The Jew (Turgenev)
The Jew (Russian: Жид, romanized: Zhid) is an 1847 short story by Ivan Turgenev.[1][2] A young Russian officer, in the camp outside Danzig where Napoleon's army is besieged in 1812, falls in love with the daughter of Girshel, a Jew who follows the Russian camp. Girshel does everything to promote his interest, but is arrested for espionage on behalf of the besieged French, and hanged by order of the military authorities, despite the officer's request for pardon.
References
[edit]- ^ Gary Rosenshield The Ridiculous Jew: The Exploitation and Transformation of a Stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 2008 0804769850 " Part 2 (Chapter 4) examines Ivan Turgenev's early short story, “The Jew” (1847), which challenges the notion in Taras Bulba that ..."
- ^ Leonid Livak The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian A Case of Russian Literature (Stanford Studies) 0804775621 2010 "the intra- and intertextual functions of “the jews” in four stories: Ivan Turgenev's “Zhid” (The Jew, 1847) and “Neschastnaia” (The hapless girl, 1869); and Anton Chekhov's “Tina” (Mire, 1886) and “Skripka Rotshil'da” (Rothschild's fiddle, 1894).
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