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Friday, October 1, 1948

Winners of JWB Singing Contest

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distinguished position in the
foremast ranks of the Liberals.
From the region of fancy he de-
scends to the realm of realities,
conspicuous as a powerful cham-
pion of popular progress and Un-
provement.
"The conduct of Mr. Dickens
towards the Jews appears to to
the more inconsistent and in-
comprehensible, the more close-
ly the cause of the Jews is
That Charles Dickens was bound up with that of Liberal-
aware that Anglo-Jewry resent- ism."
ed his portrait of Fagin the Jew
— complete with the hooked
Chronicle social and club news
nose and revolting lisp—is dem- deadline is noon Mondays.
onstrated by a leading article
which appeared in the London
Jewish Chronicle of April 7,
1854, then, as now, ready to
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meet all attacks on the fair
name of Jew, from whatever
source, and however distinguish-
ed the personage.

tying the loathsome and hateful
character of Fagin with Jews.
Iler dignified rejoinder to
Dickens' apologia, which is in
the category of "some of my best
friends are Jews," was undoubt-
edly the cause of Dickens' at-
tempt to atone, by drawing the
character of the gentle and vir-
tuous Jew, Riah, in his last pub-
lished work, "Our Mutual
Friend."

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GIVES QUOTATION

PERMIT ME to quote:
"The systematic manner in
which this popular writer inces-
santly vilifies the Jews in his
publications, has been to us a
matter of sincere regret. By
hook or by crook, Mr. Dickens
never fails to drag in the Jew,
and to assign to him the most
despicable and hateful part
whenever opportunity served.
"Now Mr. Dickens is a great
By HARRY LEVINE
author: the power of his writing,
sparkling with wit and humour,
(In the London Jewish Chronicle)
THE APPEARANCE of the British film "Oliver Twist" is bound and remarkable for true pathos,
to raise again the old controversy in Jewish quarters about the exercises upon the rising gen-
character of Fagin the thief, not resolved in spite of the corre- eration an immense influence.
Mr. Dickens, moreover, occupies
spondence which in 1863 passed
between Charles Dickens and hearted, tolerant, kindly, and hu-
morous, continued and strength-
Mrs. Eliza Davis.
ened the medieval popular con-
The late M. J. Landa in "Thy
uption of the Jew as a being
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Jew in Drama" tells us that the
outside the pale of decent society.
correspondence was published
privately in 1918, in a little bro-
chure entitled, "Charles Dickens REBUKED DICKENS
MRS. DAVIS is entitled to the
and His Jewish Characters." TM:
fact that Dickens did not avail gratitude of posterity for re-
himself of the opportunity of minding Dickens that Jewry felt
setting on record the source he had perpetrated a "great
whence he drew Fagin proves. wrong" against them by identi-
says Landa, that the character
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was not drawn from life, and he
contends with much force that
To All Our Many Friends
it was invented with an eye to
the theater, and was based on
Happy New Year To All ...
the conventional stage picture of
the Jew, a gross libel and a
ruthless travesty of the real
Jew.
It comes as a great shock to
the Jewish student of English
literature to find the great nov-
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elist, champion of the oppressed,
fearless exposer of social evils,
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social reformer and campaigner
for
against all persecution. large-

HANNAH KIPNIS; left, soprano, native of Tel Aviv, was one
of three winners in the first audition for vocalists held by the
National Jewish Welfare Board. With her are the other win-
ners, Norman Atkins and Ingrid Rypinsky.

Criticism of Dickens Recalled
by New 'Oliver Twist' Film

Leo Grossman

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