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I chose to improve the Wikipedia entry “Stereotypes of Jews” because as I was reading it I realized how much modern day stereotypes have changed and what other stereotypes have been associated with Jewish people and their culture. I will edit this article explaining where each stereotype was derived from as I will be adding more relevant and newer stereotypes. The author mentions how Jews are often thought to be greedy, nit-picky, and stingy-misers but then never talks about the categories in depth. After reading the introduction and conclusion to the book, Defiance: the Bielski partisans, by Nechama Tec, I found that the motives behind capturing and torturing the Jews were nonetheless based on stereotypes which some people still associate Jewish people with today.

Sources I will use:

Jews & Money: The Story of A Stereotype by Abraham H. Fox

From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama by Ellen Schiff

The Jews: A History (Textbook)

Defiance: The Bielski partisans by Nechama Tec

Stereotypes of Jews

Updated list of sources I will use:

http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzk0MDZfX0FO0?sid=9c0e6fa2-b964-417f-a2bf-bcdd85216479@sessionmgr103&vid=0&format=EB&lpid=lp_III&rid=0

Anti-semitic stereotypes : a paradigm of otherness in English popular culture, 1660-1830 / Frank Felsenstein.

Semites and stereotypes : characteristics of Jewish humor / edited by Avner Ziv and Anat Zajdman.

http://jcpa.org/article/anti-israelism-and-anti-semitism-common-characteristics-and-motifs/

https://books.google.com/books?id=g2iRPNKdH4sC&pg=PA61&dq=Jews+stereotypes#v=onepage&q=Jews%20stereotypes&f=false

–There should be some better sources than these. Don't use the textbook. Replace that with a different source from the library. Check out what I found by entering "stereotypes of Jews" into the library catalog site: https://search.library.wisc.edu/search/catalog?q=stereotypes+of+jews. Defiance is not a good source for this. -Prof. Bitzan Amos26 (talk) 18:25, 28 October 2016 (UTC)