Debate over the representation of Jews in Russian literature has
long been dominated by the dichotomy of anti- and philo-Semitic
discourses. Rather than analyzing ""the image of the Jew"" in terms
of negative or positive characteristics, and branding the authors
respectively as anti- or philo-Semitic, Elena M. Katz explores the
complex and the ambiguous construction of Jewishness as
""Otherness"" in the works of three of Russia's greatest
nineteenth-century authors. Katz identifies Gogol, Dostoevsky, and
Turgenev as creators of special modes of Jewish discourse in
Russian literature. She tackles traditional tropes of Jews in light
of the sociohistoric and cultural contexts of the time and of the
writers' own politics and aesthetics.
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