Unlike many Jewish actors of her generation, Lisa Edelstein never anglicized her name. “So, I’ve always been publicly Jewish, and it’s definitely had an impact on my career,” she says. “It’s made me not able to be other things, and frequently when I got a job, my character became Jewish.” Some of her best-known roles are members of her tribe: House’s Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Relativity’s Rhonda Roth, The Kominsky Method’s Phoebe and, currently, Long Story Short’s matriarch Naomi Schwartz. In her second career, as a burgeoning fine artist, her Jewishness can’t help but inform the work, too. Since the pandemic, the self-taught painter has been producing watercolors which seek to interpret a trove of her family’s snapshots of New Jersey domesticity. They provide a window into a vanishing twentieth-century American middle-class existence. “When I started, I was exploring life in suburbia and the secrets we tell,” explains Edelstein. “But because I grew up in an Ashkenazi Jewish household, there were yarmulkes and other [visual] markers which became political after Oct. 7. It made me want …