Child and Youth Welfare – Volume of Issues – Published by the Jewish National Council, 1942-1943

Child and Youth Welfare – Volume of Issues – Published by the Jewish National Council, 1942-1943
Child and Youth Welfare, issues 1-10 and an annual report. Jerusalem: The Child and Youth Welfare Organization, Jewish National Council, 1942-1943.
The Child and Youth Welfare Organization was established by the initiative of Henrietta Szold in 1941, to facilitate for the Jewish National Council "the duties involved in caring for the Jewish child and youth in Palestine" (from the statute of the organization). Alongside its extensive activity – assisting in the establishment of educational institutions, gathering statistical information about the children of the Yishuv, promoting legislation pertaining to children, and more, the organization published a journal with a variety of articles, statistical data and educational curricula.
The present volume contains the first ten issues of the journal (mimeographed): issues 1-10 (in nine booklets, one of them double) and a report about the activity of the organization in its first year. The articles include: "Methods of Youth Care in Palestine", "Children in Court", "Delinquency and Illiteracy", "Birth-rate in Palestine", "Girls at Work", "Vocational Training in Palestine" and more.
Bound with the booklet "The Child and Youth Welfare Organization by the Jewish National Council, the Goal, Statute and Trusteeship Document" (Jerusalem, 1942).
Number of pages varies, 20 cm. Good condition. Bound with the original covers (additional English titles). Blemishes and minor stains. Notations to several covers. Hard binding with gilt lettering to spine, blemished and slightly worn.