Inhalt: | Foreword / Linda G. Levi -- Introduction -- Medical welfare in interwar Europe: the collaboration between JDC and OZE-TOZ organizations / Rakefet Zalashik -- JDC in Minsk: the parameters and predicaments of aiding Soviet Jews in the interwar years / Elissa Bemporad -- The first American organization in Soviet Russia: JDC and relief in the Ukraine, 1920-1923 / Jaclyn Granick -- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee programs in the USSR, 1941-1948: a complicated partnership / Mikhail Mitsel -- DORSA and the Jewish refugee settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945 / Marion Kaplan -- Laura Margolis and JDC efforts in Cuba and Shanghai: sustaining refugees in a time of catastrophe / Zhava Litvac Glaser -- "Joint fund Teheran": JDC and the Jewish lifeline to Central Asia / Atina Grossmann -- Destination Australia: the roles of Charles Jordan and Walter Brand / SUzanne D. Rutland -- Imported from the United States? The centralization of private Jewish welfare after the Holocaust: the cases of Belgium and France / Laura Hobson Faure and Veerle Vanden Daelen -- Behind the Iron Curtain: the community government in Poland and its attitude toward the Joint's activities, 1944-1989 / Anna Sommer Schneider -- Years of survival: JDC in postwar Germany, 1945-1957 / Avinoam Patt and Kierra Crago-Schneider -- JDC activity in Hungary, 1945-1953 / Kinga Frojimovics -- JDC and Soviet Jews in Austria and Italy / Inga Veksler -- Contributors -- Index. Traces the history of the JDC-an organization founded to aid victims of World War I that has played a significant role in preserving and sustaining Jewish life across the globe. The thirteen essays in this volume, edited by Avinoam Patt, Atina Grossmann, Linda G. Levi, and Maud S. Mandel, reflect critically on the organization's transformative impact on Jewish communities throughout the world, covering topics such as aid for refugees from National Socialism in Cuba, Shanghai, Tehran, the Dominican Republic, France, Belgium, and Australia; assistance to Holocaust survivors in Displaced Persons camps for rebuilding and emigration; and assistance in Rome and Vienna to Soviet Jewish transmigrants in the 1970s. Despite the sustained transnational humanitarian work of this pioneering non-governmental organization, scholars have published surprisingly little devoted to the history and remarkable accomplishments of the JDC, nor have they comprehensively explored the JDC's role on the ground in many regions and cultures. This volume seeks to address those gaps not only by assessing the widespread impact of the JDC but also by showcasing the richness and depth of the JDC Archives as a resource for examining modern Jewish history in global context |
