skopia
Smuggled out of occupied Prague in a coffin with the Golem, Joe Kavalier lands in Brooklyn and invents a superhero with his cousin. Chabon makes comics their one weapon against Hitler.
From a medieval massacre of the Jews of York to Auschwitz, one family produces in each generation one of the thirty-six hidden just men whose suffering, by legend, holds up the world.
In Venice a merchant borrows from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender he has spat on, pledging a pound of his flesh. Shylock asks whether a Jew does not bleed, and the comedy never recovers.