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1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome. |
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data file |
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Borderlines : Russian and East European Jewish studies
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Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish 'race, ' 1860s-1930 -- Stereotypes of pathology : the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle : Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal : the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era : 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body : a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s to the present -- The Jewish patient : Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The 'real' Jewish bodies of oligarchs : important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body : the new racial science. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
| Summary |
Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008 explores the construction of the Jew's physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts from the 1880s to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse in the 1880s, the depiction of Jewish characters in Russian literary and cultural productions underwent a significant change, as these cultural practices recast the Jew not only as an archetypal "exotic" and religious or class Other (as in Romanticism and realist writing), but as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts were determined by racial differences. This Jew allegedly had physical and psychological characteristics that were genetically determined and that could not be changed by education, acculturation, conversion to Christianity, or change of social status. This stereotype has become a stable archetype that continues to operate in Russian society. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Jews in popular culture -- Russia (Federation)
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Jews in popular culture. |
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Russia (Federation) |
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Human body in popular culture.
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Human body in popular culture. |
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Body image -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Body image -- Social aspects. |
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Russian literature -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mondry, Henrietta. Exemplary bodies. Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009026734 |
| ISBN |
9781618110268 (electronic book) |
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1618110268 (electronic book) |
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9781618118523 (electronic book) |
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1618118528 (electronic book) |
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9781934843390 (electronic book) |
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1934843393 (electronic book) |
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