Virtually Jewish on the road to Canterbury.(Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings)(Book Review) From: Midstream | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Chertok, Haim | COPYRIGHT 2004 Theodor Herzl Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings, edited by Sheila Delany. New York: Routledge, 2002, 258 pp., $90.

For those for whom the sound of April showers evokes Jolson perhaps more readily than Chaucer, the publication of Chaucer and the Jews is a reminder that Chaucer still matters immensely. True, lines and tag ends from Yeats, Frost, Eliot, and even Larkin spice our daily discourse in a way that Chaucer does not and never can. But we are more distant from Sha...