Amusing Jews

We’re delighted to chat with Andrew Rubin, a filmmaker and author whose debut novel is Hell or High Winter.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Andrew’s website
https://www.hellorhighwinter.com/
 
Hell or High Winter
https://rarebirdlit.com/hell-or-high-winter-book-one-in-a-holy-trinity-by-andrew-rubin/
 
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Mark Rutzick is a retired attorney who was twice appointed to the federal government’s Senior Executive Service. His new book is Breaking New Ground: The Untold Story of Early America’s Jewish Electoral Pioneers—1788 to 1920.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer Mike Tomren
 
Mark’s website
http://www.markrutzick.com/
 
Breaking New Ground
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FYGV4DJQ
 
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Atheists United Studios
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Marcie Maxfield is an award-winning author and playwright whose latest book is JewGirl: A Memoir on Being and Belonging.
 
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https://marciemaxfield.com/
 
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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

David Margolick is a journalist and author whose latest book is When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
When Caesar Was King
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/107565/when-caesar-was-king-by-david-margolick/
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Margolick
 
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Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Henry Sapoznik is a five-time Grammy-nominated producer/performer of over fifty recordings and author of the award-winning book, Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World. His latest book is The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Tourist-s-Guide-to-Lost-Yiddish-New-York-City
 
Henry’s website
https://www.henrysapoznik.com/
 
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Frances Jetter is a prolific illustrator, sculptor, and printmaker whose latest book, Amalgam: An Immigrant, His Labor Union, and his American Family in Brooklyn, is published by Fantagraphics.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Amalgam
https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/amalgam
 
Frances’ website
https://fjetter.net/
 
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Cool Shul Cultural Community
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Bob Levin is a longtime contributor to the Comics Journal whose latest book, Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and Mysteries: True Tales of Comics, Conflict, and Creativity, is published by Fantagraphics.
 
Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and Mysteries
https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/messiahs-meshugganahs-misanthropes-and-mysteries
 
Bob’s website
http://www.theboblevin.com/
 
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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
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Mathew Klickstein is an author and pop culture historian whose books have covered such topics as Nickelodeon, The Simpsons, The San Diego Comic-Con, and Lloyd Kaufman, president and co-founder of Troma Entertainment.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Mathew's website
https://www.mathewklickstein.com/

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Diana Harmon Asher is an award-winning author of the middle grade novels Sidetracked and Upstaged. Her latest novel, Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz, is distributed to 9- to 12-year-olds across North America through PJ Library's program for older readers, PJ Our Way.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-Engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Diana’s website
https://dianaharmonasher.com/
 
Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz
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Atheists United Studios
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Sam Singer is known as the "Ed Wood of Animation" for making cheap, shoddy, and borderline-intolerable cartoons during the early days of television cartoons.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

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Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios