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The animated television series ''Rugrats'' has been noted for its portrayal of Judaism, a dynamic rarely portrayed in American animated programming during the series' broadcast run (1991–2004). Two episodes of the series are devoted to Jewish holidays and explaining their history, and the Pickles family is shown to be part-Jewish. The first ''Rugrats'' Jewish holiday special was suggested to the production staff in 1992 by Nickelodeon executives as a special devoted to Hanukkah. Germain instead refashioned it into a Passover episode and the series did not explore a Hanukkah special until 1996. Critical reaction to Jewish themes in ''Rugrats'' was largely positive. Each holiday special achieved high viewing numbers according to Nielsen Media Research and received positive reviews. However, Jewish character Grandpa Boris' portrayal in a 1998 ''Rugrats'' comic strip was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League for apparent antisemitism. ==Jewish themes== In ''Rugrats,'' the root of Jewish themes stem from Boris and Minka Kropotkin, the maternal grandparents of infant Tommy Pickles. Boris and Minka follow traditional Jewish practices〔 and speak in heavy Yiddish accents. Tommy and the Pickles family therefore partake in several Jewish activities throughout the series, particularly through holidays. The first occurrence of this is in the episode "A Rugrats Passover," which originally aired in the United States on April 13, 1995. In the episode, Tommy and the rest of the Rugrats, accompanied by their respective parents, attend a Passover seder hosted by Boris and Minka. Boris and Minka have an argument and Boris storms off to the attic, where the Rugrats find him and discover they are now locked in. To pass time, Boris recites the story of Passover. The Rugrats imagine that they are the characters in the story, including Tommy as Moses and his mean-spirited cousin Angelica as the Pharaoh of Egypt.〔 In "A Rugrats Chanukah," which originally aired on December 4, 1996, Minka regales the Rugrats with the tale of Hanukkah's origins, and once more the infants cast themselves as the characters in their imagination. Meanwhile, Boris is outraged at being recast as Judah in a Hanukkah pageant and even more so that his old rival Schlomo will be playing the Greek king. More subtle Jewish references are also included in other aspects of the ''Rugrats'' franchise. In ''The Rugrats Movie,'' the 1998 film based on the series, Tommy is prepared to pour banana baby food on his infant brother Dil, which would attract a group of vicious monkeys who would likely harm the young baby; the scene parallels the Sacrifice of Isaac, a primal covenant in Jewish studies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Judaism in Rugrats」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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