A Race for the Future : : Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness / / Marina Mogilner.

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• VerfasserIn: Mogilner, Marina,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

The forgotten story of a surprising anti-imperial, nationalist project at the turn of the twentieth century: a grassroots movement of Russian Jews to racialize themselves.In the rapidly nationalizing Russian Empire of the late nineteenth century, Russian Jews grew increasingly concerned about their...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction: Jews, Race, and the Challenge of (Post)Imperial Modernity
• I. THE SCIENCE OF RACE
• 1. The Dawn of the Jewish Race in the Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire
• 2. Samuel Abramovich Weissenberg: “Provincializing Europe” through Jewish Racial Self-Description
• 3. Arkadii Danilovich El’kind: Constructing a Jewish “Cultured Nation”
• 4. Lev Iakovlevich Shternberg: The Political Science of Jewish Race
• II. THE BIOPOLITICS OF RACE
• A Necessary Introduction: Jewish Biopolitics as a Victim of Aphasia
• 5. Russian Jewish Physicians and the Politics of Jewish Biological Normalization
• 6. Medical Statistics and National Eugenics
• 7. Civil War and the Biopolitics of Survival
• 8. The Gray Zone of Jewish Biopolitics and Its Place in Soviet Modernity
• Conclusion: At the Finish Line
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index