Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference

The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky Against the Russian Empire

AvMarina B. Mogilner

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference explores how Russian Jewish writers and political activists such as Vladimir Jabotinsky turned to "race" as an operational concept in the late imperial politics of the Russian Empire.Building on the latest scholarship on racial thinking and Jewish identities, Marina Mogilner shows how Jewish anthropologists, ethnographers, writers, lawyers, and political activists in late imperial Russia sought to construct a Jewish identity based on racial categorization in addition to religious affiliation. By grounding nationality not in culture and territory but in blood and biology, race offered Jewish nationalists in Russia a scientifically sound and politically effective way to reaffirm their common identity.Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference presents the works of Jabotinsky as a lens to understanding Jewish "self-racializing," and brings Jews and race together in a framework that is more multifaceted and controversial than that implied by the usual narratives of racial antisemitism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-04
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Jews in Eastern Europe
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253066138

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Marina Mogilner holds the Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is cofounder and coeditor of the international journal Ab Imperio and author of Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia and A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness.

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Mogilner's brilliant book defamiliarizes what was considered self-evident in the history of Jewish nationalisms and Jabotinsky's biography, placing emphasis on ideas, establishments, and events that are typically perceived as secondary. Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference not only unveils new facets in Jabotinsky's writings and ideology but also provides a fresh methodological perspective for understanding the discourse of race as a political language.- Svetlana Natkovich - University of Haifa (H-Judaic)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsNotes on Transliterations, Translations, and NamesIntroduction: When Race Is a Language and Empire Is a Context1. Race, Zionism, and the Quest for Jewish Authenticity2. Mediterranean as New European: Race and Europeanness in Zionism and Other New Nationalisms3. Racial Purity versus Imperial Hybridity: Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire4. Jewish Race versus Russian Race5. Nationalizing Politics in the EmpireConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex