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"We read your publication with
great pleasure," Mr. Goldschei-
der reads aloud to me, "and we'd
like to order some copies."
Another letter, also praising
the publication and requesting
copies, is from the Islamic Com-
munity of Frankfurt.
Mr. Goldscheider is pleased
that the magazine is reaching
non-Jewish readers. "We're in-
terested in attracting non-Jew-
ish readers," he says. "We want
to help them understand the Jew-
ish perspective."
He himself has been interest-
ed in the Jewish perspective ever
since he moved to Germany with
his parents and brother in 1981.
Before that, he had lived in
Prague, his native city, where he
had no involvement in Judaism.
"I didn't know anything about
Jewish life," he says." I wasn't cir-
cumcised. I didn't have a bar
mitzvah. The system tried to fight
any religious activity."
His father, a survivor of
Auschwitz, was reluctant to tell
his son about his Jewish heritage
at first. As a very young boy,
when Filipp asked about the tat-
too on his father's arm, his father
replied that it was a phone num-
ber.
"But when I was 9 years old,
he told me the truth," Mr. Gold-
scheider relates." Then he said,
But don't tell anyone you're Jew-
ish! Just keep it in the family.' "
By the time he was 11, his par-
ents had decided to immigrate to
Germany, mainly to give their
two sons the chance to live open-
ly as Jews. Germany might seem
a surprising choice; but as Mr.
Goldscheider explains, it was an
obvious one to his father, who has
a German and Austrian back-
ground, speaks fluent German
and wanted to stay in Central
Europe.
In Frankfurt, Mr. Goldschei-
der became much more interest-
ed in Judaism. "I got very
involved in the dilemma of Jew-
ish life and culture in Germany,
and I started to feel very Jewish,"
he relates.
He began to attend events at
Frankfurt's Jewish Community
Center, and soon became active
in a Jewish youth organization,
helping to organize events and
activities for young Jews.
By the time he was a sociology
major at the University of Frank-
furt, his involvement in Jewish
youth activities paved the way for
the launching of Chuzpe.
He and his friends had been
busy organizing social and cul-
tural events for Jews who were
18 and over (the official JCC
youth activities in Frankfurt are
for youth under 18) — and soon
they began talking about anoth-
er way to involve their peers.
Their idea was to start a mag-
azine that would be geared to
their interests. "Our aim was to
be informative, to raise current
issues, and to interest people in
Jewish life and culture," says Mr.
Goldscheider.
Then came many brainstorm-
ing sessions. Mr. Goldscheider re-
calls one late night session when
he and the others sat in a cage
trying to figure out the right
name for their new magazine.
"We talked about different
names, and somebody even sug-
gested The Ghetto Express" he re-
calls. "then somebody else said,
`We can't use that — it's too
chutzpah.' The we all said,
"Chutzpah! That's it!' "
The first issue of Chuzpe was
in print last November. and
things have been hectic ever
since. "It's been much more suc-
cessful than we ever imagined
it would be," says Mr. Goldschei-
der. "And we're very excited
about it."
He's especially excited to be
making a contribution to Jewish
life in Germany — something
he's become committed to during
his years in Frankfurt.
"It's not easy to be Jewish in
Germany. It's a lot of work, he re-
flects. "You're always confronted
with the past, and you have to
work for the future.
"But it's very important for
Jews to be in Germany. This was
a place where Jewish life had
great importance. And now it's
important to let it grow and blos-
som again." O
A Family Portrait
At Frankfurt's Museum
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here will be delicate French
porcelain on display from
the family's private collec-
tion, rare coins, plus pho-
tographs, original letters, books,
and documents of all sorts.
In fact, over 1000 different ob-
jects will be included when the
Jewish Museum of Frankfurt
presents its a special exhibition
about the Rothschild Family
starting this October.
Titled "The Rothschilds — A
European Family," this is the
first exhibition devoted to this
prominent Jewish family. It is
a major event for Frankfurt's
prestigious Jewish Museum.
"The entire museum will be
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