The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature by Leonid Livak

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature

Leonid Livak

512 pages hardcover 2010

2 editions

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This book 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...

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