lL 1 1 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. Catholic-Jewish Research Center Established If YOU TURN THE • tr•Cyllii UPSIDE DOWN YOU WONT FIND A TINIER WINE THAN r‘, Mikin Wineries, Detroit, Mich. LIk_g_*********************4 AT BORENSTEIN'S SPECIAL!! Charles Herbert Stember, pro- fessor of sociology at Rutgers BEFORE YOU VISIT ISRAEL! The president of American Jewish Committee is the United States expert on the United Na- tions subcommission on the pre- 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: e 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 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 11, 1964-7 most beautifully illustrated pic- tures about the life of our Jewish people in that great little country of "Milk and Honey" called Israel! You will be delighted to see and read about them. This beautiful book is good as a gift to family and friends! Only S3.00 (S5.00 value). Full refund if not satisfied. Send cash. money order or check to Book Distributing Co., P.O. Box 320. Irvington. 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