Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SAID that when Isaac Bashevis Singer came to Harvard last year to give a reading from his latest novel that he sounded too much like a whining old Jew. From one of his own stories in this new collection, one gets the impression that Bashevis Singer isn't always well-liked. The story is about a New Year's party for Yiddish writers, and in this seemingly autobiographical sketch, the narrator/author says he has always hated such parties because "Leftists scolded me for failing to promote world revolutions. The Zionists reproached me for not dramatizing the struggle of the Jewish...
...Sigmund Freud was the Moses of Old Testament psychiatry, Carl Jung was its presumptive Joshua. Freud led modern man to the promising territory of the unconscious mind, but, destined to play the Wandering Jew, he was denied his share of milk and honey. Instead, there was the bitter pessimism of his Civilization and Its Discontents. Jung, the son of a Swiss Protestant clergyman, was born with a spiritual sweet tooth. He had a craving to heal the soul's wounds, to make a oneness of good and evil, darkness and light, masculinity and femininity...
...that charge: Arab speakers in the U.N. debate ticked off a number of examples of discrimination against Arabs in the occupied territories, including restrictions on travel and harassment by police. Most galling to the Arabs is Israel's Law of Return, which grants instant citizenship to any Jew who immigrates to Israel from anywhere in the world, while Palestinian Arabs who fled their homeland during the 1948 war are still, in most cases, prevented from returning. In answer, Israelis point out that the 470,000 Palestinians who live within Israel's pre-1967 borders are not subject...
...hero of Paradise Lost), though it has gained great impetus from the horrors of anti-semitism in the twentieth century. The basic font and origin of the trouble with The Merchant of Venice is something nearly unique in Shakespeare--an unresolved tension between an Elizabethan stage convention (the evil Jew) and Shakespeare's own meaning...
This goes part of the way to solving the Shylock problem, though nothing can gloss over the fact that Shakespeare has given Shylock the motivations, actions and retribution that properly belong the stock stage Jew, but has written speeches that (at least to the modern ear) make him something better. And the production seriously stumbles at a critical point in the interpretation of Shylock's position in the play's scheme of redemption. When Portia confounds Shylock by allowing him his pound of flesh but condemning him to death if an iota of blood be spilled in its excision...