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American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945 Military Encyclopedias pipe-smoking façade lay a surprisinglyIn this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuses alternately on the personalities and institutional