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Prominent Jewish Tabloid Claims Charles Dickens May Have Been Part Sephardic Jew

May 24, 2022 By CFT Team -- 12 Comments

(The Jewish Chronicle) Jews will never forgive beloved English author Charles Dickens for his timeless portrayal of the low-life child corrupter, Fagin in Oliver Twist — who just so happened to be Jewish — and part of that ongoing punishment appears to be casting suspicion on Dickens’ ancestry, basically claiming that he might have been a self-hating Jew himself:

…In 1863, some 25 years after the publication of Oliver Twist, Dickens was taken to task by Eliza Davis, a middle aged Jewish woman who persuaded him to make at least some reparation for the damage he had caused. Their correspondence, which was published soon after his death, is held to be responsible for his decision to remove much of the most offensive material in the novel, as well as for inspiring the inclusion of the saintly Jewish character Riah, in Our Mutual Friend.

Eliza Davis’s influence on Dickens can be said to have resulted in the restoration of his reputation in the eyes of the Anglo-Jewish community — or at least in the eyes of the editors of the Jewish Chronicle. The paper had accused Dickens of “pandering to a vitiated taste” in creating Fagin, and being “a contaminating influence”. Yet after his death, he was described in terms of real affection, indeed something approaching reverence, and accompanied by a genuine sense of loss. The JC observed that the novelist’s work had struck a chord, “broke it to a pure echo and helped to make us — each of us — wiser and better.”

New evidence reveals the true significance of Dickens’s acquaintance with not only Mrs Davis, but her husband, James Phineas Davis — and raises some very interesting questions about Dickens’s own family background.

Eliza’s correspondence with Charles Dickens began in 1863, three years after she and her husband had bought from him the lease of Tavistock House. Eliza wrote to Dickens on the pretext of seeking his support for a charity appeal — a memorial to the late Lady Judith Montefiore — but the underlying purpose was to challenge him for the “great wrong” he had done to the Jewish people with the character of Fagin, and to ask him to “atone” for his actions in failing to extend to Jews the magnanimity and compassion for which he was so well regarded.

Eliza Davis was born in Jamaica in 1816, but later settled in England, marrying her cousin James Phineas Davis in 1835. Her husband was a successful and well-respected lawyer. But two years after the correspondence with Dickens had begun, James’s reputation was viciously attacked in the course of a scandalous libel case, one which has been overlooked until now.

In January 1865, Davis took legal action regarding the publication of a repellent, grossly antisemitic, 15-page pamphlet “The Vampires of London.” It was a vile composition, steeped in the worst imaginable slurs, comprising a prolonged accusation of extortion and exploitation by Jewish money lenders, in which it was falsely asserted that “Finny” Davis was the “arch-vampire”.

Although Davis won his action against the author, John Colborne, it had been coolly suggested in court that simply by being a Jew, Davis should expect to be associated with the supposed nefarious practices of money lenders. The hearing lasted only half-an-hour, the Judge awarded only a nominal sum, and Colborne left court to a round of applause.

This case was widely reported in the press and it is highly unlikely that Dickens did not read or hear about Davis’s experience. One might hope that it sharply reminded him that he had once, in a letter to a friend, described the purchaser of his house as “the Jew money lender”.

…Let us return to the issue of the Jewish Chronicle published days after Dickens’s death.
Below the tribute to him, there is an article with a headline in bold print: THE JEWS OF HOLLAND. My research suggests that Dickens may well have had some Dutch Jewish ancestry, and it is possible that Mrs Davis — who had family connections with at least one journalist who worked for the JC — and possibly other members of the Jewish community may have wondered if this was the case.

It is surprising how little is known about Dickens’ family origins. Early Dickensian scholars soon gave up any close investigation of his background, largely out of snobbery, when his ancestors turned out to include a grandfather who was a fraudster and a maternal great-grandfather who was a common barber-surgeon.

The latter was William Barrow, who married a woman named Ann Casteel in Bristol in 1758.
Further research now reveals that Ann came from a family of gilders and frame-makers who left the Spanish Netherlands during the late 17th century and settled originally in London.
Living in Bristol at the time of Ann’s marriage was a Lewis Casteel, who had worked as a gilder and owned the Unicorn Inn in Frog Lane.

The earliest documentation of this family is found in papers held in the House of Lords library. These include a 1678 petition from a number of “alien” craftsmen pleading to be released from prison, where they had been sent following an accusation of being Papists during the time of intense anti-Catholic hysteria surrounding the supposed Popish plot.

Lewis Casteels was one of these prisoners, claiming to be “Her Majesty’s Frame-maker” (meaning Charles II’s wife, Catherine of Braganza).

Another document, from Ireland, shows that four years earlier (1674) , a Lewis de Casteele was married in Dublin to one Beatrice Mountaseene. This is likely to be the same individual, or if not, a close relative.

Rather than being Catholics, the Casteels are far more likely, in origin at least, to have been Sephardi Jews. Casteel is a variant of Castile, a surname occurring in Jewish communities all over the world, including the Spanish Netherlands, and anywhere there had been settlement of Jews exiled from Spain or Portugal, and forced either to abandon or disguise their Jewish identities.

Looking again at the marriage in Dublin, where there was a new, small and covert Jewish community, it would seem likely that “Mountaseene” was a phonetic transcription of Montesinos, another Sephardi surname.

There had also been an early covert community in Bristol. Here we must consider the theoretical possibility that the Barrow family were of Jewish origin, as well as the Casteels.
Eliza Davis grew up in the West Indies, where there certainly were Jewish families with the name Barrow (derived from Baruch), as there were in London, and within the Montefiore family.

Some of Dickens’ Barrow relatives, such as his journalist uncle Edward and his cousin Grace, who was a singer, were referred to in the press at the time, in connection with him. Dickens’s aunt, Mary Barrow, had also been married to a Jewish military doctor, Matthew Lamerte, and this connection may well have been known to the Davis family.

Eliza Davis might not have known about the Casteel ancestry in Dickens’s ancestry but rightly or wrongly, she may have speculated that his Barrow relatives were originally Jewish. If so, asking Dickens to “atone” for his sins may well have been a deliberate and pointed moral mission….

Lots of speculation and innuendo here — a supposed Sephardic Jew in Dublin — Lewis de Casteele — is “likely” the same individual as Lewis Casteel in Bristol who is described as a Catholic Papist — despite the ifferent spelling of last name and the different religion.

And Ann Casteel’s family came not from The Netherlands but rather from the “Spanish Netherlands” — to bring up the Sephardic possibility — as many converso Jews fled Spain for the liberal Netherlands in the wake of the Inquisition.

But that’s what we would expect from a scorned Jew — sling mud and see what sticks.

And since some Jews in the West Indies “were known” to have changed their Sephardic last name Baruch to the anglicized “Barrow”, then that must be the case with Dickens’ family — because, well, Dickens must be touched with this tar brush.

And if one of Dickens’ family members married a Jew, well, then a Jew-by-marriage is almost a full-blooded Jew when convenient.

Either way, one thing we can be sure of — Eliza Davis had minimal influence on Dickens — who had a reputation of being very sensitive to his readers’ reactions — and if he toned down the character of Fagin or included the sympathetic Jewish character Riah in Our Mutual Friend [one of Dickens most forgettable books, ed.] to throw the Jews a bone.

The ultimate punishment for Dickens portrayal of the Jew Fagin is to turn Dickens himself into a Jew — the same motivation that has made many Jews claim that Adolf Hitler also had some Jewish ancestry.

Making everyone think they are “part Jewish” is part of a larger strategy we can see — with the Jewish-dominated DNA testing companies throwing “Askenazi” results into many White European results — or just convince entire countries that everyone has some Jewish DNA.

The Jews at The Jewish Chronicle would like nothing more than to see Charles Dickens thrown under the bus by his fans because he might be a Jew — that’s motivation enough to ignore any “new evidence” they might dig up.


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Comments

  1. Kenzer

    January 18, 2023 at 11:04 pm

    Heritage DNA made me 11% Jew and 46% English while in all the others I had none of that heritage. I wonder who owns Heritage?

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  2. Allison MacPherson

    January 17, 2023 at 1:11 pm

    The truth is Jews have contributed little to the field of literature. So they would absolutely love to claim Dickens.
    Much of their “literature” is filth, aimed at destroying the morals of the Western world.
    They have NEVER created any beautiful art, painting, sculpture, architecture, feats of engineering, nor classical music, let alone the instruments.
    They are parasites that feed off our creations and now they want to claim Charles Dickens because of their own dearth of genuine artists.

    Reply
  3. Normant

    June 5, 2022 at 6:46 am

    Jewish Royals?

    Prince William.
    https://cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/william-westernwall/prince-william-wears-yarmulke-to-visit-his-great-grandmothers-resting-place-19.jpg

    Prince Charles.
    https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.z4x0mHPt2Dp30bFxazU-TgHaFo%26pid%3DApi&f=1

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  4. Normant

    June 5, 2022 at 6:14 am

    ZIONISM. Britain’s royal family is 100% Jewish.
    In conclusion even if the royal family, particularly Kate and William introduce themselves as staunch Christians, since the bride of the family, Princess Diana the wife of Prince Charles, was Jewish, her two sons Harry and William are Jews. On the other hand William’s marriage as the inheritor of the crown to a Jewish girl will leave the future of Britain to the hands of the couple’s Jewish children.

    Iran News Shocker: British Royal Family Are Jewish.
    Not enough of a “Jewish” angle? Press TV ups the ante — it asks “how Takfiris [apostates] and Zionists are alike” and answers: “They think they are so much better than other people that they are justified in killing them…sometimes even eating them.”
    https://eaworldview.com/2013/06/iran-news-shocker-british-royal-family-are-jewish/

    The Truth About The So Called British “Royal Family”: They are ALL Jews!
    https://birthofanewearthblog.com/the-truth-about-the-british-royal-family-they-are-all-jews/

    Saudi Royal Family is Jewish! King and Prince are all Jew!
    https://shoah.org.uk/saudi-royal-family-is-jewish-king-and-prince-are-all-jew/

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  5. cas

    May 27, 2022 at 10:35 am

    To add to the confusions that Jews spawn and lead most times. Just search for “jewish surnames” sometime.
    They make the false claims to a whole lot of names. Remember these are the people who lead in changing their surname in public to “blend in” and feed off host country(s). What if the jews are the ones in the OT who “let us go down any confusion their langauge”. According to the late Texxe Marrs the jews have a pantheon of gods and goddesses.
    Again no body of judah will ever be found to scientifically prove the current jews’ claim. If they make claim by “religion” then they already admit they are luciferians

    Reply
  6. Johnny

    May 26, 2022 at 2:32 pm

    DARK SIDE OF BRITAIN – JIMMY SAVILE AND THE 9TH CIRCLE https://www.bitchute.com/video/0X0qIRQhqv1P/

    The Man Who saved Jimmy Savile is now leader of the Labour Party.
    http://tapnewswire.com/2020/04/man-who-saved-jimmy-savile-is-now-leader-of-the-labour-party/

    Jimmy Savile fixed it for Israel https://tinyurl.com/bdd5aup8

    Reply
  7. Elizabeth

    May 24, 2022 at 1:23 pm

    There literally is no low these Jews won’t sink to. Their bag of tricks is always full of lies, deceit, subversion and deflection. The beauty is their unmitigated hubris and constant overreach will have more and more people scratching their heads and wondering “maybe it was the Jews all along?” Being kicked out of 109 countries over 1,000 times is a testament to this.

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    • Mr Reynard

      May 24, 2022 at 6:24 pm

      Yupp agree with you.. Charles Dickens wasn’t Sephardic Jew, he was as according to BBC a Black African, from the same tribe as Queen Margaret D’Anjou, Friar Tuck, & now James Bond ??

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      • nick

        May 29, 2022 at 9:08 am

        lolololol unfreaking believable………..i’m still wondering why god created the other races……..i’m assuming this point in history is why…….hate on the white race 24/7……………headline “black african invents anything.”….news at seven lol

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  8. EddieSmith

    May 24, 2022 at 9:46 am

    Ehi guys, unrelated questions:
    Is it true that what we call “dinosaurs” are actually the bones of the dragons that the Bible and all other ancient sources talk about?
    And another question, can you explain to me the episode of Jesus and the 2 demons he sends into the pigs who later drown? I can’t understand if it’s literal or a metaphor and what it means.
    Thanks for your good work.
    -Eddie

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    • Melissa

      May 25, 2022 at 4:58 am

      Yes, I just saw an amazing lecture by Genesis Apologetics presenting archaeological evidence that this is the case. He not only talks about the dinosaur described as leviathan by God in Job, but outlines the ubiquitous flood evidence that dinosaurs were absolutely wiped out in droves worldwide.

      Reply
    • Mars observer

      May 26, 2022 at 4:25 am

      As far as the demons that Jesus sends into the swine at Gadera, I personally see a lot metaphor here in a way, but you should read this explanation from Kinsman Redeemer, which I find interesting, too:
      https://kinsmanredeemer.com/madmen-gadera

      Reply

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