THE DETROIT'JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 31, 1984 23 IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS NY court freezes assets from Sotheby's Judaica sale "Congregation Beth Shalom Cooks" Kosher Cookbook . New York (JTA) — A state Supreme Court judge Monday ordered Sotheby's auction house to freeze all assets from the sale last June of a collection of rare Judaica books and manu- scripts thought to have been destroyed by the Nazis in World War II. Judge Robert White also ordered that a trial be held to determine the rightful owner of the manuscripts, dating from the 13th through 19th Centuries, and that the international auction house make avail- able to Attorney General Robert Abrams, who brought the suit against Sotheby's, a list of all indi- viduals who purchased materials at the June 26 au- ction. binial Seminary in Cincin- nati. He has claimed he was given the books from the Berlin seminary to smuggle out of Germany and is-the rightful owner of the mate- rials. In his 11-page written de- cision Monday, White ap- peared to question Guttmann's claim to owner- ship of the materials. White also appeared to question whether he was given the materials or whether he was to only smuggle the materials out of Germany. "Upon the totality of the eviddhce presented thus far, it seems likely that Dr. Guttmann was one of the many individuals who, in the Mosaic tradition, was charged with the safe transmission of the law and culture of the Jewish people," White wrote. In concluding his deci- sion, White added: "There is every indication that rather than share these master works with other scholars upon his arrival in this country, he actively con- cealed their existence. These actions are not con- sistent with a firmly held belief in his rightful title," White said. No date has been set for the trial. Sotheby's said it will comply with the re- quest for all the names of the purchasers to be supplied to the Attorney General's office. The Attorney General's office said it "is pleased by the decision, and intends to proceed immediately" with gathering further informa- tion from the auction house. Sotheby's, which was re- cently purchased by De- troiter A. Alfred Taubman, also indicated it was satis- fied with the court's deci- sion, saying, "We look for- ward to providing as much information' as possible." The court action by White is the latest development in the running battle between the auction house and the Attorney General's office. The auction was contested when Jewish organizations questioned the ownership of the materials, many of which came from a rabbini- cal seminary in Berlin, The College for the Scientific Study of Jewish Culture. It was revealed just two weeks ago in an affidavit filed by Sotheby's that the alleged owners of the items are Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Guttmann. Dr. Guttmann, 82, is a professor at the Rab- Extremism in Europe is 'danger' to Jews New York (JTA) — Gre- ville Janner, the head of the British Jewish community, warned this week of serious dangers threatening the position of Jews in Europe from the extreme right and the extreme left. He pointed especially to the. recent elections for the European Parliament in which "11 to 12 percent of the, French electorate voted fascist." Janner was refer- ring to the elections last June in which the National Front, led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, won 11 percent of the vote. Janner, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and a member of the British Parliament, spoke of the dangers facing Euro- pean Jews at a meeting Monday of the leadership of 30 American national Jewish organizations at an executive meeting of the American Section of the World Jewish Congress. Pointing out that "Americans have heard al- most nothing" about the electoral inroads made by fascist parties in Europe. Janner observed that, on the other hand, "when Is- rael voted 1.5 percent fas- cist (referring to Meir Kahane's election) every newspaper in the world was filled with it." European Jewry was opposed to ra- cists of any sort., he said. Elaborating on the poten- tial, dangers to Jews in Europe, Janner pointed to the sharp economic downturn on the continent which is pushing many of the disadvantaged into ex- tremist camps of the right and left.. "The Jews have always had their golden age in time of prosperity, and to me the long-term indica- tions are bad," Janner said. The threat from ter- rorism, he said was rising and spreading throughout ttt the world. "The PLO is an international terrorist emanation spreading throughout the globe, and it doesn't help the Jews to live in terrorist times," he added. Finally, he suggested that in Europe, as in much of the rest of the world, there is diminishing sym- pathy for the Jewish condi- tion, and this was also a rea- son for his pessimistic out- look. "The image of the Holocaust is receding, so that people no longer have a guilt complex about the Jews," Janner said. Janner was recently elected chairman of the World Jewish Congress- European Branch and was in New York to brief Ameri- can Jewish leaders on the state of European Jewry. He also reported on his recent meetings with Prime Minis- ter Indira Gandhi of India and Prime Minister Robert Mugabi of Zimbabwe. • • • • • 1,000 Kosher recipes: Meat, Dairy, Pareve Special Passover Section Hints and Substitutions for non-Kosher items Spiral Binding to lie flat All recipes complete on one page Send $10 plus $1.50 for postage and handling to SISTERHOOD CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM 14601 W. Lincoln Oak Park, Mich 48237 . IS IT EASY TO BE JEWISH? Perhaps, Not Always, But . . . 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