ANTHROPOLOGY OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS 181 



only 162 to 163 cm/ In Hungary ethnic conditions are not 

 so simple. Here we have the Magyars who are among the 

 shortest of Europeans, less than 162 cm. in height. The Slavs in 

 that country are taller, being ethnically allied to the Ruthenians 

 of Galicia and the Little-Russians of the Ukraine, this is to be 

 expected — they reach 164.6 cm. The Germans in Hungary 

 are of about the same height (Scheiber). The Roumanians are 

 about midway between the short Poles and Magyars, the tall 

 Little-Russians and Ruthenes. From the recent investigations 

 of Pittard they are found to be 165 cm. in height. A glance 

 at the map prepared by Anutchin and reproduced by Ripley ^ 

 showing the distribution of stature in this region of Europe, will 

 make this point clear. 



This is the stature of the races among whom the Jews under 

 consideration have lived for the last eight or ten centuries. If 

 any infusion of foreign blood has taken place, these races must 

 have been the sources from which it came. This we must 

 remember at the outset, before considering the curve showing 

 the distribution of stature of the Jews and Christians in Eastern 

 Europe. 



In order that we may see the probable effect of such an inter- 

 mixture of the Jews with the races among whom they have lived 

 for a longer time, the following plan of investigation has been 

 adopted : We have collected from the anthropological literature 

 on the eastern European races measurements of 6,708 individ- 

 uals, including : 



1,055 Little-Russians, from Talko-Hryncewicz's work. 



476 Letto- Lithuanians " " " " 



961 White-Russians " " " " 



2,861 Poles from Galicia " Kopernicki's " 



1,355 Ruthenians from Galicia " " 



These have been tabulated in Table V and the percentages of 

 frequency calculated for each group of stature ; the results have 

 been plotted on diagram as a curve. A glance at this curve 

 reveals the following salient points. Notwithstanding the fact 



^ Talko-Hryncewicz, Kopernicki, Anutchin, Ivanowski and others. 



2 " Races of Europe," p. 348, and also the map for Austria- Hungary, p. 350. 



