Physical stature of Jewish Dutchmen: an overview of three cases from the nineteenth century

I investigated the changes in stature of Jewish and Non-Jewish conscripts in Amsterdam (northern Holland) and Groningen (Groningen) during the second half of the nineteenth century. In the middle of the nineteenth century the position of the Jewish population was rather weak from an economic perspective. In the last decades of the nineteenth century there was a general process of convergence in the biological standard of living (height). However, during this period Jewish conscripts in Amsterdam, Groningen the center of agricultural trade and in the parts of Russian Poland did not have the sam... Mehr ...