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Liberal Jews and the American eugenics movement: A forgotten history - UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

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Before eugenics became infamous, the movement to select and control human reproduction "to suppress defective classes" was popular among American liberals and progressives — including Jews. Graduate fellow Ari Forsyth explains.

Liberal Jews and the American eugenics movement: A forgotten history “ Composite portraiture of the Jewish type .” From “The Life, Letters and Labors of Francis Galton” by Karl Pearson, circa 1883. By Ari Forsyth “The government should first sterilize those whom it definitely knows to be afflicted with hereditary weaknesses — inmates of state institutions. It should continue to press on in its campaign for purity by examining all the people, weeding out the undesirable.” This unapologetic promotion of a eugenic “campaign for purity” sounds like it could be a passage fro

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