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The Forward on MSN3mon
In an ‘Oliver Twist’ prequel, Fagin gets a first name — and the spotlight
In both Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Allison Epstein’s novel ... the term “Jew” is interchangeable with the character ...
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Allison Epstein's 'Fagin the Thief' gives the Oliver Twist character a backstory
That was my introduction to the character of Fagin. And then as I got old enough to read the actual "Oliver Twist," I very quickly realized this is a very different kind of character in the ...
The Washington Post3mon
Charles Dickens’s Fagin gets rehabilitated, again
What do you do with a problem like Fagin, the petty-thief ringleader and most indelible character in Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist” — and one of the most vicious antisemitic stereotypes ...
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Allison Epstein's 'Fagin the Thief' gives the Oliver Twist character a backstory
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." Sometimes ...
KBIA3mon
Allison Epstein's 'Fagin the Thief' gives the Oliver Twist character a backstory
That was my introduction to the character of Fagin. And then as I got old enough to read the actual "Oliver Twist," I very quickly realized this is a very different kind of character in the Dickens ...