Finding The Jewish Shakespeare

Author : Beth Kaplan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815651758

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Finding the Jewish Shakespeare by Beth Kaplan Pdf

Born of an Anglican mother and a Jewish father who disdained religion, Kaplan knew little of her Judaic roots and less about her famed great-grandfather until beginning her research, more than twenty years ago. Shedding new light on Gordin and his world, Kaplan describes the commune he founded and led in Russia, his meteoric rise among Jewish New York’s literati, the birth of such masterworks as Mirele Efros and The Jewish King Lear, and his seething feud with Abraham Cahan, powerful editor of the Daily Forward. Writing in a graceful and engaging style, she recaptures the Golden Age and colorful actors of Yiddish Theater from 1891-1910. Most significantly she discovers the emotional truth about the man himself, a tireless reformer who left a vital legacy to the theater and Jewish life worldwide.

Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231541879

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Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro Pdf

First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling foreign Jews in Ireland, Shapiro's work delves deeply into the cultural insecurities of Elizabethans while illuminating Shakespeare's portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. In a new preface, Shapiro reflects upon what he has learned about intolerance since the first publication of Shakespeare and the Jews.

Author : Caroline Wiesenthal Lion
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000630039

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Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks by Caroline Wiesenthal Lion Pdf

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play, The Merchant of Venice. While victimhood and antisemitism have been the understandable focus of the Merchant critical history for decades, Lion urges scholars, performers, and readers to see beyond the racism in Shakespeare's plays by recovering Shakespearean themes of potentiality and human flourishing as they emerge within the Jewish tradition itself. Lion joins the race conversation in Shakespeare studies today by drawing on the intellectual history and oppression of the Jewish people, borrowing from thinkers Franz Rosenzweig and Abraham Joshua Heschel as well as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and rabbis from the Talmud to today. This volume interweaves post-confessional, Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, and mystical ideas with Shakespeare's poetry and opens conversations of prophecy, love, spirituality, care, and community. It concludes with brief critical sketches of Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and Macbeth to demonstrate that Shakespeare when interpreted through Jewish theological frameworks can point to post-credal solutions and transformed societal paradigms of repair that encourage action and the shaping of a finer world.

Author : Claudia Oldiges
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640522880

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Jews and Christians in The Merchant of Venice by Claudia Oldiges Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Osnabrück, course: The Merchant of Venice, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although one is able to find a lot bias towards Jews in the play The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare is not to be blamed as an anti-Judaic person. Regarding the historical background and the probability of him not knowing a Jewish person, Shakespeare is to be declared as a typical mind of the Elizabethan age. The mentality of the Elizabethan age is resembled in the plot, therefore it was easy for the audience to understand and laugh about this comedy, particularly about the image of the Jew Shylock. Shylock himself has a dominant aversion towards Christians and it is not mentioned whether this attitude derives from his sufferance or is a streak of him. The reader of the past-holocaust-age has a tendency to criticize the Christian behaviour throughout the plot, to feel pity with Shylock and to defend his actions and conduct. A lot of evidence demonstrate fundamental differences and bias between the Jews and Christians in the play The Merchant of Venice. But one ought always consider the time, when the play was written, and the audience, for whom it was written. Fact is that Jews as Christians both pretend to act pious but evidently do not.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781722525101

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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Merchant of Venice, is an intriguing drama of love, greed, and revenge. Believed to have been written in 1596, it is classified as a comedy, but while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps remembered more for its dramatic scenes, and especially for the character of Shylock, a vengeful Venetian moneylender. At its heart, the play contrasts the characters of Shylock, with the gracious, level-headed Portia, a wealthy young woman, besieged by suitors. One suitor in particular, Antonio, a merchant in Venice, must default on a large loan provided by Shylock, who insists on the enforcement of the binding contract that will cost the life of Antonio, inciting Portia to mount a memorable defense. In this richly plotted drama, Shylock, whom Shakespeare endowed with the depth and vitality of his greatest characters, is not alone in his villainy. In fact, the large cast of ambitious and scheming characters demonstrates in scene after scene, that honesty is a quality often strained where matters of love and money are concerned. In many of the play’s productions, Shylock gives such powerful expression to his alienation due to the hatred around him that, he emerges as the hero. The suspense and gravity of the play's main plot, along with its romance, have made The Merchant of Venice an audience favorite and one of the most studied and performed of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Sara Coodin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474418393

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Is Shylock Jewish? by Sara Coodin Pdf

What happens when we consider Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as a play with 'real' Jewish characters who are not mere ciphers for anti-Semitic Elizabethan stereotypes? Is Shylock Jewish studies Shakespeare's extensive use of stories from the Hebrew Bible in The Merchant of Venice, and argues that Shylock and his daughter Jessica draw on recognizably Jewish ways of engaging with those narratives throughout the play. By examining the legacy of Jewish exegesis and cultural lore surrounding these biblical episodes, this book traces the complexity and richness of Merchant's Jewish aspect, spanning encounters with Jews and the Hebrew Bible in the early modern world as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare's play on the Yiddish stage.

Author : Janet Adelman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781459605619

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Blood Relations by Janet Adelman Pdf

In Blood Relations' Janet Adelman confronts her resistance to The Merchant of Venice as both a critic and a Jew. With her distinctive psychological acumen' she argues that Shakespeares play frames the uneasy relationship between Christian and Jew specifically in familial terms in order to recapitulate the vexed familial relationship between Christianity and Judaism. Adelman locates the promise - threat - of Jewish conversion as a particular site of tension in the play. Drawing on a variety of cultural materials' she demonstrates that' despite the triumph of its Christians' The Merchant of Venice reflects Christian anxiety and guilt about its simultaneous dependence on and disavowal of Judaism. In this startling psycho - theological analysis' both the insistence that Shylocks daughter Jessica remain racially bound to her father after her conversion and the depiction of Shylock as a bloody - minded monster are understood as antidotes to Christian uneasiness about a Judaism it can neither own nor disown. In taking seriously the religious discourse of The Merchant of Venice' Adelman offers in Blood Relations an indispensable book on the play and on the fascinating question of Jews and Judaism in Renaissance England and beyond.

Author : Ghislain Muller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : DRAMA
ISBN : 0773417184

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Was Shakespeare a Jew? by Ghislain Muller Pdf

This biography of Shakespeare presents a new perspective on the debate surrounding the real identity of William Shakespeare. Muller suggests that Shakespeare was a crypto-Jew who took care to hide his Jewish origins and that Elizabethan authorities, who were aware of this fact, attempted to eliminate any trace of his Jewish origins by making him an Anglo-Saxon hero. Using official documents that have not been employed by other scholars, Muller brings forth evidence that ShakespeareOCOs father was a Jew living in an England where Jews had been banned since the time of Edward I and the Act of Expulsion in 1290. Muller demonstrates that Shakespeare was brought up in the Jewish faith and that many of his closest connections were from Jewish circles. In addition, ShakespeareOCOs coat of arms, his retirement to Stratford, and his last will and testament, are further used as evidence that Shakespeare was a Jew. Anyone interested in the works of William Shakespeare, his life, and his true identity, will enjoy this well-researched and written book."

Author : David Basch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Jews in literature
ISBN : PSU:000031885591

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The Hidden Shakespeare by David Basch Pdf

Argues that Shakespeare was a hidden Jew, a Marrano, and that he used Jewish sources, including the Mishnah and Talmud. Contends that "The Merchant of Venice" is really a play within a play, which, properly understood, is philosemitic. The "good" characters of the play, the Christian tormentors of Shylock, are unmasked and the true state of their morality is revealed with respect to a reconstructed, good Shylock.

Author : Ferdinand Dugue
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434457677

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The Jew of Venice by Ferdinand Dugue Pdf

This forgotten masterpiece of French drama is a reworking of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice--from the point-of-view of Shylock. Ferdinand Dugue succeeds in making the Venetian money-lender entirely believable--embittered, mercenary, tragic, and ultimately Jewish. One of the best modern adaptations of the Bard ever written.

Author : Martin D. Yaffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015040061254

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Shylock and the Jewish Question by Martin D. Yaffe Pdf

Religious scholar Martin Yaffe discusses the role of Shakespeare's character Shylock (from his play THE MERCHANT OF VENICE) in the history of anti-Semitism. Differing with the general consensus that Shakespeare reflected anti-Semitism of his time, Yaffe argues for the possibility that the playwright portrayed Shylock merely as a bad Jew rather than a typical one.

Author : Edna Nahshon,Michael Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781107010277

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Wrestling with Shylock by Edna Nahshon,Michael Shapiro Pdf

This book explores responses to The Merchant of Venice by Jewish writers, critics, theater artists, thinkers, religious leaders and institutions.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCLA:31158000128339

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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,George Granville Baron Lansdowne
Publisher : London : Cornmarket
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Comedies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012025941

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The Jew of Venice by William Shakespeare,George Granville Baron Lansdowne Pdf

Author : Gerald Friedlander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:39000003485211

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Shakespeare and the Jew by Gerald Friedlander Pdf