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	Fagin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fagin is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist.
		Fagin was based on a real-life character called Ikey Solomon; there was a recognized speciality in the 19th-century London underworld called a "kidsman:" an adult who recruited children and trained them as pickpockets, exchanging food and shelter for the stolen goods these children brought to them.
		Arguably the definitive portrayal of Fagin, among the many stage and screen adaptations of the novel, is Alec Guinness' performance in the 1948 film version directed by David Lean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fagin (311 words)

	Charles Dickens and Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The character of Fagin in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, who is a receiver of stolen goods, is a Jew.
		Dickens' portrayal of Fagin is considered by some people to be anti-semitic.
		"Fagin, in Oliver Twist, is a Jew, because it unfortunately was true of the time to which the story refers, that that class of criminal almost invariably was a Jew...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Dickens_and_Jews (514 words)

	ACM SIGMOD Online \| SIGMOD Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fagin is one of the founders of relational database theory.
		Fagin's contributions to relational databases also include the co-invention of extendible hashing, a fast, flexible, and widely implemented access technique that adapts gracefully as the database undergoes dynamic changes.
		Fagin has studied the semantics of combining traditional data with fuzzy data; moreover, he has investigated important algorithmic issues, such as the problem of efficiently aggregating fuzzy information.
	www.sigmod.org /sigmod/sigmodinfo/awards/innovations/2004-Ronald_Fagin.html (483 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s LUMINARIES Charles Dickens, Fagin and Riah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fagin stands on the shoulders of a long literary tradition of Jewish villainy, including most notably the cutthroats of Chaucer's The Prioress's Tale; Barrabas, the super-monster of Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; and Shylock of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
		Fagin is cast in the traditional satanic role of corrupting the innocent, especially as the Jewish devil who seeks out Christian children.
		Fagin, in Oliver Twist, is a Jew, because it unfortunately was true of the time to which the story refers, that that class of criminal almost invariably was a Jew...and secondly, that he is called 'the Jew' not because of his religion but because of his race."
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/luminaries/monograph/wr_dickens.shtml (2459 words)

	Murray Baumgarten -- Seeing Double (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Each illustrates the other, in a continual back and forth movement which is incarnated in the experience of the reader as his eyes move from words to picture and back again, juxtaposing the two in a mutual establishment of meaning" [1].
		Fagin I fear admits only of one interpretation: but (while) Charles Dickens lives the author can justify himself or atone for a great wrong.'" The evasions of Dickens's response are aptly underlined by Heller's analysis [6].
		Fagin too wears them, and there is some gender ambiguity in his first appearance when he provides food, education, and fun for Oliver.
	humwww.ucsc.edu /dickens/omf/murray.html (3120 words)

	Fagin (Brotherhood)
		Fagin watched them run down the halls and encountered Asher in the bathroom, where he was about to commit suicide.
		Fagin told Asher and Malon that he could care less about "this doing the right thing stuff" and that he only joined the Brotherhood because it sounded better than the way he was living before.
		Fagin decided that their only chance was fighting their way out, but he was quickly attacked by Vivisector, who gutted him.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/faginbh.htm (798 words)

	Fagin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fagin - a criminal and a corrupter of young children; one of the most vivid and memorable of any of Dickens's characters.
		Bleasdale on Fagin: "In Dickens's novel I was worried by the perhaps accidental anti-Semitism.
		"As an immigrant and a criminal, Fagin is part of the underclass in London in the 1830s and as such had to live in the most appalling conditions.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/whoswho/whoswho_fagin_char.html (249 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Oliver Twist (xhtml)
		Oliver is about 10 when he is taken into the world of Fagin and his young pickpockets, and Polanski was 10 in 1943, when his parents were removed by the Nazis from the Krakow ghetto and he was left on his own, moving from one temporary haven to another in the city and the countryside.
		Fagin is a Jew in the Dickens novel, an anti-Semitic caricature (although to be sure the Christians in the novel are also named by religion and are seen for the most part as hypocrites, sadists and fools).
		Fagin in his way is kinder than the workhouses and the courts of respectable society.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/REVIEWS/50926003/1023 (1012 words)

	CliffsNotes::Oliver Twist:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Fagin has read in the newspapers that the burglary failed, but he is dumfounded to hear that Toby also is ignorant of the whereabouts of Bill and Oliver.
		Fagin is greatly disturbed to think that Nancy may have discovered more than he would have her know.
		Fagin protests that he has done all that he could, and if the boy is still alive he is trapped.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-104,pageNum-31.html (723 words)

	GradeSaver: Oliver Twist Essay: Bumbling Figures, Blundering Society: Fagin, Bumble, and the Problem of Evil in ...
		Fagin and Bumble, who fester in their cages of evil motives, illustrate the omnipresence of evil in the novel, especially as it relates to the treatment of the poor, the exploitation of the innocent, and the corruption of society.
		Fagin and Bumble rule with an iron hand that defines "the magnitude and extent of [their] operations" and inspires "a degree of wholesome fear" (389) within the "pupils" under their tutelage.
		Fagin's confrontation with Oliver on the night before his hanging complements Bumble's downfall, as he attempts to regain Oliver's honor and companionship and his former way of life governed by monetary pursuits.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/oliver/essay1.html (1801 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Local Sports: Fagin is center of attention for Berwick Academy
		Yes, Fagin is a good basketball player and he has no problem telling you so.
		Fagin is averaging 10 rebounds and eight assists per game for the Bulldogs.
		Fagin is considering Division I Northeastern and Division III Suffolk, which couldn’t be further apart on the basketball spectrum.
	www.seacoastonline.com /news/01302006/sports/85362.htm (763 words)

	Saul Austerlitz on Holocaust imagery and Jewish stereotyping in Roman Polanski's 'Oliver Twist' film -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fagin is still outfitted with a comically exaggerated proboscis, walks in stooped fashion, and is paranoid about one of his ruffians breaking into his chest of treasure, at one point holding Oliver at knifepoint out of fear that he has spotted his secret hiding place.
		Fagin may not be wearing a yarmulke, and no one in Polanski's film calls him a Jew, but on a slightly more subterranean level, this "Oliver Twist" still engages in some fairly rancid physical stereotypes of the Wandering Jew.
		Fagin may no longer be the hideous criminal Jew of stereotype, but Polanski has made an "Oliver Twist" awash in Jewish history.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/175/story_17559_1.html (912 words)

	MSUs Michael Fagin: Diversity is his goal — Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU) – 2004-02-06
		And Fagin is again asked to lead the charge as the institution grapples with a new set of diversity issues.
		Fagin said this when asked about his home life as a child: "We were upper lower class." His grandfather was from Kentucky and instilled pride in his family.
		In 1991 Fagin was named associate vice president for cultural diversity, where he reported to the vice president for student affairs.
	www.mnsu.edu /news/read.php?id=old-1076047200 (1203 words)

	Fagin (In-Depth Analysis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Constant references to him as “the Jew” seem to indicate that his negative traits are intimately connected to his ethnic identity.
		Fagin is described as a “loathsome reptile” and as having “fangs such as should have been a dog’s or rat’s.” Other characters occasionally refer to him as “the old one,” a popular nickname for the devil.
		Oliver encounters him in the hazy zone between sleep and waking, at the precise time when dreams and nightmares are born from “the mere silent presence of some external object.” Indeed, Fagin is meant to inspire nightmares in child and adult readers alike.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/oliver/terms/charanal_3.html (210 words)

	Kingsley puts human twist on Fagin
		The British performer's latest portrayal is Fagin, devious mastermind of a gang of pint-size pickpockets, in Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist," based on Charles Dickens' classic.
		The erudite Oscar winner saw within Fagin a childlike figure who serves as a patriarch to his gang of lost boys in 19th century London.
		Fagin surrounding himself with children was a strong indication of the need to create his own family.
	www.suntimes.com /output/movies/wkp-news-kings14.html (597 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Who Is Fagin? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		...That the part of Fagin which is Jewish turns out to be not merely minor but almost fortuitous, or if not fortuitous then curiously unpremeditated in its mythological cast, and that Fagin's relations to Oliver are more paradoxical than might at first seem likely, is not really surprising...
		...It seems clear, therefore, that the Bob Fagin whose friendship contained the threat of exposure, and the father whose freedom was a fraud and an outrage while his son slaved in a window, coalesced in Dickens's mind...
		...Fagin's final grand plot to destroy Oliver is to send him into the country as Bill Sikes's assistant in a breaking-andentering job...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V34I1P54-1.htm (8218 words)

	IGN: Comics in Context #25: Byrne, Baum and Bumble
		Fagin, Eisner declares in his foreword, "is not an adaptation of Oliver Twist!" But on page 53 that is exactly what it becomes, a retelling of the events of Dickens' novel, and it is here that the graphic novel fails.
		And then there is an epilogue, set years later, in which the adult Oliver has married Fagin's granddaughter; how they learned she was related to Fagin is a tale of unlikely coincidences and hidden identities, complete with a watch that solves the mystery, of the sort that Dickens himself would concoct.
		Fagin is really perpetrating on Oliver the same kind of mistreatment that was perpetrated on himself in his youth.
	comics.ign.com /articles/595/595597p5.html (1619 words)

	Citations: Horn clauses and database dependencies - Fagin (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fagin, `Horn clauses and database dependencies', J. ACM 29, 1982, pp.
		Fagin, Horn Clauses and Database Dependencies, Journal of the ACM 29:4 (1982), 952-985.
		Fagin, R., "Horn Clauses and Database Dependencies"; Journal of the ACM 29:4, 1982, 952985.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/62052/0 (4394 words)

	Fagin: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fagin is a fictional character fictional character quick summary:
		A graphic novel (gn) is a work of art produced within the form of the comic book....
		In narratology, a back-story (also back story or backstory) is the history behind the situation extant at the start of the main story....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/fagin.htm (728 words)

	TIME.com -- Andrew Arnold: Never Too Late (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moses Fagin's story parallels that of Oliver Twist in his being orphaned at a young age, trapped in a rigidly stratified society and at the mercy of its caprices.
		By the end, after Fagin is sent to the gallows, the reader becomes aware of a connection between him and Oliver Twist that goes further than mere association.
		Eisner: Fagin started a number of years ago when I was looking through the European mythologies, faerie tales and so forth, and it struck me that there was a thread of stereotype in all of those.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,488263,00.html (2115 words)

	For Richer or for Poorer: Oliver Twist's Fagin - ComingSoon.net
		There was my Fagin that I saw as a child, because I wanted to create a Fagin who Oliver would see from his own perspective.
		That's the only reason Fagin is in the novel, and even though you see him walking around on the street, Fagin doesn't exist.
		Fagin creates his own family, because he was an orphan himself.
	comingsoon.net /news/topnews.php?id=11242 (1541 words)

	The Films of Oliver Twist-Page 2
		Fagin's den is a party scene - the boys re-dress Oliver and feed him and everyone is laughing and smiling with caged birds, bunk beds, ladders, kerchiefs hanging, mugs of tea and a great fireplace - it's a bit like the Swiss Family Robinson spot.
		Fagin always has an unidentifiable foreign accent and the last is quite faithful to the story though Bill seems to kill Nancy accidentally while giving her “the hiding of your life!”
		Fagin is a magician who has plans to skip London and return to his trade in Prague.
	www.victorianvanities.com /Dickens/OT_Films_2.html (1082 words)

	Doubleday Books \| Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner
		In FAGIN THE JEW, Eisner proves himself to be not only a master of comic storytelling, but also an incisive literary and social critic.
		By referring to Fagin as “the Jew”; throughout the book, however, he had perpetuated the common prejudice; his fictional creation imbedded itself in the public’s imagination as the classic profile of a Jew.
		Depicting Fagin’s choices and actions within a historical context, Eisner captures the details of life in London’s Ashkenazi community and brilliantly re-creates the social milieu of Dickensian England.
	www.randomhouse.com /doubleday/catalog/display.pperl?0385510098 (312 words)

	A Face Lift for Wretched Old Fagin - New York Times
		At a theater in Berlin the audience was so offended by Fagin's characterization that it rioted; the protests ended only when the theater manager promised to withdraw the film.
		His Fagin had a stereotypical nasal inflection and chanted songs in the style of Jewish folk music, mannerisms that were toned down or dropped in Carol Reed's 1968 film version.
		"Fagin was brought up by his grandparents, who did not speak a word of English, who brought him to London as a child, and he had to fend for himself," he posited.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/08/21/movies/21gros.html?ex=1282276800&en=0c8ab4bb08176d7a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (867 words)

	OSCN Found Document:SEBRING v. FAGIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		ARNOLD, J. ¶1 Benjamin Fagin and Samuel B. Fagin, doing business as Fagin Brothers, brought this action in the district court of Oklahoma county, Okla., to mandamus Carl B. Sebring, Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma, to pay state warrant No. 32672, in the amount of $225.
		The Fagins accepted the warrant in good faith, paying to the negro in cash the sum of $141, which was the amount of the warrant less the price of the instrument bought ($84).
		It will be noted that although the duplicate warrant had been issued at the time the Fagins contacted the State Treasurer, it was not paid until after all parties knew that the warrant was in the possession of the Fagins as holders in good faith and under the circumstances hereinbefore set forth.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=7367 (1253 words)

	The Claire Fagin Collection
		Fagin is the editor of several acclaimed books in the fields of psychiatric and pediatric nursing, including Family Centered Nursing in Community Psychiatry: Treatment in the Home and Nursing in Child Psychiatry.
		Fagin retired as dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing at the end of 1991.
		This collection spans Fagin's professional life, documenting both her educational and academic experiences prior to the appointment at the University of Pennsylvania and her work as dean of the School of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.nursing.upenn.edu /history/collections/fagin.htm (3000 words)

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