National Council of Jewish Women Washington, D.C., Office. creator mixed material monographic eng 169,200 423 169.2 Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, legislation, notes, speeches, testimony, publications, newsletters, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter, chiefly 1944-1977, primarily reflecting the efforts of Olya Margolin as the council's Washington, D.C., representative from 1944 to 1978. Topics include the aged, child care, consumer issues, education, employment, economic assistance to foreign countries, food and nutrition, housing, immigration, Israel, Jewish life and culture, juvenile delinquency, national health insurance, social welfare, trade, and women's rights. Special concerns emerged in each decade, including nuclear warfare, European refugees, postwar price controls, and the establishment of the United Nations during the 1940s; the NCJW's Freedom Campaign against McCarthyism in the 1950s; civil rights and sex discrimination in the 1960s; and abortion, human rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Soviet Jewry in the 1970s. Includes material on the Washington Institute on Public Affairs and the Joint Program Institute (both founded by a subcommittee of the Washington Office), on activities of various local and state NCJW sections, and on the Women's Joint Congressional Committee and Women in Community Service, two organizations that were founded in part by the National Council of Jewish Women. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Audio recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Posters transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Established in 1944 as a liaison office between the National Council of Jewish Women and the U.S. Congress and government agencies; coordinated through the council's Public Affairs Department in New York, N.Y. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009005 McCarthy, Joseph 1908-1957 United Nations. United States. Congress. Women in Community Service (U.S.) Abortion Older people Anti-communist movements United States Child care Civil rights Consumers Commerce Economic assistance Education Emigration and immigration Equal rights amendments Food Housing Human rights Jews Social life and customs Jews Soviet Union Juvenile delinquency Lobbying United States National health insurance Nuclear warfare Nutrition Sex discrimination Social problems Women Employment Women's rights World War, 1939-1945 Refugees Israel Margolin, Olya Joint Program Institute. Washington Institute on Public Affairs. Women's Joint Congressional Committee (U.S.) mm 82052738 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009005 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009005.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009005 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009005.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 820618 20260227111715.0 mm 82052738