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PHILADELPHIA—A pioneering
study of religious textbooks and
other teaching materials used in
Jewish schools undertaken at Drop-
sie College for Hebrew and Cog-
nate Learning here, reveals that
Jewish religious textbooks and
other teaching materials are more
"introverted"—they refer to out-
side groups less frequently—than
Christian teaching materials.
The study, by Drs. Bernard D.
Weinryb and Daniel Garnick, also
finds Jewish teaching materials
tend to avoid doctrinal compari-
sons with Christianity, describing
Jewish-Christian conflicts as inter-
actions between peoples rather
than as clashes of faith, and they
write about non-Jews more in
terms of ethnic or national identity
than of religious identity.
When doctrinal differences are
discussed, Jewish textbooks tend to
be somewhat more critical of other
Jewish groups than of Christians,
the study noted.
The findings were made public
last weekend at the opening ses-
sion of the national executive
board of the American Jewish
Committee, top policy-making body
of the human relations agency.
It is the third of a series of
self-studies of teaching materials
of the major faith groups stimu-
lated by the American Jewish Com-
mittee over a period of years dat-
ing back to the 1930s. Completed
surveys of Protestant and Catholic
textbooks already have led to sig-
Jews in Germany
Beg Parliament to
Pay Victims Now
BERKELEY, Calif. — The In- for students of history, archeol-
stitute of Mediterranean Studies ogy, anthropology, geography and •
will conduct its fourth annual theology. The tour also will go
nificant revisions of textbooks and Near Eastern Archeological Sem- to Cyprus, Lebanon, Jordan and
other teaching materials.
inar next summer, excavating an Greece.
The Dropsie study analyzed a ancient city in Israel, visiting his- . For information, write Prof.
sample of 220 teaching mate- torical sites and studying at the Bernard Boyd, director, Education
rials, including books — pupils' Hebrew University.
Division, Institute for Mediter-
textbooks and teachers' readers
Course credit in archeology and ranean Studies, 1533 Shattuck,
--plays and periodicals to deter- history of Palestine will be offered Berkeley, Calif. 94709.
mine the extent of both inter-
group and intragroup content,
and whether prejudice was to
be found in the materials. Sen-
tences or pictures, used as units
of measurement in the quantita-
tive study, were scored as pre-
judiced, anti-prejudiced or neu-
tral.
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The "preoccupation" figure —
measuring the extent to which a
given textbook mentions outside
groups—was found in the study to
be 14.4 per cent for Jewish school
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BONN (JTA) — The Central
Council for the Jews in Germany
reported Sunday it had appealed
to both houses of the West Ger-
Comparative statistics from the Dropsie, St. Louis and Yale
Studies Sponsored by the American Jewish Committee.
man Parliament to keep their
promises to pay restitution pay-
ments to Nazi victims on schedule.
Finance Minister Rolf Dahlgruen study (ranging from 66.5 to 87.9
announced on Nov. 4 that payments per cent) indicate that Jewish
totaling 200,000,000 marks (S50,- school materials are more intro-
000,000), scheduled to have been verted.
One reason for this, state the
made this year to a special class
of victims of Nazism, would be authors, is that Jewish schools are
charged with the task of group
"deferred" for one year.
Those affected were persons survival and thus place strong em-
phyasis on transmitting Jewish
who were unable to file for restit-
tution prior to Oct. 1, 1953, the heritage.
deadline in the original legisla-
Other reasons for the relatively
tion. They include thousands of fewer references to outside groups,
Jews who were prevented from
according to the Dropsie report,
filing their claims because they reflect essential differences be-
lived in countries behind the tween Judaism and Christianity.
Iron Curtain at that time.
Judaism, unlike Christianity, places
The widely circulated German little or no emphasis on doctrine,
weekly Die Zeit came out in its dwelling rather on the moral or
current issue with an article legal code and the performance of
charging that many of the West deeds.
German judges hearing appeals in
Drs. Weinryb and Garnick re-
cases concerning compensation to port that the overwhelming ma-
victims of Nazism are themselves jority of references to outgroups
former Nazis.
in Jewish textbooks are neither
The publication claimed that at prejudiced n o r anti-prejudiced.
least 30 of the 33 judges hearing When directional assertions are
such appeals in Coblenz were made, the proportion is overwhelm-
formerly members of the Nazi ingly positive. The occasional pre-
Party or its ancillaries.
judiced statements tend to be his-
Of six judges on the local court torical in context, castigating for-
hearing such cases in Coblenz, mer or contemporary persecutors.
the periodical stated, five are The negative references, however,
former Nazis. Among the five, it are exceeded many times over by
was charged, is the chairman of positive statements.
the local court dealing with com-
pensation cases.
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