The American Joint Distribution Committee is formed after Henry Morgenthau, then United States Ambassador to Turkey, cables Louis Marshall and Jacob H. Schiff in New York requesting $50,000 to save the Palestinian Jews (then under Turkish rule) from starvation in the fall of 1914. By November, the funds are raised, and JDC is formed to distribute them to needy Jews in Palestine and war-torn Europe.
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