American Jewish joint distribution committee

Variant names
Dates:
Active 1913
Active 1946
International,
Hebrew, Spanish; Castilian, German, French, Polish, Multiple languages, English, Yiddish, Russian, Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan, Dutch; Flemish,

Biographical notes:

The American Joint Distribution Committee was founded on November 27, 1914 when the American Jewish Relief Committee (AJRC) and the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews (CCRJ) joined forces under the name of the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers. Although JDC reflected the diversity of the American Jewish Community, the Reform-oriented American Jewish Committee faction dominated its early leadership. Conceived as a temporary agency to relieve suffering during the war, it developed more fully and complexly in the period of postwar reconstruction. In 1931 the organization changed its name to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, becoming a much-needed and permanent agency. Throughout the 1930s the organization became the relief center for Jews fleeing Nazi oppression, and in the late 1940s it conducted efforts to get oppressed Jews to Israel. In addition to its concern for, and activities in Israel, the JDC developed projects for oppressed and needy Jews throughout the world.

From the guide to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, collection, undated, 1914-1922, 1926, 1929, 1933, 1935-1936, 1938, 1941-1985, 1988, (American Jewish Historical Society)

Created in 1914 as the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers by a committee representing relief organizations in the American Jewish Committee, orthodox groups, and labor elements.

From the description of Records, 1914-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960635

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Subjects:

  • Agricultural assistance
  • Agricultural assistance
  • Agricultural colonies
  • Agricultural credit
  • Agricultural education
  • Agriculture
  • Anschluss movement, 1918-1938
  • Antisemitism
  • Ashkenazim
  • Banks and banking
  • Banks and banking, Central
  • Banks and banking, Cooperative
  • Canteens (Establishments)
  • Child care
  • Children
  • Children
  • Jewish children
  • Christianity and international relations
  • Church work with refugees
  • Universities and colleges
  • Concentration camps
  • Concentration camps
  • Consumer cooperatives
  • Cooperative societies
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Endowments
  • Endowments
  • Endowments
  • Fraternal organizations
  • Fund raising
  • Haavara
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Housing
  • International relief
  • Investments, German
  • Jewish
  • Jewish community centers
  • Jewish libraries
  • Jewish orphanages
  • Jewish orphans
  • Jewish refugees
  • Jewish refugees
  • Jewish religious schools
  • Jewish students
  • Jewish teachers colleges
  • Jewish youth
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews, East European
  • Jews, Lithuanian
  • Judaism
  • Judaism
  • Kosher food
  • Kristallnacht, 1938
  • Land settlement
  • Loans
  • Medical assistance
  • Medicine
  • National socialism
  • Nursing schools
  • Occupational training
  • Older people
  • Orphanages
  • Orphans
  • Orthodox Judaism
  • Orthodox Judaism
  • Passports
  • Pogroms
  • Police
  • Political refugees
  • Prisoners of war
  • Rabbinical seminaries
  • Rabbis
  • Reconstruction (1914-1939)
  • Reconstruction (1939-1950)
  • Refugee camps
  • Religion and international relations
  • Reparations
  • Repatriation
  • Sanatoriums
  • Sanitation
  • Shehitah
  • Ships and shipping
  • Social service
  • Society of Friends and world politics
  • Trade schools
  • Tuberculosis
  • Vocational education
  • War relief
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945

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Places:

  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • Syria (as recorded)
  • Europe, Eastern (as recorded)
  • Czechoslovakia--Terezín (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Costa Rica (as recorded)
  • Finland (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Denmark (as recorded)
  • Rieucross (France : Concentration camp) (as recorded)
  • Camp des Milles (Les Milles, France : Concentration camp) (as recorded)
  • Lithuania (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Belgium (as recorded)
  • Spain (as recorded)
  • Czechoslovakia (as recorded)
  • France (as recorded)
  • Great Britain (as recorded)
  • Austria (as recorded)
  • Poland (as recorded)
  • Hungary (as recorded)
  • Le Vernet (France : Concentration camp) (as recorded)
  • Poland (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • China (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • Haiti (as recorded)
  • Portugal (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • Austria--Vienna (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Netherlands (as recorded)
  • Australia (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • England (as recorded)
  • Bolivia (as recorded)
  • Rivesaltes (France : Concentration camp) (as recorded)
  • Spain (as recorded)
  • St. Cyprian (France : Concentration camp) (as recorded)
  • Serbia (as recorded)
  • Europe, Eastern (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Dominican Republic (as recorded)
  • Mexico (as recorded)
  • Europe, Eastern (as recorded)
  • Gurs (France : Concentration camp) (as recorded)
  • Europe, Eastern (as recorded)
  • Russia (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • Netherlands (as recorded)
  • Hungary (as recorded)
  • Canada (as recorded)
  • Honduras (as recorded)
  • Uruguay (as recorded)
  • Greece (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Colombia (as recorded)
  • Libya (as recorded)
  • Warsaw (Poland) (as recorded)
  • Equador (as recorded)
  • Trinidad (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • Belarus--Mir (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • Poland (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • South Africa (as recorded)
  • Europe, Eastern (as recorded)
  • Europe, Central (as recorded)
  • Iran (as recorded)
  • Chile (as recorded)
  • Peru (as recorded)
  • Sweden (as recorded)
  • Italy (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • Drancy (France : Concentration camp) (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Argentina (as recorded)
  • Europe--Persecutions (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Panama (as recorded)
  • Societies, etc. (as recorded)
  • Egypt (as recorded)
  • Philippines (as recorded)
  • Venezuela (as recorded)
  • Ukraine (as recorded)
  • Russia (Federation)--Birobidzhan (as recorded)
  • Cuba (as recorded)
  • Ethiopia (as recorded)
  • Poland--Gdańsk (as recorded)
  • Jerusalem (as recorded)
  • Romania (as recorded)
  • Yugoslavia (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • China--Shanghai (as recorded)
  • Switzerland (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • Austria (as recorded)
  • Morocco--Tangier (as recorded)
  • China--Harbin (as recorded)
  • Latvia (as recorded)
  • Europe, Eastern (as recorded)
  • Europe, Eastern (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • Estonia (as recorded)
  • Estonian S.S.R (as recorded)
  • Austria (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Switzerland--Emigration and immigration (as recorded)
  • Brazil (as recorded)
  • Transnistria (as recorded)
  • Yemen (Republic) (as recorded)
  • Iraq (as recorded)
  • Romania (as recorded)
  • Turkey (as recorded)
  • France (as recorded)
  • Africa, North (as recorded)
  • New York (State) (as recorded)
  • Poland--Warsaw (as recorded)
  • Romania (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • Poland (as recorded)
  • France (as recorded)
  • Ukraine (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Récébédou (France : Concentration camp) (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)

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