z^saiss "mm *\ Information Volume XLVI No. 4 Aprd 1991 £3 (to non-members) Don't miss . Different, and yet the same Sir Yehudi at 75 Re-working a legend p4 Exodus - then and now The tongue In exile p5 his Passover editorial was written on the Feast between a quarter and a third. This will inevitably set The perennial of Esther - ever a time of crisis. In pre-Purim up tensions as new olim compete with "natives' for Protocols pi3 Tdays when Jews met in Moscow one would ask jobs, housing and social service provisions. Even so, the other 'Are you off to Saddam's War, or are you however great the strain on Israel's social fabric, no staying for ours?' 'Ours' in this context meant the one is going to tell the newcomers to go back to their Shea debate incipient war of all against all - but especially against own country. update the Jews - that threatens to engulf the unravelling The absence of this jibe from the Israeli vocabulary Soviet Empire. constitutes the crucial difference between immi­ c Pen is fined As we know, many Russian Jews elected to brave gration into the Jewish State and any other on earth. heavily for the palpable danger of Saddam's Scud missiles rather Israel, of course, pursues a policy of 'ingathering Ldismissing the holocaust as a than the incorporeal but ever-present threat of exiles'. It is, however, not totally unique in so doing. bagatelle. Austrians Pamyat-instigated pogroms. How fittingly symbolic The Federal Republic receives ethnic Germans from denying the existence that we should celebrate this year's Passover against Eastern Europe, and former DDR residents, but its of Auschwitz are to the backdrop of the greatest Jewish exodus in citizens show little affection for the newcomers. be constrained hy modern history! Some forecasts predict that the influx Of late the catchphrase 'All men are Jews' has law. The DDP takes action against Lady of Soviet immigrants into Israel will ultimately gained a certain currency in intellectual circles. It Birdwood for increase the population of the Jewish State by implies that modern man facing ecological disaster or disseminating social disintegration shares the archetypal Jewish Stiirmer-xype experience of alienation. literature. The superficiality of the catchphrase can be Simultaneously gleaned from the reaction to immigrants in even the Edward Heath made a contribution to the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING most prosperous and pluralistic societies. debate on the War Germany, Croesus of the EEC and the object of Crimes Bill that defies praise for unifying without nationalist triumphalism, rational analysis. The The Association of Jewishi Refugees in has a much disparaged underclass of (mainly) man who as Prime Great Britain advises Members and Turkish Gastarbeiter. Guest workers have also met Minister displayed the Friends that the Annual General IVIeeting vision to take Britain with much antipathy in those oases of neutrality and into Kurope spoke in will be held on bien pensant prosperity, Switzerland and Austria. tones that fill one with France, with several million North African immi­ a mixture of disbelief THURSDAY 6 JUNE 1991, 7.30 p.m. grants, 'boasts' the numerically strongest racist party and horror. For an in the whole of Europe. elder Western statesman to endorse Not that the number of immigrants is directly the self-exculpating at proportionate to the degree of hatred they arouse. we-oiily-obeyed- The now defunct DDR imported around fifty thou­ orders chorus of the 15 CLEVE ROAD, LONDON NW6 sand "Vietnamese guest workers who are current accused at Nuremberg targets of vicious - and sometimes lethal - assault by is bad enough; but for him to describe Jewish neo-Nazi skinheads. representatives seeking A talk will be given by In the 199()s immigration, and its attendant prob­ belated punishment lems, bids to move to the top of the global agenda. for heinous crimes as Rabbi Hugo Gryn Driven by hunger, millions will want to cross the vengeful Shylocks metaphorical Rio Grande separating their squalid awakens echoes of what was shouted Full details and Annual Report will appear in homelands from the goldene medines of North from Nuremberg's the May issue. America and Western Europe. That this, too, forms rooftops for twelve part of the Jewish experience, is something it years before the Trial. behoves us to remember during Passover 5751. AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1991 Red top brass eyesight and other disabilities have, increas­ Child carer ingly, restricted her scope. Major General Filatow, who is about to Fortunately, a ticket scheme for the reprint the Protocols of Zion in the Soviet disabled operates in London, under which Journal of Military History {AJR volunteers take them to plays and concerts. Information March issue), flew to Baghdad Recently one such volunteer and her hus­ just before the land war started. He said band drove Elizabeth home from a concert Soviet experts had done a good job training at the Festival Hall. En route, they passed Saddam's soldiers. 'These people are very the unfinished British Library building cunning. They have prepared a lot of traps. which is festooned with blow-ups of such The Americans will find some and fall into all-time greats as Darwin and Einstein. The others. Blood will flow in torrents,' he sight of the latter prompted Elizabeth to say warned. D 'Einstein was my uncle; 1 still have a postcard he sent me'. 'And I know exactly An historic first what he wrote on that postcard', said the The Lubavitch movement organised the volunteer's husband, Mr H. Smolins, a distribution of Purim parcels for 2,000 former Physics lecturer steeped in Einstein's Jewish American soldiers serving in the life and work. (The postcard is the famous Gulf. Interestingly enough, this was the first one where Einstein, to compensate Elizabeth Ney. Photo: Nt'ii'ithiii. time in some 1,.300 years that Purim was Elizabeth - who had never seen him - for celebrated in Arabia. D her exclusion from a family outing, sent her lizabeth Ney's family had lived in a description of himself as having a modest Hamburg combats amnesia South-West Germany for generations. paunch, angular gait and a cigar in the EShe assumes that they migrated to mouth.) An exhibition Four Hundred Years of Jews Wiirttemberg in the 1700s, having pre­ Miss Ney shares many of her famous in Hamburg will open on 7 November viously lived in Hohenems. This small relative's attributes: modesty, musicality, a 1991, fiftieth anniversary of the start of Austrian town near the Swiss border hosts strong inclination to do good. Unlike him, deportations from the Hanseatic port. One an annual Schubert Festival often attended she is only known to a few. But those she key exhibit will be a menorah donated to by (the t)lder) Miss Ney. Love of music ran has helped remember her down the years: the community in 1662 by Jews fleeing in the family. Her mother played piano, her two former Kinder do her weekly shopping Chmelnitzki's pogroms. Another will be an brother violin; a more distant violin-playing now. • RG illuminated ketubah dated 1648; the groom relative was Albert Einstein. Professionally listed in that marriage contract was Manuel the Neys were engaged in the textile and Isaac Texeiras, Royal Swedish emissary to leather trades. the Hanse and donor of the copper roof of Elizabeth came to England in the THE STORY OF OUR GROUP! St Michael's church. The Hamburg Land Nazi-shadowed Thirties. Since she was The London Leo Baeck Institute committee of the FDP want to turn the unhappy as a domestic, Woburn has just published exhibition into a permanent memorial to House-based Anna Schwab arranged for Second Chance Hamburg Jewry, a community which in its her to attend Secretarial College on a loan, Two Centuries of heyday numbered over 20,000. n to be repaid out of subsequent earnings. German-speaking Jews After a stint with the scriptwriter of The in the United Kingdom Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel she went to Co-ordinating Editor work in Mrs Schwab's office, moving with Werner E. Mosse Let your body her to Bloomsbury House. Editors Julius Carlebach, Gerhard Hirschfeld take a holiday Initially her brief was the placing of Aubrey Newman, Arnold Paucker, Peter Pulzer domestics as well as catering to the mani­ Over thirty authors write on different aspects of the Whilst enjoying good quality hotels and history of the refugees from Central Europe who came excellent cuisine, v^^hy not ease your aches fold needs of refugee children. After a while to this country fleeing Nazi persecution. They also trace and pains with the famous Fango mud the 'Movement for the Care of Children' the story of those who had come before them seeking a treatments as well as Health, Beauty and new life in the United Kingdom. took up all her time. Work with the Kinder This volume marks the first systematic attempt to Fitness therapy. only ended in 1948 and included the post­ evaluate the German-Jewish experience in Britain. It ABANO SPA, ITALY covers Ihe process of migration, including the legal and war settlement of young Holocaust sur­ administrative problems that needed to be overcome, Abano is situated in beautiful countryside vivors in Britain. In all this she derived the patterns of settlement, the difficulties of adaptation just 45 minutes from Venice. and the two-way process of integration. The essays in guidance and support from such pivotal this collection show both what the newcomers received Schedule flights from Heathrow and figures in Refugee Aid as Joan Stiebel, Mrs from British society and what they were able to regional airports - Prices with or without contribute.