Created by Gertrude Berg in 1928 and picked up by NBC the following year, The Goldbergs effectively defied anti-semitic American sentiments, easing the anxieties of Jewish American families in the 1930s. The program was a drama/comedy that followed the lives of an average Jewish American family and most notably the outspoken family matriarch, Molly Goldberg (The Museum of Broadcast Communications). With the turn of the century came the Great Depression and with that came a slew of new anti-semitic tension as people began to blame Jews for the economic turmoil, as many new Jewish immigrants began arriving in the U.S. Berg created The Goldbergs “against [the] darker imagination of Jewish life in America,” in order to demonstrate “a vision of