Founded:

September 11, 1891

Organization created by Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural settlements on lands purchased by the committee in North America (Canada and the United States), South America (Argentina and Brazil) and Ottoman Palestine.

Mentioned in

• Cyprus: A Temporary Refuge for German-Speaking Jews (Yossi Ben-Artzi)