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“Neither angels, nor demons, but humans”: anti-essentialism and its ideological moments among the Russian Zionist intelligentsia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Taro Tsurumi
Taro Tsurumi*
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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. Email: shukran_afwan@hotmail.com
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Russian Zionismanti-essentialismsociology of knowledgeJewsLate Imperial Russia

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , July 2010 , pp. 531 - 550
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