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blended the type. Mixed marriages in the capital of the German Empire, where anti-Jewish sentiment still prevails, have increased to 25 per cent. And even if we admit that there still exists a definite Jewish type, that does not prove the unity and fixity of the Jewish race. Even as there exists a Jewish type, so there exists a British type, a French type, and a Russian type. Yet it would be absurd to say that there exists one British race, one French race, one Russian race, and it is equally absurd to say that there exists one pure Jewish race. The Jews have themselves recognized two main racial types—the aristocratic dolichocephalic type of the Sephardim of Spain and Portugal, and the democratic brachycephalic type of the Aohkenarim of Poland and Russia. But, as a matter of fact, there are not two Jewish types, there are fifty. Anyone who has travelled amongst the Jewries of the world (and I have visited every important ghetto in Africa and Asia, in America and Europe) must have been bewildered by the variety of physical types. And without visiting the ghettos of the world, anyone who will take the trouble to look at the two hundred striking photographs in Dr. Fischberg's fascinating