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The History of Race, the Race of History

The History of Race, the Race of History T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 105, No. 4 (Fall 2015) 515­521 GIL ANIDJAR Columbia University Mitchell B. Hart, editor. Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880­1940. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series. Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. Waltham, Mass., Brandeis University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxix 281. Iris Idelson-Shein. Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race during the Long Eighteenth Century. Jewish Cultures and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 267. Eliza Slavet. Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii 300. I T S EE M S ON LY R I GH T to oppose history to race, to historicize where some had wanted to racialize. Was there--prior to the twentieth century--a more virulent form of ``negationism'' (as the French would come to call it) than that which sought to confine entire populations to history, extracting history out of them, making them into stagnant or unchanging races, before erasing them from history altogether? It also seems right to point out that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press

The History of Race, the Race of History

Anidjar, Gil
Jewish Quarterly Review , Volume 105 (4) – Jan 14, 2015
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T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 105, No. 4 (Fall 2015) 515­521 GIL ANIDJAR Columbia University Mitchell B. Hart, editor. Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880­1940. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series. Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. Waltham, Mass., Brandeis University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxix 281. Iris Idelson-Shein. Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race during the Long Eighteenth Century. Jewish Cultures and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 267. Eliza Slavet. Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii 300. I T S EE M S ON LY R I GH T to oppose history to race, to historicize where some had wanted to racialize. Was there--prior to the twentieth century--a more virulent form of ``negationism'' (as the French would come to call it) than that which sought to confine entire populations to history, extracting history out of them, making them into stagnant or unchanging races, before erasing them from history altogether? It also seems right to point out that

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