Illustrations A note on transliteration Introduction 1. An unprecedented type of human being Grigory Bogrov 2. The nation and the wide world Eliza Orzeszkowa 3. Jew as text, Jew as reader Nikolai Leskov 4. Mutable, permutable, approximate, and relative Anton Chekhov Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
Gabriella Safran is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University.
"Intelligently and creatively, Safran compares closely the work of the Jewish author, Grigory Bogrov; the Polish author, Eliza Orzeszkowa; and the Russian writers Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov with characterizations of Jews found in Russian letters throughout the whole of the century. In doing so, she demonstrates a familiarity and comfort with both critical themes of pre-Soviet Russian literature and literary criticism and with the broader context of Jewish life in the empire. Accordingly, her work is of genuine interest to students of Russian literature as well as for those committed to the investigation of both Jewish and Russian cultural history in the Tsarist empire." - The Russian Review "Writ[ten] in a clear, engaging and distinctive style... [Safran] shares her insights on many important aspects of Jewish identity, issues of national identity, acculturation, assimilation, conversion, and anti-Semitism, among others, while she studies her four writers and their literary milieu. For academic libraries." - Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter "[Safran's] work makes a serious contribution to our understanding of the complex nexus of Jew and Gentile in late Imperial Russia ...[It] should be read by anyone interested in the 'Jewish question,' national identities, and literature in the late Russian Empire. " - Canadian Slavonic Papers
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