Call Number:

CDG-A.Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation.West Bank and Gaza

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

1 linear ft. (1 linear ft.)

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: [Identification of item] in the Jewish Women's Committee To End the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Records (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Date:

1988-1993 (inclusive)

Creator:

Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza

Abstract:

This small collection documents the efforts of the JWCEO to highlight the need for freedom in Palestine from Israeli occupation.

Founded in April 1988 by Clare Kinberg, Irena Kelpfisz and Gracy Paley in New York City. Women of the JWCEO held weekly vigils outside major American Jewish organizations to show that there was not unanimous support in the American Jewish community for the Israeli government's policies in the West Bank and Gaza. JWCEO was associated with the Israel Women's Alliance Against the Occupation, and with Women In Black.

This small collection includes correspondence, programmatic material, financial records, photographs, audiovisual material, photographs, and reference material. Because more donations of records were expected, the collection designation was originally DG 179. This was eventually revoked and the collection became a collected document group (CDGA).

Material is arranged chronologically, first by items that featured programmatic efforts, and then within their financial records. At the end is filed miscellaneous reference material by/about Israeli and Palestinian women, especially related to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.