But the series omits the role of such nationalists in persecuting and ultimately pushing out many of Cairo’s Jews. Instead, it blames the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood almost exclusively, suggesting that the group’s leaders were more interested in attacking their Jewish neighbors than in fighting against Israel.

Hassan el-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, is portrayed as a laughable stooge. “The war is not only in Palestine, but jihad here is no less than jihad there,” he declares in the series, dipping into a notorious conspiracy theory about a popular Western beverage: “For this reason, I am demanding that Coca-Cola be considered a forbidden drink, and for a postage stamp with the picture of Al Aqsa Mosque to be sold for only 1 piaster, to be bought by Egyptians for the sake of Palestine.”

Mohamed el-Adl, director of the series and the nephew of its writer, said he was not convinced that Nasser had expelled the Jews. But in any case, the story in the series ends before Nasser became president. “I can’t tell you something about something that I do not know,” Mr. Adl said of Nasser’s role in the exodus. “But I doubt it.”

He said he was perplexed by the praise from the Israeli Embassy. “The series is not supporting the Israelis. It is against them,” he said. “Israel is the first enemy of Egypt.”

But he insisted “The Jewish Quarter” was “honest with history.”

The series is one of dozens of Egyptian serials released for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is the Super Bowl of Egyptian television. Ramadan serials customarily run for about 30 daily episodes, and each episode of “The Jewish Quarter” currently airs on several channels at many times of the day.

Past serials with overtly anti-Semitic themes are still sometimes broadcast as reruns. “A Knight Without a Horse” (2002) was based on the notorious anti-Semitic fraud “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” “Rafaat el-Haggan” (1988) is a spy thriller that depicts Israel as a land of depravity populated by greedy moneylenders. “Nagy Attala’s Team” (2011) is a comedy about an Egyptian Embassy guard in Tel Aviv who robs an Israeli bank to retaliate for the occupation of Palestinian territory.

“The Jewish Quarter” is named for a neighborhood where people of the three Abrahamic faiths once all lived together. In its opening scene, Muslims, Christians and Jews take shelter together in a synagogue during an Israeli air raid. (The temple is now boarded up and forgotten, hidden behind stalls selling cheap hairpins.) A Muslim romantic rival to Laila, the Jewish protagonist, makes fun of a Christian woman, and Laila defends her.