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An interview show celebrating Jewish contributors and contributions to American popular culture co-hosted by Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field.
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19 JAN 2026 · 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
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When Caesar Was King
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/107565/when-caesar-was-king-by-david-margolick/
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David’s Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Margolick
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12 JAN 2026 · 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.
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Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Tourist-s-Guide-to-Lost-Yiddish-New-York-City
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Henry’s website
https://www.henrysapoznik.com/
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5 JAN 2026 · 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.
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Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
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Amalgam
https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/amalgam
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Frances’ website
https://fjetter.net/
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Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/
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29 DEC 2025 · 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.
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Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and Mysteries
https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/messiahs-meshugganahs-misanthropes-and-mysteries
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Bob’s website
http://www.theboblevin.com/
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22 DEC 2025 · 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/
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15 DEC 2025 · 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.
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Diana’s website
https://dianaharmonasher.com/
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Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz
https://dianaharmonasher.com/books/trouble-finds-evie-lefkowitz/
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Jewish Museum of the American West
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https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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8 DEC 2025 · 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
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1 DEC 2025 · 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.
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Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
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How to Lose Your Mind
https://howtoloseyourmindcomics.substack.com/
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Jewish Museum of the American West
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https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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24 NOV 2025 · 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.
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Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
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How to Celebrate Thanksgivukkah - BuzzFeed
https://www.buzzfeed.com/christinebyrne/thanksgivukkah
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Meet the woman who coined the term ‘Thanksgivukkah’ – The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-woman-who-coined-the-term-thanksgivukkah/
Thanksgivukkah – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgivukkah
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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/
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Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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17 NOV 2025 · 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.
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Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
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Seth’s website
https://sethdonsky.com/
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Seth’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0233094/
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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
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Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
An interview show celebrating Jewish contributors and contributions to American popular culture co-hosted by Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field.
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