Volume XXXIV No. 2 February 1979 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOOAim OF JEWISH RER/COS A¥ UEAT BRITAU

H,"fgot Pottlitser ism became the signposts of two cultures which co-existed in Imperial Germany, but were tom asunder in the Weimar years. Hitler and his associates found a ready weapon to be THE TRAGIC PAST OF GERMAN JEWRY transformed into a battle-cry for intimidation and annihilation. Twenty-three years ago, the late Dr. Sieg- the Leo Baeck Institute with the contemporary '^ed Moses, first president of the Leo Baeck academic world have steadily increased, both "Jews and Judaism in the Gartenlaube" by "istitute, defined the tasks which the Insti- in the countries of refuge and in Germany Henry Wassermann describes the treatment "Jte had set itself in its publications: "The era where we witness a considerable interest in the of the Jewish problem in the venerable 'German Jewry, so irretrievably past, could study of German Jewish history before and 'Gartenlaube", the first German mass-circula­ Wy be retraced and preserved for ourselves, after the final catastrophe. Professor Liebe­ tion periodical. Its founder, progressive Ernst *"• children and the Jewish world at large, schiitz points to the importance of studying Keil, believed in educating his mostly middle- „ We, the generation that had set out from the background of German history against class and middle-brow readers in an entertain­ ^rmany, could take this cultural task upon which the history of the German Jews has ing manner to support liberal causes. 1878, in urselyes. In our minds, the German Jewish to be seen and quotes an English professor of its peak year, the "Gartenlaube" reached ene is still alive, and in our midst forces are history as saying recently that neither pro­ 375,000 readers. In its novels by best-selling ^JUl available who can present and analyse from fessional knowledge nor methodical skill could authors of the time, Jews were shown in a eir own affinity and experience the manifold enable any historian to foresee the future. How favourable light, and a whole series of articles Manifestations of German Jewry." This state- then could a population which had to rely on was devoted to the practice of Judaism, pre­ jj^it is taken from the first Year book pub- the limited information offered in daily life, sented as a family affair in which Gemiitlich­ ,«ned by the Institute. Now its 23rd volume have foreseen the catastrophe? Therefore, when keit was tempered by quaint tradition-hallowed ^ appeared.* outlining the future tasks of the writers of practices, though religion did not play a great ^ a way, the new volume marks the end such history. Professor Liebeschutz concludes: part in them. Whereas the literature of the Of an epoch. Like its predecessors it has an In order to present a comprehensive critical Enlightenment had created a rather bloodless iy^^°duction by its founder-editor Dr. Robert presentation of the emancipation period, the image of the "noble Jew", the "Gartenlaube" eitsch, written before his wife's untimely Institute "will have to concentrate on the showed the Jew just like any other honest relevant factors in the diflerent spheres of life and hard-working Biirger, i.e., like the readers j^ ath and his subsequent retirement to Israel. to whom the paper appealed and which, in Dr K?** contains an important appraisal of the which had an impact on Jewish existence, and at the same time describe the attributes and tum, included many Jews of just that type. j^°blems of Jewish historiography by Pro- After Keil's death in 1878, his liberal concept sor Hans Liebeschiitz who died recently. traditions of Jewry through many generations which produced co-operation and conflict. If of Jews gradually evaporated, and when after PP n together, these two essays survey the the economic depression, liberal ideas began (^5sent stage in the writing of German Jewish this is done, it will be possible to describe the creativeness of the period without neglecting to founder, the "Gartenlaube", like its com­ ^ cory. They both stress that historical events petitors, was not above applying to the Jews "St not be judged in the light of what hap- the root causes of the final catastrophe." A daunting task! the stereotypes created by the anti-emancipa­ i^oed afterwards. Robert Weltsch gives a tion nationalist forces. 'n ^fh^^ description of the problems of Jews 1^ the old Austrian Empire in which he grew "Antisemitism and Philosemitism" The nineteenth-century evolvement both of l)j'^nd draws attention to the part that Jews the term and the meaning of "antisemitism" 'ivpri ^'^^'l^ently played in regions where they "Antisemitism and Philosemitism" is the and the ambiguous reactions of the Liberals to '1 H,"* ^° environment of mixed nationalities main theme of the present volume. The sub­ the new ideology are dealt with in several ^ntit frontier regions of German-speaking ject covers a wide field. With the exception essays. In "Two Generations in the History of Part ^® concludes that perhaps Jews were of our friend and board member Dr. E. G. German Antisemitism", Moshe Zimmermann aod ''^^'arly suited for the role of mediators Lowenthal who uses his extensive knowledge traces its growth from Wilhelm Marr who bej^Sents for a better mutual understanding of post-war Germany for a third instalment of actually coined the word in order to place bitf j^n people of a similar background, his survey of post-war publications on Jewish the idea in a supra-religious context to Theo­ ^rty divided by political strife. communal history in Gennany, none of the dor Fritsch, the ill-famed author of the "Hand­ te^J^^essor Liebeschutz stresses the two main contributors was bom before 1920, and quite buch der Judenfrage" which inspired Hitler to .t.'^^ies of German Jewish history-writing: a few belong to the post-war generation of and Streicher and supplied them with a mass German, American and Israeli historians. This „y '^^Ofd and interpret the creative part of stock propaganda material. Waye means, of course, that they lack the personal The First World War and its effects on the pow.Pajl-. " ^-Jy JewMcwso iilnl thiiiec agagee oUf l emancipationciiiduui , and involvement which earlier writers invariably a^^'^arly in the "stimulating intellectual Jewish situation in Germany are investigated displayed to the advantage or disadvantage of in a number of essays. Of particular value is 3j 'osphere of the Weimar Republic", and— their statements. To them, what happened to as _ Warning to future generations—to des- Wemer T. Angress' study in depth of the German Jews, is part of history to be learned circumstances surrounding the infamous n.:^ the oppression anan d crimes which brought from original sources in patient research, and ,^ Period to an end. 'Judenzahlung" in 1916. Despite the patriotic to be evalued with the critical equipment of fervour of the great majority of German Jews, thaih - L Present volume, liie the many others the professional historian. It does not speak bh,j^j have so far appeared, is an expression of a mounting antisemitic campaign accused them against them that survivors of an older gen­ of shirking their military duty, and the p^jj. *hese tendencies. The first few of them eration sometimes disagree with their findings. Hos^ contributions by many survivors Prussian Minister of War, "in order to examine *hich ™^^°ries formed significant material In a thoroughly researched important essay, these complaints, and should they prove un­ lo.

The Past of German Jetcry Continued from page I NEWS FROM GERMANY MAIDANEK TRLVL IN DANGER ment officially recognised the sacrifices made DEATH OF CARDINAL FRINGS by German Jews for their "fatherland" by The Diisseldorf court which has been in The Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Frin|s, making the figures available. However, Pro­ session since November 1975 to deal with 15 who has died, aged 91, won wide acclaim for fessor Angress sees in the census no more men and women accused of murder and his stand against the Nazis. When he de­ than a tactical blunder, which, if the course torture at Maidanek, has released 68-year-old Wilhelm Reinartz, a former medical camp nounced their persecution of Jews in 193", of German history after the war had been orderly as unfit to stand trial. Reinartz is the Gestapo retaliated by closing down the different, would have been "shrugged off as severely ill following a heart attack and the priests' seminary of which he was the he^- just another manifestation of Rishes on the In his sermons and in writing, he continued court reached its decision after a special to protest and called the Nazi policy a" part of the Wilhelminian military elite". hearing at his hospital bedside. It was forced "injustice crying to heaven". However, si^, Volume 23 contains a great many more to do so because, according to German law, a trial will collapse unless it holds hearings at the war, he was equally opposed to the Alli^ essays of value to future historians, because least once every ten days. State prosecutors attempts to investigate the past of Nazi paTO for the greater part they are based on source argued that the proceedings should continue members and to denazification in general. W material which continues to become available, in his absence, because his condition was self- 1967 he was quoted as saying to the lat« rather than on personal recollections and inflicted as he had refused to have a heart Rabbi Nussbaum, then head of the Amen^ evaluations. pace-maker inserted, but the court decided section of the World Jewish Congress, that that he had a right to refuse. Already another before 1933, the Jews wielded too mucn Carl J. Rheins' research into the "Schwarze economical, political and cultural power W of the 15 accused has died, as has one of the Germany, that they had flaunted their wealtn Fahnlein Jungenschaft 1932-1934" makes use jurors. The judge kept in reserve as an and thus made it possible for Nazi propaganaa of a wealth of such new material. Conceiv­ "understudy" has also been taken seriously ill. to succeed. He also doubted whether the nSurf ably, he might have been more tolerant in des­ At the same time, many witnesses have died, of six million JeAvish victims might not b^ cribing a pathetic attempt to conform and others are too old to remember or unwilling exaggerated. He subsequently said he haO survive, bearing in mind what Robert Weltsch to travel to Germany. been misquoted, but offered to resign and haa says in his introduction: we have to apply to be overruled by Pope Paul to stay in office- the standards prevalent at that time, though At the 1963 Vatican Council, he led the Ger MORE TRIALS man delegation in advocating a new outloo* much of what then emanated from certain of the Church towards the Jewish peopte Jewish groups would seem to border on the In a trial at Bielefeld, 70-year-old Wilhelm and helped to bring about the Declaration ludicrous when we examine it today. Westeriieide, the former Nazi district com­ which acquitted the Jews of collective gU"* missioner in the Ukrainian town of Vladimir in the Cmcifixion. In its section "Jews in Literature," the Colynsk, is charged with complicity in the Year Book brings some beautifully written and murder of thousands of Jews. An Israeli wit­ enlightening articles on a number of Jewish ness accused him of shooting dead his 17-year- writers and poets, such as Daniel Lessmann, old sister-in-law in 1943 when she tried to GERMAN CHURCHES AND THE JEWS Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Kafka, Gertrud smuggle food into the Volynsk ghetto. Kolmar, Amold Zweig, and Max Brod as well In Stade, the trial has opened against 70- During a joint Jewish-Christian Service, ^® as studies on German-Jewish writers of year-old Erich Scharfetter who is acciised of president of the Rhineland Protestant Chutcn Prague and on German Jews in Agnon's work. cruelly murdering Jewish concentration camp said the question "how could the synagogue* inmates in Jeohvi, Ereda and Kuremear where be allowed to burn down 40 years ago" W?: As in previous years, there are nearly 80 he was employed as an SS medical orderly. not be forgotten, however bitter feelings » pages of a Bibliography, meticulously com­ He is alleged to have shot sick prisoners who awakened. One answer was that Christians naa piled by Bertha Cohn, under the title "Post- were too ul to crawl to the outside lavatories. forgotten that the God of the Patriarchs wai War Publications on German Jewry." Excel­ After the war, Scharfetter went to sea, but also the father of Jesus and of modem Man lently indexed, it covers books and articles retumed last year to the Federal Republic to kind. At a similar service in Krefeld, ^°?„ claim his army pension. At the border he was Dr. Levinson asked the Christians not ^ published in 1977 and will prove indispensable arrested on the strength of a warrant for his suppress the memory of the past. Youns to any student of German-Jewish history. arrest issued 11 years ago. Between 50 and 100 people who were not told about the P^'tSfir It is impossible to give more than a crude witnesses, mostly from Israel and the US have tions of the Jews in the Third Reich by tne« idea of the riches contained in this proud been summoned to appear in the trial which parents, were not immune to terrorism. volume, but it must be gratifying to Robert will probably last for some six months. Weltsch, its founder-editor, and Amold Paucker who has taken over the gruelling day-to-day ISRAEL A SUBJECT OF POLITICAL SALE OF NAZI TOYS editing of the Year Book, that, together with EDUCATION the other publications of the Leo Baeck Insti­ Members of the Young Socialist group }? tute, it has fullfilled most of the tasks envis­ When Mrs. Ehrentraut Scholtz, expert on the Bundestag have demanded to prosecu^ aged by its founders and is highy regarded in Israel in the Federal Centre for Political business firms still selling toys with ^^ Anglo-Saxon and German academic circles Education, retired for health reasons, repre­ symbols. They expressed their concern ^t J,\< as well as in the Hebrew-speaking world. sentatives of Israel thanked her for her obvious tendency among toy manufacture^ pioneer work in organising a ^reat number of to use such symbols notwithstanding ^^'^ Ag This has recently been specifically stated by information tours of German citizens to Israel, appeals t» them not to do so. The toy j'??- G. Kressel, the leading Hebrew bibliographer, the only country in the world for which such replied by stating that in the whole of tn in an article on the Heritage of German Jewry tours have been regularly arranged, thus Federal Republic not more than 1 per ce"^„/j which singles out the Bibliography for special enabling ordinary citizens of the Federal toys had connections with the Nazi past, ^^ praise. Republic to form their own impressions. the sale of U-boats, tanks and cannons ^ dwindling. Most department stores and i"' shops refused to handle such merchandi^ Most of such toys still being sold, came ffo* THE FIGHT AGAINST THE STATUTE OF abroad, mainly from Great Britain, JaP*"' Hong Kong, and the US. LIMITATION DR. HANS TRAMER (Tel AvW) During a visit to Israel, Mr. Jochen Vogel, the West German Minister of Justice, said EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR AT B'NAI he intended to bring in legislation in the suddenly died on January 6. B'RITH MEETING Federal Parliament to preclude the applica­ tion of the Statute of Limitation for major It was his express wish that no Nazi crimes and he hoped it would receive tributes to his personality and work The president and the director of B n the support of a majority of deputies. The B'rith in Europe gave a warm welcome %^ West German Govemment would give an should be published. Egyptian Ambassador in Bonn, Omar 5^'j; opportunity to Israel to explain to the public who had accepted an invitation of the Dnss^^ His signal services will be greatly dorf Lodge. This was the first visit paid nYj^ on radio and TV why the statute should not Egyptian Ambassador to any B'nai S^L^j become effective for such crimes by the end missed by the organisations of Lodge in Europe. In his address, Mr Sirry s^g of 1979. Mr. Tuvia Riedmann, head of the Jews from Germany with which he it was more important to abolish P^^^rU Haifa Documentation Centre on Nazi Crimes, and mistrust after a confrontation of ^^gl will visit West Germany for this purpose in held leading positions, and his 30 years than to cling to the interpretation j. the near futiu^. friends and colleagues all over the clauses and paragraphs. President DombeiB Mr. Hans Hellmuth Ruethe, the West world deeply mourn his untimely of B'nai B'rith Intemational thankfo " ^ German Ambassador to Britain, has told the Ambassador for his imbiased attitude i»"j, Board of I>eputies that he supports the death. promised a visit to Egypt by his organisarjg claim for abolition. as soon as political conditions were favourau AJR INFORMATION Febmary 1979 Page 3 HOME NEWS A nglo-Judaica

BRITISH WAR AGAINST ISRAEL IN 1948? BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF CLUB 1943 Refugee Rabbi for Manchester , I>ocuments whidi have just been released To mark the 35th annivei-sary of its founda­ "y tbe Public Records Office under the 30- tion the Club 1943 had a beautifully arranged Rabbi Chanoch Ehrentreu, principal of the yeans' rule, reveal that in November, 1948 the birthday celebration on December 18 at Sunderland Institute for Higher Talmudic "ntish Govemment considered sending Hannah Karminski House. The members and Studies (Kolef), has been appointed Communal Sntish troops to the Middle East to support friends of the Club were welcomed by Mrs. Rabbi for Manchester. He declined the title, ?e Transjordan Force operating in Palestine Berta Sterley, the joint hon. secretary of the though he wUl act as a unifying force for the JW thus clash with the Army of the new Club, and congratulations were extended by Manchester community. Rabbi Ehrentreu was ptafe of Israel. Fears were expressed at a Dr. Wemer Kilian, Cultm-al Attache, on be­ bom in Frankfurt in 1933 and educated at the ^abmet meeting that the Jews "in their present half of the German Embassy, and by Dr. Hasmonean School in London. After coming to "ISgressive mood" might attack Transjordan Werner Rosenstock on behalf of the AJR. this country, his father. Rabbi J. Ehrentreu, r'nose mler. King .Abdullah, had a defence Dr. Erwin Seligman gave a survey of the became principal of the Prestwich Jewish Day ijeaty with Britain. Lord Shinwell, who was Club's activities during the last flve years; School. ^iinister of War at the time, has stated that the impressive record of the variety of sub­ In Newcastle Rabbi Marcel Marcus, minister "e knew nothing of such intentions. jects dealt with by expert speakers at the of the Reform Synagogue, will leave the city regular Monday meetings testifies to the un­ in the summer. He recently visited his parents diminished strength of the Club and its who live in West (Jermany and said he was "•EMORIAL MEETING FOR GOLDA MEIR invaluable serx'ices to people of our back­ negotiating for a minister's post on the Conti­ groimd. nent with a congregation embracing all shades >^Over 800 people gathered at Central Hall, of Jewish opinion from Liberal to Orthodox '•estminster, on Januarv 8, at a memorial RABBI SALZBERGER MEMORIAL LECTURE Judaism. P««ting for Golda Mefr, arranged by the ^eli Embassv. The Israeli Ambassador, Mr. The second of the Annual Dr. Georg Salz­ Board's Radio and TV Committee Jj^raham Kidron, the Chief Rabbi, Dr. berger Memorial Lectures was given by Rabbi i?oianuel Jakobovits, and the president of Dr. Louis Jacobs in the Belsize Square Syna­ In succession to Lord Mishcon, who resigned ,«e Board of Deputies, Lord Fisher, paid tri- gogue on December 10, with Dr. F. Levy in because of other commitments, Dr S. J. Roth ^?te to the woman they called "the mother the chair, and in the presence of Mrs. Salz­ has been elected Chairman of the Board of w Israel". Those present included Mrs. berger. Deputies' Radio and Television Committee. ?argaret Thatcher, Mr. Jeremy Thorpe, Mr. As his subject. Rabbi Dr. Jacobs had chosen i,°nii Tomlinson (Under-Secretary of State at Rabbi Meir Simhah of Dvinsk (1843-1920), a Versatae Rabbi f^ Foreign Office), Mr. George Thomas renowned talmudic scholar, whose comment­ fpPeaker of the House of Commons) and aries also covered aspects of Jewish theology The newly appointed rabbi at the Glasgow ^resentatives from the embassies of several and religious philosophy. It was the originality Queen's Paik Synagogue, Rabbi Adrian Jesner, •countries. of his thought, at times "surprisingly modem has been the subject of a heated debate, and theologically advanced," which justified a because he retains an interest in his family's survey and evaluation of his work and person­ automobile business in the city. According to THE 1979 MACCABIAH GAMES ality in the particular context of this memorial the synagogue's constitution, the minister of AT LEICESTER lecture. The speaker drew his lucid portrait of the synagogue must not engage directly or Rabbi Meir Simhah against a well-defined indirectly "in any business or commercial jj^- Israel Peled, mayor of Ramat Gan and historical background, which was determined venture". The clause was eventually deleted. jOainnan of Maccabi World Union, visited by the Jewish situation under Czarist rule and The rabbi, who is aged 26, married with two ^C?^er to discuss the 1979 European Mac- by the trends of Jewish thought within the children, studied for six years in Israel. During jT^^ Games with Dr. Mac Goldsmith, presi- Baltic coimtries. the Yom Kippur War, he served in a volun­ ^nt of the organising committee. He inspected Rabbi J. Kokotek thanked the speaker and tary capacity as a relief mechanic for civilian j_® sports stadium, squash courts, tennis courts underlined the importance of the observations and military vehicles and was a member of J^l accommodation for the athletes and said which he had offered in his lecture. a pop group formed by Yeshiva students to i^jWas most impressed by the facilities pro- H. W. FREYHAN entertain Israeli soldiers. Before going to heM "'^ Leicester where the games are to be Israel, he studied at the Springbum College frr'o-—the largest Jewish sports gathering in "BAR MITZVAH" MUSICAL CLOSING of Engineering and he holds a City and Guilds -"Tope since 1939. There will be 630 partici- London Diploma in motor mechanics. He is ^^ from 14 countries who will compete in "Bar Mitzvah Boy", the musical after Jack a director in the family business. nfv?»sports. Finland alone is sending a team Rosenthal's successful TV play, has ended its ''f 20-30 people. mn at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. The producer, Peter Witt, said it had been losing Jewish Servicemen's Week-end money consistently because there had been NAZI SHOUTS AT HITLER FILM a lack of support from the Jewish community. Jewish servicemen and women in the armed He added that there had been a prejudice forces of Britain, the United States and Israel, fii^Jecord audiences saw the Joachim C. Fest against the play because it did not portray together with their families, took part in the ji^ "Hitler—A Career" at the Classic Cinema Jews in a way people would like them to be annual "Jewish week-end" arranged by the ^Oxford Street, London. Some of the audi- seen. He thought this betrayed a lack of Jewish Committee for H.M. Forces under the \^\^ came dressed in Nazi-style clothing and humour. He was himself a Jew and thought it direction of the Rev. Malcolm Weisman, Senior tj^Ses. According to a newspaper report, funny. In the autumn, he will take the show Jewish Chaplain, at Amport House, the RAF ^ were shouts of "Sieg Heil" and "National to New York. Mr. Rosenthal, the author, did chaplaincy headquarters in Hampshire. of?^t'', and somebody cried "Jewish propa- not think it was the Jewish audience that Among the speakers were Rabbi Raymond fSr^a" when the Holocaust was mentioned. mattered all that much. The TV play had Apple, senior minister of the Sydney Great IjT^ manager of the cinema, Mr. Hall, said he been a great success in Germany, where there Synagogue and Mr. Donald Samuel, president j2? ^0 knowledge of this, but there had been was no longer a large Jewish population. of the Jewish Committee for H.M. Forces. ^^^. parties and coaches from outside Lon- fv n with people who took a serious interest in RECORD HELP BY AJEX * subject matter. Edgar Lustgarten Over 4,000 volunteers, a record number, helped out at homes and hospitals throughout Edgar Lustgarten, the writer and broad­ JEW IN THE NA-nONAL FRONT? the country during the Christmas and New caster on criminal cases of the past, who has Year holidays. died, aged 76, was eagerly sought after to oj^r. Martin Webster, tl» National Front address Jewish meetings including those in •jj^niser, said in a letter to the "Hendon support of the Hebrew Univeisity and the j\i?'*s" that one of the Front's members, Mr. Your House for— Haifa Technion. He was a member of the j-Pert Elder, was a member of the Eastbourne FLOOR COVERINGS Board of Deputies' Radio and TV committee pvr'J^h community. This claim has been em- and a patron of the Society for Animal Wel­ atically denied by the community. CURTAINS, CARPETS, fare in Israel. SPECIALITY LITERARY AWARDS ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL Herman Klausner i»^an Jacobson and Dr Lionel Kochan have DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, Herman Klausner, a life-member of the ^^j° the annual Jewish Chronicle—Harold H. DUVET COVERS & SHEETS board of management of the Hendon Adath Sj^Sate Award for fiction and non-fiction. The ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS Yisroel Congregation, who has died at the |)^r?n award was won bv Dan Jacobson for his ESTIMATES FREE age of 83, came to this country from Frank­ C^*^ "Confessions of Joseph Baisz", the non- furt in 1939. Having grown up in a deeply {{jS'*n prize by Dr. Kochan, Reader in Jewish DAWSON-LANE LIMITED religious environment, he joined the congre­ (establlilwd 1946) gation and in due course l)ecame its vice- "^°ry at Warwick University, for his book 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK ) ?e Jew and his Histor>'"; Dr. Kocfaan is also president, chairman of its welfare committee Telephone: 904 6671 and of a number of other religious and social Lr'einber of the London Board of the Leo personal attention ot Hr. W. Shacknan *^k Institute. organisations. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION February 197^

Yiddish would be taught by a permanent teacher at French universities. Baron Alain (1? NEWS FROM ABROAD Rothschild, president of the main Jewish reU­ gious organisation in France, said that by wrii- UNITED STATES mg in Yiddish, Singer had resuscitated a woria NEO-NAZIS IN AUSTRALIA which had been assassinated. Persecution of Chasidim German immigrants in Adelaide, South Australia, have formed a secret neo-Nazi AUSTRIA After Irving Sussman, a 65-year-old Chasid organisation, called the Australian-German plumber, was murdered on a Friday night, Anti-Deformation League, in order to rehabili­ Cardinal Koenig visits B'nai B'rith 200 angry Chasidim stormed the Brooklyn tate Hitler and his party. About 60 members police station, declaring the murder was the meet on the last Friday of each month. Their Cardinal Dr. Franz Koenig, Archbishop of last straw in a "sea of hatred". For a long main activity is the distribution of anti-Jewish Vienna, recently paid a visit to the Vienna time, Chasidim had been the targets of hooli­ and pro-Nazi propaganda. When the "Holo­ B'nai B'rith. In the course of his address w gans and the police had given them very little caust" film was televised, they are alleged to the members of the Lodge, the Cardinal stre^ protection. Like thousands of other Orthodox have told sponsors that the show was a Jewish sed that the Vienna Synod had been .tne Jews, Mr. Sussman was out on foot on the fabrication and they should therefore withdraw first which raised the demand for religio"* Friday night. Because of the Sabbath, he their advertisements. tuition without prejudice. He also dealt wim could not use public transport. For the same the relationship between Jews and Christiai». reason he carried neither a protective weapon THE JEWS OF ETHIOPIA which had developed during the last years after nor money. State Assemblyman Samuel Hirsch. the Second Vatican Council. a leader of the Orthodox community, was The situations of the 27,000 Beta Israel beaten by police during the riot. He explained (Falashas), the Black Jews of Ethiopia, has Growing Interest in Persecution Period that it had become a Friday night sport of again deteriorated. Some 1,000 of them were hooligans to cruise up and down in the district railed during the civil war which led to the Students and pupils of secondary schowS and to bully anyone they met. Sometimes eclipse of Haile Selassie's regime. Before 1976, are showing a growmg interest in the In^tory they shouted obscenities like "Hitler didn't more than 200 Falashas settled in Israel, and of persecution. Both the former concentrauou kill enough of you". The local police had re­ they have now received reports that another camp at Mauthausen and the documentaOo» fused to provide extra protection on the 7,000 have been displaced from their villages centre of the Austrian Resistance in Viei^l Sabbath. Only three police cars are patrolling and are destitute. receive a constant stream of visitors and ei the streets, where 140,000 people live between quiries. Students of contemporary history i^" midnight and 8 a.m. Of 114 police officers in SPANISH COMMUNFFY RESTORED the universities of Linz and Salzburg have bee the area, five are Jews. When at one time engaged to act as auxiliary guides and P^^ a suspect was arrested, he could not be de­ The new Spanish constitution gives full reli­ viders of information. tained, because the Jewish victim could not gious equality to Spain's 12,000 Jews. Article come to give evidence on the Sabbath. 16 states that everybody is guaranteed religious NEWS FROM THE EAST liberty, and nobody shall be obliged to declare Henry Kissinger on Judaism his or her religion, ideology or beliefs. Satirist Refuseniks leave the USSR Mr. David Sequerra was invited by the presi­ In an address to tbe American Jewish Com­ dent of the Spanish Parliament to represent Yevgeny and Olga Kozhevnikov, the hus­ mittee. Dr. Henry Kissinger said: "No one could Spanish Jewry at the ratification of the new band and wife acting team, and their ^Y ^,g have gone through the experiences of my constitution by King Carlos. The president year-old son, who were recently alloww g youth and my life without having a poignant of the World Sephardi Federation, Mr. Gaon, leave the Soviet Union, were one oi.^ reminder of the Jewish destiny. Nobody can sent a message of congratulations to the King, refusenik famUies whose cases were "^ai^ have lived in a totalitarian state and left mem­ expressing the pride of Sephardi Jews "at by Senator Edward Kennedy during .his *^ bers of his family in concentration camps, this decisive step for the great good of Spain cent visit to Russia. Sir Laurence Olivier an without knowing that—for the Jewish people with which we have so many ties". Sir John Gielgud also wrote to PresineH perhaps more than any other—the loss of jus­ Brezhnev on behalf of their efforts to eu" tice anywhere in the world is a threat to their FRANCE grate. They had applied in 1976 and w^j own existence, and peace anywhere is a guar­ subsequently dismissed from their employn'^ j Drancy Synagogae bumed down as highly trained actors. Later they P j. antee for their own future. Obviously, it was on shows in their tiny Moscow flat to cn„,je my duty as Secretary of State to embed this up their refusenik friends. Their humoro" into the policies of the country that received Police and fire brigade officials in Drancy near Paris have confirmed that the fire, which underground review became widely *^ foj me as a refugee and gave me an opportunity Their only stage props were suitcases to serve my country and my people". destroyed the local synagogue, was caused by arson. Under the Nazis, Drancy was the largest departing emigrants. New Director of Memorial Foundation deportation centre in France. From July, 1942 After their emigration, the Kozhevnikov^ to the camp's liberation in August 1944, some were interviewed in the "Tonight" progi'ainn Dr. A. J. Sherman has resigned as Execu­ 61,000 Jews were deported from there. The on BBC 1. They said they had wanted i*; tive Director of the Memorial Foundation extreme Right-wing French National Libera­ go to London or San Francisco, but were P^j and Secretary of the Claims Conference to tion Front stated the fire had been an "act suaded in Vienna by an Israeli official "^^ retum to academic service at Harvard Uni­ of resistance against Jewish dictatorship." It it would be more appropriate for them to B versity. As readers will remember. Dr. Sher­ followed a bomb explosion at the Paris offices to Jerusalem, where they were sent to j^J man is the author of "Island Refuge", a of Betar, the Herut youth movement, and the alysorption centre. They told the interview^ standard work on the admission of refugees defacement of the wall of the Avignon syn­ that they were well and comfortably ^SJ^als from the Third Reich to Great Briitain during agogue with Nazi and antisemitic slogans. but were still discussing with Israeli oincwf^ the years 1933-1939. He will be succeeded whether it would not be better for thej^^ in his office by Dr. Norman E. Frimer, who German Woman Terrorist Jailed go to London or the United States in <»"-£ recently retired as the Intemational Direotor to effectively campaign for the release of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations and Evelyn Barj, a 30-year-old German-bom those they had left behind. has a long and distinguished career in Jewish womaUj convicted of terrorist activities in educational administration. Israel m 1971, was sent to prison for seven Demonstration by Hunger Strike years in Paris for being involved in a bomb CANADA HONOURS RABBI explosion outside a branch of Rothschild's Between 50 and 60 Moscow Jewish i^^J}^ bank. Three of her accomplices were also niks went on hunger strike on the f^^Ls Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, the 66-year-old jailed. anniversary of the imposition of sentent . president of the Canadian Jewish Congress in the Leningrad hijack trial. They n» and retired rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple, Paris honours Nobel Prize Winner planned a silent demonstration outside ^^ Toronto, has been appointed a Companion of Lenin Library, but a number of them w»^ the Order of Canada, in the Canadian Govem­ More than 2,000 people, many of them stu­ arrested and others turned back and ff^^d ment's Christmas List. Before the Nazis canie dents, attended a meeting in the Sorbonne in under house arrest with KGB cars gtatw" to power, Rabbi Plaut lived and studied m honour of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Jewish outside their flats. Those arrested were recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature, leased at the end of the dav. Berlin, where he passed his first legal examina­ and gave him a great ovation. Members of the tion. French Academy, the rector of Paris Univer­ sity, the Chief Rabbi of France, and the Ambas­ sadors of the United States, Sweden. Norway, CAMPS Belgium, and Israel were in the audience Mr. BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INTERNIIBNT—P.O.W^ Singer spoke first in Yiddish, then in English SI Bclsize Squara, London, N.W<3 FORCED LABOUR—KZ and was told by Mr. Imbert, director-general of higher education in France, that in future Our new communal hall is available '^ wish to buy carde. envelopea and folded poal- nerked lettera Irom all campe o» both world wars. cultural and sociai functions. For deta"* Pleaaa send, registered mail, stating price, lo: apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Office- 14 Roaalya Mil. UMdon, N.W.S With acknowledgement to the news PETER C. mCKEMBACK service of the Jewish Chronicle. Tel.: 01-794 3948 AJR INFORMATION Febmary 1979 Page 5

ft- 1f^. Freyhan of Belgium, herself a violinist of professional standard (she had been a pupil of Ysaye). In later years, she became a great friend wbo played chamber music with him, visited him DAVID OISTRAKH REMEMBERED at his home in Moscow and l>equeathed to him her Stradivarius violin. A Biased Biography ^ During the war Oistrakh stayed in Moscow while his wife and his son were evacuated. In a very different way two recent publica­ enjoyed all the favours which the regime In 1943 he played in besieged Leningrad. It tions provide information about the lives and grants to conforming artists and of which is worth noting that in Russia, as in this <^eers of two of our century's greatest the book provides ample evidence. But it country, the works of the great German Violinists. Yehudi Menuhin has given us his seems odd that not a single seotemce refers composers continued to be performed. *wn account in a searching autobiography to Oistrakh's Jewish origin and that the Oistrakh's meetings with famous contem­ (reviewed in the April 1978 issue of AJR author's idyllic picture of musical life in the poraries — composers, instramentalists and 'J'^mation). His slightly older colleague and Soviet Union is devoid of hints about the conductors—make fascinating iieadmg. The F"*nd, David Oistrakh, died on a concert tour difficulties with which composers like Proko­ Mozart bicentenary of 1956 brought him to ^ 1974. Viktor Jusefowitsch, a Russian musician, fiev and Shostakovich, both Oistrakh's frieods, Vienna where Bmno Walter's performance of lad proposed to write a book on him which were confronted. None of the later dissidents the Requiem became an unforgettable experi­ ^s to be based on interviews vrith the artist is mentioned. Likewise, among the chapters ence. As Igor tells us. "Vater wiederholte ^elf. Oistrakh had agreed to this, but his which are devoted to Oistrakh's musical immer wieder, nie habe er aehnliches lectio working schedules forced him to post- colleagues all over the world there is none empfunden wie an jenem Abend". It was the Pone the matter until it was too late. The about Menuhin, a close friend, as confirmed only time David heard the great conductor. ^'ithor then tumed to Oistrakh's SOD Igor, by his own book. Admittedly, he is mentioned J^d with his co-operatiom, and with the assis­ a few times, and in an uncontroversial His relationship with Klemperer was one of tance of David's widow, he was able to carry manner. But the rather casual treatment of mutual admiration. David and Igor attended °ui his project. The book is now available in this relationship may well be due to fact that Klemperer's Fidelio performance at Covent Iri Elperin's German translation (Vifcfor Menuhin bad antagonised the authorities on Garden—"sowohl fuer Vater wie fuer mich '"^efowitsch, David Oistrakh; Gespraeche mit various occasions. ein gewaltiges EJrlebnis". '9or Oistrakh. — Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, A great deal of his time was spent in ''^^ttgart, 1977. DM 39-80). teaching. He was devoted to his pupils, and Enlivened by Correspondence they benefited from the warmth of his per­ I'his is a coffee-table volume; handsomely sonality as much as from his actual instruc­ ^dueed and illustrated, it makes a suitable Within these limitations the author presents tion. •Resent for music lovers. the main biographical events, enlivened not , 'The text is one vast eulogy. While it would only by the son's own reminiscences but also In his later years he also took up conduc­ p* unjustified, imder the circumstances, to by many excerpts from David's correspon­ ting—not an easy step to take at first, but "ndemn this kind of apprrach out of hand dence with his family and his professional one that is not surprising in the man who ^ does tend, in ttis case, to defeat its own colleagues. These letters focus many impor­ said: "Ich bin eher Musiker als Violinist". Ptirpose by being rather repetitive and lacking tant occasions. They include, for instance, About one thing the reader of this book ^ contrasting aspects. As a result it amounts his day-to-day reports from the intemational is left in no doubt. David Oistrakh was not ^ a biography of the hero-worshipping type Ysaye Competition of 1937 which he won and only a musician of towering stature but also ^nich used to be not uncommon in Gennany which established his fame. We witness the a most lovable human being, not least within .j^t is more or less out of fashion now. Yet ups and downs that he lived through during the circle of his own family, as confirmed by ?^ author is not a German, and the motiva- those decisive days of his career, and we his wife's and his son's deep attachment to '^^ for his approach lies elsewhere. are also made to witness the care and support him. which the Russian authorities extend to their j^erything in this volume reflects the country's contestants, whose success becomes J^t^ial point of view. Now it may be a fact a matter of national concem. P.S. — After this review was written, an •^at David Oistrakh was a loyal Soviet citizen article under the heading "Stateless Rostro- '^^ had joined the party and in retam In Bmssels Oistrakh met Queen Elizabeth poviches" appeared in "Music and Musicians" (May, 1978), which carries the following quotation from M. 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J. W. Bruegel munist meetings. Is such a suspicion really justified on the basis of a vague Gestapo re- port? In April, 1933 Brandt was sent by the Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei (SAP) to Norway HITLER'S EXPATRIATION POLICY to organise the party's activities abroad af'' was obviously chosen for this task because be Recently we reviewed the book by H. E. regard to the methods used, even though the was not yet well known and had some coJ^' Tutas on the policy of the Third Reich fate of the then 20-year-Qld refugee was an nections with Norway from before. With a against the German political emigration extraordinary one and by no means typical of certain satisfaction one can register that (Nationalsozialismus und Exil. Die Politik the political emigration. Brandt's illegal stay in Berlin in 1938 nev^ des Dritten Reiches gegeniiber der deutschen Lehmann describes the genesis of Hitler's became known to the Grestapo. Lehmann must politischen Emigration. 354 pp, Carl Hanser expatriation law of July 14, 1933, which in no be fully commended for his unambiguous oe- Verlag, Miinchen 1975). As far as the ex­ less than 38,766 cases led to the individual nunciation of the dastardly campaign of vilip' patriation of the exiles is concemed, Tutas expatriation of enemies of the regime who had cation engineered against Brandt, "the roan in has meanwhile been most ably complemented already fled abroad. The victims of these the Norwegian uniform", by political opP**" by a book by Hans Georg Lehmann (In Acht measures were politicians, artists, writers and nents in the 'fifties and 'sixties. und Bann. Politische Emigration, NS-Ausbilr- all kinds of ordinary people. We are indebted An important part of Lehmann's book is tn« gerung und Wiedergutmachung am Beispiel to Lehmann for bringing to light the hardly description of the post-war endeavours to have Willy Brandts. 388 pp, Verlag C. H. Beck, believable fact that even on March 17, 1945, Hitler's acts of expatriation revoked by the MUnchen 1976) which likewise deserves high when the general disintegration of the Third authorities of the Federal Republic. They *6J? praise. Lehmann who came into contact with Reich had set in, the expatriation of thirty-one crowned by a decision of the Federal ConsU- the problem while working in the Political persons was announced. To these individual tutional Court of 1968, proclaiming the nuUw Archive of the Bonn Foreign Ministry is, cases came in 1941 the collective expatriation "ab initio" of the Order of 1941 regarding the however, mistaken in assuming that because of all those German citizens living abroad collective expatriation of the Jews. The author no special study had yet been devoted to the which the regime categorised as Jews plus is of the opinion that it is implicite valid f*"^ subject, "nothing had been known" about those unfortunate ones who had been trans­ all cases of expatriation. this matter; he even suspects some dark in­ ported from Germany to Poland to their It is to the credit of the Federal ReP"''|ig tention behind the complete silence about it. death. But is Lehmann right in speaking of as Lehmann says, that it had leamed the Nobody could have been i»-evented from the "devastating" consequences of expatria­ lesson and embodied in its Basic Law the dealing with the problem but no other author tion? Was it really—even if those in power inadmissibility of expatriation, while tne would have been equally qualified for this had it in mind—the Nazis' "strongest weapon" German Democratic Republic even extendeo task as Lehmann (bom 1935) who combines in their endeavours to flght and discriminate this Nazi law for people living inside the the necessary politological and legal erudi­ against refugees? Was it, as Lehmann pretends, country in cases of alleged "crude violati**" tion with a special flair for tracing relevant really the expatriation which led to the physi­ of civic duties", and has since become resp<*' documents and the ability to analyse them. cal and mental breakdown of many Emigres sible for some arbitrary acts of expatriatiW'- Lehmann coupled the treatment of the and even drove some to suicide? Or was not Lehmann's book with its valuable docum^' general problem with a description of the the real reason for their plight rather the tary appendices is a most positive contributi^'' special case of the expatriation and repatria­ passport problem (which existed before ex­ to the understanding of a dark period of nj*" tion of Willy Brandt, which is interesting both patriation)? tory and its repercussions still felt at tn in view of the personality in questicm and with In great detail Lehmann describes the fate present time. of Willy Brandt before and after 1933, his flight to Norway and the later events already known from the various biographies. He de­ fends Brandt against the "blame" of having accepted Norwegian citizenship after losing LEON JESSEL LIMITED his German one in 1938 but here and there he does so quite unnecessarily with the stem attitude of an investigating magistrate. To Manufacturers of justify his expatriation the Luebeck Gestapo wHh the compliments of stated in 1938 that before 1933 Brandt had Fancy leather Goods, been a frequent speaker in the Communist youth organisation. Brandt assured Lehmann Gift Goods that this was one of the usual Nazi lies and that he had never had anything to do with a Communist youth organisation. The author nevertheless maintains the view that Brandt which are advertised throughout the "may" have spoken in discussions in Com- world as "EMBLEMS OF 6000 CRAFTSMANSHIP BY THE JESSa ORGANISATION" Heinrich Stahl House The Bishop's Avenue, N^ Pafra

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Naturally, Shindler also deals with the move­ ment of the dissidents—or, as he prefers to call RECENT PUBLICATIONS them, the democrats—in Russia, many of BAY ARLV UNDER THE NAZIS such banal parochialism, compared to the whom are not Jews and do not want to tragedy of the Holocaust, that their publica­ A cousin of mine was among the first Jews emigrate but to transform their homeland into tion is almost an insult. The book is certainly a truly socialist country. "Whatever ideals the *nd anti-Nazis to be arrested in Nuremberg not, as the publisher's blurb claims, a "new •Jtid killed in a concentration camp; I should Soviet State was founded on," says the British aspect of the problem of resistance"; what writer Alan Sillitoe in his foreword to Exit "ave liked to know more about those early comes to the reader's mind is rather a Goethe ^ of violence during the Hitler regime. Visa, "—and it would be idle and unfair to quotation: "Etn grosser Aufwand schmdhlich deny that in the beginning many of the leaders ™ Munich, the majority of the personnel of ist vertan." EGON LARSEN ^orr & Hirth (now the Sueddeutscher of the Bolshevik Revolution had ideals—an Verlag), including nearly all the editors, were aspect of what they have led to is presented *^sted soon after Hitler had become Chan- POWER POLITICS AND THE REFUSENIK here. E.L. wUor, and kept in prison while the whole "In appearance, Alexander Feldman is not Publishing firm was gleichgeschaltet, meaning impressive. He is neither handsome nor PROFESSOR GUIDO KISCH 90 "'at their jobs were being usurped by Nazi One of the most prolific scholars in our eloquent. He is not accustomed to making midst. Professor Guido Kisch, celebrated his ?*rty members. It would be most enlighten- ostentatious gestures such as thoughtfully *8 to read some details. At a higher level, 90th birthday in Basle on Januairy 22. Bom posing with a cigarette or a pipe or uttering in Prague, he was professor of law m Koenigs­ °avaria put up a surprising amount of re­ brilliantly witty comments. And he is not berg and, from 1922-1933, in Halle. When sistance to the country's take-over; some mem- a scientist or an artist or even a poet. No, he he had to leave Germany, he went to New l*"^ of the Bavarian Govemment declared is the son of a worker and is a worker him­ York, where he worked as a research pro­ that if a Nazi Kommissar were sent to Bavaria self " fessor at the Hebrew Union College. After '0 enforce the Gleichschaltung, he would be the war, he retumed to Europe and finally ^'rested at the frontier. This, too, seems to This simple portrait of an almost faceless settled in Basle. On his 70th birthday, 2*ve been an historical incident which could man, a refu^enik who, after prolonged harass­ the university of that city appointed him an uo with some more investigation. ment by the Soviet authorities, ended up with honorary professor. His varied career and a long sentence in prison instead of liberty in his numerous scholarly activities are described Alas, I could find nothing about these or in his autobiography "Der Lebensweg eines Israel where he wanted to go, is characteristic Rechtshistorikers" (Sigmaringen, 1975), re­ Sj'^er matters of interest to us survivors in of the unemotional, objective account of such viewed by Robert Weltsch in the March, 1976, the 700-plus pages of Bayem in der NS-Zeit, case histories collected by Colin Shindler in issue of "AJR Information". ' title which promises a comprehensive work his first book. Exit Visa: Detente, Human What makes Professor Kisch's position ^ an important subject. Published by R. Rights, and the Jeunsh emigration movement unique is the fact that he is at home both jJldenbourg, Munich (DM 38), commissioned in the USSR (Bachman & Tumer, 291pp., in the field of history of law and in Jewish °y. the Bavarian Ministry of Education, and £7-50). Shindler is a young chemistry teacher history. Therefore, he has to his credit not ?uited by the Institut fiir Zeitgeschichte in at a London College, bom in Haclmey in a only works on each of these two subjects but Munich from the material coUected by three milieu created by the successive waves of also publications which blend his two spheres ••fisearchers, it might have tumed out to be of interest. Only recently, the second edition pogroms in Eastem Europe; for a dozen years of his "Forschungen zur Rechts-und Sozial- * formidable contribution to modem history, he has been active in students' and academic geschichte der Juden in Deutschland waehrend j ut the whole effort is restricted to reveal- movements in support of Soviet Jewry, and the des Mittelalters" (Jan Thorbecke Verlag ^8 what the intemal reports of Bavaria's compilation of this meticulously researched, Sigmaringen, 1978. 336pp., DM 75) was pub­ Provincial civil servants told their superiors factually reliable and completely non-sensa­ lished as the first volume of his "Gesammelte ^ districts such as Aichach and Ebermann- tional volume cannot have taken up less time. Werke". It is a standard work. One section *^

THE AJR Club PERFECT GIFT Twenty-TMrd Birthday for men Nazi Germany. Whenever he plary doctor, one of a species nearly extinct addresses German gatherings on past and He has pursued these objectives with the nowadays within the whirl of insatiable prof^^' present political questions he stresses that he charm of a Pompadour and the persistence sional obligations. Osmond House, the AJW himself is a Jewish victim of Nazi persecution. of a fox-terrier. He has been remarkably suc­ Home for the chronically sick, still enjoys her His numerous contacts include many leaders cessful, and perhaps the apex of his success regular visits, her care and co-operation. On top of the Anglo-Jewish community. His activities has been in promoting better relations between of Dr. Wittelshoefer's medical abilities she pos­ Britain and Germany, and in convincing even sesses numerous qualifications in entirely in the wider sphere and, above all, his delight­ different fields. It would, I am afraid, almost ful personality are described in the following the wiseacres and cynics of the "media"— certainly exhaust her benign endurance if ^ tribute by the well-known author Terence especially of the British press—that two dared to give even a vague account of thein Prittie, a personal friend of his and a champion countries which have been enemies in two all. Be it then only said that she is a deeply for many causes of vital concem to all of us. world wars have every reason and right to cultivated personality of many interests among be friends today. which perhaps politics and social conditions V/.R. hold pnde of place but are by no means the This has, at times, been a daunting mission only ones. A PERSONAL APPRECIATION indeed. For the British are slow to forgive and forget, and the (Jermans have perhaps Now that we have broken the silence we by Terence Prittie suffered more from inhibitions about them­ also claim the right to express our warmest selves than any great nation in history. To wishes to the reluctant octogenarian. The fa^t There have been few more pleasant duties of her belonging to our circle, her helpfulness assigned to me as a writer than that of paying his task Herbert has brought a rare candour and her friendship are among the most highv a small personal tribute to Herbert Sulzbach. which may be the quality most needed in treasured values we possess. May the know­ And I find that I have written all too little order to tell pveople about themselves. Added ledge of what she means to her many friends about him and his work during the last to this has been the energy and ubiquity of be a constant inspiration to herself aiding her quarter of a century's enjoyment of his friend­ a Figaro, and an agelessness which suggests to many more years of happiness aBO ship. that the celebration of an 85th birthday is prosperity. E.G.B- only a piece of propaganda, designed to make us all believe that he has at last qualified for the role of Elder Statesman. In saluting Herbert Sulzbach we are paying "ROYAL MINT" tribute to the exceptional human qualities of this very exceptional man. And one additional has been advertised in AJR for many quality which has imbued all his work has DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX years. been an astonishing youthfulness of spirit. To Have you tasted it or tbe other Royals? remain deeply and enthusiastically interested in people, and in life, is an attribute which LTD. we minor and junior greybeards must envy most of all. 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On the other hand we would deprive Royal Orange-Chocolate Liqueur ourselves of the heart-felt desire to enhance an extraordinary event with the extraordinary Royal Lemon-Chocolate Liqueur disrespect of a dear friend's wishes. If we dis­ regard these wishes we would yield to our slightly egotistic urge to express our own affec­ Royal Raspberry-Chocolate Liqueur tion and thankfulness which, we feel, is the bare minimum our meritorious friend deserves Tel: 01-636 8677 Royal Ginger-Chocolate Liqueur on this special day. There is, I am afraid, no other solution than to cut the Gordian knot by revealing the closely kept secret—hoping Gramst FLEXATEX LONDON, Royal Cherry-Chocolate Liqueur that her never-failing generosity and tolerance will dispose her to grant us forgiveness. Be it Royal Banana-Chocolate Liqueur then bodly said: Our friend Dr. Lotte Wittels­ TELEX. hoefer will be 80 on Februar>' 8. HOUSE OF HALLGARTEN Lotte Wiftelshoefer's reluctance to enter the INT. 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ISRAELI JOURNALIST'S WORKS THE ISRAELI SCENE^ ^ I * EXHmrrED IN GERJLVNY In the course of its regular literary exhibi­ UNSUNG HEROES HONOURED RESCUE OF IRANIAN JEWS tions the Municipal Library of Dortmund has arranged the display of works by the joumalist , A Yad Vashem Medal was handed by the Since the beginning of October^ when con­ Erich Gottgetreu (Jerusalem), who also {*?^eli Ambassador in Bonn to a Berlin couple, ditions in Iran deteriorated seriously, over repeatedly wrote contributions for AJR Infor­ jyUhelm and Margarete Daene who risked their 8,500 tourists from Iran have reached Israel. mation. It comprises two books in which a Hyes to save a number of Jewish women in The Jewish Agency Mid the Chief Rabbinate number of his reports are collected as well as {jje Nazi period. Two of these women attended Comicil have appealed to the Iranian com­ other articles and photos. It is the first exhibi­ ™6 ceremony. During the war, Mr. Daene was munity to take all necessary steps immedi­ tion dedicated to a joumalist who had to *orks manager in a Berlin factory producing ately to emigrate to Israel. Mr. Moshe Katzav, emigrate after the Nazis came to power. poods for the Army, while his wife ran a an Iranian-bom member of the Knesset who ^ookshop. After 1941, the factory employed a has just returned from a trip to Iran under­ {•umber of Jewish women. In spite of the fact taken to urge more people to emigrate, accused COLOUR TV FOR JERUSALEM ^t he was himself under suspicion as an old the Agency of applying a selection process social Democrat, Mr. Daene personally applied when interviewing prospective emigrants. Israeli Television Ltd., headed by Mr. Eddie JO the Gestapo to secure better food and work- Families who had sick or disabled members Soffer, a former Israeli TV announcer and Mr. {?S. conditions for the women and to prevent were discouraged. Iranian students said that Leon Tamman of Hove, vice-president of the •jjeir deportation. TTie couple gave shelter to during their studies in Israel, their fellow- World Sephardi Federation, have applied for i?ree Jewish women, and after Mr Daene's students had been unfriendly to them and govemment permission to open a commercial f^'est in 1944 because he had joined a resist- they had theh' main contacts at Israeli uni­ colour TV station in Jerusalem. The applica­ ^?ce group, Mrs. Daene continued to look after versities vrith Arab and Druse students. The tion is supported by a group of politicians Agency has denied all these accusations. and investors. Nine other applications for a tiJ\ Austria, Yad Vashem medals were given commercial channel are before the Ministry r? Mrs. Maria Potesil who looked after an VISrrOR FROM SWAZILAND of Culture and Education, but before permis­ ^j?haned Jewish child during the war, to Mrs. sion is given, the Knesset must pass a law L^de Oelsinger who hid a Jewish couple in Mr. Diamini, Prime Minister of the southern ending the present monopoly of the State S^ tmy fkit for two years, to a priest, Bmno African Kingdom of Swaziland, paid a five-day Broadcasting Authority for a black and white „. .?uszewski who saved a number of Jewish visit to Israel and said his visit "had made all programme. ^midren by providing them with Polish birth our dreams come true. Now we know that the t^fWieates, and to Dr. Stemeck who hid a Jordan river exists and that Jerusalem is a j5*^n mother and her daughter in his house city on earth and not in heaven." Mr. Diamini BRITISH TV PERSONALITIES IN CHARITY ir Czechoslovakia and eventually smuggled toured the country accompanied by Cabinet APPEALS '"^m out of the country. Ministers and senior ofRcials who agreed inter alia on the establishment of a joint shipping co-operative by Zim and the Swazi national The most popular programme in Israel out­ AMIN AND ISRAEL shipping company. Swazi is landlocked and side the news, is the BBC TV serial "The operates most of its shipping through Mozam­ Brothers", surpassing even the appeal of the Dr9° everybody's surprise. President Amin bique at present. It is one of the four black "Forsyte Saga . Cinemas are nearly empty on ^^d iCTael in a broadcast on Radio African States which did not sever its ties Wednesday nights when the programme is -i^Pala after his recent frontier war with with Israel in 1973. Mr. Begin expressed the shown. The stars of the programme have now 'Ozania, by saying that his victory had been hope that the visit would encourage other agreed to visit Israel and to take part in four Sra !• ^^^ *° t^^ ^^<^t *^^* ^^ ^^^ "'^^y ^^^^ African States to resume friendly contacts. appeal dinners to help disadvantaged Jemsa­ IsS 1 Weapons and he was deeply grateful to lem children, arranged by the Israel branch tiv? • He said he had received "these effec- of the Variety Club Intemational. The cost of thfT y^spons" free from Dayan when he was ANGLO-ISRAEL TRADE attending one of the dinners, held in the four gQ^ Israeli Defence Minister in the Rabin main cities, is about £20, and £24 for fans who tkp^^nient, and from Colonel Barlev, once In 1978, the two-way trade between Britain want to talk to the stars. \]g head of the Israeli military mission in and Israel amounted to about £450 million. jj'jSanda. Amin ended by saying that in spite of Imports from Israel rose by 16 per cent, iljp gratitude to Israel, he condemned its exports to Israel were 6 per cent lower. The Ban occupation of Palestinian land. Colonel UK favourable trade balance dropped from GAG FOR KNESSET MEMBERS call will be remembered for the telephone £96 million in 1977 to only £54 million in 1978. ;^? _ during which he managed to delay Israeli-made solar panels were installed in a Mrs. Geula Cohen and Mr. Moshe Shamir, tron ^ action while the Israeli commando Staffordshire school and have been praised in two ultra-nationalist Knesset members who "Ps prepared their Entebbe rescue action. the "Building Services and Environment have repeatedly rebelled against Govemment Engineer" trade paper. After an exhibition in policy, have been suspended from taking port THE JEWS OF ETHIOPIA Birmingham, the order was placed with Electra m Knesset debates for the next two months by Air Conditioning Services, because the firm the Likud executive committee. They refused ,Threta ,T ^ young student representatives of the was able to provide complete back-up facilities to vote with the Govemment on an opposition ap3 Israel in Israel have issued an urgent of information and research. amendment calling for national service for re­ ^(^ k ^ the authorities to save the Falashas ligious girls which was defeated. *fcusprfTv.^ ^f*^.^°^u^^^ Z"*** slavery and ISRAELI HONEY EXPORTS RISING Urop ^ them of deliberately concealmg the thim ? °^ ^^e situation. The campaign against Exports of gift packs of Israeli honey from ORTHODOX COMPROMISE diji? had been stepped up after Mr. Dayan the Sharon Valley to Britain have been so tarv ^^^ last year that Israel had sent mili- successful that next year some 4,000 will be The ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta sect, A(}Jj; ^uipmerit to the Left-wing regime in sent over—the 2,000 sent this year were sold which does not recognise the State of Israel ofj^ Ababa. The students claimed that some out immediately. Some 15 tons are exported all or Israel's control of East Jerusalem since ajj,^ls in Israel regarded them as primitive over the world. 1967, has—for the first time—allowed members thgy \ potential burden, despite the fact that to attend the funeral of one of its leaders on Of JL"^^ served in the Army and that some END OF SCHOOL STRIKE the Mount of Olives. Rabbi Katzenellenbogen, a ^ch -"^ had been wounded in war. Mr. co-founder of the sect who died at over 80 leafjT^'ia, the son of the group's religious More than 200,000 secondary school pupils years of age, insisted on being buried on the *oun!j ? Israel, said he himself had been retumed to school after a six weeks' teachers' Mount of Olives where Jews used to be buried a pJJ^."> but his brother had been refused strike. The teachers won a 27 per cent increase before 1948. When another co-foimder. Rabbi for fP^t to visit him in Israel. A spokesman in salary, but did not get the desired assur­ Blau, died some years ago, he was buried in PenviiJ® Ministry of the Interior sadd that ance from the Govemment that it would un­ West Jerusalem. appjj^ts were readily issued to Beta Israel conditionally accept all the findings of a national Ucants. commission on the status and situation of the Israeli teaching profession. MORE NEW HOSPITALS "SELF HELP" HOUSING SCHEME FOR THE .Th, ELDERLY the fwApundation-stone for the first hospital in has i»'^?*^o. x tow.„„n„ o„f^ BBnei "i Bra~ k' near Te- l- Avi• •v BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER A self-contained building complex with 150 t-„i4st been laid. It will cost £7 million and flats for elderly people will be built in Kiryat •^h ^t • ^^^- As Bnei Brak has the highest Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS Hayoval, a suburb of Jemsalem. The scheme ?Ji(j na ^"^ Israel, the gynaecology, maternity has been inaugurated by would-be residents l^iDnw ^^*"os departments will have special under the auspices of the American and {or tkiance. So far £500,000 has been raised Always interested in purchasing Canadian Settlers' Association. The cost will 'ive vL^'^J®*^* which will be completed within vrall-preserved instruments be between about £2,630,000 and £3,160,000. |l jeaxs. Participants will pay some 40 per cent, and ^fojui^i^rway, a non-Jewish Committee has JACQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. the balance vrill be collected from various ^»»itia Rn^o contribute about £150,000 to sources. There are already 75 subscribers for ^osnif^i • •*®<1 ward at the new Shaare Zedek 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel.: 723 8818/9 the flats which are expected to be ready for *"»I m Jerusalem. occupation in 1981. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION February 197^

POGROM MEMORIAL PLATE KPM, the State Porcelain Factory in BerUn, IN MEMORIAM has issued a plate, designed by the painter Reinhold W. Timm, to commemorate the MOSHE TAVOR OTTO PROBST destruction of tbe Berlin Fasanenstrasse Syn^ Dr. Moshe Tavor, for more than a decade gogue in 1939, and the new communal centre The Deputy Speaker of the Austrian opened in its mins in 1959. It is executed in the Israel correspondent of the "Frankfurter Parliament, Mr. Otto Probst, who has died at Allgemeine Zeitung", died in Jerusalem aged blue and white china and depicts both build­ 75. Bom in Olmuetz, Fritz Tauber (as he was the age of 67, served as a Deputy since the ings with a quotation from Isaiah: "And thou originally named) was active in the German first post-1945 elections. He was the first shalt build the old waste places: thou shau language press in Prague until Czechoslo­ president of the Austria-Israel Society, but raise up the foundations of many generations • vakia was invaded by the Nazis. His Zionist On the reverse side, there are explanations cn relinquished this post early in 1978 in protest the events in (Jerman and English. The plat* education in the so-called "Prager Kreis" made against the anti-Israel remarks of Chancellor itself felt when he decided in 1939 to emigrate can be ordered from china and glass shops for to Mandatory Palestine. After difficult begin­ Kreisky in a Dutch newspaper. He said at the DM 82.00. nings, he became proficient in Hebrew and time that he had been an inmate of a concen­ retumed to his joumalistic profession as tration camp himself and had witnessed the MAX GOSSELS correspondent and finally as head of the Jeru­ suffering of the Jews there. The former Berlin Magistratsrat Max salem bureau of the "Davar". From 1957 to Gossels, who in 1933 was appointed principal 1960 and then again from 1963 to 1966 he of the newly created "Wirtschaftshilfe" of tne headed the Information Department of the LIPPE DISTRICT REMEMBERS ITS JEWS Berlin Jewish community, died in CaracaSi Israel Mission in Cologne and later of the 77 years old. After having been severely Israel Embassy in Bonn. He also translated The November/December 1978 issue of the pressed by the Gestapo, he managed to escape two of Ben-Gurion's books into German. periodical "Heimatland Lippe", published by to France in May, 1939. In 1940 he fled to the "Lippische Heimatbund" (Bismarckstr. 8, Venezuela, where he worked in the pharma­ LORD STOW HILL Detmold), carries a detailed article about the ceutical industry for many years. EGIJ- destiny of the Jews in Lippe under the Nazis. Lord Stow Hill, formerly Sir Frank Soskice, The author, Heinrich Boedeker, states that the HEINE PRIZE FOR SEBASTIAN HAFFNEB who died at the age of 76, was a Christian of first victim was the editor of the "Volksblatt", Jewish extraction and a warm supporter of Felix Fechenbach, who was shot dead on The Heine Prize of the City of Diisseldorf. the Jewish State. His father had been a Rus­ March 5, 1933. The article also quotes examples which carries a monetary award of DM 25,0OU. sian Jewish doctor, a leader of the Bund, of the humiliations and persecution the Jews was bestowed on the Berlin publicist Sebastian imprisoned for anti-Tsarist activities, who had to endure under the Nazi regime. In 1933, Haffner, in recognition of his book "Annier- escaped to England in 1893. Here he became the number of Jews in Lippe amounted to over kungen zu Hitler". The citation describes tne well known in the Jewish Labour and Socialist 600. After the war, there were only 24 survi­ work as "an essential contribution to tne movement. Sir Frank's grandmother was an vors, most of the others as far as they had not understanding of our (Jerman past and thus Orthodox woman known for her extreme piety. emigrated, perished in the extermination also of our present". Sebastian Haffner, ("'•'. Before his retirement. Sir Frank was first camps. The article, headed "Schmerzliches whose real name is Dr. Raimund Pretzel, speni Attorney-General and later Home Secretary in Gedenken" is illustrated by photos of ceme­ the years of the Nazi r6gime in England, where the Wilson Govemment and responsible for teries and memorials in Detmold, Hom, he was also editor of the German language the first Race Relations Bill in 1965. Lemgo, Bamtrup, and other places. joumal "Die Zeitung".

FAMILY EVENTS Kohlberg.—Mrs. Ida Kohlberg (n^e LONELY DOCTOR'S WIDOW, 63, A.J.R. Enquiries Rosenthal), formerly Dortmund, seeks social contact. Box 761. Entries in the column Family died peacefully on January 14. Bienheim.—Mrs. M. Bienheim, 1^ Events are free of charge; any Moumed by her sisters, Hilde knovm address 2 Enfield R

ROSA ALBACH-RETTY'S MEMOIRS Letters to the Editor Sir, — With reference to Rosa Alboch- Retty's memoirs "So kurz sind 100 Jahre" "THE JEWISH PAST IN GERMANY" BERLIN CABARETS OF THE TWENTIES (mentioned in the Theatre and Culture column of your December 1978 issue) 1 should , ]»» seinem "Letter to the Editor" (AJR Sir,—As a post-graduate student at Bristol like to express my surprise that your reviewer 'Normation December, 1978) behauptet "FJi.", University now engaged in a year's Film and did not mention the fact that the book carries *iss vor Hitlers Machtuebemahme von einer Television course after a degree in German an amiable description of Hitler. We meet *«te Kantstrasse zur andem ein Band mit der and History, I am at present researching into him as a builder's mate doing some repair 2^orderung zur Ermordung aller Juden ge- the Berlin Cabarets of the 1920's and early work in the Strakosch Villa, humbly borrow­ ^Ponnt war. Diese Behauptung kann nicht den 30's, with the intention of making a television ing two volumes of books (Nietzsche's works) ^<''tsachen entsprechen. Die Atmosphaere in programme on the subject in the University's from the (Jeunsh) owner and retuming them 9erlin haette dies nicht ermoeglicht. Es ist studios. I would be interested to hear from punctually. We also meet him, at a later date, W gerode umgekehrt. Die antisemitischen Aus- any of your readers who have memories of the as Reichskanzler, graciously remembering his ^'^'ireitungen konnten in Berlin mit seiner cabarets or any kind of documentation — youthful passion for the soubrette Magda °^^ldemokratisch-kommunistischen Mehrheit programmes, photographs, drawings, articles err Schneider. The persecution, deportation and V^d seiner ueberwiegend sozialdemokratischen reviews, or texts of sketches and songs. Any extermiruition of the Jews are not mentioned f^oJKei erst viel spaeter einsetzen als an andem material borrowed will be promptly retumed at all. Instead, we are treated to a letter by Vj^fen. Auch der von "FJR." zitierte Wortlaut and postage will be refunded. Kainz (in print and facsimile) in which Kainz ?*5 Banners erscheint mir verdaechtig: er 1 Gatehill Road, ANDREW SOLOMON caricatures the u?ay of Jews uniting a (wholly l^^'Tt sich an wie eine Uebersetzung der Parole Northwood, Middx. invented) German. Kainz knew very well that ""tda verrecke". Jews diii not speak like that; his nearest "WEIMAR CLIMAX" friends were the highly cultured Mauthner J, Da dcr Brief von "F.R." auch von juengeren Markhof family. It would be sUly to reproach P^nschen gelesen unrd, die die Wahrheit nicht Sir.—I regret that in Egon Larsen's article published in your January issue^ the name of a centenarian for her somewriat selective °f^^eilen koennen, und da "AJR Information'' memory. The fault, of course, lies with the ^y^Geschichtsquelle mit authentischen Berich- Walter Hasenclever is not mentioned. He was not only a great dramatist but also a great person who concocted these memoirs for to­ f?,(ingesehen werden unrd, waere ich fuer day's market. No wonder the book is a best­ ^'^aruck dieser Richtig stellung dankbar. humane personality. HERBERT SULZBACH seller in Germany. ^3 Nightingale Lane, S. W. NELKI 54 Aberdare Gardens, 40 South Grove House, (Mrs.) ANNE BLOCH ^ndon. S.W 12. London, N.W.6. London N6 6LR.

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