, with the history of art department at the city's government. Eligible applicants 3 period of research in Italy and an University College London, where it will receive a one-time payment of DM academic career in England - all still flourishes. 2,000 (approximately £650). combined to provide him with a In his later life, he and his wife Ruth, profoundly international outlook. The compensation is in addition to any herself a distinguished art historian of monies received, or due to be received, As a student in Berlin, Nicolai the Italian renaissance, commuted from the German Foundation Slave and Rubinstein attended the seminar of between London and Florence, where Forced Labour Programme. Erich Caspar, the celebrated historian of he was made an honorary citizen. In Together with confirmation of their the papacy, and he was introduced to London, he divided his time between name, address and date of birth, renaissance Florence by Hans Baron. Westfield and the Warburg Institute. In applicants are advised to write direct to Following the rise of Hitler, he moved to the Warburg after 1978 Nicolai the Frankfurt city department handling the UK. After freelance teaching in Rubinstein collected the materials for these claims with copies of any ôrd, he became a lecturer at what is his great collaborative edition of the supporting documents. low Southampton University and, from letters of Lorenzo de Medici. Applications and further enquiries should HS be addressed to Mr Andrej Bodek, Stadt Frankfurt-am-Main, Dezernat Kultur und Freizeit, BriJckenstrasse 3-7, D-60594 Search Notices Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Mr Bodek can also be contacted by telephone on ârl Brod, born Vienna 10.3.1879 and Gotthold Gumprecht, violinist and 0049 69 212 369 41 or by email at ârie Brod nee Tritsch, born Vienna director of Ziskoven Conservatory of [email protected]. 25.11.1885. Their last Vienna address Music in Bonn. Born Hamburg, arrived Insurance tax exemption âs Wien 9, Glasergasse 4a. My uncle England 28.04.39, died aged 58 in War The Capital Taxes Technical Group of the ^fid aunt, they fled Austria for England Memorial Hospital at Edenbridge, Inland Revenue has confirmed that Seven Oaks, Kent 11.01.40. Last known ^0 or 31 May 1939. Information, Lea compensation awards made in respect of residence: Garston Place, Godstone RD. ^kouneff, 6452 IVIcLynn Ave., unpaid Holocaust-era insurance policies I seek information on his time in '^ôntreal, Quebec H3X 2R4 Canada, will not attract Capital Gains Tax. ^[email protected]. England, and/or when and where he was incarcerated in Germany before his Insurance deadline extension ^dith Maybaum from Hannover, emigration. Married Anna Ziskoven, A further extension to the filing period for applications to the International ^''Dbably emigrated to England in pianist. His Aryan wife stayed in Bonn Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance ^35. Worked in Hannoveranische and committed suicide after hearing of Claims has been announced. Claims can '^'ôpffabrik Gompertz & Meinrath. The her husband's death. Information, now be submitted up to 30 March 2003. Karen Gumprecht Komar, his °\^ners also left for London in 1935 and The extra time will allow potential 'funded a button factory there. Is grandniece, at [email protected]. claimants to review the list of identified '•^dwig Meinrath still alive and does the Prof Harry Obermayer. For biography unpaid insurance policies, which now ^ctory still exist? Information, Monica runs to some 49,000 names and by Prof Julian Levinson. Whoever knew continues to be updated. A list of 'îb at [email protected]. him in 1930-32 or studied with him in outstanding claims is available on line at Praeparandenschule Hochberg near Apartment of English at Vienna w/ww. icheic.org. Wurzburg, please contact Gila Maor, •diversity is seeking former students, Israel tel 972-3-5242206, Further help you were a student there or know of a [email protected]. Written enquiries should be sent to ^der[t there during or before the Nazi Central Office for Holocaust Claims (UK), Period, please contact Mag Barbara Phillip/Philip Veit Came to UK 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, London ^ôn, Institut fuer Anglistik und on Kinderstransport from Munich. NW3 6AL. For assistance with the ^"êrikanistik, Uni-Campus AAKH, Hof His parents were Herman Veit completion of application forms, please • Spitalgasse 2-4, 1909 Vienna, and Cilia Zinn. Information, telephone 020 7431 6161 for an •"Dara.olssonCSunivie.ac.at. [email protected]. appointment.

15 AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002 ^i Women and the Nobel Prize Newsround Michael Spiro German media firm lied about its Nazi past The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in revealed that DNA had the form of a The German media giant Bertelsmann 1901. A century later, only 11 women helix and this contributed much to has admitted that it lied about its Nazi scientists have received this distinction. establishing its structure. Sadly, she died past and that it made huge profits Of course, we remember Marie in 1958 at the age of 38, and the resulting through the use of Jewish slave labour Sklodowska Curie, who won the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine A commission set up by the firm found Nobel Prize in Physics (jointly with her in 1962 was shared by Francis Crick, that, in the Nazi period, Bertelsmann husband Pierre and Heiun Becquerel), James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. transformed itself from a religious and for her pioneering work on radioactivity, It is not only Jewish women scientists school book publisher into a supplier oi as well as the 1911 Nobel Prize in who failed to obtain deserved Nobel millions of anti-Semitic texts. chemistry for her discovery of radium honours. A well-known example is Nazi loot claim 'compelling' and polonium. But not all women Jocelyn Bell, who, as a research student The British Museum says there is scientists who deserved Nobel in Cambridge, discovered unusual and 'compelling' evidence that four recognition received it. regular radio signals from space which drawings in its collection were looted by One such was Lise Meitner, a nuclear were subsequently shown to be the Nazis between 1935 and 1945 from physicist who, because of her Jewish produced by rapidly rotating neutron a collection owned by Dr Arthur descent, had to flee from Berlin to stars named pulsars. This discovery Feldmann of Brno in the Czech Republic- Sweden in 1938. There she and her helped her supervisor, Antony Hewish, Dr Carol Homden, from the British refugee nephew Otto Frisch explained to win the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics Museum, stressed that there was still that the totally unexpected jointly with the radio astronomer Sir some way to go before the matter was experimental results obtained by her Martin Ryle. Jocelyn became Bell fully resolved. former co-worker Otto Hahn in Berlin Burnell on marriage and has had a Vatican urged to open archives on on bombarding uranium with slow distinguished career in astronomy. Nazi era neutrons were due to the splitting of the A Jewish woman scientist who did Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the Bishop O' uranium nucleus. But it was Otto Hahn succeed in winning a Nobel Prize was Mainz, has called on the Vatican to open alone who won the Nobel Prize in the Italian cell biologist Rita Levi- all its Nazi-era archives to help defuse Chemistry 1944, although Meitner later Montalcini. She was forced to hide in criticism that the Roman Catholic received other honours. various places during the war and in Church, in particular Pope Pius XII, failed Another woman denied proper 1947 emigrated to the USA, returning to to speak out against the Holocaust. recognition was Rosalind Franklin, Italy only in the 1970s. Her discovery of 90th anniversary of birth of Raou' described as the 'Dark Lady of DNA' by nerve growth factors advanced our Wallenberg commemorated Brenda Maddox in a book recently understanding of the development of serialised on Radio 4. She was the embryo tissue and gained her the 1986 To mark the 90th anniversary of th^ birth of Raoul Wallenberg, th^ attractive daughter of a successful Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, International Raoul Wallenberg Anglo-Jewish family. Her fine X-ray jointly with the American biochemist Foundation has held a series of specif' photographs at King's College London Stanley Cohen. events in several capital cities. In on^ such event, a commemorative med^' was presented to UN Secretary Gener^ The psychopathology of politics continued from page 1 Kofi Annan. delegates that he doubted the legitimacy unemployment levels - latched on to Holocaust denier ordered to remov* foreign affairs in the shape of Iraq. But of US-desired regime change in Iraq. If material from web the civilised world has learned anything Frau Daubler has now gone - so let's not In a landmark case in the Australia'' from the Second World War it is surely be beastly to the Germans. Let us hope Federal Court, Dr Frederick Toben ^^ that the Free Democrats will likewise that regimes which threaten peace must been ordered to remove all materia consign their deputy leader, Jurgen be removed. denying the Holocaust from h' Mollermann, whose Jew-baiting antics And it can be done - as the recent Adelaide Institute website. According *" divided the party and cost them votes, to examples of Serbia and Afghanistan a report in the7ew/sh Chronicle, in 199' the political wilderness. prove. What's more, would even George Dr Toben was found guilty in Germa'^J Lastly, what of our own counterpart to Galloway or Harold Pinter claim that of incitement, disparagement a" the FDP? It was strange to hear Charles Presidents Kostunica and Karzai are insulting the memory of the dead, ^ Kennedy tell Lib-Dem Conference US stooges? which he served a seven-month term " imprisonment. i

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