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Conference on Jewish Social Studies

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The Conference on Jewish Social Studies was an American educational association created to under the role of Jews in the modern world.[1][2]

The conference was first conceived of in April 1933 as the Conference on Jewish Relations by Salo W. Baron and Morris Raphael Cohen.[3] Cohen was leader of the organization until his retirement in 1941 or 1942, when Baron replaced him.[4] Its primary goal was distributing information about modern Jewish life to counter spreading Nazi propaganda and rising antisemitism in the United States.[5] In addition, it aimed to get a fuller picture about Jewish population, economics, and various aspects of Jewish life.[6] The first conference meeting was held in 1936, with Albert Einstein presiding over the conference.[6][7] The organization was incorporated in New York later that year.[8]

The organization is best known for its quarterly journal Jewish Social Studies, which began regular publication in January 1939[6][8] with editing led by Cohen.[9] In 1944, the conference created the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (later renamed Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc.), an organization which aimed to recover and distribute property of Jews which was looted by Nazis.[5][6][10]

In 1955 the conference obtained its present title.[11] It was active until 1988.[1] Its journal continues and is currently published by Indiana University Press.[12][13][14]

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  1. 1 2 Edelheit, Abraham (2018-10-08). History Of The Holocaust: A Handbook And Dictionary. Routledge. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-429-96228-8.
  2. ↑ "Jewish National Organizations in the United States". The American Jewish Year Book. 44: 369. 1942. ISSN 0065-8987.
  3. ↑ Konvitz, Milton R. Nine American Jewish Thinkers. Transaction Publishers. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-4128-2977-9.
  4. ↑ Rosenstein, David (1955). "The Conference on Jewish Relations an Appraisal by a Participant". Jewish Social Studies. 17 (3): 239–241. ISSN 0021-6704.
  5. 1 2 "The Rebbe and the Professor". Jewish Review of Books. 2018-09-14. Retrieved 2026-04-19.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Conference on Jewish Social Studies". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
  7. ↑ Gallas, Elisabeth (2019-04-30). A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust. New York University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-4798-0987-5.
  8. 1 2 Baron, Salo W. (1974). "The Journal and the Conference of Jewish Social Studies". In Duker, Abraham G.; Ben-Horin, Meir (eds.). Emancipation and Counter-Emancipation: Selected Essays from Jewish Social Studies. New York: Ktav Publishing House. pp. 1–11.
  9. ↑ "Morris Raphael Cohen". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2026-04-19.
  10. ↑ "Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc.: Records". The EHRI Portal. Retrieved 2026-04-19.
  11. ↑ Valman, Nadia; Roth, Laurence (2017-07-14). The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-04854-9.
  12. ↑ "Jewish Social Studies". lib.ugent.be. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
  13. ↑ Project MUSE journal 105
  14. ↑ "Jewish Social Studies on JSTOR". www.jstor.org. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
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