Exemplary Bodies : Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008

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...

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Main Author: Mondry, Henrietta (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Academic Studies Press 20091101
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