ABSTRACT
Very little attention has been given to the Jewish type by ethnologists, beyond speaking of either the uniformity or plurality of the ethnic type. Joseph Jacobs is one of the few who wrote from the scientific standpoint in attempting to define the Jewish type. The Turanian type is akin to the last and is encountered very often among the Jews in South Russia and Austrian Galicia, Bukowina, and Roumania. Jews of this type are slightly above the median height, have a short square face with very prominent cheek-bones with some depression immediately below. The North European, or Teutonic type, is often found among the Russian, Polish, German, and English Jews. The most curious is the Mongoloid type of Jews, often seen in Russia, Poland, and Germany, especially among women and children. The portraits reproduced here are fair illustrations of this type as met with among Jews.
