Stereotypes: Hollywood And Vile; Why the Sudden Increase in Negative Jewish Characters?

The Washington Post | September 1, 1991| | Copyright

IT'S BEEN a little more than a year since Moe and Josh Flatbush, the greedy Jewish nightclub owners in Spike Lee's "Mo' Better Blues," were attacked by movie critics and Jewish groups as perpetuating classic Jewish stereotypes. But the Flatbushes, it turns out, were not an aberration: Moe and Josh have had an awful lot of stereotypical company in recent Hollywood movies.

In the past year Ruthless, Power-Hungry Jews like Abraham Weiss have tried to scheme their way to the top in "Bonfire of the Vanities"; jewelry-laden Jewish-American Princesses have looked down their noses at Susan ...

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