Neither with Them, Nor Without Them: The Russian Writer and the Jew in the Age of RealismThe debates over the Jewish theme in Russian literature have been long dominated by the old dichotomy between anti and philo Semitic discourses. Rather than analyzing the image of the Jew in terms of negative or positive characteristics, and branding the authors respectively, as anti or philo Semitic, the author explores the complexity and the ambiguity of the construction of Jewishness as the Other in the works of three of Russia's greatest