Hillel was created in 1923 at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign and adopted by B'nai B'rith the following year,
enabling Hillel to grow into the world’s largest Jewish campus
organization. Hillel has experienced the seismic events of the
last 85 years: the Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the
creation of the State of Israel, the Vietnam War, the Civil
Rights era, the liberation of Soviet Jewry and so much more.
Hillel is pleased to make the following documents available that
help to illustrate our growth and evolution. [All require Adobe
Acrobat Reader version 4.0 or higher.] The Road to Renaissance.
An overview of Hillel's history from its birth through 2002. DC.
The Road to Renaissance (PDF File 504Kb) Statistics of the Jews,
1918-1919. (PDF File 540Kb) The 1920-1921 American Jewish Year
Book, a publication of the American Jewish Committee, reports on
Jewish life on campus in 1918, before the creation of Hillel.
Scroll down the document to page 383 to find the campus
statistics. Wisconsin