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Record Group: Hungary

Series 1: Hungary: Administration: Financial

File 456: Hungary, Financial, 1949-1953, 1955-1956

Old Folder Number: 530

Correspondence, accounting memos on currency exchange, exchange rates, expenditures, remittances, payments.

Hungary, Financial, 1949-1953, 1955-1956

File 457: Hungary, Financial, 1948

Old Folder Number: 531

Correspondence, accounting memos on currency exchange, exchange rates, expenditures, remittances, payments, “clearance coffee” purchases. Memo (September 6, 1948) on standard of living, local wages, previous persecution and other factors used to calculate need for relief.

Hungary, Financial, 1948

File 458: Hungary, Financial, 1947

Old Folder Number: 531

Correspondence, accounting memos on currency exchange, exchange rates, expenditures, remittances, payments. List (April, May 1947) of grants to non-Jewish institutions.

Hungary, Financial, 1947

File 459: Hungary, Financial, 1946

Old Folder Number: 531, 532

Correspondence, accounting memos on currency exchange, exchange rates, expenditures, remittances, payments; budgets/financial reports (in German).

Hungary, Financial, 1946

File 460: Hungary, Financial, 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 532

Correspondence (German, English), accounting memos on currency exchange, banking arrangements, expenditures, remittances, payments, relief supplies.

Hungary, Financial, 1944-1945

File 461: Hungary, Financial: Gold Train, 1947-1954, 1955

Old Folder Number: 532A

Correspondence, claims from Hungarian Jewish community for movable assets seized during Nazi Occupation, including list of seized assets. Correspondence on use of “non-monetary gold,” disposition of assets, liability for “gold train”; U.S. government regulations concerning non-monetary gold.

Hungary, Financial: Gold Train, 1947-1954, 1955

File 475: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, General, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 549

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, General, 1945-1953

File 476: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, A-Z, 1943-1950

Old Folder Number: 550

Miscellaneous financial correspondence. Lists names on correspondence

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, A-Z, 1943-1950

File 477: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Erno Vincze (Rohner Gehrig), 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 552, 553

Correspondence regarding multiple postwar claims for account ($492,000) in City Bank of New York, established by Erno Vincze and Manfred Weiss for the JDC for the benefit of Hungarian Jews.[See also 45/54 # 479, 480]

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Erno Vincze (Rohner Gehrig), 1950-1954

File 478: Hungary, Transfer of Funds: Forint 70,000 (Jacob, Jano), 1949-1952

Old Folder Number: 555

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds: Forint 70,000 (Jacob, Jano), 1949-1952

File 479: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Erno Vincze (Rohner Gehrig), 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 556

Correspondence regarding multiple postwar claims for account ($492,000) in City Bank of New York, established by Erno Vincze and Manfred Weiss for the JDC for the benefit of Hungarian Jews.[See also 45/54 # 477, 480]

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Erno Vincze (Rohner Gehrig), 1946-1949

File 480: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Erno Vincze (Rohner Gehrig), 1941-1944

Old Folder Number: 557

Correspondence regarding wartime transfer of funds to aid Hungarian Jews. [See also 45/54 # 477, 479]

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Erno Vincze (Rohner Gehrig), 1941-1944

File 481: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Auslander Jehuda, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 558

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Auslander Jehuda, 1946-1950

File 482: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, A. Biss, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 559

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, A. Biss, 1946-1948

File 483: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, B. Hoffman, 1948-1950

Old Folder Number: 560

Miscellaneous financial correspondence. [See also 45/54 # 489]

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, B. Hoffman, 1948-1950

File 484: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, S. Heinrich, 1948-1950, 1975

Old Folder Number: 561

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, S. Heinrich, 1948-1950, 1975

File 485: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, M. Javor, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 562

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, M. Javor, 1950-1951

File 486: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, E. Mekei, 1946

Old Folder Number: 563

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, E. Mekei, 1946

File 487: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Motion Picture Export Association, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 564

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Motion Picture Export Association, 1947-1948

File 488: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Students, 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 565

Correspondence regarding nonsectarian aid to students.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, Students, 1949-1950

File 489: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, J. Szasz, 1949

Old Folder Number: 566

Miscellaneous financial correspondence. [See also 45/54 # 483]

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, J. Szasz, 1949

File 490: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, J. Szekely, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 567

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, J. Szekely, 1947-1948

File 492: Hungary, Transfer of Funds, M. Vogel, 1947-1950

Old Folder Number: 569

Miscellaneous financial correspondence.

Hungary, Transfer of Funds, M. Vogel, 1947-1950

Series 2: Hungary: Administration: General

File 432: Hungary, General, 1953-1954

Old Folder Number: 511

Correspondence, reports on conditions in Hungary. Charles Jordan correspondence regarding efforts to provide direct and indirect assistance to local communities; including assessment of political conditions, notes on detentions.

Hungary, General, 1953-1954

File 433: Hungary, General, 1952

Old Folder Number: 511

Reports, correspondence on aid, local operations, miscellaneous appeals for funds. Minutes of meetings of the executive committee of the United Jewish Communities, which includes government representatives (Minister of Interior Gyula Szephegyi and Janos Papp, of the Office of Ecclesiastical Matters).

Hungary, General, 1952

File 434: Hungary, General, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 512

Materials on local conditions, problems, pressure by Hungarian government on JDC operations, including requisitions of space, takeover of JDC’s Reconstruction Credit Cooperative. Hungarian Bulletin” (stencil) of official items for foreign press.

Hungary, General, 1950-1951

File 435: Hungary, General, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 513

Memos, correspondence on local conditions; statistical and narrative reports on operations, including Research Department report (November 22, 1948) and undated report (Reconstruction Department?) on economic, legal conditions in postwar Hungary, Jewish community.

Hungary, General, 1948-1949

File 436: Hungary, General, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 514

Correspondence, reports on condition of Jews in Hungary, including statistical reports on JDC religious, cultural activities, reconstruction. Miscellaneous correspondence regarding complaints, newspaper accounts.

Hungary, General, 1946-1947

File 437: Hungary, General, VIII.-XII.1945

Old Folder Number: 515

Reports, correspondence (English, German) on condition, needs of Jews in Hungary, including urgent requests for food, relief supplies. Miscellaneous news accounts. Memos in file refer to list of 5,000 survivors; list is not in file.

Hungary, General, VIII.-XII.1945

File 438: Hungary, General, XII.1944 – VI. 1945

Old Folder Number: 515

Reports, correspondence on survivors, condition, needs, supplies to Jews in Hungary. Miscellaneous news accounts.

Hungary, General, XII.1944 – VI. 1945

Series 3: Hungary: Administration: Personnel

This series is restricted in accordance with our Access and Restrictions Policy

Series 4: Hungary: Localities

File 494: Hungary, Szeged, 1948

Old Folder Number: 571

Israel Jacobson’s brief report on communal conditions, city.

Hungary, Szeged, 1948

File 495: Hungary, Carpatho-Ruthenia, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 572

Miscellaneous materials (German).

Hungary, Carpatho-Ruthenia, 1945-1949

File 499: Hungary, Kobanyai, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 576

Miscellaneous correspondence, including appeal for books.

Hungary, Kobanyai, 1947-1948

Series 5: Hungary: Organizations

File 474: Hungary, Synagogue, Debrecen, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 548

Correspondence regarding funds to repair synagogue after 1948 fire in Debrecen.

Hungary, Synagogue, Debrecen, 1948-1949

File 496: Hungary, Chevra Kadisha, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 573

Appeals for funds.

Hungary, Chevra Kadisha, 1946-1947

File 500: Hungary, Jewish Hospital, 1946-1952

Old Folder Number: 577

Miscellaneous correspondence regarding aid.[See also 45/54 # 462, 471]

Hungary, Jewish Hospital, 1946-1952

File 501: Hungary, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 578

Appeals for funds, religious books and supplies. [See also 33/44 #709]

Hungary, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1945-1951

Series 6: Hungary: Subject Matter: Children

File 439: Hungary, Children, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 516

Correspondence on local conditions, aid to children, proposed emigration. Magazine “Children” (July-August 1957) includes article on resettlement of Hungarians in U.S. after the 1956 revolution.

Hungary, Children, 1945-1949

File 463: Hungary, Orphanages, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 534

Correspondence regarding aid, relief supplies for orphanages. List (1946) of the children’s homes and orphanages in Budapest

Hungary, Orphanages, 1946-1950

File 498: Hungary, Jewish Children’s Homes, 1947-1953

Old Folder Number: 575

Correspondence regarding aid to orphans, children’s homes. Materials, including photos of orphans, from Municipal Home for Jewish Poor Children in Budapest (Fovarosi Izraelita Szegeny Gyermekkert Egylet). [See also 45/54 # 473]

Hungary, Jewish Children’s Homes, 1947-1953

Series 7: Hungary: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration

File 442: Hungary, Emigration, 1950-1953

Old Folder Number: 519

Materials on agreement with Hungarian government under which 3,000 people would be permitted to emigrate to Israel on condition that JDC increase relief activities in Hungary. Cables, accounting memos on remittances, payments. Contains list of names of emigrants to Israel (June 12, 1950; July 17, 1950; December 5, 1951; December 1, 1953); names found throughout files on accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration, 1950-1953

File 443: Hungary, Emigration, 1949

Old Folder Number: 520

Miscellaneous on negotiations for “relief payments” in exchange for massive emigration to Israel. Cables, accounting memos on remittances, payments. Contains names of emigrants throughout files on accounting memos; list (transmitted April 29, 1949) associated with 1947 transportation deposits that are “in suspense.”

Hungary, Emigration, 1949

File 444: Hungary, Emigration, 1948

Old Folder Number: 521

Financial cables, accounting memos on remittances, payments. Occasional memos on bookkeeping, migration procedures. Contains the names of emigrants throughout files on accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration, 1948

File 445: Hungary, Emigration, 1947

Old Folder Number: 521

Financial cables, accounting memos on remittances, payments. Occasional memos on bookkeeping, migration procedures. Contains the names of emigrants throughout files on accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration, 1947

File 446: Hungary, Emigration, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 522

Miscellaneous correspondence on emigration, including cable (August 21, 1946) in which JDC agrees to pay for those who are unable to pay.

Hungary, Emigration, 1945-1946

File 447: Hungary, Emigration Clearances, 1951-1953, 1960

Old Folder Number: 523

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence and in accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration Clearances, 1951-1953, 1960

File 448: Hungary, Emigration Clearances, 1950

Old Folder Number: 524

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence and in accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration Clearances, 1950

File 449: Hungary, Emigration Clearances, VIII.-XII.1949

Old Folder Number: 525

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence and in accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration Clearances, VIII.-XII.1949

File 450: Hungary, Emigration Clearances, IV.-VII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 526

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence and in accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration Clearances, IV.-VII. 1949

File 451: Hungary, Emigration Clearances, I.-III. 1949

Old Folder Number: 526

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence and in accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration Clearances, I.-III. 1949

File 452: Hungary, Emigration Clearances, IX.-XII.1948

Old Folder Number: 527

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence and in accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration Clearances, IX.-XII.1948

File 453: Hungary, Emigration Clearances, VI.-VIII.1948

Old Folder Number: 528

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence and in accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration Clearances, VI.-VIII.1948

File 454: Hungary, Emigration Clearances, I.-V.1948

Old Folder Number: 528

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence and in accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration Clearances, I.-V.1948

File 455: Hungary, Emigration Clearances, IV.-XII.1947

Old Folder Number: 529

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence and in accounting memos.

Hungary, Emigration Clearances, IV.-XII.1947

Series 8: Hungary: Subject Matter: Medical

File 462: Hungary, Medical, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 533

Reports on medical, dental programs and needs.[See also 45/54 # 471 and 500]

Hungary, Medical, 1946-1948

Series 9: Hungary: Subject Matter: Reconstruction

File 440: Hungary, Cooperatives and Loan Kassas, 1947-1951

Old Folder Number: 517

Correspondence, reports (in English, German) on operations of credit cooperatives.

Hungary, Cooperatives and Loan Kassas, 1947-1951

Series 10: Hungary: Subject Matter: Refugees

File 465: Hungary, Refugees, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 539

Correspondence, cables on aid to Jews repatriated to Hungary and to Jews fleeing Romania to escape famine, pogroms. Contains the names of Hungarian refugee letter writers in Sweden, April/May 1945.

Hungary, Refugees, 1945-1949

Series 11: Hungary: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies

File 466: Hungary, Relief Supplies: General, 1949-1952

Old Folder Number: 540

Miscellaneous correspondence on relief supplies, shipments, thefts, insurance claims.

Hungary, Relief Supplies: General, 1949-1952

File 467: Hungary, Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 541

Correspondence on supplies, shipments, payments, insurance claims. Miscellaneous shipping records, packing list of supplies.

Hungary, Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1948

File 468: Hungary, Relief Supplies: Books, 1946-1951

Old Folder Number: 542

Correspondence regarding medical books for Hungary.

Hungary, Relief Supplies: Books, 1946-1951

File 469: Hungary, Relief Supplies: Food Packages to Individuals, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 543

Correspondence regarding food parcels for individuals. List some names on correspondence.

Hungary, Relief Supplies: Food Packages to Individuals, 1946-1949

File 470: Hungary, Relief Supplies: Kosher Food and Passover Supplies, 1946-1951

Old Folder Number: 544

Correspondence regarding kosher food shipments, Passover supplies.

Hungary, Relief Supplies: Kosher Food and Passover Supplies, 1946-1951

File 471: Hungary, Relief Supplies: Medical and Hospital, 1946-1952

Old Folder Number: 545

Accounting memos, miscellaneous regarding medical, pharmaceutical shipments. Correspondence with Jacob Lightman regarding medical aid from South America. See also 45/54 #462, 500

Hungary, Relief Supplies: Medical and Hospital, 1946-1952

File 472: Hungary, Relief Supplies: Packages, 1953-1954

Old Folder Number: 546

Correspondence regarding food parcels for individuals. Contains multiple lists of individuals; includes some names on correspondence. [See also 45/54 # 469]

Hungary, Relief Supplies: Packages, 1953-1954

File 473: Hungary, Relief Supplies: Ship-a-Box Project, 1947-1951

Old Folder Number: 547

Correspondence regarding National Council of Jewish Women parcels program. [See also 45/54 # 498]

Hungary, Relief Supplies: Ship-a-Box Project, 1947-1951

Series 12: Hungary: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational

File 441: Hungary, Education, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 518

Miscellaneous on government nationalization of religious schools.

Hungary, Education, 1946-1949

Series 13: Hungary: Subject Matter: Vocational Training

File 493: Hungary, Vocational Training, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 570

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Hungary, Vocational Training, 1948-1949

File 497: Hungary, Homes for the Aged, 1949-1953

Old Folder Number: 574

Miscellaneous correspondence on old age homes; appeals for Orthodox Jewry.

Hungary, Homes for the Aged, 1949-1953

Record Group: India

Series 1: India: Administration: General

File 502: India, General, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 582

Correspondence, medical reports from Dr. R. Reitler on Jewish communities in Malabar, parasitic medical condition specific to region, and preventive measures necessary to enable immigration to Israel without spread of infectious diseases.

India, General, 1946-1954

Series 2: India: Organizations

File 504: India, Jewish Relief Association, Bombay, 1945-1956

Old Folder Number: 586

Correspondence on payments to aid refugees, repayments of loans. Miscellaneous accounting correspondence, including currency exchange.

India, Jewish Relief Association, Bombay, 1945-1956

Series 3: India: Subject Matter: Refugees

File 503: India, Refugees, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 584

Correspondence regarding aid, conditions, transit and emigration prospects for refugees from Rangoon (Burma), Afghanistan and Peshawar (Pakistan). Accounting correspondence regarding reimbursement for passage. Contains list of names of refugees who had been in internment camps in India, 1946, 1948.

India, Refugees, 1945-1949

Record Group: Iran

Series 1: Iran: Administration: Financial

File 509: Iran, Financial, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 598

Accounting memos, correspondence on remittances, currency exchange, shipments; reports on expenses.

Iran, Financial, 1945-1953

Series 2: Iran: Administration: General

File 505: Iran, General, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 588

Reports, correspondence by Stanley Abramovitch, reviewing communal conditions, emigration and detailed observations from field visits.

Iran, General, 1951-1954

File 506: Iran, General, 1948-1950

Old Folder Number: 589

Reports, correspondence, Stanley Abramovitch reports on local conditions, desperate poverty, refugees in Tehran, emigration. Correspondence with Rabbi Isaac Lewi concerning educational needs. American Jewish Committee report (January 16, 1950) regarding Jacob Blaustein meetings, including with Shah.

Iran, General, 1948-1950

Series 3: Iran: Localities

File 510: Iran, Localities: A-Z (Isfahan, Meshed, Yezd), 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 600

Miscellaneous correspondence, including aid from Meshed Hebrew Society (landsmanschaft). Benoit Gabbay report (July 10, 1953) on demographics, communal conditions in Isfahan.

Iran, Localities: A-Z (Isfahan, Meshed, Yezd), 1945-1954

Series 4: Iran: Organizations

File 513: Iran, Alliance Israelite Universalle, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 610

Miscellaneous correspondence on activities, allocations.

Iran, Alliance Israelite Universalle, 1945-1946

Series 5: Iran: Subject Matter: Medical

File 511: Iran, Medical, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 602

Field reports on medical conditions, programs by Dr. William Schmidt (1953), Dr. Myer Herman (1954).

Iran, Medical, 1951-1954

Series 6: Iran: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational

File 508: Iran, Education, 1946-1952

Old Folder Number: 594

Reports by Stanley Abramovitch. Correspondence regarding JDC financing of education, rehabilitation in Iran.

Iran, Education, 1946-1952

File 514: Iran, Ozar Hatorah, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 614

Correspondence on activities, functioning of Ozar Hatorah institutions; on obligations, remittances from Ozar Hatorah to pay off debts. Miscellaneous on JDC responsibilities for educational and feeding programs, repair of educational buildings.

Iran, Ozar Hatorah, 1950-1954

File 515: Iran, Ozar Hatorah, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 615

Reports, correspondence on activities, finances, debts of Ozar Hatorah. Rabbi Isaac Lewi letter (September 10, 1948) summarizing Ozar Hatorah activities by locality.

Iran, Ozar Hatorah, 1946-1949

Record Group: Iraq

Series 1: Iraq: Administration: General

File 517: Iraq, General, 1948-1954

Old Folder Number: 617

Reports on conditions in Iraq. Correspondence (1950) on imprisonment of Jews; desperation of community in anticipation of emigration, loss of property, efforts to finance emigration; prospects of migration via Iran. Reprint (May 1950) of Joseph Schechtman report “Exodus from Iraq” (published by United Palestine Appeal).

Iraq, General, 1948-1954

Series 2: Iraq: Subject Matter: Medical

File 518: Iraq, Jewish Hospitals, 1949-1952

Old Folder Number: 618

Correspondence (1949-1950) regarding medical supplies. Correspondence (1952) regarding efforts of Jewish community to lease Meyer Elias Hospital in light of liquidation of Jewish community.

Iraq, Jewish Hospitals, 1949-1952

File 516: Iraq, Harry Viteles’ 1949 “Report on Iraq”

Old Folder Number: 616

Harry Viteles report (January 1949) on Iraq, based on interviews in Iran with Jews who fled Baghdad. Report summarizes social, economic and political conditions; imprisonment, sequestration of property; historical background (Jewish lefts under British administration); translations of newspaper articles.

Iraq, Harry Viteles’ 1949 “Report on Iraq”

Record Group: Israel

Series 1: Israel: Administration: Financial

File 522-A: Israel, Financial, Advances, 1953-1954

Old Folder Number: 624

Correspondence regarding financial advances to Israeli government.

Israel, Financial, Advances, 1953-1954

File 522-B: Israel, Financial, Advances, 1952

Old Folder Number: 625

Correspondence regarding financial advances to Israeli government.

Israel, Financial, Advances, 1952

File 522-C: Israel, Financial, Advances, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 625

Correspondence regarding financial advances to Israeli government.

Israel, Financial, Advances, 1950-1951

File 523-A: Israel (Palestine), Financial, Transfer of Funds, 1946-1953, 1955

Old Folder Number: 658

Correspondence on Claims Conference funds, remittances, exchange rates, possible uses of blocked accounts.

Israel (Palestine), Financial, Transfer of Funds, 1946-1953, 1955

File 523-B: Israel (Palestine), Financial, Transfer of Funds, A-Z, 1947-1950

Old Folder Number: 659

Correspondence regarding financial transfers for individuals.

Israel (Palestine), Financial, Transfer of Funds, A-Z, 1947-1950

Series 2: Israel: Administration: General

File 519-A: Israel, General, 1952

Old Folder Number: 623

Miscellaneous correspondence, accounting memos on advances to Israel, JDC Israel office’s cash requirements, currency exchange rates, distribution of funds from the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization.

Israel, General, 1952

File 519-B: Israel, General, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 623

Materials on relations with Israel, including memo (August 22, 1950) concerning migration, bond issues and division of financial obligations. Materials regarding development of project for rehabilitation and care of the hard-core. General materials on Israel, including memo (May 3, 1950) from UJA’s Israel office on economic and social conditions.

Israel, General, 1950-1951

File 519-C: Israel, General, VI.-XII.1949

Old Folder Number: 619

Materials on relations with Israel, including negotiations to establish a corporation to provide welfare and rehabilitation services for the hard-core.

Israel, General, VI.-XII.1949

File 519-D: Israel, General, I.-V.1949

Old Folder Number: 619

Materials on negotiations, arrangements to provide, finance social welfare services. Miscellaneous materials on first anniversary of State of Israel, Chaim Weizmann visit to U.S.

Israel, General, I.-V.1949

File 519-E: Israel, General, VII.-XII.1948

Old Folder Number: 620

Unsigned “Report from Israel” (November 1948) on political, security and diplomatic conditions, absorption of immigrants. Materials on activity by UN vis-à-vis Palestine/Israel.

Israel, General, VII.-XII.1948

File 519-F: Israel (Palestine), General, I.-VI.1948

Old Folder Number: 620

Correspondence on U.S. position on partition of Palestine, on proclamation of State of Israel. Cables, accounting memos on remittances, exchange rates, Britain’s blocking of currency exchange.

Israel (Palestine), General, I.-VI.1948

File 519-G: Israel (Palestine), General, 1947

Old Folder Number: 621

Correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, expenses, exchange rates, relief and religious supplies.

Israel (Palestine), General, 1947

File 519-H: Israel (Palestine), General, 1944-1946

Old Folder Number: 621

Activity reports of Jerusalem office, Location Service. Printed matter: Mandatory Government’s Department of Education (September 1946, Jerome Farrell, education director), “Annual Report on School Year 1944-1945,” includes comparison “Arab and Hebrew School Systems.”

Israel (Palestine), General, 1944-1946

Series 3: Israel: Malben, Administration: Board of Directors

File 553: Israel, Malben, Administration, Board of Directors and Members’ Meetings, 1949-1951, 1954

Old Folder Number: 749

Miscellaneous meeting minutes of Israeli board of directors and of Israeli advisory committee, reviews Malben operations, services, finances, expansion.

Israel, Malben, Administration, Board of Directors and Members’ Meetings, 1949-1951, 1954

Series 4: Israel: Malben, Administration: Financial

File 552: Israel, Malben, Administration, Auditors, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 747

Correspondence regarding Malben audits, change of auditing firm.

Israel, Malben, Administration, Auditors, 1952-1954

File 560: Israel, Malben, Financial, 1954

Old Folder Number: 767

Correspondence regarding financial transactions.

Israel, Malben, Financial, 1954

File 561: Israel, Malben, Financial, 1953

Old Folder Number: 768

Correspondence regarding financial transactions.

Israel, Malben, Financial, 1953

File 562: Israel, Malben, Financial, 1952

Old Folder Number: 769

Correspondence regarding financial transactions.

Israel, Malben, Financial, 1952

File 563: Israel, Malben, Financial, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 770

Correspondence regarding financial transactions.

Israel, Malben, Financial, 1950-1951

File 564: Israel, Malben, Financial, Compulsory Loan, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 755

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Israel, Malben, Financial, Compulsory Loan, 1952-1954

File 565: Israel, Malben, Financial, Insurance, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 774

Correspondence regarding insurance coverage for facilities, shipments, personnel.

Israel, Malben, Financial, Insurance, 1950-1954

Series 5: Israel: Malben, Administration: General

File 547: Israel, Malben, General, 1954

Old Folder Number: 736

Miscellaneous correspondence on Malben organization, services, structure, selection of patients, obligations of Israel. Materials on Malben agreement with Sheruth Nashim Soziali for care of some aged. Report by Dr. L. Cosin (transmitted with memo, May 11, 1954) on Malben “directioning” program for old-age and medical care. Miscellaneous press releases. Printed matter: Pauline Miller Shereshefsky and Hilda Meyerowitz,”American Social Work and Israel,” from Jewish Social Service Quarterly, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, Fall 1954.

Israel, Malben, General, 1954

File 548: Israel, Malben, General, 1953

Old Folder Number: 737

Correspondence, extracts of committee meeting minutes, reviewing Malben organization, finances, expansion. Press releases.

Israel, Malben, General, 1953

File 549: Israel, Malben, General, 1952

Old Folder Number: 738

Correspondence, reports on operations, growth of Malben; financial correspondence, press releases.

Israel, Malben, General, 1952

File 550: Israel, Malben, General, 1951

Old Folder Number: 739

Reports on legal position of Malben, building program, rehabilitation services, maintenance costs, JDC takeover of Malben.

Israel, Malben, General, 1951

File 551: Israel, Malben, General, 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 740

Materials (1949) on establishment of “Israeli project” with Israeli government and Jewish Agency to provide welfare services to hard-core immigrants, including Haaretz editorials on JDC work. Correspondence regarding Israel’s agreement with International Refugee Organization (IRO) on the hard-core.

Israel, Malben, General, 1949-1950

File 580: Israel, Malben, Statistical Reports, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 812

Monthly statistical reports on activities (incomplete).

Israel, Malben, Statistical Reports, 1952-1954

Series 6: Israel: Malben, Administration: Personnel

File 555: Israel, Malben, Administration, Recruitment of Social Workers, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 819

Miscellaneous on efforts to recruit, train American social workers for Israel. Correspondence regarding the problem of placement of American social workers in Malben.

Israel, Malben, Administration, Recruitment of Social Workers, 1950-1954

Series 7: Israel: Malben, Administration: Publicity

File 557: Israel, Malben, Bulletins, 1950-1953

Old Folder Number: 752

Printed bulletins in Hebrew, with English summaries (incomplete).

Israel, Malben, Bulletins, 1950-1953

Series 8: Israel: Malben, Organizations

File 566: Israel, Malben, Neve Avoth Center, Pardess Hanna, 1954

Old Folder Number: 773

Correspondence regarding plans for JDC takeover of Pardess Hanna. News accounts of “City of Invalids.”

Israel, Malben, Neve Avoth Center, Pardess Hanna, 1954

File 567: Israel, Malben, Shaar Manashe Home, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 822

Press releases on opening of facility, commemorative stamp.

Israel, Malben, Shaar Manashe Home, 1952-1954

File 569: Israel, Malben, Village for the Blind (Kfar Uriel), 1949-1954

Old Folder Number: 827

Background paper (1952) on village, including self-sufficiency, productivity of residents. Press releases, correspondence on gifts to village.

Israel, Malben, Village for the Blind (Kfar Uriel), 1949-1954

Series 9: Israel: Malben, Subject Matter: Medical

File 568: Israel, Malben, Tuberculosis Care, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 826

Reports on TB care (1953, 1954); field reports (1953, 1954) by Dr. Ladislao Molnar.

Israel, Malben, Tuberculosis Care, 1950-1954

File 570: Israel, Malben, Medical, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 779

Narrative and statistical reports on Malben medical program.

Israel, Malben, Medical, 1952-1954

File 571: Israel, Malben, Medical, Health Education, 1954

Old Folder Number: 772

Requests for medical/health (educational) literature.

Israel, Malben, Medical, Health Education, 1954

Series 10: Israel: Malben, Subject Matter: Relief Supplies

File 572: Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, General, 1953-1954

Old Folder Number: 813

Correspondence on purchases, insurance, customs charges. Correspondence (1954) on purchases in Germany through the Israel Purchasing Mission of the Shilumim Corporation.

Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, General, 1953-1954

File 573: Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, General, 1952

Old Folder Number: 811

Accounting letters, miscellaneous correspondence on procurement. Correspondence regarding competition from Germany in sales of pencils.

Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, General, 1952

File 574: Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, General, 1951

Old Folder Number: 808

Accounting letters, memos, letters of credit related to work projects, imported supplies for facilities and for use by patients. See 45/54 # 541, Israel, Relief Supplies: General

Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, General, 1951

File 575: Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, General, 1950

Old Folder Number: 805

Accounting letters, memos, letters of credit related to work projects, imported supplies for facilities and for use by patients. Some names listed on October 23, 1950, accounting memo related to emigration deposits. See also 45/54 # 541, Israel, Relief Supplies: General.

Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, General, 1950

File 576: Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, Books and Pamphlets, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 806

Correspondence regarding donations of goods to Malben facilities, including beds, machinery.

Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, Books and Pamphlets, 1950-1951

File 577: Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, Contributions, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 654, 757, 758

Correspondence regarding donations of goods to Malben facilities, including beds, machinery.

Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, Contributions, 1950-1954

File 578: Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, Flood, Tel Aviv, 1952

Old Folder Number: 810

Press release on Malben aid to flood victims in Tel Aviv

Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, Flood, Tel Aviv, 1952

File 579: Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, Medical, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 807

Accounting letters, memos on purchases of pharmaceuticals, equipment.

Israel, Malben, Relief Supplies, Medical, 1950-1954

Series 11: Israel: Malben, Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational

File 558: Israel, Malben, Religious-Cultural Activities, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 759

Summary of cultural programs, activities in Malben institutions. Correspondence regarding proposal by Rabbi Mordechai Nurock (MK) to provide and standardize religious studies in institutions.

Israel, Malben, Religious-Cultural Activities, 1952-1954

Series 12: Israel: Organizations

File 527: Israel, Medical, Beer Yaakov Hospital, 1951-1954, 1956

Old Folder Number: 667

Materials include 1954 annual report on operations (in Hebrew, with English translation); correspondence on disposal of TB-contaminated waste.

Israel, Medical, Beer Yaakov Hospital, 1951-1954, 1956

File 529: Israel (Palestine), Medical, OSE, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 690

Correspondence on loans, summaries of activities.

Israel (Palestine), Medical, OSE, 1945-1954

File 530: Israel (Palestine), Medical, Shaare Zedek Hospital, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 823

Correspondence, appeal for subvention for training school for nurses, including training in religious law. Summary of hospital operations for Claims Conference application.

Israel (Palestine), Medical, Shaare Zedek Hospital, 1945-1953

File 532: Israel (Palestine), Histadrut, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 676, 1338

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Israel (Palestine), Histadrut, 1945-1953

File 534: Israel, Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa, 1949

Old Folder Number: 678

Appeals for aid.

Israel, Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa, 1949

File 535: Israel, ORT, 1949-1955

Old Folder Number: 689

Miscellaneous, including Noel Aronovici memo (December 16, 1952) on vocational training in Israel.

Israel, ORT, 1949-1955

File 537: Israel (Palestine), Reconstruction, Central Bank of Cooperative Institutions, 1944-1950

Old Folder Number: 668

Correspondence, memos on disbursements.

Israel (Palestine), Reconstruction, Central Bank of Cooperative Institutions, 1944-1950

File 582: Israel (Palestine), Agudath Israel, 1947-1953, 1955-1956

Extent: 0.25 inch

Appeals for funds.

Israel (Palestine), Agudath Israel, 1947-1953, 1955-1956

File 583: Israel (Palestine), Agudath Israel, Junior Agudist Organization, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 1345

Appeals for funds, including for seminaries, “rest home” for Orthodox soldiers.

Israel (Palestine), Agudath Israel, Junior Agudist Organization, 1946-1948

File 584: Israel (Palestine), Agudath Israel Labour Organization, Tel Aviv, 1939-1948

Old Folder Number: 1331

Miscellaneous on activities, including education, labor.

Israel (Palestine), Agudath Israel Labour Organization, Tel Aviv, 1939-1948

File 586: Israel, Berl Katznelson Institute, 1952-1953

Old Folder Number: 1332

Miscellaneous on institute under Labor, liberal sponsorship.

Israel, Berl Katznelson Institute, 1952-1953

File 587: Israel (Palestine), Brit Ivrit Olamit (World Hebrew Union), 1946-1957

Old Folder Number: 1333

Materials on literary and publishing activities to promote culture and education.

Israel (Palestine), Brit Ivrit Olamit (World Hebrew Union), 1946-1957

File 588: Israel (Palestine), Central Agudath Israel, Jerusalem, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 1334

Miscellaneous on the center of Orthodox education.

Israel (Palestine), Central Agudath Israel, Jerusalem, 1947-1949

File 589: Israel (Palestine), Council of the Ashkenasi Jewish Community, Jerusalem, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 1336

Miscellaneous, including statistical/financial data from the organization.

Israel (Palestine), Council of the Ashkenasi Jewish Community, Jerusalem, 1945-1947

File 590: Israel, Council of Sephardic Communities in Jerusalem, 1948-1952

Old Folder Number: 670

Appeals to aid Jews in, from Moslem countries.

Israel, Council of Sephardic Communities in Jerusalem, 1948-1952

File 591: Israel (Palestine), Hapoel Hamizrachi, Tel Aviv, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 1340

Miscellaneous describing institutions, educational programs; allocations.

Israel (Palestine), Hapoel Hamizrachi, Tel Aviv, 1945-1954

File 592: Israel (Palestine), Hebrew University, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 674

Miscellaneous on university’s requests for funds, allocations; urgent need to build new campus after loss of Mount Scopus. Materials on distribution of books through Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.

Israel (Palestine), Hebrew University, 1946-1954

File 593: Israel, Hebrew University, Society for the Research on Jewish Communities, 1950-1954, 1956-1957
File 594: Israel, Hechal Shlomo Religious Center, Jerusalem

Old Folder Number: 1341

Correspondence regarding JDC contribution toward construction of Israeli rabbinate’s “supreme religious center” in Jerusalem.

Israel, Hechal Shlomo Religious Center, Jerusalem

File 595: Israel, Kfar Chabad, 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 681

Chabad list of needy individuals. See 45/54 # 623-44, Israel, Religious-Cultural: Yeshivot: Yeshivah Kfar Chabad, 1953

Israel, Kfar Chabad, 1949-1950

File 596: Israel, Ohel Theater, 1949-1953

Old Folder Number: 687

Accounting, general correspondence regarding loan.

Israel, Ohel Theater, 1949-1953

File 597: Israel (Palestine), Union of Scribes of Scriptures Phylacteries, Jerusalem, 1943-1949

Old Folder Number: 1355

Correspondence on purchases of tefillin; correspondence on subventions.

Israel (Palestine), Union of Scribes of Scriptures Phylacteries, Jerusalem, 1943-1949

File 598: Israel, Publications, Mosad Harav Kook, 1949-1954

Old Folder Number: 1348

Materials regarding allocations for publishing projects.

Israel, Publications, Mosad Harav Kook, 1949-1954

File 599: Israel (Palestine), Publications, Nezah Publishing House, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 1349

Correspondence appealing to JDC to purchase books from Poale Agudath Israel for displaced persons in Europe.

Israel (Palestine), Publications, Nezah Publishing House, 1947-1949

File 600: Israel (Palestine), Publications, Ozar Haposkim, 1943-1954

Old Folder Number: 1350

Correspondence regarding aid to project of Union of Refugee Rabbis to publish rabbinic responsa, Talmudic works.

Israel (Palestine), Publications, Ozar Haposkim, 1943-1954

File 601: Israel (Palestine), Publications, Pagi Publishing House, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 1351

Correspondence on requests for aid, allocations.

Israel (Palestine), Publications, Pagi Publishing House, 1946-1949

Series 13: Israel: Subject Matter: Children

File 520: Israel (Palestine), Children, 1947-1950

Old Folder Number: 627

Correspondence on provisions for, welfare of immigrant children.

Israel (Palestine), Children, 1947-1950

Series 14: Israel: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration

File 521: Israel (Palestine), Emigration, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 642

Correspondence on policy, procedures regarding secondary emigration from Israel.

Israel (Palestine), Emigration, 1946-1954

File 525: Israel (Palestine), Immigration, Bricha, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 626

Memos, including Joseph Schwartz memo (July 22, 1946) of conversation with Eliezer Kaplan. Minutes of Administration Committee meeting (March 11, 1947) regarding JDC role in immigration to Israel.

Israel (Palestine), Immigration, Bricha, 1946-1947

File 524-A: Israel, Immigration, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 634

Correspondence, memos on agreement between Israel and Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) regarding transport of migrants; aliya statistics. Names occasionally listed on correspondence. Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel, Immigration, 1952-1954

File 524-B: Israel, Immigration, 1951

Old Folder Number: 635

Miscellaneous on principles, functioning of agreement under which Jewish Agency assumed financial responsibility for maintenance in camps and transit of migrants (instructions to the field, April 10, 1951). Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel, Immigration, 1951

File 524-C: Israel, Immigration, VII.-XII.1950

Old Folder Number: 636

Materials on settlement with International Refugee Organization (IRO) regarding expenses for immigration to Israel. Miscellaneous correspondence, including financial, aliya operations. Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel, Immigration, VII.-XII.1950

File 524-D: Israel, Immigration, I.-VI. 1950

Old Folder Number: 637

Correspondence, memos on immigration, including payments by, relations with International Refugee Organization (IRO). Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel, Immigration, I.-VI. 1950

File 524-E: Israel, Immigration, IV.-XII.1949

Old Folder Number: 638

Materials related to International Refugee Organization (IRO) financing. Records/memos of phone conversations, news accounts, aliya statistics, financial correspondence, cables on transit costs, remittances. Transcript of “Town Hall” radio broadcast (August 23, 1949) “Should immigration to Israel be restricted?” Press releases, including release (December 23, 1949) on arrival in Italy of SS Wooster Victory from Shanghai (first to leave China since fall of city to communists). Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel, Immigration, IV.-XII.1949

File 524-F: Israel, Immigration, I.-III.1949

Old Folder Number: 639

Financial correspondence, cables on transit costs, remittances; correspondence, cables on departures, transmigrants. Materials on negotiations, arrangements, eligibility problems, reimbursement from International Refugee Organization (IRO) for migration expenses. Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel, Immigration, I.-III.1949

File 524-G: Israel, Immigration, VIII.-XII.1948

Old Folder Number: 640

Memos on meetings, conflicts of International Refugee Organization (IRO), including British resistance to reimbursement for immigration to Israel. Correspondence, cables on departures, transmigrants. Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel, Immigration, VIII.-XII.1948

File 524-H: Israel (Palestine), Immigration, I.-VII.1948

Old Folder Number: 641

Correspondence, cables on migration arrangements, problems, including conflicts with International Refugee Organization (IRO). UJA press release (May 24, 1948) regarding Golda Meyerson (Golda Meir) appeals. Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel (Palestine), Immigration, I.-VII.1948

File 524-I: Israel (Palestine), Immigration, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 642

Cables, correspondence on financing migration; cables on migration from Cyprus; miscellaneous press releases. Contains list of names of 62 orphans brought to Palestine on June 21, 1946 press release. Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel (Palestine), Immigration, 1946-1947

File 524-J: Israel (Palestine), Immigration, 1945

Old Folder Number: 643

Correspondence, cables on departures from multiple locations, transit, reports. Contains lists of names dated January and March 20, 1945; Jews in Verona; children on SS Guine, memo July 24, 1945; children, youth, others en route to Palestine, June 20, 1945. Files 524A through 524J contain miscellaneous materials on Shanghai.

Israel (Palestine), Immigration, 1945

Series 15: Israel: Subject Matter: Medical

File 526: Israel (Palestine), Medical, General, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 644

Extracts of committee meeting minutes, correspondence on health services, prospects for expanding medical care. Cables, correspondence on equipment and medical supplies. Newspaper accounts of health care in Israel.

Israel (Palestine), Medical, General, 1947-1954

File 528: Israel (Palestine), Medical, Mental Health, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 645

Primarily materials about prospect of a study on mental health.

Israel (Palestine), Medical, Mental Health, 1947-1954

File 531: Israel, Medical, Supplies, Kupath Cholim, 1950-1952, 1956

Old Folder Number: 682

Accounting memos.

Israel, Medical, Supplies, Kupath Cholim, 1950-1952, 1956

Series 16: Israel: Subject Matter: Reconstruction

File 536: Israel, Reconstruction, Cooperative Movements, 1951-1953

Old Folder Number: 628

Correspondence regarding research on cooperative movements.

Israel, Reconstruction, Cooperative Movements, 1951-1953

Series 17: Israel: Subject Matter: Refugees

File 539: Israel (Palestine), Refugees, Refugees from Poland, 1946

Old Folder Number: 651

Correspondence alleging discrimination by British authorities, in which those with immigration certificates are “unjustly deprived of relief” they would have received as refugees.

Israel (Palestine), Refugees, Refugees from Poland, 1946

File 540: Israel (Palestine), Refugees, Union of Former Teachers and Cantors from Germany, 1945-1954
File 538-A: Israel, Refugees, Rabbis, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 649

Materials on aid to refugee rabbis.

Israel, Refugees, Rabbis, 1950-1954

File 538-B: Israel (Palestine), Refugees, Rabbis, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 650

Materials on aid to refugee rabbis.

Israel (Palestine), Refugees, Rabbis, 1945-1949

Series 18: Israel: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies

File 541: Israel (Palestine), Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 652

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases of relief supplies.

Israel (Palestine), Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1953

File 542: Israel (Palestine), Relief Supplies: Food Parcels, Baltics, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 669

Materials on shipments of relief parcels to Baltics, aid to Baltics refugees in Palestine.

Israel (Palestine), Relief Supplies: Food Parcels, Baltics, 1946-1947

File 543: Israel, Relief Supplies: Freight Cars Food Shipment, 1951-1952

Old Folder Number: 631

Financial correspondence regarding debt to U.S. military for Italian railroads’ transport of relief supplies (for goods purchased in Germany, shipped to Italy for subsequent transport by boat to Israel).

Israel, Relief Supplies: Freight Cars Food Shipment, 1951-1952

File 544: Israel, Relief Supplies: Friendship Train for Israel, 1948

Old Folder Number: 653

Materials regarding collections and shipments by Chicago-area B’nai B’rith members of supplies for Israel.

Israel, Relief Supplies: Friendship Train for Israel, 1948

File 545: Israel (Palestine), Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 655

Accounting correspondence on acquisition and disposal of supplies.

Israel (Palestine), Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1954

File 546: Israel, Relief Supplies: Wheat Purchases, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 809

Correspondence regarding purchase of wheat in Canada.

Israel, Relief Supplies: Wheat Purchases, 1951-1954

Series 19: Israel: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational

File 581: Israel, Mikvaoth, 1953-1954

Old Folder Number: 648

Correspondence regarding need for ritual baths, requests for funds.

Israel, Mikvaoth, 1953-1954

File 585: Israel (Palestine), Agunoth, 1940-1951

Old Folder Number: 665

Correspondence regarding funding, efforts to resolve/protect status of “war agunot.”

Israel (Palestine), Agunoth, 1940-1951

File 602: Israel (Palestine), Publications, Shas Encyclopedia, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 1352

Correspondence on requests for aid, allocations.

Israel (Palestine), Publications, Shas Encyclopedia, 1946-1954

File 603: Israel, Publications, Torah Shelemah Biblical Encyclopedia, Jerusalem, 1951-1953

Old Folder Number: 1354

Correspondence on requests for aid, allocations; memos on uses of funds.

Israel, Publications, Torah Shelemah Biblical Encyclopedia, Jerusalem, 1951-1953

File 604: Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1954

Old Folder Number: 1321

Correspondence on JDC policy on assistance to yeshivot, including standards of religious and secular education. Lists, reports on subventions to yeshivot and other institutions.

Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1954

File 605: Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1953

Old Folder Number: 1322

Correspondence, memos on reorganizing JDC assistance to yeshivot, including criteria for eligible students, standards, age limits, education for girls. Reports on subventions; reports on individual yeshivot.

Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1953

File 606: Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1952

Old Folder Number: 1323

Monthly reports, annual summary of subventions to yeshivot, students.

Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1952

File 607: Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1951

Old Folder Number: 1324

Monthly reports on subventions; miscellaneous materials on individual yeshivot. Correspondence on supervision of yeshivot programs.

Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1951

File 608: Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1950

Old Folder Number: 1325

Monthly reports on subventions.

Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1950

File 609: Israel, Yeshivot, General, VII.-XII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 1326

Reports, correspondence on yeshivot, subventions. Correspondence on composition of the Israel “Cultural Committee,” foundation of JDC aid to yeshivot.

Israel, Yeshivot, General, VII.-XII. 1949

File 610: Israel, Yeshivot, General, I.-VI. 1949

Old Folder Number: 1327

Brief reviews, summary materials on yeshivot, allocations. Correspondence on organization of the Israel “Cultural Committee.”

Israel, Yeshivot, General, I.-VI. 1949

File 611: Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1948

Old Folder Number: 1328

Correspondence, including Joseph Schwartz letters, on aid to yeshivot, allocations. Materials on change in role of the Israel “Cultural Committee.”

Israel, Yeshivot, General, 1948

File 612: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, General, 1947

Old Folder Number: 1329

Correspondence, reports on yeshivot, allocations, including Moses Leavitt letters on rationale for aid programs, responsibility of Jewish Agency.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, General, 1947

File 613: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, General, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 1330

Miscellaneous on allocations. Moses Leavitt, Edward Phillips correspondence (1946) on aid to yeshivot.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, General, 1945-1946

File 614: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, Consumers Store, 1944-1948

Old Folder Number: 1335

Miscellaneous on consumers store, which services/supplies the yeshiva world and provides vocational training. Cable (September 4, 1947) says Vaad Hayeshivot can take over management if it is prepared to serve all yeshivot, without JDC subsidies.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, Consumers Store, 1944-1948

File 615: Israel, Yeshivot, Feeding Project, 1948-1954

Old Folder Number: 1380

Correspondence, accounting memos on program that evolved from soup kitchens to hygienic kitchens.

Israel, Yeshivot, Feeding Project, 1948-1954

File 616: Israel, Yeshivot, Medical, Mifal Hatorah Medical Aid Foundation, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 1346

Correspondence on aid to medical programs serving yeshiva staff, students, families.

Israel, Yeshivot, Medical, Mifal Hatorah Medical Aid Foundation, 1952-1954

File 617: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, Ichud Hayeshivoth, Jerusalem, 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 1342

Correspondence on distribution of special grants; appeals for aid.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, Ichud Hayeshivoth, Jerusalem, 1945-1951

File 618: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, Mifal Hatorah

Old Folder Number: 1347

CSummary reports on allocations. Correspondence on food purchases, funds to buy-repair a convalescent home for yeshiva students and their families

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, Mifal Hatorah

File 619: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, Vaad Hayeshivoth, 1945-1955

Old Folder Number: 1357

Summary reports on allocations. Correspondence on food purchases, funds to buy-repair a convalescent home for yeshiva students and their families

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot, Vaad Hayeshivoth, 1945-1955

File 620: Israel, Yeshivot, Vaad Hayeshivoth Teachers Seminary, 1954

Old Folder Number: 1359

Correspondence on establishing a teacher-training program for yeshiva students

Israel, Yeshivot, Vaad Hayeshivoth Teachers Seminary, 1954

File 621: Israel, Yeshivot, Vocational Training, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 660

Correspondence regarding whether yeshivot should be required to offer vocational training; types of training yeshivot are prepared to undertake; relations with ORT.

Israel, Yeshivot, Vocational Training, 1951-1954

File 622: Israel, Yeshivot, Yeshivah Building Loan Fund, 1949-1954

Old Folder Number: 1379

Accounting memos and correspondence on revolving loan fund, including materials on financial and substantive values of loans.

Israel, Yeshivot, Yeshivah Building Loan Fund, 1949-1954

File 623-1: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Beth Jacob Schools and Teachers Seminary, 1945-1950, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 1361

Correspondence on needs of schools for girls, allocations.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Beth Jacob Schools and Teachers Seminary, 1945-1950, 1952-1954

File 623-10: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beer Yaakov, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 1392

Correspondence on origins of yeshiva.

Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beer Yaakov, 1950-1951

File 623-100: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Yitav Lev D’Satmar, Jerusalem, 1947-1951, 1953
File 623-11: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Sheva, Jerusalem, 1946

Old Folder Number: 1393

Correspondence on application for aid for institution serving Kurdish Jews.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Sheva, Jerusalem, 1946

File 623-12: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Abraham, Jerusalem, 1950-1952

Old Folder Number: 1395

Limited demographic material.

Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Abraham, Jerusalem, 1950-1952

File 623-13: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Aharon V’Yisroel, Jerusalem, 1947, 1950-1951
File 623-14: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Chinuch Torah Umlacha, Jerusalem, 1947-1949
File 623-15: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Isaac of Kamenitz, Jerusalem, 1947, 1949-1951
File 623-16: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Israel V’Damesek Eliezer, Bnei Brak, 1950
File 623-17: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Joseph Zvi, Jerusalem, 1946-1951, 1954

Old Folder Number: 1402

Correspondence, primarily concerning aid to family of rosh yeshiva.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Joseph Zvi, Jerusalem, 1946-1951, 1954

File 623-18: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Joseph, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, 1946-1947, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 1403

Limited correspondence, summary materials on institutions in three cities.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Joseph, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, 1946-1947, 1950-1951

File 623-19: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Midrash Letorah, Jerusalem, 1950-1952, 1954

Old Folder Number: 1404

See 45/54 # 623-54, Israel, Religious-Cultural: Yeshivot: Yeshivah Mekor Chayim, Jerusalem, 1949-1952

Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Midrash Letorah, Jerusalem, 1950-1952, 1954

File 623-2: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Diskin Orphanage, 1946-1955

Old Folder Number: 1364

Correspondence regarding allocations for yeshiva classes within orphanage.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Diskin Orphanage, 1946-1955

File 623-20: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Midrash Letorah, Petach Tivkah, 1947-1948, 1950-1951
File 623-21: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Mordechai, Jerusalem, 1946-1949
File 623-22: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Beth Zvul, Jerusalem, 1947-1952
File 623-23: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Bnei Akiva, Kfar Haroeh, 1947-1948, 1950-1951, 1953
File 623-24: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Bnei Hagolah, Jerusalem, 1947-1951
File 623-25: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Bnei Zion, Jerusalem, 1940-1954

Old Folder Number: 1425

Correspondence on allocations, termination.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Bnei Zion, Jerusalem, 1940-1954

File 623-26: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Boboff (Bobov), Jerusalem, 1947-1948
File 623-27: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Chachmei Lublin, Bnei Brak, 1948-1951
File 623-28: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Chafetz Chaim, Kfar Saba, 1946-1951
File 623-29: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Chatam Sofer, Ktav Sofer, Jerusalem, 1946, 1950-1951, 1956
File 623-3: Israel, Yeshivot: Teachers Seminary of Poale Agudath Israel, Haifa, 1948-1950
File 623-30: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Chayei Olam, Jerusalem, 1946-1951, 1956
File 623-31: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Chidushei Harim, 1952, 1956
File 623-32: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Divrei Chaim, Jerusalem, 1949-1953
File 623-33: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Ezra, Beer Yaakov, 1948-1949
File 623-34: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Etz Chaim, Jerusalem, 1950-1951, 1953
File 623-35: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Etz Joseph, Jerusalem, 1946-1947, 1950-1951, 1954-1955

Old Folder Number: 1438

Correspondence, including termination of aid.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Etz Joseph, Jerusalem, 1946-1947, 1950-1951, 1954-1955

File 623-36: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Geonei-Volozin, Bnei Brak, 1950-1951, 1953
File 623-37: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Hadarom, Rehovoth, 1950-1951
File 623-38: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Hadera, 1947-1951
File 623-39: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Hayishuv Hachadash, Tel Aviv, 1950-1951, 1954
File 623-4: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Horeb School, Jerusalem, 1939-1954

Old Folder Number: 1367

Statistical reports on school, use of funds; appeals for funds after discontinuation of subsidy.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Horeb School, Jerusalem, 1939-1954

File 623-40: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Heichal Hatalmud, Tel-Aviv, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 1451

Correspondence, including termination of aid.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Heichal Hatalmud, Tel-Aviv, 1947-1954

File 623-41: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Heichal Hatorah, Jerusalem, 1947, 1950-1951
File 623-42: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Imrei Joseph, Jerusalem, 1953

Old Folder Number: 1455

Audited accounts.

Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Imrei Joseph, Jerusalem, 1953

File 623-43: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Keren B’Yavne, 1953-1954
File 623-44: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Kfar Chabad, 1953

Old Folder Number: 1458

Correspondence regarding vocational training school at Lubavitch yeshiva at Lydda. [See 45/54 # 595, Israel, Religious-Cultural, Org.: Kfar Chabad]

Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Kfar Chabad, 1953

File 623-45: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Knesset Hezekiah, Kfar Hassidim, 1949
File 623-46: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Knesset Israel, Jerusalem, 1950-1952
File 623-47: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Kochav Miyaakov, Jerusalem, 1947-1954
File 623-48: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Kol Torah, Jerusalem, 1944, 1946-1948, 1950-1951, 1953-1954
File 623-49: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Kollel Achiezer, 1947, 1949-1953

Old Folder Number: 1466

Correspondence, including reference to low standards in institution.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Kollel Achiezer, 1947, 1949-1953

File 623-5: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Orthodox Teachers Seminary, Jerusalem, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 1372

Correspondence on allocations.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Orthodox Teachers Seminary, Jerusalem, 1946-1950

File 623-50: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Kollel Avrechim, Bnei Brak, 1946-1947
File 623-51: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Kollel Brisk, Jerusalem, 1946-1951, 1954
File 623-52: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Maor Hatorah, Jerusalem, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 1478

Miscellaneous on application for aid.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Maor Hatorah, Jerusalem, 1946-1949

File 623-53: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, 1950-1951
File 623-54: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Mekor Chayim, Jerusalem, 1949-1952
File 623-55: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Midrash Bnei Zion, Jerusalem, 1947-1952, 1954
File 623-56: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Midrashiat Noam Pardess Hannah, Kfar Saba, 1948-1951
File 623-57: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Mir, Jerusalem, 1946, 1949-1951, 1953
File 623-58: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Nachlath Reuven, Petach Tikvah, 1950, 1956
File 623-59: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah N’har Shalom, Jerusalem, 1950
File 623-6: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yavneh School, Haifa, 1942-1951

Old Folder Number: 1375

Correspondence on Hebrew secondary school.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yavneh School, Haifa, 1942-1951

File 623-60: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Ohel Moise, Jerusalem, 1946, 1949-1950
File 623-61: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Ohel Shimon, Jerusalem, 1954

Old Folder Number: 1491

Correspondence, appeals.

Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Ohel Shimon, Jerusalem, 1954

File 623-62: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Ohel Torah, Jerusalem, 1945-1946, 1949-1951, 1954

Old Folder Number: 1492

Correspondence, financial reports.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Ohel Torah, Jerusalem, 1945-1946, 1949-1951, 1954

File 623-63: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Orei Russia L’Yisroel, Lydda, 1949-1952
File 623-64: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Or Haneelam, Jerusalem, 1949-1950, 1952-1953

Old Folder Number: 1495

Israel, Religious-Cultural: Yeshivot: Yeshivah Or Haneelam, Jerusalem, 1949-1950, 1952-1953.

Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Or Haneelam, Jerusalem, 1949-1950, 1952-1953

File 623-65: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Or Israel, Petach Tikvah, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 1496

Israel, Religious-Cultural: Yeshivot: Yeshivah Or Israel, Petach Tikvah, 1950-1951.

Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Or Israel, Petach Tikvah, 1950-1951

File 623-66: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Or Isaac, Yehudiya, 1953-1954
File 623-67: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Or Torah, Tiberias, 1949-1950
File 623-68: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Petach Tikvah, 1950-1951
File 623-69: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Pnei Moshe, Jerusalem, 1951-1953
File 623-7: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Aluma, Jerusalem, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 1387

Correspondence, notification that yeshiva ceased to exist.

Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Aluma, Jerusalem, 1948-1949

File 623-70: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Ponevez, Bnei Brak, 1947, 1949, 1951-1953
File 623-71: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Porath Joseph, Rehovoth, 1950-1951
File 623-72: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Porath Joseph, Jerusalem, 1947-1952
File 623-73: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Rabbi Chaim Joseph, Jerusalem, 1944-1945, 1949-1951, 1953-1954
File 623-74: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Shaagat Aryeh, Jerusalem, 1947-1949, 1954
File 623-75: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Shaar Hashamaim, Jerusalem, 1947-1951
File 623-76: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Shaarei Torah, Jaffa, 1948, 1950-1951, 1953
File 623-77: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Shaarei Zion, Jerusalem, 1950-1951
File 623-78: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Shevet Sofer, Jerusalem, 1945-1947, 1950-1951, 1954
File 623-79: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Sfath Emeth, Jerusalem, 1946-1947, 1949-1951, 1954
File 623-8: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Anshei Maamad, Jerusalem, 1946-1953

Old Folder Number: 1388

Correspondence on allocations.

Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Anshei Maamad, Jerusalem, 1946-1953

File 623-80: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Shomrei Emunim, Jerusalem, 1947, 1949-1951, 1953
File 623-81: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Shomrei Hachomoth, Jerusalem, 1945-1946, 1950-1951
File 623-82: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Slabodka, Bnei Brak, 1948-1951
File 623-83: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Slonim, Ramat Gan, 1951
File 623-84: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Tel Aviv, 1947-1948
File 623-85: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Tel Talpioth, Jerusalem, 1949-1951
File 623-86: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Tifereth Israel, Haifa, 1946-1948, 1950-1951
File 623-87: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Tifereth Zion, Bnei Brak, 1950
File 623-88: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Tifereth Zvi, Jerusalem, 1950-1951
File 623-89: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Toldoth Aharon, 1953-1954
File 623-9: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Atereth Joseph, Tel Aviv, 1947, 1950-1951
File 623-90: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim, 1946-1947, 1950-1952
File 623-91: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Torah M’Zion, Jerusalem, 1949-1951, 1953-1954
File 623-92: Israel, Yeshivot: Torah Umelachah, Kfar Abraham, 1950-1951
File 623-93: Israel, Yeshivot: Torah Umelachah, Safad, 1948-1950
File 623-94: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Torah Veyirah, 1947, 1949-1950
File 623-95: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Torath Chaim, Jerusalem, 1950-1951
File 623-96: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Torath Chessed, Jerusalem, 1949-1951, 1953
File 623-97: Israel (Palestine), Yeshivot: Yeshivah Torath Emeth, Jerusalem, 1947, 1950-1951, 1953-1954
File 623-98: Israel, Yeshivot: Yeshivah Torath Yerushalaim, Jerusalem, 1949-1952, 1954
File 623-99: Israel, Yeshivot: Yachel Israel, Haifa, 1950, 1954
File 556: Israel, Malben, Agreement, 1949

Old Folder Number: 743

Materials on agreement (including copies of agreement) between Israel, JDC and Jewish Agency, to create a special organization for the institutional care and rehabilitation of hard-core among immigrants who arrived after May 15, 1948.

Israel, Malben, Agreement, 1949

File 559: Israel, Malben, Equipment & Furniture, 1952-1955

Old Folder Number: 760

Miscellaneous correspondence regarding supplies for facilities and administration.

Israel, Malben, Equipment & Furniture, 1952-1955

Record Group: Italy

Series 1: Italy: Administration: Financial

File 639: Italy, Financial, 1949-1952, 1954

Old Folder Number: 842

Accounting correspondence.

Italy, Financial, 1949-1952, 1954

File 640: Italy, Financial, 1948

Old Folder Number: 842

Accounting correspondence, financial reports, including summaries of expenses and proposed budget (June-December 1948), outlining JDC relief, medical programs in Italy.

Italy, Financial, 1948

File 641: Italy, Financial, 1947

Old Folder Number: 843

Accounting correspondence, financial and statistical reports. Minutes of meeting (March 21, 1947) with representatives of movie industry on currency exchanges, transfers.

Italy, Financial, 1947

File 642: Italy, Financial, 1946

Old Folder Number: 844

Accounting correspondence, financial and statistical reports for localities. Contains some names listed on relief lists.

Italy, Financial, 1946

File 643: Italy, Financial, 1945

Old Folder Number: 845

Financial and statistical reports on Delasem and Comunita Israelitica activities in various localities. Some names listed on relief lists.

Italy, Financial, 1945

File 676: Italy, Transfer of Funds, General, 1945-1953, 1957

Old Folder Number: 866

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions, remittances, exchange rates.

Italy, Transfer of Funds, General, 1945-1953, 1957

File 677: Italy, Transfer of Funds: Columbia Pictures, 1946, 1948-1949, 1952

Old Folder Number: 867

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: Columbia Pictures, 1946, 1948-1949, 1952

File 678: Italy, Transfer of Funds: International Paramount Pictures, 1947-1951

Old Folder Number: 869

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: International Paramount Pictures, 1947-1951

File 679: Italy, Transfer of Funds: Loew’s International Corp., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 1947

Old Folder Number: 868

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: Loew’s International Corp., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 1947

File 680: Italy, Transfer of Funds: RKO Theatres, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 870

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: RKO Theatres, 1947-1949

File 681: Italy, Transfer of Funds: Sterling Transaction, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 871

Correspondence on foreign currency transaction involving counterfeit currency.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: Sterling Transaction, 1946-1947

File 682: Italy, Transfer of Funds: Sol Lesser Production, 1946, 1949, 1952-1953

Old Folder Number: 872

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: Sol Lesser Production, 1946, 1949, 1952-1953

File 683: Italy, Transfer of Funds: 20th Century Fox Film Corp., 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 873

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: 20th Century Fox Film Corp., 1946-1948

File 684: Italy, Transfer of Funds: Universal International Films, Inc., 1945-1949, 1951-1952

Old Folder Number: 874

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: Universal International Films, Inc., 1945-1949, 1951-1952

File 685: Italy, Transfer of Funds: Warner Brothers Pictures International Corp., 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 875

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: Warner Brothers Pictures International Corp., 1945-1947

File 686: Italy, Transfer of Funds: V. Winkler, 1950-1952

Old Folder Number: 876

Correspondence on foreign currency transactions arranged via Vasile Winkler.

Italy, Transfer of Funds: V. Winkler, 1950-1952

Series 2: Italy: Administration: General

File 624: Italy, General, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 829

Memos, reports, extracts of committee meeting minutes regarding relief, maintenance of refugees, as well as rehabilitation and reconstruction of Italian Jewish communities.

Italy, General, 1950-1954

File 625: Italy, General, 1949

Old Folder Number: 829

Materials on aid to local Jewish community, displaced persons, refugees from Europe and North Africa. Reports, extracts JDC committee meeting minutes regarding activities on emigration, transit camps, welfare services for transients, refugees and local residents.

Italy, General, 1949

File 626: Italy, General, 1948

Old Folder Number: 830

Reports on JDC activities in Italy, including emigration, hachsharot, infiltratees, aid to transiemts and local communities, works projects, International Refugee Organization (IRO) camps, camp liquidation. Contains patients’ names and countries of origin on “reparations bills” from July-August 1948.

Italy, General, 1948

File 627: Italy, General, 1947

Old Folder Number: 831

Reports on welfare, emigration, education, supplies, hachsharot, health and medical services, and “personal services,” referring to aid to Jews living outside camps. that limit aid from International Refugee Organization (IRO).

Italy, General, 1947

File 628: Italy, General, 1946

Old Folder Number: 832

Reports, press releases on emigration, education, medical care, kosher program and expenditures for refugees and local resident population; miscellaneous on problematic conditions on UNRRA aid.

Italy, General, 1946

File 629: Italy, General, 1945

Old Folder Number: 833

Correspondence regarding aid, meeting minutes, reports on Reuben Resnik’s visits to Jewish communities, assessment of communities’ and refugees’ needs, need for supplies, staff. Press releases on JDC activities. Angiolo Treves report (February 20, 1945) on Italian laws governing Jewish community.

Italy, General, 1945

Series 3: Italy: Localities

File 644: Italy, Localities A-Z, 1945-1952

Old Folder Number: 878

Miscellaneous correspondence, occasional descriptions of communities, requests from communities.

Italy, Localities A-Z, 1945-1952

File 645: Italy, Florence, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 879

Miscellaneous correspondence, including reconstruction of synagogue.

Italy, Florence, 1945-1947

File 646: Italy, Milan, 1945

Old Folder Number: 880

Correspondence, reports, including on refugees’ legal status.

Italy, Milan, 1945

File 647: Italy, Island of Rhodes, 1945

Old Folder Number: 881

Materials on aid; miscellaneous reports. Correspondence from individuals seeking information on fate, location of family members. Contains list of refugees from Rhodes; Jews on Rhodes.

Italy, Island of Rhodes, 1945

File 648: Italy, Rome, 1945, 1949, 1953

Old Folder Number: 882

Miscellaneous reports.

Italy, Rome, 1945, 1949, 1953

File 649: Italy, Venice, 1945, 1953

Old Folder Number: 883

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Italy, Venice, 1945, 1953

Series 4: Italy: Organizations

File 652: Italy, Medical: Jewish Hospital, Rome, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 887

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Italy, Medical: Jewish Hospital, Rome, 1945-1946

File 654: Italy, Association of Formerly Interned Jews, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 884

Financial correspondence and documents, including individual war-era loans to Delasem, postwar claims from individuals. Report (October 30, 1945) on Delasem operations during the “neo-fascist” period.

Italy, Association of Formerly Interned Jews, 1947-1949

File 655: Italy, Delasem, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 885

Financial correspondence and documents, including individual war-era loans to Delasem, postwar claims from individuals.

Italy, Delasem, 1945-1950

File 657: Italy, Jewish Museum, Venice, 1951

Old Folder Number: 888

Miscellaneous correspondence on development of museum.

Italy, Jewish Museum, Venice, 1951

File 658: Italy, Union of Italian Communities, 1945-1952

Old Folder Number: 889

Correspondence on JDC takeover of welfare, aid for displaced persons, refugees.

Italy, Union of Italian Communities, 1945-1952

File 659: Italy, Rabbinical College, Rome and Turin, 1946-1953, 1959

Old Folder Number: 890

Correspondence on re-establishment, aid requests of seminary.

Italy, Rabbinical College, Rome and Turin, 1946-1953, 1959

File 660: Italy, Yeshiva Maor Hagolah, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 891

Correspondence regarding emigration of yeshiva students and fund-raising for remaining institutions in Rome.

Italy, Yeshiva Maor Hagolah, 1946-1950

Series 5: Italy: Subject Matter: Children

File 631: Italy, Children, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 835

Correspondence on JDC aid to orphanages, Jewish camps, children’s homes. Press release on JDC aid to Rome orphanage. Theodore Sznejberg-Hatagli’s report (May 20, 1947) on Selvino.

Italy, Children, 1945-1954

Series 6: Italy: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration

File 635: Italy, Emigration, 1950-1952

Old Folder Number: 839

Accounting correspondence on payments for transit, cables on sailings. Contains some names of passengers on correspondence.

Italy, Emigration, 1950-1952

File 636: Italy, Emigration, 1949

Old Folder Number: 840

Accounting correspondence, cables on sailings.

Italy, Emigration, 1949

File 637: Italy, Emigration, 1948

Old Folder Number: 840

Accounting correspondence, cables on sailings, flights.

Italy, Emigration, 1948

File 638: Italy, Emigration, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 841

Reports, accounting correspondence, cables on sailings.

Italy, Emigration, 1945-1947

Series 7: Italy: Subject Matter: Medical

File 650: Italy, Medical, 1948-1949, 1951, 1954

Old Folder Number: 848

Reports on medical services, needs.

Italy, Medical, 1948-1949, 1951, 1954

File 651: Italy, Medical, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 850

Correspondence, reports on medical services, needs.

Italy, Medical, 1945-1947

File 653: Italy, Medical: TB Facilities, Merano and Grottaferrata, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 851

Correspondence, reports on establishment, closure of facilities; payments for medical services, needs.

Italy, Medical: TB Facilities, Merano and Grottaferrata, 1946-1954

Series 8: Italy: Subject Matter: Reconstruction

File 632: Italy, Cooperatives and Loan Kassas, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 836

Correspondence, reports and official documentation on the origins and development of the Milan Credit Cooperative, Banca Cooperativa Ebraica. Accounting memos on credit, repayment schedules, losses.

Italy, Cooperatives and Loan Kassas, 1946-1954

Series 9: Italy: Subject Matter: Refugees

File 661: Italy, Refugees, 1948-1953

Old Folder Number: 852

Reports, correspondence regarding camp operations, camp closures, movements of populations to different camps, deterioration of food supply and assorted grievances.

Italy, Refugees, 1948-1953

File 662: Italy, Refugees, 1947

Old Folder Number: 853

Miscellaneous on inadequate conditions, food, supplies, housing for refugees (some statistical material is undated and sources not specified). Memo, reports, correspondence on cessation of UNRRA and role of International Refugee Organization (IRO).

Italy, Refugees, 1947

File 663: Italy, Refugees, 1946

Old Folder Number: 854

Reports, correspondence with or regarding refugees and UNRRA, UNRRA relations with Italian government, UNRRA activities and eligibility requirements; curtailment and cessation of aid, impact on refugees and JDC operations. Correspondence with refugees, relatives and organizations regarding conditions, shortages, activities in refugee camps.

Italy, Refugees, 1946

File 664: Italy, Refugees, 1945

Old Folder Number: 855

Miscellaneous on supplies, funds, arrangements and organization of JDC services, need for emergency refugee relief and for rehabilitation of Jewish communal institutions. Correspondence on plight of Jews. Materials on UNRRA assistance to non-Italian displaced persons living outside camps. Contains list of individuals who received subsidies in January 1945.

Italy, Refugees, 1945

File 665: Italy, Refugees: Art Exhibition, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 856

Materials on purchase of works by displaced artists, from 1948 exhibition in Rome, by UJA delegation from Los Angeles.

Italy, Refugees: Art Exhibition, 1948-1949

File 666: Italy, Refugees: IRO Bulletins, 1948-1950

Old Folder Number: 857

Miscellaneous stencils from International Refugee Organization (IRO).

Italy, Refugees: IRO Bulletins, 1948-1950

File 667: Italy, Refugees: Settimio Sorani’s Report “Virtu Contra Furore” (1933-1947)

Old Folder Number: 858

Copy of 1978 report written in Italian.

Italy, Refugees: Settimio Sorani’s Report “Virtu Contra Furore” (1933-1947)

File 668: Italy, Refugees: Returnees from Israel, 1949-1950, 1952

Old Folder Number: 859

Miscellaneous on assistance to returnees from Israel. Contains list of names of DPs who returned to Europe.

Italy, Refugees: Returnees from Israel, 1949-1950, 1952

File 669: Italy, Refugees: List of Survivors, 1945

Old Folder Number: 860

Contains list of survivors and refugees from Italy and Zagreb.

Italy, Refugees: List of Survivors, 1945

Series 10: Italy: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies

File 670: Italy, Relief Supplies: General, 1947-1951

Old Folder Number: 862

Correspondence on relief supplies, including requests, storage, insurance, customs on commodities, pilfering.

Italy, Relief Supplies: General, 1947-1951

File 671: Italy, Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 861

Correspondence on relief supplies, including shipments, materials for reconstruction.

Italy, Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1946

File 672: Italy, Relief Supplies: Kosher Food, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 849

Correspondence on kosher food, kosher slaughtering.

Italy, Relief Supplies: Kosher Food, 1946-1948

File 673: Italy, Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 863

Correspondence on medical supplies

Italy, Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1948

Series 11: Italy: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational

File 634: Italy, Education, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 838

Correspondence, reports on JDC subventions, local communal conditions, displace persons’ needs, impact of emigration on programs.

Italy, Education, 1947-1954

Series 12: Italy: Subject Matter: Vocational Training

File 656: Italy, Hachsharoth, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 886

Correspondence on emigration and role of International Refugee Organization (IRO); relief supplies, living conditions, training; liquidation of hachsharah at Ostia.

Italy, Hachsharoth, 1945-1950

File 687: Italy, Vocational Training, Workshops for Refugees, 1947-1951

Old Folder Number: 877

Correspondence on development of shawl-making/needle trades cooperative, efforts to market products.

Italy, Vocational Training, Workshops for Refugees, 1947-1951

File 630: Italy, Cemetery, Potenza, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 834

Correspondence regarding arrangements and funds to have area in Potenza cemetery consecrated for use as a Jewish cemetery, and reburial of 10 Jews who died in Potenza or neighboring villages.

Italy, Cemetery, Potenza, 1947-1948

File 633: Italy, Disasters: Flood, 1951

Old Folder Number: 837

Press release, memo on JDC contribution of food, supplies to victims of flood in Northern Italy in November 1951.

Italy, Disasters: Flood, 1951

File 674: Italy, Reports from the Italian Theatre HQ, 1945

Old Folder Number: 864

Reports from Allied Military Government on current political events, public opinion and cultural and economic developments.

Italy, Reports from the Italian Theatre HQ, 1945

File 675: Italy, Restitution of Property, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 865

Miscellaneous on Italian property restitution legislation; property restitution in Trieste.

Italy, Restitution of Property, 1945-1948

Record Group: Jamaica

Series 1: Jamaica: Administration: Fund-Raising

File 688: Jamaica, Fund-Raising, 1946-1951

Old Folder Number: 892

Correspondence on fund-raising.

Jamaica, Fund-Raising, 1946-1951

Series 2: Jamaica: Subject Matter: Refugees

File 689: Jamaica, Refugees, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 893

Correspondence on aid and expenditures to resettle refugees in Jamaica.

Jamaica, Refugees, 1945-1948

File 690: Jamaica, Refugees: List (Undated)

Old Folder Number: 894

Undated; looses pages with details of approximately 120 refugees, including name, date and place of birth, education, occupation, relatives/friends in United States. Origin of list is unknown; also unkown is how these individuals arrived in Jamaica. Contains list of names of refugees.

Jamaica, Refugees: List (Undated)

Record Group: Japan

Series 1: Japan: Administration: General

File 691: Japan, General, 1945-1951, 1958

Old Folder Number: 895

Correspondence on aid to Jewish refugees in Japan. Correspondence seeking a rabbi for community. Contains list of names of refugees, March 18, 1946.

Japan, General, 1945-1951, 1958

Record Group: Jordan

File 692: Jordan, Samaritans, 1949-1954

Old Folder Number: 896

Correspondence on financial assistance to Samaritans in Nablus.

Jordan, Samaritans, 1949-1954

Record Group: Kenya

Series 1: Kenya: Administration: General

File 37: Kenya, General, 1936-1948

Old Folder Number: 51

Memos on prospects for temporarily settling a limited number of refugees, who are trained agricultural workers, on Kenyan farms.

Kenya, General, 1936-1948

Record Group: Latvia

Series 1: Latvia: Administration: General

File 693: Latvia, General, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 898

Correspondence on parcels sent to Baltics for needy Jews.

Latvia, General, 1947-1948

Record Group: Lebanon

Series 1: Lebanon: Administration: General

File 694: Lebanon, General, 1949-1953

Old Folder Number: 899

Correspondence, primarily appeals regarding Maronite charitable agency.

Lebanon, General, 1949-1953

Series 2: Lebanon: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational

File 695: Lebanon, Education, 1950-1952

Old Folder Number: 900

Lebanon, Education, 1950-1952. Correspondence on allocation for Ozar Hatorah school in Beirut.

Lebanon, Education, 1950-1952

File 696: Lebanon, Education: University Students, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 902

Lebanon, Education: University Students, 1947-1948. Correspondence regarding aid to students expelled from American University in Beirut.

Lebanon, Education: University Students, 1947-1948

Record Group: Libya

Series 1: Libya: Administration: Financial

File 41: Libya, Financial, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 55

Lebanon, Education: University Students, 1947-1948. Correspondence regarding aid to students expelled from American University in Beirut.

Libya, Financial, 1946-1954

Series 2: Libya: Administration: General

File 38: Libya, General, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 52

Reports, memos on the economic, social and political situation of the Jewish community from the end of World War II, through British military occupation and Libyan independence; community left destitute after war, pogroms and drought. Statement on behalf of Jewish community to United Nations General Assembly (May 1949; UN considering the fate of the territory) seeking religious freedom and security; recounts communal history.

Libya, General, 1945-1954

Series 3: Libya: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration

File 40: Libya, Emigration, 1949-1954

Old Folder Number: 54

Correspondence regarding maintenance and transit arrangements for migrants with tuberculosis. Press release on evacuation of Jews from Cyrenaica.

Libya, Emigration, 1949-1954

Series 4: Libya: Subject Matter: Medical

File 42: Libya, Medical, 1950-1952

Old Folder Number: 56

Miscellaneous on medical condition, needs of population.

Libya, Medical, 1950-1952

Series 5: Libya: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies

File 43: Libya, Relief Supplies, 1945-1952

Old Folder Number: 57

Cables, correspondence regarding requests, shipments and payments for relief supplies, food, clothing and sewing machines.

Libya, Relief Supplies, 1945-1952

Series 6: Libya: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational

File 39: Libya, Education, 1947-1951

Old Folder Number: 53

Correspondence with and regarding Shmuel Auerbach, over insistence on more funds for Hebrew school. Press release about education for the blind.

Libya, Education, 1947-1951

Record Group: Lithuania

Series 1: Lithuania: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies

File 697: Lithuania, Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 904

Correspondence regarding food parcels and religious supplies for Passover in Vilnius, Kovno.

Lithuania, Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1948

Record Group: Luxembourg

Series 1: Luxembourg: Administration: General

File 698: Luxembourg, General, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 905

Financial and statistical reports (incomplete) on aid (primarily cash relief) via Entr’ Aide Israelite. Contains list of names of Jewish residents, June 15, 1945.

Luxembourg, General, 1945-1949

The cataloguing of this collection was made possible through a donation from Marshall M. Weinberg.

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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