Anti-Semitism in Literature (Identities and Issues in Literature)
Introduction
When, as a child, Charles Dickens worked in a factory, he received kindness and instruction from the Jewish orphan Bob Fagin. Dickens later wrote that he felt contaminated by such companionship. In Oliver Twist (1838), he named a villainous corrupter of children Fagin, and, in the first edition, repeatedly calls him “the Jew.” After Jewish complaints, as if in compensation, Dickens eventually placed the virtuous but vapid Jewish character Mr. Riah in Our Mutual...
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