Dear Mr. Dickens by Nancy Churnin

Author:Nancy Churnin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Dear Mr. Dickens…

“[I] thank you very earnestly,” Eliza wrote,

for “a great compliment paid to myself and

to my people.”

Dickens wrote back quickly.

“I have received your letter with great pleasure,” he said.

“And hope to be (as I have always been in my heart) the best of

friends with the Jewish people.”

And he was. Charles Dickens became, as he’d written of Scrooge,

“better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more.”

He published essays in his magazine protesting prejudice,

including one that addressed how the Jewish people have

“too long been wronged by Christian communities.”

During Oliver Twist’s reprinting, he told the printer to take out

many instances of “the Jew” and change them to Fagin, to make it

clear that Fagin didn’t represent all Jewish people.

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