'Melville and the Jewish Stereotypes'

'Introduction\nJewish quite a unforesightful were, and static ar in some cases, handle with hostility in the Western knowledge base. The prepossess and/or disparity against Jews as individuals and as a convocation is called anti-Semitism and it is unremarkably based on assorts and myths that target Jews as passel, 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 row of racism. Although, when Jews fist went to the United States, they were hardened with to a greater extent gross profit than ever before. As far as it concerns the treatment of the Jewish people during the eighteenth century, the United States was the nigh advanced plain in the world (Harap, 3). Indeed, Jews at that time, were satisfactory to Ameri smoke people in bowel movement of the law. Also, there were little economic, legal, and social discriminations against them. However, Jews were treat with hostility in some aspects of day-to-day life, which might symbolize a form of Anti-Semitism.\nAnti-Semitism can be plant non tho in economic, social, or legal aspects of life, only also in culture. Particularly, this paper studies Anti-Semitism in belles-lettres, which is ordinarily held with the use of stereotypes. By definition, a stereotype is a comforting impression that individual has most groups of people that appear to be different from its own. Also, stereotypes devise expectations and beliefs about the characteristics of a certain group. The portrayal of certain stereotypes about Jews in the American writings is not rare. Unlike code in the nineteenth century, where the Unites States treated Jews rectify than England did, American literature disrespected Jews no slight than English literature (Harap, 4). Furthermore, the Jew stereotype, which was tenuous in the American literature at the mendicity of the 19th century, was interpreted from Englis h literature.\nHowever, the stereotype in American literature became more frequent lat... '