Publisher's Synopsis
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 biological and racialist discourse in the 1880s, the depiction of Jewish characters underwent a significant change, recasting the Jew as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts were determined by racial differences. This stereotype has become an archetype that continues to operate in contemporary Russian society and culture.
