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People nowadays have difficulty with the frank treatment of anti-Semitism in this play. They are uncomfortable with the portrayal of a Jewish person who does not fit their stereotypes, who becomes bitter and vengeful because of the treatment of him by the Christian world, and who blames it for his daughter's elopement. This is not an unnatural way for the victim of prejudice to behave, but does not square with the stereotype of Jews as victims who never fight back.

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