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Shylock's daughter / Mirjam Pressler ; translated and with an afterword by Brian Murdoch.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PZ7.P921965 Sh 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pressler, Mirjam.
- Standardized Title:
- Shylocks Tochter. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Italy--Venice--History--16th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Jews.
- Jews--Italy--Venice--History--16th century--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Identity--Fiction.
- Prejudices--Fiction.
- History.
- Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797--Fiction.
- Italy--History--16th century--Fiction.
- Venice (Italy)--History--16th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Venice (Italy).
- Italy--History--16th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Italy.
- Italy--Venice.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction, German.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 266 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Fogelman Books, 2001.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0803726678
- 9780803726673
- OCLC:
- 45115845
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