Title: Shylocks Tochter
Description: Sixteen-year-old Jessica, who longs to be free of the restrictions of her father and life in the Jewish ghetto of sixteen-century Venice, falls in love with a Christian aristocrat and must make choices which will affect her whole family. Inspired by Shakespeare's play The merchant of Venice.
Subjects: Jews, Juvenile fiction, History, Fathers and daughters, Identity, Prejudices, Fiction, Children's fiction, Jews, fiction, Identity, fiction, Prejudices, fiction, Venice (italy), fiction, Italy, history, fiction
Places: Venice (Italy), Venice, Italy
Time periods: 16th century, 1508-1797