Countries collection: Cuba files, 1919-1959, 1919-1951 (bulk).

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Countries collection: Cuba files, 1919-1959, 1919-1951 (bulk).

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Correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed matter, and other material concerning American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee activity in Cuba, particularly with Jewish refugees from Russia, 1919-1921, and Germany and other areas of Europe, 1938-1959. Also contains records, 1943-1944, of project to study history of Jews in Cuba, including drafts of history. Organizations include Jewish Committee for Cuba, 1922-1932, National Coordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees and Emigrants Coming from Germany, and American Friends Service Committee.

1.8 cubic ft.

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Jewish Committee for Cuba.

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American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...

American Jewish joint distribution committee

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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 relie...