Countries collection: Poland/Galicia files, [ca. 1914]-1944.

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Countries collection: Poland/Galicia files, [ca. 1914]-1944.

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Correspondence, reports, minutes, memoranda, clippings, printed matter, and other material concerning condition of Jews in Poland, and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) activity there. Includes material on child care, including CENTOS (child care association), 1935-1941; cultural and religious organizations, including Agudath Israel, Beth Jacob, CYSHO (Central Yiddish School Organization), and Yavneh schools, and Chachmei Lublin, Mir, Tomchei Tmimim (Lubavitch), and other yeshivas; medical aid, including Nurses Training School, Warsaw (Szkola Pielegniarstowa przy Szpitalu Starozakonnych w Warszawie), TOZ (Society for Preservation of Health Among Jews in Poland), and the papers, 1921-1923, of Dr. J.J. Golub, JDC medical commissioner in Wolyn and director of JDC medical activies in Poland; reconstruction, including agricultural credits, 1922-1923, Central Reconstruction Committee, 1921-1922, Central Reconstruction Bank (Bank dła Spoldzielni), 1921-1932, consumer cooperatives, trade schools, housing, and free loan societies, 1926-1940; refugees, including German Jewish refugees in Poland, 1938-1939, and Polish Jewish refugees abroad, 1939-1944. Also contains files on political, social, and economic conditions, and anti-Semitism, including pogroms, 1919-1921, anti-shechita (Jewish ritual slaughter) laws, 1936-1937, and discrimination against Jewish students, 1937-1938. Other organizations represented include Jewish Labor Bund, and Commission for Polish Relief, 1939-1941.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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CENTOS (Organization)

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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...

Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin.

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Nurses Training School (Warsaw, Poland)

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TOZ (Organization)

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International Jewish Labor Bund

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Central Reconstruction Committee.

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Commission for Polish Relief

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Private American relief organization. From the description of Commission for Polish Relief records, 1939-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868804 Historical Note In response to the appeal of the Polish Government in Exile -including the Prime Minister, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, and the Ambassador in Washington, Count Jerzy Potocki -we organized the Commission for Polish Relief, Inc., on September 25, 1939. The off...

CYSHO (Organization)

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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...

Yeshivat Mir

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Golub, Jacob Joshua, 1891-1953.

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Yeshivat Tomkhe temimim Lyubaṿiṭsh.

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Central Reconstruction Bank.

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