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Title The JDC at 100 : a Century of Humanitarianism
Published OnixTransformation. OnixModel. CityOfPublication : Wayne State University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (513 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Medical Welfare in Interwar Europe: The Collaboration between JDC and OZE-TOZ Organizations; 2. JDC in Minsk: The Parameters and Predicaments of Aiding Soviet Jews in the Interwar Years; 3. The First American Organization in Soviet Russa: JDC and Relief in the Ukraine, 1920-1923; 4. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Programs in the USSR, 1941-1948: A Complicated Partnership; 5. DORSA and the Jewish Refugee Settlement in SosĂșa, 1940-1945
6. Laura Margolis and JDC Efforts in Cuba and Shanghai: Sustaining Refugees in a Time of Catastrophe7. "Joint Fund Teheran": JDC and the Jewish Lifeline to Central Asia; 8. Destination Australia: The Roles of Charles Jordan and Walter Brand; 9. Imported from the United States? The Centralization of Private Jewish Welfare after the Holocaust: The Cases of Belgium and France; 10. Behind the Iron Curtain: The Communist Government in Poland and Its Attitude toward the Joint's Activities, 1944-1989; 11. Years of Survival: JDC in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957; 12. JDC Activity in Hungary, 1945-1953
13. JDC and Soviet Jews in Austria and ItalyContributors; Index
Summary The history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee from its origins in 1914 through its first century
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Subject American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee -- History
SUBJECT American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee fast
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bemporad, Elissa
Granick, Jaclyn
Rutland, Suzanne D
Vanden Daelen, Veerle
Patt, Avinoam J.
Grossmann, Atina.
Levi, Linda G.
Mandel, Maud, 1967-
ISBN 0814342353
9780814342350