• by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, 4 hours ago

A new animated sitcom about American Jews might find an audience among that very group, but it is difficult to see how everybody else will relate to it.

On the other hand, two other comedies about Jews -- the two versions of “The Goldbergs” (one from the 1950s and the other more recently) -- ran for seven and 10 seasons, respectively.

Although anti-Semitism is said to be on the rise in America, audiences also seem to have enjoyed “Nobody Wants This,” the Netflix sitcom about the romance between a cool rabbi (Adam Brody) and a non-Jewish woman (Kristen Bell).

This new cartoon carries the generic title “Long Story Short,” and it too is on Netflix (starting Friday).

Episode One traces the progress of the fictional California family, the Schwoopers (a portmanteau of Schwartz, the wife’s name, and Cooper, the husband’s name) from the 1990s to the present, principally from the point of view of eldest son Avi Schwooper (voiced by Ben Feldman).

Parents Elliott and Naomi (above photo) are voiced by Lisa Edelstein and Paul Reiser.

The episode is titled “Yoshi’s Bar Mitzvah.” This event, in which 13-year-old Yoshi Schwooper became a man according to Jewish tradition, was held in 2004.

In the show, it is vividly remembered by Avi for its many dramatic moments, such as the fire that consumed a tablecloth on one of the tables and the wrestling match that saw Naomi grapple on the floor with Uncle Barry.

It was also memorable for Avi because it was the weekend he brought his new girlfriend home to meet his family for the first time.

She was a blonde gentile named Jen who seemed as if she had never met a Jewish family before, or at least an animated stereotype of one.

To the credit of the show’s writers, not once did Naomi refer to Jen as a shiksa, which is a word referring to a non-Jewish woman that comes up time and time again whenever movies and TV shows depict Jews as crass and intolerant, which is most of the time.

While the Schwoopers are not depicted as intolerant, they are highly emotional, opinionated and loud -- traits they have in common with movie and TV portrayals of other groups such as Italian Americans and sometimes Greek Americans.

Meanwhile, I have known Jewish-American, Italian-American and Greek-American families throughout my life, and not a single one of them ever acted this way.

Animation fans will please note that the creator of “Long Story Short,” and also its showrunner, is Raphael Bob-Waksburg, creator of “Bojack Horseman.”