My brothers̕ keeper; a history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1929-1939. / Yehuda Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Yehuda.

Contributor:

Dudden, Adrianne Onderdonk.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Library of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor) (Libra copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 350 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, [1974]

Contents:

Introduction: The first fifteen years

A time of crisis, 1929-1932

Agro-joint

Germany: 1933-1938

Refugees: 1933-1938

Prelude to the Holocaust

The beginning of the end

Conclusion.

Notes:

"'My Brother's Keeper' deals with the efforts of American Jews - through their overseas aid organization, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) - to come to the aid of European Jewry in the crucial prewar decade, 1929-1939."--Dust jacket.

"Copyright © 1974."

"First edition."

"Designed by Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-336) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1974".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

Presented to the penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.

ISBN:

0827600488 :

OCLC:

2696218