Melville and the Jewish Stereotypes

Introduction\n Judaic people were, and still are in some cases, tough with hostility in the horse opera initiation. The prejudice and/or contrast against Jews as individuals and as a group is called anti-Semitism and it is ordinarily based on stereotypes and myths that rate Jews as people, their religious practices and beliefs, and the Jewish State of Israel. (Anti-defamation League, 1). Since Jews are an ethno-religious group, Anti-Semitism is a descriptor of racism. Although, when Jews clenched fist went to the United States, they were do by with much tolerance than ever before. As far as it concerns the give-and-take of the Jewish people during the eighteenth century, the United States was the most ripe(p) country in the world (Harap, 3). Indeed, Jews at that time, were equal to American people in comportment of the law. Also, there were little economic, effective, and loving discriminations against them. However, Jews were treated with hostility in some aspects of everyday life, which exponent constitute a form of Anti-Semitism.\nAnti-Semitism can be found not only(prenominal) in economic, social, or legal aspects of life, but also in culture. Particularly, this paper studies Anti-Semitism in publications, which is usually held with the use of stereotypes. By definition, a stereotype is a solid impression that somebody has or so groups of people that push through to be different from its own. Also, stereotypes hypothecate expectations and beliefs about the characteristics of a certain group. The depiction of certain stereotypes about Jews in the American belles-lettres is not rare. Unlike canon in the 19th century, where the Unites States treated Jews better than England did, American literature disrespected Jews no less than side of meat literature (Harap, 4). Furtherto a greater extent, the Jew stereotype, which was tenuous in the American literature at the begging of the 19th century, was interpreted from English literature.\nHo wever, the stereotype in American literature became more frequent lat...