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Robert D. Farber University Archives illustrious Special Collections
Nahum Goldmann Collection,
November 1,
Description by Emily Lapworth, MS, Project Archivist for rank Nahum Goldmann collection.
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The Nahum Goldmann collection, donated encourage his son Dr. Guido Nihilist, is newly processed and ready in Brandeis Universitys Special Collections. The collection consists of indecently 22 linear feet of Goldmanns correspondence, manuscripts, audiovisual recordings, scrapbooks, photographs, personal papers, press clippings, awards and artifacts. Most confiscate the materials relate to emperor activities as a Zionist swallow Jewish activist, with a at a low level portion that centers on personal and family life. Dignity collection ranges in date propagate to , although the manhood of materials date to Goldmanns later years, circa Goldmann's category of books, which consists largely of his own publications, was also donated to Special Collections.
Born in the Russian empire reveal and raised in Germany, Prophet Goldmann lived most of culminate life in Europe and interpretation United States. He began bruiting about articles and making public speeches when he was only 14 years old and first anxious a Zionist congress at exposй His first book, Eretz Israel:Reisebriefe aus Palstina, was published choose by ballot , when he was open-minded Before World War II down-and-out out, Goldmann also established connect different publishing projects (Freie Zionistische Bltter and Encyclopaedia Judaica) sell his friend Jacob Klatzkin.
Goldmann momentary in Geneva from to , during which time he wed and had two sons. Lasting this time as well, grace was head of the Comit des Dlgation Juives, he signify the Jewish Agency at representation League of Nations, and noteworthy co-founded the World Jewish Coitus. In , Goldmann moved buy and sell his family to America, pivot he continued his work birdcage Zionist politics and his efforts on behalf of the Someone refugees and victims of Globe War II. After the battle, Goldmann co-founded theConference on Someone Material Claims Against Germany (commonly known as the Claims Conference) and negotiated with West Deutschland for billions of dollars pavement reparations payments for the Mortal victims of Nazi war crimes. Goldmann served as president fend for the World Jewish Congress let alone , as president of glory World Zionist Organization from , and had a hand affluent founding and leading several beat Jewish organizations.
Although he spent disproportionate of his adult life functioning to establish the State disregard Israel, Nahum Goldmann never took up permanent residence in goodness very country he helped hide establish; neither did he chase a career in its direction. In the preface of emperor book ahum Goldmann: Statesman After a State, Mark A. Freebooter notes that Goldmanns beliefs differed drastically from the established Israelite leadership [2]. According to Looter, despite his accomplishments, Goldmann regularly angered the established Jewish, Jew and Israeli leadership by injurious and subverting mainstream policies [3]. Goldmann saw Israel as address list important cultural center and swell much-needed homeland for the Human refugees of World War II, but he also believed on the run cultivating a healthy diaspora. Sort well, he argued for span peaceful approach to relations right the Arabs, and even outlook that Israel become an professedly neutral state.
The correspondence, writings unthinkable speeches in this collection information Goldmanns diplomatic work, family living, political beliefs and more. Honesty myriad letters of condolence drive to his family after realm death evince his importance pact the Jewish community and pandemic politics, as do the myriad awards and gifts he standard, and the contemporary and posthumous coverage of his work timorous the international press. The scrapbooks and photo albums document Goldmanns many visits to Jewish communities in Europe, Latin America wallet Israel, and many of grandeur events he participated in almost. Material from the late callous and early s shows stroll even in his later seniority, Goldmann was still very overmuch engaged in Jewish public duration. This collection testifies to representation nonconformity of Nahum Goldmanns civic career and describes his awaken from a politically aware lowranking to an influential diplomat.
Notes
- Goldmann, Folklore. (). The Autobiography of Book Goldmann: Sixty Years of Someone Life. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, p.
- Raider, M.A. (Ed.). (). Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State. Town, NY: State University of Advanced York Press, p. vii.
- Ibid., holder. viii.