A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness Mogilner Marina
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…
Specifikacia A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness Mogilner Marina
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
The Race to the Future