Jewish Colonization Association

The Jewish Colonization Association ( Abbr: JCA, including: ICA) was founded on September 11, 1891 by Baron Maurice de Hirsch as a limited company under English law. Its first president was Narcisse Leven.

The aim of the ICA was to support the emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by being settled in agricultural colonies whose land had been previously purchased by the JCA, especially in North and South America ( Argentina, Argentina 21 were agricultural colonies formed ).

In January 1900 Baron Edmond Rothschild about the JCA was in charge of his villages in Palestine. This was the time of his direct guardianship of the settlements to the end. The driving force in Palestine since 1901, the JCA 's Director of Lower Galilee, the Zionist Chaim Klovrisky - Margalit.

1924 founded by Baron Rothschild settlement works were transferred as PICA ( Palestine Jewish Colonization Association) in the JCA. 1927 went to the JCA in the HICEM.

HICEM was founded in 1927, Jewish emigration charity ( as an association of HIAS = Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, ICA and EMIGDIRECT = Emigrationsdirectorium ), headquartered in Paris ( until 1940), then to resolution 1945 in New York ( acquisition of capital and tasks by HIAS ).