Jewish Labor Committee records

Jewish Labor Committee records 

Jewish Labor Committee records 

folder 1 169 microfilm reels, 35 mm 101,451 digital images, JPEG 

Records contain correspondence, office files, press releases, minutes, convention reports, and printed material relating to the efforts of the Jewish Labor Committee to mobilize opposition to Nazism and offer relief and assistance to its victims. Included are eighteen volumes of clippings scrapbooks documenting the work of the Committee, 1936-1947. Among the persons represented are Baruch C. Vladeck, founder and first chairman of the Committee, Adolph Held, chairman after Vladek's death in 1938, Jacob Pat, Executive Secretary, and David Dubinski, Treasurers. Among the prominent correspondents are many U.S. government officials and legislators, American and foreign labor leaders and intellectuals, and officers of Jewish political and philanthropic organizations. Includes financial ledgers, 1934-1949. 

Arranged in five groups: I. Administrative and organizational records; II. American cities; III. Foreign countries; IV. Rescue and relief; Supplements: Jewish Labor Committee Publications; Jewish Labor Committee Research Papers; V. Addendum: Financial Ledgers, 1934-1949.