Jewish Agricultural Settlement Corporation Collection 1930-1982

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Jewish Agricultural Settlement Corporation Collection 1930-1982

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The collection contains the records of the Jewish Agricultural Settlement Corporation (JASC), the American branch ofthe Juedische Landarbeit GmbH, an organization that sought to resettle German-Jewish farmers to Brazil during the 1930s. The files mostly concern the legal and financial maintenance ofthe organization, but there are also some documents about the settlements and the settlers, particularly from 1939 to 1941. The documents after 1946 concern refunds and the legaladministration of JASC.

2 linear feet + 2 oversize folders

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Leo Baeck Institute.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6345491

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Simon, Hermann

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Juedische Landarbeit GmbH

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Leo Baeck institute

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Stefan Zweig was born November 28, 1881, in Vienna, Austria into a family of wealthy industrialist. He studied in Austria, France, and Germany, earning his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna. After a short stop as literary editor of the Neue Freie Presse under Theaodor Herzl, Stefan Zweig became a most prolific and widely read critic and author of novels, biographies, plays, etc. In 1913 he settled in Salzburg, getting married to Friderike von Winternitz in 1914. During World War I he w...

Schwarzschild, Fritz

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Jewish Agricultural Settlement Corporation

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The Jewish Agricultural Settlement Corporation (JASC) was the American branch of the Juedische Landarbeit GmbH, an organization that sought to resettle German-Jewish farmers to Brazil, and to a lesser extent to the Dominican Republic, during the 1930s. The Juedische Landarbeit GmbH (JLA) was founded 1930 by Martin Gerson as a Halutzim organization for teaching German Jews agricultural skills. In cooperation with the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden, in the late 1930s...