AJC Honors Phil Murphy for Strengthening German-American Jewish Understanding.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC honored Ambassador Phil Murphy with its prestigious "Ernst Cramer Award for Outstanding Contributions to German-American Jewish Understanding."
The award was presented to Murphy, an American businessman and former U.S. ambassador to Germany (2009-2013) at an AJC event at the Jewish Museum in New York. More than 150 guests attended.
The inscription on the award states: "Presented to Ambassador Phillip Murphy in recognition of his steadfast commitment and spirited dedication to Jewish affairs, Jewish-German relations and to the State of Israel."
"I am proud to be a recipient of an award named after a great American Jewish patriot, bestowed on me by a path breaking American Jewish organization," said Murphy. "I have always experienced AJC to be at the forefront of the critical transatlantic issues of our day."
Ernst Cramer was a distinguished journalist and publisher with the Axel Springer publishing company in Germany. He was a German Jew who fled to the U.S., returning as an American soldier. He ended up staying to work with this unique publishing house that remains a bastion of pro-American, pro-Israeli sentiment in Germany.
When Murphy arrived in Berlin as U.S. Ambassador in 2009, he soon encountered and benefitted from Cramer's transatlantic experience and wisdom. Murphy named an Ernst Cramer conference room at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin shortly before Cramer's death at the age of 96 in 2010.
"Phil Murphy is a bridge builder across continents, laying the foundation for a new and more diverse generation of transatlanticists," said Steven Wisch, co-chair of AJC Berlin, who presented the award to Cramer. "He harbors a deep and abiding commitment to Jewish life and security for Jewish communities. He is a staunch advocate of U.S.-Israeli and German-Israeli relations."
The Ernst Cramer Award is given bi-annually to an individual or institution for outstanding contributions in the field of American Jewish – German understanding. The three past recipients of the Cramer Award were Michael Blumenthal, founding director of the Jewish Museum Berlin; the Konrad Adenauer Foundation; and Lawrence and Lee Ramer for their work launching the Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations that is part of AJC Berlin.
Deidre Berger is director of the AJC Berlin Office, established in 1998.
SOURCE American Jewish Committee
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