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Shakespeare and the Jews

Most educated readers are familiar with the sinister figure of Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, an anti-Semitic stereotype of the cunning, greedy, and ruthless Jewish man. But how did a stereotype like Shylock enter the literature at all, given that there were so few Jews in Shakespeare's England?

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 317
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780231103442
  • Genres
  • jewish, history, judaism
  • Release date
  • 1995