page_title: Stereotypes of Jews
section_title: Belle juive
hierarchical_section_title: Stereotypes of Jews / Stereotype types / Stereotypical characters / Belle juive
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Juive de Tanger. Huile sur toile.
context_page_description: Stereotypes of Jews are generalized representations of Jews, often caricatured and of a prejudiced and antisemitic nature. The Jewish diaspora has been stereotyped for over 2,000 years as the scapegoat for a multitude of societal problems such as: Jews always acting with unforgiving hostility towards Christians, Jews' religious rituals which are thought to have specifically undermined the Christian Church and state, and Jews' habitual assassinations of Christians as their most extreme deeds.
  Common objects, phrases and traditions which are used to emphasize or ridicule Jewishness include bagels, playing violin, klezmer, undergoing circumcision, kvetching, haggling and uttering various Yiddish phrases like mazel tov, shalom, and oy vey. Other Jewish stereotypes are the rabbi, the complaining and guilt-inflicting Jewish mother, often along with a meek and nerdy nice Jewish boy, and the spoiled and materialistic Jewish-American princess.
context_section_description: La belle juive (the beautiful Jewess) was a 19th-century literary stereotype. A figure that is often associated with having and causing sexual lust, temptation and sin. Her personality traits could be portrayed either positively or negatively. The typical appearance of the belle juive included long, thick, dark hair, large dark eyes, an olive skin tone, and a languid expression. An example of this stereotype is Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Another example is Miriam in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance The Marble Faun.
caption: The Jewess of Tangier (before 1808) by Charles Landelle, showing a stereotypical belle juive.
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