{"product_id":"the-ridiculous-jew-9780804759526","title":"The Ridiculous Jew","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and the Ridiculous Jew: A Study in the Exploitation and Transformation of the Jewish Stereotype\u003c\/i\u003e is a study devoted to exploring the dynamic use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Ridiculous Jew\u003c\/i\u003e is a most welcome and useful addition to the expanding field of Russian-Jewish studies.Rosenshield is a perceptive and sensitive reader and a persuasive and provocative writer.\" -- Michael R. Katz * \u003ci\u003eSlavic and Eastern European Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Ridiculous Jew\u003c\/i\u003e Gary Rosenshield approaches the disturbing question of early nineteenth-century Russian literary anti-Semitism through deconstruction theory . . . Rosenshield's interpretation of Turgenev's 'The Jew' offers an in-depth historical background for the conclusion that 'the story then both perpetuates the stereotype and challenges the stereotype simultaneously'.\" -- Nina Pelikan Straus * \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Rosenshield's compelling new book is important, because it demonstrates the maturation of the field of Russian-Jewish literary studies and forces the reader to look back and to look more carefully at Jewish images that may seem simply absurd or repellent. Given the current atmosphere in Russia, the experimentation by government and the populace with reinventing Russianness and the heightening of ethnic tensions, \u003ci\u003eThe Ridiculous Jew \u003c\/i\u003e seems particularly relevant.\" -- Gabriella Safran * Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: GOGOL  i.   Taras Bulba: Gogol's Ridiculous Jew, Form and Function  27  2.   Taras Bulba and the Jewish Literary Context:  Walter Scott, Gogol, and Russian Fiction               61  3.   Taras Bulba Otherwise:  Deconstructing Gogol's Cossacks and Jews              75  PART TWO: TURGENEV  4.   \"The Jew\": Turgenev and the Poetics of Jewish Death   99  PART THREE: DOSTOEVSKY  5.   Notes from the House of the Dead: Ridiculous Jew, Existential  Christian, Hagiographic Muslim, and the Intentional Text  131  6.   Notes from the House of the Dead:  Dostoevsky's Ridiculous Jew and the Critics           163  7.   Notes from the House of the Dead- The Other Isay Fomich:  Subversion and the Revenge of the Stereotype         173  Conclusion: Confronting the Legacy of the Stereotype:  Babel, Rybakov, and Jewish Death                     195","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737390494039,"sku":"9780804759526","price":58.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ridiculous-jew-9780804759526","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}