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The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016 details the dramatic diplomatic efforts and achievements of this preeminent international Jewish organization, from its founding in Geneva 80 years ago through the present.
In his foreword, World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder writes that “this book reminds us not only what the WJC did in the past, but why the Jewish people need this vital organization now more than ever and will continue to need it in the future.”
Among the major chapters in the WJC’s history detailed in the book are the organization’s pioneering role in crafting a new Catholic-Jewish relationship; its diplomatic negotiations on behalf of Jews from North Africa in the 1950s and 1960s; its exposure of Kurt Waldheim’s Nazi past; its leadership of the international efforts to force Swiss banks to disgorge more than one billion dollars they had wrongfully withheld from Jewish Holocaust victims and their heirs; its critical role in fighting the U.N.’s resolution that equated Zionism and racism; its role in preserving the historical integrity of the site of the Auschwitz death camp; its effort on behalf of Soviet Jewry; and its work to bring the perpetrators of terrorist bombings in Buenos Aires to justice. In the book’s concluding chapters, WJC CEO Robert R. Singer describes the activities of the World Jewish Congress today, and WJC President Ronald S. Lauder lays out his vision of the Jewish future.
Contributors include historians Michael Brenner, Jonathan A. Bush, Suzanne Rutland, Zohar Segev, and Gregory J. Wallance; Monsignor Pier Francesco Fumagalli, vice prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan; Natan Lerner, professor of law emeritus at IDC Herzliya; Gregg J. Rickman, who led the US Senate Banking Committee’s examination of Swiss banks and their treatment of Holocaust-era assets during and after World War II; Eli M. Rosenbaum, longtime head of the US Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations; and Evelyn Sommer, chairperson of the WJC’s North American Section. The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016 is edited by WJC General Counsel Menachem Z. Rosensaft.
In his foreword, World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder writes that “this book reminds us not only what the WJC did in the past, but why the Jewish people need this vital organization now more than ever and will continue to need it in the future.”
Among the major chapters in the WJC’s history detailed in the book are the organization’s pioneering role in crafting a new Catholic-Jewish relationship; its diplomatic negotiations on behalf of Jews from North Africa in the 1950s and 1960s; its exposure of Kurt Waldheim’s Nazi past; its leadership of the international efforts to force Swiss banks to disgorge more than one billion dollars they had wrongfully withheld from Jewish Holocaust victims and their heirs; its critical role in fighting the U.N.’s resolution that equated Zionism and racism; its role in preserving the historical integrity of the site of the Auschwitz death camp; its effort on behalf of Soviet Jewry; and its work to bring the perpetrators of terrorist bombings in Buenos Aires to justice. In the book’s concluding chapters, WJC CEO Robert R. Singer describes the activities of the World Jewish Congress today, and WJC President Ronald S. Lauder lays out his vision of the Jewish future.
Contributors include historians Michael Brenner, Jonathan A. Bush, Suzanne Rutland, Zohar Segev, and Gregory J. Wallance; Monsignor Pier Francesco Fumagalli, vice prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan; Natan Lerner, professor of law emeritus at IDC Herzliya; Gregg J. Rickman, who led the US Senate Banking Committee’s examination of Swiss banks and their treatment of Holocaust-era assets during and after World War II; Eli M. Rosenbaum, longtime head of the US Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations; and Evelyn Sommer, chairperson of the WJC’s North American Section. The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016 is edited by WJC General Counsel Menachem Z. Rosensaft.
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Since its founding in 1936, the World Jewish Congress has been at the forefront of a number of epochal moments in history, as Jewish defenders of last resort, the stories of which are now chronicled in an important new book, The World Jewish Congress: 1936-2016, edited by Menachem Rosensaft. Each chapter recalls either a different rescue mission, or truth-telling, justice-seeking episode where the World Jewish Congress stood up for Jews caught in a crisis without representation or recourse. . . . The stories are at times riveting, at other times poignant. There was the Nuremberg Tribunals, the diplomatic negotiations that resulted in Jews from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria emigrating to Israel and France, the cause to liberate Jews from the Soviet Union, the restored relationship between the Jewish people and the Vatican, the success at revoking the 1975 United Nations resolution equating Zionism with racism, the exposure of UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim s Nazi past, the international efforts to force Swiss banks to finally release funds they had illegally and immorally withheld from Jewish Holocaust victims and their heirs. Eli Rosenbaum, once America s long-serving, chief Nazi-hunter for the Justice Department, contributed a wonderful and well-written chapter on his own role in the Kurt Waldheim scandal. Rosensaft s Introduction is quite fine, along with the chapters on the World Jewish Congress activities today, and its future goals, by the organization s chief executive, Robert Singer, and its president, Ronald Lauder, respectively. All together they comprise capstones to a fitting celebration of 80-years of good and righteous deeds in the service of Jewish survival. --Thane Rosenbaum, The Huffington Post
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- PublisherWorld Jewish Congress LLC
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0996936114
- ISBN 13 9780996936118
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
- EditorMenachem Z. Rosensaft (Editor)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in dark gray cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/341 pages. ""The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016" details the dramatic diplomatic efforts and achievements of this preeminent international Jewish organization, from its founding in Geneva 80 years ago through the present. In his foreword, World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder writes that this book reminds us not only what the WJC did in the past, but why the Jewish people need this vital organization now more than ever and will continue to need it in the future. Among the major chapters in the WJC s history detailed in the book are the organization s pioneering role in crafting a new Catholic-Jewish relationship; its diplomatic negotiations on behalf of Jews from North Africa in the 1950s and 1960s; its exposure of Kurt Waldheim s Nazi past; its leadership of the international efforts to force Swiss banks to disgorge more than one billion dollars they had wrongfully withheld from Jewish Holocaust victims and their heirs; its critical role in fighting the U.N. s resolution that equated Zionism and racism; its role in preserving the historical integrity of the site of the Auschwitz death camp; its effort on behalf of Soviet Jewry; and its work to bring the perpetrators of terrorist bombings in Buenos Aires to justice. In the book s concluding chapters, WJC CEO Robert R. Singer describes the activities of the World Jewish Congress today, and WJC President Ronald S. Lauder lays out his vision of the Jewish future. Contributors include historians Michael Brenner, Jonathan A. Bush, Suzanne Rutland, Zohar Segev, and Gregory J. Wallance; Monsignor Pier Francesco Fumagalli, vice prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan; Natan Lerner, professor of law emeritus at IDC Herzliya; Gregg J. Rickman, who led the US Senate Banking Committee s examination of Swiss banks and their treatment of Holocaust-era assets during and after World War II; Eli M. Rosenbaum, longtime head of the US Justice Department s Office of Special Investigations; and Evelyn Sommer, chairperson of the WJC s North American Section. The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016 is edited by WJC General Counsel Menachem Z. Rosensaft.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1666680707174
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