Lord Snow Repud iates Attacks

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

LONDON (JTA) — Lord Snow,
the British scientist and writer,
has come under attack for a sug-
gestion he made in New York ear-
lier this month that Jews may
have a genetically superior en-
dowment than other people. Lord
Snow delivered the remark at
founders' day exercises at the New
York school of Hebrew Union-Col-
lege-Jewish Institute of Religion,
the seminary of Reform Judaism.
British Education Minister Edward
Short described it as "a com-
pletely spurious doctrine, reminis-
cent of Dr. Goebbels."

Aged in N.Y. Home Win

If we assume, as is probably sen-
sible, that Nobel Prize winners are
bound to be drawn from advanced
societies, then the fair statistical
distribution for Jewish people
would be something less than one
in 50 . . . Run your eye down the
lists of Nobel Prize winners for the
last 25 years. You will find some-
thing between a third and a quar-
ter have Jewish names.
Lord Snow said one answer
might be that the Jewish environ-
ment and the pressure of genera
lions of persecution has led to the
utmost use of talent. "In that case,
Lord Snow disclosed here Fri- in countries like the U.S. or the !
day that he had received "a stack United Kingdom, where the en-
of paranoid and obscene letters vironment is presumably less op-
from people accusing me of being pressive than at any time since
in the pay of Jews." He said he the Babylonian captivity—or per-
resented any suggestion that he haps short interludes in Moorish
was racist and added, "I do say Spain—one would expect this ex-
that certain groups of people have plosion of talent in due course to
a higher average genetic endow- lose its force. Will that happen?
ment — the Jews, judged by the Or is there something in the Jew-
crude test of their number of ish gene-pool which produces ta-
Nobel Prize winners, are a case in i lent on quite a different scale
point." Lord Snow added that he from say, the Anglo-Saxon gene-
was prepared to go to an all-black ! pool? I am prepared to believe
seminary in Alabama "and say ! that that may be so. One would
that if you look at the list of Olym- like to know more about the Jew-
pic gold medallists, it is clear that ish gene-pool. In various places-
the Negro race is disproportionate- ! certainly in Eastern Europe — it
ly talented in . . racing and the must have stayed pretty undiluted I
or unaltered for hundreds of !
long jump."
years," Lord Snow said.
Lord Snow's controversial re-
mark was in answer to a rhetorical
question he posed in his 41dress
at the HUC-JIR gathering: "Why
have the Jews been so success-
ful?" He noted that at no time
could the world's Jewish popula-
tion have exceeded 20 million and
it may have been about 17 to 18
million before the Nazi Holocaust,
less than the present populations
of Canada, Ethiopia, Spain or Tur-
key. He added, "Take any test of
achievement you like — in any
branch of science, mathematics,
literature, music, public life. The
Jewish performance has been not
only disproportionate, but almost
ridiculously disproportionate . . .

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