Théo Klein
Theodore "Théo" Klein (born June 25, 1920 in Paris ; † January 28, 2020 ) was a French - Israeli lawyer , association official and museum director as well as a former resistance fighter . From 1986 to 1988 he was President of the European Jewish Congress .
Life
Klein was born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris into a Jewish family. During the Second World War he was a leading member of the French Resistance .
He studied political science and law in Paris. He was President of the Union of Jewish Students in France from 1945 to 1950 . Since then he has practiced as a lawyer, admitted to the bar in France and Israel (from 1970) and at the International Court of Arbitration . In 1978 he founded the business law firm Klein & Associés on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées .
Klein was involved in various Jewish organizations. From 1983 to 1989 he was President of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF). From 1986 to 1988 he was also President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC). He was in charge of the negotiations for the removal of the cross in front of the Auschwitz concentration camp . In the course of the Second Intifada in the Middle East and a subsequent highly political debate in France, he fell out with the CRIF. Politically and amicably, he was close to the Socialist Party around François Mitterrand .
From 2001 he was director of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in Paris.
Awards
- Member of the Legion of Honor (officer)
Fonts
- The affaire du Carmel d'Auschwitz . Bertoin, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-87949-000-6 .
- Libérez la Torah, Moïse, l'homme et la loi: une relecture . Calmann-Lévy, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7021-3195-6 .
literature
- Gideon Kouts , Nelly Hansson : Klein, Theodore . In: Michael Berenbaum , Fred Skolnik (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Judaica . Volume 12, 2nd Edition, Macmillan Reference, Detroit 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865940-4 , p. 226.
Individual evidence
- ^ Décès de Théo Klein, ancien président du Crif. Retrieved January 29, 2020 (French).
- ↑ KGA Avocats: une histoire , Klein & Associés, accessed on December 17, 2013.
- ↑ Claude Askolovitch: RSS Théo Klein rompt avec le Crif . In: Le Point , March 11, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Théo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klein, Theodore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-Israeli lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 2020 |