Yuri Slezkine

Yuri Slezkine

Yuri Slezkine is a professor of Russian history and Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known as the author of the highly acclaimed book "The Jewish Century" (2004).

Slezkine holds a PhD from the University of Texas, Austin. He originally trained as an interpreter in the Soviet Union, and he worked in Mozambique before arriving in the United States in 1982 where he eventually became an academic.

lezkine's theory of ethnic identity

Slezkine characterizes the Jews (alongside such groups as the Armenians, overseas Chinese, and Gypsies) as a "Mercurian" people "specializ [ing] exclusively in providing services to the surrounding food-producing societies," which he characterizes as "Apollonian." With the exception of the Gypsies, these "Mercurian peoples" have all enjoyed great economic success relative to the average among their hosts, and have all, without exception, attracted hostility and resentment. Slezkine develops this thesis by arguing that the Jews, the most successful of these Mercurian peoples, have increasingly influenced the course and nature of Western societies, particularly during the early and middle periods of Soviet Communism.

Works

*"The Jewish Century", Princeton University Press, 2004 (ISBN 0-691-11995-3)
*"In the Shadow of the Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War," edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine, Princeton University Press, 2000
*"Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North," Cornell University Press, 1994
*"The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Summer 1994), 414-452
*"Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture", 1993

External links

* [http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Slezkine/ Slezkine's website at Berkeley]
* [http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7819.html "The Jewish Century", Chapter One: MERCURY'S SANDALS: THE JEWS AND OTHER NOMADS]
* [http://www.alumni.berkeley.edu/Alumni/Cal_Monthly/November_2004/QA-_A_conversation_with_Yuri_Slezkine.asp An interview with Yuri Slezkine discussing the theses of his book "The Jewish Century"]
* [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051219/lazare The Chosen People] : The Nation's review of "The Jewish Century" by Daniel Lazare, November 30, 2005

ee also

* Amy Chua, American writer on "market dominant minorities"
* Model minority
** Dominant minority


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