The East Side Forum

Publication Date: July 1915

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Jacob N. Sokohl

Research Area: Education

Keywords: Culture; American Jews; Communal Organization

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author describes the most recent East Side Forum, a series of meetings and events attended by over thirty-thousand people. Speakers included the superintendent of banks, in response to bank failures, and other important political and economic figures. A series of classes connected to the Forum and under the charge of instructors from the College of the City of New York give promise to increased educational opportunities, including the possibility of the creation of a “people’s university” affiliated with the City College.

Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, 5:12