«COMPETITION OF DISCOURSES»: THE JEW’S POSITIVE IMAGE IN PUBLICATIONS OF «ODESSKIJ VESTNIK» (THE FIRST HALF OF 1880-IES)
«COMPETITION OF DISCOURSES»: THE JEW’S POSITIVE IMAGE IN PUBLICATIONS OF «ODESSKIJ VESTNIK» (THE FIRST HALF OF 1880-IES)

Summary/Abstract: One of the results of the social modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century in the Russian Empire was the growing of attention towards so called «Jewish question», This process was followed by emergence and dessimination of different discourses towards Jewish component of population, often divided into anti-Semitic and so called liberal, which were engaged in latent or open contest for public opinion. The researchers traditionally paid more attention to anti-Semitic discourses and thus marginalized the questions on attempts to create a positive (relatively) ones and on existing of public opposition towards anti-Semitism in local (for example, urban) societies. The main idea of the article is that a part of local newspapers in Ukraine in the second half of XIX c. such as «Odesskij Vestnik» played the important role in forming and disseminating the relatively positive image of Jewish population and in maintaining public opposition towards anti-Semitism. The subject of this research is the peculiarities of image of the Jewish population that formed on the pages of the newspaper «Odesskij Vestnik» in the first half of the 1880-ies. The study of historiography has showed that the chosen problem needs the further investigation due the traditional maginalization of issue of forming positive discourse by local press.

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