Abel Wolman noting Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur
Abel Wolman ('13) during his professional career notes in his diary Rosh Hashanah (on an earlier page) and Yom Kippur, indicating his taking those days off. There is no mention of other holidays (except Passover in some years) or of taking Friday evenings or Saturday off. This is likely a similar level of observance to many of his peers in the early stages of the University.
JHU Archives MS 105 Series 1 b1.1a Abel Wolman appointment diary 1941
By 1943, there was clearly enough interest in Jewish services that the YMCA facilitated Friday night services for those service men who could not go on Saturday. This suggests that there was a moderate level of observance-- students who would go to services weekly, but who did not have an objection to working on Shabbat. It should be noted that this took place during Bowman's Jewish quotas (see footnote 14).
The YMCA handbook listed these synagogues, as well as several others over the following years, as resources where Jewish students could turn. In many instances they did, with several meetings of the Menorah and Zionist Societies taking place in the Madison Avenue Temple or Chizuk Amuno.
JHU Archives RG 13.030 YMCA Office of the Chaplain Handbooks- Handbook 16
AEPi, after several years of inactivity, was revamped in 1986 and later again in the late 1990s. They have sponsor challah bakings, barbecues, Hillel social events, and other activities for the Jewish community.
Hullabaloo ed., Austrian et. al. (Baltimore, 1988):229.
This picture was taken during one of the heights of Jewish fraternal life. Fraternities grew after the Bowman quotas, and these were the locations in which Jews gathered to experience college life.
Hullabaloo ed., Croner and Gutman, et. al. (Baltimore, 1954):132.
Pictured are selections from the Sonneborn Collection, currently located at Johns Hopkins Hillel. The Sonneborn Collection, donated in 1901, was perhaps the first University collection of "Jewish ceremonial objects"16. It was matched by "no doubt the largest number of students of all Semitic departments in this country," and was aided by several other Hopkins Jewish libraries.17
Personal photograph of Michael Anfang ('19)
An image of a student flyer organizing a campus boycott in response to bombings in Cambodia.
Gail Kaden, interview with curator, July, 7, 2017
Johns Hopkins Oral History Project, Arthur Sarnoff, interview by Jennifer Kinniff, March 27, 2015