Vol. VI. No. 5 MAY, I95L.,,... INFOR aSUED Br THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN 8, FAIRFAX MANSIONS, FINCHLEY ROAD ( FAIRFTXTOAD ) LONDON. N.W.3 Office and Consulting Hours : 10 a.m.—I p.m., 3—6 p.m, Sunday 10 a.m.—I p.m. Telephona : MAIda Vale 9096 (General Offlce) MAIda Vale 4449 (Employment A(ency)
Voltaire's maxim : "I hate what you say, but I would fight with my life for your right to say it," ISTATE AND RELIGION IN ISRAEL this maxim has obviously no validity in Israel. \lf •^"''"'''"'^ '""' itrticles deal with a highly topical question. A s a strictly impartial periodical, AJR Whoever is dependent on restaurants will have [''^formation is not entitled to take sides in this controversy andan has therefore opened its columns to to walk far every Friday night until he finds an '^."^''r^ists of both ccnfiicting conceptions. It is stressed that the articles solely express the views of their open cafe—a procedure which is repeated at lunch- i»WWs.—THE ED. time on Shabbat. Many have friends and relatives g THE " SECOND FREEDOM " National Service. The religious bloc accepted the who would wish to invite them—but to accept an y Herbert Freeden challenge and asked all-its followers to disobey this invitation in another town, or in a settlement, is Roosevelt's four freedoms have become the law, even at the risk of being imprisoned. This difficult indeed, for there are no means of traffic on ^terion of a genuine democracy. Without the attitude has been backed not only by the extremists Shabbat. Shabbat, the day of freedom, has become ^om of speech and of rehgion, the freedom from but by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. The question, very much a day of coercion. When one drives ^'it and fear, the rights of citizens are crushed therefore, whether there are two kinds of law in in a car one runs the risk of being stoned in A n anth'^d °° people can be free. The question whether Israel—the law of the State and the law of the some orthodox districts. One might wait for *-^.^^e exists in Israel freedom of religion may sound Torah, as interpreted by the rabbis—has become important news—but telegrams are not being M ) J, ^st paradoxical. Where else, if not in their owm topical indeed. The parting of the ways poses a delivered. Medical help is, especially in rural J fj.itry, should the Jews be allowed to uphold their problem in all clarity : Is Israel to become a secular State or a theocracy ? districts, almost unobtainable—let alone the services "^^ lOn^ ^'^'^ *° enjoy unhindered their cults ? When, of hospitals and ambulances. On Friday eve, the J^ Shabbat eve, one glances through the wide open Rabbinical Jurisdiction evening before the only day on which one can sleep {L'^'^OWS into the brightly-iit synagogues ; when Matters are more difficult as there is no clear longer, one cannot attend entertainments such as Q^ J^citals of the prayers echo in the streets ; when demarcation line between State and " Church." concerts, theatres, pictures. r J. *om Kippur men walk in their prayer shawls Some fields of law, for instance, are outside the % V^^ divine service, or \*hen the sound of the A majority must go without meat, or if it comes d, jurisdiction of the State. There is neither a civil be° '^ heard up and down the towns, then one marriage nor a civil divorce in Israel. The whole to the best, with very little meat, because only l5^°'nes acutely aware of the difference between marriage legislation is in the hands of the clergy. kosher meat is being imported, the price of whicli J ^61 and the countries of the Diaspora. Wherever In the case of entering a marriage, it is only a in the world market is sky,high. Chickens are rare ,0^ live in a minority, their rituals have to be matter of submitting to the religious ceremonies but many a family must (go without because the Lvf^'^ed behind closed doors, removed from the but in the case of divorce, the problem is much birds are sold only aliye and not a few housewives Iti °^ ^^^ public. In Israel, there is, for the first more serious. The rabbinical law is based on the are unable to stand the nauseating sight of the Ifgij^ after thousands of years, again ffeedom of moral code of the Middle Ages which deprives slaughterhouses. People who consider the eating tg ,^'on, at least for all Jews who live according women of equality. Thus it is, for instance, im of Matzot not as an indispensable expression of ^^,L "6 postulates of the Law. But how about those possible for a wife to institute divorce proceedings Judaism cannot obtain bread during Pessach. trgj. ^o not feel themselves bound by religious against the will of the husband. The legislation on as ''on, but consider themselves first and foremost Tliese are a few of the many instances in which a inheritance, too, is administered by the clerical majority has to submit to the will of not even J'a-tional Jews ? hierarchy and it limits the self-determination of the :aQj'^^edom of religion is not only the unhindered 13 per cent, and not only in matters of religion. testator to such an extent that his last will is not For the religious rites cut deeply into the public life . brgj °pen expression of religious sentiments—a always identical any more with his free will. 4re '^ of this freedom is no less apparent when men of the community and into the private life of the rioL ?i^e to participate in rituals to which— The opinions and customs of the orthodox deserve individual, and hand in hand with the infringement The ^ or wrongly—they do not feel attached. high respect. Alas, in Israel one often misses sadly on the freedom of religion goes the infringement the same respect, or at least some consideration, on on individual freedoms as such. At the time of IS , pressure to take part in a religious ceremony their part towards people who do not share their "^ much an infringement on the " second free- the French revolution it was said : "To the Jews interpretation of religion. The effects of this as individuals everything, to the Jews as a nation as the ban of a religious ceremony, attitude may sometimes be trivial, but this is not ^rtlha ^^^ recent municipal elections in Israel the nothing." The orthodox front in Israel has reversed the point. Important is the principle, and the this principle : " To the Jews as a religion every l2 °dox parties altogether received just over right of man to take or to leave, as he thinks fit. the "^^"^ °* ^^^ votes. The other 87 per cent of thing, to the Jews as individuals nothing." hlj(,P°Pulation, as in any other nation, show a isolation and persecution. If the Jewish people ™i: ^ different nuances of religious thought and THE MEANING OF TRADITION l^'ent. Among them are atheists, agnostics. would have been a nation like the others, it could ^.^tic, By Dr. E. Lichtigfeld have merged with them as the Greeks and the ith^"*^^ and the innumerably many who live by With the establishment of the State of Israel a Romans did and could have left to the working of ilvjj,. Own version of religion, including those who, most difficult problem was created which does not history how much of its literature and culture was (leve?*^' being orthodox, wish to preserve and to seem to have a parallel in legal history, that of pro to remain. No doubt such an attitude would have •J, ?P the spiritual values of Judaism, viding the new State with the constitution and a been welcomed, especially by the Western world. i'^'de overwhelming majority lives, no doubt, legal system adequate to do justice to the long It was precisely for the reason that they were not |%_ ^ Severe pressure from the religious sector. history aud the great tradition of the Jewish prepared to give up their practical loyalty to Isho^'^n-Gurion's Government, which resigned a people. In the existing states, Law has developed Judaism that they had to incur the hostility of the I ^l^'le ago and which is carrying on only until against the more or less uniform background of a their non-Jewish neighbours. To do this now when, 4 (,j^ ^hcoming elections, was, in the main, based on continuous national culture based on an autonomous in a miraculous way, the establishment of the State teljjjj'tion between the socialist Mapai and the territory. The Jewish position is entirely difierent. of Israel has been made possible seems to be a Jle^.p^s Mizrachi. In order to uphold this coalition, The Jewish people is heir to a great culture which senseless disregard of the long history of the iS 'Ss^^'^rion was ready to compromise on several has been maintained without the support of a Jewish people. .fJ'j'^Oaiii.' Only now, after the breakdown of the national territory and a uniform population. It has i'ot ij'^l. did he introduce to the Knesset a law survived in the conscience of the various sections Israel's Specific Role ^ ^v«^ conscription of girls into a two-years' of the Jewish people with varying degrees of The ingathering of the exiles, though being a intensity, recognition and loyalty. historical event of the first importance, is not the |/ TT i HELPERS WANTED main aim of the rebuilding of the Jewish people in f^ •«. f 'iow, in the first Une, the moral duty of the For the religious Jew the establishment of the Israel. Israel is not yet a nation, it is a nation in State of Israel means the necessity and the possi the making. The problem is, which is to be the 4QJJ "'gees themselves to keep their house in order bility of reinstating Jewish culture and Law into unifying creative influence in the re-creation of the Bt 'leln ^°°^ after those in their midst who require its old rights. For him, it is an article of Faith that Jewish people. The various sections of the Jewish and encouragement. The expansion of the on the ancestral soil of the Holy Land no other law people which have gathered there have naturally Irge^ial Services Department is therefore an can be valid than the Jewish Law. brought with them their ideas and the ways of the VQIJ Necessity. It would be a great relief if The long exile and the terrible persecutions the nations they have come from. These reunited parts •^iaT ^^""s who are interested aud experienced in Jewish people had to suffer are regarded by the of the Jewish people can only be welded into an harmonious national community if the Jewish *ork, devoted part of their spare time to the religious Jew as the price which had to be paid for IH-be, keeping classical, traditional Judaism aUve. It is element is made to be the common denominator 'Dg of their fellow-refugees. There only due to the extraordinary position which was for all of them. It seems to be strange to assume 'Prej, " °f tasks to be fulfilled, and those who are given to the Jewish people by becoming the bearers that the sole result of this mighty and historical the A^^ *° lend a hand should get in touch with of such a culture, demanding so much in duties from effort should only be another variation of a small J*^ Social Services Department. its followers, that the Jewish people had to suffer Levantine State. Continued on pagt a yiifti^aK-iPJiisgfa
Page 2 AJR INFORMATION May, 195 'UR Continued from page i The sections of the Jewish people who have come RESTITUTION GERMANY K, from Europe should begin to reflect that they have LONDON AS CENTRE OF BLOCKED NAZIS IN FREEDOM not come to Israel to carry on where they left off. ACCOUNT BUSINESS. The Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung (Dussel p^ They should remind themselves that the nations in Since the publication at the beginning of March dorf) publishes a list of Nazis in high offices who ai' • whose midst they had been living did not only of the new German regulations concerning transfer again free. Amongst them are the Gauleiters "^ possess those noble and admirable qualities they of Blocked DM Accounts, London has become the Florian (Dusseldorf), Kaufmann (Hamburg), Wei» remember and admire and want to have transferred main market in Blocked Marks. Dealings in Blocked rich (Kurhessen), Groh6 (Cologne-.^achen), Sche* Th to Palestinian soil, but also the recrudescence of DM accounts are not only brisk but English residents (Salzburg), Wahl (Schwaben), Wegener (Wesef suffe; barbarism which has brought them to Israel. If can also obtain much better prices than holders of Ems), and Lauterbach (South Westphalia) ; Uebef has they accept the brighter side of that culture they Blocked DM accounts living in the States, in Israel, reither (Styria) and Hofer (Tirol) escaped and 3f "esit have also to reconcile themselves to its darker side. Switzerland or other foreign countries. "The reason assumed to be in South America. , ^Hie: This demonstrates that progress and the respective for this is that, under certain conditions, British The former head of the Organisation for Na» 'srag level of culture can only be judged as a whole. Of residents can benefit from the fact that the DM is Abroad, Bohle, and the former Cabinet Membef ^11 course, it does not mean that one has to exclude tied to the dollar and that German currency is Schwerin von Kroskig, Ohnesorge and Schacht al" •"ent the infusion of new ideas and new stimulants into therefore dealt at a 10 to 20 per cent higher price also free. Pi^obl an existing culture to help it to ascend a higher against sterling than against dollars. At the time and! level. However, problems look quite different, if of going to press the London price is about 57-60 " STAHLHELM " RE-ESTABLISHED ^' th they are approached with the cautious reserve per cent of the official DM—£-Ta.te, whereas the At a secret meeting in Frankfort whose outcoB^ to th induced by such reflections. dollar quotation for Blocked Marks is less than has become known only now, the " Stahlhelm Jg, 50 per cent. A legal system must be judged by the part it plays was re-established. Karl Simon, a close associaf Israe within the whole of the culture to which it belongs Another big help for dealings in Blocked DM of Theodor Duesterberg, the deceased chairman " Oiaxi and which forms its background. It has to be sub Accounts is the decision of the Bank of England the former " Stahlhelm," was elected " BundeS com_ mitted to the analysis which purpose it is intended (by Foreign Exchange Committee Notice No. 391) fuehrer." A similar organisation, called " Bund d' Jews to serve, and what are its general ideas on the that any of the big banks can give the permission Frontsoldaten," is active in Berlin and sever* But relations of man to man and to his creator. It is for the purchase or sale of Blocked DM Accounts, other places. At one of the meetings the form? dipj^ certain that in such a test Judaism will not be found whilst the authority of the Bank of England is only Colonel Schmidt declared : " It might be difficu' notes wanting. In fact it is the first culture which recog required in special cases. The big banks give the to judge what was worse, the shooting of 1,0" Diuj.)- nised the dignity of the human being by making him permission within 24 hours. Jews or the destruction of peaceful towns." ^>tua- a being, created by God and endowed by him with As far as one can see there are no longer any been a soul. Above all, by proclaiming one origin for the difficulties regarding the transfer in Germany MUNICH INDEMNIFICATION OFFICE fght whole human race, racial prejudice and artificial itself, at least as far as the authorities are concerned. The successor of Dr. Philipp Auerbach as Pre* Prosp divisions within the human race are automatically The transfer of a blocked account from one bank to dent of the Munich Indemnification Office, I" ijg excluded. The progressive and humane nature of an " acquired Blocked .Account " of another bank Zdralek, was Mayor of Reichenbach (Silesia) uo* denjg Jewish social legislation is too well-known to call can be achieved within 2-4 days after the order has 1933. He was deposed by the Nazis as " politicall. prg^^ for elaboration here. Notwithstanding all these been given. Only in a very few cases clients com umeliable." The Vice-President Heinz Meier is; of tj great advances, Jewish Law has come under the plained that some banks were reluctant in the Jew and member of the Board of the Munich Jewi*- de^^g fire of our intellectuals as, on account of its religious transfer or tried to keep larger amounts for another Community. He was in several concentrati^ jn g character, it intrudes into the private sphere more few days so as not to forgo interest. camps. The second Vice-President Heinri* inter, than is accepted or permissible by Western From a Special Correspondent. Pflueger, a member of the Christian-Social Uni"* thig standards. UNCLAIMED BOOKS IN GERMANY was active in the Anti-Nazi Resistance Moveme"' bnjj^j Amongst the cultural treasures confiscated by the ••— )^ant Jewish Ethical Standards Nazis and recovered in Germany under the auspices Jewish Law does not recognise any distinction WHO POISONED GOERING ? 'utur of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc. were a The 29-years-old journalist Peter Martin Bie'* Nor^j between civil and religious laws. Western minds, number of books which bear the names of their trained in the conception of a strict separation former owners. Whilst, legally speaking, the Jewish treu claimed some time ago that he had provid' tjem] between religion and State, are apt to regard this Cultural Reconstruction Inc. has received these the poison which Goering used for his suicio pon^j as a certain backwardness. They forget the specific unclaimed books for distribution amongst public Bleibtreu is now under arrest, and, so far, ^ '^ouni reasons which have led to the emancipation of the Jewish libraries all over the world, it is intended, American authorities in charge of the investigati'' achig State from the supervision of the Church and also as a voluntary action, to return them to the original have found no proof for the correctness " the j that Jewish culture is essentially the culture of owners or their heirs, as far as their addresses can Bleibtreu's statement. ''^otie the Jewish religion and that Judaism, as a religion, still be traced, provided that claims are filed with conj^ is diSerent in its structure from the religions which the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc. (1841 CHURCH CONFESSES GUILT , Ger^ have sprung from it. From the viewpoint of the At a meeting devoted to the subject Broadway, New York, 23, N.Y.) by June 30, 1951. and Judaism " Dr. Rudolf Pechel stated . Chur^ from..„ development of mankind, the Jewish conception is An alphabetical list of the names will be published at least equal to any modern idea of the purpose of treatment ot Jews by Hitler and his henchme• nT " ^conMoreQ, in instalments by the Jewish Chronicle. The AJR the point where we Germans as a Nation have 1^ of ^.^^ man. It is indeed, so the religious Jew assumes, of has also received a copy of this list and will, in the superior value on account of its higher conceptions our honour." The speaker also recalled the conf^ ^Vnip course of the next few days, inform those persons butions of German Jews to German culture. S^Ven of human rights and duties, mutual responsibility whose present whereabouts could be ascertained. and social inter-relation. The intrusion into the Readers are requested to refrain from written private sphere, in consequence of the religious law, inquiries to the AJR and to follow up the publication PASSOVER RECALLED is not the result of a lower conception of human of the list in the Jewish Chronicle. A copy of the list The Frankfurter Rundschau recently publisb On dignity, but of the higher value, which is placed is also on view for personal callers at AJR Head an article under the heading " Days ol the ^, ^a
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reflection and atmosphere. Her men and womeS Jj L. Schachne : come from all walks of life, the petit-bourgeois, tU bohemian, the great physician and the good oU ^ W aunt. She speaks of love and death as well as oi ^J MUTH HOFFMANN, A GERMAN AUTHORESS cooking recipes, and all she tells actually happen^ and moreover happened to Jewish people. It i* German post-war literature might be said to be our fate. In the year 1935 she published her first this last fact which gives to the book its charactef jjj, in ruins as well as German houses and towns. book " Pauline in Kreuzburg,".which was banned and its outstanding merit and importance amoof part, Very few flowers indeed grow on these ruins and two months after its publication. Since then German books of this post-war period. It is no' Prus fewer still can be of great interest to readers outside danger and oppression grew year by year. Despite in its setting a book which attempts to fight anO; in tl Germany. all German promises to treat mixed marriages Semitism—Ruth Hoffmann has no political, raci» Not There is however one exception to this rule if we indulgently. Dr. Scheye was in 1943 ordered to or sociological ideology. She relates the private foc^, discard the phenomenon of the somewhat shady the Gestapo and transported to Auschwitz. Of all reality of her own past and by doing so reveals tW the i Ernst Juenger. This exception is the poetess and her happiness nothing remained but the laconic tragedy of our people. And these tragic stori^ ivitj^ novelist Ruth Hoffmann. She gained her reputa note by the authorities : " On the 15 July Erich unfold as well the chain of vexation, worries anc entei tion in and outside Germany not by her literary Scheye died of pneumonia in Auschwitz." And final tragedies. Veit, achievements alone, but strangely enough by her now all her prayers are for the note to have been predominant fixation on the Jewish question. true. It was in his memory that she wrote an The success of this little book was enormous ienU The life of Ruth Hoffmann, who is herself unforgettable volume of poems : Dunkler Engel not only in Jewish circles, as might be expected com, "Aryan," was'always and until the tragic end, related (Dark Angel). but it also found an echo in German circles to whoi* and i the Jewish question had been utterly unknown to j^ and bound up with the fate of the Jews in Germany. Since 1945 when she first published her book : She was born in Breslau, Silesia. The charm of until then. In all these letters which the authores nieta " Meine Freunde aus Davids Geschlecht," a steady received from inside Germany there was no negatiV had this formerly German town, its dark stream, the flow of letters has filled four big folders with mail Oder, its innumerable churches, the lovely forests reaction at all. In some interesting cases ther and from quite different people in many countries. could even be found what has up to now still bee^ Seve and meadows, the deep-rooted and very Silesian There were letters from Bombay, Capetown, from background of legends and fairy tales, gave the missing in public German statements : mea culp4 sign^ Israel, Brazil, England, France and last, not mea maxima culpa. ,' rewa poetess an intellectual foundation of limitless least, Germany. " Meine Freunde aus Davids romantic resources. There she grew up, surrounded Geschlecht "isa quiet and restrained little book. It In 1948 she wrote the stories of her brother! schej by Jewish friends and relations by marriage, and simply narrates in a moving and human language children who emigrated to the U.S. since he, toO| f\i her insatiable love for the place of her birth and her Ruth^offmann's recollections of her Jewish friends was married to a Jewish wife. These little stories: logj affectionate love for our people made up the two and relatives in her ixative town, Breslau. Possess Umgepflanzt in fremde Sommererde (TransplantC" theu predominant strands in her mind and fate. ing a great gift for creating atmosphere as well as into strange beds) are moving incidents out of tl* Who living human beings, Ruth Hoffmann is a story lives of uprooted children who have to find a ne* ilinj; In 1929 she married Dr. Erich Scheye, a Jew, footing in a foreign country. Her latest boo* rea^^ and found a happiness unsurpassed at his side until teller by nature. She never states a case, but genuine philosophy is brought to life by action " Schlesische Barmherzigkeit " (Silesian Charity)' Hon. 1933, when she bravely and unflinchingly shared a great story showing the sorrow and lack of lovi"! a.'isin kindness in the last two decades. In this work tl' of th authoress has reached a climax in her work so f*'' Dot She never shuns the possibility of resentments j comj LAW and LIFE all sorts arising (not only with regard to the Jewif Princ question but with regard to the lost home, SilesiJ not 3 Ltgml Adeie* Hours (fer persons miilh limiitd mtans only) : Sunday 11 a.m.-12 noon by appointmtnt. too, composing everything.in a vast epic of offeo'' Spirj^ and atonement). But she keeps all resentment ' the t CONTRIBUTORS TO THE NATIONAL industrial injury. If she wants to contribute as an bay by her absolute truth and her outstandi"" l"), INSURANCE Insured Person at the full rate as shown above she warmth. Like Franz Werfel she possesses whatj Com, Some weeks ago we inspected the building that will draw the benefits in her own right. Thus, for most seldom to be found in Germany ; a noble hea'*' ?f th houses the National Insurance with its various instance, she will receive 26s. per week in case of departments, and we have seen what benefits are sickness, whereas at the contribution of 3d. only The work of Ruth Hoffmann closes a real g^ 'Iter paid by them. We will pay another visit to-day neither she nor her husband will receive any extra in German literature. There have been count!** their and look at the various people who enter the benefit while she is ill, and the same appUes in case " Apologiae pro vita nostra," always too ma* ties. building in order to get the benefits in case of need. of her unemployment. The maternity grant of £'i anti-Semitic shockers and lots of appreciations " ''beij, We will notice first that nobody under the age of at the birth of a child and the attendance allowance the Jewish genius in general, but there are, with Unm 15 is entering, but we see the youth as well as the of £1 per week for four weeks after confinement are few exceptions of some small genre pieces if. ^rn man of ripe age, the young girl as well as the matron. independent of the wife's contribution and payable G. Herrmann's " Jettchen Gebert," no books whi^ fheri on the husband's insurance. show the Jew in his normal setting, in norOi' and ] We see them enter three different visiting rooms— relations as friends and neighbours. .0 le for Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3. Class 1 comprises If a married woman is insured in her own right employed persons who work for an employer under she will receive a retirement pension of 26s. per week Without sentimentality and without critici^ "iflu( a contract of service, that means people who work after achieving the age of 60 ; but if she is not a Ruth Hoffmann speaks of Jews, friends and f^ Th for wages or a salary. Class 2 are self-employed main contributor her husband's retirement pension lations with sincerity and truth. She is to-d'- able persons who are in business on their own account, will be increased by 16s. on her behalf only after he living alone and uprooted, all her relations *' j'Ppe; or who are working for gain but not under control reaches the age of 65 as long as she is under 60 ; either dead or emigrated—her son and her brotli the Q of an employer. Class 3 is for those who do not thereafter she will receive the 16s. in her own right. in America, but she still fights the fight—perbaf «nter fall under Class 1 or Class 2. At the time this paper goes into print the new in a lost position. ,alm budget is just considered by the House of Commons Three categories of people, although over the age Jevvij of 15, will not be accepted as contributors to the and an increase of these old-age pensions will RECORD OF AN EPISODE scheme : men who on July 5, 1948, were aged 65 ; certainly be passed. Most of us have already forgotten the days wb^ j^ "g women who at that date were aged 60, and married She can make her choice within 13 weeks after we were guests of boarding houses at the Isl^^ as^,?^ women who do no work outside their own home. marriage, then she has to notify her local Insurance Man or inhabitantlabitants of racecourse stables,. The*t""^; JTe th( Employed men, if under 18 years old, have to Office whether she wants to be a main contributor fore at first ; isigh t it may seem a little odd that n" jj.^s pay a weekly contribution of 2s. lOJd. and their or not, and a special form is provided by the after 10 years:ars,, a booUOOkK on thLUeC internmeniiitcriiuicuit, oufi alif***':,j CoV..rJ'^' employer contributes 2s. 5Jd. Men over the age of Ministry for that decision. She can carry on work is being published (Eugen Spier, " The Protect'" n-e. 18 pay 4s. lid. per week while the employer has to for a time, and thereafter concern herself with her Power," Skeffington,, 10/6). Whilst, however, ^ that' pay another 4s. 2d. Women in Class 1 pay 2s. 4d. home and family, and continue to be insured in the majority of the then enemy aliens the fu^ g. ^' under the age of 18 and the employer Is. lid., her own right as Class 3 if she notifies the Insurance aspects of the internment episode stand in ''j d while the contribution after that age is 3s. lOd. Office within eight weeks after leaving work. The foreground of their recollection, Mr. Spier belo", and 3s. 3d. respectively. law has even provided for the female prerogative to that unhappy minority, whose experience was, h, People in Class 2 (self-employed) under 18 pay of changing one's mind. A married woman can more serious one. He was interned as early ,• dy^'' 3s. 7d. when men, 3s. id. when women ; over that give up paying contributions at any time by taking September 1939, when Nazi and anti-Nazi interf^ f^^ age 6s. 2d. and 5s. Id. respectively. her card to the Insurance Office, but she cannot were not, or not sufficiently, separated from 6% de^ The Class 3 people under 18 years : 2s. 9d. male, re-start until she has again taken up work. other. In the eyes of many British guards, he *J l^Per 2s. 3d. female ; over 18 : 4s. 8d. or 3s. 8d. We have finished our inspection of the Insurance the " German prisoner," whereas his haughty ^^^ 'eiA The contributions are paid by stamps to the value Building, we have scrutinised its departments and Semitic Nazi fellow internees teased him on acco'^j^ l:^J "-e of the whole contribution composed of what the its visitors. There was one door we did not enter of his Jewishness and his pro-British attit''. in,!"' employer and what the employee pay ; therefore, because it was marked " Staff only." Just one Finally, after many vicissitudes, including a voy**' *aini^^ the stamp for a Class 1 male over 18 is 9s. Id., to glimpse while the door swings open shows us that all to Canada, he was released. .||i be 1 " which the employee has paid 4s. Ud. and the the people engaged in the execution of the Health The book, the proceeds from which are b^ '^^^^l employer 4s. 2d. In the case of employed people Service have their special Insurance Scheme—the put at the disposal of the Council of Christians ^ tiy t the employer will usually deduct the employee's doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, etc. For their Jews, would certainly be more impressive if it J^ lon!, contribution from the weekly pay packet, add his benefit a Superannuation Scheme has been intro shorter. Many readers might also have prefe^ Je^^,. i'c own contribution and buy the stamp, fix it on the duced and their contributions and benefits are a smaller amount of quotations from the Bible *^ h^pj^ contribution card and write the date on the stamp. calculated on a percentage basis. the Prayer Book. On the other hand, it is t°^ th^^^ A lady who gets married will have to make up We have seen that the benefits are as different welcomed as a record of an important period in ^ 'abv,-; her mind whether she will be a contributor or rely and manifold as the contributors and their contri history. Even those who might not agree witl^.M ^iebjj on her husband's contributions. In case she wants butions. We leave the building with a general writer on all points, will have shared his ^^\J ^^^ to take up or continue work as an employee she has impression of the Scheme but we know that when that in those days, when we were neither Ger^^Ger^ ) his J at least to contribute 3d. weekly and in that case in doubt about a special problem, be it benefit or nor British, Judaism was the only power, vi"^^^ >,-»ur^bh," she can only rely on her husband's benefits. The contribution, the local Insurance Office is the best could protect us against a spiritual breakdowOvj JtnrjJ contribution of 3d. is solely meant as insurance for place to put us right. W. ROSENSTO^ 1951 AJR INFORMATION May, 1951 Page 5 imeii ;, tb( i)r. J. JacoD Old Acquaintances 1 oli son: as of Where East and West Meet :—Of course, you lenei! SELMA STERN: "THE COURT JEW" (II) can still go into the Eastern sector of Berhn, and in It is Continiied from last issue fact a lot of people are going daily to do their actei shopping because it's cheaper to buy there. The Most of these Court Jews and their business Rabbi of Halberstadt Minden, Ravensberg and nonj frontiers are not marked, and there are no controls Partners, in all countries of Germany as well as in Magdeburg. Benjamin Wolff's son, married to a ; no' at all, but no exchange of newspapers exists. Prui daughter of Jost and Esther, due to the influence anti' ssia, utilised their means and connections also Nobody will stop you from going to the theatres of his mother-in-law, the " Liebmannin," was •aci* ^ the complicated and risky job of mint masters, beyond the Potsdamer Platz while a good seat appointed Rabbi of Berlin in 1709. ivat< ''ot all of them were successful, and suspicion was around Kurfuerstendamm costs 12 Marks or one s tbi focused upon these men who undertook to supply Since the Thirty Years War a remarkable move pound. It's different meeting your friends. Al :orie- tfle mints with the metals and to provide the State ment of the Jewish population in Germany had though everybody can go where he wants to go, anii ^ith the coins it urgently needed. None of these taken place. In this process the Court Jews played people in the Eastern part don't want to be seen ^terprises is better known than the company of their part as community founders. As a reward for with their acquaintances from the West because J«tel Heine Ephraim of Berlin. It cannot be their services they obtained permission to settle in they are afraid it might harm them. They ask you aousi "lenied that the monetary transactions of this towns which for long periods had been closed to not to talk to anybody about their meeting you. cted "Company caused inflation and consequent hardship Jews. From such settlements of a few privileged When the " State Opera " in Admiralspalast rhorf and impoverishment. It would, however, be unjust Jews and their families and staff many Jewish was in trouble, very few in the West knew it. lo-w* to blame only Ephraim ; the adulteration of the communities developed, e.g. Vienna, Dresden and Ernst Legal, who runs the Russian controlled ores JOetal of the coins, the so-called " Ephraimites," Leipzig, Kassel, Hannover and Brunswick, Stutt opera, accepted Bert Brecht's new opera " Das ativ bad met with the approval of Frederick the Great gart and Munich, Halle and Schwerin. Verhoer des LucuUus " with music by his friend thei* and his Ministers and helped the King through the The Jewish Communities were not always satisfied Paul Dessau, but after onl)' one performance the beef ^ven Years' War. Moses Mendelssohn, however, with the leadership of the Court Jews. They con authorities stopped it, and nobody knows why they ulps ^'Snificantly refused the temptation of lucrative sidered their interference too autocratic. The accepted it in the first place. Herrmann Scherchen, rewards and decided not to be associated with the absolute State, according to its principles, did not the conductor, left for Switzerland on the day after ;her'* Scheme. desist from interfering in the internal affairs of the the first night, and director Wolf Voelker went to to« Two problems which incidentally have still not Jewish Communities and often installed its Court Duesseldorf, but nothing happened to Brecht und ries 'ost their significance in our own days present Jews as masters in their communities, responsible Dessau although the work was condemned as inte' themselves : How did these well-to-do Court Jews, for law and order and—last not least—the punctual " formahstic." On the other hand, Horst Lommer, f tb *no were in contact with Court circles, with delivery of the taxes. In Berlin the Court Jews one of the most successful playwrights in the ne« "'•nisters, army officers and high ranking officials who acted as Superior Elders were not freely elected Eastern sector went over to the West a few days jook f^act upon the way of life and the ideas of their according to Jewish rules and regulations but later. Lommer was a bit-player during the Nazi ty)« ^on.je-ftrjsh surroundings ? And was cultural appointed for life by the King. years ; he became famous after the end of the war 3Vl« *?^iniilation their aim ? No doubt, the Court Jews as author of " Das tausendjaehrige Reich," and still wrote in the Communist press a few days ktV "' the Baroque and the era of early capitalism were The Real " Jud Suess " before he left for the West. Although he was )fa( An exceptional position among the Court Jews of ot unaffected by the spirit of their epoch and accepted and found asylum, people resent strongly ts * the l7th and 18th centuries was occupied by Joseph iPj^P^ted in display of luxury and splendour with his desire to continue his activities as a writer. ;\viS' Suess Oppenheimer of Heidelberg, better known as ^nces and noblemen. But on the whole they had They want to stop people changing sides and still lesi* " Jud Suess." Court Jew of many German Princes ^ot yet indulged in feverish desire for cultural and remaining in the limelight. They tell you that feni* and Financial Counsel of Karl Alexander, Duke of P'ritual assimilation. They were deeply rooted in former Communists are not always the best fighters tit»' Wuerttemberg, he exercised all the functions of a ^?traditions and ideas of Judaism. against the Communists, and the example of idii*' typical Court Jew, but beyond this he was a -, They were proud of being Elders of their Jewish Koestler and Burnham isn't always valid. When laf^ statesman, the first Jew who—according to Selma l^nimunities and leaders of the Unified Corporations Director Bar log wanted to produce " Born Yester leaJ* Stern—" influenced, even if only to a limited j ^he JewTy of their territories. As " Shtadlanim," day," Mr. Laski, editor of the U.S. controlled g>( extent, the course of German history." He was ''tercessors, they resolutely put their influence and monthly, " Der Monat," objected because the itle* the first among the Court Jews who consciously .I'^ir means at the disposal of the Jewish Communi- comedy had a slightly anti-American flavour. But nai; stepped out of the barriers of the Ghetto, the first li'S' Whsn for instance the publication of the he stopped protesting when Langhoff of Deutsches us" who dared to strive after an equal position in Oellous work of Professor Eisenmenger " Judaism Theater started to put the same play on, and the itb' Society to the point of accepting the Court's way „'"iiasked " seemed to threaten the position of the Schlosspark Theater in Steglitz presented it with of High Living, without, however, severing his ties ^•"nian Jews or when in 1745 the Empress Maria nearly the whole cast from the East. with the Jewish Community. He was a highly ,rhl<» beresia expelled her Jewish subjects from Prague gifted, but very complicated, personality, and iriP> 1^^ Bohemia the Court Jews combined their efforts undertook to transform the economically rather j 'essen the danger and to secure the help of Georg Kaiser play in London :—Beginning undeveloped Duchy of Wuerttemberg into an iciS' ^enjiial Princes, among them the King of Britain. on May 1, the little Gateway Theatre will show industrialised and capitalistic country, striving for j,| he development of Jewish teaching is unthink- Georg Kaiser's " Die Spieldose " in German. Heinz unification and centralisation of the administration ,-d>J '6 without the generous assistance of the Jewish Goldberg will produce it with Anthony Differing and thereby strengthening the absolute power of J ^ ^PPer class and its predominant representatives, and Carmen Blanck-Sichel It will run for a week the Duke. By this attempt, however, he was ent '--ourt Jews. They spent large sums for printing only, and I hope it's not too late to remind you. necessarily involved in violent conflict with the •haf -[, jfirprises, for instance for a new edition of the London News :—Julius Gellner returned from " old liberties " of the Wuerttemberg Estates, directing in Israel's " Habimah."—Karl Stepanek a'mud, and they founded and aided talmudical guilds and corporations. Their enmities wrecked J ademies and similar institutions. They offered acted " Napoleon " in Shaw's " Man of Destiny."— Suess's career. When the Duke suddenly died Leo Bieber played a leading part in " Waters of r^.^sh scholars, especially Rabbis of the East, Suess was arrested, and after long, detailed and wb«* tg "86, substance, and renewed opportunity of the Moon " at the Haymarket.—Martin Miller and disgracefully indiscreet trials, he was sentenced to Lilly Kann are appearing in " Collector's Item," le» aching in their Yeshivoth and " Klausen." And death and hanged in a cage in 1738. T their counterparts founded churches so the Court which opened in Manchester with Francis Lederer jt^?^ erected synagogues, built in the architectural His death was terrifying, his memory over as star.—Peter Ebert, Carl's young son, produced ilie<* j^yie of their epoch. They were really benefactors shadowed even in our present days by the hatred some operas in Glasgow.—Frederic Valk and Ferdy cti* aj?'^?ponding to their wealth, their pride or vanity his political actions and some of his methods had Mayn will be in Basil Dean's production of tv? in obedience to the religious commandment planted in the minds of his contemporaries. No " Hassan." 9^7 '•sils a Tew to donate a tenth of his income to doubt, he was a stranger in Wuerttemberg and Obituaries:—In Switzerland, Countess Coudenhove- ^•^l causes favoured the interests and ideas of the Catholic Calergi (the former actress Ida Roland) died at the loff^, Marriage Policy Prince against the traditions and privileges of his age of 64. She gave up her career after marriage ^as' j itrTha , '^^ ^""^ deliberate policy in their marriage Lutheran subjects. From this complicated state although Ida Roland was one of the most gifted y ((^''Sements, not at all unlike the strengthening of of affairs nothing could emerge but deadly hatred. actresses of her time.—The novelist Hermynia zur {Cities by careful selection amongst the eligible Even so one is tempted to ask whether Suess could Muehlen, aged 67, died near London ; she wrote have met a better fate, had he not been a Jew. ^rf de^^^s and Princesses. Through this inter- good fiction in a sociaUst vein. The artist Viktor Selma Stem indeed stresses the point that Suess ' V It gi'^'i^nce wealth and influence were increased. Tischler, the Viennese painter who returned to was sent to the gallows because the time then was a", fel^ ays has been the pride of the richest to be Europe only a few months ago from exile in the not yet ripe to tolerate a Jew influencing and •°^u Ciju 'i to most learned representatives of Jevidsh States, died in France. 'If 'D-la'^'^*' teaching, as it then was, and to find sons- openly directing German political affairs. 'y*^' tai,^taC*^* among the most promising pupils of ththee One does not need to agree with all of Selma PEM. be J "dical academies. It was their pride, too, to Stem's formulations or opinions, nevertheless one iey^arned themselves and many of the Court Jews must admit that her book is a scholarly one and thiij, ^d their spare time to talmudical studies. It written in a fluent and reflective style—so fulfilling V tioQ^*. Surprise one, however, to find rabbis re- all that Leopold von Ranke demanded from a PELTOURS TRAVEL SERVICE Je^'^ing their rabbinical vocation to become Court perfect historian. bap Or combining both occupations, as it sometimes Only one would have wished that as an addition SPECIALISTS IN EXPERTS IN *be p ^d. It is more easily understandable that to this valuable book an index had been included TRAVEL TO ISRAEL CONTINENTAL TRAVEL TahK- ."^rt Jews used their influence to procure of all the important dates of European and Jewish Ueb'^'^al positions for their relatives. The history and literature of the period from 1648 to eJi*' e^j'^'ann family offers one of the most striking WILL BE HAPPY TO ARRANGE FOR YOU— 1789. Likewise an index of the Court Jews men WITHOUT BOOKING FEE—ANY JOURNEY his iJPlos of this procedure. Jost Liebmann had tioned in the book—with relevant dates—and a BY RAIL, AIR OR SEA. PLEASE CALL AT {tahL^otber Benjamin Wolff Liebmann appointed map of Central Europe—with regard to the historical ^••j.^ of Landsberg, Neumark, Pomerania and development—would have been of great benefit 29 DUKE STREET. LONDON, W.l Tel.: WEL 9943/7 ^^k, whilst his son .\braham was installed as for the reader. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION May, 19J1AJR
JEWISH REFUGEES COMMITTEE PERSONALIA FROM MT DIART The Jewish Refugees Committee and the Com mittee for the Care of Children from the Camps Dr. Ismar Freund recently celebrated his 75w Every collector knows that the value of a collec moved to :— birthday in Israel. Dr. Freund took a leading pan tion cannot be mechanically assessed by adding up 5th Floor, Woburn House, Upper Woburn Place, in the work of the Jewish Community in Berhn aiw the value of the pieces of which it consists. This London, W.C.1, telephone : EUSton 3925/6, 3979, of the " Landesverband " of the Jewish CoBi' holds good for stamps, pictures and libraries alike. At and the Overseas Settlement Department to :— munities in Prussia. He is also the author of sever* On .A It is the achievement of the Wiener Library Jews' Temporary Shelter, 63 Mansell Street, standard works about legislation concerning tW thee (19 Manchester Square, London, W.l) that it offers Aldgate, London, E.l, telephone : ROYal 4711/2. Jews in pre-Hitler Germany. stock two advantages at the same time. It is unique, as far as the subject matter is concerned, and it is, The Committee considerably reduced its staff and Dr. Willy Katzenstein (formerly a lawyer i" the ^ as far as this is humanly possible, complete. Not the remaining activities at Woburn House will Bielefeld) suddenly passed away in London. Fo' everybody, however, has the opportunity of paying include the administration of the records of twenty years he was Chairman of the Bielefel from a visit to Dr. Wiener's institute and of looking individual refugees, and the maintenance, welfare Community ; he also was chairman of the Province re; upon the shelves whose volumes contain a wealth and general supervision of the young people brought organisation of the Jewish Communities in West in G of material on facts and problems, directly or to this country since the war. The office at the phalia, and a member of the Council of the " Reicbs ^Peci indirectly connected with contemporary Jewry. It Shelter will be in charge of emigration questions. vertretung." After his emigration he activel is therefore gratifying that the library has started a LIST OF FORMER COMMUNITY co-operated with a number of German-Jewish orga"'ft' " catalogue series in which certain sections of the MEMBERS isations including the B'nai B'rith Lodge and tb* ?cre library are methodically listed. Whilst, some time The Jewish Trust Corporation, which has been A.J.R. All those who had the privilege of knowinf lefu ago, the first issue gave a survey on " Books on set up for claiming heirless, unclaimed and com Dr. Katzenstein will deeply regret the sudden deatb AJR Persecution, Terror and Resistance in Nazi munal property in the British Zone of Germany, of this man whose life was devoted to the well-beinf ucti Germany," a newly published second issue deals would greatly appreciate it if emigrated Jews from of his fellow-Jews. liProc e with Germany 1918-1933 (" From Weimar to the British Zone would send in any lists (complete Justizrat Dr. Ludwig Heilbrunn (former!; ecen Hitler," price 6s.). Under the subheading " Legacies or incomplete) of former members of their com Frankfurt a.M.), recently died on a visit to Germany met of World War I," " Structure of the Republic," munities they might possess. This would consider Justizrat Heilbrunn was a member of the Prussial Mr " The Vangnard of National-Socialism " and " The ably facilitate the tracing of property originally Diet and Deputy Chairman of the Frankfui epor Rise of National-Socialism " this inventory of the owned by Jews who have not survived the Hitler Municipal Council. He was also a member of tbi las h library may, at the same time, serve as a compre terror. Any information on community property Board of the Frankfurt Anwaltskammer whi& hensive bibliography. The catalogue is enhanced (scrolls, chandeliers, etc.) would also be very helpful. after the war, made him' an honorary mem'bet "rder by biographical notes on the authors and a most Communications should be sent to the Jewish Dr.'Heilbrunn, who lived in London as a refugee niani helpful index. Dr. Wiener and his Institute deserve Trust Corporation for Germany Ltd., Hamburg 36, was also a member of the AJR. every praise for this publication. Prien Building, Alstereck, Jungfemstieg. Dr. Arthur Prager (formerly Vienna) passie^el' t 1 Berlin At a meeting under the auspices of the away after an accident. Dr. Prager was for soiD' Austi Jewish Community, Rabbi Dr. Freier spoke on the years a member of the A.J.R. Executive, which 'will • None of us would be very happy if he had to come philosophy of Hermann Cohen. always gratefully remember his services. A. downstairs to answer the front-door bell only to be The President of the West-Berlin " Landgericht," Hugo Stein, formerly a lawyer in Karlsrub* U( told that it was not meant for him. The occupiers Dr. Siegfried Loewenthal, has died at the age of recently died in U.S.A. Before his emigration he heW (exce of 8 Fairfax Road are sometimes in this unfortunate 76 years. leading positions with Jewish organisations in Bade* 8. 2( position. They have to persuade callers that they do not canvas in the Fairfax Road houses but turn and was also a member of the " Reichs-vertretung' Hous are neither in charge of the AJR nor of the United to the gangway which starts immediately at the Mr. Julius Bamberger (formerly Bremen) di« I^uri, Restitution Office, but that the offices of these Finchley Road corner (top of Fairfax Road) ; it in Los Angeles at the age of 71. In Germany b' there organisations are at 8 Fairfax Mansions. If you will lead you straight to the entrance of No. 8 took a leading part in Jewish activities, especiaW to G have to come to our place for the first time, please Fairfax Mansions. NARRATOR in the defence work of the Jewish Central Verei*| Recit FAMILY EVENTS RELIABLE REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCED NEUROLOGIST Personal Entries in this column are free of required. Salary and commission. accepts cases of insomnia, nervous de GOOD-LOOKING LADY, 39, mao/ Sunt t)r.\ charge. Texts should be sent in by the Able to drive car. Apply Box 1010. pressions, etc. Particularly individual cultural interests, educated, domesf 15M of the month. YOUNG ACCOUNTANT - BOOK scientific treatment. Box 1011. cated, coming from good Berlin familVi speali Birth KEEPER seeks position. Box 1026. REPAIR of all kinds of garments of wants to remarry gentleman wit" Weiss.—A son was born on March 19, COOKING, light attending, light ladies, gentlemen, children, and of same background. Box 1006. i Su; 1951, to Carla (n^e Moos), wife of nd housework, baby-sitting. Part-time linen. Box 1018. LADY, 30, attractive, intelligent, witjj Porto Dr. Otto Weiss, of 14 Warrington workers available. Phone AJR, really nice son of 9, owing to restitute"! Crescent, W.9. GARDEROBENSCHRANK wanted. MAI 4449. Phone TUDor 1804. property able to change mode of li'* Birthdays WOMAN CLERK, specialised in would like to hear of cultured gentle' activi Mrs. Martha Koslowsky of the TEXTILE AGENCY with 2 separate figure work, wants suitable work. first floor furnished offices. West End man who would share and help her f and ] Grove House, Hemsterloy, nr. Bishop shape happy life. Box 1015. ' futu,, Box 1020. London. Through death to sell or Auckland (formerly of Stein and tlect: Koslowsky, Breslau), celebrated her ELDERLY LADY Bookkeeper wants partnership with Agency or Whole I WOULD LIKE my iriei^j^ 75th birthday on March 30th, in good part-time work, in- or outdoors. saler. Possibility of subletting one or doctor's widow, middle-aged, go"?'! health. Box 1021. both offices. Box 1012. looking, domesticated, educated, goo''' 1 Accommodation RING TUDOR 7032 for Continental natured, own home and income, * Seewald, Mrs. Anna, nee Cohn, ACCOMMODATION of any kind home made cakes, biscuits, etc. remarry. Gentleman over 50, health) formerly of Hachenburg and Koeln, wanted. AJR Social Service Dept. H celebrated her 70th birthday on Children's birthday cakes a speciality. and cultured, longing for happy hoiB*' LARGE FURNISHED ROOM, kindly write confidentially. Box 10l»' March 29, 1951, at 44 Anlaby Park Maida Vale. Use kitchen. Business Road South, Hull. lady or gent. Box 1007. MISSING PERSONS Death AJR RELIEF DEPARTMENT Enquiries from AJR WELL FURNISHED ROOM, h. & c. (Sponsored by the Central British Fund Dr. WUly Katzenstein, of 18 Canfield basin, in quiet superior home few min. Reich, Ida, from Vienna, seen ^ Gardens, London, N.W.6, passed away for Jewish i^elief and Rehabilitation) Finchley Road Tube, for business London in 1939, for Malwine Popp*'' »«B^o' suddenly on April 8, 1951, deeply Vienna. ,, gentleman. Box 1013. 33, Compayne Gardens, mourned by his wife, children, relatives Wolfsohn, Isak, from Vienna, la*^ and friends. ISRAELI GIRL STUDENT wants room against French or Hebrew London. N.W.6 Prague, manufacturer of kitcbe' CLASSIFIED lessons, baby-sitting or similar work. (Finchlay Rotd Tube Station) utensils, for Felix Popper, Vienna. ; Employment Goldberg, Rudolf, born at Ratiboj' EXPERIENCED BOOK-KEEPER Box I0I9. Consignments should be dispatched to about 26, last known address : ^' seeks part-time work. Excellent MALE STUDENT at Westminster this address and not to 8 Fairfax MansionsCoventr y Road, Small Heath, BirmiO* references from satisfied clients. Technical College, S.W.I (Hotel ham, 10, for Mrs. A. Baron, New Yot* Box 1008. Operation), 17 years old, residing in OUR WORK GOES ON Bornemann, Ernst, about 30, fr"? North England, wants accommodation INTELLIGENT LADY wants part- Picas* send u* your uted Berlin-Charlottenburg, for Armin time job, 8—1 o'clock. Good dress in London from 3.9.51 onwards in a Wegner, Positano (Salerno), Italy. , hostel or family at moderate price. clothing (If In good condition) maker, cook and nursing abilities. for Israel Roehl, Erna, about 60, from BerU'' &i Box 1009. Box 1017. same enquirer. Miscellaneous ELDERLY LADY wants full-time We need Enquiries from HIAS , position ; efficient in painting or light ALTERATIONS, Remodels. Dress maker, Mrs. Cohn, now 130 King BABIES' and CHILDREN'S WEAR 1 Dryden Chambers, 119 Oxford Stre*'' nursing. Box 1022. Men's Suits and Underwear, London, W.l j. ELDERLY STOREKEEPER or Henry's Road, N.W.3. Please write for appointment. Toy* and Game* If complete Flelschman, Llzzl, nurse, forfflef^i packer available ; reliable and ex Vienna, last known address MancheS*^ perienced. Box 1023. " IDEAL " TYPEWRITER for sale. for Mirko Rajs, Israel. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, Faultless condition. ;£20—Gladstone Telephone t Ament, son and daughter of Hertf^ fluent in French, German, English, 2624. MAIDA VALE 7997 (Hirsch), formerly of Koeln, boj; Spanish, familiar with export work BOOKS WANTED. " History of the respectively 1931 and 1932, for cousi"^ and office management, seeks respon Jewish People," by Dubnow or Herman and Wolf Ament. sible position. Full- or part-time. Graetz (German or English) and SPdCt DONATBD BY Box 1024. German " Propylaen," World History. I. F. 4 O. HALLGARTXM Deadline for WANTED. Efficient lady Shorthand- Box 1027. WlaM Md Spiriti Adverts, in J U N E issue : Typist, possibly part-time, for Hamp TYPEWRITER, secondhand, wanted. Im^ofttrs # Mm^wfUrs stead office. Box 1025. Box 1016. CKUTCBSD PRIAXS, LONDON, B.C.3 May ISth _1954UR^ INFORMATION May, 1951 Page 7
COUNCIL OF JEWS FROM GERMANY s 75tli The London Executive of the " Council of Jews AJR AT WORK from Germany " met on April 15 under the Chair in and manship of its President, Dr. Leo Baeck, who had Com- AJR GENERAL MEETING AJR FRIENDSHIP CLUB just returned from the United States and who, a leverall ^t the AJR General Meeting, which took place At the first April meeting of the Club a pre few days later, left for Israel to deliver this year's ig tb«?j^ April 16 at 1 Broadhurst Gardens, N.W.6, under liminary Committee was elected, which meanwhile Orde Wingate lecture at the Hebrew University, ^^e chairmanship of Mr. A. Horovitz, Dr. W. Rosen- took up ij:s activities. It decided that, as a rule, the Jerusalem. Amongst the subjects discussed at the ock (General Secretary of the AJR) gave a survey meetings should take place at weekly (not fortnightly) Council Meeting were the efforts of the Council fQX iSfi ^^^ activities during the past year. Inter alia, intervals on Sundays at 7 p.m. at Zion House, to obtain an adequate share in the heirless, un Folf AJR has safeguarded the interests of the Jews 57 Eton Avenue, N.W.3. There will be meetings claimed and communal property which, according slefeW ^?^ Germany and .\ustria in legislative questions every Sunday in May except May 13 (Whitsun). to the Restitution Laws, is now being restituted to ,'incia'. "destitution and compensation, contacts with Jews At some of the gatherings the informal part will be the Jewish Successor Organisations operating in West "* Germany have been strengthened and several preceded by short talks and musical recitals. the various zones of Germany. LeicbS' P^cial questions regarding the position in this The monthly subscription fees have been fixed ;tively .?"^'*t;ry have also called for action. The work of at 2s. for single persons (for .AJR members Is. 6d.) AJR EMPLOYMENT AGENCY ^rgaoy AJR Social Services Department becomes and 2s. 6d. for married couples (for AJR members id tb^'-^'^asingly essential, especially since the Jewish 2s.). The AJR Employment Agency, 8 Fairfax Man owiog7^''^8ees Committee has terminated its activities. sions, Finchley Road, N.W.3, tel. M.\Ida Vale 4449, "The programme for May may be seen from the has on its registers : Elderly women for repair deat^J'^. Information has now to face a rise of the pro- announcement in the first advertising column on -beinjr'^'^tion costs, which should be made up by increased this page. work (indoors and outdoors) ; temporary office Troceeds from advertisements. .\ new feature is the staff for holiday period ; copy-typists, translators, merl5C'^^"'^y founded AJR Friendship Club, which has shorthand-typists and bookkeepers. Tianyj'^* *^th a very great response. HOLIDAY ADDRESSES iissia4 ^^- M. Pottlitzer, Hon. Treasurer of the AJR, Offers for holiday accommodation, especially at ikfurf^Ported that during the past year the expenditure moderate prices, should be sent to the AJR Social THE HYPHEN jf tbT'^^ heen cut down to the utmost possible limit and Services Dept., 8 Fairfax Mansions, Finchley Road, Sunday, May 27, 7.30 p.m., at " Dorice " vhicbj "at the solidarity of all members was required in London, N.W.S. Tel. MAIda Vale 4449. Restaurant, 169a Finchley Road (Basement), mbefr^'^^'' to enable the AJR to carry out its essential N.W.S : Anglo-Continental Brains Trust, with [ugeeJ"i^ifold activities. Refugees Committee and its Chairman, Mr. Otto Kenneth Usherwood, John Hillaby, Peter Kingshill M. Schiff. and Renate Born. Members 6d. Friends Is. felt K '''^^ting placed on record the deep gratitude The members of the Executive and of the Board, Enquiries about Hyphen activities should be lasseuji J- hy the Jewish Refugees from Germany and whose names were published in the previous issue addressed to Hon. Sec, Miss Margot Fuld, Flat A, jAust:"•l a for the devoted services of the Jewish of .\JR Information, were unanimously re-elected. 2 Exeter Road, N.W.2, enclosing s.a.e. J^R FRIENDSHIP CLUB Club 1943 : K.J.V. IN GREAT BRITAIN ItUIVCe COURT (Sit. 682 feet) •I Meetings in May every Sunday has vacancies. '6 9*??* "^Vhitsun, May 13) on Sundays SCHUBERT EVENING : ' jt ^0 aud 27, at 7 p.m., at Zions The Presidium has pleasure in Children 3-6, boys and girls. ^°".se, 57 Eton Avenue, N.W.3. Ferdinand Rauter announcing that our next Temporary or long periods. the "^ the first part of the meeting Tuesday, Sth May, 7.30 p.m. Trained Nurse, good food to f^ *'^^ ^^ ^ '•al'' about a journey Broadhurst Gardens, London, N.W.6 KARTtLLTAG 5 gns. per week inclusive P Germany on May 6 and a Piano BUNCE COURT. Otterden. Faversham. KENT ^^-^'tal on May 20. Non-members 1/6 will take place shortly, and be attended by several leading members 'ASHDALE GUESTHOUSE" „ AJR Glasgow LIBRIS (LONDON) LTD. from Israel and the Contment. maof Any members of the K.J.V. (incl. 23. BEAULIEU ROAD- n^^-^ay, May 27, 6 p.m.. Grand Hotel. have moved to 38a Boundary Rd. N.W.S, nesti' SD 1 • ^OsENSTOuK (London) will former members) not yet on our BOURNEMOUTH W. miiy' peak on Current Events. where their fine stock of lists are cordially invited to apply Tel. Westbourne 619471 witJ for details to the Hon. Secretary : 5 min. Saa—All Conv«niences. 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