United Nations Economic and
Social Council, in 1950, em-
powered its secretariat to col-
lect material regarding the race
problems and to give it the
widest possible diffusion. The
collected data has been incor-
porated in a most informative
book, "Race and Science, which
has been published by Colum-
Ma University Press (2960
B'way, N. Y. 27).
Harry L. Shapiro has con-
tributed two valuable studies to
this volume—"The Jewish Peo-
ple: A Biological History" and
"Race Mixture."
In the first of the series of
essays in the book, Juan Comas,
who wrote on "Racial Myths,"
discusses also "The Jewish
Myth."
Other topics dealt with and
their authors are: "Race and
Society," Kenneth Little, "Race
and Culture," Michel Leiris;
"Race and History," Claude
Levi-Strauss; "Race and Biol-
ogy," L. C. Dunn; "The Signifii-
cance of Racial Differences,"
G. M. Morant; "The Roots of
Prejudice," Arnold M. Rose;
"Race Relations and Mental
Health," Marie Jahoda; "Race
and Psychology," Otto Kline-
berg.
Stating that anti-Semitism to-
day resorts "to the myth of a
Jewish race in -an attempt to
justify itself and to provide a
pseudo-scientific • cloak for its
political and economic motives,"
Comas states that "the type re-
garded as typically 'Jewish' is
actually very common among
the peoples of the Levant and
the Near East, though most of
these people are not Jews and
never have been, either in re-
ligion or in other aspects of
their culture." He traces earlier
aspects of anti-Semitism by
stating:
"Anti-Semitism, as a social
and political attitude, infect-
ing whole States in some in-
stances and extensive sectors
of the population in others,
and defended to a greater or
lesser extent on religious and
economic grounds, is a long-
standing antagonism of which
samples are found far back in
history. To indicate its per-
sistence, we may quote such
instances as the mass expul-
sion of the Jews from Spain
in the 15th century, the seg-
regation of Jeivs in Christian
Europe during the Middle
Ages, the Dreyfus case in
France, the notorious pogoms
of Jews at various times and
in various parts of Eastern
and Central Europe, and the
use for world-wide propa-
ganda of the spurious 'Proto-
cols of the Learned Elders of
Zion,' with which it was
sought to exacerbate anti-
Semitic feeling among the
masses."
Pointing to extensive inter-
marriages and to mixing of
races, stating that "it is obvious
that all Jewish communities are
of mixed stock whatever the
country in which they reside,
since, even if they were segre-
gated at certain epochs, these
measures could never be
strictly, not for long, main-
tained or complied with,"
Comas writes:
"There is no foundation for
the claim that there is a
Jewish race; it is a biological
myth affording no valid basis
for an anti-Semitic attitude."
Shapiro's outline of the bio-
logical history of the Jewish
people is a highly scholarly
essay that embraces every ele-
ment of subject, past and pres-
ent. He enumerates reasons for
Jewish survival and he asserts
that "as a people conscious of
their distinct tradition and of
their existence as an entity,
only • the Egyptians are older
than they."
After reviewing the genesis
of Jewry, their Chosen People
status and the interpretation of
these terms, their Dispersion
and the emergence of a Dias- in other ways organizes his
gerous to their government. to understand the basis of pre-
pora life, Sharpiro outlines rea- life and values in a recogniz-
But Sunday School teachers
judice. "Race and Science" is
sons for the continuity of the ably distinctive way. . ."
do not always point out these therefore an extremely impor-
Jews' existence. Affirming that
He adds another point: "The facts. To make matters much tant book in the field of creat-
religions played a "determing distribution of the Jews through
es iden- ing good will and of presenting
role," he also points to cultural many different countries a
the peop
the truth about races and their
factors:
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its and cultures.
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religious system regulating conditions w e r
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man's spiritual relations with severe in one
ntry, as for blame for a crime that hap-
God. It also prescribes rules example in
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UNESCO-Inspired 'Race and Science' Exposes Race Myths, Anti-Semitism
A resolution adopted by the