Who is peter bergson

Meet Peter Bergson! But 'Not Idly By' fits into that category. Presenting Bergson's story in his words, with his evidence, through his frustrated anguish, is a continuation of his effort. Ruth R. He remarried in and lived near Tel Aviv until his death in We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia.

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Browse A-Z Find articles, photos, maps, films, and more listed alphabetically. For Teachers Recommended resources and topics if you have limited time to teach about the Holocaust. Must Reads Introduction to the Holocaust What conditions, ideologies, and ideas made the Holocaust possible? I must declare a personal interest in the event, and not just because I will be chairing the discussion. Peter Bergson, who passed away in , was my father-in-law.

His real name was Hillel Kook. He was the son of a rabbi, who had brought the family from a shtetl in Lithuania when Hillel was eight years old. His story, in itself, is utterly compelling. Yet his real genius was to grasp the larger issues beyond day-to-day politics. For Hillel, the primary political imperative for individual Jews was to see clearly, and act morally. That lesson, though never more urgent than during the Holocaust, is one that is timeless, as I expect the panel and audience discussion at JW3 will reflect.

Ned Temko is a former editor of the JC. Service at synagogue featured in Ridley Road ambushed by group with swastikas. Bergson set up the Emergency Committee to Save the Jews in Europe in in response to what he considered to be feeble official efforts to respond to the killings. To get attention for their cause, they held plays and mass pageants, including Mr.

Edward G. Robinson, Marlon Brando and Stella Adler were among those who took part. Most controversial were the committee's full-page advertisements in major newspapers, including one that appeared in The Times and The Washington Post in February And Rabbi Stephen S.

Wise, head of the American Jewish Congress, quickly condemned the advertisement as a hoax. Charismatic, indefatigable and reviled in many quarters, Mr. Bergson was ''as persistent as a force of nature,'' Mr.

Hecht later wrote. On one occasion, two days before Yom Kippur in October , Mr. Bergson persuaded orthodox rabbis to march on Washington to protest what they thought was the Roosevelt administration's indifference to the plight of European Jews.