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Shylock is "the most famous Jewish character in English" and embodies a number of the negative stereotypes of Jews. [11] Shylock's daughter Jessica, inspired by Marlowe's Abigail in The Jew of Malta , [ 12 ] converts to Christianity, although the conversion is questioned by other characters and represents the cultural ambivalence that the ...
American three-time Academy Award–nominated film and television actress, editor, producer and director Mother [621] Eddie Carmel: 1936–1972 American entertainer known as "The Jewish Giant" [622] Joan Collins: 1933– British actress and author Father [623] Jerry Douglas: 1932–2021 American television actress The Young and the Restless ...
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Jewish feminism; Judaism and women; Jewish left; List of feminists; Jewish mother stereotype; Jewish-American princess; Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance; Lilith (magazine) National Council of Jewish Women; Partnership minyan; Role of women in Judaism; Shira Hadasha
Zac Efron (born 1987), film/TV actor (Efron's paternal grandfather was Jewish, and Efron has referred to himself as Jewish) [54] Alden Ehrenreich (born 1989), actor [ 55 ] Jesse Eisenberg (born 1983), film actor ( The Squid and the Whale ) [ 56 ]
Robert E Segal, activist for displaced people; for housing for Puerto Ricans against discrimination and against anti Semitism. Tony Serra (born 1934), criminal defense and civil rights attorney, political activist and tax resister; Norman Siegel (born 1943), civil liberties activist and attorney [42] Michael Signer, attorney and politician [43]
Hillel the Elder (110 BCE – 10 CE), a famous Jewish religious leader and one of the most important figures in Jewish history, associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud; Josephus (37–100), Jewish-Roman historian; James the Just (d. 69), Jewish-Christian Bishop of Jerusalem
The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards.