WIENER, ALFRED

WIENER, ALFRED (1885–1964), public figure. An Arabist by education, he served as secretary to paul nathan from 1911 to 1914. After serving in World War I Wiener became active in the CV (central-verein deutscher Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens) of which he became secretary general. He belonged to the pro-Palestine wing of the CV which, from 1929, collaborated in the non-Zionist part of the enlarged jewish agency and the keren hayesod . At the end of 1933, with the help of Professor david cohen , he founded the Jewish Central Information Office in Amsterdam which was brought over to London in 1939 and was later named wiener library . The rest of his life was dedicated to this institute. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: C.C. Aronsfeld, in: WLB, 18, no. 2 (1964), 13–14; idem, in: Theokratia, 1 (1967/69), 144–59; R. Weltsch, in: YLBI, 9 (1964), XXVIII–XXX; A. Paucker, Der juedische Abwehrkampf (1967). (Yehuda Reshef)