Pine, Max, 1866-1928

The records of the People's Relief Committee for Jewish War Sufferers consist of correspondence with Jewish communities and relief organizations in Europe, Palestine, Cuba, South America, the United States, and Canada; as well as scrapbooks containing U.S. and Canadian Yiddish and English newspaper clippings and printed promotional literature pertaining to the fundraising activities of the People's Relief Committee in North America and abroad.

This collection contains materials related to the relief activities of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Europe in 1919. These include cables and other communications to the American Relief Administration, as well as to Sholom Asch, Jacob Billikopf, Morris Engelman, Max Pine, Lewis Strauss and Baruch Zuckerman.

The collection contains letters, clippings, photographs, telegrams, and reports that relate to both Max Pine’s personal life as well as his legacy as a prominent labor leader with the United Hebrew Trades. Correspondence includes family letters but also letters to Pine from notable figures like Samuel Gompers, Adolph Held, Abraham Cahan, and Joseph Barondess, Israel Friedlander, Maurice Schwartz, Benjamin Schlessinger, A. Back, Leon Arkin, J. Panken, A. I. Shiplacoff, Mark Khinoy, A. Liessin, Rose Asch, D. Shub, B. Feidenbaum, M. Zametkin, Isaac Hamlin, Paul Baerwald, Herbert H. Lehman, and Norman Thomas. Reports, letters and memorandums discuss his work with the American Joint Distribution Committee, which culminated in a relief work trip to Soviet Russia with Judge Harry Fisher in the 1920s to assist Jews experiencing religious prosecution and includes English copies of resolutions passed at a 1920s Meeting of Representative Jews in Odessa, Kiev, and Moscow. Photographs and editions of publications released by the Histadrut track his work with the labor movement in Palestine and the building of the Max Pine Trade School in Tel Aviv. Collection also includes one large oil painting of Pine.