American Decades
"The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism"
Magazine article
By: Alvin Johnson
Date: February 1939
Source: Johnson, Alvin. "The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism." Survey Graphic, February 1939. Available online at http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/39a01.htm; website home page: http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed February 11, 2002).
About the Author: Alvin Saunders Johnson (1874–1971) was born in Homer, Nebraska. He earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1902 and then taught at several universities. In 1917 Johnson was appointed editor of the magazine The New Republic. He remained editor until 1923, when he assumed the directorship of the New School for Social Research in New York City. There, during the 1930s, he provided a home for refugee scholars from Nazi Germany.
Introduction
Very much concerned about the...
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1930's Religion Primary Sources
- Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education
- Casti Connubii
- Roosevelt and/or Ruin
- Letter to the Nation's Clergy and Their Responses
- "Pacifism"
- Divini Redemptoris
- "The Guiding Principles of Reform Judaism"
- "Civilizations Have Perished"
- "Coughlin, the Jews, and Communism"
- Federal Writers' Project Interviews on Religion
- A Guide to Understanding the Bible
- "The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism"
- "This Is My Task"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
