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Relief in time of need : Russian Jewry and the Joint, 1914-24 / Michael Beizer.

Title
Relief in time of need : Russian Jewry and the Joint, 1914-24 / Michael Beizer.
Author
Beĭzer, M. (Mikhail),
Publication
  • Bloomington, IN : Slavica Publishers, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Description
viii, 272 pages, 33 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map (color); 23 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
New approaches to Russian and East European Jewish culture series ; 5
Uniform Title
  • New approaches to Russian and East European culture series ; 5.
  • Project Muse UPCC books.
Subject
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • Hilfsorganisation
  • Jews > Charities
  • Jews > Russia
  • Jews > Soviet Union
  • Jews > United States > Charities
  • Juden
  • Pogrom
  • Russischer Bürgerkrieg
  • Russland
  • Sowjetunion
  • USA
  • United States
  • Verfolgung
  • Weltkrieg
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9780893574208
  • 0893574201
  • 9780893579203 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2014041613
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library