The Jewish Century

Yuri Slezkine

2004

The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century. Modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually intricate, physically fastidious, and occupationally flexible. It is about learning how to cultivate people and symbols, not fields or herds. It is about…

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Yuri Slezkine

b. 1956

Born in the Soviet Union, Yuri Slezkine was trained as an interpreter at Moscow State University. He came to the United States in 1983, earned a doctorate at the University of Texas, Austin, and is now a professor of Russian history and director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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