Another Pushkin poem query
Jules Levin
ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET
Sun Mar 30 18:32:00 UTC 2014
Let me take advantage of this attention on Pushkin's (? politically
incorrect) poetry to raise again a question I directed to SEELANGS
several years ago, without result.
Decades ago, perhaps in the 80's, a professor from some other reputable
university gave a lecture at either UC Riverside or UCLA about a Pushkin
poem that was from his erotica, not part of the usual anthologies. In
fact he distributed a copy of the poem. Here is what I remember about
the poem:
It was from his period in the south, it was about his love or lust
interest in a local Jewish young lady, and it was addressed to her. It
ended with the following thought: [For your favors] I would gladly give
up that which separates a true Orthodox from a Jew [presumably the
foreskin].
If anyone out there recognized this poem and can send a copy (in
Russian!) I would be grateful.
Jules Levin
Los Angeles
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