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Weisskopf, Mikhail (author); Lydia Wechsler (translator); Judith Robey (editor)ABAA

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

2012réf. 52420Leiden: Brill 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xxv 1 320pp. Gray boards lettered & decorated in blue with lilac bands at head & foot of spine. A fine as new copy. 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. Publisher Contents: Preface to the English Edition; Translator's Preface; Author's Preface; Chapter One The Religious-Historical Context; A Parade of Phantoms; The Church Dispute with Judaism; The Bible and the Jews Against the Eschatological Backdrop of the First Third of the 19th Century; Chapter Two A Look at Foreign Jewry: The Adoption of Western Models; Western Judophilia in Russian Periodicals; "The Fashion for Yids"; The "Jerusalem Nobility" in Bulgarin and Grech's Newspaper; "The Jewish Socrates": Jewish Thought Through the Eyes of Russian Society; Jewish Composers; Börne in Russia; "An Educated German": Heine's Prose in Russian Periodicals"A German Frenchman": Heine's National-Cultural Orientation and "Young Germany" as Perceived by Russian Critics; "A Wanderer from Egypt and Palestine": Rahel Varnhagen in the Appraisal of a Russian Journalist; Chapter Three The Magic of Kabbalah and the Aesthetics of the Old Testament; Kabbalistic Motifs in Russian Culture during the Years 1830-1840; "Sacred Jewish Poetry" in the Aesthetics of Russian Romanticism; Chapter Four Russia as the New Israel; The "Tabernacle of Happiness" or the Russian Solomon; Biblicized Russia in Late Gogol; Chapter Five The Ideological and Social Background of the Jewish Image The Attack on Jewry: Administration Society Literature; "The Soil of the Old Testament"; The People of a Savage God; From Witchcraft to Demonic Conspiracy; Chapter Six Encounters with Judaism and the Jews: Amendments Based on Real Impressions; The Problem of Authorial Erudition; Everyday Acquaintanceship Social and Ethnographic Observations; Jews in Neighboring Countries: Travelers' Accounts; Kind or Helpful Jews in Russian Memoirs and Travel Notes; Chapter Seven Literary Templates; The Old Adam the Werewolf and the Vampire Blasphemers Poisoners Smugglers and Spies; "A Horror and a Laughingstock"; Executing the Jew: Drowning Hanging and Laughing at the Victim; "Yid Cowardice": The Ban on Jewish Heroics and Its Contravention in Non-Belletristic Genres; Homelessness Poverty and Lost Gold; The "Young Jewess"; The Revision of "Esther"; Bestializing the Jewish Image; The Rejected Brotherhood; The Brotherhood of the Rejected: Lazhechnikov's Heretic; Chapter Eight The Journalistic Campaign of 1838 and its Repercussions; Preparation for a New Onslaught; "A Man of a Different Kind": The Attack on Polish Jews in Senkovsky's Journal The Odessa Alternative; Filth Blindness and Disease; Chapter Nine Baptism or Repatriation; "A Forgiven Thief a Baptized Yid"; The Struggle for Zion; A Dead Country; N. Polevoi's Zionist Publication; "Their Hope is a Lie": Eternal Exile; Chapter Ten A People Without a Homeland: The Jews in Russia in the 1840's; The New Political and Economic Situation; "The Thoughts of an Israelite"; Judaism and Sectarianism; The Dangers of Jewish Enlightenment; Epilogue The Further Evolution of the Jewish Theme Volume 5 of the Brill series "Studia Judaeoslavica." SJS. Brill hardcover books