Union Ort (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 173 pp., Illus, Orig Tan Paperback, title neatly inked on spine else VG.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine condition. First edition. Octavo. [12]pp. Original light blue stiff wraps with black lettering and decorative ruling on cover, protected by modern mylar. Pamphlet presented at the booth of Union Ort at the "Exposition Internationale Des Arts Et Techniques" in Paris in 1937. Contains list of patrons, the list of members of the administrative committee, and the member of the parliamentary committees to the European Union on inside front cover. Inside back cover with list of Union Ort offices in Europe and New York. With b/w photo-illustrated contributions on "The Union, it's goals and activities," "Readjusting the Jews," "The Image of Truths," "The Force of Labor," "Paul Painlevé on the work of ORT," "The Union Stand at the International Exhibition: What does it tell us and what does it prove?" Text in French. The organization was originally founded in Saint Petersburg in 1880, as the Society of Crafts and Agricultural Labor Among Jews in Russia, by Nikolai Bakst, Samuel Polyakov and Baron Horace Günzburg, and was among first significant Jewish institutions of its kind. Starting in the 1860s the Russian Jewish community had begun to be granted increased civil rights in the Empire. The organization's original aim was to raise and disperse funds for the education of impoverished Russian Jews, and provide them with various technical, trade and agricultural work training, in preparation for entrance into the national workforce. The organization saw immense success in their mission, and within the first 25 years they raised educational standards and provided training to 25,000 Jews across the Russian Empire. With the advent of the Russian revolution, the organization moved its headquarters to Berlin. With the rise of Nazism in Germany, the organization then moved its operational base to France, and then Switzerland. In the postwar period the organization continued its mission of providing vocational training and related philanthropic activities to Jewish communities internationally. Instrumental in the success and longevity of the organization were among others N. Aronson, Henri Bodenheimer, Edmond Fleg, Mané-Katz, Léon Zadoc-Kahn, and Georges Wildenstein.