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Sometimes an Italian or Italian-American will be thrown into the mix, possibly because, other than Irish and Jews, the Italians were the most visible immigrant group in America between about 1870 and 1920. When this happens, the Italian will often be a kind of double agent: siding with the Irishman on matters of personal morality and community life, and with the Jew when it comes to issues regarding the wider world, especially politics. The Italian might even be mistaken for a Jew due to similar coloring and facial features, although he (or she) will be more likely to intermarry with the Irish because of religious compatibility.
This trope was fairly common in the golden age of Vaudeville and still [https://web.archive.org/web/20100504095934/http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=2601 persists in the theater today]; nonetheless, it has become much less prominent in recent years, as younger generations of each ethnic group assimilate to local norms and lose their distinctiveness. (This is particularly true of Jews, who mix with other ethnic groups through marriage more than any other American group, although paradoxically U.S. Jewish identity politics have grown stronger in the past decade.
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== Film ==
* The great [[James Cagney]] [
* ''[[Take Me Out To The Ball Game]]'', starring [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Gene Kelly]], features a musical number entitled "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg" on the subject of a double play; snippets of vaguely "ethnic" music are included.
* Jim and Michelle in the ''[[American Pie]]'' movies. (Jim is a nerdy, repressed Jew, while the stereotypically red-haired Michelle is equally nerdy but outspoken and bawdy.)
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* Even though he doesn't always play Jewish characters in his movies (and certainly isn't in this one), [[Adam Sandler]] as the title character in ''[[Billy Madison]]'' is tormented by a family of Irish-American bullies (and by Irish-American we mean ''very'' Irish-American: red hair, freckles, boorish and obnoxious, etc.) named O'Doyle. This eventually resulted in a [[Mythology Gag]] in another Sandler film, ''[[Click]]''.
* Similarly, ''[[Max Keeble's Big Move]]'' has the titular Max, who is [[Ambiguously Jewish]] and even has a (somewhat) stereotypical [[Jewish Mother]], get picked on by red-haired, freckled tough guy Troy McGinty.
* There may be some [[Subtext]] along these lines in ''[[Weekend at
== Literature ==
* [[Kinky Friedman]] and his pal McGovern.
* In J. D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey" the characters' parents were once vaudeville performers. Their mother is Irish and their father is Jewish, the same as Salinger's own parents.
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{{quote|'''[[Adam Sandler]]:''' "He's a quarter Jewish -- not too shabby!"}}
* [[Alyson Hannigan]]'s parents. Whoever they are.
* Jeff Nimoy (yes, ''[[Leonard Nimoy|that]]'' Nimoy—he's a second cousin once removed) and [[Quinton Flynn]].
* Israel’s former president, Haim Herzog, was an Irish Jew, and even spoke Gaelic.
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** But then, which country hasn't? Even Vatican City has had its share of Jewish popes and cardinals—besides the obvious Peter, many sources recall the scholar-Pope Sylvester II/Gerbert d'Aurillac as being of Jewish descent.
** That was more than likely used as an insult, as the prevailing attitude of the time was that Jews were 'Christ killers' and thus [[Exclusively Evil]], and he was regularly demonized as a sorcerer after his death because of his impressive achievements, magic being another inaccurate trait prescribed to Jews by the superstitious, the uneducated and the stupid (most of Mediaeval society was at least two of these).
* Colin Quinn has recently{{when}} done a one man show on Broadway, directed by Jerry Seinfeld.
* [[Averted Trope|Contrary to popular belief]], Prohibition-era gangsters Dion O'Banion and Earl "Hymie" Weiss were not this trope. Weiss was actually a Catholic.
* Don Adams, star of ''[[Get Smart]]'', was the son of a Hungarian Jewish father and Irish Catholic mother, both of whom were effectively disowned by their families over the marriage. He was raised Catholic.
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