| | MRDS Newsletter Fall 1999 |
 | | Sylvia Tomasch explores the portrayal of Jews through comic means as abject objects, that is, as constructions fashioned to focus and combat Christian doubt by providing a visible locus of subjugated otherness. |
| | Her analysis focuses on two characters: Archisynagogus, of the twelfth-century Benediktbeuern Christmas play; and Abraham, in the fourteenth-century Czech Mastrikar. |
| | Daniel Vitkus analyzes the representation of two other characters against the contemporary historical record. |
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