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All of us are prejudiced by our own time period. It has been thought that in our own time frame, Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice is an anti-Semitic play. Thesis: This discussion will
examine that the anti-Semitism as presented in the
Merchant of Venice, contains an element of pro-Semitism that is not initially discerned.
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presented in the Merchant of Venice, contains an element of pro-Semitism that is not initially discerned. History The history of the Jews in England has not been a smooth one.
There records of first entry into the country in 1066. "Blood libel" cases exist in the courts due to adverse rumors concerning "blood-letting" and "the sacrifice of children."
By 1217 they were force to wear yellow badges identifying them as practitioners of the Jewish religion. Although they were already socially restricted to certain types of
employment and schooling, more restrictions were added to their movement in the community in 1269. Initial ghetto situations occurred in which the Jews lived in a particular area of
London. There were gates into the community and the Jews were locked in at night, and still forced to pay the guards themselves so that no one would break
in and take out their anger of what were termed "the killers of Christ." The Jews were officially expelled from England in 1290 and remained in exile until the
middle of the sixteenth century. Anti-semitism Stirling (1997) makes a clear distinction between the precise nature of historical anti-semitism. He claims that in the Elizabethan time it was a religious
anti-semitism. Religious: The Christian church of the period inherited all the accumulated "demonization", which had occurred around the original expulsion of the Jews. It may be hard
for us to imagine one group of people actually believing, that another group was going around at night poisoning the water, under the direction of the Devil. But according
to Kimel (2000), in Poland, even today, a mother will tell her child that if he misbehaves the Jew will take it away." We can imagine, there were
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