International Council of Christians and Jews

The International Council of Christians and Jews ( International Council of Christians and Jews , ICCJ ) is the international umbrella organization of 38 national Jewish-Christian and interfaith dialogue organizations in 32 countries. It was founded by Everett R. Clinchy in 1947 following the Seelisberg Conference with offices in Geneva and Paris, and it was not formally until the 1948 Friborg Conference . The ICCJ and many of its member organizations are involved in the Abrahamic dialogue , the meeting of Jews , Christians and Muslims .

history

In addition to the American Clinchy, the first voluntary board of directors consisted of the British Jew Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading , the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and the Protestant and rector of Vassar College in New York State, Henry MacCracken , i.e. highly respected representatives. Two setbacks threw the ICCJ back after 1948: Clinchy's reorientation because of a world-wide planned organization on the side of UNESCO and the warning of the Catholics by Pope Pius XII. because of indifferentism in the ICCJ. Nevertheless, over the decades it was possible to maintain and expand international cooperation, including to Israel.

The ICCJ has been based in the restored Martin Buber House in Heppenheim since 1978 . Before that, it was in Geneva and London. The German member organization of the ICCJ is the German Coordination Council of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . Even when it was founded in 1947, the host Switzerland was represented by the Christian-Jewish Working Group in Switzerland (CJA), and Austria since 1956 by the coordinating committee for Christian-Jewish cooperation .

activities

Since 1985 the council has presented the Sir Sigmund Sternberg Award annually for special services to interreligious dialogue.

Bodies

Honorary President
- Dr George Leonard Carey vorm. Archbishop of Canterbury
- Prof. Dr. John T. Pawlikowski, OSM
- Rabbi Prof. David Rosen

Board
- Rev. Dr. Bo Sandahl , Sweden President
- Liliane Apotheker, France Vice President
- Rev. Dr. Pavol Bargar, Czech Republic Vice President
- Dr. Abi Pitum, Germany , treasurer
- Rev. Dr. Michael Trainor, Australia
- Rabbi Samuel Szteinhendler, Chile
- Dr Willy Weisz, Austria
- Rev. Elliott Wright

Secretary General
- Anette Adelmann, Germany

literature

William W. Simpson and Ruth Weyl: The Story of the International Council of Christians and Jews. 1995
ICCJ Brochure: The new Relationship between Christians and Jews, Documentation of Major Statements. Heppenheim 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Jehoschua Ahrens: Together against Anti-Semitism - The Conference of Seelisberg (1947) revisited: The emergence of the institutional Judeo-Christian dialogue in Switzerland and in continental Europe . LIT Verlag Münster, 2020, ISBN 978-3-643-14609-0 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2020]).
↑ http://www.iccj.org/UEber-uns.2.0.html?&L=2
^ W. Simpson / Ruth Weyl: The Story of the International Council of Christians and Jews. (PDF) Accessed August 24, 2020 .

[1] Jehoschua Ahrens: Together against Anti-Semitism - The Conference of Seelisberg (1947) revisited: The emergence of the institutional Judeo-Christian dialogue in Switzerland and in continental Europe . LIT Verlag Münster, 2020, ISBN 978-3-643-14609-0 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2020]).

[2] ttp://www.iccj.org/UEber-uns.2.0.html?&L=2

[3] W. Simpson / Ruth Weyl: The Story of the International Council of Christians and Jews. (PDF) Accessed August 24, 2020 .