Exemplary bodies [electronic resource] : constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Henrietta Mondry.

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

Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-si�ecle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman 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: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.