Religion: Jewish (Ashkenazi) 
Name: Fagin
Other Names: Fagin the Jew; receiver of stolen goods; the merry old gentleman; the Jew
Classification:
villain
lead character
Publisher(s): Richard Bentley
First Appearance: Oliver Twist (1838)
Creators: Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank
Number of Appearances: 80
Comic Book Appearances: 2
TV, Film Appearances: 77
Prose/Text Book/Story Appearances: 1
Nation: England, United Kingdom
Race: white
Gender: male
This book retells the story of Fagin from Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist from Fagin's point of view. Eisner portrays Fagin as a distressed and complex character, and tells the story of his life and his place in the Ashkenazic community of London in the first person... written in response to anti-Semitic stereotypes.
Oliver Twist
Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagin
- http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0012211/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagin_the_Jew
- http://www.comicvine.com/fagin/29-69458/
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=115041
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397791/
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291638/