Central Relief Committee records, 1914-1958, 1914-1950 (bulk) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, minutes, reports, press releases, printed material, financial records, and photographs concerning fund raising, relief work in Europe, Palestine, and Egypt, location of missing relatives, sending of remittances to Europe and Palestine, and aid to yeshivot in Europe and Palestine. Individual correspondents include Rabbis Abraham Isaac Kook, Abraham Duber Cahana-Shapiro, Solomon David Kahana, Shmuel Zanwil Kahana, Meyer Berlin (Bar-Ilan), Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski, Alexander Zisha Frydman, Elijah Meyer Bloch, Chayim Leb Shmuelowitz, and Eliezer Yehuda Finkel ; organizations include American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewish Relief Committee, People's Relief Committee, Universal Yeshiva (Merkaz ha-Rav), the Harry Fishel Foundation, Mizrachi, the Talpioth Palestine Investment Agency and others. Also includes detailed questionnaires concerning yeshivot in interwar Europe