Guram Batiashvili ( Georgian: გურამ ბათიაშვილი; born in 1938) is a Georgian writer and playwright. He is vice president of the World Jewish Congress and member of the General Council of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC).
At various times, Batiashvili has been and continues to be a member of the presidium and boards of the Writers’ Union of Georgia and of the Theatre Workers’ Union of Georgia. From 2003 to 2012, he was co-chairman of the World Congress of Georgian Jews (Tel Aviv). He is currently vice-president of the Georgia-Israeli Friendship Society. Since 1993, he has been the Editor in Chief of the Jewish newspaper "Menorah". [1]
Batiahvili is the author of 15 books, including 4 novels. He is the author of several plays focusing on Jewish topics: The Debt ( Repatriation of the Jews of Georgia to Israel in the 70s), Land or Homeland (Life of Theodor Herzl and his fight for the formation of Zionism), On the Eagle's Wings ( Punishment of Adolf Eichmann), and The Beginning (The period of Judeo-Christianity, and the relations between Judaism and Christianity). His plays and novels have been translated into Russian and Hebrew. [2]