Jewish Colonization Association
The Jewish Colonization Association (abbr .: JCA, also: ICA) was founded on September 11, 1891 by Baron Maurice de Hirsch as a stock corporation under English law. The first president was Narcisse Leven .
The aim of the ICA was to support the emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries by settling them in agricultural colonies whose land had previously been bought by the JCA, especially in North and South America (Argentina; Argentina were 21 Agricultural colonies formed).
In January 1900, Baron Edmond Rothschild placed the JCA in charge of his villages in Palestine. With that the time of his direct guardianship over the settlements came to an end. The driving force in Palestine since 1901 was the JCA director for Lower Galilee, the Zionist Chaim Klovrisky-Margalit.
In 1924 the settlement works founded by Baron Rothschild were transferred to the JCA as PICA (Palestine Jewish Colonization Association). In 1927 the JCA became part of the HICEM .
HICEM was the Jewish emigration aid organization founded in 1927 (as a merger of HIAS = Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, ICA and EMIGDIRECT = Emigrationsdirectorium) based in Paris (until 1940), then in New York until it was dissolved in 1945 (acquisition of capital and tasks by HIAS) .
literature
- Mordekaj Alperson: Drajsig jor in Argentine: Memuarn fun a jidišn qolonist . With a haqdama fun HD Nomberg , Berlin: Idisher liṭerarisher farlag 1923 (Yiddish from Hebrew, Tel Aviv 1922)
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, founded in New York in 1898, later co-founder of Emigdirect (also: Emigdirekt )
- ^ "United Committee for Jewish Emigration, founded in 1921 in Berlin
- ^ Organ: Information sheets from the Emigration Association Hias-Ica-Emigdirekt , since 1928 in Paris, 26, Rue de Bassano, published monthly in Yiddish, English and French