List of fictional Jews: Difference between revisions

| 1925 || Meyer Wolfshiem || '' [[The Great Gatsby]] '' || [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] || Novel || United States || Meyer Wolfshiem is portrayed as the friend and mentor of the titular character [[Jay Gatsby]]. He is described as a gambler responsible for fixing the [[World seriesSeries]]<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Bruccoli |editor-first=Matthew Joseph |editor1-link=Matthew J. Bruccoli |title=F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Literary Reference |year=2000 |publisher=Carroll & Graf Publishers |location=New York |isbn=0-7867-0996-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/fscottfitzgerald00matt }}</ref> who had made his money by [[Rum-running|bootlegging]] alcohol during [[Prohibition]].<ref name="McDonald2008"/> Wolfsheim, described with unflattering stereotypical physical characteristics as well, is portrayed as an "alien" couter-pole to Anglo Tom Buchanan in Fitzgerald's presentation of America.<ref name="McDonald2008">{{cite book|last=McDonald|first=Jarom|title=Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O32QAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT193|access-date=24 February 2014|date=2008-03-25|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135860738|pages=193–}}</ref><ref name="Gandal2010">{{cite book|last=Gandal|first=Keith|title=The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the Fiction of Mobilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFcVlY8TzlUC&pg=PA132|access-date=24 February 2014|date=2010-05-06|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=9780199744572|pages=132–}}</ref>

| 1969|| Alexander Portnoy<br /> Sophie Portnoy || ''[[Portnoy's Complaint]]'' || [[Philip Roth]]|| Novel || United States|| Roth's presentation of Portnoy as a Jew enthralled with sexual passions in opposition to images of moral and rational led to widespread discussions .<ref name="Koltun-Fromm2010">{{cite book|last=Koltun-Fromm|first=Ken|title=Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SVOHXazO5nsC&pg=PA225|access-date=15 February 2014|date=2010-04-21|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253004161|pages=225–}}</ref> Warren Rosenberg describes Portnoy as using his penis to break the barriers of being a "nice Jewish boy" and becoming an authentic "American male"<ref name="Rosenberg2009">{{cite book|last=Rosenberg|first=Warren|title=Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xARAU9dYcSAC&pg=PA189|access-date=16 February 2014|date=2009-06-01|publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press|isbn=9781558497900|pages=189–}}</ref> Portnoy's mother Sophie is presented as a smothering Jewish mother, which Portnoy has feared will make him gay.<ref name="Hoffman2009">{{cite book|last=Hoffman|first=Warren|title=The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iUkFUGl-6pgC&pg=PA118|access-date=15 February 2014|year=2009|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=9780815632023|pages=118–}}</ref>

|1969|| Harold Hooper (Mr. Hooper) || ''[[Sesame Street]]'' || [[Joan Ganz Cooney]] (series creator) <br /> [[Will Lee]] (actor) || TV series || United States || The show occasionally alluded to Mr. Hooper being Jewish. One of the most specific occurrences is in the special [[Christmas Eve on Sesame Street]] when Bob wishes him a happy Hanukkah.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071015031202/http://www.juf.org/tweens/celebrity.aspx?id=10964 Jewish United Fund] (accessed October 14, 2008). The Christmas special can be seen on [[YouTube]], and in Part 4, Bob wishes Mr. Hooper a Happy Hanukkah.</ref> His performer Will Lee was also Jewish.

|1986 (novel)<br /> 1990 (miniseries)<br /> 2017 (film)|| Stanley Uris || ''[[It (novel)]]'' || [[Stephen King]] || Novel || United States || 12-year-old Stanley "Stan" Uris was a highly skeptical Jewish boy. His parents were also Jewish but they didn't follow the practice very strictly, resulting in Stan not knowing what it meant to be kosher. Anti-semite bully Henry Bowers and his gang repeatedly persecuted Stan, once by white-washing his face in snow until it bled. At age 39, Stan's skepticism ultimately led to him committing suicide in a bathtub by slitting his wrists to get out of fighting the ancient evil clown, It, (whom he was the most afraid of out of his friends as a child), once again.

is titular character [[Kim Possible (character)|Kim Possible's]]<nowiki/> sidekick and best friend. He has a naked mole-rat named [[Rufus (Kim Possible)|Rufus]].

| 2003 ||Mordechai Jefferson Carver ||''[[The Hebrew Hammer (film)|The Hebrew Hammer]]''|| [[Jonathan Kesselman]] || Film || United States || In this Jewish take on [[Blaxploitation]] films, [[Adam Goldberg]] plays the Jewish Mordechai Jefferson Carver, also known as ''The Hebrew Hammer'', who protects the Jewish community from the evil son of Santa Claus who wants to destroy [[Hanukkah]] so that everyone will celebrate Christmas. The film "derives its humor from the awkward juxtaposition of Jewish and African American stereotypes."<ref name="Gillota2013">{{cite book|last=Gillota|first=David|title=Ethnic Humor in Multiethnic America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbgKAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|access-date=21 March 2014|date=2013-07-01|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813561509|pages=49–}}</ref>

|Felicity Smoak is half-Jewish from her mother (of which she took the surname). Felicity says she is Jewish for the first time, in [[Arrow (season 1)#ep9|episode nine]] of season 1.

|''[[Caroline Dries]]''

|''[[Spirit Untamed]]''

|''[[The Ghost and Molly McGee]]''