Fagin is a character in Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist. He lives in London, gathers children, teaches them to pick pockets, and then takes the stolen goods to sell. He can be funny and almost fatherly, which makes the harm worse: he uses the boys. Because the book is so famous, the name sometimes walks out of the story. People may call a real adult a Fagin when they mean someone who runs child thieves, or lives off what the young ones steal. Though actually, Dickens made Fagin a Jewish man in a way that piled on old, ugly stereotypes, and many readers have said so for a long time. Dickens later changed some lines. The character is part of English-speaking culture; that prejudice is part of how he was drawn, and it is fair to know both.

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