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This is a list of fictional Jews, characters from fiction whose Jewish identity has been noted as a key component of the story or who have been identified impacting or reflecting cultural views about Jewish people.

The portrayal of Jews in fiction has varied over time and by place and within various media.

changes in portrayal in film

can i find this full article on wayback? view of jews changing

"Jewish" as religious, ethnic, national or cultural Who is a Jew?

Jewish criminal stereotype in medieval works and "Portrayed as dubious moneylenders, underworld operatives, megalomaniacs, Bolshevik saboteurs, or unscrupulous war-profiteers, Jewish characters have surfaced in English detective fiction from the very beginning." -BC

Chaucer Prioress tale, include this in commentary as there are not really "characters"

in english lit but largely ignored
 * peddler, money lender, jew's daughter, exiles, prophet

the enlightenment's jew hero

fad of the jewess

Antisemitism first religious based, then cultural / financial.

Shylock's place

Jews in 18th-19th century

"Royall Tyler" wrote the first jew in american play

within the classic English detective story"

in french literature

in Russia cinema

yiddish film

american jewish view at the turn of the century

vaudville

first jews on american film

The Goldbergs first Jewish television series in America

america

jewish women in american media

Israeli cinema fiction stage

Dictionary

lack of jews in sci fi despite number of jewish authors.

future inclusion
early hebrew

Used for Mugica, are there other items as well?

various europe - note especially scandinavia HCA "jewish maid"  / "the white jew"

brooklyn bridge

asch god of vengance to the WASP audience, Jews are "queer" - prostitutes and lesbians

what else is in here? and and

judith and tobit

sonia levitin's ethiopian jew

france

Ecclesia and Synagoga

Svengali

ben levi peddler jew saved by sephardic jew from the revolucion

jewish widower merchant who buys barbados woman after witch trial in salem. anti semites burn the house. he frees her and moves to RI

poor butterfly

harold robbins' danny fisher

crypto jews in new mexico

sephardic pirate