Ethel tobach biography

TOBACH, ETHEL (1921– ), U.S. leader in the field of comparative psychology and the use of psychological knowledge for the public good. Tobach was born in the Ukraine to Fanya (Schecterman) and Ralph Wiener.

Ethel tobach biography

Two weeks after her birth her parents fled with her to Palestine to escape pogroms. When Tobach's father died nine months later, her mother immigrated with her to Philadelphia and became an activist in the garment workers' union.

Tobach also worked at blue-collar occupations while attending Hunter College in New York City, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1949. Shortly after World War ii she married Charles Tobach, a fellow radical who belonged to her union.

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He encouraged her to pursue graduate work in psychology at New York University, where she received a Ph.D. in 1957.

Tobach spent her entire career at the American Museum of Natural History, rising to the rank of curator.

Although she taught at a number of universities in the New York City area, fo