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Collection Guide: National Jewish Welfare Board

Overview of the individual archival collections and library materials found at the Center relating to the NJWB and their activities.

Women and men in uniform, circa 1917. (I-337, AJHS)

For Further Research

Abridged Prayer Book: For Jews in the Armed Forces of the United States / by the National Jewish Welfare Board. Third impression.. 1941. Print. 

American Jews in World War II: The Story of 550,000 Fighters for Freedom / by Isidor Kaufman and National Jewish Welfare Board. Bureau of War Records.  1947. Print. 

Change and Challenge: A History of 50 Years of JWB / by Oscar I. Janowsky, Louis Kraft, Bernard Postal. 1966. Print. 

Hagadah Shel Pesaḥ = The Passover Haggadah for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States / [Translation and Notes by Albert S. Goldstein; Edited by Sidney B. Hoenig]. 1954. Print. 

Historical Resources on the American Jewish Chaplaincy in the Aryeh Lev Archives of the JWB Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy / by Marek Web. 1985. Print. 

Jewish Chaplains in the Armed Forces of the United States: A Programming Resource for the Observance of the Centennial of the Jewish Chaplaincy (1862-1962) / by National Jewish Welfare Board. Commission of Jewish chaplaincy.1962. Print. 

The Jewish Welfare Board: Twenty Years Old, Reprinted from the American Jewish Year Book 5698 / by Cyrus Adler. 1937. Print. 

Rabbis at War: The CANRA Story / by Philip S. Bernstein. 1971. Print. 

Readings from the Holy Scriptures: For Jewish Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen / by the National Jewish Welfare Board. 1943. Print. 
Selected Jewish Songs for Members of the Armed Forces / by Coopersmith, Harry, and American Association for Jewish Education. 1943. Print.