Shylock and His Daughter

Maurice Schwartz

1947

Shylock:

You speak of revenge, you who cage us within ghettos, you who cast us alive into flames, only because we are Jews. [Pause.] Are not Jews and Christians alike fashioned in the image of God? Does not Mother Earth offer nourishment to Jews and Christians alike? Have we not the right to breathe the breath of life as you do? Do not the healing…

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