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Photo, Print, Drawing Waiting for Food outside the Dreyfus Soup Kitchen, Jerusalem.

About this Item

Title

  • Waiting for Food outside the Dreyfus Soup Kitchen, Jerusalem.

Summary

  • This photograph shows hungry people, many of them children, as they wait for food at the Dreyfus Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem, which served about 900 meals a day in 1921. During and immediately after World War I, needy Jews living in British Mandate Palestine were cut off from their regular sources of support in Europe. Many depended on food relief and other kinds of financial support from American Jews. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a humanitarian organization organized at the start of World War I to address such pressing needs, financed soup kitchens and other vital forms of support in the Middle East and Europe. 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

  • -  Israel--Jerusalem
  • -  1921 to 1922
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Food supply
  • -  Humanitarian assistance
  • -  Hunger
  • -  Jews
  • -  War relief
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 4.5 x 6.5 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

  • 2021670935

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Waiting for Food outside the Dreyfus Soup Kitchen, Jerusalem. Israel Jerusalem, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670935/.

APA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1921) Waiting for Food outside the Dreyfus Soup Kitchen, Jerusalem. Israel Jerusalem, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670935/.

MLA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Waiting for Food outside the Dreyfus Soup Kitchen, Jerusalem. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670935/>.