Avraham Yekel

Avraham Yekel (* 1922 , † 1976 ) was an Israeli author who deals with the formation looked for peace.

Life

Yekel survived imprisonment and stays in National Socialist and Soviet camps. He was director of the International Cultural Center for Youth in Jerusalem until the 1970s . Yekel worked for a reconciliation between Israelis and Arabs in the Middle East conflict . He criticized the opinion that “higher education leads to higher humanity” and regards this as a mistake. His best-known work is Towards a better tomorrow: an Israeli experiment in education for international understanding .

"You must never make the mistake of thinking that, because you are educated, you are also civilized. (You must never make the mistake of thinking that because you were educated, you would also be civilized)"

- Avraham Yekel : during the Peace Studies seminar at Manhattan College in 1971 in New York.

Works (selection)

Towards a better tomorrow--: an Israeli experiment in education for international understanding, Publisher: [Jerusalem: International Cultural Center for Youth, 1977]
The holocaust and American Jewish youth, Publisher: New York, American Zionist Youth Foundation, 1972
Report on the work of the Center in the school year 1966–1967, Publisher: Jerusalem, 1967.
Two community centers for the Arab population (1967-1974).

Web links

Literature by and about Avraham Yekel in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Joseph J. Fahey , Richard Armstrong : "Introduction." In: ___. A Peace Reader: Essential Readings on War, Justice, Non-Violence, and World Order. Paulist Press , 1992, p. 1. ISBN 9780809133178

personal data
SURNAME	Yekel, Avraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli author and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH	1922
DATE OF DEATH	1976

[peacereader-1] Joseph J. Fahey , Richard Armstrong : "Introduction." In: ___. A Peace Reader: Essential Readings on War, Justice, Non-Violence, and World Order. Paulist Press , 1992, p. 1. ISBN 9780809133178