Personal experience of Church-managed elementary schools, and attitudes to their take-over by local authorities; attitudes to the Sunday opening of theatres; estimates of the number of British and refugee Jews, and perceived levels of anti-Semitism (2494)

Type of Data: Personal experience of Church-managed elementary schools, and attitudes to their take-over by local authorities; attitudes to the Sunday opening of theatres; estimates of the number of British and refugee Jews, and perceived levels of anti-Semitism (2494)

Faith Community: General, Christianity, Judaism

Date: 1943, January

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 1996

Population: Adults aged 21 and over

Keywords: Anti-Jewish feeling, anti-Semitism, church schools, elementary schools, faith schools, Jews, local authorities, prejudice, refugees, religious education, Sunday, theatres

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: British Institute of Public Opinion. BIPO was established by George Gallup in 1936 to run the British Gallup Poll

Sponsor: News Chronicle

Published Source:

The National Archives, Inf. 1/292, Part 3, fos. 214, 223, 'Ministry of Information Home Intelligence Weekly Report', No. 124, 18 February 1943, No. 125, 25 February 1943

News Chronicle, 20 March 1943

Mildred Strunk, Public Opinion, 1935-1946, ed. Albert Hadley Cantril, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, p. 381

Hans Jürgen Eysenck, The Psychology of Politics, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954, pp. 33-4

The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain, 1937-1975, ed. George Horace Gallup, 2 vol., New York: Random House, 1976, Vol. 1, p. 71

BRIN ID: 2494

Remarks:

Dataset available at ESDS as SN 2042 and SN 3331 and at the Roper Center as GBBIPO43-095

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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