Shylock's daughter

Title:

Shylock's daughter

JLCTITLE245:

Mirjam Pressler ; translated and with an afterword by Brian Murdoch.

Personal Author:

Pressler, Mirjam.

Uniform Title:

Shylocks Tochter. English

Publication Information:

New York : P. Fogelman Books, 2001.

Physical Description:

266 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN:

9780803726673

Abstract:

Sixteen-year-old Jessica, who longs to be free of the restrictions of her father and life in the Jewish ghetto of sixteen-century Venice, falls in love with a Christian aristocrat and must make choices which will affect her whole family. Inspired by Shakespeare's play The merchant of Venice.

Subject Term:

Jews -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Jews -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Identity -- Fiction.

Prejudices -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Venice (Italy) -- History -- 16th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Italy -- History -- 16th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797 -- Fiction.

Italy -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction.

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