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A Race for the Future - Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness (Hardcover)
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A Race for the Future - Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness (Hardcover)
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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 future. Jews
spoke different languages and practiced different traditions. They
had complex identities and no territorial homeland. Their inability
to easily conform to new standards of nationality meant a future of
inevitable assimilation or second-class minority citizenship. The
solution proposed by Russian Jewish intellectuals was to ground
Jewish nationhood in a structure deeper than culture or
territory-biology. Marina Mogilner examines three leading Russian
Jewish race scientists- Samuel Weissenberg, Alexander El'kind, and
Lev Shternberg-and the movement they inspired. Through networks of
race scientists and political activists, Jewish medical societies,
and imperial organizations like the Society for the Protection of
the Health of the Jewish Population, they aimed to produce
"authentic" knowledge about the Jewish body, which would motivate
an empowering sense of racially grounded identity and guide
national biopolitics. Activists vigorously debated eugenic and
medical practices, Jews' status as Semites, Europeans, and moderns,
and whether the Jews of the Caucasus and Central Asia were
inferior. The national science, and the biopolitics it generated,
became a form of anticolonial resistance, and survived into the
early Soviet period, influencing population policies in the new
state. Comprehensive and meticulously researched, A Race for the
Future reminds us of the need to historically contextualize racial
ideology and politics and makes clear that we cannot fully grasp
the biopolitics of the twentieth century without accounting for the
imperial breakdown in which those politics thrived.
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