ANTHROPOLOGY OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS 



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Table VIII. 



Stature of the Jews Compared with That of Non-Jews i.n Various Counntriesi 



Eastern Europe. 



Country. 



a 



to 164.9. 



•6 691 01 



nd Over. 



sThan 

 165. 



u 

 > 







c 



imber. 



^2i 



>5 



Observer. 











ID 



c4 



5 





'^ 



<;co 





Galicia. 

















Jews. 

 Poles. 

 Ruthenians. 



35-93 

 13.67 



21.78 



33-22 



32.93 

 26.47 



20.24 

 28.90 

 22.94 



10.61 

 24.50 

 28.81 



69.15 

 46.60 

 48.25 



30.85 

 53-40 

 51-75 



1,141 



2,861 



1,355 



1,623 

 1,622 

 1,640 



Fishberg, Kopern. 



Kopernicki. 

 11 



Poland. 





















Jews. 

 Poles. 



35-53 

 23-50 



29.71 

 38.22 



24.47 

 21.99 



10.29 

 16.23 



65.24 

 61.78 



34-47 

 38.22 



515 

 191 



1,625 

 1,640 



Fishberg, Elkind. 

 Elkind. 



Lithuania and 





















White- Knssia. 





















Jews, 



27.05 



34.06 



25.85 



13.04 



61. II 



38.89 



414 



1,635 



Fishberg, Yako- 

 wenko. 



White-Russians. 



23-93 



28.62 



32.15 



1514 



52.55 



47.29 



961 



1,636 



Talko-Hrynce- 

 wicz. 



Letto-Lithua. 



18.07 



31-52 



27.94 



22.47 



49-59 



50.41 



476 



1,644 



Talko-Hrynce- 

 wicz. 



Little- Russia. 





















Jews. 



2435 



30-30 



28.31 



17.04 



54.65 



45.35 



657 



1,639 



Fishberg, Talko- 

 Hryncewicz. 



Little-Russians. 



14.52 



32.88 



26.86 



25-74 



47.40 



52.60 



1,694 



1,670 



Ivanowski. 



Roumania. 





















Jews. 



Roumanians. 



18.00 

 12.58 



27-33 



29.80 



24.00 



31-79 



30.67 

 25-83 



45-33 

 42.38 



54.67 

 57.62 



150 

 151 



1,660 

 1,650 



Fishberg. 

 Pittard. 



tukhof records the Jewish recruits in Odessa to be 165.6 cm. 

 in height on the average, even taller than the Christian con- 

 scripts of that city. Even Snigireff's recruiting statistics show 

 that the Jews measure here 164.2 cm. The Hungarians are 

 also known to be tall, 164.6 cm., according to measurements 

 o^ 77,579 Magyar soldiers,^ and here, also, the Jews are taller,, 

 165.7 <^ni. in height." Finally the Roumanian Jews appear the 

 tallest of the Eastern European immigrant Jews in New York 

 city. Pittard gives as the average stature of the Roumanians 

 as 165 cm.; the same average stature was found by measuring 



1 Quoted from Deniker, "The Races of Man," p. 579. 



2 From Scheiber's statistics it would appear that the Magyars are shorter, only 

 161.9 cm., but he found the Jews superior in this respect, 163.3 cm. in height. 

 The difference may be explained by the fact that the former statistics are from sol- 

 diers, a picked lot from which all short individuals have been eliminated. 



