The Veil of Moses: Jewish Themes in Russian Literature of the Romantic Era

by Michael Weisskopf

The Veil of Moses describes the creation of Russian romantic literary stereotypes which shaped the opinion of the Russian public on the Jews. These stereotypes in turn generated long-lasting habits of dealing with Jews and Jewish themes in Russian culture and politics. This volume introduces a formidable corpus of previously neglected evidence into the scholarship, namely, journalism and second- and third-rank prose. Journalism, influenced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004235019
• ISBN13: 9789004235014
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"