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Volume 333:197-198 July 20, 1995 Number 3
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Defenders of the Race: Jewish doctors and race science in fin-de-siècle Europe

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By John M. Efron. 255 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1995. $30. ISBN 0-300-05440-8.

During the late 18th century a popular political proposition was advanced — that all people are created equal. The science of the following century provided an underpinning for the potentially contradictory concept that all people are created different. This book ably and thoughtfully traces the development of Jewish race science through two countries, Germany and Britain; the work of two scientists, Joseph Jacobs and Samuel Weissenberg; and two political movements, racial antisemitism and Zionism.

During the Middle Ages in Europe, there were widespread beliefs about the different biologic characteristics of Jewish men and women, and in the 15th century Spain . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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