Collection. 1945-1966

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Collection. 1945-1966

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Transcriptions of archival documents from Russian archives on the IISH (and elsewhere?), made for source publications by Sapir and Smirnov. Primer 1945; minutes of the meetings of the conferences of the country directors of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1948-1949, 1951-1963; letter of Herbert Katzki to Boris Sapir on the failure of the minutes of the conference of 1964 1966; NB. The papers of Boris Sapir are kept in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Colombia University, New York.

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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...

Sapir, Boris

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Born in Lódz, Russia 1902, died 1989; moved to Moscow 1914; joined the RSDRP (Menshewiki) and the Russian Social-democratic youth movement; between 1921 and 1925 repeatedly arrested, imprisoned and exiled; spent over two years in Solovki, the infamous GULAG camp on the Solovetskiye islands in the White Sea; fled abroad 1925; studied law and obtained a PhD in Heidelberg, Germany 1932; joined the Menshewik movement in exile; following Hitler's seizure of power he settled in the Nethe...

Smirnov, Aleksandr

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