Biography:Toma Sik
Toma Ŝik | |
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Jesajáhú Tómá Sík | |
| Born | 17 August 1939 Óbuda, Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 13 July 2004 (aged 64) Kónyaszék, Csongrád District, Hungary |
| Citizenship | Mondcivitan Republic |
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| Movement | Secular humanism |
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Yeshaayahu Toma Ŝik (Schück Tamás, Schuck Tamas; Hebrew: תומא סיק; 17 August 1939 – 13 July 2004) was a Hungarian-Israeli peace activist, anarchist, libertarian socialist, vegan, world citizen, and pioneer of the Israeli-Palestinian search for peace.
Biography
Since he was a teenager and as a survivor of the Holocaust, Ŝik actively opposed Israeli militarism. He refused military service[1] and counselled conscientious objectors for 30 years, and played a central role in the War Resisters International (WRI) chapter in Israel, as well as in Gush Shalom.
Legacy
The International Institute of Social History keeps a vast collection of Ŝik's papers in several languages, such as Hebrew, Hungarian, and English. The papers include documentation on the peace movement in Israel and especially Gush Shalom, periodicals and leaflets about sustainable and organic agriculture, the environment (e.g. in Eastern Europe), vegetarianism and veganism, and documentation about European unification, including newsletters from the European Anti-Maastricht Alliance[Usurped!].
See also
- List of peace activists
References
- ↑ Blatt, Martin; Davis, Uri; Kleinbaum, Paul (1975). "Chapter 7, Yeshayaahu". Dissent & Ideology in Israel: Resistance to the Draft, 1948-1973. London: Ithaca Press. pp. 66–77. ISBN 0-903729-07-5.
External links
- Toma Sik's text "Puzzles of a Lifetime" at the War Resisters International's site
- A short biography at Libcom's site
- About Toma's papers at the International Institute of Social History
- "Obituary for Toma Ŝik". http://www.newprofile.org/showdata.asp?pid=582. by Uri Davis
- Audio portrait
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