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Qllb Journal Mm ^^^H Association of Jeu/Ish Refugees the Widening Atlantic V0LUIV1E 1 No.8 AUGUST 2001 QllB journal mm ^^^H Association of Jeu/ish Refugees The widening Atlantic ^^ the 1820s Foreign Secretary horrific Jedwabne massacre of July 1941 Canning looked to the New World - has ignited a countrywide debate about ^erica - to counterbalance the Old. Polish-Jewish relations under the ^rom the 1840s on, the United States Gennan Occupation; in consequence Absorbed Europe's huddled masses the myth that Jews earned their yearning to be free, most famously the neighbours' hatred by collaborating ^sh fleeing the potato famine, and with the Soviets is wearing increasingly Jews fleeing Russian pogroms. In thin. In Russia itself the self-appointed ^^17/18, America became a global 'conscience of the nation', Alexander '^'3yer and helped determine the Solzhenitsjm, who in the past has ^'itcome of the Great War. In the depicted Jews both as promoters and •^terwar years her retreat into The European Union is, overall, a most beneficiaries of the Bolshevik terror, ^^lationism crippled the League of positive development -pace the current has signalled a significant new ^^tions and triggered the Slump. Pearl Franco-German 'alliance' after three departure. He is currently engaged on a ^3rbour brought a vacillating country hundred years of blood-bespattered historical magnum opus which, he says, ^^ the Second World War and, ever enmity, and the sanctions on Austria in will when completed, absolve him of the ••ice, Washington has played a response to the Freedom Party's taint of antisemitism. ^''eponderant - and largely beneficent - inclusion in the government - but it Thus Europe is shining a fitful light •"^le in world affairs. The (flawed) does have its flaws. Most notably, into its gradually receding dark past. 'ections of last November brought Europe takes what it pleases to call a Where this dark past is still alive - at George Bush to the White House with more 'even handed' approach to the least in mens' minds - is the Arab and ^ Agenda that carried troubhng echoes Israeli-Palestinian imbrogho than does MusUm world. Syrian, Iraqi and Libyan ^ 1930s isolationism. This agenda has the US. This is undoubtedly motivated presidents, Iranian and Saudi clerics, "^ce been modified by the pressure of by the above-mentioned financial Egyptian journaHsts, and others, use ^ents, for instance in the Middle East, considerations, as well as the presence invective against the Jews for which '^ere the new President felt obliged to of millions of Moslems in countries like they ought to pay split royalties to '''spatch the Director of the CIA. hi France, Belgium and Spain. Then again, medieval popes and to Julius Streicher. ^er areas though - most notably the though Europe was the actual arena - as By significant coincidence some of the oto Accord and arms control - well as the seedbed - of the Final countries from which this lethal h"•^siden t Bush has stubbornly ignored Solution, the Washington Holocaust propaganda emanates are the very ^^ views of his European allies. Museum plays a more central role in 'rogue states' against whom President y America and Europe are currently the national psyche than do Bush wants to employ his missile ^ting apart, the fault is not all on one corresponding institutions in France or shield. It would be a pity - not to say an even Germany. "^e, however. Some of the founder unintentional crime - if America's go-it- j^^mbers of the EU, most notoriously This is not to downplay the progress alone policy were to prompt Europe into 1^1 '^ce, have often subordinated the Europe, especially its formerly Jewish- taking unilateral counter-actions. That '^'ftmon Western interest to selfish populated East, has been making in would shatter the Western unity that ^^cial advantage in their dealings facing the past. In Poland the has provided large parts of the world ^ Iran and other oil-rich countries. publication of Jan Gross' book on the with prosperity for the past half century. Dark, satanic milltowns AJR Annual General Meeting 2001 Oldham and Burnley currently attract the 'From Kind to the House of Lords' been decided that the project was not media spotlight for two closely related Guest speaker Lord Dubs recalled his viable in the face of competition botn reasons: simmering racial tension which experiences as a Kind arriving in England commercial property developers and the occasionally flares into serious violence, in 1939 from his native Prague. Despite an search had been abandoned. The and double-digit voting percentages underprivileged childhood, Alf Dubs Chairman stressed that AJR had not achieved by the British National Party. The regarded himself as being among the more abandoned responsibility for members two Lancashire towns are in the general living at Eleanor Rathbone House and area where Engels collected material for fortunate. the Marxist classic The Condition of the Entering public life, he served as discussions with OSHA, Jewish Care and English Working Class (1844) and where, Labour MP for Battersea from 1979 to JBG would ensure residents' well-being- some decades earlier, William Blake had 1987 with responsibility for Government The home's management was to be sub­ conjured up a nightmare vision of 'dark immigration policy. As Director of the contracted to B'nai Brith JBG Housing satanic mills'. Refugee Council from 1988 to 1995, he Association. The Chairman expressed his The textile mills of the Pennines, whose was able to help asylum seekers and appreciation to Jewish Care, OSHA an" postwar demand for labour sucked in refugees. Granted a peerage in 1994, he JBG for their co-operation. immigrants from the Indian sub­ subsequently served as Minister in Working with five other charities continent, are now largely closed, leaving Northern Ireland for three years, helping involved in Jewish refugee welfare, a neW unemployment black spots in their wake. to further the peace process, and earlier claims and restitution advisory service In consequence, places like Burnley and this year he was appointed Chairman of now operating out of AJR's offices, had Oldham now accommodate a experienced exceptional demand. disgruntled majority of whites alongside the Broadcasting Standards Commission. sizable minorities of insecure Asians. Hon Treasurer W David Rothenberg- Honorary Officers' Reports The whites readily believe myths that detailed financial aspects of the main items AJR Chairman Andrew Kaufman, the authorities favour the immigrants and revealed the intention to combine the reported that 550 new members had over themselves in matters of social AJR's present separate entities into one. provision. This paranoia has reached a joined the AJR, many from KT which was more efficient and cost-saving- point where some are even convinced (Kindertransport). At the Day Centre that the town council allocates more everyone was known and treated Anniversary celebrations money to rubbish collection and traffic- individually; food, entertainment and The celebration of AJR's 60th anniversary calming measures in 'black' than in white atmosphere were second to none and year was to include an anniversary tea and areas. Such myths are assiduously spread there was a special monthly Kinder lunch. cabaret at London's Grosvenor Hous by the professional racist hatemongers A twice-weekly frozen meals-on-wheels Hotel on Sunday 9 September and an the BNP has sent into the area. service maintained a close relationship exhibition chronicling AJR's history- To bring this inflamed situation under with the recipients. The Chairman thanked AJR's many control, the laws on affray and racial To ensure that members could remain in volunteers, members of staff an incitement will have to be strictly invoked for their own homes as long as possible AJR's the Management Committee - and new jobs, especially for the young, their support. created. In addition, immigrant leaders Social Services department offered Mr Ludwig Spiro referred to the themselves need to be more focused on support, and an expanding 'Homecare facilitating integration. Why, for Service' organised and paid for cleaning, excellence of the recent symposium ^ instance, does Burnley have to maintain a caring or gardening. 185 members finding AJR Information, held in co-operation Wi^ costly 'translation unit' almost half a it hard to make ends meet were granted a the Universities of Sussex and London, century after the mass influx of Asians? total of £229,000 from the Self-Aid ftind. which Lord Moser and Dr Anthony AJR Information appeared - in English(l) - AJR spent over a million pounds a year on Grenville had made outstanding within seven years of the mass influx of members' services, leaving a shortfall of contributions and where appreciation w^a German-Jewish refugees into the UK. It £400,000 which could be bridged only with expressed to Richard Grunberger for ni would contribute to inter-racial harmony donations and legacies. 13 years' editorship. Mr Herman if Asian communal leaders applied Hirschberger asked for confirmation AJR was establishing new groups themselves more purposefully to turning the taking of minutes. Mrs Anne Maf* their constituents into English speakers. throughout the UK and kept in touch with invited members to participate in When in Rome... I „^ members through the restyled AJR RG Journal, which maintained its high monthly Luncheon Club Nominees for the Managemen AJR Journal personnel standard. AJR's new website was Committee were re-elected and Sigi Fai Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief accessible on: www.ajr.org.uk Ronald Channing Executive Editor and Eric Reich, both Kinder, were electe Vv Marion Koebner Staff Reporter Project unviable for the first time. Andrew Kaufman, AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, 1 a Frognal, London NW3 6AL A new site to rehouse the Day Centre, David Rothenberg and Eleanor Ang Tel: 020 7431 6161 Fax: 020 7431 8454 together with sheltered accommodation, were re-elected as Honorary Officers- e-mail: [email protected]( www.ajrorg.uk had been sought by AJR- Regretfully, it had HDC 'Sorry' is the hardest word Richard Grunberger NEWTONS Leading Hampstead Solicitors "^ live in an age of celebrity and given sunlamp treatment - for 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, endorsement.
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