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Betty Boop Is A Jew?


Betty Boop headlined in the Talkartoon series that leave little doubt as her Jewishness. Bimbo serenades her as she hangs out of her lower east side tenement window in Any Rags, Betty's native relatives in Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle greet Bimbo with a hearty "Shalom Aleichem!" before he carts her back to New York where she belongs. The Hebrew letters "kosher" pop up as a visual joke on a ham served to a patron sporting rabbinic features in Dizzy Dishes, on a paddy wagon in Big Boss and on a thermometer popping out of Koko's peplum in I Know What You Did, You Rascal, You. In Stopping the Show, Betty imitates Fanny Brice performing as a Yiddish-accented Indian. Betty also encounters Yiddish-speaking characters including a fish in S.O.S, and a kvelling worm in The Bum Bandit, Finally Betty's Jewish parents are introduced in 1931's Minnie the Moocher. The zaftig elder Boops exhort their skinny daughter to eat, but Betty runs away, stuck between the expectations of the old world and the new.

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