| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 498 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Western Wall of Russian Literature -- The Generative Model of "the jews" -- How Gogol's Iankel' Is Made -- The Discreet Pleasures of Liberalism -- Concerto for Flute Without Orchestra. |
| Summary |
Livak 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 Christ-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 writers - Christian, secular, and Jewish - based their representation of Jews on the Christian exegetical tradition of anti-Judaism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature -- Jewish authors. |
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Jews in literature.
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Jews in literature. |
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Antisemitism in literature.
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Antisemitism in literature. |
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Christianity and antisemitism -- Europe -- History.
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Christianity and antisemitism. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Livak, Leonid. Jewish persona in the European imagination. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804770552 (DLC) 2010018633 (OCoLC)555650391 |
| ISBN |
9780804775625 (electronic book) |
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0804775621 (electronic book) |
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9780804770552 |
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0804770557 |
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