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Box and Folder Listing
A Finding Aid to the
Coordinating
Board of
Jewish Organizations
Records
1949-1953
Manuscript Collection
No. 76
Introduction |
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| Title | The Coordinating Board of Jewish Organization Records. | |
| Dates: |
1949-1953. | |
| Abstract: | The Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations Records are the records of a United Nations advisory body for Jewish groups around the world. The records, which span the years 1949 through 1953 include correspondence, speeches, reports and newsclippings concerning the United Nations, and the component organizations such as the B'nai B'rith, Board of Deputies of British Jews and the South African Board of Jewish Deputies. | |
| Quantity: | 0.8 linear feet; 2 Hollinger boxes. | |
| Identification: | Manuscript Collection No. 76. | |
Institutional Sketch
The Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations was founded in 1947 to serve the United Nations as an advisory board for Jewish organizations in all parts of the world. The Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations (CBJO) has the special United Nations advisory status of a Non-Governmental Organization and plays an important role as a subgroup of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
The CBJO acts as a consultative committee on such diverse topics as has been active on the issues of peace, human rights, youth, terrorism, the environment, and the establishment of an International Criminal Court.
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Scope and Content Note
The Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations Records are the records of a United Nations advisory body for Jewish groups around the world. The records, which span the years 1949 through 1953 include correspondence, speeches, reports and newsclippings concerning the United Nations, and the component organizations such as the B'nai B'rith, Board of Deputies of British Jews and the South African Board of Jewish Deputies.
Topics in the subject based files include the Human Rights Covenant, statelessness, genocide, Arab armament, persecution of Jews in Iraq and the Soviet Union.
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Organization |
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| The papers are organized into a single series. | ||
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Arrangement
See description of individual series.
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Restrictions
Access Information
The Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations Records are open to all users and available in the reading room of the American Jewish Archives.
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Related Material
World Jewish Congress Collection. Manuscript Collection No. 361.
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Administrative Information
Citations
Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations Records and the American Jewish Archives.
Provenance
Donor information unavailable.
Processing Information
Processed by John Feldman, November, 1979.
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Box and Folder Listing
Series A: General Files. 1949-1953. |
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| Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note the collection number, as well as the box and folder numbers shown below. | |||||||||||||
| The records are of a United Nations advisory body for Jewish groups around the world. The records, which span the years 1949 through 1953 include correspondence, speeches, reports and newsclippings concerning the United Nations, and the component organizations such as the B'nai B'rith, Board of Deputies of British Jews and the South African Board of Jewish Deputies. Topics in the subject based files include the Human Rights Covenant, statelessness, genocide, Arab armament, persecution of Jews in Iraq and the Soviet Union | |||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Report by Warburg, G. (correspondence re: ECOSEC, Human Rights Covenant, Statelessness Conference, Non-Governmental Organization) 1951. | |||||||||||
| 2 | United Nations World. 1950. | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Four Points program on technical assistance. 1950. | ||||||||||||
| 4 | United Nations National Commission for UNESCO. 1949. | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Annexes report. 1950. | ||||||||||||
| 6 | London meeting. (Correspondence re: Jews in Genocide Convention, Human Rights Declaration, ECOSEC and Non-governmental organizations) 1950. | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Arab states armament. (Correspondence re: Jews in Iraq, arms sales British boycott) 1950. | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Goldman, Frank. Canadian speech. (re: human rights) 1950. | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Iraq. (Correspondence re: persecutions Jewish Agency for Palestine) 1949. | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Butttenweiser affair. 1950. | ||||||||||||
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| 2 | 1 | Eichelberger program. 1950. | |||||||||||
| 2 | Iron Curtain human rights violations. Hungary; Romania. 1952. | ||||||||||||
| 3 | B'nai B'rith. (Correspondence with United Nations) 1952. | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Iraq. 1949-1951. | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Soviet Union. Antisemitism and purges. 1953. | ||||||||||||
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