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July 15, 2011

Celebrating 80 years ...JWB 1952_Oliver Twist editorial

In the July 17, 1952, issue of the Jewish Western Bulletin, the J. Arthur Rank film version of Oliver Twist, with its Fagin “more antisemitic than Dickens himself originally made it in his novel,” was causing controversy. Like the debates that continually resurface with William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and the character of Shylock – as covered in last week’s Jewish Independent – there are various opinions on how to treat negative stereotypes. The 1952 editorial concluded that “we show our displeasure with the film Oliver Twist by staying away from any theatre where it is playing and asking our friends to do likewise.”

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