Mandell L. Berman Institute North American Jewish Data Bank


Community Studies

A Comparative Study of the Jewish Communities of Norwich and New London, 1938

Sponsor
Conference on Jewish Relations (publisher)

Sophia M. Robison (editor) with the assistance of Joshua Starr.

Jewish Population Studies, Jewish Social Studies Publications, No. 3, 1943.

Principal Investigator
Bessie B. Wessel
Study Dates
1938
Study Notes
Monograph is a compilation of nine local Jewish population studies completed in the 1930's, many of which had been conducted by (or assisted by) the Conference on Jewish Relations.

Chapter 1 reviews the methods used for Jewish population estimates in these studies; it should be reviewed in conjunction with the local community study/studies being reviewed.

Chapter 2: Trenton, New Jersey, 1937; Chapter 3: Passaic, NJ, 1937; Chapter 4: Buffalo, NY 1938; Chapter 5: Buffalo, NY, 1938; Chapter 6: Norwich/New London, CT, 1938; Chapter 6: Pittsburgh, PA, 1938; Chapter 7, Detroit, MI, 1935; Chapter 8: Chicago, IL, 1930 based on death certificate analysis; Chapter 9: Minneapolis, MN, 1936; Chapter 10: San Francisco, CA, 1938.

The copy of the monograph available for scanning by the Data Bank in 2007 had many handwritten comments and "strike-through" lines. Despite these comments, etc., we believe that the reports have considerable historic value.

Downloadable Files

Survey Reports
Jewish Population Studies, Edited by Sophia Robinson, 1943 - Skip to Chap. 5 (PDF) - 5 MB
 
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