Anglo-Jewish scientists and the science of race.(Redcliffe Nathan Salaman)

The belief in innate racial differences was well entrenched in Western science by the agency of the start of the twentieth hundred It was widely believed that the world's population was divided into distinct races and that the physical and cultural differences among them were bottomed in biology. For Jewish physicians and academics, for whom science was suppos to be a neutral arena in which their Jewishness was irrelevant, the ubiquity of this belief was a challenge, the couple to their professional authority and their emotional equanimity. It was not the idea of race itself that was perplexing but ...