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Three Rare Historical Studies of Jewish Students Available on Hillel Web Site
February 10, 2009Comments (0) | Add | E-mail this to a friend
Hillel Offers 85 Years of Jewish Student Life Online
Three documents that provide detailed statistical information on Jewish college students from the 1930s through the 1960s are available for the first time on Hillel’s Web site, www.hillel.org/history. Hillel has added these rare items to a unique online collection of Hillel documents in honor of the organization’s 85th anniversary.
The three studies, prepared by Hillel’s Research Bureau between 1936 and 1963, report on Jewish student populations by region, gender, type of school and discipline. They chart the growth of Jewish students in higher education from 100,000 in 1935 to 275,000 in 1963. They will prove fascinating reading for those interested in American Jewish history and higher education.
The documents are:
“The Jewish Student in America,” (1937) by Dr. Lee Levinger, statistics and analysis of the 1935 study of Jewish student enrollments in 1,400 institutions of higher learning in the United States. The document reveals that 105,000 “Jews and Jewesses” are on college campuses, comprising 8.8 percent of the general student body, or three times the Jewish proportion of the American population at large.
“Two Hundred Thousand Jewish Collegians,” (1948) by Robert Shosteck, a report on the 1946 decennial census of Jewish college students providing the enrollment statistics of Jewish students in 1,554 of 1,633 institutions of higher learning. This work updates the 1935 study. While Jewish student enrollment nearly doubled from the 1925 survey to 192,476, the proportion of the overall student population remained virtually the same at 9 percent.
“Jewish Students and Student Services at American Universities,” (1963) by Alfred Jospe, a statistical and historical study which updates the 1935, 1946 and 1955 reports. A total of 275,000 Jewish students were estimated on college campuses.
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