# Jacob Cohen — Daniel Deronda character guide

> Jacob Cohen in Daniel Deronda by George Eliot.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Jacob Alexander Cohen, Jacob, little Jacob, Skillful Jacob

**First appearance:** 0043-xxxv

## Who they are

Mordecai's young nephew, a mischievous but clever boy.

## In the story

### [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/daniel_deronda_se/chapters/xxxiv)

Barters a corkscrew knife for a hook knife with Deronda.

### [Chapter XXXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/daniel_deronda_se/chapters/xxxviii)

Jacob is Mordecai's young pupil, who learns Hebrew poetry by rote and is frightened by Mordecai's intense prophetic outburst.

### [XLVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/daniel_deronda_se/chapters/xlvi)

Alerted by Mordecai to fetch his father.

### [LXX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/daniel_deronda_se/chapters/lxx)

Eats beyond his years and contributes whinnying laughs during his father's speech at the wedding.

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