Rachel Bloom Instagram – I love playing smart, self-assured, complicated Jewish women and I’m proud to add the character of Elaine Levitch to that roster. Like Elaine, I also come from a long line of Bostonian Jews, and it was very cool to spend a few months in Boston last year pretending I was in the early 1960’s, a time when my grandfather still would have been the Somerville town doctor and my grandmother would still have been shopping at Filene’s. (Fun fact: she also graduated from law school in the 1930’s). Anyway, season 2 of “Julia” premieres today and I play the recurring character of Elaine Levitch starting in episode 2 and Elaine is smart and awesome and Jewish and maybe knew my grandparents. #juliaonmax