How Tall Were the Jews?

The widespread belief that the Jews were far more affluent than non-Jews in Hungary decades before Holocaust lacks sufficient empirical corroboration. present study aims to income disparity between and light of anthropometric data. A review physical anthropological literature concerning height menarcheal age from 1850s until World War I, together with an analysis data 1913 conscription measurements fitness involving schoolchildren 1886 1916, suggest Jews’ biological standard living was higher non-Jews, although inverse true upper stratum society.