All important problems facing Jewry will be discussed at the Jewish World Congress which will open at Geneva on Aug. 20, stated Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the committee of Jewish delegations.
The principal task of the conference is to consider the most important questions arising out of the present Jewish situation in the Diaspora. Fate of the Jews in Germany and the boycott question will be among the first things considered. The conference of 1933 unanimously proclaimed the boycott of German goods as a method to be adopted by world Jewry to fight for the rights and honor of the Jews in Germany.
The conference, Dr. Goldmann said, will also seriously consider the newly-created situation in the matter of minority rights. A year ago the minority problem already occupied the attention of the Sixth Committee of the League of Nations Assembly. This year, the Polish government’s proposal to generalize the minorities treaties by applying them to all countries, brings up the question at the League of Nations Council meeting in September.
The conference, said Dr. Goldmann, will consider thoroughly all questions associated with the problems of minority rights, the minorities procedure before the League of Nations and in general the status of the Jewish minorities in the various countries, and it will work out the guiding lines of our policy on this question.
The conference will also deal with the grave problem of the growing anti-Semitic propaganda in a number of countries, and will lay down the lines of policy and the methods of combatting these serious manifestations.
“About seventy or eighty delegations from all parts of the Jewish world are expected at the Conference, Dr. Goldmann said.
The opening session will be devoted to the memory of Leo Motzkin, who was for many years president of the Committee of Jewish Delegations, and Rabbi Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Nahum Goldmann and others will speak of Motzkin’s life and work, particularly in the fight for Jewish minority rights.
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