England's Glory and Shame

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Don't miss... Upper and lower case liberals Richard Grunberger p3 England's glory and shame

Authoritative study with flaws Anthony Grenville p4 he glory of England does not reside in Euro certainty that it wouldn't affect her ratings. 2000 goals but in gaols empty of political A similar gut feeling of plainspoken Englishness Chairman's annual prisoners for the last three hundred years. also predisposes millions in this country against report pl6 T The shame stems from the fact that many young watching foreign films because they require subti Englishmen would dismiss Magna Carta and Habeas tles. In the case of grand opera, popular alienation Satanic Corpus as 'foreign' and therefore automatically has social as well as racial sources. Covent Garden is soubriquet beneath contempt. perceived as a playground of the rich, and arias are ifty-five years How did it happen that the cradle of democracy (nearly) always sung in foreign languages. after its which 60 years ago saved the world from Nazi This sense of Englishness is a double-edged demise the barbarism has since spawned a tribe of savages who sword. On the one hand it generates healthy patriot F crave regular orgies of alcohol-fuelled destruction ism - in the Great War Britain managed without Third Reich still inspires nostalgia in with foreigners as the preferred target? conscription for two whole years - but on the other sick minds. Alan To some extent there is a causal connection be it produces mindless xenophobia. The xenophobic Clark named his tween Liberty and the taking of liberties.(Thus the mindset makes all continental Europeans targets for Rottweiler bitches British authorities balked at their German counter patriotically justified aggression. after Leni parts' policy of confiscating the passports of But there can never be sufficient international fix Riefenstahl and the suspected football hooligans). In this country liberty tures to absorb the free floating aggressive energy pilot Hanna Reisch, has also traditionally been equated with the absence that bubbles up every Saturday around football sta the Soho bomber, collected Nazi of 'big government', i.e. of a large bureaucracy over dia and pubs up and down the country. It is a memorabilia, and seeing all aspects of national life. One of the problem to which politicians, educationalists, clergy now Dr Chenajerai consequences of this was that the authorities only men and community leaders need to give urgent Hunzvi, who glories began to set up a state-funded nationwide system of attention if parts of our big cities are not eventually in the nickname elementary education towards the end of the nine going to turn into no-go areas on weekends D 'Hitler', is setting the teenth century. pace in Zimbabwe. Until then most educational provision for the Hunzvi's satanic 'lower orders' had come from the diverse churches soubriquet is (diverse being the operative word because ever undoubtedly intended to strike since Henry the Eighth the crown had failed to pre fear into the hearts vent the growth of churches rivalling the of local opponents. 'established' Church of England. Elsewhere, though, The Church of England was rurally based, and it can only provoke when the Industrial Revolution created a huge pro hollow laughter as letariat the urban masses needed a newly founded showing a Black church - Methodism - to missionise and educate Would-be instigator them. Even so the level of schooling among the la of anti-white race bouring masses remained abysmally low, and the War clothing himself in the lurid aura of eventual involvement of the state in education pro the ultimate 'White duced too little too late. supremacist. Could Regrettably, even when most of the 'rude Hunzvi's image- mechanicals' (in Shakespeare's phrase) stopped be makers really ing illiterate, their taste remained stubbornly resemble Louis non-literate. It is hard to conceive of university-edu Right to left, AJR Chairman Andrew Kaufman, Vice- Farrakhan in their cated French (or German) TV personalities calling Chairman &• Hon. Treasurer David Rothenberg and Hon. ignorance of Hitler's Moliere (or Goethe) 'dull as ditchwater' - as Carol Secretary Eleanor Angel reviewing the past year's progress views on Blacks? D at the Annual General Meeting (see report page 16X Vordermann recendy did Shakespeare in the blithe AJR INFORMATION AUGUST 2000

AJR Annual General Meeting Profile OSHA assurances shley Mitchell, Chairman of the Frank Bright Otto Schiff Housing Association orn Franz, or Frantisek, Brichta in A(OSHA), who addressed the AGM 1928, Frank Bright was the only on the impending OSHA /Jewish Care child of a Czech father and German merger, revealed that support for the B mother living in Berlin. Thanks to father's merger on the Council of OSHA had been Czech nationality, the family was able to unanimous. He emphasised that whilst travel more freely than Jews with German Jewish Care would take over the nationality, but emigrated to Prague in management of the homes, they would 1938 when Frank's father's employer - a remain the property of OSHA. Jewish bank - was 'aryanised'. He gave a further assurance that OSHA With two and a half years' German residents would not be moved to other (Jewish) primary school education behind Jewish Care homes. Subject to specified him, Frank attended the Jewish school in conditions, funds loaned to OSHA by the Prague where, along with children of AJR for refurbishment and essential main refugees first from Germany, then Austria tenance would become repayable from and finally the Sudeten, he stayed until it the proceeds of the sale of either closed in mid 1942. The school had no Heinrich Stahl House or Eleanor facilities and only long, uncomfortable Rathbone House. wooden desks; restrictions on life for Jewish Care Chairman, Malcolm Dagul, Jews made it a far from normal experi acknowledged the special continental ence. At 14, and with little education, character of the OSHA homes. He wished Frank had to find work and secured a job to ensure that AJR members volunteered at Prague's largest Jewish cemetery as an to visit OSHA residents, particularly as apprentice gardener. many had no family of their own, unlike In July 1943, Frank was sent with his residents in other Jewish Care homes. parents to Theresienstadt where he Frank Bright pursuing his interest in wartime auiatio" Special guest speaker Dr Elisabeth worked as a locksmith (Bauschlosser) Maxwell, initiator and Chairman of the apprentice making keys, repairing and Frank did what he knew best, working as international conference 'Remembering fitting locks and even making prams for a toolmaker; he also attended evening for the Future 2000', later held in London German babies. From one of his extremely classes gaining various civil engineering and Oxford, discussed the importance to gifted room-mates, he learnt trigonometry diplomas. His first break came in 195^ future generations of the transmission of and calculus, knowledge which stood him with a job offer with the Ministry o' the experiences of Holocaust survivors. in good stead three years later in his Works in London. He was naturalised i'' UMK 1952 and married in 1955. See also page 16 evening studies in London. In September/October 1944, during the After eight years of evening classes ano last clearance of the ghetto, Frank and his emigration to Canada, Frank became ^ AJR Information Personnel parents were transported to Auschwitz- civil engineer, returning to Britain an^ following employment opportunities ^l' Richard Grunberger Birkenau where his parents perished on Editor-in-Chief arrival. Within a week, he was one of a over the country from Hemel Hempstead group picked to work in a factory pro to Weston-Super-Mare. In 1988, he move^l Ronald Channing with his wife Cynthia and their t^o Executive Editor ducing aluminium propellers in the northern Sudeten town of Friedland (now daughters to Suffolk where he has sinc^ Marion Koebner lived, retiring in 1994. Staff Reporter in the Czech Republic) where he re mained until liberation by Russian troops Not one to relax, he is now fully occ^' Andrea Goodmaker on 9 May 1945. His desperate material pied pursuing ongoing Holocaust-relat^ Departmental Secretary & Adver^sing Co-ordinator needs ignored by the liberators, Frank claims, keeping alive the memory ° Gloria Tessler found a bicycle and rode to the border of those who did not survive the Holocaust' Arts Correspondent the Protektorat where the local Czech searching for fellow camp inmates, '^^ Dr Anthony Grenville railway staff laid on a train for him to ing to editors and mentoring postgradua' Historical Researcher travel to Prague. students of the Holocaust. Coincident^ Katia Gould Between August 1945 and May 1946, he has it that the family home is built o Editorial Adviser worked as an apprentice toolmaker in the what was a wartime airfield. Paintings ^ Gerta Regensburger & Lionel Simmonds Sudeten but, without family and with no Lancasters, Spitfires and other classic vva Proof Readers prospects, he came to London with the time fighter planes in his study attest an abiding interest in aviation, stemrniP^ AJR Information, I Hampstead Gate, help of distant relatives there who ob la Frognal,London NW3 6AL tained a visa for him and offered to from his appreciation of the work of tf" Tel: 020 7431 6161 • Fax: 020 7431 8454 accommodate him on arrival. Having RAF pilots and crew during Worid War H- e-mail: [email protected] secured a work permit after six months, D Marion Koebt^^' AJR INFORMATION AUGUST 2000

tual refugee-populated Hampstead 'the Upper and abode of evil gods at whose negligent disposition Iris seemed to be.' Even more NEWTONS lower-case liberals telling is Bayley's phrase 'Canetti was a Leading Hampstead Solicitors iberal-minded Jewish refugees like Dichter - not just a poet, but a master Elias Canetti, the Times wrote spirit of literature - who possessed Iris 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, L recently, played a large part in the like a god while his wife was present in London NW3 SNB cultural life of postwar London. Far be it the flat'. from me to pour cold water on such Interestingly enough, Canetti had met ^ All English legal work encomia of our more illustrious confreres. his wife Venezia at one of the cultural undertaken and German, However, having met Canetti in the flesh, highlights of interwar Vienna when Karl Swiss & Austrian claims I am convinced that he only found Kraus read from the Classics and sang. ^ German spoken himself among the Liberals because there What had first brought them together was âs nowhere else for him to go. their joint discipleship of Kraus. However, -k Home visits arranged By this harsh judgement hangs a per the great guru hardly offered a role Tel:020 7435 5351 sonal tale: at a 1960s party in Yakov model for aspiring Liberals since he him Fax: 020 7435 8881 Lind's house I had asked Canetti if he self kept swapping ideologies — some of ôuld be kind enough to forward my them distinctly illiberal. first manuscript to his publishers. He said Prior to meeting Venezia, the most he would - but within days returned my important woman in Canetti's life had Ms with the hurtful comment that he been his mother. The bond between him PARTNER and the mother, who had been widowed round it too devoid of merit to want his in long established English Solicitors name associated with it. at a cruelly young age, was so strong that (bi-llngual German) would be happy Not to mince words, Canetti was an il- she tried to prevent him marrying and, to assist clients with English, German hberal Liberal. This is, of course, a when he finally did so, considered it an and Austrian problems. Contact self-contradictory term on a par with fa act of treason. This emotionally fraught natical moderate, dogmatic freethinker, relationship may account for Canetti's Henry Ebner t>elligerent pacifist or vegetarian butcher skewed take on marital - and even extra ~ not to mention the ultimate political marital - loyalty. Myers Ebner & Deaner oxymoron: Jorg Haider's Freedom Party. On Venezia's death he jettisoned his 103 Shepherds Bush Road However, to be fair to Canetti, he never longstanding mistress, the Max Beckman- London W6 7LP niade the slightest attempt to project trained refugee painter Maria von Telephone 020 7602 4631 himself as a Menschenfreund overflowing Motteschitzky in favour of a younger ALLLEGALWORK îth the milk of human kindness. I read woman. The latter was Swiss, and the UNDERTAKEN his autobiography some time ago and writer - who had gained the Nobel Prize ^hat stays in the memory is his taboo- for Britain - promptly moved to Switzer in hreaking blackly humorous description land. He justified his departure by of a funeral. The funeral in question, complaining of neglect during his 40 ^hich took place in mid-thirties Vienna, years' residence in the UK. (This of âs that of the teenage daughter of the course, begs the question whether having AUSTRIAN and GERMAN architect Walter Gropius and Alma Veronica Wedgwood translate Die Blen- PENSIONS Mahler-Gropius. As Canetti describes it, dung, and having Iris Murdoch dedicate "le famous Alma turned this heartbreak- The Flight from the Enchanter to oneself PROPERTY RESTITUTION 'ng occasion into pure theatre. With la can really be construed as neglect.) ôute Vienne as an audience present at Alas, Canetti was not alone as an illib CLAIMS ^he cemetery she play-acted a grief eral Liberal of refugee provenance. His EAST GERMANY- BERLIN stricken mother weeping tears 'like clus more overtly political twin was the novel ters of plump grapes' (As regards Alma's ist Friedrich Torberg, a postwar returnee On instructions our office will husband at the time, Franz Werfel - who to Austria from the States. In artistically assist to deal with your suffered from hyperthyroidism - the first denuded post-Nazi Vienna Torberg stead applications and pursue the îng Canetti tells the reader about him is ily, and deservedly, rose to the position matter with the authorities. "^t he had Glotzaugen, i.e. goggle-eyes). of cultural arbiter - but one with deplor For further information and Lest it be thought that my description of able McCarthyite tendencies. He pursued âneni as illiberal is just sour grapes - a a vendetta against his fellow returnee appointment please âse of a scribbler throwing pebbles at Hilde Spiel because, as a true Liberal, she contact: ê monument of a Nobel Prize winner - had opposed the boycott of Brecht's ICS CLAIMS '^t me quote what Professor John Bayley plays in force in Viennese theatres. He 146-154 Kllburn High Road ^rote in the biography of his late, heart- similarly harassed the admirably anti- London NW6 4JD ârmingly philosemitic, wife Iris Fascist (non-Jewish) playwright FT Czokor, Murdoch. In the book (soon to be turned on the grounds that he had wartime Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) Jnto a film) Bayley dubbed Canetti the associations with Yugoslav partisans. Fax: 020 7624 5002 âmpstead monster', and called intellec D Richard Grunberger AJR INFORMATION AUGUST 2000

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120,000 Austrian Jews who survived the negative aspects of government policy Authoritative study Holocaust. Such figures are widely quoted that are emphasised. Dr London concen with flaws in studies of Viennese Jewry, but notably trates on proposals to repatriate the absent from Dr London's work. refugees to their countries of origin, pro Louise London.WHITEHALLAND THE JEWS, The Kindertransports form a particular posals that were never likely to be 1933-1948: BRITISH IMMIGRATION POLICY target in Dr London's campaign to demol implemented. Instead, the refugees were ANDTHE HOLOCAUST Cambridge University ish the alleged myth of British generosity. granted citizenship, mainly in the years Press, 2000, £30. For her, the survival of the children was 1947-49, when over 42,000 certificates of his book goes to the heart of the secured at the cost of the 'exclusion' and naturalisation were granted, predomi history of the German-speaking subsequent deportation of their parents; nantly to the pre-war refugees from TJewish refugees from Hitler who she even talks of Jewish parents 'surren Hitler. Dr London fails to mention these settled in Britain and became the dering' their children to a British statistics, though they are easily available, community represented by the AJR. It Government eager to take unaccompanied having been published in Hansard and, raises central questions concerning the children so that they might be anglicised for that matter, in the AJR Information. relationship between the host and turned into 'good white stock' (ignor Instead, she makes great play with the government and the immigrants. ing the fact that many were placed with imposition of a one-year time limit on the Dr London answers these questions Jewish families and in hostels). Perhaps stay in Britain permitted to refugees re with a series of resounding negatives. Dr London should ask the members of turning from journeys abroad, a no* According to her, the Jews were largely the Reunion of Kindertransports whether forgotten and litde implemented measure. 'excluded' from Britain before the war, they and their parents would rather that Both my parents travelled abroad in the accorded low priority during the war and they had been left to the Gestapo. With period concerned and neither - I have subjected to bureaucratic chicanery there adult Jews being admitted to Britain at the passports to prove it - had any limit after; antisemitism and a general the rate of some thousands per month, to on their stay imposed. The fact is that reluctance to admit 'aliens' predominated talk of their 'exclusion' is simply absurd. many of the refugees from Hider in Brit over humanitarian concerns. Though I I am not arguing that British immigra ain, though by no means all, setded dow.^ would agree with much of her criticism of tion policy was open-handedly generous to become, by and large, a successful, official policy, parts of her argument are - far from it - but merely for a balanced prosperous and contented community, a* unsustainable. account. That is not likely to be achieved the AJR Information demonstrates. It is true that only a small number of by an analysis that counts as 'excluded' D Anthony Grenville Jews, some 5-10,000, found refuge from those Jews who obtained British visas but Nazism in Britain between 1933 and 1938. were prevented from escaping by Hitler's However, with the intensification of Nazi invasion of Poland, and even those who Homing in on horror persecution of the Jews in 1938, this applied for British visas but found safety Eric Johnson, THE NAZI TEI^OR: Gestapo, Jews changed dramatically, as some 50-60,000 elsewhere. Jews from the Greater Reich were admit Dr London is at her best in her account and Ordinary Germans, John Murray, 1999, £25- ted in the short period before Hitler's of official British inaction and evasion over his study concentrates on the invasion of Poland. If British policy was, as the issue of rescuing Jews from wartime Rhineland towns of Cologne aoo Dr London claims, to restrict Jewish immi Europe. Her exemplary study of the docu TKrefeld, an area from which gration after the Anschluss rigorously, then ments enables her to build up a vivid happen to originate. The author chose it must count as one of the heroic failures picture of the evolution of policy. Even Cologne because the trials of the of modern times: to 'exclude' Jews by here, though, she spoils a strong case by perpetrators took place there, whereas "^ admitting five times as many in eighteen overstating it, for example in her eager Krefeld over seventy per cent of Gestap'^ months as in the entire previous five years ness to heap blame on Britain by claiming files were not destroyed. is exclusion on a Canute-like scale. that Jews could relatively easily have emi How much new insight does this study Dr London's concentration on criticising grated from Nazi-controlled Europe before provide in its 636 pages, including chaf government policy blinds her to historical 1941 if they had been granted British visas. ter notes and indices? So far as the Je^ reality, which was that, just as the Nazis Here we enter the realms of fantasy. are concerned, it insufficiently reflect stepped up their persecution, Britain Could the Jews of Poland, subject to se their powerlessness in the face of Na^ found ways of admitting the victims, if of vere restrictions on their movements, chicanery, even in the early stages, f ten grudgingly. This can be clearly have simply gone to the Nazi-Soviet bor instance, Johnson expresses surprise tha demonstrated by considering the Austrian der and requested passage from Stalin? Or not more Jews "decided to emigrate". ^ Jews, who were desperately seeking to does Dr London imagine that Heydrich, if it had been up to us! We know ho^ escape precisely in the period between busily occupied in confining Polish Jews unwanted we were, particularly the m' March 1938 and September 1939, when to ghettos, would benevolently have al die-aged and elderly. just over 30,000 came to Britain as their lowed them to proceed to the Hungarian Much more trenchant is his engageine country of first refuge (many re-emi border, where welcoming committees of with the Gestapo. In Krefeld, home to grated). In other words, one in six of Arrow Cross men would have conveyed small, thriving Jewish community 0^ Austria's 180,000 Jews were saved by ad them to their chosen destinations? than one per cent of the population) "^ mission to Britain, or one in four of the In the postwar period, it is again the Jews did not survive, but the Gestap AJR INFORMATION AUGUST 2000

Cont. We are honoured to welcome STEPHEN SMITH, MBE officers did. Some were tried after the war Jewish one. All gave it the thumbs-up. Director, Beth Shalom, Nottingham 3nd received short prison sentences. Some The former because it showed that had their pensions reduced, but had them whatever a Sonnenschein did - be he a who will address members and friends of restored on appeal. Though Cologne offic Habsburg judge, a fencing champion, or a Belsize Square Synagogue ers received heavier sentences, these were Communist activist - he always came up on still not commensurate with their crimes. against insurmountable antisemitism. My Sunday 10 September 2000 The head of the Jewish section of the non-Jewish left-leaning friend approved at 8.00pm Krefeld Gestapo, Richard Schulenburg, of the film's historic sweep and evocation Stephen Smith is an inspiring speaker and even comes over as jovial. Housed in the of Stalinist paranoia. tonight he will talk to us about why he town's modest "skyscraper", the Hansa Alas, I could not share their enthusiasm. and his family were motivated to create Haus, he used a bicycle as his means of In my eyes Sunshine showed a sad de Beth Shalom ttansport and even gave a lift to an eld cline from Szabo's earlier masterpieces Tickets: Mephisto and Colonel Redl. For one, it has erly woman on his handlebars ... to the £2.50 Members of Belsize Square • £4.00 death train. Like many of these local a surfeit of sex scenes tenuously justified Non Members former ordinary police officers, he saw by the wayward libido the judge passes This promises to be an extraordinary himself as correct and even kindly. on to his fencer son, who in turn trans evening and one that on all accounts Johnson wresdes bravely with the near- mits it to his dissident Communist should not be missed!! 'nipossible task of assessing the guilt or offspring (since all three roles are taken For further information, please contact "inocence of the local population. His by Ralph Fiennes the film might also have Henny Levin on 020 7794 3949 firmest conclusion is that most Germans been called TTje Ego Has Landed). ^ho were not confirmed oppositionists I was also irked because the founders ^religious or political) had little to fear. of the Sonnenschein dynasty are por People listened to the BBC; even that was trayed by David de Keyser and Miriam "Merely considered a minor offence. Margolis in the tradition of the oy-vay As to the fate of their Jewish former school of acting; the former is a Talmud- J tellow citizens, those of good will be- bound patriarch dispensing pearls of "eved, or hoped, that they were to be wisdom - the latter a matriarch who al resettled in the East. Rumours from the ways expects the worst and is never BELSIZE killing fields of Poland and Russia did cir- disappointed. ^^late, but were voluntarily suppressed, On the plus side I must mention a bril SQUARE ^t perhaps disbelieved as soldiers' exag liant cameo performance by William Hurt gerated tales. There is little evidence of as a Communist political prisoner. Above SYNAGOGUE ^ny active help for the victims. all, the film features an unforgettably hor 51 Belsize Square, NW3 4HX Even in the early stages, the reach of rific scene of the fencer being tortured to We offer a traditional style 'he Nazi terror was demonstrated by the death by camp guards playing water of religious service with speedy removal to concentration camps hoses on him in midwinter. Szabo also Cantor, Choir and organ °f Communists and too-eager Christians makes most effective use of splendidly Further details can be obtained ^tid trade unionists. I myself knew a ornate Habsburg buildings and injects a from the synagogue secretary ôrnmunist who, sternly warned to re documentary feel into the crowd scenes Telephone 020 7794 3949 gain inactive, did so and survived. Even of the Budapest Uprising. Alas, by the '" this predominantly Catholic area, time the three-hour epic had reached Minister: Rabbi Rodney J Mariner denunciations did take place, though not 1956 it was too late for me! D RG Cantor: Rev Lawrence H Fine ^ frequendy as elsewhere. Nor were they Regular Services: ^ much acted upon. Johnson's book is a Friday evenings at 6.45pm "ôdel of its, however limited, kind. His 50 YEARS AGO Saturday mornings at 10am Approach is entirely academic and to that Religion School: Sundays at 10am to 1pm ^'ênt he fails to portray the ever-deep- TWO JEWRIES Nursery School: 9.15am to 12.15pm ^tiing, doom-laden atmosphere in which The rift which divides the world between East and Belsize Under S's: 9.30am to 11.30am he helpless victims existed, and then West is going right through the Jewish people. Only in two places have jews succeeded to remain out Space donated by Pafra Limited Perished. UJohn Rossall side the two warring camps - in Israel and, strangely enough, in Berlin. The Jewish Community in Berlin is the only body 'stvan the Variable which embraces inhabitants In all sectors. A prob lem of greater consequence is presented by Israel, 'ân Szabo, SUNSHINE, at selected cinemas which balances uneasily between East and West on BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE unshine is a three hour-long epic the thin line of 'non-identification'. How long the 51 Belsize Square, London N.W.3 spanning three generations of the young state will be able to remain outside the two Our communal hall is available for power blocs, in spite of economic and political pres cultural and social functions. S Hungarian Jewish family Sonnen- sure, is a matter for speculation. ^chein. After seeing the film I discussed it DA/R/nformot/on August 1950 Tel: 020 7794 3949 îlh several Jewish friends and a non- AJR INFORMATION AUGUST 2000

BEYOND HIS KEN Sir - Mrs A Saville Quly 2000) should know better that to accuse Ken Livingstone of being responsible for the Robertson jam factory's loss of 300 jobs. The blame must surely go to Robertsons for refusing to take their golliwog NEVER AGAIN? factors into account. Other European trademark down from the front of their Sir - I went to the Permanent Holocaust countries using PR have had successful factory. As a Jewess (presumably), she Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum governments since the war. Voter apathy, should be the last person to accuse Ken. and was very favourably impressed. This the greatest weakness of the British elec His "obsession with golliwogs" proved exhibition covers a large canvas and it toral system, can be partially explained that he was ahead of his time in fighting takes more than one visit to cope with by large numbers of voters knowing that racism; as she may remember, the paper and to digest. It stops on 8 May 1945. It in their constituency, it would be a waste golliwog that used to be found in every has to stop somewhere and there is the of time to vote for a party that has no pot of Robertson's jam finally had to rub. The number of survivors may be chance of being represented. disappear. small compared to those murdered and There is surely no argument that all Cheam, Surrey IngeTrotX robbed but they are the barometer which votes should count in a democracy. If the result does not please us, then we must indicates the attitude since that day in FATHERS AND SONS May 55 years ago. try to persuade the voters to change their Sir - The FDJ was not started by Horst If that is not treated as dispassionately, views, not disenfranchise them. Austria Brasch, as you state, but by Adolf then future visitors to such exhibitions and Germany have had stable and emi nently successful coalition governments. CAppel') Buchholz. This is shown clearly will come away with the idea that a tribe in Horst Erie's book David's Odyssee: At the last election in Austria, over 80% called Nazis - who took over Germany in Eine deutsche Kindheit - eine jildische of the electorate went to the polls. With 1933, made war, killed Jews and Gypsies, Jugend and in my book Voices from the the right to vote should go the obliga Poles and Russians, the mentally retarded Past. and anybody who got in their way - dis tion to vote. Horst Brasch did take over the leader appeared on the stroke of 8 May 1945 Your article throws out the baby with ship several years later, after 'Appel and the good German reappeared out of the bath water by condemning PR per se. The right kind of proportional system, Buchholz's retirement from office. the woods and behaved very decently to London N6 Herbert Levy the few survivors who lived happily ever underpinned by constitutional measures, after. will not give disproportionate power to There should be, nay, there must be, a small extremist parties. MEMBER'S AWARDS museum which continues where the IWM London W12 Eric Sanders Sir - On June 29 I was presented with a stops, dealing with the behaviour of the medal for 31 years service with the Swiss banks, the indecent refusal by Sir - First-past-the-post elections produce WRVS. The presentation by the mayor German firms to pay those still around for unrepresentative governments and these took place at the WRVS centre in the work from which they benefited, the have become a deterrent to would-be Crawley. evasion by insurance firms which are not pollsters. They now regard this system as I came to this country in 1939 ^^ ^ as helpful as reports suggest. The list is a gamble - which it is! The greater the qualified nurse, having trained at the long and undignified and makes non number of independent voters, the better Krankenhaus der JUdischen Gemeinde lO sense of the easy cry "never again" for democracy. Berlin. After a few months as an au paii'- because persecution and discrimination WhitJey Bay Frieda Rosner was allowed to continue with nursing an under another name has being going on held posts in various hospitals up an" for 55 years since the supposed end of THE RACE CARD down the country, often under diffic^' the Nazi era. bombing conditions. Sir - In his excellent article (July 2000), Ipswich, Suffolk Frank Bright Crawley Anneliese Steckelmacher (Mt^' RG partly misquoted Schoenerer. As far as W. Sussex I know, the dictum cited runs: "Ob Jud' PITFALLS OF POLITICS ob Christ ist einerlei, in der Rasse liegt die Sir - Your assertion that proportional Schweinerei." This was to signal to Jews Sir - On 31 March this year, the Univer representation is an undesirable system aiming to avoid antisemitic harassment by sity of London awarded me the degree o leading to unstable governments is not a converting to the Catholic faith that they Doctor of Science. Among those frC" tenable one. The first-past-the-post were bound to fail. whom I received congratulations "^^^ system gave Britain eighteen years of This, by the way, is the difference be Prof. Adrian Smith, Principal of Quee" Thatcherism based on a minority of the tween Schoenerer and Karl Lueger Mary & Westfield College, University ''^ voters. With a proportional system which (Mayor of Vienna till 1910). While London, Professor Eviatar Nevo, Foreign would have given the Liberals a Schoenerer was a confirmed racist, Member USA National Academy of Sc< representative presence, this would not Lueger's turn of the century antisemitism ences and Director of the Institute o have happened. was based on religious prejudice and Evolution, University of Haifa and Profe^ It is simplistic to quote Italy and Israel prompted by Christian party politics. sor Walter Hayman FRS. as evidence and not take other relevant Vienna, Austria Heinz Rosenkranz Newcastle upon Tyne GD Wassern^"'^'^ AJR INFORMATION AUGUST 2000

THE JOYS OF YIDDISH Sir - Reading RG's Yiddish column SEARCH NOTICES reminded me of a story about the great Rabbi Max Dienemann, died Offenbach him or his family. Contact Jane Pejsa, Schalom Asch who attended a press 1939. Known to have two daughters Kenwood Publishing, #906, 1314 Marquette conference held at the launch of one of presumed living in England. Jiidische Verlags- Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403 - 4105. his books. Asked why he wrote in anstalt, Berlin, wishes to re-publish some of Tel: 001 612-332-5204. Yiddish when he was fluent in several his writings. Please contact Rabbi Harry languages, Asch replied: 'Because it is the Jacobl.Tel: 020 8440 1261. PhD student researching non-Jewish res most beautiful and best language in the cuers of persecuted Jews in Nazi Europe World'. Asked to elucidate and justify his Descendants of the late Dr Jacob Jacob- would like to hear from anyone helped by assertion, Asch responded: 'That's easy - son, formerly Director of the Gesamtarchiv such a rescuer. A. Grunwald-Speer, Heath der deutschen Juden, are asked to contact Dr Man versteht jedes Wort/' Court, 76 Dore Rd., Sheffield SI7 3NE.Tel: Arnold Paucker. Director, Leo Baeck Institute, 0114 2360984. To me at least, Yiddish ranks pretty 4 Devonshire Street,LondonWIW 5BH. high in the league of communication; the speaker can make his intentions superbly Alfred Arnott (formerly Arnsdorf). Arrived Justus Alenfeld (Ahlenfeld), born Berlin ca. 1930. Lived in Forststrasse, Berlin- clear and the listener has no excuse for In Australia September 1940 on the Dunera with twin brother Max and younger brother Zehlendorf until 1945 and attended failing to understand. Zehlendorf Gymnasium. Mother, violinist, ^chmond, Surrey CP Carter Steve. Returned as a British Army volunteer to Liverpool via Panama Canal on British played chamber music with pianist Gerhard troop transport. Would like to hear from Kastner (now cembalist) who lived with his PIONEER CORPS anyone who knew him. 9 Lord Howe St., Do parents Paul and Elizabeth Kastner in Sir -The considerable part played by ver Heights, NSW 2030,Australia. Argentinische Allee 110, Berlln-Zehlendorf Jewish refugees in the Pioneer Corps, and who would like to hear from him and his sister Sabine. Please contact Peter now part of the Royal Logistics Corps Kurt Litten from Koslin (now Koszalin), in London in 1946 establishing an Import/ex Zander, 22 Romilly St.. London WID SAG. (RLC), is acknowledged by the RLC port business. Publisher wishes to contact 020 7437 4767 D Commanding Officer who would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in furthering this historical association. I will Co-ordinate any responses and sugges Lost property In a note found with the paintings, tions from members, who are invited to there is a suggestion that the owner may Write to me in the first instance. I will hilst clearing her late mother's have been a German psychologist. pass on the results to the commanding house in Jersey ready for sale, June Campbell would love to reunite officer. All respondents will hear from me WJune Campbell discovered a the paintings with their rightful owner. In in due course. brown paper parcel. When she un the meantime, they are being kept at the 2' Nicholas Way John Silbermann, wrapped it, she found two portraits, AJR office and enquiries can be made by lôrdiwood OBEFCITFRSA unframed and painted on canvas. In one, post or telephone to AJR Information. îddx HA6 2TR painted in 1913 and signed E Pirkardt, a UMK woman is seated on a chair under a tree in in MANX ENIGMA a garden. The other, undated and signed E Sir - In the article Soup of the evening, Uhl-Steinken, is of a formally dressed man GERMAIN and beautiful soup', (May 2000) I note the with a bushy grey handlebar moustache. ôrd humankind. If a woman lives on The story of how these paintings came ENGLISH BOOKS the Isle of Man the writer would, I to be with her mother's effects starts in the BOUGHT assume, refer to her as living on the Isle 1930s when June's parents ran the small of Humans. Fletchers Hotel in Guilford Street, London Antiquarian, secondhand and London NIS H Schragenheim WCl. Her father was sympathetic to the modern books of quality plight of European Jews fleeing from always wanted. OVERSIMPLIFICATION Nazi Germany (and later Nazi-occupied Europe) and welcomed them to his hotel We're long-standing advertisers îr - Since virtually every Jew is a where he tried to help them where he here and leading buyers of books •"efugee, if one traces the family back far could. In some cases, he agreed to look from AJR members. enough, could not our Association be after possessions for those who were lim °Pen to every Jew? Immediate response to your letter ited in the amount of luggage they could I^ndon N3 Henry A Garfinkel or phone call. take with them on the next stage of their [Our readers'views on this topic are invited - Ed.J journey. In most cases, they returned to We pay good prices and reclaim their possessions. However the come to collect. CHIEF'S COMPLIMENTS two paintings described were, exception Please contact: îf - The Chief Rabbi would like to thank ally, never claimed and found their way to Robert Hornung IVIA(Oxon) you for taking the trouble to send your Jersey when June's parents sold the hotel 2 Mount View, Ealing, lournal to our offices and he would like in the 1960s and moved to the Channel Is London WS IPR '"^ congratulate everyone involved in the lands. The parcel remained untouched and Telephone 020 8998 0S46 Production of this excellent newsletter. forgotten in the loft of the Jersey home (Spin to 9pm is best) Office ofThe Chief Rabbi during June's parents' lifetimes. AJR INFORMATION AUGUST 2000

largest city in the world with some thirty NEWS FROM THE GROUPS million inhabitants. George's slides were supplemented by Mary's albums of photo graphs which were eagerly studied by all- n Fronk Goldberg

Leeds peaking on 'The Wisdom of War Crime Trials', Rabbi Ian Morris took Sthe view that the Shoah was a crime against humanity, not a war crime, as it did not contribute to the prosecution of the war. He maintained that perpetrators of the Shoah should be prosecuted irrespective of age and the lapse of time. He himself had been personally involved as an observer at a war crimes trial io Australia which resulted in an acquittal. A discussion followed. D Heinz Skyte On 6 August there will be an Extraordinary Gen eral Meeting to discuss die scheme to record on tape or in writing the experiences of members before and after arrival in Britain. On 10 Septem ber, Leeds member Dr Erika Harris will speak on 'The Jews of Slovakia - from the war to the present day.'

Pinner r Stewart Drage's considered medical view of the Jewish la^s Dregarding diet and health frofii the earliest times was that they were designed to keep the people fit in body, mind and soul, often better than theif neighbours. Circumcision was necessary as hygiene was poor. A varied diet of fi^' Al the Viest Midlands garden party. Standing left to right, Henny Rednall (new chair of the group), Leon Jessel and vegetables supplemented by selected MBEJP, Myrna Glass (AJR head office). Seated, Edgar Glaser (treasurer & coordinator of garden party). fish and animal meat successfully kep' diseases such as rickets at bay. Shellfi*'^ West Midlands Brighton and Hove were banned due to their tendency ^^ concentrate poisons and pigs were p^'^' wenty eight group members, joined eorge and Mary Vulcan gave a hibited due to worm infestation. Th^ by Myrna Glass from head office, fascinating account of their two chicken became a firm favourite as it ' were guests of Leon Jessell MBE JP trips, three years apart, to the T G cheap to rear and its meat is easily at a garden party at his home in Walsall. Peoples' Republic of China. The slides of digested. . D Walter We| Excellent weather, good food and drinks their first visit - to Beijing and the north (including bucks fizz) made for a con of the country - showed the grandeur At die next meeting on 7 September at 2 p^' vivial afternoon when members from and splendour of the Forbidden City's Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith will talk about ho^ further afield had the opportunity to get palace and gardens and the vastness and the Leitz family, of Leica camera fame, help^ many Jews during the Nazi period. to know each other in a relaxed wildness of the Mongolian border country environment. It transpired that at least ten surrounding the Great Wall. of those present came from Berlin, one of The slides of their second trip, from South London whom Mr Jessell had known since the age which they had only recently returned, After the summer break, d)e next meeting will of four. The event marked the beginning recorded a trip on the Yangtse River from be on Thursday 14 September at 2pm when L> of what will hopefully be a new season of Shanghai to Chungking with views show Jo Reilly of Southampton University and t" activities with a reinvigorated conunittee. ing staggering contrasts between old and Wiener Library will talk on 'Non-JeWi^ n Edgar Glaser new. Chungking is reputed to be the responses to die 1930s refugee crisis' U

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Major banks Viewpoint waive charges Last post ost major banks will no n the past twenty years 3,000 post efits straight into each customer's bank longer levy bank charges on offices have closed their doors. The account (at a cost of Ip) rather than in M regular payments made by I more common of the services that the cash over the counter (costing 49p). the German Government to Holo remaining 19,000 provide range from the These welcome savings could be a disas caust survivors living in the UK. The all-important payments of pensions and ter for the post offices which derive one announcement follows lobbying by welfare benefits, TV and car tax licences, third of their income thereby. Labour MP Andrew Dismore who the sale of stamps and postal orders, a The closure of a post office often por raised the issue last year with flutter on the lottery, a haven for limited tends the demise of community life, Secretary of State for Trade and savings and a place to rid oneself of whether in country or town. The daily Industry Stephen Byers. large parcels. communion between housewives out The banks concerned are Bank of Many post offices - most of which are shopping has long since disappeared into Scotiand, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB franchises - survive economically as a labour market dependent on working and Royal Bank of Scotiand/National small general stores and newsagents, so women. The eradication of the post office Westminster. Anyone receiving Holo it's not surprising that they became the could prove the last straw with nowhere caust-related payments from the epicentre of local communal life, both left to meet and greet neighbours without German Government through a bank urban and rural. a commitment either to alcohol consump account should make themselves When competing with the wage pack tion or religious worship. known to the bank which will then ets of booming Britain, post-mastering A new Universal Bank is to offer put the arrangement in place U increasingly proved a less popular way accounts at the post office to the 3-5 for members of the indigenous popula million people - mostly the poor - who tion to make a living. Fortunately, Asian do not have bank accounts. As well as Kinder get-together shopkeepers and traders from East Africa issuing cheque books and cash cards, it found a natural habitat in corner shops will credit pensions and benefits, offer Dear Sylvia, Susie and Renee, throughout the land, many of which also loans for the first time and be a first port f would like you to knoiv hotv much I serve as the local branch post offices. of call for help and information. enjoyed the first 'get together' of the Twenty eight million of us use post In the onward march of e-mails and f^inder. We had a very warm welcome offices every week, but common obser electronic banking, will post offices (ind a tasty lunch which was served with vation confirms the composition of the wither away along with bank branches, charm and efficiency. inevitable queue as predominantly of the doctors' home calls, newspaper and milk It was my first visit to Cleve Road and old and the poor. In three years' time deliveries and regular bus services? therefore most rewarding to see what a the government intend paying all ben D Ronald Chonning difference the opportunity to play cards, chat and eat together makes to people who ^ive alone or, perhaps, don't find congen- PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE '«/ and sympathetic company elsewhere. 15 CIcve Road. West Hampstead. NW6 I look forward to future occasions and Mon. & Weds. 9.30am-3.30pm.Tues. & Thurs. 9.30am-5.30pm. Suns. 2pm-6.30pm thank you for the organisation you and AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2000 your team undertook. Afternoon entertainment programme - Thur 17 Avril Kaye & David Jedwab U Eifrieda Colman Tue 1 The Frowde family entertain, accompanied by Geoffrey accompanied by June Moore, Whirworth, piano Piano Sun 20 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO AJR 'Drop in' Advice Centre Wed 2 Angela Arratoon, accompanied by ENTERTAINMENT at the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Eldad Neumark, piano Mon 21 KARD & GAMES KLUB 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL Thur 3 ONE-MAN BAND - Freddy Hill Tue 22 Paul & Sinikka Coleman between I Oam and 12 noon on the Sun 6 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO Wed 23 Melanie Mehta, soprano following dates: ENTERTAINMENT accompanied by Jean Brown, Tuesday 1 August Mon 7 KARD & GAMES KLUB piano Tue 8 THE GEOFFREY WHITWORTH Thur 24 THE EDDY SIMMONS DUO Wednesday 9 August DUO Sun 27 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO Thursday 17 August Wed 9 Christine Fisher accompanied by ENTERTAINMENT Tuesday 22 August Geoffrey Whitworth Mon 28 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - BANK Wednesday 30 August Thur 10 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - TISHAH HOLIDAY Thursday 7 September B'AV Tue 29 RONNIE GOLDBERG ON and every Thursday from Sun 13 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO GUITAR 1 Oam to 12 noon at: ENTERTAINMENT Wed 30 Robin Richards, violin, Peter AJR, I Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, Mon 14 KARD & GAMES KLUB Irvine, baritone accompanied by London NW3 6AL Tue 15 Carol-Ann Grainger, soprano Gloria Moss, piano accompanied by Geoffrey Thur 31 THE VALERIE HEWITT SHOW No appointment is necessary, but please bring Whitworth, piano Sun 3 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO along all relevant documents, such as Wed 16 HELEN BLAKE ENTERTAINS ENTERTAINMENT Benefit Books, letters, bills, etc. WITH VOICE & PIANO Mon 4 KARD & GAMES KLUB AJR INFORMATION AUGUST 2000

FAMILY OTTO SCHIFF TORRINGTON HOMES ANNOUNCEMENTS HOUSING ASSOCIATION Mrs Pringsheim, S.R.N. "The Matchmakers" MATRON Deaths providing quality care for ike Jewish Refugee community For Elderly, Retired and Convalescent international Jewish for over half a cenlurj Berger. Regina Berger (nee (Licensed by Borough of Barnet) Partnership Agency SHELTERED ACCOMMODAnON Wollner) born Vienna, 30 March • Single and Double Rooms. WARDEN CONTROLLED • H/C Basins and CH in all rooms. Phone: 0049-89-92367894, Fax: 1909, died peacefully on 16 ono SCHIFF HOUSE • Gardens, TV and reading rooms. 0049-89-92279864 June 2000 after a short illness, Netherhall Gardens - Hampstead • Nurse on duty 24 hours. aged 91. 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Shalom. 020 8455 1335 other times vyith our clients, age groups SEMI-DETACHED BUNGALOW NORTH FINCHLEY betv\reen 25 and 80, we have CLASSIFIED IN TEMPLE FORTUNE been finding partners/husbands LINK Psychotherapy Trust Double Bedroom/Large Kitchen/Bathroom for them for the last 15 years. have planned a further meeting Further details & to arrange a visit please contact: Farita Franlclin BELSIZE SQUARE for intergenerational dialogue Tel: 0208 209 0022 Ext. 511 We v/ork as v^ell in NewYork, for Sunday 24 September 2000, APARTMENTS Paris, London and Munich. 10am to 3pm, at 73 Fortune 24 BELSIZE SQUARE, NWS For more information please Green Road, NW6, for Former Tel: 020 7794 4307 or SHELTERED FLAT contact us at above Kindertransportees and their 020 7435 2557 second and third generation AVAILABLE Telephone or Fax numbers. at Cleve Road, MODERN SELF-CATERING HOLIDAY offspring. 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Further Rent £365 per month Inc. c.h./h.w. details from Ruth Barnett 020 Clara Nehab House A wide variety of high quality Apply to Carol Rossen, (Leo Bseck Houiing Associaton Ltd.) 7431 0837. 13-19 Lsoslds Croscant NWII kosher frozen food is available, AJR Head Office, ready made and delivered to All rooms with ShowerW.C.and your door via the AJR Meals on I Hampstead Gate, H/C Basins en-suite Miscellaneous Services Wheels service.The food is la Frognal, NW3 6AL Spacious Garden - Lounge & Manicure & Pedicure in the cooked in our own kitchens in Dining Room - Lift comfort of your own home. Cleve Road, NW6, by our Near Shops and Public Transport experienced staff. Telephone 020 8343 0976. 24 Hour Care - Physiotherapy SWITCH ON ELECTRICS Long & short Term - Respite Care - Service available to members in Day Centre Rewires and all household Trial Periods North and North West London. Shirley Lever at the Paul electrical work. Enquiries: Phone Susie Kaufman Balint AJR Day Centre. 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Trevor Goldman SRC PART TIME ORGANISER 1-5 Aug Ch^aU, Chagall REQUIRED by appointment at AJR GROUP CONTACTS Yakub Kolas Theatre, Vitebsk, The South London Group of the The Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Leeds HSFA: Trude Silman perform at The AJR requires a person with 15 Cleve Road.West Hampsteod, NWS 0113 225 1628 clerical and administrative skills to Gate. 020 7229 O706 Please make appointments with West Midlands: Edgar Glaser assist with the organisation and Until 3 Sept Judaica 2000. Syhia Matusjel: 020 7328 0208 (Birminghain) 0121 777 6537 Contemporary activities of Its members. North: Werner Lachs Anglo-Jewish The work will Initially Involve the (Manchester) 0161 773 4091 ceremonial art. equivalent of I 'A days p.mth. ADVERTISEMENT RATES Jewish Museum, East Midlands Bob Norton Camden Town. The group meets in da/tlme In the FAMILY EVENTS (Nottingliam) 01159 212 494 020 7284 1997. Streatham area. First 15 words free of charge, Pinner: Vera Gellman Until 27 Oct East of Eden. 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Perhaps the most exciting work is Bill ^ . ^• ^^^M Viola's Quintet of the Astonished based on Hieronymous Bosch's Christ ^HR !•**-• ^Kt'^ m Mocked. Viola's video installation shows ^Mr vV Bosch's five characters changing expres

• ^ sion with recumbent slowness. Bosch's //• ^B *•••"•—' " i mockers actually represent every facet of ow do twenty-first century artists 1 J«»_ 1 „. humanity, from sagacity to humour, ag respond to the great masters of wKmm ^ •K'^^ gression to bombast, brute force to the past? In a milHon different P intelligence. It is this which the contem H '^^bfii ways according to the National Gallery's _i 1 porary artist visualises so effectively. tu ^^'"^B?If ^'^ \ latest, imaginative show. Encounters, Ite s^ However, I left the National wondering « New Art from Old, invited twenty-four \1 whether today's artists would not be estabhshed artists from Britain, Europe better off sticking to their own original and North America to choose a work > •^ *'-'^'**»*--- Paula Rego's Wreclc (1999) at the National Gallery's n Gloria Tessler from the National Gallery collection. The Encounters exhibition result is complex, humorous and intelligent. like solitude. Poussin's sleeping nude is Van-Gogh's famous empty yellow vulnerable to the satyrs who ogle and SB's Column wicker chair has always expressed that uncover her. There, even the trees and which is missing and unfulfilled. RB Kitaj clouds have a taste of foreboding. nne Frank. The successful product fills it with a ribald Billionaire. He is Baalthus' nude is liberated, fearless, in ion of Grigor Frid's Mono-opera toothy, rapacious, sardonic, as over souciant in her sleep. Only a fat sickle Awas repeated at the Hanover EXPO whelmingly present in his chair as Van moon remains as a crude metaphor for with Israeli soprano Anat Efraty Gogh's subject is absent. The main differ love. Another artist who takes his task lit outstanding as the eponymous tragic ence is one of context: is the billionaire a erally is Lucien Freud. His oil painting is heroine whose diary brought her world metaphor for Van Gogh's tragic life, mir a near copy of Chardin's Young School fame. rored in the rictus grin of the man in his mistress, but with a difference. The Carinthia. Austria's southernmost prov chair? Poor old Vincent would indeed be intense delicacy of Chardin's teacher is al ince (which recently gained notoriety as laughing all the way to the bank, al most transparent. Haider's fiefdom) offers a rich summer though not, I suspect, without irony. Freud, who never hands you beauty on programme of cultural events mainly held One of the most intensely vivid of the a plate, retains the movement and grace in Klagenfurt; in addition to diverse collection is Paula Rego's version of of the painting but sharpens the teacher's dramatic productions. Grace Bumbry, Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. While the face, jarring her patience with that rough Nicolai Gedda and Cheryl Studer will give original wryly glances at the state of ness, that sense of the grotesque he song recitals during the month of August. arranged marriages and their devastating always sees beneath the surface. But the Birthdays. One of the great mezzo- outcome, Rego's take on modern mar- question that troubles me is - why sopranos of the post-war period, Giulietta •"iage leaves nothing to the imagination. bother? Chardin's vision is distorted by Simionato, celebrated her ninetieth birth Her pastel series After Hogarth - Lessons Freud whose own clarity works better at day. Though her long and distinguished îth its repertoire of sad, dissonant faces first hand. career was centred on Milan she also ~ even the dog looks cynical - is a mess The same is true of Howard Hodgkin, appeared in Chicago, New York and of broken furniture and jumbled posses who exaggerates Seurat's pointiUism in Paris, London and Glyndebourne. Also sions. But in her final painting. Wreck, his famous Bathers at Asnieres. In trying ninety is one of German theatre's favour she returns most graphically to Hogarth's to be literal with the truth of the original, ite grand old ladies Inge Meysel, equally sad acceptance of things being as they there is a danger of falling by compari loved by pre- and postwar audiences. are. This realisation that nothing will son. Seurat's work is a masterpiece of (She was barred from the stage during the change is given a female perspective, solitude. Each figure is a lonely planet, Nazi era.) Inge Meysel was honoured on lego's sleeping husband lies cradled in accentuated by round heads, hats, backs German TV, and impressed by her endur ê lap of his wife who contemplates the and large space between. Hodgkin's ing stage presence and vibrant vitality. physical and emotional wreck of their pointillism is larger, his colours bolder, Obituary. Czech-born actor Francis lives. his technique more interpretative. Lederer has died, aged a hundred. He Much of the work is narrative or literal. Some might see the skeleton of Con played under Reinhardt in Berlin, later Iâvid Hockney's Twelve Portraits from stable's Hay Wain in Frank Auerbach's switching to films, where The Bridge of Ingres in a Uniform Style owes little to abstract oil, Park Village East and there is San Luis Rey and Pandora's Box (directed Ingres, but much to Hockney's skills as a no doubting his vibrancy of stroke and by GW Pabst) enhanced his reputation. Portrait painter. His pencil, crayon and colour. But does it matter that what After appearing on the London stage in Souache portraits translate the classical passes for a tree in Auerbach's painting the thirties, he left for Hollywood and style into a modern idiom and make you stands in exactly in the same place as played a lead part in Confessions of a ^hink you know the subject. Constable's? Nazi spy. He toured America and Britain Balthus transports Poussin's Midsum Curators and art historians love this sort in the fifties with the musical Wedding in mer Night's Dream from a place where of thing, but it seems to me that the Paris. Francis Lederer spent his retirement Predatory instincts reign to one of dream- contiguity is all. years in California D

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Science Notebook ARE YOU ON A LOW INCOME AND IN NEED Perutz was thus able to determine the Refugee scientists' structure of haemoglobin, the oxygen-car OF HOMECARE HELP? achievements rying protein in red blood cells. For this AJR might be able to offer research he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize financial assistance. ue Lawley's guest on Radio 4's in Chemistry with his fellow worker, John Members who might not Desert Island Discs at the end of Kendrew, who had in a similar way deter otherwise be able to afford SJune was Nobel Laureate Dr Max mined the structure of the muscle protein homecare please contact: Perutz. Born in Vienna in 1914, Perutz myoglobin. was turned on at university by the subject Among the talented people attracted Estelle Brookner, secretary of chemistry. Already at age 22 he into Perutz's unit were Francis Crick and AJR, Social Services expressed his desire to solve the secret of Department James Watson who also achieved a break Phone No: 020 7431 6161 life, and so after graduation he went to through in 1953 by constructing the England to work on protein structures at double helix model of DNA. In 1962 they the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. too (together with Maurice Wilkins) were In 1939, after the Anschluss, he managed awarded a Nobel Prize, in their case for rr \ to bring his parents out of Austria; some Physiology, and they travelled to Sweden Companions months later, however, they were all together to receive their awards. interned as enemy aliens and sent to Earlier in June, a live video link be of London Canada. He was released early in 1941 tween Imperial College, London, and the Incorporating Hampstead Home Care and returned to Cambridge from where Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Buda v^ ^ he was recruited for a secret war project, pest celebrated the life and work of the A long established company to make ice strong enough so it could be late Denis Gabor. Born in Budapest in providing care in your home used to build an unsinkable aircraft 1900, Gabor was educated there and at * Assistance with personal care carrier - an idea which proved the Technische Hochschule in Charlotten * General household duties impractical. burg before taking a post with Siemens. * Respite care Back at Cambridge after the war, Perutz With the rise of Hitler he fled to England * Medical appointment service was instrumental in setting up a Medical in 1933 and was employed by British Research Council unit which later became Thomson-Houston in Rugby. In 1948 he OUR CARE IS YOUR CARE' known as the Laboratory of Molecular Bi joined the staff of Imperial College and 020 7483 0212/0213 ology. There he continued his researches later became Professor of Applied Elec on the structure of proteins by shining tron Physics; he died in 1979- Gabor's beams of X-rays on them and analysing main achievement was the invention of the patterns of dots formed on a photo holography (holos means whole in Greek) SPRING graphic plate (X-ray diffraction). This was or three-dimensional photography for GROVE a mammoth task for such large molecules which he received the Nobel Prize in 214 Finchley Road containing several thousand atoms and Physics in 1971. Holography became prac London NW3 the breakthrough came in 1953 when he tical after I96I with the application of tried incorporating heavy metal atoms London's Most Luxurious laser light and it is now widely used for RETIREMENT HOME like gold into the protein. This altered the data storage and for security purposes * Entertainment-Activities diffraction pattern and made it easier to (see the little coloured bird on your Visa discover the positions of the atoms. 'k Stress Free Living card, for instance). U Prof Michael Spiro * 24 Hour Staffing -k Excellent Cuisine * Full En-Suite Facilities Call for more information or a personal tour A Central Archive for German-Jewish history 020 8446 2117 ounded in 1987 as a subsidiary be found in the collection. The Archive or 020 7794 4455 organisation of the Central Council also collects, in photographic form, Fof Jews in Germany, the main tombstone inscriptions from Jewish purpose of the Zentralarchiv zur Erfor- cemeteries in Germany; photographs of Simon P. Rhodes M.Ch.S. schung der Geschichte der Juden in nearly 54,000 from Baden-Wiirttemberg STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST Deutschland is to store and catalogue are already in the collection. Surgeries at: documents of historical value from 67 Kilburn High Road, NW6 (opp M&S) Jewish communities, organisations and The Archive can be contacted as follows: Telephone 020 7624 1576 individuals. Zentralarchiv, Bienenstrasse 5, 3 Queens Close (off Green Lane) The collection is limited to the political 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. Edgware, Middx HAB 7PU borders of the Federal Republic. Tel: ++49 (0) 6221 164141 Telephone 020 8905 3264 Newspapers and journals published by Email: [email protected] Visiting chiropody service available Jewish groups and organisations can also DMK

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Jewish culture invades the Dome

ompeting with the themed zones and the foodcourts, choirs from C Minsk to Newcastle and dancers and bands from far and near drew their audiences from visitors to the Dome, some of whom had come specifically to support the 'Jewish culture day'. Visitors arriving at 10 o'clock were greeted at the main entrance by a preview of the repertoire of Klezmer players 'Balalaika' ^ho later performed their Slav-sounding Klezmer on a small stage outside the Red Boot 'family pub'. Having travelled all the way from Minsk to London by bus, the Simcha niusic school choir, dressed in long ^hite shimmering dresses and accompa nied by strings and woodwind, filled The Simcha Choir from Minsk performing at Jeivish Culture Day at the Dome the Arena stage with traditional singing and dancing. Their professionalism and Pinner Youth Players had to battle Klezmer, traditional) from predominantly discipline was unmatched by other per against the noise of the central millen amateur groups, emphasising the com formers. The Alyth choir, including a nium show in the main arena with their munity's contribution to the programme. childrens' choir, conducted by Vivian abbreviated production of Joseph & the If the observation of one cafe proprietor Bellos, performed - to a somewhat de Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; but - that the Dome was experiencing an pleted audience in the 'Our Town' at least the auditorium was full. unusually large influx of visitors for a auditorium - a modern cantata Dome visitors seeking other tastes of Sunday - was anything to go by, Lon depicting the handing down of Jewish the Jewish Music Institute's Jewish cul don's Jews supported their community's heritage through the generations. Later tural offerings could dip in and out of cultural efforts. that day in the same auditorium, the colourful dancing and folk music (Israeli, UMK

International piano virtuoso to play Mozart concerto at AJR Annual Concert oriko Ogawa, a former Leeds sparkling modem Bridgewater Hall. International Piano Competition Her recent recordings include Muss N prizewinner, has gained an orgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition Unviable reputation in Europe, America (selected as critics' choice by BBC Music ^rid in her native Japan where she is a Magazine) and works by Rachmaninov, National celebrity. On 29 October, Noriko Schumann and Debussy. '^gawa will play Mozart's piano concerto The AJR Concert will take place in the K449 at AJR's 52"'' Annual Concert at Great Hall at Imperial College, South 'mperial College, accompanied by the Kensington, London SW7 at 3pni on Splendid players of the London 29 October. During a 45 minute interval a Concertino conducted by Richard Dickins. full tea will be served in the college re Both on the concert platform and for fectory. Tickets at £12, £15, ±18 and at her recordings, Noriko Ogawa remains in ±10 for children, will shortly be available 8reat demand, performing with the from AJR Head Office. World's major orchestras and making URDC f^gular radio and television broadcasts. ^Pending half the year in Europe, based 'tl London, Noriko records for the BBC Annely Juda Fine Art ^tid appears with the major UK orches- Noriko Ogawa, piano soloist at the AJR concert. ^fas, lately including the Philharmonia, 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street) Tel: 020 7629 7578 Fax: 020 7491 2139 °Bc Philharmonic, and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. In May she adjudi Symphony. This season she has added cated on keyboard contestants at the final CONTEMPORARY PAINTING engagements in California, Sweden, Ger- of the BBC's 'Young Musician of the Year' AND SCULPTURE '^ny and Russia with the St Petersburg competition televised from Manchester's

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Searchlight on Austria

ustria was put under the microscope by an historian, a Apsychoanalyst and by politicians at a seminar held at the Wiener Library and co-presented by the Wiener Library, the AJR and the Second Generation Trust. Historian Robert Knight saw the recent international preoccupation with Austria as arising from such distinct phenomena as the "stream of memory" of Jewish awareness of Austria's role in the Holo caust and the rise to prominence of Jorg Haider. Austria's early postwar years were Panellists from left: Silvio Lehmann, Bruno Aigner, Richard Luther, Terezija Stoisits and chairman Lord Dubs. devoted to the development of a national identity; its identity as the first victim of to find himself living in Vienna but had and legislation was necessary to counter Nazism - enshrined in the Moscow Decla done so since the 1970s, a time of social, act race-hate internet sites. Austria ration of 1943 - had exempted the judicial and educational reform. He de threatened to be the beginning, not the country from outside scrutiny of its record scribed Jorg Haider as a post-modern end, of the election to power of right- of antisemitism and collaboration with the populist demagogue, not a Nazi, and em wing parties. Nazis. The West had underpinned this phasised that what was relevant was not Elements of the political spectrum in approach because of the desire to culti Haider's image but the forces he repre Austria were represented in the panel vate a westernised Austria. Documents sented. Austria's membership of the EU discussion which followed. Terezija discovered in Knight's research revealed a was an important safety net against Stoisits (Green Party/Croatian), Bruno reluctance on the part of the British Gov Haider's possible rise to power. Aigner (Social Democrat) and Silvio ernment to investigate anti-Jewish activity Glyn Ford MEP did a Cook's tour of the Lehmann (Republican Club/Democratic in Austria. The party electoral system - existence and rise of rightwing and na Offensive) shared a platform with which led to the Grand Coalition between tionalist parties in other EU countries Richard Luther (Keele University) and the Conservatives and the Social Demo identifying France, Belgium, Italy and summarised their perspectives on Aus crats - left a definite opposition role for Denmark in particular. He reviewed the tria's postwar political development and extremist parties. Nevertheless he was steps taken to combat racism, not least their views on EU sanctions. There ap' optimistic about Austria's future. the Monitoring Centre in Vienna as well peared to be a consensus that Austria's Felix de Mendelssohn, son of Austrian as anti-discrimination legislation, but felt democracy, delayed though it might be, refugees, gave an admittedly subjective this was insufficient. Denmark and Spain would survive. view explaining that he had not expected remained permissive of Holocaust denial D Marion Koebner is* BBC commissions of BBC's Alan Yentob and Mark Thomson and was to be realised. Do '/ou have Theresienstadt film Eyewitnesses will play an essential role in your possession in the success of the film. Survivors of t was in the 1960s that Beatrice Tiger Ritual objects and objects of everyday life Theresienstadt are asked to contact first read 'Terezin Requiem', the from the times of DP camps or Jewish Beatrice Tiger, la Westbere Drive, Stan account of Theresienstadt and Ausch communities of the immediate I more, Middx. HA7 4RF; tel:020 8958 7272. postwar era in Germany? witz survivor Josef Bor. Moved by the UMK book, she wrote to him in Prague and The fewish AAuseum Berlin Is looking for thus began a correspondence which photos, documents, objects, mementos and stories which Illustrate Jewish life In both resulted in his invitation to her to visit Germanies, for example: him in Prague. In 1978, the long-awaited trip to Prague took place but sadly, Bor Textbooks, prayerbooks, correspondence with J." JACKMAN • Allied or German authorities, Jewish had just died. Beatrice met his son Peter organisations, family and friends, papers and they kept in touch. 8>» SILVERMAN concerning restitution and compensation- In 1998 she met film director Jack Identity cards, invitations to s/mchos, textiles, COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS pictures of the first Passah, first Purim. Emery, with whom she discussed her desire to turn Bor's story into film. He Judisches Museum Berlin, was enthusiastic but she heard nothing Lindenstr. 9-14, D 10969 Berlin: further, assuming that without the requi Leonore Maler/Gisela Freydank, tel: 0049-30-25993-455, site finance, the project would progress fax: 0049-30-25993-409 no further. In June this year she received 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA or Jael Gels, tel: 0049-30-25993-327, a telephone call from Emery confirming Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 8017 fax: 0049-30-25993-333 that the project had attracted the attention

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May Fitzpayne), becoming an accom Obituary plished painter and etcher in the process. Honoured! Taking the urban dereliction of postwar mong members of the Jewish London as his subject matter, he inter community who were recognised Eric Doitch spersed painting with stints of part-time in the Queen's Birthday Honours ienna-born Eric Doitch, who has teaching at Camberwell and Chelsea. A List were Geraldine Auerbach, Ben died aged seventy-seven, was a Though the trauma of the Anschluss left Helfgott, Bernard Schreier and Fanny painter who spent the last third of him totally disenchanted with Austria - he V Waterman. his life in rural Lincolnshire. This was not would not even apply for a pension! - he Geraldine Auerbach, Director of the totally surprising, since as a boy he had remained attached to the German lan Jewish Music Institute and founder Direc frequently helped out on his uncle's farm guage. He had some German poems tor of the London International Jewish Music Festival, received an MBE for serv ices to music. She regards the award as an endorsement of the relevance of Jew ish music in Britain today. Ben Helfgott, a Holocaust survivor whose MBE is for services to community relations, represents many different as pects of the survivor community, including the '45 Aid Society and Board of Deputies Yad Vashem committee. Bernard Schreier, Austrian-born, who emigrated to Palestine in 1938, came to Britain in 1955 on a family visit and stayed. His knighthood was for his contribution to the development of UK- Hungary trade. Fanny Waterman, Britain's well-known piano teacher, founder and chairman of the Leeds international piano competi tion, received a CBE. UMK

The Jewish Wedding' Etching by Eric Doitch Valuing refugees •n Lower Austria during the school published in the 1940s, and numbered holidays. the emigre writers Elias Canetti, Erich rofessor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, The early training stood him in good Fried and HG Adler among his friends or the President of the Council for stead: on arriving in England at fifteen his acquaintances. PAssisting Refugee Academics (CARA), 'irst job was that of an agricultural la A similar ambivalence marked his atti a refugee to Britain after banishment by bourer. Then, in a reversal of fortune, he tude to Jewishness. He anglicised his the South African Government in 1968, gained a scholarship to St Martin's School name and steered clear of commitment to gave a keynote address at the Royal of Art - only to be interned in 1940, after Jewish or refugee causes. Nonetheless he Society in which he expressed grave ^hich he worked in a munitions factory. remained conscious of our community of concern over the current wave of hostility Postwar he attended Camberwell School fate - as borne out by the extraordinarily against refugees and asylum seekers, and of Art (alongside fellow refugees Ernst moving treatment of Jewish themes in his aspects of the current Asylum and Eisenmayer and Henry Inlander) and the work. Immigration legislation. ^oyal College (where he met his wife D Richard Grunberger Referring to CARA's foundation in 1933, he named Karl Popper and Max Perutz as two examples of those making outstand Message in a bottle Doch statt Verztoeijlung sab ich ein inniges ing contributions of which the UK and Bemiihn ^^h sah heut' tausend Menschen verstorten the world would have been deprived had Angesicbts, Um Haltung und Beherrschung aus ihren ^'^h sah heut' tausend Juden, die tvanderten Augen gliihn. they been subjected to the present legis ins Nichts, Da hab ich, tiejergriffen, den Geist des Volks lation. "Refugees bring enormous cultural, '^ Grau des kalten Morgens zog die verfemte erkannt. intellectual, social and indeed economic Schar, Das auserwdhlt zum Leiden, das Leid auch benefits to this country...It is time politi stets gebannt. ^^^d hinter ihr verblasste, tvas einst ihr Leben cians accepted not only that the value of tvar. ^^h sah in ihre Augen mit bruderlichem Blick, A non-Jewish friend sent the above our society derives from refugees...but ^rivartend tiefsten Jammer von solchem anonymously to a Jewish family in also that the way we treat them is in turn Missgescbick. Germany in May 1942 D a measure of our humanity" D

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AJR Annual General Meeting NEWSROUND CHAIRMAN EMPHASISES NEED FOR CHANGE Countering Holocaust denial A panel of experts, in a report to the very organisation is required to Carol Rossen, and the organisation has Home Secretary, recommended that Holo change, even when 60 years old continued to function smoothly with the caust denial should not be made a criminal E and caring for a generation of support of staff at Head Office. I would offence in Britain.The promotion of survivors. Our members provide clear like to thank everyone in the organisa Holocaust awareness and the modification evidence that, with a positive attitude, tion, as well as our fantastic volunteers, of race hate legislation would be more there remains much to get out of life at numbering over 170, without whom we likely to lead to successful prosecutions. whatever age. simply could not function. We all take pride in our religion and Head Office has been fully computer Latvia acts culture and today British Jewry has a ised over the last few months and the Extradition proceedings against alleged much higher profile. I was extremely Day Centre is following suit. AJR's Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs are to be pleased to have represented the AJR at monthly magazine will, in due course. brought by Latvia, reports the Jewish Chronicle. Kalejs returned to Australia at the beginning of this year to avoid depor tation from Britain. No saints after all An Irish priest and the then Archbishop of Milan may have collaborated with the SS and not, after all, helped save Italian Jews. Recently de-classified CIA documents shed new light on the role of Vatican representatives during WWII. The revelations add fuel to the debate on the projected beatification of Pius XII. Dr Elisabeth Maxwell, guesi speaker at Ludwig Spiro expressing members' concern about the impending the AGM, right, tvith AJR Management merger between The Otto Schiff Housing Association and Jewish Whose responsibility? Committee member Gaby Glassman. Care. Whilst the Department of Culture's panel deals with a claim to ownership of the opening, by HM the Queen, of the have a new look, but retain all its tradi Griffier's 'View of Hampton Court' hanging Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War tional values, and the AJR will be in the Tate Gallery, the government ap' Museum, in the knowledge that many of launching a web site. pears to expect that panel to advise of^ our members contributed to its creation David Jedwab and Anthony Spiro were whether the law should be changed to and were among the first to be invited to co-opted on to the Management Commit a preview. tee and Freddie Durst retired on reaching enable looted art to be returned by The work of our Social Services Depart the age limit. May I express my thanks to galleries to the rightful owners. Some MP* ment continues to expand rapidly and the Management Committee for their hard think the government should take the lead- Self Aid grants have increased by more work and support throughout the year. French collaboration pictured than 20% to reach £200,000. Appreciation The election of Katherine Klinger of the Photographs documenting French coUat*' goes to Marcia Goodman and her dedi Second Generation Trust onto this year's oration with the Nazi occupation af^ cated team. The loving care to be found Committee provides a valuable line of exhibited in the new wing of the Pan* at the Day Centre never diminishes, communication with the active second Les Invalides army museum, opened hV though the task becomes more onerous generation. President Chirac. Fifty-five years on, * as our membership ages and the demand Despite extensive searches, we have yet new generation of historians has helpe'' for our meals-on-wheels service increases. to identify a suitable site for our sheltered the French to confront their past. We are grateful to Sylvia Matus, Susie accommodation and community centre Two-day weekend Kaufman and all the Day Centre staff. project. As soon as there is anything to re The Israeli cabinet is considerio? The AJR has integrated the Reunion of port it will be published in AJR Information. extending the Israeli weekend to include Kindertransport, yet enables former RoK The recently announced merger be Sunday. Not only would this bring t^^ members to retain their own identity, tween OSHA and Jewish Care has the country into line with most of its trading newsletter and meetings at the Day Cen blessing of the AJR which will do every partners, but it could also defuse point* tre. Thanks are due to David Jedwab for thing to assist the two organisations and of conflict between the various religio^' contributing to the organisation of this encourage closer co-operation for the communities in Israel. successful integration. The AJR's annual benefit of AJR members in the homes. concert was a great success in its new Jewish Care has undertaken to ensure Military exemption venue, and we are returning to Imperial that the homes' special continental atmos Israeli Yeshiva students will be exempt^ College on 29 October this year for a phere will be maintained. from three-year conscription if a o' concert and tea. In a changing world there is only one currently before the Knesset becoin^ Three experienced senior members of constant - our desire to help all AJR law. The issue emphasises the divid staff were appointed to manage the AJR, members as much as we can. between supporters of the secular an Ronald Channing, Gordon Greenfield and n Andrew Kaufman, Chairman religious parties. O ^

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