Yehuda Zvi Blum

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Jehuda Zvi Blum ( Hebrew יהודה צבי בלום, also: Yehuda; born October 2, 1931 in Bratislava ) is a university professor for international law and a diplomat . From 1978 to 1984 he was Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations .

Life

Blum was born as a descendant of a rabbi dynasty. During the Second World War , his family fled Hungary on a train organized by Rudolf Kasztner at the end of June 1944. It was promised that this train would either go to Switzerland or Spain , instead the refugees arrived at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . Adolf Eichmann had them held hostage for months. Blum experienced his bar mitzvah in this concentration camp. Adolf Eichmann did not allow the refugees to continue to Switzerland until December 6, 1944. In 1945 he emigrated to the British Mandate in Palestine . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed his master's degree in 1955. He traveled to London, where he received his PhD from the University of London in 1961 . In the same year he married Moriah Rabinowitz Teomin. The couple has three children. In 1968 he traveled to New York as a UNESCO research fellow and studied at the United Nations Legal Department.

career

On returning to Israel, he worked as an intern for the Supreme Court Judge ( Hebrew בֵּית הַמִּשְׁפָּט הָעֶלְיוֹן Bejt ha-Mischpaṭ ha-ʿEljōn ), David Goitein , and became Assistant to the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Hebrew משרד החוץ, Misrad HaChutz ). In 1965, Blum moved to the law faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was appointed full professor of the Hersch Lauterpacht chair for international law. From 1978 to 1984 Blum was the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. He took part in the negotiations on the Camp David Agreement and on the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and was later a member of the Israeli legal delegation in the international arbitration negotiations regarding Taba , which in 1988 was the last part of the Sinai Peninsula to be returned to Egypt . Blum's research areas are international law , international organizations , constitutional law and the Charter of the United Nations .

During his academic career, he was visiting professor at the University of Michigan , the University of Texas at Austin , New York University , Yeshiva University , the University of Southern California , Tulane University, and the University of Miami .

Blum retired in 2001.

As a contemporary witness as well as a representative of Israel, he gives lectures on the moral, historical and legal assessment of the post-war period. Blum worked as an author on legal subjects in the Encyclopaedia Hebraica .

Publications (selection)

  • Eroding the United Nations Charter
  • For Zion's sake, 1987
  • Historic titles in international law
  • International law and the changed Yugoslavia
  • Israel and the United Nations: A Retrospective Overview
  • Israel Marriage Law and Human Rights
  • Juridical status of Jerusalem
  • Operation Kadesh: A Legal Perspective
  • Privileges and Immunities of United Nations Officials in Israel
  • Restitution of Jewish cultural property looted in World War II: to whom?
  • Russia takes over the Soviet Union's seat at the United Nations
  • Sauter pour mieux reculer: The Security Council's New Look
  • Secure boundaries and Middle East peace in the light of international law and practice
  • State response to acts of terrorism
  • The Beirut raid and the international double standard: a reply to professor Richard A. Falk
  • The Evolution of Israel's Boundaries
  • The Gulf of Sidra Incident
  • The Missing Reversioner: Reflections on the Status of Judea and Samaria
  • The presidency of the security council and the duty of impartiality
  • UN membership of the "new" Yougoslavia: continuity or break?
  • Will "justice" bring peace? International law - selected articles and legal opinions

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Yehuda Zvi Blum: For Zion's Sake . Associated University Presse, 1987, ISBN 978-0-8453-4809-3 , p. 252.
  2. ^ Men of Achievement . Melrose Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0-900332-53-1 . , P. 66.
  3. ↑ Prof. Yehuda Blum , The Faculty of Law - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ Lecture by Blum: Israel in the International Community - the Goldstone Report , Oldenburg, NWZ, November 14, 2009. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  5. ↑ Lecture by Prof. Yehuda Blum at the University of Freiburg: Holocaust Remembrance: What Must Be Said , July 5, 2012. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  6. ↑ Blum's lecture on Jewish presence in the West Bank - an obstacle to peace? , German-Israeli Society, June 4, 2013. Accessed July 27, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Jehuda Zvi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES בלום, יהודה צבי; Blum, Yehuda Zvi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli professor of international law, diplomat and UN ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava