Gerrit Dou, The Moneylender, 1664
4,165 words
Editor’s Note:
The following essay on Jewish materialism is excerpted from When Victims Rule, chapter 5, “Yicchus (Status),” formerly on the Jewish Tribal Review website. I have removed the in-text citations for easier reading and added the title.
Jewish pride and concern for status and material affluence has a long history. There is a Yiddish word for it: yicchus, Read more …
Shylock & Classical Judaism
Henry Irving as Shylock
2,326 words
Edited by Irmin Vinson
The Jewish Thought Police employ various methods to thrust their self-obsession over alleged misportrayals of Jews across history onto center stage in the study of classic works of English literature.
In his Introduction to a reissue of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, published by Bantam Books in 1981, Jewish author Irving Howe directs the reader’s attention, for nearly four pages, to modern Jewish polemics surrounding Dickens’ Fagin, Read more …