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  • Ep. 114: Desegregating Glen Echo: A Black-Jewish Alliance – with documentarian Ilana Trachtman

    Ep. 114: Desegregating Glen Echo: A Black-Jewish Alliance – with documentarian Ilana Trachtman
    2025/08/25
    lana 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/

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    22 分
  • Ep.113: Maria Lani: The Woman with Fifty Faces – with Jonathan Lackman and Zachary J. Pinson

    Ep.113: Maria Lani: The Woman with Fifty Faces – with Jonathan Lackman and Zachary J. Pinson
    2025/08/18
    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-fifty-faces

    Maria Lani website
    https://marialani.com/

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    29 分
  • Ep 112: Dr. Wertham’s Crusade Against Comics – with author Harold Schechter

    Ep 112: Dr. Wertham’s Crusade Against Comics – with author Harold Schechter
    2025/08/11
    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/

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    31 分
  • Ep. 111: Are the Ferengi Space Jews? – with author Miriam Eve Mora

    Ep. 111: Are the Ferengi Space Jews? – with author Miriam Eve Mora
    2025/08/04
    Miriam Eve Mora is managing director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan and author of Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century. Her chapter, “The Jewish Case for Fereginar,” is published in the book Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Jews in Popular Science Fiction
    https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/jews-in-popular-science-fiction-9781666901467/

    Carrying a Big Schtick
    https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349625/

    Raoul Wallenberg Institute
    https://lsa.umich.edu/wallenberg

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    37 分
  • Ep. 110: Talkin' Jewish – with podcaster Jonathan Rosen

    Ep. 110: Talkin' Jewish – with podcaster Jonathan Rosen
    2025/07/28
    Jonathan Rosen is co-host of Pop Culture Retro and host of The Jewish Lens. He’s also the author and editor of several books, including Night of the Living Cuddle Bunnies and Coming of Age: 13 B’nai Mitzvah Stories.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Jonathan’s website
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v5E05jPfVs

    Pop Culture Retro
    https://www.youtube.com/@PopCultureRetro

    The Jewish Lens
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    21 分
  • Movie Review: Superman or Super-BLAND? – with comic book scholar Roy Schwartz

    Movie Review: Superman or Super-BLAND? – with comic book scholar Roy Schwartz
    2025/07/21
    Roy Schwartz is a comic book historian, former CNN regular contributor, board member of the American Jewish Historical Society, and author of Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Is Superman Circumcised?
    https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/is-superman-circumcised/

    Roy’s website
    https://www.royschwartz.com/

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    32 分
  • Ep. 109: Jews & Westerns – with author Jonathan L. Friedmann

    Ep. 109: Jews & Westerns – with author Jonathan L. Friedmann
    2025/07/14
    Jonathan L. Friedmann is the president of the Western States Jewish History Association; vice president, academic dean, and director of programs at Ezzree Institute; admissions director and associate professor at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism; and director of the Jewish Museum of the American West. His latest book is Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Chai Noon
    https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chai-Noon

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    38 分
  • Ep. 108: Jews & Comic Books – with DC Comics legend Paul Levitz

    Ep. 108: Jews & Comic Books – with DC Comics legend Paul Levitz
    2025/07/07
    Paul Levitz is a comic book writer, editor, and executive best known for his decades-long association with DC Comics, which began as a freelancer in the early 1970s and included a tenure as the company’s president and publisher from 2002 to 2009.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Paul’s website
    https://paullevitz.com/

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Levitz

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    23 分