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

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

Weisskopf, Michael

Hardcover

Literary CriticismJudaism

ISBN10: 9004235019
ISBN13: 9789004235014
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 6 2012
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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 by more humane Western attitudes, reflected changes and presented a more objective picture of the Jews. It was the romantic prose, full of mythology and appealing to dark instincts that created the most odious anti-semitic clichés.

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