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In the opening paragraph, the paper states, “Candide provides us with…anti-Semitism.” I don’t feel that this statement is justified enough in the paper solely based upon Voltaire’s Candide alone. Like the paper states, there are only three brief references to Jewish characters throughout the entire book and I find it hard to equate Candide to that of an anti-Semitic solely because of those short passages. However, I do realize that the paper refers to several writers who backed up the author’s notion that Voltaire was anti-Semitic but in re