Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Judith Sackville-O'Donnell: Well, Ikey Solomon was a receiver in an extremely big way, unlike Fagin, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Judith Sackville-O'Donnell had little trouble finding material for a book she wrote on London-born convict Isaac (Ikey) Solomon. The ...

An engaging combo of dramatic reconstruction and talking-heads docu, pic charts the life and crimes of 19th-century criminal Isaac "Ikey" Solomon, said to be the inspiration for Fagin in "Oliver Twist ...

A man appears as fagin (right) at Rochester's Charles Dickens festival Isaac 'Ikey' Solomon fits comfortably into the East End's 'Who's Who' of crime, and, like Dick Turpin decades before, has earned ...

Rachael Kohn: Hello, I'm Rachael Kohn. Welcome to The Ark on ABC Radio National. Charles Dickens' Fagin in Oliver Twist is one of the most disagreeable Jewish characters in English literature. The man ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Judith Sackville-O'Donnell intends to rescue "the Prince of Fences", Isaac Solomon, from the shadow of the creepy, villainous Fagin of ...

Was Isaac "Ikey" Solomon the inspiration for the reviled villain Fagin in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist? The entertaining docudrama The First Fagin makes a compelling case that Dickens did borrow ...