The Denver Jewish news., 1924-04-10
The Jewish Nose
By DIR. HENRY j. sCHIREsoN
Copyright, 1924. Jewish Telegraphic
Agency

tect" He is not only SURGICAL master,
1n5 dn iona artist az tne ssar ana
ones into beautiful features, ana 10 our
knowledge is the only surgeon IN ms
operation for strengthening cross eyes in
four minutes, without pain He & Is also; ,;s as
conutry practising plastic surgery. with
such tremendous success. He Is a disciple
lin IL aa two @ ally
famous German Jewish surgeons who dew
'eloped the science and art OF plastic snrgery.
ing from many points Of view, and Is a
notable contribution TO Jewisr anthropo-
logy and race history'-Editors note.
A man is physically and psychology
ically what his nose is, and race, too,
can be judged and recognized by its
nose. A nose is greatly indicative of
the character of the individual and Of
the race 1t is surely not an accident
that. with few exceptions, all great men
have long noses-the exceptions going
to prove the rule.
The Nortlic man is generally spoken
of, and represented to be, the actual
homo sapiens, but the great Nordie men
have seldom had Nordic noses. Nearly
all the great composers, painters, writ
ers and poets have had long noses. That
the length and formation of the nose
has something to do with the intelli-
gence of the individual, and is indica-
tive of his braininess can be seen from
two facts-frst. the nose of the city
dweller is, as every one can observe
daily, somewhat longer than that of
the villager; secondly, that the race of
the shortest nose, the Celtic, has pro-
duced less great men than the Nordic,
Gothic or Semitic races. The nations
affiliated with the Celtic race have
even failed to raise any of their lam
gunges to the dignity of n national
language. The Celtic languages are all
dialects. and their literatures have only
a folkloristic value, anthOropologist
will tell ycu, moreover. that the Celtic
nose is the shortest one, just as the
Hebraic, or, as it is more generally
termed, the. Semitic nose, is the long
est.
For this reason. this is what is most
characteristic in the external appear
ance of the members of the Semitic
race. The Jew, of course, is recogniz-
able as such by all the other facial
features as well, but his long nose is
admitted to be his most striking char
actcristic. Many Jew. especially if
he belongs to the class of social climb
ers. anxious not to be recognized as n
Jew, deplores his racial nose: and, be-
fore plastic surgery was created by two
Jewish scientists. Professors Israel and
Joseph of the Berlin University, these
long nosed Jews used to bitterly com
plain that they could give up the re-
ligion of Moses but could not get rid
of their noses, and baptism did not
change their social status. Now it is
different. A long nose can easily be
shortened, and many Jews. and n still
greater number of Jewesses, make am
pie use of the discoveries of plastic
surgery to shorten and beautify their
noses
But the Jew should find consolation
in the fact that the nose which so often
provokes trouble for him is indicative
of the intelligence of his race. To
fully realize the Importance of his nose,
he has only to look, for instance, at the
ignorant Russian moujik, who, like
most of the ignorant Slavs, is short
noscd. The highly cultured Western
European nations, and especially the
city dwellers amongst them, have much
longer noses and one cannot possibly
imagine Il really creative and great
artist, poet, statesman or philosopher
with the ffose of II Slav peasant.
What has been said regarding the
connection of his intelligence and nose
is true not only of the highly cultured
jew of the Western countries, but even
countries, Potentially, both are alike
brainy and intellectual for we have
often seen that the primitive Eastern
Jew, living very primitive life, and
thinking in terms of the fifteenth CEN
tury, develops within u very short time
into modern men, jumps to n mental de
velopment four hundred years in adj
vance of his compatriots, and becomes
full-fedged citizen of the twentieth
century. Solomon Maimon is "A case
in point. Solomon Maimon, a poor,
ignorant Lithuanian left his native vii
lagc without even the knowledge of the
alphabet came to KoenigsburG, Prus-
Sia. and after a short stay in the coun-
try became not only one of the fore
most German philosophers, but the
sharpest critic of Kant's philosophy.
Within very short time the ignorant
and primitive Lithuanian Jew became
one of the pillars of the philosophy of
the West l could quote many similar