Papers of the Institute of Jewish Affairs 1913-1991

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975

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Hannah Arendt was born in Linden in 1906. At the age of three her family moved to Königsberg. Arendt was raised in a politically progressive, secular family. She studied at the University of Marburg and obtained her doctorate in philosophy writing on Love and Saint Augustine at the University of Heidelberg in 1929. Hannah Arendt encountered increasing anti-Jewish discrimination in 1930s Nazi Germany. In 1933 Arendt was arrested and briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for performing illegal rese...

European Parliament

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The Institute of Jewish Affairs

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The Institute of Jewish Affairs was established in New York under the auspices of the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress on 1 February 1941, based on proposals made by Dr Jacob Robinson to the American Jewish Congress in 1939 and 1940. Its aims were to conduct a thorough investigation of Jewish life over the preceding 25 years, to establish the facts of the position of the Jews during World War II, to determine their causes and to suggest how Jewish rights might ...

Steinberg, Aaron, 1891-1975

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Palestine Liberation Organisation

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European Economic Community

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World Jewish Congress.

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According to their own constitution, the World Jewish Congress is a voluntary association of representative Jewish bodies, communities and organisations throughout the world, organised to assure the survival and to foster the unity of the Jewish people. Its origins lie in the immediate aftermath of World War I in the cooperative efforts by Jewish communities around the world in religious, legal, political and relief matters. In the aftermath of World War II the World Jewish Congress played a cen...

Baum K fl 1936

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Barou, N. (Noah), 1889-1955

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Institute for Jewish Policy

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Storch Hilel 1945-1983

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Checinksi Michael fl 1970

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European Jewish Congress.

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Easterman A L 1933-1953

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Barber Stephen fl 1944

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Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

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Board of Deputies of British Jews

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Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland

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World union for progressive judaism

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Founded in 1926 to further, both in a geographical and intellectual sense, the development of progressive Judaism; 1976 formally affiliated with the World Jewish Congress and the World Zionist Organization; 1998 the New York office closed; operations became centralized in Jerusalem. From the description of Records, 1926-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960759 ...

World Sephardi Federation

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Formed 1951 by merger of Union Universelle des Communautes Sephardites (ca. 1925) and World Federation of Sephardi Communities (1944). From the description of Records, 1926-1975, 1945-1975 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155471348 The World Sephardi Federation (WSF) was founded in 1925 at the international convention of Sephardi Jews held in Vienna, prior to the 14th Zionist Congress. The initiative behind its establishment came from the heads of the Sepha...

Demjanjuk John 1920-? 1988

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

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Stephen Samuel Wise was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to the United States the following year. He graduated with honors from Columbia University and in 1893 he was ordained in Austria "The People's Rabbi," as Wise would later be known, developed his deep concern for the less fortunate at an early age. Wise fought for housing projects, the abolition of child labor, the improvement of working conditions, securing rights for female workers and equal rights for African Americans. He founded th...

Isaacs Eva Violet 1895-1973

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Brasslof F L fl 1936

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Goldmann Nahum fl 1910

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Red Cross

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UNESCO

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Roth Stephen J 1944-1985

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Anglo-Jewish Association.

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The Anglo-Jewish Association was a British organisation originally founded for the protection of Jewish rights in developing countries by diplomatic means. Its objectives and activities were patterned after those of the Alliance Israelite Universelle. It was established in 1871 when its first president was Jacob Waley; five Jewish MPs were vice presidents. By 1900 it had 36 branches, 14 in British colonies. In 1871 it was instrumental in securing the creation of the Rumanian Committ...

American Jewish congress

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The American Jewish Congress was founded originally in 1918 by a group of Jewish American leaders as an umbrella structure for Jewish organizations to represent the American Jewish interests at the Peace Conference following the end of World War I. It was seen as a national parliamentary assembly representing all American Jews. Representatives to the Congress were selected by all major national Jewish organizations and delegates representing local communities were elected by some 35...

European Council of Jewish Community Services

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Trenner D J fl 1900

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