I was wondering why there is a 1000 reputation reward limit for accepted edits. I started to be more active in fixing code indent and other things among SO questions and I was enjoying the fact that this would bring me +2 for every accepted edit. I was thinking of fixing a few questions every tim...

In the play The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is pretty much disdained and humiliated only because he was a Jew. His thirst for revenge against Antonio is fuelled by the fact that Antonio constantly humiliates Shylock in front of his fellow merchants. Even at the end, after Portia skilfully tricks...

It's well known that Dostoyevsky as a person didn't like Jews. But is there clear evidence of that in his books? Ideally, I'd prefer evidence of things that arise above things that were commonplace normal stereotypes in Russian society of the time, such as Pushkin's Jewish moneylender.

While reading Jude the Obscure, I came across this bit in Part First, chapter 3: People said that, if you prayed, things sometimes came to you, even though they sometimes did not. He had read in a tract that a man who had begun to build a church, and had no money to finish it, knelt down and ...