Jewish Social Studies is a quarterly
U.S.
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based journal.
It was established in 1939, by the
Conference on Jewish Relations The Conference on Jewish Social Studies was established in 1933 as the Conference on Jewish Relations by Salo W. Baron and Morris Raphael Cohen. Baron was chairman from 1933 till 1988. The immediate issue was facing rapidly spreading Nazi world p ...
, later known as the Conference on Jewish Social Studies. Its editor was the American philosopher
Morris Raphael Cohen
Morris Raphael Cohen ( be, Мо́рыс Рафаэ́ль Ко́эн; July 25, 1880 – January 28, 1947) was an American philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. This union co ...
. In the early 1970s,
Arthur Hertzberg was editor; his motto was "we are universalists and particularists", caring for all men and caring for Jews.
The journal is currently published by
Indiana University Press.
See also
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Sociology of Jewry
The sociology of Jewry involves the application of sociological theory and method to the study of the Jewish people and the Jewish religion. Sociologists are concerned with the social patterns within Jewish groups and communities; American Jewry ...
References
Publications established in 1939
Indiana University Press academic journals
Judaic studies journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Sociology of Jewry
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