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Documentary. A film which contends that hatred of Jews goes back 2,000 years, culminating with the near destruction of European Jewry. Argues that for the last 400 years, Western attitudes towards Jews have...
Podcast in which hosts Professor Michelle Ephraim (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts) and Professor Caroline Bicks (University of Maine) discuss everyday issues through a Shakespearean lens. In...
Recording of an online discussion between actor and playwright Tracy-Ann Oberman and Michael Wegier, Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Oberman discusses The Merchant of Venice 1936,...
Joel Hurstfield, Astor Professor of English History at University College, London questions whether Marlowe and Shakespeare ever met a Jew? Professor Hurstfield asks this question in the light of The Jew of...
Recording of a Zoom presentation by Pam Peled that aims to put the Bard’s antisemitic tropes into context.
Brief video (a taster for Yad Vashem’s online course, ‘Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present’) in which Professor David Nirenberg looks at the historical and cultural roots of Shakespeare’s...
A production filmed live at the Center for Jewish History, New York. A modern-English version of the play staged in a Sephardi style with Jewish Ladinos songs. French actor and baritone David Serero is...
Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode explores the character of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice and how the new production of the play from the Shakespeare Theatre...
Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner (Linfield University) explores its designation as a comedy, its depiction of Jews and its use of genre.
Radio broadcast. A five-part series in which Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays that cross the racial divide, with contributions from actors and theatre directors. The third programme...
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