American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Herbert B. Ehrmann Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-94
Abstract
Contains correspondence, addresses and speeches, newspaper clippings, and published material relating primarily to Ehrmann's activity in the national and Boston chapter of the American Jewish Committee (1935-1970). Of special interest is material on the relation of the Committee to the American Jewish Conference (1943-1948), the relationship of American Jewry to the State of Israel, and the attitude of the Committee to the establishment of Israel. Also contains genealogical material, in...
Dates:
undated, 1913-1970
Jewish Agency for Israel, Department for Renewal and Development Records
Collection
Identifier: I-591
Abstract
The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) was established in 1929 to assist the Jewish population in Palestine. It is now the largest Jewish nonprofit organization in the world and seeks to connect the Jewish diaspora to Israel and vice versa, as well as running programs to support the Israeli population through education and economic development. This collection centers on the Department for Renewal and Development within JAFI, primarily between the years 1990 through 1992 and includes reports to...
Dates:
undated, circa 1987-1992
Samuel Gurvitz Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-352
Abstract
Samuel H. Gurvitz was the owner of New England Millworks in Dorchester, Massachusetts and a veteran of World War II. In 1936 and 1939, he visited Palestine, and the photographs from this trip are included in the collection. In 1939 Gurvitz visited Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna and Prague and witnessed firsthand how the political situation in Nazi Germany was impacting European Jews. His notes from these trips are also included in this collection.
Dates:
1934-1939
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- Correspondence 2
- Holocaust 2
- Photographs 2
- Reports 2
- Administrative records 1
- Aid and development 1
- Berlin (Germany) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Budapest (Hungary) 1
- Charities 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Contact sheets 1
- Israel 1
- Israel -- Emigration and immigration 1
- Kristallnacht, 1938 -- Germany -- Berlin 1
- Newsletters 1
- Notes 1
- Obituaries 1
- Palestine 1
- Paris (France) 1
- Poetry 1
- Prague (Czech Republic) 1
- Refugees, Jewish -- Europe 1
- Speeches (documents) 1
- Telegrams 1
- Theater programs 1
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Israel 1
- Vienna (Austria) 1
- Warsaw (Poland) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees 1
- Zionism 1 + ∧ less
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