Reply #17: Dickens was anti Semitic [View All]

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like a lot of Gentiles at the time.

This came up in our house this past weekend because my SO expressed an interest in seeing Oliver! again so I recorded it for him.

Then we got to discussing the character of Fagin, the awful man in Oliver Twist who teaches little boys to steal for him. He is another Jewish stereotype. At one time he was considered on a par with Shylock for most evil literary Jewish character in the English Language.

About the best or worst you can say about this topic is that Dickens was a product of his time. He managed to enlighten so many to the plight of very oppressed lives. But he could only take it so far.