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The Artful Dodger introduces Oliver Twist to Faigin (1839 Illustration by Cruikshank via Wikipedia) By Jerry Klinger Jerry Klinger Charles Dickens (Portrait by Jeremiah Gurney, c. 1867–1868, via Wikipedia) LONDON, England — A recent trip here gave me one day to wander. The Charles Dickens Home and Museum, where I believed I had an antisemitic bone to pick, was on the top of my menu. The Charles Dickens Home and Museum, at 48 Doubty Street, is where Dickens wrote Oliver Twist, perhaps his greatest novel, 1837-1839. I knew of the antisemitic controversy surrounding Dickens. The word “Jew” appear…

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