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Fagin the Jew | Will Eisner

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FAGIN THE JEW is the latest full length graphic novel from one of comic's most renowned story tellers (called "the Elvis of comics" by Amazon.com). Throughout history certain fictional characters in our literature have, because of their popularity, achieved a certain reality. One such character, Fagin, created by Charles Dickens for OLIVER TWIST, ultimately became a "profile" of a Jew that embedded itself in popular prejudice. While Dickens never intended to defame Jewish people, by referring to his character as "the Jew" throughout the book he abetted the prejudice against them. In his award-winning artistic style, Will Eisner takes the infamous villain and develops him as the complex and troubled anti-hero that he very well may have been had he had the opportuni ty to tell his own tale. Originally conceived as a short introduction to a pictorial adaptation of OLIVER TWIST for educational use , FAGIN THE JEW grew out ofEisner's fascination with this unexplored territory. Eisner places Fagin in his historical context as an Ashkenazi Jew and looks at life in London's immigrant Jewish community during the time of Dickens.

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Kenyazero

Fagin the Jew | Will Eisner

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Wow! This is what happens when a successful comic artist acknowledges the harm of type characters. He examines the roles of social circumstances and antisemitism in the untold story of Fagin before Oliver Twist. I greatly enjoyed this, and the afterward examining the role works of fiction often play in perpetuating bias is amazing. Eisner even aknowledges his own harmful character types and what he's learned since. #Bias #Jewish #ClassicLiterature

Kenyazero I also looked up several of the brief characters represented in the start of the book, and so many of them were real people! 2y

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Reyzl

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Let Eisner‘s words review the book:
“I began to produce graphic novels with themes of Jewish ethnicity and the prejudice Jews still face. (…) Upon examining the illustrations of the original editions of ‘Oliver Twist‘, I found an unquestionable example of visual defamation in classic literature. The memory of their awful use by the Nazis in World War II, one hundred years later, added evidence to the persistence of evil stereotyping.” (Eisner)

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