CW in shul

[calimac]

I was not expecting to have Charles Williams moments at my synagogue's library committee meeting.

But I arrived early and settled down with a copy of a Jewish book review journal, only to find that for some reason they'd reviewed Lindop's biography of CW. (The reviewer finds Williams "not very anti-Semitic," which is about the best that you could hope for.)

Then I met the new member of our committee.

Her name is Michal.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

But how anti Semitic is 'not very anti Semitic'?

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, there are Jews in Shadows of Ecstacy. They're on the right side but I found them to be unnervingly othered. Those are the only Jews I remember in CW.

Found the link (registration required). There are apparently a lot more Jews in CW than I remembered.

[(Anonymous)]

I've only read two Williams books, Shadows of Ecstasy and War in Heaven, and I'm glad to have done so--particularly the latter--but as I recall, the portrayals of Africans in the first book and of a Jew in the second book, to modern eyes, at best can be said to perpetuate some negative stereotypes.

-MTD/neb

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Such things seem to have been uncomfortably prevalent between the World Wars. T.S. Eliot is another example.