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Several reviewers speak of a morphing of The Little Tramp into the Jewish barber.

In Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s, Thomas Schatz writes of " Chaplin's Little Tramp transposed into a meek Jewish barber ", while, in Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929-1939, Colin Shindler writes that " The universal Little Tramp is transmuted into a specifically Jewish barber whose country is about to be absorbed into the totalitarian empire of Adenoid Hynkel.

" Finally, in A Distant Technology: Science Fiction Film and the Machine Age, J. P. Telotte writes that " The little tramp figure is here reincarnated as the Jewish barber ".