The Conference on Jewish Social Studies was established in 1933 as the Conference on Jewish Relations by Salo W. Baron and Morris Raphael Cohen.
[2] The immediate issue was facing rapidly spreading Nazi world propaganda with its fabrications and falsehoods.
In addition, it aimed to get a fuller picture about Jewish population, economics, and various aspects of Jewish life.
[3][4] Among the sponsored projects by the conference was the quarterly journal Jewish Social Studies, which began being published regularly from January 1939.
[2] Its journal continues and is currently published by Indiana University Press.