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Men’s Shelter. In each case, there
was a gradual lowering of self-
confidence, of employment and
standard of living. In an inexorable
pattern, these men moved from
the second rate hotel, to the furn
ished room, to the Bowery lodging
and. finally, to the public shelter.
Family factors are of great im
portance in these stories of decline.
Included were very poor family
relationships, social ostracism, in
adequate schooling, blind alley
jobs and, rarely, alcoholism. The
average school grade completed
by the eight Jews was 6B. Only
one had a trade; he had been a
cutter. The others were semi-un
skilled and unskilled.
A comparison of scores of the
eight Jews with 50 non-Jewish
homeless men showed much high
er intelligence for the non-Jews.
Dr. Levinson added the suggestion
that there was evidence from the
past that the eight Jews were of
higher intelligence than the tests
showed and that, at the time of
testing, they were functioning at
a very inferior level. The data
also showed that these men came
from culturally poor homes, had
poor learning ability, poor ability
at analysis and synthesis, poor
ability at anticipating social events
and poor reality testing.
Earlier studies indicated that
Jewish homeless men retained a
spark of Jewish civilization. Un
like the non-Jew, the homeless
Jew tended to look at his plight
in the larger context of the soc
ial problem. This was not true of
the eight derelicts studied by Dr.
Levinson. They felt that life had
not given them a fair break. Crav
ing companionship and love, “they
whined, complained and pleaded."
Said one: “I don’t want to live
here like a dog. I want to die.”
Beyond these general state
ments, each life history differed.
With names and events disguised,
here is one of the personal his
tories assembled by Dr. Levinson
for the eight men:
Henry Brown was born in Phil-
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job or to keep one. His plaint was
that if only he had had a dif
ferent kind of father, life would
have been different for him. As it
is, he wished he were dead. By his
account, being Jewish had little ef
fect on him. He received some re
ligious training at the orphanage
but his teachers were brutal, he
said, and he emerged with a dis
like for Judaism. He never goes
to a synagogue, as do some of the
other men, but he does light a can
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him frequently and deserted th<
family when Henry was nine. Hen
ry and his brother were put in ai
orphanage. When his mother wa
killed in a tenement fire, thi
orphanage superintendent decidei
the two boys would be better of
in a foster home. Such a home wa
found for the brother but not fo
Henry who was an epileptic.
As the years passed and Henr;
moved into the world of adult
hood, he found it hard t« aat
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