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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 Only As Good As Your Word: Writing Lessons From My Favorite Literary Gurus Susan Shapiro
Nonfiction A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe Geoffrey Hartman
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
Visual Arts The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats Claudia J. Nahson with Maurice Berger and Emily Casden
