Taras Bulba
Felix Dreizin and David Guaspari in their "The Russian Soul and the Jew: Essays in Literary Ethnocentrism" discuss anti-Semitism, pointing out Gogol's attachment to "anti-Jewish prejudices prevalent in Russian and Ukrainian culture". In Léon Poliakov's "The History of Antisemitism", the author states that "The 'Yankel' from "Taras Bulba" indeed became the archetypal Jew in Russian literature. Gogol painted him as supremely exploitative, cowardly, and repulsive, albeit capable of gratitude". There is a scene in "Taras Bulba" where Jews are thrown into a river, a scene where Taras Bulba visits the Jews and seeks their aid, and reference by the narrator of the story that Jews are treated inhumanely.