{"id":32140,"date":"2016-09-20T01:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T07:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=32140"},"modified":"2016-09-20T01:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T07:21:15","slug":"jta-emmys-2016-the-shows-most-jewish-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/jta-emmys-2016-the-shows-most-jewish-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"JTA  Emmys 2016: The show\u2019s most Jewish moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By GABE FRIEDMAN<\/p>\n<p>HOLLYWOOD &#8211; (JTA) Put enough Jewish talent and Hollywood brass in a room and you\u2019re bound to create some memorable Jewish sound bites \u2014 and the 2016 Emmy Awards on Sunday night were no exception to this rule. From a shout-out to New York Jews to a tribute to late Jewish stars, here are the Jewiest moments from TV\u2019s biggest night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffrey Tambor used Hebrew to tell the house band to shut up<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32141\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/emmys.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32141\" class=\"wp-image-32141 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/emmys-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 18:  Writer\/producer Jill Soloway (L), winner of the Oustanding Directing for a Comedy Series award for the 'Transparent' episode 'Man on the Land,' and actor Jeffrey Tambor, winner of the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for 'Transparent,' pose in the press room during the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Steve Granitz\/WireImage)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/emmys-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/emmys.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32141\" class=\"wp-image-32141 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/emmys-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 18:  Writer\/producer Jill Soloway (L), winner of the Oustanding Directing for a Comedy Series award for the 'Transparent' episode 'Man on the Land,' and actor Jeffrey Tambor, winner of the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for 'Transparent,' pose in the press room during the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Steve Granitz\/WireImage)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/emmys-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/emmys.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-32141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Jill Soloway and actor Jeffrey Tambor, who both Emmy Awards for the series \u201cTransparent,\u201d backstage at the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Sept. 18, 2016. (Steve Granitz\/WireImage\/GettyImages)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In accepting his speech for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2016\/09\/19\/arts-entertainment\/jill-soloway-of-transparent-wins-emmy-compares-trump-to-hitler\">best actor<\/a> in a comedy series (for his role as a transgender woman in Jill Soloway\u2019s \u201cTransparent\u201d), Tambor spoke about some of the social issues the groundbreaking show tackles. When the band began to play (signaling that his time was up) Tambor said \u201csheket bevakasha\u201d \u2014 meaning \u201cquiet please!\u201d in Hebrew \u2014 so that he could say that transgender actors should be given more jobs in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Veep\u2019 producer dedicates win to \u2018chubby\u2019 Upper West Side Jews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It might not be so surprising that David Mandel, an executive producer of \u201cVeep,\u201d dedicated the satirical show\u2019s win for best comedy series to \u201cchubby Jews from the Upper West Side or wherever you are.\u201d Mandel was formerly a producer of Larry David\u2019s \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm\u201d and was a writer during some of the late seasons of \u201cSeinfeld.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 creators cleaned up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d books may be written by George R.R. Martin, but the massively successful HBO series based on the fantasy novels is spearheaded by a pair of Jews: David Benioff and Daniel \u201cD.B.\u201d Weiss. The pair helped make history on Sunday, as the lauded series overtook \u201cFrasier\u201d for the most wins in Emmys history (38). Benioff mentioned his wife Amanda Peet \u2014 who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/11\/19\/arts-entertainment\/a-game-of-thrones-inspired-christmas-book-for-jewish-kids-sort-of\">wrote a children\u2019s book last year<\/a> about a Jewish girl who feels left out on Christmas \u2014 twice in an acceptance speech.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some legends were honored<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gene Wilder (\u201cWilly Wonka &amp;\u00a0the Chocolate Factory,\u201d \u201cYoung Frankenstein\u201d), Anton Yelchin (\u201cStar Trek\u201d), Abe Vigoda (known for his roles in \u201cBarney Miller\u201d and \u201cThe Godfather\u201d) and Fyvush Finkel (a star of the Yiddish theater world and winner of a\u00a01994 Emmy for his role in \u201cPicket Fences\u201d) were all mentioned in the show\u2019s poignant \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d segment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Jewish-Danish director has her day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Susanne Bier is best known for her Danish feature films, which have garnered Academy Award nominations (\u201cIn a Better World\u201d) and spawned American remakes (\u201cBrothers\u201d). But on Sunday she won an Emmy for best directing for a limited series for her work on \u201cThe Night Manager,\u201d an AMC miniseries. Bier has an interesting Jewish <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/feb\/20\/entertainment\/la-ca-susanne-bier-20110220\">backstory<\/a> \u2014 her father fled Germany for Denmark in 1933, where he met her mother. When Nazis began rounding up Jews there, her parents fled to Sweden in a boat. She has said her Jewish upbringing instilled in her a strong sense of family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"JTA%20%20Emmys%202016%3A%20The%20show%E2%80%99s%20most%20Jewish%20moments\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[8097,8790,8795,8788,2784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32142,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32140\/revisions\/32142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}