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... treated in that chapter . A few words , however , must be said touching a class of novels which has been called forth by the changes wrought in American Jewish life by the im- migration from eastern Europe . Several writers have ...
... treated in that chapter . A few words , however , must be said touching a class of novels which has been called forth by the changes wrought in American Jewish life by the im- migration from eastern Europe . Several writers have ...
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... treated with all the prejudice and ill - feeling which characterized the sentiments of the multitude , until the appear- ance of Lessing's " Die Juden " and " Nathan der Weise . " How he suffered from the evil ef- fects which these ...
... treated with all the prejudice and ill - feeling which characterized the sentiments of the multitude , until the appear- ance of Lessing's " Die Juden " and " Nathan der Weise . " How he suffered from the evil ef- fects which these ...
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... treat of external life - that is of real life , and desires to present his tale as containing elements thereof - he will portray probably such characters and scenes as possess something striking and different from that to which his ...
... treat of external life - that is of real life , and desires to present his tale as containing elements thereof - he will portray probably such characters and scenes as possess something striking and different from that to which his ...
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... treat the Jews as nationalities are treated . There are no Jewish national traits ; as Englishmen , they have the qualities of Englishmen , and so with every nation among whom they may dwell . The Jew- ish nation ceased to exist over ...
... treat the Jews as nationalities are treated . There are no Jewish national traits ; as Englishmen , they have the qualities of Englishmen , and so with every nation among whom they may dwell . The Jew- ish nation ceased to exist over ...
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... treat , it is not my purpose to go into an exhaustive criticism ex- cept in so far as this is necessary for a full ex- position of the Jewish portions . In regard to these I shall aim to point out in how far the pre- sentation is ...
... treat , it is not my purpose to go into an exhaustive criticism ex- cept in so far as this is necessary for a full ex- position of the Jewish portions . In regard to these I shall aim to point out in how far the pre- sentation is ...
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Page 40 - You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help : Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 40 - Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say 'Hath a dog money? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?
Page 44 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 45 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
Page 32 - And kill sick people groaning under walls; Sometimes I go about and poison wells; And now and then, to cherish Christian thieves, I am content to lose some of my crowns, That I may, walking in my gallery, See 'em go pinioned along by my door.
Page 44 - If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility'? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 29 - We Jews can fawn like spaniels when we please; And when we grin we bite; yet are our looks As innocent and harmless as a lamb's. I learn'd in Florence how to kiss my hand, Heave up my shoulders when they call me dog, And duck as low as any bare-foot friar...
Page 44 - I am as like to call thee so again, To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; (for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?) But lend it rather to thine enemy; Who if he break, thou may'st with better face Exact the penalty.
Page 40 - Still have I borne it with a patient shrug; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help : Go to then...
Page 25 - What ! bring you Scripture to confirm your wrongs ? Preach me not out of my possessions. Some Jews are wicked, as all Christians are : But say the tribe that I descended of Were all in general cast away for sin, Shall I be tried by their transgression ? The man that dealeth righteously shall live ; And which of you can charge me otherwise ? FERN.