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  • Was Leo Tolstoy anti-semitic?

    There was this paragraph in Hadji Murad that didn’t quite sit well with me. It was about a russian officer that got a huge debt through gambling and i kid you not, Leo wrote “He settled his debt through a Jew who loaned him the amount with a very high interest.”

    On a vacuum it’s a weird statement, however Leo normally references the ethnicities of it’s characters, a cossack there, that tatar, the chechen, etc … So i am not entirely sure. Still it’s a weird thing to write about.

    It’s worth mentioning that he might’ve just shared the stereotypical views against jews that many other aristocrats shared during his time, a mild antisemitism we might say.