Re: [Cz-L] Zissels

Dear Czernowitz discussion group,

Here is a newer (Dec. 2006) notice about Mr. Zissels:

Josef Zissels Celebrates 60th Birthday

This month, Josef Zissels, the Chairman of the
Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities
(VAAD) of Ukraine, will mark his 60th birthday with a
gala celebration at the Galytska Synagogue in Kyiv. A
leading Jewish and human rights activist for much of
his professional life, Mr. Zissels spent six years as
a political prisoner in the Soviet gulag. He founded
numerous community organizations in Ukraine and the
Soviet Union, established the first Jewish umbrella
organization in the Soviet Union – the Confederation
of Jewish Organizations and Communities (VAAD) – and
founded the VAAD of Ukraine in 1991. Zissels is
currently a Board Member of the European Council of
Jewish communities, the European and World Jewish
Congresses, the World Zionist Organization, and the
founding hairman of the General Council of the
Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.
NCSJ congratulates Josef on his birthday and thanks
him for his long service on behalf of the Jewish
communities of the former Soviet Union.

http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/December2006NewsWatch.pdf.

Yours,
Ossi Horowitz
(born 1945 in Czernowitz)
--- Bruce Reisch <bir1_at_nysaes.cornell.edu> wrote:

> Dear Hardy, Dear Czernowitz discussion group,
>
> Note that the article cited by Hardy was published
> five years ago.
> It would be interesting to learn the outcome of
> efforts to construct
> a memorial and community center at Babi Yar.
> Another comment follow
> below.
>
> At 7:27 +0300 4/2/08, HARDY BREIER wrote:
> >All Group,
> >Read this on Mr. Zissels,
> >Hardy
> >4. International News
> >www.jewishtimes.com/scripts/ed - [Cached]
> >Published on: 7/17/2003 Last Visited: 7/21/2003
> >
> >A thorn in the side of the authorities during
> Soviet days, Jewish
> >community representative Josef Zissels is now
> pricking Ukrainian
> >Jewish leaders -- so much so that they've declared
> him persona non
> >grata.
> >
>
>
> -snip-
>
> As pointed out below, and fairly reported, there are
> two sides to every story.
>
> Bruce Reisch
>
> >...
> >Martin Horowitz, director of the Jewish Community
> Development Fund
> >run by the New York-based American Jewish World
> Service, said his
> >organization would continue to deal with Zissels
> and the welfare,
> >education and social programs administered by
> organizations such as
> >the Va'ad.
> >...
> >"This organization has known and worked with Mr.
> Zissels for 10
> >years, and will continue to do so in future,"
> Horowitz wrote in an
> >e-mail interview with JTA.
> >...
> >"As someone who knows Mr. Zissels and most of the
> people associated
> >with this recently created 'Council of Leaders,' I
> find it very sad
> >to see one small group of Jewish activists
> attempting to
> >'excommunicate' another of Josef Zissels' stature."
> >
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