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While there is little of psychoanalytic import in this most excellent presentation we would note it here.
Its chief concern is to set forth the activities of Jewish medicine in Palestine and elsewhere with some sundry essays upon noteworthy Jewish physicians, in short a contribution to Jewish medical history. It carries forward the program of a preceding volume.
Of psychiatric import a paper by Hershel Meyer of Chicago on the Psychopathology of Nazism. Hitler is characterized as a mass hypnotist and the whole anti-Jewish pragram as one in which the hypnotic credulity of the masses is capitalized. This is the technique of the Fascist and has had its forerunners throughout the centuries, so well known in the hunt for demons and witches of the middle ages, grafted upon militant Prussianism. The authors forecast that the maniacal psychosis of war as the only alternative has come true.
In more placid mood one can read with enjoyment the paper by Max Meyerhof on the rǒle of the Jewish physicians under the rule of the Fatimid Caliphs in Egypt (967-1171 A.D.); while Hyman Morrison's essay on Early American Jewish Physicians is informing and praiseworthy both as to its presentation and as to its benefits in spreading medical science in the early Colonial life. Even earlier since Columbus carried as helpers with him in his first voyage a Jewish physician and surgeon.
Altogether we find it a most entertaining and informing volume.