American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs
The American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs (AECZA) or the American Zionist Emeregency Council (AZEC) was established in 1939 to promote Zionist ideology among the largely non-Zionist US Jewish population.[1] As a part of its propaganda efforts, AZEC itself published and distributed Theodor Herzl's The Jewish State in 1946.[2] In 1949 it was renamed the American Zionist Council, and registered as a tax-exempt non-profit organization.[3] It was the parent organization of AIPAC.
Principals
- Abba Hillel Silver - first chairman
- Louis Lipsky - chairman
- Isaiah Kenen - Information officer for AZEC and executive director of AZC
