Stereotypes of Jews
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Stereotypes of Jews are generalized representations of Jews, often caricatured and of a prejudiced and antisemitic nature.
Reproduced common objects, phrases and traditions are used to emphasize or ridicule Jewishness. This includes but is not limited to the complaining and guilt-inflicting Jewish mother, often along with a meek nice Jewish boy, and the spoiled and materialistic Jewish-American princess.
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Stereotypes of Jews are generalizations or stereotypes about Jews.
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Types
Clown
Examples of Jews as clownish characters appear in the works of Scott.
Degenerate
Jews have been stereotyped as degenerate in the works of du Maurier.
Hassidim
The Hassidic Jew, with characteristic black clothes, hat and long hair, is a stereotype which makes mainstream Jews such as Woody Allen feel uncomfortable.
Hero
Examples of Jewish heroes appear in the works of George Eliot.
Jewish American Princess
The Jewish American Princess or JAP is a common stereotype of American Jewish women in contemporary US media. They are portrayed as materialistic and neurotic and so unattractive.
Parasite
Examples of Jewish parasites appear in the works of Bulwer and Trollope.
Saint
Examples of saintly Jews appear in the works of Cumberland and Edgeworth.
Sorceror
Examples of Jewish sorcerors appear in the works of Monk Lewis and Godwin.
Villain
Jews have been stereotyped as villains. Notable examples include: Fagin, Shylock and Svengali.
Wandering Jew
The myth of the Wandering Jew has beome a stereotype.
Prevalance
In the United States, benign stereotypes of Jews have been found to be more prevalent than images of an overtly anti-Semitic nature.
See also
- 2 Live Jews
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism in the United States
- Jewish-American organized crime
- Jewish humour
- Jewish lobby
- Jewish mother stereotype
- Jewtopia
- Model minority
- Mother-in-law joke
- My Yiddishe Momme
- Nice Jewish boy
- Racial antisemitism
- Self-hating Jew
- Sheik Yerbouti
- The Operated Jew
- Anti–Middle Eastern sentiment
- Antisemitic trope
- Antisemitism
- Allosemitism
- Anti-Zionism
- Economic antisemitism
- Expulsions and exoduses of Jews
- Geography of antisemitism
- History of antisemitism
- Jewish cuisine
- Jewish culture
- Jewish diaspora
- Jewish ethnic divisions
- Jewish history
- Jewish humor
- Model minority
- Perpetual foreigner
- New antisemitism
- Orientalism
- Persecution of Jews
- Racial antisemitism
- Religious antisemitism
- Self-hating Jew
- Triple parentheses
- Discrimination in the United States
