Painting Depicts JDC Founders
This 1929 painting, based on a photograph taken of the Executive Committee in a meeting on July 10, 1918, is one of the few artifacts of this magnitude that JDC has from the 1920s. In the throes of the calamitous World War I, the men and women depicted in this image responded to pleas from Jews an ocean away by providing life-saving aid and sustenance to their brethren in Palestine and Eastern Europe. Representing the spectrum of Jews in America, the American Jewish Relief Committee (mostly German Jews); the (Orthodox) Central Committee for the Relief of Jews; and the...
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