Events
When population transfer was proposed in 1935-6 by Golda Myerson, Moshe Shertok and Ya'acov Riftin, Hayim Greenberg, delivered a very short address at the 20th Zionist Congress. He said that the transfer of Arabs was not feasible. They will not vounatily leave and we cannot force them. On the other hand, if they remained they would listen to the agitation of their Arab leaders. Greenberg did not have a solution to this dilemma.
He was in favor of keeping Yiddish alive, he wrote literature in Yiddish, and sought to institute a chair in Yiddish at Hebrew University. He was also in iinvolved in attempting to save Yiddish poets.
Haim Greenberg to Ben-Zion Dinaburg (Dinur), 25 October 1950, The Hebrew University Archives, file 22730, 1951.
In 1943 he was visited in New York by the Assyrian nation, on of the small ethnic minorities without rights in modern Iraq. Who asked: "It appears you Jews are about to get yourselves a state," the visitor said. "Can you spare a corner of it for an old neighbor?"
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He was instrumental in gaining the support of several Latin American countries for the establishment of the State of Israel.
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