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110 2 _aNational Council of Jewish Women.
_bWashington, D.C., Office.
245 0 0 _aNational Council of Jewish Women, Washington, D.C., Office, records,
_f1924-1981
_g(bulk 1944-1977).
300 _a169,200
_fitems.
300 _a423
_fcontainers.
300 _a169.2
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
506 _aRestrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
520 8 _aIncludes 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.
544 _3Audio recordings
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
544 _aPosters
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aEstablished 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.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009005
600 1 0 _aMcCarthy, Joseph,
_d1908-1957.
610 2 0 _aUnited Nations.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bCongress.
610 2 0 _aWomen in Community Service (U.S.)
650 0 _aAbortion.
650 0 _aOlder people.
650 0 _aAnti-communist movements
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aChild care.
650 0 _aCivil rights.
650 0 _aConsumers.
650 0 _aCommerce.
650 0 _aEconomic assistance.
650 0 _aEducation.
650 0 _aEmigration and immigration.
650 0 _aEqual rights amendments.
650 0 _aFood.
650 0 _aHousing.
650 0 _aHuman rights.
650 0 _aJews
_xSocial life and customs.
650 0 _aJews
_zSoviet Union.
650 0 _aJuvenile delinquency.
650 0 _aLobbying
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aNational health insurance.
650 0 _aNuclear warfare.
650 0 _aNutrition.
650 0 _aSex discrimination.
650 0 _aSocial problems.
650 0 _aWomen
_xEmployment.
650 0 _aWomen's rights.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xRefugees.
651 0 _aIsrael.
600 1 4 _aMargolin, Olya.
610 2 4 _aJoint Program Institute.
610 2 4 _aWashington Institute on Public Affairs.
610 2 4 _aWomen's Joint Congressional Committee (U.S.)
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009005
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009005.3
999 _c43647
_d43647