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Photo, Print, Drawing Carpentry Class at a Jewish School in Krakow, Poland.

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Title

  • Carpentry Class at a Jewish School in Krakow, Poland.

Summary

  • This photograph depicts a carpentry class at a Jewish school in Krakow, Poland, circa 1921-22. World War I tore a calamitous path through the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, leaving in its wake widespread famine, disease, and economic hardship. In the immediate postwar years beleaguered Jewish communities faced continued challenges that threatened their existence. New socio-economic realities stripped European Jews of their former livelihoods, leaving them without the means to help themselves. Their communal infrastructure also lay in ruins. To address these conditions, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a humanitarian organization created at the start of World War I, helped the Polish Jewish community to rebuild communal institutions and to develop new health and welfare programs. In the interwar years, the JDC worked with the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) to develop vocational training programs for Jewish craftsmen and vocational training programs in Jewish schools. The photograph is from the archives of the JDC, which contain documents, photographs, film, video, oral histories, and artifacts recording 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

  • -  Poland--Galicia--Krakow
  • -  1921 to 1922
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Carpenters
  • -  Carpentry
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Humanitarian assistance
  • -  Jews -- Education
  • -  Lumber
  • -  Saws
  • -  School children
  • -  Schools
  • -  Vocational education
  • -  World ORT Union
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 5 x 6.75 inches.
  • -  Original resource at: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • -  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

  • 2021670930

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. Carpentry Class at a Jewish School in Krakow, Poland. Krakow Poland Galicia, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670930/.

APA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1921) Carpentry Class at a Jewish School in Krakow, Poland. Krakow Poland Galicia, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670930/.

MLA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Carpentry Class at a Jewish School in Krakow, Poland. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670930/>.