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

Table of contents

• The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Illustrations vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Note on Transliteration and Translation xi
• The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination xiii
• Introduction - The Western Wall of Russian Literature 1
• Part I- The Generative Model of “The Jews” 25
• One- “The Jews” in Christian Theology and Myth 27
• Two- Archetypal Elaboration 55
• Three- Animal Symbols and Human Types 74
• Four- The Semiotics of the “jewish” Body 88
• Part II- How Gogol’s Iankel' Is Made 103
• Five- “Taras Bul'Ba” in Context 105
• Six- The Theology of Archetypes in “Taras Bul'Ba” 114
• Seven- The Opponent 122
• Eight- The Eschatology of “Taras Bul'Ba” 129
• Nine- The Temptation of Taras 138
• Ten- The Helper 151
• Part III- The Discreet Pleasures of Liberalism 161
• Eleven- Liberalism, Modernity, and Semi(O)Tic Chaos 163
• Twelve- Ivan Turgenev’s Crime and Punishment 177
• Thirteen- Uncle Iankel’s Cabin 217
• Fourteen- Of Chekhov and Garlic 233
• Part IV- Concerto for Flute without Orchestra 279
• Fifteen- Reb Goethe and the Problematics of Russian-Jewish Authorship 281
• Sixteen- Isaak Babel’s Portrait of the Artist as a Former Jew 300
• Seventeen- Writing and Reading in the Margins Iurii Fel'Zen’s Significant Absences 337
• Reference Matter 369
• Notes 371
• Works Cited 439
• Index 483

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