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Thus according to Shapiro, in demanding a "pound of flesh", Shylock is demanding to turn Antonio into a Jew and to castrate him. That the human heart is a theme throughout the play seems to counter Shapiro's thesis that the "pound of flesh" simply reflects Shakespeare's anxieties about Judaism. In this twentieth-anniversary edition of I Shakespeare and the Jews i , James Shapiro has added a new "Preface" that serves as an attempt at self-criticism: "When I wrote this book twenty years ago, there were things that I had failed to see" (vii). [Extracted from the article]

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A review of the book "Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation & Identity," by Myroslav Shkandrij is presented.

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The article reviews the book "The Jews in Australia," by Suzanne Rutland.

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Reviews the book "Resisting the Holocaust," edited by Ruby Rohrlich.

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