You are totally right, Shelley.
Merle
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From: "Shelley" <shemit65_at_gmail.com>
To: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
Cc: "Dale Prince" <daleprince_at_hotmail.com>; "cornel fleming"
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>;
"CZERNOWITZ-L" <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu>; "Frederick M. Weisinger"
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Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Book of the Month, January 2015: "A Sanguine Bunch"
> Only one correction. Shylock was a stereotype, not a prototype. He
> was far from the first since Jews were the money lenders long before
> Shakespeare's time all over the world. Wherever Christians weren't
> allowed to lend money, and there was no middle class, Jews were
> "permitted" to live there and then tossed out when there was no longer
> a need for them. And you can't look at Shylock without feeling the
> anger he felt against those who didn't want to pay interest. He was
> mocked and then it turned him into an angry man. And then he lost his
> daughter.
>
> Shylock is a complex character who is treated as a stereotype.
>
> Shelley
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:07 PM, yosi-jerry <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
> wrote:
>> Dear all
>> Just a few facts known to me, without going into depth research about
>> the
>> causes behind those facts. 1. The majority of Jews in eastern Europe were
>> poor. Being observant they they had big families, which made them even
>> poorer. 2. Cow dung was used as binding material between mud an straw. A
>> mixture used as construction material. 3. Shakespeare's Shylock was a
>> prototype of a usurers. 4. Learning and scholarship were the most
>> estimated
>> qualities among the the Jews. Every observant "Gevir" looked for a
>> "Talmid
>> Khakham" as a son in law. 5. The Socialist Zionist movements rejected the
>> traditional social structure of Jews in which the layer of production
>> workers was a minority.
>> A belated Happy 2015 New Year
>> Yosef Eshet
>>
>>
>>
>>
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