Thirty Years of Professional Development in Jewish Community Relations

Publication Date: June 1982

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Walter A. Lurie

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Employment; Professionalism

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Editor's Note: As the following article makes clear, by its nature, community relations is practiced within and through agency structures. It is not a field for independent individual practice. The history of Jewish community relations from its start is inseparable from the history of sponsoring organizations—of national agencies and councils, local councils and federations, and, importantly, of the very Association of Jewish Community Relations Workers, the AJCRW, itself. This report, researched and written by Dr. Lurie, a past president of both the AJCRW and the Conference of Jewish Communal Service, is in its narrow sense a history of the AJCRW, but it is offered here because, more broadly, it also tells substantively the story of Jewish community relations developments of recent years.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 58:4.