I have written previously about my copies of early annual reports of the Anglo-Jewish Association from 1879 onwards. Here, however, is a later report, from a crucial time period.
The Anglo-Jewish Association and the Board of Deputies of British Jews had a Joint Foreign Committee until it was liquidated in 1943. It consisted of an equal number of representatives of the Deputies and the Association and took joint action on matters affecting Jews abroad.
This is covered in this report, and eventually, in 1947 the Association withdrew its representatives from the Board. The policies of the two groups were opposed. The Board was militantly pro-Zionist, while the Association was non-Zionist.
Even in wartime, the AJA was supporting a number of schools in the Middle East financially. The principal one was the Evelina de Rothschild School in Jerusalem, but schools in Baghdad, Basra, Hillah, Bombay, Damascas, Haifa, Hamadan, Ispahan and Tel-Aviv were also included.
The annual survey of the position of Jews abroad tells the story of the Nazi extermination, to the extent that it was known in 1944.
Jewish Miscellanies 