Classify Romaniotes (Ancient Greek Jews)

[Scholarios]

This is one that could easily be Greek or Jewish. Almost Sarah Silvermanesque

[Sikeliot]

I was going to say she was one of the ones who I couldn't imagine being Greek.

[Scholarios]

Why? What's so ungreek about her? I know a nice Kalymian girl who looks similar.

[Sikeliot]

I am not sure. She just looks extremely Jewish to me.

[Scholarios]

I think that the Jewish traits seem to come out in the old people, their features sharpen a bit with age and it makes them look more distinct. The younger girl may also be mixed with Sephardic population and makes her look more native Mediterranean-Euro than Semitic and throws her features off to me. That reminds me to make a thread about Sarah Silverman...

[Roy]

Most of them look distinctively Semitic.

Yes.

[Lemgrant]

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