ANTHROPOLOGY OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS 



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In part such work has already been done. Professor Vir- 

 chow's investigations of the color of the skin, hair and eyes of 

 the school children in Germany; Schimmer's work in the same 

 line in Austria, Korosi in Hungary, Mayr in Bavaria, and Wat- 

 eff's in Bulgaria, have comprised nearly 150,000 Jewish chil- 

 dren, compared with non-Jewish children in the various prov- 

 inces in the named countries. Here we find that the percentage 

 of blondes among the Jews is quite large, 32 percent in Ger- 

 many, 27 in Austria, 23 in Hungary, 22 in Bulgaria, etc. The 

 percentage of light eyes is also large as can be seen from the 

 appended table (Table I). The type of pigmentation of the 

 Jews being dark, one is at once struck with the large percen- 

 tage of Jews having light hair and fair eyes combined, and the 

 origin of of these '* Indogermanic " Jews (as Virchow speaks of 

 them) is at once questioned. 



Table I.^ 

 Color of Hair and Eyes in 148,208 Jewish Children. 



Country. 



No. of 

 Chil- 

 dren. 



Hair (Percent). 



Eyes (Percent). 



Blond. Brown. Black. ! Red. Blue. Brown. 



Germany 75^377 32-03 54-39 11-46 



Austria 59,8o8 27.0 55-40 16.90 



Bavaria 7,054 30.0 50.00 20.00 



Hungary 3,141 23.7 57.00 19. 30 



Bulgaria 2,828 22.35 59-59 18.06 



0.4 

 0.6 



2.58 



Gray. 



Authority. 



19-30 5 1-99 27.00 Virchow. 



23.50 45.90 30.60 Schimmer. 



20.00 49.00 31.00 ISIayr. 



18.30 57.50 1 24.20 Korosi. 



19.38 j 61.34 22.13 Wateff. 



It is a striking fact, howev^er, that a study of the distribution 

 of the blond Jews according to the provinces of these countries 



1 The figures in this table are taken from : R. Virchow, " Gesamtbericht iiber die 

 Farbe der Haut, der Haare, und der Augen der Schulkinder in Deutschland," 

 Archiv fur Anthropologie, XVI, 1886 j G. A, Schimmer, " Erhebungen iiber die 

 Farbe der Augen, der Haare und der Haut, bei den Schulkindern Oestreichs " 

 Mitt, der Anthropol. Gesel. Wien, Suppl. I, 1884; G. Mayr, "Die Bayerische 

 Jugend nach der Farbe der Augen, der Haare und der Haut," Zeitschrift des 

 Konigl. bayerischenstatistisch. Bzircaii, VH, 1875, pp. 273-311 ; J. Korosi, Cou- 

 leur de la peau, des cheveux et des yeus a Budapest," Ann. de Demographie, 1878, 

 pp. 136-137; S. Wateff, " Anthropologische Beobachtungen der Farbe, der Au- 

 gen, der Haare und der Haut bei den Schulkindern von den Tiirken, Pomaken 

 Tataren, Armenier, Griechen und Juden in Bulgarien," Correspondenz Blatt der 

 deiitschen Ges. filr Anthropol., Ethnol. tind Urge sc hie hte, XXXIV, 1903. 



