Political Correctness in Russia/zhid

[Alina Israeli]

That's not a problem. In the first half of the 19th century that was  
a standard reference to a Jew in Russian language, the same as in  
Polish. You can find it in Pushkin as well. What's more problematic  
is this recent collection "Evrei i zhidy v russkoj klassike" http:// 
www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2425530/ which was greeted gleefully in  
some parts of Russian blogoshere.



On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Robert Orr wrote:

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> Po greble, so vzglyadom ugryumym,
> Prohodit oborvannyj zhid,
> Iz ozera s penoj i shumom
> Voda cherez greblyu bezhit.
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> 1840-e gody
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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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Washington DC. 20016
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aisrael at american.edu




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