Being a Jewish woman comes with baggage. What you see on TV just scratches the surface
“For probably good reasons, there’s a stereotype of Jewish women being more verbal, more opinionated, and less deferential than, say, the WASPy stereotype,” says Henry Bial, a professor studying performance and Jewish popular culture at the University of Kansas and the author of “Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen.”
For its part, “Maisel” never lets you forget for a second that it’s a Jewish show about Jewish characters. A chunk of the third season, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 6, revolves around Midge’s parents’ confusion over why she’d break off an engagement to focus on her emerging comedy career.
Actress Rachel Bloom, left, and showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna of the CW series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” in 2018. But, she says, “being a Jewish woman in America has kind of a specific baggage” when it comes to stereotypes and parental expectations.
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