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frequ ent migrati on of the Jew
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'has acquired repeated readjustmeo.
with many emotional conflicts ci s-
tered about the different cultures (e.il
'new conditions. Nliftration nice- i-
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and language, with a reorganization
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I of habits and customs, the making of
friends, ficcupational placement,
It is conceded by all who hay, o appear in the offspring) while nth. , financial struggles, new outlets for
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the
satisfaction
of the fundamental
•rs
are
recessive
(that
is,
may
he
hid-
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rvousnes
the
problem,
that
ne
studied
len and not appear in one g e n e ration , human ilt•sirtis, the need of
and conditions of nervous break
down, technically called by physicians int! then come forth in succeeding ' new
gli' :
Th"Iiie nt ini-
',munitions, if the hereditary quail- ' tit. i"I's in:(rr'rutUlNrotwc'.'yll:•irmore
neuroses and psychoneuroses tinclud
Mg under these terms conditions van- •ies of the mate and other factors g ration is playing a role in the lives
. of the Jews of this g.enuration?
I
o 1 ,,usly labelled neurasthenia, hysteria, are favorable).
c on tli e t, bowmen the old find the
Therefore, even when an aequireil
0 iiiiyehast he nia, nervous exhaustion
0 i and breakdown, morbid anxietit.s• condition can he transmitted by hei new generations w ithi n the hone,
coin-
reility, its appt.arant.t. in the offspring well called "the war of the genera,
and fears. obsess ions and
that," (the parents versus the chil-
puloons, hypochondria, simple (le does not necessarily follow.
There has been it tendency, alto - drenl, is of considt.rable importance.
0 1 pressions, etc.) are not only not un
when
the
nature
This
conflict rages about religion (or-
t , other hand quite
but , onIlie
i. i gether too common,
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the Jews.
In • ac • or origin of a disorder is unknown. thodox
ws.
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Jews are so disproportionately pro- to tailleina.r to explain it by blaming tort, customs, language, standard"
all (ethics, mores(, isolation vs. assinn-
disposed to SO-Called nervous upsets
that they are generally regarded as our
ancestors.
'finis is is apt
of to
course,
easy
way out, and
become lation, the dietary laws, the home and
Many the public school, and relatlul prob-
O more nervous than their fellow non- the line of least resistance.
.• a cnn-
Jews.
, conditions which at one time were letns• 'There 1 , (11, " 1
A basic trait of nervousness is ex - thought to be inherited have been slant internal mental battle gluing on

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cessiye nervous 111111 mental sensitive- shown, with inerease in knowledee, among many children in certain
miss and excitability, with atala , I to be acquired and preventable. 'Cu- households between the desire fur ex-
a glaring example of Pression and independence on the one
; emotional reactions. such pronouneollberculods j11
, hand and the need for repression and
' sensitiveness may be present from this.
And
more dependence on the other hand.
Now, 111(110111:h nervousness is
I birth Icongt.nitall or acquired from
various causes (physical and mental)" common among Jews than non-Jews, it is but neutral to expect that exee:-
ill the course of the life of the indi- it is doubtful just what role heredity sive struggles of this sort lead to nor-.
vidual. Even when born with undue plays in its production. I beli e ve ' vousness and emotionalism in the life
of
sensitiveness the latter may not nee- that the factors operative in the finis- of the individual, without the need
sensitiveness
of the individual Jew are annealing to heredity as the all - pow-
be inherited but the result of ent if

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certain conditions affecting tht• indi- quite sufficient to account for the . erful and ever-working agent.
Bring always a Weak Jewish nii-
villual Onale and fenutlet germ or greater frequency of nervousness in
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tigg cells or the developing the err Jews. And even whet( a .Iewish child minty against It powerful non-Jowi-h
is,
therefore,
acquired,
al-
in
born
congenitally
ner•ous,
that
it
majority
and regarded as being differ - '
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no proof of its hereditary 111'11.611, (Olt, unique 111111 inferior, the .lew '
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of union of the male and female egg Such continual mental conflicts with
This itut•stion brings up the prob- c(ills, but prior to that, when the in- ' the con:tant maid for self-defense 0
lem of the inheritance or non-inherit-
in his own eves
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ance of acquired traits, a problem ' their respective hosts, male and (e- as well as in the eyes of his non-Jew.' 0
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mg Itirmore, even if in occa- i ish critics 111111 depreciatory, naturally , r;
nervousness.
F and still is at the resent timceya. w
make
for
nervousn
and
Still
eases it may be prov(•n
en that a made
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able battle-ground in biology.
The atmosphere within the home 0
tidi,ng to the followers of Weissman, •Iewish child is hereditarilynervous, , often breeds nervousness by sugges- 0
we are not justified in jumping at,
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no acquired traits can be transmit- once to the conclusion that this is due lion, imitation and training. As a re- ,t
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dOlted by heredity, while others assert to the fact that his ancestors were suit of such early childhood intlu-
that acquired traits can ht. handed Jewish. For must
n o t then al, 1.11CeS, (here jiscultivateda general i
down from generation to gene ration, ply the same arguments to similar trend toward anxiety and fear, uncer- 'I
Itairity and insecurity, overexcitabil-
0 not only "even unto the third and conditions among non-Jews?
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leiaving aside general nervousness, i ity and oversensitivencss, suspicious-
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of the weight of evidence is to the effect I miss 8111( apprehensiveness, with feel- I
ents
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the eviden
that specific nervous disorders of , ings of inferiority, a tendency to- t
rue that there are certain emotional nature (enumerated above! ward isolation and other handicap- ' 'r
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conditions which
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it has been found can he transmitted result off adjustment to life's pool-'This in to be sure, considerably ag-
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cultures following emigration just rti- , 0
•wl a rare affliction of the nervous sys-
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gem called Huntington's
has ,
from causes other than those
relate chomp
Ilferred
to. And let us not forget tit:al:I
(emotional) ' I
111Mg been definitely traced through many
of
his
being
a
Jew.
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the
nervous and mental (emotional)
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sness , tendencies of the parents ore reflect- t
fesronsibl le, for nervousness
family trim. These conditions must in the non-.few p ay a role in the tiro- ed in thebehavionof the . child as a .;.#
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; have originated as acquired states at ducti‘it'C ,
nervousness in the Jew. result. of factors going on in the pres-
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stage In the upward and onward ,...
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progress of man and so may be re - ovrellIOSIS., drugs (including alt..,
gardtid as instances of the inheritance hot 1, malnutrition, diSOCIlerS of the t1oT h .;t 1 le rolle s"hfalrl'ini'fiit"nel ianbotrha'telifue;rft 5
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The question then presents itself', s orts a emotional problems of a tier- for separate consideration in a later l
as .to the imitations and exact . " 1 1"- sonal nature, due to .niental . conflict I contribution. But I may say at once '
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damns under which acquired t01111- with lack of harmonious adjustment that I agree wholeheartedly with the „I
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Dons can be transmitted from one to which the non-Jew is equally sub- views recently expressed by Dr. Is - # „:
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generation
to
another,
through
the
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Furtht•rniore, according to the I shall limit myself to the emotional )lay, In2.1.
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of his
which
are fact that the Jew has been compelled
/ Mendelian theory, some inborn e011- , factors resulting from the se fact
the
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face reality mere and more in or-
ditions are dominant (that is, bound being a Jt•w , for it is
made much to t in the case of the Jew. (II
der to live, that he could nut fly to
The to has had and still has much ,dogma and ritual, but was compelled
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nature
ti more and more to emphasize the need 1
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more nertmu: and his real ego treality) has Mien j.
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and unstable than the non-Jew, many
great that there was need of con- 0
past
history, boost and marked repression or the
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of, his people. are ,
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sots by asserting that this fart is as
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this has continued so lung that with , as apt to be acquired, and must be so
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successive generations fir eVOLISIleSs
end-product.
has 1.'1 , 1111' an inherited
1 , unquestionably proven in each in-
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The hostile ifttituile toward the irle .,iitit.t, under e0/111 11(l'eatiun.
has led to his rmtriction, suppre..
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those Will, argue
It is plain that
.) ion :Ind persecution 1.y Ili , non-Jew. i for the litinnlita ry nervousness of the
rt: s.
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in sentolay life of the individual.
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One is well justified in saying. that
.4 which he happen: to live, it is sten
r that tlit.y are as much to ii ,ivributed most so•eallial Jewish traits are not
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inborn and racial. or hereditary, but
ri t o acquired circumstances as to p
':re acquired as the result of the so-
siblt• hereditary tendencies.
Forced into industrial and niercan- vial environment, or what has been
It is the
tile occupations, and living in cities' labelled -social heredity."
5. with crowd rd, insanitary. often mis- • conditions in the lire of the individual
Itrable conditions, the Jew led a se-! which are largely responsible for the
lielltary life and developed 0 poor habits of the average Jew as well as
physique, Ile was over-serious, ma - for the average non•few. Change
lured too early and had little or no the social, educational and other en-,
Play. The nature of his occupation .vironmental conditions of the Jew
li it to undue hurry and rush. with ex- . and you change his habits and char-
missive nervousness and mental stress, aeteristics. And the earlier this is
and strain. The final rt...ult was an ,,lone the more pronounced will he the
underdeveloped physique and (Ti i change. There are sufficient mental
overdeveloped brain, with undue non conflicts, with the need for profound
vows instability and sensitiveness. adjustments, in the present life of
This, so the argument Cites, has pro-' the Jew, especially in certain sections
dueed inherent nervousness and in- , of the world where he is particularly
id ability in the Jew. But these causes , repres-ed, to account for his greater t
•till ticcur in the present life of the t en d enc y toward nervousness and
average Jew, and so nervousness re- nervous breakdown.
salting therefrom must he regarded
-
The Jew should not resort to his E_
as of acquired origin, unless its he- .supposedly innate nervousness as a =
rodnary origin ran be proven conclu- ,10,1tre, excuse or alibi in meeting =
sively in each case.
' "'tad"' not should it lead t..
e'
Since excessive economic pressure, ilTr
' feelings
of inferiority with associated
with consequent insecurity and uncer- ' conviction of incapacity with a false =
Minty, although as a rule more jfro-
of pessimism, inaction and
nounced in the To than the non e w .'fl iMN II.:IT I'h
flitt Y ht from life as it is and as =
itue to occupational 8114 Iother dims- . it mu.„ h e en , :
bililleS, k operative at this moment 1
Nervous children and adults ofc
di fferent parts of the world, in -
long .lows
• in the same way as oth-
el uding the United States, it cannot an r But • even
then heredity should =
very well be put forward as a reason t-'-`•
for the supposed hereditary nervous- not hr blamed for the nervousness =
unless it is definitely proven so in —
mess of the Jew.
Although his fine family life stn-!rash particular case. And even when
special case it is n 1 E. ---
hilized hint and helped to compensate',proven in any
argument for the general hereditary :=
for many of the handicaps with which ' "
the Jew was burdened, too often his ' nervousness of the Jew.
family ties were excessive, and we1 Jeder Mann has am Ende sin =
biscen
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aso
l we may -=
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h T uercuose.
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know that when family ties are ex_
a
e n- =
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ltItyheorhsuonim
t.
toms,
r they are a source of difficulty s.izatthna,trevv,tudt,yeinAefitsersliaglh
fir the reason that they hind and re-
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strict the individual too much, lead organism is in a state of unstable
it is only
only excessive =
um, an
to a harmful degree of segregation, i equilibrium,
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isolation and ancestitr-worship, over- ,
ps. A touch of nervousness :=
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lavishness, overdependence, indeci.' handica
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sion, excessive suggestibility and I makes the world go round.
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Jew, then, in no far as his nor- ."-
their ilk. But here again these foe- i The
A . need
s
tors are still operative in the life of rot. mat ,' i •
the present generation of Jews. De. no feeling of inferiority because of
go confi...=
casionally when consanguinity in ' his being a Jew, but may
and develop his 11010O. =
marriage occurs among JeWS. this in- !dently forward
may increase the tendency • bilities and work hopefully for the E
breeding
e =
to nervousness if that particular fain- . realization of the ideal mission h
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his goal.
ily tree is definitely predisposed to it. I has set up an
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And, finally, it must not be forgot- : -..
But this is true of non-Jews as well i
hat nervousness,
neousness, whether the re- =
that
convincing
tsent
of
as Jews and is far from c
nurture. is as cur. p
evidence for the greater hereditary I u
predisposition to nervousness by sir- able and preventable for the Jews as =
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' tue of the fact that the mates happen for others. by certain measures ear.
tied out in the life of the individual.
to be Jews.

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