They said what?

Public opinion can often be hard to analyze because there are always multiple points of views. Do to this we have to evaluate general trends. I read the all of the articles in the Northern Arizona University paper that corresponded with opinions towards Jews. From 1933 to 1955 public opinion drastically changed. First I recorded the amount of articles that mentioned one of the following key words: Jew, Jewish, Jews, Israel, Poland, Zion, Palestine, Hitler, Nuremburg, Nazi, Draft, Selective service, Judaism, Yom Kippur, Kosher, Chanukah (various spellings), Bris (various spellings), Bar Mitzvah, Purim, Passover, Seder, Shabbes (various spellings), and Shul. With these key words we were able to find articles that discussed public opinion towards Jews.The results are illustrated in the graph below.

The most surprising results showed a drop in talking about opinion from 1940 to 1941. I found this alarming because this is at the very beginning of World War 2. Along with shifts in occurrences of key word mentions, the shift of public opinion was greatly altered. Throughout the 1930s and a majority of the 1940s Jews were often blamed for the events that were occurring; one article even claims that the Jews were just lying to get attention. This article was published in March of 1933. As time progressed opinions slowly changed to recognize what was truly happening in Europe. In 1951 a program was created called Brotherhood Week. This program was created by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. A couple of weeks of the year they put on Brotherhood Week which puts on events to encourage the acceptance of those from every religion, especially Jews. From 1933 to 1955 public opinion from Jews shifted from blaming them and persecuting them to holding events to promote unity between students.






(First article mentioned on the right, Brotherhood article below.)








The things that people will believe and promote can be unbelievable. I encourage you to do a lot of research before you decide to choose a stance on a situation. If you are educated we can make sure a event like the Holocaust never happens again.