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“‘In which of these sleeps the Jew?’ said the pilgrim. ‘The unbelieving dog,’ answered Anwold, ‘kennels in the cell next your holiness. St. Dunstan, how it must be scraped and cleansed ere it be again fit for a Christian (75).’” Sir Walter Scott takes a huge risk in his novel Ivanhoe by taking a stance that was not at all socially acceptable during the time. Scott attempts to enlighten the English church about its blatant hypocrisy through anti-Semitism in the 1800s. Many critics argue whether Scott was simply making the novel accurate to the time period or whether he was actually making a statement about anti-Semitism. This discrepancy stems from the very mild negative references to anti-Semitism present in the novel. However, Scott does take as much of a stand as would have been accepted in the 1800s and does an excellent job of shedding some light on the Christian hypocrisies. Scott