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Item ID | 1081020 | |||
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Title | France: Aged, 1968-1970 | |||
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Reference Code | NY AR197589 / 4 / 37 / FR.42 | |||
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Folder Number | FR.42 | |||
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Dates | 1968-1970 | |||
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Date | 1/1/1968 | |||
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To Date | 12/31/1970 | |||
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| · Reference Code | NY AR197589 / 4 / 37 | ||||
| · Scope and Content | This record group documents JDC’s operations in France; its efforts in this region focused primarily on supporting Jewish education and sustaining the Jewish community’s social service infrastructure. During this period, the population of French Jewry was approximately 600,000, or about four times the estimated number of Jewish survivors and returnees to France at the end of World War II. This population expansion, which accumulated over more than two decades since the 1950s, was generated by successive waves of immigrants from Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. The ongoing task of absorbing and integrating large numbers of immigrants resulted in increased demands upon Jewish communal services throughout France. JDC provided financial and planning assistance to strengthen the capacity of French Jewish organizations, such as the Fonds Social Juif Unifié (FSJU), the central agency overseeing social and educational services for French Jewry, to respond to the needs of the new immigrants. Concurrently, JDC supported a small number of transmigrants who arrived in France, mostly from Eastern Europe. | ||||
| · Scope and Content | The bulk of JDC’s budget in France, however, was allocated to Jewish education. JDC provided direct support to Jewish schools, such as those operated by Lubavitch, Ozar Hatorah, and to the Alliance Israelite Universelle, an international Jewish organization based in Paris. Items of particular note in these records include correspondence with Colonel Seymour Pomrenze, a member of the U.S. Army’s “Monuments Men” and the first director of the Offenbach Archival Depot after World War II, in his capacity as a records management consultant for JDC, and detailed field trip reports by Evelyn Peters. Peters served as JDC’s day care consultant in France, as well as country director for Tunisia, Algeria, and India, and submitted these reports as evaluations of her visits to various kindergartens across France. In addition to these evaluations, Peters also reports on her participation her participation in teacher training seminars and meetings with school officials.Other significant materials detail the Jewish Education Study and the FSJU’s Manpower Development Project. This two-phase education study resulted in a program to upgrade the quality and extend the impact of Jewish education in France; the Manpower Development Program was established to develop Jewish communal professionals to work in direct service organizations in the area of planning, administration, fundraising, and education.Materials are primarily in English, with some in French and Hebrew. | ||||
| · Full Reference | Collection: 1975-1989: Records of the New York Headquarters of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - NY AR197589 | Sub Collection: Countries and Regions - NY AR197589 / 4 | Record Group: France - NY AR197589 / 4 / 37 | ||||
| · Dates | 1975-1989 | ||||
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Extent | 0.10 inch | |||
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Language | English | |||
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