In both Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Allison Epstein’s novel ... the term “Jew” is interchangeable with the character Fagin, the wily mastermind who takes in a gang of orphaned ...

The immortal characters of Charles Dickens' classic novel come to life in this film., Oliver Twist, a penniless orphan in 19th century London is fleeing the cruelty of the workhouse and he's ...

That was my introduction to the character of Fagin. And then as I got old enough to read the actual "Oliver Twist," I very quickly realized this is a very different kind of character in the ...

Published in instalments between 1837 and 1839, Oliver Twist was Dickens’s second novel. It follows its central character, an orphan, from the workhouse via temptations of a life of crime to ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." KUOW is ...