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Glossary Term – Organization

War Refugee Board

President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board in January 1944 to rescue victims of Nazi persecution.

Teaching Resource

Jewish Immigration, Popular Culture, and the Birth of the Comic Book

Background

The study of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries goes beyond the study of the ethnic make-up of the immigrants of this era, the challenges and hardships they encountered in the United States, and their place in urban and/or labor history. While each of those areas of immigration history holds an important place in any study of the twentieth century, these immigrants also made a significant contribution to the emerging twentieth century popular culture. Using the classroom as an historical...