Mondry, Henrietta.

Exemplary Bodies : constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Henrietta Mondry. - Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, c2009. - 301 p. : ill., photographs ; 25 cm. - Borderlines: Russian and East European Jewish studies .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-292) and index.

Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- S tereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siƔecle: Vasily Rozanov, t he Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: th e Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensor ed sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woma n writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: im portant Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post- Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.

9781934843390 (hardback)

2009-026734


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.

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