Responsibilities of the Jewish Center and Jewish Center Worker

Publication Date: December 1956

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Bernard Shiffman

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Community Centers; Social Services; Professionalism

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author examines the responsibilities of Jewish community centers and center workers. He outlines the origins of the Jewish center movement, the nature of the institution, the settings in which centers operate, the types of personnel who operate there, the clients being targeted and the manner in which Jewish centers are financed.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, ed. by Sanford Sherman, v.33, no.2, Winter 1956, p.153-160.