The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature

by Leonid Livak

This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Babel, and others, the author argues that these European...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804770557
• ISBN13: 9780804770552
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"