Author: JDC Archives

  The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for the year 2011 has just been announced by the Jewish Book Council. The winning book was Odessa–Genius and Death in a City of Dreams, authored by Charles King, a Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University. King, the author of four other books on Eastern Europe, is the 13th winner of this Award. He joins a roster of prestigious academic past recipients, among them David Wyman, Yehuda Bauer, Deborah Lipstadt, Zvi Gittelman, Robert Satloff and Yitzhak Arad. The Award was established by JDC to encourage the writing of history based on...

  Laura Margolis, the JDC representative who implemented JDCs World War II-era relief efforts in Shanghai, was recently the subject of Asian Jewish Life Magazines Cover Story article. Jews have reportedly been in China as early as 206 BCE, but their presence in the country peaked in 1941, when thousands of Jewish European refugees had fled to Shanghai-the only free port in the world ready to accept them without passports. Margolis organized a system of emergency relief for the Jewish refugees, and with her help JDC supplied most of the funds needed to support the approximately 15,000 Jews who...

  JDC Archives is proud to announce that the launch of its website on March 3, 2012 was covered by the New York Times front page section. The article by Joseph Berger conveys the depth and breadth of our 97 year old history, and the great importance of our digitization efforts, which allow our collections to be accessed online from anywhere in the world. Berger highlights key treasures within our holdings, including photographs of Marc Chagall (pictured right) and Leonard Bernstein, letters from Hirsch Maneschewitz of the matza and wine fame company, and photographs and documents from the 1920’s...