"Yeshiva bochers"

These Yeshivah students study at an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (“the Joint”) supported religious school in Warsaw. World War I and its disruptive aftermath threatened the survival of the many religious, educational, and cultural institutions that prior to the war had made Poland one of the most important centers of Jewish scholarship, learning, and culture. In the interwar period, the Joint, played a vital role in restoring and helping to support Jewish schools and institutions, working in partnership with the wide spectrum of Jewish groups and ideologies: Hasidic groups, Zionists, Bundists, Yiddishists, and representatives of mainstream Orthodoxy, ensuring that Jewish education was available for all.