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Author:

Mondry, Henrietta.

Title:

Exemplary bodies : constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Henrietta Mondry.

Publisher:

Academic Studies Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

301 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Jews in popular culture--Russia (Federation)
Human body in popular culture
Body image--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)
Russian literature--History and criticism.
Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life
Russia (Federation)--Ethnic relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 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-si©·cle : 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.

Series:

Borderlines

ISBN:

1934843393 (hardback)
9781934843390 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)421534723

LCCN:

2009026734

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)