1930's Religion | "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.

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