UID:
almahu_9949597364802882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 498 p.) :
,
ill.
ISBN:
9780804775625 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780804770552
Language:
English
URL:
Stanford scholarship online
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