President Donald Trump said Friday he didn’t know the term “Shylock” was antisemitic, after he was slammed by groups including the Anti-Defamation League for using the word during a campaign rally ...
How do you play Shakespeare's famous villain without resorting to anti-semitic caricature? One young actor asked Jewish religious affairs specialist Nathan Jeffay for advice ... I am used to all sorts ...
In November 2003, when billionaire George Soros was first establishing himself as a force in the presidential campaign, a writer for the Web site GOPUSA spelled out his feelings about the financier ...
As long as we’re on the subject, I want to take a look at a famous speech from Merchant of Venice, the speech where Shylock justifies, to two of his tormentors, his thirst for vengeance. With whom is ...
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It is often said that the mainstream media coverage of Israel is biased, and sometimes said that there is an anti-Semitism in this bias. That accusation is often treated as almost an obscenity by the ...
This is my review of, or better: my response to, Toronto’s Canadian Stage production of Playing Shylock, billed as “Saul Rubinek’s triumphant return to the stage” and thrice extended because of sold ...
Last night I finally saw The Merchant of Venice in Central Park, directed by Daniel Sullivan with Al Pacino as Shylock. I am, generally, a skeptic of productions that treat the play as something other ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. T he hardest Shakespeare drama for any Jew to watch is The Merchant of Venice. Did Shakespeare write a racist play or ...
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