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” in which she remembered a 1994 “SNL” sketch that mocked her for having what she called an “undeniably Jewish” nose.was a parody of “Blossom,” an NBC sitcom in which Bialik starred as the titular character, a role she scored at just 14 years old.
Earlier in her essay, Bialik noted that she was a fan of “SNL” her “entire life” and was excited to see how the long-running sketch show would skewer her sitcom. But after watching the skit, Bialik wrote, she was “confused” because the prosthetic struck her as “odd.”“I never thought to talk about it and mostly I tried to forget it,” she wrote. “I hoped no one noticed. All of my friends at high school watched ‘SNL.’ It wasn’t subtle. They would all see it and I felt ashamed.
But it does seem that Bialik cares about how young girls who looked up to her during her “Blossom” days felt about being criticized for “features I inherited from my mixed Eastern European-Ashkenazi past.” “Girls all over the world used to tell me that they had never seen a Jewish girl like me on TV before they saw me on ‘Blossom,’” Bialik wrote. “Many said they knew I was Jewish and it made them proud to be. That was so touching to me, and it still is.”“But I also have never wanted to change it.”
“I have come to see my face as distinctly mine as given to me from G-d,” she wrote. “My genetic makeup is mine alone, and also, it is the combination of cultures shoved together after the Holocaust spilled so many of us out on the shores of Ellis Island. My nose is undeniably Jewish, and I am as well. Is it because of my nose? Perhaps. But I don’t have to know because we will always be one and the same.
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