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In determining the nature of so complex a character as the facial 

 expression, the personal equation of the observer must play an important 

 part. I have in some cases found that observers not specially accjuainted 



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= Jewish appearance. 

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with the subject, although agreeing that a given individual of the first 

 generation is of Gentile appearance have yet felt that there was 

 somewhere lurking in the face an expression which suggested " Jewish- 

 ness " and there is very little doubt that such opinion may often be 

 well founded. I have myself come across a few cases where without 

 doubt the reces.sive Jewish facial expression has come to the surface as 

 the individual grew older. One case was particularly apparent. The 

 parents were characteristically Jewish and nou-Jewish respectively, 

 there was a large family of which I saw one personally and the 

 remainder in photographs. Most of them were, to my mind, not Jewish 

 at all, but the one whom I was interviewing, though not in any way 

 strikingly Jewish, would probably have been recognised by many people 

 as such. His age was about 45 and he assured me, and his assurance 

 was confirmed by his wife, that when he was a young man he was never 

 by any chance recognised as a Jew in public. This same individual 

 has married a Gentile and has three children who are, I think, without 

 doubt totally non-Jewish in appearance. It is not without .surprise 

 that one finds that very many of the leading families of this country as 

 given in Burke, contain Jewish blood and I know of at least one case 

 where two parents, neither Jewish in appearance, have a daughter who 



