Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
American Behavioral Scientist
Angaben zur Quelle:
45,2 (2001) 282-295
Keywords:
Jews Economic conditions
Abstract:
In the 11th-18th centuries, Russian official mythology regarded the opposition between Russians and Jews as mainly religious. In the 19th century, with the consolidation of Russian national consciousness, this opposition came to be conceived as economic: the Russian was regarded as attached to the land, while the Jew was the embodiment of the money economy, thus a menace and a cosmopolitan. The persecution of Jews in the second part of the century mostly involved curtailing their economic flexibility rather than their religious freedom. At the same time, the new myth retained some religious undercurrents. This kind of mythology persisted into the Soviet period.
DOI:
10.1177/00027640121957187
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