Philip E. Hoffman

Philip E. Hoffman (October 2, 1908 – June 6, 1993)^[1] was a lawyer, former national president of the American Jewish Committee (1969 to 1973; he was also chairman of its board of governors from 1963 to 1967^[2]) and an American Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council from 1972 to 1975.^[3]

Hoffman grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, graduated in 1929 from Dartmouth College and from Yale Law School in 1932.^[4] A resident of Verona, New Jersey, he died on June 6, 1993, in Livingston, New Jersey.^[5]

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CEOs	David Harris (1990–2022) Ted Deutch (2022–present)
Other key people	Elliot E. Cohen Felice D. Gaer Jerry Goodman Max Horkheimer Avital Leibovich Nathan Perlmutter Norman Podhoretz A. James Rudin Jacob Schiff Harry Schneiderman Kenneth S. Stern Marc H. Tanenbaum
Institutions	Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council Project Interchange Transatlantic Institute
Publications	American Jewish Year Book (1908–2008) The Authoritarian Personality (1950) Commentary (1945–2007) Present Tense (1973–1990) "Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism" (2006)

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