ANTHROPOLOGY OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS 2(35 



Russia the proportion of dark hair in the women is 84 percent, 

 while among men it is only 60.3 percent. Light hair was found 

 only 16 percent m women and 39.7 percent in men.^ Weissen- 

 berg also found that Jewesses are more brunette than Jews, but 

 his conclusions are based on only one hundred men and forty- 

 one women. ^ Yakowenko also determined that dark hair is 

 more frequent among Jewesses than among Jews, only seven of 

 the former out of one hundred having light hair.^ This author- 

 ity remarks that dark hair is more common among women than 

 among men, while blond hair is more frequent in men. The 

 only investigator who found the Jews to be more brunette than 

 the Jewesses is Elkmd, who found among the Polish Jews 96.81 

 percent with dark and 0.53 percent with fair hair, as against 

 86.4 percent of dark, and 8.0 percent of fair hair among Jewesses.* 



Color of the Eyes in 4,235 Jews and Jewesses. 



Color of ihe Eyes. 



Jews. 



Jewesses. 



Number. 



Percent. 



Number. 



Percent. 



Black 



570 

 925 



597 

 624 



20.99 

 34.06 

 21.98 

 22.97 



621 



288 

 296 



20.67 

 40.88 

 18.96 

 19.49 



Brown 



Gray 



Blue 





Total 



2,716 



100.00 



1,519 



ICO 00 







In the appended table are given the figures of the color of the 

 eye among the Jews investigated in New York City. It is seen 

 that more Jewesses (61.55 percent) than Jews (55.05 percent) 

 have dark eyes. Pure blue eyes also appear to be more fre- 

 quent among the men than among the women — 22.97 percent 

 in the former and 19.49 percent in the latter. On this point the 

 observations of other investigators agree with those of our own. 



1 Julian Talko-Hryncewicz, " Charakterystika fizyczna ludnosci zydowskiej 

 Litwi i Rusi," Zbior Wiadontosci do antropologii Krajowej, XVI, pp. 17-22, Kra- 

 kow, 1892. 



2 S. Weissenberg,*<Die sudrussischen Juden," Archiv filr Anthropologie, XXIII, 

 p. 108 of reprint. 



3 M. G. Yakowenko, "Materials for the Anthropology of the Jews" (in Rus- 

 sian) p. 152, St. Petersburg, 1898. 



< A. D. Elkind, ''The Jews," Publications of the Society of Friends of Natu- 

 ral Science, Anthropology and Ethnography, CIV, pp. 37-47, Moscow, 1903. 



