Conference on Jewish Social Studies

The Conference on Jewish Social Studies was established in 1933 as the Conference on Jewish Relations by Salo W. Baron and Morris Raphael Cohen.{{Cite book |last=Konvitz |first=Milton R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=55GcJzawkkUC&pg=PA23 |title=Nine American Jewish Thinkers |publisher=Transaction Publishers |isbn=978-1-4128-2977-9 |page=23}} Baron was chairman from 1933 till 1988.{{Cite book |last=Edelheit |first=Abraham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nulgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA361 |title=History Of The Holocaust: A Handbook And Dictionary |date=2018-10-08 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-96228-8 |page=361}} The immediate issue was facing rapidly spreading Nazi world propaganda with its fabrications and falsehoods. In addition, it aimed to get a fuller picture about Jewish population, economics, and various aspects of Jewish life.

In 1936, Albert Einstein presided over the conference.{{Cite book |last=Gallas |first=Elisabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i5JzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 |title=A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust |date=2019-04-30 |publisher=New York University Press |isbn=978-1-4798-0987-5 |page=76}}

Among the sponsored projects by the conference was the quarterly journal Jewish Social Studies, which began being published regularly from January 1939.{{Cite web |title=Conference on Jewish Social Studies |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/conference-jewish-social-studies |access-date=2021-01-13| website=www.encyclopedia.com}}

In 1955 the conference obtained its present title.{{Cite book |last=Valman |first=Nadia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4H2QBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT82 |title=The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures |last2=Roth |first2=Laurence |date=2017-07-14 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-04854-9}} It was active till 1988. Its journal continues and is currently published by Indiana University Press.{{Cite web |title=Jewish Social Studies |url=https://lib.ugent.be/en/catalog/ejn01:954928372940 |access-date=2021-01-13 |website=lib.ugent.be}}{{Project MUSE|105|type=journal}}{{Cite web |title=Jewish Social Studies on JSTOR |url=https://www.jstor.org/journal/jewisocistud|access-date=2021-01-03 |website=www.jstor.org}})