Books about JDC

AMERICAN JEWRY AND THE HOLOCAUST: THE AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE 1939-1945. Yehuda Bauer. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1981.

ARCHIVES OF THE HOLOCAUST: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF SELECTED DOCUMENTS. VOLUME 10, PARTS 1 AND 2. AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE, Henry Friedlander, and Sybil Milton, general editors. NEW YORK. New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995.

A CONTINUING TASK: THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE 1914-1964. Oscar Handlin. New York, Random House, 1964.

I SEEK MY BRETHREN: RALPH GOLDMAN AND "THE JOINT." Tom Shachtman. New York, Newmarket Press, 2001.

MY BROTHER’S KEEPER: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE 1929-1939. Yehuda Bauer. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1974.

OUT OF THE ASHES: THE IMPACT OF AMERICAN JEWS ON POST-HOLOCAUST EUROPEAN JEWRY. Yehuda Bauer. New York, Pergamon Press, 1989.

RENEWAL: RECONNECTING SOVIET JEWRY TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE. A DECADE OF AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (AJJDC) ACTIVITIES IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION 1988-1998. Dr. Anita Weiner. New York, University Press of America, 2003.

THE SAVING REMNANT: AN ACCOUNT OF JEWISH SURVIVAL. Herbert Agar. New York, Viking Press, 1960.

TO SAVE A WORLD: AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (AJJDC) 1914-1984. Catalog of a photographic exhibition held at the Naham Goldmann Museum of Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv, Summer 1984, curated by Idith Zertal. Text in Hebrew and English. Tel Aviv, 1984.

TO THE RESCUE: EIGHT ARTISTS IN AN ARCHIVE. An exhibition organized by Lookout for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee held at the International Center of Photography, New York, 2/12- 6/16/99. New York, 1999.

Additional sources for JDC history

For further information on the topics of Jewish Rescue, Relief and Renewal — the cornerstones of JDC’s work – please refer to the list attached below. This list, divided by geographic region, contains 58 books written since 1995.
Jewish Rescue, Releif and Renewal
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