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“Are there still Jews in Eastern Europe?” The Rediscovery of Central and Eastern European Jews, 1984-1997

Jewish Refugees in the Age of the Jewish Nation: Soviet Jews as “Cold War Refugees” or “Israeli Repatriates,” 1972-1991

Book Talk: Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust

Aleksandra Jakubczak Lectures on Between Entrepreneurship and Reliance on Welfare: Jewish Women Facing the Great War on the Eastern Home Front

Rebecca Kobrin Lectures on JDC and the Power of Female Diplomacy: The Life and Leadership of Laura Margolis and Olga Feinberg, 1939-1949

JDC Archives Scholars’ Workshop Focuses on Jews in Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean

Sarah Zarrow Lectures on the Joint and Women’s Vocational Education: Handicrafts Workshops for Jewish Girls, 1920s Lwów

Julia Schulte-Werning Lectures on Tuberculosis, Jewish Organizations, and the State in Decolonizing Morocco

Elizabeth (Barry) White and Joanna Sliwa present “The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust”

Dalia Wassner Lectures on A Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Memoir and the Creation of Pan-American Jewish Organizations

Anna-Carolin Augustin Lectures on the Joint’s involvement in Jewish cultural reconstruction in the aftermath of the Holocaust

Raúl Peñaranda and Robert Brockmann give a book talk on Escape to the Andes: The Story of Mauricio Hochschild, the “Schindler of Bolivia”

Yair Wallach Lectures on Ashkenazi History in the Modern Middle East: Early 20th Century Egypt and Palestine

Anna Sommer Schneider Lectures on Yiddishkeit and JDC’s Support for Jewish Education in Communist Poland

Merry Fitzpatrick Lectures on Heroic Medical Research from the Warsaw Ghetto: Preserving a JDC Legacy

Ethell Gershengorin Lectures on The JDC’s Activities on Behalf of Eastern European Jewish Children, 1919-1929

Walter Francis Lectures on “Building Memory: Jewish Communal Reconstruction in Postwar Tunisia, 1945-1967”

Jonathan Zisook Lectures on “Passover for the Passed Over”: Jewish Religious Life in Poland after 1968

Sandra Gruner-Domić Lectures on Bolivia, a Forgotten Refuge During the Holocaust: Jewish Immigration 1937-1941

JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Laura Hobson-Faure’s “A ‘Jewish Marshall Plan’: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France”

JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Susan Gilson Miller’s “Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa”

Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Seymour Epstein Reflect on their Service as JDC Country Directors in North Africa

Alexandra Kramen Lectures on the Struggle for Holocaust Justice in the Jewish Displaced Persons Community of Föhrenwald, 1945-1957

New Book—From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Ivan Čerešnješ Lecture on Jewish Resilience and Resourcefulness During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995

Linda Levi Presents “The JDC Archives: New Materials of Interest to Jewish Genealogists” at IAJGS Annual Conference

Sari Siegel Lectures on Jewish Survivor-Physicians in Transition: From DP Camp Doctors to Emigrants, 1945-1950

Stacy Veeder Lectures on “The Thread that Binds”: Personal Correspondence and Relief Aid in the Camps of Occupied France, 1940-1944

Jan Láníček Lectures on “Sardines to the Ghettos”: Relief Food Parcels for Jews in Occupied Europe during the Second World War

JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Marion Kaplan, “Lisbon: Harbor of Hope for Jewish Refugees”

Gaëlle Fisher Lectures on Making Sense of Catastrophe: Jewish Leadership in Romania during the Holocaust
