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October 19, 2021
How One of Charles Dickens’s Jewish Readers Set Him Straight about Anti-Semitism
A lesson for Sally Rooney from a children’s book.
The acclaimed Irish writer Sally Rooney, whose 2018 novel Normal People was adapted as a television series by the BBC, recently rejected an Israeli publisher’s offer to bring out a Hebrew edition of her most latest book, citing her antipathy to the Jewish state. (She has not expressed any objections to her book being published in China, or any other country.) Erika Dreifus sees a lesson to be learned from a previous case of literary anti-Semitism, involving no less a figure than Charles Dickens. A recent children’s book by Nancy Churnin recounts this episode:
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How One of Charles Dickens’s Jewish Readers Set Him Straight about Anti-Semitism
A lesson for Sally Rooney from a children’s book.