Melville and the Jewish Stereotypes

Introduction\nJewish people were, and still argon in some cases, tempered with hostility in the Hesperian introduction. The prejudice and/or disagreement against Jews as individuals and as a group is called anti-Semitism and it is normally based on stereotypes and myths that rank 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 line of racism. Although, when Jews clenched fist went to the United States, they were inured with to a greater extent 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 modern country in the world (Harap, 3). Indeed, Jews at that time, were equal to American people in drift of the law. Also, there were little economic, licit, and loving discriminations against them. However, Jews were treated with hostility in some aspects o f everyday life, which powerfulness constitute a form of Anti-Semitism.\nAnti-Semitism can be found not to a greater extentover in economic, social, or legal aspects of life, but also in culture. Particularly, this paper studies Anti-Semitism in belles-lettres, which is usually held with the use of stereotypes. By definition, a stereotype is a solid impression that person has some groups of people that come forward to be different from its own. Also, stereotypes ruminate expectations and beliefs about the characteristics of a authoritative group. The depiction of certain stereotypes about Jews in the American literary works is not rare. Unlike legislation in the 19th century, where the Unites States treated Jews better than England did, American literature disrespected Jews no less than slope literature (Harap, 4). Furthermore, the Jew stereotype, which was tenuous in the American literature at the begging of the 19th century, was interpreted from English literature.\nHowe ver, the stereotype in American literature became more frequent lat...