Zachariah Shuster

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Zachariah Shuster (born December 15, 1902 in Poland , † February 15, 1986 in New York ) was a Polish-American association functionary and long-time head of the European section of the American Jewish Committee (AJC).

Life

Shuster was a student at the yeshiva in Slobodka , a suburb of Kaunas in Lithuania, for a short time in 1920 . There he got to know the Maskil and also received secular instruction.

In 1927 he immigrated to the USA . He became a journalist and started working for the AJC during World War II . In 1945 he was a member of a delegation to the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco .

From 1948 to 1974 he headed the European branch of the AJC from Paris . He has directed programs for the reconstruction and security of Jewish communities in Europe and North Africa . Among other things, he represented the AJC in 1962 at the Second Vatican Council . Shuster had an exchange of letters with the sociologist and philosopher Max Horkheimer , which was published in the complete edition of Horkheimer's works.

From 1974 Shuster continued his work for the AJC as a consultant. Even after his return to the USA in 1981 he remained a specialist in the organization for European affairs and relations with the Vatican and the World Council of Churches .

He died at the age of 83, leaving behind a son and four grandchildren.

Publications

  • The passion of a people: Anno MCMXLII , 1943
  • Christians and Jews , with Barbara Ward, Agnew Press for the Observer Limited, 1963
  • Conversations with recent emigres from Poland Memorandum des American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zachariah Schuster in the US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed October 14, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Mark K. Bauman: Harry H. Epstein and the rabbinate as conduit for change , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-838635-41-5 , page 128 (English)
  3. ^ Obituary, New York Times , February 16, 1986
personal data
SURNAME Shuster, Zachariah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-American association official
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1986
Place of death new York