Organization collection, 1915-1953.

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Organization collection, 1915-1953.

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Correspondence, reports, and other material relating to cooperation between American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Includes correspondence with United States government agencies, particularly the State Department, 1916-1944, concerning the transmission of funds and operations abroad. Also, includes files on governments of the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden, ca. 1916-1918, concerning assistance in transmissions of funds, and Austria, Poland, Hungary, and Rumania, ca. 1921-ca. 1932, expressing appreciation for aid. Other organizations represented include American Red Cross, 1916-1945; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, 1918-1945; American Friends Service Committee, 1921-1953; Jewish Colonization Association, 1920-1944; ORT (Society for the Promotion of Trades and Agriculture Among the Jews, now the Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training), 1920-1944; All-Russian Jewish Peoples' Committee (IDGESKOM), 1921-1923; Jewish Agency, 1929-1944; OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, in France), 1922-1944; Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German (later Foreign) Scholars, 1933-1945; German-Jewish (later European-Jewish) Children's Aid, 1933-1944; National Coordinating for Aid to Refugees and Emigrants Coming from Germany, 1934-1941; and National Refugee Service, 1934-1946.

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United States. Department of State

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Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers

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World ORT Union

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Emergency committee in aid of displaced foreign scholars

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American National Red Cross

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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...

Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War

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Orthodox Jewish overseas relief organization affiliated with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Established at a meeting convened by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis in Oct. 1914 to help Jews suffering as a result of the outbreak of World War I. After the war, the Central Relief Committee shifted its attention from providing economic relief to Orthodox Jewry overseas to preserving its religious and cultural identity. CRC supported hundred...

Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars

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Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America

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American friends service committee

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German-Jewish Children's Aid.

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People's Relief Committee

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Union O.S.E.

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Jewish colonization association

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European Jewish Children's Aid

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American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War

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All-Russian Jewish Peoples' Committee.

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