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Changing Attitudes Towards Jews, Significant
Decline in Prejudice, Indicated in AJC Study:
ida and director o
established under Title
Ti the
X service
of the
new Civil Rights Act, said that the
federal program of aid to local
- human relations commissions
would take many different forms,
including the provision of "up-to-
date research in the field of corm
MIA MI BEACH, Fla. (JTA) of the American Jewish Commit-
will help carry out in a realistic munity relations and civil rights"
American attitudes toward Jews tee.
way, with the aid of leading and what he called "limited grants-
have changed drastically in the
churchmen,
theologians, social in aid."
This
report
on
discriminations
last
quarter-century, to the point regarding the promotion process scientists, educators, and scholars,
where Jews are increasingly seen i within "the executive suite" was the growing impulse to eliminate
as
individuals
not as members made at the conclusion of the exe- the religious roots of bias and pre- :47- -T-
a "racial" and
group, it was re- cutive board meeting.
judice."
ported at the national executive cutive
The new institute in R o m e,
board meeting of the American
Based on a two - year survey
Jewish Committee.
conducted by the Survey Re- which is known as the Leonard M. *
Sperry Center for Intergroup Co-
Dr. John Slawson,
search Center of the University operation,
is developing a program
of Michigan's Institute for So-
executive vice presi-
of examination of religious texts
cial Research, under Prof. Rob- and
dent of the organiza-
teaching materials in countries
ert L. Kahn, the study showed throughout
tion, made public at
the world to determine
that, often, promotions are based how
the meeting the find-
portray various religious
on criteria "that have little or and they
ings of a study con-
ethnic minorities. including
nothing to do with ability," tak-
ducted by leading so-.
Jews, Friedman said. The center is
ing into account such factors as
dal scientists which es-
namedf h late g_ es in-
a person's race, religion, social
tablished that most Slawson
background, club membership, dustrialist.
Americans view Jews as members
Prof. Otto Klineberg, former
of a religious group rather than a appearance or personal friend-
head of the department of social
race or nationality, and they recog- ships.
sychol o gy atCI I% rsi Y,
nine Judaism as one of the thre e
"In recent years. for example," has been named as co-director of
major faiths in this country.
the study showed, "Jews have corn- the Sperry Center, along with
The study established that overt prised perhaps 12 to 15 per cent Prof. Tulio Tentori of Rome, edi-
anti-Semitism has declined sharpl y of the graduating classes of the tor of the Journal of Social
during the past 25 years, and hos _ Harvard Graduate School of Busi- Science.
the stereotypes about Jews hav e ness Administration. an institution
LeRoy Collins, head of the new
shown a marked decline. Howe‘4er to which the executive recruiters
Community Relations Serv-
latent and irmrained prejudice i s of many large companies regularly Federal
still in evidence and could be turn. Among the executives of such ice, mapped out here the major
Just Received
outlines of the nationwide program
activated by upheavals and crisis companies appearing at Harvard's
Large Candles
in the American society. These seminars and training programs to help local communities resolve
problems of integration and inter-
CHITS need not be limited to for businessmen, only one-half of
DIRECT FROM
group tensions.
American desperation; they can 1 per cent were estimated to be
TEL-AVIV TO
Collins, former governor of Flor-
Jewish."
occur in periods of plenty.
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over-all percention of the Jew is
far different in the 1960s than it
was in the rnid-'30s and early
'40s. Currently some past stereo
types have "very nearly disa
p-
peared, such as the notion tha
Jews as a group supposedly ar
clannish, unscrupulous or powe r-
fill in business and finance." Eve n
where negative images do exis
about Jews. they have "become les
prevalent and less extreme," a
cording to Prof. Stember. On th
question of association with Jews
the study made the following find
ings on American attitudes:
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1. The restrictive quotas on
admission of Jews to colleges
widely approved by adults in the
1940's has almost completely
fallen out of favor in the 1960s.
2. Respondents to the polls ex-
pressed their willingness to have
their children associate with
Jewish children.
Z. From the late 1940s on,
nearly the entire public has de-
clared it is willing to work in
ASSOCiation with Jews.
4. By the early 1960s, "an
overwhelming majority of Ameri-
cans appeared ready to accept
individual Jews as next-door
neighbors."
5. Sentiment against Intermar-
riage "waned" between 1950 and
1962; "acceptance of Jews as
marriage partners Increased at
about the same rate as did ac-
ceptance of Jewish employes,
fellow students and neighbors."
Professor Stember has found
that hostile attitudes toward
Jews are getting "less wide-
spread support in the 1960's
than at any other time since the
systematic study of public atti-
tudes began." However, he em-
phasizes that "anti-Jewish preju-
dice obviously is not yet a thing
of the past, any more than anti-
Jewish discrimination is."
American business and industry
Is Still discriminating against Jews
and persons from other minority
groups when it comes to promot-
ing personnel to the upper levels
of management, it was reported
here by Morris B. Abram, president
the
vention of discrimination and
protection of minorities. He
pointed out that the anti-geno-
cide convention has been ratified
by 67 nations. and was ; present-
ed to the U. S. Senate for ratifi-
cation as early as 1950.
A religious and cultural peace
corps to help the 600.000 Jews of
South America to retain their com
munal and personal identity as
Jews is being organized by the
American Jewish Committee, the
executive board also was told to-
day. Harris Berlack, chairman of
the organization's foreign affairs
committee, said the first step
would be to set up a research unit
to study the extent and resources
of anti-democratic and anti-Semi-
tic organizations in Argentina.
The committee also will work
with existing Jewish organizations
to develop libraries and other cul-
tural material resources for South
American Jews. The project will
work with American Jewish educa-
tional, religious and social welfare
organizations to help South Ameri-
can Jewish communities to meet a
"critical shortage of qualified rab-
bis, teachers, social workers, youth
leaders and other professional
personnel."
The establishment of a joint
Catholic-Jewish research center
in Rome to analyze and combat
the roots of prejudice in reli-
gious teachings throughout the
world, with pilot projects al-
ready under way in Italy, Spain,
and elsewhere, also was an-
nounced by the AJC.
Ralph Friedman, chairman of the
AJC's executive board, who was a
member of an AJC delegation at
a private audience with Pope Paul
VI last summer, said that the
Catholic-Jewish research center
"has become a feasible, practical
reality as a major step in the im-
plementation of the new spirit of
ecumenism and interreligious un-
derstanding on an international
basis which resulted recently in
the adoption in principle of the
declaration on the Jews by the
Ecumenical Council. This center
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University, conducted the study
with the cooneration of the Rut-
gers Research Council. Leading
American social scientists from
Harvard, Columbia, Brandeis,
Cornell, University of Chicago,
New York University, Vander-
bilt University and University of
Michigan have contributed evalu-
ative papers on the survey.
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