This somehow doesn't fit into my paper, but it's excellent;

"While Dickens was still writing Oliver Twist, a theatrical pirate made an adaptation of it which Dickens went to see. It was so offensively bad that in the middle of the first scene the young novelist laid himself down on the floor of his box and never rose until the curtain dropped.” (Steven Marcus, “Who is Fagin?”)

Also, my theme song for the night:

Mmm, Sparknotes called to say they're pretty sure Oliver's day wasn't goin' gaga because of Rihanna shaking her bumbum, bro.

oh noes

And let me present to you all:

A Brief Illustrated History of Artificial Fagin Jew-Noses.

Top row: Lon Chaney with his Fagin nose (1922) and in a regular photoshoot. Bottom row: Alec Guinness’s nose as Fagin (1948), in comparison with his actual nose, here shown while in costume for his later role as Obi Wan Kenobi. 

Richard Dreyfuss was also apparently deemed not Jewish enough for this 1997 adaptation: 

I've actually got a few more examples, it's just a pain to post photos.