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There is No Jewish Race nor Even a Nordic One

January 5, 1930
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There is no Jewish race, and although the Jews were formerly a nationality, they are now only a religious caste and most of them have little Jewish blood in them, declared Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole, professor of anthropology in the University of Chicago, in an address before the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Cole’s remarks were made in the course of an address in which he termed so-called Nordic superiority a myth, if for no other reason than that there is no pure Nordic race. As a matter of fact, he said, there is no such thing as a pure race today anywhere.

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