Nahum Goldmann : statesman without a state / edited by Mark A. Raider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raider, Mark A.

Series:

SUNY series in Israeli studies.

SUNY series in Israeli studies

SUNY series in Israeli Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goldmann, Nahum, 1895-1982.

Goldmann, Nahum.

Zionists--Biography.

Zionists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press ; [Tel Aviv] : Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, Tel Aviv University, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The life, career, and legacy of Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), one of the most colorful and important Zionist leaders of the twentieth century, are fully revealed in this illuminating collection of essays. American, Israeli, and European scholars speak to the many sides of Goldmann, including his upbringing, rise in the international public arena as a premier advocate for Jewish life and the Zionist enterprise, and his role as an elder statesman in the 1960s and 1970s. Often ahead of his time, Goldmann proved highly influential at several critical historical junctures—on the eve of the creation of the Jewish state, he played a key role articulating Israel's relationship with diaspora Jewry, postwar Germany, and the Arab world. This volume captures Goldmann in all his complexity, while making this important figure and his time accessible to researchers, students, and interested readers.

Contents:

Nahum Goldmann : Jewish and Zionist statesman - an overview / Jehuda Reinharz and Evyatar Friesel

Nahum Goldmann as Zionist thinker / Gideon Shimoni

Negation of the Galut and the centrality of Israel: Nahum Goldman and David Ben-Gurion / Yosef Gorny

The German years: early chapters in the biography of a Jewish statesman / Michael Brenner

Nahum Goldmann and the first two decades of the World Jewish Congress / Zohar Sergev

Nahum Goldmann and Chain Weizmann: an ambivalent "relationship" / Jehuda Reinharz

Idealism, vision,andpPragmatism: Stephen S. Wise, Nahum Goldmann, and Abba Hillel Silver in the United States / Mark A. Raider

Towards the partition of Palestine: the Goldmann mission in Washington, August 1946

Nahum Goldmann and Germany after World War II / Shlomo Shafir

"Reparations made me": Nahum Goldmann, German reparations, and the Jewish world / Ronald W. Zweig

Nahum Goldmann and the establishment of the Diaspora Museum / Dina Porat

Leadership of accommodation or protest?: Nahum Goldmann and the struggle for Soviet Jewry / Suzanne D. RUtland

Goldmann's initiative to meet with Nasser in 1970 / Meir Chazan.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438425153

1438425155

9781441612007

1441612009

OCLC:

404026018