Relief in time of need
Subtitle: Russian Jewry and the Joint, 1914-24
By: Michael Beizer
Series: The new approaches to Russian and East European Jewish culture series -- 5; New approaches to Russian and East European culture series -- 5.
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780893574208
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Jews; Charities; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: American Jews and Russian Jews on the eve of World War I; title: Part I.A time of war. shaping a modus operandi of cooperation; title: Chapter 1. The Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish committee for the relief of war victims; title: Chapter 2. In Siberia under the whites; title: Chapter 3. In the former pale of settlement; title: Part II. From charity to "productivization," 1920/23; title: Chapter 4. Evobshchestkom: the JDC between the old and the new Jewish activists; title: Chapter 5. Under the auspices of the Ara; title: Chapter 6. From a painful "divorce" from the Ara to Sovnarkom backing; title: Chapter 7. Last year of relief work: 1923; title: Chapter 8. Reconstruction work: assessment of the situation and selection of preferential areas of work.