Tsarist police racialized Jews as revolutionary regardless of conversion

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

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the logic of fixed, un-escaped racial identity: an archive that follows people regardless of self-conversion — resonates with surveillance-labor themes in Parable of the Sower. — connects to: So-called converts of Jewish origin were still deported and killed — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 444