Dr. Goldmann Pays Tribute in London to Late Prof. Brodetsky

Dr. Nahum Goldmann was the principal speaker here last night at a dinner for the Brodetsky Memorial Fund which aims to establish a forest in Israel bearing the name of Prof. Selig Brodetsky, the late world Zionist leader and president of the Hebrew University. Part of the Fund will also be used for the endowment of a Brodetsky ward in an Israel hospital and for the creation of a scholarship in memory of Prof. Brodetsky.

Paying tribute to Prof. Brodetsky, Dr. Goldmann said that the late Zionist leader represented in himself the same synthesis of tradition and organization as does the modern Zionist movement. “Modern Zionism,” Dr. Goldmann stated, “was a synthesis of the old Jewish idea of return and the attempt to give it modern European organizational form; a synthesis, too, of East European Jewry, with all its heritage of Jewish tradition culture, and the blessings of modern European civilization. Selig Brodetsky was a great representative of this synthesis. He also believed it would be possible to implement, in the new society of Israel, the great central ideas of Jewish religion and culture.”