Africa and Asia

Building Memory: Jewish Communal Reconstruction in Postwar Tunisia, 1945-1967 (2022)
Walter Francis

Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa (2021)
Susan Gilson Miller

Reflections and Perceptions on Service as JDC Country Directors in North Africa (2021)
Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Seymour Epstein

JDC and European Refugees in Postwar Shanghai (2021)
Fred Lazin

Images of Moroccan Jews and Perceptions of American Jews, 1942-1954 (2020)
Michal Ben-Ya’akov

Studying the Middle East through the Prism of the Jewish Communities (2020)
Lior Sternfeld

The Miracle that Jews Survived in China during World War II (2019)
Ming Hui Pan

The Jewish Community in Iran from 1941 until the Revolution (2013)
Lior Sternfeld

Central and Eastern Europe

Yiddishkeit and JDC’s Support for Jewish Education in Communist Poland (2023)
Anna Sommer Schneider

Heroic Medical Research from the Warsaw Ghetto: Preserving a JDC Legacy (2023)
Merry Fitzpatrick, with Irwin Rosenberg

Aiding Their “Unfortunate Brethren”: The JDC’s Activities on Behalf of Eastern European Jewish Children, 1919-1929 (2023)
Ethell Gershengorin

Reviving Jewish Culture at Szarvas Camp: Now and Then (2022)
Zsuzsa Fritz and Sasha Friedman

“Passover for the Passed Over”: Jewish Religious Life in Poland after 1968 (2022)
Jonathan Zisook

The Fight against Epidemics in Interwar Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto: Finding Sara-Zofia Syrkin-Binsztejnowa (2022)
Juliet Golden

Chief Rabbi Dr. Moses D. Rosen’s Leadership in Romania under Communism and Afterwards (2021)
Zvi Feine and Sandra Segal

Mela Iancu: A Leader, A Rescuer, A Holocaust Heroine in Romania (2021)
Sylvia Hershcovitz

The JDC in Post-Stalinist Poland, 1957-1960s (2021)
Frankee Lyons

“Please Give Me Back My Nightstand Lamp”: The Joint’s Activity in Szeged in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2021)
Dóra Pataricza

The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt (2021)
Avinoam Patt

Jewish Resilience and Resourcefulness During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995 (2020)
Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Ivan Čerešnješ

Sardines to the Ghettos: Relief Food Parcels for Jews in Occupied Europe during the Second World War (2019)
Jan Láníček

Making Sense of Catastrophe: Jewish Leadership in Romania during the Holocaust (2019)
Gaëlle Fisher

October 28th, 1938: Deportation, Refugee Life and Jewish Solidarity (2019)
Alina Bothe

The Fate of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust (2018)
Joseph Benatov

Jewish Life in Croatia 1945-1952 (2017)
Naida Michal Brandl

Town Fools, Beggars, and Other Outcasts: Bringing the Margins to the Center in East European Jewish History (2017)
Natan Meir

No Man’s Land: Jewish Refugees on the Borders of East-Central Europe in 1938 (2017)
Michal Frankl

“The Fountain of Judaism”: JDC Aid to Traditionalist Jews in Interwar and Nazi-Occupied Poland (2016)
Glenn Dynner

Matzo Wars: Jews, Communism, and Ethnicity in 1946 Hungary (2015)
Anna Manchin

The Red Cross, Jewish Relief Agencies, and the Holocaust (2014)
Gerald Steinacher

Latin America

A Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Memoir and the Creation of Pan-American Jewish Organizations (2024)
Dalia Wassner

Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (2024)
Devi Mays

Escape to the Andes: The Story of Mauricio Hochschild, the “Schindler of Bolivia” (2023)
Raúl Peñaranda and Robert Brockmann

From the Nile to the Tietê: Egyptian Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1956-61 (2023)
Michael Rom

Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Colombia, 1945-1950 (2022)
Lorena Cardona González

Bolivia, A Forgotten Refuge during the Holocaust: Jewish Immigration 1937-1941 (2022)
Sandra Gruner-Domić

Russia and the Former Soviet Union

“Who Should the Players Be?”: The JDC in the Soviet Union, 1989-1991 (2022)
Joshua Tapper

Treading Lightly Back into the USSR: The ‘Joint’ Returns after Half a Century (2021)
Zvi Gitelman

A Jewish Aid Worker in the Killing Fields of Ukraine, 1918-1920: Eli Gumener’s Memoirs (2019)
Michael Nutkiewicz

Western Europe

“Relief Supplies—Films”: On the Road with the AJDC’s Mobile Film Units in Postwar Germany (2023)
Simone Gigliotti

Ottoman Echoes: Remnants of the Empire among Sephardi Immigrants to France, 1919-1945 (2023)
Robin Buller

“A Children’s Paradise?”: The JDC and Selvino, Italy, 1945-48 (2022)
Danielle Willard-Kyle

Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France” (2022)
Laura Hobson-Faure

Holocaust Survivors in Exile in Germany after World War II (2021)
David Nasaw

Justice Pursued: The Struggle for Holocaust Justice in the Jewish Displaced Persons Community in Föhrenwald, 1945-1957 (2021)
Alexandra Kramen

Jewish Survivor-Physicians in Transition: From DP Camp Doctors to Emigrants, 1945-1950 (2020)
Sari Siegel

Interagency Efforts for Child Rescue and Immigration to the US: 1939-1942 (2020)
Emily Bengels

JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Lisbon: Harbor of Hope for Jewish Refugees (2019)
Marion Kaplan

The JDC and the Jews of Alsace and Algeria, 1940-1963 (2019)
Lauren Henry

“The Thread that Binds”: Personal Correspondence and Relief Aid in the Camps of Occupied France, 1940-1944 (2019)
Stacy Veeder

Starting Over Again: Survivors, Locals, and Welfare Agencies in the Austrian Alps (2019)
Rachel Blumenthal

“It Is the Moment Between Sunset and Sunrise”: Jewish Refugees and Humanitarian Aid in Italian Displaced Persons Camps (2018)
Danielle Willard-Kyle

Histories on the Fringe: Jewish DPs in Austria and Koppel S. Pinson (2018)
Laura Almagor

Soviet Jewish Migrations to the West during the 1970s-1980s and the Problem of Freedom (2018)
Denis Kozlov

Rescue through Collaboration: The Rescue Activities of the Comité d’Aide aux Refugiés in Italian-Occupied Southeastern France (2016)
Luca Fenoglio

Feeding Hungry Children After World War I (2016)
Mary Cox

The Yishuv/Israel

Rethinking Ashkenazi History in the Modern Middle East: Early 20th Century Egypt and Palestine (2023)
Yair Wallach

The Role of JDC in the Rehabilitation of Cyprus Detainees 1946-1949 (2021)
Anat Kutner and Sigal Harari Zonder
[This recording has been placed in the listings for The Yishuv/Israel because of the historical connection between the Cyprus detainees and the founding of the State of Israel.]

The Transnational Roots of the Jewish State: What Can Malaria Eradication Teach Us about the History of Israel? (2017)
Omri Tubi

Not Geographically Specific

Healing Objects: The Joint’s Involvement in Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2024)
Anna-Carolin Augustin

“We Are Working for a Healthy Generation”: A Lecture Marking a Century Since the Reorganization of the JDC and its Transformation into a Permanent Organization to Meet the Needs of World Jewry (2023)
Jonathan Sarna

Dr. Joseph Schwartz: “The Web Spinner” (2022)
Tuvia Friling

Re-evaluating the Role of American Jewry during the Holocaust (2022)
Jonathan Sarna

American Jewish Women Serving the JDC Abroad During the Interwar Years (2022)
Melissa Klapper

Impossible Reconstructions: Families After the Holocaust (2021)
Rebecca Clifford

If Objects Could Talk: Selections from the JDC Archives Artifacts & Ephemera Collection (2020)
Abra Cohen

The JDC Archives Names Index as a Window into JDC’s History (2020)
Jeffrey Edelstein

Searching for Survivors: The Fate of the St. Louis Passengers (2019)
Scott Miller

The US War Refugee Board and JDC (2018)
Rebecca Erbelding

The Creation of the Claims Conference 1951-1953: A Look Back at History (2016)
Rachel Blumenthal

Shadow Diplomats: American Jewish Foreign Policy in the Era of World Wars (2015)
Andrew Falk