Research Catalog

Title

The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016 / edited by Menachem Z. Rosensaft ; foreword by Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder.

Author

World Jewish Congress.

Publication

• New York : World Jewish Congress, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rosensaft, Menachem Z., 1948-
• Lauder, Ronald S.

Description

x, 341 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subject

• World Jewish Congress > History
• World Jewish Congress > Political activity
• Judaism > Relations > Catholic Church
• Banks and banking, Swiss > Corrupt practices
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Reparations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780996936118 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0996936114 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2016050516

OCLC

• ocn962025915
• SCSB-14404094

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library