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Lot #    8136
Auction End Date    9/21/2004 3:43:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Reports Received by the Joint Distribution Comm.
Title (Hebrew)    of funds for Jewish war sufferers
Author    American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
City    New York
Publisher    Clarence S. Nathan
Publication Date    1916
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 154 pp., 230:150 mm., light age staining. A good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
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Description		    American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (popularly known as the JDC and the “Joint”), was founded on November 27, 1914, as the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers, under the chairmanship of Felix M. Warburg. Alarmed by the suffering of Jews in wartime, a group of wealthy Jews of German-Jewish background, led by Jacob H. Schiff, Louis Marshall, and Warburg, established the American Jewish Relief Committee on October 24, 1914. Together with the Central Relief Committee, founded at the same time by Orthodox leaders, the JDC was formed to distribute the funds collected by the two bodies. To these was added the People's Relief Committee representing labor (1915). The JDC was called the “Joint” committee because three separate commissions for assistance, representing three major currents in American Jewry at the time, joined together to found it. During World War I the JDC spent $14,937,783 to aid Jews in Turkish-controlled Palestine. In 1915 it sent the S.S. Vulcan there with 900 tons of food; in Poland relief was sent to hundreds of thousands of Jews who had been forcibly removed from their homes by the Russians, and also to Jews in German held areas. The United States' entry into the war in 1917 prevented the direct transfer of assistance, but the State Department gave the JDC permission to establish an agency in neutral Holland and from there to distribute its funds.
          
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Language:    English
  
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