The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Speech given to the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee by Donald Robinson. Robinson gives an overview of the 1970s and what the JDC was like during that time; Robinson talks about major events in Israel including the 1973 Yom Kippur War; budgeting and finances; the JDC headquarters move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; Soviet Jewry; 1979 visit to Iran; post-war reconstruction effort; 1979 mailbox campaign. Typescript, English, seven pages.