MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CULTURE
- MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CULTURE
- The Memorial Foundation was established with German reparations funds by
Nahum Goldmann in 1965 with the mandate to raise up a new generation of
scholars, intellectuals, rabbis, and cultural and communal leaders to
replace the Jewish cultural elite annihilated in Europe during the
Shoah.
The Foundation awards scholarships and fellowships to scholars,
academicians, writers, artists, rabbis, educators, and communal workers.
Funds are also provided to academic and scholarly institutions for
research and publication. For the first few decades after its founding,
special attention was paid to the Jewish communities in the former
Soviet Union countries where Jewish life had been suppressed for seven
decades under Communist rule. The list of individuals and institutions
who received the Foundation's support since its inception can be found
on its Website, www.mfjc.org.
In addition to its support of communities and institutions, the
Foundation has developed innovative programs to address needs not
adequately met by the Jewish community globally. These include the
International Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, which prepares communal,
cultural, and professional leadership for Jewish communities around the
world; reaching the Jewish unaffiliated; Jewish family education; and
utilization of new technologies for Jewish culture and education.
Currently the Foundation's programs extend to Jewish communities on six
continents, reaching both individuals and institutions at the core of
the Jewish community as well as Jews affiliated only marginally with
Jewish life.
The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture is committed to the creation,
intensification, and dissemination of Jewish culture worldwide, the
development of creative programs to meet the emerging needs of the
Jewish communities as they enter the 21st century, and
service as a central forum for identifying and supporting innovative
programs to ensure the continuation of creative Jewish life wherever
Jewish communities exist. Its headquarters are in New York.
(Jerome Hochbaum (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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