ABSTRACT
In this chapter, a crucial episode of Jewish ethnography, the Jewish Ethnographic Expeditions conducted in the Russian Pale of Settlement between 1912 and 1914 by Semen An-sky and his associates, is put into the more general, historical framework of processes of nationalization and internationalization of science and culture. It will become obvious that Jewish ethnography challenges not only traditional ethnographic distinctions and established hierarchies, but also established categories of national thought.
