Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief: An Introduction to and Overview of Its First Ten Years
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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