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Go to the office of the Jewish welfare fund and secure
whatever material it has on the different local, national, and
overseas funds and movements to which it contributes. If
you have a Community Council in your town, it will have
additional information on the local groups, and no doubt in
its offices you will also find housed the Community Relations
Committee which handles all matters of civic protection.
The local B'nai B'rith lodge will also have an Anti-Defama-
tion League Committee which works along similar lines.
The civic protection organizations will have much of value
to give you on the problems of anti-Semitism and economic
discrimination, on interfaith relations, and on the climate
of opinion insofar as it affects the Jew.
In every large community there are local branches of
most national Jewish organizations. Either they or their
national headquarters can be of service in supplying infor-
mation that will serve your purpose.
If yours is a small community, there is no reason why
you cannot have a detailed survey made of it as it is today.
There are a number of national organizations that will send
you samples of survey questionnaires and will tell you how
to proceed. For instance, you can write to the Conference
on Jewish Relations, the Jewish Occupational Council, the
American Association for Jewish Education, and the Coun-
cil of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. If you are in
doubt about the address of any of these societies, examine
the latest issue of the American Jewish Year Book, under
"National Jewish Organizations."
A great deal of work that you will want to do, you will
be happy to know, has already been done for you by the
United States government. In the thirties, during the depres-
sion, the Work Projects Administration (WPA) made a
Historical Records Survey which set out to collect and de-.9.
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Marcus, Jacob Rader, 1896-1995. How to Write the History of an American Jewish Community, pamphlet, 1964; Cincinnati, Ohio. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1436803/m1/11/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.