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

by Henrietta Mondry

Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture since 1880s 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934843393
• ISBN13: 9781934843390
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"