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on the anthropology of the races in Russia, was freely drawn 

 upon. 



It was considered of importance to discuss some special prob- 

 lems in connection with the study of the physical anthropology 

 of the immigrant Jews in the United States. First the question 

 of selection by immigration was investigated. This was done 

 by comparing the results obtained by the study of the immigrant 

 Jews with those who were measured in their native land. Liter- 

 ature on the Jews in eastern Europe was available only for Poland,. 

 Galicia, Little- Russia, Lithuania, and White-Russia. It could 

 not be obtained for the Hungarian and Roumanian Jews, the 

 measurements here reported, as far as our knowledge goes, are 

 the first published. In this connection particular attention was 

 paid to the differences in respect to stature, head-form, pigmenta- 

 tion, between the immigrants and the stay-at-homes. Next to 

 this, the effects of occupation and social conditions on stature 

 was considered, for reasons which are fully set forth in the text. 



The author is under the impression that he presents here, 

 besides his own investigations on the anthropology of the Jews, 

 also most of the available data on the subject published'in 

 European literature on the anthropology of the Jews and the 

 races and peoples among whom they have lived for centuries. 

 Analyzing the similarities and differences of the physical type of 

 the Jews as compared with the Gentiles in the same country, 

 it is to be expected that many points may be brought out which 

 may contribute to the solution of some of the more important 

 problems presented by this most peculiar of races. 



