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Photo, Print, Drawing Jewish Refugees in Rowne, Poland.

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Title

  • Jewish Refugees in Rowne, Poland.

Summary

  • This photograph of 1921 shows three starving Jewish refugees in Rowne, Poland (present-day Rovno or Rivne, Ukraine), staring at the camera. In addition to the widespread displacement, famine, disease, and economic hardship that existed in the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish populations of Eastern Europe underwent new suffering as a result of the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war. Rowne, a commercial hub with a large Jewish population, was among the towns visited by the first team of field representatives sent to Poland by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Such teams included social workers, physicians, and teachers. The JDC was founded by American Jews in New York City in 1914 to provide wartime relief to Jewish communities. Since 1914, the JDC has operated as a global humanitarian organization, providing food, clothing, medicine, child care, job training, and refugee assistance in more than 90 countries. The photograph is from the archives of the JDC, which contain photographs, documents, film, video, oral histories, and artifacts documenting the work of the organization from World War I to the present.

Names

  • Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1921 to 1922]

Headings

  • -  Ukraine--Rivnens'ka Oblast--Rivne
  • -  1921 to 1922
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Food supply
  • -  Group portraits
  • -  Humanitarian assistance
  • -  Hunger
  • -  Jews
  • -  Portrait photographs
  • -  Refugees
  • -  Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 3 x 4.25 inches.
  • -  Original resource at: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • -  Content in Polish and Yiddish.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • World War I

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670925

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Jewish Refugees in Rowne, Poland. Rivnens'ka Oblast Rivne Ukraine, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670925/.

APA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1921) Jewish Refugees in Rowne, Poland. Rivnens'ka Oblast Rivne Ukraine, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670925/.

MLA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Jewish Refugees in Rowne, Poland. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670925/>.