"Blessed be the Jew.
May the Russians also be blessed."
("Domostroy")

Today marks the 188th anniversary of the birth of the Great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovch Dostoevsky. Undoubtedly, on such a day it is necessary to talk about Dostoevsky. I would like to discuss a topic that I have been interested in for a long time. Dostoevsky and the Jews. Many considered and still consider Fyodor Mikhailovich an ardent anti-Semite. Is it really?
The opinion was this: Dostoevsky could hate and despise individual Russians, but he endlessly loved the Russian people; and, on the contrary, he respected individual Jews, maintained acquaintance with them, but on the whole he considered the Jewish nation destructive for all other peoples and, first of all, for the Russian.

Let's evaluate a few quotes from Fyodor Mikhailovich's letters.
Dostoevsky stipulates that he does not feel any hatred towards Jews:

“I have never had this hatred in my heart, and those of the Jews who are familiar with me and have had relations with me know this, then I, from the very beginning and before any word, withdraw this accusation from myself, once for all, with so as not to particularly mention it later."

Then Dostoevsky very aptly assesses the Jewish people:

“There is no other people in the whole world who would complain so much about their fate, every minute, every step and every word they say, about their humiliation, about their suffering, about their martyrdom.”

Dostoevsky did not live during the Second World War. And he could not see the suffering that befell the Russian or Jewish peoples. However, this output appears:

“I can’t quite believe the cries of the Jews that they are so downtrodden, tortured and humiliated. In my opinion, the Russian peasant, and indeed the Russian commoner in general, bears almost more burdens than the Jew.”

The lack of a state among Jews at that time is incomparable to the suffering that the Russian people had to endure:

“When the Jew “suffered in the free choice of place of residence,” then twenty-three million of the “Russian working masses” suffered from serfdom, which, of course, was harder than the “choice of place of residence.”

Well, actually, who said that Russians don’t like Jews? There is hostility - and there are reasons for it. But why do Jews treat Russians this way? Dostoevsky asks this question and answers it:

“I even happened to live with the people, in the mass of the people, in the same barracks, sleeping on the same bunks. There were several Jews there - and no one despised them, no one excluded them, no one drove them away. When they prayed (and Jews pray with a cry , putting on a special dress), then no one found this strange, did not interfere with them and did not laugh at them, which, however, is exactly what should be expected from such a rude, in your opinion, people as the Russians; on the contrary, looking at them, they said: “They have such faith, they pray like that,” and they passed by with calmness and almost approval. And well, these Jews were alienated from Russians in many ways, did not want to eat with them, looked almost down on them (and where is this? in the prison!) and generally expressed disgust and disgust towards the Russian, towards the “indigenous" people. The same is true in the soldiers’ barracks, and everywhere throughout Russia: visit, ask if Jews are treated in the barracks, as "A Jew, as a Jew, for his faith, for his customs? Nowhere is anyone offended, and so it is throughout the whole nation. On the contrary, I assure you that both in the barracks and everywhere the Russian commoner sees and understands too well (and the Jews themselves do not hide it) that the Jew won’t want to eat with him, he disdains him, shuns and protects himself from him as much as he can, and so what - instead of being offended by this, the Russian commoner calmly and clearly says: “It’s his faith, it’s his faith doesn’t eat and stays away” (that is, not because he’s angry), and realizing that higher reason, he excuses the Jew with all his heart. Meanwhile, sometimes a fantasy entered my head: well, what if there were not three million Jews in Russia, but Russians; and there would be 80 million Jews - well, what would the Russians be like and how would they treat them? Would they allow themselves to be equal in rights? Would they be allowed to pray among them freely? Wouldn't they turn you straight into slaves? Even worse: wouldn't the skin be completely torn off? Wouldn't they have beaten them to the point of complete extermination, as they did with foreign peoples in the old days, in their ancient history? No, sir, I assure you that among the Russian people there is no preconceived hatred of the Jew, but there is, perhaps, dislike for him, especially in localities, and perhaps even very strong. Oh, without this it is impossible that he is a Jew, not from tribal, not from some kind of religious hatred, but this comes from other reasons, for which it is no longer the indigenous people who are to blame, but the Jew himself."

For many centuries, Jews have been a “state within a state.” There is nothing wrong with such consolidation of the people. But only if it does not harm the state within which the Jews create their own, says Fyodor Mikhailovich:

"But without delving into the essence and depth of the subject, it is possible to depict at least some signs of this state within a state, at least outwardly. These signs: alienation and alienation to the level of religious dogma, lack of fusion, belief that there is only one national personality is a Jew, and although there are others, we must still consider it as if they did not exist. “Come out from the nations and form your own individual and know that from now on you are one with God, destroy the rest, or in convert slaves or exploit them. Believe in victory over the whole world, believe that everything will submit to you. Strictly disdain everyone and do not communicate with anyone in your everyday life. And even when you lose your land, your political personality, even when you are scattered across the face of the whole earth, among all nations - it doesn’t matter - believe everything that is promised to you, believe once and for all that everything will come true, but for now live, abhor , unite and exploit and - wait, wait..." This is the essence of the idea of ​​​​this state within a state, and then, of course, there are internal, and perhaps mysterious laws. Protecting this idea."

Dostoevsky does not mean individual Jews. He draws attention to the entire system, which is clearly aimed at World Domination:

“the top of the Jews reigns over humanity more and more firmly and firmly and strives to give the world their appearance and their essence, the Jews are still shouting that there are good people among them. Oh, God! Is that really the point? And we’re not talking about good people at all or are we talking about bad people now. And aren’t there also good people among them? Was the late Parisian James Rothschild a bad person? We are talking about the whole and about the idea of ​​it, we are talking about Judaism and the Jewish idea, embracing the whole world, instead of “failed” Christianity..."

Well, actually, what we see in the works of the Great writer:

The first Jewish character in Dostoevsky’s works is Isai Fomich Bumshtein (“Notes from the House of the Dead”), a Riga Jew and convict. The manners, appearance, prayer rituals and speech of Isai Fomich are depicted mockingly and unkindly, without the slightest attempt to penetrate into his psychology and the meaning of the rituals he performs.

Almost all Jews in Dostoevsky’s works are negative characters, at the same time dangerous and pathetic, cowardly and arrogant, cunning, greedy and dishonest. In depicting them, the writer often resorts to cliches and slander of vulgar anti-Semitism (the desecration of the icon of the Mother of God by the cross-Jew Lyamshin in “Demons”, the assumption of justice in accusing Jews of ritually consuming the blood of Christian babies in “The Brothers Karamazov”). Instead of the word “Jew,” Dostoevsky prefers to use derogatory nicknames: kikes, liquids, kikes, kikes, kikes.

At the same time, let's remember that the word "Jew" acquired an abusive connotation only in modern Russian. And in the time of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, this word did not necessarily have (as it later did) a crudely derogatory meaning. It was also used by Pushkin, Lermonotov, and our other great classics.

The great Russian writer-visionary F. M. Dostoevsky already a hundred years ago turned his attention to the role of Jews in Russian cultural and social life, into which they brought their own, purely Jewish, worldview and legal consciousness, alien to the indigenous population - the Russian people who created Russia .

In his works, he repeatedly expressed his thoughts on this issue, prophetically foreseeing everything that happened in Russia subsequently.

This is what Dostoevsky wrote a hundred years ago:

“The International ordered that the European revolution begin in Russia. And it will begin... Because we do not have a reliable rebuff for it, either in government or in society. The revolt will begin with atheism and the robbery of all wealth. They will begin to overthrow religion, destroy churches and turn them into barracks, into stables, they will flood the world with blood, and then they themselves will become afraid...

The Jews will destroy Russia and become the leaders of anarchy. Jew and his kahal are a conspiracy against the Russians. A terrible, colossal spontaneous revolution is foreseen, which will shake all the kingdoms of the world with a change in the face of this world. But this will require a hundred million heads. The whole world will be flooded with rivers of blood.” (Vol. XI, pp. 63-66).
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So Dostoevsky wrote correctly, since the Jew Chubais hates him so much!

“Yes, a new spirit will come, a new society will triumph. There can be no doubt about this. And this evil spirit is close. Our children will see him... The world will be saved after being visited by an evil spirit (vol. XI, p. 381).”
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DOSTOEVSKY ABOUT JEWS AND RUSSIANS. The truth is that Dostoevsky did not hate or dislike Jews. However, Dostoevsky did believe that Jews as a nation differed from the Russian people in their views and mentality. Dostoevsky did not share some views of the Jews. And he wasn’t shy about talking about it. Dostoevsky insisted that Jews as a nation have their own special national traits - different from the traits of the Russian people. This, perhaps, was the essence of Dostoevsky’s “Jewish question.” He foresaw the horrors of the dominance of the Jews and tried to warn everyone about their activities. DOSTOEVSKY ABOUT THE JEWS AND THE JEWISH QUESTION. To understand Dostoevsky's point of view on this topic, you do not need to re-read all of his articles. In a letter to one of his readers, Dostoevsky quite clearly explained his point of view on the “Jewish question”: “...Now about the Jews... I will tell you that I have already received notes of this kind from other Jews... I think I will write a few lines about these reproaches from the Jews in the February “Diary”... ... I am not at all an enemy of the Jews and never have been. But already 40 centuries, as you say, their existence proves that this tribe has an extremely strong vital force, which could not, throughout history, not be formulated into different status in statu*. The strongest status in statu* is undeniable among our Russian Jews. And if so, then how can they not become, at least partly, in discord with the root of the nation, with the Russian tribe?... ...All my 50 years of life I have seen that Jews, good and evil, will not even want to sit at table with Russians, and Russians will not disdain to sit with them. Who hates whom? Who is intolerant of whom? And what is the idea that the Jews are a humiliated and insulted nation. On the contrary, it is the Russians who are humiliated before the Jews in everything, for the Jews, enjoying almost complete equality (even become officers, and Russia is everything), in addition, they have their own right, their own law and their own status quo, which Russian laws protect. But let’s leave it at that, the topic is long. I was not an enemy of the Jews, I have Jewish acquaintances, there are Jewish women who still come to me for advice on various subjects, and they read “The Diary of a Writer,” and although they are sensitive, like all Jews for Jewishness, they are not my enemies, but, on the contrary, they come..." *status in statu - translated from Latin means "state within a state." *status quo - translated from Latin means "the existing state of affairs" (in a letter to A.G. Kovner. February 1877)

Dostoevsky covered the “Jewish question” in especially detail in “The Diary of a Writer,” a collection of journalistic and artistic works published in 1873-1881. “A Writer’s Diary” is interesting, first of all, because it contains Dostoevsky’s response to the events that took place in his time. A kind of document of the era. 1873 More than 10 years have passed since the abolition of serfdom in Russia. In “A Writer’s Diary” for 1873, Dostoevsky expresses concern about the widespread spread of alcoholism among the Russian people: “Mothers drink, children drink, churches are empty, fathers commit robbery; Ivan Susanin’s bronze hand was sawed off and taken to a tavern; but they accepted it at the tavern! Just ask medicine: what generation can be born from such drunkards?” Reflects on the future fate of the people: “... if things continue, if the people themselves do not come to their senses... then the whole, entirely, in the shortest possible time will find itself in the hands of all kinds of Jews... The Jews will drink the blood of the people and feed on the depravity and humiliation of the people... A bad dream, a dream terrible, and thank God it’s just a dream!” Alas, the writer’s terrible dream came true, almost a century and a half later... But then Dostoevsky writes: “More than once the people had to help themselves out! He will find in himself the protective power that he has always found; will find in himself principles that protect and save - these are the very ones that our intelligentsia never finds in him. He won’t want the tavern himself; he will want work and order, he will want honor, not a tavern!..” This prophecy of the writer is also coming true: more and more people are waking up from an alcoholic sleep, realizing the destructive power of alcohol poison and choosing a sober life. In the “Diary of a Writer” for 1876, Dostoevsky talks about the economic dominance of the Jews, about the centuries-old peculiarity of this people to bring ruin with them to foreign lands. Along the way, he continues to reflect on the future fate of the Russian people, freed from serfdom: “In general, if the resettlement of Russians to Crimea (gradual, of course) would require some extraordinary expenses from the state, then such expenses, it seems, would be very possible and extremely possible It would be beneficial to decide. In any case, if the Russians do not take their place, then the Jews will certainly attack the Crimea and destroy the soil of the region...” (Writer’s Diary. July and August, 1876) “...The Jews become landowners - and now, everywhere, they shout and write that they are killing the soil of Russia, that the Jew, having spent capital on the purchase of an estate, immediately, in order to return the capital and interest, drains all the strength and resources of the purchased land. But try to say anything against this - and they will immediately cry out to you about the violation of the principle of economic freedom and civil equality. But what kind of equality is there if there is an obvious and Talmudic Status in Statu (State within a State (Latin). You can read more about this term in the “Diary of a Writer” for March 1877) first of all and in the foreground, if there is no only the depletion of the soil, but also the future depletion of our peasant, who, having freed himself from the landowners, will undoubtedly and very soon now, with his entire community, fall into much worse slavery and to much worse landowners - to the very new landowners who have already sucked the juice out of the Western Russian peasant, to those who are now not only buying estates and men, but have already begun to buy liberal opinion and continue to do so very successfully...” (Diary of a writer. July and August, 1876) Of course, such attacks by Dostoevsky against the Jews could not remain unnoticed: the writer received a lot of angry responses from “God’s chosen ones,” among whom it is especially worth noting a certain Jewish journalist A.U. Kovner (who did not know or speak Russian until the age of 19), who openly accused Dostoevsky of anti-Semitism. The answer to this Jew, who learned to read and write late and who already imagined himself to be an expert in the Jewish question (but in fact was simply an unreasoned and rabid defender of his fellow tribesmen), Fyodor Mikhailovich gave a more than lengthy answer, taking into account the personality of this Jewish man, who was in prison at that time for fraud. criminal Kovner. Dostoevsky decided not to limit himself to personal correspondence: he devoted an entire chapter to the “Jewish question” in the March 1877 issue of “A Writer’s Diary”, citing quotes from a letter from Kovner (Mr. NN) in the first part of this chapter: “I will copy one passage from a letter from one a very educated Jew, who wrote me a long and beautiful letter in many respects, which interested me very much. This is one of the most characteristic accusations against me of hating the Jew as a people. It goes without saying that the name of Mr. NN, who wrote this letter to me, will remain under the strictest anonymity. And here is another excerpt from this chapter: “Before I answer anything (for I do not want to bear such a heavy accusation), I will draw attention to the fury of the attack and the degree of resentment. I have a positive opinion, throughout the entire year of publication of the Diary, there was no such length of article against the "Jew" that could have caused such a strong attack. Secondly, it is impossible not to notice that the venerable correspondent, having touched upon the Russian people in these few lines, could not resist and could not stand it and treated the poor the Russian people are a little too patronizing. True, in Russia there is not a single place left untouched by Russians (Shchedrin’s word), and it is even more forgivable for a Jew. But in any case, this bitterness clearly demonstrates how the Jews themselves view the Russians. This was truly written by an educated and talented person (I don’t think it was without prejudice); What can we expect, after that, from an uneducated Jew, of whom there are so many, what feelings for a Russian?" (A Writer's Diary. March, 1877. Chapter Two. "The Jewish Question"). And indeed: before the March release of the "Writer's Diary" in In 1877, Dostoevsky mentioned the Jews in passing, but even these insignificant mentions aroused unprecedented rage among the Jews. Moreover, the so-called “God’s chosen ones,” reproaching the writer for anti-Semitism, are not at all ashamed of their own Russophobia, speaking about the Russian people with contempt and arrogance... And the writer himself despite all the attacks and accusations, he continues to remain polite and reacts quite correctly to all the attacks of the Jewish community, calmly repelling the attacks of rabid newspaper scribblers and other crooks, such as the criminal Kovner mentioned above. for any reason, and especially when one of their relatives is found guilty of lewdness or sabotage.

QUOTES ABOUT THE JEWS. “The top of the Jews reigns more and more firmly and strives to give the world its appearance and its essence. The Jewish idea covers the whole world. Throughout the 40-century history of the Jews, they have always been motivated by only one ruthlessness towards us... ruthlessness towards everything that is not a Jew... and only one thirst to get drunk with our sweat and blood.” --"The Jew and the bank are already master of everything: Europe, and enlightenment, and civilization, and socialism, especially socialism, for with them he will uproot Christianity and destroy its civilization. And when only one anarchy remains, then the Jew will become at the head of everything. For, preaching socialism, he will remain in unity among himself, and when all the wealth of Europe perishes, the bank of the Jew will remain. The Antichrist will come and stand in anarchy." - “Something will come that no one can imagine... All these parliamentarisms, all civil theories, all the accumulated wealth, banks, sciences... everything will collapse in an instant without a trace, except for the Jews, who then alone will be able to do this and that’s it.” take it into your own hands." --"Yes, Europe is on the verge of a terrible catastrophe... All these Bismarcks, Beaconsfields, Gambettas and others, they are all just shadows for me... Their master, the ruler of everything without exception and the whole of Europe is the Jew and his bank.. .Judaism and the banks now control everything and everyone, both Europe and socialism, since with its help Judaism will uproot Christianity and destroy Christian culture. And even if nothing happens, as soon as anarchy is the lot, then it will be controlled by the Jew. So how, although he preaches socialism, nevertheless he remains with his Jewish accomplices outside socialism. So that when all the wealth of Europe is devastated, only the Jewish bank will remain. (...) The Jewish revolution must begin with atheism, since the Jews need to overthrow that faith, that religion from which came the moral foundations that made Russia both holy and great!” --"Point to some other tribe of Russian foreigners, which, in terms of its terrible influence, could be equal in this sense to a Jew. You will not find such a thing; in this sense, Jews retain all their originality compared to other Russian foreigners, and the reason Moreover, of course, this “status in statu” (state within a state) is his, the spirit of which breathes precisely this ruthlessness towards everything that is not a Jew, this disrespect for every people and tribe, and for every human being who is not a Jew. " --"The Jews will destroy Russia!.." --"The International ordered that the Jewish revolution begin in Russia. And it will begin... Because we do not have a reliable rebuff for it, either in management or in society. The revolt will begin with atheism and the robbery of all wealth. They will begin to overthrow religion, destroy temples and turn them into barracks and stables; They will flood the world with blood... The Jews will destroy Russia and become the head of anarchy. Jew and his Kagal are a conspiracy against the Russians.” - “Jews always live in anticipation of a wonderful revolution that will give them their “Jewish kingdom”: Come out from the nations and... know that from now on you are one with God, destroy the rest or find them as slaves, or exploit them. Believe in victory over the whole world, believe that everything will submit to you. Strictly disdain everyone and do not communicate with anyone in your everyday life. And even when you lose your land, even when you are scattered across the face of the whole earth, among all peoples, still believe everything that is promised to you once and for all, believe that everything will come true, but for now live, abhor, unite and exploit and - wait, wait." - “Well, what if it weren’t three million Jews in Russia, but Russians; and there were 80 million Jews - well, what would the Russians be like among them and how would they treat them? Would they let them become equal to with their rights? Wouldn't they turn them straight into slaves? Worse still: wouldn't they completely flay off their skin? Wouldn't they beat them to ashes, to the point of final extermination, as they did with foreign peoples in the old days, in their ancient history? In our outskirts, ask the indigenous population "What motivates the Jews and what has motivated them for so many centuries. Get a unanimous answer: ruthlessness; what has driven them for so many centuries has been nothing but ruthlessness towards us and only one thirst to be nourished by our sweat and blood." F.M.DOSTOEVSKY /1821 – 1881/ “Diary of a Writer”, March 1877

There was a theme in the works of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky that worried many readers. This topic is the so-called “Jewish question” of Dostoevsky.

There is an opinion that F. M. Dostoevsky did not like Jews and even had antipathy towards them. This idea is probably suggested by comments about Jews and “kikes” in Dostoevsky’s novels. These comments are not found so often in novels, although they are sometimes ironic.

DOSTOEVSKY ABOUT JEWS AND RUSSIANS.

The truth is that Dostoevsky did not hate or dislike Jews. However, Dostoevsky did believe that Jews as a nation differed from the Russian people in their views and mentality. Dostoevsky did not share some views of the Jews. And he wasn’t shy about talking about it. Dostoevsky insisted that Jews as a nation have their own special national traits - different from the traits of the Russian people. This, perhaps, was the essence of Dostoevsky’s “Jewish question.” He foresaw the horrors of the dominance of the Jews and tried to warn everyone about their activities.

DOSTOEVSKY ABOUT THE JEWS AND THE JEWISH QUESTION.

To understand Dostoevsky's point of view on this topic, you do not need to re-read all of his articles. In a letter to one of his readers, Dostoevsky explained his point of view on the “Jewish question” quite clearly:

"...Now about the Jews. ... I will tell you that I have already received notes of this kind from other Jews. ... I think I will write a few lines about these reproaches from the Jews in the February "Diary"... ... I am not at all an enemy of the Jews and never have been. But already 40 centuries, as you say, their existence proves that this tribe has an extremely strong vital force, which could not, throughout history, not be formulated in different status in statu*.

The strongest status in statu* is undeniable among our Russian Jews. And if so, then how can they not become, at least partially, at odds with the root of the nation, with the Russian tribe?...

All my 50 years of life I have seen that Jews, good and evil, do not even want to sit at table with Russians, and a Russian will not disdain to sit with them. Who hates whom? Who is intolerant of whom? And what kind of idea is this that Jews are a humiliated and insulted nation? On the contrary, it is the Russians who are humiliated before the Jews in everything, for the Jews, enjoying almost complete equality of rights (even becoming officers, and in Russia that’s all), in addition, have their own right, their own law and their own status quo, which Russian laws protect . But let’s leave it at that, the topic is long.

I was not an enemy of the Jews, I have Jewish acquaintances, there are Jewish women who still come to me for advice on various subjects, and they read “The Diary of a Writer,” and although they are sensitive, like all Jews for Jewishness, they are not my enemies, but, on the contrary, they come..."

*status in statu - translated from Latin. means "state within a state".

*status quo - translated from Latin. means “the current state of affairs” (in a letter to A.G. Kovner. February 1877)

Dostoevsky covered the “Jewish question” in especially detail in “The Diary of a Writer,” a collection of journalistic and artistic works published in 1873-1881. “A Writer’s Diary” is interesting, first of all, because it contains Dostoevsky’s response to the events that took place in his time. A kind of document of the era.

1873 More than 10 years have passed since the abolition of serfdom in Russia.

In “A Writer’s Diary” for 1873, Dostoevsky expresses concern about the widespread spread of alcoholism among the Russian people: “Mothers drink, children drink, churches are empty, fathers commit robbery; Ivan Susanin’s bronze hand was sawed off and taken to a tavern; but they accepted it at the tavern! Just ask medicine: what generation can be born from such drunkards?”

Reflects on the future fate of the people:

“... if things continue, if the people themselves do not come to their senses... then the whole, entirely, in the shortest possible time will find itself in the hands of all kinds of Jews... The Jews will drink the blood of the people and feed on the depravity and humiliation of the people... It’s a bad dream, a terrible dream, and - thank God that this is just a dream!

Alas, the writer’s terrible dream came true, almost a century and a half later... But then Dostoevsky writes:

“People have had to help themselves out more than once! He will find in himself the protective power that he has always found; will find in himself principles that protect and save - these are the very ones that our intelligentsia never finds in him. He won’t want the tavern himself; he will want work and order, he will want honor, not a tavern!..”

This prophecy of the writer is also coming true: more and more people are waking up from an alcoholic sleep, realizing the destructive power of alcohol poison and choosing a sober life.

In the “Diary of a Writer” for 1876, Dostoevsky talks about the economic dominance of the Jews, about the centuries-old peculiarity of this people to bring ruin with them to foreign lands. Along the way, he continues to reflect on the future fate of the Russian people, freed from serfdom:

“In general, if the resettlement of Russians to Crimea (gradual, of course) would require some extraordinary expenses from the state, then such expenses, it seems, would be very possible and extremely profitable to decide on. In any case, if the Russians do not take their place, then the Jews will certainly attack the Crimea and destroy the soil of the region...” (Diary of a writer. July and August, 1876)

“...Look, the Jews are becoming landowners - and now, everywhere, they shout and write that they are killing the soil of Russia, that the Jew, having spent capital on the purchase of an estate, immediately, in order to return the capital and interest, drains all the strength and resources of the purchased land. But try to say anything against this - and they will immediately cry out to you about the violation of the principle of economic freedom and civil equality.

But what kind of equality is there if there is an obvious and Talmudic Status in Statu (State within a State (Latin).

You can read more about this term in the “Diary of a Writer” for March 1877) first of all and in the foreground, if there is not only depletion of the soil, but also the future depletion of our peasant, who, having freed himself from the landowners, will undoubtedly and very soon now end up in with their entire community into much worse slavery and to much worse landowners - to those same new landowners who have already sucked the juices out of the Western Russian peasant, to those same ones who are now not only buying estates and peasants, but have already begun to buy liberal opinion and continue to do so very successfully...” (Writer’s Diary. July and August, 1876)

Of course, such attacks by Dostoevsky against Jews could not go unnoticed: the writer received a lot of angry responses from “God’s chosen ones,” among whom it is especially worth noting a certain Jewish journalist A.U. Kovner (who did not know or speak Russian until the age of 19), who openly accused Dostoevsky of anti-Semitism.

The answer to this Jew, who learned to read and write late and who already imagined himself to be an expert in the Jewish question (but in fact was simply an unreasoned and rabid defender of his fellow tribesmen), Fyodor Mikhailovich gave a more than lengthy answer, taking into account the personality of this Jewish man, who was in prison at that time for fraud. criminal Kovner.

Dostoevsky decided not to limit himself to personal correspondence: he devoted an entire chapter to the “Jewish question” in the March 1877 issue of “A Writer’s Diary”, quoting from a letter from Kovner (Mr. NN) in the first part of this chapter:

“I will copy out one passage from a letter from a very educated Jew, who wrote me a long and beautiful letter in many respects, which interested me very much. This is one of the most characteristic accusations against me of hating the Jew as a people. It goes without saying that the name of Mr. NN, who wrote this letter to me, will remain under the strictest anonymity.

Here's another excerpt from this chapter:

“Before I answer anything (because I don’t want to bear such a heavy accusation on myself), I’ll draw attention to the fury of the attack and the degree of resentment. Positively, during the entire year of publication of the Diary, I did not have such lengths of an article against the “Jew” ", which could cause such a forceful attack. Secondly, it is impossible not to notice that the venerable correspondent, having touched upon the Russian people in these few lines, could not resist and could not stand it and treated the poor Russian people a little too condescendingly.

True, in Russia there is not a single place left untouched by Russians (Shchedrin’s word), and it is even more forgivable for a Jew. But in any case, this bitterness clearly demonstrates how the Jews themselves view the Russians. This was truly written by an educated and talented person (I don’t think it was without prejudice); What can we expect, after that, from an uneducated Jew, of whom there are so many, what feelings for a Russian?”

(Diary of a writer. March, 1877. Chapter two. “The Jewish Question”).

And indeed: before the March release of “A Writer’s Diary” in 1877, Dostoevsky mentioned the Jews in passing, but even these minor mentions caused unprecedented rage among the Jews. Moreover, the so-called “God’s chosen ones,” reproaching the writer for anti-Semitism, are not at all ashamed of their own Russophobia, and speak about the Russian people with contempt and arrogance...

And the writer himself, despite all the attacks and accusations, continues to remain polite and reacts quite correctly to all the attacks of the Jewish community, calmly repelling the attacks of rabid newspaper hacks and other crooks, such as the criminal Kovner mentioned above.

Today's Jews are no different from this Kovner, raising a howl for any reason, and especially when one of their relatives is exposed for obscenity or sabotage.

QUOTES ABOUT THE JEWS.

“The top of the Jews reigns more and more firmly and strives to give the world its appearance and its essence. The Jewish idea covers the whole world. Throughout the 40-century history of the Jews, they have always been motivated by only one ruthlessness towards us... ruthlessness towards everything that is not a Jew... and only one thirst to get drunk with our sweat and blood.”

--"The Jew and the bank are already master of everything: Europe, and enlightenment, and civilization, and socialism, especially socialism, for with them he will uproot Christianity and destroy its civilization. And when only one anarchy remains, then the Jew will become at the head of everything. For, preaching socialism, he will remain in unity among himself, and when all the wealth of Europe perishes, what will remain is the bank of the Jew.

The Antichrist will come and stand in anarchy."

- “Something will come that no one can imagine... All these parliamentarisms, all civil theories, all the accumulated wealth, banks, sciences... everything will collapse in an instant without a trace, except for the Jews, who then alone will be able to do this and that’s it.” take it into your own hands."

--"Yes, Europe is on the verge of a terrible catastrophe... All these Bismarcks, Beaconsfields, Gambettas and others, they are all just shadows for me... Their master, the ruler of everything without exception and the whole of Europe is the Jew and his bank.. .Judaism and the banks now control everything and everyone, both Europe and socialism, since with its help Judaism will uproot Christianity and destroy Christian culture. And even if nothing happens, as soon as anarchy is the lot, then it will be controlled by the Jew. So how, although he preaches socialism, nevertheless he remains with his Jewish accomplices outside socialism. So that when all the wealth of Europe is devastated, only the Jewish bank will remain. (...) The Jewish revolution must begin with atheism, since the Jews need to overthrow that faith, that religion from which came the moral foundations that made Russia both holy and great!”

--"Point to some other tribe of Russian foreigners, which, in terms of its terrible influence, could be equal in this sense to a Jew. You will not find such a thing; in this sense, Jews retain all their originality compared to other Russian foreigners, and the reason Moreover, of course, this “status in statu” (state within a state) is his, the spirit of which breathes precisely this ruthlessness towards everything that is not a Jew, this disrespect for every people and tribe, and for every human being who is not a Jew. "

--"The Jews will destroy Russia!.."

--“The International ordered that the Jewish revolution begin in Russia. And it will begin... Because we do not have a reliable rebuff for it, either in management or in society. The revolt will begin with atheism and the robbery of all wealth. They will begin to overthrow religion, destroy temples and turn them into barracks and stables; They will flood the world with blood... The Jews will destroy Russia and become the head of anarchy. Jew and his Kagal are a conspiracy against the Russians.”

- “Jews always live in anticipation of a wonderful revolution that will give them their “Jewish kingdom”: Come out from the nations and... know that from now on you are one with God, destroy the rest or find them as slaves, or exploit them. Believe in victory over the whole world, believe that everything will submit to you.

Strictly disdain everyone and do not communicate with anyone in your everyday life. And even when you lose your land, even when you are scattered across the face of the whole earth, among all peoples, still believe everything that is promised to you once and for all, believe that everything will come true, but for now live, abhor, unite and exploit and - wait, wait."

- “Well, what if it weren’t three million Jews in Russia, but Russians; and there were 80 million Jews - well, what would the Russians be like among them and how would they treat them? Would they let them become equal to with their rights? Wouldn't they turn them straight into slaves? Worse still: wouldn't they completely flay off their skin? Wouldn't they beat them to the ground, to the point of final extermination, as they did with foreign peoples in the old days, in their ancient history?

In our outskirts, ask the indigenous population what motivates the Jews and what has motivated them for so many centuries. Get a unanimous answer: ruthlessness; For so many centuries they were driven only by ruthlessness towards us and only by the thirst to be nourished by our sweat and blood.”

F.M.DOSTOEVSKY /1821 - 1881/ “Diary of a Writer”, March 1877

—“The revolt will begin with atheism and the robbery of all wealth, they will begin to corrupt religion, destroy temples and turn them into barracks, into stalls, they will flood the world with blood and then they themselves will get scared. The Jews will destroy Russia and become the leaders of anarchy. Jew and his kahal are a conspiracy against the Russians. A terrible, colossal, spontaneous revolution is foreseen, which will shake all the kingdoms of the world with a change in the face of this world. But this will require a hundred million heads. The whole world will be flooded with rivers of blood.”

After 1917, people were shot for reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s book “The Diary of a Writer.” For many decades it was banned and distorted...

In his works, DOSTOEVSKY “copied” his characters from real prototypes, noticing every little detail in their behavior. That is why the heroes of his works look so truthful and they are so understandable to the reader. But in none of his works you will find good Jews among the heroes. They are always pathetic, vile, arrogant, cowardly, dishonest, greedy and dangerous - just as he saw them in life, just as they were in life. For this truth they hated him during his lifetime, and they hate him now.

Oh, don’t think that I’m really trying to raise the “Jewish question”! - I wrote this title as a joke. I am unable to raise a question of such magnitude as the position of the Jew in Russia and the position of Russia, which has three million Jews among its sons. This question is not about my size. But I can still have some judgment of mine, and it turns out that some of the Jews suddenly became interested in my judgment. For some time now I have begun to receive letters from them, and they seriously and bitterly reproach me for “attacking” them, that I “hate the Jew,” I hate him not for his vices, “not as an exploiter,” namely like a tribe, that is, something like: “Judas, they say, sold Christ.” This is written by “educated” Jews, that is, from those who (I noticed this, but I am by no means generalizing my note, I make a reservation in advance) - who always seem to try to let you know that, with their education, they no longer share “prejudices” “We don’t perform our nation, our religious rituals, like other small Jews, they consider this below their enlightenment, and, they say, we don’t believe in God. I will note in parentheses and by the way that it is too sinful for all these gentlemen from the “higher Jews” who stand so much for their nation to forget their forty-century-old Jehovah and abandon him. And this is far from being sinful from a sense of nationality alone, but also from other, very high-level reasons. And it’s a strange thing: a Jew without God is somehow unthinkable; It is impossible to imagine a Jew without God. But this is a broad topic; we will leave it for now. What is most surprising to me is: how and where did I end up among the haters of the Jew as a people, as a nation? As an exploiter and for some vices, I am partly allowed to condemn the Jew by these gentlemen themselves, but only in words: in fact, it is difficult to find anything more irritable and scrupulous than an educated Jew and more touchy than him as a Jew. But again: when and with what did I declare hatred of the Jew as a people? Since there has never been this hatred in my heart, and those Jews who know me and have had relations with me know this, then, from the very beginning and before any word, I withdraw this accusation from myself, once and for all, so as not to particularly mention it later. Is it not because I am accused of “hatred” because I sometimes call a Jew a “Jew?” But, firstly, I didn’t think it would be so offensive, and secondly, as far as I remember, I always mentioned the word “Jew” to designate a well-known idea: “Jew, Jewism, Jewish kingdom”...

Suppose it is very difficult to know the forty-century history of such a people as the Jews; but in the first case, I already know one thing, that there is probably no other people in the whole world who would complain so much about their fate, every minute, every step and every word they say, about their humiliation, about their suffering, about their martyrdom. Just think, they are not the ones who reign in Europe, they are not the ones who control the stock exchanges there, and therefore, politics, internal affairs, and the morality of states. Let the noble Goldstein die for the Slavic idea. But still, if the Jewish idea were not so strong in the world, and perhaps the same “Slavic” (last year) issue would have long ago been resolved in favor of the Slavs, and not the Turks. I am ready to believe that Lord Beaconsfield himself may have forgotten his origins, once, from the Spanish Jews (probably, however, he did not forget): that he “led English Conservative policy” for the last year partly from the point of view of a Jew, this, in my opinion, cannot be doubted. “Partly” cannot be avoided.

"Free choice of residence!" But is a Russian “native” person really so completely free to choose his place of residence? Don’t the same undesirable restrictions on the complete freedom of choice of residence for the Russian commoner, to which the government has long been paying attention, still continue to this day, still remaining from serfdom times? As for the Jews, everyone can see that their rights in choosing their place of residence have expanded very, very much in the last twenty years. At least they appeared throughout Russia in places where they had not been seen before. But the Jews still complain about hatred and oppression.

Even in my childhood I read and heard a legend about the Jews that even now they are steadily waiting for the Messiah, all of them, both the lowest Jew and the highest and most learned of them, the philosopher and the cabalist rabbi, that they all believe that the Messiah will gather them again in Jerusalem and bring down all nations with his sword at their feet; that for some reason the Jews, at least in the vast majority, prefer only one profession - trading in gold and much more processing it, and this is all supposedly so that when the Messiah appears, then so as not to have a new fatherland , not to be attached to the land of foreigners while possessing it. and to have everything with you only in gold and jewelry, in order to carry it away more conveniently. Therefore, it was not persecution alone that was and is the cause of it, but another idea...

If there really is such a special, internal, strict system among the Jews, connecting them into something integral and special, then one can almost still think about the question of a perfect comparison in everything of their rights with the rights of the indigenous population. Of course, everything that humanity and justice requires, everything that humanity and Christian law require - all this must be done for the Jews. But if they, fully armed with their system and their peculiarities, their tribal religious isolation, fully armed with their rules and principles, completely opposite to the idea, following which, at least until now, the entire European world has developed, demand the perfect equalization of all possible rights with the indigenous population , then - won’t they already receive something more, something superfluous, something supreme against even the most indigenous population?