ANTHROPOLOGY OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS 



Table VII.^ 



185 



Stature of Immigrant Jews in New York Compared with those in 



Eastern Europe. 



Stature 

 (in cm. ) 



Galicia. 



Poland. 



Lithuania and 

 White-Russia. 



Little-Russia 





N. Y. 



Galicia. 



29.16 

 29.17 

 25.00 

 16.67 



58.33 

 41.67 



N. Y. 



Poland. 



N. Y. 



21.45 

 34.55 

 29.09 

 14.91 



56.00 

 44.00 



Lithuania. 



38.10 



33.09 

 19.42 



9-39 



71.19 

 28.81 



N. Y. 



14,60 

 32.87 

 30.58 

 21.95 



47-47 

 52.53 



Lit. -Russia. 



— 1 60 

 160-165 

 165-170 

 170 + 



-165 

 165 + 



36.07 

 28.85 

 21.64 



13-44 



64.92 

 35.08 



29.20 



30.48 



27-30 

 13.02 



59.68 

 40.32 



45-50 



28.50 



20.00 



6.00 



74.00 

 26.00 



29.22 

 29.00 

 27.17 

 14.61 



58.22 

 41.78 



only 14 percent of the Jewish immigrants from that country are 

 in tliis class of stature ; in Lithuania the proportions are 38 to 

 2 1 percent. The only exception is again with the Galician Jews, 

 where the proportion of persons less than 160 cm. in height 

 was found by Majer and Kopernicki to be 29 percent and in 

 New York City such short persons are more frequent, reaching 

 36 percent. Tall individuals, 170 cm. in height and taller, are 

 more frequently met with among the immigrants than among 

 those measured in their native land, again with the exception of 

 the Galicians. Among the Little-Russian Jews this class of 

 stature is 21,95 percent in New York and only 14,61 percent 

 at home ; among the White-Russian and Lithuanian Jews 14.91 

 in New York and 9.39 percent at home ; and among the Polish 

 Jews 1 3 percent in New York and 6 percent in Poland. The 

 same is the fact with the Hungarian Jews when we compare our 

 statistics with those obtained by Scheiber in Hungary.^ 



1 The figures for the Jews in eastern Europe in this table are taken from : Galicia, 

 Majer and Kopernicki, " Charakterystyka fizyczna ludnosci galicyzskiej, '^ Zhior 

 ■wiado/n. do antropol. krajoivej, Krakow, 1877, 1885, Vols, I and X ; Poland, A, D. 

 Elkind, "The Jews," Publications of the Society of Friends of Natural Science, An- 

 thropology and Ethnography, Vol, XXI, Moscow, 1902 (in Russian) ; Little- Russia, 

 J. Talko-Hryncewicz, " Charakterystyka fizyczna ludnosci zydowskiej Litwi i Rusi," 

 Zbior wiad. do a7itropol. Kraj., Vol. XVI, 1892; White-Russia, M. G. Vako- 

 wenko, << Materials for the Anthropology of the Jews," St. Petersburg, 1898 (in 

 Russian). 



2 S. H. Scheiber, " Untersuchungen iiber den mittleren Wuchs der Menschen in 

 Ungarm," Archiv fi'ir AntJn-opologie, II, 1 88 1, pp. 233-267. 



