Jews and Dogs

Wed Aug 22 20:40:58 UTC 2012

Dear Gabriella,

Gogol's *Taras Bulba* has references to Jewish children as "puppies," and I
believe Yankle is called "a dog" many times.

In Pushkin's *Covetous Knight *the Jew is also called "a dog"

Chekhov's "Rotschild's Fiddle" has much more subtler references through
body language and imagery

It might be interested to compare the death scenes in Turgenev's "Mymy"
(the dog) with his "Yid" (the Yid) and *Taras Bulba *(Pogrom scene and all
the scenes where Yankle is being threatened).

Yours,

Anna Finkelstern

Graduate Student at GC CUNY

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Slivkin, Yevgeniy A. <slivkin at ou.edu>wrote:

>  I just occurred to me that it could be extremly  interesting to look
> at the Shvonder-Sharikov relationship in Bulgakov's "The Heart of a Dog"
> through the lens of the Jews and Dogs connection in literature...
>
>
>
> Also regarding "The Heart of a Dog" I have a question for all SEELANGERS.
> Could somone please recommend scholarly articles  or scholarly book
> chapters written on this work which would be comprehensiblefor undergraduatestudents (written in English, of course).
>
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
>
> Yevgeny Slivkin
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> SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Robert Orr [colkitto at ROGERS.COM]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:36 PM
> *To:* SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [SEELANGS] Jews and Dogs
>
>   Apparently Marshal Tukhachevskiy once said "The Jew is a dog, son of a
> dog, who sows his fleas in every land" (quoted in General J.F.C. Fuller,
> The Decisive Battles of the Western World", the chapter dealing with Warsaw
> 1920, from memory, I mislaid my copy years ago).
>
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> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Rouhier-Willoughby,
> Jeanmarie
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:08 PM
> *To:* SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [SEELANGS] Jews and Dogs
>
>   Dear Dorothy--I would suggest Olga Belova's work on folklore related to
> ethnic stereotypes in the Russian context. She may have some valuable
> background for a study of this kind.
>
>  Best, Jeanmarie
>
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>   From: Kopel Dorothy <Kopel at WEBSTER.AC.AT>
> Reply-To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures
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> Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:43 AM
> To: "SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU" <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Jews and Dogs
>
>   No, please reply to the whole list (or at least to me too).  I am very
> interested in this topic and narrative conceptualizations of animals in
> general.
>
> Thanks-
>
> Dorothy
>
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>  *From:* SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [
> mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU>] *On Behalf Of
> *Gabriella Safran
> *Sent:* Dienstag, 21. August 2012 17:37
> *To:* SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> *Subject:* [SEELANGS] Jews and Dogs
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> A student working on Hebrew, Yiddish, and German literatures is starting a
> dissertation on how narratives juxtapose Jews and dogs (and sometimes other
> animals).  Sometimes Jews are identified with dogs, and sometimes they are
> seen as opposing forces.  Can you think of Russian texts that I should
> recommend to him?  Probably best to reply off list.
> take care
> Gabriella
>
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> Chair, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
> Stanford University
> Stanford, CA 94305
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> fax 650-725-0011
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