Jones, Bessie Zaban

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Dates:
Birth 1900
English,

Biographical notes:

Bessie Zaban was born in 1898 in Atlanta, Ga., the daughter of Austrian immigrants. She married Howard Mumford Jones; they had eight children. During World War II she worked with the Window Shop, an organization that assisted Jewish refugees from Europe; later she worked for Harvard University Press and wrote three books. She died in 1997.

From the description of Papers, 1984-1997 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122561831

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Subjects:

  • Charities
  • Jewish refugees
  • World War, 1939-1945

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Places:

  • Cambridge (Mass.) (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)