Charles Dickens

Rehabilitating Fagin Charles Drazin, Jewish Chronicle. Charles Dickens regretted having associated Fagin's malice so closely with his being Jewish—which has forced modern adaptations to recast the Oliver Twist villain as a loveable rogue.

Art That's "Too Jewish" Bernard Starr, Algemeiner. Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millet was aiming to revive the Christian pathos of early-Renaissance art.  But critics attacked him for "portraying the youthful Savior as a red-headed Jew boy."

Any Volunteers? Jonathan Sacks, Telegraph. Since the Babylonian Exile, Jews have maintained an ethos of voluntary collective responsibility to sustain their communities. Now, as the welfare state crumbles, that ethos is as valuable as ever.