1. One Jewish Community's Response to Nazism and the Refugee Crisis.
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DI ROCCO II, SAMUEL
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JEWISH organizations ,AMERICAN Jews ,FUNDRAISING ,OHIO state history ,JEWISH refugees ,NAZI Germany, 1933-1945 -- Politics & government - Abstract
The article discusses the annual fund-raising campaigns of the Jewish Federation of Youngstown in Ohio from 1935 to 1941 as part of its efforts to fight Nazism and address the European Jewish refugee crisis. Youngstown was unique in Ohio as being the only large city in the state without a functioning Jewish Federation or Welfare Fund when German leader Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. It says that the group's annual fund-raising goal was $30,100. Other topics include U.S. immigration restrictions, persecution of German Jews, and resettlement.
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- 2009
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