Paul Baerwald papers, 1925-1961.
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Baerwald, Paul, 1871-1961
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Chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1932-1961. From the description of Paul Baerwald papers, 1925-1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 298686799 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Paul Baerwald was born in 1871 in Frankfurt, Germany. His father, Hermann Baerwald, was director of the Philanthropin, a Jewish high school in Frankfurt, for 31 years. Baerwald left Germany at nineteen to join the investment firm Speyer &...
Baerwald, Hermann, 1828-1907
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Herbert H. Lehman Collections (Columbia University)
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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...