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Jonathan L. Friedmann is the president of the Western States Jewish History Association; vice president, academic dean, and director of programs at Ezzree Institute; admissions director and associate professor at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism; and director of the Jewish Museum of the American West. His latest book is Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West. 
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Chai Noon
https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chai-Noon
 
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Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
 
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Paul Levitz is a comic book writer, editor, and executive best known for his decades-long association with DC Comics, which began as a freelancer in the early 1970s and included a tenure as the company’s president and publisher from 2002 to 2009.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Paul’s website
https://paullevitz.com/
 
Paul’s Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Levitz
 
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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

David Denby is a New Yorker staff writer and New York Times bestselling author whose latest book is Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Eminent Jews
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250193407/eminentjews/
 
David’s website
https://denby-david.com/
 
David’s New Yorker columns
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/david-denby
 
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https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Danny Fingeroth is a biographer, cultural historian, and former writer and editor at Marvel Comics whose latest book is Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin. He also authored A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee; Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero; and Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Danny Fingeroth
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
The Many Faces of Jack Ruby
https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/jack-ruby-products-9781641609128.php
 
Danny’s website
https://dannyfingeroth.com/
 
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Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
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Alina Adams is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest historical novel, Go On Pretending, explores three generations of Jewish women battling the tides of history from segregated 1950s America to the fall of the USSR to the rise of revolutionary Rojava.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Alina’s website
https://alinaadams.com/
 
Go On Pretending
https://www.historythroughfiction.com/go-on-pretending

Alina’s Substack
https://alinaa.substack.com/

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Bruce Vilanch is Hollywood’s go-to comedy writer for award shows, sitcoms, and variety specials. His new book is It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time
https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time-products-9780914091929.php?page_id=21
 
Bruce’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897358/
 
Star Wars Holiday Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtSX1lg8rE
 
Paul Lynde Halloween Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJ0D4pI0tI&t=1412s
 
The Ice Pirates – trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5gHZWxxVhk
 
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https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Victoria Aarons is the O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University and editor of a new book, The Story’s Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
The Story’s Not Over
https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349113/
 
Memory Spaces
https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349144/
 
Holocaust Graphic Narratives
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/holocaust-graphic-narratives/9781978802551/
 
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https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Janice Shapiro is an author and illustrator whose new graphic novel, Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship, is published by Fantagraphics.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship
https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/honoria
 
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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Amy Kurzweil is a cartoonist and graphic memoirist whose latest book is Artificial: A Love Story. She previously authored Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir, and you can find her cartoons in The New Yorker.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Artificial: A Love Story
https://books.catapult.co/books/artificial/
 
Amy’s Website
https://amykurzweil.com/
 
Amy’s TED Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G37VO1yeVEo
 
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Atheists United Studios
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Michael Benson is the author of more than 60 nonfiction history and true crime books. His latest is Moguls: The Lives and Times of Film Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck, co-written with Craig Singer.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Moguls
https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9780806543086/moguls/
 
Michael’s Books
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001HCVE00?ccs_id=5e6cd248-fe92-413d-b0c2-58a9b6ae537b
 
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Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
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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