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Jewish stereotypes from New York’s garment district appear in a familiar ethnic gag in Jolly Little Elves, a 1934 Walter Lantz cartoon based on the Shoemaker and the Elves story.

Mr. Kitzel hasn’t been invented on radio yet, so we don’t get a Yiddish-sounding “Hmmm...could be!” like in cartoons a few years later. But we get a shrug and one elf marks the shoe as kosher.



The Lantz-o-pedia on-line gives the following credits that are not on the cartoon: Story and Lyrics, Walter Lantz and Victor McLeod; Artists: Manuel Moreno, Lester Kline, Fred Kopietz, Bill Mason, and La Verne Harding; Musical Score: James Dietrich. Berneice Hansell sings the doughnut song.

The cartoon was Lantz’s first in colour (not counting The King of Jazz inserts) and was nominated for an Oscar.