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An essay introducing part four of the acclaimed series within Gale Primary Sources
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The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (CBF)...was founded in the early months of 1933 by a group of Anglo-Jewish communal leaders who represented the breadth of the liturgical spectrum and who held widely diverse political loyalties.
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