The Ridiculous Jew: The Exploitation and Transformation of a Stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky
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The Creation of Sympathy: Jewish Women The Creation of Sympathy: Jewish Women
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Turgenev, the Little Man, and the Zhid (Kike) Turgenev, the Little Man, and the Zhid (Kike)
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Jewish Death and the Execution of Troppmann Jewish Death and the Execution of Troppmann
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Violent Jewish Death: Gogol, Turgenev, and Historiography Violent Jewish Death: Gogol, Turgenev, and Historiography
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4 “The Jew”: Turgenev and the Poetics of Jewish Death
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Published:25 September 2008
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Abstract
This chapter examines Ivan Turgenev's early short story, “The Jew” (1847), which challenges the notion in Taras Bulba that Jewish death is not only not serious but even ridiculous. It shows that, like Gogol, Turgenev exploits the physical and spiritual contrast of Russian and Jew but in different ways and for different ends: Gogol needs the negative stereotype of the Jew to highlight the positive attributes of a Russian ideal, but Turgenev needs the Russian ideal to outline, by contrast, the negative aspects of the Jewish stereotype. The extent to which Turgenev exploits the stereotype becomes evident when “The Jew” is compared to a later work that Turgenev wrote against capital punishment, “The Execution of Troppmann” (1870). The chapter also shows how, especially in comparison with Gogol, Turgenev transforms the relationship between narrator and Jew.
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