Items with the tag: film | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Another Side of Paradise: A Novel

Another Side of Paradise: A Novel

Cover of How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

Cover of Little Weirds

Excerpt

Excerpt — Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker

Barry Sonnenfeld

March 10, 2020

Excerpt

Excerpt: Renegade Women in Film & TV, Part III

Elizabeth Weitzman

January 6, 2020

Cover of Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Dali, The Marx Brothers and the Greatest Movie Never Made

Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Dali, The Marx Brothers and the Greatest Movie Never Made

Excerpt

Excerpt: Renegade Women in Film & TV, Part I

Elizabeth Weitzman

September 29, 2019

Cover of The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story

The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story

Cover of Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier

Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier

Cover of The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist

The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist

Cover of Hedy and Her Amazing Invention

Hedy and Her Amazing Invention

Morgana Wallace, illus.

Cover of Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist

Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist

Cover of Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

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The Last Great Jewish Novel Was a Movie: A Look Back at the Coen Brothers’ ‘A Serious Man’

An examination of the literary influences behind the film, a decade after its release.

Andrew Ridker

March 19, 2019

Cover of Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life

Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life

William Roy; Sylvain Dorange, illus.

Cover of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox

The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox