History Main / JewishAmericanPrincess

* Rebecca Bunch from ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'' has way too many mental problems to be a JAP, but her SitcomArchNemesis, Audra Levine, looks like she is one. When they engage in a [[BattleRapping rap battle]], it's even called a "JAP Battle Rap" -- at which point, the concept itself is parodied and called offensive.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Rachel Green was originally scripted as a stereotypical Jewish American Princess and LovableAlphaBitch. Though never stated to be Jewish on the show, WordOfGod (in one "making of ''Friends''" special) referenced this trope word for word. She came from a very pampered background. Her father was a rich heart surgeon and her mother a stay-at-home, unsatisfied wife. Her two sisters were as spoiled as her but had less self-awareness than Rachel. This stereotype declined as the series progressed. By contrast, Monica the actual Jewish female on the show, did come from a financially stable upbringing but doesn't appear to be that spoiled.

* ''Series/AmericanCrimeStoryImpeachment'': Monica Lewinsky was depicted as such by the media in RealLife (though they taunted her over her perceived promiscuity) and Creator/BeanieFeldstein depicts her as a flawed, but relatable and vulnerable version of this trope. Monica is depicted as a young college graduate who is sweet, a bit spoiled, intelligent, impulsive, a notable beauty but insecure, and vulnerable to the manipulations of her older friend (Linda Tripp) and her lover (President Bill Clinton).

* ''Series/Glow2017'': Melanie "Melrose" Rosen is a hard-partying Jewish girl who comes from a wealthy background and is heavily implied to have had a very pampered upbringing.

* Downplayed in-universe with Gretchen from ''Film/MeanGirls''. She's from an extremely wealthy family, and mentions Hanukkah gifts. The original script wrote her as a plainer girl compared to the {{WASP}}y blonde Regina, who was only in the Plastics because of her wealth. It's implied she's had to downplay her Judaism to conform to the Plastics' rules, as she's Regina's BetaBitch.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Rachel Green was originally scripted as a stereotypical Jewish American Princess and LovableAlphaBitch. Though never stated to be Jewish on the show, WordOfGod (in one "making of ''Friends''" special) referenced this trope word for word. She came from a very pampered background. Her father was a rich heart surgeon and her mother a stay-at-home, unsatisfied wife. Her two sisters were as spoiled as her but had less self-awareness than Rachel. This stereotype declined as the series progressed.

* Mipsy from ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' according to [[InformedJudaism a throwaway line]] involving her having a Bat Mitzvah. The protagonist is one-quarter Jewish and very much averts this trope though.

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* ''Fanfic/RipHerToShreds'': Both Regina and Gretchen count. Regina is Reform and Gretchen are Orthodox. Both are genuinely religious but they're also snobby, rich {{Alpha Bitch}}es.

* Baby, the main protagonist, in ''Film/DirtyDancing'', who develops away from the negative aspects of the trope.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Rachel Green was originally scripted as a stereotypical Jewish American Princess and LovableAlphaBitch. Though never stated to be Jewish on the show, WordOfGod (in one "making of ''Friends''" special) referenced this trope word for word. She came from very pampered background. Her father was a rich heart surgeon and her mother a stay-at-home, unsatisfied wife. Her two sisters were as spoiled as her, but had less self-awareness than Rachel. This stereotype declined as the series progressed.

* One Creator/{{ITV}} series from Granada TV about the Jewish community in [[OopNorth Manchester, England]], was certainly filled with the British equivalent of the trope... what clinches it was that the very well-educated young Rabbi, a man holding down quite a few jobs to get by, imported an American wife. Who clearly considered Britain beneath her in terms of amenities, social opportunities, shopping outlets and dental-care, as she made it firmly clear a condition of marriage would be his returning to the USA with her where she could be near her family and friends, rather than the other way round.

* Creator/FranDrescher character in the TV series ''Series/{{Princesses}}'' was a literal example (the show was about three roommates - an actual princess, a Jewish American Princess, and a "Daddy's Little Princess")
* ''Series/TheNanny'': Francine "Fran" Fine, the titular nanny played by Fran Drescher, is a more sympathetic and working-class version of of the stereotype: she is obsessed with marriage, beauty, and shopping yet is a sweet and street-smart MamaBear who really loves having sex.

* Music/FrankZappa's song "Jewish Princess" from the album ''Music/SheikYerbouti'', which led to accusations of anti-Semitism by the Anti-Defamation League. Zappa refused to apologize for the song, stating in his autobiography ''Literature/TheRealFrankZappaBook'' that unlike the unicorn, Jewish Princesses actually exist. However, he did release the song "[[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Catholic Girls]]" on his follow-up album, ''Joe's Garage'', in order to be an equal opportunity offender regarding young women's religions.[[note]]Zappa was raised Catholic, though he later turned his back on religion in general.[[/note]]

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* Mipsy from ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' according to [[InformedJudaism a throwaway line]] involving her having a Bat Mitzvah. The protagonist is one quarter Jewish and very much averts this trope though.

* Portia Gibbons from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'' is this (although she also has something resembling a ValleyGirl "accent"). Her cousin, Chelsea is even worse.
* On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Kyle's mother is usually portrayed as a JewishMother, but she occasionally behaves more like a Princess stereotype where her husband and marriage are concerned.

* Winston Schwartz from ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' was intended to be this by Creator/RalphBakshi.

The acronym, "JAP" and the associated stereotype gained attention in the 1970s with the publication of several non-fiction articles. Barbara Meyer's Cosmopolitan article "Sex and the Jewish Girl" and the 1971 cover article in New York Magazine by Julie Baumgold, "The Persistence of the Jewish Princess" are two such notable articles. The Jewish American Princess stereotype's rise to prominence in the 1970s resulted from pressures on the Jewish middle class to maintain a visibly affluent lifestyle as post-war affluence declined. It is said to have been derived from the (now defunct) Jewish sorority Iotal Alpha Phi. Of course, use of the acronym has often been subject to harsh misunderstanding due to it coincidentally spelling "Jap", a derogatory term for Japanese.

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* Cher Horowitz in ''Film/{{Clueless}}'', who is also [[AmbiguouslyJewish ambiguously Jewish]], starts out like this, but it's subverted as the film progresses and she takes genuine interest in other people.

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* The Lisa Kudrow vehicle ''Film/MarciX'' plays this straight with the titular character.

* In ''ComicBook/GhostWorld'', Enid and Becky's annoying, stuck-up classmates Melorra and Naomi are disparagingly referred to by Enid as "the junior [=JAPs=] of America."

* One of the central trio in ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'' is Dorien, a middle-aged Jewish divorcee who acts as if she is still in her twenties, has a sense of entitlement a mile high, sees the other two women as a combination of personal servants and people who are there to make her life easier; she refuses to scale down her expectations and beleves the world is there to meet her demands. Dorien is a middle-aged British JAP who has never grown up.

* [[Music/TwoLiveCrew 2 Live Jews]]' song "J.A.P. Rap" is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* Creator/SarahSilverman often plays one of these.
* The NBC sitcom ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** Rachel Green was originally scripted as a stereotypical Jewish American Princess and LovableAlphaBitch. Though never stated to be Jewish on the show, WordOfGod (in one "making of ''Friends''" special) referenced this trope word for word. She came from very pampered background. Her father was a rich heart surgeon and her mother a stay-at-home, unsatisfied wife. Her two sisters were as spoiled as her, but had less self-awareness than Rachel. This stereotype declined as the series progressed.
** Monica Geller is Jewish but fell ''way'' outside of this trope. She was TheUnfavourite, her parents never pampered her and she had to fight for everything she got.

* On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', Jerry's girlfriend Rachel Goldstein, who appeared in three episodes, had elements of this character type.

** Her character in ''Series/TheNanny'' is a more sympathetic and working-class version of of the stereotype: she is obsessed with marriage, beauty, and shopping yet is a sweet and street smart MamaBear who really loves having sex.
* Leah in ''A Stranger Among Us'' is a subversion. She is a Rebbe's daughter who is very much a ProperLady.

* It's implied that Mrs. Wolowitz from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' may have been this [[IWasQuiteALooker in her youth]]. She very much averts the trope in her middle age.

* Gilda Radner parodied the Jewish American Princess stereotype with her recurring ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' character, Rhonda Weiss.

The acronym, "JAP" and the associated stereotype gained attention in the 1970s with the publication of several non-fiction articles. Barbara Meyer's Cosmopolitan article "Sex and the Jewish Girl" and the 1971 cover article in New York Magazine by Julie Baumgold, "The Persistence of the Jewish Princess" are two such notable articles. The Jewish American Princess stereotype's rise to prominence in the 1970s resulted from pressures on the Jewish middle class to maintain a visibly affluent lifestyle as post-war affluence declined. Of course, use of the acronym has often been subject to harsh misunderstanding due to it coincidentally spelling "Jap", a derogatory term for Japanese.

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* Inverted by Roger Shimomura's painting called KIKE, titled after a traditional slur against Jewish people. In the early 1990s, Shimomura had a fresh encounter with the old slur. A woman asked him if he knew what a "JAP" was. As he stared at her, she told him it was a Jewish American Princess. A couple of weeks later, he said, he happened to catch an Oprah show on the theme of "JAPS" or Jewish American Princesses, with no reference to its original meaning. Shortly thereafter, a Jewish woman conducted a seminar at the University of Kansas, where he teaches, about the word "JAP" and how hurtful it is to Jewish women. His response was not timid or the least bit politically correct: A solo performance piece titled "KIKE," which he said stood for kinky, immature, kimono empress. Sick of the old slur "jap" getting new life as Jewish American princess, Shimomura responded with "KIKE" or kinky, immature, kimono empress. In the painting accompanying this story, a lovely young Jewish woman gazes in the mirror, a crown on her head. Only the first letter of the banner across her chest is visible, and it's a "K."

* Rachel Katz from ''Series/MadMen'' is an aversion of this trope. Despite being a wealthy, successful Jewish woman, she is neither selfish nor materialistic, and she earned her wealth independently.

ValleyGirl is a SisterTrope. Some of these girls can fall under SpoiledBrat or IdleRich.

* Baby, the main protagonist, in ''DirtyDancing'', who develops away from the negative aspects of the trope.

The acronym, "JAP" and the associated stereotype gained attention in the 1970s with the publication of several non-fiction articles. Barbara Meyer's Cosmopolitan article "Sex and the Jewish Girl" and the 1971 cover article in New York Magazine by Julie Baumgold, "The Persistence of the Jewish Princess" are two such notable articles. The Jewish American Princess stereotype's rise to prominence in the 1970s resulted from pressures on the Jewish middle class to maintain a visibly affluent lifestyle as post-war affluence declined.

* Rita from ''Film/SlumsOfBeverlyHills'' has elements of this.

* Jewish American Princesses feature in several of AllanSherman's parody songs including "Sarah Jackman" and "You're a Nudnik, Sondra Goldfein."