The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1117  Monday, 20 June 2005

[1]     From:   Martin Orkin <
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        Date:   Sunday, 19 Jun 2005 02:58:08 +0200
        Subj:   Re: SHK 16.1109 Anti-Semitism

[2]     From:   Marvin Bennet Krims <
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        Date:   Sunday, 19 Jun 2005 08:42:25 -0400
        Subj:   RE: SHK 16.1109 Anti-Semitism


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From:           Martin Orkin <
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Date:           Sunday, 19 Jun 2005 02:58:08 +0200
Subject: 16.1109 Anti-Semitism
Comment:        Re: SHK 16.1109 Anti-Semitism

Although not easily available, Shelley Malka's 'The Representation of
"the Jew" in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writings, in
The Merchant of Venice and in its criticism' (unpublished PhD Thesis,
1995, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) still offers a fine
account of writings on revenge and mercy to be found in the work of
Jewish writers contemporary to the period when Shakespeare's play is
likely to have been written.

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From:           Marvin Bennet Krims <
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Date:           Sunday, 19 Jun 2005 08:42:25 -0400
Subject: 16.1109 Anti-Semitism
Comment:        RE: SHK 16.1109 Anti-Semitism

 >I have some real qualms about the terminology of this discussion.
 >
 >There is an underlying assumption in this discussion that there is one
 >single phenomenon of anti-Semitism.  Since I began to do business in
 >Israel in 1993, I have come to question this idea and believe it belongs
 >more to the realm of political and social mythology.

Surely you are not saying that anti-Semitism is a political and social
myth. Right?

Marvin Krims

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