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You Have to Have Jews

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You Have to Have Jews	comment	For a minority forming less than one quarter of one percent of the world's population, Jews are astonishingly well-represented both as creators of media and as characters appearing in that media. This is largely because much of the most popular media is created in the USA, and specifically in the two parts of the USA with the highest per capita Jewish populations, Los Angeles and New York City. Therefore, this trope is an example of both Hollywood Provincialism and Big Applesauce. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Of course, like so many others, this rather sensitive trope began as an inversion of another trope. There was a time when working in media was one of the few options for ambitious, intelligent, well-educated people who happened to be Jewish. Anything considered to be academic or high art would be under considerable pressure to appear "respectable," and cater to the segregationist views of the time. Anyone who was not (or could not pass for) white, heterosexual, Christian (most likely Protestant), and often times male might be considered a risk to the company's reputation. Since radical new media, such as film, radio, Comic Books and, later, television were often callously dismissed as vulgar, they tended to hire the people no one else would take — i.e. Jews. Despite the doomsday warnings of segregationist Moral Guardians, new media took off and people who once had to scramble for an employer became part of history. In short, many might say that the Jewish people who ran Hollywood did so because they were the ones who built it . Most major Hollywood studios, including the Big Five (20th Century Fox, RKO Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and the Little Three (Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and United Artists) had at least one Jewish founding member, with the prominent exception of Walt Disney Studios (as such, some say that Walt Disney hated Jews, when in fact his beef was specifically with left-wing Jewish labor leaders he suspected of infiltrating his studio), and every American studio currently has Jews in at least some high ranking executive and creative positions. Creative types usually write what they know, and despite the ever-lingering specter of antisemitism in the early twentieth century, many writers, directors, producers, etc. most certainly would have passed on their own perspective into their work, intentionally or not. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This trope does not lend itself to a simple list of examples, as such a list could easily smack of antisemitism ("what's with all these Jews?"). That is not what this trope is about at all. It is, nevertheless, noticeable to viewers and readers who live in areas where Jewish populations are much smaller (e.g. the UK, where Jews were, according to the 2001 census, outnumbered three to two by Jedi). As it's a Trope in Aggregate, please add examples only where this trope is lampshaded, or possibly averted if it's really incongruous. It should also be noted that often, while Jewish heritage is common in media, Judaism and Jewish culture are often rare: The audience will be told that a character is Jewish, but uniquely Jewish cultural events will not be discussed, unless there is a Very Special Episode revolving around Hanukkah or Passover, the character is an anti-Semite or loves Jewish culture, or the main character(s) is/are Jewish. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Contrast White Male Lead, although in many genres they do intersect. This usually results in All Jews Are Ashkenazi. Examples:
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You Have to Have Jews / int_14aab8d5	comment	Joe Versus the Volcano includes a Polynesian tribe that descends partially from ancient Jews, so one of their tribal chants is the Israeli folk song "Hava Nagila."
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You Have to Have Jews / int_1d8b71dd	comment	Lampshaded in the FAQ (Future Alien Questions) section of Earth (The Book) for religion.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_210767ac	comment	Crusader Kings has an odd case of the fan base demanding this. Jews were not originally included in the game, with the justification that there weren't any Jewish rulers in the game's time frame. Then the DLC The Old Gods pushed back the start date to a time when the Khazar Khanate existed, where large portions of the nobility converted to Judaism. This wasn't in the game, so people began modding. Then Paradox announced the Sons of Abraham DLC, which, among many things, introduced Jews to the game proper.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_2275c659	comment	Referenced in the first episode of House when Wilson wonders how Foreman could have gotten through medical school without learning a thing or two about Jews (specifically, that they don't all keep Kosher). (The series does not contain this trope, as given that it's set in a hospital in Central Jersey, there may be too few Jews in the cast—although the absence of East and South Asians is even more glaring.)
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You Have to Have Jews / int_22ae2327	comment	In the first season of Louie, Louie CK gets a part in The Godfather. His agent tells him Matthew Broderick asked for him specifically, and that they're remaking the Coppolla original "but with all Jews".note CK might better be described as "lapsed Catholic with some Jewish heritage."
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You Have to Have Jews / int_249b3519	comment	The leads in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle were almost turned into two Jewish guys due to Executive Meddling. The producers added in two Jewish roommates as the lead characters' friends.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_2fbe5c1b	comment	One episode of Lovejoy features a diamond merchant with a black hat and Yiddish accent and so on. When Lovejoy catches him eating a ham sandwich, he explains the schtick: "It's expected."
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You Have to Have Jews / int_3388293a	comment	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay explains this in relation to The Golden Age of Comic Books.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_33fdae4d	comment	In Mad Men: Roger orders Peggy to hire the highly eccentric Michael Ginsberg as a copywriter against her better judgment simply because Roger thinks that every ad agency needs a Jew to be successful. Contrast this with an episode in the first season where Roger "ha[s] to go all the way down to the mail room" to find a Jewish employee for a meeting with a Jewish-owned department store.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_34e5ea29	comment	On a sketch from Mr. Show, David Cross played a Right-Wing Militia Fanatic who claimed that his property was his own country. He ran cameras off his land whilst yelling that HBO stands for "Hebrew Box Office" and various complaints about the liberal Jew-run media.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_3692a962	comment	In Lord of War, Yuri's father puts a great deal of effort into convincing people he's Jewish because he got to the U.S. from the USSR by claiming refugee status. He also believes it's good for his business networking.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_3b34143f	comment	When one Harry Potter fan complained that there didn't appear to be any Jews at Hogwarts, JK Rowling responded that a minor character called Anthony Goldstein (who had all of three lines in the entire series) was Jewish.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_3cc40e40	comment	Normally, Everyday Heroes goes to great lengths to subvert tropes ... then introduces a Jewish family consisting entirely of lawyers.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs lampshades this in an Imagine Spot for Elliot where she imagines creating the perfect robot finacee - and he's also Jewish. She then says her parents will kill her for marrying a Jew.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_4260bf19	comment	There of course would have to be a gag in Wedding Crashers where in the montage of weddings the protagonists crash to hook up with one night stands, they go to a Jewish wedding. Neither of the characters are Jewish.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_55f41ce9	comment	Invoked in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, where Larry hires a lawyer named Berg, assuming he was jewish, but becomes disenchanted once he sees him riding a motorcycle. He confronts the lawyer and accuses him of being a "fake jew", then hires another lawyer, after making sure that one is Jewish - doesn't end too well. Larry David, of course, is Jewish, but the episode's writer Alec Berg, on whom the character is based, isn't.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_585e7a59	comment	Mocked when Seth MacFarlane hosted the Academy Awards. When Mark Wahlberg and Ted showed up to present the awards, Ted took note how a number of respected, Oscar-winning actors just happen to be Jewish. When Wahlberg said he himself wasn't Jewish Ted told him "wrong answer if you wanna work in this town" before elaborating to the crowd how he was Jewish and how much he wanted to donate to Israel.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_5cec267a	comment	Season 2 of Defiance introduces Cai, an Irathient (alien race from another planet) Jew. He was orphaned as a baby and raised by a human Jewish couple. He is a practicing Jew and works as a lawyer.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_71347bce	comment	In Walk Hard, there are Jewish procuers, because, you know, "those Jews control show business."
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You Have to Have Jews / int_761813a6	comment	Band of Brothers has an accidental example. Joe Liebgott is portrayed as a Jew in the miniseries, to play up the emotional impact of the concentration camp episode. However in reality he wasn't actually Jewish - and his comrades mistakenly thought he was. His family revealed this information after the miniseries aired.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_791fca44	comment	Many of the prominent citizens of Rapture in BioShock are of Jewish descent like lead designer Ken Levine (as he acknowledged in an interview), including its founder Andrew Ryan, Sander Cohen, Dr. Steinman, and scientist Brigid Tenenbaum (a Holocaust survivor). However, considering the setting, most if not all of them are atheist or at least non-religious, much like Levine himself.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_7ade1082	comment	Explicitly stated in Reversal of Fortune by Alexandra, Claus Von Bulow's current girlfriend; she says she told Claus to "hire the Jew (Alan Dershowitz)''.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_88992e76	comment	To Be or Not to Be: Brooks plays Polish actor and theatre impressario Frederic Bronski; after Warsaw is occupied by the Nazis, he is forced to report to the Gestapo censorship office, to obey what they decide is and isn't "acceptable" material: Frederic comes back from the meeting fuming:
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You Have to Have Jews / int_994a18ad	comment	Doug the Head in Snatch. obviously believes in this trope. He appears the stereotypical Jew, wearing a yarmulke, saying "oy vey", running a slightly dodgy jewelery and precious stones business. He isn't actually Jewish, but he affects Jewishness because he believes it's good for business.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_ad29dc16	comment	Played with on All in the Family. Archie's racist assumptions were being challenged when he found out many people in his life were Jewish, despite not fitting any of his (or the audence's) pre-concived steriotypes.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_ae285944	comment	Robin Hood: Men in Tights jokingly replaced the Friar Tuck character with a Hasidic Rabbi (a cameo by director Mel Brooks himself).
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You Have to Have Jews / int_afc86b0a	comment	In Ender's Game, the Polemarch, Strategos, and Hegemon of Earth are all Jewish, and a popular military myth claims that Jewish commanders never lose wars (presumably they never heard of Simon bar Kokhba). It's noted, however, that the soldier who turned the tide of the war was in fact not Jewish.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_bd54ba07	comment	Blazing Saddles: The Indian Chief speaks Yiddish and has a Jewish spoonerism written in Hebrew letters on his headress.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_ca08598f	comment	David Simon, creator of The Wire, had to explain his intentions when he put a very Jewish man (Maurice Levy, played by the equally-Jewish Michael Kostroff) into the role of the "evil lawyer". He explained that every gangster in Baltimore is represented by one of three or four Jewish lawyers who specifically are hired by leading gangsters. To him, the role was about realism, not being politically incorrect. In contrast, the "good lawyer" of the show (Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman) is also Jewish, though it's much less noticeable (besides the character being non-observant, she is played by the non-Jewish Dierdre Lovejoy). (For the record, David Simon is himself Jewish).
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You Have to Have Jews / int_df49367d	comment	You (2018): Upon learning that "Will Bettelheim"'s real name is Joe Goldberg, wannabe director Forty asks if Joe is a "self-hating Jew" and comments that it sounds like a name for a Hollywood producer.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_dfbbbea3	comment	Black Christmas (2019): There has to be at least one Jew in this Christmas movie. Fran helpfully drops the fact that she's Jewish when wishing Riley a Merry Christmas. The sorority also has a Hanukah menora prominently placed in the main living room, which makes a comeback as an Improvised Weapon in the climax.
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You Have to Have Jews / int_f0c816fb	comment	Invoked and subverted in Breaking Bad by Amoral Attorney Saul Goodman. His real name is James "Jimmy" McGill and he's Irish-American, but as he tells Walt, he uses the name "Saul Goodman" professionally because people (or at least criminals) are more likely to hire a Jewish lawyer ("The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys, they all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.") Better Call Saul would later show that he also used the name in the past while pulling scams on people with his friend Marco for beer money, and then again when he started selling burner cell phones to criminals. Since his customer base already knew him as Saul Goodman, he saw it as only logical to continue operating under that name as a lawyer, since he'd most likely be getting the same people as clients.
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