Dostoevsky and the Jews | Anna Narinskaya
We asked journalist, playwright, and curator Anna Narinskaya to explain why so many Russian-speaking scholars of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's work are Jewish, and what this means for us.
We thank the Berlin bookstore Babel for their hospitality.
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Timestamps:
0:32 Dostoevsky on the Bookshelf of a Soviet Jew
2:05 An Exchange of Letters between Astafyev and Eidelman
5:56 About Dostoevsky and His Jewish Researchers
8:40 About Leonid Tsypkin's Story "Summer in Baden"
13:05 About the History of the Publication of "Summer in Baden" and the Author's "Posthumous" Fame
19:19 "Confessions of a Jew" by Leonid Grossman
20:55 About the Life and Fate of Arkady Kovner and His Correspondence with Dostoevsky
29:40 Dostoevsky's Article "The Jewish Question" as the "Bible of Anti-Semitism"
32:03 Dostoevsky and the "I Myself Have Many Jewish Friends" Meme
33:27 About S. Gurevich's Preface to Leonid Grossman's "Confessions of a Jew"
35:06 Why were Jewish intellectuals so fixated on Dostoevsky?