page_title: World Jewish Congress
section_title: After 1936
hierarchical_section_title: World Jewish Congress / Annex / Major gatherings of the World Jewish Congress / After 1936
caption_attribution_description: English: World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Stockholm, Sweden, August 1959
context_page_description: The World Jewish Congress was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. According to its mission statement, the World Jewish Congress' main purpose is to act as "the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people." Membership in the WJC is open to all representative Jewish groups or communities, irrespective of the social, political or economic ideology of the community's host country. The World Jewish Congress headquarters are in New York City, US, and the organization maintains international offices in Brussels, Belgium; Jerusalem, Israel; Paris, France; Moscow, Russia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Geneva, Switzerland. The WJC has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
context_section_description: First Plenary Assembly, 8–15 August 1936, Geneva, Switzerland
  War Emergency Conference, 26–30 November 1944, Atlantic City, USA (Election of Stephen S. Wise as WJC president)
  Second Plenary Assembly, 27 June – 6 July 1948, Montreux, Switzerland
  Third Plenary Assembly, 4–11 August 1953, Geneva, Switzerland (Election of Nahum Goldmann as WJC president)
  Fourth Plenary Assembly, 2–12 August 1959, Stockholm, Sweden
  Fifth Plenary Assembly, 31 July – 9 August 1966, Brussels, Belgium
  Sixth Plenary Assembly, 3–10 February 1975, Jerusalem, Israel
  Meeting of the General Council of the World Jewish Congress, 30 October – 3 November 1977, Washington DC, USA (Election of Philip Klutznick as WJC president)
  Seventh Plenary Assembly, 18–22 January 1981, Jerusalem, Israel (Election of Edgar Bronfman Sr. as WJC president)
  Eighth Plenary Assembly (50th Anniversary Assembly), 27–30 January 1986, Jerusalem, Israel
  Ninth Plenary Assembly, 5–9 May 1991, Jerusalem, Israel
  10th Plenary Assembly, 21–24 January 1996, Jerusalem, Israel
  11th Plenary Assembly, 29 October–1 November 2001, Jerusalem, Israel
  12th Plenary Assembly, 9–11 January 2005, Brussels, Belgium
  Governing Board Meeting, 10 June 2007, New York City, USA (Election of Ronald S. Lauder as WJC president)
  13th Plenary Assembly, 26–27 January 2009, Jerusalem, Israel
  14th Plenary Assembly, 5–7 May 2013, Budapest, Hungary
  Special Plenary Assembly, 15–17 March 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  15th Plenary Assembly, 23–25 April 2017, New York City, USA
caption: World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Stockholm, Sweden, August 1959
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