Guram Batiashvili ( ka, გურამ ბათიაშვილი; born in 1938) is a
Georgian writer and playwright. He is vice president of the
World Jewish Congress
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and member of the General Council of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC).
At various times, Batiashvili has been and continues to be a member of the
presidium
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and boards of the Writers’ Union of Georgia and of the Theatre Workers’ Union of Georgia. From 2003 to 2012, he was co-chairman of the World Congress of Georgian Jews (Tel Aviv). He is currently vice-president of the Georgia-Israeli Friendship Society. Since 1993, he has been the Editor in Chief of the
Jewish newspaper
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"Menorah".
Batiahvili is the author of 15 books, including 4 novels. He is the author of several plays focusing on
Jewish
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topics: ''The Debt'' (
Repatriation
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of the Jews of Georgia to
Israel
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in the 70s), ''Land or Homeland'' (Life of
Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of Types of Zionism, modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the World Zionist Organization, Zionist Organizat ...
and his fight for the formation of
Zionism
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), ''On the Eagle's Wings'' (
Punishment of Adolf Eichmann), and ''The Beginning'' (The period of
Judeo-Christian
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ity, and the relations between Judaism and Christianity). His plays and novels have been translated into Russian and
Hebrew
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.
Batiashvili at www.worldjewishcongress.org
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References
External links
Georgian Jews World CongressWorld Jewish CongressEuro-Asian Jewish Congress
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1938 births
Living people
Writers from Georgia (country)