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)

Israel faces the difficult task of integrating some half a million Israeli Arabs into the society. Distrust, resentment, and educational inequalities make this a monumental task. (Author/WD)

Key resource materials, background readings, and informative organizations are suggested to teachers planning units or courses on the Nazi Holocaust. (SJL)

A curriculum focus for teaching about the Holocaust in history and social studies classes is offered, centering on two points: racism and obedience to authority. (JMF)

Folk tales, jokes, and other forms of folk culture are used to explore the love-hate relationship between Blacks and Jews and to trace the changes in this relationship. (RLV)

Discusses "World of Our Fathers," Howe (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), asserting that Howe's description of acculturation "does not convey the full character and strength of the often chauvinistic pressure upon the immigrant toward cultural conformity with Anglo-Saxon mores." Howe purportedly "has tended to soften or mute social clashes."…