History Series / Shtisel

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Akiva, Libbi, Shulem, and Nuchem]]

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Being an Israeli show, the creators and characters are obviously aware of non-Ashkenazi Jews, but since nearly all Haredim are Ashkenazi, very few are shown or confirmed.
** In Season 2 after she wakes up from her accident, Malka is confused and thinks people that she meets are different people she had known earlier in life, including a Mizrahi man at the old folks home who she is convinced is her dead husband.
** Becomes a plot point in season 3, when Yosa'le falls in love with a Sephardi girl.

** TruthInTelevision: If a third husband dies, the haredi community is likely to consider her an isha qatlanit [murdering woman], who will never be permitted to marry again; and both she and they would be concerned even with only two husbands predeceasing her.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Nuchem's "reshoim arurim" (damn evil people), which he says about anyone he doesn't like (usually secular Jews/Zionists).

Shtisel is an Israeli television drama that aired its first season in 2013, its second in 2015, and its third in 2020. It follows the lives of the Shtisel family, ''Haredi'' (ultra-Orthodox) Jews living in Jerusalem, and how they deal with love, loss, and modernity.

All three seasons are available on Netflix with subtitles.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: For Shulem, Nuchem, and their mother Malka, it seems to be their first language. Akiva also mentions in Season 3 that it's important to him that Dvorale grow up knowing Yiddish.

* SignificantSketchbook: Akiva's notebook is shown in the intro of each episode, and when looking through it, Fuchs notices his most detailed drawing is of [[spoiler:Elisheva]], hinting at Akiva's true feelings.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Nuchem's "reshoim arurim" (damn evil people), which he says about anyone he doesn't like.

* MeddlingParents: Shulem, especially to Akiva. He pushes him into an engagement with a woman he doesn't love, then when he's finally with someone he ''does'' love, he [[spoiler:tells her to break up with Akiva]]. He also forbade Zvi Arye from becoming a singer, despite him being talented and enjoying it as a child. When Akiva invites him to an award ceremony Akiva got for his art, Shulem hijacks his son's speech with an appeal for the philanthropists behind the award to fund his ''cheder'', with a not-so-subtle "Torah is more important than art" undercurrent.

* FourthDateMarriage: The norm in Haredi communities. Many don't even have four before getting engaged. Giti knew she wanted to marry Lippe after one date, though it took a while for her parents to approve, and [[spoiler:her daughter Ruchami]] takes it UpToEleven by [[spoiler:[[{{Elopement}} skipping the dates and engagement and getting married]] (at 15!) to Hanina, who she'd only met a week or two ago, and ''had only spoken to in person for the first time that morning''! Note that her parents don't know he exists until they're already married, and she doesn't even know if he ''has'' living parents]].

* {{Meganekko}}: Shira Levi has very prominent glasses.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Shulem has a daughter named Racheli who we meet in the first season, and Akiva meets an art collector with the same name in Season 3. Also averted as a plot point, where Yosa'le meets the wrong girl because they both had the same name (Shira Levi and Shira Levinson).

* DeadPersonConversation: The series frequently shows {{Posthumous Character}}s like Shulem's wife Dvora, or ones who died in the show, like [[spoiler:Libbi]] appearing to their loved ones, though [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane it's ambiguous whether it's all in their head]]. The Season 3 finale includes a scene where Shulem, Nuchem, and Akiva share a drink and are surrounded by the ghosts of several generations of relatives.

** One of the overarching plots of Season 3 is Akiva moving on from Libbi's death. At first, he refuses to sell his paintings of her, then tries to get them back, and eventually [[spoiler: his marriage to Racheli turns into real love.]]