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July 29, 2024

Vladimir Nabokov’s Philo-Semitic Inheritance

And its appearance in his fiction.

While the Russian-born English-language writer Vladimir Nabokov’s warm attitudes toward Jews, and principled opposition to anti-Semitism, have often been attributed to the fact that he was married to a Jewish woman, Shalom Goldman argues that these feelings went deeper still. Indeed, he claims, they were something of a family legacy:

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