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Nonfiction Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh Samuelson, eds.
Nonfiction Cinema and Zionism: The Development of a Nation Through Film Ariel L. Feldestein; Merav Pagis, trans.
Essay My Name Is Inigo Montoya Austin Ratner won the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his first novel, The Jump Artist. His new novel, In the Land of the Living, is now available. He… Austin Ratner March 12, 2013
Essay The Art of Silence Jay Neugeboren is the author of 20 books, including two prize winning novels, two prize-winning non-fiction books, and four collections of award-winning stories. His… Jay Neugeboren February 18, 2013
Nonfiction Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld
Essay A Jewish Thanksgiving in Avalon Earlier this week, Harry Brod wrote about Jews not have a “middle range,” speaking backwards, a couple of sayings with which he disagrees and why he always… Harry Brod December 21, 2012
Nonfiction From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture Paul Buhle
Nonfiction The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema Dr. Nathan Abrams
Nonfiction Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen Henry Bial
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
