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origins of anti-Semitism today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: November 1999 October 1999 September 1999 August 1999 July 1999 June 1999 May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 Ignatz Bubis: A Memoir (written for AR in 1997 while he was still alive) The Problem with Boobies London — IGNATZ BUBIS, current Vorsitzender des Zentralrates der
Juden in Germany, was the self-appointed chief of the minuscule community of 60,000 Jews in that country, which now includes a substantial number invited to live in Germany from the Soviet Union.
On Jan. 12 [1997] he celebrated his seventieth birthday in stately splendour in the presidential palace, Schloss Bellevue in Berlin.; the next day he celebrated it again in the centre of real power in Germany, Frankfurt am Main.
These lavish functions were attended by everybody who, as Dr Goebbels would have put it in his diary, had “power and an appetite” – the Speaker of the House, the Federal President, the Chief Justice, the heads of the parties, and the leaders of the religious and trades union communities.
They find him a worthy successor to Werner Nachmann , the former scrap-metal dealer who headed the community before him from 1967 to his probable suicide in Jan. 1988 — after which demise it turned out that he had embezzled twenty milli
on marks of German taxpayers’ hard-earned funds poured into the [Holocaust] restitution funds, to shore up his own bankrupt empire.
Bubis himself heaped excoriation on Nachmann in his memoirs, Damit bin ich noch längst nicht fertig (1996), admitting that “between 1982 and 1988 Nachmann stole almost twenty milli
on marks of restitution funds for the victims of National Socialism,” a crime which, Bubis had to concede, damaged “not only the image of the Zentralrat [in Germany] but that of the entire [Jewish religious community worldwide.” With what glee right-wingers now cite the oleaginous funeral eulogies for Nachmann spoken by the then Federal president, the odious Richard von Weizsäcker , and that printed by the Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung
on Feb 5, 1988, just before Nachmann’s thieving was discovered; it was all rather reminiscent of the British establishment’s oily praise for Robert Maxwell (a.k.a. Jan Hoch), publishing mogul, who literally jumped overboard one night rather than face the music when his publishing empire began to collapse. Maxwell was safely buried as a hero on the Mount of Olives before it was found he had embezzled millions from his companies’ pension funds in a vain attempt to patch up the wreck.
WHICH brings us