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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.
イギリス植民地省文書群CO 129の記録から読み取れる第二次大戦前までの初期香港史を香港大学教授ジョン・M・キャロルが解説します。