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This piece is a comment on the Jewish people, and a tribute as well. The words are from Bill Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. This is the whole monologue (only part of it is present in the artwork):
To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.
I highly recommend reading this play if you havent already. Shakespeare is a magnificent playwrite.
The star in the center is a representation of the yellow fabric stars Jews were forced to wear on their coats around the time of WWII, to identify themselves as "others." During the Holocaust, Jews were treated like animals instead of humans. They were murdered in masses.
For more info: [link]
Thank you for all of your wonderful comments
To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.
I highly recommend reading this play if you havent already. Shakespeare is a magnificent playwrite.
The star in the center is a representation of the yellow fabric stars Jews were forced to wear on their coats around the time of WWII, to identify themselves as "others." During the Holocaust, Jews were treated like animals instead of humans. They were murdered in masses.
For more info: [link]
Thank you for all of your wonderful comments
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Very true. So many little neo Nazi whigger nationalists hating on Jews these days. I argue with them that they Jews they're so afraid of are a worse menace to Jews than to anyone else. They're where the bad optics comes from and the cause of all of this. The ADL and groups like that are basically screwing Jews over. The're screwing over these little white kids too, there's no future in being a dip shit whignat in your moms basement .