DESCRIPTION : Here for sale is an original COLORFUL richly ILLUSTRATED vintage Jewish - Hebrew book which was published ( FIRST and ONLY edition ) in a limited number of copies in EUROPE ( Munchen & Paris )  in 1949 after the Holocaust , And the End of WW2 by the Continental Youth Section of the Jewish Agency to be distributed and taught to the Jewish refugees , The Holocaust survivors which were gathered in DP camps all over Europe. The book "LOOK And LEARN" ( Re'eh Ve'Da ) provides the HISTORY of the JEWISH PEOPLE back from the BIBLE days through COLORFULY ILLUSTRATED 80 full page ILLUSTRATIONS , Accompanied by explanatory Hebrew text. Originaly published for the "JEWISH AGENCY" in Germany and FRANCE . Written in Hebrew . Original COLORFUL ILLUSTRATED HC. Original grey cloth spine. 12 x 8.5 " . Very good used condition. Tightly bound. Slightly stained.  worn spine.( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ) .Will be sent inside a protective rigid envelope.

AUTHENTICITY : This is an ORIGINAL vintage 1949 book , NOT a recent edition or a reprint  , It comes with life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.

PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal & All credit cards .

SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered airmail is $ 29  . Will be sent inside a rigid protective packaging .  Will be sent around  5-10 days after payment .  

 

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. Since 1914, JDC has exemplified that all Jews are responsible for one another and for improving the well-being of vulnerable people around the world. Today, JDC works in more than 70 countries and in Israel to alleviate hunger and hardship, rescue Jews in danger, create lasting connections to Jewish life, and provide immediate relief and long-term development support for victims of natural and man-made disasters. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (very often colloquially called "the Joint," or the JDC) is a worldwide Jewish relief organization headquartered in New York. It was established in 1914 and is active in more than 70 countries. JDC offers aid to Jewish communities around the world through a network of social and community assistance programs. In addition, JDC contributes millions of dollars in disaster relief and development assistance to non-Jewish communities. Allied victory offered no guarantee that the tens of thousands of newly liberated Jews (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) would survive to enjoy the fruits of freedom. To stave off mass starvation, JDC marshaled its resources, instituting an ambitious purchasing and shipping program to provide urgent necessities for Holocaust survivors facing critical local shortages. More than 227 million pounds of food, medicine, clothing, and other supplies were shipped to Europe from U.S. ports.By late 1945, 75,000 Jewish survivors of the Nazi horrors had crowded into hastily set up displaced person camps throughout Germany, Austria, and Italy. Conditions were abominable. Earl Harrison, dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, asked Joseph Schwartz, JDC’s European director, to accompany him on his official tour of the camps. His landmark report called for separate Jewish camps and for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) participation in administering them—with JDC’s help. In response, Schwartz virtually re-created JDC, putting together a field organization that covered Europe and later North Africa and designing a more proactive operational strategy. Supplementing the relief supplied by the army, by UNRRA, and by UNRRA’s successor agency—the International Refugee Organization—JDC distributed emergency aid, but also fed the educational and cultural needs of the displaced, providing typewriters, books, Torah scrolls, ritual articles, and holiday provisions. JDC funds were directed at restoring a sense of community and normalcy in the camps with new medical facilities, schools, synagogues, and cultural activities. Over the next two years, the influx of refugees from all over Central and Eastern Europe would more than triple the number of Jews in the DP camps. Their number included Polish Jews who had returned from their wartime refuge in the Soviet Union only to flee once again (westward, this time) from renewed anti-Semitism and the July 1946 Kielce pogrom. At the same time, JDC was helping sustain tens of thousands of Jews who remained in Eastern Europe, as well as thousands of others living in the West outside the DP camps in Jewish communities also receiving reconstruction assistance from JDC. In 1946, an estimated 120,000 Jews in Hungary, 65,000 in Poland, and more than half of Romania’s 380,000 Jews, depended on JDC for food and other basic needs. By 1947, JDC was supporting 380 medical facilities across the continent, and some 137,000 Jewish children were receiving some form of JDC aid. Falling victim to Cold War tensions, JDC was expelled from Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria in 1949, from Czechoslovakia in 1950, and from Hungary in 1953. After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Jewish Life As the war in Europe drew to a close, JDC marshaled its forces to meet a crisis of staggering proportions, racing to ensure that tens of thousands of newly liberated Jews would survive to enjoy the fruits of freedom. A massive purchasing and shipping program was instituted to provide urgent necessities for these Holocaust survivors in the face of critical local shortages, with 227 million pounds of supplies shipped to Europe from U.S. ports. By late 1945, some 75,000 Jewish survivors of the Nazi horrors had crowded into the displaced-persons (DP) camps that were hastily set up in Germany, Austria, and Italy. Conditions were abominable, with many subjected to anti-Semitism and hostile treatment. Earl Harrison, dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, asked Joseph Schwartz, JDC’s European director, to accompany him on his official tour of the camps. His landmark report called for separate Jewish camps and for UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) participation in administering them—with JDC’s help. To provide that help, Schwartz virtually re-created JDC, putting together a field organization that covered Europe and later North Africa and designing an operational strategy that valued action and initiative. Supplementing the relief supplied by the army, by UNRRA, and by UNRRA’s successor agency—the International Refugee Organization—JDC distributed supplies that nourished both body and soul: food, medicine, clothing, tools, equipment such as typewriters, and educational, cultural, and religious materials, including books, Torah scrolls, ritual articles, and holiday provisions. JDC funds supported medical facilities, schools, synagogues, and cultural activities, while JDC personnel helped organize communal life in many camps and other installations and represented the DPs before the military and other authorities. Over the next two years, the number of Jews in the DP camps more than tripled, with a new influx of refugees from Romania, Hungary, and Poland who had been helped to reach Western occupation zones. They included many of the Polish Jews who had returned from their wartime refuge in the Soviet Union, only to flee once again (westward, this time, through Czechoslovakia) in the face of renewed anti-Semitism and the July 1946 Kielce pogrom. At the same time, JDC was helping sustain tens of thousands of Jews who remained in Eastern Europe, as well as thousands of others living in the West outside the DP camps, in communities whose fledging reconstruction efforts were soon fostered by JDC with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference). In 1946, some 120,000 Jews in Hungary, 65,000 in Poland, and over half of Romania’s 380,000 Jews depended on JDC for food and other basic needs. By 1947, JDC was supporting 380 medical facilities across the continent, and some 137,000 Jewish children were receiving some form of JDC aid: nutritious food, medical care, educational programs, and health-building recreational opportunities. [Falling victim to Cold War tensions, JDC was expelled from Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria in 1949, from Czechoslovakia in 1950, and from Hungary in 1953; it was able to return to work in these countries at various points in the ensuing decades.] When the time came to shift from emergency relief to long-term rehabilitation, JDC set up loan institutions, producers’ cooperatives, and work projects across the continent, as well as vocational training and hachsharot (training) centers, which provided agricultural and other training for those seeking new lives in the Jewish homeland. JDC also provided personal counseling and established a tracing service and a vast emigration program for survivors, the majority of whom subsequently resettled in Palestine—and later, Israel. Realizing that the Jewish refugee problem would be solved only by so-called illegal immigration to Palestine, Schwartz actively supported the activities of the Bricha and Aliyah Bet. His opinion ultimately prevailed at New York headquarters, and in a departure from established policy, JDC provided funding and supplies for these activities and intervened with Washington and the army on issues of borders and refugee quotas. And when the British began interning illegal Jewish immigrants in detention camps on Cyprus, JDC was there to furnish medical, educational, and social services for the detainees    EBAY380