Organizational History and Activities

Includes correspondence, minutes, publications, and reports related to the organizational and political activities of the WJC and its forerunner, the Committee of Jewish Delegations. Reports on the history and activities of the WJC from before its inception through the 1960s are also included in this subseries. Significant subjects covered include anti-Semitism, relief for refugees, and relations with the League of Nations.

Box A1. Folder 1. Government interventions in: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Poland, and Romania, 1936-1939

Box A1. Folder 2. League of Nations, Commission on International Assistance to Refugees, memoranda, 1933-1942

Box A1. Folder 3. League of Nations, Liaison Committee, 1938-1939

Box A1. Folder 4. Tartakower, Arieh, London trip, 1944 January-March

Box A1. Folder 5. Executive Committee, circular letters, Geneva, Switzerland (German), 1933 November 6

Box A1. Folder 6. Executive Committee, circular letters, Paris, France, 1936-1939

Box A1. Folder 7. Advisory Council on European Jewish Affairs, activity reports, Jewish Representative Committee list, 1942-1943

Box A1. Folder 8. American Jewish Congress, activity reports (English, Yiddish), 1942

Box A1. Folder 9. American Jewish Congress, Administrative Committee minutes, 1933 June-December

Box A1. Folder 10. American Jewish Congress, Administrative Committee minutes, 1934-1935 February

Box A2. Folder 1. American Jewish Conference, activity bulletin, Digest of the Press, 1943 January-1945

Box A2. Folder 2. American Jewish Conference, Day Book of the WJC, reports, 1939-1940

Box A2. Folder 3. American Jewish Conference, meetings (English, Yiddish), 1943

Box A2. Folder 4. American Jewish Conference, 1st conference session, minutes, 1943 August-September

Box A2. Folder 5. American Jewish Conference, minutes, 1943-1947

Box A2. Folder 6. Daily Proceedings of the American Jewish Conference, 1943-1945

Box A3. Folder 1. Dubnow, Simon, International League report, 1939; review of biography, Dubnow, 1963, 1939, 1963

Box A3. Folder 2. European situation report (German), 1938 October 14

Box A3. Folder 3. General Jewish Council, Father Coughlin: His Facts and Argument, 1939

Box A3. Folder 4. International bank plan for Reich fund withdrawal, 1935

Box A3. Folder 5. Legal status, World Jewish Congress constitution, 1936-1959, 1973

Box A3. Folder 6. Liaison Committee of High Commissioner of League of Nations, minutes, reports, 1935-1937

Box A3. Folder 7. Meetings, minutes, reports (English and German), 1935-1936

Box A3. Folder 8. Political European situation reports, 1939

Box A3. Folder 9. Publications including Bernheim Petition, La Question des Juifs Allemands devant la Societé des Nations, 1933

Box A3. Folder 10. Remarks on the necessity for change in Jewish tactics, by Glazer, Michael, Warsaw, Poland, 1939 January

Box A3. Folder 11. Resolutions, 1936-1937

Box A3. Folder 12. Resolutions, 1942-1950

Box A3. Folder 13. Resolutions, 1951-1952

Box A3. Folder 14. Resolutions, 1953

Box A3. Folder 15. Resolutions, 1954

Box A3. Folder 16. Resolutions, 1955

Box A4. Folder 1. Resolutions, 1956

Box A4. Folder 2. Resolutions, 1957

Box A4. Folder 3. Resolutions, 1958

Box A4. Folder 4. Resolutions, 1959

Box A4. Folder 5. Resolutions, 1961

Box A4. Folder 6. Resolutions, 1964

Box A4. Folder 7. Resolutions, 1965

Box A4. Folder 8. Resolutions, Governing Council, 1965 December, 1961-1965

Box A4. Folder 9. Resolutions, 1966, 1966-1972

Box A4. Folder 10. Resolutions, 1967-1970

Box A4. Folder 11. Rubenstein, Chief Rabbi, speeches, (delivered 1932), 1946

Box A4. Folder 12. Romania and Transylvania, reports, 1936-1948

Box A4. Folder 13. World Jewish Congress, Jewish Agency agreement, reports, 1951

Box A4. Folder 14. World Jewish Congress, Executive Committee, League of Nations, resolutions, reports, 1938-1939

Box A4. Folder 15. World Jewish Congress, Stein, Kalman, The Congress Idea (English, German, Yiddish), 1941

Box A4. Folder 16. World Jewish Congress, Tartakower, Arieh, Immigration possibilities DL The Jewish Immigration Problem and the WJC, 1936

Box A4. Folder 17. World Jewish Congress, Pan-Germanism at Work, 1938 October

Box A4. Folder 18. World Jewish Congress, Petition to the League of Nations by WJC Geneva: La Situation des Juifs en Roumania, 1938-1939

Box A4. Folder 19. World Jewish Congress, Where Congress Idea Originated, Richards, Bernard G., undated

Box A4. Folder 20. World Jewish Congress, League of Nations relations, 1936

Box A5. Folder 1. World Jewish Congress, reports (English, French), 1937-1939

Box A5. Folder 2. World Jewish Congress, reports, 1940

Box A5. Folder 3. World Jewish Congress, reports, 1941

Box A5. Folder 4. World Jewish Congress, reports (Polish), 1942-1943

Box A5. Folder 5. World Jewish Congress, reports (English, German, Spanish), 1944-1945

Box A5. Folder 6. World Jewish Congress, reports, 1946

Box A5. Folder 7. World Jewish Congress, reports, 1947

Box A5. Folder 8. World Jewish Congress relationships with cooperating organizations, 1948

Box A5. Folder 9. World Jewish Congress, reports, 1948-1949

Box A6. Folder 1. World Jewish Congress, reports, 1948-1951

Box A6. Folder 2. World Jewish Congress, reports, 1952-1962

Box A6. Folder 3. World Jewish Congress, radio interviews, 1949-1950

Box A6. Folder 4. World Jewish Congress, Facts about the World Jewish Congress, 1970

Box A6. Folder 5. World Jewish Congress, Administrative Committee, minutes, Vienna, Austria, 1937 May

Box A6. Folder 6. World Jewish Congress, Administrative Committee, minutes (English, German), 1939

Box A6. Folder 7. World Jewish Congress, Administrative Council meeting, resolution to transfer the Central Bureau of World Jewish Congress to New York, 1940 August

Box A6. Folder 8. World Jewish Congress, Executive Committee, minutes, Paris, France (German), 1936

Box A6. Folder 9. World Jewish Congress, Executive Committee, minutes (English and German), 1937-1939

Box A6. Folder 10. World Jewish Congress, Executive Committee, reports, 1937

Box A6. Folder 11. World Jewish Congress, Executive Committee, minutes (English, French, German), 1938

Box A7. Folder 1. World Jewish Congress, Executive Committee, minutes, 1939

Box A7. Folder 2. World Jewish Congress, meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (English, German), 1939-1940

Box A7. Folder 3. Bulletin du Comité Executif de la Conference Universelle Juive de Secours, publication (Yiddish), 1921-1923

Box A7. Folder 4. Bulletin du Comité des Délégations Juives, publication (French), 1921-1925

Box A7. Folder 5. Foreign press releases, 1931-1934

Box A7. Folder 6. Informations DL Bulletin des Juedischen Welt Kongresses, publication, no. 1, 1940 April

Box A7. Folder 7. League of Nations, Treatment of Jews by German Government and Bulgarian Refugees, 1926-1936

Box A7. Folder 8. Non-World Jewish Congress publications (English, Yiddish, Polish), 1919-1927

Box A7. Folder 9. Non-World Jewish Congress publications (English, German, Polish), 1933-1936

Box A7. Folder 10. Press releases re: Jewish situation in Europe, Latin America, and Beirut, 1941-1942

Box A7. Folder 11. Correspondance Juive, no. 1-11, 1938-1939

Box A8. Folder 1. Comité des Délégations Juives, plenary, activity reports, minutes, Carlsbad, France, 1924 November-December

Box A8. Folder 2. Evian Conference, proceedings, reports, resolutions, 1938

Box A8. Folder 3. Evian Conference, League of Nations, memoranda, 1938

Box A8. Folder 4. First Central American-Caribbean Conference, resolutions, releases, Mexico City, Mexico (English, Spanish, Yiddish) [see also A89], 1962 March 10-12

Box A8. Folder 5. International Conference, statute for Germany refugees, 1938

Box A8. Folder 6. Joint Boycott Council of American Jewish Congress, 1933-1940

Box A8. Folder 7. Zweite Jüdische Welthilfskonferenz, Karlsbad, press releases (German), 1924 August

Box A8. Folder 8. Copies, 1919-1939; Romania to Kraemer, Marcus, Israel, 1954, 1919-1939, 1954

Box A8. Folder 9. Criticism of World Jewish Congress and Wise, Stephen S., correspondence, memos, articles, 1943-1949

Box A8. Folder 10. Criticism of World Jewish Congress and Wise, Stephen S., correspondence, memos, articles, 1950-1954

Box A8. Folder 11. Historical documents, 1936-1945