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Show MERCHANT OF VENICE BARRED BY SCHOOL NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 23. Shakespeare's Shake-speare's "Merchant of Venice" is to be dropped from the literature studied in Newark public schools, "because of its effect ef-fect on the minds of non -Jewish children." chil-dren." Tn approving today a request from the Antidefa mat ion deapue of Chicago that tiie play lie banned, the board of education's instruction committee asserted as-serted that its action was based neither upon "the embarrassment which may be caused Jewish students in the class nor upon thin-skinned .sensitiveness," but because be-cause non-. I e wish children subconsciously will associate i:i their minds the Jew as Shakespeare portrayed him with the Jew of today." "Children are not analyists." said the committee. "The Jew of Shakespeare lives in tlie mind of the child as the Jew of New York or the Jew of Chicago or the Jew of Newark." |