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Subcollection: Organizations

This subcollection deals with JDC’s relationship and cooperation with the United States Government, its departments, agencies, and consular officials; with foreign governments and their embassies and consuls; and with JDC constituent member organizations and other private Jewish and nonsectarian humanitarian organizations and agencies to aid in the transfer and distribution of relief funds.

The materials are arranged into three record groups.

Record Group 2-1: Relations with U.S. Government

File 38: JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, General, 1916-1919

Extent: 0.33 inch

Miscellaneous materials, correspondence, including effects on relief operations as U.S. diplomatic and military conditions change.

JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, General, 1916-1919

File 39: JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, Internal Revenue Service, 1918

Extent: 0.10 inch

Correspondence regarding tax exemptions for contributions to war relief.

JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, Internal Revenue Service, 1918

File 40: JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, Liberty Loan Committee, 1918

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence regarding the fourth Liberty Loan campaign, including speaking invitation for Albert Lucas.

 JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, Liberty Loan Committee, 1918

Record Group 2-2: Relations with Foreign Governments

File 41: JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Netherlands, 1918-1919

Extent: 0.25 inch

Correspondence regarding aid from Dutch government, embassies, consular officials on distributing relief.

JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Netherlands, 1918-1919

File 42: JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Spain, 1917-1918

Extent: 0.25 inch

Correspondence (English and Spanish) regarding aid from Spanish government, ambassadors on transferring relief funds.

JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Spain, 1917-1918

File 43: JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Sweden, 1917

Extent: 0.10 inch

Correspondence on Swedish investigation of Turkish treatment of Jews in Palestine.

JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Sweden, 1917

Record Group 2-3: Relations with NGOs

File 44: American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, 1916-1919

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence on fund-raising, coordinating campaign, work with American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.

American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, 1916-1919

File 45: American Friends Service Committee, 1917, 1919

Extent: 0.10 inch

Wilbur Thomas letter (April 10, 1919) on plan for study commission to assess conditions in Russia.

American Friends Service Committee, 1917, 1919

File 46: American Jewish Relief Committee, 1915-1918

Extent: 0.50 inch

Miscellaneous fund-raising correspondence, pamphlets, membership lists. Financial audit (September 5, 1918).

American Jewish Relief Committee, 1915-1918

File 47: American Red Cross, 1916-1919

Extent: 0.50 inch

Correspondence on cooperation with voluntary agencies; miscellaneous on relief, medical supplies, missions abroad.

American Red Cross, 1916-1919

File 48: American Red Cross, New York County Chapter, 1917

Extent: 0.20 inch

Correspondence on cooperation, fund-raising with New York Red Cross chapter.

American Red Cross, New York County Chapter, 1917

File 49: American Red Cross, Canadian Jewish Committee, 1918

Extent: 0.10 inch

Query regarding forwarding relief funds abroad.

American Red Cross, Canadian Jewish Committee, 1918

File 50: Central Relief Committee, 1914-1919

Extent: 0.33 inch

Miscellaneous minutes, accounts on Orthodox relief organization formed in October 1914. Financial statements. Miscellaneous pamphlets; proclamation by President Woodrow Wilson.

Central Relief Committee, 1914-1919

File 51: Central Committee for the Relief of the Lithuanian War Sufferers, 1916

Extent: 0.10 inch

Letter (undated, 1916) from V.K. Rackauskas, seeking common cause with American Jewish relief efforts.

Central Committee for the Relief of the Lithuanian War Sufferers, 1916

File 52: Central Relief Committee, Buenos Aires, 1918-1919

Extent: 0.10 inch

Correspondence (English, Yiddish) regarding division of funds collected by Central Relief Committee for War Sufferers, Buenos Aires.

Central Relief Committee, Buenos Aires, 1918-1919

File 53: Committee of Roumanian Jews, 1916-1917, 1919

Extent: 0.25 inch

Miscellaneous correspondence, reports from landsmanschaften on conditions of Romanian Jews.

Committee of Roumanian Jews, 1916-1917, 1919

File 54: East Prussian Relief Fund, 1916

Extent: 0.10 inch

Letter (June 23, 1916) advising of efforts to rebuild Ragnit, Goldap and Allenberg, proposing special aid for Jews in the district.

East Prussian Relief Fund, 1916

File 55: Federation of Bessarabian Jews of America, 1918

Extent: 0.10 inch

Query regarding aid to Bessarabian Jews.

Federation of Bessarabian Jews of America, 1918

File 56: Federation of Hungarian Jews in America, 1916-1917

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence, reports on coordinating, centralizing fund-raising by landsmanschaften for Hungarian Jews.

Federation of Hungarian Jews in America, 1916-1917

File 57: Federation of Palestinian Jews in America, 1918

Extent: 0.10 inch

Letter regarding needs, of Jewish communities, seeks loan fund.

Federation of Palestinian Jews in America, 1918

File 58: Hadassah, 1917-1919

Extent: 0.25 inch

Miscellaneous correspondence on coordinated fund-raising, aid, including Albert Lucas letter (February 11, 1917) on efforts to get medical supplies through a blockade to Palestine.

Hadassah, 1917-1919

File 59: HIAS, 1918

Extent: 0.50 inch

Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)-related correspondence on conditions in Japan, China; miscellaneous on family members stranded in Harbin. Miscellaneous financial reports; financial correspondence, transactions receipts. Confidential report (September 25, 1918) on local conditions, dangers in Far East.

HIAS, 1918

File 60: Jewish People's Relief Committee, 1915-1920

Extent: 0.50 inch

Miscellaneous correspondence, financial reports (English, Yiddish); convention and committee meeting minutes. Report (Yiddish) on 1918 convention.

Jewish People’s Relief Committee, 1915-1920

File 61: Mizrachi Bureau, 1917

Extent: 0.10 inch

Correspondence requesting larger subventions for aid to Jews in Palestine.

Mizrachi Bureau, 1917

File 62: New England Bureau for Jewish War Relief, 1918

Extent: 0.15 inch

Miscellaneous correspondence. Report on conference regarding united fund-raising campaigns

New England Bureau for Jewish War Relief, 1918

File 63: North American Relief Society, 1916

Extent: 0.10 inch

Letter transmitting remittances (via U.S. consul in Hamburg) for food and clothing for Jewish institutions.

North American Relief Society, 1916

File 64: Poale Zion Palestine Committee of America, 1918

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence on conditions, labor assistance for Jews in Palestine.

Poale Zion Palestine Committee of America, 1918

File 65: Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs, 1916-1918

Extent: 0.25 inch

Correspondence on remittances, finances. Annual report (June 1917) on political, financial conditions.

Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs, 1916-1918

File 66: Rockefeller Foundation, 1917

Extent: 0.10 inch

Foundation report on aid,logistical problems with supplies to Poland, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania.

Rockefeller Foundation, 1917

File 67: Russian Information Bureau, 1918

Extent: 0.10 inch

A.J. Sackletter on anti-Semitism in Russia, despite Jewish patriotism, Bolshevism; recommends American Jews have special relief fund for Russia, not limited to Jews.

Russian Information Bureau, 1918

File 68: Sephardic Relief Committee of America, 1917-1918

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence on relief supplies, funds raised for relief.

Sephardic Relief Committee of America, 1917-1918

Finding aid prepared by Rose Klepfisz and revised by Marilyn Henry with the assistance of a grant from Marshall Weinberg in Marilyn's honor.

Digitization of this collection was made possible with funding from the Polonsky Foundation.

Archives of The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.

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