The Big Brother Movement

Publication Date: February 1915

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s):

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Youth; Social Services; Volunteerism

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author explains the slowness of the Jewish community in responding to the problem of delinquency among Jewish youth as a result of its tendency to deny the existence of the problem among Jews or the desire to treat it as a general or non-Jewish issue. The Big Brother movement will show that it is possible, through personal effort and work, to help young people, one at a time, to get or stay on a right path.

Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, 5:7