Anti-Jewish Bias in Rural Area's
Pointed Up by Bnai Brith Survey
President Greets
ADL Convention
Michigan Jewry to Honor Williams,
Hart with .INF Forest in Israel
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The ac-
The Jewish National Fund A. Hart with a Forest in Israel
tivities of the Bnai Brith Anti- Council of Detroit announced will be put into action at a testi-
Defamation League were praised this week that its plan to honor monial dinner for the two state
by President Eisenhower in a. Governor G. Mennen Williams officials, Tuesday, June 21, at
message to the organization's and Lieutenant Governor Philip Latin Quarter.
42nd annual convention here.
Max Osnos and former U. S.
"All of us," the President said,
Senator Prentiss M. Brown have
"must strive to uphold the prin- Israel, Argentina Sign
accepted the co-chairmanship
giple of the value of the indivi- $3,000,000 Trade Pact of the sponsoring committee.
dual, to further understanding
It is hoped, the JNF Council
of minority groups, to help
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) --Israel stated, to plant 50,000 trees in
make the vision of brotherhood and Argentina signed a new this forest. Trees are planted at
a reality in our land."
trade agreement here calling for $1.50 each.
More than 700 Jewish com- a $3,000,000 exchange of goods.
The first trees in the projected
munal leaders participated in
Williams-Hart For e s t were
The
agreement
was
signed.
by
the four-day convention at
planted by Governor Williams
which important aspects of the Israel Ambassador Arieh Ku- last week, during his stay in Is-
bovy
and
Argentine
Foreign
fight against anti - Semitism
rael, in the Hills of Ephraim
and the protection of civil rights Minister Dr. Jeronimo Remorino, near Jerusalem. Herman Wouk,
in
the
presence
of
the
Israel
This self-identity does not were discussed.
Finance Minister Levi Eshkel author of "The Caine Mutiny,"
exclude them from the life of
Resorts and hotels which bar and four Argentine economic participated in the planting
the general community, ex-
Jews during the vacation sea- advisors.
ceremony and planted a tree in
cept in the area of "social
the Williams-Hart Forest in
relationships" with non-Jews son but seek their patronage
Under the terms of the new Honor of his son, Abraham
during the slack periods were
which remains on a. restricted
accord, Israel will make all
basis. Thus, the study dis- denounced as "dollar discrimina- payments in goods; under the Isaac.
by
Judge
David
A.
Rose,
of
tion"
closes, communities that score
former Israel-Argentine trade
low on social acceptability of Boston.
pact,
she paid 70 percent of her 10—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Arnold Forster, civil rights
Jews, score high on Jewish
Friday, May 6, 1955
bill
in
hard cash.
participation in community director of the League, listed
Maine and Florida as the two
affairs.
The "middle town" studies, states where resort discrimina-
HABONIM—LABOR ZIONIST YOUTH
directed by Dr. John F. Dean of tion is most flagrant. However,
invites the Community to Their
Cornell University, also re- in the State of Washington, said
16th
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Forster,
an
ADL
survey
shows
ported:
1. Jews in smaller communities are that not one of the state's prin-
in a sound economic position and there
Their findings disclosed
SHALOSHIA
relatively few areas of economic cipal vacation hotels practiced
that however extreme our are
life from which they are excluded. There religious discrimination.
gs — Dramatics — Dances
Son
rural notions of what Jews are exceptions: if, the town's economic
Philip Klutznick, Bnai Brith
SUNDAY, MAY 15th, at 8:15 P.M.
power rests in the hands of an historical-
are like, there is little active ly
entrenched old guard, Jewish partici- president and a delegate to the
CENTRAL HIGH AUDITORIUM
pation is almost non-existent in prom-
discrimination toward Jews
inent
locally-owned industries and in recent international conference
Tuxedo at Linwood
and fewer opportunities to
local banking, finance and law firms of non-governmental agencies
■1 1=1111 . 1,1111116.
express such hostility.
which draw their business from these
Also, there are few Jews in on the eradication of prejudice
This was not interpreted to industries.
the labor force and, therefore, few in and discrimination, held in Ge-
mean that a greater influx of labor union leadership.
2. Jews play a minor role- in local neva, reported that "it became
Jews in rural areas would result politics.
Here, the anti-Semitic factor is
in greater discrimination tow- not to be discounted in the party coun- evident there that good people
cils
that
select
candidates. Only when the were getting more worried about
ard them. Instead, Epstein, in his
Jewish population becomes large enough freedom of thought—discrimina-
report on the studies, character- are
these anti-Semitic tendencies out-
Don Frohman, Director
ized rural prejudice as "fear of weighed by practical political consider- tion and prejudice against a
ations.
man not because of his . race,
the unseen and unheard."
Yiddish, Modern Israeli, English Ballads,
3. Jews in small towns are more likely
to be "joiners." This was pointed up in creed or color, but because of his
Operetta, Opera and Oratorio
Person 26 to 4 1 Indulge
the sampling of an upstate New York thoughts and his views."
assisted by members of the
Least in Anti-Semitism
town where 90 percent belonged to some
Henry Edward Schultz, who
Another poll found rural organization. Contacts between Jews and
occur in lodge" /organizations was re - elected ADL' , national
dwellers in Southern and Mid- Gentiles
and civic, charitable and business groups.
On the whole, these contacts are pleasant chairman for a fourth term,
and comfortable, only occasionally dis- called for an "a t t a c k on the
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SUNDAY, MAY 15TH, 8:30 P.M.
are limited. Most Jews in "middle town"
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One conclusion of this study
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—The re-
sults of two long-term sociolo-
gical studies probing public ar,-
titudes toward Jews in rural
areas and in "middle towns"—
U. S. cities of 25,000 to 100,000
population — were released ;, by
Benjamin R.. Epstein, national
director of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, in con-
nection with the 42nd annual
meeting of ADL.
The two studies, each a con-
tinuing research project begun
several years ago, find that Jews
are successfully integrated in
the community life of smaller
urban areas — except on the
"social contact" level where dis-
crimination by Gentiles and
withdrawal by Jews remains an
accepted, if sensitive, practice.
But rural dwellers, with few
opportunities for face-to-face
contact, are much more unfav-
orably prejudiced and show a
widespread acceptace of com-
mon myths and stereotypes
about Jews.
The rural studies, subsidized
in part by ADL, were made at
Michigan State University where
they were directed by Drs. W. B.
Brookover and J. B. Holland of
the department of sociology
and anthropology.
west states more hostile than
those in the North and East.
This poll also showed that rural
anti-Semitism was least in-
dulged in by persons between 26
and 40 years of age.
The "middle town" studies of
s m a 11 e r communities whose
population is from one to three
percent Jewish, found that Jews
in such areas "form a separate
community, not in the physical
sense of living in a single part_
of town, but in that they have
a shared culture and heritage,
a sense of psychological unity
and an established organiza-
tional and leadership structure
of their own."
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