Vol. XVII No. 4 April, 1962 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION OP JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN • FAIRFAX MANSIONS. FINCHLEY RD. (corner Fairfax Rd.). Londen. N.W.3 Offie* and Consulting Houn: Telephone : MAIda Vale 9096 7 (General Ollkce aiid Welfare tor the Aged) Monday to Tlutr%day 10 a.in.-l p.m. 3-« pjR MAIda Vale 4449 (Employment Agency, annually licensed bv the L.C.C.. ' ' ^ '^ aad Social Services Dept.) Friday 10 ajn.—l pjn.
Dr. S. J. Roth Gesundheitsschaedigung sein mag. Dadurch wird Witwen und Waisen all jener Verfolgten, die aus dem KZ schon mit dem Tode gezeichnet ZUM WIEDERGUTMACHUNGS herauskamen, die Entschaedigung versagt. Diese krasse Einschraenkung kann wohl auch nicht mit der allgemeinen Motivierung der Einschraen SCHLUSSGESETZ kungen gegenueber Staatenlosen und Fluecht lingen begruendet werden, es bestaenden ihneo Wuensche der " Staatenlosen und Fluechtlinge ** gegenueber mir humanitaere Verpflichtungen. 4. Wie schon erwaehnt, erhalten Staatenlose Das Wiedergutmachungs-Schlussgesetz, das die BEG eingeschlossen sind, erhalten nur eine sehr und Fluechtlinge keine Entschaedigung fuer Haerten und Maengel der bisherigen Gesetzgebung beschraenkte Entschaedigung, lediglich fuer Berufsschaden. Diese Ungerechtigkeit sollte auf dem Gebiet der Entschaedigung behebco Schaeden an Freiheit, Koerper, Gesundheit und wenigstens fuer jene aelteren Personen, die soil, nvuss an erstex Stelle die aergste Haerte Leben. Sie erhalten keinerlei Entschaedigung mangels eines entsprechendeo Einkommens darauf beseitigen, dass ganze Verfolgtengruppen von fuer Schaeden an Eigentum oder Vermoegen, und sozial besonders angewiesen sind, beseitigt Oer Entschaedigung ausgeschlossen sind. Solche nur die Vertriebenen erhalten eine sehr werden—etwa durch Gewaehmng ciner minimalen Gnjppen gibt es nach dem Bundesentschaedi beschraenkte Entschaedigung fuer Schaeden im Rente V(MJ DM 200 monatlich. gungsgesetz mehrere. Das BEG, ak ein inner- beruflichen Fortkommen. Diese Einschraenkung 5. Gerade mit Ruecksicht darauf, dass Staaten Ernst Muller ganges und der Kollektivvermutung, in Danzig und Oberschlesien. Die Hdhe der Schaden an den Wirtschafts- LASTENAUSGLEICHSLEISTUNGEN AN giitem wird zunachst in Reichsmark berechnet. VERFOLGTE IM AUSLAND Im Anschluss daran erfolgt die Bestimmung der Hohe der auszahlbaren Ausgleichsleistung in Der Verfasser dieses Aufsatzes sprach kuerz bis 31. Juli 1945 im Bundesgebiet oder in West- D. Mark. Die Einzelheiten dieser beiden lich im Kreise der " Association of Democratic Berlin unmittelbar durch Kriegshandlungen ent Abrechnungen sind unendlich kompliziert. Hier Lawyers" ueber das Thema " Laslenausgleich standen ist. Diese Schaden mussen entstanden muss es geniigen, dass die Reichsmark-Betrage urtd Wiedergutmachung". Die folgenden Aus sein an land- und forstwirtschaftlichem Vermogen nach einer Skala so in D. Mark umgerechnet fuehrungen geben den Inhalt seines Vortrags oder an Grundvermogen oder an Betriebsver- werden, dass Reichsmark-Betrage bis zu etwa wieder, soweit er fuer den rucht juristisch mogen oder an Gegenstanden, die fiir die Berufs- 5.000 RM gleich dem Neimbetrage in DM sind, geschulten Leser Interesse haben kann.—Red. ausiibung oder fiir die wissenschaftliche Forschung wahrend in den hoheren Stufen die Umrechnung Das aus dem Riickerstattungsrecht und dem erforderlich waren, oder an Hausrat. prozentual immer niedriger wird. Entschadigungsrecht bestehende Wiedergut (b) Ein Vertreibungsschaden ist ein Schaden, der Die Leistungen, welche als Rechtsanspriiche der machungsrecht hat durch lastenausgleichsrechtliche einem Vertriebenen jm Zusammenhang mit den Verfolgten im wesentlichen in Frage kommen, Bestimmungen eine Erganzung erhalten. Dies kann gegen Personen deutscher Staatsangehorigkeit sind die sogenannte Hauptentschadigung fiir dazu fiihren, dass dje ausgewanderten Verfolgten oder deutscher Volkszugehorigkeit gerichteten Vermogensschaden und die Hausratsentschadigung. sich in gewissen Fallen Entschadigungsleistungen Vertreibungsmassnahmen in den deutschen Die Hauptenischddigung wird fiir die Ver- vcrschaffen konnen, welche durch das Wiedergut Gebieten oestlich der Oder-Neisse Linie oder in mbgensschaden der Vertriebenen um 25% gekilrzt. machungsrecht nicht gewahrt werden. Die Rechts- (Jen Gebieten ausserhalb der Grenzen des deutschen Aber ein Betrag von 10% kann hinzukotnmen, materie ist ganz besonders schwierig. Nur einige Reichs nach dem Gebietsstand vom 31. Dezember wenn Vertriebene sich keine angemessene Existenz Hauptpunkte sind im Folgenden zusammengestellt, 1937, aber nicht in den Gebieten der Deutschen wieder verschaffen konnten. Der D. Mark- was clazu anregen mag, im Einzelfall sachver- Demokratischen Republik und Ost-Berlin, ent Betrag, welcher als Hauptentschadigung zuerkannt stSndige Rechtsauskunft einzuziehen. standen ist. Hier kommen zu den Schaden und ist, wird mit 1% pro Vierteljahr ab 1.1.1953 Die Grundvoraussetzung ist, dass die Schaden Verlusten an den oben zu, (a) genannten Wirtschafts- verzinst, sodass er sioh fortlaufend erhoht und die und Verluste an bestimmten entzogenen Wirt- gutem noch solche hinzu, welche an Reichsmark- Zinseo bis jetzt auf rund 32% angewachsen sind. schaftsgiitem entstanden waren und zwar unter Sparanlagen, an gewissen anderen privatrechtlichen Die Auszahlung soil an alle Personen iiber 65 solchen Umstanden, dass sie in eine der vier geldwerten Anspriichen und an Anteilen an Jahre, wie soeben zuverlassig in Aussicht gesteUt Schadenskategorien des Lastenausgleichsgesetzes Kapitalgesellschaften, sowie an Geschaftsguthaben wird, sofort vorgenommen werden. Es bestehefl fallen. Demgemass rouss es sich entweder um bei Erwerbs- und Wirtschaftsgenossenschaften im iibrigen formale gesetzliche Vorschriften, nach Kriegssachschaden oder um Vertreibungsschaden entstanden sind. Zu den entzogenen Wirtschafts- welchen je nach erreichtem Lebensalter und j« Oder um Ostschaden oder um Sparerschaden giitem gehort auch Umzugsgut, wenn es in einem nach dem fiir die Hauptentschadigung beabsichtig- handeln. europaischen Hafen entzogen wurde. ten Verwendungszweck bevorzugte Zahlungen (a) Unter Kriegssachschdden ist ein Schaden zu (c) Unter Osischdden versteht man die ent erfolgen kdnnen. verstehen, der in der Zeit vom 26. August 1939 zogenen xuid spater im Zusammenhang mit den Die lastenausgleichsrechtliche Regelung bewirkt Ereignissen des zweiten Weltkriegs durch Ver- naturlich nicht, dass irgendwelche Doppelent- mdgensentziehung oder Kriegsschaden verlorenge- schadigung stattfinden kann. Schadensbetrage, die ZUM WIEDERGUTMACHUNGS- gangenen Wirtschaftsguter, wie diese oben unter auf Grund des Wiedergutmachungsrechts fallig SCHLUSSGESETZ (b) aufgefiihrt sind. in den zur Zeit unter fremder waren oder werden, kommen auf Lastenausglcidw- {Continued from page 1) Verwaltung stehenden deutschen Ostgebieten, d.h. leistungen zur Anrechnung. Nur soweit es sioh in in den ostlich der Oder-Neisse gelegenen Gebieten der Hauptentschadigung um die Vermogensverluste Ungarns in der Entschaedigung nicht berueck des ehemaligen deutschen Reiches, soweit diese handelt, werden BEG-Leistungen fUr Berufs sichtigt wurden. Eine dieser Massnahmen war Schaden nicht bereits Vertreibungsschaden sind. schaden nicht angerechnet. ein allgemeiner Arbeitsdienst fuer juedische Deutsche Staatsangehorigkeit oder deutsche Volks- Immerhin gibt es zahlreiche Falle, in denen die Maenner, in welchem etwa 60,000 ungarische zugehorigkejt werden hier nicht gefordert. Ein Juden ums Leben gekommen sind. Erst in den Geschadigten, sowohl die von einem Kriegs z.B. in Berlin wohnhaft gewesener Verfolgter, dem schaden Betroffenen als auch ganz beson Herbert Freeden (Jerusalem) Elisabeth Rosenthal WHERE TIME STOOD STILL ISRAEL'S "N.E.P." Visit to a Tunisian Town The success of " N.E.P."—Israel's New Eco dise, and many producers are now seeking new We were on our way to El Djerba, Ulysses' nomic Policy—rest, as all such measures, to no ways of returning to the hot-house. This is an island of the lotus-eaters, the island oasis in the small degree on the faith of the public in extremely dangerous tendency." south of Tunisia which had fought hard for its the wisdom and efficiency of the administra " Haboker" (Liberal) is even more out freedom against Spaniards and Turks between the tion. On that memorable February 9, when twelfth and sixteenth centuries. Across the gang spoken : " The Government was so concerned way of the Dakota which carried us bumpily.to the Israel pound was devalued from 1.80 to about preserving the veil of secrecy around the our destination, two dark-skinned men, wearing 3 per dollar, just before Sabbath eve to give new policy that jt forgot to devote attention small red scullcaps, as do so many Tunisians, were everyone 24 hours' time before the banks and to its implementation." eyeing us curiously, their glances returning again shops opened again. Finance Minister Levy The question has, nonetheless, been raised and again to the Hebrew book my husband was Eshkol appealed over the radio to business —was the secret well kept ? On .the day pre reading. By the time we touched down in Sfax. men and industrialists to keep the prices down, ceding devaluation, dollar-linked bonds on the where almond trees were surprisingly blossoming as customs tariffs on imports would be lowered Tel Aviv stock exchange jumped from 400,000 in the bitter cold, they came to talk to us. Were to make good for the higher rate of exchange ; we Jews and would we come to see their two dollars to 700,000 dollars. An enquiry is now ancient villages ? These men wore wide, Turkish- to the trade unions he appealed to refrain from being held as to whether there was any leakage. style trousers, and wide woollen coats like every demands for higher wages ; recipients of com body else; however, a black woven band below pensation moneys from Germany were asked Hope for Sound Economy the knee, worn as a sign of mourning for the not to exchange all their foreign funds into destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, distin Israel currency; housewives were requested to The " backroom boy " behind the devalua guished them from their Arab neighbours. abstain from stock-piling, and the public as a tion scheme and its chief planner was David A few days later we drove to Haraseghira, whole to desist from panic buying. Kochav, 34-year-old adviser to the Bank of where the ancient El Griba Synagogue stands. Israel, a graduate of the Hebrew University. Whitewashed Arab houses are built around court When Sunday morning came, these admon yards. From here about half of the population ishments were taken to heart by everyone— He is convinced that the new exchange rate has gone to Israel, not because they were pep^' except the Government itself. Disappointed can lead to a sound economy without a further cuted but rather for economic reasons. A mixed automobilists found that gasoline had gone up weakening of the purchasing power of the population, both sections live peacefully together, by 12 per cent, and kerosene—the most popular Israeli pound, because, with regard to goods, each with its own schools and its own butchers. fnel for heating and cooking—^had become the import component amounts to only 20 per The Jews of El Djerba claim to be the descendants dearer by 20 per cent; both commodities are cent, as compared to 80 per cent from local of those who fled after the first destruction of the State monopolies. A chain reaction led to a resources. A difficulty would arise if holders Temple. The El Griba Synagogue, at least a^ of foreign currency decided to convert their regards its foundations, is said to be over 2,000 price climb of many goods and to increasing years old. Most of the Jews are silversmiths and pressure against the Government's handling of deposits—and, so far, this has not happened. goldsmiths, or merchants in the souk of the town- the affair, so much so that the price of kero There are 120 million dollars in Israel in Their womenfolk keep as much in the background sene had to be restored to its original level. foreign currency accounts, and last year alone as those of their Arab neighbours. Only the men personal restitution payments amounted to However, not only the public but also the go to market, on horseback or on a donkey. I' 110 million dollars. Government was in for a surprise. Since 1959 is a lovely sight to see them riding home, with Before Mr. Eshkol left for the United States their large straw baskets bulging with vegetables all public mortgages in Israel have been linked are fruit and freshly caught fish, glistening to the dollar. Thirty-eight thousand flat-owners he denied at the airport all " rumours" of silver in the sun, danghng at their side from a in immigrant housing and ma'abara abolition devaluation; after his return he remarked piece of string. I noticed some stylised menorotn schemes, and another 20,000 in saving-for- cryptically that he had a " new economic and fish painted in bright blue on some of the housing schemes have such dollar-pegged mort policy " in his pocket. Between departure and Jewish houses. The fish are supposed to ward gages, and found their debts increased over arrival he met the representatives of the Inter off the evil eye ; therefore the men use the fish night by about 67 per cent. Their grievances national Monetary Fimd. Time and again design also in their jewellery. and pressure almost caused a Cabinet crisis, they had warned Israel that its multiple rates There is poverty here and disease. The Ameri of exchange—the official rate was almost only can Joint has started a kindergarten ; it also dis with Ahduth Avodah taking the side of the tributes milk and has opened a kosher canteen. " little man," had not some compromise solu nominal—would stand in the way of the Government obtaining large international Ose is in charge of a dispensary, and the children tion been worked out for repaying the loans look healthy and well fed. The canteen helpers at the old rate over some extended period. loans, such as for the expansion of the country's received us with friendly shaloms, and all of them. road network. Any connection between Mr. to my surprise, kissed me on both cheeks. . , Press Criticism Eshkol's talks and the devaluation after his After a visit to the kindergarten and the gi"' return is, according to World Bank sources, classes, where they all learn Hebrew, we came Not so much the planning as the implemen purely coincidental. at last to the synagogue. It is a simple, white tation of the new policy has come in for severe But will there be really one dollar rate only ? washed building, divided into two parts. Small criticism, also by the Press of the Coalition At the " black " stock exchange in Tel Aviv groups of old men were sitting in the first part, reading, praying, some aloud. Only those parties. "During the first weeks, when all dollars are sold 10 per cent higher than the depended on a unified command and a coherent reading alouVienna, talks. Nor is the narrative limited to professional then, if both are sufficiently in the service of he lived in England during the war.—Barnabas matters : in spite of an ahnost complete lack of music, they will meet somehow, vibrate together ". von Geczy, the dance-band violinist, became 65 ordinary schooling, Schnabel was a highly cultured This has been the attitude of many great Jewish years of age in Munich. man, and a shrewd observer of conditions and artists—one thinks of Mahler, Walter, Klemperer events beyond the musical sphere. Of particular —and one wonders about Wagner's somewhat Germany: Grete Mosheim will appear in significance are his comparisons between Vienna, exclusive-sounding statement : " Deutsch sein Duerrenmatt's " Besuch einer alten Dame " (" The where he spent his early years, and Berlin, which heisst, eine Sache um ihrer selbst willen tun!" Visit") in Cologne.—Erwin Piscator is to be he later chose as his residence. In Vienna " the Anyway, it must be conceded that Schnabel's art director of Berlin's Freie Volksbuehne.—Peter flavour of decadence was never missing." As a did not fail to appeal to the best minds in pre- Zadek produced " Cymbeline" in Hanover.— youth, he himself showed some of the easy-going Nazi Germany. Nevertheless, he had his share East Berlin's Deutsches Theater, which was closed habits of the Austrian. But there was also of adversity as a Jew, and he does not conceal for reconstmction two years ago, has reopened sterner stuff in him, which responded well to the it from his Chicago students. Already in Vienna. with " Wilhelm Tell ".-—Werner Finck appeared more vigorous mental climate of the Prussian Lueger's toughs had taught him " the meaning of in Brecht's " Fluechtlingsgespraeche " in Munich. capital. Thus he can say: " Yet the much-maligned fear". Later, his application for a visa to enter —H. J. Rehfisch's last play, " Jenseits der Angst", German virtue of obedience (as long as it was Tsarist Russia on a concert tour led to a humiliat was produced in Braunschweig.—Curt Bois not abused) had a certain value. The Viennese ing experience. After the war came the intro returned from Vienna to star in Anouilh's *ere not obedient, but servile, which, to me, duction of the " numerus clausus " by the German " Orchester" at Berlin's Schlosspark Theater.— seems worse ". Elsewhere he warns his Chicago " Alpenverein," of which he, a passionate climber, Erich Fried's adaptation of John Whiting's "Thc audience not to identify pre-war Prussia with had been a member for 25 years. To illustrate Devils" received a controversial reception in Nazi Germany. the growing unpleasantness of life in Berlin even Berlin.—Willy Haas gave a lecture in Hamburg During the 1914-18 war his recitals in neutral before 1933 he quotes the notorious antisemitic on Asta Nielsen.—H. M. Crayon-Krehan designed countries met with hostile Press criticism : he, SA-song. the d^cor for the presentation of " Eugen me Austrian Jew, was attacked as a " representa In May, 1933, at the Brahms Festival in Vienna, Onegin " in Hamburg. tive of Prussian militarism in music". Needless Furtwaengler offered to him (and Hubermann) a 'o add that Schnabel, who had retained his Aus Berlin engagement for the following winter. Obituary: Bertha Luebbert, who started with trian citizenship, had not the slightest sympathy Schnabel refused unless the offer would include S. Fischer in Berlin and was secretary to Max with German chauvinism. He welcomed the freer all those who had been dismissed for political or Reinhardt. Elisabeth Bergner and Heinz Salten atmosphere of the Weimar Republic, and he racial reasons : "To my great amazement, Furt burg, died in Orselino (Tessin)) at the age of 74; counted his Berlin years after 1918 among his waengler replied that I was mixing art and politics. she was in charge of the box office of the cabaret. happiest. His art met with the highest recognition, And that was that". On his last pre-war visit Blue Danube, at Finchley Road until it closed and he found conditions congenial. to Vienna he also saw his mother for the last down, and she was well known to many in our Much of the frank criticism which he applies time : she was deported in 1942, at the age of 84. midst.—Wladimir Sokoloff, the 71-year-old actor, 'o the organisation of musical life in the U.S.A. Schnabel gives as his reason for never playing who was a member of Reinhardt's ensemble in stems from a comparison with those earlier experi- in Germany again : " I don't want to go to a the 'twenties and later on went to the States, has ^"ces, and he is quite deliberate in pointing this country to which I am only admitted because it died in Hollywood.—Stefan Fingal. the Austrian joumalist, who lived in BerUn before 1933, has * -Anur Sclinabel : Mr Life and Music. Longmans. 30s. has lost a war". The abundance of interesting material which died in Paris.—Hermann Wlach has died in the book provides makes it incumibent to con Zurich. At 78 he was the oldest of the actors centrate here on certain aspects at the expense of at the Schauspielhaus. Gorta Radiovision others. The many comments on famous contem poraries and on events and experiences—including ISeivs from Everytchere: Kurt Horwitz directed concert tours to Palestine—make fascinating read Duerrenmatt's " Die Physiker ", with Theo Lingen, Service Gustav Knuth, H.-Ch. Blech and Therese Giehse, (Member R.TR.A.) ing, and the musician will find ample food for thought in the wealth of practical advice which at Zurich's Schauspielhaus.—Lil Picard, former the answers to the students' questions contain. fashion writer in Berlin, showed her new paintings 13, Frognal Parade, Two errors may be mentioned : Erich von Hom- at New York's Parma Gallery.—Former German Fmchley Road, N.W3 bostel was a musical ethnologist, not a physiolo film star Fav Malten appeared at a Jewish charity gist (p. 16). and Kestenberg's first name was Leo performance in Los Angeles.—In Rome Walter SALES REPAIRS (p. 196). Regrettably, there is no index. Mehring read excerpts from his works.—Carl Zuck mayer has completed three one-act plays.—^Paul AI] Leading Makea Supplied The words with which Schnabel sums up the (Refrigerators, W^ing-Machines Stocked Frischauer became an Austrian Professor h.c.— aim of his talks also reflects his own striving : Robert Jungk. speaking in Berlin, proposed Mr. Gort will always be pleased to " to encourage all of you in your endeavours to making the city a centre of science. advise you. be related to values of a higher type and to encourage your confidence in your own gifts of (HAM. 8635) experience and judgment". PEM Page 8 AJR INFORMATION April, 1962 pense for their sufferings and long-continued IN MEMORY OF KURT ALEXANDER hardships. In this work his considerable legal attainments were fully demonstrated. As a per A FIGHTER FOR JEWRY tion, the American Federation of Jews from son he had both sincerity and charm, with the Central Europe. He represented the Council of natural consequence that he made innumerable Jews from Germany in the Claims Conference friends, and certainly I have not heard from The maimer of Kurt Alexander's death was committee for deserving former community anyone an ill-word in his regard. symboUc of his Ufe. He met his untimely death leaders, an honorary office which was eminently Both during his residence here and his life while delivering an address at a public meeting in suited for a man Uke him, who combined deep in the States, he faced the ups and downs of honour of a man who had entered his life at the human sympathy with an extraordinary know start of his career during his student days in ledge of men and things. life with courage and with good humour, and his passing will leave a gap in the hearts of Bonn, and then again at its zenith, when he had His natural amiability won him friends in co-operated closely, like Alexander, with the circles new to him. He acted as Uaison oflScer many who will long treasure his memory. former "' Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutsch between U.R.O. and American welfare agencies, A. G. BROTMAN. land ". and their expressions of sympathy on the occasion Bonn, and reminiscences of happy student days of his death signify in what esteem they held him. Dr. Kurt Alexander was in the forefront of there shared with Dr. Frederick .Aron, in honour One of the younger men of that high-principled those who fought for the righting of the wrongs of whose memory he was speaking, may have led group of intrepid defendants of a lost cause has inflicted upon the Jews by the Nazi regime. He his mind back to the scene of his first oratorical now joined the ranks of those who lost their Uves was one of the first to conceive the idea that a triumph. In 1912 the then twenty-year-old student, in that struggle. Beside their names the name body had to be created to represent the claims Kurt Alexander, was selected as public speaker Kurt Alexander will appear in the RoU of Honour of Nazi victims who were not able to afford for the student body of Bonn to deUver the of German Jewry. the services of lawyers. This was the beginning address of loyalty to the Emperor. No doubt he ^HANS REICHMANN. of U.R.O. which has since grown into a world was begmdged this honour by the student fraterni wide organisation. Apart from being the Ajst ties, with their well-known anti-Jewish bias. From General Secretary of the Association of Jewish that ceremony there resulted Alexander's reputa SERVICE FOR U.R.O. Refugees, Dr. Alexander took upon himself the tion as a distinctly gifted orator. He had many burden of becoming General Secretary of U.R.O- an occasion to prove this gift, not only as a very I came to know Dr. Kurt Alexander during when that body was established. successful lawyer in his home town, Krefeld, but the years of the war and the period immedi The Central British Fund is proud to have been also in his public work. When very young he was ately preceding it, first in connection with the the first Jewish organisation to enable the creation selected among a host of applicants as partner by Kitchener Transit Camp on the Kent coast. I of U.R.O. by advancing the cost of initial Justizrat Simon, whose law practice was known operations. all along the Lower Rhine. Very soon the junior saw him last in Munich in the autumn of 1961, The formation of U.R-O- brought Dr. Alexander had won the confidence of a large clientele, when we held the conference of the lawyers of and myself into regular close contact and a bono among them the silk manufacturers of the district, the United Restitution Organisation. The out of friendship grew between us. He was a man who appointed him their legal adviser. In standing memory that I have of him is that of great rectitude of character, coupled with a Krefeld he became a town councillor, and a he always breathed cheerfulness and friendli deep humane kindness of heart seldom encoun political career would have been open to this ness. He followed the rabbinical maxim to tered. All those who had the good fortune to versatile and promising young lawyer. " receive everybody with a bright welcome." know him deeply mourn his passing away. At the same time quite a few honorary duties He was always hopeful, always saw the good C. I. KAPRALIK. in the Jewish field were laid on his shoulders. He side of a person or a situation. My period discharged these obUgations with his proverbial of close contact with him was in 1948-49, after assiduity and sense of duty, whether work for the Dr. Leo Baeck and he had persuaded me to OBITUARY Jewish congregation of Krefeld, whose chairman be Chairman of the U.R.O., with a smiling he became in later years, or for the Central- assurance that it would not mean much work. DR. SIEGMUND BING Verein. •• Alexander-Krefeld " became a house It was he who, as the first General Secretary hold word in the Jewish comraunity, not only on Dr. Siegmund Bing, the literary critic, ^^^^}? the Rhine, but also in the central Jewish bodies of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Hampstead towards the end of February, aged 83. in BerUn. Britain, had fostered the idea of the U.R.O. He was the son of a well-known Nuremberg It was rather a difficult and frustrating time industriaUst who founded the Bing Werke, a con cern which produced all sorts of metalware. Leader in Difficult Years for the Organisation, because the British authorities were slow in passing an ordinance Siegmund read Law at Wurzburg University, but later devoted himself to the writing and review During the period of destruction Kurt Alexander about restitution. Our small office in the British ing of books. At one time he was a reviewer was elected a member of the presidium of Zone had to wait and hope, while in the of novels for the Frankfurter Zeitung, where the Central-Verein, as well as a member of the American Zone, where legislation had been hundreds of notes appeared over his signature- governing board (Praesidialausschuss) of the enacted, there was full activity. Alexander was At Frankfurt, too, the old-estabUshed publishing Reichsvertretung. In those fateful years appoint always confident, and his optimism was house of Riittcn and Loning secured his services ments of this kind were not much sought after. justified. as a reader of manuscripts- His knowledge of the Whoever exjwsed himself in these top positions Uterary world of his earlier and middle years w^* of German Jewry provided a target for ruthless After his migration to America I saw less of immense, and whenever one mentioned a writer adversaries—Eichmann and his henchmen. In him. But, on the few occasions when we met lo him. he would say that he knew him well. He those gloomy times Alexander became a tower of at conferences of the U.R.O. lawyers, I took a special interest in the famous Jewisn strength and hope—unfortunately a waning hope— novelist, Jakob Wassermann, and wrote a booK remarked that his sweetness of temper was about him which had some success. His friends for the Jewish communities on the Rhine and for invincible. He had a gift of getting on with his colleagues in the Reichsvertretung and the in the realm of writing were legion, so that I caji Central Verein. Whenever he was called upon to everybody. In America he did great service mention only a few of them here, Kasiffl'J undertake a duty, he came—and how often did for U.R.O. in establishing branches in the Edschmid, Benno Reifenborg, now an editor oi he come without waiting for a call! Almost larger Jewish communities, and with his win the Frankfurter AUgemeine Zeitung, and WilheWn feverishly he followed the events, hoping against ning way getting voluntary workers to man Lehniann, the poet, who received the SchiU*' hope that the stubborn stand taken so persistently them. His memory is sweet to all who worked Prize some years ago. by him and those who shared his views would be with him. Bing's conversation was amusing ; here was a rewarded one day by the breakdown of the man of caustic wit, much travelled and knowledge' regime. NORMAN BENTWICH. able, but in the last few years his increasing deafness made talking with him difficult and turn™ What he experienced in those days of co-opera him into a monologist. His last months were also tion with men like Leo Baeck, Otto Hirsch, JuUus I had the privilege of knowing Kurt Alex saddened by failing eyesight, and the separation SeUgsohn, Heinrich Stahl, Arthur LiUenthal, ander from his early days in this country, as from his daughter, who Uves in Israel, must hav Julius Brodnitz and Ernst Herzfeld, with the General Secretary of your Association, and caused him so mnch grief that death came a^ courageous women like Cora BerUner and Hannah later as a colleague on the Board of U.R.O. friend. W.M- Karminski, left an indelible mark on his personality. It was the most demanding and Indeed, I learned after my joining the U.R.O. upsetting period of his life, but at the same time Board and becoming its Vice-Chairman that ^ MRS. CLARA SAMUEL the most gratifying, and to it he returned again it was he who had nominated me for that office. Mrs. Clara Samuel (formerly Elberfeld) died in and again in his reminiscences in England and in Of his great contributions to the building up the Dortmund Jewish Old Age Home at the age the U.S.A. It was " das grosse Geschehen ". to of the Association, there are others who worked of 83. She was the chairman of the " Zenjf-^'j,' which he referred in what was to be his last with him in that sphere, who have paid, and stelle fuer juedische Adoptionsvermittlung " ^""'^ address. will no doubt pay, tribute to his services. I was estabUshed on her initiative in 1926 ; she ais From 1939 to 1949 he lived with his wife can, perhaps, speak with greater knowledge of took an active part in the work of the J^^Zg, Agathe in London and his work here is known to his invaluable initiative and assistance in paving Women's Organisation in Germany. Prior to ne every member of the AJR. After his emigration re-emigration to Australia from where sn to New York and a short spell in business, he the way to the restitution and compensation returned to Germany after the war, Mrs. ^am" returned to his real vocation, public work, as the enactments which, with the considerable help lived for several years in England ; at ^hat tim administrator of the big U.R.O. office in New of U.R.O., have enabled many of the survivors she took an active interest in the work of York and Vice-President of our sister organisa of the Nazi holocaust to receive some recom AJR local branch. AJR INFORMATION April, 1962 Page 9 Robert Weltsch Duke and the Kaiser, who did not know very much about the actual situation in Palestine. The mystical element also played its part. Much KAISER WILHELM II ON THE JEWISH importance, for instance, is attached to the Rev. Mr. Hechler's suggestion that the original Ark of Covenant should be searched for in Palestine, and QUESTION that for this purpose a large area, in what is today known as Transjordan, should be placed Personal Letter Published under the protection and jurisdiction of the Kaiser. This would enable the Zionists to carry On September 29th, 1898, Kaiser Wilhelm II remarks about the Jews jn this private letter are out their plans of immigration and colonisation wrote a letter to his uncle, the Grand Duke very reveaUng. He is quite enthusiastic about the under German auspices. Friedrich von Baden, in which he replied to the political implications and the constmctive aspect It is not necessary to point out that nothing approaches made to him by the early Zionists of Jewish colonisation in Palestine, but he is not came out of all these dreams and speculations. through the mediation of the Grand Duke, and free of the current prejudices and indulges in a Fortunately Zionism did not come under German set forth some of his own views on the Jewish phraseology apparently conventional in aristo protection. But it is noteworthy to learn from question. This letter, a document of great interest cratic circles at the time : these documents how the Jewish problem and the and piquancy to all students of German-Jewish Zionist experiment were treated at that time in history, is now published in facsimile in a magnifi " Zudem wiirde die Energie, Schaffenskraft und Leistungsfahigkeit vom Stamme Sem auf Court circles, although their ignorance is quite cent volume produced in Israel by Mr. Hermann patent. EUem, a prominent Israeli private banker of wiirdigere Ziele als auf Aussaugen der Christen abgelenkt, und mancher die Opposition The Kaiser appears here in all his grand German-Jewish origin. iloquence and vanity. The reader will also be Mr. Ellem, a native of Karlsruhe, in his Fore fiihrender, der Soz. Dem. anhangender Semit wird nach Osten abziehen wo sich lohnendere stmck by the curious style of these letters. word, recounts the absorbing story of ftis dis Today, only those over 60 still have a remem covery. The correspondence between Theodor Arbeit zeigt, deren Ende nicht wie im obigen Falle mit Zuchthaus ist". [sic] brance of Imperial Germany and her last Herzl and the Grand Duke at the end of the Emperor. But one may safely assume that in nineteenth-century and the help accorded by the But the Kaiser does not wish to be associated pronouncing his waming words about the dangers Grand Duke to Herzl in his first diplomatic with the antisemites whom he profoundly dislikes. of antisemiiism, the Kaiser could hardly foresee endeavours are well known, but the originals of He believes that nine-tenths of all Germans would what would happen in Germany only 35 years the letters were not available until two years ago. be horrified if they heard that he sympathised later. Then Mr. Ellern obtained permission from the with Zionism. From these anti-Jewish people the present head of the house of Zahringen, Markgraf Kaiser dissociates himself. Alluding to the usual Berthold (the son of Prince Max von Baden, the story that the Jews killed Jesus, he says that the Lionel Kochan THE NAZI I.MPACT A Bibliography This guide* is a combination of bibliography, catalogue, researcher's vade mecum and manual. " Here we have ", writes Professor Salo Baron in his Foreword, " the record of an overwhelming plethora of eyewitness accounts, documentary evidence from archival collections and observa '^ tions by well-informed contemporaries". The present guide to this material is the first of a series of which the later volumes will be more bibliographical in character. This, the first volume, transcends any known V-U-.il fi&, »J J_^i classification. It lists nearly 4.000 items in 24 languages—and these items refer to virtually every aspect of the extermination. Merely to list the headings and sub-headings would be an /t^ exhausting task. The main headings are " The Jewish Catastrophe in Historical Perspective", 4^, " Reference Tools ". and " Research: Institutions, Methods and Techniques ". Each of these is then ^wwU (\>-*M, followed by further divisions and sub-divisions of a progressively detailed character. The items themselves are described in the accepted biblio graphical manner with, occasionally, valuable introductory notes. The Guide is not intended to be comprehensive; for example, those aspects of the Catastrophe as the editors explain, which have been fully studied, are not covered in detail. Conversely, where a subject has been neglected, the fullest aid is given to the researcher or historian by listing as many references as are available. " We were guided ", last Imperial Reichskanzler of 1918) to trace reaction to it and the punishment of the Jews is write the editors, " not by a rigid dogma but by them in the Grossherzogliche Familienarchiv. In God's own business: the utilitarian mle regarding the greatest profit the course of these investigations many letters of " Weder die Antisemiten, noch andere, noch for the greatest number". There can be no the Grossherzog, of Theodor Herzl, and of the ich, sind von Ihm beauftragt und bevollmachtigt doubt that in this, as in every other respect, the Wcentric Rev. Hechler, Chaplain at the British editors have made a triumphant success of their Embassy in Vienna, came to Ught. In addition, diese Leute nun auch auf unsere Manier zu a letter by the Kaiser and a handwritten letter kujonieren in Majorem Dei Gloriam! Ich task. hy Tsar Nicolas II (in French) were discovered. glaube hier darf man auch sagen : Wer unter A special feature of the Guide is the index— The last of the 47 documents published is a hand Euch ohne Fehl ist, der werfe den ersten Stein or rather indexes—for there are no fewer than written Aide Memoire dated January 26th, 1904, auf sie ! Dazu wiirde sich ferner auch noch das five : names, corporate authors, titles, places, and Unsigned but apparently from the German Foreign ' Liebet Eure Feinde ' setzen lassen ". subjects. Lord Acton once said of an historical 'office, setting out the reasons why Germany could Considering what the Kaiser calls the " tremen work that " it had an index that made one's not support the Zionist Movement, the main dous power of international Jewish capital", he mouth water." This is equaUy tme here, for [eason being, of course, the susceptibilities of the believes it would be political realism to expect there is an abundance of cross-references to colossal advantages for Germany " if the world facilitate the tracking down of even the most This negative resume was the ultimate outcome of the Hebrews would have to look up to her obscure pamphlet or periodical. It is also worth of the negotiations which Herzl conducted with with gratitude". But this is not pure opportu mention that the editors give the location of those me German Govemment and with the Kaiser nism. Somehow he seems to grasp the gloom of items which cannot easily be found in libraries. himself almost until his death in 1904. But a the Jewish question, when he continues: At the end of their Introduction the editors few years earlier things did not look so hopeless. " Ueberall erhebt die Hydra des rohesten, express the hope that the Guide will " inspire |n 1898 it seemed as though the Zionist idea, scheusslichsten Antisemitismus ihr greuliches and assist " historians in their present studies and both from its practical side and its fantastic Haupt, und angsterfilllt blicken die Juden— future research. The present reviewer can only romantic impact, had fascinated the Kaiser. This bereit die Lander wo ihnen Gefahr droht zu echo this hope and commend this Guide as an found a very characteristic expression in the letter verlassen—nach einem Schiitzer ! Nun wohlan invaluable aid to aU historians and research addressed to the Grand Duke. Obviously the die ins Heilige Land zuriickgekehrten sollen workers concerned in any way with the K-aiser was flattered by the appeal to his genero sich Schutzes und Sicherheit erfreuen und Catastrophe. sity and power, and by the prospect of extending beim Sultan werde ich fiir sie interzedieren . . ." * GoMe to Jewish History ander Nui Impact, by Jacob "is protection to a world-wide movement with It is strange how easily the propaganda sugges Robinson and Philip Friedman. Yivo Institute for Jcwisfa sreat potentialities. On the other hand, his tions of Zionism were accepted both by the Grand Research. New York. J15. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION April, 1962 Rabbi Dr. M. Eschelbacher the spirit, this process of healing and becoming whole again " may be possible. In " Judaism and Islam "t Dr. Rosenthal JUDAISM, HELLAS AND ISLAM develops the same facts and ideas differently, in a way comprehensible to a larger section of readers outside the Umited circle of the experts. Two Recent Publications Its trend is similar. In the first chapter he dis cusses what Mohamed has taken from Judaism To know God is Man's subUme task. From the Saadja, in the tenth century in Iraq, to Joseph and the Jewish heritage in Islam, in general. In outset Jewish faith has made its own way towards Albo in the fifteenth century in Spain, Maimonides the second, longer chapter, he depicts how, as a this great goal. This is: to leam the Torah and and Jehuda Halevi, Bachja, Abraham ibn Daud result of their contact, Judaism was influenced by to fulfil its commandments. However, Judaism and others. He describes the manner in which the Islam, in the centuries from Mohamed up to the did not originally create a religious philosophy of ideas and questions of Hellas reached them, and expulsion of the Arabs from Spain in 1492, with its own, and a very long time elapsed, aeons of their struggle with the problem presented to them regard to the interpretation of the Scriptures, the history, before it became necessary to develop by this Greek philosophy. He found that there lexicography of the Hebrew language, to philo such a philosophy. Its hour came after the rise is at least one idea common to Plato and our sophy, theology and many other fields of know of Islam and in its countries, from Iraq to Spain. own Jewish doctrine : The central idea of Law is ledge, by a process of mutual give-and-take. There the Jews were faced with a young, militant fundamental to both of them. It is essentially a book of research, presented religion, reinforced not a little by the ideas and in popular language, but its tendency is political. systems of great -Arab thinkers. In order to with ReUgion and Politics What it is, is seen more clearly from the picture stand the fervour of the new creed, to meet tlie on the cover than words could express. There doubts and questions of its own children, to In his magnum opus " PoUtical Thought in we see the Menorah, with just above it the Half become a guide for the perplexed, Jewish religion Medieval Islam " Dr. Rosenthal has demonstrated Moon—Judaism and Islam meeting one another. equally had to find its own philosophy. how eminent teachers of Islam regarded the com For Dr. Rosenthal looks at the Jewish-Arabic mandments of their reUgion as an element of conflict of today and asks himself how a recon Arab Influence on Judaism politics and how, in accordance with them, ciliation could be brought about. He is forced Maimonides and others have proclaimed the to admit that "the chances of any agreement are In his Franz Delitzsch Lectures, delivered in Torah as " the ideal constitution of the ideal rather slender." But this resignation does not 1957 at Muenster University, Erwin Rosenthal theocracy that shall become reaUty in the mes represent the whole trath and there remains, shows how our religious philosophy was awakened sianic kingdom of God on earth," the Jewish nevertheless, some hope for peace. " One of the by the philosophy of great Arab thinkers.* But variation of Plato's ideal state. He continues preconditions for a positive solution is the con they themselves were not wholly original; on the with this confrontation of Hellas and Israel in scious realisation on both sides that they share a contrary, they had been inspired by Greek philo the chapters about the Torah and the Greek good deal of common ground in the religious sophers, Plato and Aristotle in the first instance Nomos, the prophet as God's ambassador, repre ordering of their lives in the past and that much and their successors in the following centuries. sented by Moses on the one hand, and natural of their cultural achievement in the past springs Thus in the end Greek ideas and doctrines per prophecy on the other, and the idea of from the same spiritual roots ". On both sides ! vaded Jewish religious thinking by way of the Eudaimonia, the perfection of human happiness, Dr. Rosenthal's Judaism and Islam " appeals to Arabs and their echo can be heard in modem common to Athens and Jerusalem. In arguments Jews as well as to Arabs. It has been published times right up to our own days in Spinoza, which are not always easy to follow, but are in the Popular Jewish Library, a series of the Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen. The Greek sometimes fascinating and testify to the vast emdi- World Jewish Congress. Thus it expresses not heritage in our reUgious philosophy is a fact and tion of a master in this field, he examines many only the personal opinion of its author, but to a at the same time a difficult problem. For Greek of the chief problems of ethics and theology of certain extent also the political programme of and Jewish thinking are basically different and the Middle Ages. the World Jewish Congress, and in this way it often to all appearances incompatible with one Of great personal interest is the preface to the supports the author's assertion that "to trace the another. Erwin Rosenthal examines our most publication of the Delitzsch Lectures, a fragment contribution of Judaism to Islam may be more eminent philosophers of the Middle Ages, from of autobiography and at the same time a solenm than an academic pastime ". confession made in the face of a great challenge * Erwin 1. J. Rosenthal : GrlecUsches Erlie in der to the present and the future: how, after the lUdiselMn Reiifioi»pliiiosopliie des Mittelalters. W. Kohl- t Erwin I. J. Rosenthal ; Judaism and Islam. Thomas hammer. Stutigart. 1960. DM. 15. catastrophe " reconciliation with the Germany of Yoseloff. London. New Yorlc, 1961. 7/6. With Compliments of With the compliments of STRAUSS & CO. THE DUNBEE GROUP DICK & GOLDSCHMIDT (Fabrics) OF COMPANIES LTD LIMITED 117 Great Portland Street, W.l 76, Wells Street, London, W.l Tel.: LANgham 3264/0878 (P.B.X.) London, W.l Grams.: FLEXATEX LONE>ON. TELEX. INT. TELEX 2-3540 ^ AJR INFORMATION April, 1962 Page 11 Urban Roedl CULTURAL NEWS THE ARDON EXHIBITION SELECTED FOR LENIN PRIZE Professor Leib Landau and Professor Yevgeni The sophisticated London art critics who came possession of the artist. Painting the land, sand and Lifshitz are two leading Jewish scientists who have to see Ardon's paintings at the Marborough Fine stones, sky and sun, his own past awakened and been sleeted for the Lenin Prize Award by the Art Gallery recently were in for a surprise. claimed to be inscribed in forms and colours. Soviet Academy of Science. Admittedly they had failed to notice them at the Recollections of Poland and his father's clock- Writing about their candidature for the award, Venice Biennale, the Stedelijk Museum, Amster making, of his early Bible and Talmud studies a Correspondent-Member of the Soviet Academy dam, the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, at New emerged and grew into personal and universal of Science declared that the two Jewish scientists York, Munich and other places, and now found symbols. Ardon had found his own language. had made the " greatest contribution " to Russian themselves confronted with something quite For many years, secluded in his studio, he created science by their recent work entitled " A Course in extraordinar>', a major sensation, rather diflicult a rich imagery of his country and epoch as Theoretical Physics ". to understand. However, apart from a few who, reflected in the mind of a painter. Tradition overburdened less with knowledge than prejudice, and experience, imagination and a bright intellect APPOINTMENT OF DR. FRITZ even now were unable to perceive anything, they blended into one, most convincingly demonstrated acquitted themselves highly creditably. by his large triptych " Missa Dura ", the principal BAMBERGER work at this exhibition, and undoubtedly the first This is all the more praiseworthy as they were Dr. Fritz Bamberger has been appointed Pro faced with a knotty problem. There are two and only great artistic document of the fate of European Jewry. Far from being " literary ", it fessor of Intellectual History and Assistant to features inherent in Ardon's art, the one being the President of the " Hebrew Union College" its connection with certain movements in Central depicts the tragic story with scores of allusions and allegories which reflect an intimate knowledge of (Cincinnati/New York). Prior to his emigration Europe, the other its pecuUar Jewishness. When in 1939, Dr. Bamberger was Head of the Jewish Mordecai Ardon (formerly Max Bronstein), as a the mysteries of Jewish destiny. Easier to com prehend are the other paintings in their deUcate Teachers' Seminary in BerUn and also lecturer youngster from a small Polish village, arrived in at the " Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Berlin and Weimar he naturally absorbed the colouring and lyrical beauty, some of them distin guished by irony, humour and a serene playful Judentums ". Dr. Bamberger is a Board Member contemporary atmosphere eagerly. The encounter of the Leo Baeck Institute. with the famous artists who taught at the Bauhaus ness. They are mostly owned by public and private Was decisive. They recognised his exceptional collections. talent and after some years he was himself a Ardon is more than Israel's most important SERBO-CROAT TRANSLATION OF teacher at the Itten-Schule, Berlin, a fastidious painter. He is one of the really outstanding SIMON DUBNOW craftsman, deeply immersed in the study of the artists of our time on the intemational scale. Of old masters, whose spirit and technique he assidu course he cannot be compared with the fashion The Federation of Jewish Communities of ously explored. Always assimilating the social, able, more or less gifted people who with lots of Yugoslavia is issuing a Serbo-Croat translation of intellectual and literary stimuli of the time, he pubUcity, and without any inhibitions, splash their Simon Dubnow's " Short History of the Jewish might have developed into an outstanding repre colours over immense canvasses in order to express People ", to be edited by David Levi and Lucie sentative of German art had he not left for Israel the little they have to say. Unlike them Ardon Mevorah-Petrovic.—(J .C.) after 1933. There his adaptation took some time, is a quiet, arduous, meticulous worker, thinker but when it was completed he turned his teaching and dreamer, a perfectionist who grinds his own JEWISH THEATRE IN PARIS abilities to good account at the Bezalel School of colours like the old masters, apparently old- The new Jewish Art Theatre gave its inaugural Arts and Crafts. Jerusalem. fashioned, but in fact having long ago outdistanced performance in Paris. It presented " The Lady of Gradually a veritable transformation came to those camp-followers who still think themselves the Castle", by Leah Goldenburg, in Yiddish. pass. The old countrv and the new life took avanl-gardistes. —(J.C.) 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Only he who does not need bankers who served the numerous German any purification may close his eyes, may stand sovereigns in the seventeenth and eighteenth Whilst the enormity of the evil of National aloof. centuries has been revived through many recent Socialism must remain fathomless in terms of For somebody of the older German-Jewish publications. There are several reasons which human suffering, the measurable extent of its generation it will not be easy to read the new explain why this has not happened before. Jewish destructive piower has at least brought home to edition of "War Letters of Fallen German authors probably shrank from touching too much the world that there is no historic precedent to Jews."* on this institution because even learned Germans Nazism and all that is involved in it. However, did not wholly understand the historical necessity Two of my own brothers, volunteers, were which forced the minority in their midst a closer look at the particular Jewish victims of the First World War. Should the title to make financial matters one of their main catastrophe of our time points at German anti of the book under review have been " Soldiers occupations. Among German scholars an semitic movements in the past which, notwith Without a Cause " ? Yet it would be unhistorical, authority like Werner Sombart in his work "Die standing the change of political and social unrealistic, and almost inhuman to judge the Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben" (1911) did not circumstances, prompted then, as now, the search behaviour of young Jews in Germany in 1914 make sufficient use of archival sources, was biased for the cause of re-emerging barbarism in a by what we know today. The Jew in Germany and arrived at many wrong conclusions. The highly civUised state. When in 1878 the chaplain loved his homeland: its destiny concemed him book under review, written by a non-Jew, shows at the Imperial Court in Berlin, Adolf Stoecker, just as much as it did any of his fellow-country that matters seem to be changing, and that the began his campaign against the " corroding men. Many of the young volunteers of 1914 were use of new sources enables the historian to give Semitic element" the vast majority of the ardent Socialists or Zionists, my brothers ainong an objective picture of this sociological bewildered German Jews refused to regard the them. Later the picture changed. Antisemitism phenomenon.* hostile agitation as more than a temporary reac brought disillusionment and bitterness in its tion arising from obvious motives of political wake. Doubts crept in about the justice of the There is a long way from the short-lived career expediency or economic competition. German cause. The horrors of things seen bred of Joseph Siiss Oppenheimer, the " uncrowned pacifism. These changes do not find any expres raler of Wurttemberg ", and his lack of wisdom One of the lonely voices of that time decrying sion in this book. In any case, they certainly and personality, to Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the deceptive belief in continuous progress has affected only a minority. who, in 1764, entered into business relations with been made audible again through the efforts of the Princes of Hesse and started a dynasty of Mr. Berthold Strauss in his book, "The Rosen- Thus the Letters cannot be called fully repre bankers which made its influence felt throughout baums of Zell "*. Mr. Strauss rediscovered in sentative. The date of their first publication Europe for nearly 200 years. The Rothschilds Jerusalem the pamphlet " Jaschem Milo Dehor" explains it. In 1935 it was the main concern of are amongst the few financiers on a big scale (a title derived from BibUcal references), written the editors, the Reichsbund juedischer Frontsol who have remained Jews until today. From a in 1879-80 by Reb Hile Wechsler, a member of daten, to show that Jews had been just as fiery dealer with bills of exchange, antiques and medals, the Rosenbaum family. patriots and nationalists as were non-Jewish Mayer Amschel rose to a trusted friend to the soldiers. I quote from a letter by the Social Elector of Hesse, Wilhelm I. After having A Bavarian Cabbalist Democratic Member of the Reichstag, Ludwig eliminated all competitors he gained a monopoly Frank (August 23, 1914): which kept his family in the Hesse service for This Bavarian CabbaUst wanted to probe into " Aber jetzt ist fuer mich der einzig richtige 100 years. the ills of the times by exposing the trans Platz in der Linie, in Reih und GUed, und ich Wnen he died in 1812, the firm " Mayer gressions of Israel as the primary cause of the gehe wie alle andern freudig und siegessicher." Amschel Rothschild & Sohne" had become a recurring afflictions of the Jewish people. The The subject of antisemitism is voiced in some world power. His sons and descendants gave zealous remembrancer is not sparing in the display of the letters. Vizefeldwebel J.Fr. Beutler loans to almost all European countries in the of his knowledge of Scriptures and Talmud when (September 21, 1916): "Ich habe nie etwas von nineteenth century. The list of loans found at he reproaches contemporary Jewry in Germany Antisemitismus hier gehoert, dazu sind jetzt die the end of Schnee's book gives an imposing for the neglect of religious duties. He warns Zeiten zu ernst." picture of financial capactiy. Many princes, noble them not to forget, in their haste for assimilation, But others state : " Das zweite Mal zog ich in men, even a pope, are among the recipients. The the divine injunction against the wish of the den Krieg freiwillig hinaus, wenn ich auch als French war indemnity of 1871 was secured by House of Juda to be Uke aU the other nations. Jude im ersten Teil desselben Zumecksetzungen the London branch of the house and formed the His pragmatic view of history, if unUkely to be und Kraenkungen jeder Art ueber mich habe basis for France's recovery. N. M. Rothschild generally shared, has to be judged by the specific ergeh'en lassen muessen." (From the Last Will and Sons also offered 49.3 per cent of the Suez standards of a visionary who, confirmed by of Gotthold Kronheim.) shares to the British Government, so that dreams, absolutely believed in the literary realisa These are strong words, even unbearable words. Disraeli could say : " There can't be Rothschilds tion of Jewish prophecy as well as in his mission Was the mixture of vile discrimination and almost enough ". to raise the call for repentance. hysterical patriotism a typically German experience ? As I have said, we have to expose The principles underlying this great success of When the objective value of his dreams was ourselves completely to this book, otherwise we the family throughout the nineteenth and challenged—not by " reformers " or lax believers shall never be able " unsere eigene Vergangenheit twentieth centuries are worth going into: The but by an impeccably Orthodox authority—he zu bewaeltigen ". In this spint, with this inten harmony amongst the " Fiinf Frankfurter". the sticks to his fundamentalist conviction against tion, we must read a description of a religious founder's sons, has become legendary. They " sogenannte Wissenschaft", a term which we service behind the lines as experienced by never aimed at excessive gain but they were pur have to translate under the impact of a current Vizefeldwebel Walter H. Herrnstadt (December, poseful in their transactions. They made their controversy as critical historical approach to the 19141: payments punctually, and the advice they gave Bible. was simple and to the point. They were conser " Mit Gott fuer Koenig und Vaterland . . • vative in their methods and had an excellent Our main interest in the document lies in its Der gestrige Feldgottesdienst von Dr. Baeck war information service. correct assessment of the terrible consequences of eine Erbauung ! In der Kirche benutzten wir den race hatred, the spectre of which he saw on the vorderen Raum, in dem durch etwa 12 Kameraden The house of Rothschild assisted many good German horizon at a time when the Jews tmsted und einen christlichen Unteroffizier die ersten causes. They compensated the slave holders, at in the disappearance of " Religionshass " ; and in beiden Baenke besetzt waren. Dr. Baeck las erst the lime of aboUtion of slavery, and prevented a plan for the colonisation of Palestine put many wars through their influence. The Balfour Psalm 91 und knuepfte dann eine ungefaebr Declaration was addressed to the Rothschilds as forward in a somewhat naive manner. dreiviertelstuendige meisterhafte Rede an. Jetzt leaders of Jewry, and the members of the Vienna Reb Hile Wechsler was only one of the pious muessten wir ausharren, Geduld haben und auf and Paris branches placed about 70 millions of and learned members of the Rosenbaum family Gott vertrauen, der schon alles zum Guten lenken gold francs at the disposal of Jewish settlers in and it is the merit of the present book that it wuerde. Jetzt haetten viele Menschen erst Gott Palestine. gives us an insight into the unbroken tradition of gefunden. Er_ gab eine ergreifende Schilderung five generations of this family against the back eines vor einigen Wochen nach Einbruch der They deserve the honours bestowed upon them : Dunkelheit dicht hinter der Schuetzenlinie im One Rothschild was the first Jewish member in ground of what may be called a Jewish enclave in the Franconian part of Bavaria. The scene is Freien abgehaltenen Gottesdienstes, wo alle eine the House of Commons, another one became the ganze Zeit lang schweigend beteten. . . ." first peer in the House of Lords, and Rothschilds laid in the village of Zell. within walking distance were the first members of the Vienna and Berlin of Wuerzburg, where Mendel Rosenbaum settled The Letters have now been republished on Herrenhauser. The privileges enjoyed by this in 1822 and founded a Yeshiva which was to behalf of tfie Federal German Ministry of dynasty were also used to further the emanci become a seed plot of rabbinical leaming spread Defence. In his long preface the Defence pation of their coreligionists in the last century, ing far beyond the Bavarian communities. Like Minister, F. J. Strauss, points out that they " show e.g., they succeeded in obtaining civil rights for Mendel Rosenbaum himself, later on one of his a generation of Jewish citizens in their attitude, fhe Frankfurt Jews through their connection with five sons acted as shtadlan in dealing with the their feelings and their love of fatherland— the Prince of Dalberg in 1811. Govemment of Bavaria. The chronicle of their typical products of that time, sometimes slightly The author of this book deserves praise efforts, their successes and the obstacles they had too emphatic, driven by a type of patriotism because he follows up the historical evolution to encounter, as well as the glimpses we catch of whose objectives appear to us rather strange of a great Jewish family and bases his narrative the home life of this exceptionally gifted Rosen today . . .*' on objective facts and a thorough study of the baum family, form a most instructive contribu The Letters have to be " read, marked, leamed sources available today. tion to the regional history of German Jewry. and inwardly digested". Their writers sealed ERNEST KAHN. their belief with their blood. ' F. M. FRIEDMANN. -A. ROSENBERG. y * Heinrich Schnee : Roth Israel's neighbours. In a country whose borders ARAB INTELLECTUALS IN ISRAEL are ridden with incidents, the question of the FROM OUR ISRAELI CORRESPONDEIST " security risk " overrides everything else. For this reason the Dmses are the only non-Jewish In Nazareth one can obtain " under the represented in the sphere of higher education community allowed to serve in Israel's army. counter" and at double the price the book " I than is the Oriental. In the thirteen years of its On the other hand, does the private sector not Am AUve," by a Lebanese author, Laila Baalbeki. statehood, Israel has not yet been able to bridge offer sufficient compensation ? The concepts of Published by the Histadruth Arab Affairs Divi the wide cultural differences between the various Jewish employers are not yet in Une with the new sion, it was withdrawn at the last moment when immigrant sections. In Mandatory Palestine there realities of Israel which have raised the Arabs to its anti-Israel tendencies were discovered. was one pupil for every 15 Arabs ; in Israel the a much higher cultural level than they had before This little incident reveals two interesting ratio is 1:5. This compares to one pupil for the country's independence. Lacking confidence facts—that the intellectuals of Israel's 225,000 every ten persons in Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia, and in the abilities and training of the young Arab Arabs are starved for their own culture, and that one for 75 in Saudi Arabia. "Of the 37,000 intellectual, they are reluctant to hire him for a best-seUer among them must have a special Arab pupils in Israel, less than 1,000 attend responsible positions in their establishments. They ingredient—an attitude hostile to Israel. secondary schools ", Abdul retorts. also suspect him of being receptive to propa "We Uve in a spiritual ghetto", complains There are only six Arab secondary schools in ganda from outside to which he is exposed, and Salim, a young Christian Arab of Nazareth who the country because it takes time to build up such this further delays his economic integration. has just published a slim volume of poems. an educational network ; because the Compulsory No wonder that the Arab intellectual becomes " What I mean is that we are cut off from the Education Law, which anyhow is all too often extremist—either Nasserist or Communist, or, World of our language, from the living stream of circumvented by the Arabs, does not apply to still worse, a combination of the two. This Arab culture. Now and again a book filters secondary education ; and because there is a dire radicaUsation is the outcome of a difficult—^in through and is reprinted here or translated into lack of teachers. some cases hopelessly difficult—situation. Hebrew—we are isolated and too small in number What careers are open in Israel to the Arab Of course, there is emigration. The doors of to make publishing a business proposition." intelligentsia 7 The chances in the liberal pro Israel are open, and everyone who wishes may At about the same time, I met Abdul, a fessions are limited, and the problem only leave. However, this is easier said than done. student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, becomes aggravated the more the Govemment Emigration is free—but not into enemy territory. one of those twenty young Arabs who have been strives to raise the educational standard of the In order to leave the country legally, an Arab granted an annual loan of 1£300 by the IsraeU young Arabs, creating more and more intellectuals. must travel to Cyprus and from there to his place Ministry of Education because they plan to teach Arab graduates from secondary schools do not of destination. As boat trips are costly—and in elementary or secondary schools. His father want to follow in the footsteps of their fathers and with unemployed intellectuals money is a rare is an income tax official at a village not far from fathers' fathers who were fanners; they see their commodity—it happens that among the casualties the Jordanian border. It was not easy to make best prospects in administrative posts. There are at of border incidents there are not only spies and Abdul speak up. He Uves in a hostel at the present 1,700 Arab civil servants in Israel—in the smugglers but also young Arabs who try secretly campus. There are altogether about 80 Arabs Ministry of Education, the police, the Finance to cross into the Gaza Strip for Egypt, and the among the University's 8,000 students. "The Ministry, the health services, the Ministry of northem frontier for Lebanon. Arabs constitute over ten per cent of Israel's Works, in religious affairs and social welfare. Only peace in the Middle East can lead to a population, their academic youth only one per But Israel's civil service comprises almost cultural exchange between Israel aad her neigh cent", he states. 50.0(X) officials, and therefore the Arabs are not bours and open for Israel's Arab intelligentsia the I try to explain that within the Jewish com- represented in accordance with their population doors to Arab cultural Ufe outside Israel and to mtinity, too, the Western section is far better ratio. This, too, is thc result of the hostility of careers inside the country. WORLD-WIDE TRAVEL Through Fonds zur Abgeltung von BARON TRAVEL COMPANY Vermoegensverlusten politisch 15, EDGWAREBURY GARDENS. EOGWARE, MIDDLESEX Verfolgter. Wien IL Tel. : STOnegrove 5019 - 8626 Cobles : TRANSBAROM, EDGWARE Taborstrasse Nr. 2-6 PROPRIETOR : J. G. I. lARON. A.T.A.I. Der Fonds zahlt im Rahmen seiner Statuten, welche am 2. 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August 1962 einlangen werden, STANDARD SEWING MACHINE SERVICE LTD. koennen nicht mehr beruecksichtigt werden. ELITE TYPEWRITER Co. Ltd. WEL. 2S2S All MakM (ought. Sold, & Exchanaed Repairs. Maintenance 18 CRAWFORD STREET, BAKER STREET, W.l S'jjgsa'a^!;- Page 14 AJR INFORMATION April, 1962 We often receive visitors in Hazorea who were LETTERS TO THE EDITOR associated with our former youth movement in CHRONICLE OF A FAMILY the breadth of later generations. Percentages were Germany. We know that they consider this time higher in large cities, and higher still among those as one of the most formative periods of their Sir, who had gone abroad. lives. Today, all of us realise that the move I have read with iruerest in your February issue In view of impending Nazi censorship, I did not ment was a typical ond constructive manifestation Mr. S. M. Auerbach's review of " The Chronicle at that time stress the emotional sigruficance of my of German-Jewish life. We therefore strongly of the Lauterbach Family." Like on a previous facts. But I still recall that a young married man feel that the story of its development and occasion, I must take issue wilh one of the who sheared his family name with me came to see achievements should be kept alive. Kibbutz reviewer's statements. In regard lo " the incidences me for advice. He was a Christian hedf-Jew Hazorea is certainly the most appropriate place of mixed marriages and baptism," Mr. Auerbach residing in Danzig, married to a Gentile wife, both for the collection of all avcdlable records arul writes: " other genealogists have shrunk from parents of a quarter-Jewish baby. Having heard we hope that many of our friends will co-operate publishing the result of their investigations." His of my research, he implored me, in the interest wilh us in this matter. notion is wrong, at least as far as my study of the infant, to help him obtain a document Material should be sent either direct to Kibbutz " Familie auf Wanderschaft" is concerned. Il indicating that his ancestors on the father's side Hazorea (Israel) or to Menachem H. Gerson, appeared in Vortrupp, Jiidischer Buchverlag, were buried in a Christian cemetery at the place Blenheim Lodge, Great North Road, East Berlin, 1938. Based on data of 832 individuals whence our family had sprung. Since I knew that Finchley, London, N.2. spread over seven genermions, 1 not ordy analysed, such was not in accordance with facts, I had to Yours, etc., a.o, the " race " of husbands and wives who had disappoint him. Shortly afterwards the Second MENACHEM H. GERSON. been admitted into the original stock, and the World War broke out, and Danzig was temporarily religious affiliation of the descendants but I tried " liberated ". I never heard of that distant cousin RUSSIAN JEWISH SCULPTOR to go beyond mere count in my evaluation of the again, but I have often wondered . . . The exhibition at Leningrad to celebrate the material assembled. —Yours, etc., 125th anniversary of Pushkin's death includes at Since this may still be of comparative interest (DR.) H. G. REISSNER. least twenty sculptures and drawings by the for future research, permit me to quote some of New York, March 9. 1962. Russian Jewish sculptor, Hersch Glikman. the findings reflecting the evidence as of January, Glikman is one of the leading Jewish artists in 1933. In generation No. 6, 28°-^ of the male ARCHIVES OF "KAMERADEN" AND the Soviet Union. He gained fame through his descendants had Gentile spouses, whereas only "WERKLEUTE" monuments of Lenin, Michael Kalinin and 13% of female descendants were married to Gen Sir, Tchaikovsky and is the holder of a high Soviet tile husbands. However, only 10°-^ of generation Kibbutz Hazorea has started to build up award for the monument to the Unknown Soldier No. 7 were part-Jewish by blood, because the archives of the " Kameraden " and " Werkleute " at Klin, near Moscow.—(J.C.) fertility of mixed marriages was lower than that of movement. To make sure that these archives Jewish marriages. The percentage of descendants will be as comprehensive as possible, I herewith DEATH OF MRS. BERTA ESCHELBACHI* in generation No. 7 who were not of the Jewish appeal through your columns to all former mem faith was a little higher, viz. 12°''° ," but this figure bers and friends of this movement to lend us When this issue was going to print, it was may have been on the low side since some of those iheir support. Many of them, I am sure, still learned with regret that Mrs. Berta Eschelbacher, interviewed may noi have admitted the whole truth. possess " Bundesblaeller ", pamphlets, circulars. wife of Rabbi Dr. M. Eschelbacher, passed away Il was, furthermore, obvious that incidences of and photographs—all these items are of greatest on March 20. An obituary will be published in mixture and apostasy were not evenly spread over interest to us. the next issue. FAMILY EVENTS REPRESENTATIVE. Personable man BUSINESS MAN seeks Lady Partner Weil—Mr. Kurt Weil, of Kim Births of 38, reliable and hardworking, for business expansion. 'Phone LAD. (Nahe), Germany, aged about 65. languages: English, French, German, 8550. Will you please contact Mr. Paul Treitel—A son (our third), David Spanish, sales, administrative, and SUPERFLUOUS HAIR safely and Christian, 2 Granville Road, Hove, 2, Michael Treitel to Kurt and Renate travelling experience (textiles), seeks Sussex. (nde Elgin) Treitel on February 28th, permanently removed by qualified employment. Salary, commission, Physiotherapist and Electrolysist. 1962, 14 Dunstan Road, London. Enquiries by AJR N.W.ll. expenses. Box 950. Facials. Body massage. Visits COST ACCOUNTANT, aged 55, 15 arranged. Consultations free. Mrs. Gorodecki — Information required Birtliday years in South Africa, seeks post as Dutch, D.R.E., 239 Willesden Lane, about the late Nachmann Gorodecki, Reimaiin—Mrs. Elly Reimann, wife of cost accountant, accountant, or N.W.2. Tel.: WILlesden 1849. formerly Leipzig N2I, Zschortauerstr. Mr. Albert Reimann, 11 Hillcrest administrative or secretarial work. HAMPSTEAD HEALTH CLINIC 71, who died in Buchenwald in 1938. Avenue, London, N.W.ll, will cele Box 952. now open. Specialising in deep tissue Herzig—Mrs. Betty Herzig and her brate her 70th birthday on May Sth. BOOKKEEPER, experienced, good massage and posture improvement The AJR extends heartiest congratu for body mobility and control, sons Michael (bom August, 1925) lations. references, seeks full- or part-time improved circulation and well-being, and Christofems (born November position. Box 954. health and beauty. Sometimes a first 25th, 1926). Last known address Deaths COOK. Experienced cook seeks Reiss—On Saturday, March 10th, step to discovering causes of odd 24 Merry Hills Drive, Enfield. position, private or restaurant. Box pains. Send 3d. stamp for free leaf Hermann Riess, of 2 Sherlock Court, 955. Kiewe—Bruno Kiewe, of Frankfurt/ Boundary Road, London, N.W.S let to Lobstein. I East Heath Road, Main, married to the late Malvine (formerly of Leipzig), passed away in EXPORT EXECUTIVE, Linguist N.W.3. Students taken for training. Kiewe (nde Mannes), believed to his 86th year. (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Free demonstration. have come to England in 1936/37. Arabic), 34, single, public school MITTAGSTISCH. Cultured gentle Steele—Mr. John M. Steele (formerly educated, many years in Middle East. man may obtain well-prepvared lun Lessheim—Mr. Amo Lessheim for Dresden) of 14 Narford Road, Clap Well travelled, seeks progressive merly associated with a firm calle** ton, London, E.5, passed away after cheon meals, later on possibly full position. Box 961. board. Box 962. Arnofite Ltd., last known address a short illness on March Mth, aged West Parade, Hull. 75 years. Deeply moumed by his Women Personal relatives and many friends. ENGLISH / GERMAN SHORT WIDOW, 50, attractive, blonde, of Had^er—Mrs. Anny Hacker passed HAND TYPIST, reliable, experi good family, own home, intelligent, away on February 14th, 1962, after a enced, seeks part-time position or domesticated, wishes to meet gentle long illness. Deeply mourned by her man aged between 55 and 66 years, homework. Box 956. comfortable position, object matri AJR CLUB husband, relatives and friends. Hans Zion House, 57 Eton Avenue. Hacker, 21 Gloucester Drive, Lon MANAGERESS / UNDERBUYER/ mony. Box 960. don, N.4. SALESWOMAN, experienced drapery N.W.S and children's wear, aged 43, seeks AJR Attendance Service SUNDAY, APRIL 15 CLASSIFIED position. Box 957. WOMEN available to care for sick at 4.30 p.m. sharp Situations Vacant POSITION as TYPIST or BOOK people and invalids, as companions COMPANION HELP for elderly KEEPER required, experienced, 5- and sitters-in ; full- or part-time ; non CONCERT Jewish lady. Good home, modem day week. Box 959. residential. 'Phone MAIda Vale 4449. flat. Tottenham area. 'Phone COL. Accommodation Vacant MISSING PERSONS given by 3738 or write Box 948. Personal Enquiries BEDSITTING ROOM, modern flat, KATINKA SEINER Situations Wanted Brondesbury. Central heating. Use Adam—Mr. Siegfried (Friedel) J. Men of kitchen. Lady only. Box 958. Adam, aged about 41 (formerly (Mezzo-Soprano) Berlin) and late of Pioneer Corp. OFFICE OR OUTSIDE EMPLOY Last known address c/o B. Benjamin, LASZLO EASTON MENT. Reliable man of 60, experi MisceUaneous 41 Addison Avenue, London, W.ll. (Violin) enced in exports, all aspects of VISITING SECRETARY, typing, Sought by Dr. Klaus G. Heymaim, management, technical, translator, translating, interpreting, English. 21 Ladbroke Grove, London, W.ll ALASDAIR GRAHAM English, German, Czech, seeks suit German, French. Own typewriter. (formerly from Elbing). able employment. Previous employer's BAY. 8777. (Piano) firm liquidated. Box 951. Pick—Miss Thea Pick, aged about PORTABLE SINGER sewing machine 50-52, formerly Teplitz, Czecho Space donated by STOREKEEPER, experienced tex for sale. 15 K, unused. Reasonable slovakia, wanted by Miss Margaret TRADE CUTTERS LIMITED tiles, elderly, seeks full- or part-time price. Telephone PRI. 5842 or write Neufeld, 191 Sumatra Road, London, Brittannia Worka, 25 St. Pancrai Way post. Box 953. Box 949. N.W.6. N.V».1 AJR INFORMATION April, 1962 Page 15 ORGANISATIONAL NEWS COUNOL OF JEWS FROM GERMANY Mr. Bruno Woyda (London) has been appointed Hon. Secretary of the Council of Jews from Ger JEWISH TRUST CORPORATION Janner, M.P., recalled the Board of Deputies' many in succession to the late Mr. Ernst Berent. share in the foundation of the J.T.C. Warnings As our readers know, Mr. Woyda has held many A Function in London of remaining aware of the tremendous amount of Jewish relief work still to be accomplished were positions in Jewish life both prior and after his immigration. He was a Board member of the Ainong those organisations which are com uttered by Mr. Charles Jordan (Joint) and Dr. paratively little known to the Jewish public, the S. Levenberg (Jewish Agency). Tributes were Berlin Jewish community and, until recently, Hon. "Jewish Trust Corporation for Germany" also paid by Dr. H. G. van Dam (Zentralrat der Treasurer of the World Union for Progressive (J.T.C.) may claim a place of honour. It has Juden in Deutschland) and Mr. J. J. Jacobson Judaism. exclusively concentrated its efforts upon the (French Branch of the J.T.C.). The proceedings accomplishment of its important task, the restitu were summed up by the Israeli Ambassador, Mr. NEW PRESIDENT OF "AMERICAN tion of the unclaimed, heirless and communal Arthur Lourie ; the constructive work, now going FEDERATION Jewish property in the former British and (through on, he said, should never make us forget the its French Branch) French Zones of Germany, tragedy due to which it had become necessary. As successor to Rabbi Dr. Max Gruenewald, and deliberately desisted from any ostentatious Dr. Curt C. Silbermann was elected President of publicity. the " American Federation of Jews from Ger It was therefore particularly gratifying that the MEMORLiL MEETINGS FOR JEWSH many ", the AJR's sister organisation in the U.S. J.T.C. marked the publication of a comprehensive MARTYRS Dr. Silbermann is a lawyer who originates from book on its work, written by its Secretary, Dr. A Commemoration Meeting for the 19th Wuerzburg and now lives in East Orange (New C. I. Kapralik, by a reception, held on March 20. Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Jersey). He has been associated with several Those present at the function included practically for the Six Million Jews who died in Nazi Europe Jewish organisations in the U.S. for many years. all leading Jewish communal workers in this will be held on Sunday. April 29, at 3 p.m.. at Rabbi Dr. Gruenewald, who had to resign country, representatives of the Anglo-Jewish St. Pancras Town Hall, Euston Road, N.W.I. because of his manifold other commitments, was organisations and also a number of personalities The speakers will be : Lord Boothby, K.B.E., the elected Hon. President in recognition of his signal from abroad who are associated with the work of Hon. David Astor (Editor of the " Observer"), services during his nine years of office. the J.T.C. in one way or another. Sir Bamett Janner, M.P., Mr. Michael Cliffe, The activities of the J.T.C. have so far resulted M.P., Mr. B. B. GiUis, Q.C. The function will GERMAN ACTORS REMEMBER in the recovery of about £13 million. Dr. Kap- be held under the auspices of the Polish Jewish ralik's book which will be reviewed in detail Ex-Servicemen's Association in co-operation with shortly, records how this was achieved and in the Board of Deputies, the World Jewish Con To mark the 90th anniversary of its foundation which way the funds have been used for the gress and the Association of Jewish Ex-Service- the organisation of German Actors (Genossen- benefit of the victims of Nazi persecution. In men and Women. The AJR and a number of schaft Deutscher Buehnenangehoeriger) dedicated this country, one of the schemes carried out with other organisations have also associated them a special issue of its magazine to the history of the help of this heirless German-Jewish property selves with the Meeting. their organisation. For various reasons, the well- has been the establishment of the Homes for the The admission is free ; reserved seats may be made-up publication is also of Jewish interest. It Aged. booked in advance through the AJR (stamped carries an article and a photo of the founder of The Chairman of the J.T.C., Sir Henry envelopes to be included). the Association, Ludwig Bamay, bom in Pest on d'Avigdor Goldsmid, M.P., who presided over the Another Memorial Meeting to which AJR February 11, 1842, "as the son of the Secretary function, thanked the Western Allies and German members are invited will be held under the aus of the Jewish Community". The names of authorities for their support and co-operation. pices of the Association of Baltic Jews at the new former Presidents, mentioned in another article, Congratulations on behalf of the Foreign Oflice Synagogue Hall, St. John's Wood, 41 Grove End include that of Dr. Max Pohl (President from Were conveyed by Mr. Peter Thomas, Under Road, N.W.8, at 8 for 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 1901-1908). Last, but not least, Dr. A. Rosen- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who des May 1, the day, when similar Memorial Services meyer (formerly of Frankfurt/Main, now London) cribed the Report as an " admirable and inspiring for the six million victims are held in Israel. vividly describes some recollections under the record of ten years' magnificent achievements". heading " Erinnemngen eines Bezirkssyndikus ". Mr. Oscar Joseph, Treasurer of the J.T.C. and JUBILEE RALLY OF "BLAU-WEISS" He recalls his co-operation with Oberlandcs- Chairman of the Central British Fund, expressed gerichtsrat Dr. Aschaffenburg, who was Chairman deep satisfaction at the fact that the funds had To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founda of the Arbitration Court until he died, with Carl helped Nazi victims in this country to spend the tion of the " Blau-Weiss", a rally of former Ebert, Arthur Hellmer and many others. Quite a eve of their lives in the congenial circumstances of members of this Zionist youth movement in few members remained faithful to Dr. Rosenmeyer the Old Age Homes, jointly administered by the Germany will take place near Tiberias (Israel) on after he had to resign in 1933, and he especially C.B.F. and the A.J.R. Dr. Nahum Goldmann the Israeli Day of Independence. Former members mentions the singer, Pelagic Greeff Andriessen stated that the establishment and success of the of the " Blau-Weiss " who wish to participate in who, by her connections with the Private Secre LT.C. would not have been possible but for the the function should get in touch with Jubilee tary to the Queen, helped him to find refuge in *inity of the Jewish organisations. Sir Bamett Committee, P.O.B. 4478, Tel Aviv. England. The Exclutlye Solon do CorMtarIt Catering with a difference "HOUSE ARLET" Foods of all nations tor formal or infor- 'THE HOUSE ON THE HILL' Mme H. 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SWI. 2202 garden. 10/12 Herbert Rood, DINING/BALLROOM seating ISO Bournemouth West Renowned cuisine. Dance band INFORMAL DANCES for for Festivals and season. DIETS on request ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL CUISINE OWN LOCK-UP GARAGES BOOK EARLY FOR YOUR SUMMER Mrs. MARGOT SMITH BOOK EARLY FOR EASTER, VITHITSUN, HOLIDAYS. AND YOUR SUMMER HOLIDAYS MINICAR HIRE 'Phone: Westbourne 64176 Mr. & Mrs. H. Schreiber Page 16 AJR INFORMATION April, 1962 WIZO W.ANS TO EXPAND NEWS ABOUT ISRAEL The Wizo held its 14th World Conference at HerzLia in Israel recently. DEVALUATION OF THE POUND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA IN ZURICH At the conference it was decided to increase Wizo membership and to organise leadership Protests Against Govennnent Policy To mark the 60th anniversary of the Jewish training courses in the Diaspora and visits to Israel. National Fund, the Ramat Gan Chamber But the movement's principal efforts will be Following the Israeli Government's devaluation Orchestra, conducted by Sergiu Commissiona, devoted to helping the integration of newcomers of the pound prices of several convmodities have gave a widely applauded concert in Ziirich under in Isnael. Ten new Wizo clubs are to be opened risen. Foodstuffs are among the commodities the auspices of the Association for thc Promotion in Israel's development areas. More children's affected. of Jewish Art in Switzerland and of the local crfeches and training centres for women are to Thousands of people took part in a mass rally Zionist Group.—(wg.) be set up and the movement will double the num organised by Mapam in Tel Aviv to protest against ber of its courses for housewives. In addition, the Govemment's policy. YOUTH EXCHANGE a Wizo hostel will be opened in Jerusalem and a Wizo house in Tel Aviv. Mr. Israel Barzjlai, the former Minister of It was pointed out that the organisation advised Health, alleged that devaluation made the rich It is reported from Munich that the Bayerischer the Israeli Govemment on problems connected richer and the poor poorer. He called for the Jugendring, the principal body of democratic with child health, infant nutrition and vocational cancellation of the system of dollar-linked debts youth organisations in Bavaria, intends to con training. The Jemsalem Baby Home, sponsored iiKurred by farmers and workers and for a return tinue the youth exchange programme with Israel by the British Federation of Women Zionists, had to the system of monthly revisions in the cost- started two years ago. become the principal centre in Israel for the of-living allowance. rehabilitation of children crippled by polio and Mapam agitation against the Govemment's STAMP EXHIBrnON IN GERMANY those convalescing from rheumatic fever. economic policy is believed to be supported by a A proposal that Wizo should make more facili section of Achdut Avoda in the Histadrut. 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