- published: 13 Jan 2012
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The Jewish mother or Jewish wife stereotype is a common stereotype and stock character used by Jewish comedians and authors whenever they discuss actual or fictional situations involving their mothers or other females in their lives who possess mother-like qualities. The stereotype generally involves a nagging, overprotective, manipulative, controlling, smothering, and overbearing mother or wife, one who persists in interfering in her children's lives long after they have become adults. Lisa Aronson Fontes describes the stereotype as one of "endless caretaking and boundless self-sacrifice" by a mother who demonstrates her love by "constant overfeeding and unremitting solicitude about every aspect of her children's and husband's welfare[s]".
A possible origin of this stereotype is anthropologist Margaret Mead's research into the European shtetl, financed by the American Jewish Committee. Although her interviews at Columbia University, with 128 European-born Jews, disclosed a wide variety of family structures and experiences, the publications resulting from this study and the many citations in the popular media resulted in the Jewish mother stereotype: a woman intensely loving but controlling to the point of smothering and attempting to engender enormous guilt in her children via the endless suffering she professes to have experienced on their behalf. The Jewish mother stereotype, then, has origins in the American Jewish community, with predecessors coming from Eastern Europe. In Israel, where the geographical background of Jews is more diverse,[citation needed] the same stereotypical mother is known as the Polish mother.
Actors: Eric Loubert (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan D'Ambrosio (producer), Jonathan D'Ambrosio (editor), Jonathan D'Ambrosio (director), Jonathan D'Ambrosio (composer), Jonathan D'Ambrosio (writer), Colton Hayward (miscellaneous crew), Evan Lindman (actor), Julie Kline (writer), Julie Kline (actress), Gregory Olsen (actor), Maria D'Ambrosio (actress), Jacqueline Colvett (actress), Betty D'Ambrosio (actress), Andy Bisaha (actor),
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Keywords: based-on-playActors: Rade Radovic (actor), Rade Radovic (editor), Rade Radovic (director), Rade Radovic (producer), Martin Rother (actor), Nerman Mahmutovic (actor), Emir Fejzic (actor), Patric Gehrig (actor), Marija Omaljev (actress), Danijela Stanic (actress), Nevena Rosuljas (actress), Mirza Musija (actor), Nevzat Kaya (director), Nevzat Kaya (writer), Jasmin Osmanagic (composer),
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Plot: Seven students inherit the instrument-building workshop of their enigmatic mentor and must undergo a collective rite of passage based on the spiritual components of music. In order to fully claim their inheritance, the students must live together for one month, and learn to participate in these seven diverse musical rituals. Throughout their journey, the students rely on the meditative practices taught by their mentor -- namely, the power of Silence -- and they use this spiritual practice to guide them through the collective rite of passage. But when the rituals take a dark turn, the workshop becomes a magnifying glass for the fantasies and anxieties hidden in the human mind.
Keywords: instrument, religion, ritual, spiritualityActors: Scott Trimble (miscellaneous crew), Scott Trimble (producer), Scott Trimble (miscellaneous crew), Eric Timothy Yang (miscellaneous crew), Yoav Potash (writer), Yoav Potash (editor), Yoav Potash (director), Yoav Potash (actor), Yoav Potash (producer), Yoav Potash (actor), Rob Poswall (miscellaneous crew), Bridget Allen (producer), Sherrie La'Marr Wheeler (actress), Harry Stein (miscellaneous crew), Martha Hines (costume designer),
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Keywords: cult-film, dancing, high-school, italian, one-word-title, school-play, street-lifeActors: Mack Sennett (actor), Bud Ross (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Andy Clyde (actor), Andy Clyde (actor), Charles Murray (actor), Teddy the Dog (actor), Andy Clyde (actor), Barney Hellum (actor), Gordon Lewis (actor), Jack Cooper (actor), Marvin Loback (actor), Vernon Dent (actor), Roger Moore (actor), Ben Turpin (actor),
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