Try "Innocents Abroad," "Captain Stormfield," Melville's "Clarel," plus other Holy Land travel books, almost all of which describe Jews. And, of course, your student should read "Three Vassar Girls in the Holy Land" (I forget the author but she wrote a series of "Three Vassar Girls in . . . "). One of the three girls is secretly a Jew -- but they like her, and, after all, she doesn't smell too bad. This book is a compendium of stereotypes of the time -- while trying to be enlightened. It's a laugh riot. If you read the whole series, you will probably get a wonderful survey of all sorts of stereotypes. I know that someone has written a survey of the image of Jews in American literature -- I don't have the bibliographic information handy -- and that book will give many examples. Also read Shelley Fisher Fishkin's "Markt Twain and the Jews" in Arizona Quarterly 61.1 Spring 2005. Hilton Obenzinger