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Dora Bas Rivka Silver O'H
Dora Bas Rivka Silver O'H
Shylock, Shakespeare and the Jews: Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
Rabbi Steven Weil
Shylock, Shakespeare and the Jews: Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
A roundtable discussion about anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Featuring Rabbi Steven Weil, Executive Vice President of the OU; Barry Edelstein, who has directed Shakespeare, including The Merchant of Venice, at The Public Theater and around the country; James Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author of “Shakespeare and the Jews"; and moderator Patrick Healy, theater reporter for The New York Times.
