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	Book Talk - 18/06/2005: The Jewish Century...
		Yuri Slezkine, Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, on his startling re-interpretation of 20th century history, and of Soviet history in particular.
		Yuri Slezkine: Well, in the book I define as Jews the members of traditional Jewish communities in the Diaspora, and more specifically, in the Russian case, the residents of the Pale of Settlement, as well as their children and grandchildren.
		Yuri Slezkine: It is true that two of the most important prophetic movements in modern Europe were founded by ethnic Jews, and I believe that it is to some extent that they were responses to the Jewish predicament, to this new Jewish homelessness after the emancipation, after Jews left the ghettos and the Pale.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/booktalk/stories/s1391488.htm (2305 words)

	“Stalin’s Willing Executioners”? : Melbourne Indymedia
		Slezkine attempts to understand Jewish history and the rise of Jews to elite status in the 20th century by developing the thesis that the peoples of the world can be classified into two groups.
		Slezkine attempts to dodge the issue of the degree to which the horrors perpetrated by the early Soviet state were rooted in the traditional attitudes of the Jews who in fact played such an extensive role in their orchestration.
		Slezkine’s main point is that the most important factor for understanding the history of the 20th century is the rise of the Jews in the West and the Middle East, and their rise and decline in Russia.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2005/11/99107_comment.php (3583 words)

	Yuri Slezkine: The Jewish Century - Bøger
		Slezkine argues that the Jews were, in effect, among the world's first free agents.
		Their role, Slezkine argues, was part of a broader division of human labor between what he calls Mercurians-entrepreneurial minorities--and Apollonians--food-producing majorities.
		I wonder whether it occurred to Dr. Slezkine that the Jewish-supported overthrow of the czars and establishment of the Communist regime in Russia led not only to the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 and hence to World War II and the Holocaust, but also to the founding of the modern state of Israel.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/0691119953 (1145 words)

	Funny DVD: The Jewish Century - $29.70 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Slezkine argues that the Jews were, in effect, аmоng the world's first free agents.
		Their role, Slezkine argues, was раrt of a broader divisiоn of human labor between what he calls Mercurians-entrepreneurial minorities--and Apollonians--food-producing mаjоritiеs.
		Slezkine dоеs address the question why Russian (and by implicit extension Central European) Jеws were so fascinated by Marxism and Соmmunism.
	www.funnydvdmovies.com /tvr30363931313139393533.html (1185 words)

	Amazon.com: The Jewish Century: Books: Yuri Slezkine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Slezkine, a professor of history at Berkeley who came to America from the Soviet Union in 1982, restores the dignity of Jews, after decades of being portrayed solely as passive victims of history, by showing how Jews, qua Jews, were among the most dynamic actors in the central events of the 20th Century.
		Slezkine's interest is in the tragic ironies of history and he empathetically allows us to enter into the mindsets of hundreds of individuals as they made decisions that, well, seemed like a good idea at the time.
		Slezkine argues that the large number of Jews who suffered in the Great Terror suffered not because they were Jews, but because Stalin was purging the upper echelons for his own political and paranoid reasons, and since so many of the upper echelons were Jews, they naturally made up a high proportion of his victims.
	www.amazon.com /Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine/dp/0691119953 (2990 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yuri Slezkine opens this major new book by declaring: “The modern age is the Jewish age, and the 20th century, in particular, is the Jewish century.” This assertion may ring bells.
		Thus, in Slezkine’s version, Bielke followed her husband to the “goldene medine” of America, Chava made off to the land of milk and honey and Hodel became a revolutionary and emigrated from her parochial shtetl to a major urban center in Russia.
		Slezkine makes masterful use of these tools, and his treatment of the metaphorical figure of Hodel and her Russian Jewish descendants is the finest portion of the book.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=13462 (1889 words)

	The Jewish Century - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yuri Slezkine's passionate and brilliant tour de force not only challenges received wisdom about Russian and Soviet Jews, but just as provocatively overturns the uniqueness that many ascribe to Jewish history altogether.
		Yuri Slezkine is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Nearly every page of Slezkine's exegesis presents fascinating arguments or facts-e.g., that "secular American Jewish intellectuals felt compelled" to become more Jewish when they were allowed into traditional American institutions.While not strictly a traditional history, Slezkine's work is one of the most innovative and intellectually stimulating books in Jewish studies in years.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0691119953.html (1517 words)

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		Slezkine says that his main purpose is to "describe what happened to Tevye's children." As readers will recall, Tevye is the hero of Sholom Aleichem's stories, which were adapted for the Western stage and screen as Fiddler on the Roof.
		Slezkine argues that "the modern age is the Jewish age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century," because modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually intricate, physically fastidious, and occupationally flexible.
		Slezkine's "Jews" are not defined by the Jewish customs, habits, and beliefs of their families; as businessmen and bankers, scientists and artists, professionals and revolutionaries, they are instead defined by their ability to realize their inner ("Jewish") nature as the makers of the modern world.
	www.hhrf.org /hac/NoticedInThePress/2005/Book_R_NYRB_060905.doc (2694 words)

	\| Book Review \| Journal of World History, 17.3 \| The History Cooperative
		Slezkine's primary test case is his own place of origin, the Soviet Union, home to some 3.02 million Jews in 1939.
		As Slezkine puts it: "No ethnic group was as good at being Soviet." As a result, he contends, Jews comprised a disproportionate figure in key positions of the Communist Party, Red Army, secret police, and other Soviet institutions.
		Slezkine traces this nationalization of ethnic Jews and "ethnicization of the Soviet state" to explain the parting of ways between the two, the rise of antisemitism, and the eventual death of communism.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/17.3/br_4.html (1209 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		...The equation of Jewishness with the quintessence of modernity, the central thesis of Yuri Slezkine’s The Jewish Century, is hardly new...
		...Yet we did not need Yuri Slezkine to tell us that the Jews, when they have not been persecuted and murdered, have done extremely well in modern times under highly varied conditions, and that this must have something to do with their pre-modern mode of life...
		...The modern European Jew, Slezkine maintains, possessed not only native intelligence but a set of attitudes that, while they had helped him to survive in the medieval period, too, were of limited power in a Christian world that had exploited but not honored them and that lived by different values of its own...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V120I5P75-1.htm (2651 words)

	“Stalin’s Willing Executioners”? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yuri Slezkine’s book The Jewish Century, which appeared last year to rapturous reviews, is an intellectual tour de force, alternately muddled and brilliant, courageous and apologetic.
		Slezkine also ignores their medieval outlook on life, their obsession with the Kabbala—the writings of Jewish mystics—their superstition and anti-rationalism, and their belief in magical remedies and exorcisms.
		Slezkine also ignores the extent to which Jewish competition may have suppressed — arguably sometimes reversed — the formation of a native middle class in Eastern Europe.
	www.red-ice.net /specialreports/2005/11nov/stalinsexec.html (3340 words)

	Agence Global - Article
		Slezkine is hardly the only one to link Judaism with the emergence of capitalist modernity.
		On the negative side, Slezkine is a captive of his metaphor, and the picture he paints is to a degree one-sided and incomplete.
		Jews played a key role in the creation of the modern world not merely because they were close to the center of action but because of their ideological role in what, from the tenth century on, was becoming the most ideologically fraught corner of the globe.
	www.agenceglobal.com /article.asp?id=730 (3536 words)

	California Alumni Association at UC Berkeley
		One of Slezkine’s metaphoric points is that all of us have had to become “Jewish” in the modern age because Jews have long been urban, mobile, literate, articulate, and occupationally flexible--traits the 20th century demanded.
		Slezkine uses the characters and writings of Pushkin, Joyce, Proust, and the Yiddish writer Sholom Alecheim to illuminate his beautifully written book.
		Slezkine was born in Moscow in 1956 into a family that considered itself a part of the Russian intelligentsia.
	www.alumni.berkeley.edu /Alumni/Cal_Monthly/November_2004/QA-_A_conversation_with_Yuri_Slezkine.asp (3005 words)

	Kevin MacDonald debates with a Jew on VDARE about the Jewishness of Bolshevism - The Phora
		Slezkine’s views on this matter are entirely compatible with my previously published analysis of the Jewish role in Bolshevism: Jews formed an indispensable elite that was a necessary condition for the success of Bolshevism.
		As for Girin’s other comments, they essentially contradict Slezkine’s argument that in fact the USSR was a Jewish haven and that Jews formed an elite until the post-World War II era, when issues related to Zionism and popular and official anti-Semitism combined to lessen Jewish power.
		As Slezkine and others have documented, Jews were an economically and culturally dominant elite throughout Eastern and Central Europe too, and they soon became an elite in the U.S. after the massive upsurge in Jewish immigration beginning in the late 19th century.
	thephora.net /forum/showthread.php?t=6165 (1792 words)

	Amazon.de: Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North: English Books: Yuri Slezikine,Yuri Slezkine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Slezkine spends some time on the northerners' ability to cope with the climate, but mostly concentrates on the changing face of the Soviet Union in the microcosm of the northern people: from "savage Indians" to the slow evolution from icebound hunters and trappers to industrialized laborers.
		The book is an intellectual treatise, and occasionally Slezkine's clinical language can be as dry as a Siberian plain, but his descriptions of the trials of the northern Russians help make this book an invaluable look at the people the totalitarian Soviets forgot.
		Historian Slezkine studies the relationships between these groups and the Russians, who entered their land in the 11th century, colonized it, and transformed it over the centuries thereafter.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0801481783 (454 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Jewish Century: Livres en anglais: Yuri Slezkine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The provocative argument that underlies this idiosyncratic, fascinating and at times marvelously infuriating study of the evolution of Jewish cultural and political sensibility is that the 20th century is the Jewish Age because "modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually intricate....
		In a history of Jewish group identity and function, Slezkine depicts Jews as a nomadic tribe that functions as a promoter of urban cultural and economic change.
		The book's last chapter ("Hodel's Choice") uses the image of the daughters of Sholem Aleichem's famous milkman Tevye to discuss the three great recent Jewish immigrations—to America in the 1890s, from the Pale of Settlement to the Russian cities after the revolution and to Palestine after the birth of Zionism.
	www.amazon.fr /Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine/dp/0691119953 (424 words)

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		Note: This is an extremely difficult book for an undergraduate to read, first because its argument is complex and hard to follow, and second because the writer assumes you are already familiar with many authors, literary works, historical figures, and ideas that you may not yet have encountered.
		Slezkine begins (40) by explaining why he is focusing on the Jews.
		Slezkine now tries to address different modern philosophies and explain their relation to Jews.
	www.history.umd.edu /Faculty/BCooperman/Modern/SlezkineGuide.html (960 words)

	03.10.2005 - Berkeley Writers at Work to feature historian Slezkine
		Historian Yuri Slezkine will be featured in the Berkeley Writers at Work series on Wednesday, March 16, from noon to 1:30 p.m.
		Slezkine will read from his works, be interviewed about his writing process, and answer questions from the audience.
		Slezkine, the subject of a lengthy Q&A in the November 2004 issue of California Monthly (newscenter.berkeley.edu/goto/Slezkine) will be interviewed at the March 16 event by Gail Offen-Brown of the College Writing Programs.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2005/03/10_slezkine.shtml (352 words)

	Abbeys Bookshop - Jewish Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They traditionally belonged to a social and anthropological category known as "service nomads," an outsider group specializing in the delivery of goods and services.Their role, Slezkine argues, was part of a broader division of human labor between what he calls Mercurians - entrepreneurial minorities - and Apollonians - food-producing majorities.
		In fact, Slezkine argues, modernity is all about Apollonians becoming Mercurians - urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually intricate, physically fastidious, and occupationally flexible.
		But Slezkine has as much to say about the many faces of modernity - nationalism, socialism, capitalism, and liberalism - as he does about Jewry.
	www.abbeys.com.au /items/29/43/24 (412 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Jewish Century: Books: Yuri Slezkine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Through these migrations, Slezkine argues, the modernism of Jewish culture spread throughout the world.
		Nearly every page of Slezkine's exegesis presents fascinating arguments or facts—e.g., that "secular American Jewish intellectuals felt compelled" to become more Jewish when they were allowed into traditional American institutions.
		While not strictly a traditional history, Slezkine's work is one of the most innovative and intellectually stimulating books in Jewish studies in years.
	www.amazon.ca /Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine/dp/0691119953 (553 words)

	webcast.berkeley \| Events \| Details
		Slezkine reads from his works, is interviewed about his writing process, and answer questions from the audience.
		Slezkine, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, is a specialist in late-modern European and Russian history.
		Slezkine’s most recent book is "The Jewish Century" (Princeton University Press, 2004), a history of 20th-century Russia.
	webcast.berkeley.edu /events/details.php?webcastid=10057 (275 words)

	Nextbook: Current Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Historian Yuri Slezkine traces a line from his anti-Soviet classmates in Moscow back to their fervently Communist grandparents.
		The titles on university-press books are often too grand for the narrow studies that shoulder them, but in The Jewish Century, Yuri Slezkine sweeps across the ages to offer a fresh angle on the Soviet world.
		Of Tevye's daughters, Slezkine homes in on Hodl, who abandoned her faith and family for the proletarian revolution.
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/print.html?id=50 (1693 words)

	JS_ReadingGroup
		Their role, Slezkine argues, was part of a broader division of human labor between what he calls Mercurians – entrepreneurial minorities – and Apollonians – food-producing majorities.
		Marxism and Freudianism, e.g., sprang largely from the Jewish predicament, Slezkine notes, and both Soviet Bolshevism and American liberalism were affected in fundamental ways by the Jewish exodus from the Pale of Settlement.
		Author: Yuri Slezkine is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
	home.comcast.net /~js_readgrp/reading_list.htm (1565 words)

	ARCTIC MIRRORS
		“Slezkine concentrates on the changing face of the Soviet Union in the microcosm of the northern people: from “savage Indians” to the slow evolution from icebound hunters and trappers to industrialized laborers.
		Slezkine charts changing Russian policies toward these circumpolar cultures beginning with the fur trade.
		Yuri Slezkine is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
	www.cornellpress.cornell.edu /cup_detail.taf?ti_id=2380 (344 words)

	The New York Observer's MondoWeiss: More on My Jewish Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		My thoughts on these issues have been (this week!) completely influenced by a historical work of genius, The Jewish Century by Berkeley professor Yuri Slezkine, a Russian emigre who is half-Jewish.
		I'm only a third of the way through, but what Slezkine says in essence is that for centuries Jews functioned in European society as necessary strangers, or "service nomads": outcasts who cultivated "people and symbols, not fields or herds." In contrast to the agrarian roles—princes and peasants—Jews were merchants and priests.
		Slezkine, however, is being a little slippery where he he discusses Jews and Gypsies as if they were highly similar.
	mondoweiss.observer.com /2006/05/more-on-my-jewish-problem.html (587 words)

	Additional Reviews and/or Endorsements for Slezkine, Y.: The Jewish Century.
		Slezkine's book joins a very small number of first-rate studies of the modernization of the "Jews" seen through the lens of eastern rather than western history.
		"Yuri Slezkine's book is at the same time very personal and very erudite.
		Slezkine's account is subtle, beautifully written, and very moving; it combines humor, irony, and understated passion."--Tim McDaniel, author of The Agony of the Russian Idea (Princeton)
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /quotes/q7819.html (456 words)

	A Mythical Jewishness - Books & Culture - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		Trapped within Yuri Slezkine's The Jewish Century, struggling to free itself from Slezkine's ideological thesis, is a poignant history of Russia's Jews.
		Unfortunately, Slezkine surrounds and ultimately overwhelms the promise of this narrative with a thick and loathsome typological shell.
		Instead of dealing fully with actual Jews, Slezkine mythologizes all Jews as the descendents of Mercury (Hermes), "the god of all those who did not herd animals, till the soil, or live by the sword." As Mercurians, Jews work with their minds and by their wit.
	www.ctlibrary.com /26487 (296 words)

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