Oct 15, 2008

Anti-Semitism in Literature | Anti-Semitism 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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Anti-Semitism in Literature | Anti-Semitism in Literature

Introduction

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