Sigi Feigel [SEP] place of death
Sigi Feigel
Sigi Feigel (17 May 1921, Zürich – 28 August 2004, Zürich) was a Swiss attorney, President and Honorary President of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), and notable for his campaigns against antisemitism and racism.
Life and work.
Feigel was born in Zürich to Russian Jewish immigrants. He received his PhD in jurisprudence at the University of Zürich in 1949. From 1949 to 1977, he was the director of the textile factory inherited by his wife, Evi Heim. The firm was
charge of antisemitism. The reason was a cartoon of Latuff's "We are all Palestinians" series, published in Swiss IMC website, which depicted a Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto saying: "I am Palestinian." The criminal proceedings were suspended by Swiss court later in 2002.
Notable supporters listed as members of its "patronage committee" include
Israeli writer Uri Avnery, Swiss writers Peter Bichsel and Mariella Mehr, former chief rabbi of Denmark Bent Melchior, Swiss anti-racist activist Sigi Feigel (d. 2004