ANTHROPOLOGY OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS 273 



countries does not reveal any process of selection of fair types 



among the immigrants, as can be seen from Table XLVIII. 



Excepting the Polish Jews, those observed in Eastern Europe 



have a larger proportion of blonds than those who emigrated to 



the United States. 



Table XLLX. 



Types of Pigmentation Among Jews and Non-Jews in Eastern Europe. 



Country and Race. 



Number. 

 Observed. 



Poland. I 



Jews, men 275 



" women I74 



Poles, men 226 



** women 149 



Lithuania and White-Russia. 



Jews, men 5^9 



'' women • 200 



Letto-Lithuanians, men 476 



White-Russians, men 961 



" " women I 275 



Little- Russia. 



Jews, men I 1,088 



" women 873 



Little-Russians, men 2,619 



** *' women 647 



Type. 



Dark. 



Fair. 



55.22 6.23 



55-75 ! 7-47 

 17.57 I 20.27 



Mixed. 



25-50 



58.41 



63-50 



5-00 



11.50 



21.09 



20,81 



9-51 



9.00 



66.60 



57-IO 



58.55 



51.84 14.43 



67.69 6.99 

 20.40 34.00 



24.70 , 36.90 



38.55 

 36.78 

 62.16 

 53.69 



32.08 

 27.50 

 28.40 

 31-30 

 20.36 



33-73 

 25-32 

 45.60 



38.30 



Observer. 



Elkind, Fishberg. 



Elkind. 



Yakowenko, Talko, Fishberg. 

 Yakowenko, Fishberg. 

 Talko-Hryncewicz. 



Shtchedrobitzki ( I vanovski ) , 

 Talko-Hryncewicz, Fishberg 



A comparison of the Jews with the races and peoples in 

 Eastern Europe among which they have lived shows that the 

 proportion of fair types among the Jews does not depend upon 

 the frequency in which these types are encountered among the 

 non-Jews. From Table XLIX it is evident that even in Lithu- 

 ania and White-Russia, where the indigenous population has up 

 to 66 percent of persons with fair hair and eyes combined in the 

 same individuals, the Jews have only 9.51 percent of such per- 

 sons, while in Little-Russia, where the indigenous population is 

 darker, having only 34 percent of fair types, the Jews on the 

 contrary have a much larger percent of fair types, 14.43 percent. 



This condition has already been observed to be true of the 

 German, Austrian and Hungarian Jews. In his investigation of 

 the color of the skin, eyes and hair of the school children in 

 Germany, Virchow found the proportion of brunettes to be 



