Creator: | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | Requires cookie* | |
Title: | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Russian relief collection | ||
Dates: | 1913-1946; Bulk Dates: 1915-1928 | ||
Call No: | 1987.013 | ||
Abstract: | The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) was founded in 1914 to provide aid to Jews in Palestine and Eastern Europe. During the interwar years they supplied basic services to Jewish war survivors and helped with the reconstruction of Jewish communal infrastructure in Eastern Europe. The collection documents the relief efforts of the JDC in Eastern Europe between 1914-1936. | ||
Size: | 1.0 Linear feet | ||
Subjects: | International relief -- Europe | Jews -- Charities | Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions | Jews -- Soviet Union | Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Europe | Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Relief |