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Jewish boys are generally Nice Guys in Hollywood fiction, or at least can be relied on being so when they're the centre piece or critical element of a given work of fiction. So are Ambiguously Jewish ones. They also tend to be self-deprecating, studious, and brainy. Although he may still love to argue, even when he's arguing, you can still tell he's nice. It's reasonably likely he's a cheapskate, but he's probably not actually greedy. They're usually portrayed as smart, reliable, and gentle, with a boyish charm because these are qualities favored in Jewish culture as an ideal husband. Often overlaps with Jewish and Nerdy, and when Beware the Nice Ones, a Nice Jewish Boy can also be a Badass Israeli. Even though nice Jewish boys are quite likely to create a Gentile Jew-Chaser, a character referred to as "a nice Jewish boy" tends to be unmarried — he's often referred to as "a nice Jewish boy" by his domineering Jewish Mother, who wants him to get married and give her grandchildren and is advertising his niceness. Jewish Mothers may also ask their daughters to find one of these, or indeed their sons to find "a nice Jewish girl." The Other Wiki has an article about the "Nice Jewish boy" and the roots and influence of the trope. |
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Dan Dreiberg, from Watchmen, is Ambiguously Jewish, but according to Word of God is actually a lapsed Calvinist. Nonetheless, the fact he behaves a lot like a nice Jewish boy is almost certainly partially responsible for the widespread fanon that he's a Jew. | |
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Chase Matthews on Zoey 101. | |
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While almost everyone in Fiddler on the Roof is Jewish, Motel the tailor is the closest to this trope. | |
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Pasha Moskowitz on Academia. | |
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Rory Regan of Arrow, once he gets past his initial Roaring Rampage of Revenge, is generally a pretty nice guy as well as being a faithful Jew. | |
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House: Dr. James Wilson. Sensitive, caring, has an excellent bedside manner, and retains his composure without being the least bit cold when dealing with dying cancer patients. Even when he does bad things (like rat his best friend out to the police), it's almost always motivated by good intentions (getting said best friend off drugs). His biggest character flaw may be that he's too selfless. And his mother can talk about, "My son, the doctor..." | |
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The O.C. has Seth Cohen, a snarkier version of one but one nevertheless. | |
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Schmendrick from The Last Unicorn. More Ambiguously Jewish than anything, but it fits overall well (that and Peter S. Beagle is Jewish himself, so he may have added a little bit of himself onto his character). | |
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The Talmud has guidelines for... kosher relations, between husband and wife. One particular rule is that Jewish husbands are required to satisfy their wives before themselves. | |
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The Simpsons parodies this in a Treehouse of Horror episode, where a golem, when told to "speak" by Lisa reveals himself as this, albeit rather neurotic. | |
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Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle, employs a distinctly Yiddish turn of phrase for the whole time he's being written by Len Wein and displays elements of this trope. | |
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Matt Parkman, from Heroes, is Jewish according to Word of God. | |
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Nathan Chaim Kaplan of Caging Skies, a kind and intelligent, gentle boy who is unfortunately gassed to death during WW2. He is The Lost Lenore to Elsa Korr, the novel's female lead. | |
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Geddy Leenote born Gary Lee Weinrib; his parents were both Holocaust survivors from Poland of Rush described himself at their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction as "a nice Jewish boy from Toronto." | |
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The title character of Jacob Two-Two. | |
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In the documentary A History of Britain Simon Schama describes himself as a nice Jewish boy when describing England's Christian Reformation. | |
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Between all the hyper-ambitious, backstabbing doctors of the Charite hospital, Jewish Doctor Paul Ehrlich is by far the most decent, compassionate and upright, as well as a loving husband and a doting father to his two daughters. | |
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Howard on The Big Bang Theory when he's not a complete pervert (which isn't that often at first, but he does grow up. Mostly). | |
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In Robin and Red Robin Sebastian Ives is a nice, if snarky, Jewish kid who befriends Tim. He starts out more likely to snap at others and as a bit of a coward but slowly mellows out through his high school years and was always kind at heart and in his interactions with his friends. | |
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It isn't often mentioned in The Wonder Years, but Kevin's best friend Paul Pfeiffer is Jewish: one episode featured his bar mitzvah. A geeky Nice Guy, he fits the trope. | |
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Sol Star on Deadwood fits the mold of nice Jewish boy to a tee—which isn't really an asset, considering he lives in a Wild West town of murderers, thieves, gamblers, and drunks. | |
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Abraham in Altar Boyz | |
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Nate from Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.. is a subversion. He acts like this trope, but only because he hates it when people think badly of him. On the inside, he's a selfish Jerkass to the core. | |
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Simon Lewis from The Mortal Instruments. | |
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Zachary Ezekiel Rosenblatt Beekerman, also known as Zeke, from Wizards of Waverly Place is probably the nicest character on the show. He's so nice, he sometimes blames himself for other people's problems. | |
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David "Gordo" Gordon on Lizzie McGuire. | |
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Hilariously subverted on the UK version of The Apprentice, when Sir Alan Sugar berated one of the contestants for not knowing the difference between Kosher meat and Halal meat after claiming he was a 'good little Jewish boy' on his application. | |
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Vinz from La Haine averts this trope: he's the most violent of the trio, even though he is a Nice Guy deep down. | |
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Zig-zagged by Benny from Black Lagoon. He is definitely friendlier than Revy (but so are most rabid wolverines), and prefers electronics to guns, but like his co-workers, he's utterly cynical to the point of apathy, and has no compunctions about participating in murder, grave robbing, human trafficking, and the other nice things the Black Lagoon company does for money. | |
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David Kessler in An American Werewolf in London; true, he finds it difficult to kill himself when the animated corpse of his best friend tells him to, but you can't really blame him. | |
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Reuven Malter in The Chosen. Danny was less so, due to his introspective nature and his father believed he had temptations toward becoming an Insufferable Genius. | |
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Largely wanted by Nanny Fine in the early seasons of The Nanny. She's Jewish and would like to get married to a good man. | |
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Robbie Shapiro on Victorious. When he's not insulting people through his ventriloquist dummy. | |
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On Seinfeld, Jerry's mother can't be persuaded that her son isn't a nice Jewish boy, although he very obviously is not. | |
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Phineas and Ferb has Isabella, who is confirmed Jewish and is one of the nicest characters on the show. | |
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Adolphe Blanc from The Well of Loneliness. | |
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Arnold Perlstein on The Magic School Bus. | |
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My So-Called Life: Brian Krakow is the brainy, sensitive, Jewish boy next door to Angela. He pines for her while she pines for the troubled, bad-boy gentile Jordan Catalano. | |
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Rabin in the Star Trek novel Vulcan's Forge. | |
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Will & Grace: In season five Grace spontaneously marries her boyfriend Leo. At the reception her mother expresses concern as they barely know him. | |
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Jeremy on Sports Night. Dan is less nice, but he's working on it. | |
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Being Human (UK): George is Jewish. Maybe a little less nice, though. | |
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Josh from Being Human (US). | |
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Discussed and subverted on Glee, as Puck's (Jewish) mother asks him why he can't find himself "a nice Jewish girl." This is part of the reason he goes out with Rachel. Neither Rachel nor Puck exactly fit the "reliable and gentle" mold, though. There is also Jacob Ben Israel, whose School Newspaper News Hound persona is anything but nice. | |
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Kim Possible's partner Ron Stoppable. | |
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T.J. Detweiler from Recess, though he's more Ambiguously Jewish from the events of the Christmas Episode. | |
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Sent up in Portnoy's Complaint, where Alex Portnoy is torn between his conflicting desires; he wants to live a hedonistic life, but he also wants to become the nice Jewish boy his parents expect him to be. Philip Roth seemed generally intent on playing around with this trope forwards, backwards, and sideways in his other works as well. | |
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Greg Focker in Meet the Parents. | |
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Tommy Pickles from Rugrats. It's even invoked in All Grown Up!. | |
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Charlie Eppes, from NUMB3RS, though he is non-observant. | |
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David Levinson of Independence Day, played by Jeff Goldblum, crosses this trope with Jewish and Nerdy especially as he's positioned as the "brains" of the three central characters all the others orbit around in various ways (the other two being the President of the United States and the cocky Steven Hiller, both of whom also have pilot experience). He's an Almighty Janitor with an MIT education but happy in his cable company job in New York City, sharp enough to realize that the arrival of the aliens is bad news when he figures out the purpose of the signal the ships are sending out, and with his crotchety-but-lovable dad in tow heads to Washington D.C. to warn the President of the United States of the threat. (It helps that the ex-wife he's still devoted to works as the White House Communications Director.) Later, he figures out how to bring down the shields that protect the aliens' ships, finally giving humanity a chance to stop them. | |
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Joseph from Joseph & Yusra. | |
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In The Bible: Jesus makes this trope Older Than Feudalism. One of the possible titles for Jesus Was Way Cool was Jesus Was A Nice Jewish Boy, and it's mentioned several times throughout the article. This is sometimes taken to extremes: there's a hymn titled "Gentle Jesus Meek And Mild"... which is an ironic hymn. Jesus had differing ideas about the definition of "meekness" than the modern connotation and, even in the Bible, has his moments of Kung-Fu Jesus. He was not a tame carpenter. A joke says "he was thirty-three, single, no obvious girlfriend and living at home with his mom. He's Jewish." The Old Testament is also full of this trope. Isaac and Jacob are good examples. |
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Lindermann in Freddy vs. Jason, who's an all-around nice guy and dorky. | |
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Paulie Bleeker in Juno. True, he's only an informed Jew, but still fits. | |
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Peter Parker aka Spider-Man was sometimes thought to be this due to his very pronounced feelings of guilt and domination by his surrogate mother Aunt May, especially as his creator Stan Lee was Jewish. However, particular details about his family added since the late 1980s have established his background as at least partly Irish and Catholic. | |
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Justice League: Barry Allen eagerly joins the Justice League for the chance to make friends, lamely tries to pretend that a compromising photo of him is a completely different "attractive Jewish boy", and might or might not practice gorilla sign language and competitive ice dancing. Also gets points for helping to save the planet. | |
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The Foxy Bard has several costumed characters that he performs depending on which musical style he's doing. Dovid Mordachai, a klezmer musician, is described as "the only roommate [persona] that will not bring shame to his mother" and "a good Jewish boy."note He has another Jewish persona, Rabbi Shmuel Pallache, but he's a pirate. | |
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Nico from Rebelde Way fits this to a tee, despite his commitment issues. | |
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South Park: Kyle Broflovski is probably the most recognizable modern version of the stereotype. Even though he can be a bit Hot-Blooded occasionally, mostly due to Cartman's behavior, he can still be pretty nice, especially in later seasons. Unless, of course, something causes his Inner Jersey to manifest. Like Snooki. | |
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The Steve Harvey Show. Recurring character Arthur Rabinowitz is almost always referred to by Steve as "That little polite Jewish boy who helps me with my taxes." | |
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Midge's husband Joel is a complicated example. He seems to be a good husband, father, and breadwinner with a high-paying job at his uncle's company and a hobby in stand-up comedy. Flashbacks reveal that he swept Midge off her feet while she was dating a lantern-jawed, blond gentile. However, by the end of the first episode, he's revealed to have many character flaws that make him much less an example than he first seemed. | |
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Stanley Uris in It. He recently joined a group of misfits called "The Lucky Seven" AKA "The Losers Club". | |
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Ross Geller of Friends is a mild example bordering on Informed Judaism. | |
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Ferris from Fishbones. | |
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Billy Kaplan/"Wiccan" in Young Avengers, although he wasn't confirmed to be Jewish for some time. | |
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Heinz Lewinsky of The Anderssons. He's a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany and Louise's first boyfriend, who opens her eyes to how Jews are treated (remember, this is right before World War II started). It is later revealed that Louise got married to him. And like so many other Nice Jewish Boys, he became a doctor. | |
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The Man in the High Castle has Juliana's boyfriend Frank, who is secretly Jewish under an Axis-occupied America and he is definitely sweet. Then Break the Cutie happens and he becomes more ruthless and merciless. | |
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Jim Levenstein, the main character in American Pie. He's a perv, but then All Men Are Perverts, and other than that he's one of the best-behaved characters. | |
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Dipper in Gravity Falls is a bit Ambiguously Jewish, and generally fits the trope like a glove, taking other people's ethical choices/behaviors and emotions seriously, having a Living Emotional Crutch in his sister that he won't put aside for anything, making it a point to never take advantage of anyone's generosity despite his other vices and, above all else, just being a rather sweet kid. Though considering who one of his great uncles is, there's always a chance of him being on the cheap side... | |
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Cyrus Goodman from Andi Mack is notoriously caring, loyal, helpful, thoughtful, and kind. He is proudly and openly Jewish. | |
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Adam Goldberg of The Goldbergs is part of a Jewish family and is one of the nicest characters in the show. | |
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