Movie review: 'Wonderful incongruity' of Jewish humor in Netflix show 'Long Story Short'

(JNS) — The Netflix animated series “Long Story Short,” which premiered last month, is drawing attention both for its creator, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, of “BoJack Horseman” fame, and for its treatment of Jewish family life through humor.

The series follows the Schwoopers, a middle-class Jewish family, across decades. It proceeds in a non-linear fashion, highlighting the tensions, joys and incongruities of American Jewish life.

Jeremy Dauber, Atran professor of Yiddish language, literature and culture at Columbia University and director of its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, told JNS that...