Countries collection: Czechoslovakia files, 1919-1970.

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Countries collection: Czechoslovakia files, 1919-1970.

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Correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed matter, and other material concerning American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee activities in Czechoslovakia, including aid to child care, cultural, and religious organization; relief, reconstruction (including vocational schools, cooperatives), and medical aid; and assistance with emigration. Also contains records of aid to Jews in Theresienstadt (Terezin) Ghetto, 1943-1948, including lists submitted by Federation of Czechoslovakian Jews, Self Help of Emigres from Central Europe, Czechoslovakia Jewish Representative Committee, and Agudat Israel. Other organizations represented include American Relief Administration, Children's Fund Mission to Czechoslovakia, 1919-1920, HICEM, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and Jewish Colonization Association.

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Czechoslovakia Jewish Representative Committee.

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Children's Fund Mission to Czechoslovakia.

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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...

American Relief Administration.

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American relief agency operating in the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1923. From the description of American Relief Administration Russian operational records, 1919-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122385039 American relief agency operating in Europe from 1919 to 1923. From the description of American Relief Administration European operational records, 1919-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122385037 ...

Federation of Czechoslovakian Jews.

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Self Help of Emigres from Central Europe.

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Jewish colonization association

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Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America

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Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America

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Agudat Israel.

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Agudat Israel held its founding convention in Kattowitz in 1912. It is a Jewish organization which seeks to preserve Orthodoxy by adherence to halakhah as the principle governing Jewish life and society. Poʻale Agudat Yiśraʼel was founded in 1922 as a religious labor movement dedicated to building the Land of Israel according to the Torah. It was originally an offshoot of Agudat Israel, but became an independent organization in 1960. From the description of Poster and printed epheme...