Oyf di Churves fun Milchomes un Mehumes. Pinkes fun Gegnt-Komitet “YEKOPO” in Vilna. [“Upon the Ruins of Wars and Turmoil.”] Edited by Moshe Shalit.

(RUSSIA - POLAND).

Vilna

1931

Yiddish text. Titles in Yiddish, Polish and English. Additional illustrated title-page. Numerous photographic illustrations and charts. Printed in three columns. One of 1200 copies.

“A Record of the Committee “EKOPO” in Vilna (1919-1931). Articles, original studies, authentic material and documents. A monumental work in the field of Jewish social work.” EKOPO (“Evreiskii Komitet Pomoshchi Zhertvam Voiny” or, The Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Victims) was founded in Moscow in 1914. It provided necessary assistance and relief to tens of thousands of Jewish families who were displaced by the Russian Czarist government from Lithuania and Belarus during World War I. Later, the organization continued to provide assistance to Jewish victims of war and pogroms in the Vilna area and played a major role in the reconstruction of the Jewish communities of the region. See Joshua M. Karlip, The Tragedy of a Generation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe (2013) pp. 96-7.