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The American Jewish Committee and the admission of Nazi collaborators into the United States, 1948-1950

"The article maintains that the American Jewish Committee was aware of the possibility that Nazi collaborators would be able to immigrate to the United States under the new DP legislation. However, a basic objective of the Committee was to enhance non-sectarian cooperation, but this goal weakened its position in negotiations with Catholics and Lutherans concerning the entrance of Nazi collaborators and Volksdeutsche."

Author : Genizi, Haim

Production Year : 2002

Language : English

Local Number : PA-0503A

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"Dla Davida Harrisa działalność na rzecz społeczności żydowskiej to życiowa misja, którą przez ponad trzydzieści lat realizował jako dyrektor generalny American Jewish Committee. W szczerej rozmowie z Agnieszką Markiewicz odpowiada na pytania o żydowskie wpływy w amerykańskiej i światowej polityce, o pamięć o Holokauście, antysemityzm, relacje polsko-żydowskie".

Author : Harris, David

Production Year : 2023

Language : Polish

Local Number : 2023-2595

The activities of central Jewish organization following Hitler`s rise to power

"In 1933 the Third Reich enacted the first of its discriminatory laws against the 550,000 Jews in Germany. Could the legal rights of the German Jews have been defended? The important Jewish bodies were alarmed and determined not to accept the new situation. Included were the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee, the Joint Foreign Committee of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association, and the French Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Comité des Délégations Juives in Paris. Unfortunately and despite the obvious dangers, these bodies were unable to rise above their differences in...

Author : Feinberg, Nathan

Production Year : 1957

Language : English

Local Number : PA-0503A