Chekhov and Jews on diaries, correspondence and memories of contemporaries
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It seems that the topic of Chekhov’s relationship with the Jews, the consideration of the writer’s biography in the context of Russian-Jewish cultural ties of his time, no one has yet been engaged in. And this despite the fact that Anton Pavlovich - unlike, perhaps, from all the Russian classics of his century - lived in the Jewish environment literally from the very beginning. As the author of the preface to the book, Professor of the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) Henrietta Mondry, rightly notes, all stages of the upbringing of the personality of Chekhov, his entry into the professional literary environment, coincide with the period of mass appearance of assimilated and accultrated Jewry in Russian society. Of course, this could not but affect his worldview, and the character and composition of his human connections.
True, I drew our attention to this, and even thoroughly, systematically and reasonably, only Mark Ural.
On the books of the Ural, writer and publicist, historian of Russian-Jewish cultural interaction of the previous line of centuries: “Gorky and Jews” (“EP”, 2018, No. 47), “Bunin and Jews” (“BE”, 2018, 2018, No. 54), “Unknown Trotsky” (“EP”, 2019, No. 55) - we wrote more than once. He analyzes the classic’s relationship with Jews, but does not idealize at all. Anton Pavlovich, as they say, was difficult to active Jewish participation in the cultural and social life of his time.
Was Chekhov Xenophobus in general and anti -Semite in particular? Publicly - he certainly was not, regardless of the fact that he spoke with the right -wing conservatives and collaborated as a writer, and with others he was friends, say, with Suvorin, whose newspaper New Time was at one time the main mouthpiece of Eudophobia (On the other hand, he was friends, as we know, with Isaac Levitan, and their relationship - yes, also difficult - a separate chapter is dedicated in the book) Do not wait for spoilers, reader. But we will open something: on the pages of the book there will be a lot of unexpected
True, I drew our attention to this, and even thoroughly, systematically and reasonably, only Mark Ural.
On the books of the Ural, writer and publicist, historian of Russian-Jewish cultural interaction of the previous line of centuries: “Gorky and Jews” (“EP”, 2018, No. 47), “Bunin and Jews” (“BE”, 2018, 2018, No. 54), “Unknown Trotsky” (“EP”, 2019, No. 55) - we wrote more than once. He analyzes the classic’s relationship with Jews, but does not idealize at all. Anton Pavlovich, as they say, was difficult to active Jewish participation in the cultural and social life of his time.
Was Chekhov Xenophobus in general and anti -Semite in particular? Publicly - he certainly was not, regardless of the fact that he spoke with the right -wing conservatives and collaborated as a writer, and with others he was friends, say, with Suvorin, whose newspaper New Time was at one time the main mouthpiece of Eudophobia (On the other hand, he was friends, as we know, with Isaac Levitan, and their relationship - yes, also difficult - a separate chapter is dedicated in the book) Do not wait for spoilers, reader. But we will open something: on the pages of the book there will be a lot of unexpected
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Publication Language:Russian
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ISBN:978-5-00165-039-3
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