Basic Trope: A character displays Jewish stereotypes but it's unclear if they're actually Jewish or not.
- Straight: Alice Bernstein is a bookworm and speaks Yiddish as a Second Language, but it's never stated if she's Jewish.
- Exaggerated: Alice Bernstein exhibits all the stereotypes: speaks Yiddish, is a bookworm, is a Deadpan Snarker, is a cheapskate, is very argumentative, has a large nose, etc., but it's still never been confirmed. Also, we have no clue on whether she keeps kosher as she's never seen eating.
- Downplayed: Alice doesn't have any stereotypical Jewish traits except for the last name of "Bernstein".
- Justified:
- People with these traits do exist in real life, some of whom are Jewish and some of whom aren't.
- Alice is a converted Judaist.
- Alice is a secular Jew who doesn’t actively engage much with her heritage, but still has some of the culture from her family or community.
- Inverted:
- Alice is explicitly Jewish, but inverts all the stereotypes (has a small nose, is Book Dumb, is generous with money, etc).
- In a mostly-Jewish cast, Alice is hinted to not be Jewish.
- Subverted: In a a later episode, we see Alice Bernstein at synagogue (proving she is Jewish) or church (proving she's not).
- Double Subverted: She then is revealed to have had an ulterior motive for going there.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged: The writers make conflicting statements on whether Alice is Jewish.
- Averted:
- Alice is either explicitly Jewish or not.
- Alice doesn't exhibit any traits stereotyped of Jews.
- Enforced:
- The story was written by a bigot, and Alice is a villain. The writer doesn't say she's Jewish outright because they honestly believe that the stereotypes and her villain status make it already obvious.
- "We want to export this series to the Arab World, don't making her obviously Jewish to avoid political and cultural complaint from them!"
- Lampshaded: "Is Alice Jewish? I can't tell."
- Invoked: Alice is deliberately cryptic about her religious identity.
- Exploited: The series takes place during WWII, and the Nazis don't know whether to persecute Alice.
- Defied: Alice tells the audience whether or not she's Jewish.
- Discussed: "Some people may be brainy, speak Yiddish, or have a last name like Bernstein, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're Jewish."
- Conversed: "Is that Alice character Jewish or not? If she was, she'd be a walking stereotype!"
- Implied:
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama:
- In a World War Two setting her stereotypical behaviour leads to her being assumed to be Jewish and murdered or nearly murdered by the Nazis.
- Alternatively, in the modern setting, Alice is severely beaten or even murdered by the bunch of Neo-Nazis, whether she's Jewish or not.
- Played for Horror:
Back to Ambiguously Jewish.
