Nahum Goldmann

Mark A. Raider is Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Cincinnati and Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. He is the author of The Emergence of American Zionism. He is also the coeditor of Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism (with Jonathan D. Sarna and Ron Zweig); The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine, A Critical Edition (with Miriam B. Raider-Roth); and American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (with Shulamit Reinharz).

"…this long-overdue book on Goldmann fills a gap in Zionist historiography … It adds an excellent contribution to the growing literature on the relationship of American Jewry and Jews in other parts of the Diaspora to the state of Israel." — H-Net Reviews

• Preface Mark A. RaiderPart I. Statesman 1. Nahum Goldmann:Jewish and Zionist Statesman Jehuda Reinharz and Evyatar FrieselPart II. Thinker 2. Nahum Goldmann as Zionist ThinkerGideon Shimoni3. Negation of the Galut and the Centrality of Israel: Nahum Goldmann and David Ben Gurion Yosef GornyPart III. Maverick 4. The German Years:Early Chapters in the Biography of a Jewish Statesman Michael Brenner5. Nahum Goldmann and The First Two Decades of the World Jewish Congress Zohar Segev6. Nahum Goldmann and Chaim Weizmann: An Ambivalent "Relationship" Jehuda Reinharz7. Idealism, Vision, and Pragmatism:Stephen S. Wise, Nahum Goldmann, and Abba Hillel Silver in the United StatesMark A. Raider8. Toward the Partition of Palestine:The Goldmann Mission in Washington, August 1946 Evyatar FrieselPart IV. Leader 9. Nahum Goldmann and Germany after World War II Shlomo Shafir10. "Reparations Made Me":Nahum Goldmann, German Reparations, and the Jewish World Ronald W. Zweig11. Nahum Goldmann and the Establishment of the Diaspora Museum Dina Porat12. Leadership of Accommodation or Protest?:Nahum Goldmann and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry Suzanne D. Rutland13. Goldmann’s Initiative to Meet with Nasser in 1970 Meir ChazanList of ContributorsIndex