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Item ID | 172004 | |||
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Title | Brazil | |||
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Scope and Content | The Brazil record group spans 9 inches and is comprised of 32 files arranged in the series Administration, Organizations, and Subject Matter covering the years 1955-1964. The files include JDC financial reports, general JDC correspondence, files on Jewish organizations, emigration files, and a file of various publications relating to the Jewish community in Brazil. 1955 was a year of transition for the JDC in Brazil. Organized Jewish immigration to the country had been temporarily halted and in 1955 JDC stopped directly helping immigrants in Brazil and handed over this function to the United HIAS Service. From that point on the major involvement of the JDC in Brazil was its continued support of loan kassas serving immigrants, which received money from the JDC and the Jewish Colonization Association. The largest grouping of materials in this record group is the Jewish Organizations: Loan Kassas sub-series, which contains files of reports and correspondence about these institutions. The overall activities of the loan kassas waxed and waned with waves of immigration. Among the immigrants arriving in Brazil during this period were Jewish refugees from Hungary and Egypt, arriving respectively in the wakes of the failed Hungarian revolution and the Suez Crisis, events which are also documented in the record groups of those countries. Other aspects of JDC activity in Brazil were the distribution of funds to Brazilian organizations on behalf of the Claims Conference and JDC's receiving a percentage of Magbit funds raised in Brazil through Keren Hayesod in Jerusalem. | |||
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Reference Code | G 55-64 / 4 / 8 | |||
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Full Reference | Collection: 1955-1964: Records of the Geneva Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - G 55-64 | Sub Collection: Countries and Regions - G 55-64 / 4 | Record Group: Brazil - G 55-64 / 4 / 8 | |||
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