2025-07-22 22:32 <br/> Tags: #people #AmericanJewry #EarlyZionism ![[image-57.png|436x315]] *L-R Moshe Sharett, Miriam Freund-Rosenthal, Louis Lipsky, Nahum Goldman * # Louis Lipsky (1876-1963) - Louis Lipsky was a prominent American Jewish lobbyist and early Zionist leader. - A New York Jew, Lipsky published various Jewish magazines before becoming secretary of the Federation of American Zionists which soon became the [[Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)]]. - Lipsky was chairman of the [[Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)]] from 1922-1930 and its president from 1926-1930. - In the 1920s Lipsky led a Zionist faction within the ZOA in opposition to the faction of [[Louis Brandeis]]. - Lipsky's faction was backed by [[Chaim Weizmann]]. - the feud was reconciled in 1930. - Lipsky was a founder of the American Jewish Conference, an organization made for the purpose of organizing American Jewry in its role assisting the Jews in Palestine and the future state they would make. The conference lasted from 1943-1949. - Lipsky was a founder of [[Keren Hayesod]]. - Lipsky was a chairman of the [[United Israel Appeal]]. - Lipsky was a chairman of the [[Palestine Foundation Fund]]. - *The PFF was just another name for Keren Hayesod* - Lipsky was a founder of both the [[American Jewish Congress]] and the [[World Jewish Congress]], serving as vice president to the former. - Close associates of Lipsky include rabbi [[Stephen S. Wise]], [[Abraham Feinberg]], and [[Chaim Weizmann]]. Lipsky is also noted as knowing every US President from Theodore Roosevelt to Eisenhower. #### American Zionist Council - In 1949 Lipsky replaced rabbi [[Abba Hillel Silver]] as chairman of the [[American Zionist Council (AZC)]]. - The AZC was the umbrella Jewish lobby in the United States working on behalf of Israel. - In 1952 Lipsky, in his position at the AZC, announced the appointment of [[Isaiah L. Kenen]] as Washington representative of the AZC - Kenen soon formed the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs (AZCPA) - In 1959 the AZCPA was renamed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, [[AIPAC]]. - Kenen's lobbying groups created under the AZC were for purposes of evading federal orders for the AZC to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). - Eventually AIPAC fully took over the AZC's lobbying activities and the AZC was disbanded. #### References - “Louis Lipsky.” _Wikipedia_. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lipsky. - _Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)_. “Louis Lipsky, Jewish Leader, Dies in New York at 87.” _JTA Archive_, May 6, 1963. https://www.jta.org/archive/louis-lipsky-jewish-leader-dies-in-new-york-at-87. - Lipsky, Louis. _Gallery of Zionist Profiles_. New York: Herzl Press, 1956. - “American Zionist Council.” _Wikipedia_. Last modified July 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Zionist_Council. - _Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)_. “Lipsky Resigns as Chairman of American Zionist Council; Blames Confusion in U.S. Zionism.” _JTA Archive_, November 27, 1950. https://www.jta.org/archive/lipsky-resigns-as-chairman-of-american-zionist-council-blames-confusion-in-u-s-zionism. - “American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.” _Israel Lobby Archive_. https://www.israellobby.org/azcpa/. - “Isaiah L. Kenen.” _Wikipedia_. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_L._Kenen.