Abstract

An investigation of the relationships among minority ethnic group involvement, reactions to non-ethnic opinion, and political attitudes was conducted with a panel of Jewish respondents. The degree of Jewish ethno-religious involvement was inversely related to the stability of political attitudes when the nonJewish majority was used as a negative reference group. HE political liberalism of American Jewry on economic, international, and social issues has been fairly well documented in the literature.' In a number of cases, Jewish political attitudes and voting behavior were not significantly related to income, occupation, education, and other demographic variables: factors which correlate with the political opinions and behavior of other ethnic and religious groups.2 These findings have led to the propagation of a number of explanations designed to account for at least some of the uniqueness of Jewish political

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