Abraham Kabibble, known as Abie the Agent, was the first Jewish protagonist of an American comic strip. The character debuted in the New York Journal on February 2, 1914. Abie was a rebuttal of some of the Jewish stereotypes of caricatures, and represented a moderately successful (though very stingy) middle-class immigrant. While Abie and his friends had many typical Jewish characteristics, such as their names or their use of Yiddish words and accents, they also lacked many of the negative or malicious elements, such as exaggerated physical traits, found in the depictions of Jews from this time. Abie was in many ways indistinguishable from other caucasian Americans, and he was a prime example of the belief in the integration of German Jews into U.S. society. During 1917, the character enli