" It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard-a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable..." (Orwell, 12).
Before this passage, readers had already discovered that this society wasn't very welcoming to people of the Jewish race. Winston had written about the film he had watched in which Jewish people were grotesquely murdered, and he had described how people had found the film enjoyable. With this second reference to this particular race, Orwell is making it very clear that people of different races are not embraced in this novel. He is also drawing a connection between his novel and WWII, Hitler, and the Holocaust.
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