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Nahum Goldmann (Hebrew: נחום גולדמן) (July 10, 1895 – August 29, 1982) was a leading Zionist. He was a founder of the World Jewish Congress and its president from 1951 to 1978, and was also president of the World Zionist Organization from 1956 to 1968.
Jul 6, 2024 · Nahum Goldmann (born July 10, 1895, Wisznewo, Lithuania—died August 29, 1982, Bad Reichenhall, West Germany [now in Germany]) was an Israeli Zionist leader who was an outspoken critic of Israeli policies.
On 29 August 1982, Nahum Goldmann, the Zionist leader and co-founder and president of the World Jewish Congress from 1949 to 1977 died at the age of 87 in Bad Reichenhall, Germany.
He was an important link in negotiating German reparations to survivors following the Holocaust. He founded the Conference of Jewish Organizations (COJO) and was actively involved with other causes such as Soviet Jewry, Jewish education, and Jewish culture.
Aug 31, 1982 · Nahum Goldmann, one of the world's foremost Zionist figures, died Sunday night. He was 87 years old. Dr. Goldmann was hospitalized here last week while taking a cure in this...
Goldmann believed that the future of world Jewry depended largely on a successful fight against assimilation, and hence the attention to developing vibrant Jewish institutions in the Diaspora.
GOLDMANN, NAHUM (1895–1982), statesman and Zionist leader, born in Visznevo, Lithuania. When Goldmann was five years old his family moved to Germany – first to Koenigsberg and from there to Frankfurt.
On 29 August 1982, co-founder and president of the World Jewish Congress Nahum Goldmann passed away in Bad Reichenhall, Germany at the age of 87. Nahum Goldmann was born into an ardent Zionist family in the Russian Empire, in what is today Belarus.
Nahum Goldmann was a remarkable visionary and an extraordinary leader whose history mirrors that of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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.
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