‘Jewface’: the only ‘erasure’ Hollywood doesn’t care about. Racial sensitivity is all the rage in film and TV casting – except when it comes to Gentiles playing Jews. Why? Silverman defines this as “when a non-Jew portrays a Jew with the Jewishness front and centre”.

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I think some of the people playing jews that aren't jews, are really jews. The article mentions Katherine Hahn playing a jewish woman. Look at her and tell me she isn't jewish. She or her family probably just started denying it years ago to hide from antisemitism. Probably changed her name from something jewish to Hahn. She married a jewish guy related to Adam Sandler.