Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today most learned Jews apparently prefer to dwell on the vagueness of biological racial distinctions and the fallacy of "Aryanism" rather than search for signs of a mental orientation that sets Jews of whatever nationality apart from non-Jews. But not Abraham Aron Roback, thoughtful and erudite Jewish psychology professor at Boston's Institute of Advertising, onetime instructor at Harvard. To the current issue of Character and Personality Dr. Roback contributed a report on characteristics of Jewish habits of thought and modes of expression...
...Paradoxical though it be," says Dr. Roback, "most of the major Jewish philosophers of the present day are not willing to own up to any Jewish influence." Henri Bergson stoutly denied that either his style or his ideas revealed any Semitic traits. Lucien Levy-Bruhl, distinguished anthropologist, thought his work was typically French. But the question, Dr. Roback thought, was not likely to be settled by comparing the work of known authors. He hit on the idea of trying to sort Jews from non-Jews in the writings of unknown persons. Accordingly he persuaded a colleague to let him have...
...these papers he correctly spotted the students as Jewish or non-Jewish. In 21 cases he missed. A mathematician showed him that the probability of this performance having resulted from pure chance was only...
...Roback concluded that, in written examinations, Jewish students...
Though Talmudists have decided that the Second Commandment puts no ban on portraying objects, parts of the body or things, orthodox synagogs have done without art for thousands of years. On view in Chicago this week were the first strictly orthodox Jewish synagog murals in the U. S. They were commissioned by Rabbi Elias Gamze of the Loop Orthodox Synagog which used to be in West Madison Street and attracted such visitors as Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Ben Bernie, Jack Pearl, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois. Last week workmen were cleaning up the Synagog's new $25,000 quarters?over...