"Within the Jewish nation two divisions are distinguished :
the Southern Jews (Sephardim) and the Eastern Jews
(Ashkenasim). The former are about one-tenth, the latter
nine-tenths of the whole people, which numbers about fifteen
millions. The Southern Jews make up the main Jewish
population of Africa, the Balkans, Italy, Spain, and Portugal,
and part of this population in France, Holland, and England.
They show a mixture of Oriental, Hither Asiatic, Mediter-
ranean, Hamitic, Nordic, and Negro, the Oriental predomin-
ating. The Eastern Jews make up the Jewish population of
Russia, Poland, Galicia, Austria, and Germany ; probably the
greater part of that of North America ; and part of that of
Western Europe. They show a mixture of Hither Asiatic,
Oriental, East Baltic, Inner Asiatic, Nordic, Hamitic, and
Negro, the Hither Asiatic predominating to a certain extent.:"
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