by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
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The Jewish Labor Committee is the longest existing prominent pro-civil rights Jewish labor organization. It was founded in 1934 as a union between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), the International…
Portrait of a group of young men posing with oars on a dock at summer camp. Records of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City of New York. American Jewish Historical Society.
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Children eating lunch at a country camp, circa 1950. National Jewish Welfare Board Records. American Jewish Historical Society.
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by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
This post is part of the Jews and Social Justice Series. To read the introduction to the series, click here.
The Jewish Labor Bund was a unique and memorable force in European Jewish communal and political history. Established in Vilna in 1897, the General Jewish Labor Bund was originally conceived as…