Article ID: CBB081494513

Ara Relief Campaign in the Volga Region, Jewish Anthropometric Statistics, and the Scientific Promise of Integration (2019)

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The article builds a case for the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (Obshchestvo Okhranenia Zdorov’ia Evreiskogo Naselenia [OZE]) as a project of medicalized modernity, a mass politics of Jewish self-help that relied on a racialized and medicalized vision of a future Jewish nation. Officially registered in 1912 in St. Petersburg, it created the space for a Jewish politics that focused on the state of the collective Jewish body as a precondition for Jewish participation in any version of modernity. OZE futurism survived the years of World War I and the Russian Civil War, when the organization had to concentrate on rescue and relief rather than on facilitating the development of new bodies and souls. New archival evidence reveals how race science, medical statistics, and positive eugenics became composite elements of the Jewish anticolonial message and new subjectivity.

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Article Nadav Davidovitch; Rakefet Zalashik (2019) Scientific Medicine and the Politics of Public Health: Minorities in Interwar Eastern Europe. Science in Context (pp. 1-4). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Maria Antonella Piga
Deborah Sabrina Iannotti
Parks, Richard C.
Silvana Castaldi
Falconi, Bruno
Tuszewicki, Marek
Concepts
Jews
Science and race
Eugenics
Public health
Jewish civilization and culture
Medicine and society
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
Poland
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Jerusalem
Yugoslavia
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