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does not indicate the origin of the fair Jews, and does not con- 

 firm the opinion that their blondness has been acquired in the 

 countries where we find them at the present day. For it is not 

 found that the percentage of blond Jews is larger in the northern 

 provinces of Germany, where the indigenous population shows 

 the highest proportion of blonds ; on the contrary, here they 

 are in the least, but further east and south, in Galicia, Buko- 

 wina, etc., where the indigenous population is darker, the Jews 

 show the highest percentage of blonds. This fact brought out 

 in Virchow's work has given rise to considerable discussion. 

 Many (Luschan, Andree, Judt, Elkind) are inclined to believe 

 that these blond Jews are the descendants of the fair-haired in- 

 dividuals among the ancient Hebrews. Andree and Prunner 

 Bey point to the modern non-Jewish Syrians, among whom fair 

 hair and eyes are not infrequent. Luschan says that many 

 blonds inhabited Syria and Palestine in antiquity ; they were 

 known in the Bible as the Amorites, " the sons of Anak," who 

 were "men of great stature," and are considered to have been 

 "Aryans." The modern blond Jews are said to be the de- 

 scendants of the Amorites, with whom the ancient Hebrews in- 

 termarried quite freely.^ 



In Galicia, Majer and Kopernicki have studied the compara- 

 tive anthropology of the races in that country, including the 

 Poles, the Ruthenians and the Jews. The results they have 

 obtained show great similarities in the somatic characteristics 

 of these three races. Their stature is about the same, Jews, 

 162.3 cm., Poles, 162.2, and Ruthenians, 164. The' cephalic 

 index is: Jews, 83.5, Poles, 84.4 and Ruthenians, 83.3. In 

 the same manner, while the Jews are much darker than the 

 other still 13.7 percent have fair hair and 29 percent fair eyes." 

 In Russia Talko-Hryncewicz has compared the Jews with the 

 Little Russia Leto-Lithuanians, and White Russian? He found 

 that in Little Russia where the population is characterized by 



^ F. V. Luschan, "Die anthropologische Stellung der Juden," Coi-i'espondenz 

 Blatt der Dcntsch. Gcsel. filr AnthropoL, XXIII, 1892, pp., 92-102. 



2 J. Majer and J. Kopernicki, " Chrakterystyka fiziczna ludnosci galicijskiej," 

 Zhior viadoni. do anthropologii krajovejy Krakoiv, I, l877i I^» 1885. 



