By Mark A. Raider
The existence, profession, and legacy of Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), probably the most colourful and critical Zionist leaders of the 20 th century, are absolutely printed during this illuminating selection of essays. American, Israeli, and eu students converse to the various facets of Goldmann, together with his upbringing, upward thrust within the overseas public area as a top-rated suggest for Jewish lifestyles and the Zionist company, and his function as an elder statesman within the Sixties and Seventies. frequently prior to his time, Goldmann proved hugely influential at a number of serious historic junctures—on the eve of the production of the Jewish nation, he performed a key function articulating Israel’s courting with diaspora Jewry, postwar Germany, and the Arab international. This quantity captures Goldmann in all his complexity, whereas making this significant determine and his time obtainable to researchers, scholars, and readers.
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And at the Twenty-Second Zionist Congress in December 1946, Ben-Gurion did not move a finger to help 32 Jehuda Reinharz and Evyatar Friesel Goldmann—recognized as one of the most impressive figures at the Congress— against the onslaught of the opponents to the partition idea and his relegation to the backseat of Zionist activity. But soon the unique opportunity of the German reparations would dawn on the public horizon, and who, if not Goldmann, would be sent—indeed, would literally be pushed—to deal with a matter that for an Israeli political figure was too hot to handle?
He was absolutely unscrupulous. 120 Ben-Gurion, who considered people in functional terms and neither understood nor cared about their psychological traits (Goldmann: “Yet I do not believe he dislikes his adversaries personally. ”), was apparently intrigued by Goldmann. He must have recognized what an important, sometimes irreplaceable political tool Goldmann was. Probably he had not forgotten that occasion, early in August 1946, when he had been at a loss, his policy in tatters, and it had been Goldmann who had suggested a way out of the conundrum.
Furthermore, another figure deserves mention because of the confrontational background in their relations, and who for a time had an undeniable impact on Goldmann’s public activities: Abba Hillel Silver, certainly the outstanding personality in American Zionism in the 1940s. Last, the relationship between Goldmann and Konrad Adenauer, the German Chancellor, deserves attention. ”107 Goldmann’s statement deserves careful scrutiny. Jacob Klatzkin, a family friend several years his senior, helped in the early 1920s to launch Goldmann’s career as journalist and publisher.