ISBN:
9780893574208
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0893574201
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 272 Seiten, 33 ungezählte Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karte
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24 cm
Year of publication:
2015
Series Statement:
New approaches to Russian and East European Jewish culture series 5
Series Statement:
New approaches to Russian and East European Jewish culture series
DDC:
362.84/92404709041
Keywords:
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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Jews Charities
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Jews Charities
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United States
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Jews Charities
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United States
;
Russland
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Juden
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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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Geschichte 1914-1924
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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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Russland
;
Juden
;
Humanitäre Hilfe
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Geschichte 1914-1924
Abstract:
"In "Relief in Time of Need" historian Michael Beizer chronicles the efforts of the Joint Distribution Committee, the world's leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization, to aid victims of pogroms, World War I, and the violence of revolution and civil war in Russia and the new Soviet state in the years 1914-1924"--
Abstract:
Introduction: American Jews and Russian Jews on the eve of World War I -- Part I. A time of war. shaping a modus operandi of cooperation -- Chapter 1. The Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish committee for the relief of war victims -- Chapter 2. In Siberia under the whites -- Chapter 3. In the former pale of settlement -- Part II. From charity to "productivization," 1920/23 -- Chapter 4. Evobshchestkom: the JDC between the old and the new Jewish activists -- Chapter 5. Under the auspices of the Ara -- Chapter 6. From a painful "divorce" from the Ara to Sovnarkom backing -- Chapter 7. Last year of relief work: 1923 -- Chapter 8. Reconstruction work assessment of the situation and selection of preferential areas of work
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: American Jews and Russian Jews on the eve of World War IPart I. A time of war. shaping a modus operandi of cooperation -- Chapter 1. The Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish committee for the relief of war victims -- Chapter 2. In Siberia under the whites -- Chapter 3. In the former pale of settlement -- Part II. From charity to "productivization," 1920/23 -- Chapter 4. Evobshchestkom: the JDC between the old and the new Jewish activists -- Chapter 5. Under the auspices of the Ara -- Chapter 6. From a painful "divorce" from the Ara to Sovnarkom backing -- Chapter 7. Last year of relief work: 1923 -- Chapter 8. Reconstruction work assessment of the situation and selection of preferential areas of work.
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