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May-June 1974

Exchange with Hans Bachrach about R. Saul Berman's Visit to Australia and Counterpoint (1974)

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1. Hans Bachrach to R. Lamm

1. Hans Bachrach to R. Lamm (May 30, 1974)

1. Hans Bachrach to R. Lamm (May 30, 1974)

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Exchange with Hans Bachrach with Reflections on Australia Trip (1973)

Dear Mr. Stern, Rabbi Norman and Mrs. Lamm have stimulated, electrified and greatly influenced a fair section of our Melbourne community. We are delighted with their visit and we only hope that the heavy schedule which they undertook in this city will be offset by a few days rest before their return to the United States. I'm sure you will be delighted to hear that out of an overall total Jewish population of 35,000 in Victoria, Rabbi Lamm will have addressed at least 4,500 during his stay here. Allowing for the fact that a number of people attend more than one lecture, the Rabbi has had at least 2,000 different people listen to him who will long remember his visit. Most likely you have heard the Rabbi explain that our great Teachers are known by their works rather than by their names; our Teachers and their Book form an Identity. Similarly, Rabbi Lamm’s lectures were the mirror of his personality and Melbourne laves him for it.We, here in Australia, are grateful to the Jewish Center for allowing the Rabbi sufficient "holidays" for this visit. The Jewish Center is blessed with a great jewel. Please continue to share the Rabbi'׳ time and energy with Jewry in the rest of the U.S.A, and with us in Australia. Your congregation, will be blessed by all the Jews who come in contact with your remarkable genius.Here in Melbourne we are discussing with the Rabbi a certain follow programme and we hope that Rabbi Lamm will help in selecting Rabbis, camp councill and youth leadership instructors from the U.S.A, to spend two months in Australia next year.May I suggest to make the life of the Rabbi a bit easier, and to allow his message to be driven home to greater numbers, that your congregation provide the Rabbi with an "avante gard" to prepare his visits and possibly a group of young men and ladies to follow up (not speaking of Australia) on the Rabbi's wo Rabbi Lamm's message could possibly bear even greater fault.I deep gratitude to you and to your congregation, I remain,Sinc…

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Exchange with Hans Bachrach about Reflections on Australia Trip (1973)

My Dear Rabbi and Mrs. Lamm, Gini, the children and I hope that you enjoyed the Shabbath in Wellington and the few days at Waitoma and Rotorura, and naturally we are curious to know whether you followed our suggestion of spending the next Shabbath on the West Coast prior to returning to cold New York. When you expressed to me that my expressions of "avante gard" and "follow up" were not very clear in my letter to Mr. Stern, I believe I was able to rectify this as per the enclosed copy and I hope that I did the right thing. I also enclose photo and letter received from "The Y" and Great Synagogue as well as two pages from the Jewish News. Undoubtedly, you will also be interested in an article just published by the Sydney "Sun Herald" even though I believe that the spiegel article dates back quite a considerable time. This morning, walking through the Botanical Gardens, I remembered the quarter-hour which we spent there together and I'm happy to report that the winter/spring blossoms in white, pink and red have now come out in full. You surely would enjoy seeing how quickly nature advances.Yesterday, we greatly enjoyed the Werdiger wedding. The bride and bridegroom, on arrival, did not proceed to the Head Table as usual but the men circled the bridegroom and the girls the bride and dancing started with a gusto. This set the tone for the whole evening and I feel the example of Robin and Debbie will be emulated.I have also written to Mr. Freedman as per the enclosed copy.Hoping you found Haya, Josh, Shalom and Sara in good health on your return, I remain with fondest regards,
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Exchange with Hans Bachrach about R. Saul Berman's Visit to Australia (1974)

My Dear Rabbi Lamm, I appreciate receipt today of your letter of 30th May and your cable. I fully understand that Rabbi and Mrs. Berman would like to spend Shabbath together and we will definitely not separate them. Enclosed please find copy of my answer to Dr. Stern, from which you will note that basically the group seems to be prepared to adopt the softer approach as I had advocated. I do not know whether Dr. Stern's non reply to the letter left the matter open because I have not heard from him further in this matter either. Kind regards, Hans
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