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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mogilʹner, Marina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ṿaysenberg, Shemuʼel, 1867-1928.

Ṿaysenberg, Shemuʼel.

Jews--Russia--Identity.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : Harvard University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Amid the nationalization of Russian imperial politics, Jews developed a powerful version of race science and biopolitics as a response to their colonial condition, nonterritoriality, and exclusion from looming postimperial modernity. Marina Mogilner explores this story in the context of Russia's turbulent early twentieth century.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-29009-7

OCLC:

1343104761