A master thesis in the Department of History at the College of Arts at the University of Basra discussed (Nahum Goldman and his political role in the Zionist movement and Israel 1915-1970).
The thesis presented by researcher Ghosoun Nouri Jassim included three chapters (Nahum Goldmann’s political role 1915-1940, Nahum Goldmann’s political role in the Zionist movement and preparations for the establishment of Israel 1940-1948, and Nahum Goldmann’s political role in the German reparations issue and his position on the Arab-Israeli conflict 1950-1970).
The thesis aims to complete what those researchers started and to fill the gap in Iraqi libraries, and based on the famous saying (know your enemy), because studying the history of "Israel" in general and the history of "Israeli" figures who played a pivotal role can lead to a greater understanding of "Israel" and how to deal with it.
The thesis reached many conclusions that can be listed as follows:
First: The childhood years that Nahum Goldman lived in his grandfather’s house, and the peace and serenity of his town of Visnego, had a great impact on his gaining self-confidence, which he did not lose with his parents. That confidence, along with his broad culture in law and philosophy, his knowledge of six languages that he acquired from his studies at German universities, and his writing activities, helped him to later be a spokesman for the Jews of the world and to demand their rights in European countries and the United States of America.
Second: His father’s purely Zionist personality had the greatest impact on shaping Goldman’s personality and Zionist orientations since his childhood. He imbibed the concepts of his father, who was a Hebrew writer and teacher, and those concepts played a major role in influencing his ideas, method, vision, and treatment of problems, as well as his extraordinary intellectual devotion to the Zionist movement, in addition to his being influenced by friends with Zionist orientations who used to visit his father’s house in Frankfurt in the early years of his life.
