| Description | File contains typed correspondence, documents and other printed material concerning the World Jewish Congress (WJC).
Details include:
Typescript documents from the WJC Academic Advisory Council including:
papers, meetings, members, agendas, dates, programmes, congress bulletins,minutes, pamphlet of a list of books for a small library, an edition of a 'Exile' the Union of Jewish Students' newsletter 1974, draft questionnaires, papers, invitations, a news bulletin of the Institute of Jewish Affairs for Oct.1974, copy newspaper cutting from the Times, 05/12/1974, concerning exclusion of Israel from UNESCO and the Guardian 25/11/1974, and another news cutting from the Times dated 07/12/1974. |
| AdminHistory | The World Jewish Congress is an international organization whose mission is to address the interests and needs of Jews and Jewish communities throughout the world.
Founded in Geneva in 1936 to unite the Jewish people and mobilize the world against the Nazi onslaught, the WJC is the representative body of Jewish communities and organizations in over 80 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe across six continents. It seeks to foster the unity and creative survival of the Jewish people while maintaining its spiritual, cultural and social heritage.
With headquarters in New York, the WJC has affiliate offices around the world including Brussels, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Johannesburg, Moscow, Ottawa, Paris, Sydney and Jerusalem where the WJC's research institute is located.
Tajfel was a member of the Academic Advisory Council. |
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