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The rich Jew, Barabas, has all his wealth confiscated by Ferneze, the Christian Governor of Malta, to pay
the island’s tribute to the Turks. Barabas has hidden some of his wealth, and vows to take his revenge
on the Christians. He buys the Turkish slave, Ithamore, to assist him, and kills an increasing number of
people, including his own daughter, until he is finally made governor by the invading Turks, to whom he
has betrayed the island.
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He subsequently contrives to betray the Turks, but does not count on the even
greater treachery of Ferneze, whose aid he enlists, and the Jew himself is finally sent to the painful
death he had planned for the Turks.
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