Who has been telling Shylock that a Jew must not seek revenge? Not they. To be honest, it doesn’t seem to have occurred to them that Shylock might seek revenge upon his enemies – but they ...
When British author Harry Freedman asks audiences to name a historical Jew from Venice, one name almost always comes up: Shylock. The moneylender who sought a pound of flesh for a transaction gone ...
like the villain Shylock from Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” So the Jews were persecuted as a “race” by their neighbors in Europe and elsewhere for centuries before Hitler ...