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Shakespeare and the Jews - Did he love them or hate them?

שלישי, 27 פברואר 2024 at 19:00 - 20:00

Online Event

ESRA members NIS 25 | Non-members NIS 35

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ESRA Beer Sheva Branch

UK 17:00 | SA 18:00 

Shakespeare has often been criticized for being a virulent anti-Semite; I will argue that there's a good case to be made that he viewed Jews as the same flawed human beings as everyone else on this planet. With the world as we know it collapsing, it's very compelling to go back to some of the seminal texts on issues that still move us today. We will look at "The Merchant of Venice."

Dr. Pamela Peled was born in South Africa. She left home at the age of seventeen to study English Literature at the Hebrew University. After completing her MA she taught for many years and then did a PhD in Literature at Bar Ilan University. She is a journalist with 2 columns in The Jerusalem Post and is a contributing editor of “ESRA Magazine.” Pamela lectures at the Reichman University, and gives guest lectures in Europe, England and America.
She has led study courses to Stratford-Upon-Avon, and lectures on Shakespeare on Cruise Ships. Her latest book Doing the Daf as Israel Implodes is about Israel before October 7th.

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Proceeds support Beer Sheva's project, English Garden at Neve Zeev. Read more

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