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LEO BAECK hatte ; die Worte : " Mene, Tekel, Uphar- sin ", uhd die der Prophet gedeutet hatte : l*>ay 21, 1873-Kovember 2, I9S6 " Gezahlt ist worden, gewogen ist worden, und zerteilt wird werden " (Daniel 5, 25). Jedoch das will nicht das letzte Wort sein. DURCH DUNKEL ZUM LICHT Das letzte, das entscheidende Wort ist das In diesem Monat jaehrt sich zum ersten Male der Todestag von Dr. Leo Baeck. Gross einer Hoffnung, welche bleibt, der echten. ist der Kreis derer, die die persoenliche Naehe zii ihm als ein kostbares Geschenk, das ihnen der wahren Hoffnung, und der Jude darf zuteil wurde. in dankbarer Erinnerung bewahren. Was er den deutschen Juden in ihrer sagen : der alten juedischen Hoffnung. Aus Gesamtheit bedeutet und stets bedeuten wird, kann in wenigen Worten nicht ausgedrueckt dem ewigen Gebote, aus dem ewigen " Du werden ; die in dieser Ausgabe veroeffentlichte Darstellung seines Lebens und Wirkens aus sollst" des Wortes Gottes spricht sie, diese der Feder von Dr. M. Gruenewald bildeit jedoch einen wichtigen Beilrag hierzu. Vorerst Hoffnung—Gebot und Trost und Zuversicht aber wollen wir seine eigenen Worte auf uns wirken lassen. Sie wurden zur 15. Wiederkehr in einem. Denn das ist die bleibende Hoff­ der November-Pogrome gesprochen und stellen in der nur ihm gegebenen Weise das Einzel- nung in der Menschheitsgeschichte: der geschehen in den grossen geschichtlichen Zusammenhang. Erneut lassen sie in uns die Mensch, der Einzelne wie das Volk. kann Persoenlichkeit von Dr. Leo Baeck und die Ereignisse, deren Jahrestag jetzt ebenfalls und soil neu beginnen, zu jeder Zeit. Die wiederkehrt, wach und lebendig werden—als Erinnerung, Mahnung und Verpflichtung.—W.R. Kraft der Umkehr zu Gott ist in jeden Wie oft sind die Bilder jener Nacht, in mutig ausgezogen und haben das Mittelmeer hineingelegt, und vor jedem offnet sich der Qer vor fuenfzehn Jahren der grosse Frevel entlang und die Fluesse hinauf ihre Gemein­ Weg des Ewigen. Aus der Zerstorung geschah, dass die juedischen Gotteshauser den gegruendet, Kolonien der Wirtschaft hervor spricht diese Mahnung, die zugleich zerstort wurden, wieder—ob wir es wollten und Kolonien des Geistes. So sind sie auch die Hoffnung ist: " Bahnet dem Ewigen den "Qer nicht—vor uns hingetreten ! Wieder zum Rhein und zur Donau hingekommen, Weg ! " (Jesaias 40). Und durch das Dunkel njeinten wir. auch wenn wir die Ohren schon ehe in der Volkerwanderung Deutsch- bricht ein Licht hervor. aowandten, die Stimmen zu horen die in iand sich geformt hatte. Zur Weser, zur jener Nacht uns zugerufen hatten: " Die Elbe und zur Oder sind sie dann weiter- ^ynagogen brennen". gelangt. Bis zur Duena imd zum Dnjepr GERMAN STAMP IN MEMORY OF ict 7 ^ Jst es, was damals vernichtet worden hin haben sie spater die deutsche Sprache, DR. LEO BAECK r| • Nicht nur die juedischen Gotteshauser die ihre Sprache geworden war, hingetragen. lyurden zerschlagen, sondem mit ihnen Eine lebendige Geschichte ist es, die Jahr­ To mark the anniversary of Rabbi Dr. Leo orachen Pfeiler und Stuetzen eines mensch- hunderte hindurch. Sie ist zerstort worden. Baecks death, the Federal Minister of Posts "chen Bundes, auf den man vertraut hatte. Wird sie wieder aufgebaut werden konnen ? and Telegraphs f'lnes, so hatte man gedacht, binde alle doch Einer bedeutungsvollen Kultur ist damit has issued a J^" mmer zusammen : eine Ehrfurcht vor zugleich ein gewaltsames Ende bereitet special 20 Pfennig er Statte, zu der Menschen kommen. damit worden. In den juedischen Gemeinden hatte stamp. sie aus der Enge und Not des Tages sich zu immer der Geist gelebt und stetig sich Stamps were if"^- ,^*'8^" erheben, dorthin, wo das also recently entwickelt. Er war dann ueber die Grenzen issued in memory vjsichtbare an sie herantritt und die unend- der Gemeinden hinausgeschritten. Eine of two other out­ "ctie Stille sich an sie wendet. Liebe zur Wissenschaft und zur Kunst, ein standing German starker Sinn fuer neue Formung und Gestal­ Jews — Albert Synagoge und Kirche tung, eine seelische Dynamik hat sich Ballin on the Damals in jener Nacht, ob man damals es hier, in diesen Menschen der juedischen occasion of the Wissen wollte oder nicht, ist auch an die Gemeinden, offenbart und hat nun dem centenary of his ^irchen im Lande Hand angelegt worden. Namen " deutscher Jude" den besonderen birth, and the ^n sie auch—denn die Synagoge ist, Klang in der Welt gegben. Nobel Prize seschichtlich und geistig, die' Mutter der Was alles ist hier geschaffen worden. Aus winner Fritz Haber to mark *:irche. Eine und dieselbe Gewissheit will der grossen Geschichte des Geistes kann the occasion of the Congress of the German ^er und dort sich offenbaren, mogen auch diese Leistung nicht fortgedacht werden. Chemical Society. eise und Weg verschieden sein. Juedische Und auch das ist auseinander gebrochen nd christliche Gotteshauser haben am worden. Wkd es je wieder zusammenge- jj^^en Ende ein unteilbares Schicksal. Was fuegt werden konnen ? Memorial Service and Consecration for em einen angetan wird, ist zugleich dem ^naeren zugefuegt. So mancher Tag Schweigen in der Pogromnacht the late Dr. Leo Baeck Qanach hat in Deutschland dies deutlich Manch einer erinnert sich, wie er in jener A memorial service will be held on the semacht und nur der, der blind sein wollte, Nacht auf der Strasse stand. Ein banges, eve of the late Dr. Baeck's Yahrzeit on ^jLes weder damals noch spaterhin gesehen. bedrueckendes Schweigen lag ueber der Thursday, November 21, at 6.30 p.m., at iNoch ein anderes ist damals zerstort Stadt. Aber das Schweigen hob dann zu the North-Westem Reform Synagogue, orden. Eine lebendige Geschichte, die auf sprechen an, und wenn das Schweigen zu Alyth Gardens (off Finchley Road). em deutschen Boden und aus deutschem sprechen beginnt, dann jst es eine erschuet- N.W.ll. ^den aufgewachsen war, und die eine temde, eine gewaltige Sprache. Und der, The memorial stone in memory of the verheissung fruchtbarer Zukunft in sich der sie horte, sah zugleich etwas. Es war eine late Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck will be con­ ^g. ist damals zerbrochen worden. Von dunkle Nacht, und es duenkte ihm, als sehe secrated on Sunday, November 24, at 12 ^uen Tagen her war sie. Die Juden sind er, wie an den nachtigen Horizont, weithin noon, at the West London Synagogue 'les der grossen Kolonisationsvolker der ueber das deutsche Land, eine unsichtbare Cemetery, Hoop Lane (off Finchley ^eschichte. Seit der Zeit Alexanders des Hand schrieb. Wort an Wort fuegte, drei Road), Golders Green. ""ossen sind sie von der alten Heimat wage- Worte, die, dfe einst 'der Prophet geschaut mmi

Page 2 AJR INFORMATION November, 1957 RESTITUTION NEWS FROM THE GERMAN SCENE ANSPRUECHE GEGEN LGfARBEN FEDERAL ELECTIONS CHRISTIAN CONGRESSES DEAL WITH ANn-SEMmSM FristabUuf 31. Dezember 1957 Three Jews Returned to Parliament At a meeting of the German section of Ihe Wie bereits mitgeteilt wurde, sind Ansprueche The three Jewish members of the last Bundestag, World Congress of Faiths, one of the lecturers was frueherer K.Z.-Haeftlinge, die auf Grund des Mrs. Jeanette Wolff, Mr. Peter Blachstein and the Chief Rabbi of Luxemburg, Dr. Charles Abkommens zwischen LG. Farben und der Claims Mr. Jacob Altmeier, have again been elected. Lehrmann, who spoke on " Judaism and the Unity Conference zum Empcfang einer Zahlung berechtigt All of them are members of the Social Democratic of Religion ". He stated that, for the first time, he zu sein glauben, bej folgender Stelle anzumelden: Party. Mrs. Wolff also plays a leading part in had again come into contact with Germany, a I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft in Abwick­ German-Jewish life. Mr. Blachstein, who is a country which in former times had meant very lung. Glaeubigermeldestelle, Frankfurt am Main, journalist in Hamburg, belonged to the German- much for him. He was against hatred of the Bockenheimer Landstrasse 53. German people as a whole, and hoped that the Jewish youth movement before 1933, but now does positive forces in Germany would help to over­ Die Anmeldung muss vor dem 31.12.1957 im not participate in Jewish affairs. come the aftermath of the past. Various German Besitz der Glaubigermeldestelle sein. Spaetere Two new Jewish candidates, who were also put speakers at the session expressed a genuine desire Anmeldungen sind gesetzlich von der Beruecksich­ up by the Social Democratic Party, were not for understanding and co-operation between tigung ausgeschlossen. elected. They are Mr. Max Lippmann, who stood Christians and Jews. Meldungen. die frueher bereits geinacht und for the constituency of Limburg, and Dr. Josef A Congress held in Loccum under the auspices registriert worden sind, brauchen nicht wiederholt Neuberger, a lawyer who returned from Israel in of the Protestant Academy Congress, dealt with zu werden. Diese gemeldeten Haeftlinge werden 1952 and who stood for the constituency of the subject " Anti-Semitism in the History oi automatisch von der Compensation Treuhand Dusseldorf. Germany". The speakers included Dr. Eva G- G.m.'b.H. in Frankfurt am Main, einer Gruendung Reichmann (London), whose lecture was widely der Claims Conference, einen Fragebogen erhalten. reported in the German press. Addresses were JEANETTE WOLFF CHAIRMAN OF BERLIN also delivered by Professor Dr. A. Wenzl (Munich). REPRAESENTANTENVERSAMMLUNG Erich Lueth and Dr. Schweitzer of the Bundes­ zentrale fuer Heimatdienst. SCHADENSERSATZWERT VON AKTIEN Mrs. Jeanette Wolff, member of the German Federal Parliament and a leading Jewish communal PRINCE WITHOUT A PENSION Nach S 16 BRiiG ist bei der Bemessung der Hoehe worker, was unanimously elected Chairman of the des Schadensersatzbetrages der Wiederbeschaffungs­ Repraesentantenversamnilimg of the Berlin Jewish The Administrative Court at Kassel decided that wert des entzogenen Vermoegensgegenstandes im community. Prince Friedrich Christian zu Schaumbiirg-Lippe Geltungsbereich des BRiiG zugrunde zu legen. is not to receive a pension as a former Ministerial- Massgebend ist der Wiederbeschaffungswert am 1. rat in the Propagandaministerium. The Prince, a April 1956. NEW YEAR GREETINGS TO GERMAN JEWS S.A.-Standartenfuehrer. used to be Goebbelss personal aide. The Court ruled that he held h" In einer Beilage zum " Bundesanzeiger " Nr. 195 The Rosh Hashanah issue of the " Allgemeine rank in the Propagandaministerium solely c^ vom 10. Oktober 1957 (die Nummer wird zum Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland " includes account of his leading part in the N.S.D.A.F- Preise von DM 0, 25 zuzueglich Postgebuehren— messages from leading non-Jewish and Jewish per­ .Schaumburg is the author of several Nazi books. Postschekkonto Bundesanzeiger Koeln 8340— sonalities. Federal President Heuss expresses the gegen Voreinsendung abgegeben) ist eine Aufstel­ hope that the progress in the field of compensation, NEWS FROM AUSTRIA lung ueber die festgestellten Werte der wichtigsten inadequate though it may be, will ease the burden am I. April 1956 gehandelten Aktien veroeffentlicht of many former persecutees. Without wishing to Taxability of Pensions worden. Diese Aufstellung ist nicht vollstaendig belittle anti-Semitic incidents, he thinks that the Many former employers of pensioners residing und wird ergaenzt werden. impact left by the performances of the " Diary in the United Kingdom still deduct from the of Anne Frank ", symbolises the genuine desire of pensions Austrian Income Tax at the flat rate ot many Germans for atonement. 20.06 per cent which causes considerable hardship- RUECKERSTATTUNGSGESETZ Pensioners are advised to inform their employers Federal President Dr. Adenauer states, wjth that, in accordance with the Anglo-Austrian satisfaction, that the consolidation of the Jewish WOHNSITZ der ANSPRUCHSBERECHnGTEN Double Taxation Convention, such pensions are community in Germany has made progress. The free of tax and to request the employers that if tst Nach Par. 45 Abs. I des Bundesiueckerstattungs- Federal Foreign Minister, Dr. von Brentano, refers doubt they should approach the Austrian Ministry gesetzes werden Ansprueche nach diesem Gesetz in his message to the gradually improving rela­ of Finance, Department 8 which will explain the nicht befriedigt, solange der Berechtigte seinen tions between Germany and the State of Israel. position to them. Wohnsitz oder dauernden Aufenthalt in Gebieten The Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, The above is of particular importance to those hat, mit deren Regierungen die Bundesrepublik Erich Ollenhauer, states that the German people who receive pensions from Banks, Insurance Deutschland keine diplomatischen Beziehungen will only regain their equilibrium when they have Societies, Commercial tmdertakings and also fro"" unterhaelt. Nach Par. 45 Abs. 2 kann die Bundes­ definitely banned the shadows of the past. the Kultusgemeinde. C.K. regierung jedoch bestimmen, welche Staaten, mit New Year Broadcast deren Regierungen die Bundesrepublik Deutschland keine diplomatischen Beziehungen unterhaelt, so TRIALS An address on the occasion of the Jewish New behandelt werden, als ob mit ihnen diplomatische Year was broadcast by the Vice-President of the Beziehungen unterhalten wuerden. Erwin Schoenborn, one of the most rabid anti- Vienna Jewish Congregation, Dr. Ernst Feldsberg' Semites in West Berlin, has been sentenced to Die Bundesregierung hat durch Beschluss vooi Vienna Congregation's President Visits Israel 17. August 1957 bestimmt, dass die Staaten Fin­ eight months' imprisonment for having libelled Dr. land, Israel, Guatemala und Honduras, mit denen Eugen Gerstenmaier, the Speaker of the last The President of the Vienna Jewish Congre' die Bundesrepublik keine diplomatischen Bezie­ Bundestag. Schoenborn had called Dr. Gersten­ gation recently paid a visit to Israel. hungen unterhaeh, nach Par. 45 Abs. 2 Bundes- maier a " vile traitor" for refusing to betray an anti-Nazi movement during the Nazi regime. S.S. Meeting rueckerstattungsgesetz so behandelt werden, als ob A meeting of over 5,000 members of the S.S- mit ihnen diplomatische Beziehungen unterhalten The German Supreme Court at Karlsruhe sen­ and formerly interned Nazis of the Glasenbacn wuerden. tenced another agitator. Friedrick Lenz, to two Camp was recently held in Salzberg. The congress Ansprueche nach dem Bundesrueckerstattungs­ years' imprisonment for producing and dis­ seminating subversive political literature. expressed its dissatisfaction with the present rul^ gesetz werden ^her z.Z. nicht befriedigt, wenn der of the law concerning amnesty to ex-Nazis, a"" Berechtigte seinen Wohnsitz oder dauernden Otto Locke, a former Kapo of Auschwitz con­ called for indemnification of these former internees- Aufenthalt in den nachstehenden Gebieten hat : centration camp, was sentenced by the West Berlin The congress also felt that the terms under whic" Kambodscha, Republik Korea, Laos, Nepal, Court to penal servitude for life for having they could be reinstated in their positions as former Taiwan, und in saemtlichen, sog. Ostblockstaaten murdered seven Jewish inmates of the camp. servants should be improved. mit AusnahitK der UdSSR.

FOR TRANSFER OF DEUTSCHE MARKS SOFORTHILFE FOR THERESIENSTADT DEPORTEES TO THIS COUNTRY CONSULT The Federal Court, in a recent finding, decided that persecutees who had been deported to Theresienstadt qualified for the Soforthilfe to be Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. granted to returnees according to paragraph 141 Bankers of the Federal Indemnification Law. Some Laender had taken the view that returnees from 91, MOORGATE, LONDON, E.C.2 Theresienstadt or Auschwitz were not entitled to Telephone: METropolitan 8151 this aid, because both camps were situated within the territory of the Third Reich. Therefore, they Repretertling: claimed, these persecutees had not left Germany I. L. FEUOirWANOEll BANK LTD. I FEOCHTWANGER CORPORATION and could not be qualified as retuming emigres. This attitude was strongly criticised, and has now TEL-AVrV : JERUSALEM : HAIFA I 52 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, 4, N.Y. been over-ruled by the Federal Court decision. AJR INFORMATION November, 1957 Page .^ Rabbi Dr. Max Gruenetcald Christian faith was that absolute religion to which Judaism was plainly inferior. Without alluding to Harnack, other than in the title, LEO BAECK: WITNESS AND JUDGE Baeck answers the claim of Christian HE last decades of German Jewry were from the concentration camp. Only when he absolutism with his analysis of Judaism. illuminated by personalities who trans­ became the head of the Reichsvertretung was T formed their personal experiences, the he relieved of his rabbinical duties. There was Interpretation of Judaism no major Jewish event where he did not ajvpear circumstances into which they were thrown The method he employs he describes as or in which they chose to remain, into a testing- as the main speaker, no nation-wide agency— psychology of religion. It enables him to ground for their beliefs. As in the case of except for the Zionist Organisation—in which rranz Rosenzweig, their works point to their he did not play a vital role. Nor was his gather the evidence for Jewish character from J'^es and thejr lives become an index to their participation in these diverse fields a perfunc­ acknowledged teachings, as well as from chance teachings. The laurel of resistance, denied to tory one. On many occasions he displayed his remarks of teachers, from popular attitudes the German Jews—sometimes not without perspective and insight and his familiarity with and from the characteristics of Biblical style. "njust comparison with the Ghetto fighters— intricate administrative and financial matters. Before he applies his psychology to the sources tnust rightfully be given to some of those who What is so puzzling is that in this crowded and history of Judaism, however, Baeck has returned to Nazi Germany although they did agenda he found time to study, to write articles already made his choice. Certain reservations "°f^have to return, to some of those who stayed and books, and to carry on a correspondence and limitations appear already in the premise : although the road to freedom was open to them. on an unbelievable scale. Only now is the It is the purpose of the book to reveal the •Resistance is not only armed resistance. Of range of his correspondence becoming known. essential features of Judaism, the classic form ™s, the story of our people serves ample Among his correspondents we meet rabbis, of its self-expression, the heights scaled by the proof. In one of his eulogies of Franz Rosen- scholars, and plain people, industrialists—with Jewish spirit " if they were only gained again f^etg, Leo Baeck applied to him a quotation one of whom a manuscript of Baeck was and again." Every religion, he emphasises, [l°\ a Church Father : " The greatness of deposited for safe keeping at the height of the should be understood and judged by its highest ne human soul is jts power of resistance." Hitler regime—members of the nobility and standards and not by those which contradict its e. in turn, may use this sentence descriptively churchmen. genius. Judaism is presented as ethical mono­ °t Leo Baeck. In his power of resistance we theism. This designation is usually associated ertainiy recognise an important trait of his Profound Knowledge with a pale " theology," accommodated to the aracter. He never wavered in his decision spiritual horizons of the Jewish bourgeoisie, '0 stay with the lost remnant. Leo Baeck, son of a scholarly rabbi, had its preferences for apologetics, its worship of progress, shallow optimism, and remoteness the few remaining members of the Presi- made good use of his student years and of his early years in the rabbinate. He had acquired from the Jewish people. Tiiese notions, how­ '"m of the Reichsvertrelung remember the ever, are by no means descriptive of ethical meetings presided o\er by Dr. Baeck. At times a profound knowledge that ranged from rab­ binics, the classics, in which he excelled, to monotheism ; certainly not where systematic "e Walls of the room were lined with Gestapo thinking, the purity of the exacting moral com­ "en taking notes. The attention of the mem- the latest interpretation of church history, and took in contemporary European culture. What mandment, and religious warmth combine as. c/^ of the Executive Board was, however, for instance, in the work and personality of ixea on Baeck. His presence seemed to fill he had studied was alive and present to him. Without the help of books he was able to Herman Cohen. Although Leo Baeck did pay e room. On those occasions when he had his tribute to the apologetic tendencies of his meet a German official he would speak to lecture to the inmates of Theresienstadt on the great masters of human thought, and to write— time (they are not altogether absent in other 'm with that pointed courtesy which was the times and cUmates either) no " good " Liberal arest thing to contempt. Aristocrat that he on toilet paper—his book The Jewish People. He could do with Uttle sleep. Night hours on of the old school could have taken comfort in as, given to restraint and self-discipline, he the fighting, restless, dissenting Jew who ••s quite capable of contempt. Long before trains were spent in reading. (He used to travel third-class and was critical of the representa­ emerges here as the portrait of the Jew. Nor ^^ '""e of which we speak here he had is there a concession to secularism, any com­ with • "T^ere exists no abiding kindness tives of a distressed people who travelled in grand style.) When he hurried to his daily promising of the spiritual and rehgious forces 'tnout the ability of scorning, no true love of chores in the morning he had already put which are the determining forces of our his­ An *'thout the ability of contempt of man." behind him hours of studying and writing. tory. They are not superseded by political he « ''[?^" sP^al^ing of the " jealous " God, or legal interests, nor submerged in group con­ says ; " In order to esteem, one must also In the midst of a busy crowd he offered a "^ able to feel contempt." study in concentration. He gave close atten­ stellations. To set down the movement of the tion to the business before him, yet he Pharisees in sociological terms or in terms of a political party would have been alien to Leo Resolute in Weigjhty Causes remained aloof. Leo Baeck did not possess the pyrotechnics Baeck. ^ he sharp edges of his personality were often of the orator. His thoughts were, of course, The original and lasting theme of Judaism l^bscured by his willingness to negotiate and well ordered and his formulations were a source is man's movement " from God to God " and, ^ art of compromising. Friends and of frequent and pleasant surprise. His tall, at times, against God. It is a movement with­ . PPonents alike found fault with his temporis- commanding figure seemed now to bear down out halting, of which we can get hold of only in ^ 8 and compromising, with his avoidance of on his audience, now to move away from it. paradoxes. The boldest paradox, although not resolute stand in what appeared to them Thus, one recalls his manner while addressing listed as such by the author, is that of recon­ eighty causes requiring a decision. Still, in an audience : a voice that trembled from ciliation of man with God. It does not come nat Leo Baeck considered as vital he did not within, the strong hands of a peasant moving to man after the battle, as a reward, but in ^promise, least of all with regard to his sparingly, and a face on which generations the midst of our struggle. Reconciliation n person. This is the reason why he was seemed to have worked, deeply touching and marks also the decisive departure of Judaism lgj^'^°"nded with such genuine respect. His col- moving and eloquent, in silence, too. from Buddhism, the only other fundamental ^ gues knew there were limits to his forbear- Leo Baeck's literary contributions range way of religion : Judaism wants to reconcile hiirf ^^^^ ^^"^^ ^^^ eager to be censured by over a wide variety of subjects. He deals with the world with God, Buddhism wants to fjj"^" While he showed friendly understanding the place of social ethics in religion, with the redeem us from the world. pg .^he forthright among his colleagues and. exaggerated claims of the historical discipline, In this drive the point of saturation, cultural (^''^"lady, for the young even in their with the religious movements and personalities self-satisfaction, is never reached. There is no "naturity, he was impatient and severe with which influenced human thought and action. release from self, will and reason with which ose who catered to cheap applause. The Among his last essays are studies on the per­ we, God's partners as it were, build and culti­ ^ sition of the German rabbi was a respected sonality of Paul and on Maimonides. His vate our world. There is no rest, not even kep •^"'' ^'^^ Baeck was zealously intent on articles about the immediate problems that in death. Even "returning" means to go on. R7W ^ it high. The Presidency of the General faced the German Jews and about some of his The pious man, Baeck quotes, is " without rest ^aobinical Assembly, which included the contemporaries throw light on the struggles of here or in the beyond." The world of the ajority of rabbis, was only one of the many the last decades. Christian is the accomplished world as his time j^ces which he held. Never before had there is the fulfilled time, while ours is in the state Leo Baeck established his theological reputa­ of becoming. The man who wrote : " When ine'^ ^"^h a combination of teaching, preach- tion with the work The Essence of Judaism. son ^""^ representative leadership in one per- finahty dies, its death is final," was certainly as Like Zunz's Names of the Jews and GoUes- distant from the " peace of mind and soul" ^n- For years the B'nai B'rith Lodge, the dienstliche Vortraege, it owed its origin to a of today as from the self-complacency of his /ttm ^"'' ^'^ Wissenschaft des Jiiden- challenge from without : Harnack's Essence earlier contemporaries. We come perhaps hjs t' ^^^ Academy of Jewish Science, claimed of Christianity. There were few Christian close to the intention of Baeck when we vice ^^^ attention. He continued his ser- theologians—notably Troeltsch—who did not on many fronts even after his liberation agree with the concept of an absolute religion. Continued on page 4 Page 4 AJR INFORMATION November, 1957 LEO BAECK: WITNESS AND JUDGE copy them. In the use of the first person he Christianity, however, must be qualified. In the same way as his understanding of Romanticism Continued from page 3 was more sparing than his modern colleagues. He had, however, a keen perception of the was largely based on German Romanticism, his describe the task of the Jew as one of regain­ group whom he addressed, and the direct con­ stricture of the churches applies more to Prussian ing ever anew his creative and moral freedom. tact with an audience is alive in his written Protestantism than to the Western and Southern Thus every generation expects its own Bible, word. The dialogue becomes an instrument of denominations. Baeck, himself, drew the lin* thus the prophets defend their autonomy even exegesis and historical research. . . . between the ethical inertia and moral indiffer­ against the sacred tradition handed down to What tends to relieve the abstractions and ence of Lutheranism and the evangelic-social them. Being immersed in an historical religion, to enliven the style even more than the dialogue movements that grew on Old-Testamentarian- living intensely in every moment of it, we with the visible and invisible audience, is Calvinistic and Baptist soil. This is in keeping nevertheless conquer time and history without Baeck's method of contrast. The prominent with his basic views and with the importance stepping out of it. Baeck states that the story traits of Jewish character are hammered out attached by him to social ethics. Consequently of Creation appears isolated >n the Bible, that by way of confrontation with other civiUsa- he commended those who " placed ethics above the prophets show little interest in the manner tions and religions, the philosophies of Greece, the remission of sins and the moral command­ in which heaven and earth were created, and Buddhism and, constanily, with the Christian ment above the doctrine of justification • several times he returns to his dictum that "in faith. Having portrayed the Jew as the classic dissen­ the religious sense creation and revelation mean ter of history, he freely acknowledged the debt one and the same." The faithful Jew urgently Judaism and Christianity modern history owes to the Nonconformists awaits the days of the Messiah. They bring the and to those who did not disown the human fulfilment of the Commandments, but they also For the entire length of his career Leo Baeck will. For this reason he bore England a great serve to measure and judge the present. Out was preoccupied with Christianity in its various measure of warmth ; England whence had coine of this sense there stems the pessimistic phases. He had the Christian reUgion in mind Duns Scotus and Pelagius, the England oi appraisal of the present measures against the even when treating matters only indirectly WycUff in whose introduction to his Bible Messianic horizon, the Jewish irony, and the related to it. During the Nazi regime he pub­ translation there appeared for the first time derisive joke. Finally, the highest representa­ Ushed Das Evangelium als Urkunde der " the classical principle of the new democracy^ tive of Judaism, the martyr, is indifferent to judischen Glaubensgeschichte. Here and else­ the principle of what should be done by the the success of the passing day. He could not where, he explains how the literary Christian people and for the people ". be a martyr unless he lacked " historical sense ". tradition adopted the exegetical method of In his tribute to Leo Baeck, Jacques Mari­ Ethics pervade all expressions of the Jewish association and analogy from the Jews and tain says : "The philosopher must give testi­ religion. Its universality together with the how, with the help of these methods, the per­ mony by speaking his mind and telUng the absence of mythology and speculative piety son, life and words of Jesus are made to con­ truth as he sees it. This may have an inipaci distinguish Judaism from other religions. This, form to the teachings of the Disciples. Baeck on political matters ; it is not, of itself, political Baeck asserts, is characteristic of Jewish proceeds to restore what he holds to be the action, it is simply applied philosophy. Yet mysticism, too. original story of Jesus, the original text of the the borderline is difficult to draw. This means logia. These he reclaims for the Jewish people. that nobody, not even philosophers, can escap^ Living Religion They could have grown only out of the Jewish taking risks, when justice or love are at stake • The ethical in Baeck's monotheism is not soil—•"" a Jew among Jews ", " a Jewish book To which we might add that Baeck's was a represented in a set of laws, not in a catalogue among Jewish books ". . . . " considered risk ". It was born out of ^ of virtues. It lives in Gebot not in Gesetz, in In his running dialogue with the Christian decision, or rather out of a concept of man to actions and deeds, not in catechism. The Jew religion, Baeck is not content with merely which he remained true in thought and action. cannot fall back on religious or philosophical stating differences and distinctions. Every In the final account, the man who walked securities in the form of dogmas, systems or any facet of it comes under scrutiny and attack : out of the concentration camp of Theresien' other external authority. He should be grateful the " monolithic faith ", its unholy aUiance with stadt was a witness of his people's faith and that this is so; for the burden of dogmas is the State, the confessionaUsm, the intimate con­ a great judge of our civiUsation. heavier than the burden of commandments; nection between the " confession ", the " con­ Reprint from "Judaism". Vol. 6, No. 3, Summer, 1957. (N"-'* moreover, the " formulas" of orthodoxy are fessional formula " and grace, the link between York.) often linked with intolerance and oppression. monastic orders and worship of saints. Several " From the group of systematisers come the times he returns to his criticism of those who most cruel inquisitors ". feel so superior to the religion of the " jealous " "ANNE FRANK DIARY" The Jewish people is not lifted out of its God, who rest so cheerfuUy in the blessed natural setting and historical context—land, possession of salvation, undisturbed by so FeUowship blood, peoplehood, and chosenness. All who many crimes committed against mankind. The Fischer-Buecherei, Frankfurt, will publis" belong to it have their unabridged share in the "One may have a strong faith, go through a documentary report on the life of Anne FranK. religious tasks and goals. The priests are not pious emotions without being disturbed by next spring. Its title : " Anne Frank—Spur eines owners or dispensers of grace. From Buddhism slavery, torture, and public abominations ". Kindes". The pubUsher and radio stations are To this " polemic theology " Baeck dedicated to set up an " Anne Frank Stipendium" whicn and Catholicism we learn that monastic orders will distribute the proceeds from the sale of the and worship of saints belong together. In a separate treatise. Its title is Romantic book and from the radio version among Israel' Judaism, however, there is no separation Religion. F. Schlegel had defined a romantic students for university studies in Europe. between Sacred and Profane. Where such as " one who treats sentimental subjects iii a distinction threatened it was successfully fought. fantastic fashion". Using this definition Production in Argentina Thus Baeck interprets the saying : "All of Baeck traces religious romanticism in its Israel are one fellowship". NVith visible various forms, the pietistic coquetry, self-adula­ For a long time the " Diary ", as a book, has authority reduced to a minimum, with no sacra- tion and sentimentalism to be found through­ been a success in Argentina. But only now have out Christian history. This little book con­ theatrical performances reached Buenos Aires ' mentaj authority conferred on the teacher and three at the same time. First the Jewisn preacher, there appear, nevertheless, distin­ tains brilliant and penetrating insights into actor Buloff performed the play with his Yiddisn guished carriers of Jewish ideas. They are religious phenomena, presented with consum­ ensemble in the theatre " Teatro Soleil". T"^ responsible for the survival of the Jew as a Jew mate artistry. As to its substance, one would IsraeU Ambassador, Dr. Kubovy, invited the dip'°' and in them Jewish character attains its fulfil­ have to go far to find an equaUy devastating matic corps to a special performance. Two week' ment. In this connection Baeck speaks of the criticism of Christianity, a criticism which is later an Italian company performed the "Diary, Gelehrte und Gebildete Glaubensgenos.se as the not diminished by Baeck's admission that in ItaUan, and now the Jewish Folktheatre IFT >» romantic relapses can also be found in producing it in Spanish under the producer Feller' main actors in the "optimistic tragedy" of who was especially caUed to Buenos .^ires. ^' Jewish history. . . . Judaism ; for instance, in the retention of the seems that a German performance will not take Baeck's writing is rich in associations and sacrificial service in Jewish liturgy. Particii- place. felicitous formulations. The influence of larly severe criticism—already developed in his Dilthey, occasionally Simmel and, above all, Essence of Judaism—^is levelled against HERMANN MUCKERMANN 80 of Kant and the Neo-Kantian school are Lutheran Protestantism because " moraUty is apparent in substance and form. His style is here essentially what the appointed authorities The well-known Catholic anthropologist, Df; require" and because Lutheran Protestantism Hermann Muckermann, recently celebrated hi heavy with abstractions. He shows a prefer­ SOth birthday in Berlin. He entered the Catholic ence for the indefinite article. Yet his presenta­ " was never able to create a real system of religious ethics". Order of Jesuits in 1909 and, in 1927, becam« tion does not become a dry nwnologue. In his head of the Anthropological Department of ^. writings, as in the way he spoke, the audience Romantic Religion was written ten years Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instjtut in Berlin. Because of ."' is present. This is not to infer that Baeck was before the Nazis came to power and before courageous sermons against the Nazi regime durjne vain. He masterfully described the rhetorical much of what he wrote was verified. Our the first years after 1933, he was forbidden '" skill of the Cynic-Stoic schools, but he did not presentation of Baeck's wholesale criticism of preach by the Nazi authorities. AJR INFORMATION November, 1957 Page 9 to a Jewish doctor. Under the Nazi rtigime the part-time, or home work, etc.. so that we can help FRON MY DIARY clock was entrusted to Miss Gothein's care, when as many unemployed people as possible. 'Phone the owner was threatened with deportation. Miss MAI 4449. ConsecratioB of Memorial Gothein was anxious to trace the address of the A memorial for the victims of Nazi persecution, doctor's relatives, supposed to live in England and. erected under the auspices of the New Liberal through the good services of the AJR, tbe clock AJR CLUB was eventually restored to them. Jewish Congregation, was consecrated at the Last month Mr. W. Rosenstock gave a talk on l-'beral Jewish Cemetery. NARRATOR the impressions of his visit to Berlin, dealing TTie service was conducted by Rabbi J. Kokotek. particularly with the exhibition in the newly built !iie Rev. M. Davidsohn and the Rev. J. DolUnger. Hansa-Viertel. The November programme nie memorial was unveiled by the Hon. Lily THE HYPHEN includes a talk by Mr. Emest P. Friedmann on Montagu. " Stilwandlungen der Innenarchitektur in Eng­ In his moving address Rabbi Kokotek recaUed The programme for November includes the land ", to be held on Sunday, November 24th, at 'he unspeakable sufferings of Continental Jewry— Hyphen birthday party on the 23rd, with dancing, 5 p.m. a catastrophe without parallel in history. He also tombola, etc., at All Saints' Parish Hall, Queens The Club premises at Zion House, 57 Eton ^pressed the hope that those forces in post-war Terrace. N.W.S; mem'bers 5/-, non-members 6/6, Avenue, Swiss Cottage, are open from Sunday to yerraany who were trying to build up the country including refreshments. A discussion, " After the Thursday, 4 to 7 p.m., and in the evening on '"a spirit of humanity and tolerance would succeed. Tuesday. Thursday and Sunday. 7 to 10. The memorial was designed by the well-known Rent Act", will be held on the 30th at Zion House, *ulptor, Benno Elkan. O.B.E., who also attended 57 Eton Avenue, N.W.3, at 7 p.m., in which one 'ue ceremoiy. speaker each from the three poUtical parties wiU SABBATH OBSERVANCE EMPLOYMENT The erection of the memorial, as well as the participate. Admission is I/- and 2/6. There will BUREAU "'gnified ceremony of consecration, must be also be a ramble in Blackheath and Greenwich regarded as a most noble and appropriate under- Park on the 3rd, and a theatre visit to the Israeli The Sabbath Observance Employmeni Bureau's laking by the Congregation. ballet company on the 9th. report for the year 1956 reveals interesting voca­ tt is one of the sad aspects of the catastrophe A full programme of the Hyphen activities is tional trends within the Anglo-Jewish conununity. D • v,*'^'^^ ^'^ "° """hs to recall the Uves of our There has been a further drift away from trades. obtainable from the Hon. Secretary. Miss Brigit This is especially apparent among members of the thi" u 1 dearest ones. A memorial of this kind Cassel. 20 West Heath Court, North End Road. "US helps to keep their memories alive. younger generation and the school-leaving group. N.W.II, "phone MEA 1810. Girls prefer work in otfices and showrooms, and Bismarck's Clock boys prefer professional olfices and businesses. AJR SOCLAL SERVICES . The following episode reaffirms that, not " This fact". the report states, " is to be '„'•^"ently, the AJR has to deal with matters Employment Agency deplored, as in the not too distant future the "omehow outside the ordinary routine : so-called Jewish crafts will be a thing of the past. Kecently, the Association received a letter from The number of appUcants seeking work has Even at the moment we are finding it extremely jjermany. The writer was the daughter of the increased, not only because of the Himgarian and diflficult to find machinists. miUiners, dressmakers, 'ate non-Jewish liberal poUtician, Gothein, who Egyptian refugees. At the same time, less offers furriers, cabinet-makers, tailors, to mention just a AK '"u"^ ^^'^ ^^^ Chairman of the Verein zur are being received. Unemployment means not few. Although we are living in a machine age, 7,w\ ^^^ Antisemitismus Miss Gothein had only financial difficulties. Our refugees want a a good craftsman can always be assured of a liveli­ ^ '*'''e-clock which Bismarck had given to Baron certain security in life and the fear of not finding hood, no matter where he decides to settle ". sfro "?,'^tein, the "graue Eminenz der WiUielm- suitable employnrient is very real. Please send us Altogether 631 situations were filled by the uasse '. The Baron had, in turn, given this clock offers of vacancies for men and women, full or Bureau during the year.

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LONDON, W.l, Cemeteries LIMITED 16 FAWLEY ROAD 14 Bury Place, London, W.C.1 WEST HAMPSTEAD, N.W.6 HOL 4MI Telephene : HAMpslred 2564 Page 6 AJR INFORMATION November, 1957 IN MEMORIAM—BERTHOLD VIERTEL RECENT PUBLICATIONS " Berthold Viertel: Dichtungen und Doku­ "WHITE nRE" was the dream of a regenerate humanity". mente ", is the title of a publication by Kosel Inspired by this ideal from the beginning she Verlag, Munchen (DM. 21.50), intended as a Biography of Jessie Sampter worked for a brotherly co-existence between Arabs companion volume to the Else Lasker-Schiiler and Jews. In her own person she experienced the volume compiled by the same editor—the actor Dr. Bertha Badt-Strauss, the biographer of bitter reality. In contrast to her dream she Ernst Ginsberg. The choice of the editor and the Rahel Lewin, now, more than fifty years later, became witness of the disturbances and pogroms style of this commemorative book was the lale gives us the life and work of another important of 1920 and 1929. She came face to face with Jewish woman, very different from the heroine of I producer and author's own wish. reality and, after the riots of 1929, gave herself I The book contains a good selection of Viertel's her former great book. She awakes to new life as a birthday present two guns which she hid under the great personality of Jessie Sampler.* j poems; his tale " Das Gnadenbrot", his famous the floor of her living room with the prayer : : essay on Karl Kraus (still the best ever written Jessie Sampter, born in New York in 1883, died " May they rest for ever". But she was never 1 about that fascinating and controversial figure), in Giwath Brenner, Israel, in 1938. She is shaken in her confidence that at the end peace fragments of an autobiography, and appreciations eminent among the men and women who educated between the children of Jzchak and those of of the author on the occasion of his 60th and 70th American Jewry for Zionism. In her native town Ishmael would come. birthdays, and tells of his death in Vienna iD she organised the School of Zionism instituted by 1953. The contributors are Thomas and Heinrich Hadassah, and wrote the manuals and text books She wrestled with the overwhelming problems of our age—Jewish as well, as human. She solved Marm, Alfred Polgar and Hermann Broch, Bert- of the movement. She did not only hold firm hold Brecht, Karl Zuckmayer and Heinrich convictions, but did more than that by translating them for her own person in a unique way, accord­ ing to her innermost self. Thus it is the picture Fischer—what a host of great names, of which our them into real life. After many years of Zionist world has since become poorer. In his contribu­ activity in America, she emigrated to Palestine, of an uncommon woman, seen within the frame of her days, of our days, that becomes apparent tion, Heinrich Fischer predicts that our period will as it then was, in 1919, and always returned there be called that of the " Einzelganger", and cites from visits to America. In Jerusalem, Rehovoth in Bertha Badt-Strauss's fascinating biography. It and Giwath Brenner, she found her special calling is the impression this great personality makes on Peter Altenberg, Else Lasker-Schuler, Georg Trakl and her own field of work in helping the oppressed, the reader that lends its charm to this book and and Karl Kraus as examples, together with the in particular the children of the Yemenites. In warrants its lasting importance. •• Einzellaufer " Viertel. addition, her great educational activity found DR. M. ESCHELBACHER Berthold Viertel has always been a riddle, even expression in an extensive literary production. to himself, and when he started writing his auto­ First in English and, since 1934, in Hebrew, she biographical fragments he did not do so out of wrote poems, articles, essays, an autobiography "YOU'LL SEE" vanity but as a discussion with God. He is the "The Speaking Heart" and a long novel " In The " eternal Jew", not so much on account of his Beginning". But her activity was not restricted In telling you of this book we do so from an Ahasveric wanderings from Vienna to Dresden, to Zion. " There is hardly a modem Refonn from Dresden to Berlin, from Berlin to Dusseldorf Prayer Book or collection of hymns for Jewish entirely different angle to the books usually reviewed in this journal. Books dealing with (working with Louise Dumont and Gustav Linde­ children that does not include one or several poems mann after thc financial failure of the vanguard by her". Thirteen years after her death three of specific German-Jewish events or personalities are usually only reviewed here, and rightly so. " You'll theatre " Die Truppe " he had founded in Berlin), her hymns were included in the Union Hymnal, from Dusseldorf to Hollywood, back to Berlin and edited by the Central Conference of American See ",* however, has nothing to do with Germany or German Jewry (apart from mentioning Germany Vienna and, after 1933, to London, New York. Rabbis, and are sung in the Service in the Zurich and Vienna again. He is the " etemal Jew Synagogue. as it mentions other countries), and our interest because he is always aware of Jewish destiny, with in it is principally because it is the latest brain a prophet's quest and questioning. In his essay Her achievement is awe-inspiring because she child of our old friend Egon Larsen. on Karl Kraus, who so bitterly attacked some of could perform it only by superhuman effort. At We were fascinated and enthralled by the con­ his co-religionist writers, Viertel discovered and the age of twelve she contracted polio. This fright­ tents of the book. You may disagree with analysed his deep Jewish instincts and impulses. ful affliction left its scars throughout her whole some of the views Mr. Larsen holds and you may life. Her back remained curved and her fingers be dumbfounded by some of the things that happen The " Pojaz " (to use the word in a more elevated crippled, but beyond this the disease could not in his world of 1982, but you will never be bored sense) and the prophet were intricately mixed in affect her. " Sometimes she succeeded in ignoring by him nor will your interest flag. To give you Berthold Viertel. Though never an actor, he found her illness and making others forget it. Perhaps an idea of what " You'll See " is about, we think it in the theatre the realisation of Angelus Silesius's her indomitable will to go her own way in matters best to detail some of the "blurb" on the dust- words " Mensch, werde wesentlich ! " He could spiritual as well as in everyday life, grew up in the cover of the book: not " vorspielen ", could not show the actors ho* days of her illness ". to act, but the right word was always at his com­ "Suppose you were lo go to sleep tonight and mand and he was so much in control of it that Whatever she undertook and performed grew t ut not wake up for 25 years. What would the world he could correct the actors and actresses at of her search for God. Her grandparents on both be like then ? This book tells you what it could rehearsals. The range of his talents was wide—' sides had immigrated from Germany, but her be like in the 1980s. It has two main distinctions from Euripides (we miss his version of the " Bac­ father and mother were bom in America, both chantes " in the volume) to O'Neill, from Hamsun Jews, no longer connected with the synagogue. from other works which hazard a picture of the to Tennessee Williams, from Shakespeare to Kalt- The chaos of the period becomes manifest in the future: first, most of its readers will be alive to neker and others. And in Hollywood, where he ways they and Jessie's friends developed. Some see the world of 1982; second, at the end of the produced many films successfully, he was one oi found their religion in Ethical Culture, proclaimed book the author details the present-day scientific the very few people honoured by Greta Garbo's by Felix Adler, one became a Roman Catholic discoveries and inventions, the developments and friendship. and another, Mary Antin, at the end " worshipped trends on which his predictions are based, and he a Hindu prophet, Sri Baba ". But, contrary to all furnishes ample eviJence in the form of some His love of the German language vexed him of them, Jessie Sampter became what she had not startling photographs of laboratory experiments, during his exile. He called himself a writer whose been from the beginning—^ devout Jewish woman. models, and prototypes from a number of countries. purpose it was to " keep the wound open ", and TTie basis of her faith was a deep loyalty to Jewish Thus the book is no idle speculation—-it is mainly he asked himself: tradition. She followed it with humble obedience, based on fact." "Dass ich bei Tag und Nacht and at the same time with complete independence. In " Rhymes for the Jewish Child " she extolled This novel—if it may be called such because In dieser Sprache schreibe, the Jewish year with all its festivals and its fast the flimsy story just hinges together the depicting Ihr treuer als der Freundschaft und dem Weibe days, but in a book " Al Ha-Ikkar, on the Funda­ of the wonders and achievements of the future— Es wird mir viel verdacht." mentals ", she translated into Hebrew selected does not deal only with science. If you are at How did Viertel and the theatre come together ? essays of the Indian teacher and preacher Krishna all a science fan you will be enthralled by the Having, we might say, to " play" his character Murti. She was a professed socialist, rejected science fiction aspect of the book, but we are never all the time—without possessing the self-exnression private property and transformed this demand into allowed to forget how very much it is based on of an actor—his burning soul and his chastising practice when, in 1934, she handed over all her fact. Not only does it give you science in an easy, wrath became his second nature and, as they were property to the Kibbutz Giwath Brenner. "Too digestible form (somewhat like the " new-food" frail to work the land and build the roads as the genuine traits of his personality, his ethic* young chalutzoth were doing, too weak to guard the mentioned by Mr. Larsen); we also get an aspect appeared not so much as the system of a literary- settlement as the ' Watchwomen' did in the times into the natural development of trends apparent political and religious thinker, but as an ennoblinS of danger, she wanted the Beth Hawraah (con­ today—into politics, education, medicine, revelation of nature. valescent home) to represent her own contribution psychiatry, the treatment of criminals, methods of His many stage productions cannot be revived to the upbuilding of the homeland". Guiding, travel (including a trip to the moon), into the lay­ any more, though posterity nowadays brinS' teaching children of the Yemenites as well as out of the new cities (and our dilapidated London wreaths, not only to " Mimen " but also to pro­ others, writing for the young in Israel and all becomes a tripper's paradise), and into many other ducers. But the twelve films he produced stiU over the world, always active, she spent the last things. In fact, Mr. Larsen has made his book remain as documents even if, as happens in films- four years of her life in Giwath Brenner, and not only an interesting scientific study but it is they are out-dated in parts. And above all, Bert­ there she died of malaria without anguish and also virtually a social document. hold Viertel lives in the book, " Berthold Viertel '• pain, only fifty-five years of age. Dichtungen und Dokumente ", as a lyric poet, as It is diflicult to put the book down once you a story-teller whose approach to the theatre was She had always fought for her conviction : " The have started it—you'll see ! broad and humanitarian, and as a personality who dream of Zionism, as we dreamed it in America, A. RUBIN could instil his own enthusiasm into all he met • Bcftha Badt-Stnmss. " WWte Fbe." The Life and Work and all with whom he worked. of Jessie Sampler. Thc Reconstructionist Prcis. New York. * Eton LaruB. " YoaHl Sec—^Report from

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Own type­ ALL MAKES at the age of 93 years. Former Residents of Kalisch- writer. Box 291. BOUGHT especially those who might be able to CLASSIFIED EXP. COOK, available for part-time SOLD give information concerning the family Situations Wanted work in private household. Box 292. EXCHANGED of the shoemaker and property owner Men NEEDLEWOMAN available for Josef Sieradzki, are asked to contac the United Restitution Office, I83/1»^ PACKER, MESSENGER or FAC­ dressmaking, alterations, mending, REPAIRED & MAINTAINED darning, etc. Box 293. Finchley Road, London, N.W.3, TORY position sought by elderly, Hans Ritter, born in Berlin 4.6.1908- quick worker, with weak eves. ATTENDANCE on sick people, Box 279. Last-known residence: Essener St. 1'' invalids or children, daily or hourly, Beriin, Son of Ernst and Charlotte by reliable woman. Box 294, ELITETYPEWRITERCo. Ltd STOREKEEPER, CLERK or similar WELbeck 2528 Ritter, Leitmann Str,, Beriin, Hans position sought by Hungarian refugee, HOME TYPING done by responsible Ritter's sister is Marion Heller, born exp. in textiles, speaks German, some neat worker. Also for scientific texts 18 CRAWFORD STREET 7,3.1907. His grandfather originate" English. Box 280, Box 295. (off BAKER STREET), W.l from Bohemia, ^iR INFORMATION November, 1957 Page 11 inserted by the publishers at the last moment with­ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR out my knowledge. I must admit that this last point is a fair target for Mr. Larsen's satiric blast. "TALKING OF TRANSLATIONS" reader more than a passing smile". Or has he It should be noted, however, that Sci-Art Pub­ looked over the shoulders of many readers ? lishers took a chartce on a commercitdly doubtful , •^";.—" Talking of Translations," in your Septem- Tucholsky is neither Thurber nor Benchley ; he is venture when bigger and more prosperous pub­ er issue. Egon Larsen makes sense until he gets Tucholsky, atui I believe that Tucho's stuff in lishers declined to present an author who has had (town to a specific case—my translation of selec- English compares favourably with what can be millions of readers in Germany. •'ons from Kurt Tucholsky. Then he vents his found in " Punch " or " The New Yorker ". There Yours, etc., P'^en and his personal prejudices begin to assert is no arguing about tastes, of course, and Mr. Harry Zohn 'nemselves. Naturally, anyone who publishes a Larsen is obviously quite Briticised and perhaps Brandeis University, ook must sttbmit to criticism and it is usudly even Americanised, for he presumes to be such Waltham, Mass., USA. '.'If for an author or translator to polemicise a judge of Bronx slang that he is able lo find villi a reviewer. But when mis-statements are my knowledge of it limited. I admit that I have "HUTCHINSON SQUARE REVISFTED" /"We, readers are entitled to some protection from never lived in the Bronx. "e'flg misled. Hence this rebutted, Mr. Larsen believes that the English reader will Sir,—As an old inmate of Hutchinson Camp, I ti ,," patting me on the back for attempting be confused " where we smile " by such terms as have read with great interest F. J. Wiener's '"e Well-nigh impossible ", Mr. Larsen seems to BoUe, Gebiihr, Otto Brahm, Paul Lindau, Brock­ " Hutchinson Square Revisited ". ,1'^"' "'e for not being a native of Berlin and haus and Slaatspartei. Personally, I see nothing I feel, however, that his vivid and just descrip­ ""s having no first-hand knowledge of ils milieu. funny about any of these terms. Not understand­ tion of the life in Hutchinson Camp must be incom­ s(n u ^'''^'of'ian need not have been present at, ing Ihem in no way interferes with the appreciation plete without mentioning the intensive artistic \p'. the destruction of Pompeii to write about it of the stories and sketches in which they appear. activities which were going on there. The inmates "owingly and accurately. Naturally, one may But maybe your reviewer is fond of footnotes. included a considerable number of outstanding marrel yvHh any anthologist's selection. But Mr. The examples Mr. Larsen gives to show my artistes, some of international fame, who treated ^rsen's mention of " Nachher" as one of the shortcomings as a translator are on the skimpy us to a series of exhibitions, concerts, arui lectures, pieces Ihal " do little credit to Tucholsky ", is unfor- side, 1 am afraid. Why the sentence " Where do which could be considered as first class by cmy 'uncue in view of the fact that the Georg Buchner the holes in the cheese come from ?" is supposed standard. til "\ '•^""''y published a complete volume of to sound like " laboured emigranto" is beyond Though I am unable to give a complete list of ofT ''^''''*''" pieces. Mr. Larsen writes : " Many me. Perhaps Mr. Larsen will be reassured to learn the famous artistes assembled in our camp, I want J J uclwlsky's lyrics were meant for the Kabarett, that I had the benefit of a critical reading of the to mention just a few whom I remember most „ " posterity can do lillie wilh them. They have entire book by one of my colleagues, a professor vividly. j°' ^^orn well". For "posterity" read "Egon of English composition, who was delighted with Professor Egon Wellesz, musicologist and com­ orien ". During my recent visit lo the Tucholsky Tucho in English. But I can say only this: poser; the pianist Professot Richard Glass; the ^'•c/iive.r in Bavaria. I listened to hours and hours Having published translations of Stefan Zweig, singers Hans Nachod, Professors Pollman and 7 'ranscripiions of broadcasts over various Ger- Sigmund Freud, Jacob Burckhardt, Heinrich Mann, Wagner; Marian Rawicz, of Rawicz and Lan­ inan radio stations which featured these lyrics. Else Lasker-Schiiler, Albrechl Goes, and others dauer fame; the sculptor Georg Ehrlich; the 'ssertations are being written about them, and who are far from easy to translate, I consider my painters Schwitters and Fred U hi mann; in the ardly a day goes by without some of Tucholsky's Tucholsky translations my best work thus far. field of lighter entertainment. Peter Herz. poems being reprinted in some German newspaper The other reviews of my book which have appeared I hope that others will come forward to com­ r magazine. The Kabarett is far from dead, and to date would seem to rrmke Mr. Larsen's criticism plete this lisl, showing what an incredible amount "cholsky's contributions lo it are today highly a minority opinion. But I hope that your readers of talent was gathered in the small space of "Ppreciated. will want to judge for themselves. Hutchinson Camp. yours, etc., Wr. Larsen displays remarkable powers of predic- One final word. Mr. Larseh is right in surmis­ F. Bume nntl f''^'' ''* ^"y^ ''"" f^^ "/ '''* pages in my ing that 1 am not responsible for Ihe title " The Oak Hill College. "nthology " will evoke from the' English-speaking World is a Comedy." And that J100 Contest was London. N.H.

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