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The Greedy Jew is rooted in the stereotype that Jews are inherently greedy and malicious, both individually and as a group. More specifically, they are wealthy, secretly controlling or manipulating financial markets, nepotistic toward family members and other Jews, willing to defraud non-Jews, and always preferring underhanded means of profit over honest labor. The origin of the stereotype is arguably Older Than Feudalism, with characters like Zacchaeus the tax collector, the moneychangers in the Temple, and Judas Iscariot in The Bible. However, it didn't have any sort of widespread cultural presence until The Middle Ages. The three main Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—consider usury to be sinful, especially to fellow members of the faith. However, Judaism is the only such religion that doesn't have an explicit prohibition on lending to outsiders. Jews also faced numerous restrictions and hardships in medieval Europe: they were often banned from owning land or joining professional guilds, and frequently faced expulsion and/or persecution from cities and kingdoms for various real or imagined slights against Christians. As a result, many of them worked in jobs that pious Christians couldn't or wouldn't do, such as rent and tax collecting, trading, peddling, and banking. In literature of the early modern era, a clear stock character of the Greedy Jew emerged: a Morally Bankrupt Banker whose primary motivation was the accumulation of wealth, or revenge against some other person who owed him or cheated him out of wealth. He had no loyalty to king or country, utterly lacked a (Christian) moral compass, attempted to corrupt or subvert Christian characters into helping him, and lusted over unwilling Christian women. By the end, he tended to suffer a Karmic Death, or be redeemed by "choosing" to convert to Christianity. The most sympathetic treatment that a character of this type would ever get was in works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, in which he was portrayed as a Tragic Villain who had chosen to hate Christian society because Christian society hated him first. With the emergence of nationalism in the 19th century, European Jews' perceived lack of ethnic ties to their "host" nations meant they were seen as "rootless cosmopolitans" and a potential fifth column. It was around this same time that conspiracy theories regarding international plots hatched by Jews seeking political and economic world domination started taking shape, and took their modern form in the 1903 book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. A purported transcript of the meeting of one such Jewish cabal, the Protocols' legitimacy was called into question as early as 1921, and the book has been thoroughly debunked as a propaganda fabrication since then. That didn't stop antisemites from taking it at face value for decades (and, in some cases, continuing to do so), however. The image of the Greedy Jew was eagerly exploited by Nazi Germany as an excuse to justify their discrimination, persecution, internment and eventual genocide of European Jewry. Depictions of Jews as rapacious liars and swindlers was a fixture of Nazi propaganda posters and films, and they blamed supposed Jewish conspiracies for everything from Germany's defeat in World War I to the decline of The Roman Empire. Following the defeat of the Nazis and the revelation of The Holocaust to the general public, this rapidly became a Discredited Trope in mainstream media. It is rarely (if ever) played straight outside of explicit antisemitic propaganda, and a character invoking this usually indicates they're a Politically Incorrect Villain. The only people who reguarly use Greedy Jew tropes without raising Unfortunate Implications are Jews themselves, though it's usually the trope's Lighter and Softer variant, All Jews Are Cheapskates. This trope tends to also be associated with other Semitic and Mediterranean ethnic groups, such as Arabs (as in stock characters like the Arab Oil Sheikh), Greeks, and Armenians. In fact, many of the same accusations leveled by the Nazis against Jews had been invoked three decades prior by the Ottomans in order to justify The Armenian Genocide. Compare The Scrooge, Gold Fever, Morally Bankrupt Banker, The Rich Want to Be Richer, and The Conspiracy. If a Greedy Jew has a Sizable Semitic Nose, it's likely also a Sinister Schnoz. Contrast Magical Jew, when a Jewish character becomes a source of wisdom for other (usually non-Jewish) characters. noreallife |
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Chilean comic Condorito use to have one; Don Jacoibo, but it was remove from latter issues due to complains about Unfortunate Implications. | |
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Disney's "The Three Little Pigs" cartoon has the Big Bad Wolf dress up as a stereotypical Jewish peddler and try to con his way into the pigs' house. Later airings of the cartoon re-dub the Wolf's voice to remove the Yiddish accent that he affects. | |
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Fiddler on the Roof: Defied. Tevye is obsessed with making money, but that is because he is very poor and trying to get five daughters married. He is really more interested in gaining the respect of his community, the ability to provide for his family, and free time to devote to his religious studies and the synagogue, and sees wealth as the path to that. On top of that, the idea of Tevye, who lives in a small Jewish village that only sees gentiles when the tax collector comes around, exploiting non-Jews in any way is just patently ridiculous. | |
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See also Ethnic Cleansing and its sequels ZOG's Nightmare 1 & 2. | |
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Jew Süss is the most (in)famous example, though the main claim is that Jews rape Aryan women, which is elaborated on towards the end - this is in-keeping with Josef Goebbels's belief that propaganda should be as subtle as possible, so that the people maintain the illusion that their ideas are the product of rational thought and are therefore more likely to commit themselves to them as they are seen as being something personal to them rather than something the state hammers into them. The film was so effective that it reportedly inspired several murders of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, and was shown to concentration camp guards. | |
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The Smurfs enemy Gargamel might have been based on this stereotype. Maybe. French sociologist Antoine Buéno presented this theory, suggesting that the character’s big nose, magic powers, love of gold, and keeping a Mezuzah by the door of his house (clearly identifiable in several panels of the original comic) indicated it. Also, this may be why his cat was named “Azrael�, the Jewish name for the Angel of Death. (There is evidence to the contrary, however. “Gargamel� is not a Jewish name, but is taken from the French novel Gargantua and of Pantagruel, where Gargamelle is the mother of Gargantua and a giant, fitting as Gargamel is a giant compared to the Smurfs. Seeing as Yvan Delporte – Peyo’s co-author who designed the character – had a Jewish wife, “Azrael� could have just been an inside joke.) It would fit better with Monulf, the antagonist of the Cursed Country album - especially as he swears in Hebrew… |
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Maus The author surrogate's father is characterized by his rather ruthless pragmatism and attention to detail, including the pursuit of a comfortable life. One major example is how he pursues a woman from a wealthy family in favor or a more beautiful but less well-to-do woman, though he insists that he fell in love with her through her engaging letters. The father himself calls out the bullying, hypocritical inmate Yidl using this trope by name. This is briefly discussed in one of the sequences depicting the writing of the comic. During a discussion with his wife, the author confides his worry that by portraying his father's extreme frugality honestly, he'll be perpetuating this stereotype. |
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Reuben Rosenthall, a one-off Raffles antagonist, is a Jewish Amoral Afrikaner who made a fortune off the illegal diamond trade in South Africa. | |
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Bleak Expectations: Subverted with a disguised Mr. Benevolent in one episode, as a Fagin-impersonation named Abraham Bagel, who talks with a ludicrously exaggerated Jewish accent... only he's meant to be Catholic. | |
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The Verdict: In one instance of the main character calling around using false identities to get information for his case, he gives his name as "Mr. Goldberg" while passing as an accountant. | |
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The Phantom Menace was accused of featuring several alien races based on racial stereotypes. One of them is Watto. His obsession with money and gambling, big nose, and vaguely Yiddish accent are all aspects of the stereotype. | |
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Discussed in Steam Train - Danny (a Jew) believes the trope itself to be stupid, yet gleefully and consciously practices it himself. He doesn't hate the stereotype because he doesn't think Jews are greedy, but because "who doesn't like money?" | |
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Appears in Racial Holy War, because of course it does. The game has the PCs play as white nationalists on a self-appointed mission to 'take the country back.' Among a kitbash of offensive stereotypes for enemies, the various Jews can bribe the players to skip their turn with no save. So... Greedy White Christians? | |
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Community: In "Cooperative Polygraphy" Annie reveals she has been overcharging Troy and Abed on rent for to help them save for a rainy day, because she knows they're bad with money. Shirley rebukes her, saying that since Annie is Jewish she should know better than to feed into stereotypes. | |
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Discussed in Static #7. After the Malcolm Xerox supervillain Commando X starts targeting Jews, Black and Nerdy Virgil and his friends while under the assumption that he's nonviolent assert that his actions are justified due to Jews' disproportionate influence over media, law, and high society in general. Virgil ends up getting into a fight with his Jewish girlfriend Frieda who claims that Jewish dominance in the world of business is no different from black people's dominance in the world of sports and that both groups worked hard to get where they are after centuries of oppression. They later make up after respective chats with their Reasonable Authority Figure parents, who explain that Jews were allowed to assimilate more easily into society by virtue of their skin color and that it's the system's fault for giving them a leg up over blacks in the days before affirmative action to begin with. | |
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MADtv (1995) has a skit of a racist interracial couple (they're married to each other but make passive aggressive racist remarks towards each other). Their Jewish landlord confronts them about their late rent and calls them out on their racism by asking "what is it with you people and race?" only to be replied with "what is it with you people and money?" | |
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Slovak film The Shop on Main Street is set in 1942, when Slovakia was a fascist puppet state of Nazi Germany. The protagonist's wife sincerely believes in this trope. She's overjoyed when he is assigned custody of a shop that has been taken away from its Jewish owner. She sincerely believes that the woman who owns the shop must have a hidden pile of money somewhere, and keeps pestering her husband to find it. | |
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Sons of Anarchy brushes against this trope. Bobby, the Jew of the gang, seems to be their official accountant. In one episode, he states that his father was a mob accountant who was skilled at skimming off the top. On the other hand, he is opposed to the gang getting in the drug trade, despite all the money it'll make. | |
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The Plot Against America: Deconstructed by Abe Steinheim, a "macher" who is prone to lecturing everyone around him about how you need to make lots of money and then use that money to make even more money. He's a jerk, but he also believes that riches are the only way that a Jew has to protect himself in a gentile world. | |
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4chan popularized the infamous "Happy Merchant" meme, which has since made it into the broader Internet and gained currency among the usual suspects: namely, "politically incorrect" trolls and genuine anti-Semites. The original Happy Merchant image was drawn by white supremacist cartoonist Nick Bougas, better known by his pen name, "A. Wyatt Mann." | |
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Cabaret: The stereotype is brought up in conversation. Fraulein Kost asks about the contradiction of the Jews all being both bankers and communists, only to receive the answer (more like a rationalization) that it's a two-pronged attack: if they can't destroy gentile society one way, they'll destroy it the other. | |
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The Promised Land: Several of the greedy, rapacious factory owners are Jews. Mr. Grynspan, in particular, gives an underling a lecture about how he doesn't like it when his workers burn gas to brew tea, so he's going to start charging them for it. Some people in 1975 Poland suggested this film was anti-Semitic but there are some pretty greedy, awful Christians in the movie too, including Karol the Villain Protagonist. | |
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The Onion parodies the trope with this "Today Now!" piece advising viewers to deal with their money-related stress by "visualizing it as a greedy, hooked-nosed race of creatures." Likewise in their article "Local Jew Feels Left Out Of Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy." | |
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Glass Onion alludes to the stereotype when the politically incorrect Birdie says she thought an antisemitic term was a synonym for "cheap" and was lambasted for it. | |
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The Malik, villain of Kazaam is the Arab version. He has a stereotypical appearance, is introduced with ominous arabic music, and wants all the money in the world. Reviewers have noted this. | |
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The Chosen TV Series inverts the trope with Matthew the tax collector. The other Jews see him as a sell-out and a Jew in-name-only for working with the Romans and earning his wealth off the backs of his own people. He starts becoming a proper Jew only after leaving that life and wealth behind to follow Jesus. | |
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Veep: Sherman Tanz is a Jewish Corrupt Corporate Executive who blatantly manipulates Jonah into supporting legislation that will make his private prison business more profitable; he even goes as far as to say bills that blatantly cause societal harm are good because more crime means more people for him to imprison on the government's dime. Other characters describe him as a "walking anti-Semitic stereotype" and "why people hate the Jews." | |
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Cousin Avi from Snatch. is a Jewish gangster from New York who travels to London after his associate Frankie Four Fingers gets lost upon stealing a large diamond from Antwerp. Avi downplays this trope, however: he's certainly after the diamond for monetary gain as we can tell in the Dramatis Personae which shows he ends up getting it in the end, but he's equally concerned for Frankie's well-being, and Avi's more prominent negative qualities are profanity, kvetching, and being unbelievably incompetent. Avi's cousin Doug the Head is a subversion. He works at a jeweler's shop that inspects stolen gemstones, but he's not greedy, more Affably Evil and incompetent. And he's not even Jewish. |
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Isaacs the Jewish theater owner in The Picture of Dorian Gray is a particularly anti-semitic example even for Victorian times. He's repeatedly described as old, vile and disgusting. Though he claims to have a passion for Shakespeare, his productions are cheap and shabby. He's obsequious towards high-class customers and wears an enormous diamond on his shirt. | |
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In the original version of the Tintin book The Shooting Star (published in Nazi occupied Belgium during WWII), the main antagonist was an American banker named Blumenstein whose physical features closely resemble Nazi Jewish caricatures. Hergé later tried to remedy this by changing the banker's nationality to that of a fictional Banana Republic and changed his name to "Bohlwinkel ", after a Dutch dialect word for "sweet shop." Unfortunately, as Hergé found out later, Bohlwinkel is also a Jewish surname, but that remained unaltered. It also featured some stereotyped greedy Jews rubbing their hands and gloating over the fact that if the world ended, they wouldn't have to repay their creditors. Unsurprisingly, this frame is cut in later editions. | |
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The original plot for Angel Cop involved a Jewish conspiracy to take over Japan (this was removed in the dub). | |
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The original Aladdin story has the title character get some gold plates from the genie of the lamp. Then he sells them to a Jewish merchant, who cheats him. | |
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In The City Without Jews, this trope is cited as a reason why the Jews should be expelled from said city. Despite being against anti-Semitism, the movie doesn't exactly repudiate the stereotype. Its message is more, "The Jews may be a bit greedy, but you need those greedy Jews for the good of the economy." | |
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OSS 117: Lost in Rio: 117 tells some Israeli intelligence officers that it's not because of all those things they say about Jews and money that he doesn't leave a Briefcase Full of Money with them. | |
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Tokyo Vice: The Japanese in The '90s know about antisemitic stereotypes but seem to regard them as a novelty within the tapestry of gaijin stereotypes. When the Meicho editors blithely ask Jake what he thinks about the accusation that his fellow Jews run the world's economy, they seem to genuinely want his opinion. For his part, Jake is well practiced in not taking offense. | |
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Borat portrays "Kazakhstan" as being rife with this and many other stereotypes about Jewish people. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Borat's antisemitism to the hilt in an effort to see who will casually agree with him. Many viewers who didn't understand the full joke failed to realize that Cohen is himself a practicing Jew, granting him a claim at N-Word Privileges. | |
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The Doctor Who story "The Web of Fear" has the highly unfortunate character of Julius Silverstein, an extremely stereotyped Jewish art collector. He responds to suggestions that it might be dangerous to have a deactivated alien killbot in his collection with accusations that the person who is worried is trying to con it out of him, gloats about how "priceless" it is, and quickly gets killed when it predictably gets reactivated. | |
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The Great Gatsby: The only criminal associate of Gatsby's that we ever meet is Meyer Wolfsheim, an oily Jewish gangster who wears human teeth as cufflinks. He speaks with a Funetik Aksent to show that he's not part of proper gentile society in spite of his wealth. He's said to have rigged the 1919 World Series, pegging him as a No Celebrities Were Harmed take on Arnold Rothstein, the real-life Jewish gangster who is said to have done the same thing. | |
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In the Hercule Poirot novel Peril at End House, Poirot is suspicious of an art-dealer who is offering Nick far too much for a painting, describing him as "the long-nosed Mr Lazarus" when saying this behaviour is unusual. (The character is also called "A Jew, of course, but a frightfully decent one.") It transpires that Lazarus intends Nick to get the painting valued, discover he's being generous, and then not get a valuation the next time he offers to buy a painting from her. | |
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The Wire features Maurice Levy, an Amoral Attorney for various drug gangs who breaks all the cardinal rules of his profession, to the point that he's almost a consigliere for hire to drug lords, all while hoping his clients get into further legal trouble so he can rack up more billable hours. In the process, he makes frequent references to Jewish holidays, foods and customs as well as drops Yiddish phrases into his speech. Show creator David Simon, a Jew himself, says that he is based on several real Baltimore drug lawyers, all of whom were Jewish, and rhetorically asks how he can pull a punch where his own "tribe" is concerned when his show features greedy whites, blacks, foreigners and Christians. For what it's worth, the sympathetic lawyer Rhonda "Ronnie" Pearlman is also Jewish. | |
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In Lacombe, Lucien, a French film about a teenaged boy working with the French Gestapo, one of Les Collaborateurs says of the advancing Allies that "I don't want to be liberated by the Rothschild bank." | |
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The narrator of Mutiny on the Bounty writes of "...sharp-faced Jews, in their wherries, hovered alongside, eager to lend money at interest against pay day, or to sell on credit the worthless trinkets on their trays." | |
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Played with in Adolf. Elisa's father hits a lot of the notes of the classic greedy Jewish businessman stereotype, but his greed is portrayed as detrimental to his Jewishness rather than a consequence of it, as he betrays his own people by having dealings with the Nazis (for all the good it does him when the Holocaust gets underway). | |
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South Park plays with this trope, especially in the perceptions of the anti-Semitic Eric Cartman. In "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow," Cartman claims that all Jews have a bag of gold around their neck and tries to extort Kyle out of his. At first, you think that Cartman is just being his usual crazy, bigoted self, until we discover that Kyle really does have one, as well as a decoy bag that Cartman also anticipates. He subverts it in that he has no problem throwing it into a fire just to spite Cartman. In "The Death Camp of Tolerance," the boys are taken to the Museum of Tolerance where they are shown bigotry in its various forms. Cartman finds the various stereotypes on display to be awesome and immediately beelines for the Jewish stereotype on display, who is depicted as greedily clutching a bag of money (see the picture above). Even better considering that it is Cartman who serves as the closest representation of this trope in his actions. At the same time Kyle, while not immune to get rich quick schemes, has repeatedly been shown to be one of the most compassionate of the boys. |
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In Pictures at an Exhibition, the movement "Samuel Goldenburg and Schmüyle" portrays two Jewish men, one a wealthy banker and the other a whining beggar, which as musicologists have observed bear an unfortunate resemblance to two different versions of the stereotype. | |
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Home Alone: Marv is an unrepentant criminal who has no qualms with stealing from salvation army Santa's or robbing money meant for a charity for sick children. The second film has a couple of lines that reveal him to be Jewish. This likely comes from the fact that his actor Daniel Stern, who improvised a lot of his dialogue, is himself Jewish. | |
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Beau Geste features a particularly unpleasant grotesque Jewish pawnbroker stereotype. Made egregious by the fact that the scene is completely extraneous to the plot, and seems to have been thrown in just to have a chance to emphasize that Jews are filthy misers. | |
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Conspiracy (2001): Discussed Trope. There's an interesting back-and-forth between Heydrich and Kritzinger when the former gets fed up with the latter's recalcitrance to sign off on the Holocaust. Heydrich parrots the usual Nazi party line of a Jewish conspiracy controlling the banks when Kritzinger basically calls him a liar to his face. Realizing that they're never going to see eye to eye, Heydrich resorts to death threats instead to get him on board. | |
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Inverted in the Israeli version of Beauty and the Geek. While the American/British opening song is about getting lots of money, the Israeli version is about two people working up the courage to come together from different worlds. Although one of the contestants on the second season was ridiculously stingy for no apparent reason, partially playing straight the All Jews Are Cheapskates trope. | |
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Family Guy's Mort Goldman has a charity box in his store he takes for himself. He doesn't understand doing sales promotions in his store. note He literally hears the words "get one free" as if it's being spoken in some incomprehensible language, but only in reference to doing it in his own store. In "Baking Bad" when told that he's donating his blood after believing that he was getting paid for it, he sucks the blood from his IV drip back into his body. | |
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"The Man of the Crowd": The people-watching narrator mentions the "Jew pedlars" he sees on the street, who have flashing "hawk eyes" that betray the humble facade they affect. The narrator ranks them among society's lesser people along street beggars, invalids, women, and drunkards. | |
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Similar to South Park and Family Guy, Drawn Together used this a lot for humor such as the greedy Jew Producer which is his actual name. This was censored to "Geldgeiler Produzent" in the German dub. | |
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Mr. Krupp from Captain Underpants isn't exactly greedy, but he's an evil principal responsible for turning Jerome Horwitz Elementary School into a living hellhole, and as revealed by Book 5, he happens to come from a Jewish background. | |
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Leo from the American dub for Ghost Stories. | |
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Some bullies mock Ferris with this in Fishbones. | |
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Gravity Falls: Deconstructed and partially justified in the case of Grunkle Stan. When first introduced, Stan appears to be a greedy miser who uses his own family to make an extra buck. By the time the Author is introduced, we learn that he's so preoccupied with money because he was homeless for much of his life and had to turn to crime to survive, and now that he owns the Mystery Shack, he has to pay the mortgage on it to have a chance of seeing his brother again. Notably, we don't get any hints that he's Jewish until "A Tale of Two Stans", when a mezuzah is seen on his childhood home. By this point he's become a sympathetic character. Contrast his actions in the finale with the archetypal Greedy Jew, Shylock, who cares more for money than his own daughter. Stan responds to Bill's offer of money and power with a Megaton Punch, proving he puts his family first. | |
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Invoked by the Nazi consul Karl Baumer in Margin for Error, when trying to blackmail Dr. Jennings into giving him more money: | |
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