42 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 21, 1919 Jewish Intellectuals Proliferated in Pre-Nazi Germany By ALLEN WARSEN "Part of my purpose in writing this book is to give British and American readers some inkling of what was lost in the collapse of the Weimar Renaissance, and how much of remains forgotten to this day. Those who have not studied the arts of Germany in detail can hardly be expected to grasp the magnitude of the disaster." Thus wrote Frederic V. Grumfeld in his book "Prophets Without Honor," published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. The volume is an historic account of the Jewish intel- lectuals who were among the foremost scientists, literati, critics, and publi- o. PO Y'S SEA FOOD Best Wishes rMERO For A Happy and Joyous New Year so O aooi O 3 Locations 0 COUNTRY VILLAGE 12 Mile & Evergreen, Southfield 357-1838 • OLD ORCHARD SHOPPING CENTER Maple & Orchard Lake Road 626-7595 • MEADOWBROOK MALL Walton Blvd., Rochester, Mich. 375-9530 cists in pre-Nazi Germany. They included Fer- dinand Julius Cohen, the founder of bacteriology; Paul Ehrlich, the inven- tor of the first practical form of chemotherapy; Franz Boas, the tather of cultural anthropoloty; Albert Einstein, who in- troduced the theory of relativity; Sigmud Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis; the poetess Else Lasker- Schuler; poet-critic Wal- ter Benjamin; and scores of others. In spite of their immense contributions to German culture, these intellectuals were despised and maligned by German Jew-haters. They accused Einstein of in- troducing Jewish physics; Freud of inventing Jewish psychology; Mahler's music, they claimed, "spoke with a Jewish accent — sie judelt." The author recounted eloquently the life-stories of the most renowned German-Jewish intellectu- als. Among these are Sig- mund Freud and Gustav Mahler. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born in Freiberg, Moravia in 1856. His mother, born in Galicia, died at the age of 95 and is remembered for her vitality and impatience. His father, Jacob, a descendant of a Lithuanian family, strug- gled all his life to find "ways of earning a living." Yet, de- spite their poor living condi- tions, the family encouraged Sigmund in his studies; and he "always, managed to be first in class in school." While in his teens, he • The DIAN" ND MARKET 'A Unique Shopping Experience - A Cut Above the Rest!" 26020 W. 12 MILE RD. Southfield Monday Thru Saturday 9-11 (East of Northwestern) 3542666 PACKAGE LIQUO Sunday 11-8 DEALER / May You Enjoy Peace, Good Health g Prosperity, 1979 5740 HAPPY NEW YEAR enrolled at the University of Vienna where he felt the sting of Austian anti- Semitism. Years later, he re- minisced: "Because I was a Jew I found myself free of many prejudices which restrict others in the use of the intellect: as a Jew I was prepared to be in the opposition and to renounce agreement with the 'compact major- ity. , Not surprisingly, psychiatrists who came to Vienna in the 1920s from all over the world to study psychoanalysis were as- tonished to hear: "Prof. Freud? Never heard his name." "The Introduction of Dreams," published in 1899, is regarded as "Freud's greatest adventure in his exploration of the un- conscious" and the begin- ning of psychoanalysis. This great book was followed by "Psychopathology of Every- day Life" and other books. His last published book was the controversial "Moses and Monotheism." Soon after the Nazi inva- sion of Austria in 1938, Nazis broke into Freud's home, robbed it, and were ready to send him and the members of his family to a concentration camp. But thanks to the intervention of friends who ransomed him, Freud and his family were allowed to leave Vie- nna for London where he died in 1939. Prophetically, "When the war broke out he was certain that it would mean the end of Hitler, but when a speaker on the BBC declared that this was to be the last war, Freud said wearily, Anyhow, it is my last war.' " Gustav Mahler, the foremost conductor of his generation, was born in Kalischt, Bohemia in 1860. His mother, Maria Her- mann, was the daughter of a soapmaker, whom she mar- ried against her better judgment. Some time later Gustav remarked that his parents were "as ill- matched as fire and water." Remarkably, Gustav at age of four knew by heart 200 popular songs, reports Bruno Walter. "Whenever he could not be found at home, it was certain that he had gone marching off with some regiment, or else he might be standing on a "Kaffeehous" table singing songs for a throng of cus- tomers." Years later, Mahler be- came known as the greatest Wagnerian conductor. Yet, he was excluded from the Bayreuth Wagner Fastval by the composer's widow, Cosina Wagner. Natalie Bauer- Lechner, Mahler's first wife, described him as follows: "Mahler, who is below middle height, has a delicate, slender and spare body, though an extraordinary strength and suppleness, hardly equalled even by the tal- lest. In Budapest, he used to carry his sister Justi, who is heavier than he is, fully dressed in her winter clothes and fur coat, up three flights of stairs every day to save her having to walk up; since she was very ill." Mahler's final triumph took place in Munich in 1910 when he conducted his "Symphony of a Thousand" before an "audience that in- cluded most of the luminaries of the Austro- German musical world." He died a year later, in 1911, at the age of 51 in a Viennese sanatorium. BEST KOSHER SAUSAGE CO., CHICAGO IL 60608 MIAMI BAKE SHOPPE 8 Locations 31225 Southfield Rd. 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