Conversion could not erase Jewishness in the racialized Russian view

Evidence

Subjects marked by Jewishness could thus be dangerous whether they wanted to remain Jews or not. … As the Moscow chief of police put it, ‘The very people who resist a transition to the peaceful program are the Jews, who recently have been quietly attempting to grasp the initiative of the revolutionary movement into their hands.’ — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 543 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jewish identity is matrilineal and convertible, making it non-racial; German society defined Jewishness as a bodily essence no assimilation could erase; Heine’s conversion failed to erase antisemitic suspicion of inauthenticity (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• In tsarist Russia, a Jewish identity made a subject dangerous regardless of conversion #corroborates (0.95)
• Tsarist police racialized Jews as revolutionary regardless of conversion #corroborates (0.93) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 543