ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
ACWA Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Ambijan American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan
Artef (Yiddish) Workers Theater Group (Arbeter Teater Farband)
Comintern Communist (Third) International
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CPUSA Communist Party of the United States of America
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
GEZERD (Yiddish) Association for the Settlement of Jewish Toilers on the Land (Alfarbandishe Gezelshaft farn Aynordenen Oyf Erd Arbetndike Yidn)
ICOR (Yiddish) Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union (Gezelshaft far Yidishe Kolonizatsye in Ratn- Farband)
ILGWU International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
ITO (Yiddish) Jewish Territorialist Organization (Yidishe Teritorialistishe Organizatsye)
IWO International Workers Order (Internatsyonaler Arbeter Ordn)
JAFC Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the Soviet Union (Yevreysky Antifashistsky Komitet)
JAR Jewish Autonomous Region
JPC Jewish Peoples Committee
Joint American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
JPFO Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (Yidishn Fraternaln Folks-ordn)
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KOMERD (Yiddish) Committee for the Settlement of Jewish Toilers on the Land (Komitet farn Aynordenen Oyf Erd Arbetndike Yidn)
KOMZET (Russian) Committee for the Settlement of Jewish Toilers on the Land (Komitet po Zemel’nomu Ustroistvu Trudyaschikhsya Evre’ev)
ORT World Union of Societies for Promotion of Artisanal and Agricultural Work Among the Jews (World ORT Union)
OZET (Russian) Association for the Settlement of Jewish Toilers on the Land (Obschestvennyi Komitet po Zemel’nomy Ustroistvu Evreiskikh Trudyaschikhsya)
Proletpen (Yiddish) Proletarian Writers Union (Proletarisher Shrayber Fareyn)
UJA United Jewish Appeal
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
WC Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring)
Yevsektsiya (Russian) Jewish Section of the Soviet Communist Party (Yevreyskaya Sektsiya)
YKUF World Jewish Cultural Union (Alveltlekher Yidisher Kultur Farband)
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