If you're looking for Jews in Shakespeare you have to look at the rich and
the poor. Shylock was a caricature of the sly Jew, the Merchant of Venice
(I saw at least 6 times) with different actors but most impressive was
presented by Sir Lawrence Olivier. A city gentleman who is being cheated by
the "nice" Christians, taking away his daughter as well as his money and
being mocked at the trial as well!! and what's much worse, when shown at
the Globe theatre in London a few years ago, not with Olivier, it incited
an anti-Semitic demonstration!! A Jew could never be right.
As for money lending. Florence was built by the money-lending Medici's and
their "trade mark" as money lenders the 3 balls are still in use today! But
they were "good" Christians and one of them - to crown their power- became
Pope as well. Jews lent money to aristocrats who has lost it gambling,
drinking or women but it has never been returned because, as with the
"pound of flesh" in the merchant, the Jew had no court hearing. As I wrote
to Jerome the Jew was given the job as tax collector from the farmers in
Poland, they got a salary for it while the landlord incited against him.
Batshewitz Singer worth reading, about Jewish life in Poland.
anny
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
> An old time relevant joke from our Bukovina:
> A very rich man is encountered on the
> street by a pauper asking for alms.
> The rich tells his entourage:
> " Take this man away !
> I cant look at this misery !
> ( Ich kann mir das Elend nicht anschauen )
>
> Hardy
> -----הודעה מקורית-----
> מאת: Shelley [mailto:shemit65_at_gmail.com]
> נשלח: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 8:52 AM
> אל: Hardy Breier
> עותק: yosi-jerry; Dale Prince; cornel fleming; jerome schatten;
> CZERNOWITZ-L; Frederick M. Weisinger; Anny Matar
> נושא: Re: [Cz-L] Book of the Month, January 2015: "A Sanguine Bunch"
>
> The moderator made a funny. The moderator sees us drifting away and
> Hardy has us stuck in cow dung. Very good one.
>
> Shelley
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
> >
> > As I can see , the discussion leaves us all deep
> > in cow dung.
> > This is extremely unpleasant in concept but
> > this is how it was .
> > This discussion brings back a story of old.
> > In school they get a task: to describe life in a
> > poor household. Willy the son of very rich writes:
> > "And all were poor - the driver, the two gardeners,
> > all the maids , and cooks, - all poor as church mice !"
> >
> > Hardy
> > [As I can see, we're drifting away from Bukovina, eh? --the moderator]
> >
> > -----הודעה מקורית-----
> > מאת: bounce-118678253-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu
> > [mailto:bounce-118678253-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] בשם yosi-jerry
> > נשלח: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:07 PM
> > אל: Dale Prince; 'cornel fleming'; 'jerome schatten'; 'CZERNOWITZ-L'
> > עותק: 'Frederick M. Weisinger'; 'Anny Matar'
> > נושא: Re: [Cz-L] Book of the Month, January 2015: "A Sanguine Bunch"
> >
> > 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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