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 ...

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 ...

The immortal characters of Charles Dickens' classic novel come to life in this film., Oliver Twist, a penniless orphan ... thieves headed by the notorious Fagin and the evil Bill Sikes.

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 ...