A considerable number of meetings, broadcasts, theatrical and musical performances highlight the annual observance of “Brotherhood Week,” which is now in progress under the sponsorship of Prof. Theodor Heuss, West German President, as a project of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation.
In Frankfurt, Bundestag Deputy Speaker Carlo Schmid addressed a gathering in the secularized St. Paul’s Church, a shrine of German democracy. A Munich matinee featured Bavarian Minister President Wilhelm Hoegner and Bundestag Speaker Eugen Gersternmaier. Chief Rabbi Kurt Wilhelm, of Stockholm, spoke both at Karlsruhe and in Duesseldorf, where he shared the speaker’s platform with North Rhine Westphalian Premier Karl Arnold. Dr. Alfred Wiener, head of the Wiener Library in London, is to deliver talks in Bielefeld and Dortmund.
It is particularly the smaller German radio stations that have scheduled some remarkable programs. Radio Bremen carried Yiddish folk songs, as well as Max Brod’s German translation of the Hebrew hit play “His Reputation Precedes Him” by Efraim Kishon.
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