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In the aftermath of the December 1947 anti-Jewish riots in British Colonial ‘Aden, local community leaders formed the Jewish Emergency Committee (JEC). The Committee embraced the tasks of rehabilitating the ‘Adeni Jewish Quarter and its residents, representing ‘Adeni Jewry to world Jewish organizations, and advocating for Yemeni Jewish refugees caught on the multitiered Yemen-‘Aden border. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) spearheaded the global Jewish effort to revitalize ‘Aden’s Jewish Quarter. Its relationship with the local Jewish community, however, quickly soured. The JDC, like the Alliance Israélite Universelle in North Africa, attempted to leverage its control of foreign monies to transform the culture, leadership, and gender dynamics of ‘Adeni Jewry. Ultimately, the JDC staff lost the trust of the local community, and the Jewish Quarter was never fully revitalized. Instead, the JDC grudgingly paid the migration costs of ‘Adenis whom it had failed to rehabilitate locally. The JEC fought the JDC’s cultural interventions by mobilizing popular protest, threatening violence, and exploiting fault lines between Jewish philanthropic organizations. Unable to convince the British Board of Jewish Deputies to hold the JDC accountable, the Committee turned to the disaffected World Jewish Congress (WJC), finding in it an organization willing to act as a gadfly against larger, better-established Jewish institutions. The ‘Adeni Jewish story is thus not only a case study in the cultural incompetence of philanthropic institutions in colonial contexts, but also an example of the ways in which indigenous Jewish activists found a voice in the international arena.

While the role the United States played in France's liberation from Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that American Jewish individuals and organizations mobilized to reconstruct Jewish life in France after the Holocaust. In A \"Jewish Marshall Plan , \" Laura Hobson Faure explores how American Jews committed themselves and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring much needed aid to their French coreligionists. Hobson Faure sheds light on American Jewish chaplains, members of the Armed Forces, and those involved with Jewish philanthropic organizations who sought out Jewish survivors and became deeply entangled with the communities they helped to rebuild. While well intentioned, their actions did not always meet the needs and desires of the French Jews. A \"Jewish Marshall Plan\" examines the complex interactions, exchanges, and solidarities created between American and French Jews following the Holocaust. Challenging the assumption that French Jews were passive recipients of aid, this work reveals their work as active partners who negotiated their own role in the reconstruction process.

This article examines the gendered politics of public health initiatives among Jews in interwar Poland by focusing on the establishment and activity of the Warsaw School of Nursing (Szkoła Pielęgniarstwa przy Szypitalu Starozakonnych w Warszawie). Founded in 1923 and funded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the school’s staff believed that they could shape the attitudes and behaviors of Polish Jewish women and use them as a conduit to advance their vision for a Polish state committed to the protection of Jews and their equality before the law. Drawing upon the voices of JDC officials, local Jewish health activists, Polish government officials, and young Jewish women in the Second Polish Republic, the article highlights the multiple and frequently conflicting ways in which gender figured in their political imagination. It also sheds light on the efforts of American Jewish humanitarian activists and Polish Jewish women alike—much like their counterparts throughout Europe and North America—to reframe traditional gendered expectations for women in order to expand their range of professional choices and the roles they could play in public life. The final section of this article recounts the school’s decline and compares its fate to a Jewish nursing school initiative in the city of Vilna. In doing so, it assesses the limits of the Joint Distribution Committee’s interethnic bridge-building initiatives in interwar Poland.

Sara-Zofia Syrkin-Binsztejnowa (1891–1943) war eine herausragende Ärztin und Aktivistin im Warschauer Ghetto. Das Archiv des American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee weist ihr einen Platz in der ersten Reihe im Kampf gegen das Fleckfieber und bei der Gründung eines öffentlichen jüdischen Gesundheitssystems in der Entstehungszeit der Zweiten Republik Polens zu. In diesem Aufsatz wird die Entwicklung ihrer Pionierarbeit vor dem Hintergrund von Epidemien, der Staatenbildung im Nachkriegspolen und dem Aufkeimen einer internationalen öffentlichen Gesundheitswissenschaft nachgezeichnet. Die Analyse dieser vernachlässigten frühen Jahre der medizinischen Karriere Syrkin-Binsztejnowas wirft ein neues Licht auf ihr soziales Engagement im Warschauer Ghetto, das bisher nur am Rande der Holocaust Historiographie behandelt wurde. Die Autorin kontrastiert Syrkin-Binsztejnowas Arbeit in der Zwischenkriegszeit mit den Versuchen der Medizinerin, ein öffentliches Gesundheitsprogramms auch während der Nazi Besetzung zu koordinieren, Bemühungen, die von Rassenverfolgung und Massenmord untergraben wurden. The archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee place Sara-Zofia Syrkin-Binsztejnowa (1891–1943), a prominent physician and activist in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the frontlines in the battle against typhus and the launch of the Jewish public healthcare system in the nascency of Poland’s Second Republic. The evolution of her pioneering efforts is traced against a backdrop of epidemics, post-war nation-building and the emergence of an international public health episteme. The recovery of these neglected early years of Syrkin-Binsztejnowa’s medical career sheds new light on her social activism in the Warsaw Ghetto long marginalized in Holocaust historiography. The author contrasts Syrkin-Binsztejnowa’s interwar work to her efforts coordinating public health programs and the fight against epidemics under Nazi occupation, which were largely undermined by policies of racial persecution and mass murder.

Sara-Zofia Syrkin-Binsztejnowa (1891–1943) war eine herausragende Ärztin und Aktivistin im Warschauer Ghetto. Das Archiv des American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee weist ihr einen Platz in der ersten Reihe im Kampf gegen das Fleckfieber und bei der Gründung eines öffentlichen jüdischen Gesundheitssystems in der Entstehungszeit der Zweiten Republik Polens zu. In diesem Aufsatz wird die Entwicklung ihrer Pionierarbeit vor dem Hintergrund von Epidemien, der Staatenbildung im Nachkriegspolen und dem Aufkeimen einer internationalen öffentlichen Gesundheitswissenschaft nachgezeichnet. Die Analyse dieser vernachlässigten frühen Jahre der medizinischen Karriere Syrkin-Binsztejnowas wirft ein neues Licht auf ihr soziales Engagement im Warschauer Ghetto, das bisher nur am Rande der Holocaust Historiographie behandelt wurde. Die Autorin kontrastiert Syrkin-Binsztejnowas Arbeit in der Zwischenkriegszeit mit den Versuchen der Medizinerin, ein öffentliches Gesundheitsprogramms auch während der Nazi Besetzung zu koordinieren, Bemühungen, die von Rassenverfolgung und Massenmord untergraben wurden. The archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee place Sara-Zofia Syrkin-Binsztejnowa (1891–1943), a prominent physician and activist in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the frontlines in the battle against typhus and the launch of the Jewish public healthcare system in the nascency of Poland’s Second Republic. The evolution of her pioneering efforts is traced against a backdrop of epidemics, post-war nation-building and the emergence of an international public health episteme. The recovery of these neglected early years of Syrkin-Binsztejnowa’s medical career sheds new light on her social activism in the Warsaw Ghetto long marginalized in Holocaust historiography. The author contrasts Syrkin-Binsztejnowa’s interwar work to her efforts coordinating public health programs and the fight against epidemics under Nazi occupation, which were largely undermined by policies of racial persecution and mass murder.

Sara-Zofia Syrkin-Binsztejnowa (1891–1943) war eine herausragende Ärztin und Aktivistin im Warschauer Ghetto. Das Archiv des American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee weist ihr einen Platz in der ersten Reihe im Kampf gegen das Fleckfieber und bei der Gründung eines öffentlichen jüdischen Gesundheitssystems in der Entstehungszeit der Zweiten Republik Polens zu. In diesem Aufsatz wird die Entwicklung ihrer Pionierarbeit vor dem Hintergrund von Epidemien, der Staatenbildung im Nachkriegspolen und dem Aufkeimen einer internationalen öffentlichen Gesundheitswissenschaft nachgezeichnet. Die Analyse dieser vernachlässigten frühen Jahre der medizinischen Karriere Syrkin-Binsztejnowas wirft ein neues Licht auf ihr soziales Engagement im Warschauer Ghetto, das bisher nur am Rande der Holocaust Historiographie behandelt wurde. Die Autorin kontrastiert Syrkin-Binsztejnowas Arbeit in der Zwischenkriegszeit mit den Versuchen der Medizinerin, ein öffentliches Gesundheitsprogramms auch während der Nazi Besetzung zu koordinieren, Bemühungen, die von Rassenverfolgung und Massenmord untergraben wurden. The archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee place Sara-Zofia Syrkin-Binsztejnowa (1891–1943), a prominent physician and activist in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the frontlines in the battle against typhus and the launch of the Jewish public healthcare system in the nascency of Poland’s Second Republic. The evolution of her pioneering efforts is traced against a backdrop of epidemics, post-war nation-building and the emergence of an international public health episteme. The recovery of these neglected early years of Syrkin-Binsztejnowa’s medical career sheds new light on her social activism in the Warsaw Ghetto long marginalized in Holocaust historiography. The author contrasts Syrkin-Binsztejnowa’s interwar work to her efforts coordinating public health programs and the fight against epidemics under Nazi occupation, which were largely undermined by policies of racial persecution and mass murder.

While her official responsibilities for the JDc consisted of procuring supplies, such as textbooks, dictionaries, paper, theater props, writing utensils, and curriculum materials, for the DP camps' educational institutions, which included more than sixty schools,7 she soon found herself on the front lines of the haunting work of postwar Jewish cultural restoration.8 By a mixture of chance, intention, and fate, Schildkret's most enduring role as an educational worker for the JDc would be restituting the remnants of yiVo's library and archives from the offenbach archival Depot (oaD) and ensuring their safe shipment to New york in June of 1947.9 Schildkret's efforts helped to establish yiVo as a distinguished american Jewish research institution, and the New york city yiVo as a critical institutional link to the East European Jewish past. 10 an unsung \"Monuments Woman,\" Schildkret became known for her role in salvaging yiVo's books only in 1989, when she published From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947, which recounted her European experiences.11 This article will establish the context for Schildkret's work in the oaD and reprint in full one of the many memos she wrote about the issues she - and others - faced in restituting Jewish cultural property after the war, a deeply contested activity whose resonances can still be felt.12 Much more was at stake than merely ascertaining ownership of valuable books, religious objects, and art.

This classic study brings to bear the findings and principles of political science, sociology, psychology, and economics on various proposals for the solution of ills traditionally associated with governmental administration.

In 1949 the majority of Yemenite Jewry-——more than 40,000 persons-——arrived in Israel. Their arrival was the result of an Israeli initiative, in cooperation with Jewish organizations and the rulers of Aden and Yemen. However, the gradual, planned departure turned into a hasty mass exodus that cost hundreds of lives. The suffering and the victims were mostly the result of failures by the organizers: the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in charge of the operation with the assistance of the Jewish Agency, and the government of Israel. Despite its catastrophic characteristics, the immigration from Yemen was described in terms of rescue, miracles, and redemption-——a combination of eschatological and orientalist concepts. In the following years \"““Operation Magic Carpet\"”” was commemorated in the naming of streets and was praised in literature, poetry, historical research, and in the collective memory of Yemenite Immigrants in Israel, becoming one of the establishing images of the relationship between the state and its Mizrahi citizens. It presented these Jews as victims of persecutions by hostile Arab rule, victims who were sentenced to poverty and to social and cultural degeneration. According to this image, Israel was portrayed as a rescuer of these wretched Jews.

Considers how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing an accounting for community processes in organizational theory. This title focuses on social proximity and networks that has characterized the work on communities.