Exemplary Bodies
Subtitle: constructing the Jew in Russian culture since the 1880s
By: by Henrietta Mondry.
Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European Jewish studies
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brighton, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934843390
Subjects: Jews in popular culture -- Russia (Federation); Human body in popular culture -- Russia (Federation); Body image -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation); Russian literature -- History and criticism; Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life; Russia (Federation) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish "race"; title: Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s; title: Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest; title: Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s; title: Criminal bodies and love of the "yellow metal": the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s; title: Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s; title: Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew; title: The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s; title: The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s; title: The "real" Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia; title: The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.