Word: goldmann
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Shortly before his death a month ago, Nachum Goldmann, the founder of the World Zionist Congress, the past president of the World Jewish Congress and a leading spokesperson for Jewish-Arab cooperation, joined other Jewish leaders in a moving call for Israeli and Palestinian reconciliation. There men knew well that when the Jewish people said "Never again" after the genocide of the Holocaust they meant not only that "Never again" would six million Jews (and, let us never forget, also six million Poles. Catholic priests, Russians, Ukranians, gypsies, and homosexuals) he systematically exterminated; but also that the Jewish people would...
DIED. Nahum Goldmann, 87, Zionist leader for nearly half a century and one of the most outspoken critics of Israeli policies, from Ben-Gurion's to Begin's; in Bad Reichenhall, West Germany. Co-founder and president of the World Jewish Congress from 1949 to 1977, Goldmann negotiated the 1952 reparations agreement with West Germany that resulted in payments of some $822 million to Israel and its Holocaust survivors. Goldmann repeatedly advocated peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Israelis, saying, "There can be no future for the Jewish state unless agreement is reached with the Arabs." And in July...