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A major finding from the study revealed that there was a lack of diversity when it came to Jewish characters on screen

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Rising antisemitism in the United States has spurred a deep-dive into the portrayal of Jews on television through a study, which warns against using tropes associating Jews with money and power, among its six recommendations.

The study observed how Jewish characters were portrayed in series such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, And Just Like That…, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Another part of the study focused on the representation of Orthodox Judaism.

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The study, Jews on Screen: The Visibility and Representation of Jewish Identity in Contemporary Scripted TV, was conducted by Media Impact Project with funding from the Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema (JITC) Hollywood Bureau. It was published last month.

Actress Rachel Brosnahan plays the lead in TV series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, about the struggles of a Jewish woman and mother who aspires to be a comedian in the 1950s. Photo by Nicole Rivelli /Amazon Studios

“The rising tide of antisemitism underscores the importance of nuanced and humanizing portrayals of Jewish Americans in entertainment,” wrote the study’s authors. “Previous research has noted a lack of visible signifiers of Jewish religion or culture, alongside centuries-old tropes like the ‘Greedy Shylock’ and control over powerful institutions in government, finance, and media.”

A major finding from the study revealed that there was a lack of diversity when it came to Jewish characters on screen.

Researchers watched 49 episodes of television and observed 108 Jewish characters from 15 different shows that aired between 2021 and 2022. The shows were chosen because they had the most mentions of 30 keywords chosen by researchers that related to Judaism.

The vast majority (95 per cent) of the Jewish characters were white, while three were Black, one was Asian and one was Middle Eastern. Jews with any other intersecting identity, like Jews from the LGBTQ+ community or Jews who were plus-size, were “largely absent.”

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Meanwhile, 30 per cent of Jews on screen were shown to be wealthy. Half of those characters held “elite or powerful jobs, including jobs in media or entertainment.”

“There are centuries-old tropes portraying Jews as powerful, cunning, or greedy, which trace their origins back to before Shakespeare,” per the study.

Actress Kristin Davis plays Charlotte York in Sex and the City and its sequel And Just Like That… York converted to Judaism during the first TV series after meeting her husband. Photo by Craig Blankenhorn

Despite a character’s Jewish identity, less than one in five referenced Judaism in dialogue.

The study also noted that portrayals of Orthodox Jews in television were limited and often showed the Orthodox community as “isolated, criminal, or patriarchal.”

For this part of the study, researchers observed 30 episodes of scripted television. One third of the episodes had no current or formerly Orthodox characters but used “passing linguistic references, indicating that the Orthodox community is spoken about rather than spoken with.”

Half of the episodes “had characters expressing negative judgments of Orthodox Judaism or positioned Orthodox culture as othered,” the study said.

The study shed light on stereotypes and tropes that “emboldened antisemitism” and called for more nuanced representation.

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Its recommendations included elevating Jewish characters whose stories remain untold, giving voice to Jewish pride and joy, leaning into diversity, allowing Orthodox characters to speak for themselves, and depicting Orthodox Jews as “people next door.”

The study said the events of Oct. 7, 2023 — when Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli citizens, killing 1,200 people and triggering a war in Gaza — sparked the rise of antisemitism in the United States. The study’s authors endeavoured to uncover how Jews in television were portrayed because such characters impact popular culture and opinions, including attitudes toward Judaism.

There are roughly 5.8 million Jewish adults and 1.8 million Jewish children living in the United States, per a 2021 report from the Pew Research Center. Despite the Jewish population making up 2.4 per cent of the American adult population, there were 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. from October 2023 to September 2024, according to preliminary data from the Anti-Defamation League. That was an increase from the previous year, with 3,325 incidents.

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Similarly, in Canada, the Jewish population is around 335,295 people, according to a 2021 population census, making up less than 1 per cent of the population.

On Dec. 20, 2024, the Canadian federal government announced there would be a forum in February 2025 to address the “urgent need for national leadership to ensure Jewish Canadians feel safe in their synagogues, schools, and communities” after a “a troubling rise in antisemitic incidents.”

In 2023, there were 5,791 such incidents across the country, according to B’nai Brith Canada. It was an increase from the previous year, which saw 2,769 incidents.

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