Were Germans moved to speak out against the popular legal restrictions on Jewish rights?
Peace can be built only on mutual recognition of Jewish and Palestinian national rights.
He was chairman of the Jewish civil rights organization's national executive committee for many years and, the league said, was among its longest-serving officials.
He was one of the Soviet Union's most prominent campaigners for Jewish rights.
"There is only a Jewish right of return to the land of Israel."
Those fears shape some of the most extreme voices on the new Jewish right.
To his followers, he was the spearhead of insistence on Jewish rights.
It provided the legal foundation for Jewish rights in Poland.
What bothered him, he said, was the "new triumphalism" of the Jewish right and the danger that its message would go unchallenged.
An organization called the Antisemitenbund campaigned against Jewish civil rights since 1919.