2. Samuel Abramovich Weissenberg: “Provincializing Europe” through Jewish Racial Self-Description

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: Jews, Race, and the Challenge of (Post)Imperial Modernity 1
4. I. THE SCIENCE OF RACE
5. 1. The Dawn of the Jewish Race in the Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire 13
6. 2. Samuel Abramovich Weissenberg: “Provincializing Europe” through Jewish Racial Self-Description 42
7. 3. Arkadii Danilovich El’kind: Constructing a Jewish “Cultured Nation” 73
8. 4. Lev Iakovlevich Shternberg: The Political Science of Jewish Race 104
9. II. THE BIOPOLITICS OF RACE
10. A Necessary Introduction: Jewish Biopolitics as a Victim of Aphasia 151
11. 5. Russian Jewish Physicians and the Politics of Jewish Biological Normalization 159
12. 6. Medical Statistics and National Eugenics 183
13. 7. Civil War and the Biopolitics of Survival 204
14. 8. The Gray Zone of Jewish Biopolitics and Its Place in Soviet Modernity 226
15. Conclusion: At the Finish Line 244
16. Abbreviations 263
17. Notes 267
18. Acknowledgments 323
19. Index 327