Postwar changes in Europe had isolated many Jews
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Postwar changes in Europe had isolated many Jews in new nation-states carved from the old, collapsed empires and the Joint sped relief to poor Jews in Poland, Romania, Austria, and Hungary, setting up bread lines and soup kitchens. In 1919, Felix lobbied the State Department and Red Cross to get a one-hundred-million-dollar food appropriation for Poland, which was experiencing dreadful pogroms.
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