The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016

• Titel: The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016
• Mitwirkende: Rosensaft, Menachem Z. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Lauder, Ronald S. [VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes]
• Körperschaft: World Jewish Congress [VerfasserIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Menachem Z. Rosensaft ; foreword by Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: World Jewish Congress
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: [2017]
• Umfang: x, 341 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-9969361-1-8
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 872087514

Abstract

"A history of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) from its founding in 1936 through 2016. Among the topics covered are the WJC's role during World War II; the WJC's contribution to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg; post-WWII attitudes to and relationships with Jews living in Germany; the WJC's relationship and interaction with the State of Israel; the WJc's role and impact at the United Nations; the WJC's diplomatic efforts on behalf of North African Jewry during the 1950's and 1960's; materialization of the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau; the WJC's role in launching the Jewish-Vatican dialogue; advocacy on behalf of Soviet Jewry; the WJC's role in the campaign to repeal the UN's "Zionism is Racism" resolution; forcing Swiss banks to disgorge Holocaust-era assets belonging to Jews; the Kurt Walheim Affair; the WJC's interaction with communist countries; the WJC's role regarding terrorist attacks on Jewish institutions in Buenos Aires; the World Jewish Congress today; and WJC President Ronald S. Lauder's vision of the Jewish future"--