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Don't miss ... Siren voices of separatism by Richard Grunberger Rabin - martyr for peace Austria's flickering mirror p4 hen Lord Derby suggested to Lewis ently outweighed that which separated them. Saying the Namier, the Polish-born chronicler of the This absence of intransigence is not genetic; if it unsayable W British aristocracy, that he should write a were the English-descended Americans would not by Jill Bamber history of the Jews, the latter replied, "We Jews have had several of their presidents assassinated. don't have a history - only a martyrology!" Avoidance of intransigence can be learned, vide post­ P5 Alas, even Namier's bleak comment did not evoke war Germany, where the shooting of Rudi Dutschke Auto-suggestion the full dimension of the Jews' millennia-old trag­ was an exception that proved the rule. by AW Freud edy. Not only have we suffered persecution at the How infinitely tragic that Israel should, even in p/6 hands successively of Romans, Crusaders, Inquisi­ part, re-enact the history that had earlier led Ger­ tors, Cossacks and Nazis - we have all too often many into the abyss! The parallel is there for all to hovered on the brink of fratricide. A red thread of see. Had not Foreign Minister Rathenau's assassins Stop Press! inter-Jewish dissension commences with the conflict in 1922 dubbed him a traitor for trying to conciliate between Pharisees and Sadducees during the Second Germany's wartime enemies and for advocating sac­ Austrian Temple and with Flavius Josephus' desertion to the rifices towards that end? payments Romans. There is also an infernal mirror image: while his It continues with the envenomed disputes between Vehme murderers demonised Rathenau as a n our November Hassidim and the disciples of the Gaon of Vilna, Judensau, Rabin's arch-enemies called him a Nazi. issue we gave followed by conflict between Talmudists and propo­ Where the parallel breaks down is that Rabin's lone I some details of nents of the Enlightenment. The debates of the killer did not execute the sentence of a Vehme tribu­ how to apply for nineteenth century engendered such contraries as nal, but claims to have carried out the will of God. benefits from the Reform Judaism on the one hand and the Clearly those - politicians and rabbis alike - Austrian Austrittsgemeinden on the other. who grounded their advocacy of intransigence on Nationalfonds far In our own days the Zionists not only attracted the Biblical injunctions have a lot to answer for D Opfer des hostility both of Orthodox and assimilationist Jews, Nationalsozialismus. but were themselves irreconcilably split between the In due course partisans of Weizmann and Jabotinsky. applicants will If earlier battles had been fought by hurling receive a form from anathemas and instituting boycotts, the intra-Zionist Austria including a split soon claimed its first casualty: Chaim Life Certificate. It is Arlosoroff. Just over a decade later a bloody show­ essential that this down between the Haganah and the Irgun - the certificate is signed Altalena incident - became subsumed within the by the appropriate wider Israeli War of Independence. authority. The fourth of November 1995 brought the third, If you have any and most disastrous, instance of the Jews rending queries about the each other. How apt that the news should have form or the reached us on bonfire night; apt because Guy documents required Fawkes' plot was the last substantial attempt at po­ to support your litical assassination in this country. If England has claim, please enjoyed over three centuries' respite from civil telephone AJR for strife, it owes this less to its insular position and cli­ clarification D mate than to an irreducible consensus: from the age See page 2 for of the Whigs and Tories to that of Conservatives and further details. Labour, what bound Englishmen together consist­ Yitzhak Rabin, 1922-1995 AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1995

Complex peace Profile srael Ambassador Moshe Raviv told the Guild of Jewish Journalists that In the footsteps of I while Israel had experienced "a mo­ mentous and important year," terror Theodor Herzl would not prevent the movement to a comprehensive peace settlement. he recent death of Werner Since the signing of the Declaration of Rosenstock highlights the little- Principles at the White House in Septem­ Tknown fact that Herbert Freeden, ber 1993, some 1.2 million Palestinians Werner's early co-editor of AJR Informa­ had been transfered to Palestinian admin­ tion, still lives in our midst - albeit as an istration. The recently signed Interim octogenarian in indifferent health. Agreement made provision for the rede­ Herbert Freeden was born in 1909 in ployment of Israeli troops on the West Posen (now Poznan) where his father sold Bank and for a further 2 million people to household goods. After the Great War the come under Palestinian administration by family opted for German citizenship and the end of the year, followed by elections moved to Berlin. Herbert attended univer­ for a Palestinian Council. Though the sity and worked as a werkstudent at the Herbert Freeden situation was complex and difficult, the Mosse publishing house, taking a degree Ambassador emphasised that Israel's se­ in journalism in 1934. Leben zur falschen Zeit (Transit Verlag curity remained of paramount concern. Having already engaged in Zionist '91, reviewed in our February '92 issue) The peace agreement with Jordan was youth work in Weimar days he found em­ had its launch at Berlin's Akademie der underpinned by many shared benefits ployment in the Cultural Department of Kiinste with Professor Walter Jens as the such as tourism, water and roads, but the Zionist organisation. main speaker. there was a stalemate with Syria whose In the mid-thirties the Nazis pursued a Unfortunately, this climacteric of leader had reneged on undertakings given two-track approach to the Jews, mingling Herbert Freeden's life was followed by a to the United States. Lebanon remained persecution with the preservation of under Syrian hegemony. stroke and he now leads a reclusive exist­ mock-normality. Herbert Freeden worked ence in Cambridge (where his son is a Ambassador Raviv explained that there for the Jiidische Kulturbund (the Nazi- was no viable alternative to the peace politics don). Nonetheless, as befits a life­ process. Previous strategies (including the licensed segregated umbrella organisation long professional journalist, he is still wars against the Jewish State) had been responsible for all Jewish cultural activity) capable of producing cynical quips, such tried and had failed. In his view, "the sta­ and published his first book, Schiff unter­ as 'Israel will find it easier to come to tus quo was the worst possible wegs, under the imprint of the Atid Verlag. terms with the PLO than with the ultra- alternative," and could have led to an­ The Kristallnacht pogrom of November Orthodox'. Alas, in the interim, his other full-scale war with the use of 1938 led to a mass flight from Germany. words have proved tragically prophetic. ever-more sophisticated and destructive Herbert Freeden came to the Kitchener URG weaponry. The animosities of yesterday Camp, Richborough, where he joined the were not those of tomorrow and both Pioneer Corps. After army service (during sides were trying to change course. which he married a fellow refugee) he Austrian Nationalfonds Claim D Ronald Channing worked for the Jewish National Fund, ed­ e would like to advise our iting its newsletter. Postwar he assisted in members that when making a This report was written prior to the tragic death the establishment of AJR Information as a claim on the above fund they of Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. W monthly journal (with a healthy circula­ should consider the following: tion figure of 6,000). Those receiving Income Support, Hous­ LOST SWISS BANK ACCOUNT? Then, shortly after Israel's War of Inde­ ing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit need to Pannone Pritchard Englefield pendence the life-long Zionist made consider the consequences of increasing would be glad to assist refugees from aliyah. As head of a polyglot staff of their financial assets above a certain Central Europe or their descendants who twelve journalists at JNF headquarters in amount. We do not yet know if any have reason to believe that their family Jerusalem he became, as it were, Chief PR award received from the fund will be had deposited funds in Switzerland which man for the Jewish state, masterminding counted as capital or income. In either up to now have not been traced. the output of material in English, French, case there may be a danger of losing some The Swiss Banking authorities have now Spanish, Yiddish and German. As a 'side­ or all Welfare Benefits. We are making in­ set up procedures whereby applications line' he acted as Israel correspondent for quiries of the DSS to try and clarify this can be made to trace lost funds. German and Swiss newspapers. He under­ matter. Please contact Mr. H.H. Marcus, Pannone Pritchard Englefield, Solicitors, took annual lecture tours of Germany We are advised by the Austrian authori­ 14 New Street, London EC2M 4TR, and he also produced radio scripts for ties that it should not be necessary to use Tel. 0171 972 9720 Deutschlandfunk, Cologne. the services of a lawyer to apply for pay­ Fax. 017! 972 9723 Last but not least, he wrote books on ments from the Nationalfonds. If you are interested in further informa­ the Jiidische Kulturbund and on the Jew­ If any of out members require our help tion and for our conditions for carrying ish press in the Third Reich. at any stage with the application, please out such work. His most recent book, the biography ring us for an appointment D AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1995

America is the proverbial land of unlim­ Siren voices of ited possibilities, for good as well as ill. PARTNER It takes quite a leap of the imagination separatism to switch from the American underclass in long established English Solicitors to the English middle-classes - but the (bi-lingual German) would be happy he fact that the success of the latter have also shown themselves recep­ to assist clients with English, German 'million man march' has tive to the siren song of separatism. The and Austrian problems. Contact T propelled Louis Farrakhan from Tories in Blackpool cheered Defence Sec­ the margins of American politics towards retary Portillo to the echo when he Henry Ebner centre stage is bad news all round. pilloried Brussels and the Council of Eu­ Myers Ebner & Deaner On our own home patch it will further rope. 18 months ago Portillo claimed that 103 Shepherds Bush Road incline Black militants towards continentals were in the habit of buying London W6 7LP antisemitism. Jews on the other side of the academic qualifications for filthy lucre. Is Atlantic have renewed cause for fearing this, one wonders, how Nobel Peace Prize Telephone 0171 602 4631 the man who dubbed Hitler 'wickedly winner Josef Rotblatt got co-opted on to ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN great'. But the greatest threat Farrakhan the Manhattan Project? poses is to the cohesion of American soci­ The UK already forms part of Europe ety itself. - as shown by our instant acceptance of For all the shortcomings of the 'melting the 60-year-old-mens' entitlement to free 5 YEARS AND STILL NO pot' idea, the United States has no way prescriptions ruling - so what is the PROGRESS ON YOUR forward except the path of co-existence point of Mr Portillo's shadow boxing? It across ethnic and cultural boundaries. can only encourage latter-day King PROPERTY CLAIM Farrakhan's Black separatism only erects Canutes who substitute raucous flag wav­ IN BERLIN & EAST further obstacles along that path (al­ ing for clear thought. Didn't Dr Johnson, GERMANY? though it does perversely echo Hitler's himself a Tory, call patriotism the last ref­ We are specialists in speeding up cases. notion of racial exclusivity). Short of uge of a scoundrel? We hux and/or process claims. genocide no force on earth could physi­ Just as separatism is a blind alley for US References of satisfied claimants with cally separate Blacks from other Blacks, so separateness from Europe no completed claims are available. Americans; they can neither go back to longer constitutes a viable option for Africa nor be allocated a homeland on US Britain. NAGEL & PARTNER soil. D Richard Grunberger In fact, every tenet of the Nation of Is­ IMMOBIUEN GmbH lam is a non-sequitur - starting with its Contaa our Representative Contact in Germany very name. The title 'Nation of Islam' inGB Phone 49 30 882 56 31 belongs historically to Saudi Arabia Attorney Hans H. Marcus Fax 49 30 88139 16 Phone 0171-972 9720 Uhiandstrasse 156 which - unlike Farrakhan's scapegoated Fax 0171-972 9723 10719 Berlin Jews - had a centuries long involvement 14 New Street, with the African slave trade. As of now London EC2M 4TR ^ Iran is probably the Nation of Islam - and one can think of no greater contrast BELSIZE SQUARE than between Khomeini-style puritanism and the free-wheeling life style of Afro- SYNAGOGUE JACKMAN• Americans. 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NWS Farrakhan calls Jewish and Korean SILVERMAN COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS shopkeepers 'bloodsuckers', but simulta­ We offer a traditional style of neously affirms his belief in private religious service with Cantor, enterprise. As regards Jews and blood, he Choir and organ conveniently forgets that several Jewish students got killed in the 1960s Freedom Fuiiher details can be obtained Marches for Black voter registration in the Deep South. from our synagogue secretary Where Farrakhan's ideology is not rid­ 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA dled with contradiction, it glories in Telephone 0171-794 3949 Telephone: 071 409 0771 Fax: 071 493 8017 mindboggling paranoia, vide the notion that White doctors had injected Aids into Minister: Rabbi Rodney J. Mariner Cantor: Rev Lawrence H. Fine the Black population to keep it weak and BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE subservient. Regular services: Friday evenings at 6.30 pm, 51 Belsize Square, London N.W.S Readers may recall the Stiirmer fable Saturday mornings at 10 am that Paul Ehrlich had invented Salvarsan Religion school: Sundays at 10 am to 1 pm Our communal hall is available for to poison the bloodstream of Aryans. cultural and social functions. So far so bad. However, let us not in­ Space donated by Pafra Limited Tel: 0171-794 3949 dulge in Jeremiads - and remember that AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1995

bibliography and index. As the author industry showed signs of expiring from Reviews mentions, he decided to bring Sachs back inanition, the government stepped in with to memory while working on his previous subsidies - but asked at the same time book on the town of Glogau in Silesia, that directors turn our more worthwhile Jewish belief- where Sacks was born and where the and self-critical work. author's father. Dr. Leopold Lucas, had The September mini-season of Austrian the middle way served as rabbi: Lucas and Heitmann, films at the NFT afforded an opportunity Franz D. Lucos, Heihe Frank, MICHAEL Stadt des Glaubens. Geschichte und Kul­ for judging the success of this new policy. SACKS.DER KONSERVATIVE MITTELWEG. tur der Juden in Glogau, Hildesheim Half of the showcased films belonged to Mohr (Siebeck),TiJbingen, 1992. 1991. Axel Cortis' Wohin und Zuriick trilogy Thus, both books are a most meaning­ already reviewed in these pages (see issue n German-speaking families, Rabbi ful way of transforming the past into a of December '91). Michael Sacks (1808-64) was a house­ reminder of hope for today. I therefore concentrated on two new I hold word, owing to his prayer books: D Pnina Nave Levinson films which likewise dealt with Austria in nine volumes of Festgebete der Israeliten the grip of Hitler. The first was 1938 - as well as the year-round Siddur, both Auch das war Wien, a tale of star-crossed with beautiful translations and notes for love between an Austrian actress and a understanding this precious heritage of Jewish playwright. Based on a Friedrich Judaism. Other widespread books made Torberg novel it aroused considerable au­ readers familiar with the Hebrew press of Austria's flickering dience interest, but proved disappointing. Spain. And to the still printed Bible Torberg's treatment of his innately dra­ edition by Zunz, Sachs contributed ren­ mirror matic theme turned out to be both derings of the Psalms and 14 other books unconvincing and cliche-ridden. Uncon­ 1938 -Auch das war Wien (Dir.Wolfgang Gluck) of Scriptures. One of the most eloquent vincing because it portrays the hero, Hasenjaged (Dir.Andreas Gruber) National Film preachers of the age, he influenced his allegedly a Spanish Civil War veteran, as Theatre congregations in Prague and, mainly, Ber­ so myopically apolitical that he fails to lin and formed a major influence on Habsburg court poet wrote at the notice the Nazi tide about to engulf him. pupils and admirers. His sermons also end of the Middle Ages 'Austria Cliche rears its ugly head in an immediate drew Christians who wished to learn AErit In Orbe Ultima', i.e. Austria post-Anschluss scene, where an anti-Nazi about modern Jewish viewpoints and will be the last (empire) on earth. It could theatre director dons evening dress, books their roots in tradition. be said that his prophecy has only partly into a luxury hotel and savours a glass of Sacks was one of the founders of the come true. The Habsburg Empire col­ champagne before blowing his brains out middle road in Jewish theology, neither lapsed before most others, but in one in front of the assembled guests. Com­ radically liberal nor overly traditonalist. sphere - film making - Austria defi­ pounding these flaws a long take of the Thus he is of great interest for non-ortho­ nitely ranks last, at least in Central heroine tap-dancing in a film studio - dox congregants even today. However, his Europe. While Hungary, Czechoslavakia obviously put in to spice up Torberg's contribution has been nearly forgotten. and Poland threw up outstanding direc­ sombre tale - was toothachingly stilted The authors, by researching old editions tors like Szabo, Forman, Passer and and inept. and the Sachs archives in Jerusalem and Polanski - most of whom went on to I left the cinema doubly depressed - elsewhere, have succeeded in bringing to Hollywood - postwar Austria's only ex­ both by the film's re-enactment of the life the personal struggles and hopes of an port to Tinseltown took the highly events of 1938, and by the well-inten­ entire generation. One hopes to see an inartistic form of Arnold Schwarzenegger. tioned director's failure to make the English edition of this labour of love by It was not always thus: interwar Austria lethal interplay of theatre and Nazi poli­ Mr Lucas of London, scholar and sponsor had greatly enriched Hollywood both tics even half as engrossing as Istvan of research. with directors (von Stroheim, von Stern­ Szabo managed to do in Mefisto. As can be guessed, Sachs had to battle berg, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger) and The second new offering was Hasenjagd for his vision. Being a very emotional per­ actors (Louise Rainer, Paul Muni, Joseph (Hare hunt) which focused on an event as son he found his helpmate in the equally Schildkraut). In addition during the mid- traumatising as the Anschluss, if on a emotional Henriette. It was not easy to Thirties Tobis-Sascha Studios produced smaller scale. The film takes its title from care for a growing family on a very mod­ two little gems. Episode and Maskerade the hunting down by local Nazi officials est salary, nor as honorary secretary for which bade fair to make Austria an (ad­ and villagers of 500 escaped Russian pris­ the international society for Hebrew re­ mittedly minor) player in the world oners in February 1945. Hasenjagd was search. Thus Sachs, sadly, belongs to a cinema stakes. grimly depressing from the opening shot long list of rabbis and scholars whose The Anschluss nipped all hopeful devel­ of the inferno of Mauthausen concentra­ lives were shortened by the necessary opments in the bud. Postwar, for well over tion camp to the final credits stating that fight for their ideals of modernity. One three decades the judenreine film industry only nine of the escapers had survived the wonders how such visionaries of a mean­ of the amnesia-stricken country churned manhunt. Yet, for all that, I left the ingful Jewish life managed to go ahead out inane romances about assorted cinema marginally more elated than with their self-set goals. Habsburgs, or comedies featuring wine depressed. All this and much more is brought near bibbers and fiacre drivers. This form of What elated me was the artistic integrity to us in this volume, written in a matter- braindead cinema could not endure for­ with which the director had tackled his of-fact style and replete with pictures, ever. When, by the early 1980s the continued on page 5 AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1995

continued understand them in their native tongue. I think that this sense of order in chaos awesome theme, never allowing himself, Poetry inevitably loses in translation and is a major achievement. There is a good or his audience, the palliative of false he­ some work better than others. I cannot index and each poet has a biographical roics. In addition - and this is no small believe that Abba Kovner's poem Far, Far paragraph at the end. Many who survived consideration in judging a film - his a City Lies was so formless in the original. took their own lives. camera work was flawless. Two scenes in In contrast, Paul Celan's Death Fugue is Let me finish with one of them, Primo particular remain etched on the retina. one of the finest. Translated by Michael Levi: One consisted of a panning shot across an Hamburger, the repeated lines, and 'I commend these words to you. idyllic winter landscape, luminous with a rythms are so powerful: Engrave them on your hearts myriad snow crystals glistening on fir- 'Black milk of daybreak we drink When you are in your house, when trees, before the camera homes in on foot you at dusk you walk on your way, prints in the snow edged with tell-tale we drink you at noon death is a When you go to bed, when you flecks of red. The second, shot in spring master from Germany' rise. sunshine, showed a villager white-wash­ And the absence of punctuation some­ Repeat them to your children. ing a wall with practised broad what conveys the feeling of garbled terror. Or may your house crumble, brush-strokes to erase the faded crimson However, I ask again, who is the book Disease render you powerless. traces of a massacre. for? The preponderance of translations Your offspring avert their faces Hare hunt is not merely a work of cin­ does add a burden to the read. The edi­ from you. _ ematic art, but constitutes genuine tor's dilemma is acute. Should she open ' n Jill Bamber heart-wrenching Vergangenheitsbewdlti- the door to new poets, most of whom, by gung. Of course, it comes fully fifty years definition, are not writing in English, or after the event - by which time most na­ should she, above all, have aimed to at­ tive-born hare hunters (aka torturers and tract new readers and concentrated on pillagers) had removed themselves from fewer and more established writers? With all earthly jurisdiction and censure. But great courage she has chosen to widen the ^^^^'/w\>44^va.fiu.i«L^< ft .^m ^^m\ then the Austrians have traditionally scope of the book, opening doors to the boasted that they will be the last in some­ relatively unknown writers and seeking thing or other. out the amazing diversity of victims of the DRG Holocaust. Israel's Finest Wines Hilda Schiff's way of structuring the material gradually allowed me to find a from the way to use my critical faculties. She has made a safe pathway through the horror, Golan Heights Saying the unsayable so that I could continue to read and to go Yarden, Golan & Gamla on a voyage of self-exploration. I was Hilda Schiff 'HOLOCAUST POETRY, an continually moved to tears, humbled, but Write, pfione or fax andiology published by Harper Collins, £7.99. never confused. Who would have dreamt for full information his is a wonderful anthology, that a love poem could be written in a unique, the only work of its kind so death camp? House of Hallgarten Tfar. Hilda Schiff was sent to Eng­ In The Sun of Auschwitz Tadeusz Borow­ Dallow Road, Luton LUI 1UR land as a child and lost her mother in a ski writes: Tel: 01582 22538 death camp. She writes movingly in the 'I remember your smile Fax: 01582 23240 poem When it happened: 'I was not listen­ as elusive as a shade ing... now I hear nothing else'. Certainly of the colour of the wind, she has caught whispers and cries in this a leaf trembling on the edge book, for instance this poem is all the of sun and shadow, fleeting CORRECTIONS more moving because unfinished: yet always there.' Written in Pencil in the Sealed Freight Car. This is a long book. There are 130 po­ The obituary to Gabrielle Cairncross 'Here in this carload ems and 230 pages; the cover design by (November issue) stated incorrectly that I am Eve Shmuel Dresner, 'The Ghost Town', the deceased had been Secretary of the With my son Abel shows a townscape of smouldering news­ Anglo-Jewish Association during the If you see my older boy print. If you only read one poem from Presidency of Maurice Edelman MP. In Tell him that I...' by Dan Pagis, each section your path will be long and in fact, Lionel Simmonds - to whom we (Trans. Stephen Mitchell). the end your journey would teach you apologise - had been Secretary at the In 'Shipment to Maidanek' Ephraim that what you most fear once came true. time; Gabrielle Cairncross succeeded him Fogel lists with tragic irony the arrivals in Yet in her poem 'Discovery' the editor under President Harold Sebag-Monte- terms of their usable shoes, gold teeth. writes: fiore. 'Item: Three poets, hopelessly insane.. 'The total absence of love is God The review of Norman Cantor's The Seventeen dozen Danes, nine gross of Whose presence Sacred Chain (November issue) should Dutch'. No clearer moments of rapture have read: the efforts of Reform rabbis in More than half the poems are trans­ could stamp the 19th and 20th centuries to promote ac­ lated. I found myself longing to in the grain of my heart'. culturation without assimilation D AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1995

tends to flourish where the climate is more equable. The people of Britain, which has on av­ erage about 12 deg C. temperature difference (TD) between the hottest and coldest months of the year, are often re­ garded as generally tolerant, having for example provided little support for fas­ WERNER ROSENSTOCK MAKEYOURVOTE COUNT cism in the 1930s when it was strong in Sir - I knew Werner Rosenstock longer Sir - AJR members who are still, or many parts of continental Europe, and than anyone else has. We first met as again, Austrian citizens, may wish to note having recently made the transition to a schoolboys attending the Judaism class of that they can vote in the forthcoming multi-racial society. Dr. Julius Lewkowitz, Rabbi of the Austrian general election, and that this Laws of Jewish emancipation were Levetzowstrasse Synagogue (and later a time it is important that they do so. Elec­ passed in north-west European countries Holocaust victim). We both lived in Berlin tions are likely to be held on December (Ireland, Great Britain, France and The Northwest, although we did not go to the 17th. The importance of not wasting Netherlands) where TD is generally in the same school. But we grew up in the Hansa one's vote lies in the need to vote for range 10-15 deg C, long before the Jews quarter, for which Werner always retained whatever party preferred, so long as a living further east, where TD is larger, feelings of nostalgia. Before emigrating we vote is cast against Joerg Haider's party. were emancipated. Some 200 years ago both worked for the Centralverein, he For some years, Austrian nationals resi­ France, with TD values as low as about full-time, I as music critic of its paper. dent abroad have been able to vote in 10 deg C. in Brittany and averaging about Our acquaintance grew into close friend­ federal elections, either by post or in per­ 14 deg C. for the country as a whole, pro­ ship in London through the AJR: I son at Austrian consulates. The principal claimed "liberty, equality and fraternity". canvassed members early on and attended polling station (Wahllokal) is usually at A remarkably enlightened society grew up the Board Meetings, where his reports as the consular section of the Austrian Em­ in The Netherlands, where TD is approxi­ General Secretary were always highly in­ bassy, (18 Belgrave Mews West, behind mately 14 deg C, in the seventeenth teresting and spiced with humour. the Western side of Belgrave Square, tei. century after it broke away from Spanish For me Werner Rosenstock represented 0171-235 3731), and votes can be cast domination. Iceland has a very equable the noblest type of German Jew: deeply there, or by post, for several days before climate, with a TD of 11 deg C, and it is devoted to Judaism and the community, the actual election day. Any Austrian citi­ remarkable in terms of its democratic cre­ while at the same time partaking of all zen resident in the UK who is not on the dentials in that its assembly, the Althing, has that was best in German civilisation in a electoral register, should contact the Em­ been called the first parliament in history. harmonious synthesis which is now a bassy as soon as possible to register. Conversely, intolerant acts have often thing of the past. Many of your readers not familiar with been committed by people from areas in We last survivors of German Jewry will the system may well worry that they do mid-latitudes where seasonal temperature always feel indebted to him and cherish not know the candidates. That is no prob­ extremes are large, as in areas with conti­ his memory - and I myself his friendship. lem since the names of the individual nental climate. In the late 1930s fascism Polhill Avenue Hans Freyhan candidates do not appear on the ballot pa­ took over in Spain, Germany, Italy and Bedford per; what appears is the name of the party Austria: all are continental countries with for whose list you vote and 'new' elec­ TD values generally averaging about 20 SHIPWRECKED tors will have no problem in identifying at degC. least the Greens, the OeVP, and the SPOe 49 Curzon Avenue Richard A. Beck Sir - I was very pleased to read AW - the latter two forming the present gov­ Stanmore Freud's extremely well written article erning coalition. Any party other than the Middlesex HA7 2AL about our odyssey on the SS Quanza (Oc­ FPOe or the 'Liberales Forum' is accept­ tober issue). able! Since there is no system of single BLOODSTAINED PROFITS As a postscript, I would like to add that member constituencies with its first-past- I only learned about Mr. Morewitz's bril­ the-post victories, the list system allows Sir - The excellent TV programme The liant intervention on our behalf last year. every individual vote to count in the final Spin, 18th October BBC 2, carried an Had it not been for that, we would have outcome. item on the use which the German Gov­ been shipped back to a very uncertain fate. ernment is making of feature films Deddington F M M Steiner The negative effect of our rescue on the produced during the Nazi period. The Oxfordshire immigration regulations was most unfor­ Bundesarchiv in Berlin transfers such films tunate. FDR's emergency visa to a private company which makes mil­ programme for political refugees was vir­ CLIMATE OF (IN)TOLERANCE lions of pounds per annum by passing tually ended, sending a signal to Adolf Sir - I was very interested to read the such films to other film makers and to ex­ Hitler that he could not drive out the Jews editorial 'Southern Discomfort' (August hibitors. As an example The Spin showed because there was no place for them to issue) having myself carried out a study an extract including part of a football go. which led to the conclusion that intoler­ game from Der Fuehrer gibt den Juden I look forward to reading further arti­ ance often arises in places where the eine Stadt which featured in the prize- cles by AW Freud. climate, in terms of the difference between winning film Yellow Star. The 'Stadt' in Beatrice B. Sellmer summer and winter, is extreme. Liberalism question was Theresienstadt!

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I was horrified to see this truly ghastly early as 1934 the Reichswehr dismissed piece of propaganda at a time when revi­ all Jews, with just a single officer dissent­ SCHOLARLY & ACADEMIC sionists are at work. The fact that my ing publicly. BOOKS BOUGHT grandfather perished in that camp made it During the Second World War alto­ Collections of literary & historial studies still worse for me. gether 19 million men were members of Plurabelle Books I wonder what other readers felt on see­ the Wehrmacht. It would be absurd to Dr Michael Cahn ing the piece in The Spin} I also wonder if suggest that all 19 million were guilty of 77 Garden Walk, Cambridge CB4 3EW by some remote chance there are still any war crimes, but equally absurd is the Tel: 01223 366 680 survivors of the film's cast who may have assertion of 19 million 'knightly' warri­ survived Auschwitz, where they were sent ors. Die Zeit provides incontrovertible after the film was finished. If there are evidence, including orders from the high any I wonder what they think about such command, of the participation of army GERMAN BOOKS a film being shown for private profit? units in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe BOUGHT Those of us who received no and Russia, quite independent of the SS. Wiedergutmachung pension will not be In Serbia, when in 1941 no SS or SD A.W. MYTZE pleased to see how the Bundesrepublik could be spared from their murderous ac­ wastes funds by giving them to a private tivities in Russia, it was the army, having 1 The Riding, London NWll company, namely Transit of worked itself into a veritable blood lust, Teh 0181-458 0419 Dachaustrasse in Munich. which systematically murdered the Jewish Wellmeadow Road Peter Mayer population and eventually proudly re­ London SE 13 ported Serbia to be judenrein. Not only was there no opposition from soldiers to GERMAN BOOKS these crimes, but on the contrary an al­ REFUGEE SOLDIERS' We are always buying: most universal agreement among them Books, Autographs, Judaica REGISTER that die Juden muessen weg (the Jews and German works of art Sir - Thank you for publishing my letter must disappear). Historians provide de­ Antiquariat Metropolis concerning a register of former Pioneers. I tailed evidence of a trail of blood across Leerbachstr. 85 received a stack of letters in response Europe of atrocities committed by army D-60322 Frankfurt a/M which will take me quite some time to go units against so-called partisans, including Tel: 0049 69 559451 through. Naturally I should like to answer women and children. REGULAR VISITS TO LONDON each one, but it will take me some time to JB do so. Would it be too much to ask you to as­ VILLA MERLANDER sure your readers that they should not Sir - An article on the Villa Merlander in despair of getting a reply, even if it takes GERMAN and ENGLISH one of your recent issues prompted me to me a few months? And could you also ask send a few items (on Dr. K. Alexander, BOOKS BOUGHT those of your readers who have not yet re­ pre-war President of the Jewish congrega­ sponded although able to do so - and Antiquarian, secondhand and modern tion, Dr. A. Bluhm and his wife. Rabbi there are still many I am sure - to re­ books of quality always wanted until November 1938, and Dr. L. Leven, spond after all? Most subjects, but especially music teacher) to this collection, presum­ Neumarkt 3 Peter Leighton-Langer ing that this was a suitable place where to ARCHITECTURE, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY 64625 Bensheim keep memorabilia in honour of Krefeldian MUSIC Germany Jews. EROTICA Perhaps your readers will be interested MOUNTAINS, LANDSCAPES, GARDENS MURDERERS IN FIELD GREY to learn that, according to Die Zeit of 6th EASTERN EUROPE, ASIA, POLAR REGIONS Sir - A recent issue of Die Zeit magazine October 1995, the CDU-Party, recently FEMINISM, ANARCHISM, ANTI-FASCISM (No.3/1995) examined the truth of the elected to the City Council, now wants to ECONOMICS & PHILOSOPHY widely held belief that during the last war close this institution. SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY MEDICINE Freiburg G. Haas (Mrs) the SS and associated units were a crimi­ BIBLIOGRAPHY & FINE PRINTING Germany nal organisation whilst the army was a MANUSCRIPTS & ORIGINAL DRAWINGS legitimate fighting force, innocent of any participation in the Holocaust or other Immediate response to your letter war crimes. BOUQUET or phone call. We pay good prices and come to collect In fact from the very beginning the Sir - I wonder where you manage to then Reichswehr was one of the pillars find all those many valuable and interest­ Please contact: of the NS state, having formed an alli­ ing items in every issue of AJR Robert Hornung, MA (Oxon) ance with the Nazi party. The requirement Information. 2 Mount View, Ealing, for all soldiers to swear an oath of alle­ I always pass my copy on to my English LondonW5 IPR giance to the Fuehrer came not from friend, who looks forward to receiving it. Telephone 0181-998 0546 (5pm to 9pm is best) Hitler, but from von Blomberg of the North End Way Ernst Mitchell Reichswehr, then Minister for War. As London NW3 Kss^ifsatfsmseLWSissfJSS'S^iff^mmws

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retire after long and meretricious service, the need for kind-hearted individuals to take their places is as important as ever. Both men and women who, having led en­ ergetic and active lives, may have taken early retirement and, together with others are seeking to make a contribution to their community, would be very welcome to have an informal chat with us. Just one day a week's help would be wonderful. "All AJR volunteers gain pleasure and satisfaction from their work at the Cen­ tre", says Judy Field, "and get as much out of it as they give." Why don't you consider joining us? The AJR values your time D

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Erica Plaut, left, helps her four passengers to the car before driving them home from the Day Centre. AJR DAY CENTRE January 22 — 29 Special Programme Valuing your time and Thursdays, "but in return for our work we receive great rewards - the per­ he very day that the Paul Balint sonal friendship and companionship of AJR Day Centre opened its doors the members and other volunteers." Tin Belsize Square in 1986, Judy Erica Plaut is also a married lady whose Leeds AJR Field volunteered to help and she is still as college-departing daughter challenged her enthusiastic and energetic in taking care to "go and do your voluntary work Ernest David, Director of the AJR, re­ of today's members. Though Judy was now!" Despite a career as a hospital cently visited Leeds to have discussions on always busy with family responsibilities, pharmacist. Erica took up the challenge establishing a group to cover Leeds and she found the time arxl began visiting the surrounding areas. It was agreed to to help others. As members of the AJR publicise this locally. With the large well as providing a in their homes, number of Jewish refugees and survivors welcoming cup of something she con­ in the area, it is anticipated that there will tea or coffee and tinues to do. Every be a good response. biscuits to the arriv­ Wednesday after­ ing members, she noon, at the always lends a sym­ conclusion of the CALLING ALL MANCUNIANS pathetic ear and entertainment pro­ The first meeting of the offers friendly ad­ gramme. Erica sips Manchester AJR Group vice. Judy also a quick cup of tea will take place on checks if any of the before driving four Sunday 10 December 1995 'regulars' are miss­ members back to at 2.30pm ing and finds out their homes in Edg­ Morris Feinman House the reason why. ware, Preston Road 178 Palatine Road, Didsbury, Manchester There is a special and Belmont. "I do Further details from co-ordinator bond between the Judy Field, right, with her fellow volunteer workers enjoy driving," ad­ Centre's 80-or-so Sofie Landau and Sadie Zetland at the Paul Balint AJR mits Erica. "If you Werner Uchs on 0161 773 4091 Day Centre in West Hampstead. volunteers and the also like the people Guest speaker: Ernest David staff, for whom Judy organises outings and say hello to everyone, it's great fun. Director of the AJR I'm just an old gossip!" out of hours. "It is a commitment," said Come & tell us what you want Judy, who is at the Centre on Wednesdays As many of our long-serving volunteers AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1995

Message from the Director PAUL BALINT AJR CHANUKAH or my wife and myself, Winston DAY CENTRE Sunday 17 LIGHTING THE Churchill was a hero and I would CANDLES & AN Tel. 071 328 0208 F think this is so for most, if not all, "ENTERTAINMENT readers of this journal. OFF THE RECORD" With the benefit of hindsight, I thought Open Tuesday and Thursday 9.30 a.m. - - Mr Arnold Horwell 6.30 p.m., Monday and Wednesday 9.30 in my naivete, that it was clear he not a.m. - 3.30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. - 6.30 Monday 18 LET'S CELEBRATE only saved the world from a terrible fate, p.m. CHANUKAH WTFH but that he was the only politician to have SONGS FROM MY recognised the danger, at a time when it Morning Activities - Bridge, kalookie, ALBUM - Cantor could have been nipped in the bud. scrabble, chess, etc., keep fit, discussion Michael Rothstein Imagine my surprise when I discovered group, choir (Mondays), art class (Tuesdays accompanied by Sheila that there are people who call themselves and Thursdays). Games (Piano) historians, who maintain that Churchill Tuesday 19 LUCY WHITE (Violin) did not act in Britain's best interests and Aftemoon entertainment - & JULIET DAVEY should have made peace with Hitler. DECEMBER (Piano) AT It would not be difficult to follow this CHANUKAH line of reasoning down further paths of Sunday DAY CENTRE OPEN Wednesday 20 CHANUKAH speculation. After all, if the war was con­ - NO ENTERTAIN­ MENT CONCERT - tinued not to save democracy from an evil AROUND THE THE BUSHEY SHOW tyrant, perhaps it was simply a war to Monday WORLD IN 60 GROUP save Jews and Bolsheviks from total ex­ MINUTES - tinction. Tuesday THE GEOFFREY Fran^oise Geller - As I have grown older I have learned STRUM & JOHNNY Kara Wilson - WALTON DUO that history is not merely the string of Gordon Griffin battles and dates one was taught at Wednesday 6 SONGS THAT LEAVE accompanied by Margaret Eaves (Piano) school, and that an assessment of events THEIR MARK - depends on who is making the assess­ Mark Rosen (Tenor) Thursday 21 CHANUKAH WITH accompanied by ment. Was it not a Frenchman who, HANS FREUND Daphne Lewis (Piano) arriving at Waterloo Station and then vis­ Sunday 24 DAY CENTRE iting Trafalgar Square, asked why the Thursday 7 OPERA POPS - Accompanied by CLOSED British named public places after great de­ Margaret Gibbs Monday 25 DAY CNETRE feats? (Piano) CLOSED However, many historical facts and is­ Sunday 10 DAY CENTRE OPEN sues are incontrovertible, and Churchill's Tuesday 26 DAY CENTRE - NO CLOSED role in the 1940s is one of these. I would ENTERTAINMENT not expect you to take this unsupported Wednesday 27 DAY CENTRE Monday 11 MUSICAL statement from me, nor do I have the de­ CLOSED GREETINGS FOR tailed knowledge to present the case. For CHANUKAH - Rona Thursday 28 DAY CENTRE this reason, the AJR and the Yad Vashem Israel (Soprano) CLOSED Committee of the Board of Deputies are accompanied by Ian Sunday 31 DAY CENTRE jointly sponsoring a lecture to be given by Pace (Piano) CLOSED Professor Richard Overy of King's Col­ Tuesday 12 SONGS FOR lege, London, on Sunday 25th February EVERYONE AS 1996, in which he will address these is­ CHANUKAH IS JANUARY sues in some depth. APPROACHING - Monday 1 DAY CENTRE Make a diary date in advance of the de­ Shirley Gurevitz CLOSED tails to be published in our January and accompanied by Sylvia Tuesday 2 NEW YEAR February issues. Cohen (Piano) CONCERT - TWO Happy Chanukah. „ _ ^ , Wednesday 13 YEAR-END VOICES &c A PIANO ^' U Ernest David CONCERT - Fred - Eddy Simmons and Rosner accompanied Helen Blake by Geoffrey Whitworth SEARCH NOTICE (Piano) Wednesday 3 WINTER SONG & Erich Kahn (b. Stuttprt 1904, d. Lon­ MUSIC - Sue Kennett Thursday 14 GEMS OF JEWISH (Soprano) accompanied don 1980). If you knew the painter and MUSIC INCLUDING graphic artist Erich Kahn or have any by Gordon Weaver A CHANUKAH SING- (Piano) works by him, please contact K.E. A-LONG - The Two Hinrichsen, 13 Hillside Gardens, High- Marshalls: Cantor Thursday 4 THE GEOFFREY gate, London N6 5SU. Tel: 0181 348 Marshall Stone &c STRUM & JOHNNY 0969, for a planned publication. Bridget Marshall WALTON DUO AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1995

FAMILY sadly missed by family and ADVERTISEMENT RATES ANNOUNCEMENTS friends. FAMILY EVENTS SHELTERED FLATS First 15 words free of cfiarge, TO LET Birthday £2.00 per 5 words ttiereafter. Knopf. Happy 80th Birthday CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED A choice of studio flats £2.00 per five words. available at to Ilse Knopf from all her Services BOX NUMBERS friends and colleagues at the Electrician. City & Guilds £3.00 extra. Eleanor Rathbone House DISPLAY, SEARCH NOTICES Highgate N6 AJR. qualified. All domestic work per single column incfi undertaken. Y. Steinreich. Tel: 65 mm (3 column page) £10.00 One FULLY FURNISHED Birth 48mm (4 column page) £9.00 studio flat also on offer for 3-9 0181455 5262. Morland. Claire (nee Piatt) month let. Would suit elderly Manicure and Pedicure in the visitor from overseas. and Paul Morland have great comfort of your own home. Permanency a possibility. pleasure in welcoming Juliette, HELGA WOLFF'S Telephone 0181 455 7582. fascinating & moving a sister for Sonia and another Details from: Mrs K. Gould, autobiography AJR,on granddaughter for Janet and Miscellaneous 'NO LONGER 0171-431 6161 Michael Piatt and Ingrid and World Wars. I collect cards and STRANGERS' Tuesday and Thursday Henry Morland. envelopes from the camps. is available at local bookshops mornings. Please send with price asked to Further information & oudets Viewing by appointment only. Peter C. Rickenbach, 14 Ross­ Deaths telephone 0181 908 4958 lyn Hill, London NW3 IPE Rosenstock. Werner Rosen­ Residential Home stock, former Director of the Befrienders SWITCH ON AJR and founding editor of Befrienders, where are you? Clara Nehab House ELECTRICS (Leo Baeck Housing Associaton Ltd.) AJR Information, died peace­ AJR needs visitors in various 13-19 Leeside Crescent NWll Rewires and all household fully in his sleep on 19th All rooms with Shower W.C. and districts of London. Ex-volun­ electrical work. October 1995 in London at the teer in West Hampstead and H/C Basins en-suite PHONE PAUL: 0181-200 3518 Spacious Garden - Lounge & age of 87. Deeply mourned by blind member in Fitzjohns Av­ Dining Room - Lift his son Michael, granddaugh­ enue NW3 need befrienders Near Shops and Public Transport ters Eva and Ruth, his urgently. Please ring Laura C. H. WILSON 24 Hour Care - Physiotherapy Long & short Term - Respite Care extensive family and many Howe, AJR office, 0171 431 Carpenter - Trial Periods friends. 6161, Tues., Weds. & Thurs. Painter and Decorator Frencfi Polisher Enquiries: Josephine Woolf Samet. Vilma Samet, on 19 9.30-5.00. Antique Furniture Repaired otto Schiff Housing Association The Bishops Avenue N2 OBG Tel: 0181-452 8324 October, in her sleep, aged 96, Phone: 0181-209 0022 Companion/Carers Car: 0831103707 widow of Benno and mother of Companion-Carer. Highly ex­ Paul. Born in Gyor, Hungary, perienced, good-natured and in 1899, she studied medicine responsible lady offers her ALTERATIONS BELSIZE SQUARE in Vienna, qualifying in 1925, services. Please ring 0181 203 OF ANY KIND TO APARTMENTS then worked at Rothschilds- LADIES' FASHIONS 5736. 24 BELSIZE SQUARE, N.W.3 pital. After coming to England I also design and make Tel: 0171-794 4307 or in November 1938, the family children's clothes 0171-435 2557 lived in London and then in West Hampstead area 0171-328 6571 Ruthin, North Wales, when she Gordon G. Spencer MODERN SELF-CATERING HOLIDAY ROOMS. RESIDENT HOUSEKEEPER worked at the War Memorial & Associates MODERATE TERMS NEAR SWISS COTTAGE STATION Hospital, Wrexham until 1963. A RELIABLE CAR SERVICE R.&G. After that she lived in South­ (ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS) Short or long distances ampton and since 1983 at a Airports & theatres a speciality LTD. retirement home in Pinner. If TORRINGTON HOMES 46 Ravensdale Avenue 199b Belsize Road, NW6 MRS. PRINGSHEIM, S.R.N. desired, donations to the RNIB MATRON N12 9HT 624 2646/328 2646 For Elderly, Retired and Convalescent Talking Book Fund may be Tel: 0181-445 1839 (Licensed by Borough of Barnetj sent to Bradley &c Jones, Love Members; E.C.A. • Single and Double Rooms. Mobile: 0374-177-807 Lane, Pinner Middlesex HA5 N.I.C.E.I.C. • H/C Basins and CH in all rooms. • Gardens, TV and reading rooms. 3EE. • Nurse on duty 24 hours. Schauer. Rosel Schauer died • Long and short term, including trial period if required. peacefully on 25 October, aged ANTHONY J. NEWTON 97 years, and will be sadly From E250 per week 0181-445 1244 Office hours missed by her children, grand­ & CO 0181 -455 1335 other times children and greatgrandchildren. SOLICITORS 39 Torrington Park, N.12 Spearman. Ernest Spearman, 22 Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead, NW3 5NB of 1 Totnes Walk N2, died on The AJR does not accept 2nd October aged 88 years. ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN Wittenberg. Gunter Wittenberg responsibility for the standard of service died 12th October 1995 after a Telephone: 0171-435 5351/0171-794 9696 brief illness. Greatly loved and rendered by advertisers

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Alice Schwab religion, received a number of commis­ wo die Blumen sind and, naturally. Von sions to decorate churches. Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt. Carrington: The Exhibition at the Bar­ Vienna's Raimundtheater has its sensa­ bican Art Gallery (until 10 December) tion: the new musical Beauty and the shows the unique talent and extraordinary Beast plays to capacity audiences. The life of the artist Dora Carrington (1893- 'Beast' is Ethan Freeman, an American 1932), who had both professional and singing star with long black curls, son of a personal links with Mark Gertler D Russian emigre. The lyrics, begun by ast year some 25,000 photographs Howard Ashman who died at the age of of life in pre-war Germany were 31, were completed by Sir Tim Rice. L discovered in a shed in Amsterdam. Birthday. Max Schmeling is 90. The They mirror the course of German history German boxer, famous since his victory at the time, from the tolerant world of the over Joe Louis in the Thirties which Weimar Republic to the order and sobri­ earned him the world heavyweight crown, ety under National Socialism. An is still fully active. After a spell as poultry exhibition of 150 of these photographs, farmer, he joined an international drink by such 'greats' as Alfred Eisenstaedt, firm in an administrative capacity. Despite Eric Borchert, John Gutmann and Walter all his triumphs in the ring he lists mar­ Sussmann, is in the Main Foyer of the riage to blonde film star Anny Ondra as Royal Festival Hall (until 14 January). his greatest achievement. After more than Emil Nolde was one of the great vision­ 50 years' marriage Anny Ondra died in ary artists of the century. He joined the 1987 0 Nazis in 1934 but, as a result of the cam­ paign against "degenerate art", was ordered to stop painting in 1941. There­ AUSTRIAN and GERMAN after, until the end of the war, he worked PENSIONS in secret on a series of water-colours called the "unpainted pictures". The exhi­ bition of Nolde's work at the PROPERTY RESTITUTION Whitechapel Art Gallery (until 25 Febru­ Dora Carrington (1912) painted by Marit Gertler CLAIMS ary), is the first comprehensive exhibition EAST GERMANY- BERLIN of his work in this country. It is a great pleasure to be able to con­ On instructions our office will gratulate our old friend Walter Nessler on SB's Column assist to deal with your the recent exhibition of his work held in applications and pursue the Dresden. Nessler was born in Leipzig in strange revival took place at matter with the authorities. 1912 and studied in Dresden before he Karlsruhe, where a silent film emigrated to London where he now lives. A version of Rosenkavalier (origi­ For further information and In 1989 he was awarded the honour of nally performed at the Dresdner Ehrensenator by the Hochschule fiir Opernhaus in 1926) became more ofa cu­ appointment please Bildende Kunst, Dresden. riosity than an evening at the opera. Even contact: Another old friend, Berlin-born Klaus 70 years ago the actors failed to achieve ICS CLAIMS Meyer has just published a suite of eight realistic results for all that an orchestra 146-154 Kilbum High Road groups of relief prints in colour, entitled provided accompaniment with the genu­ London NW6 4JD "Superim-Positions", with a preface by ine Strauss music; among the performers Professor Gombrich. The 28 prints in the Michael Bohnen, the celebrated baritone, Tel: 0171-328 7251 (Ext. 107) portfolio were cut in wood and lino and acted a brilliant Ochs and saved the Fax:0171-624 5002 printed by the artist himself. Details can evening. be obtained from the artist at 66 South During this autumn's Frankfurt Book Hill Park, London NW3 ISJ. Fair the Jewish Museum arranged a Now aged 96, Hans Feibusch is the only number of events dealing with Austrian Annely Juda Fine Art known survivor of the artists whose culture, literature and entertainment, 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street) works were exhibited in the infamous among them an evening devoted to the Tel: 0171-629 7578 Fax: 0171-491 2139 "Degenerate Art" exhibition in 1937. poet-dramatist Richard Beer-Hoffman. It CONTEMPORARY PAINTING Feibusch himself has lived in England also screened the 1924 silent film Die AND SCULPTURE since 1933 and a major retrospective exhi­ Stadt ohne Juden, based on the novel by bition of his work is at the Ben Uri Art Hugo Bettauer and featuring Armin Berg Gallery (until 10 December). Feibusch and Hans Moser. was born in Frankfurt in 1898, served in Ich, Marlene is a German musical which AJR the German army, and in 1919 started to just completed a run in Munich. Starring I HAMPSTEAD GATE study art. After coming to England, he be­ Petra Constanza, it included Dietrich's IA FROGNAL, LONDON NW3 came a muralist and, having changed his best known songs Fesche Lola, Sag' mir Tel:OI7l-43l 6161

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sunshine but very cold nights. We had no make. They were dark green, made in One man's war transport so what we could not carry, we Czechoslovakia by Skoda and all had the did not keep. The Germans were not on same mileage on the clock. They must Part 4 our heels, they were probably held up by have arrived in Yugoslavia by train from their long lines of communication. On our CSR and their only trip was from Bel­ German Offensive minds was the thought that the Royal grade to Kalamata. These lorries were full ventually the company entrained for Navy which had brought us to Greece of wooden crates containing millions of Larissa, a few hundred miles north, would be able to pick us up again and unused Dinar notes. We heard that the en­ E near to a mountain plateau where take us back to Blighty. tire Yugoslav Government had been the RAF had already established an air­ After many days of marching, we ar­ evacuated from this beach some days field with 24 Blenheim bombers. Our job rived at the port of Patras and heard a before. They must have cleared out the was erecting sandbag shelters and guard­ rumour that the 'Ulster Prince' was there stores of their national bank, but had to ing these planes. Germany had by then to pick us up. The rumour proved true, leave it all behind. To get away from that started the offensive against Greece and but as we approached closer there was a beach you had to be picked up by rowing we were constantly warned about the hell of a fight going on between our anti­ boat or had to walk up to your neck in danger of enemy parachutists landing in aircraft artillery and German the sea. D H PWeiner our midst. I credit British Intelligence for dive-bombers trying to sink the ship. They (to be conPnued) knowing something about these paras, but lost a few planes but in the end the ship they were only deployed weeks later in took some direct hits and became en­ the capture of the island of Crete. Our gulfed in smoke and flames. We still AJR 'Drop in'Advice Centre Blenheim bombers took off daily on witnessed the crew arriving on shore be­ Paul Balint AJR Day Centre bombing missions to halt the German ad­ draggled and wet, unfortunately most of vance, but did not all return to base every them were drunk. 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 time. Occasionally we also observed Ger­ between I Cam and 12 noon on the Our hopes dashed, we carried on following dates: man planes in the morning. marching hundreds of miles across the One day we were awakened by a tre­ Peloponnese to the most southerly tip of Wednesday 6th December Thursday 14th December mendous continuous noise and saw Greece. We were lucky and hitched a few Monday I Sth December endless rows of German planes - maybe hours ride by train on this route and were Wednesday 3rd January a hundred or more - up in the sky. They assured that all bridges would be blown were quite a distance from us and ap­ up in good time. and every Thursday from peared to be moving rather slowly. There Eventually, we arrived at the coast near I Gam to 12 noon at: must have been a considerable number of the small fishing village named Kalamata. AJR, I Hampstead Gate, British anti-aircraft guns in the surround­ Here the countryside and beaches were I a Frognal, London N W3 ing hills as the planes were soon greeted crowded with hundreds of abandoned No appointment is necessary, but please bring with hundreds of shells which exploded army vehicles. In the midst of all this was along ali relevant documents, such as Benefit with a plume of smoke in the sky. Our a column of about 100 brand new lorries Books, letters, bills, etc. 2nd Lt Lee (ne Liftschitz) got terribly agi­ which were not of WD (War Department) tated, pulled his revolver from its holster and ran about, shouting, "PARAS, PARAS?"; he became very embarrassed on realising that the slowly dispersing smoke was from ack-ack shells and not CONCERNED ABOUT EXPROPRIATED parachutes. The planes went on to deci­ mate a New Zealand light-armoured PROPERTY IN SAXONY? division trying to hold a number of strate­ gic mountain passes against the German advance; on our retreat we saw the dam­ DO YOU HAVE obtaining restitution of your property, or with the age these bombers did. administration, utilization or sale of property after it PROBLEMS is retumed? A few days later we noticed that the RAF were packing up; the few remaining WE OFFER competent representation of your interests planes were not expected to return. Wait­ prompt action ing for a train to take us south, we comprehensive care I learned that the Greek railways personnel collaboration with real estate agents and real estate had all fled and that Royal Engineers custodians. were occasionally moving a few trains at I night because German planes attacked all WRITE OR FAX US: ATTORNEYS moving rolling stock in daylight. So, all that was left to us was to pack up and BRUEMMENDORF & PARTNER march, part of a beaten army in retreat. Lampestrasse 8 D-04017 Leipzig, Germany We walked endless days in orderly fash­ ion under order of our commanding Fax Oil 49 341 964 6096 officer. It was springtime with beautiful

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Eventually, 5,000 'enemy aliens' joined Manx chat the Pioneer Corps (known as 'the highly Mon 18 Receiving Foreign Visitors: Club 1943 Rodney Mantle educated navvies'). Later able to join MA takes a light-hearted n the course of a Sternberg Centre fighting units, they served with distinc­ view. 8pm seminar on the British Jewish Wartime tion. "Internment was a blemish on our Experience Ludwig Spiro, former record," concluded Ludwig Spiro, "still, Tues 19 History of MAPAM and I 'Peace Now': JACS Treasurer of the AJR, recalled his experi­ the ordinary Britisher is an amazingly de­ Peter Prager S>c JADE ences as a World War II internee on the cent chap." representative. 2pm Isle of Man. "In 1938 and 1939 nobody D Ronald Channing in Britain doubted that a war would be Thurs 21 Chanukah Party: ROK. won if it came", he told participants. But 6.30-9.30 Canons Park. by May 1940 Daily Mail headlines £8 per person. (Applications before 15th) screamed 'Intern the Lot' (the lot being FORTHCOMING EVENTS - the 55,000 Jewish refugees who had come DECEMBER 1995 Sat 23 Chanukah Social: ACJR. to Britain). Phone for details. Sun-Thurs Jewish Weddings in Focus, The Spiro family appeared before a Exhibition: Jewish ORGANISATION CONTACTS: magistrate in Harrow prior to joining fel­ Museum, Camden Town. Club 1943, Anglo-German Cultural low refugees at Wembley Police Station. Photographer Boris Forum, meets at Belsize Square After an overnight stay at Wellington Bar­ Bennett. 10am-4pm £3 Synagogue. Call Hans Seelig on 01442 racks, they were taken on by train to Sun-Thurs Leon Greenman, Auschwitz 254 360 for information. encamp on Kempton Park race course. Survivor 98288, JACS at Belsize Square Synagogue, With his background as an engineer, and Exhibition: Jewish NW3 4HX. Tel: 0171 794 3949 an all-too-apparent need for the camp to Museum, Finchley. Details have an efficient sewage system, Ludwig phone 0181 349 1143 RSGB/Jewish Museum/Manor House Society, Sternberg Centre for Judaism, volunteered to take on the task of looking Sun 3 Jerusalem, Discord or 80 East End Road, Finchley, NW3 2SY after 74 loos! Harmony: RSGB Israel Tel: 0181 346 2288 Marching through the streets of Liverpool Action. Rabbi Levi en route to the Isle of Man they were spat Weimann-Kelman of Jewish Museum, either Sternberg upon by local people. Finally they ended Jerusalem - Chairman Centre (as above) or at: 129/131 Albert up in one of five camps for men (or one Paul Usiskin. 8pm Street, NWl 7NB. Tel: 0171 284 1997 for women and children) guarded by 400 Sternberg Centre. £3.50 ACJR, Association of Children of heavily armed troops. The women found Tues 5 Enemy Aliens, Refugees Jewish Refugees. For information call themselves uncomfortably interned with Interned by Britain Juliet Buckner 0171 254 7886 German domestic servants whose sympa­ 1940-45: William ROK (Reunion of Kindertransport) thies were directed to a German victory. Kaczynski. Jewish 148 Curtain Road, EC2A 3AR. Tel: Museum, Finchley. 8pm £2 Internees' three prime concerns were 0171 613 4209 mail, food and the date of their release! 'On Being Jewish': University of Sussex Centre for Ludwig took over the running of the post University of Sussex, German-Jewish Studies. For further office which served the camp's 2,100 Meeting House, Rabbi information phone Diana Franklin Jews who were desperate for news of Julia Neuberger. Open 0181 455 4785 or 01273 678 495 lecture. 6pm their families. Then only 28 years old, he was elected camp supervisor and set to Mon 4 Ancient Egyptian Mining in work to build an administration. He pro­ theSinai: Club 1943, 50 YEARS AGO duced a camp newspaper and organised Dan Levene BA. 8pm the raising of chickens and rabbits to feed Mon 11 Second Anthology of PEACE CAME a population that included four Nobel Jewish Composers: Club 1943, Hans Seelig MA. 8pm Peace came - but it was very different from what prizewinners and Amadeus players. The we had expected it to be. News became available camp also knew tragedy and suffering: Tues 12 JACS First Birthday Party - a great deal of bad news and some good news, husbands were separated from wives - celebrated with food and too. And whilst the dark curtain that had screened the evil deeds in Hitler's Europe was did not know what had happened to their entertainment. 2-4pm raised, more information was obtained than children - there were poor medical facili­ Thurs 14 Lunchtime Recital: Manor might at one time have been expected. It turned ties and many deaths. House Society. 1.15-2pm. out, for instance, that even the dreaded news, 'deported to the East' was not always final, that Responsibility for the camps was trans­ Haruko Seki (violin) &c even from the death camps of Auschwitz and ferred from the War Department to the Nathaniel Vallois (piano) Stutthof and Riga a small number of survivors were finally rescued. We still fervently hope that Home Office. Lord Beaverbrook, who as Jewish Music 8c Chanukah in the Russian lone there may still be many more Minister of Supply worried about the Sing-a-long: Paul Balint of them who so far have been unable to conuct shortage of engineers, took up the sugges­ AJR Day Centre. Cantor their relatives over here. It is significant that Marshall Stone. 2pm whereas about 10,000 Jews on the Continent had tion of his doctor to call on the services of been registered with us as missing, we have so far the Isle of Man internees. Lists of engi­ Sun 17 Lighting the First Candle of been able to ascertain what happened to about neers were prepared and this led to the Chanukah: Paul Balint AJR 1,500 of them. Considering the still existing diffi­ culties of communication this is a substantial release of 2,000 people, including Ludwig Day Centre Arnold percentage. A/R Information, June 1945 Spiro who was sent to work in Scotland. Horwell. 2-6.30pm ,1 AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1995

ter and cook gently over low heat, stirring Cooking with Gretel Beer constantly until chocolate and sugar are dissolved, then cook more briskly, still WE CAH MAKE YOUR stirring, until thick. Turn out the pudding onto a warmed serving dish. Top with UFE MUCH EASIER... chilled whipped cream, lightly flavoured with vanilla sugar and pour the hot chocolate sauce over it D

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elgian-born comedierine, actress and glamorous granny Bettine Le Beau Bcombined homespun philosophy Mohr jm Hemd with haimische-style humour to edify and amuse the members of JACS Belsize Half-way across the Atlantic seems a • • • you need help in reclaiming funny place to argue about a recipe, but Square. property in Germany or Austria? that's exactly what happened on the QE2 JACS chairman Stuart Willner intro­ duced her as a multi-lingual, ex-James recently. There was a Viennese food festi­ • • • you want to make or change Bond lovely, film and TV comedy actress, val on board with several Austrian guest a Will, appoint an executor or chefs - quite a lot of the "resident" Cu­ stand-up comedienne and radio panellist, require help in managing your nard chefs are Austrian as well - and we who was also a talented sculptress and all claimed to have the best recipe for tireless worker for good causes. Bettine affairs? Mohr im Hemd, that wonderful chocolate puts much time and effort into giving • • • you desire to establish a pudding topped with chocolate sauce and whipped cream. On comparing the vari­ permanent memorial in Israel? ous versions I found that my own recipe tCKL, a subsidtwry of the JNF was almost identical with that of Rudi Charitable Trttst, can do it all. Sodamin, Cunard's Corporate executive chef - and another Austrian, so here is the combined version. WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU For the pudding KKL Executor & Trustee Company 4 eggs Limited is a trust corporation with 2oz (70g) butter nearly 50 years experience in 2oz (70g) icing sugar handling thousands of Wills and 2oz (70g) grated plain chocolate Bettine Le Beau talks to the members of JACS estates. Correspondents in Israel 2oz (70g) ground unblanched almonds Belsize square on how positive attitudes help to and throughout the world. butter and icing sugar for the pudding make for a happy life. basin All consultations are free of charge whipped cream lightly sweetened with talks to schools and colleges on her expe­ and in strictest confidence. vanilla sugar riences as a Jew under Nazi occupation, as well as giving regular Yiddish classes at Write or phone for information: For the sauce the Holocaust Centre in Hendon. "You Herman Rothman Soz (225g) plain chocolate have to like yourself and enjoy being what KKL Executor & Trustee Soz (225g) icing sugar you are," said Bettine. No one was per­ Company Limited pint (2S0ml) water fect, every person had faults, but it was Harold Poster House For the pudding, separate eggs. Cream sensible to acknowledge the bad ones and Kingsbury Circle butter with two-thirds of the sugar until develop the good points. As a very busy London NW9 9SP very light and fluffy, beat in eggyoiks one person, she was convinced that to be Telephone: 0181-204 9911 by one. Whisk whites until stiff with re­ happy you had to be occupied. She Facsimile: 0181-204 8099 maining sugar. Fold white into the yolk warned about the middle-age crisis when Freephone: 0800 901333 mixture, alternatively with the grated suppressed desires came to the surface and chocolate and almonds. Steam in buttered men and women could suffer from a de­ and sugared pudding basin covered with a gree of role reversal. lid or foil, folded with a pleat to allow Positive, optimistic and full of joie de EXECVTOI It TRtlSTK C0MI>4NYUMITE0 room for expansions, for about three- vivre, Bettine Le Beau's talk was proof KKL-TAKING CARE quarters of an hour. enough of a tough life not embittering an For the sauce grate the chocolate or effervescent ambassador for traditional OF TOMORROW TODAY IN A break into small pieces. Put sugar and values and happy living. PROFESSIONAL AND CARING WAY chocolate into a thick saucepan, add wa­ D Ronald Channing AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1995

Obituary COMPANIONS for refugees to remain in this country, to Dr Werner Rosenstock provide aid for Jews marooned on the OF LONDON 1908-1995 continent, and to prepare postwar care for A specialist home care service UK-resident refugees - so that the AJR to assist the elderly, people hen Dr Werner Rosenstock re­ became the refugees' mouthpiece vis-a­ with disabilities, help during tired in 1982 as Director of vis the authorities, dealing with every and after illness, childcare the Association of Jewish legal and practical aspect of eventual and household needs. W For a service tailored to your Individual needs Refugees and editor of this journal, our naturalisation and German restitution. by Companions who care. Please call front page carried the headline "End of a The AJR's activities culminated in the Momentous Era". This era comprised our postwar era in the estabUshment of homes 0171-483 0212 first arrival and settlement in the UK, the for elderly refugees under the guiding 0171-483 0213 'enemy aliens' episode and our subse­ principle established by Werner: to pro­ 110 Gloucester Avenue, quent successful integration into the vide a civilised and comfortable Primrose Hill, cultural and economic life of Great Brit­ London NWl 8JA ain. {Emp Agy) Werner's active involvement in Jewish affairs started early on. The scion of a highly respected middle class Berlin fam­ ily, he joined the German Jewish youth HILARY'S AGENCY Specialists in Long and Short-Tem> movement at 15, and three years later be­ Live-in and Daily Care came attached to the Youth Section of the RESPITE AND EMERGENCY CARE CARE FOR THE ELDERLY Centralverein. Intent on a legal career he HOUSEKEEPERS read Law at the universities of Berlin and RECUPERATION CARE Freiburg. When Nazi legislation in 1933 MATERNITY NURSES NANNIES AND MOTHERS' HELPS debarred Jews from the legal profession EMERGENCY MOTHERS he was nonetheless able to obtain a doc­ Caring and Experienced Personnel Available torate with a thesis on the duties of jurors We will be happy to discuss your requirements in jury trials. PLEASE PHONE 0181-559 1110 During the short period as a junior offi­ cial (Referendar) at a Court of Justice before 1933 he met fellow-Referendar, FOR THOSE YOU CARE MOST ABOUT Susanne Philips, whom he was subse­ quently to marry. Dr Werner Rosenstock Springdene Werner now joined the Centralverein as A modern nursing home with a full-time worker until its demise in No­ environment for our people in their de­ 26 yrs of excellence in health vember 1938. He next worked for the clining years, quite different from the care to the community. Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutsch­ atmosphere that existed in most old-age Licensed by Barnet area health authority and land, his particular concern being the homes at that time. recognised by BUPA 4 PPP. Werner retired from the AJR in 1982, organisation of existing emigration de­ HYDROTHERAPY & partments. Late in 1938 the British after 41 years' service, on the eve of his PHYSIOTHERAPY provided by full authorities became more sympathetic to 75th birthday. cares... time chartered physiotherapists for inpatients and outpatients. immigration needs and Kitchener Camp His years of retirement were overshad­ at Richborough near Sandwich, Kent, was owed by serious health problems which SPRINGDENE 55 Oakleigh Park North, Whetstone, London N.20 established as a transit camp for young forced him and Susanne to leave their 0181-446 2117 very modest home. They found comfort­ men whose lives were specially endan­ SPRINGVIEW 6-10 Crescent Road, Enfield. Our gered. Before the outbreak of war able refuge and warmest care in Heinrich completely new purpose built hotel style retirement terminated this scheme, between three Stahl House. Werner bore his illness and home. All rooms with bathroom en-suite.Tel: 0181- and four thousand men, whom Werner the loss of Susanne, his companion for 4462117. had selected and for whom he had pro­ over sixty years, with stoic fortitude, cured British visas, found shelter at drawing strength from the close connec­ Richborough. He himself left for England tion with his son Michael, resident in Simon P. Rhodes M.Ch.S. in August 1939, almost at the last minute, Canada. STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST having been preceded by Susanne and With Werner Rosenstock we have lost Surgery hours: their 4-year-old son Michael. one of the last workers for German Jewry 8.30am-6pm Tuesday-Friday After the outbreak of war and a brief during the Nazi regime who transplanted 8.30am-3pm Saturday internment, Werner joined the AJR which their dedication to our people in this Visiting chiropody service available had been founded in 1941, becoming country. 67 Kilburn High Road, NW6 (opp. M&S) General Secretary in 1943. He enlarged We shall keep his memory green. Teiephone 071-624 1576 its original aims - to obtain permission D Arnold Horwell

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completely. The Volkswagen had taken your family and friends lived near you, Auto-suggestion off, and one million cars a year were and you could speak without a foreign ac­ made at Wolfsburg. 200,000 of these, cent. t was Hitler's greatest wish to leave 20%, were sold to America, spearheading There is more to buying a car than behind huge edifices more imposing the German economic miracle. counting the mileage per gallon. I than the pyramids in perpetual memory From a purely technical point of view, it D AW Freud of himself and his triumphs. The grandeur is difficult to find the reason for this ex­ of his new Berlin, Munich and Linz was port success. The cars were reliable and to be limited only by human imagination. cheap on petrol, but they had many draw­ Though his megalomaniac plans crum­ backs for American conditions. The inside No-holds Bard bled, other epitaphs remain, the best was cramped and uncomfortable, particu­ known of which was the autobahn; close larly for the long American distances. heatre buffs - and habitues of behind came the Volkswagen. Volkswagen They were noisy. If they hit anything, curry houses - are currently always translates as people's car, but this there was little to protect the passengers, T flocking to the National Theatre to does less than justice to the original Ger­ the engine being at the back. Luggage see the Anglo-Indian version of Cyrano, man. Like the frequency of musical notes, space was limited. Neither their perfor­ in a text replete with culinary metaphors. words have a main and a number of reso­ mance nor their equipment was At one point the heroine Rukshaana nant meanings, which can be a few outstanding, to say the least. After all, (Roxane) exclaims 'This is plain roti - octaves higher or lower. Basically, Volk they had been designed for the bottom what I'm asking for is shirmal.' means people, but under Hitler this word end of the market. Yet, why, in spite of all This multicultural extravaganza raises a acquired many under and over-tones. The this, were the Americans so keen to buy question: If we can have a French classic most fitting translation, making allow­ Hitler's car? It could not just have been 'Englished' with an admixture of curry- ance for all nuances, is bloodbrotherhood fuel economy, with petrol available at flavoured Hindi, why not render - which conjures up the appropriate only cents a gallon. Shakespeare into 'Yinglish' (Anglo-Yid­ mixture of blood, loyalty, and single- Who of the polymorph American nation dish) in a version that has Falstaff wolfing mindedness under a supreme leader. bought Volkswagen? The poor black blue- down kreplach and the Duke of Clarence Hitler conceived the "bloodbrother's collar workforce? The mid-west farmers? drowned in a butt of Palwin Nr 5? car" a few years before the war. It was not Californian beach bums? No, the main By sheer coincidence I have already a completely original idea, but contained customers were middle-class New-York prepared a Yinglish catalogue of the sufficient new technical and commercial Jews. (The rich ones bought Mercedes Bard's works. It features Hershel Finef features to make it a completely new ven­ cars instead). On the face of it, they were (Henry V), Ez bluzt a vind (The Tem­ ture. The Fuhrer participated actively in the most unlikely customers. Many were pest), Tzarevitch Nisht-aheen Nisht-aher its development. For instance, he insisted first generation refugees from Nazi perse­ (Hamlet), Die Malke fun Mizrajim that the new car be equipped with an air- cution. Others, American born, had their (Antony and Cleopatra), Der Melech vajs cooled rather than water-cooled engine European relations killed by Hitler's fun bobkes (King Lear), Mejn harts is (perhaps he anticipated the Russian cU- henchmen. Why buy a car, or any other nisht shvartz (Othello), Dos shlechte vajb mate!). The car had to be fully paid for by product, which had the name of their arch (Macbeth), Treif (Titus Andronicus), Der weekly instalments before delivery, a type enemy stamped on it? groisse broiges inmitten di machatonim of hire-purchase greatly to the manufac­ I asked some American-Jewish friends Montague and Capulct (Romeo and Ju­ turer's advantage. During the war, the why they had bought this car. In their re­ liet), and Mark Antony macht choisig car was modified and used by the German plies they often quoted economy and (Julius Caesar). army. indeed a Volkswagen would have saved Of course titles are relatively easy. At the end of the war, the Volkswagen them $100 a year on petrol. Is this the Faithful translation of the text into factory at Wolfsburg in the British zone of price of one's convictions? Durability Yinglish, however, presents pitfalls. While occupation, was earmarked for sequestra­ was given as another reason, mainly by tsu zajn ober nisht tsu zajn, dos is die tion as war reparation. The British those who made a point of buying a new schajle comes trippingly off the tongue, I specialists, forgetting the old adage of car every year. am nowhere near as sanguine about the 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth', I think the reason for their choice lay quote from the Crispin's Day speech Er had a look and rejected it. "A car with deeper - in a subconscious wish to re-es­ vus hot nisht kejn kishkes for die the engine at the back will never sell" was tablish contact with the German Heimat. melchume zol gejn aveg. Further on in the their oracular pronouncement. Unwanted, In spite of Nazi persecution, many cher­ same play - Hershel Finef - I came the factory was left with the Germans. ished memories of the Germany of their across a passage that really stumped me. The Germans used a better crystal ball youth. They were still proud of the How, I ask you, dear reader, does one for their sales forecast. Possibly still per­ Vaterland and liked to identify with it to render 'Ma fois, je ne vois point que vous suaded by Hitler's genius, they were not some degree. I knew a Viennese-born abaissiez votre grandeur en baisant la slow in re-starting the factory. In 1951, New-Yorker, who, needing a new dress, main d'une indigne serviteur' into ac­ only 6 years after the war, annual output flew to Vienna in order to buy one from ceptable Yinglish? had already reached 100,000 cars. Of the shop that had supplied her garments Helpful suggestions should be sent, un­ that number, only an insignificant 400 25 years previously. Similarly, buying a der the codeword Tsimmes, to Bayit Anne were exported to the United States of Volkswagen was a way of expressing for­ Hathaway, rayon Stratford, gubernje America. giveness, a nostalgic hankering back to Warwickshire. Ten years later, the picture had changed "the good old days", the days when all D Richard Grunberger

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