Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Вестник Еврейского университета
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (1996) 4-45
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
Examines antisemitic components of the Eurasianist doctrine. Eurasianism, which emerged in the 1920s in the milieu of Russian emigres, contended that Russian culture was part of a greater Eurasian supra-ethnic cultural system opposed to the decadent Western culture. Another version of Eurasianism regarded Orthodox Russia as a nucleus of a worldwide union of "Christianized" nations. Jews were regarded as an ethnic group which did not belong to the Eurasian community and was harmful to it. The first theoreticians of Eurasianism, N.S. Trubetzkoy and L.P. Karsavin, denied their racism (present in their writings in latent form) and saw the solution of the "Jewish question" in a gradual cultural assimilation of Jews. Eurasianism is now popular again in Russia. Its main exponent was Lev Gumilev, according to whom Jews always stood in the way of a Russo-Turkic symbiosis. As a "mercenary" nation and through the "chimerical state" of Khasaria, they tried to enslave Kievan Russia. Gumilev regarded intermarriage with Jews as detrimental for the Russian ethnos and advocated the elimination of Jews and the offspring of mixed marriages from the body of the Russian people.
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