Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Russian Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
66,3 (2007) 406-423
Keywords:
Bulgarin, Faddei,
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Antisemitism in literature
Abstract:
In his novel "Ivan Vyzhigin" (1829), Bulgarin popularized, in Russia, anti-Jewish stereotypes of Jews that had been circulating among Poles, Ukrainians, and Belorussians. Thereby, inhabitants of central Russia, who had no contact with Jews living in the Pale of Settlement of western Russia, were influenced by negative images of Jews - e.g. as moneylenders, cheaters, dishonest agents of Polish landlords, and corrupters of peasants through alcohol. Bulgarin may have focused on the "dangerous" Jew in order to distract attention from his own non-Russian (i.e. Polish) origin and to moralize about the immoral Jews to distract from his own moral turpitude. Reflects whether Bulgarin's signature on a protest against a virulently Judeophobic periodical one year before his death was genuine or otherwise motivated: perhaps he was worried about having so blatantly accused Jews of his own vices.
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-9434.2007.00451.x
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