Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940
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Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940
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| ISBN-13: | 9781611680300 |
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| Publisher: | Brandeis University Press |
| Publication date: | 12/13/2011 |
| Series: | Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 281 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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Table of Contents
Foreword • Acknowledgments • Jews and Race: An Introductory Essay – Mitchell B. Hart • General Overviews • “Racial Characteristics of Modern Jews” – Joseph Jacobs • “Reflections on the Jews” – Isidore Loeb • Preface from Jews, Race, and Environment – Maurice Fishberg • “Jewish Race” – Fritz Kahn • “On the Origins and Race of the Jews” – Arthur Ruppin • Anthropology • “Introduction to the Anthropological Study of the Jews” – Édward Goldstein • Entry on Anthropology from The Jewish Encyclopedia – Joseph Jacobs • “The Jews as a Race” – J. M. Judt • “The Brain Weight of Jews” – Richard Weinberg • “The Jewish Racial Problem” – Samuel Weissenberg • “Anthropological Research on the Russian-Polish Jews, and the Value of This Research for the Anthropology of the Jews in General” – Arkadius Elkind • “Are the Jews a Race?” – Sigmund Feist • Medicine and Biology • “The Comparative Pathology of the Jews” – Maurice Fishberg • “Contributions to the Jewish Racial Question” – Felix Theilhaber • “Heredity and the Jew” – Redcliffe N. Salaman • “The ‘Nervousness’ of the Jew” – Abraham Myerson • “The Problem of Tuberculosis among the Jews: A Racial and Socio-Pathological Study” – Noel Haltrecht • Society and Economy • “Is the Criminality of the Jews Racial Criminality?” – Rudolf Wassermann • “Jews, Race, and Environment” – Maurice Fishberg • “Successes of the Jews in Capitalistic Enterprise” – Arthur Ruppin • “Racial Mixing”: Intermarriage and Conversion • “The Jewish Racial Question” – Elias Auerbach • “The Mixed Marriage” – Arthur Ruppin • “Fertility in Mixed Marriages” • “The Significance of the Mixed Marriage” – Ignaz Zollschan • “Intermarriage between Jews and Christians” – Maurice Fishberg • Politics, Polemics, and Apologetics • “The So-Called Jewish Race” – Salomon Reinach • “The Chosenness of the Jews in the Light of Biology” – Alfred Nossig • “To Which Race Did Jesus Belong?” – Leo Sofer • Foreword and Introduction from The Racial Problem, with Particular Attention Paid to the Theoretical Foundations of the Jewish Racial Question – Ignaz Zollschan •“There Is No Jewish Race!” The Testimony of the American Jewish Committee and Union of American Hebrew Congregations before the United States Immigration Committee • “Assimilation versus Zionism” – Maurice Fishberg • “The Racial Identity of the Jews”– unsigned editorial from Die Welt • “On the Jewish Racial Question” – unsigned editorial from Die Welt • “Concerning Racial Theory” – Robert Weltsch • “The Jewish Racial Problem” – Moritz Goldstein • “Jews and Jewishness” – Chaim Zhitlowsky • Suggestions for Further Reading • IndexWhat People are Saying About This
"Jews and Race is a provocative and fascinating collection of primary sources on a highly sensitive historical subject. Situated on the cusp between intellectual, cultural and social history, these sources demonstrate that there is far more to 'Jewish thought' than philosophy and theology, and that racialized identities have been a major component of modern Jewish sensibility."
— Derek Penslar, University of Toronto
“It is impossible to understand the myriad ways in which Jews defined themselves in the six decades before World War II without comprehending the pervasiveness of notions of racial difference in this discussion. Mitchell Hart has made this task far easier with this thoughtful selection from the work of Jewish social scientists, natural scientists, physicians, and cultural critics who shaped the Jewish debate about Jewishness and race. By excerpting, translating, and contextualizing their work, Hart has made a signal contribution to the scholarship on Jewish self-definition from the fin de siècle to World War II.”
“Jews and Race is a provocative and fascinating collection of primary sources on a highly sensitive historical subject. Situated on the cusp between intellectual, cultural and social history, these sources demonstrate that there is far more to ‘Jewish thought’ than philosophy and theology, and that racialized identities have been a major component of modern Jewish sensibility.”
“Race, this remarkable anthology demonstrates, was about much more than science. Race was truly protean and reached far into the intricacies of collective existence. Race enslaved but it also emancipated; it stigmatized but it also became a medium of self-understanding, indeed, an almost indispensable instrument of thought, an organon. Race served to attack and protect, legitimize and delegitimize, obfuscate and illuminate. Mitchell Hart’s erudite introduction and judicious selection impeccably illustrate the extensive—and central—significance of race in modern Jewish thought. Jews and Race articulates as well a sobering warning on the enduring power of race.”