Materias: “…American Friends Service Committee…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Danksagung -- Inhalt -- Das American Friends Service Committee. Humanitäre Identität und die Politics of Service -- 1 "Lay upon us the burden of the world's suffering". …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- "Intelligent leadership in the cause of racial brotherhood": Quakers, social science, and the American Friends Service Committee's interwar racial activism / Allan W. …”
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“…Such documents serve as the foundation for this study, together with the papers of the American Friends Service Committee, of Rabbis Stephen Wise and Abba Silver, Senator Robert Wagner, Secretary Hull and Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, of the American Jewish Archives, the National Jewish Archives, and extensive interviews with persons intimately involved in the refugee question.Professor Friedman describes America's pre-war preoccupation with economic woes: immigrants, particularly Jewish immigrants, were viewed as competitors for scarce jobs. …”

“…D'une guerre à l'autre se dessine une période d'âge d'or pour les activités caritatives, caractérisée par l'émergence de nombreuses institutions humanitaires, telles que le Joint, l'American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), OXFAM, CARE, mais aussi par l'influence décisive d'organisations telles que l'American Relief Administration (ARA), les différentes Croix-Rouge nationales, le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge ou la Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB). …”