Jewish Stereotypes and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

dc.contributor.authorCohn, Lee Michael
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-03T01:32:42Z
dc.date.available2021-01-03T01:32:42Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-20
dc.description.abstract"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" is a very popular television series about a young upper-middle class Jewish woman in the late 1950s and early 60's. As the show begins, the main character he is a very proper and in many ways conventional wife and mother, who flouts the norms of culture, gender and class to forge a career as a comic. This article pays tribute to the creativity of the writing and acting in the award-winning show, Although the author acknowledges that "Jews pretty much invented self-deprecating humor," he is critical of the show for exploiting negative stereotypes of American Jews. specifically that they are "obnoxious, loud, crass, obsessed with money to the exclusion of all else, lacking in manners and social grace [and] unclean..." Click on the URI above to read the article. Click on the link below for a different view of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,"en_US
dc.description.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11976/658
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.aish.com/ci/a/Jewish-Stereotypes-and-The-Marvelous-Mrs-Maisel.html
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAish.comen_US
dc.subjectTheater, Movies and Televisionen_US
dc.subjectThe Marvelous Mrs. Maiselen_US
dc.subjectHumoren_US
dc.subjectUnited Statesen_US
dc.titleJewish Stereotypes and The Marvelous Mrs. Maiselen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
local.external.urihttps://www.najculture.org/handle/20.500.11976/659

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