Amusing Jews

Marcie Maxfield is an award-winning author and playwright whose latest book is JewGirl: A Memoir on Being and Belonging.   Marcie’s website https://marciemaxfield.com/   Amusing Jews Merch Store https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/   Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews   Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles https://www.humani...

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/   David’s Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Margolick  ...

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://sun...

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/   Amusing Jews Merch S...

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/   Amu...

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/ Amusing Jews Merch Store https://www.amusingjews....

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/...

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 Amusing Jews Merch Store https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/   Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews   Adat Chaveri...

Eric Glickman and Stephen Hersh have an ongoing series, How to Lose Your Mind: A Comics Project about Friendship, Memories and Alzheimer’s Disease, documenting Stephen’s experiences with Alzheimer’s.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   How to Lose Your Mind https://howtoloseyourmindcomics.substack.com/   Amusing Jews Merch Store https://www.amus...

Deborah Gitell is director of client partnership at Wilkins Media, a global outdoor media company. In 2013, she helped spread the term Thanksgivukkah with her sister-in-law, Dana Reichman Gittel, capturing the unlikely convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   How to Celebrate Thanksgivukkah - BuzzFeed https:/...

Seth Michael Donsky was named to the International Screenwriters Association's list of the top 25 screenwriters to watch. He’s currently working on a project exploring the 1951 best actress Oscar race.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   Seth’s website https://sethdonsky.com/   Seth’s IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0233094/   Amusing Jews Merc...

Gary Lippman is the author of the novel Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate, the short story collection We Loved the World but Could Not Stay, and, most recently, I Wish, Therefore I Am, or, This Here is a List of Humble Appeals to Dame Fortune.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   Gary’s Website https://garylippmanofficial.com/   I Wis...

Eli Valley is a critically acclaimed political cartoonist whose latest book is Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   Eli’s website https://www.elivalley.com/   Museum of Degenerates https://orbooks.com/catalog/museum-of-degenerates/   Diaspora Boy https://orbooks.com/catalog/diaspora-boy/...

Julian David Stone is an author, photographer, and filmmaker whose novel It’s Alive! recounts the frantic days leading up to the filming of Universal’s 1931 classic, Frankenstein.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   Julian’s website https://www.juliandavidstone.com/ Amusing Jews Merch Store https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/   Subscribe to the...

Kelilah Miller is an artist and rabbi whose linocut design is featured on a new shirt from They Might Be Giants.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   Kelilah’s SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/kelilah-miller   Kelilah’s Redbubble shop https://www.redbubble.com/people/RabbiVole/shop?utm_source=rb-native-app&utm_campaign=share-artist&utm_m...

Steve Vertlieb is an award-winning writer, film historian, critic, archivist, and poet who’s been writing about motion pictures and symphonic film music since 1969. Many of his articles can be found online at the long-running science fiction fanzine File 770.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   File 770 https://file770.com/?s=vertlieb&submit...

Stephen Weiner has been writing about graphic novels since 1992 and spearheaded the movement to bring graphic novels into public libraries. Dan Mazur is a screenwriter, cartoonist, and co-founder of MICE: The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo and the Boston Comics Roundtable. Their new book is Will Eisner: A Comics Biography, published by NBM Graphic Novels.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann &amp...

*Finding humor in the Bible with Gil Kidron, a writer, editor, and host of A Podcast of Biblical Proportions.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   A Podcast of Biblical Proportions https://podcastofbiblicalproportions.com/   Amusing Jews Merch Store https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/   Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast https://www.spreaker....

Michael Hirsh is a trailblazing producer of children’s programming and former head of Nelvana, Cookie Jar, and Wow! Unlimited Media. His shows include Inspector Gadget, The Care Bears Movie, Babar, The Berenstain Bears, Little Bear, Rolie Polie Olie, Franklin, The Magic School Bus, Beetlejuice, Eek! The Cat, Max & Ruby, and many more. His book is Animation Nation: How We Built a Cartoon Empire...

Noah Diamond is a co-host of The Marx Brothers Council Podcast, an author, performer, and cartoonist whose books include 400 Years in Manhattan; Love Marches On: A Saga of Broadway; and Gimme a Thrill: The Story of I’ll Say She Is, the Lost Marx Brothers Musical, and How It Was Found. His newest project is the limited series podcast, Pintele.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field  ...

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. His recent article, “SQUIGGLEVISION! 30 Years of Kvetching from the Couch of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist,” is available at Paste. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Fiel...

Julian David Stone is an author, photographer, and filmmaker whose photography is collected in the coffee table book, No Cameras Allowed: My Career as an Outlaw Rock & Roll Photographer. He also has two novels: The Strange Birth, Short Life, and Sudden Death of Justice Girl; and It’s Alive!   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   Julian’s websit...

Ilana Trachtman is an Emmy award-winning documentary director and producer whose latest film is Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round https://www.aintnoback.com/   Ilana’s IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1196719/   Amusing Jews Merch Store https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/  ...

Jonathan Lackman is an author and art historian and Zachary J. Pinson is an artist and illustrator. Their new book, The Woman with Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & the Greatest Art Heist that Never Was, is published by Fantagraphics.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   The Woman with Fifty Faces https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-woman-with-f...

Harold Schechter is a true crime author and professor emeritus at Queens College whose latest graphic biography is “Dr. Werthless,” illustrated and co-written by Eric Powell.   Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field   Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren   “Dr Worthless” https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3012-934/Dr-Werthless-HC   Harold’s website https://haroldschechter.com/   Amusing Jews M...