"In Russia, Jews do not exist."
Translator André Markowicz reveals the long absence of Jewish figures in Russian literature, and examines Dostoyevsky's "natural anti-Semitism".
📚 A break took place in 1903 with the play "The Jews", written shortly after the Kishinev pogrom, by a forgotten author, Evgueni Tchirikov. On the occasion of its translation into French, André Markowicz introduces us to the first Russian incursion into the Jewish house.
00:00 Chirikov entered the Jewish house
07:39 The Jew in Russian literature, from Dostoyevsky to Chekhov
18:00 Marx or the Talmud?
24:34 How the play disappeared: triumph and censorship
29:36 What is a Russian Jew?
5 авг 2024
