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Photo, Print, Drawing Children Eating at Mendele's Kindergarten in Bialystok, Poland.

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Title

  • Children Eating at Mendele's Kindergarten in Bialystok, Poland.

Summary

  • Schools and nurseries were an effective conduit to provide nourishment to children in Poland throughout World War I and the immediate postwar years, a period of rampant hunger. Mendele's Kindergarten and Community School at the Białystok Jewish Youth Union was most likely part of the Mendele Mokher Seforim Children's Home and Orphanage, named in honor of the beloved Yiddish-language author. During the interwar period, Białystok had an extensive Jewish primary education system. Many of these schools were funded by overseas Jewish philanthropy. The Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers (later the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, both names abbreviated as the JDC), a humanitarian organization, supported schools and provided meals, clothing, and shoes to the students. The JDC was created at the start of World War I by American Jewish groups uniting to provide coordinated relief from privation and suffering for Jews abroad. From the time the United States entered the war until its end, funding was sent to community and regional aid organizations in Poland, Lithuania, and other affected countries through a JDC branch in the neutral country of Holland. 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.
  • Kendel, I. Photographer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1918.

Headings

  • -  Poland--Podlaskie--Białystok
  • -  1918
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Food supply
  • -  Jews
  • -  Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers
  • -  Orphans
  • -  School children
  • -  Schools
  • -  War relief
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 3.5 x 4.5 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

  • 2021670904

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, and I. Photographer Kendel. Children Eating at Mendele's Kindergarten in Bialystok, Poland. Białystok Poland Podlaskie, 1918. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670904/.

APA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name & Kendel, I. P. (1918) Children Eating at Mendele's Kindergarten in Bialystok, Poland. Białystok Poland Podlaskie, 1918. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670904/.

MLA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name, and I. Photographer Kendel. Children Eating at Mendele's Kindergarten in Bialystok, Poland. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670904/>.