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Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies: Exemplary Bodies : Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s To 2008 by Henrietta Mondry (2009, Hardcover)
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PublisherAcademic Studies Press
ISBN-101934843393
ISBN-139781934843390
eBay Product ID (ePID)71707551
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Number of Pages300 Pages
Publication NameExemplary Bodies : Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008
LanguageEnglish
SubjectRussia & the Former Soviet Union, Personality, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Jewish Studies
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorHenrietta Mondry
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Psychology, History
SeriesBorderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight20.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2009-026734
ReviewsHenrietta Mondry's study of the representation of Jewish bodies in Russian culture over the past 130 years addresses a very important issue for scholars, and will be of great interest to those working in the growing field of Russian-Jewish studies. She explores a number of texts that have not been widely discussed in the field, and very effectively contextualizes them in the history of Russian attitudes toward Jewish identity. Her book shows that many of the ideas informing Judeophobic and Judeophilic sentiment have been situated in attitudes toward the Jewish body, and have remained consistent in many respects, despite vast changes in regimes and official policies...It contains a wealth of material for the study of the body in its relation to racial and national prejudice in general, as well as for students interested in problems of Jewish and Russian national identity. The author is to be commended for her work in advancing what should be a fruitful, continued discussion of these matters., [A] major and very timely contribution to the field of Russian-Jewish studies, given that contemporary Russian anti-Semitism still breeds on a long-standing cultural tradition of racial pseudo-science in the treatment of Jews. 'The Jew' has for centuries served as a trope of the universal Other in Western literary and cultural productions. In her book, Mondry examines how Russians adopted this image to construct and reassert their own sense of national identity. . . . By incorporating a whole range of disciplinary perspectives, from anthropology and psychology to genetics and political history, Mondry's engaging study shows how the Jewish physical and ontological body became a site onto which Russian culture at various historic times inscribed a negative meaning, constructing it as pathological, carnal, incestuous, picaresque, criminal, or sadist. The monograph would be of interest to any scholar of Russia who wants to learn how Russian culture sought to tackle the 'eternal' question 'what is Russianness?' by answering a rather different one -'what is Jewishness?'.-Elena Katz, University of Oxford. Review published in Slavonica, April 2011, Henrietta Mondry's Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture since the 1880s is one of the most important books to appear in the burgeoning field of Russian-Jewish studies this decade. Taking seriously the problematics of real Jews in the Russian speaking lands, Mondry examines the fantasies about their bodies in writings from Anton Chekhov to the new Russian racial science of the 2000s. This is a readable and engaging study offering methodological and critical insights into anti-Semitism and its images. It provides the reader with a detailed understanding of the function of such images over the past century from Romanoff Russia through the short and bloody history of the USSR to Putin's Russia. It gives one pause about the continuities in Russian images of the Jew into the future.-- Sander Gilman, Author, The Jew's Body, By bringing together previously unexamined Russian Jewish and Russian antiemetic texts, the book makes an important contribution to Russian Jewish cultural studies. Furthermore, Mondry expands the frame of deciphering the mechanism of othering the Jew by examining the construct of the Jewish body in the works of Jewish and Russian writers....Mondry s work is a must read for those seeking to understand the perpetual existence of a racializing and mythological vilification of the Jewish body.--Nadja Berkovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Henrietta Mondry's study of the representation of Jewish bodies in Russian culture over the past 130 years addresses a very important issue for scholars, and will be of great interest to those working in the growing field of Russian-Jewish studies. She explores a number of texts that have not been widely discussed in the field, and very effectively contextualizes them in the history of Russian attitudes toward Jewish identity. Her book shows that many of the ideas informing Judeophobic and Judeophilic sentiment have been situated in attitudes toward the Jewish body, and have remained consistent in many respects, despite vast changes in regimes and official policies...It contains a wealth of material for the study of the body in its relation to racial and national prejudice in general, as well as for students interested in problems of Jewish and Russian national identity. The author is to be commended for her work in advancing what should be a fruitful, continued discussion of these matters.--William Nickell, University of Chicago. Published in The Russian Review, By bringing together previously unexamined Russian Jewish and Russian antiemetic texts, the book makes an important contribution to Russian Jewish cultural studies. Furthermore, Mondry expands the frame of deciphering the mechanism of "othering" the Jew by examining the construct of the Jewish body in the works of Jewish and Russian writers....Mondry's work is a must read for those seeking to understand the perpetual existence of a racializing and mythological vilification of the Jewish body.-Nadja Berkovich University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "This book is a welcome addition to the small but growing literature that aims to address the neglect of 'race'...It represents a welcome theoretical shift away from the tendency to view religious-based anti-Semitism and racialized anti-Semitism as being somehow distinct."--Brendan McGeever, Revolutionary Russia, "This book is a welcome addition to the small but growing literature that aims to address the neglect of 'race'...It represents a welcome theoretical shift away from the tendency to view religious-based anti-Semitism and racialized anti-Semitism as being somehow distinct."--Brendan McGeever, in Revolutionary Russia
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements. A Note on Transliteration. List of Illustrations. Introduction.1. Russian Anthropological and Biological Sciences and the "Jewish Race," 1860s-1930. 2. Stereotypes of Pathology: The Medicalization of the Jewish Body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s.3. Carnal Jews of the Fin-de-Siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish Body and Incest.4. Ilya Ehrenburg and His Pecaresque Jewish Bodies of the 1920s. 5. Criminal Bodies and Love of The Yellow Metal: the Jewish Male and Stalinist Culture, 1930s-1950s. 6. Sadists' Bodies of the Anti-Zionist Campaign Era: 1960s-1970s. 7. Glasnost and the Uncensored Sexed Body of the Jew. 8. The Repatriated Body: A Russian Jewish Woman Writer in Israel Or the Corporeal Fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s to the Present. 9. The Jewish Patient: Alexander Goldstein and the Postmodern Russian Jewish Body in Israel, 2000s.10. The "Real" Jewish Bodies of Oligarchs: Important Jewish Personalities and Post-Soviet Corporophobia.11. The Post-Soviet Assault on the Jew's Body: The New Racial Science. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.
SynopsisExplores 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 biological and racialist discourse in the 1880s, the depiction of Jewish characters underwent a significant change, recasting the Jew as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts were determined by racial differences. This stereotype has become an archetype that continues to operate in contemporary Russian society and culture., 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 contemporary Russian society and culture., Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture since 1880s 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 contemporary Russian society and culture.
LC Classification NumberDS134.83.M66 2009
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