Kurt Blumenfeld

right Kurt Blumenfeld (; May 29, 1884 – May 21, 1963) was a German-born Zionist from Marggrabowa, East Prussia. He was the secretary general of the World Zionist Organization from 1911 to 1914.

He had served as secretary of the Zionist Federation of Germany from 1909 to 1911 and later served as president of that organization from 1924 to 1933, when he fled the rising tide of antisemitism in Nazi Germany for Palestine, after they had searched his Berlin home. He was a good friend of Hannah Arendt. Blumenfeld opposed the Anti-Nazi boycott saying “The boycott harms German Jews first and foremost. The boycott has no favorable results for us.”

He died in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1963 at the age of 79. Provided by Wikipedia
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"... in keinem Besitz verwurzelt" : die Korrespondenz
Published: Hamburg : Rotbuch-Verl, 1995.
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