American Joint Reconstruction Foundation
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Brief Description: The collection consists of correspondence, financial reports, and reports on the situation in various communities from the AJRF offices during the years 1924-1939, as well as some material of the Reconstruction Committee of the JDC, a predecessor of the AJRF, 1920-24. It is divided into 19 series:                                                                                         1. AJRF General Records, 1921-28: lists of directors of AJRF in Eastern Europe, reports from E. European countries, Russia and Palestine; correspondence of ICA (Jewish Colonization Association), 1921-23; announcements and reports relating to the cooperative work between ICA and AJRF and ORT; memoranda from ICA, 1922; reports, tables and correspondence about the reconstruction work going on in Europe, 1922-24; reports of AJRF activities in Europe, 1924-28.                                                                                                                2.Ukraine, 1920: report of the situation in the Ukraine, 1920; file of Maurice Kass and his correspondence with the Joint and several individuals; materials on the Scandinavian Committee of the JDC; correspondence and reports about the work of OSE and ORT; correspondence from individuals in the Ukraine to relatives in the United States.                                                                                                                 3. Poland, 1920-38: reports of the situation in Galicia, in the Ukraine, White Russia and Congress Poland; reports of 121 loan societies in Congress Poland; statistics of 35 labor cooperatives in Poland; miscellaneous reports on Joint activities at this time; report of Jewish Industrial establishments in Poland, 1921; list of 97 Jewish communities rebuilt after World War I through JDC, minutes and memoranda relating to reconstruction work in Poland, 1924-26; reports on financial and educational situation in various cities, 1923-30; cooperative bank reports, 1923-29; reports of credit societies in Poland, 1923-29; financial reports of various loan societies and banks in Poland.                                                                  4. Lithuania: surveys of reconstruction activities, 1920-21; correspondence of Central Bank, 1920-23; balance sheets of 63 People's Banks, 1922; lists of requests for loans according to city (including 63 cities in Poland), 1924-25; miscellaneous statistical tables.                                                                              5. Latvia and Estonia: correspondence, reports, minutes, memoranda and tables relating to banks in localities in Latvia and Estonia, 1922-26.                                                                                            6. Rumania: correspondence concerning reconstruction of houses in Rumania, 1921-29; correspondence with Paris office of AJRF, 1935-37; with Berlin offices of AJRF, 1933-35; reports about AJRF activities in Bessarabia, 1923-31; reports of 32 credit associations, 1934-35.                                                                    7. Czechoslovakia: correspondence between Czechoslovakia and Vilna bureaus of AJRF, 1922; with Vienna bureau, 1922-23; with Berlin, 1924-25; with Warsaw, 1923; with Munkacz, 1924-26; statistics, policy statements, minutes, reports of Czechoslovakian branch of AJRF, 1922-25.                                                                     8. Hungary: report of educational facilities in Budapest and Meu Pest; investigatory report on the situation of Jews in Hungary; correspondence from Vienna bureau, 1922-23; financial reports of Hungarian offices of AJRF.                                                                         9. Austria: correspondence, reports, accounts, charters, clippings, minutes relating to the Viennese Credit Association, 1922-32.                                                                                                   10. Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, 1917-26: reports on credit associations in various cities in these countries; maps; correspondence; financial reports.                                                                                      11. ORT: reports of ORT activities in various European countries; correspondence between AJRF and ORT offices in several European countries, 1920-24; financial reports and miscellaneous records relating to the work of ORT in different parts of the world.                                                                                           12. Agro-Joint: reports from Moscow office about Agro-Joint activities, 1925-37; correspondence between Agro-Joint and OSE, 1935-38; correspondence from Agro-Joint to AJRF, 1935-37; reports of OSE activities, 1936-39.                                                                            13. Emigration from Germany: correspondence between AJRF bureaus in Paris and Germany, 1933-38; correspondence with Berlin offices.                                                                                                         14. HICEM: minutes and reports dealing with the activities of HICEM for refugees in Germany, 1932-37.                                                                              15. Financial Records: correspondence of People's Banks, 1925-32; records of loans in different countries, 1922-23; AJRF monthly reports, 1925-26; annual reports of AJRF, 1927-31.                                                                                                                16. Miscellaneous files, 1920-39: miscellaneuous correspondence, 1921-23; materials from Paris bureau of AJRF.                                                                                                                   17. Employees: correspondence relating to the travels of AJRF officials, 1921-24; correspondence of the AJRF Vienna bureau; correspondence relating to Joint officials, 1921-23.                                                                                                                18. Press clippings: from Poland, 1921-34; from Lithuania, 1921-38; from Greece, 1933-34.                                                                                          19. Photographs: from AJRF and Joint activities.
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Record Series Number: RG 335.2 /RG 335.2 
Volume: 0.0
Acquired: 06/01/1978.
Arrangement: arranged numerically, by folder
Subject Index
Agriculture
Austria
Belorussia
Colonies and Colonization Projects
Communal Welfare Organizations
Czechoslovakia
Economic Life
Education
Estonia
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Immigration and Emigration
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Refugees
Rumania
Social Welfare
Turkey
Ukraine
World War I
Yugoslavia
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Records
Finding Aid Revisions: 1996/10/11 ; 1903/01/23 ; GMB
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