A fork of Rural Dictionary
Actress and comedian Sarah Silverman, in comments on her Sept. 30 podcast, railed against the practice of casting non-Jews as Jewish characters in TV and films. She referred to the castings as “Jewface,” a play on the historically racist practice of donning “blackface.”
I’m not sure how to define Jewface, but since I dropped the -owicz from my name, if I do Jewish jokes, he says I’m wearing Jewface.