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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Very much lacking most anime and manga, except when part of the plot (as seen in ''[[Adolf]]'' and a small mention the [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] movie), probably due to the fact that Japan has virtually no Jewish community. The Kabbala and Hebrew characters are featured as religious symbolism (see [[Xenosaga]] and [[Evangelion]]), but it's mostly a case of [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]], [[Jesus Taboo]], and/or [[Rule of Cool]].

* [[Black Lagoon]] features Benny.

 

 

== [[Literature]] ==

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* 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]].

* "Davids" (Chasidim) are one of the three recognizable modern-day faiths that are confirmed to [[After the End|still exist]] in Sterling Lanier's ''Hiero Desteen'' books.

 

* Jon Stewart (né Leibowitz) is fond of exercising [[N-Word Privileges]] with this trope, as when he jokes on ''[[The Daily Show]]'' about the "Jew-run media". Once while accepting an Emmy award, Jon claimed the secret to the show's success was "diversity;" he then indicated the dozen or so white men making up the writing staff and pointed out one who "used to have a beard" and another who "isn't Jewish".

* Rick Sanchez blamed this trope for his dissatisfaction over his career trajectory as a TV journalist. In an [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/oct/01/rick-sanchez-cnn-jon-stewart-jews-television-bigot interview that quickly went viral], Sanchez blamed the abundance of Jews in the media, and specifically Jon Stewart, for his failure to become a leading name at CNN. Apparently he [[Captain Oblivious|couldn't think of a single reason]] other than his [[Everything Is Racist|Cuban heritage]] for why he wasn't the most respected journalist at CNN.

* In his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVM_cij9eY Hanukkah Song], [[Adam Sandler]] lists a whole boatload of famous Jewish folks.

 

* Strongly averted, with Jews being perhaps the ''only'' major ethnic group not prominently featured in American pro wrestling over the past century. This could simply be due to the fact that Jews usually don't aspire to professional sports in general, but some small-time Jewish wrestlers (Scotty Goldman, a.k.a. Colt Cabana, for instance) have claimed to have been subjected to anti-Semitic taunts from non-Jews from the highest echelons of [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] and other promotions as they have tried to work their way up through the territories. Perhaps the most famous exception is Bill Goldberg, World Heavyweight Champion in both WWE and [[WCW]] and of Romanian Jewish ancestry.

 

* Lampshaded hilariously in the [[Monty Python]] musical ''[[Spamalot]]'', in the number "You Won't Succeed On Broadway (If You Don't Have Any Jews)". They succeed after all because {{spoiler|Patsy}} turns out to be Jewish, though he's reluctant to reveal it to heavily armed Christians. The joke was changed to "stars" in Glasgow out of fears that Scots just wouldn't get it.

 

* Not explicitly invoked, but [[Last Res0rt]] has shades of this—three of the sixteen players on the show are implied to be Jewish (being from [[Space Jews|planet Arael]] and all). The three in question—Jigsaw, Daisy, and Slick—are also the show's biggest characters.

 

* In his book ''Outliers'', Malcolm Gladwell claims the predominance of Jewish lawyers in New York City was due to a shift in business culture. For decades the Ivy League WASP-dominated law firms wouldn't sully their hands with the "dirty tricks" parts of business law (e.g., hostile takeovers), leaving those cases to the rising Jewish law firms. Around the late 1970s, "dirty tricks" became the established culture of big business, and the Jewish firms were poised to take advantage of it while the WASP firms struggled to adapt to the new paradigm.

* For many centuries, Jews were prohibited from owning land and otherwise discriminated against. As a result, they wound up being merchants, moneylenders, and members of the new middle class. In addition to merchants, another profession that didn't require owning land or being a member of the upper classes was as an entertainer. In addition, being an "outsider" helps you to understand the majority culture in ways that help you be a better entertainer. It is for similar reasons that Blacks in the United States were able to become so prominent as tap dancers and musicians.

 

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