Maurice Fishberg

Maurice Fishberg (born 1872 in Kamjanez-Podilskyj , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire ; died 1934 in New York City , United States ) was a Jewish doctor and anthropologist who specialized in the anthropology of Jews .

Career

After schooling in his hometown, he emigrated from Russia to the USA in 1889 and received his doctorate in medicine from New York University in 1897 . He was a surgeon at Beth Israel Hospital Dispensary and medical examiner (Medical Examiner) of the Hebrew Charities of the United States (United States Hebrew Charities), New York City . Fishberg was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences , the American Ethnological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Anthropological Association, and the like. a. He is the author of a monograph on pulmonary tuberculosis that has been published several times . He wrote many articles on medicine and anthropology for the Jewish Encyclopedia (1902–1909) and popular publications. In his anthropological works he concluded that modern Jews had heterogeneous anthropological elements. The medic Arthur M. Fishberg was his son.

Fonts

The Jews: A Study of Race and Environment . 1911.
The internal secretions: their physiology and application to pathology . Translation based on the French work by Eugène Gley (1857–1930). Paul B. Hoeber, New York 1917 ( archive.org ).
Pulmonary tuberculosis. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia and New York 1916 ( archive.org ); 2nd revised and expanded edition 1919 ( archive.org ).
Physical Anthropology of the Jews . 1902.
Materials for the Physical Anthropology of the Eastern European Jews. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , May 1905.
The racial characteristics of the Jews. An introduction to their anthropology. Ernst Reinhardt, Munich 1913 ( archive.org ).
“Rassenzuchtung der Juden”, in: Statistics of the Jews. A collective font. Published by the Bureau for Statistics of the Jews . Commission publisher Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1918, pp. 70–86 ( table of contents ).
with Franz Boas , Ellsworth Huntington , Max J. Kohler: Aryan and Semite - With Particular Reference to Nazi Racial Dogmas. Addresses Delivered Before the Judaeans and the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences, March 4th, 1934, in New York City. B'Nai B'Rith, Cincinnati 1934.
The guided fun diishe natsyonalistishe movement . New York 1906.

literature

Eishiro Ito: And I belong to a race that is hated and persecuted . In: Sogo seisaku v9 n2 (2008-3), ISSN 1344-6347 , pp. 127-140; Section: Maurice Fishberg (1872–1934) and Joyce ( online ; PDF; 1.06 MB).
Frank H. Vizetelly: FISHBERG, MAURICE. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 5, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, p. 404 .

Web links

Wikisource: Maurice Fishberg - Sources and full texts

References and footnotes

↑ Frank H. Vizetelly: FISH MOUNTAIN, MAURICE. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 5, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, p. 404 .
↑ Maurice Fishberg, MD Surgeon to the Beth Israel Hospital Dispensary; Medical Examiner to the United States Hebrew Charities, New York City

personal data
SURNAME	Fishberg, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Морис Фишберг (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Doctor and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kamyanets-Podilskyj , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	1934
Place of death	New York City

[1] Frank H. Vizetelly: FISH MOUNTAIN, MAURICE. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 5, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, p. 404 .

[2] Maurice Fishberg, MD Surgeon to the Beth Israel Hospital Dispensary; Medical Examiner to the United States Hebrew Charities, New York City