^DISCOVERING ETTY's DIARY Understanding Problems, with Or Without Palms, and His Clients Were Very Devoted to Him

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personality—and basically was what we would call Martin Stern a therapist, helping people, many of them women, with their emotional problems. There was an element of body contact, or 'wrestling', as well, all quite reminiscent of current trends. He seems to have been very successful in reading character and ^DISCOVERING ETTY'S DIARY understanding problems, with or without palms, and his clients were very devoted to him. In the Diary we follow Etty's increasing involve Record of a Remarkable Life ment with Spier, from her initial scepticism, through growing intellectual, emotional and physical contact, to a passionate, consuming love, despite his being twice her age. They also shared deep religious interests. Elty became his secretary I'urod "''•^' '^'"-'f^- ^y FJIy Hillcsum. and a.ssistanl and then his collaborator. by ArTiT *•'' ^- ^- '^"'•/"""^'- Translated The first quarter-or-so of the Diary presents the °'^ J- Pomerans. Cape. £8.50. not unfamiliar picture ofa young women seeking self-realisation through personal relationships and by ransacking literature and philosophy. She is '' ^'esci^leri'^'u "''"^ ^°°^^ '^^^ " harrowing one. reading Hegel, Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky, Bui whv H ^'^°'"'= "^ classic, and it will. though we do not learn what she makes of them. •'''cr it ^..•; °.*'^ hear of it only now. forty years Rilke is very close to her heart, but it seems lo be ''"^ had I'M''""'"^ ^"y ^"s*-"'' "ic value of what the early work and the Letters. There is no ^"'^'<:rbork • ""'^ '^^"'•^ '•'<= ^«="' o"" '« ^hc mention of the Duino Elegies or the Sonnets to '^"schwii, h ?^" '^^"^''' °" 'he eventual road to Orpheus, which would be relevant lo her religious 'o anntu_ ' l"*^ ''^''' her diaries with a friend to pass preoccupations. Mr. Garlaandt has abridged Ihc yciirs to find ' " ^''''*^'' ^ho tried for many Diary from 400 lo some 200 pages- mostly cull *'"' that "> •> publisher for it, without success. It ^filer's .son who eventually showed the ing repetitions and quotations, he says, and he has certainly done it very well—but it is po.ssiblc thai 8faspcd''Th?'^ ^""^^^ '^^ •'• ^- Garlaandl. who we would learn more from the unpublished parts. "^'^"iinOr."u^'''"*^ immediately, and published '> over ^"^^''^«' *" 'he original Dutch. Stncc """d and ''°P'" have been sold in Through her eyes '^'"" Euror^^ '•^"^'at'ons are scheduled for the ^ P... .. Pcan countries and the U.S.A hef diary sh""' ^"s 27 when she started writing The events of the Diary unroll against the background of the occupying Nazis' increasingly "''" in the ^^""^ "P '" Deventer, an attractive harsh measures taken against the Dutch Jewish l'u'6'''='llyarlf" "'" "o'land, where her father, population. Each stage is recorded by Etty: the D Municin f "?.'"'^'''=''- ^^^ 'he headmaster of registration, the obligation lo wear the yellow star, ^^'•an Jew *^y"i"asiuni. Her mother, a Elly Hillesum restrictions on where food can be bought, pro u u""^" of sir "^"^ '^'='^<=ca Bernstein, was a room and her meals. Han's son Hans, a cook, and hibition of travel on trams, finally transportation .^ chaotipT^ temperament who ran a some- two lodgers, complete the household, which is a to Wcslerbork and points east. Etly shows us how !'''"8<=r broth '^'""'^- E"y had two talented closely-knit one. Etty's relations with 'Father Han' these events were experienced and felt al the time. WK'' his fir°'5'''- "^'^ha, a gifted pianist who had become quite intimate. We identify with her, see it all through her eyes, and share the experiences. As wc can see from the t '^ame ^!, ""= "^^ vitamins at the age of 17 When the Diary opens, Etty had just met Julius Spier, a Frankfurt-born German Jew of 55 who in response in Holland, a whole new generation will ^"y had t L '''°''- 1939 had come to The Netherlands, where his be able lo understand what happened in those foT°" 'os udt?" "'"^^ ''"=g^«= i" '=>«, then had sister lived, from Berlin. He had been a bank terrible years in a way thai no history textbook can en ''<=h it A? .t^"''"""' ^"'l ''"<=* •' well enough manager, had founded a publishing house and had communicate. ""Shining D, 'h<= t'me the diary starts she was studied singing. He had gone to Zurich to train "And now Jews may no longer visit green Jy^hology ^."''^'f studies with an interest in wilh Jung, and it was Jung who had encouraged grocers' shops, Ihey will soon have to hand in 0^ '"^'- u j; had been living in Amsterdam him to pursue his interest in 'psychochirology'— Iheir bicycles, Ihcy may no longer travel by tram OU "^-lives i^^.!^ ^^y^' and when the Diary reading character from palmprints—as a full- and they must be olT the streets by 8 o'clock at W^^^^^r H! "^^.r^"'^ """^ Gentile 62-year- time profession. Spier was obviously a charis night." •^^^ in rl""" ^-^g^if. as a sort of house- matic personality—he was called a 'magical' Continued on page 2 " 'or which she has an attractive Page 2 AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1984

Continued from page 1 Every human life is precious in itself, but there are also those, like Etty, who have an exemplary role. She was ambitious to be a writer, but didn't DISCOVERING ETTY'S DIARY know what direction to take. Through force of circumstances, she recorded her own transforma Etty had no illusions about what was happen in great comfort, but there is something inside tion. Mr. Garlaandt appends some of her letters ing. In June 1942 she wrote: me, tough and indestructible, that tells me I from Westerbork to the Diary, and her potential "I am also aware that there may come a time shall be able to bear diflerent circumstances too. as a writer of some magnitude emerges from them. when 1 shan't know where they (her parents) I am so glad that he is a Jew and I a Jewess. With remarkably precise observation she describes are, when they might be deported to perish And I shall do what 1 can to remain with him so life in the camp, in an almost detached manner miserably in some unknown place. 1 know this is that we get through these times together. And I which has a very powerful impact. She understood perfectly possible. The latest news is that all shall tell him this evening: I am not really that she was a witness, as in the beginning of one Jews will be transported out of Holland through frightened of anything, 1 feel so strong; it mat of these letters in which she laler describes the Drenthe Province and then on to Poland. And ters little whether you have to sleep on a hard night before a transport: 'he English radio has reported that 700,000 floor, or whether you are only allowed to walk "When I think of the faces of that squad of perished last year alone, in Germany and the through certain specified streets, and so on— armed, green-uniformed guards—my God, occupied territories. And even if we slay alive we these are all minor vexations, so insignificant those faces! 1 looked at them, each in turn, from shall carry the wounds with us throughout our compared with the infinite riches and possi behind the safety ofa window, and I have never lives . . . Tonight I'll be seeing somebody else in bilities we carry within us. been so frightened of anything in my life as 1 was trouble, a Catholic girl. For a Jew to be able to We must guard these and remain true to them of those faces. 1 sank to my knees with the words help a non-Jew these days, gives one a peculiar and keep faith with them. And I shall help you that preside over human life: And God made sense of power. [July 1942] And if God does not and slay with you, and yet leave you entirely man after His likeness. That passage spent a help me to go on, then I shall have to help God. free. diflicult morning with me. The surface ofthe earth is gradually turning into"^ 1 shall support your every step, outwardly and I have told you often enough that no words one greal prison camp and soon there will be inwardly. I think I have grown mature enough and images are adequate to describe nights like nobody left outside. The Jews here are telling now to bear a great many hard things in life and these. But still I must try to convey something of each other . . . that the Germans are burying us yet not to grow too hard inside." it lo you. One always has the feeling here of alive or exterminating us with gas." Despite the pressure of these dreadful events, being the ears and eyes of a piece of Jewish In an earlier entry, we can see her attitude Etty did not despair. Her experience of personal history, but there is also the need sometimes to develop. Spier (called S. in the Diary), lived "three liberation through profound love was paralleled be a still, small voice. streets, a canal and a little bridge" away from Etty: by a deep religious development which is hard to We must keep one another in touch with "There seemed to be a touch of nervousness convey. It was a very personal kind of religion, everything that happens in the various outposts just now in his voice, when he asked me some with an existential element in it, and a touch of this world, each one contributing his own what ironically on the telephone: 'Well, are you of pantheism and of quietism as well, worked little piece of stone to the great mosaic that will coming over here with your yellow star?' Only a out together with Spier. A hodgepodge, but com take shape once the war is over." lew months ago I still believed that politics did pletely unpretentious, moving and sincere, Evil was not banal to her; her moral sense had not touch me and wondered if that was 'un- and it worked for her. never been dulled by spidery web-spinning. worldliness', a lack of real understanding. Now Etty's family were sent on the same transport as ' don't ask such questions any more. I have she was, in a dilTerent wagon. Of the five, only grown so much stronger and I honestly feel 1 can Urged to hide Jaap, the young doctor, survived the war's end, cope with these frightful days, that I'll get and he died on the way back to Holland. through them, even make it my historical duty She was urged by friends to go into hiding, but to get through them. she refused: "When I tell others: fleeing or hiding A few months ago I was in two minds as to is pointless, there is no escape, so let's just do what JEWISH BOOK WEEK now I would choose, when it came to it, between we can for others, il sounds too much like defeat There will be an exceptionally interesting Jewish mis sunny verandah, my untroubled studies and ism, like something I don't mean at all. I cannot Book Week this year, at Woburn House, at 8 p.m. Han's faithful eyes on the one hand, and a find the right words either for that radiant feeling starting on Monday 5 March. The Monday event, concentration or some other camp where I inside me, which encompasses but is untouched by co-sponsored by the AJR, is the George Webber could share my troubles wilh S. Now all that has all the sulTering and all the violence." She ident Memorial Lecture, given by the Rt. Hon. Lord ceased to matter. For something inside me has ified with the fate of her people and wanted lo Denning on "Jews in English Law". For the suddenly changed and I know that I shall follow share that fate. She did not have the instinct of Hebrew Evening on Tuesday, the outstanding S- wherever he goes and share his sorrows. And survival at any cost against the systematic de . Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld (see front page 'hat, I believe, is because I have grown so much structive plan ofa demonic enemy. Since Etty was of AJR Informalion of February 1982) will be less dependent on him and so am able to tie my so vital and life-loving, this 'passivity' must be present for a discussion ofhis work, with readings life to his, without feeling that I am sacrificing explained by her particular circumstances at that in Hebrew and English: "Years and Hours". On mine. time. She first linked her fate wilh that of her Wednesday the distinguished historian Martin lover Spier, a German Jew, and even wonders Gilbert, biographer of Churchill and chronicler of at one point whether she would be allowed to the Holocaust, will talk about "The Jews of Hope: The inner life marry him. When he died of a sudden illness in Soviet Jewry Today." On Thursday, Frederic September 1942, her overwhelming grief deflected Raphael, broadcaster and filmscripl writer, will That must sound paradoxical, but it is the her impulse to survive. In August she had volun talk about "Anglo-Jewish Attitudes" in celebra °nly wisdom there is between man and woman. teered to go with the first group going to Wester tion of the 30th anniversary of The Jewish Quar '^nd this too: a few months ago I was perhaps bork, and was apparently very eflective in helping terly. And on Sunday, 11 March, George Mikes, lightened that our dream would go sour on us to care for her fellow Jews within the possible the noted Hungarian humorist and writer, will m a life so full of care and pain. Yet somewhere limits. She has a harsh moral judgement on the discuss "Arthur Koestler—The Story of a mside me I now feel so at one with myself, and role of the Jewish Council, but the fact that, and Friendship". also with him, that the outer reality can do little the way in which she worked for the Council, There is also an Edgware and District Reform damage to that bond. And as the emphasis shifts illuminate the complexities of that controversy. Synagogue programme, evenings al 8.15, starting mcreasingly towards the inner life, so one grows Etty's Diary presents us with the maturing on Saturday 3 March and continuing through to less and less dependent on circumstances. through love of a gifted young woman. It records Thursday 8 March. There will also be programmes at Brighton & ' am writing this at my trusty desk, sur the triumph of one unusual individual spirit in the Hove ( 4 & 5 March), Cambridge (7 & 8 March), rounded by books, chestnut twigs and celandine face of the ultimate degradation and baseness of Glasgow (11 & 12 March), and Manchester (2 to 5 P'us the pencil sketch of S.'s head diagonally the historical moment, and reminds us of the March). across from me on the wall. 1 may be writing this terrible waste of this marvellous human potential. AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1984 Page 3 ROYAL GUESTS AT JWB DINNER HOME NEWS The Prince and Princess of Wales will attend the Jewish Welfare Board dinner to be given at the FAMILY LOST—AND FOUND? HOAX LETTER CAMPAIGN Guildhall in March. 1984 marks the 125th an " extraordinary story ofthe possible recovery of Hoax letters pretending to come from the Board of niversary of the JWB, which hopes this year to ^ 'ost childhood identity has resulted from the visit Deputies and signed by a non-existent "Mr. raise an additional £1 million for the maintenance ° Britain of Dr. Roman Vishniac, the famous Abraham Eichstein (chairman)", have been sent to of its homes and othe' assistance programmes. photographer who recorded the life of East and Jewish leaders. The letters are headed 'Enough is entral European Jewry in the pre-war years. As Enough', and describe the Holocaust as a Jewish WELCOME FOR MANCUNIAN . ''S' Marianne Edwards of Eastbourne was writ- invention. The addressees had obviously been AMBASSADOR 8 her Christmas cards, she noticed on the televi- drawn from reference books. The letters have been 'on screen a short film sequence of a small child sent to the police for forensic tests. Yehudi Avner, the new Israeli Ambassador, made nom she immediately recognised as herself, from a pilgrimage to his birthplace when he was the the one photograph she had from aboul the same NEW OFFICE BUILDING DAMAGED guest of the Lord Mayor of Manchester recently. '•ne. Mrs. Edwards knew that she was born in Mr. Avner met religious leaders, visited the King A major fire in January seriously damaged the new David High School and spoke to the press and namburg in the thirties and that her mother had office building next to the Michael Sobell Centre in led when she was two, and that she had been radio. Among his other engagements was a meet Golders Green. The Jewish Blind Society, the ing with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, j.'own to Britain in 1938 to live with an aunt of her Jewish Welfare Board, Norwood Child Care and '"ner's near Croydon. Questions were not en while the Lady Mayoress and Mrs. Avner toured the Housing Association all had to make alter the city's art gallery. couraged by her new English family. native arrangements for premises, since all were '"e Sunday Times brought Mrs. Edwards to planning to occupy the new building in the very gether with Dr. Vishniac, now 87, and in Britain near future. It is thought that repairs will take VIOLENT ATTACK ON ANTI- yj 'he publication of his book "A Vanished some months. The adjoining Day Centre did not ZIONISTS in • ^"^^^ Edwards had one document ment- sufl'er fire damage, but water from the firemen's When Lenni Brenner, author of "Zionism in the "'"g an obscure village in Carpathian Ruthenia, hoses poured down the stairways and the elderly Age of the Dictators", was speaking at Lambeth IL '^r. Vishniac remembered taking the film in members were evacuated to Lionel Leighton Town Hall, he was attacked by two young men in thai êry village, and even recalled having seen her fathi House. However, they were able to return to the the audience. The meeting, held by the Labour ^ er's surname (he was called Kurt Salzer) over Day Centre within a short time. Committee on Palestine, degenerated into vio e of the doors. He also remembered talking to lence, in the course of which Mr. Brenner was hit ^ playing games with the child—and her little 'TWIN' PEN-PALS with a chair and the meeting's chairman sustained o her—in (he photograph. (Dr. Vishniac is a broken nose. An MP was punched and two °wn to have a most remarkable and accurate During the barmitzvah speech of Yitzchak Schar- people had to go to hospital. Ted Knight, the •tiemory.) fer (grandson of an AJR member), there was an leader of the Lambeth Council, claimed that "a '^hat v/as the child doing in that village of emotional moment when he mentioned his gang of extreme Zionist thugs" was to blame. ""i'Jskej-Stredy? Dr. Vishniac speculated that Russian "twin' pen-pal Mischa Smeliansky. Both boys have their birthdays on the same day, but r- ti - ^ ^^^ motherless child was sent to her ARSON AT AUSCHWITZ EXHIBITION liltl K^ "ative village for a holiday. And if the while Yitzchak could celebrate his with his family e boy jn the picture (also in her own childhood and friends, Mischa, because he lives in the Soviet The touring Auschwitz exhibition, which was first Union, is not allowed to celebrate his barmitzvah. to h °?'^''Ph) was her brother, what had happened seen in this country at St. George's-in-the-East, Yitzchak corresponds with his 'twin', and de has been damaged by arson while the exhibits were noth-'^' liaised as a Catholic, Mrs. Edwards knew scribed his life in England in a letter sent along being stored in the Birmingham district. J, |lg of having a Jewish background or origins. with his birthday gift to Mischa. Children's shoes, camp uniforms, pajsers and suit 's now assiduously trying to find out more cases were destroyed, and other items were '"'°"'her past. WALLENBERG SCULPTURE damaged. Some relics of human hair survived— Afler the Raoul Wallenberg Exhibition appeared ironically because they retained a coating of OSMOND HOUSE GATHERING Zyklon B which acted as a fire retardant. Despite Tk in Brighton, the Ross McWhirter Foundation |, House Committee of Osmond House invited donated £500 to the Wallenberg Committee. This this attack, the exhibition was able to proceed to j^^ ""egular visitors to the Home on Sunday, 22 has been used to commission a bust ofthe Swedish Basildon, Essex, and thereafter to Newcastle-on- "• jp """^y- T^he visitors, together with the residents, diplomat sculpted by a Jewish artist, Marilyn Tyne. The curator of the Auschwitz Museum in ^'•'i*/ oJ°y^*^ a concert, which was followed by a delici- Panto ofthe Brighton and Hove community. After Poland, Teresa Ceglowska, was invited by the ^ ^ 'ea. Dr. Lore Stein, the Chairman of the its completion, the bust was given to the Sussex organisers to attend the Newcastle opening. "se Committee, expressed her warm thanks lo branch of the St. John Ambulance Organisation, • 'he gathering. who are awarding it as an annual trophy to the WRIT AGAINST BOARD OF DEPUTIES winner ofa first aid competition. The first of these Tom Finnegan, who failed to win Stockton South awards was made to 16-year-old Kathryn Trower, GALA EVENING FOR "ADAM" for the Conservatives at the General Election, has a nursing cadet. ^'e 75ih birthday of Miron Grindea MBE was issued a writ against the Board of Deputies. The lite '^ ^^ '^ tribute to 45 years of "Adam", the GRANT FOR JEWISH MUSEUM Board says that it will "vigorously defend" itself Talt*"^^ magazine founded and edited by him. against his charge of libel. for '"^ P^*^' '" 'he gala evening were such per- The Jewish Museum at Woburn House has re Q'^^'^S as Claire Bloom, Paul Scofield, John ceived a grant of £12,500 from the Greater KAFKA EXHIBITION Gri d" _and Christopher Fry. Among Mr. London Council. . "dea's achievements are the discovery of Wolf An exhibition on "Kafka and Prague", organised 3 'y owitz as a writer and the nomination of by the British Friends of Beit HaT'futsot, will be ^ Agnon for the Nobel Prize. JACK'S EARLY CAR held in the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall from SERVICE 9 to 25 March. 959 6473 Annely Juda Fine Art BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE " Tottenham Mews, London W1P9PJ PRICES FOR PEOPLE OVER 60 YEARS OLD 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.3 01-637 5517/8 HEATHROW £9, LUTON CIO, Our communal hall is available for cultural CONTEMPORARY PAINTING SOUTHEND £20, BOURNEMOUTH £30 and social functions. For details apply to: I, AND SCULPTURE EVERYONE LEGALLY FULLY INSURED Secretary, Synagogue Office. von-Fri: 10 am-6 pm Sat: 10 am-1 pm Please book in advance Tel: 01-794 3949 Page 4 AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1984 the Grand Cross ofthe Order of Merit; and Rabbi NEWS FROM ABROAD Josy Eisenberg, appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. STILL NO PARDON FOR FRANCE US LYNCH VICTIM French Antisemites Yesterday and Today ITALY Seventy years ago a Jewish factory supervisor, Wild accusations against Mme Simone Veil were Leghorn Hopes for Lost Sculptures Leon Frank, was convicted of the murder of a hurled at the meeting of the French National One hundred years ago Amadeo Modigliani was young giri in Atlanta, Georgia. Both the trial Front Party in Lyons recently. Mme Veil, at one born in Leghorn and the city is preparing for a judge and the state governor believed Frank to be time Health Minister, was attacked for "turning centenary exhibition celebrating the life of the innocent and his sentence was commuted to one of French hospitals into gas chambers". The name of famous Jewish artist. But the organisers are imprisonment. This did not satisfy the local Justice Minister Robert Badinter, another Jewish hoping for something more than a collection of trouble-makers, who formed an antisemetic mob, politician, was greeted by boos from the 1,500- works executed in Paris after Modigliani had left forced open the prison, captured Frank and strong crowd who supported the extreme right- Italy. Legend says that, angered by neglect and lynched him. Armed men roamed the streets, wing party. contempt from his fellow Italians, the artist threw Jewish shopkeepers boarded up their windows in In another incident, vandals raged through a a number ofhis sculptures into Leghorn's "Royal fear for their lives and about half the 3,000 Jews of suburban Paris shop, destroying its contents and Ditch" before going to France. If the story is true, Georgia fled the state. A boycott of Jewish busi scrawling antisemitic slogans on the walls. The these eariy works are still in the "Ditch" and the ness was organised and it was in the wake of these shop belongs to Jacob Attia, vice-president of the city's engineers are carrying out surveys and explo events that the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Pavillon-sous-Bois community. rations in the hope of finding these unknown B'rith was established. Robert Badinter was also in the news when treasures. A short time ago, Alonzo Mann, who had been Simon Wiesenthal, visiting France, asked him to "Slander on Pius XII" verdict an oflRce-boy in the factory at the time ofthe girl's reveal the file relating to Interpol's activities murder, said that he had then seen the victim during the Second World War. Interpol is widely Robert Katz, the author of "Death in Rome", has Carried away by another man, Jim Conley. Conley,.,^ suspected of having collaborated with the Nazis been sentenced to 13 months' imprisonment by an 'he main prosecution witness, said at Frank's trial and Dr. Wiesenthal believes that the file still exists Italian appeal court. The American Jewish his 'hat he had disposed ofthe body for his superior, somewhere in Paris. M. Badinter has asked his torian accuses Pope Pius XII of failing to condemn but Mr. Mann says that the girl was alive when he colleague, the Defence Minister, "to shed all possi Nazi and Fascist persecution of the Jews, and saw her with Conley. ble light on the presumed existence of this Nazi proceedings were brought against him by relatives \ Armed with this new evidence, the Anti- file". of the late Pope on the grounds that he had Defamation League, the American Jewish Replying lo Dr. Wiesenthal, the Secretary- slandered the dead. To date, Mr. Katz has faced Committee and the Atlanta Jewish Federation General of Interpol has denied that the organisa the court five times to answer these charges. sought a posthumous pardon for Leon Frank. But tion possesses any file"of a racially discriminatory SPANISH TOLERANCE Cjeorgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles declined nature." 'o grant a pardon because, they said, the Jewish Under the regime of General Franco and since the oi'ganisations had not conclusively proved Frank's French Honours for Jews end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, no an nouncement of a Jewish death has appeared in the 'nnocence of the long-ego crime. Two Grands Prix ofthe City of Paris were recently advertisement columns of Spanish newspapers. It awarded to Jews. Elie Wiesel, now chairman ofthe was only a few weeks ago that the first signs of a American Holocaust Memorial Council, received thaw in the religious attitude of the State came BUDAPEST'S ACTIVE JEWISH a prize amounting in value to over £4,000 for his wilh the insertion in a Madrid newspaper of an INSTITUTE latest work "Lecinquieme fils"[Thefift h son]. The announcement to the eirecl that the late Julia other recipient was Moroccan-born musician After a 20-year gap, the German Democratic Ouaknine had been buried in a Jewish cemetery. "epublic may once again have a rabbi within the Maurice Ohana. next five years. Frank Mylius from Halle/Saale is Other members of the community lately ARABS MOST LIKELY HOSTAGES studying at the Budapest Jewish Institute, the only honoured in France are Rabbi Jacob Kaplan, fabbinical seminary in the Eastern bloc. The formeriy France's Chief Rabbi, who has received The Institute for the Study of Conflict has recently eourse, which lasts 6j years, is currently attended published "Political Hostage-Taking in Western °y Soviet, Bulgarian and Czech students, as well as Europe", which includes a study of cases where l^fank Mylius, who began his studies in 1982. The hostages have been seized primarily because of nstitute, which possesses a large library and their nationality. "Ethnic bias", it is stated, "is Archive, has published over 60 books in the past DENTS,RUST,SCRATCHES more pronounced, though not against usual tar- 'h'arter-century, including a five-volume series on Car body repair. We've madeyour choice easy! gels of ethnic hatred. Jews, for instance, have only "e persecution of Hungarian Jews during the Nazi twjce been seized intentionally". In contrast, the •'3- Another important work is the corre survey reveals, the group from which hostages are spondence between Leo Baeck and Immanuel Low most often taken is that of the Arabs. 193 Arabs ^«ged) over the period 1935-1941. This book has have been seized in 14 incidents, a figure un ên edited by Professor Sandor Scheiber, matched in any other ethnic group. Insurance men ""•ector of the Budapest Jewish Institute. at Lloyd's have developed a specific package covering Arab clients. EXILE RETURNS TO ARGENTINA WILL CHILE RELEASE RAUFF? Following the change of government in Argentina, Qditional pressure is being brought to bear on Jacob Timerman has returned to the country. Mr. * Pinochet government in Chile in an attempt to Timerman, who was jailed and then expelled from f^îTe the extradition of Walter Raufl", a major Argentina some years ago, wrote "Prisoner ^zi War criminal. As the man responsible for the Without a Name, Cell Without a Number" to tell Wagons used for extermination, Raufl" is es- of his experiences. Now he hopes to bring to 'im•jate, d to have caused the deaths ofa quarter ofa THE PKOFESSKNUL'S THE N0IU>ROrESS10iaL*S justice the men who held him in prison and those mill"'o. n Jews. Present Chilean law does not permit BOOYFUXIX BomrnixEK responsible for the disappearance of thousands of Whchever sue pack you require Ihe fact, he tfissis on so much that we've I ''•adition in this case, but Simon Wiesenthal of fnoOuct MtvOu a Itw same ti's ISOPON •i^jroved our tortnulauun TK> ton Ihan 14 Argentinian victims. P.3B iuvS rt's iTUtde by Ihe spectalnts HI the iMTWtiusi iok««p**ieadol him. ast '^^ Documentation Centre in Vienna has manutactufe oi Car Body Filiefs tot over Wtethet you naed a vnai tube ol •J., ^d Mr. Reagan to take action in the matter. 26yea(S ISOPON P.3B costing le«« than CI .00 w a Wt> know lhai (he professtorul needs a gaBon drum you can be sure you've nude L ^ British Foreign Secretary, Sir GeolTrey Howe, produci that's rrtore ihan ;usi padding. He the right choice. With acknowledgement to the news service ftxiuMts a produci Ihdl's quick arxJ easy lo h. also been requested to put pressure on General us«:. Uial Sttrxis lo a mMtCM smooth ftr^tsh of the Jewish Chronicle divi vMlhsunds the worst bumps and ISOPONIP '"ochet. vibrations io outlast ttie lite ol the car. In MAKING YW TOESPEOAUS T AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1984 Page 5

REMARKABLE SOUTH A STUDY OF GERMAN JEWISH REFUGEES AFRICAN PLAY Master Harold . . . and the Boys a new play by At a meeting of the Jewish Historical Society of English, but obviously they did not feel any Athol Fugard. Directed by the author. The England, Dr. Marion Berghahn, a young German German aflinities either. Many of them are said to Market Theatre, Johannesburg, visiting the Na research worker whose husband holds the chair of have taken up the the study of German history in tional Theatre. In repertory at the Cottesloe. History at Warwick University, told a large and order to find out more about their origins and the i^Ppreciative audience of her many years of re fate of their families. The majority said that they This powerful play reminds us of what theatre search into the present position and attitudes of were Jews in the first place. Nevertheless Dr. can and should be. No tricks, no gimmicks, no the Jewish refugees in this country. The results are Berghahn finds that their lifestyle contains obvious sleight-of-effect. One simple set, a slightly seedy ''bout to be published in a book with the sub-title German elements such as special eating habits, cafe. Three suf)erb actors, on stage all the time. 'The Ambiguities of Assimilation." The subject is but also a predilection for things cultural which And a marvellous text. Not a cough to be heard, or course of greal interest to all of us. Dr. sets them apart from their English Jewish nor a creaking seat, so absorbed and riveted was "Crghahn has interviewed some 250 refugees, contemporaries. the audience. niostly living in or around London and including She recognises the impact German Jewish re We were reminded that there is nothing more •'2 children born in this country. fugees have made on British economic and cultural interesting than human relationships when they From our own day-to-day experience we are life and the important part they have played in the are presented honestly, directly and deeply. Hally I'Ware that the degree of integration of individuals Anglo-Jewish community without ever completely is an adolescent white boy wilh a weak, crippled, into their present surroundings varies greatly, and becoming part of it, but she thinks that the process drinking father and a mother who runs a cafe in a |t IS obvious that it is extremely difficult for an of assimilation and integration has by no means park. A lonely boy, he has established a relation interviewer to discover people of refugee origin been concluded. She refers to the numerous reli ship with Sam, the older black waiter in his *hose integration is almost complete. gious, social and cultural institutions, the AJR mother's cafe: Hally passes on his book learning to ' among them, which have sprung up over the years Sam, and Sam gives him the warmth and under Dr. Uerghahn divides refugees into three standing he does not get from his parents. categories: those who spent their formative years in order to maintain the German Jewish way of "1 Germany, those who came as children, and life. The unexpected eariy return of Hally's father I those born in this country after the war whom she from hospital (communicated by lelephone) pre ^ Calls the third generation. In her view it is the cipitates a crisis in which Hally's turbulent ten second generation which has suffered most from Different attitudes sions and weaknesses come to the surface, and he 'he trauma of flight and resettlement, though its compensates for them by arrogant bullying of the ^Itects have been lasting for both the first and the two black men, offending their dignity and self- second generation. She was surprised to find that She also investigates the reaction of all three respect, and shattering irrevocably the alTectionate bantering relationship that had been convincingly among the 32 members of the third generation, generations to visits to Germany and meetings established in the first half of the play. By probing •*' staled that they did not feel themselves lo be with German people. For the first and second so deeply and so skilfully, the author makes generation it is ambivalent distrust and often manifest the whole range of subtle psychological hatred, but in many cases lime has softened and social pressures al work, wilh no need lo press feelings of revenge and haired. The third genera points home since they emerge naturally from the tion displays more neutral feelings towards felt and dramatised life of his characters. It is no CAMDEN AUCTIONS Germany and Germans and sees the persecution secret that there is a strong autobiographical Auctioneers (t Valuers Ltd under the Nazis less as a specifically German element in the play, and even the names of the matter than as the product of particular circum Sales Rooms, Hoppers Road, The Green. characters and the cafe are authentic. Winchmore Hill, London, N21. 886 1550 stances which could have led lo similar atrocities elsewhere. Duart Sylwain as Hally and Ramoiao Makhene FORTNIGHTLY AUCTIONS Dr. Berghahn reaches the conclusion that there as Willy are first-rate, but John Kani as Sam—at OF ANTIQUES-FURNITURE-OBJETS DART is reason to believe that what she calls "German- first genial and afTable, then betrayed and Every other Thursday, 10.30 a.m. Jewish ethnicity", with all its traditions, will sur affronted bul finally the noble moral preceptor— Viewing Wednesday 9.30-8 p.m. vive because il survived all the pressures it was was utterly convincing. Not to be missed. f^EXT SALES: THURSDAY Sth b 22nd MARCH exposed to in Germany, and in England these Jews M.S. FREE VALUATIONS. PROBATE. are permitted to be what in the final analysis they CLEARANCES. SINGLE ITEMS ACCEPTED could not be in Germany: German Jews. CENTRE IN ULM C EQR ADVICE AND INFORMATION PLEASE Even when one disagrees with quite a few of her CONTACT: findings. Dr. Berghahn's work is an interesting It js intended to erect a memorial for the oppo Eric & Carol Levene and thought-provoking contribution to a very nents and victims of the Third Reich on the site complex problem. M.P. of the former concentration camp "Oberer Kuhberg", which was in the middle of the city of Ulm. The centre is to consist of a permanent exhibition, a library and an archive. Former citizens of Ulm who can contribute malerial, WANTED TO BUY especially photos, documents (originals or photo JEWS IN GERMANY THROUGHOUT stats) or publications for the library are asked lo THE CENTURIES gel in touch with: Dr. Walter Wuttke, Syriinslr. 19, JEWELLERY-SILVER-SILVER PLATE Exhibition in Tel Aviv Museum 7900 Ulm/Donau, Federal Republic of Germany. PORCELAIN - FURNITURE. PAINTINGS. Under the heading "Jews in Germany—from ETC. Roman Times to the Weimar Epoch" the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Diaspora in Tel Aviv TOP PRICES PAID has arranged an elaborate exhibition showing the MEMORIAL TO GERMAN VICTIMS The Antique Shop, fate of Jews in Germany during the changing Another memorial has recently been unveiled at 24, The Green, N.21. periods of their history. At the opening ceremony, the former concentration camp of Mauthausen, Day: 886 1550 addresses were given by the Federal German joining monuments commemorating the 110,000 Evenings: 441 0314 Ambassador lo Israel, Dr Niels Han.sen, who victims from many lands. The simple stone mem Ask for Mrs. H. Freedman spoke in Hebrew, and the Chairman of the Zen orial was unveiled by a West German Foreign tralrat of Ihe Jews in Germany, Werner Oflice Minister and is designed to preserve the COMPLETE HOUSES CLEARED Nachmann. The impressive exhibition was pre memory of the 8,000 German citizens who pared by Dr. Nachum T. Gidal. perished in Mauthausen. 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Our reward came one Sunday afternoon, when LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Chief Rabbi Hertz and his son-in-law Rabbi Dr. Schonfeld and many other Jewish leaders from Woburn House came to visit the camp. They all came to the hospital, spoke to the patients and made personal enquiries. The Chief Rabbi then turned to the staff and addressed us. He praised Dr. Schmitthoff The conditions under which both she and Dr and thanked us and wished us well for the future. Wallach worked (operations in a tent by the light "There is no need for words when one has got eyes ^'r.—I refer to the paragraph on the Dec-mber 83 of oil lamps, etc,) are hard to imagine in this day to see." That was his blessing for us, which I still Home News page headed "A Lawyer's Achieve and age, but gradually, also with Schwester remember. ments'. Well over 25 years ago Dr. Schmitthofl" Selma's help (she used her leave to go on fund- Was my teacher in English Company Law at what 3 Moor End Avenue, W. HENDERSON raising trips in many countries) a proper well- *as then the Cily of London College. I wish now Kersal, Salford 7 (formerly F. W. Hirschfeld) equipped hospital developed. Dr Wallach was a 'o take the opportunity through your pages to pay hard task-master, but demanded no less of himself 'ribute to him for his excellent teaching. Dr. than he did from his helpers, and the desperate The Falashas in Exile SchmitthofTs lectures and notes were so clear and need for medical and human care made their work Sir,—I was most interested to read Egon Larsen's 'ucid that I simply did not need my textbooks. extremely rewarding. article on that curious character, "Prince Everyone in the class could feel his enthusiasm for Monolulu of the Falashas". fne subject, making it so easy to retrieve the Schwesler Selma worked as Matron of the The history of this Ethiopian Jewish Tribe is information al exam time. Long may he continue Shaare Zedek until she was in her 80s, and a great indeed a fascinating one, not only because of the to help his students, who must by now run into many nurses were trained by her. She is now, alas, mystery surrounding the actual origins of the many hundreds. very old and frail, but is enjoying the care and Falashas but also because the Falasha Tradition '03 Britten Close K. C. SAUNDERS attention she so richly deserves at the Hospital offers a valuable insight into Pre-Rabbinic êllgarth Road which for so many years has been not only her Judaism. London NWll 7HW place of work, but also her home. 59 Wellesley Court, (Mrs.) E. L. WILD 1 am at present engaged upon writing a doctor- Maida Vale, (nee Mayer) ale on the Falashas (the first of its kind in Europe). London, W.9 One of my intentions is to pay tribute to the ( 1 Georg Rusche ceaseless efl'orts of Joseph Halevy, the renowned îr.^We are currently preparing the French edi- Sister Selma died the day afler her birthday.—Ed. nineteenth century Ethiopian and Semitic scholar, hon of the works of Georg Rusche (Hannover to overcome the prejudices and suspicions of (Germany) 1900-London, 1950). A former Western Jewry against the Falashas. Similarly I member of the "Institut fiir Sozialforschung" An Opposing View intend to applaud the Pro-Falasha Crusade led by (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt a/M., Sir,—In his illuminating review ofthe new Gregor Jacques Faitlovitch, Halevy's greatest pupil. In he is best known as the co-author with O.Kirch- Strasser biography, Mr. Richard Grunberger fact it was Faitlovitch's campaign which led to a neimer of "Punishment and Social Structure" states that "the very term Nationalsozialismus was breakthrough in the attitude of Western Jewry to (Columbia Univ. Press, 1939). All documents and as self-contradictory as dry rain or vegetarian the Falashas, as symbolised by the open letter of mformation welcome. We are especially looking butcher". Some of us hold the opposite view and 1906 addressed lo the Falashas, "Our flesh and 'or the original German manuscript of the book consider Hitlerism to have been the very essence of blood", by 44 Rabbis from all over Europe. It was ("y G. Rusche alone), "Arbeitsmarkt und Straf- socialism. only in 1975 that the Israeli Ministry of the ôllzug", or ils English translation. Please write to: 20 Bishops Close, G. SCHMERLING Interior decreed that the Falashas were entitled lo ^. rue de Mondovi, R. LEVY, C.E.S.D.I.P., Old Coulsdon, automatic cilzenship under the Law of Return. 75001 Paris. Surrey It is somewhat tragic that the political events in Prance Ethiopia have not allowed for a wholesale or emigration of the Falashas to Israel. Thus there 'nstitut fur Sozialpadagogik H. ZANDER Camp Hospital are no more than 2,000 Falashas in Israel, while und Erwachsenenbildung, Sir,—The article of Mr. M. M. Goldenberg their 30,000 kinsmen remain in harsh exile. It is Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat,. "Memories of an arrival" gave me great pleasure quite clear that something must be done and Peldbergstrasse 42, and as I remember the situation of March 1939 immediately to unite the Falasha People who are fOOO Frankfurt a.M.. very well, may I add a few words to these wonder in the words of Jacques Faitlovilch, "an elite -^ West Germany ful and interesting reminiscences from my own desirous of emerging from their degraded con- ^ experience. dition, burning with idealism, full of love for the I was one of the 25 of Poldi Kuhs (Kew) Party. faith" of their ancestors". On my arrival at the Camp 1 was given the job of Newnham College LAVINIA BRAUN Selma Mayer transforming an old derelict hut into a hospital. Cambridge am the niece of Schwester Selma Mayer, There were four of us. After 36 hours hard work ^fsiwhile Matron ofthe Shaare Zedek Hospital in we were ready to present the hut for inspection. •'^rusalem. Along came Mr. May and his staff. The trans Schwester Selma Mayer had her 100th birthday formation from an old hut, a relic from the On 4 February, and although I suppose she might 1914/18 war, into a hospital was approved and I SURVEY OF GERMAN ANTISEMITISM lot be classed as a 'refugee' in the strict sense, she was informed that a doctor would arrive in the Following a survey by Cologne University, alarm ênt to Israel in 1916 following the call of Dr afternoon. At the same time it was announced that ing evidence appears that one-half of all West lôsche Wallach (who came from Cologne) to everybody and everything should be ready for the Germans retain strong antisemitic prejudices. êlp him found the Shaare Zedek. She will be well midnight arrival of the first transport from Dover Only one-quarter of those questioned rejected the Known to many of your members. which would include several men released from idea of antisemitism. The survey found a marked Schwester Selma was born in Hanau am Main K. Z. camps. dilTerence between the inhabitants of small towns On 4 February 1884 and trained and worked as a The doctor, who took over the hospital, was and villages and people living in cities. 88 per cent jiurse and infant school teacher (having trained Dr. Mink, who a few weeks later was joined by Dr. of the former disclosed anti-Jewish feelings as "1 Montessori) in Hamburg. When Dr Mosche Schatzki. It was a pleasure to work for Dr. Mink. against 48 per cent of urban dwellers. "allach advertised for a fully qualified nurse Almost twice a week and always near to mid In terms of age and education, older people were 'o go to Jerusalem in 1916, she followed his call. night the transports arrived. There were always found to be more antisemitic than the younger '7^ it was in the middle of the First Worid War, men amongst them who were in urgent need to be generation, whilst the poor and ill-educated dis 'he journey, over land, took many weeks, but she taken straight into the hospital. The doctor and closed more prejudice than academics and white- "âde it and never regretted it. our little staff worked endless hours. collar workers. AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1984 Page 7 The Barbie File THE OMEGA WORKSHOPS OBITUARIES The Omega workshops were founded in 1913 by "The best lack all conviction, the worst are full of Roger Fry and included, amongst others, such PAUL BEN-HAIM passionate intensity". These lines of Yeats's came eminent English artists as Duncan Grant, Vanessa instinctively to mind as I read Klaus Barbie, Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Paul Ben- Bell, Gaudier-Brzeska and, of course, Roger Fry Butcher of Lyons (Michael Joseph, £10.95) by the Haim became Israel's foremost composer before himself, many of them inter-related. BBC's Tom Bower (who had previously written his recent death at the age of 86. While he was still There are two current exhibitions, both on the the self-explanatory Blind Eye lo Murder.) a child in Germany, his parents were told by same theme but very dilTerent in content. At "experts" that he had no ear for music, a verdict Born in 1913 Barbie grew up in the resentment- Anthony d'On"ay, 9 & 23 Dering Street, New Bond decisively refuted when he became assistant to laden, kleinhiirgerliche milieu—his father was a Street, Wl there is an exhibition entitled "The Bruno Waller and Hans Knappertsbusch. Later he war-wounded elementary school teacher—which Omega Workshops. Alliance & Enmity in English was appointed conductor in Augsburg. Emigrat bred youthful recruits for Nazism as naturally as Art 1911-1920" (open until the end of March ing in 1933, Paul Ben-Haim settled in Tel Aviv and dampness engenders wet rot. Self-centred and 1984). At the Crafts Council Gallery, 12 Waterloo eventually devoted all his time to composing, ambitious hejoined first the Nazi Party and then Place, SWl (until 18 March 1984) the exhibition is blending Western and Oriental elements in his the SS. entitled "The Omega Workshops 1913-1919. music. Included in his works were "Hymn for the The Nazi Volksgemeinschaft, in Party phras Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury." eology, subsumed all classes as workers by hand Desert", based on an ancient hymn in the Dead Both exhibitions contain fine paintings by the and brain. Barbie's work ran true to form: he used Sea Scrolls, "Sweet Psalmist in Israel", which won artists of the Bloomsbury Group. d'Offay also his brain to entrap victims and his hands to torture the Israel Prize in 1957, and liturgical cantatas. shows some pottery and textiles, whereas the them. In Amsterdam he tricked community Paul Ben-Haim has been regarded as the founder Crafts Council have concentrated more on fur leaders into handing over lists of young Jews; in of the modern Israeli symphonic style. niture and furnishings, including the reconstruct Lyons he infiltrated the Resistance and captured ion of rooms designed by the artists concerned. the legendary Jean Moulin. Filled with passionate Dr. GEORGE ALEXANDER KEYNES . Both exhibitions are worth seeing since they are intensity. Barbie turned Montluc prison into exciting in themselves and reflect an important Dr. George Alexander Keynes (formerly Alex round-the-clock torture chambers, despatched trend in the development of modern English art ander Klein) died recently in London. He came Jewish toddlers to the gas chambers, and left a trail and design. Good illustrated catalogues are from Vienna (afler having been in Dachau) to the of death and destruction in villages friendly to the available at both exhibitions. I •kitchener Camp and then volunteered for the Maquis. British Army. He spent eight years in the Army Bomberg in Palestine and was in the British Control Commissions in Bonn and Vienna. In Vienna he helped shape the A most successful exhibition has recently been new Austrian Constitution. Avoiding dragnet held in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, of the pictures painted in Palestine between 1923 and LOTTIE WINTER The end of the war saw him scurrying about 1927 by the well-known Anglo-Jewish artist, Western parts of Germany to avoid the Allied David Bomberg (1890-1957). This exhibition in ils A teacher throughoi-t her life, Lottie Winter has entirety came to London and was shown at the *|'ed in Israel al the eariy age of 55. Emigrating dragnet for Nazi criminals. Not that he needed to worry overmuch: in the matter of meting out Ben Uri Art Gallery, Dean Street, W.l in from Hamburg in 1939, she taught at the Has February. A lot of Bomberg's work has recently monean Giris' .School until her marriage in 1951, retribution for Nazi crimes the Allies seemed, instead, to lack all conviction. Politicians of the been seen in London, but these pictures are very after which she moved to Israel and joined difl'erent and of great interest. ALICE SCHWAB Kibbutz Lavi. She established the Lavi Primary eminence of Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden were ^chool in 1952. At the start it had only four pupils indilTerent; in the lower echelons muddle and •J' it.is now a large regional religious school. Mrs inertia in face of the sheer magnitude of the task inter was appointed inspector of religious frustrated the half-hearted elTorts made before the Remember schools for the Northern region of Israel, a post exigencies ofthe Cold War prompted a disastrous She held until her death. transvaluation of all values. Israel To their everlasting discredit the US Counter Intelligence Corps recruited—and shielded from MOSHE SILVERBERG the French—the so-called expert on Communism So Israel may remember you Forlo ng a superintendent of Rainham Cemetery, whom they eventually even provided with a new « Moshe Silverberg has died in his late seventies. As passport in the name of Klaus Altmann. (The ''member of the British Army during the Second Americans have at least now admitted their cul If you wish Israel and Jewish World War, he served in France, Belgium, pability in this matter; the British, who also tried Organisations to benefit by your olland and Germany, and he was able to help to recruit Barbie, have simply said no comment'.) Will, why not consult us? "lany displaced persons following liberation ofthe Aided jointly by the Americans and an ex- We have a special knowledge of concentration camps. Ustasha leader with Vatican contacts, Barbie- Altmann made his way lo South America, where the problems and needs of he dabbled profitably in timber merchandising, Jewish Clients, and can help you gun-running and drug smuggling. In Bolivia, where or your Solicitor to carry out your crime is a branch of politics, he had the ear of the intentions. LUNCHEON CLUB military government—but eventually his luck ran For further information and Luncheon Club meals are cancelled over out. ne Passover holiday (18 and 25 April) and A concatenation of circumstances—the instal advice, without obligation and Will resume on 2 May lation of a civilian President at La Paz, free of charge, please apply to: Mitierand's accession in France, and Beate Klarsfeld's indefatigable campaigning—finally Mr H. Rothman (Director) brought Barbie back to Montluc prision, Lyons, K.K.L. Executor & Trustee Co. Ltd. AUSTRIAN PENSIONS where he was once master of all he surveyed. (Der Harold Poster House, tarfr ^^,"^"''^" parliament has made impor- Tod. as Paul Celan said, ist ein Meisier aus wifh « "^^^ in the field of social insurance Deutschland). Kingsbury Circle, a ' " ^''^^' 'ôm 1 April which will affect the Although the Barbie case is still sub judice one London, NWS SSP. thing is clear: this book is fuel for the flickering mount of pensions. The precise details are Telephone: 01-204 3911, Ext: 36 w vet clear and we shall inform our readers candle brave Beale Klarsfeld has tried to keep — °" ^^ t'le information is available. alight amid the encircling gloom. RICHARD GRUNBERGER Pages AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1984

people think is even more important than his poetry. HEINE'S POETRY IN ENGLISH Lev Kopelev, a Russian Jewish refugee living in West Germany, has written a book on Heine which it is difficult to classify, and although well îne lovers amongst us who have often regretted "o'er him" with "before him", and "means that" written, even more difficult to appreciate. Lew at they were unable to make their English with "scenes that". Similar monstrosities can also Kopelew Ein Dichler kam vom Rhein: Heinrich Peaking friends with no knowledge of German be found in Draper's translation of "Deutschland, Heines Leben und Leiden Translated from Russian PPreciate our love for Heine's poetry, were de- ein Wintermarchen" (Germany, A Winter's Tale), by Helga Jaspers and Ulrich H. Werner. Severin Snted to hear that all of Heine's poems including one of Heine's masterpieces, which with the allu undSiedler-Verlag, Berlin. DM 38. It is a mixture ballads have now been presented in a new sion in its title to Shakespeare's play—certainly ofa biography and an historical novel. One never "glish translation (Hal Draper. The Complete not unintentionally used by Heine—should be of knows whether the writer quotes Heine in the ^°'"P'of Heinrich Heine. O.U.P.. £20.) According particular interest to the English speaking reader. indirect tense or whether he expresses his own ? '"« publishers, the translator Hal Draper, an Draper's translation ofthe well-known passage of opinion on Heine's experience unless one checks th' ^"'^^" P*'^' living in San Francisco, worked on "Ein neues Lied, ein besseres Lied" produces the each passage with the original by reference to '1'"'^"slation for nearly thirty years. horrible verses: the—rather summary—index at the end of the En r^ ^^^^ ^^ translating Heine's poetry into book, a procedure which makes it very difficult to A newer song, a better song. read the book properly. This slap-dash production ^ glish is stupendous. The translator must not My friends, let's bring to birth now! Wo V^"'^^'^ in English, as correctly as possible, the may be entertaining to some readers, but it cannot We shall proceed right here to build be regarded as a reliable source of information on fine ^ °'^ '''^ original, he must also reproduce its The Kingdom of Heaven on earth now. in ih'^ ^*^"ê of Draper's translations are superb the poel, his life or what he stood for. p^îis respect, e.g. those of Belsazar, some of the Where Heine himself does not use rhymes, such F. HELLENDALL fort"^^ *^'^"'" der Fremde", such as "Es treibt dich as in Princess Sabbath, Draper is able to abandon this strait-jacket and produces a fine translation, if GOETHE INSTITUTE LIBRARIAN now^°h °" ^" ^'^'" ^ '' ''"^^ ^''" ^'^"' "°^ '^"^' Vmp I ^"^^') and "Ich hatte einst ein schones one disregards minor slips such as translating HONOURED Com '^ ("Oh, once I had a lovely fatheriand"), "koscheres Ambrosia, Wonnebrot des Paradieses" The chief librarian of the Goeihe Institute in Tel si„p ^/"ôration Service ("Keine Messe wird man into "kosher-lyp)e ambrosia which is catered Aviv, Frau Inge Lunger, has received West a i^g"' "^^'"en Kaddisch wird man sagen...": "Not straight from Heaven", presumably from the take Germany's Cross of Merit. Born in Allenstein and said" ^ ^'"•'^ sung for me, not a Kaddish will be away department! brought up in Berlin, Frau Lunger emigrated to Ratj ••^' "'c Silesian Weavers and the Roving As a whole. Draper's translations although far Palestine in 1933. In 1960 she was appointed head of the Hirsch Library in Tel Aviv, which was Thoueh ''"*"^- O'^'^''^' ^^'^^ ^^ '^'g'" from being perfect are a considerable achievement eventually taken over by the Goethe Institute. •"eader 1 ^^^^htgedanken) cause pain to the and al least they give the English speaking public a There are 136 such institutes throughout the world tempt t* "^"ows the German original. An at- fair idea of Heine's poetry which everyone who has and of them all, Tel Aviv has the largest library read, jc" '^""^'ate the Loreley, equally painful to attempted to translate even small Heine poems and is the most frequently used. The award to its make .h^ ^^'^'^'^ ^^ '^^ translator's mania to knows is an extremely difficult task. Perhaps librarian was made in recognition of her outstand "Comb .'^'"^ rhyme by hook or by crook: Draper will complete his toil of thirty years by ing services lo German-Israeli cultural exchange. 8 's made to rhyme with "gloaming". adding translations of Heine's prose which some

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Hitler drove them out. Wolfenstein escaped to the ALFRED WOLFENSTEIN'S REVIVAL south. Somewhere on the Loire the Gestapo caught him, brought him back to Paris, and imprisoned him in the notorious Sante, "where the hours stand still". Like all other German cities, Halle/Saale ripped Like Oscar Wilde before him, he wrote poetry ofT the street signs with names that reminded the behind bars—on toilet paper, the only kind he people ofthe catastrophic Hitler era, and restored had. Laler, the verses were published as a cycle of 'he former ones, or honoured victims of the Nazi poems under the title Ein Gefangener. It was said 'error by naming roads after them. That was in Ihal sonre civilised German officer who happened '946, three years before the foundation of the to know his work managed to get Wolfenstein German Democratic Republic, and ever since released after three months. Halle has had its Wolfensteinstrasse, commemo Again, Wolfenstein fled to the south, hiding rating a poet who was born in that town in 1883. under a false name on farms and eventually Now, the 100th anniversary ofthe birth of Alfred staying at a boarding-house in Nice. After the Wolfensiein is being celebrated, particularly in the Allied landings in 1944 he made his way back to Federal Republic—a revival that had long been Paris. By now he was a very sick man, thoroughly due. exhausted, his body and soul unable to continue He was the son of a Jewish businessman whose the fight for life. In January, 1945, he killed himself early death left the family destitute, and young in a Paris hospital. Îfred had to work as a trainee in the timber trade. Today, nearly forty years later, we are witness ""' he was so unhappy that his mother scraped ing an astonishing re-awakening of interest in 'ogether every penny to send him to Halle Uni- Alfred Wolfenstein and his hapless exile. Already Jêrsity. He studied law, eventually graduated as a^ in 1965, the Berlin Akademie der Kuensie had "•••jur., and moved to Berlin. staged a comprehensive exhibition of his books, However, he never started a lawyer's practice and now his plays are being produced in the out tried to establish himself as a writer, or rather theatres, on radio and TV. Al present, all his '' Pwi: those years, just before the First World writings are being republished in five volumes by ar, Were the age of expressionism, and Alfred Aljred iVulfenstein the von Hase & Koehler Verlag in Mainz. The oilcnslein rose to be one ofthe leading members second volume came out a few weeks ago; entitled ° 'hat movement. The publisher S. Fischer re- "Frank", afler his son whom he met again in ognised him as a promising'talen' and in 1914 plays. Die Nacht vor dem Bed, was a passionate Prague in 1937 (and who now lives in London), it ^ ohcrt Musil wrote: "Wolfenstein is one of ihe plea for the abolition of the death penalty. He was is an intimate and revealing account of those first "••e poets who pay in valid coin right up to the last one ofthe friends of Carl von Ossietzky, whom he years in exile. And there is still that surburban ""o. Many of Wolfenstein's poems expressed accompanied to the prison gates of Tegel, together street in Halle which bears the name of Alfred l^'s aversion to the modern big city, "lilled to with Ernst Toller, Lion Feuchtwanger and Arnold Wolfenstein—as a memorial of an age that must ^^ ''^'•"g point yet empty", increasingly unfriendly Zweig in 1932. not be forgotten. EGON LARSEN ^^wards the individual. Some called him a nihilist When Hitler took over, Wolfenstein knew that did'°'^'''" ^^^ renewal of mankind; yet he knew he he was in great danger as an expressionist, a ^^ not have many comrades-in-arms in that pacifist, and a Jew. In March, 1933, he emigrated HISTORICAL EXHIBITION FOR ^ fnpaign. "Today," he wrote, "the poet is exiled to Prague. It was, of course, only the first BADEN JEWRY sin "^ ""^ nations, living uncertainly amidst stopping-place of the refugees' exile. They all 175 years of Baden's Jewish life has been I to' Z^^^'"^' 'hough he feels fervently that he belongs feared that after the Munich Agreement Hitler celebrated by an exhibition in the Badisches '"lefn. .much Hke the Jew." would soon invade Czechoslovakia. Wolfenstein Landesmuseum at Karlsruhe. It was in 1809 that n,.,/""?. '^'6 to 1922 he lived in Munich, where he succeeded in getting lo Paris, where he found the Oberrat der Israelilen Badens was founded and inl.pf "^"''^ with Rainer Maria Rilke. Like most himself in the company of many more exiled on display are preliminary edicts issued by Grand !"'«l'eetuals he was greatly alTected by the revolu- writers—from Joseph Roth and Hans Sahl to Duke Kari Friedrich in 1807 and 1808 granting Guslav Regler and Johannes R. Becher. But again. Back''"''u"^^-^"!'^^''"*"' Bavarian Raeierepuhlik. tolerance ofthe Jewish religion and declaring Jews lack to be state citizens, edicts later to be extended by new "1 Berhn, he became much interested in the ^ •tedium, broadcasting; one of his first radio the Emancipation Law of 1862. CLUB 1943 AJR CLUB Meetings on Mondays at 8 p.m. TWENTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY in Hannah Karminski House, BRING AND BUY SALE 9, Adamson Road, NW3 SUNDAY, 11 MARCH from 2 to 5.30 p.m. 5 March Henry Hellmann: "Die Wieder- The Hall standsgruppe 'Neu Beginnen' (1933- Hannah Karminski House 1983)" 9 Adamson Road (Swiss Cottage) 12 March Peter Seglow: "Bad Labour Rela ^f'fh best wishes from tions, Why and Where". 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PROF. GUIDO KISCH 95 logical Seminar in Breslau. He emigrated to the ACTIVE FATHER OF DADAISM professor Guido Kisch (Basle) turned 95 recently. United States but returned to Europe after the war, lecturing in Sweden, Holland and, from A founder of Dadaism, the forerunner of Surreal •^'s creative scholarly work centres around three ism, Marcel Jancu has just attended the opening of ^"bjects: Law, History and Judaism. A number of 1952/60 in Basle, where he has been Honorary Professor since 1959. E.G.L. the Jancu-Dada Museum in Ein Hod, near Haifa, '••fatises written by him were published in 1955 where his works have been put on permanent Under the title "Forschungen zur Rechts- und display. Jancu, now aged 88, sought refuge from wzialgeschichte der Juden in Deutschland waeh- AKKO'S AGE PUSHED BACK his native Romania in 1941, when he settled in end des Mittelallers". This heading symbolises Palestine. e wi(jg range of his research. A member of the An Israeli archaeologist. Professor Moshe ell known Kisch family of Prague, he was Profes- Dotan, has just added a millenium to the town of SHORT-LIVED CASINO /*•" of the History of Law at the Universities of Akko in northern Israel. Excavations around the A floating casino on a Greek ship plying between lg'^^"'8sberg and Halle, where he was dismissed in town have revealed Canaanite and Bronze Age Elat and Egypt closed down only a lew weeks after J- During the following two years he was Guest relics, proving that the site has been occupied for It opened. It was the first casino of any kind to •^o'essor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theo about 5,000 years. operate in Israel.

FAMILY EVENTS Deaths left us suddenly March 1956, not DOERZBACHER. Would Ruth cl,ar"^'^f '" '*" column are free of Merlander:—Mrs. Marta Merlander quite eleven years old. To the world Doerzbacher (presumably now mar he ,^^' "' voluntary donations would (nee Rothenberg), deariy beloved wife they were only grains of sand, lo us ried), of Goeppingen, born 1926, they were the whole world. by "PP'^eciaied Te.xis should reachus of the late Paul Meriander (formerly please contact Mrs. Liese (Hees) ^ 15th of the preceding month Hanover, Essen/a.d. Ruhr, Ollenbach Puna, 362, Toledo Street, Thunder a. Main) died peacefully on Wednes CLASSIFIED Bay, Ont. P7A2R6, Canada. j,^ Diamond Wedding day, 8 February in her 90th year. The charge in these columns is 50p for five words plus £1.00 for adver HERLINGER. Traute Heriinger eeleh^'T^^'^'^'*' and Max Evans will Deeply mourned by her son Henry L. Morland, daughter-in-law Ingrid, tisements under a Box No. To save (maiden name), worked City General 30 Ma V Diamond Wedding on administrative costs, please enclose Hospital, Shemeld 1939-1942. wishef^*^ Congratulations and best grandchildren Karen and Paul, re latives and friends. payment with the text of your adver Rosemarie Phillips, nee Freiwald, and Ja k °"'' ^^""^ ^""^ friends. Lotte tisement. would like to know her present Situations Vacant address and married name. Box 1020. Nomis:—Toni Nomis passed away on ; ""sensf •,^"'*'*" Wedding 3 January 1983 after a short illness. WE WOULD WELCOME hearing *am,Jt •~S"sanne and Werner, Sadly missed by her children, grand from more ladies who would be will first hair '^'^"g'^atulations for your children, great-grandchildren and ing to shop and cook for an elderly Kaufe gegen "•fom .h!"?"'"''y together. With love 'ne team. friends, particularly at URO where person in their neighbourhood on a Barzahlung she had been a secrelary for many temporary or permanent basis. Cur years. rent rate of pay £2.40 per hour. Please Haus Oder Liegenschaft in ring Mrs. Matus 01-624 4449, AJR Nomis:—The AJR Club deeply re Employment for appointment. DECORATING by grets the death of its member Mrs. Osterreich Toni Nomis. Although she came to COMPANION; educated, cheerful STUART LIPMAN the Club only very rarely in recent lady, preferably with own car needed iibernehme auch die years, her pleasant personality will for lady, almost blind, 2-3 hours Verwaltung Ihres Hauses. ' ^'" 'mprove your -home always be remembered and we shall twice weekly, living Highgate (help J^' aspects of decorating remain grateful to her for her as kept). Please telephone 340 1582. • f!)''^'-'"'- & Exterior sistance over many years as Hostess. Wallcovering Specialisis Personal ErbitteZuschriftenmitgenauer Work guaranteed DOCTOR'S WIDOW, young 68, Beschreibung und Preisvor- • ^"'ly insured adaptable, active, bul alone. Any sug stellung an Walter Heller, • Excellent references Schay:—Mrs. Hermine Schay (nee gestions? Box 1017. Wertheimer), of Golders Green, Widerhofergasse 7, 1090 '•••ee estimates NICE GENTLEMAN FRIEND Wien, Austria. London, died 13 February 1984. wanted by attractive NW London Phone 01-422 4974 or Deeply missed by her daughter Eva widow. Interests are friends, holidays, and son-in-law Henry Mayer. "7373 50584 (Any time) bridge, and a happy future. Box 1018. WIDOW, 60's, seeks unattached, sincere gentleman for genuine com AVIS TV SERVICE Sherman:—Lucie Sherman (Scheuren- panionship. Box 1019. 01-206 1662

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FRANKFURT JEWRY'S HISTORY THEATRE AND CULTURE On the occasion of his retirement a reception was Ml held in honour of Stadtarchivar Dr. Dietrich rei""'*^''" .'-'^'"many's southern theatre capital has has died in London after a long illness, aged 82. He Andernacht in the Rittersaal of the Deutschor- ained its reputation as the centre of both classi- excelled through his sparkling sense of humour denshaus in Frankfurt. Addresses were delivered sihi^ "lodern productions, combining respon- which he kept throughout the various phases ofhis by various personalities. One of the speakers. Dr. ..^ management with reliable ensembles. The life, even in a concentration camp and in failing E. G. Lowenthal, paid tribute to Dr. Andernacht IIJ ^^'"Cnz" has at present plays by Shakespeare, health. He acted in Vienna and London, and was for his untiring voluntary work in the interest of re^"' ^^'^^'''"d, Brecht and Peter Shaffer in its for many years top comedian of the "Blue the "Kommission zur Erforschung der Geschichte "N ^"^^' ^^^ '"Kammerspiele" premiered the Danube" cabaret where he was a pillar of strength der Frankfurter Juden". The main works so far "^ Prozess", based on Kafka, the last play by lo the cast of that little theatre. the published under the auspices of the "Kom "1^ . lat—e •Pete V.IC1r WeissVYClbS. t\A llCWiy-IDUllnewly-foundeU d Hans Thimig Metnoirs. Amalthea Verlag, mission" are "Dokumenfe zur Geschichte der H o'kstheater" started off with "Glaube u nd Vienna presents "Neugierig, wie ich bin", an Frankfurter Juden 1933-1945" (1963) and ^rifih"'" ^^ '^"'^' S'^honherr, the Tyrolean play- immensely readable book by the youngest of the "Bibliographic zur Geschichte der Frankfurter rarel ^^'^^ works, once much praised, are now male Thimig-dynasty (he and his late brother Juden, 1781-1945" (1978). In addition, several i-ciui^ P^'''^°''med. Jubilee. The actress Helene Hermann had daughters), who relates his stage other works, such as memoirs, biographies and ^oW^'^u^' ^^ y^'irs old, menber of the Vienna reminiscences in a modest and most likeable smaller volumes pertinent lo Jewish institutions in fashion. He describes himself most touchingly ("I year p'^'^'"' '^"^ '^^" ^'"^ "^^' ^°"^^ ^°^ ^^ Frankfurt were initialed by the "Kommission". serm^.' ™^'''y stage partner of Girardi, Bas- never was a star, just an actor who played all sorts Dr. Lowenlhal also paid tribute to the publisher of the l""" ^"'^ Moissi, she can look back on one of of parts"). As son of the great Hugo Thimig and the literature. Dr. Waldemar Kraemer (Frankfurt). BirthH"' *^'"'^^''^ °" 'he Austrian stage. brother of Reinhardt's wife Helene, he "smelt" the Future tasks include research of source material in Ovfo p .y*- T^he German producer/director stage from an early age, and became a "Burg" the cemeteries of Ballon Sir. and Rat Beil Sir. My^[ hk'' ^'^'"''' '^^'^^'•^•e'* his 80th birthday, actor at 18. He knew everyone during good days Current discussions include the establishment ofa clurj/^ '"^''n. Schuh has been much in demand iind-bad (Nazi period) adding somewhat shyly that Jewish Museum and Documentary Centre. Dr. which,'^ "lore than 50 years of stage activities "the German greeting was never adhered to in our Lowenlhal expressed the hope that Dr. Ander- and al '^ '^'"^ ^° every major town in Germany, family". He speaks with great respect of Reinhardt nacht would continue to help and support the Was a '^ ^'^""''> '^'""C' Milan and Venice. He . and his "Josefstadt" successor Ernst Lothar; on "Kommission" with the same enlhusiam and Berlin" 1?^^°''"*"' figure during the heyday of occasions he still acts at that theatre. Hans Thimig identification he had shown during the past late pY- h^'i'^'' am Kurfiirstendamm" in the now lives in his country house in the Styrian quarter-century, as the "life and soul of the Grug l,''^^' and was the successor of Gustaf province of Austria. S.B. enterprise". LamarTr^ after 1963. Vienna-born Hedy CHILDREN OFFER HELP as a 16 ^^^ Kiesler) who created a scandal when film "p ^^'*'" °^^ she appeared in the nude in the When the old Jewish cemetery in Werther, Lower Holly^^^^y" in 1930, is 70. After her career in Sa.xony, was desecrated by hooligans, local VISITS TO DDR CAMP SITES lives Qu' I ^•'"'^ ^^^^^ several marriages), she now schoolchildren offered to help reinstate and repair Memorial sites of three concentration camps, I Obitu'^ '" " ^'"''" apartment in New York, the tombstones which had been overturned and Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck, ^^y. The Austrian-born actor Fritz Becker broken. were visited by over half a million people in 1983.

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