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Document Details : Title: The Jewish 'Race' in America Subtitle: Racial Language in American Jewish Prose, 1890-1933 Author(s): ROSE, A.C. Journal: Studia Rosenthaliana Volume: 36 Date: 2002-2003 Pages: 239-252 DOI: 10.2143/SR.36.0.504925 Abstract : Altough most Americans, Gentile and Jew, denounced the idea of a Jewish race after 1933, the word did not disappear from ordinary speech. 'Race Jew', 'race integrity', 'race type', these phrases are disturbing coming from Jews. Because we have witnessed the Holocaust, an earlier Jewish impulse to absorb what presented itself as science seems naive and self-destructive. Racial explanations only make sense intellectually if we admit 'we are animals', as Henry Fairchild crudely put it. Did not Jewish writers grasp that when they described Jews physiologically, they risked giving authority to instinct over culture? |
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