Shakespeare never saw a Jew!
In the year 1290, in the reign of king Edward 1, all the Jews were banished from England by Royal edict, and not allowed back in until during the interregnum of Oliver Cromwell, (1646?)
Shakespeare was born in 1564, and died in 1616, therefore he never saw a Jew!
It is possible that Shylock, (The Merchant of Venice; the Jewish usurer), was taken from Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Barrabas.