1945 - 1933 American Interfaith Cooperation on Behalf of Refugees from Nazism, ] * 5 [ american brethren than to help refugees in europe, while philanthropists and welfare workers were reluctant to give up their long - established activities for a new and more distant objective . The traditional differences that existed between eastern european and German Jews were also a source of friction which prevented united action on behalf of German Jewry . But without doubt the greatest obstacle to the centralization of Jewish refugee work was the rivalry among Jewish organizations . The Joint Distribution committee JDC ) and the American Jewish Committee ( AJC ) , for example, opposed ( collaboration with the Zionists . as a memorandum submitted to McDonald noted : “The greatest difficulty will of course be to get the Jewish groups together . ” 2 While Jews responded inadequately, the attitude of the christian community to the crisis could be characterized as almost totally indifferent . McDon...
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