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Gentile Jew-Chaser
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Some dig Asians. Some prefer their lovers Latin. And some feel that Everyone Looks Sexier if French. And then there are the Gentile Jew-Chasers ("chaser" in this case meaning romantic or sexual pursuit rather than hostile persecution), who are not Jewish themselves, but find that when God chooses a people, he pulls out all the hotness stops. A sort of sub-trope to Everyone Looks Sexier if French, dedicated to the Chosen People. Maybe it's the Woobie factor (they are pretty much the world's Butt Monkeys); maybe it's their sense of humor (everybody knows Jews are funny). Maybe it's the strength of the Badass Israeli or just the sweetness of the Nice Jewish Boy. Or even the allure of sophisticated Jewish culture. The Gentile may end up Converting for Love. While primarily an American trope this can be seen in other countries with large Jewish populations, such as France. On the other hand, it's an unknown trope in countries with negligible Jewish populations. Though this trope appears relatively new (as in, post-World War II), it can be traced back to the 19th Century where this archetype was known as la belle juive (the beautiful Jewess) in Romantic European literature, and as the name implies it was Always Female and tended to be portrayed either as a tragic heroine or a particularly antisemitic variant of The Vamp. Male examples of this trope were virtually unknown (and tended to be played negatively) until modern times. Obviously, compare and contrast Race Fetish, Latin Lover (which can overlap if they're Sephardic), Sensual Slavs (overlapping if they're Ashkenazi), Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow, Where da White Women At? and, well, any other ethnic or national tropes. Contrast Shiksa Goddess, which is the inverse of this trope (Jewish characters pursuing Gentiles because they're not Jewish), and compare and contrast Jewish and Nerdy. Drama that results from this relationship can count as a form of Maligned Mixed Marriage. Please note that the Gentiles in question should be pursuing Jewish people precisely because they're Jewish, a Gentile-Jew pairing on its own is not an example of the trope. |
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The Addams Family: Played with. Gomez finds it very attractive, to the point of becoming completely Distracted by the Sexy, whenever Morticia calls him "bubele", a Yiddish term of endearment. (In the 90s cartoon, he only finds it attractive because he mistakes it for French, but this is not the case in the sitcom, where he explicitly knows it isn't French.) Morticia was played by the Jewish (convert) actress Carolyn Jones, and has a few other examples of Yiddish as a Second Language. However, Morticia is only very Ambiguously Jewish: the family celebrate Christmas (although only Gomez is mentioned to have grown up celebrating it, so she might simply celebrate it because he does), and she definitely doesn't keep kosher (though plenty of Jewish people don't). That being said, her use of Yiddish is still being specifically presented as something that makes her more attractive to Gomez. | |
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The Simpsons: Lisa almost instantly develops an innocent, chaste crush on her Jewish substitute teacher, Mr. Bergstrom, and even remarks on his "Semitic good looks." He seems slightly taken aback by this compliment. | |
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God Is Great and I'm Not: Unlike most instances of this trope, Michelle the Catholic, who falls in love with Francois the Jew, is entranced enough to convert. Francois is pretty skeptical of her conversion because he thinks this trope is the motivating factor. | |
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The Hebrew Hammer plays around with this. At one point, Damien's female assistants try to seduce him, gushing about how well-read Jewish men are. | |
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Mad Men seems to love this concept, made especially relevant by showing that Jews are outsiders in the ad men's WASPy social circles. Don Draper's first and second-season mistresses are Jewish, as is his fourth season girlfriend. Roger's young wife is also Jewish. When Draper's firm lobbies for a job with the Israeli tourism bureau, and the executives take particular note of how beautiful Israeli women are. | |
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Ninja Sex Party's Danny Sexbang (real name Leigh Daniel Avidan) invokes this trope in some of their songs, such as "The Decision": | |
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Elliott in Scrubs has an Imagine Spot where she builds herself the perfect husband and he turns out to be Jewish. She then mentions that her parents wouldn't approve. | |
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St. Elsewhere: Helen Rosenthal has a case of this, admitting that she is "fatally attracted to Jewish men." | |
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The Big Bang Theory One episode had Christy (a friend of Penny's who Really Gets Around) becoming delighted at the discovery that her new beau is named "Howard Wolowitz." "My first Jew!" she squeals. (Funny, we weren't aware she was collecting them.) Eventually Howard gets together with Catholic girl Bernadette, who loved the idea of driving her parents crazy by dating a Jewish guy. She also sometimes calls him nicknames like "Jewish Greyhound." |
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A variant in Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry has a fling with an anti-semitic Muslim woman who enjoys the degradation she feels when having sex with Jews. | |
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American Dad!: The episode "Bar Mitzvah Shuffle": Etan Cohen, a sophisticated Jewish boy, seduces Steve's girlfriend, Debbie. Being Jewish is part of the charm, and Etan plays it for all it's worth. In "Stan's Food Restaurant", Steve wants to get with a crazy girl who believes her doll is alive. She mentions the doll "likes Hebrews" when Steve arranges a "date" between it and Snot. |
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In Trainspotting, Spud says his plans for his cut of the money are to settle down with a beautiful Jewish princess. | |
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The Onion parodies this in the article "Area Man Saddened to Realize Short Jewish Women with an Interest in Theater His Type." | |
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An episode of The Cleveland Show had a devout Christian girl become obsessed with Jr. because he is an atheist and another boy named Hunter because he is Jewish. | |
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GoodFellas: Mafia gangsters Tommy and Henry go on a Double Date with two Jewish girls because Tommy wants to have sex with one of them, and she won't go out with an Italian unless she can bring her friend along. We never see Tommy's date again, but sparks fly between Henry and his own date Karen, and they eventually marry. Based on a true story! | |
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Discussed in Portnoy's Complaint. As a teen, Alex Portnoy believed that he must pretend to be Christian to attract Christian girls; but he later realized that this is not necessary, because there are plenty of Christian women who are attracted to Jewish men just like him. | |
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In the half book/half comic Limekiller at Large, the second item on Marty's bucket list is "Make love to a Jewish Woman(Long Story)" | |
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The Fabelmans: Monica, a devout Christian, is instantly interested in Sammy when she learns from Claudia that he's Jewish (because she loves Jesus, and Jesus was Jewish). The relationship creates not an insubstantial amount of drama. | |
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Family Guy: When Peter finds out Lois was Jewish, he is really into it, at least until his Catholic guilt kicks in. | |
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