Jews Don’t Count: A Times Book of the Year 2021

* Comedy nerds may interject: George is Italian. Yes, but in name only. He is the character in Seinfeld most based on the very Jewish creator of Seinfeld, Larry David. But when the sitcom was first developed, NBC – antisemitically – felt that Seinfeld was Jewish enough having Jerry Seinfeld at the centre of it. So David and Seinfeld dealt with this restriction by making George Italian, and Elaine a WASP, and just carried on writing them Jewish.