ABSTRACT
Theodore Reinach points out that Judaism possessed prudence and tact in dealing with the proselytes. The history of the Jews in Russia furnishes ample evidence that in the south of the Empire, especially in Kief, there were Jews long before the Jews came thither from Poland and Germany. History thus confirms the observations made by anthropologists to the effect that many of the types of the Jews in that region are hardly distinguishable from the types of mankind met with among the Christians in Eastern Europe, and that this is due to intermarriage and proselytism. Focus of intermarriage of immense significance in relation to the ethnic type of the Jews was in Southern Europe, especially in Spain, Portugal, and Gaul. The most important infusion of non-Jewish racial elements into the veins of Eastern European Jews took place in the eighth century when the Chozars adopted Judaism.
