A noted Jewish-British cinematic historian has claimed that the world’s most famous rabbit displays prominent Jewish characteristics. According to film scholar David Yehuda Stern, Bugs Bunny was created by a Jewish producer, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, has a distinctly New York/Jewish accent and uses his wit and sense of humor to avoid all attempts to eliminate him.
Stern revealed his findings at a lecture held recently at Britain’s University of Warwick, Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported. Stern, who watched thousands of animated shorts that feature Bugs Bunny, noted in his presentation that there are Jewish fingerprints all over the smart aleck cartoon character, including the very voice of Bugs Bunny – Jewish actor Mel Blanc.
Stern’s exhaustive study even included the findings of one specific cartoon episode in which Bugs Bunny flashes back to his childhood. The New York neighborhood Bugs grew up in is teeming with obviously Jewish characters, such as ultra-Orthodox Jews and other stereotypically Eastern European figures from the turn of the 20th century.
Stern closed his case for Bugs Bunny being Jewish by reminding his audience that the legendary rabbit’s arch nemesis is…Porky Pig. The pig, of course, is Judaism’s quintessentially unclean animal.
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good thing that you post essential news items like this
Thank you
Dffy Duck
Yay.
Does Bugs Bunny daven 3 times a day?
No wonder I like Bugs Bunny so much.
Mel Blanc, his creator, was indeed a Jew. He also did Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam. Quite a shul-ful of characters?
1) his arch enemies are Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam not porky pig.
2) the unclean pig was also the voice of the Jewish voice master Mel Blanc (no different than the treif rabbit).
a little humor is good – but if this it what a noted cinematic historian (Jewish or otherwise) spends his time on it calls into question the scholarship of this “historian”
Th-th-th-that’s all folks!
Actually, his arch nemesis is Elmer Fudd, the hapless old hunter with the famous line “Shhh, I’m hunting for wabbit”.
I feel very choshuv.
Porky Pig is his friend, not his nemesis – on Tiny Toons Adventures, a Steven Spielberg spin-off of the WB franchise, Hamton Pig, a protege of Porky, is portrayed as Jewish, displaying a menorah in his window at the December holiday season in the 1990’s – so it is possible that Porky was also Jewish – there were old Daffy Duck cartoons in the 1940’s one where Daffy speaks Yiddish and holds up a sign in Yiddish and another where Hitler yimach shmo calls Daffy a non-aryan duck – they were all voiced by Blanc so they were all Jewish – on Blanc’s matzeivah, it has Porky’s famous line That’s all folks!
elmer fudd displayed simas chinam. halacha eisav sonei es yisroel
Hands down one of the stupidest articles on Matzav ever. Yes, two cartoons reference Flatbush but Bugs Bunny has never, ever been in a cartoon with Porky Pig.
Porky pig is actually friends in every episode with Bugs Bunny. If you meant to say Elmer Fudd, you might have been accurate.
Great now we have a cartoon character that’s Jewish. I thought we had one character – the head of Open Orthodoxy – now we have two at least bugs makes me laugh
I feel left out! Having never seen the show, I feel as if my childhood was stolen from me! Maybe that’s why my wife always tells me to stop acting like a child and “grow up already”! Now, after all these years, I’ve finally figured it out. Thanx
to steve – Bugs has been in many cartoons with Porky
As my teacher used to say, zchusoi yagen va’anacha…
And Cinderella turned into a
pumpkin at Midnight because she had to be home to say Tikun ChatzoT
Proof that she must be a nice Jewish girl too
Evidence
by a Noted HYSTERICAl ORIAN
There was also a cartoon where the chipmunks are gathering acorns and packaging them
Who cares
Very cute. You’ve got to have a good laugh sometimes. Good for the health and morale!
Thanks.
I never saw him make a bracha on his carrot!
Some historians really have to get a life.
Carrots are kosher, but rabbits are not.