Nahum Goldmann —Spokesman for the Jewish People

THZ DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 18, 1969-13

By JOSEF FRAENKEL
dent of the Zionist Organization and (the fore-runners were Theodor
INCORPORATED
London Correspondent
in March, 1932, Sokolow and Gold- Herzl, 1897-1904: David Wolffsohn, Committee To Resolve
Special to the Jewish News
mann conducted a successful Keren 1905-1911; Otto Warburg, 1911-1921;
Nahum Goldmann, born in Wis- Hayesod campaign in America. Chaim Weizmann. 1921-1931, 1935- Religious School Dispute
novo, Lithuania. July 10, 1895, was
It would be difficult to find a 1946: Nahum Sokolow, 1931-1935)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Deputy
trained to serve Zionism and the country which Goldmann has not and concentrated his efforts on Premier Yigal Allon has appointed
Jewish people. His father, Salomon visited in support of Jewish or Zion- Jewish unity.
a committee of three architects to
(1862-1933), a Hebrew teacher and ist affairs. He has addressed meet-
Goldmann visited Presidents, resolve a dispute between two Or-
writer, who wrote under the pen- ings all over the world on the ministers, government officials — thodox religious schools that were
name "Shalmon," settled in Frank- problems of Palestine (Israel) and even the Pope — to persuade them reopened in East Jerusalem fol-
furt, when his only son was 6 years the Diaspora. In contrast to Jacob to intervene on behalf of the op- lowing the June 1967 Six-Day War.
old. His parents' home was the Klatzkin, the Zionist philosopher of pressed Jews and to plead for free- Allon heads a ministerial commit-
meeting-place of leading Zionists the negation of the Galuth. Gold- dom to emigrate. But whenever he tee investigating the dispute. The
and journalists, among whom was mann always believed in the etern- spoke about the policies of the Porat Yossef Yeshiva and the
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his uncle, Ben Avigdor (1866-1921 ), al survival of the Jewish people, as State of Israel he was usually cri- Yeshiva Hakotel each claims that
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Michigan
the Hebrew writer. Young Nahum one people in Eretz Israel and in ticized by some of the Israeli jour- the site occupied by the other ob-
breathed the Zionist 'atmosphere. the Galuth. In America. Stephen S. nalists. He has often been their structs its view of the Western
At the age of 13 he started to pub- Wise asked Goldmann to prepare "scapegoat" and their chief target Wall. The sites were allocated to
lish articles under the name "Ben the framework of the World Jewish of attack. It started even before the the schools by Jerusalem authori-
Koheleth." Congress. He called three prepara- establishment of the State of Israel ties.
As a student at Heidelburg Uni. tory World Jewish Conferences when he advocated partition and
versity (1912 - 1914) he joined the (1932. 1933. 1934) and in August years later when he negotiated with
Kaden Zionistischer Verbindungen. 1936, the World Jewish Congress— West Germany on restitution.
Goldmann has never been a "yes-
In 1913 he visited Palestine and his the representative body of affiliated
impressions appear in a volume. Jewish communities and organi- man." He is independent and never
"Ertz Israel—Letters from Pales- zations in matters relating to Jew- afraid to say what he thinks. When
tine" (Frankfurt, 1914). He spent a ish life in the Diaspora—was estab- he declared that peace with the
great deal of time examining the lished. Goldmann was elected Arabs must come via Moscow, the
NOW TWO STORES TO SERVE YOU:
educational systems and advocated chairman of the administrative alarm bell against Goldmann was
the introduction of Hebrew teaching committee; in 1949 he became act- sounded and he was asked not to
interfere
in
Israel's
policies,
but
in the schools of the Hilfsverein ing president and since 1953 he has
der Deutscher Juden, the Alliance been president of the World Jewish years later, the same critics repeat
Goldmann's opinion as their own in
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Israelite Universelle and the Eve- Congress.
The history of the WJC and the meetings both inside and outside
lina de Rothschild schools. He con-
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lin and again in Heidelburg, becom- and the same time the story of
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Nahum Goldman'''. who started
ing a pupil of the Talmudic scholar Goldmann's life.
out
as
a
journalist
and
was
a
con-
After
the
death
of
Leo
Motzkin
AND AT
Salman Rabinkow, and he has an
intimate knowledge of Hebrew and 1867-1933) Goldmann became pres- tributor to Jewish papers in Amer-
ica
and
Europe,
has
written
nu-
Yiddish literature as well as Ger- ident of the Comite des Delegations
Juives which merged with the merous forewords and essays for
man, English and French.
books in various languages.
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A number of books and pam-
The 19th Congress (1935) was a
During the First World War he
was a member of the staff of the turning point in the Zionist life of phlets containing his addresses at
department for Jewish affairs of Goldmann. as vice president of the Zionist Congresses, conferences and
the foreign ministry in Berlin and Congress he conducted its most dif- sessions of the World Jewish Con-
gress, as well as collections of
in an essay "The World Cultural ficult sessions and the success of some of his essays and speeches,
Significance . and Task of Jewry" the Congress was attributed to the
(1916) he tried to influence Gel- ability he displayed when presiding have been published. His "Me-
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many to intervene in Constantinople over the dramatic "Generalde- moirs" will appear in October. and
to prevent the destruction of the batte." He was also the spokesman will give the story of his nearly 60
yea'rt
of
historic
activities
for
Is-
Jewish colonies. of the political commission and was
your
Goldmann settled in Berlin and elected political representative of rael and the Diaspora.
Installation
A few months before the 27th
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in 1919 published a brochure on the Zionist Organization to the Zionist Congress in Jerusalem
welcoro, ly•ro
three demands of the Jewish peo- League of Nations at Geneva (1935-
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ple: Jewish claim on Palestine. the 1939) and a member of the Zionist (June 1968) Goldmann announced
that
he
would
not
seek
re-election
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acceptance of the Galuth and equal Executive in London. To his new
SECURITY
WHEN IT'S
treatment of Jews. all Jews. every- duties were added the problem of as president of the Zionist Organi-
CHARGE CARD
where. For 50 years he has been refugees and the negotiations with zation. Nevertheless he is the
DINERS
fighting for the same three princi- the high commissioner for refu- spokesman of the Jewish people
and is considered the greatest liv-
CLUES
ples. A gifted orator and journalist. gees.
At later Congresses he courage- ing Jewish statesman of the Dias-
his speeches and articles arouse
pora.
He
is
still
the
devoted
servant
WE
SERVICE
controversial discussion and the ously advocated partition of Pales-
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Zionist historian. Adolf Boehm. de- tine for a "viable Jewish State' of Zionism. Israel and world Jew-
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scribed him as "belonging to the which led to his being attacked and ry.
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married
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young generation of Zionist think- called an "appeaser."
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ers." Goldmann criticized the 131 I-
At the beginning of the Second chael and Guido.
tish administration of Palestine, re-
garded the Arab opposition as tke World War Goldmann left Europe
"dark point of the Palestine ques- for America to continue his Zionist
tion" and charged Zionist diplo- work and his struggle against Hit-
macy with failure. ler. With others, he formed the
Goldmann founded the "Eshkol Biltmore Programme (1942) and
Publishing House" and he and his participated in the fight against the
friend Jacob Klatzkin (1882-1948) White Paper of 1939. After the war
published the "Encyclopedia Ju- he decided to "tell the British and
daica." Originnally 15 volumes the Americans and the United Na-
were planned. Ten were printed but Lions, the Jews and the Gentiles:
the work had to be interrupted "We don't want any more trustee-
when Hitler came to power. ships and foreign regimes in Pales-
In 1933 Goldmann left Germany. tine. We need Statehood." He made
repeated representations in Wash-
PLACE YOUR
Nahum Goldmann was one of the ington and in Downing Street (to
founders and leaders of the "Radi- Ernest Bevin) and in the decisive
cal Zionists" (1923). dissolved after years of 1947 - 1948 he was one of the
the 18th Congress (1933). At the representatives to the United Na-
14th Congress in 1925 (he has at- Lions.
IN
Dr. Noah Barou (1889-1955) took
tended every Congress since 1921)
he opposed the enlargement of the the initiative and Goldmann, foun-
Jewish Agency as suggested by der and president of the Conference
Weizmann. He favored a "demo- on Jewish Claims Against Ger-
cratic" Jewish Agency, but when many, negotiated with the German
the extension of the Jewish Agency authorities leading to the conclusion
was decided upon in 1929, Gold- of the "Luxembourg Agreement"
mann gave in to the majority and (1952), despite a storm of protests
associated himself more closely in Israel and in the Diaspora. As
with the Jewish Agency: years president of the Committee for
later he became its mouthpiece. Jewish Claims on Austria (1953) he
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"To submit to the wishes of the conducted negotiations with Vienna.
After the establishment of the
majority," he said, "that is democ-
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same Congress adopted a resolu- rections, including the David Ben-
ADDRESS
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the views of Weizmann in an inter- aztions in America (1951) was
view with the ITA which made the elected president of the Z.O. and of
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election of Weizmann impossible. the Zionist Executive in 1956. He
Nahum Sokolow became press- i was the sixth president of the Z.O.

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