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August 14, 2020

Letting Shylock Speak Yiddish

Hath not a Jew seykhl?

In 2015, a theater workshop performed Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice with Shylock reciting some of his lines in Yiddish, yielding passages like the following:

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August 14, 2020

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