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''You won't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any Jews."''|'''Sir Robin''', ''[[Spamalot]]''<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwxRhZiFWy4&feature=related Watch it here.]</ref>}}

 

* In Roddy Doyle's ''A Star Called Henry'' (set during the Irish Revolution just after [[World War I]]) has the hero have a rather [[Anvilicious]] friendship with a Latvian Jewish refugee. At the time there were about 3000 Jews in Dublin (0.8% of the population) so it comes across as a bit forced since the only real reason for them to be Jewish is so Doyle can make the IRA seem [[Author Tract|even more evil]] when they disapprove of his friendship.

* Lampshaded in the FAQ (Future Alien Questions) section of ''[[Earth (The Book)]]'' for religion.

'''Q''': No no no. In fact some of our favorite pages in the chapter were Jewish. }}

* In the later Frank Herbert-penned ''[[Dune]]'' books, a small group of Jews help some of the protagonists. The unlikleyhood of Jews existing as more-or-less the same culture thousands of years later after several major galactic cultural upheavals is [[Lampshaded]].