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Rosenberg does not attempt a catalogue of all the appearances that Jews make in English literature. He concentrates on a few novelists--Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, and George DuMaurier--with extended glances at a few playwrights--Marlowe, Shakespeare and Cumberland. He supplements his close, detailed examination of a sensibly limited number of texts with some attention to medieval plays and ballads, many minor writers, and extra-literary phenomena such as social and political changes...
Before examining the nineteenth century stereotypes of the Jew, Rosenberg investigates the rise of the counter-myth of the Jew as Saint. He accounts for the flimsiness of the sainted Jews by searching out the motives of their creators. In Cumberland's The Jew Sheva is the antipode to Shylock. He is modest, kindly, generous, and long suffering. Rosenberg quotes extensively from Cumberland's Memoirs and his articles in The Observer to prove Cumberland's didactic motives. Rosenberg concludes, "In view of Cumberland's instructive biases as a playwright generally, we need not, then, be surprised by the papier-mache...
...undergraduate at Tennessee's Cumberland University in 1916, Allen got up a tackle football team on short notice and accepted a challenge from Georgia Tech. Manager-Captain Allen, playing fullback when not coaching from the bench, masterfully guided Cumberland to a 222 to 0 defeat...
...Walsh brothers, James and William, were only a year apart in their family of nine brothers and sisters. They were inseparable while they grew up in Cumberland, Md. and later at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, where they both graduated in the class of 1910. Fortnight ago they saw each other in a Communist jail in Peking-for what will almost certainly be the last time on earth...
...Catholic missionary, cultural and welfare activities. In 1955, when offered repatriation with 21 other Americans, he refused. Last March the Communists announced that Bishop Walsh, 69, had been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for espionage and conspiracy. His brother, Judge William Concannon Walsh, 70, who still lives in Cumberland, applied for a visa to visit him. One morning early in July, a cable from Peking granted the request...