The Jews in the Eastern War ZoneAmerican Jewish Committee
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The Jews in the Eastern War Zone
American Jewish Committee
World War, 1914-1918 -- Jews
=Northwestern Province—=
Province Kovno 55,000
Province Vilna 30,000
Province Bialystock, Minsk, etc. 10,000
—————— 95,000
=Galicia= 112,000
=Assistance to Jews in Palestine and Syria=
(through representative in Alexandria) 10,000
=Assistance to Russian-Jewish Refugees from
Abroad= (when passing Petrograd) 1,500
=Assistance to Wounded and Recovered Soldiers
returning to the Front= 15,000
=Purchase of Matzoth for Soldiers at the Front=
(subsidy to the Rabbinical Committee) 15,000
=Subsidy to Various Educational Institutions=
(Yeshiboth, Jewish teachers, etc.) 16,000
=Organization of cheap credit to Jewish artisans,
workmen and merchants= (through Jewish Cooperative
Credit Societies) 22,000[57]
=Assistance to clerks of Jewish Cooperative
Societies= (affected by the war) 1,000
=Organization and support of sanitary and feeding
expeditions= (two expeditions) 50,000
———————
=Total= 914,000
Expenditure of the Moscow, Odessa, Kiev Committees 350,000
—————————
1,204,000[58]
According to approximate estimates within the next months the
General Jewish Relief Committee, working conjointly with the Jewish
Committees in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa, =will require the following
sums to satisfy the most urgent needs of the organizations now in
full operation and yet to be started:=
=Poland and Northwestern Provinces—= Roubles
Warsaw From 150,000 to 200,000
Province Warsaw From 15,000 to 20,000
Province Liublin From 20,000 to 25,000
Province Suvalki From 12,000 to 15,000
Province Radom From 20,000 to 25,000
Province Kielce From 20,000 to 25,000
Province Kovno From 25,000 to 30,000
Province Vilna From 10,000 to 15,000
Province Grodno From 8,000 to 10,000
Province Lomzha From 15,000 to 20,000
Province Plotzk From 6,000 to 8,000
Province Cholm From 10,000 to 12,000
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