Challenge and Encounter: Behind the Scenes in the Struggle for Jewish Survival
New York: Crown Publishers, [1967]. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 279 pages, illus., former owner's stamp on front endpaper and top edge. Inscribed by the author. An intimate memoir of more than forty-five years of Jewish social-welfare work. Here are first-hand observations about Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, and their relationships to Jewish affairs. Exceprts from an obituary posted on-line: "Maurrice Bisgyer, who as executive vice-president of B’nai B’rith for 27 years had helped direct the worldwide Jewish service organization during its era of greatest growth, died at the age of 75. Mr. Bisgyer was a pioneer in Jewish social service work beginning his 45-year career in 1919. He was one of a then handful of specialists that has since expanded into a large and widespread Jewish community “civil service.” He became B’nai B’rith’s chief administrative officer in 1937. David M. Blumberg, international president of B’nai B’rith, said that Mr. Bisgyer’s career, “spanning the era of both Jewish cataclysm and triumph–the Holocaust and the rebirth of Jewish statehood–and the maturing of a native-born American Jewry, was a close-up seat to Jewish history in the making. He helped make much of that history too.” Mr. Bisgyer’s assignments took him to all parts of the world. He participated in meetings with many leaders of government and with Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI on Issues affecting the Jewish community. He was a member of the Ad Hoc Jewish delegation in 1945 at San Francisco where the United Nations Charter was prepared and ratified. Condition: very good / good.
Keywords: Zionism, Israel, Chaim Weizmann, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Inscribed, Jews, Social Work, Social Welfare, Calvin Coolidge, B'nai B'rith
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Price: $55.00