Language:
English
Pages:
74
,
typescript.
Former Title:
Memoirs 1914-1921.
Keywords:
Kahn, Bernhard,
;
Liebknecht, Karl Paul August Friedrich,
;
Nathan, Paul,
;
Landau, Jacob.
;
Rosenberg, James N.
;
Schiff, Jacob H.
;
Simon, James,
;
Strauss, Isaac.
;
Warburg, Max M.,
;
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
;
B'nai B'rith.
;
Hevrat dorshe leshon `Ever.
;
HIAS (Agency)
;
Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany)
;
Antisemitism.
;
Jewish refugees.
;
Lawyers.
;
Socialism.
;
War relief.
;
World War, 1914-1918 Civilian relief.
;
Germany.
;
Russia.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Memoir of the lawyer Bernhard Kahn; he founded the Committee for the support of Russian citizens in Germany during World War I with the aim to repatriate Russian women, children and men over military age; difficulties and hostility due to wartime patriotism in Germany; activities of the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden and the American "Jewish Relief Committee for Poland and Lithuania" to relief the enormous distress of the Jewish population in the battlefields of Poland and Russia; cooperation with the Alliance Israelite (Vienna) in Galicia; Relief fund in 1915 with the cooperation of the Frankfurt Relief Committee for the Needy Eastern European Jews and the Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith for Germany; relief work in Palestine which suffered during the war of lacking support; language controversy ("Sprachenstreit") over the Technicum in Haifa and tensions between the German Hilfsverein and the American Relief Committee; Balkan War (1912-1913); 1916 Kovno conference about the promotion of Jewish emigration from Lithuania and Poland; founding of the "Vereinigung Juedischer Organisationen Deutschlands" (VIOD) in 1918; diplomatic mission to Constantinople in 1918; cooperation with the HIAS; diplomatic activities after 1918; friendship with Karl Liebknecht; Spartacus revolution in 1921; denunciation as Communist; beginning of activities in the AJDC with refugee Jews from eastern European countries.
Note:
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,
English
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