The Jews (Classic Reprint): A Study of Race and Environment - Couverture souple

Maurice Fishberg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330140702 ISBN 13 : 9781330140703

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A medical portrait of an ancient people, rooted in careful observation and history.

This nonfiction work surveys health patterns, diseases, and eye conditions observed among Jewish communities across different regions and eras. It blends pathology with social context to explore how poverty, sanitation, and tradition interact with illness.

Fragments of case notes and physician insights build a picture of what doctors have noted about skin diseases, ocular conditions, and infectious illnesses in Jewish populations. While it discusses racial theories of disease, the text also emphasizes that poverty and living conditions significantly shape health outcomes, and that well‑to‑do communities often differ in prevalence from poorer groups.

• Explanations of skin diseases and eye problems historically linked to living conditions and hygiene.
• Discussion of leprosy, trachoma, conjunctivitis, and other conditions in Eastern Europe, the Orient, and the Middle East.
• Observations on how circumcision, immunity myths, and family patterns relate to disease discussions of the era.

Ideal for readers of medical history and social biology who want a focused view of disease as it intersected with culture and geography.

Whether you are studying historical epidemiology or the intersection of health and tradition, this edition offers a window into how physicians analyzed illness within Jewish communities.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Jews: A Study of Race and Environment

This volume is an attempt to present the results of anthropological, demographic, pathological, and sociological investigations of the Jews. Considering that one-fifth of all the Jews in the world live at present in English-speaking countries, and that the migrations of Eastern European Jews tend toward the United States and England with its colonies, I believe I need not apologize for claiming attention to this subject. The facts presented are not available in any book, and it may safely be declared that the whole world is interested in the subject of the Jews as a race, and the getting into closer touch with the ethnic relations of the Jews. Moreover, the perennial problem, whether it is possible to assimilate the vast number of Southern and Eastern immigrants to the United States and British colonies has been applied more to the Jews than to any other white people. It has even been questioned whether there is ever a probability of incorporating the Jews into the body politic of Anglo-Saxon communities.

That anthropology only is competent to answer this question is agreed. Yet there is no book in English treating of the race traits of the Jews. The literature on the subject in English consists mostly of investigations by special parliamentary commissions, containing opinions of statesmen, social workers, educators, etc. It appears that the prevailing opinion is that the Jews, alleged to have maintained themselves in absolute racial purity for three or four thousand years, may prove hard to assimilate.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1911. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330140702
• ISBN 13: 9781330140703
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 618
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