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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.
Jews were specifically restricted from working in many professions so many were forced into money lending to support themselves. If the money lender charged him high interest it has nothing to do with him being Jewish and everything to do with the high risk lending to the Russian officer.