Records of the American Jewish Congress, the Canadian Jewish Congress, and the World Jewish Congress, 1942-1945.

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Records of the American Jewish Congress, the Canadian Jewish Congress, and the World Jewish Congress, 1942-1945.

Includes documents of the AJC, the CJC, and the WJC regarding antisemitism in the U.S. and Europe during World War II and regarding relief mobilization for Holocaust survivors.

39 p.

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American Jewish congress

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The American Jewish Congress was founded originally in 1918 by a group of Jewish American leaders as an umbrella structure for Jewish organizations to represent the American Jewish interests at the Peace Conference following the end of World War I. It was seen as a national parliamentary assembly representing all American Jews. Representatives to the Congress were selected by all major national Jewish organizations and delegates representing local communities were elected by some 35...

World Jewish Congress.

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According to their own constitution, the World Jewish Congress is a voluntary association of representative Jewish bodies, communities and organisations throughout the world, organised to assure the survival and to foster the unity of the Jewish people. Its origins lie in the immediate aftermath of World War I in the cooperative efforts by Jewish communities around the world in religious, legal, political and relief matters. In the aftermath of World War II the World Jewish Congress played a cen...

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