Isobel Pocock, “The People's House” (Postcard, The Suffrage Postcard Project)
Isobel Pocock, “The People's House,” The Suffrage Postcard Project, accessed October 21, 2019, https://thesuffragepostcardproject.omeka.net/items/show/336.
On several occasions, the JSA or other Jewish student organizations would screen movies about Israel. Although there was occasional pushback from progressive political student groups, many students were in favor of these films, and also supported other Zionist activities on campus.
For a brief period, a group of Johns Hopkins students published a paper titled Israel Weekly Perspective. The paper mostly consisted of photocopied article clippings, and likely circulated around the campus's Jewish population. The paper was one of several initiatives by interest groups of Jewish students, along with partnerships with AIPAC and ZOA and a group called the Hopkins Jewish League, during this period designed to incrase pro-Israel sentiment on campus.
JHU Archives RG 14.170 b.1 Jewish Student Association: Broadsides and Posters, 1981-83
1 photograph (copy print) : gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in. Cropped from unknown group photograph
Six events were listed on the Jewish Awareness Week flyer, suggesting that although there was a large Jewish presence on campus, many Jews were not affiliated with Jewish student groups. The types of events make it likely that this week was designed to engage other Jewish students, rather than to teach non-Jews about Judaism.
JHU Archives RG 14.170 b.1 Jewish Student Association 1976-81
This represents a rough charting of the Jewish percentage of Johns Hopkins undergraduates. This should not be considered definitive, as there are approximately 12 data points. Yet these data points seem exemplary and can be used to give an idea of the statistical basis.
chart created using data from: JHU Archives RG 13.030 box 3 Office of the Chaplain series 2 Johns Hopkins Y News 1934 Hullabaloo, ed., Hammond et. al. (Baltimore, 1914): 40, 42. News-Letter 15:5 (Nov., 1912): 4. ibid., 28:8 (Oct., 1923). Jason Kalman, "Dark Places Around the Unversity: The Johns Hopkins University Admissions Quota and the Jewish Community, 1945-1951," in Hebrew Union College Annual 81 (2010):233-79. Interview with Gail Kaden, July, 7, 2017. Interview with Heinan Landa, July, 25, 2017. The Hillel Guide to Jewish Life on Campus, ed., Ruth Fredman Cernea and Jeff Rubin, 14th Ed. (New York: Random House, 1999):110. "FAQs" Hopkins Hillel, http://hopkinshillel.org/about-us/faqs/