Kurt Blumenfeld

Yehuda Kurt Blumenfeld ( * May 29, 1884 in Marggrabowa, East Prussia, † 21 May 1963 in Jerusalem ) was a leading German Zionist - Jewish origin.

Life

From 1904 to 1909 Blumenfeld studied law in Berlin, Freiburg and Königsberg. In 1909 he was party secretary of the Zionist Federation of Germany ( ZVfD he was set Zionist since 1904). Blumenfeld was from 1911 to 1914, the Secretary General of the World Zionist Federation. From 1913 to 1914 he edited the The World in Berlin. From 1924 (according to other sources: since 1923) to 1933 he was president of the ZVfD.

1913 married Blumenfeld Jenny Hurwitz. In 1914 he first visited Palestine, in 1933, he fled there. Since 1936 he was also director of the Keren Hayesod, a fund that supported the immigration. After several years of trips to New York Blumenfeld moved to Palestine in 1945 final. He was a friend since the early 1930s with Hannah Arendt, who worked with him, even though they are not known to Zionism.

Writings

• Kurt Blumenfeld and Hans Tramer: Experienced Jewish question. A quarter - century German Zionism. Stuttgart 1962
• In the fight for Zionism. Letters from five decades. Stuttgart 1976
• Hannah Arendt and Kurt Blumenfeld ... rooted in any possession. The Correspondence, ed. by Ingeborg Nordmann and Iris Pilling, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 388022806X