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Subcollection: Subject Matter

This subcollection documents JDC’s large-scale policies and objectives which were implemented in a wide range of countries to realize the organization’s global relief, rescue, and renewal directives. Programs depicted in these records include: the establishment of professional development and leadership resources for young Jewish professionals worldwide; the development of missions as a resource for JDC staff, board members, and laypeople to visit and observe JDC’s global operations; and the formation, implementation, and oversight of JDC’s extensive relief and support services for tens of thousands of Soviet Jewish émigrés waiting in transit in Rome and Vienna for their emigration applications to the United States, Canada, and other locations to be processed. Some files contain records whose dates lie slightly outside the precise dates of the overall collection, but which as well pertain to operations and programs delineated in this subcollection. These files contains some materials whose dates fall outside the scope of the time period 1975-1989.

Arrangement

Record Group: Assorted

This record group contains various wide-ranging subject files on JDC’s relief and rescue work with vulnerable populations such as Holocaust survivors; responses to funding requests for publications on Jewish history, World War II and the Holocaust, and refugee studies; and correspondence regarding financial assistance for individuals who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.

File 788: Cemeteries, 1978-1984
File 789: Jewish Centers in Europe, 1981
File 790: Jewish Centers in Europe, 1975-1980
File 791: Jewish Centers, Training of Personnel, 1979-1981
File 792: Jewish Centers, Training of Personnel, 1978
File 793: Jewish Centers, Training of Personnel, 1976-1977 (1 of 2)
File 794: Jewish Centers, Training of Personnel, 1976-1977 (2 of 2)
File 795: Christians Who Helped Jews: Hassidei, Haumot, 1981-1985
File 796: Christians Who Helped Jews: Miscellaneous A-Z, 1978-1982
File 801: Day Care, 1980-1983
File 802: Day Care, 1976-1979
File 803: Deaf Persons, 1985
File 804: Disaster Relief, 1976-1982
File 805: Displaced Persons, 1984
File 806: Donations, 1984-1985
File 830: Emigration, 1979-1984
File 831: Emigration, 1978
File 832: Emigration, 1975-1977
File 833: Emigration, S.S. Exodus, 1982
File 834: Fundraising, 1981-1985
File 835: Fundraising, 1977-1980
File 836: Grant Requests (Miscellaneous), 1989
File 837: Grant Requests (Miscellaneous), July-December 1988
File 838: Grant Requests (Miscellaneous), January-June 1988
File 839: Grant Requests (Miscellaneous), 1987
File 840: Grant Requests (Miscellaneous), 1984-1986
File 841: History of American Jewish Community, 1980-1981
File 842: Holocaust Publications, 1975-1985
File 843: Holocaust Survivors, 1983-1987
File 844: Holocaust Survivors, 1980-1982
File 845: Holocaust Survivors, 1977-1979
File 846: Holocaust Survivors, Second Generation, 1988-1989
File 847: Letters of Inquiry, 1988-1989
File 848: Letters of Inquiry, 1986-1987
File 849: Letters of Inquiry, July-December 1985
File 850: Letters of Inquiry, January-June 1985
File 874: New York State Department of Law, 1985
File 875: New York State Unemployment Insurance, 1978-1979
File 886: Proposals for Projects, 1985-1988
File 988: Summer Camps, 1981

Record Group: Education

File 797: Cultural: Education, 1985
File 798: Cultural: Education, 1984
File 799: Cultural: Education, 1983
File 800: Cultural: Education, 1982
File 807: Education: General, 1985-1987
File 808: Education: General, 1983
File 809: Education: General, 1980-1982
File 810: Education: General, 1978-1979
File 811: Education: General, 1977
File 812: Education: General, 1975-1976
File 813: Education: Study on Jewish Education, 1984
File 814: Education: Study on Jewish Education, 1982-1983
File 815: Education: Study on Jewish Education, July-December 1981
File 816: Education: Study on Jewish Education, January-June 1981
File 817: Education: Study on Jewish Education, 1980
File 818: Education: Study on Jewish Education, July-December 1979
File 819: Education: Study on Jewish Education, January-June 1979
File 820: Education: Study on Jewish Education, July-December 1978
File 821: Education: Study on Jewish Education, January-June 1978
File 822: Education: Study on Jewish Education, 1976-1977

Record Group: Elderly

This record group documents JDC’s ongoing programs and services for aging populations and its support for scholarly conferences and community resources to address these issues systematically.

File 823: Elderly, 1984-1985
File 824: Elderly, 1980-1983
File 825: Elderly, 1979
File 826: Elderly, 1978
File 827: Elderly, July-December 1977
File 828: Elderly, January-June 1977
File 829: Elderly, 1976

Record Group: Medical

File 851: Medical: General, 1976-1982
File 852: Medical: Mental Health, 1976-1982
File 853: Medical: Mental Health, Printed Matter, 1977-1978
File 854: Medical: Nutrition, General, 1979
File 855: Medical: Printed Matter, 1978

Record Group: Jewish Service Corps

This record group documents the tenure of young Jewish college students and professionals who served as Jewish Service Corps (JSC) members. The JSC initiative, founded in 1987, places Jewish professionals as volunteers in year-long service projects to address Jewish humanitarian challenges in the global communities JDC serves. These files include extensive correspondence from JSC fellows in their global assignments with local and New York staff, memos, and feedback mechanisms on their experiences.

The majority of these files are restricted for confidentiality concerns. Please see our Access & Restrictions Policy.

File 885: Jewish Service Corps: Ladispoli Volunteers, 1987-1988

Record Group: Missions

This record group documents the creation, oversight, and implementation of missions to JDC’s offices around the world for JDC staff, executives, lay leaders, and outside visitors. The files include reflections from mission participants on their experiences and the JDC operations they witness in various countries.

File 856: Missions, May-December 1989
File 857: Missions, April 1989
File 858: Missions, March 1989
File 859: Missions, January-February 1989
File 860: Missions, November-December 1988
File 861: Missions, October 1988
File 862: Missions, July-September 1988
File 863: Missions, April-June 1988
File 864: Missions, January-March 1988
File 865: Missions, October-December 1987
File 866: Missions, July-September 1987
File 867: Missions, January-June 1987
File 868: Missions, 1985-1986
File 869: Missions, 1982
File 870: Missions, 1980
File 871: Missions, 1976
File 872: Missions: JDC 75th Anniversary Mission, 1989
File 873: Missions: Ladispoli, 1989

Record Group: Relief Supplies

This record group chronicles the organization, outfitting, and shipment of relief supplies, especially religious articles, books, clothing, foodstuffs, medical supplies, machine parts, and Passover matzot, to the global communities JDC served during the years 1975-1989.

File 887: Relief Supplies: General, 1976-1985
File 888: Relief Supplies: Donations: Books, 1978-1982
File 902: Relief Supplies: Donations, Fish and Flour, 1982-1983
File 903: Relief Supplies: Donations, Food, 1977
File 904: Relief Supplies: Donations, General, 1976-1984
File 905: Relief Supplies: Donations, Machinery, 1983
File 906: Relief Supplies: Donations, Medical, 1975-1984
File 907: Relief Supplies: Medical, 1980-1984

Series 1: Clothing

File 889: Donations: Clothing, 1976-1979
File 890: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, 1984-1988
File 891: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, 1983
File 892: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, 1982
File 893: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, 1980-1981
File 894: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, July-December 1979
File 895: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, May-June 1979
File 896: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, March-April 1979
File 897: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, January-February 1979
File 898: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, October-December 1978
File 899: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, August -September 1978
File 900: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, January-July 1978
File 901: Donations: Inventory of Clothing, 1977

Series 2: Passover

File 908: Passover, 1986-1989
File 909: Passover, 1985
File 910: Passover, 1984
File 911: Passover, 1982-1983
File 912: Passover: Matzoth, 1981
File 913: Passover: Matzoth, 1979-1980
File 914: Passover: Matzoth, 1977-1978
File 915: Passover: Matzoth, 1975-1976

Record Group: Relief-in-Transit

This record group contains correspondence, memos, and budgetary information regarding aid dispatched to Jews in Communist countries.

File 916: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, July-December 1985
File 917: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, January-June 1985
File 918: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, 1984
File 919: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, 1982-1983
File 920: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, 1980-1981
File 921: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, 1979
File 922: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, 1978
File 923: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, 1977
File 924: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, 1976
File 925: Relief in Transit (RIT): General, 1975
File 926: Relief in Transit (RIT): Purchasing, 1982-1984
File 927: Relief in Transit (RIT): Purchasing, 1979-1981

Record Group: Scholarships

This record group documents professional development scholarships afforded to Israeli professionals and graduate students to enable them to access educational and professional resources worldwide.

The Scholarships files are restricted for confidentiality concerns. Please see our Access & Restrictions Policy.

Record Group: Transmigrants

This record group details JDC’s policy responses to the growing number of Jews from the Soviet Union who, by the mid-1970s, were increasingly being permitted to emigrate to Israel for family reunification purposes. By the mid-1970s, these numbers soared in response to escalating political and diplomatic efforts. The struggle to achieve emigration rights for Soviet Jewry was beyond JDC’s nonpolitical mandate. However, as the agency that historically provided care and maintenance for Jewish refugees, JDC’s involvement in this enterprise developed and then rapidly accelerated when thousands of Soviet Jewish émigrés, who could not initiate immigration applications from within the FSU, had to travel to processing centers in Vienna and Rome and wait while their applications are processed. The files in this record group depict how, beginning in the early 1970s, JDC provided a comprehensive portfolio of medical, community health, and social welfare services; financial assistance; educational, cultural, and religious programs; and housing support to sustain Soviet transmigrants during this time.

File 990: Transmigrants: Cuban, 1980-1984
File 991: Transmigrants: Eligibility, 1987-1988
File 1004: Transmigrants: Haitian, 1981-1982
File 1016: Transmigrants: Publications, General, 1980-1984
File 1017: Transmigrants: Publications, General, 1976-1979
File 1018: Transmigrants: Somalian, 1980

Series 1: General

File 993: Transmigrants: General, July-December 1989
File 994: Transmigrants: General, January-June 1989
File 995: Transmigrants: General, October-December 1988
File 996: Transmigrants: General, July-September 1988
File 997: Transmigrants: General, April-June 1988
File 998: Transmigrants: General, January-March 1988
File 999: Transmigrants: General, November-December 1987
File 1000: Transmigrants: General, July-October 1987
File 1001: Transmigrants: General, January-June 1987
File 1002: Transmigrants: General, 1986
File 1003: Transmigrants: General, 1975-1985

Series 2: Indochinese Transmigrants

File 1005: Indochinese Transmigrants: Contributions, 1979-1982
File 1006: Indochinese Transmigrants: General, 1980-1985
File 1007: Indochinese Transmigrants: General, October-December 1979
File 1008: Indochinese Transmigrants: General, January-September 1979
File 1009: Indochinese Transmigrants: General, 1975-1976
File 1010: Indochinese Transmigrants: Education and Relief, 1983-1989
File 1011: Indochinese Transmigrants: Education and Relief, 1982
File 1012: Indochinese Transmigrants: Education and Relief, July-December 1981
File 1013: Indochinese Transmigrants: Education and Relief, January-June 1981
File 1014: Indochinese Transmigrants: Education and Relief, July-December 1980
File 1015: Indochinese Transmigrants: Education and Relief, January-June 1980

Series 3: Soviet Transmigrants

File 1019: Soviet Transmigrants: General, October-December 1989
File 1020: Soviet Transmigrants: General, September 1989
File 1021: Soviet Transmigrants: General, July-August 1989
File 1022: Soviet Transmigrants: General, June 1989
File 1023: Soviet Transmigrants: General, April-May 1989
File 1024: Soviet Transmigrants: General, March 1989
File 1025: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-February 1989
File 1026: Soviet Transmigrants: General, October-December 1988 (1 of 2)
File 1027: Soviet Transmigrants: General, October-December 1988 (2 of 2)
File 1028: Soviet Transmigrants: General, September 1988
File 1029: Soviet Transmigrants: General, July-August 1988
File 1030: Soviet Transmigrants: General, May-June 1988
File 1031: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-April 1988
File 1032: Soviet Transmigrants: General, July-December 1987
File 1033: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-June 1987
File 1034: Soviet Transmigrants: General, 1986
File 1035: Soviet Transmigrants: General, 1985
File 1036: Soviet Transmigrants: General, 1984
File 1037: Soviet Transmigrants: General, 1983
File 1038: Soviet Transmigrants: General, July-December 1982
File 1039: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-June 1982
File 1040: Soviet Transmigrants: General, July-December 1981
File 1041: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-June 1981
File 1042: Soviet Transmigrants: General, July-December 1980
File 1043: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-June 1980
File 1044: Soviet Transmigrants: General, October-December 1979
File 1045: Soviet Transmigrants: General, July-September 1979
File 1046: Soviet Transmigrants: General, June 1979
File 1047: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-May 1979
File 1048: Soviet Transmigrants: General, September-December 1978
File 1049: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-August 1978
File 1050: Soviet Transmigrants: General, July-December 1977
File 1051: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-June 1977
File 1052: Soviet Transmigrants: General, October-December 1976
File 1053: Soviet Transmigrants: General, July-September 1976
File 1054: Soviet Transmigrants: General, June 1976
File 1055: Soviet Transmigrants: General, January-May 1976
File 1056: Soviet Transmigrants: General, 1975
File 1057: Soviet Transmigrants: Noshrim, 1977
File 1058: Soviet Transmigrants: Noshrim, 1976
File 1059: Soviet Transmigrants: Noshrim, Correspondence, 1976-1977
File 1060: Soviet Transmigrants: Noshrim, Publicity, 1977
File 1061: Soviet Transmigrants: Noshrim, Publicity, 1976
File 1062: Soviet Transmigrants: Printed Material, 1987
File 1063: Soviet Transmigrants: Printed Material, 1976-1985
File 1064: Soviet Transmigrants: Report, Russian Jews, 1979

Cataloguing and digitization of this collection was made possible by generous donations from: John Colman, Donald M. and Sylvia Robinson, Marshall M. Weinberg, and an anonymous donor.

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