Zosa Szajkowski Collection, 1900s-1947

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Series III: International and Chinese Jewish Organizations, 1919-1930


Comité des Delegations Juives, 1919, 1924

(the World Jewish Congress' precursor organizations were the American Jewish Congress and the Comité des Délégations Juives (Committee of Jewish Delegations). The latter was established in March 1919 to represent Jewish communities at the Paris Peace Conference, and advocated for Jewish minority rights in various countries, including the negotiation of rights for Jews in Turkey in the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) and special agreements with smaller eastern European states. Headed by Russian Zionist Leo Motzkin, the Comité des Délégations Juives was composed of delegations from Palestine, the United States, Canada, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, East Galicia, Romania, Transylvania, Bukovyna, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece, and funded mainly by the World Zionist Organization)



Box 7 Folder 14 Proposals to the Peace Conference and Memorandum of Reasons for Proposals, 1919

(printed brochure)


Box 7 Folder 15 Report on the Plenary Session of the Comité Des Delegations Juives of September 4-6, 1924 in Karlsbad, 1924


Kharbinskoe Evreiskoe Dukhovnoe Obshchestvo, 1930


Box 7 Folder 16 Election printed materials