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Levy's Real Jewish Rye print ad — 'You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's', portrait of a Native American man eating rye bread

Levy's — Indian Bread execution, c. 1961DDB New York

You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Love Levy's Real Jewish Rye

Brand:
Levy's
Agency:
Doyle Dane Bernbach
1961Classic PrintPrint advertisement

Timeless principle

Make inclusion the mechanism of the joke, not the subject of a lecture.

The idea

Use one portrait and one line to make a culturally specific bread feel universal.

Why it works

The face, the slice of rye and the headline arrive as one complete thought. The campaign expands the audience while preserving the product’s identity instead of sanding it away. Specificity becomes the route to broad appeal.

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