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The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture was founded in 1964 by Goldmann who negotiated reparations with Federal Republic of Germany Chancellor Dr Konrad Adenauer. [35] [36] Goldmann’s vision for the MFJC was to foster a new generation of artists, academics, and Torah scholars to replace those who were decimated in the Holocaust.
The First Preparatory World Jewish Conference was held in Geneva in August 1932. A preparatory committee was headed by Zionist Nahum Goldmann, who was one of the leading advocates of the establishment of an international Jewish representative body. [10] Goldmann defined the purpose of the World Jewish Congress as follows:
Anu – Museum of the Jewish People (stylized ANU), formerly the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, [1] is located in Tel Aviv, Israel, at the center of the Tel Aviv University campus in Ramat Aviv. The Hebrew Anu אנו means 'we, us'. Anu – Museum of the Jewish People is an institution telling the ongoing story of the Jewish people.
One month after Adenauer's speech, Nahum Goldmann, co-chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and president of the World Jewish Congress, convened a meeting in New York City of 23 major Jewish national and international organizations. The participants made clear that these talks were to be limited to discussion of material claims, and thus the ...
Strengthening Israel as a Jewish, Zionist and democratic state and shaping it as an exemplary society with a unique moral and spiritual character, marked by mutual respect for the multi-faceted Jewish people, rooted in the vision of the prophets, striving for peace and contributing to the betterment of the world.
Jewish community leaders in Washington held a pro-Israel rally near the White House on Friday, 13 Octover. Protestors marched after Hamas militants invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip.
In the early 1950s, the negotiations began between the Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion, the chairman of the Jewish Claims Conference Nahum Goldmann, and the Chancellor of West Germany Konrad Adenauer. Because of the sensitivity of accepting reparations, this decision was intensely debated in the Israeli Knesset.
Goldman was born in Zürich, Switzerland, on November 4, 1937, to Alice (née Gottschalk) and Nahum Goldman. His father was a leader in the Zionist Movement, and a co-founder of the World Jewish Congress. [2] His mother, Alice, was a painter and heiress to a family fortune. [3]