The JDC Archives invites you to a webinar Mela Iancu: A Holocaust Heroine in Romania Sylvia Hershcovitz Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:00pm - 1:30pm (EDT) ZOOM (Webinar) RSVP
In 1939, Mela Iancu, a Romanian Jewish leader, established the Jewish Center for the Protection of Mothers and Children. With branches throughout Romania, the center contributed to the salvation of hundreds of women and children during the Holocaust period, providing Jewish children with shelter, food, and medical care and aiding orphans who returned from Transnistria. With financial assistance from JDC and other international organizations, the center helped many children during this period of danger and uncertainty for the Jewish people. Sylvia Hershcovitz will present this narrative from a Jewish, Zionist, and feminist perspective. Sylvia Hershcovitz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Israel. She is a Spiegel Fellow in The Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute for Holocaust Research and a recipient of the Fred and Ellen Lewis/ JDC Archives Fellowship. Her dissertation and her research in the JDC Archives focus on the quotidian lives of Jewish women and their organizations in Romania in the early 20th century. RSVP The views and opinions expressed in the public program are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the position of the JDC. The JDC Archives houses one of the world’s most significant collections of modern Jewish history. Comprising the organizational records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian organization, the archives includes over 3 miles of text documents, 100,000 photographs, a research library of more than 6,000 books, 1,100 audio recordings including oral histories, and a video collection. With records of activity in more than 90 countries dating from 1914 to the present, the JDC Archives is located in two centers, New York City and Jerusalem, and is open to the public by appointment. For more information, visit archives.jdc.org. For more information on JDC Archives Fellowships, visit the Fellowships page. You are receiving this email because at one time you indicated an interest in the Archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. By continuing to receive email correspondence from our organization, you agree to ‘opt in’ for future communications. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 220 East 42nd Street New York New York 10017 ******************************************************************************* This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/czernowitz-l@list.cornell.edu/ To send mail to the list, address it to <czernowit...@cornell.edu>. To remove your address from this e-list follow the directions at https://it.cornell.edu/lyris/leave-e-lists-lyris To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: owner-czernowit...@list.cornell.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
