Countries collection: Lithuania files, 1915-1944.

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Countries collection: Lithuania files, 1915-1944.

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Correspondence, reports, printed matter, clippings, and other material concerning conditions in Lithuania, and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) activity there. Areas of activity include child care; cultural and religious organizations including aid to Tarbut, Yavneh, and Jewish Culture League (Yiddishist) schools, Jewish University of Kovno (Kaunas), Telz (Telsiai) and other yeshivas; medical and sanitary aid; reconstruction, including aid to agriculture, cooperatives, ORT and other trade schools, housing, Central Bank and Jewish Volksbank, and loan funds; refugees; and emigration. Also, contains information concerning JDC relations with Lithuanian government, including Ministry of Jewish Affairs.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Central Bank.

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Jewish Volksbank.

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Jewish University of Telz (Telšiai, Lithuania)

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Jewish Culture League.

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Jewish University of Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania)

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World ORT Union

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Lithuania. Ministry of Jewish Affairs.

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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...