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oapen-20.500.12657-236662024-03-22T19:23:03Z Exemplary Bodies Mondry, Henrietta Literature Literary criticism Russian studies Jewish studies Film studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communities thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PG Relating to religious groups::5PGJ Relating to Jewish people and groups Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008 explores the construction of the Jew’s physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts from the 1880s to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse in the 1880s, the depiction of Jewish characters in Russian literary and cultural productions underwent a significant change, as these cultural practices recast the Jew not only as an archetypal “exotic” and religious or class Other (as in Romanticism and realist writing), but as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts were determined by racial differences. This Jew allegedly had physical and psychological characteristics that were genetically determined and that could not be changed by education, acculturation, conversion to Christianity, or change of social status. This stereotype has become a stable archetype that continues to operate in Russian society. 2019-11-26 23:55 2020-03-27 03:00:26 2020-04-01T09:25:28Z 2020-04-01T09:25:28Z 2009-11-01 book 1006477 OCN: 1135854174 9781618118523 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23666 eng Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies application/pdf n/a 1006477.pdf https://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewsofrussiaeasterneurope/copy-of-exemplary-bodies-constructing-the-jew-in-russian-culture-1880s-to-2008 Academic Studies Press 10.2307/j.ctt21h4wgs 104929 10.2307/j.ctt21h4wgs ffe92610-fbe7-449b-a2a8-02c411701a23 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781618118523 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 104929 KU Open Services Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008 explores the construction of the Jew’s physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts from the 1880s to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse in the 1880s, the depiction of Jewish characters in Russian literary and cultural productions underwent a significant change, as these cultural practices recast the Jew not only as an archetypal “exotic” and religious or class Other (as in Romanticism and realist writing), but as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts were determined by racial differences. This Jew allegedly had physical and psychological characteristics that were genetically determined and that could not be changed by education, acculturation, conversion to Christianity, or change of social status. This stereotype has become a stable archetype that continues to operate in Russian society.
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