| Show WOULD HAVE PLAY BARRED 1 Veil nil of ot Sli Sh Shy Shylock lock l IN 10 lo Rabbi Frund of ot the Ih Jewish Temple Unal Jinni Israel Irael would have bat the th reading of the Merchant of 01 Venice bared bar 00 from the public schOols tt as all In his hi opinion ion lon the depiction depletion of If the lea char elmer character acter elfr Shylock Is I an Injustice to 10 the Jewish race This Thin story tory from rom the pen of or Shakespeare formed the theme tot foe time the at the th ir r weekly eekt services s last lut Mr lr I said Bald In part partIn partIn In recent years eus attempts have been ma mado do In seme reme parts of or our cur country to ta have removed from the tha cuir cu um urn of oC school studies the readings from Shy Sho I lock lok I am heartily In sympathy w tv th tit this movement for It will have a ten denoy deno te ta lessen the misrepresentation of the J Jewish race rae to the child when Its Ita mind Ii I pliant The he Jews Jew lot Is la always a hard on but It should not be made harder hurer by br Kiting KIln ached sohoa children the very thing thine which if U misunderstood will engender dislike and an later hatred It is not a arara rare rara thing thine for our children t te tell hll us ua that th the et or scorn has baa been be n point pointed ed rod at Al them by their playmates who designated them Shylocks It Is but fair that school authorities respect the demand for tor the lilt elimination of ot that which would distort the tho child chUd mind and create creat racial or religious an all anIn In its day and time Shylocks por portrayal portrayal when hn interpreted by unsympathetic pathetic Individuals fostered fo the tell feet feelIngs Ings ot of radical dislike nut But more mora kindly Interpretations have hav replaced th the j presentatIon which notably In Ger Oem Germany Germany many were accompanied by ex cx of ot hostility Some Sora of ot genius have hae 1 n l In pe I Jew a d Is 1 JI ui 01 il mi 1111 illustrious rare rae of he her h r 1 ansi Rn king A titan man not ls against InI than a man manof manof of naturally a n nature to Moved IOV to toren ren Feen b lne l and d Insults i if Sf f Sir Henry whose who portrayal II it was wan all my m privilege tn t I K lilt It has haa lie I e n ld Id k wa was all one on of ot Irving favor nr lIe lle It I in hi his hili ln lnor of or the thc character he ha h a n new w WI nt I h hI ble Interpretation was a Intel indeed from other H HI its d 5 II 11 I ie 1 the Jew an as dl deeply wrong I und d king a just vengeance ye ve a nee O OA A will nil n known halt author Theo Thes Theolor Inre lur lor continued the th tab b bbl bt hi in the th Introduction to a an new Iu 0 of f tIle Hie tI Merchant of tau haa this thin th to tit toa toas as a Whatever might Intended when h he to de Os delineate h he ended by It almost making him the Ih representative of a arace arace race wn The Jew Jaw drawn by Shakespeare I is drawn with a s prejudiced and hostile In Intent Intent tent But the dt cannot remain maln remaina K a slave to hi his hie intentions Intention He II I is II oar car tr tied flOId above II bov and beyond ond and hence w whan we hate han In m at one and the same me time a R mediaeval libel and lid an eternal Ipa |
