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Goldmann Often Disagreed With Israeli, Zionist Ranks
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Perhaps just as con-
troversial was his insis-
tence following World
War II that the German
government pay repara-
tions to both Israel and
victims of the Holocaust.
Goldmann's position on
this issue faced vehement,
passionate opposition from
many within the Jewish
community who argued
against any contact with a
country whose policy just a
few years earlier was
genocide.
But Goldmann felt it was
the duty and the right of the
Jewish people to make some
claim for material restitu-
tion on the principle that
states have a moral if not
legal duty to make some re-
stitution for crimes commit-
ted in their name against a
weaker people.
For months, Goldmann
pursued secret preliminary
contacts with German
statesmen, including Chan-
cellor Konrad Adenauer.
These meetings eventually
led to the formal negotia-
tions that resulted in the
historic Reparations
Agreement of 1952.
In that- document,
Germany promised to
pay 3.45 billion German
Marks to Israel as partial
compensation for the fi-
nancial burden of re-
habilitating survivors of
Nazi persecution who
had settled there.
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Born in Poland,
Raised in Germany
The only child of Solomon
and Rebecca Goldmann,
Nahum was born in Poland
in 1895 but grew up in Ger-
many where his father was
a writer and teacher of He-
brew. At age 15, Goldmann
began writing articles in
the "Frankfurter Is-
raelitisches Familienblatt,"
a popular weekly in the
German Jewish commu-
nity. It was at this time that
the teenage Goldmann
began making speeches at
early Zionist meetings and
participating actively in
Zionist educational work.
Awarded his law degree
from the University of
Heidelberg in 1920,
Goldmann and fellow
Zionist Jacob Klatzkin a
few years later founded the
Eshkol Publishing Co.
Their idea was to issue a
new Jewish encyclopedia
incorporating the most ad-
vanced research of Jewish
scholars all over the world.
Ten volumes of the
Encyclopedia Judaica were
published in German and
two in Hebrew before the
regime of Adolph Hitler
halted the undertaking and
forced Goldmann to flee to
Switzerland.
Following World War II,
which Goldmann spent in
America, he resumed his
project and expanded it to
include an English-
language edition.
Following Goldmann's
forced exile from Ger-
many, he repeatedly tried
to warn the world of Hit-
ler's true intentions. As
part of that effort,
Goldmann and Rabbi
Stephen Wise founded
the World Jewish Con-
gress, a body designed to
coordinate the struggle
to° secure Jewish rights
throughout the world.
A memorial meeting for
Goldmann was held in New
York at the Grand Hyatt
Hotel on Thursday, jointly
sponsored by the World
Zionist Organization -
American Section and the
World Jewish Congress.
Conversion Process Covered
in New UAHC Publication
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)
A new pamphlet on con-
version to Judaism — which
deals frankly with Or-
thodox rejection of the
validity of Reform conver-
sions — has been issued by
the Union of American He-
brew Congregations
(UAHC). The association of
Reform synagogues pub-
lished the booklet as part of
the "outreach" program.
The 10-page pamphlet
was written by Rabbi San-
ford Seltzer, director of the
UAHC task force on Reform
Jewish Outreach.
The UAHC voted at its
convention last year to
launch a nation-wide cam-
paign to spread "the mes-
sage of Judaism" to non-
Jewish partners in mixed
marriages, to the children of
such marriages and to non-
Jews "of no religious prefer-
ence." The move had been
urged by UAHC president
Rabbi Alexander Schindler,
who called on Reform con-
gregations to undertake "af-
firmative action to make
Judaism available to those
within our midst and to the
unchurched."
The pamphlet declares
that Judaism welcomes
men and women who
choose to become Jews
and considers them, after
appropriate conversion,
full-fledged members of
the Jewish community.
It mentions many exam-
ples in both the Bible and
rabbinic literature of
persons who opted for
conversion.
The pamphlet also de-
scribes the course of study
requited for potential con-
verts and cites the require-
ments of the three branches
of Judaism and covers the
issue of recognition of rab-
bis of one branch of Judaism
of conversions performed by
rabbis of another branch
and the consequences of
non-recognition.
Reasoning for Peace
By CHARLES LUKACS
When the guns will be silenced
and the hatred scathed.
When from screeching planes
not deadly bombs will rain
but fluttering leaflets, to proclaim
that all killing is in vain,
and early death is not
the answer to our problems,
and it is better to build
then stare dazed at black ruins,
and- from the roar of morbid machines
the sound of laughter, is sweeter.
Then we can lift our sight,
without pretended love,
or whipped up hatred,
with no false pledges
nor phony embraces,
but with sincere tolerance
solemnly understand,
That we all must have a chance
to live in Peace . . . or we all perish
sooner or later.
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