Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,1 (2004) 52-92
Keywords:
Salaman, Redcliffe N.
;
Jews Medicine
;
Jews Science
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National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Together with their non-Jewish colleagues, many Jewish anthropologists of the early 20th century also believed in a racial theory. It was not the idea of race that was troublesome for them, but the belief that races were unequal and that Jews were an inferior race. Relates the story of the evolution of views on "Jewish race" held by the prominent Anglo-Jewish geneticist Redcliffe Nathan Salaman (1874-1955), and compares his views to those held by other Jewish scientists. Nazism and the Holocaust sealed the fate of race as a scientific category. While other Jewish scientists revised their views on "Jewish race" during the 1930s, Salaman preserved his views until his death; however, he refrained from speaking publicly on this topic from the early 1930s.
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