Shabtai Rosenne Collection

Shabtai Rosenne Collection.

כותרת בעברית: אוסף שבתאי רוזן.

אוסף תעודות בנוגע למשפט שלל הים בימי מלחמת העולם השנייה.

Collection of Documents Relating to Prize Law During the Second World War.

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V. 1344 Collection of Documents Relating Prize Law During the Second World War, Archives Department, The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem

Shabtai Rosenne Collection

Fonds Record

Shabtai Rosenne (Sefton Wilfred David Rowson) was born in London, in 1917. Rosenne completed his academic studies in law at the University of London in 1938, studying naval law. After military service in the Royal Air Force from 1940 to 1946, he worked in the political department of the Jewish Agency, first in London and later in Jerusalem. With the founding of the State of Israel, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for which he served as legal advisor from 1948 to 1967. In this role he was, among other things, a member of the Israeli delegation to the negotiations for the armistice agreement of 1949 and regularly to the sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations. During this time he also received his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1940 Rosenne became admitted solicitor of the High Court of England. In 1960, Shabtai Rosenne was appointed ambassador and sent by the Israeli government to Argentina to deal with the political and diplomatic upheavals that resulted from the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and his deportation to Israel. He also represented Israel at the conferences that negotiated the Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982, as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1967 to 1971, to the UN Commission on Human Rights from 1968 to 1970, and as Permanent Representative from 1971 to 1974 at the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva. He was then appointed special ambassador and worked in the diplomatic service until 1982. Between 1989 and 2000, he represented the United States, Yugoslavia and Japan in several cases before the International Court of Justice. After the end of his diplomatic career, he also taught as a professor at Bar-Ilan University and as a visiting professor at various foreign universities and in 1954 and 2001 at the Hague Academy of International Law. Rosenne was married in 1940 and had two sons. He died in Jerusalem in 2010 at the age of 92.

This collection was permanently deposited at the Jewish National and University Library in February 1967, by Shabtai Rosenne.

The materials in this collection are in German, French and English.

With Assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Supported by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future and by the German Federal Ministry of Finance. בסיוע ועידת התביעות בחסות הקרן זכרון, אחריות ועתיד ובתמיכת משרד האוצר הפדרלי הגרמני.

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