In Praise Of 'Broad City's' Jewishness
, the 1993 sitcom starring Fran Drescher as a nasal, unabashedly Yiddishe fashion queen turned caregiver to a waspy Upper East Side family. Drescher’s character, Fran Fine, was a glamorously packaged bridge between the immigrant generation and the modern, assimilated New York Jew. And though, yes, Fran could border on the stereotypical , she was endearing and unapologetic.
Abbi and Ilana’s Jewishness, like Fran’s, has been front and center since Episode 1, when Ilana answers a classified ad placed for “two Jewesses” to clean a stranger’s apartment wearing lingerie. From there, that cultural — if not necessarily religious — identity has been a central current running through.
This season saw the show’s deepest exploration into the duo’s Jewish identities with the episode “Lost and Found.” Ilana takes a genetic test that reveals she is 100% Ashkenazi Jew . She also discovers that she has “the richest history a millennial Jew can have” — a 16th cousin named Saul who lives in Manhattan and is a Holocaust survivor. Ilana is titillated at the thought of grilling him about his experiences, and so she and Abbi visit Saul at his assisted living facility.
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