Meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee in New York, 1918

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Meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee in New York, 1918
Physical Description

1 photograph : black-and-white reproduction ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm
Date

1918
Place of Publication

New York (N.Y.)
Summary

Reproduction of a painting depicting the meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee at the office of Felix M. Warburg, 52 William Street, New York, NY.

Attached label, Historic #5A (3040/1499):

Seated left to right: Felix M. Warburg, Chairman; Louis Marshall; Albert Lucas, Secretary; Mrs. F. Friedman, official stenographer; Boris D. Bogen, Executive Director; Leon Sanders; Harry Fischel; Sholem Asch; Alexander Kahn; Jacob Milch; Miss Harriet E. Lowenstein, Comptroller; Colonel Moses Schoenberg; Aaron Teitelbaum; M.Z. Margolis; Israel Friedlander; Paul Baerwald, Associate Treasurer; Julius Levy; Peter Wiernik; Meyer Gillis; Harry Cutler; Cyrus Adler; Arthur Lehman, Treasurer; Jacob H. Schiff.

Standing left to right: Herbert H. Lehman; Abraham Zucker; Isidore Herschfield; Meyer Berlin; Stanley Bero; Louis Topkis; Morris Engelman.
Depicted

Warburg, Felix M., (Felix Moritz), 1871-1937; Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929; Baerwald, Paul, 1871-1961; Schiff, Jacob H., (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920
Subject

Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers; American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War; Meetings; Social service; Jewish refugees; Portraits, Groups
Genre

Photographs
Part Of

Robert Weltsch Collection, AR 7185
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URL

https://www.lbi.org/griffinger/record/242017

Biographical/Historical Information

The Joint Distribution Committee represented the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Relief Committee and the People's Relief Committee.

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· Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929

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Meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee in New York, 1918, Leo Baeck Institute, F 83109.

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