Presents a chart of anti-Jewish laws which were instituted in Germany from 1933-38. Sections of the laws are reprinted and a short explanation of the laws is given. (Author/DB)

A questionnaire administered to older Russian Jews who recently migrated to the United States and who now live in New York City probed their attitudes toward assistance from informal and formal agency sources. Results indicated a reliance on agencies for assistance and a need to examine relevance of traditional paradigms of ethnic cultures.…

Describes the experiences of Ethiopian Jews, and the ways that their historical and cultural backgrounds, as well as their language and color, affect their reception by and adjustment within the Israeli social mainstream. Also discusses how the Israeli government and private organizations are working to educate other Israelis about the Ethiopians.…

Bank's report of a long-term evaluation of the Bureau of Jewish Education, discussed in the previous article, is reviewed and commented on from the following points of views: (1) effects of local ecology on evaluation activities; (2) implications of the case study for the role and training of evaluators; and (3) unemphasized aspects of the case…

Caricatures produced between the end of the Civil War and World War II--cartoons in humor and satire weeklies, newspaper comics, posters, advertising, book illustrations, etc.--sanctioned ethnic and racial slurs. Jews were presented as negative stereotypes, characterized most often by stealth and derision. (LHW)

In this unit of study secondary students learn about Raoul Wallenberg, the human rights crusader who protected thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi persecution. A primary source document from the National Archives--a letter written to President Truman by Guy von Dardel concerning the disappearance of his brother--is provided. (RM)

Examined communication concerning wartime experiences in survivor families through interviews and testing of Jewish children of survivors (N=64). Results indicated that willingness to talk about experiences and frequency of communication were related to negative factors among offspring for the mother and positive factors among offspring for the…

The nature of culture, the traditional culture of the Jews, cultural changes in the Jewish people, particularly in the state of Israel, and the implications of these developments for art and aesthetic education in Israel are discussed. (RM)

Notes that both books reviewed seek to understand the forces that have shaped the Jews' social and psychological marginality in American society. (Author/AM)

Re-examines the contact hypothesis, focusing on social and economic contact between blacks and Jews in the study of black anti-semitism and also examines the comparative effects of equal status contact and the respondent's perceived economic mistreatment. (Author)

Reexamines data from a national study which supported the hypothesis that traditional underrepresentation of Catholics and overrepresentation of Jews in academic professions may be ending. Data analysis using logic regression techniques indicates that modified conclusions are more warranted. (Author/AV)

The countries of Hungary and Poland are steadily moving along the road of transition from their recent totalitarian past to modern capitalist democracies. Hungary and Poland are changing, developing economies based on new principles, resolving multiple social issues, and patching the projection from their history that still casts a shadow on the…

This curriculum project was designed primarily to be incorporated into a larger world history unit on the Holocaust and World War II. The project can be adapted for a lesson on 'situational ethics' for use in a philosophy class. The lesson requires students to examine a historical case and to write and discuss that particular case. The project's…

There are certain threats to the Jew's ethnicity, and factors in his ecological setting motivate his anxiety. (DM)