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“The prop that doth sustain my house”: Jewish Women, Widowers, and Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
- Speaker:
- Ask speaker Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg
- Dr. Shaina Trapedo
- Date:
- August 17 2021
- Length:
- 44min 59s
- Downloads:
- 3
- Views:
- 809
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- 0
Series: Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought
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Collections: Twice Blest: Exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible
Description
Few literary characters have loomed as large and felt as "real" as Shakespeare’s Shylock. Though, as early 20th-century British Jewish historian Cecil Roth reminds us, he is a "sheer figment of Shakespeare’s imagination." Or was he? In this episode, Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg illuminates Shakespeare’s (in)famous portrait of Shylock with her research on medieval Ashkenaz Jewry and the lives of the Rokeach and his wife, Dulce. She also sheds new light on the presence of Hebrew bible figures Jacob and Leah and the underexamined presence of prayer in the play.
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