Hi Shelley
I stay corrected for using "prototype" for human beings. Money lending was
not forbidden to Jews. As well as to Christians, and Muslims. What was
forbidden was imposing interest on the loan (see Exodus and Leviticus). The
Christian, and Muslim religions adopted this as many other subjects.
Yosef Eshet
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> 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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