Raphael Bob-Waksberg understands he's tapped into an incredibly nuanced, incredibly recognizable to anyone-in-the-know depiction of Jewish American identity with his new animated Netflix series Long Story Short .

"There is a specificity here that I don't know if it would read to non-Jews," he says during a Zoom call in July. "I do feel like I'm doing something special here, but I'm not quite sure how to explain it."

But Bob-Waksberg, best known as the creator of BoJack Horseman , is also worried he's underselling the show. "But also broadly appealing, let's be clear," he says with a laugh. "It's not so niche."

Long Story Short , which drops its entire first season on Aug. 22, jumps around in time to paint a portrait of the Schwoopers, the children of Naomi Schwartz (voic

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