A race for the future scientific visions of modern Russian Jewishness
"One of the most comprehensive projects of self-racialization in Europe before World War II was implemented in a surprising place by an unexpected group. In the late nineteenth century, Jewish scientists and intelligentsia grew increasingly concerned with the postimperial future of the crumblin...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
Harvard University Press
2022
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| Ausgabe: | First printing |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "One of the most comprehensive projects of self-racialization in Europe before World War II was implemented in a surprising place by an unexpected group. In the late nineteenth century, Jewish scientists and intelligentsia grew increasingly concerned with the postimperial future of the crumbling Russian Empire. Marina Mogilner examines this anthropological self-exploration through both the science and biopolitics of race. She traces the activities of three leading Russian Jewish race scientists-Samuel Weissenberg; Alexander El'kind; and Lev Shternberg-and offers the first comprehensive investigation of the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population, which aimed to produce independent, "authentic" knowledge about the Jewish body. Interweaving the personal and institutional, local and transnational, A Race for the Future turns a powerful lens on the tightly entangled crises of Jewish identity and the old imperial order at the turn of the twentieth century"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 334 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780674270725 978-0-674-27072-5 |