The Needs of a Community

Publication Date: April 1914

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Research Area: Banking and finance; Social conditions

Keywords: communal organization; social services; policy

Type: Other

Coverage: New York

Abstract:

Jewish communal thinkers and leaders discuss what they believe are the urgent social needs of the New York Jewish community. They address a broad range of needs, touching on administrative issues, such as the development of a bureau that can research and report on the status of the community, on financial questions, such as a means to generate and disburse a stable income to charitable societies, philosophical issues, such as a change in philanthropic perspective away from classifying the poor as either worthy or unworthy, and more.

In Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities 1913-1914, Baltimore, Vol.IV:9, ed. Lee F. Frankel.