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Helping out Jewish children
YIVO exhibit highlights prewar health-care workers in Europe.
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^ rom a sepia 1930 photograph of toddlers learning to brush their teeth to smiling boys and girls in hammocks at summer camp, or the 1940 Latvian calendar cover with a mother and child issued on the eve of the Nazi occupation, the topic of Jewish public health in pre-Second World War Europe is explored in The'Society for the Protection of Jewish Health: Fighting for a Healthy New Generation.
The new exhibit by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is on display through Febniaiy 2006 at the Centre for Jewish History in New York City. The exhibition opening coincided with YIVO's historic one-day symposium Jews and Medicine — In the Footsteps of Maimonides: The Jewish Dortor as Healer, Scientist and Intellectual.
Through photographs, documents, posters, books and various artifacts from the YIVO archives and library, curator Krysia Fisher illustrates the critical work of the Jewish relief organizations devoted to child care and protection -organizations that also fostered medical and social aid in central.
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Toddlers learn to brush their teeth under the supervision of Jewish health agencies in this 1930 photo.
eastern and western Europe between 1912 and 1942.
The Jewish society OZE (Society for the Protection of Jewish Health), which became the OSE (Society for the Aid of Children) and the Polish Jewish children's relief group, TOZ (the Society for the Safeguarding of Health) helped improve the standard of living for these Jewish populations, greatly reducing the spread of infeaious diseases, improving hygiene and lowering the high mortality rate.
Fighting for a Healthy New Generation explores the arduous history of OZE/OSE/TOZ in areas ravaged in the aftermath of the Fust Worid War, the Russian Revolution and pogroms in Ukraine. Numerous deportees, refugees and orphaned children left in their wake required special relief measures. In promoting child welfare, OSE, for example, established 34 branches in czarist Russia, 12 hospitals, 125 nurseries, 13 summer camps and 40 child feeding centres, as well as facilities to protea young lives against venereal diseases, scarlet fever, TB and trachoma. Like TOZ, which was responsible for more than 400 medical and health institutions in 72 localities, OSE became a global Jewish oiganization before the Second Worid War. Most of these impressive global measures were skuply curtaUed or destroyed by the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe.
Fisher notes in the exhibition cat-alogue that in Poland, TOZ published three periodicals, including a scientific journal, a magazine for Jewish youth and another, Folks-gezund, direaed toward the Jew-
ish masses, which was edited by Dr. Cemach Szabad, a co-founder of YIVO in Vilna.
"We are very gratified that this important exhibition will reach an
A calendar for Eastern European health agency OZE
even broader audience next year, when it travels to France at the invitation of the new Museum of Contemporary Jewish History in Paris," said YIVO executive director Dr. Cari J. Rheins. "The exlii-bition will later go to the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw." . Fighting for a Healthy New Generation is on view in tlie Constanti-ner Gallery Oobby level) and the YIVO third floor (ihibition gallery in the Centre for Jewish History (15 West l6th St.). Admission is free. For more information on this and other YIVO programs, visit www.yivo.otg. i
- Courtesy ofYIVOInstitiite for Jewish Research