Published: 30 October 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
He flaunts it wherever and whenever he can. That egotistical, malignantly narcissistic man clings to his Jewishness. In fact, it’s the only thing he’s preoccupied with that’s not related to his personal problems, his neuroses, his embarrassments, his conflicted soul and his unfulfilled desires.
In the nine seasons of the HBO series “Curb your Enthusiasm,” Larry David’s Jewishness is present in nearly every episode. He had a rabbi over for dinner; posed as an Orthodox Jew; and scored tickets for a synagogue sermon from a scalper. He insisted on placing a mezuzah at the entrance to his new home and proudly told the Palestinian woman owner of a chicken restaurant: “I am a Jew, a big Jew. Big.” Then they had sex.
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