Fyodor Dostoevsky

Many Dostoevsky scholars have been Jews, perhaps because the anti-Semitic writer needed to be seen as theirs—as almost Jewish in his concerns.

Dec. 26 2023 12:01AM

Why Russian Jews believed that reading Dostoevsky would legitimize their place in Russian culture and protect them from accusations of being interlopers.

Dec. 22 2023 12:01AM

That’s why geniuses like Dostoevsky can love all humanity and hate the Jews.

Dec. 18 2023 12:01AM

The case of the literary master helps explain why people who devote themselves to compassion for all so often make an exception for Jews.

Dec. 4 2023 3:59AM

Ivan Karamazov, Nietzsche’s Madman, and the lapsed atheist.

Carl Trueman
Aug. 1 2023 12:01AM

Jews shouldn’t join the mob by renaming St. Louis or “cancelling” Dostoevsky.

Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy
Aug. 5 2020 12:01AM

Does the Leopold and Loeb case say anything about Jewish identity?

April 20 2015 12:01AM