American Jewish Conference
| “ | The immediate problem, ladies and gentlemen, is rescue; and I don’t care what else you say or how you characterise it, or what you say about me for saying it, that is the immediate problem and that is the problem that we should be concerned with. | ” |
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—Robert Goldman |
At the American Jewish Conference of 29 August 1943 the adoption of the Biltmore program was challenged by Joseph Proskauer and Robert Goldman, they argued that the immediate problem was the rescue effort, not the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth. Goldman felt the Biltmore program was unduly weighted in favour of the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth and that the focus on this as a priority would hamper the efforts to rescue the European Jewry.
While Abba Silver and Emanuel Neumann put forwards that the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth should be the primary aim.
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