List of fictional Jews

This list comprises fictitious characters who are Jewish.

Contents

TV, film and literary characters

A-D

E-K

L-R

S-Z

Animated TV, cartoon and game characters

Comic books and heroes

Jewish superheroes and villains

Other comic characters who are not superheroes

Not primarily associated with comic books

References

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  2. ^ Table of Contents - Alroy - Disraeli - Electronic Editions - Romantic Circles
  3. ^ The Believer
  4. ^ The Jew of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe
  5. ^ The Jewish Secrets of Lemony Snicket
  6. ^ Gangsters and pranksters
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  39. ^ a b Biloxi Blues
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  48. ^ a b Review: Hello Goodbye
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  54. ^ Entourage: The Bat Mitzvah - TV.com
  55. ^ "The War at Home" 13 Going on $30,000 (2006)
  56. ^ Cumming to the Cabaret...
  57. ^ Me as Jewish man in suit, and blast from the past!
  58. ^ a b c Holy Rollers official website
  59. ^ In episode "Double Jeopardy", Det. Lt. Alf Chesley mentions that he has never been to a Jewish funeral, and would not like to start with Goldblume's.
  60. ^ :: ‘Sex and City’ player amuses Emanu-El with discourse on Judaism, body hair
  61. ^ dvdfuture.com :: Review - Gentlemen's Agreement
  62. ^ a b The Birdcage (1996) - IMDb user comments
  63. ^ a b c :: The 100 Greatest Jewish Movie Moments, #29 – 20
  64. ^ Summer, Diana. "Secrets of the Classlist." The Harry Potter Lexicon. 2006. Accessed on May 25, 2008.
  65. ^ Goldstein
  66. ^ Oz: God's Chillin' - TV.com
  67. ^ "Sports Night" Draft Day: Part 2 - The Fall of Ryan O'Brian (2000) - Memorable quotes
  68. ^ The 100 Greatest Jewish Movie Moments, #59 – 50
  69. ^ More in ‘Larry Gopnik’
  70. ^ TV ACRES: Ethnic Groups > Jewish - "F-L"
  71. ^ Ben Stiller’s Greenberg
  72. ^ "Hanukkah Harry". Saturday Night Live. NBC. http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/hanukkah-harry/2462. Retrieved 2011-02-01. 
  73. ^ John Smythe: theatre reviews: THE BOYS IN THE BAND: Compelling revival
  74. ^ Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
  75. ^ Greenberg. "The 100 Greatest Jewish Movie Moments". Heeb. http://www.heebmagazine.com/the-100-greatest-jewish-movie-moments/. Retrieved 29 January 2011. 
  76. ^ Greenberg, David. "Christmas for Jews". Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/10802. Retrieved 31 October 2010. 
  77. ^ Scott, A. O. (7 February 2005). "We're Sorry". The New York Times. http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=299769. Retrieved 2010-05-08. 
  78. ^ a b c TV ACRES: Ethnic Groups > Jewish - "A-E"
  79. ^ ivanhoe
  80. ^ Amazon.com: Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection: Movies & TV: Ingmar Bergman
  81. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954541/
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  83. ^ a b Stolen Summer
  84. ^ On streets of Shoah nations
  85. ^ a b The Merchant of Venice (2004)
  86. ^ Sorrel Kerbel, Muriel Emanuel, Laura Phillips, Jewish writers of the twentieth century, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=apprbj4EA0gC&pg=PA876 
  87. ^ a b 100 Greatest Jewish Moments in the Movies (79-60)
  88. ^ Goodfellas (1990) - Plot keywords
  89. ^ My Name is Asher Kingsley
  90. ^ a b c d e - The 100 Greatest Jewish Movie Moments, #99 – 90
  91. ^ Amazon.com: Carlito's Way - Ultimate Edition: Movies & TV: Al Pacino,Sean Penn,Penelope Ann Miller,John Leguizamo,Ingrid Rogers,Luis Guzmán,James Rebhorn,Joseph Siravo,Viggo Mortensen,Richard Foronjy,Jorge Porcel,Frank Minucci,Adrian Pasdar,John Ortiz,Ángel Salazar,Al Israel,Rick Aviles,Jaime Sánchez,Edmonte Salvato,Paul Mazursky,Brian De Palma
  92. ^ Clockers (1995) - Memorable quotes
  93. ^ Double Life
  94. ^ Isaac Babel: Edited by Avraham Yarmolinsky
  95. ^ a b - Suburban Picaresque
  96. ^ Amazon.com: Sanctuary (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels): Books: Faye Kellerman
  97. ^ Amazon.co.uk: A Canticle for Leibowitz: Books: Walter M. Miller
  98. ^ - Trying the 'Traitor'
  99. ^ Bookreporter.com - MY NAME IS ASHER LEV by Chaim Potok
  100. ^ a b His Life As a Dog
  101. ^ a b "The Latest News". The Jewish Week. http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=12950. Retrieved 2010-08-01. 
  102. ^ Boston Public: Chapter Sixty-Eight - TV.com
  103. ^ a b Amazon.com: Acts of Faith: Books: Erich Segal
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  105. ^ PlanetOut Entertainment
  106. ^ a b TV ACRES: Ethnic Groups > Jewish - "S-Z"
  107. ^ Theater | Sexual politics
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  109. ^ Adam Goldberg is reaping the benefits of "Saving Private Ryan."
  110. ^ Meryl Streep is one tough Jewish mother in ‘Prime’
  111. ^ Pi (1998) - Plot summary
  112. ^ <head>Police Procedurals</head>
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  115. ^ GradeSaver: A Confederacy of Dunces - Study Guide - Character List
  116. ^ BBC - Comedy - Shows A-Z Index
  117. ^ a b c To be or not to be ... Jewish
  118. ^ a b c d Spelling Errors
  119. ^ Bee Season
  120. ^ a b The 100 Greatest Jewish Movie Moments, #19 -11
  121. ^ Duga mracna noć
  122. ^ CHUD.com - A film site for the brilliant
  123. ^ a b c - 'Barney's Version' Showcases Giamatti, Pike
  124. ^ - The Greatest Jewish Character in TV History: An Open Letter to Josh Schwartz
  125. ^ JewishJournal.com
  126. ^ Amazon.com: Portnoy's Complaint: Books: Philip Roth
  127. ^ Orlando Sentinel - Finally, 'The History Boys' - by Elizabeth Maupin
  128. ^ "Noah Puckerman - Glee". glee wiki. 23 September 2009. http://glee.wikia.com/wiki/Noah_Puckerman. Retrieved 31 January 2011. 
  129. ^ - Character Bio
  130. ^ - Hollywood veteran keeping busy as Jewish ‘Sopranos’ mobster
  131. ^ Charles Dickens Page "An old Jewish man". Retrieved 7 November 2006.
  132. ^ poseidon adventure - movie and tv vault reviews at videovista.net
  133. ^ Willow / Alyson Hannigan - BuffyGuide.com
  134. ^ NYPL, David B. Feinberg Papers, 1976-1994
  135. ^ The Godfather, Part II (1974)
  136. ^ My Dinner With Adolf
  137. ^ Casino DVD
  138. ^ Casino
  139. ^ Sports Night - The Reunion - Yahoo! TV
  140. ^ "Richard Brooks's original novel made the victim a homosexual, but in the film he's a Jew", Radio Times Guide to Films, 2004 ed.
  141. ^ "Y'all Killed Him, We Didn't"
  142. ^ (1.6) Night Train
  143. ^ The 100 Greatest Jewish Movie Moments, #89 – 80
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  146. ^ Law and Order FAQ
  147. ^ Keeping The Faith
  148. ^ a b c The Big Hit
  149. ^ a b c Watch The Big Hit Online
  150. ^ Porky's (1982) - Memorable quotes
  151. ^ Dance of the Vampires (1967) - Memorable quotes
  152. ^ The contemporary American crime ... - Google Books. Books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=ABz53OEch08C&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=isaac+sidel+jewish&source=web&ots=unQqIWpQVe&sig=2nmEqgHzIMBLNqXytDXPJ2HYr_E. Retrieved 2010-08-01. 
  153. ^ Nextbook: School Ties
  154. ^ Stoned
  155. ^ j. - Celebrity Jews
  156. ^ Doonesbury@Slate - The FAQ
  157. ^ Rabbi Small (Harry Kemelman)
  158. ^ Movie Spoiler for the film - MR & MRS SMITH
  159. ^ j. - Persnickety views
  160. ^ The Big Lebowski (1998) - Memorable quotes
  161. ^ Analyze This
  162. ^ Doing Jewish In Toronto
  163. ^ Out o' Time (Oz)
  164. ^ Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) - Plot summary
  165. ^ GNS Character Profiles - Dr Lilith Sternin
  166. ^ http://www.boston-legal.org/script/TP08x06.pdf
  167. ^ In Search of Lost Time, ISBN 0-679-60028-0
  168. ^ Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Plot summary
  169. ^ HBO: Rome: Episode Guide: Summary: Season 2: Episode 16
  170. ^ J's Pages +++ Book List: April-October 2000
  171. ^ Oz (an Episode Guide)
  172. ^ House: Damned If You Do - TV.com
  173. ^ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Summary Chp. 4
  174. ^ [Constantly remarked on the show]
  175. ^ Happy Rosh Hashanah, Cristina! at We’ve moved to www.racialicious.com - update your bookmarks!
  176. ^ 'Sex and the City' Celebrates Judaism by Samuel G. Freedman
  177. ^ Peter Jacobson (I)
  178. ^ A Yid in Dixieland
  179. ^ The West Wing: Toby Ziegler
  180. ^ Contemporary Jewish Museum - San Francisco California
  181. ^ Article at the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
  182. ^ SOUTH PARK Kyle Broflovski
  183. ^ Ike Broflovski (Character)
  184. ^ a b The Homer Calendar
  185. ^ Queer Duck: The Movie coming out of the closet on DVD in July - DVD
  186. ^ SJ Super 7 www.somethingjewish.co.uk]
  187. ^ "King of the Hill" The Unbearable Blindness of Laying (1997)
  188. ^ Doonesbury@Slate - Cast Bios
  189. ^ a b MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Torah from Simpsons
  190. ^ List of characters on 6teen
  191. ^ In the episode "The Fright Before Christmas", after the Ghost Writer takes all the gifts from the houses on the street, Danny says, "Wait, my problem is clear. This poem's about Christmas, which is here, here, and here. This curse will stay on me from my town to Rome, but he can’t Christmas me in a non-Christmas home!". He then flies down in front of Sam Manson's house, which has a big Menorah in the window.
  192. ^ The Simpsons: Moe 'N' a Lisa Recap - TV.com
  193. ^ a b c Classic TV & Movie Hits - Rugrats
  194. ^ a b Religion of Comic Book Characters (esp. Super-Heroes)
  195. ^ In the episode "The Ziff Who Came To Dinner", Marge asks Ziff if he knows why no one like him. Ziff replies, "Antisemitism?"
  196. ^ [3]
  197. ^ The religion of Iceman (Bobby Drake) of the X-Men
  198. ^ [4] "Justice is a member of the new Warriors who, like Sabra, is Jewish. Justice snaps Sabra back to reality by getting her to think of her dead son, who Justice resembles. He does this by reciting the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead." Accessed 17 Dec 2006
  199. ^ "Legion". Marveldirectory.com. http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/l/legion.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-01. 
  200. ^ X-Men: Magneto Testament #1
  201. ^ Quesada, Joe. "New Joe Fridays Week 28" URL last checked 2007-01-14.
  202. ^ Meth, Clifford. Protocols of the Elders of Marvel. URL last checked 2007-01-14.
  203. ^ The religion of Masada (Deborah Konigsberg)
  204. ^ The religion of Moon Knight (Marc Spector)
  205. ^ The religion of Prime (Kevin Green), Jewish superhero
  206. ^ [5] "Justice is a member of the new Warriors who, like Sabra, is Jewish." Accessed 17 Dec 2006
  207. ^ The religion of Doc Samson (Dr. Leonard Samson) Hulk's friend
  208. ^ The religion of Sandman (Wesley Dodds)
  209. ^ "The religion of Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)"
  210. ^ The religion of Kitty Pryde, Shadowcat of the X-Men
  211. ^ Shaloman
  212. ^ WFMU - Shaloman
  213. ^ The religion of Shaloman (Israeli super-hero)
  214. ^ The religion of The Thing (Ben Grimm) of the Fantastic Four
  215. ^ Blog@Newsarama » This Monster, This Man
  216. ^ In "Thing II#8", he celebrated his bar mitzvah after a rabbi informed him of a technicality; that the 13th anniversary of the event which transformed him into The Thing was near, which was the 13th year of his new life, and he could celebrate his Bar Mitzvah then. Ordinarily, he would only have been able to celebrate it at 13 or at 83, 13 years after his 70th birthday.
  217. ^ The religion of Volcana (Marsha Rosenberg)
  218. ^ The religion of Gertrude Yorkes ("Arsenic" of the Runaways)
  219. ^ http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Rory_Regan_New_Earth
  220. ^ [6]
  221. ^ Tick vs. Dot and Neil's Wedding
  222. ^ diesel sweeties: pixelated robot romance web comic
  223. ^ The Continuity Pages: Howard Chaykin
  224. ^ The religion of Bernie Rosenthal: Captain America's girlfriend
  225. ^ The religion of The Two-Gun Kid (Matthew Liebowicz)
  226. ^ Sluggy Freelance
  227. ^ The Hebrew Hammer