Word: jewvillain
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...process of vilifying the Jews and then guiltily meting them out a kind of justice is exemplified in the novels of Maria Edgeworth. "Having impressed her readers with her ability to manipulate the stereotype of the Jewvillain and having informed them some six times over that Jews were frauds, usurers, poisoners, perjurers, trators, parasites on the national economy, threats to the body politic, and violators of young boys, Edgeworth decided to take it all back and Harrington." (Prominent Jewish matrons seem to have taken an active hand in helping the process along. Miss Edgeworth received a complaint about her illiberality...
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