JEWS' CLASSIC FACES
5 NOSBS NOT A TEST OF BAOE.
"All the Jews doa.t h»Te big noses." This was wha^;Mr.\B. N. Salaman set out to shorn in one of the final lectures to-the British Assedation. Mr. Stlamaßi argued r indeed, and produced photographs to prove his contention,' that t.^e perfect Greek type of features is tb";be found alnong people of JewiiKTbliiidd to-day, states'the "Dallf£News> "If yoji were to; seek for;, examples of that type wiinVthe straight- : iline of forehead and", nose,""the«;3iiiid, "you would.,~n<fc^aVeJ;intich success until you 'wenfottf*,, some'jof the";; Jewish sefyools,' whete put of 500 children you x would-find-jat least 12-perfect^classic N types.'?-'-'' '• ''■■'■ fp'-:'--' There were .threeJfacial,-types found in the ".. esstentially::;;- inbred,v^Jewish comnmnity;; Mr.. Salaman^said.^'First, the Armenoid- or populaify accepted Jewish type, -with round aiiad, aooked nose, aM'.small mouthr.TlSe'cond, the Semitic loiig faW;a»!J'-'l»ea^> lo. ng straight nose, big mouth, and thick lips. Third, the Pseudo-Nordic. or Philistine type,.- with small. features^ nbsV aid brow often in a cbntinupns —lirie"'"an{f '■' well:"ctevelbped: chin."-When »-Jew -mated with a representative of the English, German, or Nordic races,; the '-Norjlie 'charaeteristies ■ erally^overcame the^ Jewish strain.Mr." Safanian*. slowed ".pti'ofographs of well-known Je^tts and their fami-. Hes, including. Mr. Israel Zangwill, to illustrate the. dominance of the Nordic elementsi: olaseie type^of; Jewish"Jeafures'*was probably "an*lff-" heritance from,the infusion of -Philis, tine blood in'-BiWrcal'timesr ""■ •"■" "
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 124, 21 November 1925, Page 16
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