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Nonfiction Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went From Brooklyn to Hollywood With the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair Gary David Goldberg
Nonfiction Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America’s Image of Jews, 1920s-1950s David S. Siegel and Susan Siegel
Nonfiction Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero Danny Fingeroth; Stan Lee, fwd.
Nonfiction Vienna is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin de Siècle to the Present Hillary Hope Herzog
Nonfiction A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe Geoffrey Hartman
Nonfiction Only As Good As Your Word: Writing Lessons From My Favorite Literary Gurus Susan Shapiro
Nonfiction The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution Benjamin Harshav; Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, trans.
Essay The Comedienne Earlier this week, Leigh Stein wrote about the Jewish ghost of Santa Fe and revealed one of her early aspirations: to “Be Anne Frank.” She has been blogging here… Leigh Stein February 17, 2012