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Due date: 27th February 2009
Directions:
 * Students are to work in groups of five as per established groups
 * Each group has been assigned a specific Question/task. This is indicated at the very top of each question/task
 * Group-work procedure as set out in Handout #2, dated 15th January 2009 applies
 * One or two suggested web addresses and/references have been given. Please make full use of this in your information gathering part of the exercise.
 * Please see me as soon as you recognize a difficulty

Group 1
Write a ONE page report on “Present Day Instances of "anti-Semitism” For information check on line A D L's Annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents at http://www.adl.org

Group 2
Research the word “ghetto”
 * (a)	give definition
 * (b)	origin of the word
 * (c)	current connotations of the word. Say how this compares to the original definition.
 * (d)	How does the current/contemporary concept of “ghetto” relate to The Merchant of Venice.

Group 3
Anti-Semitism exists in countries with virtually no Jewish population. Why do you think this is so?
 * (a)	Grenada may not have instances of anti-Semitism but there may be prejudices and stereotyping. Identify some local instances of prejudice or stereotyping,
 * (b)	Give possible reasons for these and show how the victims were/are affected.
 * (c)	List some ways through which we can prevent prejudice and stereotyping.

Group 4
In 1594, London was consumed with the high-profile trial of Roderigo Lopez, the Queen's physician. The interesting thing is he was a Jew. Also, in 1894 in France there was the Dreyfus Affair. http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/academic/eng/lfletcher/venice/papers/lsanders.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair
 * (a)	Give a brief account of these two events (not more than a page)
 * (b)	In what ways do they highlight the stereotypical views which Europeans held at those times about Jews?

Group 5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_deicide
 * (a)	Define anti-Semitism
 * (b)	What is the difference, if any, between “anti-Semitism” and “anti-Judaism”?
 * (c)	What does the term 'Christ killer' have to do with Jews?

Group 6
Jews have been historically scapegoated during difficult economic times. Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice not long after the Bubonic plague had ravaged England. http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/queen-elizabeth-i-jews-catholics.htm
 * (a)	Write a brief account on the history of Jews in England during Shakespeare's time.
 * (b)	Briefly relate how the Black Death impacted the plight of Jews living in England at that time.

Group 7
http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/04usury.htm
 * (a)	Find out what is usury.
 * (b)	How did the Elizabethans treat this practice?
 * (c)	Especially, to what extent were the Jews responsible for the Europeans of Shakespeare's time attitude to usury and them?