The Joint in Interwar Romania. Reconstruction Activities

The present study, based on never-published documents, presents and clarifies less known aspects of the support provided by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint) in Romania during the inter-war period. During World War I and in the first years after, the Joint provided emergency relief by setting up canteens, milk distribution stations, medical aid units, etc. Nevertheless, as of 1921, the organization adopted a new policy, reflected in what was called, at the time, the “reconstruction work”, i.e. the establishment of vocational schools, the organization and maintenance of summer camps for children, the development of credit cooperative networks, etc.