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title: 'The Jewish Welfare Board, United War Work Campaign (Yiddish: We Have Built Them a Home)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jewish-welfare-board-united-war-work-campaign-1918/
description: A soldier gestures toward a hut marked 'Jewish Welfare Building' as an older bearded man looks on, while soldiers write inside and a woman plays a piano
section: Collection
---

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# The Jewish Welfare Board, United War Work Campaign (Yiddish: We Have Built Them a Home)

A soldier gestures toward a hut marked 'Jewish Welfare Building' as an older bearded man looks on, while soldiers write inside and a woman plays a piano at the window. The Yiddish line reads 'We have built them a home.' The tell is the Yiddish text and the elder figure: community and family belonging is attached to a request to fund the camp hut.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English and Yiddish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
The Jewish Welfare Board
United War Work Campaign * Week of November 11,1918.

מיר האבען פאר זיי
א היים געבויט.

JEWISH WELFARE BUILDING

[seal: J.W.B.]

THE HEGEMAN PRINT N.Y.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The Jewish Welfare Board
United War Work Campaign * Week of November 11,1918.

We have built them a home.

JEWISH WELFARE BUILDING

[seal: J.W.B.]

THE HEGEMAN PRINT N.Y.
```

English headline and sign on the building, and the Yiddish line, read from the image; the imprint at lower right reads 'The Hegeman Print N.Y.'.

[← United States Food Administration General Orders for Public Eating-Places, Notice No. 3](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/food-administration-general-orders-public-eating-places-1918/) [Pershing on the YMCA: United War Work Campaign, November 11-18, 1918 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pershing-ymca-united-war-work-campaign-1918/)

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