Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Корни; общественно-публицистический и культурно-просветительский журнал еврейских общин России, Украины, и других стран СНГ
Angaben zur Quelle:
10 (1998) 28-40
Keywords:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,
;
Jews in literature
;
Judaism in literature
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
Russian literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Literary historians almost unanimously characterize Dostoyevsky as an ordinary antisemite, who shared all the anti-Jewish prejudices of his time and never tried to understand the Jewish people. However, the novelist's affection for the Old Testament seems to speak against the ordinariness of his sentiments. Without denying Dostoevsky's antisemitism, contends that it was grounded in a kind of "jealousy". Dostoyevsky believed that it was the Russian, not the Jewish people, who were the sole inheritors of the Bible. Although he respected the Jews for their three-thousand-year-long survival, Dostoyevsky regarded them as a danger for the Russian people. Suggests that it is Dostoyevsky's views which Vladimir Solovyov attacked in his "Judaism and the Christian Question".
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