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Photo, Print, Drawing Ruined Home, Suceava, Romania.

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Title

  • Ruined Home, Suceava, Romania.

Summary

  • This photograph shows a man posing in front of a home in Suceava (present-day northeastern Romania, until 1918 in southern Bukovina, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) that was destroyed during World War I. After the war, the population of Suceava was about one-third Jewish. The Jewish community supported a number of communal philanthropic associations and was the seat of several regional organizations. During this period, outside support was provided by 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). This photograph is from an album documenting the JDC's work in Bukovina, including a loan for the rebuilding of this home. Encouraging reconstruction, rather than merely providing relief, was a focus of the JDC's activity in Romania in this period. The JDC was formed in 1914 to send aid, including food, clothing, medicine, funds, and emergency supplies, to the stricken Jews of Europe during the war. The war left in its wake many additional catastrophes--pogroms, epidemics, famine, revolution, and economic ruin--and after the war the JDC continued to play a major role in rebuilding the devastated Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and in sustaining the Jews in Palestine. 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], [1920 to 1921]

Headings

  • -  Romania--Suceava
  • -  1920 to 1921
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Ruins
  • -  War damage
  • -  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

  • 2021670914

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. Ruined Home, Suceava, Romania. Suceava Romania, 1920. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1921] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670914/.

APA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1920) Ruined Home, Suceava, Romania. Suceava Romania, 1920. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1921] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670914/.

MLA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Ruined Home, Suceava, Romania. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1921] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670914/>.