Harry Aharon Goodman

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Harry Aaron Goodman (* 1898 , † 1961 ) ( Hebrew הארי גודמן) was an Orthodox Hasidic politician.

The first Aguda Conference took place in London in March 1921, when Harry Goodman was elected British Secretary of the World Agudath Israel and thus acted as the political arm of the religious movement. He played a key role in the Agudath Israel Organization during World War II . He was the editor of the Jewish Weekly .

Individual evidence

  1. Pamela Shatzkes: Holocaust and Rescue. Impotent or indifferent? Anglo-Jewry, 1938-1945. Palgrave, Basingstoke et al. 2002, ISBN 0-333-96039-4 , pp. 13-14.
  2. Tzvi M. Rabinowicz (ed.): The Encyclopedia of Hasidism. Aronson, Northvale NJ et al. 1996, ISBN 1-568-21123-6 , p. 14.
  3. Evelyn Adunka : The fourth community. The history of the Viennese Jews from 1945 to today (= History of the Jews in Vienna. Vol. 6). Philo, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-8257-0163-8 , p. 223.
  4. Chanan Tomlin: Protest and Prayer. Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld and Orthodox Jewish Responses in Britain to the Nazi Persecution of Europe's Jews 1942–1945. Lang, Oxford et al. 2006, ISBN 3-03910-932-4 , p. 64.