Subject: Re: Words, words, words
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 23:18:47 EST
Me:
> > Shylock is a practicing Jew. When he is treated badly because he is a
> > Jew, it is a matter of anti-semitism.
Aaron:
> Then why do Russian passports list "Jewish" as a nationality?
I don't know, Aaron, but it really doesn't have anything to do with
Shakespeare's play. Not in any reasonably direct sense, anyway. A few
posts ago, you granted my point that _Merchant_ deals particularly with
anti-semitism than with racism. The distinction is important, if we're
discussing the play. That anti-semitism and racism are similar in
motivation is true, and unfortunate, but that is not the topic at hand.
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