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THE death is announced of Dr. Maurice Fishberg, the anthropologist, which took place suddenly at the age of sixty-two years in New York on August 31. Dr. Fishberg was born in Russia, but educated in New York, where he studied medicine. He also devoted special attention to the study of anthropology and questions of race, and came to be recognised as the foremost authority on the physical anthropology of the Jews. He was the author of “Physical Anthropology of the Jews”, “Comparative Pathology of the Jews” and a volume “The Jews” which appeared in the Contemporary Science Series. His views on the origin of the differences in physical character displayed by the Jewish people in varying environments have been more widely accepted among non-Jewish anthropologists than they have among those of his own people, who have stressed the unity and continuity in history of the Jewish people as a race of distinctive character and culture.
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[Obituary]. Nature 134, 409 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134409a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134409a0