Blood and Homeland
Мой коллега Мариус Турда прислал книгу для "почитать и отрецензировать". Книжка очень хорошая и уникальная в своем роде -



Я раньше ошибочно считал, что евгеника была уделом немецких и американских "ученых", поэтому одно лишь оглавление "Blood and Homeland" стало для меня откровением, не говоря уже о содержании самой книги.

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
Marius Turda and Paul J. Weindling: Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940: A Historiographic Overview

Part I. Ethnography and Racial Anthropology
Egbert Klautke: German "Race Psychology" and Its Implementation in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius
Margit Berner: From "Prisoner of War Studies" to Proof of Paternity: Racial Anthropologists and the Measuring of "Others" in Austria
Maria Teschler-Nicola: Volksdeutsche and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Vienna: The "Marienfeld Project"
Rory Yeomans: Of "Yugoslav Barbarians" and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars: Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia
Sevasti Trubeta: Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar Greece

Part II. Eugenics and Racial Hygiene in National Contexts
Michal Simunek: Eugenics, Social Genetics and Racial Hygiene: Plans for the Scientific Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands, 1900-1925
Magdalena Gawin: Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland, 1905-1939
Marius Turda: The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary, 1910-1918
Christian Promitzer: Taking Care of the National Body: Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria, 1905-1940
Ken Kalling: The Self-Perception of a Small Nation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia
Paul J. Weindling: Central Europe Confronts German Racial Hygiene: Friedrich Hertz, Hugo Iltis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene

Part III. Religion, Public Health and Population Policies
Kamila Uzarczyk: "Moses als Eugeniker"? The Reception of Eugenic Ideas in Jewish Medical Circles in Interwar Poland
Monika Löscher: Eugenics and Catholicism in Interwar Austria
Herwig Czech: From Welfare to Selection: Vienna's Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Policies under the Nazi Regime
Maria Bucur: Fallen Women and Necessary Evils: Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania

Part IV. Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Biopolitics
Razvan Pârâianu: Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siècle Romania
Attila Pók: The Politics of Hatred: Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary
Aristotle A. Kallis: Racial Politics and Biomedical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe
Roger Griffin: Tunnel Visions and Mysterious Trees: Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration, 1880-1939

Index

Одна из самых интересных глав - о еврейской евгенике в межвоенной Польше. Это евгеническое движение тесно переплеталось с сионизмом, только в отличие от левых сионистов, евгеники не собирались брать абсолютно всех евреев на Землю Обетованную. Для них идея сионизма и ожидаемое переселение евреев на территорию Палестины была подобна евгенической революции, которая была призвана не допустить до новорожденного еврейского государства "идиотов, эпилептиков, умственно-неполноценных и душевно-больных; тех, кто не может содержать себя и свои семьи; тех, кто страдает от инфекционных заболеваний и болезней, огранивающих трудоспособность; проституток, анархистов и всех других, кто представляет собой угрозу закону и порядку или является бременем для общества".

Одним из главных евгенических сионистов в Польше был Зиви Парнасс (Google его, кстати, совсем не знает) -

During the historical evolution of the Jewish race, capability to maintain racial features found its expression in separatist tendencies, that is, in the whole range of regulations that organized everyday life of single individuals and the nation, and distinguished them from the surrounding people. The Jews, living as a diaspora, maintained symbiotic relations with local people, while keeping enough distance to prevent any changes in racial texture, and to preserve the mechanism of racial selection unchanged.
[...]
Society, through its direction of individual selection, affects the evolution of the race. Stronger societies, stronger numerically or in terms of their social structure, given the same conditions of the environment, will triumph over the less fit. Thus, society has an impact on the internal and external struggle for existence of the race and the direction of its evolution. (...) The influence of the racial elements in society is even more important. Race provides a biological substratum for society. (...) Social development and the survival of society depend on racial texture, racial species, or the mixture of races that form the society.

Понятно, что идеи социал-дарвинизма были неотъемлемым элементом евгенического сионизма. А расовая гигиена, в свою очередь, по мнению Парнасса, проистекала из еврейских законов -

Our religious regulations indicate that hygiene, and particularly race hygiene, is what we were aiming for in social life. Let us revive old rules in accordance with the spirit of the past; revive them, and we will get the solution to all problems, solutions which are an ideal for the European eugenicists. They dream of the time when the necessity of race hygiene will be so deeply rooted in social consciousness that it becomes a kind of social religion. We have had this religion for a long time; it arose in the Jewish tradition in Palestine. (...). The whole legislation of Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud, in the chapters relating to national and racial life, forms the greatest book of eugenic laws.

Таки буду писать рецензию.