RUSSIA AFTER THE POGROMS, with André Markowicz

"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?

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