The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives collection of Artifacts & Ephemera contains over 1,000 works ranging from posters and illuminated records to precious artwork and gifts from Jewish communities around the world, which illustrate and bring to life JDC's global humanitarian aid efforts. Let the artifacts guide your journey through JDC history and Jewish history at large. By analyzing different objects from around the world, learn more about the Jewish global experience during the past century.
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Images of Jewish communities around the world and across the decades celebrating the High Holidays.
No event has fractured Israeli society more than the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Theodor Herzl proposed a temporary safe haven in Uganda. However, a Jewish homeland in East Africa was heavily opposed by the Zionist Congress.