(1897-1982)
Israeli sociologist and communal leader. He was born in Brody, in eastern Galicia, and taught at the Institute of Jewish Sciences in Warsaw. In 1939 he went to the US where he was director of relief and rehabilitation for the World Zionist Action Committee. He settled in Palestine in 1946 and taught at the Hebrew University. From 1948 to 1971 he was chairman of the Israeli section of the World Jewish Congress. He wrote studies of the Jewish labour movement, migration problems, the history of Polish Jewry, anti-Semitism, and the Jewish communities of the diaspora.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.