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Jewish names and ethnic physical features stereotyped as Jewish may also cause a person to be visibly Jewish. [5] Physical features commonly stereotyped as Jewish may include body shape, height, facial features, dark hair or curly hair, and dark eye color, as well as nose size and shape. People with stereotypical Jewish features are often ...
Woman of the Haredi burqa sect in Mea Shearim, a Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem, 2012 The " Haredi burqa sect " ( Hebrew : נשות השָאלִים Neshót haShalím , lit. ' shawl-wearing women ' ) is a community of Haredi Jews that ordains the full covering of a woman's entire body and face, including her eyes, for the preservation of ...
Typical elements of performative "Jewface" include affecting a Yiddish accent and wearing facial prosthetics to imitate stereotypically Jewish features, hence the term is derived from the analogous term "blackface". More recently, the term has also been used to describe inequality in casting of Jewish performers as Jewish characters.
Jewish women like Helena Rubinstein and Estée Lauder marked history by being pioneers in the beauty industry. These women started their own companies, and they're still household names today.
In racist discourse, especially that of post-Enlightenment Western writers, a Roman nose has been characterized as a marker of beauty and nobility. [5] A well-known example of the aquiline nose as a marker contrasting the bearer with their contemporaries is the protagonist of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688).
How did a young Jewish woman who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria in the late 1930s end up in New York and emerge as one of the most dynamic illustrators of comic books a few years later?
However, face veils are known historically to have been worn by Jewish women. Marc B. Shapiro has written that there are some traditional sources which describe and praise the custom of modest Jewish women covering their faces, [53] including the Babylonian Talmud, [54] [55] Jerusalem Talmud, [56] Mishnah, [57] and Mishneh Torah. [58]
Expert witnesses would search for allegedly Jewish facial features, as conceived and understood by anti-Semites. If the doubted (grand)father was already dead, emigrated, or deported (as after 1941), the examination searched for these supposedly "Jewish" features in the physiognomy of the descendant (child).