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59,761 Roumanian soldiers;^ in Bukowina, Himmel records 

 that the Roumanians reach 167.3 ^"^- i^ height." We found 

 no records in anthropological literature of measurements of Jews 

 in Roumania, but from Himmel's measurements of 100 Jewish 

 soldiers in Bukowina, they are shown to be quite tall, 165.7 ^^• 

 on the average. 



It is noteworthy that the distribution of the classes of stat- 

 ure confirms this condition very strikingly. It appears from 

 this table that the proportion of short individuals, less than 160 

 cm. in height, is everywhere larger among the Jews than among 

 the Gentiles of the same country ( excepting among the Rouma- 

 nians, but here we deal with immigrants only, having no available 

 statistics for Jews in their native country to combine with the 

 statistics of the stature of the immigrants as was done with the 

 other groups). But the percentage of these short individuals 

 seems to run in almost direct ratio to the percentage found 

 among the Gentiles in the same locality. In Galicia and in 

 Russian Poland, where persons under 160 cm. in height reach 

 over 20 percent, the Jews have 35 percent of short men ; on 

 the other hand, in Little-Russia, where such people are only 

 found to the extent of 14 percent, and in Roumania where it is 

 only 1 2 percent among the Gentiles, the Jews show also a les- 

 ser proportion, 24 and 1 8 percent respectively. Persons of 

 tall stature, 170 cm. in height and taller, are met with less fre- 

 quently among the Jews than among non-Jews of the same 

 country. Such persons are found to the extent of 10 percent 

 among the Galician Jews, but the proportion increases in fre- 

 quency as it increases among the Christians of a given country, 

 and is found to be 17 percent among the Jews from Little-Rus- 

 sia, and even 30 percent among the Roumanian Jews. That 

 this is not an isolated case, is shown by the fact that Talko- 

 Hryncewicz, Majer and Kopernicki and Otto Ammon mention 

 the fact that in those parts of the country '^ where the general 



^ Deniker, /oc. cit. 



^SeeHimmers " Korpermessungen in der Bukowina," reported by Weisbach, 

 in Mittheiliin;:;cn Anihropol. GescUschaft Wicn, X^^III, l888, Sitzimgsbcricht, pp. 

 83-84. 



3 Little-Russia, Galicia, Baden. 



