Jewish Mom Guilts Dickens Into Toning Down Fagin?
JPost reports,
Charles Dickens may have amended his classic Oliver Twist in response to a complaint that his depiction of Fagin, the book’s villain, was anti-Semitic, the BBC has reported.
It is believed that Dickens altered the final chapter of the book after receiving a letter in 1863 from Eliza Davies, wife of a Jewish banker, complaining of the “vile prejudice against the despised Hebrew.”
The letters were recently discovered and are held by the library of University College London (UCL).
