The sun., 1903-06-21

| long time under the ban Of abused perse
cution.
at expresses a crying fear and anxiety
or at least suspicion Of everything around
it. Again, 1t Is not the Jewish eye, but thu
| Ghetto eye. ..-
"The same eye can be observed among
Armenians, whose lot has been closely akir
to that OF the Jews. among the Kopts ir
Egypt and the Basques in Europe. These
Jews. who have already lived several gene
rations outside Of the Ghetto, do not possess
this phenomenon.
DR.. Fishberg. in the course OF his an
thropological investigations, has collected
thousands Of photographs from all parts
OF the world, showing the great facial dif'
ferences that already exist among the Jews
He has photographs Of Chinese 1sraelites
who are hard to distinguish from the
gentle Chinese, Roumanian Hebrews with
the faces OF their persecutors, Italian Jews
who would he taken In this country for rep
resentstive Italians. DC. The collection
viewed in the aggregate Ia powerful argu'
.ment in favor Of the theory that the Jewish
face will gradually disappear.
. But in the opinion OF this expert the fsca
assimilation of the Jewish race will be &C.
CELEBRATED by an important factor far more
powerful than environment Dr.. FtshberG
thinks that intermarriage with gentle
races is greatly on the increase among the
Jews.
He Is firmly Of the opinion. too. that such
intermarrages will continue to be Of great
frequency. His position on this subject has
caused him to be severely criticised by part
of the Jewish press. He says on the sub
ject.
"Intermarriages have occurred since the
beginning Of Jewish history, and will con-
tnue to occur until the end. Abraham had
a gentle wife, so did Moses. King David's
wife was Of a strange faith. and Solomon,
himself the son Of a gentle woman. had
1000 gentle wives.
Il, is this infusion OF foreign blood In
the race that is largely responsible for the
gentle type Of face observable on many
Hebrews to-day.
.In the eighth century Turanian tribe
in south Russia, including the King. were
converted to Judaism. During the Middle
Ages we have records OF other conversions
to Judaism In eastern Europe. These
conversions reached such proportions that
King Ladisla,,s Of Hungary issued decree
in 1000 prohibiting marriages between
Jews and Christians.
'This decree apparently did not have
the desired effect. because later, in 1920.
Bishop Robert Won Grau reported many
Christians married illegitimate Jewish
women. Christian parents sell their chill
dren to Jews. In a few years Christianity
has lost thousands Of adherents.
1Of course. it is impossible to 60 into
details as to the many modern clandestine
marriages that are causing blood mix
ture in the race"
Two important findings Of Dr. Fshbere
are worthy Of special note. One is that the
feminine Jewish face will retain it's charac-
teristics a great deal longer than will the
MASCULINE This he ascribee to the fact
that the chances OF assimilation among
women are much less than those OF the mon.
The other point Is that while to the out
side world the features of the Jew may IN
time be unrecognisa BILE. the expert eye Of
the anthropologist will always be able to
detect the type. This is because the man
Of science judges more by the shape OF the
head than by facial feat ures,
while the face is susceptible TO outside
influence" says DR.. Fishberg, -the head
form on the other hand is racial character
istic, Influenced but little, If at all, by en-
vironment, nut riuon, social selection. &c.