Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Jews and Race: An Introductory Essay, Mitchell B. Hart

I | General Overviews

1 | “Racial Characteristics of Modern Jews,” Joseph Jacobs

2 | “Reflections on the Jews,” Isidore Loeb

3 | Preface from Jews, Race, and Environment, Maurice Fishberg

4 | “Jewish Race,” Fritz Kahn

5 | “On the Origins and Race of the Jews,” Arthur Ruppin

II | Anthropology

6 | “Introduction to the Anthropological Study of the Jews,” Édward Goldstein

7 | Entry on Anthropology from The Jewish Encyclopedia, Joseph Jacobs

8 | “The Jews as a Race,” J. M. Judt

9 | “The Brain Weight of Jews,” Richard Weinberg

10 | “The Jewish Racial Problem,” Samuel Weissenberg

11 | “Anthropological Research on the Russian-Polish Jews, and the Value of This Research for the Anthropology of the Jews in General,” Arkadius Elkind

12 | “Are the Jews a Race?” Sigmund Feist

III | Medicine and Biology

13 | “The Comparative Pathology of the Jews,” Maurice Fishberg

14 | “Contributions to the Jewish Racial Question,” Felix Theilhaber

15 | “Heredity and the Jew,” Redcliffe N. Salaman

16 | “The ‘Nervousness’ of the Jew,” Abraham Myerson

17 | “The Problem of Tuberculosis among the Jews: A Racial and Socio-Pathological Study,” Noel Haltrecht

IV | Society and Economy

18 | “Is the Criminality of the Jews Racial Criminality?” Rudolf Wassermann

19 | “Jews, Race, and Environment,” Maurice Fishberg

20 | “Successes of the Jews in Capitalistic Enterprise,” Arthur Ruppin

V | “Racial Mixing”: Intermarriage and Conversion

21 | “The Jewish Racial Question,” Elias Auerbach

22 | “The Mixed Marriage,” Arthur Ruppin

23 | “Fertility in Mixed Marriages”

24 | “The Significance of the Mixed Marriage,” Ignaz Zollschan

25 | “Intermarriage between Jews and Christians,” Maurice Fishberg

VI | Politics, Polemics, and Apologetics

26 | “The So-Called Jewish Race,” Salomon Reinach

27 | “The Chosenness of the Jews in the Light of Biology,” Alfred Nossig

28 | “To Which Race Did Jesus Belong?” Leo Sofer

29 | Foreword and Introduction from The Racial Problem, with Particular Attention Paid to the Theoretical Foundations of the Jewish Racial Question, Ignaz Zollschan

30 | “There Is No Jewish Race!” The Testimony of the American Jewish Committee and Union of American Hebrew Congregations before the United States Immigration Committee

31 | “Assimilation versus Zionism,” Maurice Fishberg

32 | “The Racial Identity of the Jews,” unsigned editorial from Die Welt

33 | “On the Jewish Racial Question,” unsigned editorial from Die Welt

34 | “Concerning Racial Theory,” Robert Weltsch

35 | “The Jewish Racial Problem,” Moritz Goldstein

36 | “Jews and Jewishness,” Chaim Zhitlowsky

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index