Judith Herman, director for research and planning of the American Jewish Committee’s Institute on Pluralism and Group identity, died today at Memorial Hospital. She was 30 years old. Mrs. Herman, the wife of Jeremy M. Herman, a psychotherapist, was a specialist in ethnic relations and community organization. She had previously served as coordinator of the AJCommittee’s National Project on Ethnic America. The project, which Mrs. Herman joined in 1968, worked for depolarization of Black-white tensions and for the creation of multi-ethnic education and multi-ethnic coalitions.
She was the author of a number of pamphlets and papers on the subjects of ethnicity and the problems of blue-collar workers, Her most recent work, “The Schools and Group Identity: Educating for a New Pluralism,” published, last year, was widely endorsed by leading ethnic, racial, feminist, labor and educational authorities. Prior to joining the staff of the AJCommittee’s Department of Intergroup Relations and Social Action in 1967 she was active in communal affairs.
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