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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: ... ( Israel ) and Jewish pride
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Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 11:54:00 EST
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The  problem  with  lack  of  pride,  sycophantic admiration of European
culture and ridiculous self-criticalness is purely  Ashkenazi.  Sefardim
had  loads of pride until the Israeli leftist governments worked to make
them ashamed so that they could better be made to  fit  in  the  leftist
secularist antiJewish culture which the Eastern European Zionists wanted
to make in Israel.

From:  Caracteres Generales del Judeo-Espan~ol de Oriente by  M.L.Wagner.

A footnote pg 6 & 7 by Maurice Fishberg, The Jews, A Study of  Race  and
Environment, London, New York and Melbourne, 1911, pag 108.

There  are  significant  differences  between the two types of Jews when
considered anthropologically, although there is hardly any justification
for  speaking  of  two  distinct races as has been done by some writers.
Neither of the two types can claim special racial purity.  The  Sephardi
type  is  the  one  which  conforms  most to the ideal Jewishj type, and
anthropologically corresponds to the "Mediterranean" race of Ripley,  of
the Race Ibero-Insulaire" of Deniker.  The have generally black or brown
hair, occasionally read and rarely blonde, large black  or  brown  eyes,
seldom,  grey,  and  rarely blue.  In addition to their dark complexion,
they are short of stature and either  dolichocephalic  or  mesocephalic.
The face is oval, the forehead receding, the eyes almond-shaped with the
outer extremity very pointed, while the dark eyebrows are very bushy  at
the  inner  end where they tend to unite over the root of the nose.  The
traditional Semitic beauty, which in women often  assumes  an  exquisite
nobility,  is  generally  found  among  these Jews, and when encountered
among Jews in Eastern  of  Central  Europe,  is  always  of  this  type.
Indeed,  it  is  hard  to  imagine  a beautiful Jewess, who looks like a
Jewess, presenting any other physical type.  It appears that in addition
to  the  delicacy  and  the  striking symmetry of the features which are
often met with, it is also the brilliant, radiant eyes which charm.  The
Spanish  and  Andalusian  women  are said by some to owe their charms to
these beautiful eyes, which are alleged to  have  their  origin  in  the
small  quantities  of  Semitic  blood which flows in their veins.  Their
long, narrow heads often have prognathous faces,  the  upper  and  lower
jaws protruding forward.  The nose is generally narrow, prominent, often
convex, but only rarly of the kind popularly considered "Jewish."   Many
of  them  have  a  rather  large  mouth  with thick lips, expecially the
underlip.

"They are medium-sized, slender, narrow-shouldered, but graceful people,
with a somewhat melancholy and thoughtful  expression.  ***>  Only  very
rarely  is  to  be  seen  a Spanish Jew displaying a servile or cringing
attitude in the presence of superiors, as is  often  to  be  seen  among
German  and  Polish  Jews  [obviously  because  Sefardim  never consider
non-Jews superiors -- ed.]  The Sephardim  are  very  proud,  and  their
sense of dignity manifests itself even in their dress and deportment, to
which they pay scrupulous attention.  These traits which  they  acquired
while  living  for  centuries among the Castilians [I would have said --
which the Castilians picked up from the Sephardim] have been transmitted
to their descendants of to-day." <***


Needless  to say there were many quisling Ashkenazim who were willing to
work for the Yevsektsias in the Soviet Union (Menahem Begin  gives  some
illuminating  descriptions  of  these  disgusting  craven  people in his
writings).  I have yet to find reference to any Sefardi quisling in  the
Yevsektsias.