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The Jewish Board: 150 Years of Care
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  • 150 YEARS
    OF CARING
  • 1870s-1930s

    Helping Hands,
    Not Bootstraps

    Worthy and
    Unworthy
    Deserted Family:
    A Story
  • 1930s-1970s

    Architects
    of Care

  • 1970s-Present

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1930s - 1970s

Architects of Care

The mid-twentieth century was an era of dramatic social, political, and scientific change. Explore the clinical contributions of the Jewish Board’s leaders at a time when ideas about child development, the role of the family, and human nature were evolving like never before.

  • People 8
  • Ideas 4
  • Multimedia Archive 38
1928-1938

A New Paradigm: Child Guidance Movement 

The Jewish Board of Guardians’ Child Guidance Clinic, established in 1926, was one of the earliest of its kind in the United States.

1937-1945

Rise of Nazism and the Jewish Psychoanalytic Émigré

Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, riding the wave of antisemitic, white supremacist, and pro-fascist public sentiment he and the Nazi party had been provoking since Germany lost WWI.

1930s-1950s

The Authority of Social Work 

At the beginning of the 20th century in the United States, social work emerged as a formal profession with roots in the settlement house movement and charitable organizations.

1947-1960

The Cold War & The Golden Age of Psychiatry 

World War II profoundly impacted the practice of psychiatry in the US and Allied countries.

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Project Historians

  • Gavin Beinart-Smollan, M.A.
  • Julia Thomas, M.A.
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Academic
Advisory Board

  • Dr. Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History (Emerita), New York University
  • Dr. Deborah Doroshow, Associate Professor of Medicine, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai; Adjunct Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
  • Dr. Annette Igra, Professor of History, Carleton College
  • Dr. Regina Kunzel, Larned Professor of History and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
  • Dr. Kim Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History, Columbia University

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  • Alison Cornyn,
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