Jewsploitation

Jewsploitation

English

Etymology

Jew +‎ -sploitation

Noun

Jewsploitation (uncountable)

1. (film) A genre of exploitation films focusing on Jews and Jewish experiences.
   • 2002, Diane Vadino, "Movie News", Spin, July 2002, page 47:

     The Hebrew Hammer may very well be the first "Jewsploitation" comedy, but star Adam Goldberg promises the film avoids the truly offensive.

   • 2003, Liz Spikol, "Hammer Time", Philadelphia Weekly, 10 December 2003:

     Saturday night I went to the Gershman Y to see the new "Jewsploitation" film The Hebrew Hammer, which I'm guessing is going to raise some hackles in the same way my headline did.

   • 2007, Gregg Goldstein, "Eisenberg, Bartha in the 'Holy' land", The Hollywood Reporter, 15 November 2007:

     The film, one of the first to emerge from the burgeoning "Jewsploitation" genre, is ripped from true-crime headlines and follows an impressionable youth (Eisenberg) from an Orthodox Brooklyn community.