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Detroiter's Study of Prejudices

Jerome Himelhoch Warns
Of U .S. POtential for Fascism
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Friday, March 28, 1947

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Saul K. Padover, polit ic al
analyist and editorial writer for
Declares in Significant Article. in Commentary Magazine PM, will speak on "The Crisis in
Greece," under the auspices of the
That Long-Run Problem Is to Modify Our Institutions
Michigan Citizens' Committee at
8:15 p. m. Wednesday, April 2, at
to Produce 'Secure and Loving Personalities'
the downtown YWCA, Witherell
Alnost significant study of prejudices, under the title "Is at Montcalm.
There a Bigot Personality: A Report on Some Preliminary
A former Detroiter and grad-
Studies," by -Jerome Himelhoch, son of Israel Himelhoch of uate of Wayne University, Pad-
Detroit, is featured in the current issue of Commentary, the over was stationed in Europe
monthly literary magazine published by the American Jewish, throughout the war as an officer
in the department of psychological
Committee.
warfare of the OSS. His many
Reviewing the most authorita-
contacts in Europe today give him
tive studies recently concluded
up-to-the-minute information on
by outstanding social scientists,
the Greek situation.
Mr. Himelhoch arrives at some
The •public is invited to hear
very definite conclusions. He
Padover's analysis.
warns that—
"American culture, by cre-
Anti-Semitic Demonstrations
ating personalities that need
Held in Slovakian Cities
race prejudice in order to
BRATISLAVA (JTA) — Anti-
maintain their psychic balance,
Semitic demonstrations in sup-
has created an enormous po-
of Josef Tiso, former head of the
tential for fascism.
pro-Nzi puppet Slovak govern-,
By and large, social condi-
merit, whose trial on war crimi:-
tions and tactics of leadership
nal charges ended last week, took
will determine whether preju-
place here and at Piestany, about
dice will become sufficiently
50 miles northeast of the capital.
'salient' to come out of the club
and ._go into the streets. The
immedate problem, then, for
ough study "Is There a Bigot
democrats is to produce social
Personalityr, in the following
conditions and political leader-
note:
ship that minimize the promi-
"Those concerned with the
nence of the prejudice pattern
problem of race hatred have been
and maximize the prominence
turning increasingly to the fields
of the equalitarian pattern in
of psychology, psychiatry. and
JEROME HIIVIELHOCH
the personalities of Americans.
psychoanalysis for light. It has
For the last five yers there were fewer
The long-run problem is to
Sanford. The conclusions in this become recognized that along
modify our institutions, partic-
study were arrived at from a with political, social, and eco-
styles and a smaller variety of colors in
ularly our child-rearing insti-
-questionnaire among 216 college nomic factors, we need to know
tutions, the home and the
women and a smaller number of the psychological patterns and
Dobbs hats—But under no condition did
school, in such a manner that
male students at the University inner motivations of the preju-
secure and loving, rather than
of California. Mr. Himelhoch diced human being. This month
you
find less hat. The Dobbs credo is
insecure and hate-ridden, per-
comments on this study: '
this department ("The study of
sonalities are produced."
"The first results were in line Man"—a monthly Commentary
very simple: "Not how many but how well."
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with the conclusions of other section) reports on a number of
Mr. Himelhoch points out in tests: anti-Semitism, in this group, scientific studies aimed at dis-
TODAY we have plenty of Dobbs
his excellent study that "the fol- was part of a more general atti- covering the inner roots of' ha-
lowing would seem to be useful tude or reaction—'ethnocentrism'. tred, and at testing the hypothe-
hats in a large variety of shades, styles
working hypotheses in regard to Ethnocentric individuals indis- sis, now held quite widely, that
the causes and dynamics of prej- criminately include in their an- rejudice is only one expression
and sizes—And the -Dobbs hat you
udices in the individual in Amer- tagonism Negroes, foreigners, etc. of a certain type of personality.
ican society:
Furthermore, they tend to have
"Jerome Himelhoch, who here
buy
today is still all Dobbs.
"(1 ) The individual participates a conservative social and political attempts to translate the profes-
in a culture that has an estab- outlook . . . •
sional terminology of these stud-
lished pattern of prejudice against
"The root cause of race preju- ies into language understandable
•
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certain groups. But this culture dice in these girls . . . appears to the thoughtful layman, has
also contains the conflicting pat- to be their middle-class parents' taught sociology at Drew Uni-
tern of equality.
anxiety about status; anxiety versity and the University of
"(2)
A LARGE SELECTION OF LONG OVALS
The prejudice pattern, which is aggravated in times of Rochester. He has been a psy-
along with . the conflicting demo- social confusion and unrest."
chiatric social worker in the
cratic pattern, is transmitted to
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Army and a public-opinion poll
him by one or more of his pri-
In his comment on the study analyst for the American Jewish
mary groups, usually by his fam-
Some Roots of Prejudice" by Committee. He is now doing re-
ily.
Gordon W. Allport and Bernard search for a doctoral dissertation
"(3) He will tend to accept and M. Kramer, who tested 437 col- at Columbia University in the
1440 Washington Boulevard
maintain the prejudice pattern lege undergraduates from Dart- field of prejudice in minority
at the expense of the democratic mouth, Harvard and Radcliffe groups. Mr. Himelhoch was born
Chicago
Store: Michigan at 'Jackson Bird
pattern if he has certain person- with a "racial-awareness" rest in Detroit in 1916, is a graduate
ality tendencies for which preju- (the subject guesses whether per- of Harvard and has been a
dice provides an outlet and if sons in photographs are Jews or Rhodes scholar."
other, more satisfying, outlets are non-Jews), Mr. Himelhoch states: !
not provided.
"The 'racial awareness' tests !
"(4) Among these personality showed that prejudiced persons
tendencids there may be repressed not only judged more of the faces
hostility toward members of his to be Jewish but were more ac-
primary group, status anxiety, curate in actually picking out
authoritarian
'tendencies,
re- ' faces of Jews. Their prejudice,
pressed sexual wishes, and inse- the authors suggest, may have
curity arising from self-hate.
sensitized them to `Jewishness'.
"(5) His early family, school,
"One part of the test was de-
and clique experiences are most signed to test the 'frustration-
important in creating these per- aggression' theory of. prejudice
sonality tendencies, but they are referred to before. The authors
also influenced by adult experi 7 asked respondents to indicate to
ences.
what extent they felt they them-
"(6) Prejudice tends to be selves had been discriminated
strongest in those families and against because they were mem-
cultural groups in which the bers of minority groups, and dis-
child-rearing practices are such covered a slight tendency for
as to produce the prejudice-sup- those who felt themselves more
porting personality tendencies.
victimized to be more prejudiced.
"(7) Once prejudice is estab-
"Jews who felt they had been
lished. it is often reinforced by victims of discrimination were
its usefulness as a rationalization not only more prejudiced toward
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prestige gains at the expense of more anti-Semitic items. This is
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subordinate ethnic groups."
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lamps, tables, and many miscellaneous pieces are
gression' theory. But at the same
Asserting that "in digging down time many Jev:s who felt them-
here, at drastically reduced prices. Many are Boor
to the roots of prejudi. , social selves victimized also tended to
scientists have long been dissat- show strong sympathy for Ne-
samples, most are one-of-a-kind, all are of de-
isfied with the conception of the groes. In other words, the Jews
individual as a bundle of sep- that felt themselves victimized
pendable Robinson quality. Plan now to come to
arate likes and dislikes," Mr. concentrate around the extremes
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of
prejudice
and
tolerance.
Himelhoch states:
"But the fact that Jews in gen-
"It .is fairly common knowl-
eral, in this and other tests, have
edge that if a person is anti-
less ethnic prejudice than , any
Jewish or anti-Negro, he is
other religious group shows that
usually both. Indeed, experi-
identification with the oppressed,
ence indicates, such people hate
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Hi3 study includes an evalua- tion."
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tion of the essay "The Anti-
The editors of Commentary re-
Semitic Personality" by Else
Prenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt fer to Mr. Himelhoch's very thor-

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