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FISHBERG 



This shows that the immigrant Jewesses are on the average 

 taller than those in Eastern Europe. In Poland Elkind found 

 the average stature of the Jewesses in Warsaw to be i 50.4 cm. 

 while the immigrants from that country are 152.2 cm. ; Lith- 

 uanian and White-Russian Jewesses average 150.7 cm. in 

 height at home (Yakowenko), and 153.7 in New York ; and 

 Little- Russian Jewesses are 15 1.5 cm. (Talko-Hryncewicz) in 

 South Russia and in New York 1 54.6 cm. The proportion 

 of tall Jewesses, over 158 cm. in height is also larger among the 

 immigrants in the United States, than among, those in their native 

 homes, 17.86 percent against only 9.6 percent among the 

 Polish ; 20 against 1 3 percent among the Lithuanian, and even 

 32.43 percent against 15.53 among the Little-Russian Jewesses, 

 it appears, however, that short Jewesses, measuring 140 cm. and 

 less are more frequently encountered among the immigrants than 

 in Eastern Europe, reaching even 3.57 percent among the Polish 

 Jewesses in New York. 



TABr.E XIV. 

 Stature of Jewesses Compared with Eastern European Women. 





Poland. 





Lithuania. 





Little-Russia. 



Stature. 



Jewesses. 



Poles. 



Jewesses, 



Letto- 

 Lithu tnian. 



White- 

 Russian. 



Jewesses. 



Little- 

 Russian. 



-140 



1.66 







3-0 











1.07 



— 



140-152 



153-157 

 158 + 



61.33 

 24.86 

 12.15 



46.31 

 36.23 

 17-45 



52.5 

 28.0 



16.5 



33-96 



45-29 

 20.75 



43-97 

 31.92 

 24.11 



52.86 

 26.07 

 20.00 



22.98 



39-57 

 37-45 



Number. 



181 



149 



200 



106 



141 



280 



235 



Average. 



151-7 



153-3 



152.2 



152.6 



152.3 



152.6 



154-5 



When compared with non-Jewish women in the same country, 

 the Jewesses are shorter in stature, by one to two cm., and short 

 persons, 140 cm. in height and less, are entirely absent among the 

 non-Jewish w^omen. The proportion of tall women, i 58 cm. and 

 over is much smaller among the Jewesses. But also here we 

 can note the phenomenon observed when considering the men : 

 the proportion of tall individuals is in direct ratio to the propor- 

 tion of such persons found among the Gentile women. The 

 Polish women have only 17.45 percent of women over 157 cm. 



